The problem is that support for the ticketmaster anti-trust hearings was basically balked and swept under the rug.
I'm not sure if David Bowie came into support of the bands that spoke out, but regardless there was no support from the media nor consumer. Bands that attempted to free themselves of Ticketmaster's unfair practices found they had no venues to play at and venues that tried to break contract where choked by Ticketmaster.
Today ticket prices continue to climb, Ticketmaster continues to garner more $$ per ticket and now bands making FAR less money for their shows than they should be. Beyond ticketmaster it's a larger problem. Why should the average douche that can buy a $100 ticket to a show in Madison Square Garden be able to flip the ticket for 10 times the amount with none of that revenue going to the original artist?
Entertainment as an art is lost, it's an industry and it's dominated by suits.
Best bet for controllers is to go the console route.
You can use the wiimote as a standard Nintendo controller or connect a classic controller to it and get tons of buttons. Uses bluetooth. I love tinkering with it and my next plan is to get the wiizapper working (essentially just getting the IR readouts from the pointer on the wiimote) with my screen (47"lcd tv) and PC to play older MAME shooters.
I'm pretty sure there's support for the ps3 controllers and I know there is MS support for XBox360 controllers on Vista at a minimum.
I'm not telling you to buy the console, but the controllers are pretty sweet on their own.
Yeah I actually realized this after I posted, I guess it makes more sense in the long run.
It's not like you can't install firefox2 in the meantime.
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It's beta. It's also widely unsupported right now and doesn't work with several plug-ins I love to use.
I do like some of the built in features of it, and use it on several of my systems, but I don't see it as belonging in an OS Release.
Yeah, but they suck too. I'm in IT in state government in an agency that wants tight restrictions on our desktops. Unfortunately they're pretty anal and want to give us no control on any software installed on our hosts. Inevitably they had to cave on giving their administrative teams access to install and run programs as administrator just for the simple fact that no one develops windows applications/clients for anything other than local administration rights (at least it seems that way). I'm part of one of 6 units within our IT infrastructure and we monopolized desktop support with installation requirements.
Ultimately though it's still backfiring because their auditting software is reporting a ton of legitimate software as unauthorized (mozilla) or unlicensed (VMware Server under a free license).
I have a list of keys and printouts that on a daily basis I turn over to our security unit (separate from our desktop support group) showing them I'm not doing anything illegal or using software I shouldn't have.
I hate this stupid argument.
Two things:
1. The virus killing their systems is a tribute to war of the worlds where a virus just stops the invasion. It was written in the script this way, deal with it.
2. They had the alien fighter for decades, don't you think they would have learned how the thing communicates and works to some degree? They create an interface for the mac to the fighter ship, the fighter ship does the rest of the work... It's not that hard people.
3. It's a freaking movie, just try to enjoy the damn thing instead of tearing apart something that is fiction! I'd worry more about the bad acting in the movie before I'd worry about anything else.
I think you overestimate the number of people wildly interested in latest kernel release, at least to the degree of people picking it up and using it right away. Most linux users will not reap the benefits of that kernel until the major vendors have implemented it and verified it with their releases.
The hardcore linux geeks, kernel developers and those developing device drivers are about the only people that truly care over the latest kernel updates.
The groups of people:
1. The people that were stealing music because they don't want to pay anything will still continue to steal music.
2. The people that were stealing music because the options stank but were willing to pay for the quality or ability to play on a device of their choosing, will now have an option.
3. The people that bought music legally will continue to buy music legally, they now have
What part of this new model forces more people into stealing music (group one) or makes it any more accessible than it already was?
This has been done already by IBM in pSeries and mainframe. You buy a system with more cores than you need, activate a portion for regular use and you can either activate the remainder on a timed rental basis or permanent activate.
Where is the news here?
Yeah I'm half programmer, half sysadmin where I am. I can say without a doubt many times, I feel much more comfortable working in an open air environment where I can turn around in my chair and talk to the guy in the next desk over to get a question answered or even chat while I work.
When I'm cubed up though I tend to be less productive and more inclined to "do my own thing". When I need social interaction, I have to get up, leave my desk and office/cube and find the person I want to talk to. I've also found that cube walls and doors do not stop people from coming in and bugging you all the time. If you really need time to work on something alone, it's better to have a laptop and know a corner of the building where most people won't come looking. It's one of the reasons I like being on server support staff, I can go work in the network ops center most of the time uninterrupted.
Most Government IT are.
Communication Workers of Amercia.
They're no intelligent body though for negotiating. My last contract I would have preferred to personally negotiate. They also happen to cover most secretarial and other administrative staff who make stupid votes sacrificing their futures for stupidly miniscule pay increases.
"But hey, I'm glad you're happy with your laptop. I'm very happy with mine. It has a 17" display. Love it. Wish I could run Linux on it."
What's stopping you? Download Ubuntu and try the live CD, it won't cripple you.
The system requirements on PC games are getting out of hand. Basically nvidia hands XYZ a system with the top tier next generation graphics card and tells them to go at it. The company then expects everyone that buys it to have that card. Then doesn't realize that graphics card generations are basically 3-4 months apart and people aren't willing to pay $500-600 that frequently to upgrade systems. Game never quite catches on. If the game developers would just do what console developers are required to do most of the time and develop on outdated gear once in awhile, we might get an optimized game that runs well. Instead we get crap.
Please, in addition to the misuse of SKU, can we stop referring to breaking an OS or boot as "Bricking a PC". No, it doesn't, it takes a simple venture of booting your install disk and performing a little bit of system recovery/maintenance you're back in business.
... winning a monopoly case against Microsoft wouldn't
Michael Bay is just PO'd that he isn't making more money hand over fist on that abortion of a commercial called "Transformers". I couldn't even tell it was a real movie through all the obvious and in your face product placement.
I've started using Gutsy... it's only fixed problems I've had with wireless and on top of that has been more stable than my feisty box was.
I use Leopard and I didn't even reinstall, I upgraded and I have yet to have a crash. The only thing dissappointing to me is the bluetooth stack still sucks and they killed network drive options for Time Machine. Oh well, Time machine still works for what I need it to.
The thing that pisses me off is that people start bashing OS X and Vista (and evidently Gutsy now too) for buggy releases, yet the OS's they're based from were BUGGY AS HELL TO BEGIN WITH. Not one of the predecessors to any of these OSes was less buggy. The issue with Vista isn't just it's buggy nature, it's the unsupported nature after a year release, it's the major annoyances that were introduced as feature, is the intrusion of mass DRM, and it's the major lack of worthwhile features (other than DX10 for gamers) while providing a slower environment.
Oh, and I can assure you that Compiz is NOT enabled by default on all systems for Gutsy, in fact the Desktop is faster on my work Latitude than it was running Feisty. Besides, you're using Linux. Boot to a prompt, edit your configs and be done with it.
So your blaming pidgin's failure on your reliance on a protocol (not program) that is not open, by a company that has no interest in supporting open standards (or source)?
Seems more like you need to free yourself (and your friends) from MSN first before complaining that an open solution isn't working for you.
The only thing I find lacking in Pidgin is support for Skype and Video sessions(particularly for Skype, AIM and iChat users). I expect Skype support will come one day and that eventually video pluggins.
Sadly of all the ones listed on that site, I could sadly see someone richer than rich actually paying for these on a custom rig where looks were important....whether or not they actually improved sound. If they're made with quality and by hand, someone will pay for it.
Actually you missed some...
28% for mac
about 25% for red hat (you missed that)
18% to suse
18% to ubuntu (you misread that as both being 18% total)
9% for other
4% unsure
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102%
I'm assuming the 2% over is probably due to the redhat figure being 22-23% in reality.
You're wrong...
"(basically never on a desktop PC)" is a product of the fact that Windows networking has never lived up to the full throughput of the network. In every box I've ever touched, Windows never uses the full network even when I dug deeper to the driver functionality to tweak them, not like my linux systems and they ARE my desktop systems. It's retarded too when people are pushing multimedia over the network, how can you possibly prioritize the way MS does.
And telling me I'll never use the full bandwidth of a Gig network is another one of those fallacies that needs to go away, just like when people said no one would need more than 64k memory. Just because you're not using doesn't mean other people aren't.
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The problem is that support for the ticketmaster anti-trust hearings was basically balked and swept under the rug. I'm not sure if David Bowie came into support of the bands that spoke out, but regardless there was no support from the media nor consumer. Bands that attempted to free themselves of Ticketmaster's unfair practices found they had no venues to play at and venues that tried to break contract where choked by Ticketmaster. Today ticket prices continue to climb, Ticketmaster continues to garner more $$ per ticket and now bands making FAR less money for their shows than they should be. Beyond ticketmaster it's a larger problem. Why should the average douche that can buy a $100 ticket to a show in Madison Square Garden be able to flip the ticket for 10 times the amount with none of that revenue going to the original artist? Entertainment as an art is lost, it's an industry and it's dominated by suits.
It should come with a public apology for viciously undermining the understanding of their loyal customers and for treating them as criminals.
Best bet for controllers is to go the console route. You can use the wiimote as a standard Nintendo controller or connect a classic controller to it and get tons of buttons. Uses bluetooth. I love tinkering with it and my next plan is to get the wiizapper working (essentially just getting the IR readouts from the pointer on the wiimote) with my screen (47"lcd tv) and PC to play older MAME shooters. I'm pretty sure there's support for the ps3 controllers and I know there is MS support for XBox360 controllers on Vista at a minimum. I'm not telling you to buy the console, but the controllers are pretty sweet on their own.
Yeah I actually realized this after I posted, I guess it makes more sense in the long run. It's not like you can't install firefox2 in the meantime.
It's beta. It's also widely unsupported right now and doesn't work with several plug-ins I love to use. I do like some of the built in features of it, and use it on several of my systems, but I don't see it as belonging in an OS Release.
Adobe is quite happy to remain a significant Apple player I'm sure. That is their platform and it has always shined there.
Yeah, but they suck too. I'm in IT in state government in an agency that wants tight restrictions on our desktops. Unfortunately they're pretty anal and want to give us no control on any software installed on our hosts. Inevitably they had to cave on giving their administrative teams access to install and run programs as administrator just for the simple fact that no one develops windows applications/clients for anything other than local administration rights (at least it seems that way). I'm part of one of 6 units within our IT infrastructure and we monopolized desktop support with installation requirements. Ultimately though it's still backfiring because their auditting software is reporting a ton of legitimate software as unauthorized (mozilla) or unlicensed (VMware Server under a free license). I have a list of keys and printouts that on a daily basis I turn over to our security unit (separate from our desktop support group) showing them I'm not doing anything illegal or using software I shouldn't have.
I hate this stupid argument. Two things: 1. The virus killing their systems is a tribute to war of the worlds where a virus just stops the invasion. It was written in the script this way, deal with it. 2. They had the alien fighter for decades, don't you think they would have learned how the thing communicates and works to some degree? They create an interface for the mac to the fighter ship, the fighter ship does the rest of the work... It's not that hard people. 3. It's a freaking movie, just try to enjoy the damn thing instead of tearing apart something that is fiction! I'd worry more about the bad acting in the movie before I'd worry about anything else.
I think you overestimate the number of people wildly interested in latest kernel release, at least to the degree of people picking it up and using it right away. Most linux users will not reap the benefits of that kernel until the major vendors have implemented it and verified it with their releases.
The hardcore linux geeks, kernel developers and those developing device drivers are about the only people that truly care over the latest kernel updates.
The groups of people: 1. The people that were stealing music because they don't want to pay anything will still continue to steal music. 2. The people that were stealing music because the options stank but were willing to pay for the quality or ability to play on a device of their choosing, will now have an option. 3. The people that bought music legally will continue to buy music legally, they now have What part of this new model forces more people into stealing music (group one) or makes it any more accessible than it already was?
This has been done already by IBM in pSeries and mainframe. You buy a system with more cores than you need, activate a portion for regular use and you can either activate the remainder on a timed rental basis or permanent activate. Where is the news here?
I wouldn't worry too much, your parent poster was too ignorant to realize there is a whole market for fanless systems as HTPCs.
Yeah I'm half programmer, half sysadmin where I am. I can say without a doubt many times, I feel much more comfortable working in an open air environment where I can turn around in my chair and talk to the guy in the next desk over to get a question answered or even chat while I work. When I'm cubed up though I tend to be less productive and more inclined to "do my own thing". When I need social interaction, I have to get up, leave my desk and office/cube and find the person I want to talk to. I've also found that cube walls and doors do not stop people from coming in and bugging you all the time. If you really need time to work on something alone, it's better to have a laptop and know a corner of the building where most people won't come looking. It's one of the reasons I like being on server support staff, I can go work in the network ops center most of the time uninterrupted.
And my guess is the conductor normally controls these switches with remote... not the kid outside of the train with a hacked TV remote.
Most Government IT are. Communication Workers of Amercia. They're no intelligent body though for negotiating. My last contract I would have preferred to personally negotiate. They also happen to cover most secretarial and other administrative staff who make stupid votes sacrificing their futures for stupidly miniscule pay increases.
"But hey, I'm glad you're happy with your laptop. I'm very happy with mine. It has a 17" display. Love it. Wish I could run Linux on it." What's stopping you? Download Ubuntu and try the live CD, it won't cripple you.
The system requirements on PC games are getting out of hand. Basically nvidia hands XYZ a system with the top tier next generation graphics card and tells them to go at it. The company then expects everyone that buys it to have that card. Then doesn't realize that graphics card generations are basically 3-4 months apart and people aren't willing to pay $500-600 that frequently to upgrade systems. Game never quite catches on. If the game developers would just do what console developers are required to do most of the time and develop on outdated gear once in awhile, we might get an optimized game that runs well. Instead we get crap.
As much as I hate the OS, Vista is the most disappointing product of 2006. It wasn't released this year, it was released last year.
Please, in addition to the misuse of SKU, can we stop referring to breaking an OS or boot as "Bricking a PC". No, it doesn't, it takes a simple venture of booting your install disk and performing a little bit of system recovery/maintenance you're back in business.
... winning a monopoly case against Microsoft wouldn't Michael Bay is just PO'd that he isn't making more money hand over fist on that abortion of a commercial called "Transformers". I couldn't even tell it was a real movie through all the obvious and in your face product placement.
I've started using Gutsy... it's only fixed problems I've had with wireless and on top of that has been more stable than my feisty box was. I use Leopard and I didn't even reinstall, I upgraded and I have yet to have a crash. The only thing dissappointing to me is the bluetooth stack still sucks and they killed network drive options for Time Machine. Oh well, Time machine still works for what I need it to. The thing that pisses me off is that people start bashing OS X and Vista (and evidently Gutsy now too) for buggy releases, yet the OS's they're based from were BUGGY AS HELL TO BEGIN WITH. Not one of the predecessors to any of these OSes was less buggy. The issue with Vista isn't just it's buggy nature, it's the unsupported nature after a year release, it's the major annoyances that were introduced as feature, is the intrusion of mass DRM, and it's the major lack of worthwhile features (other than DX10 for gamers) while providing a slower environment. Oh, and I can assure you that Compiz is NOT enabled by default on all systems for Gutsy, in fact the Desktop is faster on my work Latitude than it was running Feisty. Besides, you're using Linux. Boot to a prompt, edit your configs and be done with it.
So your blaming pidgin's failure on your reliance on a protocol (not program) that is not open, by a company that has no interest in supporting open standards (or source)? Seems more like you need to free yourself (and your friends) from MSN first before complaining that an open solution isn't working for you. The only thing I find lacking in Pidgin is support for Skype and Video sessions(particularly for Skype, AIM and iChat users). I expect Skype support will come one day and that eventually video pluggins.
Sadly of all the ones listed on that site, I could sadly see someone richer than rich actually paying for these on a custom rig where looks were important....whether or not they actually improved sound. If they're made with quality and by hand, someone will pay for it.
Actually you missed some... 28% for mac about 25% for red hat (you missed that) 18% to suse 18% to ubuntu (you misread that as both being 18% total) 9% for other 4% unsure ======= 102% I'm assuming the 2% over is probably due to the redhat figure being 22-23% in reality.
You're wrong... "(basically never on a desktop PC)" is a product of the fact that Windows networking has never lived up to the full throughput of the network. In every box I've ever touched, Windows never uses the full network even when I dug deeper to the driver functionality to tweak them, not like my linux systems and they ARE my desktop systems. It's retarded too when people are pushing multimedia over the network, how can you possibly prioritize the way MS does. And telling me I'll never use the full bandwidth of a Gig network is another one of those fallacies that needs to go away, just like when people said no one would need more than 64k memory. Just because you're not using doesn't mean other people aren't.