> Sorry but that's bullshit friend. pulseaudio is a fucking nightmare from hell, the 6 month upgrades break more shit than they fix
So why bother? It's not like you're running WinDOS and need to protect yourself from the virus of the week. Subjecting yourself to Windows-isms on an entirely different platform is mindless and unecssary.
The rest of your rant boils down to "repeating a lie won't make it any more true".
I'm impressed you managed to go on an entire anti-Linux rant without once mentioning the application your mythical end user needs. The fact that there might be some task for which the available apps aren't up to snuff is at least a somewhat viable starting point for a counter-Linux argument.
As is, your rant is pathetically outdated FUD.
I would rather run an OS that's SAFE to run until 2020 regardless of whether or not it's being constantly tweaked. It's also less trouble for me if the people I support do the same.
> You know what? Who cares! Aren't computers and various peripherals surrounding them supposed to make your life easier?
This is why a new tablet should not disallow you from using your old printer.
> Buying a WiFi printer makes life WAY easier for everyone in the household, from iPad users to laptop users of all sorts.
No, not really. Any normal printer can be hooked up to a real PC and you can network it any way you like. Windows has done this for a long time and Macs have done it for even longer.
It's funny that you make excuses for this tablet nonsense while droning on about "how stuff should be useful".
Greenpeace should more closely scrutinize this "let's throw perfectly good stuff into the local landfill" mentality that Apple Corp and it's stoogies seem to have.
Or you could have just bought a less lame brand of printer.
CUPS really didn't change that. It still pays to pay attention to what you but. It's especially true for Linux and MacOS but it occasionally applies to Windows too.
Here's hoping that the current batch of drives last long enough for the prices to correct themselves.
I just bought a bunch of drives myself too. It had been a few years since buying the last batch and seemed like a good time to get ahead of the older batch of aging hard drives.
Given the current pricing on SSDs, reasonably priced drives represent the amount of storage available on laptop hard drives 10 years ago. If I am not using my old laptop drive from 2002 it is not because it's not reliable enough but simply due to the fact that it was overtaken by technology.
Until stories of people chugging along on 5 or 7 year old SSDs are commonplace, the technology simply won't have the track record to justify such claims.
That's silly. Even with the current rise in hard drive prices, SSDs are still terribly expensive by comparison. Otherwise, SSDs would have already been seen as competitive against hard drives even before this supply problem.
Only 2x or 3x for a lot better performance? Not everyone would have jumped on it but there still would have been plenty of performance minded consumers lining up to buy them.
Even with limited supply, it still makes much more sense to escalate to larger drive sizes before going to SSD.
Anyone who was in the peanut gallery in 1998 was a little more clued in. The audience wasn't nearly as wide then. You could expect that people had a little bit more of a clue by virtue of the fact that they were even aware of the Internet.
It depends on just how well informed you are about tablets and the shenanigans surrounding them. If you aren't living in a cave and actively avoiding hearing about this stuff, it's pretty clear what the headline meant.
If you are on Slashdot, you should not be quite so ignorant as to be confused by the headline.
Yes I have. I also think you are big fat jackass regardless of how many (likely stupid) patents you have.
Seeing that gets patented in a field you know is very illuminating. It makes you wonder what kind of nonsense is going on elsewhere and how long it has been going on for and what the overall social cost of that is.
Having known some of the people who have gotten non-software patents, it seems painfully clear that you can get them for no good reason at all really.
They don't serve their stated purpose. They just make it harder for the next guy to practice their art.
The first thing that any party to this discussion must acknowledge before anything else in order to demonstrate that they aren't just out to destroy everyone else for their own selfish interest is the simple fact that no one has an inalienable right to a patent or copyright.
Sure. The farmer's own seed stock was sabotaged first.
It should be Monsanto that gets raked over the coals by the courts rather than the other way around. They have created a dangerous product that tends to ruin the property of others. If not for the blatant "anti-individual" attitudes prevalent today, they would be eviscerated figuratively and literally.
It's high time that preservation of seeds from one's crop became a constitutionally protected right. All of those hicks in Red States need to stop fixating on fags and protect their own rights rather than trying to meddle with stuff that happens 4 states away from them.
> The farmer was sued because he knowingly planted Monsanto's seeds
In other words, he merely could have had his field contaminated.
That's the problem with this nonsense. People in the middle of nowhere planting nothing but traditional local crops can find that they've been cross contaminated with Monsanto crap.
This is why "patenting life" is a very bad idea. It tends to do stuff on it's own like mutate and propagate itself. It does that because it is in it's nature to do this.
The rise of consoles as a gaming platform has squat to do with DRM, or rather it does but not in the way you think it does. Nonsense DRM on PCs KILLS the usability of that platform for games. It makes a PC even more of a bother than it would be otherwise.
DRM breaks PC games.
DRM magnifies the usability gap between PCs and consoles.
People use consoles simply because they are less bother.
No. That's not reasonable at all. That kind of thing should be explicitly illegal along the lines of other forms of network neutrality that should be enforced. Sony's network is not small enough and private enough such that it should be able to skirt the kinds of rules that meatspace public accomodations have to follow.
"Their network" is a public space, same as a mall.
You're just engaging in wishful thinking if you're trying to claim any of Hastings recent shenanigans were about "long term viability". It just doesn't pass the sniff test. Pretending that it's 2020 when it's still 2011 is not the way to improve long term viability. He also made some grave timing issues and just had a generally crappy attitude.
Jacking up prices BEFORE the Starz debacle was a painfully obvious mistake regardless of your perception of the "long term view".
If anything, all of this smacks of trying to improve short term stock prices if anything. It just didn't go well because his assumptions didn't work out.
There's a reason for that heavy DVD use. It's not just a matter of irrational preference. The DVD service is a nice hedge against all of the things that the streaming service doesn't have.
Netflix or Amazon streaming are nice freebies. Neither is worth much on it's own.
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I have a batch bought in the last 6 months and they're all fine.
> Sorry but that's bullshit friend. pulseaudio is a fucking nightmare from hell, the 6 month upgrades break more shit than they fix
So why bother? It's not like you're running WinDOS and need to protect yourself from the virus of the week. Subjecting yourself to Windows-isms on an entirely different platform is mindless and unecssary.
The rest of your rant boils down to "repeating a lie won't make it any more true".
I'm impressed you managed to go on an entire anti-Linux rant without once mentioning the application your mythical end user needs. The fact that there might be some task for which the available apps aren't up to snuff is at least a somewhat viable starting point for a counter-Linux argument.
As is, your rant is pathetically outdated FUD.
I would rather run an OS that's SAFE to run until 2020 regardless of whether or not it's being constantly tweaked. It's also less trouble for me if the people I support do the same.
Yeah. "Email it to print it". That's usable alright. [/sarc]
The excuses people make for this crap. Stuff they would be the first to whine about if it happened outside of their little branded bubble.
> You know what? Who cares! Aren't computers and various peripherals surrounding them supposed to make your life easier?
This is why a new tablet should not disallow you from using your old printer.
> Buying a WiFi printer makes life WAY easier for everyone in the household, from iPad users to laptop users of all sorts.
No, not really. Any normal printer can be hooked up to a real PC and you can network it any way you like. Windows has done this for a long time and Macs have done it for even longer.
It's funny that you make excuses for this tablet nonsense while droning on about "how stuff should be useful".
Greenpeace should more closely scrutinize this "let's throw perfectly good stuff into the local landfill" mentality that Apple Corp and it's stoogies seem to have.
Or you could have just bought a less lame brand of printer.
CUPS really didn't change that. It still pays to pay attention to what you but. It's especially true for Linux and MacOS but it occasionally applies to Windows too.
Here's hoping that the current batch of drives last long enough for the prices to correct themselves.
I just bought a bunch of drives myself too. It had been a few years since buying the last batch and seemed like a good time to get ahead of the older batch of aging hard drives.
Better reliability is a somewhat dubious claim.
Given the current pricing on SSDs, reasonably priced drives represent the amount of storage available on laptop hard drives 10 years ago. If I am not using my old laptop drive from 2002 it is not because it's not reliable enough but simply due to the fact that it was overtaken by technology.
Until stories of people chugging along on 5 or 7 year old SSDs are commonplace, the technology simply won't have the track record to justify such claims.
That's silly. Even with the current rise in hard drive prices, SSDs are still terribly expensive by comparison. Otherwise, SSDs would have already been seen as competitive against hard drives even before this supply problem.
Only 2x or 3x for a lot better performance? Not everyone would have jumped on it but there still would have been plenty of performance minded consumers lining up to buy them.
Even with limited supply, it still makes much more sense to escalate to larger drive sizes before going to SSD.
Anyone who was in the peanut gallery in 1998 was a little more clued in. The audience wasn't nearly as wide then. You could expect that people had a little bit more of a clue by virtue of the fact that they were even aware of the Internet.
You haven't seen any because something like the web is far too new for Cobol coders or their apps.
Thanks for reminding me about this IOS nonsense.
What lame excuses are you going to try there?
It depends.
It depends on just how well informed you are about tablets and the shenanigans surrounding them. If you aren't living in a cave and actively avoiding hearing about this stuff, it's pretty clear what the headline meant.
If you are on Slashdot, you should not be quite so ignorant as to be confused by the headline.
Yes. I am so sure that Paris Hilton is just dying to put one of these together.
Yes I have. I also think you are big fat jackass regardless of how many (likely stupid) patents you have.
Seeing that gets patented in a field you know is very illuminating. It makes you wonder what kind of nonsense is going on elsewhere and how long it has been going on for and what the overall social cost of that is.
Having known some of the people who have gotten non-software patents, it seems painfully clear that you can get them for no good reason at all really.
They don't serve their stated purpose. They just make it harder for the next guy to practice their art.
Yes. We need to start over again from scratch.
The first thing that any party to this discussion must acknowledge before anything else in order to demonstrate that they aren't just out to destroy everyone else for their own selfish interest is the simple fact that no one has an inalienable right to a patent or copyright.
Sure. The farmer's own seed stock was sabotaged first.
It should be Monsanto that gets raked over the coals by the courts rather than the other way around. They have created a dangerous product that tends to ruin the property of others. If not for the blatant "anti-individual" attitudes prevalent today, they would be eviscerated figuratively and literally.
It's high time that preservation of seeds from one's crop became a constitutionally protected right. All of those hicks in Red States need to stop fixating on fags and protect their own rights rather than trying to meddle with stuff that happens 4 states away from them.
> The farmer was sued because he knowingly planted Monsanto's seeds
In other words, he merely could have had his field contaminated.
That's the problem with this nonsense. People in the middle of nowhere planting nothing but traditional local crops can find that they've been cross contaminated with Monsanto crap.
This is why "patenting life" is a very bad idea. It tends to do stuff on it's own like mutate and propagate itself. It does that because it is in it's nature to do this.
So the jailbreaking the DRM on a game console or phone is like a having a sawed off shotgun or torturing household pets.
Nice corner you've painted for yourself there.
Maybe you should get an "Edison Prize" or some such.
The rise of consoles as a gaming platform has squat to do with DRM, or rather it does but not in the way you think it does. Nonsense DRM on PCs KILLS the usability of that platform for games. It makes a PC even more of a bother than it would be otherwise.
DRM breaks PC games.
DRM magnifies the usability gap between PCs and consoles.
People use consoles simply because they are less bother.
> What if they sold you a soup bowl for less than the cost to make it?
That's too bad then.
That doesn't give a corporation the right to strip an individual of all of their personal property rights.
Don't do potentially stupid things if you can't handle the consequences.
No. That's not reasonable at all. That kind of thing should be explicitly illegal along the lines of other forms of network neutrality that should be enforced. Sony's network is not small enough and private enough such that it should be able to skirt the kinds of rules that meatspace public accomodations have to follow.
"Their network" is a public space, same as a mall.
They've already done it for the iPhone.
You're just engaging in wishful thinking if you're trying to claim any of Hastings recent shenanigans were about "long term viability". It just doesn't pass the sniff test. Pretending that it's 2020 when it's still 2011 is not the way to improve long term viability. He also made some grave timing issues and just had a generally crappy attitude.
Jacking up prices BEFORE the Starz debacle was a painfully obvious mistake regardless of your perception of the "long term view".
If anything, all of this smacks of trying to improve short term stock prices if anything. It just didn't go well because his assumptions didn't work out.
There's a reason for that heavy DVD use. It's not just a matter of irrational preference. The DVD service is a nice hedge against all of the things that the streaming service doesn't have.
Netflix or Amazon streaming are nice freebies. Neither is worth much on it's own.