They could not try and milk donations for a futile effort in the first place. Most Anime fans dedicated enough to go to conventions that I know are WELL aware of what Linux is, and most have tried it at some point on their own. I don't think they will do a lot of education in that audience or create any awareness that isn't already there.
Also, I agree with what the GP said in his reply to you-people will much less willing to try it a second time if they have trouble the first. I still firmly believe Linux is not ready for the average home user's desktop. I run straight up Debian and Eeebuntu on two of my computers at home, and I have to go to the command prompt way too often just to install basic software or drivers or perform some other fairly routine tasks. You can't expect an average user to do that. You also can't necessarily expect them to be happy with pre-installed apps.
Haha...it was messed up long before GW. In the grand scheme of things, he didn't really make the current situation much worse than it is. People give the president too much credit for being able to screw things up.
This is why I actually *LIKED* Power Points when I was in college. I could download them, and in most cases skip the lecture and just study off the Power Point.
Yep, I enjoy playing Tribes 2, despite the company being long gone. I don't like relying on 3rd parties in the tech world. Few companies have proven themselves stable enough to last.
Ditto here, I use it in Aion. Took a few days to adjust to it, but now that I did it is like second nature. They did a GREAT job of the curvature on the buttons...makes it easy to find the one you need to press...I was worried about that but not anymore. I'm using it in Dragon Age: Origins too, works great. Very glad I got this mouse...still hate the cord, but the Razer cords are quite nice and much more manageable than others.
It is a little bit smaller than other mice I use (Razer Mamba, Logitech MX Revolution), but I think that may be due to the need to angle your hand a bit to make pressing the buttons easier.
That would probably work best. Or he could have had half a brain, not bought an overprice piece of aluminum, and picked up something like this with the digitizer built in:
AMD doesn't make Intel chipsets, VIA's modern offerings are laughable (hit up newegg, ONE LGA775 VIA mobo), SiS seems to have gone OEM only and I haven't seen one of their chipsets in ages, so presumably the marketshare is miniscule. ATI stopped making new Intel chipsets when they got bought out (still have one old one available), and ALI seems to have dropped out of the chipset business years ago.
HP has great support for Operating systems across the board for their monochrome laser printers. Most of them have drivers from DOS-Windows 7, Mac OS7-X, and Linux/Unix support.
However, I have had bad luck with one of their more recent personal printer models, the P3005. About half have had issues of some type. But their older and higher-end models are quite reliable and work well. We print on to vellum for developing film masking for etching, and we need absolute perfect print quality, and we had an 8150 doing this for 6 years with no issues, and we currently have a 9040 that is 3 years old, still running great with no signs of slowing. So if you go with higher-end models I think you would be in great shape. You'll probably see the same among most manufacturers nowadays. That is where they don't pinch their pennies.
But really, for personal use, only printing 2,000 pages a year, you will be better off buying a more 'disposable' printer for $200 or less (I just got a very nice Samsung networked printer at home for $150) and replacing it in 3-5 years, versus spending $800+ on something that will last for 15 years. I know the disposable mentality may be hard to accept for someone who kept a 16-year old printer, but please give it serious thought, I really think you will be better off in the long run. Old equipment, no matter how nice it was at the time, is still old, and will almost always be outperformed by newer, cheaper equipment.
Erm...I buy used PC games all the time from Gamestop (I've also bought several titles off eBay, so not sure where this 'bullying' kicks in)...even newer titles only a few weeks old..usually run $35-$40 for new $50 games. And I don't live in any major metro area, quite the opposite. So I am guessing your local Gamestop just sucks, or you didn't look very hard. I would think larger Gamestops and the other retailers that handle used games would have even better selections.
And it's not like they are all download only...even though you can get them on Steam or other services, the vast majority of big titles are still available in boxes, including Valve's titles. I've also bought used copies of install-restricted games like Mass Effect..DRM doesn't even seem to stop used sales. The used PC Games market is there and doing just fine.
DLC is becoming more common, but this applies just as much to consoles as it does PCs..if not moreso, since the console platforms are far more closed and restrictable. In fact, thanks to the openness of the PC, in many cases you could essentially move the DLC files to a CD and sell it with the game (depending on the title, this may or may not violate the DMCA due to copy protection schemes on some DLC).
"Missed the target" doesn't even come close to explaining this atrocity. It's more like they got drunk the night before, played Russian roulette and wasted all their bullets, and the only person left alive to do anything was an incompetent vegetable missing half their brain.
Also, NPR sucks. I'd almost rather listen to Limbaugh. Almost.
"Another sad thing about this is that it forges Windows UI style to Linux and other OS"
Or, that's the part that inspired your fanboy rage in the first place and caused you to find reasons why you don't like it. Anyway, here's my opinion.
I started using 2007 shortly after launch...it was a bit of a nuisance, especially at first with Excel, but I got used to it. Really, it turned out that I got used to it so much, I became really annoyed when using 2003 on my users' systems. And I have found that this has creeped over to other programs...anything with a standard menu system generally seems a little annoying to me now. And there's a reason for that. Reading every option, line by line, in a menu, is a pain in the ass and inefficient. With a ribbon-like system you have this nice area sorted and organized with buttons that have descriptive pictures on them, and more frequently used options can be made larger and more prominent, so it's easier to find things.
For power users who use the program all the time, either system will generally be fine...once they get used to it, no big deal. But for less frequent users, a ribbon system is a far better choice. It's just a much easier system to use when done properly.
You don't just see this in the Office 07 ribbon either...you will notice over the years of programs how GUI tool bars become more and more prominent...this is just the next step of getting rid of the archaic menu system entirely.
There is some legitimate frustration with things undergoing significant changes, and it's always a good idea to be skeptical of them. Someone might see this as jumping on a bandwagon because they thing it's cool and not approach it properly. But I would think the Mozilla foundation would be far more likely to err on the side of conservatism...I would think they feel that it is better for the application usability and not just some gimmick to use to increase adoption (which is still a good thing for everyone regardless).
Oh, and FYI I am also an Opera user...and this has actually piqued my interest to give Firefox another shot. But I am really liking the thumbnail tabs on the side utilizing some long lost screen real estate, and I use Opera Sync across 4-5 different systems on two OSes daily, so it'll be hard to pull me away:-)
Actually the Conficker hole was patched nearly a year ago. Microsoft has gotten their shit together with security so much recently that you can legitimately argue that it may be comparable to your average Linux distro...I'm not saying that is the case, I REALLY do not want to go down that path, my overall point is that 5 years ago, anyone who made the statement I just did would have been ridiculed as a moron, and rightly so.
But you hit very good points...no matter how secure an OS is, it has to listen to its dumbfuck user. The only way to protect against stupid users is to limit rights to oblivion, but then you limit the usefulness of the system. In most cases, the OS cannot determine what is desired behavior of a program or not.
That's mostly due to the large volume farming, not the nature of the chemicals/additives applied. Depending on price I will do the same thing, buy organic because it tastes better. But at home the gardens get a liberal coating of very non-organic insecticides (mixed with stuff from my father's stash of things you can't buy anymore:-) and plant food of varying types (Mostly miracle grow, but also things like copper sulfate for melons, etc.). And the home garden stuff tastes the best of all.
Last I checked, it's liberals who push nanny state paranoia about our children far more than conservatives. (Conservatives do it to adults, not children.)
On top of this, saying that google should "have a backup" is silly. Do you even understand how redundancy works? Do you even understand how web based mail systems work? I really don't think so from this comment. If the error has nothing to do with servers falling over and is an issue with routing then you can have all the redundancy you want, but it won't make a difference.
So some people took my comment a little more seriously than they should. Yes, I full-well understand redundancy, and web-based mail systems. My point is that they are fucking Google, and I would be willing to wager they have the most-visited website on the internet. While the complexity is on a whole other level, so are their resources and potential for redundancy. And had this been the first time in recent memory that they have had an outage, I would not have made my snarky comment. Everyone is entitled to the occasional fuckup. However, this has happened more than a few times over the past year. They have almost no excuse to not have multiple datacenters hosting Gmail in its entirety continuously updated with eachother (Yes, I understand that's not the simplest feat in the world, but it's doable). Within minutes of one having a problem, they should be able to update their DNS servers to redirect traffic to the others.
The only possible hangup I see is cost...in which case they can just say fuck the free users and only guarantee the redundancy for the paid ones.
Feel free to mod me down again for bashing your precious Google. I have plenty of karma to burn. All the positive moderations were starting to over-inflate my ego anyway.
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They could not try and milk donations for a futile effort in the first place. Most Anime fans dedicated enough to go to conventions that I know are WELL aware of what Linux is, and most have tried it at some point on their own. I don't think they will do a lot of education in that audience or create any awareness that isn't already there. Also, I agree with what the GP said in his reply to you-people will much less willing to try it a second time if they have trouble the first. I still firmly believe Linux is not ready for the average home user's desktop. I run straight up Debian and Eeebuntu on two of my computers at home, and I have to go to the command prompt way too often just to install basic software or drivers or perform some other fairly routine tasks. You can't expect an average user to do that. You also can't necessarily expect them to be happy with pre-installed apps.
Useful things in idle give idle the illusion of being useful.
It can do it, but it sucks in XP.
However, the higher DPI settings in Vista and 7 work GREAT. I have my mother and grandmother, as well as a few people at work, using it.
Haha...it was messed up long before GW. In the grand scheme of things, he didn't really make the current situation much worse than it is. People give the president too much credit for being able to screw things up.
This is why I actually *LIKED* Power Points when I was in college. I could download them, and in most cases skip the lecture and just study off the Power Point.
Yep, I enjoy playing Tribes 2, despite the company being long gone. I don't like relying on 3rd parties in the tech world. Few companies have proven themselves stable enough to last.
Ditto here, I use it in Aion. Took a few days to adjust to it, but now that I did it is like second nature. They did a GREAT job of the curvature on the buttons...makes it easy to find the one you need to press...I was worried about that but not anymore. I'm using it in Dragon Age: Origins too, works great. Very glad I got this mouse...still hate the cord, but the Razer cords are quite nice and much more manageable than others.
It is a little bit smaller than other mice I use (Razer Mamba, Logitech MX Revolution), but I think that may be due to the need to angle your hand a bit to make pressing the buttons easier.
That would probably work best. Or he could have had half a brain, not bought an overprice piece of aluminum, and picked up something like this with the digitizer built in:
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:expandcategory?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087¤t-category-id=F2A3EC7C45634AE8AB0F26CCAC867854&tab=2#tab-container-5
Wow, that sure beats my 'Ventilation Hammer' idea!
Although the hardware is lackluster, WebOS is pretty nice. I really wouldn't call the Pre a disappointment at all.
That may not be a very good idea either...
AMD doesn't make Intel chipsets, VIA's modern offerings are laughable (hit up newegg, ONE LGA775 VIA mobo), SiS seems to have gone OEM only and I haven't seen one of their chipsets in ages, so presumably the marketshare is miniscule. ATI stopped making new Intel chipsets when they got bought out (still have one old one available), and ALI seems to have dropped out of the chipset business years ago.
We're talking about business/SOHO laser printers, not consumer inkjet garbage. Completely different stuff. Get a clue.
HP has great support for Operating systems across the board for their monochrome laser printers. Most of them have drivers from DOS-Windows 7, Mac OS7-X, and Linux/Unix support.
However, I have had bad luck with one of their more recent personal printer models, the P3005. About half have had issues of some type. But their older and higher-end models are quite reliable and work well. We print on to vellum for developing film masking for etching, and we need absolute perfect print quality, and we had an 8150 doing this for 6 years with no issues, and we currently have a 9040 that is 3 years old, still running great with no signs of slowing. So if you go with higher-end models I think you would be in great shape. You'll probably see the same among most manufacturers nowadays. That is where they don't pinch their pennies.
But really, for personal use, only printing 2,000 pages a year, you will be better off buying a more 'disposable' printer for $200 or less (I just got a very nice Samsung networked printer at home for $150) and replacing it in 3-5 years, versus spending $800+ on something that will last for 15 years. I know the disposable mentality may be hard to accept for someone who kept a 16-year old printer, but please give it serious thought, I really think you will be better off in the long run. Old equipment, no matter how nice it was at the time, is still old, and will almost always be outperformed by newer, cheaper equipment.
Erm...I buy used PC games all the time from Gamestop (I've also bought several titles off eBay, so not sure where this 'bullying' kicks in)...even newer titles only a few weeks old..usually run $35-$40 for new $50 games. And I don't live in any major metro area, quite the opposite. So I am guessing your local Gamestop just sucks, or you didn't look very hard. I would think larger Gamestops and the other retailers that handle used games would have even better selections.
And it's not like they are all download only...even though you can get them on Steam or other services, the vast majority of big titles are still available in boxes, including Valve's titles. I've also bought used copies of install-restricted games like Mass Effect..DRM doesn't even seem to stop used sales. The used PC Games market is there and doing just fine.
DLC is becoming more common, but this applies just as much to consoles as it does PCs..if not moreso, since the console platforms are far more closed and restrictable. In fact, thanks to the openness of the PC, in many cases you could essentially move the DLC files to a CD and sell it with the game (depending on the title, this may or may not violate the DMCA due to copy protection schemes on some DLC).
"Missed the target" doesn't even come close to explaining this atrocity. It's more like they got drunk the night before, played Russian roulette and wasted all their bullets, and the only person left alive to do anything was an incompetent vegetable missing half their brain.
Also, NPR sucks. I'd almost rather listen to Limbaugh. Almost.
It doesn't have to be rocket science. We could use thrusters instead!
"Another sad thing about this is that it forges Windows UI style to Linux and other OS"
Or, that's the part that inspired your fanboy rage in the first place and caused you to find reasons why you don't like it. Anyway, here's my opinion.
I started using 2007 shortly after launch...it was a bit of a nuisance, especially at first with Excel, but I got used to it. Really, it turned out that I got used to it so much, I became really annoyed when using 2003 on my users' systems. And I have found that this has creeped over to other programs...anything with a standard menu system generally seems a little annoying to me now. And there's a reason for that. Reading every option, line by line, in a menu, is a pain in the ass and inefficient. With a ribbon-like system you have this nice area sorted and organized with buttons that have descriptive pictures on them, and more frequently used options can be made larger and more prominent, so it's easier to find things.
For power users who use the program all the time, either system will generally be fine...once they get used to it, no big deal. But for less frequent users, a ribbon system is a far better choice. It's just a much easier system to use when done properly.
You don't just see this in the Office 07 ribbon either...you will notice over the years of programs how GUI tool bars become more and more prominent...this is just the next step of getting rid of the archaic menu system entirely.
There is some legitimate frustration with things undergoing significant changes, and it's always a good idea to be skeptical of them. Someone might see this as jumping on a bandwagon because they thing it's cool and not approach it properly. But I would think the Mozilla foundation would be far more likely to err on the side of conservatism...I would think they feel that it is better for the application usability and not just some gimmick to use to increase adoption (which is still a good thing for everyone regardless).
Oh, and FYI I am also an Opera user...and this has actually piqued my interest to give Firefox another shot. But I am really liking the thumbnail tabs on the side utilizing some long lost screen real estate, and I use Opera Sync across 4-5 different systems on two OSes daily, so it'll be hard to pull me away :-)
God. It's in the freakin summary...that's worse than not RTFAing...damn 5-digit newbie.
Actually the Conficker hole was patched nearly a year ago. Microsoft has gotten their shit together with security so much recently that you can legitimately argue that it may be comparable to your average Linux distro...I'm not saying that is the case, I REALLY do not want to go down that path, my overall point is that 5 years ago, anyone who made the statement I just did would have been ridiculed as a moron, and rightly so.
But you hit very good points...no matter how secure an OS is, it has to listen to its dumbfuck user. The only way to protect against stupid users is to limit rights to oblivion, but then you limit the usefulness of the system. In most cases, the OS cannot determine what is desired behavior of a program or not.
That's mostly due to the large volume farming, not the nature of the chemicals/additives applied. Depending on price I will do the same thing, buy organic because it tastes better. But at home the gardens get a liberal coating of very non-organic insecticides (mixed with stuff from my father's stash of things you can't buy anymore :-) and plant food of varying types (Mostly miracle grow, but also things like copper sulfate for melons, etc.). And the home garden stuff tastes the best of all.
Last I checked, it's liberals who push nanny state paranoia about our children far more than conservatives. (Conservatives do it to adults, not children.)
Yeah, really. I mean they can't build Wolverine/Supermutant-proof nuclear facilities. It's just not possible. Adamantium is hard.
They would probably have regulations on when this method of communication can be used once (if) it is put into use.
On top of this, saying that google should "have a backup" is silly. Do you even understand how redundancy works? Do you even understand how web based mail systems work? I really don't think so from this comment. If the error has nothing to do with servers falling over and is an issue with routing then you can have all the redundancy you want, but it won't make a difference.
So some people took my comment a little more seriously than they should. Yes, I full-well understand redundancy, and web-based mail systems. My point is that they are fucking Google, and I would be willing to wager they have the most-visited website on the internet. While the complexity is on a whole other level, so are their resources and potential for redundancy. And had this been the first time in recent memory that they have had an outage, I would not have made my snarky comment. Everyone is entitled to the occasional fuckup. However, this has happened more than a few times over the past year. They have almost no excuse to not have multiple datacenters hosting Gmail in its entirety continuously updated with eachother (Yes, I understand that's not the simplest feat in the world, but it's doable). Within minutes of one having a problem, they should be able to update their DNS servers to redirect traffic to the others.
The only possible hangup I see is cost...in which case they can just say fuck the free users and only guarantee the redundancy for the paid ones.
Feel free to mod me down again for bashing your precious Google. I have plenty of karma to burn. All the positive moderations were starting to over-inflate my ego anyway.