Women don't really want to be equal partners, and men usually find being the superior partner pleasing. Seems like the only problem is women's bitching--but maybe that means they're happy?
ahh, now your name makes sense - misexistentialist
Oh please. Men are on average about 12kg larger than women and are much more prone to spousal abuse - It's because of men that domestic violence is framed as a women's issue. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, women are 7 to 10 times more likely to be injured during an act of violence, while men commit 90% of domestic homicides, and before you start complaining about the unfair treatment men get from public institutions, maybe you should have taken the time to find out that women are much more likely to be convicted for murdering their spouses than men.
Also, could you please cite statistics for the "commonly shocking occurrence" of women tricking men into raising children that arent' their own, especially in regards to the other "shockingly common occurrence" of men skipping town after getting their partner pregnant? Or women forced to raise children conceived by rape - how's that for "having no say in how the pregnancy turns out"? Just try to tell me with a straight face that men get raped by women as much as women get raped by men. You mentioned molested boys, but do you really think that it's women that are abusing them?
Your indignation at Americans not taking "men's issues seriously" and then citing examples like rape and domestic violence is absurd since those areas in particular lay bare the fact that men and women's issues are inherently different. If anything, Americans elevate "men's issues" (crime, unemployment, war) disproportionately over other pressing issues, like equality, which you seem to have a seething disdain for (is your solution to racism for minorities to "grow up and take responsibility for all the crap they do" to white people?). Nice straw man, but your meaningless call for women to "as a group decide to grow up" is childish especially since all the "crap" you mentioned is a much worse problem for women.
And you are exposed to none compatible solutions. The number of doc out there that still use insmod/rmmod instead of modprobe is high. The number of solutions that tell to install software manually instead of using the one from your distro repository is high.
I wish I could mod you up. This is exactly why google and forums will _never_ replace good documentation, no matter what the apologists say. I use linux as my primary operating system, and I have to agree that this is really bug #1. There are countless distributions of linux, each with different releases running different combinations of different versions of software. This means that either:
a) I can search for my particular problem without detailing the exact distribution, version, software packages and versions I'm running and end up pulling my hair out trying to use a debian solution for a red hat problem, or finding solutions that don't work anymore because they're for old versions of my software or distribution
or
b) I can detail everything, but not find any solutions because the 8.0 solution is the same as the 7.0 one, and since noone likes to duplicate effort (especially unpaid volunteers), nothing was written for my _exact_ problem with my _exact_ system configuration etc.
or
c) I can post on a forum and wait for a volunteer to answer. This is unacceptable - I want the solution now, not in the undetermined amount of time before someone responds, which can take a very long time for obscure problems.
Add this to the crap search capability of most forums and the system breaks down into the fragmented, distributed nightmare from linux hell. Official documentation will always be relevant to a software's current release, and maybe even support some older releases too. There's no ambiguity. However, many linux developers (I'm looking at you, linuxsampler) think that web forums (or worse, mailing lists) are somehow a replacement for adequate documentation. They're not. The amount of time I spend googling solutions to what should be simple problems because of confusing, incomplete or non-existent manpages or documentation has a serious effect on my productivity using linux.
And yet there's still no viable long-term solution to the problem of nuclear waste. Let's look at the options:
-burial: requires generations of stewards to maintain rusting sarcophagi. Requires shipping of nuclear waste in trucks/trains to burial site. Susceptible to earthquakes (Yucca Mountain is a joke in this regard)
-launch into space: shuttle columbia anyone?
-recycle into new fuel: produces.... nuclear waste.
So does a nuclear plant produce less nuclear waste than a coal plant? Nice try, but no. Here's the original article [Scientific American] Apparently, radiation surrounding coal plants is worse than around nuclear plants because the radioactive particles are blown into the air or leach into the groundwater, in other words precisely because they aren't regulated for radioactivity. This doesn't mean that nuclear plants "produce less radiation," just that the high level (and more hazardous) waste produced by nuclear plants is contained on site. Right now, ALL high level waste produced by nuclear plants in the US is contained on site and piling up quickly because of NIMBYism. Chances of meltdown are certainly inflated by environmentalists, and if you ignore the waste issue, nuclear power is a very elegant solution (for some reason this seems to appeal to nerds). However, simply putting your fingers in your ears and plowing ahead with the nuclear agenda will only put the problem of waste on the shoulders of the next 300+ generations.
The problem with challenging these kinds of "blue laws" is that if you lose, then a law that used to never be enforced suddenly has the backing of a modern court precedent. This has happened in some states with sodomy laws. Civil rights lawyers just let these sleeping dogs lie and only challenge them in the unlikely event that someone today gets charged with one.
For about $5,000 you can buy a complete set of recording equipment - the necessary laptop, software, mics, etc. to go with your instruments. If you want to do it on the cheap, well... that's why recording studios exist. How often do you hear about recording studios going bankrupt and having an unsuccessful business model? They don't.
While you are correct in saying that the huge drop in price and increase in quality of recording equipment has made it easier for artists to publish their music independently, the same fact is actually driving professional recording studios out of business. Engineers are making a fraction of the money they made 15 years ago now that every middle schooler knows how to use Garage Band, and small studios are increasingly losing out from competition at home if they're not backed by a label. Whether or not this is a good thing is debatable because on the one hand it removes obstacles from musicians and further minimizes the impact of the recording industry on music, but it hurts the art of recording when its harder for professionals to make a living.
"once its set up and working, smooth sailing"
The problem with linux is getting it set up in the first place! I do a lot of work with audio, and spent many years being very productive with OSX. Now that I've switched to linux though, everything's a mish-mash of drivers, config files, codecs, emulation layers, and background processes. I like the idea of having a modular system, but everything's so distributed there's no one way for all the applications to agree on, for instance some look at ~/asound.rc, some just look at/proc/asound/cards (even utilities developed by the alsa project differ in this), and my popular sound card needs to be called at least five different things by different programs (SBLive!, EMU10K1, CT4780, C1, Live!, etc etc etc). Plus I can't just plug in USB devies and have them "just work" like in OSX, so now I have to have a working knowledge of kernel modules, init scripts, etc. I don't mind learning about these things, hell I'm a CS undergrad, but being sentenced to months of headaches before I can hear a peep out of my computer is not my idea of smooth sailing. If I was a professional, I wouldn't think twice about ditching linux just in terms of how much its cost me in extra time.
The other thing that drives me nuts is the almost complete lack of clear documentation for important stuff like how init works, how modules work and where they live, etc, and alsa is especially notorious for this. I'm all for community support, but it seems like the alsa project just threw up a wiki and said "have fun! We've got more important things do than document our project, which is the foundation of linux audio! ta!" People talk about how stable linux is, but when I'm having to edit sensitive init scripts with only vague forum posts to guide me, as an average user frankly I'm more likely to screw something up, so it's always two steps forwards one step back. And JFGI sucks, I do it all the time and it solves maybe 1% of my problems.
Now I'm sure lots of you are going to say "well that's not a problem with linux, that's a problem with alsa/drivers/3rd party apps/etc" so what if I have any problem with linux that's not specifically a bug in the kernel then the whole operating system is blameless? The problem is the whole platform! Where am I now? After 4 years of linux, sometimes some of my sound apps make sound if they feel like it (and not my favorite one, pd). Open source audio software is of superb quality these days, but if my platform won't let me run it without years of brutal hazing, why should I bother? In my case, because its free and I'm a loser with time on my hands. And gaah now it won't even let me separate paragraphs in my post gaaahhhh!
Their model suggests that new universes could be created spontaneously from apparently empty space. From inside the parent universe, the event would be surprisingly unspectacular. Just try telling that to the good citizens of Neo-Tokyo.
Thank god, I was waiting for paper records to make a comeback! Nothing beats the warmth and clarity of smoky paper, it's so much better than the cold harshness of vinyl that the modern music industry seems intent on ramming down our throats (haven't these people ever heard of the Vyquist theorem?) Now I finally have an excuse to get all those old 3-ring binders from out of my mom's basement!
You're obviously unclear on the concept here. I'm specifically NOT referring to professional sysadmins doing scripted server installs, it's their JOB to know their machines inside and out. I'm referring to people like myself, USERS, who don't WANT to have all the knowledge of a pro admin expected of them whenever they log onto their PC. This is exactly the type of snide response I should have expected:
I've never had a linux problem which I couldnt fix myself or what Google couldnt fix.
Taking a week to fix a problem is far too long and you must be doing something wrong.
Sure I've hit the odd snag over the years but its been pretty smooth.
And do keep in mind that once hardware is configured, you dont need to touch it ever again.
Lies, Lies, and Damn Lies. This kind of patronizing attitude is exactly what intimidates and disillusions new linux converts, and its characteristically void of substance. "you must be doing something wrong." ORLY???? I should just mod myself down -5 right now and save the mods the trouble, you're obviously in the club, and I'm too honest to be.
Yeah, a few DAYS is more like it. I fell into version/dependency hell trying to install a native rt2x00 driver only to find out that all the forum posts/"documentation" for my wireless card were outdated and I needed to install a SECOND driver (rt61) from source for it to work.
I'm sure we all have thousands of linux nightmares like this, and it really doesn't surprise me that Windows still reigns supreme on the desktop. Decentralized or non-existent documentation, snobby forum trolls, and *shudder* google are your only lifeline between having a working computer and an expensive paperweight. Linux is only fast IF YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT TO DO. Like _most_ people I don't have an inside-out knowledge of every module and daemon running on my OS, and RTMF and JFGI are often a lengthy and painful exercise in futility. Pretending that a bare-bones linux distro like Debian (what I use) is somehow user friendly, if only you're leet enough know its secrets, may make you look good on teh internet but its destructively disingenuous. Even experienced users can run into headaches on linux that may take weeks to fix, it's just what comes with the territory of having a decentralized, bottom-up, fully open software architecture. I applaud the developers who are trying to take the guesswork out of using what is otherwise a beautiful OS.
It doesn't matter. With the dubious honor of being the undisputed king of vaporware, DNF has achieved such a legendary cult status in its own right that today's gamers will snap it up just to see what all the hype is about. Will they sell enough units to cover 10+ years of development costs? Not likely. But for video games, the old axiom rings true: all publicity is good publicity.
I've been seeing tainted foreign pills for years. If you're lucky you just get a bunk roll or a speed bomb, but this one blue Chanel I had was bad news and I don't think it was paint chips.
The real reason for the decline in CDs isn't the physical format but the brick-and-mortar stores. As a DJ, I buy plenty of vinyl* but most of the stores that sell new vinyl have shut their doors. The ones that have survived have become online importers and distributers without physical stores, and in recent years there has been a huge increase in online vinyl retailers. Some of them even let you download mp3 clips before you buy the record, and most also sell high-res mp3s for download alongside vinyl, but even DJs who spin CDs spin CDRs so the demand for CDs as a format just isn't there.
I think this more than anything shows that it's the distribution system that has jeopardized CDs rather than the fact that it's a physical medium. As a digital format, there's no real benefit to buying a CD from a store anymore because there's no loss of quality in a download, you get the instant gratification and convenience, ipods have replaced walkmen, and CDRs are there for when you must play a CD. Vinyl offers more than just a digital storage medium, so it fared better with online distribution, but the physical stores are still shutting down. So CDs faced a double whammy of being physical (costly to retail) and digital (doomed by teh internet).
* Before you get all upset, I never said vinyl sounds better, but since you can touch it to adjust the playback (as well as do fun tricks) DJs much prefer it ("digital turntables" are still wonky and overpriced). Since artists need DJ support when they put out new material, they'll keep pressing new vinyl until digital DJ gear gets significantly cheaper and more responsive, and since there are many vinyl snobs in the DJ community, probably even after that. So please put down that tire iron, this is not some analog vs. digital sound quality voodoo thing.
I read on Slashdot just about every day people saying "Democracy may not be perfect, but if you don't like what your elected officials are doing just vote them out and vote in someone competent!" This might be a sign to put our money where our mouth is...
That should tell you more than anything that the lion's share of these "freedom" organizations are really just doing it to cash in. Every retarded liberal getting angry about a post by some freedom organization, moved to scream about the horror of the abuses, only wishing they had more money to give to save the world, are just as dumb as a two year old whining for Thomas the Tank Engine or Ronald McDonald. Give me some money and here's your cheeseburger of freedom, you dopes. You are ver useful engines!
Sorry, but there's a HUGE difference between demanding an accountable government and whining for a cheeseburger. With this logic you could say that any demand by anyone is a selfish as a two year old, which one could actually argue is true on a very broad level, but I doubt you'd be saying the same thing if it was, say, a demand for journalistic accountability on non-profit websites. I'm inferring that you're a get-off-my-lawn type who thinks that the greatest injustices in the world involve you being "bothered" by people to hear things that don't fit into your narrow world view.
All of these "freedom" organizations turn quite orwellian themselves whenever someone disagrees with them. There's no salvation there. I mean, if you want to go find a bunch of Nazis, go onto any of these places like wikileaks or moveon or dailykos and say, "hey, I think Bush is great!". You'll find more group think, suppression of dissent, and threats of violence, as you would in any organization or institution that they try to do. God forbid that the guys at Gitmo go and write their own take on the situation. Of course, they are in the wrong to do anything, because, they are automatically evil.
nice ad-hominim, but the difference here is that the non-profits don't disappear dissenters. And if you're so upset over forum groupthink, why the hell are you posting on slashdot:)? Actually, I haven't heard one real argument in your whole post, it just seems like a rant against "retarded" liberals. Hey, maybe if you say "retarded" one more time your post will sound cohesive and intelligent.
And yeah, I think its funny that the gitmo guys wrote that Fidel Castro is a transexual. I might write in Wikipedia that Fidel Castro is also a vampire. Fricking Commy Bastard, and that's a fact.
Yeah, vandalizing wikipedia is hilarious, especially when its presented as fact and paid for by US taxpayers.
Grr how dare you make me put off studying for finals to respond to your BS!
We spend an amazing amount on education but efforts to improve it are thwarted by Teacher Union's, Special Interest Groups, and Politicians.
"special interest groups" is a favorite term for conservatives because it means whatever they want it to mean. Any concerned group (environmentalists, gay rights advocates, etc) can conveniently be written off as a "special interest group" and they magically lose all credibility. But corporate lobbyists? the defense industry? pork barrel contractors? somehow they never seem to count as special interest groups. I wonder why? Oh, but POLITICIANS are also to blame for the state of the education system! Wowz0rz, +5000 insightful! Please, this is meaningless. And the teachers' unions are also to blame apparently. how dare they ask to be paid fairly! how dare they protest flawed achievement tests and budget gerrymandering! We should be building our economy not investing in an educated workforce! It sounds like you've got a bitter taste in your mouth after you "got involved at the local level" and the union wasn't receptive to your plan to outsource the school to the next town over.
Ever wonder why a certain bridge disaster disappeared from the news so quickly? Because it was exposing the system that is failing.
hey, maybe the bridge disaster "disappeared" from the news so fast because it was a FREAKING BRIDGE DISASTER! you're a real rare breed - a tin foil hat libertarian.
Lets hit your next category. Medical research. The private sector is doing amazing things in this area - why? Because by not taking Federal money for all lines of research they are left with options they would lose otherwise.
TheSciBoy already responded to this starry-eyed free market BS better than I could ever do. So yeah, what he said.
New power alternatives. We already have seen where Congress is going.
OK, I actually agree with a lot of what you said here, but your conclusion seems to be "don't invest in alternative energy". If the market were to decide what energy we use, we'd just be burning coal until our lungs turn black, there's no more mountain tops, and Holland returns to the sea 'cause it would look good on quarterly reports. The market is actually pretty terrible at long term strategy because it externalizes all the environmental costs associated with energy, so what looks economically viable to energy companies is actually a huge burden on the rest of us. With all this faith in theory you should really be a Marxist!
However that same military is the reason why we can bitch about the state of our country and the world with near impunity.
"Freedom isn't free!" wow, haven't heard that one before. So what are you saying, that countries that spend less on their military are more restrictive of public discourse? Those Swedes must be really strict! Thanks to our constant state of "war", the government has been able to justify everything from spying on its own citizens to disappearing people indefinitely without a fair trial. Please don't insult my intelligence with this (dare I say?) fascist rhetoric.
I agree that there's plenty of government waste. I disagree with your definition of waste. Maintaining a healthy and educated workforce is absolutely crucial for the long term economic state of the country. On the other hand, the hundreds of billions spent on the war on terror haven't made us an ounce more safe but have expanded government powers to unprecedented levels. Liberal or conservative, ideology rots your brain.
ouch. Although LDFRXML doesn't quite have that same ring to it, does it?
I think he's dead on, and maybe lemonade can come from these lemons if MS decided to focus this format as a standard for legacy documents rather than a as weapon against FOSS.
Slashdot Mirror
Women don't really want to be equal partners, and men usually find being the superior partner pleasing. Seems like the only problem is women's bitching--but maybe that means they're happy?
ahh, now your name makes sense - misexistentialist
Oh please. Men are on average about 12kg larger than women and are much more prone to spousal abuse - It's because of men that domestic violence is framed as a women's issue. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, women are 7 to 10 times more likely to be injured during an act of violence, while men commit 90% of domestic homicides, and before you start complaining about the unfair treatment men get from public institutions, maybe you should have taken the time to find out that women are much more likely to be convicted for murdering their spouses than men.
Also, could you please cite statistics for the "commonly shocking occurrence" of women tricking men into raising children that arent' their own, especially in regards to the other "shockingly common occurrence" of men skipping town after getting their partner pregnant? Or women forced to raise children conceived by rape - how's that for "having no say in how the pregnancy turns out"? Just try to tell me with a straight face that men get raped by women as much as women get raped by men. You mentioned molested boys, but do you really think that it's women that are abusing them?
Your indignation at Americans not taking "men's issues seriously" and then citing examples like rape and domestic violence is absurd since those areas in particular lay bare the fact that men and women's issues are inherently different. If anything, Americans elevate "men's issues" (crime, unemployment, war) disproportionately over other pressing issues, like equality, which you seem to have a seething disdain for (is your solution to racism for minorities to "grow up and take responsibility for all the crap they do" to white people?). Nice straw man, but your meaningless call for women to "as a group decide to grow up" is childish especially since all the "crap" you mentioned is a much worse problem for women.
And you are exposed to none compatible solutions. The number of doc out there that still use insmod/rmmod instead of modprobe is high. The number of solutions that tell to install software manually instead of using the one from your distro repository is high.
I wish I could mod you up. This is exactly why google and forums will _never_ replace good documentation, no matter what the apologists say. I use linux as my primary operating system, and I have to agree that this is really bug #1. There are countless distributions of linux, each with different releases running different combinations of different versions of software. This means that either:
a) I can search for my particular problem without detailing the exact distribution, version, software packages and versions I'm running and end up pulling my hair out trying to use a debian solution for a red hat problem, or finding solutions that don't work anymore because they're for old versions of my software or distribution
or
b) I can detail everything, but not find any solutions because the 8.0 solution is the same as the 7.0 one, and since noone likes to duplicate effort (especially unpaid volunteers), nothing was written for my _exact_ problem with my _exact_ system configuration etc.
or
c) I can post on a forum and wait for a volunteer to answer. This is unacceptable - I want the solution now, not in the undetermined amount of time before someone responds, which can take a very long time for obscure problems.
Add this to the crap search capability of most forums and the system breaks down into the fragmented, distributed nightmare from linux hell. Official documentation will always be relevant to a software's current release, and maybe even support some older releases too. There's no ambiguity. However, many linux developers (I'm looking at you, linuxsampler) think that web forums (or worse, mailing lists) are somehow a replacement for adequate documentation. They're not. The amount of time I spend googling solutions to what should be simple problems because of confusing, incomplete or non-existent manpages or documentation has a serious effect on my productivity using linux.
Damn why does my browser suck? link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste
And yet there's still no viable long-term solution to the problem of nuclear waste. Let's look at the options: -burial: requires generations of stewards to maintain rusting sarcophagi. Requires shipping of nuclear waste in trucks/trains to burial site. Susceptible to earthquakes (Yucca Mountain is a joke in this regard) -launch into space: shuttle columbia anyone? -recycle into new fuel: produces.... nuclear waste. So does a nuclear plant produce less nuclear waste than a coal plant? Nice try, but no. Here's the original article [Scientific American] Apparently, radiation surrounding coal plants is worse than around nuclear plants because the radioactive particles are blown into the air or leach into the groundwater, in other words precisely because they aren't regulated for radioactivity. This doesn't mean that nuclear plants "produce less radiation," just that the high level (and more hazardous) waste produced by nuclear plants is contained on site. Right now, ALL high level waste produced by nuclear plants in the US is contained on site and piling up quickly because of NIMBYism. Chances of meltdown are certainly inflated by environmentalists, and if you ignore the waste issue, nuclear power is a very elegant solution (for some reason this seems to appeal to nerds). However, simply putting your fingers in your ears and plowing ahead with the nuclear agenda will only put the problem of waste on the shoulders of the next 300+ generations.
The problem with challenging these kinds of "blue laws" is that if you lose, then a law that used to never be enforced suddenly has the backing of a modern court precedent. This has happened in some states with sodomy laws. Civil rights lawyers just let these sleeping dogs lie and only challenge them in the unlikely event that someone today gets charged with one.
or nuclear power without any realistic long-term plan for waste disposal! [ducks]
It's an expensive habit, most of us are just trying to break even.
For about $5,000 you can buy a complete set of recording equipment - the necessary laptop, software, mics, etc. to go with your instruments. If you want to do it on the cheap, well... that's why recording studios exist. How often do you hear about recording studios going bankrupt and having an unsuccessful business model? They don't.
While you are correct in saying that the huge drop in price and increase in quality of recording equipment has made it easier for artists to publish their music independently, the same fact is actually driving professional recording studios out of business. Engineers are making a fraction of the money they made 15 years ago now that every middle schooler knows how to use Garage Band, and small studios are increasingly losing out from competition at home if they're not backed by a label. Whether or not this is a good thing is debatable because on the one hand it removes obstacles from musicians and further minimizes the impact of the recording industry on music, but it hurts the art of recording when its harder for professionals to make a living.
"once its set up and working, smooth sailing" The problem with linux is getting it set up in the first place! I do a lot of work with audio, and spent many years being very productive with OSX. Now that I've switched to linux though, everything's a mish-mash of drivers, config files, codecs, emulation layers, and background processes. I like the idea of having a modular system, but everything's so distributed there's no one way for all the applications to agree on, for instance some look at ~/asound.rc, some just look at /proc/asound/cards (even utilities developed by the alsa project differ in this), and my popular sound card needs to be called at least five different things by different programs (SBLive!, EMU10K1, CT4780, C1, Live!, etc etc etc). Plus I can't just plug in USB devies and have them "just work" like in OSX, so now I have to have a working knowledge of kernel modules, init scripts, etc. I don't mind learning about these things, hell I'm a CS undergrad, but being sentenced to months of headaches before I can hear a peep out of my computer is not my idea of smooth sailing. If I was a professional, I wouldn't think twice about ditching linux just in terms of how much its cost me in extra time.
The other thing that drives me nuts is the almost complete lack of clear documentation for important stuff like how init works, how modules work and where they live, etc, and alsa is especially notorious for this. I'm all for community support, but it seems like the alsa project just threw up a wiki and said "have fun! We've got more important things do than document our project, which is the foundation of linux audio! ta!" People talk about how stable linux is, but when I'm having to edit sensitive init scripts with only vague forum posts to guide me, as an average user frankly I'm more likely to screw something up, so it's always two steps forwards one step back. And JFGI sucks, I do it all the time and it solves maybe 1% of my problems.
Now I'm sure lots of you are going to say "well that's not a problem with linux, that's a problem with alsa/drivers/3rd party apps/etc" so what if I have any problem with linux that's not specifically a bug in the kernel then the whole operating system is blameless? The problem is the whole platform! Where am I now? After 4 years of linux, sometimes some of my sound apps make sound if they feel like it (and not my favorite one, pd). Open source audio software is of superb quality these days, but if my platform won't let me run it without years of brutal hazing, why should I bother? In my case, because its free and I'm a loser with time on my hands. And gaah now it won't even let me separate paragraphs in my post gaaahhhh!
Cue the snide responses from the "I've never had a linux issue in my life, you're obviously too dumb for linux, my geek dick is *this* big" crowd
Thank god, I was waiting for paper records to make a comeback! Nothing beats the warmth and clarity of smoky paper, it's so much better than the cold harshness of vinyl that the modern music industry seems intent on ramming down our throats (haven't these people ever heard of the Vyquist theorem?) Now I finally have an excuse to get all those old 3-ring binders from out of my mom's basement!
It doesn't matter. With the dubious honor of being the undisputed king of vaporware, DNF has achieved such a legendary cult status in its own right that today's gamers will snap it up just to see what all the hype is about. Will they sell enough units to cover 10+ years of development costs? Not likely. But for video games, the old axiom rings true: all publicity is good publicity.
I've been seeing tainted foreign pills for years. If you're lucky you just get a bunk roll or a speed bomb, but this one blue Chanel I had was bad news and I don't think it was paint chips.
then they wouldn't keep getting busted up by the cops
The real reason for the decline in CDs isn't the physical format but the brick-and-mortar stores. As a DJ, I buy plenty of vinyl* but most of the stores that sell new vinyl have shut their doors. The ones that have survived have become online importers and distributers without physical stores, and in recent years there has been a huge increase in online vinyl retailers. Some of them even let you download mp3 clips before you buy the record, and most also sell high-res mp3s for download alongside vinyl, but even DJs who spin CDs spin CDRs so the demand for CDs as a format just isn't there. I think this more than anything shows that it's the distribution system that has jeopardized CDs rather than the fact that it's a physical medium. As a digital format, there's no real benefit to buying a CD from a store anymore because there's no loss of quality in a download, you get the instant gratification and convenience, ipods have replaced walkmen, and CDRs are there for when you must play a CD. Vinyl offers more than just a digital storage medium, so it fared better with online distribution, but the physical stores are still shutting down. So CDs faced a double whammy of being physical (costly to retail) and digital (doomed by teh internet). * Before you get all upset, I never said vinyl sounds better, but since you can touch it to adjust the playback (as well as do fun tricks) DJs much prefer it ("digital turntables" are still wonky and overpriced). Since artists need DJ support when they put out new material, they'll keep pressing new vinyl until digital DJ gear gets significantly cheaper and more responsive, and since there are many vinyl snobs in the DJ community, probably even after that. So please put down that tire iron, this is not some analog vs. digital sound quality voodoo thing.
thanks
I read on Slashdot just about every day people saying "Democracy may not be perfect, but if you don't like what your elected officials are doing just vote them out and vote in someone competent!" This might be a sign to put our money where our mouth is...
ouch. Although LDFRXML doesn't quite have that same ring to it, does it? I think he's dead on, and maybe lemonade can come from these lemons if MS decided to focus this format as a standard for legacy documents rather than a as weapon against FOSS.