Your Parents are paying much more money for much less service than most of the world.
If Broadband was available country wide, they could have much higher internet speeds for a *lower* cost... theoretically.
Forget the 12 lane Enterprise Edition, that is so old!
Now we got the 12 lane SUPER NEAT VISTA edition!
It has the same number of lanes, and less cars can go at once, but more can wait in line... and don't you want the bridge to take advantage of that line?
For example, media files can be made such that they only run on a certain variant and cannot be played by another
Sort of like how I can't play Video Tape's on my BetaMax player.
This analogy works even better due to the instant fail of any device that attempts to implement it.
Any machine that "Can't play" will get returned as "broken" by the average joe, just like those who returned HD-DVD's cause they wouldn't play in the DVD player.
I have seen a whole lot of people using the "Its all sound", "Its only cut scenes", "They are duplicating all data", etc. Its as if no one can believe that games can be 25GB or larger.
MGS4 is so large that they will have to remove the Japanese language so that it will all fit on their dual layer 50GB disk.
Combine that with Final Fantasy's tendency to be one of the largest games released and the bar set by FFXII (Dynamic loading to allow more people on the screen than most PS2 games while reducing load tiems, allowing you to automate your characters to reduce the pain of griding, etc), and I feel that this game will be something amazing.
They used to use cutscenes to hide load screens and make low graphics look amazing... and they don't have those problems any more. They have much more room for data, a hard drive to cache heavily used data, and a very *very* powerful super computer to run the game.
We have a plasma machine that can create a dot of plasma in 3d shapes in mid air.
We have a screen that projects on vapor.
We have altered a game console to track your head and create a 3d illusion. Both the Wii and the PS3 (one with IR detector, other with camera).
We have multi-input touch screens.
We have two different types of omni directional treadmills.
We have everything we need for full 3d screen and this doesn't seem useful or a step forward at all honestly. It seems done before, and better in my opinion.
- New versions break older extensions. Until the extension is updated, bye bye extension. I don't enjoy that hassle and it makes me think twice about upgrading.
I don't see why they should bother upgrading the plugins until the browser is released.
- Old versions constantly redirect to a page suggesting you upgrade. I don't want my software to nag me into submission thanks. I don't need to be babysat.
I bet this is an old habit, since many new users are fresh from IE and have possibly never updated anything without windows update.
- New versions force you to use new features without providing functionality to back it out even when the user wants it. Eg. The new supercoolsearchbar garbage. I don't want my browser looking though my bookmarks when I type a URL but I don't mind it searching history that clears itself regularly.
Try it for a bit. I had to get used to it, but it lets me find things that I had *already* spent hours searching for, bookmarked, and forgot I had it in the thousands of things I have saved over the years. And of course if it REALLY ticks you off (Like it does some people), I have no doubt someone will have an addon once this thing gets released just for you.
- Firefox is the one application i use regularly that I find myself killing using task manager regularly. It either hangs or hogs memory which is only released by restarting. Don't deny or try to explain in excruciating technical detail why the browser slowly saps all your memory if left on a page that refreshes itself regularly. It's a bug. Deal with it. Fix it. Even refuse to fix it. But stop denying there are memory management issues.
Dude, have you even TRIED the beta? How did you get informative? Not only is this the fastest version of firefox to date, but it has the lowest memory footprint of almost all browsers, and has a memory manager that not only releases unused data but data that points to itself. Please try the browser next time before insulting it.
- There's no graceful way to exit that doesn't pop up a thousand confirmations if you do keep the close tab confirmation active.
O.o I don't under stand this, you mean if you don't turn off the "Warn me when I close tabs", it warns you if you close tabs? Isn't this a good thing?
- I can't download and keep my extensions for future install. I really don't like using up bandwidth downloading the same extensions each time I install Firefox.
This is due to them not upgrading that version number in the plugin. ^_^ You *can* save the plugin to your computer, and then use that forever and forever by using the nightly tools plugin, and never download again... but these things are *tiny*, much smaller than a youtube video. Not only that, but you can now search for and install plugins from WITHIN the browser, which I find amazingly helpful.
Firefox USE to be a better user experience than IE. I can't say that anymore and it stinks that I can't. I want my Firefox browser back!
Its faster, smaller, less memory with more features. It has massive number of plugins, renders pages correctly, and is easy to uninstall. And there is nothing stopping you from using older versions of the browser.
In short I feel you just don't remember how bad IE really is.
Do you want to watch content that actually costs a lot to produce, you know with writers, actors, sets?
I think America has already answered that. Big budget movies are having rough sales, tv shows like "Flava of Love" etc are up.
And by the way, more expensive != better. Remember that Monty Python made their films with next to nothing, and became very successful. ( I believe the most expensive item in the holy grail was the giant rabbit).
^_^ Actually, deluge (Or utorrent) + http://tvrss.net/ is the easiest way. Have your torrents automatically download the newest shows without commercials!
It is a lot easier than what I used to do (MediaCenter, auto covert, auto skip, etc).
As they have proven, they just blame the slow speeds on hackers and pirates, kick everyone off who complains or uses too much, and then over charge the rest.
You don't like their policies or practices then don't fucking buy it. Thats the loudest thing you can say. If we do not buy it, they blame piracy.
If we do buy it, they claim "We would do better, except for pirates".
It means that during game play, you could do things like listen to recorders you found on dead bodies, and get creeped out by the surroundings, rather than have everything shown to you in non controllable video shots.
As for Hellcom's Final Fantasy comment, Final Fantasy used to use cut scenes that were pre rendered to make ps1 and ps2 games look as good as ps3 games. Now that the ps3 is out, they will likely not use them for size reasons.
While it is true consoles are heavily drm'd, some suffer more than others.
For example, the 360 downloadable items are locked to the console, account, and I believe the hard drive (Not sure).
So when it RRoD's, you can only play the content you own by having internet.
Meanwhile, the PS3 allows you to download your game to 4 other PS3s.
Does that make up for all the drm? Maybe, maybe not. But some consoles are more open than others. Hell, I can even install another OS to the PS3 if I so choose, and upgrade the hard drive using standard components. The cords it uses are usb2 and any such cords work, it can handle external hard drives and 3rd party mouse, keyboard (Blutooth or usb).
1) Why can't I download and install???
If you want to, you can. Just create a link (Like this one Example and ubuntu will safely search your pre-approved repositories and install it if it exists. This means that you never have to worry about unsafe software from those links.
Alternately, you can download the (blah).deb file and just double click it.
And if neither of those exists (Like finding a Mac installer in windows), you can actually create one from the source itself.
2) What is the difference between KDE and Gnome?
^_^ They are different desktop managers. Just like windows has Explorer, Aston, and several others. The desktop manager gives you your menus, your start bars, your hot-keys, etc. KDE is more window's like depending on how you set it up, Gnome is not. You can actually install both if you want, and swap between them without any problems.
3) Why do I have to go to the command line to do basic stuff??
You don't have to, but it is easer for us to say "Type 'sudo apt-get install vlc gimp pidgeon' " than to say "Go to Applications, Install/Remove prgrams, search for VLC (Click the check), Gimp (Click the check), Pidgeon (Click the check), and hit apply".
In other words, the command line makes it easier for us to do lots of things at one time, making it easier for us to help you! Windows tutorials tend to be a long list of small steps, linux tutorials tend to be 2-3 command lines, and your done.
4) Xorg edits
^_^ The one comming out this month (Ubuntu 8.04) has the most recent X enviroment, and Bulletproof X. I have high hopes that most of your desktop problems will be fixed by this.
Desktop Media creation is kind of vague, but you can edit audio, make movies, etc. It is also REALLY easy to turn almost all video into a format that plays in dvd players (Try devede, it works great)
Yes you can connect your 360 to linux, and you can use the controler in linux, and you can stream to the PS3 in linux, and you can use the ps3 controller in linux, and you can use the wii controller in linux.
Google is a better resource than Comcast. Comcast can't trouble shoot WINDOWS much less linux. 'Restart' does not count as troubleshooting.
Let me ask you a question. Can you run Windows for a year without restarting, slowing down, or crashing? How about 3 months? Can you install 50 programs while uninstalling 32, while also installing/uninstalling all dependencies at the same time? Can you (^_^ With pulse audio) plug in as many sound cards as you want, have them auto detected and added, and stream your audio to all computers in the house with indivdual volume controls for each item using it (Browser plugins, vlc, etc)
Can you quickly and easily change your wallpaper, window edges, icons, mouse, and all animations with little effort, in such a way that all applications reflect those changes?
Can you backup all your settings by copying one folder? Can you share it legally with your friends/family?
Come back with "Yes" and I will reconsider Windows. And if you keep using windows, try out PowerMenu ( http://www.majorgeeks.com/PowerMenu_d87.html ), which allows window's to minimize to try, keep always on top, and other stuff.
Wifi and dual screens are going much better in Ubuntu, and 8.04 gets released this month.
Ubuntu is at the point where you can get document editing, web browsing, email, image editing, and more from the DEFAULT install... hell, even from your live disk.
Almost everything is easy in Ubuntu, and any issues are easily fixed by searching google (Which is not always the case with Vista, Xp, and other windows OS's I use).
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Your Parents are paying much more money for much less service than most of the world. If Broadband was available country wide, they could have much higher internet speeds for a *lower* cost... theoretically.
BTW it is easy to fix this if the machine asks the people to move
Or better yet, add a second eye to make sure the subject has... depth!
You can get the same effect as two eyes by rapidly shifting focus from far way to close and analyzing the differences between them to gauge depth.
You can do it too, although it gives you a headache.
You really expect it to be released in 2010?
Unless thye are hiding an awesome OS under the table, they have a lot of code to do in a small time, something MS hasn't had to do in ages...
Forget the 12 lane Enterprise Edition, that is so old!
Now we got the 12 lane SUPER NEAT VISTA edition!
It has the same number of lanes, and less cars can go at once, but more can wait in line... and don't you want the bridge to take advantage of that line?
For example, media files can be made such that they only run on a certain variant and cannot be played by another
Sort of like how I can't play Video Tape's on my BetaMax player.
This analogy works even better due to the instant fail of any device that attempts to implement it.
Any machine that "Can't play" will get returned as "broken" by the average joe, just like those who returned HD-DVD's cause they wouldn't play in the DVD player.
I have seen a whole lot of people using the "Its all sound", "Its only cut scenes", "They are duplicating all data", etc. Its as if no one can believe that games can be 25GB or larger.
MGS4 is so large that they will have to remove the Japanese language so that it will all fit on their dual layer 50GB disk.
Combine that with Final Fantasy's tendency to be one of the largest games released and the bar set by FFXII (Dynamic loading to allow more people on the screen than most PS2 games while reducing load tiems, allowing you to automate your characters to reduce the pain of griding, etc), and I feel that this game will be something amazing.
They used to use cutscenes to hide load screens and make low graphics look amazing... and they don't have those problems any more. They have much more room for data, a hard drive to cache heavily used data, and a very *very* powerful super computer to run the game.
Nope.
We have a plasma machine that can create a dot of plasma in 3d shapes in mid air.
We have a screen that projects on vapor.
We have altered a game console to track your head and create a 3d illusion. Both the Wii and the PS3 (one with IR detector, other with camera).
We have multi-input touch screens.
We have two different types of omni directional treadmills.
We have everything we need for full 3d screen and this doesn't seem useful or a step forward at all honestly. It seems done before, and better in my opinion.
- New versions break older extensions. Until the extension is updated, bye bye extension. I don't enjoy that hassle and it makes me think twice about upgrading.
I don't see why they should bother upgrading the plugins until the browser is released.
- Old versions constantly redirect to a page suggesting you upgrade. I don't want my software to nag me into submission thanks. I don't need to be babysat.
I bet this is an old habit, since many new users are fresh from IE and have possibly never updated anything without windows update.
- New versions force you to use new features without providing functionality to back it out even when the user wants it. Eg. The new supercoolsearchbar garbage. I don't want my browser looking though my bookmarks when I type a URL but I don't mind it searching history that clears itself regularly.
Try it for a bit. I had to get used to it, but it lets me find things that I had *already* spent hours searching for, bookmarked, and forgot I had it in the thousands of things I have saved over the years. And of course if it REALLY ticks you off (Like it does some people), I have no doubt someone will have an addon once this thing gets released just for you.
- Firefox is the one application i use regularly that I find myself killing using task manager regularly. It either hangs or hogs memory which is only released by restarting. Don't deny or try to explain in excruciating technical detail why the browser slowly saps all your memory if left on a page that refreshes itself regularly. It's a bug. Deal with it. Fix it. Even refuse to fix it. But stop denying there are memory management issues.
Dude, have you even TRIED the beta? How did you get informative? Not only is this the fastest version of firefox to date, but it has the lowest memory footprint of almost all browsers, and has a memory manager that not only releases unused data but data that points to itself. Please try the browser next time before insulting it.
- There's no graceful way to exit that doesn't pop up a thousand confirmations if you do keep the close tab confirmation active.
O.o I don't under stand this, you mean if you don't turn off the "Warn me when I close tabs", it warns you if you close tabs? Isn't this a good thing?
- I can't download and keep my extensions for future install. I really don't like using up bandwidth downloading the same extensions each time I install Firefox.
This is due to them not upgrading that version number in the plugin. ^_^ You *can* save the plugin to your computer, and then use that forever and forever by using the nightly tools plugin, and never download again... but these things are *tiny*, much smaller than a youtube video. Not only that, but you can now search for and install plugins from WITHIN the browser, which I find amazingly helpful.
Firefox USE to be a better user experience than IE. I can't say that anymore and it stinks that I can't. I want my Firefox browser back!
Its faster, smaller, less memory with more features. It has massive number of plugins, renders pages correctly, and is easy to uninstall. And there is nothing stopping you from using older versions of the browser.
In short I feel you just don't remember how bad IE really is.
Groups inside a society who have no tolerance for other views are a serious issue.
Frankly, I prefer them leaving society instead of dominating it like some religions I could name.
I get all the benefits of no flash, but can still watch youtube and all the rest if I change my mind with no hassle.
Go to "about:config"
Change "browser.urlbar.maxRichResults" to 0
Do you want to watch content that actually costs a lot to produce, you know with writers, actors, sets?
I think America has already answered that. Big budget movies are having rough sales, tv shows like "Flava of Love" etc are up.
And by the way, more expensive != better. Remember that Monty Python made their films with next to nothing, and became very successful. ( I believe the most expensive item in the holy grail was the giant rabbit).
^_^ Actually, deluge (Or utorrent) + http://tvrss.net/ is the easiest way. Have your torrents automatically download the newest shows without commercials!
It is a lot easier than what I used to do (MediaCenter, auto covert, auto skip, etc).
As they have proven, they just blame the slow speeds on hackers and pirates, kick everyone off who complains or uses too much, and then over charge the rest.
If we do buy it, they claim "We would do better, except for pirates".
Not buying it just justifies worse drm... *sigh*
It means that during game play, you could do things like listen to recorders you found on dead bodies, and get creeped out by the surroundings, rather than have everything shown to you in non controllable video shots.
As for Hellcom's Final Fantasy comment, Final Fantasy used to use cut scenes that were pre rendered to make ps1 and ps2 games look as good as ps3 games. Now that the ps3 is out, they will likely not use them for size reasons.
Imagine this:
When you focus on something, more info about it slowly appears.
Either it becomes more detailed then the suroundings, or details like health, stamina, or whatever.
It could be quite impressive.
I believe he chose it because he thought it supported more hardware than the Free version.
I know at one point they were supposing that they were going to sell parts of Storm's Botnet...
Could this just be the result of that?
Took me a second, but here is the link to donate:
Donate to Ubuntu
While it is true consoles are heavily drm'd, some suffer more than others.
For example, the 360 downloadable items are locked to the console, account, and I believe the hard drive (Not sure).
So when it RRoD's, you can only play the content you own by having internet.
Meanwhile, the PS3 allows you to download your game to 4 other PS3s.
Does that make up for all the drm? Maybe, maybe not. But some consoles are more open than others. Hell, I can even install another OS to the PS3 if I so choose, and upgrade the hard drive using standard components. The cords it uses are usb2 and any such cords work, it can handle external hard drives and 3rd party mouse, keyboard (Blutooth or usb).
If you want to, you can. Just create a link (Like this one Example and ubuntu will safely search your pre-approved repositories and install it if it exists. This means that you never have to worry about unsafe software from those links.
Alternately, you can download the (blah).deb file and just double click it.
And if neither of those exists (Like finding a Mac installer in windows), you can actually create one from the source itself.
2) What is the difference between KDE and Gnome?
^_^ They are different desktop managers. Just like windows has Explorer, Aston, and several others. The desktop manager gives you your menus, your start bars, your hot-keys, etc. KDE is more window's like depending on how you set it up, Gnome is not.
You can actually install both if you want, and swap between them without any problems.
3) Why do I have to go to the command line to do basic stuff??
You don't have to, but it is easer for us to say "Type 'sudo apt-get install vlc gimp pidgeon' " than to say "Go to Applications, Install/Remove prgrams, search for VLC (Click the check), Gimp (Click the check), Pidgeon (Click the check), and hit apply".
In other words, the command line makes it easier for us to do lots of things at one time, making it easier for us to help you! Windows tutorials tend to be a long list of small steps, linux tutorials tend to be 2-3 command lines, and your done.
4) Xorg edits
^_^ The one comming out this month (Ubuntu 8.04) has the most recent X enviroment, and Bulletproof X. I have high hopes that most of your desktop problems will be fixed by this.
Photoshop CS1, CS2 both work in Wine. CS3 is installable.
^_^ Google is paying Wine to works specifically on Photoshop, so yeah!
Yes, your $25 Generic webcam will work on Linux thanks to that one guy who added all those drivers in one go ( http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/30/209201 )
Desktop Media creation is kind of vague, but you can edit audio, make movies, etc. It is also REALLY easy to turn almost all video into a format that plays in dvd players (Try devede, it works great)
Yes you can connect your 360 to linux, and you can use the controler in linux, and you can stream to the PS3 in linux, and you can use the ps3 controller in linux, and you can use the wii controller in linux.
Google is a better resource than Comcast. Comcast can't trouble shoot WINDOWS much less linux. 'Restart' does not count as troubleshooting.
Crysis can be played on Linux at the bronze level, which is better than it can run on my computer anywho: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=5880 , but this seems like an unfair requirement.
Sims City 4 runs like a champ: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4088 But Sims in general is a huge category of games...
Let me ask you a question.
Can you run Windows for a year without restarting, slowing down, or crashing? How about 3 months?
Can you install 50 programs while uninstalling 32, while also installing/uninstalling all dependencies at the same time?
Can you (^_^ With pulse audio) plug in as many sound cards as you want, have them auto detected and added, and stream your audio to all computers in the house with indivdual volume controls for each item using it (Browser plugins, vlc, etc)
Can you quickly and easily change your wallpaper, window edges, icons, mouse, and all animations with little effort, in such a way that all applications reflect those changes?
Can you backup all your settings by copying one folder?
Can you share it legally with your friends/family?
Come back with "Yes" and I will reconsider Windows. And if you keep using windows, try out PowerMenu ( http://www.majorgeeks.com/PowerMenu_d87.html ), which allows window's to minimize to try, keep always on top, and other stuff.
Wifi and dual screens are going much better in Ubuntu, and 8.04 gets released this month.
Ubuntu is at the point where you can get document editing, web browsing, email, image editing, and more from the DEFAULT install... hell, even from your live disk.
Almost everything is easy in Ubuntu, and any issues are easily fixed by searching google (Which is not always the case with Vista, Xp, and other windows OS's I use).
On a side note, here is a link to setting up sync contacts using evolution from your blackberry: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=190938
Link for using iphone, ipod touch: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPhone
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=588246
They also seem to suggest "syncevolution", link here: http://www.estamos.de/projects/SyncML/
I guess what I am trying to say is: That was a LOT easier than to try and trouble shoot why Vista won't sync with device X in my opinion.