Microsoft: "X is broken. That's just the way it is." Followed by a form to let them know just how much this pisses you off. e.g. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102888
I understand the anti-DRM viewpoint (and for the most part I am anti-DRM) but I don't think i'm "brainlessly stupid and wilfully lazy" for using a system that has given me no problems, lets me play games long after the CDs would have been scratched to death, lets me talk to fellow players and join their games with a minimum of effort, gives good deals (ok, prices can be higher on steam but their weekend deals and bundles a great), releases old all-but-forgotten-about games which are still good (i'm making my way through jedi night atm...), lets me install to multiple PCs and only play on one at a time (seems fair enough to me), lets me buy from my own room instead of trekking to the shops etc etc etc.
Sure you don't like it for whatever reason, but that's probably just because you're brainlessly stupid and wilfully lazy.
p.s. being forced to use steam with a game you bought at a real shop is dumb.
What I see from song writers instead is "I wrote some stuff that's used somewhere, pay me forever. And I deserve to be paid enough to not have to do anything else."
Do you actually hear that from songwriters or is that just what you get from the media and the record companies?
Software writers are at least ahead of the curve and trying various methods to entice people to pay them directly.
Yeah musicians never do that. Oh wait, Radiohead did that with "In Rainbows", to pick one example. Or buskers. Or any number of small time musicians who have made a living from making music but whose names you'll never know.
Lets see...I couldn't find any mention of price but, well £5(GBP) per month sounds like a reasonably low figure. My last graphics card was about £60. I buy one roughly every two years.
£5 x 24 months = £120
They're twice as better of with me renting this tech. Plus I'm going to need some compatible hardware to receive it on...
The trouble with using an iRiver is that you can't always get it to play the song that you want to listen to. Or if you do you then get to cross your fingers and hope that it will play it or say "unrecognised codec" (even though you've listened to that song only an hour ago) and then move to the first song (one of the tracks that came with the player and sounds like MyFirstSong.mid). So in a rage you buy an iPod Nano and the scroll wheel only works when it feels like it and you may as well just buy a bloody Walkman for all the hassle involved.
I think a LOT of this has to do with so many of today's kids not KNOWING what good sound reproduction CAN sound like.
I know! Kids these days are even turning their guitars up so far that all that comes out is distorted!! You'd think if they actually cared they'd use a system which accurately reproduces the sound of the strings' vibration! It's almost as if they enjoy hearing these weird distorted sounds that bear almost no relation to the things that make them! It's not even real music!
I don't see why that's a big deal. Neil Armstrong went to the MOON in and made it back in one piece with cameras rolling. OK, they weren't digital cameras and the whole job cost a lot more than $200 but it was back in the 60s...
Maybe you don't live near enough to the cinema/work to be able to go home between the two. Maybe you don't have a car to leave it in. Maybe you didn't plan on going to the cinema but got caught in the rain like Animaether up there ^^ and decided to pass a couple of hours there. Or a friend suggested it out of the blue.
I installed a dual boot with 7 and Ubuntu. I prefer 7 to XP (except for some minor gripes - like why does it take so many extra clicks to get to my network settings? I used to be able to right click the system tray icon and disconnect/go to the settings...anyway...) but since using Ubuntu I don't boot into windows except for the few things I can't do in Linux (currently some games - steam runs under WINE but I like having more than 2 frames per second; and music software - yes you can make music on linux, you can also drive a car with your feet). Linux is just more customizable, easier to install software, etc. Yes, it takes a bit of getting used to, but no more than windows did, really. It's just that I've been using windows for so long I forgot that it took me a while to get used to it. Anyway, I'm just procrastinating.
Back in the day, I had plenty of albums which I liked all the way through. When I look back now though, I don't think it's that every song was necessarily that great but that the less good ones weren't bad enough to make me get up and skip to the next one. These days with iTunes and the like you can quite easily make an "album" or playlist of your favourite tracks of a dozen albums and listen to them seamlessly.
Once you've got it working, it "just works" and will continue to until you break it. That much is true.
Also fixing most problems is a simple case of typing in the correct sequence of characters. It's just a case of searching and researching for an hour and tracking it down (or dedicate a few years to learning what they all mean and getting up to speed with the terminology). Then you type it in and it will "just work".
I do like Linux, I use it at home, but it doesn't "just work" in a "these aren't the file's you're looking for. You want to open Emacs and rethink your life" type of "just works". It just continues doing what you told it top do, consistently. This is a good thing.
Slashdot Mirror
Someone had to.
I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of pages gave out an error and were suddenly silenced.
Like a pig in a cage on antibiotics.
This isn't as big a breakthrough as I first thought.
I thought it said "sturgeon".
No.
Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.
Lets just see how much of an arse you are.
*points at post*
Yeah, you're an arse.
That's because you haven't bought the iMsterile iPhone signal amplifier yet.
There seems to be big difference in the way bugs and issues are recorded.
OSS: "If you do X, Y happens. This shouldn't happen" Followed by a long discussion between developers and users to track down and solve the problem.e.g. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/269656
Microsoft: "X is broken. That's just the way it is." Followed by a form to let them know just how much this pisses you off. e.g. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102888
I understand the anti-DRM viewpoint (and for the most part I am anti-DRM) but I don't think i'm "brainlessly stupid and wilfully lazy" for using a system that has given me no problems, lets me play games long after the CDs would have been scratched to death, lets me talk to fellow players and join their games with a minimum of effort, gives good deals (ok, prices can be higher on steam but their weekend deals and bundles a great), releases old all-but-forgotten-about games which are still good (i'm making my way through jedi night atm...), lets me install to multiple PCs and only play on one at a time (seems fair enough to me), lets me buy from my own room instead of trekking to the shops etc etc etc.
Sure you don't like it for whatever reason, but that's probably just because you're brainlessly stupid and wilfully lazy.
p.s. being forced to use steam with a game you bought at a real shop is dumb.
What I see from song writers instead is "I wrote some stuff that's used somewhere, pay me forever. And I deserve to be paid enough to not have to do anything else."
Do you actually hear that from songwriters or is that just what you get from the media and the record companies?
Software writers are at least ahead of the curve and trying various methods to entice people to pay them directly.
Yeah musicians never do that. Oh wait, Radiohead did that with "In Rainbows", to pick one example. Or buskers. Or any number of small time musicians who have made a living from making music but whose names you'll never know.
Lets see...I couldn't find any mention of price but, well £5(GBP) per month sounds like a reasonably low figure. My last graphics card was about £60. I buy one roughly every two years.
£5 x 24 months = £120
They're twice as better of with me renting this tech. Plus I'm going to need some compatible hardware to receive it on...
Ah how time moves on. A decade ago it was Fatboyslim CDs so that you couldn't hear the skipping.
The trouble with using an iRiver is that you can't always get it to play the song that you want to listen to. Or if you do you then get to cross your fingers and hope that it will play it or say "unrecognised codec" (even though you've listened to that song only an hour ago) and then move to the first song (one of the tracks that came with the player and sounds like MyFirstSong.mid). So in a rage you buy an iPod Nano and the scroll wheel only works when it feels like it and you may as well just buy a bloody Walkman for all the hassle involved.
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(where x is a 20sec 440Hz sine wave)
I agree.
I think a LOT of this has to do with so many of today's kids not KNOWING what good sound reproduction CAN sound like.
I know! Kids these days are even turning their guitars up so far that all that comes out is distorted!! You'd think if they actually cared they'd use a system which accurately reproduces the sound of the strings' vibration! It's almost as if they enjoy hearing these weird distorted sounds that bear almost no relation to the things that make them! It's not even real music!
How d'you think I feel? I just wasted a minute reading your complaints. (apologies to anyone reading this)
They don't even do that. They just believe wholeheartedly in some shit that someone else they've never met made up.
I don't see why that's a big deal. Neil Armstrong went to the MOON in and made it back in one piece with cameras rolling. OK, they weren't digital cameras and the whole job cost a lot more than $200 but it was back in the 60s...
Piracy:
Pros:
The fact we are not out in the real world with real strangers near us
Maybe you don't live near enough to the cinema/work to be able to go home between the two. Maybe you don't have a car to leave it in. Maybe you didn't plan on going to the cinema but got caught in the rain like Animaether up there ^^ and decided to pass a couple of hours there. Or a friend suggested it out of the blue.
I'm with you on this, but...
I installed a dual boot with 7 and Ubuntu. I prefer 7 to XP (except for some minor gripes - like why does it take so many extra clicks to get to my network settings? I used to be able to right click the system tray icon and disconnect/go to the settings...anyway...) but since using Ubuntu I don't boot into windows except for the few things I can't do in Linux (currently some games - steam runs under WINE but I like having more than 2 frames per second; and music software - yes you can make music on linux, you can also drive a car with your feet). Linux is just more customizable, easier to install software, etc. Yes, it takes a bit of getting used to, but no more than windows did, really. It's just that I've been using windows for so long I forgot that it took me a while to get used to it. Anyway, I'm just procrastinating.
Back in the day, I had plenty of albums which I liked all the way through. When I look back now though, I don't think it's that every song was necessarily that great but that the less good ones weren't bad enough to make me get up and skip to the next one. These days with iTunes and the like you can quite easily make an "album" or playlist of your favourite tracks of a dozen albums and listen to them seamlessly.
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the phrase "good job" that I wasn't previously aware of.
I think the question is "What search functionality?"
Once you've got it working, it "just works" and will continue to until you break it. That much is true.
Also fixing most problems is a simple case of typing in the correct sequence of characters. It's just a case of searching and researching for an hour and tracking it down (or dedicate a few years to learning what they all mean and getting up to speed with the terminology). Then you type it in and it will "just work".
I do like Linux, I use it at home, but it doesn't "just work" in a "these aren't the file's you're looking for. You want to open Emacs and rethink your life" type of "just works". It just continues doing what you told it top do, consistently. This is a good thing.