I just updated my HTC Magic yesterday. I guess there was a problem. I never encountered it. The big thing here for me is that they updated the UI to the same one that's used on the HTC Hero (Telus BTW). I didn't buy the phone with this stylish, slick badass interface. I bought it with the clunky, basic spec-Android one. It feels like I got a new phone.
I guess I'm weird, I like Rogers. They're just as crappy as every other carrier I've ever had.
How do you play mp3s on one of these Linux "computers"? You don't.
You have to use your brain. Best of luck.
I'm pretty sure it can be done, because I'm doing it right now. And I don't possess the encyclopedic inventory of Linux skills assumed necessary to get any basic functionality from a Linux system.
You do need to learn for to use Google. I guess you need to be able to read too. And then you have to be able to reason a little. And type a bit too.
But back to the point of the article, I think it's a great point they're making. I'm only using Linux now because I got sick paying for Windows. I don't think Linux (Fedora in my case) is the greatest OS ever, but then neither is Windows. It has more potential to improve over short periods of time. I've seen this in the year and a half I've been using it. Since I'm using a massively improved version compared to the one I started on (which worked well BTW) and I'm still using XP on my other system. I do have the luxury of two desktop computers, so I can keep one aside for games and the other for everything else. The functionality of the gaming system improves enormously because of this, and the other system improves by virtue of using a "better" OS.
We don't care. We're not horribly uniformed or misinformed, we're generally apathetic about copyright. You might even call us melancholy. It's sad really.
"There's be gold in them thar Interwebs! Set sail fer Norway!"
"But Cap'in, the ship! She be takin on water!"
"Damn the water! Norway and GOLD!."
And so the Dread Pirates of Redmond sailed to Norway, but their ship, the M.S.N. Vista, sank on the return trip due to rot brought about by years of shoddy repair work and the weight of countless ill-advised upgrades and too much booty. A combination which had rendered it a lumbering hulk, no longer seaworthy.
Show of hands, whose surprised Microsoft wants to go after Google?
Second show of hands, who thinks Pirate metaphors should be used to illustrate everything?
Games Workshop taught me that the answer is: To sell book to customer's who've already bought all the books. I mean they're right too, I only really need one Player's Handbook.
Sure they fix some stuff, but most of that's already handled by playing the same people and developing house rules. But that doesn't sell more books.
This gear it still too expensive. Eventually it will become affordable, then it will be adopted. Just like every other step forward in home electronics. Except mini-disc. Pretty sure they're dead.
I know I am one of the few in my circle of friends who knows what DRM is, and since everyone of them has PS3 (yeah really, weird isn't it?) and ginormous TVs I think the trend is one the way.
Lets be rational for a moment, will they cabal of evil corporations foisting this technology on us just say: "Well, I guess no one wants any of this stuff, we'll just have to go back to making DVDs. Too bad, I really thought this HD-DVD thing had legs." And then walk away shaking their heads sadly. Really, think that'll happen?
I know we all love a certain Disto more than all the others. Anyone you can say they love any Linux Distro has already wandered off the edge of normative behaviour. I believe this to be true because my mother failed to notice any really difference when I replaced her old Pentium 4 (Win XP home) with a new iMac. The change in OS would have been extreme for me. She had a slight learning curve she attributed to it being new, overcame that curve and was off to the races.
I don't really use Slackware anymore, but it was my first Linux Distro and it will always have a special place in my heart. Right now I have both Ubuntu and Ferdora 8. Side by side, literally. One on a notebook the other on this workstation. I was just curious because I really don't have a strong preference to either. They are just two sides of the same coin as far as I can tell. I know some feel that the differences are huge, enough to rant and rave about, but I don't see it.
I'm talking about user experience. I still feel that a "Linux War" is a tempest in a teacup, no one outside the cult cares who leads it. And since you have to type commands to get simple things (compared to XP, OSX or even Vista) to work (did I just say Vista works... sorry), like watch a movie or listen to MP3s... you know, stuff people do with their computers, Linux continues to pose little threat. If replaced my mom's system with either a Ubuntu or Fedora system and spent as much time (and I mean use a stopwatch) to set them up, she would hate it. And anyone who believes otherwise has lost touch with what non-geeks are willing to do to get their computer on.
I was really disappointed with the changes in the LOTR. I understand omissions (it's a long book), but just changing characters and dialogue and making up stuff? I was surprised they kept the names. Seriously, I was. Why not just make an original film if you're going to change everything? Why bother wrecking (IMHO) someone else' work?
So I'm not too excited about this. I can't wait to see what "improvements" they'll make.
If they like the book so much that they have to altered everything... well I'm beating a dead horse.
You know what? There's no gadgets on my wish list. I guess it's because either I buy them, or they're too expensive to make the list. I know my wife won't go into a shop a layout thousands on anything powered by electricity, she would find it too intimidating and claims I'm too picky. My list has some Warhammer stuff on it. That's pretty damn geeky I know, but other than that I've asked for cloths because I seem incapable of buying any. Mostly because I blow all my cash on gadgets.
I have the perfect system you see.
Although I followed a link above this to Bookeen, and now the whole systems is threatening to collapse. No system is prefect, which is ideal.
I'm writing this on a PIII-800MHz that I've had for a while. I didn't buy it new, I went out and found it, dirt cheap, to do basically what this Fit-PC is aiming to do. I'm running Fedora and mainly it's just for surfing, email and some BitTorrenting. As for gaming and such... Well obviously these are not the computers your looking for, move along. Still these lightweights are useful for this purpose, but it's a very narrow use. But then again, $285!
Someone above mentioned the Mac Mini and that's a good point, but also it bears mentioning that these two systems are at very different price points. True they are both below $1000, which to me (being of a certain age) that seems super cheap, but $599 vs. $285, the Mac is over twice the money, and while it may be a better computer, it is not the most affordable. To me I think the trade-off in dollar/MHz would be invisible between the two given the purpose, the Mac's higher price reflects a more "complete" computer. Apple built down from the iMac to a price whereas this Fit-PC built up to theirs.
I'm a Canadian and I have had Internet access since the dark days of dial-up (which at the time were rather sunny and bright come to think of it) and no one asked me about this. I'm appalled. If they had asked me, whoa boy, I'd have given them my opinion, which since I wasn't asked I guess is irrelevant.
Truths? I just check Wiktionary and it was pretty clear that there is true and false. Of course you could get all Kenobi about "certain point of view." but that's bullshit, it's a fact. Unless someone edited Wiktionary's entry for truth... shit, this conspiracy is deep, by which I mean it goes right to the top.
Also my Mom, Dad, Aunts and Uncles and even my lovely girlfriend can't edit Wikipedia, I know this is true because I do family tech-support.
Great, super, awesome. I can't wait until everything within hearing and sight, EVERYTHING, is advetising. When the product become ads for more product that are ads for more products. That'll be great. I hope Google's gearing up for that. That's a service I want ASAP.
When I went to read this story I was stopped on the way there by one of those stupid "click to skip ads." They're cool. I wish I had one in my bathroom. "Gotta use the toilet? Check out these hot new rolls from Cottonelle, or click HERE to continue to shitter.
Is this news? An ageing, and increasingly irrelevant musician is upset that the industry is our pacing his technical understanding and/or taste. I know someone out there is a fan of Mr. John's music, I'm not, none of my friends are. My parents hate his music and are from the generation that launched Elton's career. I've always wondered who was buying his CDs. It's a matter of opinion. I think EJ had done more to make music crap than the Interweb could.
Have not the record companies failure to build a truly kick-ass online business model, combined with there terrible taste in music lead to a decrease in the overall quality of music? I'm not a music geek, but I never listen to top 40 radio. I'm tuned to public (CBC) and college, mostly because of the whole quality thing. I'm not a musician. Maybe that's the problem?
A journalist asks a politician about the inclusion of their voting jurisdiction in the latest instalment of one of the most controversial media franchises, and the politician say they are opposed to it out of fear of offending voters. This is what passes for news? GTA getting bad press is like politicians ducking bad press whenever they can, it is inevitable.
And what is so "unfortunate" about Take Two not wanting to comment? What are they going to say that we can not figure out on our own?
It is just a game for crying out loud. People NEED hobbies, especially if they spend their time attacking the hobbies of others. I guess that could be a hobby, but why not go fishing instead?
I am writing this on my Athlon 64 X2, which I built with my own hands, a screwdriver and many zip ties. It is a pretty bad-ass system.
I have this brute of a system which has two cores, two super fast HDDs, two huge HDDs, burns DVDs, has phenomenal surround sound, two HUGE monitors, two ridiculously powerful video cards and all sorts of little tweaks and mods that make it my dream come true, just like the last one I built, and the one before that...
I build these machines and upgrade weekly, tweak daily. That's the dream come true for me. I began building and upgrading in 1998, I just haven't quite nailed down the final specs.
Sometimes it's best part for the money (I got a great deal on 500GB HDDs), other times it's performance (8800GTX anyone?), sometimes two 30' monitors is just too cool to not buy (a point my girlfriend refutes).
Oddly I still use a Pentium 150 with 1.2 GB HDD and 16 MBs of RAM as my main notebook (NEC 2650 CDT), and my backup notebook is an IBM PS/2 Model L40 SX, which is a monster 386 SX 25 with 4 MBs of RAM and 60 MB HDD. So as far as mobile computers are concerned, I could get excited over a good scientific calculator.
I personally like to picture Ballmer wide-eyed and frothing at the mouth when he speaks, wherever he speaks. In an elevator, at the dinner table, playing canasta. I think that image and the one of him flailing about on stage like a man possessed, when combined and held in the mind's eye, give an interesting image of what the Microsoft CEO is like. That image is of insanity. I liken him to a bully who just likes to talk shit because he can't find anything else to say. That's all he does. Apple's iPod makes him laugh, even as it manhandles the Zune. Linux-slminux, they're just filthy hippies and flunkies anyway. Google? Don't even get him started, they hire skilled people to do R&D on projects that haven't matured, what fools! And they still make money, don't they know anything about running a company?
It's progress. I still read some gaming and computer magazines, mostly because I like the writing and they are easier to take to the can. The whole notebook on the can thing is awkward and uncomfortable, so it the stare I get from my wife when she sees me heading to the can with a computer... or PDA... or cellphone. She's really quite old-fashioned I now realize.
When I was in college we had this great discussion about the relevance of print media in the 21 century. This was in 1999 so we had to guess. My professor thought the best the traditional outlets could end up doing was being relevant in newspapers. Magazines would inevitably loose out because of delays going to print (which the web is immune to) and cost.
He also made two other good points. Newspapers don't need batteries, neither do books and magazines. A good point, to a point -- no doubt technology will soon provide a solution. Also the "old guard" has the money to hire the good, known writers who can try for higher quality. This approach would suffer over time, new talents would emerge, old talents fade; ultimately this is a bandage solution.
Savvy outlets have built their online outlets up in the hopes of being ahead of the curve. Ultimately we don't really loose anything, we get the same thing from somewhere else. Like trading up from dial-up to cable, same service, better package.
I guess it's been about a month since the last greatest or most influential or most superbest game article got some play here. These are about as important as Game of the Year awards. Every month a new one comes out and repeats, with minor variations on a worn theme. YAWN.
As a Canadian and a copywrite holder I say, you do what you like there, and we'll do what we like here. It's your country, have fun! But this is our country and we'll do as we damn well please.
We have more pressing problems. Social problems, economic and political problems. Copywrite? We've got bigger fish to fry.
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I just updated my HTC Magic yesterday. I guess there was a problem. I never encountered it. The big thing here for me is that they updated the UI to the same one that's used on the HTC Hero (Telus BTW). I didn't buy the phone with this stylish, slick badass interface. I bought it with the clunky, basic spec-Android one. It feels like I got a new phone. I guess I'm weird, I like Rogers. They're just as crappy as every other carrier I've ever had.
The End is nigh!
You have to use your brain. Best of luck.
I'm pretty sure it can be done, because I'm doing it right now. And I don't possess the encyclopedic inventory of Linux skills assumed necessary to get any basic functionality from a Linux system.
You do need to learn for to use Google. I guess you need to be able to read too. And then you have to be able to reason a little. And type a bit too.
But back to the point of the article, I think it's a great point they're making. I'm only using Linux now because I got sick paying for Windows. I don't think Linux (Fedora in my case) is the greatest OS ever, but then neither is Windows. It has more potential to improve over short periods of time. I've seen this in the year and a half I've been using it. Since I'm using a massively improved version compared to the one I started on (which worked well BTW) and I'm still using XP on my other system. I do have the luxury of two desktop computers, so I can keep one aside for games and the other for everything else. The functionality of the gaming system improves enormously because of this, and the other system improves by virtue of using a "better" OS.
And it's free.
We don't care. We're not horribly uniformed or misinformed, we're generally apathetic about copyright. You might even call us melancholy. It's sad really.
Oh well, guess I'll go browse some torrents.
You make a good point thar matey.
"There's be gold in them thar Interwebs! Set sail fer Norway!"
"But Cap'in, the ship! She be takin on water!"
"Damn the water! Norway and GOLD! ."
And so the Dread Pirates of Redmond sailed to Norway, but their ship, the M.S.N. Vista, sank on the return trip due to rot brought about by years of shoddy repair work and the weight of countless ill-advised upgrades and too much booty. A combination which had rendered it a lumbering hulk, no longer seaworthy.
Show of hands, whose surprised Microsoft wants to go after Google?
Second show of hands, who thinks Pirate metaphors should be used to illustrate everything?
"Yarrrr!"
Aren't there bears outside?
Sure they fix some stuff, but most of that's already handled by playing the same people and developing house rules. But that doesn't sell more books.
This gear it still too expensive. Eventually it will become affordable, then it will be adopted. Just like every other step forward in home electronics. Except mini-disc. Pretty sure they're dead.
I know I am one of the few in my circle of friends who knows what DRM is, and since everyone of them has PS3 (yeah really, weird isn't it?) and ginormous TVs I think the trend is one the way.
Lets be rational for a moment, will they cabal of evil corporations foisting this technology on us just say: "Well, I guess no one wants any of this stuff, we'll just have to go back to making DVDs. Too bad, I really thought this HD-DVD thing had legs." And then walk away shaking their heads sadly. Really, think that'll happen?
It's a small notebook computer.
"What do you do with one?"
Get two and race them! Throw them at people. Compute things! Use them as a weight to keep errant papers from blowing away.
I know we all love a certain Disto more than all the others. Anyone you can say they love any Linux Distro has already wandered off the edge of normative behaviour. I believe this to be true because my mother failed to notice any really difference when I replaced her old Pentium 4 (Win XP home) with a new iMac. The change in OS would have been extreme for me. She had a slight learning curve she attributed to it being new, overcame that curve and was off to the races.
I don't really use Slackware anymore, but it was my first Linux Distro and it will always have a special place in my heart. Right now I have both Ubuntu and Ferdora 8. Side by side, literally. One on a notebook the other on this workstation. I was just curious because I really don't have a strong preference to either. They are just two sides of the same coin as far as I can tell. I know some feel that the differences are huge, enough to rant and rave about, but I don't see it.
I'm talking about user experience. I still feel that a "Linux War" is a tempest in a teacup, no one outside the cult cares who leads it. And since you have to type commands to get simple things (compared to XP, OSX or even Vista) to work (did I just say Vista works... sorry), like watch a movie or listen to MP3s... you know, stuff people do with their computers, Linux continues to pose little threat. If replaced my mom's system with either a Ubuntu or Fedora system and spent as much time (and I mean use a stopwatch) to set them up, she would hate it. And anyone who believes otherwise has lost touch with what non-geeks are willing to do to get their computer on.
I was really disappointed with the changes in the LOTR. I understand omissions (it's a long book), but just changing characters and dialogue and making up stuff? I was surprised they kept the names. Seriously, I was. Why not just make an original film if you're going to change everything? Why bother wrecking (IMHO) someone else' work?
So I'm not too excited about this. I can't wait to see what "improvements" they'll make.
If they like the book so much that they have to altered everything... well I'm beating a dead horse.
You know what? There's no gadgets on my wish list. I guess it's because either I buy them, or they're too expensive to make the list. I know my wife won't go into a shop a layout thousands on anything powered by electricity, she would find it too intimidating and claims I'm too picky. My list has some Warhammer stuff on it. That's pretty damn geeky I know, but other than that I've asked for cloths because I seem incapable of buying any. Mostly because I blow all my cash on gadgets.
I have the perfect system you see.
Although I followed a link above this to Bookeen, and now the whole systems is threatening to collapse. No system is prefect, which is ideal.
I'm writing this on a PIII-800MHz that I've had for a while. I didn't buy it new, I went out and found it, dirt cheap, to do basically what this Fit-PC is aiming to do. I'm running Fedora and mainly it's just for surfing, email and some BitTorrenting. As for gaming and such... Well obviously these are not the computers your looking for, move along. Still these lightweights are useful for this purpose, but it's a very narrow use. But then again, $285!
Someone above mentioned the Mac Mini and that's a good point, but also it bears mentioning that these two systems are at very different price points. True they are both below $1000, which to me (being of a certain age) that seems super cheap, but $599 vs. $285, the Mac is over twice the money, and while it may be a better computer, it is not the most affordable. To me I think the trade-off in dollar/MHz would be invisible between the two given the purpose, the Mac's higher price reflects a more "complete" computer. Apple built down from the iMac to a price whereas this Fit-PC built up to theirs.
Just a thought
I'm a Canadian and I have had Internet access since the dark days of dial-up (which at the time were rather sunny and bright come to think of it) and no one asked me about this. I'm appalled. If they had asked me, whoa boy, I'd have given them my opinion, which since I wasn't asked I guess is irrelevant.
Well shit.
I guess I'll just go... away.
Truths? I just check Wiktionary and it was pretty clear that there is true and false. Of course you could get all Kenobi about "certain point of view." but that's bullshit, it's a fact. Unless someone edited Wiktionary's entry for truth... shit, this conspiracy is deep, by which I mean it goes right to the top.
Also my Mom, Dad, Aunts and Uncles and even my lovely girlfriend can't edit Wikipedia, I know this is true because I do family tech-support.
Great, super, awesome. I can't wait until everything within hearing and sight, EVERYTHING, is advetising. When the product become ads for more product that are ads for more products. That'll be great. I hope Google's gearing up for that. That's a service I want ASAP.
When I went to read this story I was stopped on the way there by one of those stupid "click to skip ads." They're cool. I wish I had one in my bathroom. "Gotta use the toilet? Check out these hot new rolls from Cottonelle, or click HERE to continue to shitter.
Why is no one making this?!
Is this news? An ageing, and increasingly irrelevant musician is upset that the industry is our pacing his technical understanding and/or taste. I know someone out there is a fan of Mr. John's music, I'm not, none of my friends are. My parents hate his music and are from the generation that launched Elton's career. I've always wondered who was buying his CDs. It's a matter of opinion. I think EJ had done more to make music crap than the Interweb could.
Have not the record companies failure to build a truly kick-ass online business model, combined with there terrible taste in music lead to a decrease in the overall quality of music? I'm not a music geek, but I never listen to top 40 radio. I'm tuned to public (CBC) and college, mostly because of the whole quality thing. I'm not a musician. Maybe that's the problem?
A journalist asks a politician about the inclusion of their voting jurisdiction in the latest instalment of one of the most controversial media franchises, and the politician say they are opposed to it out of fear of offending voters. This is what passes for news? GTA getting bad press is like politicians ducking bad press whenever they can, it is inevitable.
And what is so "unfortunate" about Take Two not wanting to comment? What are they going to say that we can not figure out on our own?
It is just a game for crying out loud. People NEED hobbies, especially if they spend their time attacking the hobbies of others. I guess that could be a hobby, but why not go fishing instead?
Game looks cool though.
I am writing this on my Athlon 64 X2, which I built with my own hands, a screwdriver and many zip ties. It is a pretty bad-ass system.
I have this brute of a system which has two cores, two super fast HDDs, two huge HDDs, burns DVDs, has phenomenal surround sound, two HUGE monitors, two ridiculously powerful video cards and all sorts of little tweaks and mods that make it my dream come true, just like the last one I built, and the one before that...
I build these machines and upgrade weekly, tweak daily. That's the dream come true for me. I began building and upgrading in 1998, I just haven't quite nailed down the final specs.
Sometimes it's best part for the money (I got a great deal on 500GB HDDs), other times it's performance (8800GTX anyone?), sometimes two 30' monitors is just too cool to not buy (a point my girlfriend refutes).
Oddly I still use a Pentium 150 with 1.2 GB HDD and 16 MBs of RAM as my main notebook (NEC 2650 CDT), and my backup notebook is an IBM PS/2 Model L40 SX, which is a monster 386 SX 25 with 4 MBs of RAM and 60 MB HDD. So as far as mobile computers are concerned, I could get excited over a good scientific calculator.
Now that we know where they are I feel foolish for not seeing it sooner.
I personally like to picture Ballmer wide-eyed and frothing at the mouth when he speaks, wherever he speaks. In an elevator, at the dinner table, playing canasta. I think that image and the one of him flailing about on stage like a man possessed, when combined and held in the mind's eye, give an interesting image of what the Microsoft CEO is like. That image is of insanity. I liken him to a bully who just likes to talk shit because he can't find anything else to say. That's all he does. Apple's iPod makes him laugh, even as it manhandles the Zune. Linux-slminux, they're just filthy hippies and flunkies anyway. Google? Don't even get him started, they hire skilled people to do R&D on projects that haven't matured, what fools! And they still make money, don't they know anything about running a company?
Really, this man needs help.
It's progress. I still read some gaming and computer magazines, mostly because I like the writing and they are easier to take to the can. The whole notebook on the can thing is awkward and uncomfortable, so it the stare I get from my wife when she sees me heading to the can with a computer... or PDA... or cellphone. She's really quite old-fashioned I now realize.
When I was in college we had this great discussion about the relevance of print media in the 21 century. This was in 1999 so we had to guess. My professor thought the best the traditional outlets could end up doing was being relevant in newspapers. Magazines would inevitably loose out because of delays going to print (which the web is immune to) and cost.
He also made two other good points. Newspapers don't need batteries, neither do books and magazines. A good point, to a point -- no doubt technology will soon provide a solution. Also the "old guard" has the money to hire the good, known writers who can try for higher quality. This approach would suffer over time, new talents would emerge, old talents fade; ultimately this is a bandage solution.
Savvy outlets have built their online outlets up in the hopes of being ahead of the curve. Ultimately we don't really loose anything, we get the same thing from somewhere else. Like trading up from dial-up to cable, same service, better package.
I guess it's been about a month since the last greatest or most influential or most superbest game article got some play here. These are about as important as Game of the Year awards. Every month a new one comes out and repeats, with minor variations on a worn theme. YAWN.
As a Canadian and a copywrite holder I say, you do what you like there, and we'll do what we like here. It's your country, have fun! But this is our country and we'll do as we damn well please.
We have more pressing problems. Social problems, economic and political problems. Copywrite? We've got bigger fish to fry.