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Top 10 Disappointing Technologies
Slatterz writes "Every once in a while, a product comes along that everyone from the executives to the analysts to even the crusty old reporters thinks will change the IT world. Sadly, they are often misguided. This article lists some of the top ten technology disappointments that failed to change the world, from the ludicrously priced Apple Lisa, to voice recognition, to Intel's ill-fated Itanium chip, and virtual reality, this article lists some of the top ten technology disappointments that failed to change the world." But wait! Don't give up too quickly on the Itanium, says the Register.
I think their top picks are in the wrong order. Yeah sure Vista sucks (not a shocker). But both bluetooth and firewire suck on EVERY OS! The top 3 should have been (3) Vista, (2) Firewire, (1) Bluetooth
About your imaginary mom:
1 - 99% of imaginary moms don't buy Nvidia. They buy Intel integrated chipset laptops.
2 - 99% of imaginary moms coudn't care less about a font.
3 - 99% of imaginary moms don't use a dual monitor, and wouldn't know what a "hotkey" is.
Of the remaining 1%, 99% would just get their dual monitor set up by their imaginary kids.
About your whining, let me respond in the same tone.
1 - Come on! proprietary driver issues are the fault of the hardware maker. Nvidia is the 5uXX0r when it comes to Linux support. Anyhow, since last year, Ubuntu auto installs proprietary drivers.
2 - Come on! All websites look beautiful right now, with the default Ubuntu install. You just need to get a better taste for fonts.
Add to that that subpixel antialising works great, and is much more easily tweaked, if needed, than in any other alternative OS. there was this OS, where I had to install an ActiveX to tweak it (WTF?!!?!!)
3 - Come on! GOTO 1. Free drivers don't have any issues with dual monitor in Ubuntu 9.04
> Unless things have changed since I installed Ubuntu (Hardy, about 1 year ago),
Hardy offers to install drivers for NVIDIA.
Nothing has changed. Nothing was broken.
Thank you for bringing up the "ugly web" nonsense so that we
could easily and readily see that you are just some insincere
troll.
We might have mistaken you for a real user with a real problem
and wasted our time when it could have been better spent else-
where (like helping a non-troll).
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
How the hell did this bunch of newbies get Ubunto on the brain?
Ubunto did nothing of the sort. Ubunto has a marketing budget is all. It is far from anything special.
Get out and see the real world of linux. Explore the other distros a bit. Chances are you will not still be using Ubunto.
Living in Chile
Well, they're just examples..
They say rather more about you than OS X.
So, did you see the Import CD button? Did it not appear for you? Did you look in the help menu, which walks you through this feature? Did you look in preferences, which lets you set the import behaviour? Did you look in console? Was there a problem with the CD, or with iTunes?
The assumption is that you couldn't possibly diagnose what the issue is,
No, *your* assumption is that you can't possibly diagnose what the issue is on OS X.
The assumption made by the system's designers is that if you wish to diagnose the issue, you'll have to be willing to do things like look in the Help menu, learn to use console (an app specifically designed to give you all the diagnostic information you could ever want from the computer's logs), and use the provided Utilities to diagnose the issue, etc.
There is certainly no shortage of tools on OS X for diagnosing problems (for your wifi issues, it comes bundled with a suite of networking diagnostics, plus the GUI 'Network Utility' in Utilities if you don't like the command line), but apparently because you don't know about them, they don't exist!
I will go farther than that (and open myself up to the heat of a thousand suns), and declare Linux (not just Ubuntu) a flop.
/. apparently feel that Ubuntu hasn't panned out quite as they hoped...
/. that King Linus is indeed, NAKED...
In fact, I thought that Ubuntu actually HAD a chance to FINALLY make Linux palatable enough that maybe, just maybe, it could bootstrap Linux popularity with "the masses". But even some of the Linux fanboi hoards on
That's why the vast majority of Linux users have OS X machines. Because they need to actually get shit done.
Face it: Linux in general has had something like FIFTEEN YEARS to get its proverbial shit together, and STILL it's a worthless "lab queen", suitable for ZERO desktops.
Now don't get me wrong; there are a LOT of really great F/OSS projects out there (and OS X wouldn't be the powerhouse that it is without them!!!); but in a overall sense, the OS itself is a bad joke, as is the concept of a F/OSS "Community".
The fact that there are well over 100 Linux distros neatly proves that. Even accounting for the desirability of having certain fundamentally different forks to serve environments with vastly different overall requirements, such as Embedded Linux, anyone in his right mind would have to agree that the amount of Linux distros, plus the insistence by most Linux fanbois of having the Source Code for every stinkin' thing, is effectively dooming Linux to never having major software publisher application or (in most cases) even decent driver support.
If the F/OSS "Community" would stop acting like the bunch of spoiled-ass BRATS that they, for the most part, most assuredly are, and really start ACTING like the great "Kum Bah Ya" brotherhood that they would like everyone to believe is the case, THEN, and ONLY THEN, does Linux have a SNOBOL's chance to gain any REAL "mindshare", and with it, at least the POTENTIAL of "marketshare" numbers that are significantly better than that of AmigaOS.
I'm really NOT trolling, nor trying to start an OS war, honest! But facts are facts, and, as Linux fanbois are THE most rabid (making Apple fanbois look like the voice of reason!), I can already feel the heat of the flames I will receive by daring to point out on