I do not care about the PR spin being put on this announcement it is a really good thing for Microsoft. The thing I hate about administering a Windows server is that I have to run their terminal services in order to get remote access.
I am on dialup. A good command line interface for remote support? All I can say is HOT DAMN.
When I heard about the PSX project I thought it was cool as hell. But I never knew who the hell Sony believed would buy this unit. I mean maybe if Sony had released it during the beginning of the Xbox and Game cube launch people would have bought it up in mass numbers it would be great. But the Sony Playstation2 is showing its age as a console system. Everyone who wants a PS2 owns it already. So who the hell where they marketing this too.
In your zest to show the flaws in the Microsoft Windows world and the future domination of Apple you forget one important thing. There is a vast market of people are used to paying lower amounts for Wintel machines. Until Apple makes the ultra cheap machines your Apple world will never happen.
Why is it that for the past couple of years we hear that Apple's MACS are returning? Didn't they return with the IPod last year or the IMAC so long ago? What the hell? Do they keep getting flat tires on their way to the party?
My prediction is that pro apple people will continue to say the ay of apple is on the horizon. *note I like apple I just find it funny that we hear the same pro apple stories very couple of months*
Why should a government care what people on the internet complain about? Why because people had to write in to complain or support the messure? Or bewcause of the large out pouring?
I will use the postings on Slashdot as an example of why it doesn't matter. First that's remember how many times people will be psamming from diffrent accounts over and over just to bitch and moun. Second the qualilty of the complaints might have been good from some people but what about the countrless other people who basiclly told the government to get screwed?\
The internet gives many many more people a voice then would normally complain in the real world and many of these peopl dont have much to say.
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It was a system installed with FVWM that got my attention on Linux. the gritty unclean nature of the it just made me love it, because it was so diffrent and uglier then a Windows and MAC interface.
KDE and Gnome are great and get all the glory but if you want to screw with someone new to Linux FVWM is the way to go.
Many people have begun saying that the Linux Operating System is Ready for the desktop market. For normal people to use instead of Windows as their exclusive operating system, and yet this is news worthy because someone finally brought this feature of truly transparent Windows to Linux.
Now do not get me wrong here, this is cool as hell, I'm glad someone is working on it but for someone to finally start bringing OpenGL as a backend after all these years is sad. It should have happened a long time ago. The X Windows System is not even capable enough yet on it's back end to be a desktop.
Anyway for people working on this project. good job.
Regardless of what people will claim the development of these projects happen only because of the geek factor. The Dreamcast, the Playstation ext. the units are to low ended to run anything of meaning in the real world. As for the claim that they are cheap, so are PDAs... and the PDAs tend to have more functionality.
I would think that this would be a great case to contest the reverse engineering DMCA rules. Unlike the DeCSS it would be harder for Microsoft to argue that they were using this to copy games.
There could be a couple of answers to your question.
One, because the people who are toying with this are not trying to get their effort stopped. If they would try to get windows working on this they would be breaking one of Microsoft's little license agreements and thus will have federal authority to put a stop to this in many different countries.
Two, people know more about Linux then they know about Windows. If something at the kernel level needs to be edited in order to get the thing to work it is much easier making a half-ass patch on Linux then it would be on Windows.
Three, because there are more hard-core Linux geeks into console hacking then there are hard-core windows geeks. (because it's not trendy to be a windows hacking geek)
The United States government has a way of convincing other nations of the world to follow copyright / patent laws that are similar to it's own. Then again we should be happy the United Nations doesn't have the power it wants otherwise the world would be under a single set of laws.. so with bad comes a bit of good.
The expansion of Internet access in anyway way is a good thing, but you must ask what will happen when this government ran internet service provider starts cracking down on it's citizens internet usage habits. Because it's a government ran internet service provider would the government be held accountable for file sharing crap going on?
Why would the media be creating such myths saying that geeks are the only ones spending their countless hours on the internet playing games?
Let us take the great folks at CBS/Viacom/Infinity for our example. This is the same company that brings you Howard Stern, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon. Why would they want people to be on the internet? Young kids should be watching Rocket Power, teenagers should be watching TRL and everyone else should be watching I love the 80s. That is unless you have work, then damnit you should be listening to Stern.
I would have thought that the sale figures of Everquest subscriptions would have broken the geek myth, The numbers should have shown by now that there aren't that many geeks in the world so normal people have to be playing MMORPGs.
"So what? They'll get used to it, it's part of the 'learning' process."
That is a great attitude if a UNIX like operating system was the monopoly. But of course it isn't otherwise there would not be so much hatred for Microsoft.
There is a point in every person's life where they stop learning because they are against change. So by your statement you have given up on the older people in the society because they won't learn it. That is a real shame since the majority of the population in many Western Cultures are getting older and for a Linux system to succeed you need to get a good segment of that age segment to switch to Linux in order to have it become a desktop system.
Recently I downloaded and installed the Mandrake 9.0 free distro. The installer was a lot simpler then I remember it ever to be before(last time I used mandrake it was a 6.0). And it found all my hardware without me putting in any effort. When it came to booting the system up for the very first time I looked very nice and "pretty" from the [OK] screen that had a nifty little background, to the x windows system automatically logging me into one of my normal user accounts without me being forced to input a username password. I can see that distro have grown up a lot while Debian and Slackware users were not looking.
After looking it over a while I found it to be a nice OS, though I uninstalled it quickly for Debian because apt-get just rocks.
I am in total agreement with you on that issue, but at the same time there are many people coming from a windows world that don't get the whole multi-user aspect of Linux. Because of this I understand why companies would default to a root user. We also have to remember that many people are very forgetful. How many times have you heard people who are forced to use multi-user operating systems forgetting their root/administrator account because they never used it and wrote the thing down.
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I do not care about the PR spin being put on this announcement it is a really good thing for Microsoft. The thing I hate about administering a Windows server is that I have to run their terminal services in order to get remote access.
I am on dialup. A good command line interface for remote support? All I can say is HOT DAMN.
When I heard about the PSX project I thought it was cool as hell. But I never knew who the hell Sony believed would buy this unit. I mean maybe if Sony had released it during the beginning of the Xbox and Game cube launch people would have bought it up in mass numbers it would be great. But the Sony Playstation2 is showing its age as a console system. Everyone who wants a PS2 owns it already. So who the hell where they marketing this too.
Because one day the UK will release the papers on their Alien encounter and then BAM! Aleins == Scifi == alien technology === Barbo Bots.
I agree. if they had to shoot anyone they should have aimed at each other.
National Enquirer spends more time on making sure there is a crediable soruce for thier stories =]
iPOD =! Personal Computer
In your zest to show the flaws in the Microsoft Windows world and the future domination of Apple you forget one important thing. There is a vast market of people are used to paying lower amounts for Wintel machines. Until Apple makes the ultra cheap machines your Apple world will never happen.
The Dreamcast has it's NFS served by the Playstation2 which uses the X-Box for DNS/DHCP and a gateway. =]
Why is it that for the past couple of years we hear that Apple's MACS are returning? Didn't they return with the IPod last year or the IMAC so long ago? What the hell? Do they keep getting flat tires on their way to the party?
My prediction is that pro apple people will continue to say the ay of apple is on the horizon. *note I like apple I just find it funny that we hear the same pro apple stories very couple of months*
I love my Sega Dreamcast. The system was and still is great. Just wish I could find more network adaptors.
Why should a government care what people on the internet complain about? Why because people had to write in to complain or support the messure? Or bewcause of the large out pouring?
I will use the postings on Slashdot as an example of why it doesn't matter. First that's remember how many times people will be psamming from diffrent accounts over and over just to bitch and moun. Second the qualilty of the complaints might have been good from some people but what about the countrless other people who basiclly told the government to get screwed?\
The internet gives many many more people a voice then would normally complain in the real world and many of these peopl dont have much to say.
It was a system installed with FVWM that got my attention on Linux. the gritty unclean nature of the it just made me love it, because it was so diffrent and uglier then a Windows and MAC interface.
KDE and Gnome are great and get all the glory but if you want to screw with someone new to Linux FVWM is the way to go.
Many people have begun saying that the Linux Operating System is Ready for the desktop market. For normal people to use instead of Windows as their exclusive operating system, and yet this is news worthy because someone finally brought this feature of truly transparent Windows to Linux.
Now do not get me wrong here, this is cool as hell, I'm glad someone is working on it but for someone to finally start bringing OpenGL as a backend after all these years is sad. It should have happened a long time ago. The X Windows System is not even capable enough yet on it's back end to be a desktop.
Anyway for people working on this project. good job.
Regardless of what people will claim the development of these projects happen only because of the geek factor. The Dreamcast, the Playstation ext. the units are to low ended to run anything of meaning in the real world. As for the claim that they are cheap, so are PDAs... and the PDAs tend to have more functionality.
I would think that this would be a great case to contest the reverse engineering DMCA rules. Unlike the DeCSS it would be harder for Microsoft to argue that they were using this to copy games.
There could be a couple of answers to your question.
One, because the people who are toying with this are not trying to get their effort stopped. If they would try to get windows working on this they would be breaking one of Microsoft's little license agreements and thus will have federal authority to put a stop to this in many different countries.
Two, people know more about Linux then they know about Windows. If something at the kernel level needs to be edited in order to get the thing to work it is much easier making a half-ass patch on Linux then it would be on Windows.
Three, because there are more hard-core Linux geeks into console hacking then there are hard-core windows geeks. (because it's not trendy to be a windows hacking geek)
This is not piracy, this is the true art of hacking. Getting something to work in a way it was not intended.
The United States government has a way of convincing other nations of the world to follow copyright / patent laws that are similar to it's own. Then again we should be happy the United Nations doesn't have the power it wants otherwise the world would be under a single set of laws.. so with bad comes a bit of good.
The expansion of Internet access in anyway way is a good thing, but you must ask what will happen when this government ran internet service provider starts cracking down on it's citizens internet usage habits. Because it's a government ran internet service provider would the government be held accountable for file sharing crap going on?
Yes I have and yes I would. there are not enough geeks in the world to make the high numbers for movies and games.
Why would the media be creating such myths saying that geeks are the only ones spending their countless hours on the internet playing games?
Let us take the great folks at CBS/Viacom/Infinity for our example. This is the same company that brings you Howard Stern, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon. Why would they want people to be on the internet? Young kids should be watching Rocket Power, teenagers should be watching TRL and everyone else should be watching I love the 80s. That is unless you have work, then damnit you should be listening to Stern.
I would have thought that the sale figures of Everquest subscriptions would have broken the geek myth, The numbers should have shown by now that there aren't that many geeks in the world so normal people have to be playing MMORPGs.
"So what? They'll get used to it, it's part of the 'learning' process."
That is a great attitude if a UNIX like operating system was the monopoly. But of course it isn't otherwise there would not be so much hatred for Microsoft.
There is a point in every person's life where they stop learning because they are against change. So by your statement you have given up on the older people in the society because they won't learn it. That is a real shame since the majority of the population in many Western Cultures are getting older and for a Linux system to succeed you need to get a good segment of that age segment to switch to Linux in order to have it become a desktop system.
Recently I downloaded and installed the Mandrake 9.0 free distro. The installer was a lot simpler then I remember it ever to be before(last time I used mandrake it was a 6.0). And it found all my hardware without me putting in any effort. When it came to booting the system up for the very first time I looked very nice and "pretty" from the [OK] screen that had a nifty little background, to the x windows system automatically logging me into one of my normal user accounts without me being forced to input a username password. I can see that distro have grown up a lot while Debian and Slackware users were not looking.
After looking it over a while I found it to be a nice OS, though I uninstalled it quickly for Debian because apt-get just rocks.
I am in total agreement with you on that issue, but at the same time there are many people coming from a windows world that don't get the whole multi-user aspect of Linux. Because of this I understand why companies would default to a root user. We also have to remember that many people are very forgetful. How many times have you heard people who are forced to use multi-user operating systems forgetting their root/administrator account because they never used it and wrote the thing down.