I will freely admit that is it silly to dislike RedHat. And that for the most part the reason alot of people dislike RedHat is simple because they are the biggest and most known of the Linux Distros.
Have they done anything sinister? Not yet. Will they? Who knows. But it's fun to complain about them =]
The anti Redhat Linux part of me is saying Do not cave into the demands of Redhat because they are becoming as bad as Microsoft with pushing Linux to their own sinister goals. But then the sane part of me says " If the technology is awesome it should be in the standard kernel."
And then the crazy part of me says. "Heh, I can compile modules for the Xbox controller and other weird hardware into the kernel. Maybe useful technology should be in the kernel =]
but then again. I just might have to many voices in my head
I do not believe hacking is an Art. I beleive it is a mental exercise. Why is the term art is given to easily to everything today that is even remotely intresting to someone.
Note: I stopped buying used video games when I was a teenager. I want to support the developer of a good title with my hard earned money for creating a title I want.
It is a complete load of crap what BestBuy is doing. There is no reasons companies like EB, Bestbuy, or even places like GameFly and Blockbuster Video to sell used games to consumers thus cutting out royalities from the developers and placing another mark that shows the gaming industry is about to crash again.
That being said I understand why Bestbuy is doing this. EB and other places are making alot of profit selling this merchindise. IT's just good business sense. Local Record exchange type stores have been doing this for a long time so it iwas only natural that Big business do it.
And since the "hardcore gamer" has little spending money using it on acne creme, tacos, what ever it is an easy way to get money... which that same kid will eventually buy more games with.
Software quality aside. I am glad the world hasn't gone lawsuit crazy with Software liability cases. No stupid cases about how joe idiot did something stupid and lost his job because he didn't back up.
So what does this mean to all of us? Why do companies keep coming up with DRM technology that everyone says are doomed to failer? Why does slashdot and other 'tech' sites contiue to retread the same stories about DRM again and again and again?
Well it could mean that there is a need for DRM technology in today's culture no matter how much I and alot of other people hate it.
Companies like Microsoft and others to bring up this technology to fit a niche that everyone is wants. The masses are accepting digitial and downloaded content the way every 'techie' has said they would for years. So companies come up with the easiest solution of DRM. Is DRM good? No, but it's al we have right now.
To many times I here the argument that DRM is doomed for failer because "it will be broken soon anway" or "Big Business is stupid and trying to control our lives"
The open source community has an important mission and critical need at this moment to fix this DRM problem now. The only way we will get away from all this DRM talk to to come up with a different solution to the problem.
DRM is here to stay until there is a better option.
Considering yourself a "gamer" was a niche in an allready niche culture. Gaming was/is one of the relams that socially disconnected youth had an outlet and culture that they had slwoly developed over the years.
As the industry of gaming has grown more people are entering this culture and pushing the one tight community of "gamer" into the lime light of normal society.
This in turn makes the social outcasts that consider themsel.ves gamer need to find this niche intside the now sociallity acceptable realm of gamers. So we have these factions of people trying to carve out thier stake in the community they developed.
I believe that since Intel has been marketing many different processor types and technologies from Pentium 4, to Hyper Threading, to Centrino the marketing of "Intel Inside" has lost alot of it's luster.
As such it is my belief that the current way general consumers look at processors are simply price driven and to hell with preformance.. be it AMD, Intel, or anyone else for that matter.
We are in the world of 299 PCs... The new game systems will cost more then a end user PC platform.
Security is always going to be a concern on the Internet. The more we know about the problems we all face the better. At least this article is a calm mention of the negative possibilities that this technology can be used for instead of a paranoid rant on how this should have never been created in the first place.
We are in a culture where people need to specialize in order to succeed. Now there is only so much specialization that can be achieved. So of course buzz words are needed to justify the niche marketing of... business, goods, and even employment specialties.
The Xbox 360, PS3, and the Revolution are all supposed to be powered by PPC chips. IBM Can't keep demand as it is. Alot of time and effort will be placed on the console gaming system chips. Apple had to leave IBM becuse there is no way IBM would have kept up with demand.
The reason they go after the online community is simple. The current beleif is that everyone eho downloads a movie, mp3, or game is a direct sales deduction for the bottom line.
Using that structure of thought.. in the grand scheme of things. The guys on the corenr selling these copies are little fish in the big internet pond. Hell, you might even stop a couple of them pirates too since alot of these guys are just downloading them from the interweb as well.
Big scale pirates? Well China is our(US) allie right.
Used Ubuntu Linux to switch my sister's notebook PC to Linux and it worked like a charm.
But why does she use Linux? Simple newbie like reason. It comes with more preinstanned simple little games then Windows. In XP she had the abilty to play, mine sweeper, pineball, and solitare...
Now she and my mother are constantly playing gnome same game, any of the multiple flavors of tetris, and majong. (oh god if I could spell)
I like any sane person is for the advancement of any technology that allows for easier development of Interactive Entertainment software. Be it DirectX, SDL, or the like.
Making the developer's life easier only makes for a better expression of vison. DirectX in the XBox 360? HOT DAMN.
Using the support argument is difficult because it seems that people have been conditioned to think that if they have an Anti-virus peice of software and run Spy bot Search and Destroy on thier Win98 machines they will be fine. Of course we all know this is not the case.
Security is not on the mindset of people if it doesn't directory effect that user.
So what's left? Showing off the convaluted ways Microsoft Licences software?
For every story about the ills of Linux in the home I can direct people to others who have a completely differnet view.
I agree. Linux is not yet ready for the low PC skilled home user. It still takes someone in the home with some Linux abilty to do the initital set up of the boxes.. but Linux as a desktop OS has grown by leaps and bounds. If you are someone who doesn't understand that then I can't help you.
Linux doesn't do everything right.. But it's not as evil or crappy as you make it sound.
Nothing seems to stop it because people act like sheep when it comes to technology. Try selling OSS solutions to a non-profit group when companies are in thier ear about how OSS is evil.
Give the local company gives them a free copy of Office and they are sold that OSS is the devil.
Finally... The PSP has the killer application is needs to truly succeed. But I would hate to be the janitor required to clean the Middle school or high school bathrooms around the country.
Where I am currently working (A non-profit organization) there IT needs are low and there is less then 30 users of the system.
This does not mean their system needs are low. There is always someone who needs IT help constantly. So you will have little peace when you are "The guy" that is in charge of it. If you are friendly and social at work as a programmer people will be more apt to come to you for problems that shouldn't warrant your time... little things that people working should have learned years ago. Not to mention that since you are the sysadmin guy you are also known as the fax guy, the copier guy, and the phone system guy...
Of course you are building a new infrastructure from the ground up. It's a good chance that your boss(es) are going to come up with a lot of extra functionality that they think is cool or needed that will be a pain to get working correctly...
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No; The retarded part of me is saying "RED IS PRETTY!!!" while eating crayons.
I will freely admit that is it silly to dislike RedHat. And that for the most part the reason alot of people dislike RedHat is simple because they are the biggest and most known of the Linux Distros.
Have they done anything sinister? Not yet. Will they? Who knows. But it's fun to complain about them =]
The anti Redhat Linux part of me is saying Do not cave into the demands of Redhat because they are becoming as bad as Microsoft with pushing Linux to their own sinister goals. But then the sane part of me says " If the technology is awesome it should be in the standard kernel."
And then the crazy part of me says. "Heh, I can compile modules for the Xbox controller and other weird hardware into the kernel. Maybe useful technology should be in the kernel =]
but then again. I just might have to many voices in my head
eh. This will be used as an example to desribe eveything that is wrong with large corprate entitites.
"Nintendo is helping to make American's Fat"
I do not believe hacking is an Art. I beleive it is a mental exercise. Why is the term art is given to easily to everything today that is even remotely intresting to someone.
Note: I stopped buying used video games when I was a teenager. I want to support the developer of a good title with my hard earned money for creating a title I want.
Support the Developers!
It is a complete load of crap what BestBuy is doing. There is no reasons companies like EB, Bestbuy, or even places like GameFly and Blockbuster Video to sell used games to consumers thus cutting out royalities from the developers and placing another mark that shows the gaming industry is about to crash again.
That being said I understand why Bestbuy is doing this. EB and other places are making alot of profit selling this merchindise. IT's just good business sense. Local Record exchange type stores have been doing this for a long time so it iwas only natural that Big business do it.
And since the "hardcore gamer" has little spending money using it on acne creme, tacos, what ever it is an easy way to get money... which that same kid will eventually buy more games with.
Capitialism wonderful. I guess
Software quality aside. I am glad the world hasn't gone lawsuit crazy with Software liability cases. No stupid cases about how joe idiot did something stupid and lost his job because he didn't back up.
Asks help from strangers,
For answers allready there,
Look into one's soul
I loved using pico & nano until I found wonderful jed. =]
So what does this mean to all of us? Why do companies keep coming up with DRM technology that everyone says are doomed to failer? Why does slashdot and other 'tech' sites contiue to retread the same stories about DRM again and again and again?
Well it could mean that there is a need for DRM technology in today's culture no matter how much I and alot of other people hate it.
Companies like Microsoft and others to bring up this technology to fit a niche that everyone is wants. The masses are accepting digitial and downloaded content the way every 'techie' has said they would for years. So companies come up with the easiest solution of DRM. Is DRM good? No, but it's al we have right now.
To many times I here the argument that DRM is doomed for failer because "it will be broken soon anway" or "Big Business is stupid and trying to control our lives"
The open source community has an important mission and critical need at this moment to fix this DRM problem now. The only way we will get away from all this DRM talk to to come up with a different solution to the problem.
DRM is here to stay until there is a better option.
Considering yourself a "gamer" was a niche in an allready niche culture. Gaming was/is one of the relams that socially disconnected youth had an outlet and culture that they had slwoly developed over the years.
As the industry of gaming has grown more people are entering this culture and pushing the one tight community of "gamer" into the lime light of normal society.
This in turn makes the social outcasts that consider themsel.ves gamer need to find this niche intside the now sociallity acceptable realm of gamers. So we have these factions of people trying to carve out thier stake in the community they developed.
I believe that since Intel has been marketing many different processor types and technologies from Pentium 4, to Hyper Threading, to Centrino the marketing of "Intel Inside" has lost alot of it's luster.
As such it is my belief that the current way general consumers look at processors are simply price driven and to hell with preformance.. be it AMD, Intel, or anyone else for that matter.
We are in the world of 299 PCs... The new game systems will cost more then a end user PC platform.
Security is always going to be a concern on the Internet. The more we know about the problems we all face the better. At least this article is a calm mention of the negative possibilities that this technology can be used for instead of a paranoid rant on how this should have never been created in the first place.
We are in a culture where people need to specialize in order to succeed. Now there is only so much specialization that can be achieved. So of course buzz words are needed to justify the niche marketing of... business, goods, and even employment specialties.
The Xbox 360, PS3, and the Revolution are all supposed to be powered by PPC chips. IBM Can't keep demand as it is. Alot of time and effort will be placed on the console gaming system chips. Apple had to leave IBM becuse there is no way IBM would have kept up with demand.
The reason they go after the online community is simple. The current beleif is that everyone eho downloads a movie, mp3, or game is a direct sales deduction for the bottom line.
Using that structure of thought.. in the grand scheme of things. The guys on the corenr selling these copies are little fish in the big internet pond. Hell, you might even stop a couple of them pirates too since alot of these guys are just downloading them from the interweb as well.
Big scale pirates? Well China is our(US) allie right.
Used Ubuntu Linux to switch my sister's notebook PC to Linux and it worked like a charm.
But why does she use Linux? Simple newbie like reason. It comes with more preinstanned simple little games then Windows. In XP she had the abilty to play, mine sweeper, pineball, and solitare...
Now she and my mother are constantly playing gnome same game, any of the multiple flavors of tetris, and majong. (oh god if I could spell)
I like any sane person is for the advancement of any technology that allows for easier development of Interactive Entertainment software. Be it DirectX, SDL, or the like.
Making the developer's life easier only makes for a better expression of vison. DirectX in the XBox 360? HOT DAMN.
Using the support argument is difficult because it seems that people have been conditioned to think that if they have an Anti-virus peice of software and run Spy bot Search and Destroy on thier Win98 machines they will be fine. Of course we all know this is not the case.
Security is not on the mindset of people if it doesn't directory effect that user.
So what's left? Showing off the convaluted ways Microsoft Licences software?
For every story about the ills of Linux in the home I can direct people to others who have a completely differnet view.
I agree. Linux is not yet ready for the low PC skilled home user. It still takes someone in the home with some Linux abilty to do the initital set up of the boxes.. but Linux as a desktop OS has grown by leaps and bounds. If you are someone who doesn't understand that then I can't help you.
Linux doesn't do everything right.. But it's not as evil or crappy as you make it sound.
Nothing seems to stop it because people act like sheep when it comes to technology. Try selling OSS solutions to a non-profit group when companies are in thier ear about how OSS is evil.
Give the local company gives them a free copy of Office and they are sold that OSS is the devil.
Hey now. This is a family website you dummy =]
Finally... The PSP has the killer application is needs to truly succeed. But I would hate to be the janitor required to clean the Middle school or high school bathrooms around the country.
Where I am currently working (A non-profit organization) there IT needs are low and there is less then 30 users of the system.
This does not mean their system needs are low. There is always someone who needs IT help constantly. So you will have little peace when you are "The guy" that is in charge of it. If you are friendly and social at work as a programmer people will be more apt to come to you for problems that shouldn't warrant your time... little things that people working should have learned years ago. Not to mention that since you are the sysadmin guy you are also known as the fax guy, the copier guy, and the phone system guy...
Of course you are building a new infrastructure from the ground up. It's a good chance that your boss(es) are going to come up with a lot of extra functionality that they think is cool or needed that will be a pain to get working correctly...
But I am just turning this into a rant.