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I'm a PC and I'm 4-1/2
theodp writes "Microsoft's new Windows ad made its debut during the Grammy Awards on Sunday. It stars a 4-year-old cutie named Kylie (Silverlight required) showing how easy it is to use Windows Live Photo Gallery to edit and share photos. And while it's impressive that little Kylie is able to transfer a snapshot of her pet fish from her camera to a PC, color-correct it, and e-mail it to her family, what's truly amazing is that the toddler was also apparently able to read, understand, and accept Windows Live's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. (But minors can't legally execute contracts, can they?)"
"I'm a PC and I'm 4 1/2"
They're assimilating children to make them smart enough to use their products? MONSTERS!
I clicked the link to install Silverlight (firefox, ubuntu, i386) and got sent to Moonlight.
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I'm a PC and I'm oppressed.
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Silverlight? :D
In the age of Youtube, how hard can it be to share a movie? Why do I have to download a program first? Sorry, but that hasn't happened to me since Youtube was invented... oh, yeah, Youtube and google is the big competition isn't it?
what's truly amazing is that the toddler was also apparently able to read, understand, and accept Windows Live's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. (But minors can't legally execute contracts, can they?)
What's with this? Seriously, who the hell takes the time to read these things every time they're presented with one? What an unnecessarily snarky summary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhre2C4THT4
.. does not mean monkey understand.
This doesn't show it is easy to use, it merely demonstrates the ability of a 4 1/2 year old to follow a set of instructions.
The disappearing pencil trick. Let me show you it.
I have moonlight installed (what ever version Lenny has), and in Firefox add-ons->Plugins its listed as Silverlight Plug-in (1.0.30401.0).
However when I click play to see that advert it changes to a get Silverlight button.
I figured since I have flash 10 64bit installed (with flash block), I may as well install moonlight since there is a 64bit Debian package. I am not impressed that MS own website did not recognise it.
I will also need to find a flashblock equivalent.
When are they going to use endorsements from TronGuy
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You are aware that one usually needs to download a flash player to view videos on Youtube, no? This is just a competing format. The main problem with Silverlight from where I sit is that it adds to the bloat, not that I need to download it, or that it comes from Microsoft.
Last I checked Kylie was a girls name, so I don't think your accusation against MJ is entirely fair.
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No matter what MS do there is always some conspiracy theorist or Linux/Mac fanboy on the case trying to spin things in a negative way. It gets boring sometimes. Hating on MS wont do you cause any good, it will only show what a bitter personality you have. Get out there and do something postive.
I guess I find article about this ad on Sunday a day or so old, though I won't blame kdawson for that. I guess maybe I feel he is just always lucky to get his name linked to unneeded topics. who knows.
Personally I am glad that Microsoft (might) get their photo camera integration/editing down for once, as it was always third party apps and utilities given to you, which you would have to punch a screen over. I never had issues with OS X or Linux at all, and I'm speaking about the 2.4 kernel days. gPhoto was what I loved using way more than the shit Olympus or whatever other brand name would give you for software. This was of course serial db9, not today's USB. Oh well, this is my little experience with this type of software, and it's nice hearing Microsoft will take care of things from now on. (I won't lie though, if I am ever in a situation where I need to use Windows AND manage a photo camera, I'll stay with a usb card reader and Google Picasa)
Most (All ?) of the digital cameras I've used are detected by Windows and Linux as USB mass storage devices. Both Gnome/KDE and Windows will pop up a menu asking you what you want to do with it. So it really is about the same level of difficulty under both OSes (except Ubuntu and the like have better picture managers by default).
As for the 'fixing pic(s)' part I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
PS : yeah, I know, I know, don't feed the trolls...
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Really? Out of all the things you could have criticized Microsoft for, you chose the one thing that Microsoft has in common with every other software company (an insane EULA/TOS)?
That would be like me saying "And while it's impressive that little Kylie is able to transfer a snapshot of her pet fish from her camera to a PC, color-correct it, and e-mail it to her family, what's truly amazing is that someone with an @aol.com email address was able to figure out how to submit a story to /."
See what I mean? Saying something like that weakens your whole argument... Oops!
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Dude, the "Post Anonymously" checkbox is next to the "No Karma Bonus" button!
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How fucking dare anyone out there make fun of Microsoft after all it has been through.!
They lost their battle with Vista, they had to resurrect XP. They gave birth to Windows fucking 7!
Their new CEO turned out to be a chair thrower. All you people care about is... Linux and FOSS.
Microsoft is A HUMAN! (ah! ooh!) What you don't realize is that Microsoft is making you all this money and all you do is write a bunch of crap about it.
Microsoft hasn't performed on stage in years. Its Songsmith demo-song is called "gimme more" for a reason because all you people want is MORE! MORE-MORE, MORE: MORE!.
LEAVE MS ALONE! You are lucky they even developed Songsmith for you BASTARDS! LEAVE MICROSOFT ALONE!....Please.
Steve Jobs talked about professionalism and said if Microsoft was a professional they would've pulled it off with Vista no matter what.
Speaking of professionalism, when is it professional to publicly bash a corporation who is going through a hard time????
Leave Microsoft Alone Please. ! Leave Microsoft alone! right now! I mean it.!
Anyone that has a problem with MS you deal with me, because MS is not well right now.
LEAVE Microsoft ALONE!
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Yeah, guess I should use the no karma bonus-button more often so my OS X bashing don't hurt my karma so bad, right? Because things can't go under -1 anyway so that way I'll lose less?
Anyway I don't really like being anonymous, I rather post things as the person I am, though I think it was 50% flamebait 50% funny, people who see it as a flamebait don't need to answer and that problem would get solved by itself.
... and I don't think having a girl in an ad is "child abuse" even though she may not act natural, I doubt she feel abused from doing the ad but may even think it was funny to star in a commercial. So the reason I made the joke was to tear down some of the serious edginess of "omg it's a child in a video! porn! abuse!"
and therefore, since i haven't payed for anything more than a Personal Computer i'm not a Windows.
As the proud parent of a Linux user I advocate throwing a bare bones slackware install on strange hardware, giving the 4-year-old the root password, and walking away.
She's six now and she knows if she wants to be networked she has to roll her own cat 5 and figure out the appropriate network settings. She's almost there. (Boy was she mad when she finally figured out I had originally installed token ring on her box!) If she wants internet access she has to hack into the firewall and give herself that access.
You know, you see them struggling and you really want to help them, but you have to resist the urge. Otherwise they'll never learn!
gah, I watched the youTube version as there was no way I was installing silverlight at work as it seems like hassle and at home there is no way I am installing Mono.
seems like a fairly nauseatingly sickening piece of tripe aimed at parents who want their children to be computer literate.
in my mind the true path to computer literacy lies in a challenge - not locking them into a propietary interface that does all the work. but maybe that is just me. when I began programming I found it was the challenges of what was hard that kept me going back - not the easy pickings.
The graphics viewer in Vista and Windows 7, is the most worthless peice of shit ever. It doesnt conform to ANY logical workflow for browsing, zooming, managing files quickly. Its just like its own ass backwards way of doing things.
Microsoft could learn a lot from studying some of the other viewers out there.
The graphics viewer doesnt even read a lot of formats used in production environments, nor does it respect embedded ICC color profiles. ITS WORTHLESS.
Its a toy, just like the media player, the thumbnail viewing capability of explorer... etc.
Why cant MS make some SERIOUS applications that actually get work done.
Stop making apps for 4 year olds.
I'm sure the online Live graphics thing is just as lame. Its another late to the game web service that others already provide and have an established user base and better integration on PCs, mobile devices, etc..
...If she is not able to code the entire Windows herself on a computer she built using nothing but soldering iron and some bubble gum wrappers.
Cause... how can we say it is "easy to use" unless she knows EXACTLY what happens with each keystroke she makes?
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...my 4.5 year old can debug a friggin' kernel.
My 4 yr old daughter logs in to her own account on one of the available machines (with password), starts whatever program she wants, saves the results, opens a folder on her desktop to watch one of the available video's and now wants to tag photos in the photo management app.
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she has not yet entered into public education.
duh!
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Do you think that a toddler would have an easier time understanding GPL or that she is likely to violate GPL or Microsoft Terms of Use?
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Sorry to disappoint you but Linux is just as easy. On my Ubuntu machines, the camera is recognized when plugged in and f-spot downloads the images (you do have to click the download button), photo manager displays the photos (and yes you can 'fix' them) and you can email from the photo manager. No configuration required.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
The problem is quite simple--you're using blob drivers. Try disabling them if at all possible.
You know, it's possible a 4 1/2 year old has parents...
not a chance. this child was born in a test tube and incubator at microsoft labs. She was raised the past 4.5 years in a crib that had every iteration of windows and microsoft products in it on flatscreens surrounding her. It's the genetic love child of Gates and Ballmer.
Who knew those two ugly guys would make such a cute baby?
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Well Gnome can detect the type of the device (either through HAL or by browsing its content), and change the popup menu accordingly. Furthermore if you browse the digicam content with Nautilus it will also detect the pictures and offer you the possibility to import them. The nice thing about this system is that if you plug the digicam's memory card in a reader you'll be able to browse/import the photos in exactly the same way.
Anyway my point was that it is relatively trivial to import/manage photos under Linux ; my friends/relatives who switched to Linux have no problem doing that. There are other areas where Linux is far behind Windows (games for example), I don't understand why MS doesn't communicate more on those.
I use to add &fmt=18 and yes, it gets better, but good would be a stretch. I've seen one video on YouTube in HD I believe, don't know if all videos uploaded in good enough resolution gets HD or not, bitrate still isn't very good, especially for the resolution, but sure it's better, googled for YouTube HD and found this:
&fmt=6 increases the resolution from 320x240 to 448x336, Flash 7 video @ 900Kbps; audio @ 44.1KHz 96Kbps Mono CBR. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfWXRybZS4A&fmt=6
&fmt=18 increases the resolution to 480x360, H.264 video @ 512Kbps; audio @ 44.1KHz 128Kbps Stereo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfWXRybZS4A&fmt=18
&fmt=22 increases the resolution to 1280x720 (720p), H.264 video @ 1024Kbps; audio @ 44.1KHz 232Kbps Stereo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfWXRybZS4A&fmt=22
If Apple counters, it will be with a cuter, younger, "widdle girl" who will code an insanely great iPhone application in fifteen minutes, post it on the app store, then proceed to make enough money in an hour from sales of her app to pay for her college tuition and pay off her parent's mortgage at the same time. I'd install Silverlight to see that!
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