Sansa Clip+. Just nose around and watch the press tizzy about this little wonder in hushed whispers, saying "it's better than an iPod." I find it amazing that people still care about the Nano, but I'm biased for the Sansa stuff anyway.
This isn't a brilliant satirical post that you were just responding to, since they referred to the Zune as a "massive unstoppable juggernaut." 'Course. Makes complete sense. In other news, do you have a sense of humor, or are you not actually human at all?
Thank you for posting this. No, really, thank you for posting the strip again for the 230th time. I think this time I laughed harder than I did the last time someone posted it, which was, what, the 229th? Man, so funny. So clever and original.
Also, Adobe would probably just snicker for a few seconds if anyone asked them to port Flash to anything other than x86 or x86_64.
Copy protection doesn't work. It didn't work in the 1980's and it won't work now.
Let's just stop it here. Let the truth sink in.
That's the problem with the +5 Insightful FAQ poster up there. This would all be okay to bear if it was stopping piracy in the slightest. It isn't. You're foolish to think it would. And the whole "it stops casual piracy" nonsense has been overblown for years; most casuals will just ask a techie to do it for them, or if not, google around and crack the thing themselves. It's not that hard of a process, and you'd be surprised what some people can do when their Windows stops functioning.
* One shot for every five minutes the installer stays on one percentage point without moving.
* A quarter of a shot for every transparency effect you see (you'd kill yourself if it were any higher)
* One shot for every piece of hardware that still doesn't have a Vista/Win7 driver yet. Make that two. You're going to need it.
* Shaking the bottle angrily at the screen every time it suggests verifying your copy of Windows 7 before your Wi-Fi isn't set up yet.
The Windozers will race to post XKCD 619 on every Linux-related storyWell, first I misread your post as talking about http://xkcd.com/629/ and wondered what the hell you had been smoking.
But are you claiming that http://xkcd.com/619/ is somehow a completely silly point?
No, I'm claiming that quote tags suck. Also, that XKCD 619 isn't goddamn funny anymore because it was played out so much that it became unfunny, then funny again, and then boring as hell.
Exactly. They mistake their own product for a necessity. If it becomes too much of a pain in the ass to manipulate and play, we'll just go off and find something else to do. I've been enjoying all of the free techno the internet is saturated with for years.
And yet you have them fellas in hick towns streaming at the top of their lungs over health care reform and higher taxes. If you frame the situation just right, you'll stir up the pot.
And the common man HAS experienced DRM and lock-in; they just didn't connect one with the other. Once my mother ran into the protected WMA files that a music site was selling and how it didn't work on her iPod, she started buying from Amazon exclusively. You can't assume that people don't care. Ignorance is easy to overcome, and its the only barrier between the music industry and the customers it's so busy trying to attack.
Despite popular belief, there are some really good musicians under major labels that do write their own music. TV on the Radio, for example. Radiohead, before they defected and went solo. The Flaming Lips.
After all, it's not a multiplayer game where milliseconds seem to count.
You forget you're on Slashdot. The Windozers will race to post XKCD 619 on every Linux-related story, and it gets neck and neck for the karma boost that "+5 Insightful" offers.
That's usually the case in a stereotype, yes. You see a very small minority backing up your claims, and you will, in your mind, go "Aha, proven correct yet again."
This seems to occur for most anti-Linux people usually around the time that Richard Stallman speaks, easily ignoring the fact that nobody really acres about what he has to say anymore. All they see is a Linux user fulfilling their stereotype. The easy way to stop this ignorance is to have more sane voices - Mark Shuttleworth, for example.
You're so fast to argue and attack that you've forgotten that I agree with you. I suspect most of Slashdot would as well, despite what you may assume.
While I agree with your discussions of the stable API, I disagree that it is the cause of Linux' downfall. Linux will not win any time soon, not because of any technical reason, but because Microsoft controls the entire computer market. Stable API will not change that fact. Device support, which is very good at this point, will also not change this fact. Maybe device creators would care enough to slap a Tux logo on their device if most of the computer consumers weren't ignorant and couldn't tell you the difference between a stick of RAM and a pop tart. Even if Linux had a stable API that was easy to code for, I doubt may device creators would care, because their users are all in Windows, completely oblivious to anything else that might be occurring around them.
And you're wrong - whining about "I"LL GET MODDED DOWN TROLL" is just a lame, idiotic line that only makes you look like you're sticking your neck out to piss someone off, which, of course, is the very definition of a troll. I'm sick and tired of this new fad that Slashdot seems is goes through, which is mostly a mentality that everyone here thinks Linux is perfect. No, they don't. Nobody does. The fanboys might argue that there is some validity and play the devil's advocate, but in the long run you're basically alienating yourself from everyone that might potentially agree with you, which is everybody. What we need is some quiet, calm discussion of Linux' flaws that doesn't involve flaming or pre-emptive flaming, neither of which is going to happen because everyone who doesn't use Linux on Slashdot seems to think all Linux users consider their operating system perfect. Yelling "FIRE" before there's a fire is just stupid.
While we're on that topic, Linux' flaws:
-Audio is a mess, and Pusleaudio is not the band-aid that will cure it; at least not in the state it is in. It doesn't help that distros can't package it correctly, but there are too many switches and levels for even the most simple of tasks. -Package management is wonderful, but we need to standardize the damn things. I vote for Apt-RPM. Choice is good and wonderful, but not when it is considering package formats. Just pick one so we can finally just post a "Linux" binary on the web that works with every package management system seamlessly. How kick ass would that be?
These two can be fixed now, and if anyone's awake at Red Hat, Debian or Canonical I suspect they will be. After that, Linux must simply wait and bide its time, adding features and fixing bugs until a government agency wakes up and slaps Microsoft for their ridiculous monopolistic behaviour they've gotten away with for decades. The missing link is the OEM's (who have all been bullied or paid into submission), because the average user won't install Linux on their machine anyway - no matter how easy it is, most users don't understand the concept because they've been taught that computers = Windows. Until the point where ignorance is no longer accepted, nobody can crack the barrier, and Linux will not win.
Well, the whole "I had to compile" part was a little off. Most software does come in a package that ISN'T the source code. Aside from that, you were dead on.
I think that the "I know what Linux needs better than anyone else" tone kind of pisses people off, but that's just me.
And considering CentOS is running five year old software, we can safely assume that the rest of the Linux ecosystem (aside from some Slacking/Gentooing exceptions) can do this as well. I don't know what the parent is talking about, given PackageKit, Pirut, Add/Remove in Ubuntu, you name it.
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Sansa Clip+. Just nose around and watch the press tizzy about this little wonder in hushed whispers, saying "it's better than an iPod." I find it amazing that people still care about the Nano, but I'm biased for the Sansa stuff anyway.
One of my teachers played all of his video content for the class off of his three iPod Classics (from various generations, of course).
This isn't a brilliant satirical post that you were just responding to, since they referred to the Zune as a "massive unstoppable juggernaut." 'Course. Makes complete sense. In other news, do you have a sense of humor, or are you not actually human at all?
Mod this entire conversation up +5 Funny for this. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
Thank you for posting this. No, really, thank you for posting the strip again for the 230th time. I think this time I laughed harder than I did the last time someone posted it, which was, what, the 229th? Man, so funny. So clever and original.
Also, Adobe would probably just snicker for a few seconds if anyone asked them to port Flash to anything other than x86 or x86_64.
Anything from Sandisk.
I saw my calender upside down this morning and got scared. What, would buying an iPod nab you a free exorcism?
Copy protection doesn't work. It didn't work in the 1980's and it won't work now.
Let's just stop it here. Let the truth sink in.
That's the problem with the +5 Insightful FAQ poster up there. This would all be okay to bear if it was stopping piracy in the slightest. It isn't. You're foolish to think it would. And the whole "it stops casual piracy" nonsense has been overblown for years; most casuals will just ask a techie to do it for them, or if not, google around and crack the thing themselves. It's not that hard of a process, and you'd be surprised what some people can do when their Windows stops functioning.
* One shot for every five minutes the installer stays on one percentage point without moving.
* A quarter of a shot for every transparency effect you see (you'd kill yourself if it were any higher)
* One shot for every piece of hardware that still doesn't have a Vista/Win7 driver yet. Make that two. You're going to need it.
* Shaking the bottle angrily at the screen every time it suggests verifying your copy of Windows 7 before your Wi-Fi isn't set up yet.
http://jottit.com/ might help.
Well, isn't 64-bit Flash in an alpha stage right now?
No, I'm claiming that quote tags suck. Also, that XKCD 619 isn't goddamn funny anymore because it was played out so much that it became unfunny, then funny again, and then boring as hell.
Exactly. They mistake their own product for a necessity. If it becomes too much of a pain in the ass to manipulate and play, we'll just go off and find something else to do. I've been enjoying all of the free techno the internet is saturated with for years.
And yet you have them fellas in hick towns streaming at the top of their lungs over health care reform and higher taxes. If you frame the situation just right, you'll stir up the pot.
And the common man HAS experienced DRM and lock-in; they just didn't connect one with the other. Once my mother ran into the protected WMA files that a music site was selling and how it didn't work on her iPod, she started buying from Amazon exclusively. You can't assume that people don't care. Ignorance is easy to overcome, and its the only barrier between the music industry and the customers it's so busy trying to attack.
Despite popular belief, there are some really good musicians under major labels that do write their own music. TV on the Radio, for example. Radiohead, before they defected and went solo. The Flaming Lips.
You just got one for free just by quoting the phrase.
After all, it's not a multiplayer game where milliseconds seem to count.
You forget you're on Slashdot. The Windozers will race to post XKCD 619 on every Linux-related story, and it gets neck and neck for the karma boost that "+5 Insightful" offers.
WWWWOOOOOOOSSSHHHH
That's usually the case in a stereotype, yes. You see a very small minority backing up your claims, and you will, in your mind, go "Aha, proven correct yet again."
This seems to occur for most anti-Linux people usually around the time that Richard Stallman speaks, easily ignoring the fact that nobody really acres about what he has to say anymore. All they see is a Linux user fulfilling their stereotype. The easy way to stop this ignorance is to have more sane voices - Mark Shuttleworth, for example.
What's fascinating about this is that you believe that crap.
You're so fast to argue and attack that you've forgotten that I agree with you. I suspect most of Slashdot would as well, despite what you may assume.
While I agree with your discussions of the stable API, I disagree that it is the cause of Linux' downfall. Linux will not win any time soon, not because of any technical reason, but because Microsoft controls the entire computer market. Stable API will not change that fact. Device support, which is very good at this point, will also not change this fact. Maybe device creators would care enough to slap a Tux logo on their device if most of the computer consumers weren't ignorant and couldn't tell you the difference between a stick of RAM and a pop tart. Even if Linux had a stable API that was easy to code for, I doubt may device creators would care, because their users are all in Windows, completely oblivious to anything else that might be occurring around them.
And you're wrong - whining about "I"LL GET MODDED DOWN TROLL" is just a lame, idiotic line that only makes you look like you're sticking your neck out to piss someone off, which, of course, is the very definition of a troll. I'm sick and tired of this new fad that Slashdot seems is goes through, which is mostly a mentality that everyone here thinks Linux is perfect. No, they don't. Nobody does. The fanboys might argue that there is some validity and play the devil's advocate, but in the long run you're basically alienating yourself from everyone that might potentially agree with you, which is everybody. What we need is some quiet, calm discussion of Linux' flaws that doesn't involve flaming or pre-emptive flaming, neither of which is going to happen because everyone who doesn't use Linux on Slashdot seems to think all Linux users consider their operating system perfect. Yelling "FIRE" before there's a fire is just stupid.
While we're on that topic, Linux' flaws:
-Audio is a mess, and Pusleaudio is not the band-aid that will cure it; at least not in the state it is in. It doesn't help that distros can't package it correctly, but there are too many switches and levels for even the most simple of tasks.
-Package management is wonderful, but we need to standardize the damn things. I vote for Apt-RPM. Choice is good and wonderful, but not when it is considering package formats. Just pick one so we can finally just post a "Linux" binary on the web that works with every package management system seamlessly. How kick ass would that be?
These two can be fixed now, and if anyone's awake at Red Hat, Debian or Canonical I suspect they will be. After that, Linux must simply wait and bide its time, adding features and fixing bugs until a government agency wakes up and slaps Microsoft for their ridiculous monopolistic behaviour they've gotten away with for decades. The missing link is the OEM's (who have all been bullied or paid into submission), because the average user won't install Linux on their machine anyway - no matter how easy it is, most users don't understand the concept because they've been taught that computers = Windows. Until the point where ignorance is no longer accepted, nobody can crack the barrier, and Linux will not win.
Despite popular belief, most Linux users don't hate or berate Microsoft. This is a stereotype. Remove it from your brain.
Well, the whole "I had to compile" part was a little off. Most software does come in a package that ISN'T the source code. Aside from that, you were dead on.
I think that the "I know what Linux needs better than anyone else" tone kind of pisses people off, but that's just me.
Mod up. If Linux has any weaknesses, this is it.
And considering CentOS is running five year old software, we can safely assume that the rest of the Linux ecosystem (aside from some Slacking/Gentooing exceptions) can do this as well. I don't know what the parent is talking about, given PackageKit, Pirut, Add/Remove in Ubuntu, you name it.