I think its great that Wired runs a lot of mac articles, but in the past issues you would think that Macs have a 50% marketshare or something. IMHO, they give way too much press to any mac users who do something "unusual. " I think Apple makes good hardware, but that doesn't mean I'm going to worship a company. Not only do many mac users worship Apple, but it seems that Wired does as well.
Linux, like any monolithic kernel, gives complete privilege to drivers (including those for wireless networking devices), allowing them to crash the system at will. I suggest you invest in some cough drops.
Well if that were the case, why is Linux so damn stable? I have 2 systems running beta and expirmental wireless and firewire drivers that have never crashed. In my experience with Linux, drivers are sometimes a pain in the ass to get working, but once they are working they don't crash.
Here's a little experiment, go to any Mac forum and read up on hardware/software bugs, you'll find that 70% of them have been due to poorly designed third party software. Jobs may be greedy, but he also wants you have to the best, most reliable software out there.
See this is the problem with Mac fanboys is they take PR as fact. Steve Jobs doesn't care about software reliability, he cares about make profits. I'm not trying to put him down, because making profits is exactly what he should be doing. Mac's could use "commodity hardware" stably, but that would cannibalize their own hardware business. Why spend money supporting drivers from other hardware companies? So instead they give preference to their own hardware, which they should because Apple is a hardware company. Its not about stability, its about profits, which is not bad thing, but I'm sick of Apple fanboys thinking that their is some mission behind the company besides profits.
Is it just me, or does that website look like it was made by someone who just picked up a copy of frontpage last week? What's up with that logo? I realize there are a lot of software developers in San Francisco but just because you live there, doesn't mean you swing that way..
All this info found will be of no use unless it can surface to mainstream media.
Considering/. was featured in the New York Times Today I'm sure the word will get out./. is more well known and "mainstream" than you think. There are lots of normal people who read/. but don't post and don't read the comments.
You know microsoft got a lot of their intial development talent in 80's by recruiting a bunch of people from Xerox PARC. You think they would use the same stragey and offer to double all the salaries of the Apple marketing people.
I beleive there were also similar efforts back in the day invlovling Leisure Suit Larry, but I doubt any of those retailers sold PC games during the 80's and early 90's when Leisure Suit Larry was at its peak. This probably the best publicity going, especially if the game isn't that good, which I can't imagine how BMX and XXX would go together well.
I have the 1st gen 5GB ipod and would be glad to replace it with this player if:
It doesn't require a ridiculous amount of drivers in order to work. Anything I've bought from creative recently has had the most bloated drivers I've ever seen. The default install of the Audigy installs 100 megs of crap but the worst part is you can't download the new drivers without having the fscking CD!!
Is there any reason why this cannot have OGG support? Instead if just trying to mimic the competition why not try to differentiate yourself with additional features? No a crappy FM tuner is not going to cut it..
Will this work with other software or will I be locked in to using playcenter?
How is creative as far as returns and warranty? When my ipod died after 8-months of use, I got a brand new one 3 days later and apple even sent me a box to ship out the old one.
Are you smarter than RMS? Ok, this one here's subjective; but I doubt most of the people criticizing RMS have an IQ of 170.
What does IQ have to do with a philosophical argument? IQ has absolutely nothing to do with judgment. If Hitler or Stalin had an IQ of 170+ does that somehow validate their ideas?
RMS has an opinion, and has expressed it... I don't see where all the ad hominim vitriol is coming from.
RMS is certainly entitled to his opinion; I don't think that is the issue here. The issue here is his choice of forum. The Linux Kernel Dev list is for technical discussion related to the Linux kernel. If RMS has issues with the bitkeeper license he should post his opinions somewhere else, like the GNU website or Usenet. It doesn't matter who you are or what you've accomplised, offtopic is offtopic.
When are we going to see ACT! and VisiCalc running on a Linux box?
Visicalc?
The last time I played with visicalc was in the late 80's on a 286. Why the hell would the wine wolks need to worry about getting compatiblity with a spreadsheet that peaked in the mid 80's? If you want to run visicalc, perhaps you should pick up one of these.
The shuttle mini-pc's are a better option because their performance is in-line with a typical pc. The biggest advantage with the newest pentium base shuttle, is that they have an AGP port so it makes it a viable option for LAN party folks, since they can stick a radeon 9700 in there.
Right now the Music, Film and TV industries are trying to push a bill in congress that would make it illegal to use digital recorders the same way we use our VCRs. They have decided that the Supreme Court's Betamax ruling (that says taping you favorite TV shows for later viewing does not constitute copyright infringement) shouldn't apply to digital recorders.
How the hell would the Supreme courts decision regarding taping TV shows not apply to digital recorders? Does the MPAA expect there to be Supreme Court case for every format that comes out? There Supreme court would spend 1/2 its time dealing with formats: (S-VHS, DAT, MPG, Quicktime, etc.) IANAL, but I would imagine the previous decision covers the act of recording a show for later personal use and is not related to what format or media it is recorded on.
I submitted this a few days ago but it was rejected as usual:
Get ready for a big PR campiagn by the RIAA that is designed to make music traders feel guilty. The cross media campaign was kicked off today with the unveiling of the music united website, radio and TV spots should be out soon featuring several big names such as Madonna and Nelly talking about how poor they have become since the days of Napster, even though music sales went up with napster's popularity.
There have been instances when I have played a game, enjoyed a game, and been bored with a game, prior to it ever being released to stores...no excuses here, just stating a fact.
Yes, there are people out there who make legit copies of software for backup reasons, especially if you need the CD in order to play the game. If you play the game a lot, just the motion of taking the CD in and out of the tray can scratch it up to the point where it is unusable. I have quite a few games that I can't play anymore because the CD is scratched beyond recovery. Why do you think EB makes a fortune selling devices to clean CD's and DVD's? Every time I go in to that store, I get hounded to buy one.
This is not a study its survey, which we should question the motives of the people collecting the data? Who commissioned the survey? How did they collect the data?
The media will give ink to any statistic if it will sell regardless of its legitimacy or lack thereof.
90% of US Women Love Bowling
According to a study commisioned by the American Bowling Alley Owners Federation, researches found that 90% of women love bowling. Researchers came to this conclusion by randomly questioning 40 women inside a bowling alley in Scranton, PA.
We have only 2 major satellite companies: Direct TV and Dish Network, they want to merge to create one major DSS company? It's pretty obvious why they turned this one down, what's news about this story is that it's even a story. If the administration and the courts would actually uphold antitrust laws, they would have never even attempted this merger.
I believe they were trying to use cable companies as the reason for merging since satellite customers only make 25% of the pay TV market, but a large amount of DSS customers have no other choice but satellite. Go take a drive in a rural area and you will see a dish mounted on top of every trailer.
Redhat would never put apt-rpm in by default because then why would anyone pay $60/year to get their system updates via up2date? I would gladly pay for up2date if it were $60/user but there is no way I'm paying a $120/year for free software updates on my 2 redhat boxes at home. So I installed apt-rpm on my redhat machines, and gave my $60 to the mandrake club.
I was in the market for an ultra-portable and I decided to go with the Fujitsu P-2000 over the sony picturebook. First of all, everything on the p-2000 is integrated in to the laptop at only 3.5 pounds it includes:
DVD/CDR Comno
Built in wireless
Ethernet
USB
Firewire
VGA out
Svideo
The sony looked real promising, but to use ethernet you need to attach a separate connector. I had no interest in attaching a box every time I want to hook up to a network so I went with the p-2000. You can check out my little review here.
I'm amazed the p-2000 doesn't get more press, it packs everything I need in to small package without using any external gadgets.
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I think its great that Wired runs a lot of mac articles, but in the past issues you would think that Macs have a 50% marketshare or something. IMHO, they give way too much press to any mac users who do something "unusual. " I think Apple makes good hardware, but that doesn't mean I'm going to worship a company. Not only do many mac users worship Apple, but it seems that Wired does as well.
Well if that were the case, why is Linux so damn stable? I have 2 systems running beta and expirmental wireless and firewire drivers that have never crashed. In my experience with Linux, drivers are sometimes a pain in the ass to get working, but once they are working they don't crash.
See this is the problem with Mac fanboys is they take PR as fact. Steve Jobs doesn't care about software reliability, he cares about make profits. I'm not trying to put him down, because making profits is exactly what he should be doing. Mac's could use "commodity hardware" stably, but that would cannibalize their own hardware business. Why spend money supporting drivers from other hardware companies? So instead they give preference to their own hardware, which they should because Apple is a hardware company. Its not about stability, its about profits, which is not bad thing, but I'm sick of Apple fanboys thinking that their is some mission behind the company besides profits.
Is it just me, or does that website look like it was made by someone who just picked up a copy of frontpage last week? What's up with that logo? I realize there are a lot of software developers in San Francisco but just because you live there, doesn't mean you swing that way..
Considering /. was featured in the New York Times Today I'm sure the word will get out. /. is more well known and "mainstream" than you think. There are lots of normal people who read /. but don't post and don't read the comments.
You know microsoft got a lot of their intial development talent in 80's by recruiting a bunch of people from Xerox PARC. You think they would use the same stragey and offer to double all the salaries of the Apple marketing people.
I beleive there were also similar efforts back in the day invlovling Leisure Suit Larry, but I doubt any of those retailers sold PC games during the 80's and early 90's when Leisure Suit Larry was at its peak. This probably the best publicity going, especially if the game isn't that good, which I can't imagine how BMX and XXX would go together well.
What does IQ have to do with a philosophical argument? IQ has absolutely nothing to do with judgment. If Hitler or Stalin had an IQ of 170+ does that somehow validate their ideas?
RMS is certainly entitled to his opinion; I don't think that is the issue here. The issue here is his choice of forum. The Linux Kernel Dev list is for technical discussion related to the Linux kernel. If RMS has issues with the bitkeeper license he should post his opinions somewhere else, like the GNU website or Usenet. It doesn't matter who you are or what you've accomplised, offtopic is offtopic.
Visicalc?
The last time I played with visicalc was in the late 80's on a 286. Why the hell would the wine wolks need to worry about getting compatiblity with a spreadsheet that peaked in the mid 80's? If you want to run visicalc, perhaps you should pick up one of these.
The shuttle mini-pc's are a better option because their performance is in-line with a typical pc. The biggest advantage with the newest pentium base shuttle, is that they have an AGP port so it makes it a viable option for LAN party folks, since they can stick a radeon 9700 in there.
How the hell would the Supreme courts decision regarding taping TV shows not apply to digital recorders? Does the MPAA expect there to be Supreme Court case for every format that comes out? There Supreme court would spend 1/2 its time dealing with formats: (S-VHS, DAT, MPG, Quicktime, etc.) IANAL, but I would imagine the previous decision covers the act of recording a show for later personal use and is not related to what format or media it is recorded on.
Get ready for a big PR campiagn by the RIAA that is designed to make music traders feel guilty. The cross media campaign was kicked off today with the unveiling of the music united website, radio and TV spots should be out soon featuring several big names such as Madonna and Nelly talking about how poor they have become since the days of Napster, even though music sales went up with napster's popularity.
Reminds me of the old Plextor 4Plex I had with a Caddy. Personally, I liked caddies, but I haven't seen a driver with a caddy in 6 years.
I felt the same way about WindowsXP.
Yes, there are people out there who make legit copies of software for backup reasons, especially if you need the CD in order to play the game. If you play the game a lot, just the motion of taking the CD in and out of the tray can scratch it up to the point where it is unusable. I have quite a few games that I can't play anymore because the CD is scratched beyond recovery. Why do you think EB makes a fortune selling devices to clean CD's and DVD's? Every time I go in to that store, I get hounded to buy one.
90% of US Women Love Bowling
According to a study commisioned by the American Bowling Alley Owners Federation, researches found that 90% of women love bowling. Researchers came to this conclusion by randomly questioning 40 women inside a bowling alley in Scranton, PA.
I believe they were trying to use cable companies as the reason for merging since satellite customers only make 25% of the pay TV market, but a large amount of DSS customers have no other choice but satellite. Go take a drive in a rural area and you will see a dish mounted on top of every trailer.
Redhat would never put apt-rpm in by default because then why would anyone pay $60/year to get their system updates via up2date? I would gladly pay for up2date if it were $60/user but there is no way I'm paying a $120/year for free software updates on my 2 redhat boxes at home. So I installed apt-rpm on my redhat machines, and gave my $60 to the mandrake club.
never mind, i was thinking of the C1MSX.
Nope, the C1MW has been available in Japan and eBay since at least may, possibily longer. Maybe its just been recently introduced in the US?
I've had no trouble with divx on the p-2000.
I'm amazed the p-2000 doesn't get more press, it packs everything I need in to small package without using any external gadgets.