I've done some searches on Google recently, google being as awesome as it is comes back with billions of results. Recently I've noticed that some of the first results are, of course, bigger name sites that are taking on more and more ad's that are actually getting in the way of me seeing what I want. Big flash windows that slide in from the side or top... wanting you to click on them. They are semi acceptable in that they give you a CLOSE button, but ya know... by the time I see that there is something trying to get in my way... I"m already going for the back button. There's other places to get the info I need and I'm not going to put up with ad's. DO YOU HEAR ME YOU LOW LIFE ASSHOLE MARKETING DEPARTMENTS?!?!?!?! AS SOON AS I SEE YOUR CRAP I GO ELSEWHERE!... thank you.
That's because they have a product that can support itself and then some. They don't have to "subsidize" their costs with advertizing. It's a product that is in demand and works well. Imagine if other companies stepped back and looked at it like that, might they actually improve their own products and then realize they can cut back on the marketing department by a ton!? Naw.:-( Little advertizing for a good product, LOTS of advertizing for a shitty product. The more advertizing I see for something, the more flashy it is, the more money they obvisiouly put into marketing, the more I think it's a cheezy gimick of a product and won't buy it.
Companies seem to be pumping more money into advertizing than into product development. Make the products last longer and actually try to do something to make the product do more than we expect. Cut the advertizing costs and divert that money into the R&D/Manuf. departments. If you have a product thats actually good and worth my time, I'll hear about it either from normal convo's or normal ad's. Don't try to push substandard products at me with extra flasy crap! Make the products better and you won't need all the ad's. Can I say it again, MAKE BETTER PRODUCTS!!!!!!!!
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I think it was Alan Cox that gave his definition of hacker as anyone that uses something for a use other than it was designed or indened to be used for. So that makes everyone a hacker... so now can we say he's lieing under oath?
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I disagree. If that's the case, how can Intel/AMD use computers to help them design better chips? They are useing old chips to design new chips. I'm going for the irony effect there.
But it is pretty funny post about how your parents must feel about your statement.
Hell with that. I don't consider it lazy not to want to give/fake info just to view a webpage. I consider that ignorant on the behalf of the website. Slashdot doesn't require you to register to read anything, but if you want more features you'll have to, if you want to customize things you have to.
If a webpage is going to give me the runaround just to get to info I want (ala Gamespy, fileplanet, NYTIMES...) I'm going to avoid them. I'm not going to support them and I'm going to tell friends to avoid them. Slashdot needs to stop posting stories to sites that force you to register or give you a run around just to get the story. ("just search google!!" NO!!! If I can't click on the link from the/. article I'm not going to view it unless someone pastes it to the comments, then I might)
NYTimes has some nice stuff. But I'm not registering for it. The auto/random reg generators don't work well/reliably. STOP POSTING NYTIMES ARTILES. (or any that require registration for that matter)
Yea, slashdot has been slow(since the move to west side)... but maybe because Rob has been busy with the wedding plans and shiznit. I'm happy for them and wish them the best!
Intel is planning to have every device that uses an Intel chip Wi-Fi enabled
So that means we can have wireless CPU's and chipsets on our motherboards... cool... I will be able to have a stack of cpu's NEXT to my computer and can just add another cpu to the stack of wireless cpu's (cept for power) and it'll get faster... like a beowulf cluster... just add more and it's faster. NICE
Basically what this will do is let us lie to our kids. Not showing them the full truth of what's out there. Some parts of life suck, kids need to see this or once they get to those points they will self destruct.
Don't filter what your kids see and hear... actually BE a parent and teach them right from wrong and all the many aspects that they have. Then you won't have to filter things, kids will filter themselves. It DOES actually work, think about it for a second and don't just respond saying it doesn't. THINK!
Shockwave works? I don't see it listed on the macromedia.com site. I see the Flash Player 5 for Linux, but not the Shockwave one. Is it through another program/plugin?
I think I needed to word my point better, there's no quick easy way to play shockwave/quicktime without some fuddling around with things.
I don't think a "reality pill" needs to be taken here. I do tech support for a regional ISP and we've had a couple dozen people call in with Lindows. They seem to mostly be fairly new to computers, have a modem, actually do have Lindows on there and now Windows and seem to be fine with the fact that they have no idea what Linux is and how it compares to Windows.
"Ignorage is bliss" is a very fitting statement to this situation. Most people that I've talked to aren't looking to compare KDE to Windows Explorer like most geeks do. First thing I think of when I look at Lindows is "how does it compare to my win2k and xp machines". "Can I do this in Lindows, does Lindows let me do this" I start testing it. Pushing it's limits. Yea, I find quite a few... my grandmother won't find them nor care if I do. She'll use it to get online and check some webpages and do some email... play some simple games... and have a good time. Suprize, that's EXCATLY what these pc's and Lindows are made to do and are marketed to do.
Well when Intel has so many patents on the way their cpu's work and at least 70% of the computer industry make their hardware and software to work around the Intel way of doing things... Yes I can see why people would think of AMD as "one of the other guys that try to do the same thing"... simply because they are.
Actually, I've got a copy of Lindows 2.0 on a spare pc at work and it's pretty nice. I'd love to see the new Lindows 3.0 and see how that works.
Hell, get Internet Explorer and Outlook Express to run on Lindows and I'd be a happy camper. I'd probably switch and sign up for thier click-n-run service.
Until software makers can make Linux run everything that Windows already can... I don't think so.
Shockwave, doesn't run on linux. Quicktime, doesn't run on linux. There are a couple others too. Yes linux is quicker(some areas, windows UI is actually much quicker than anything else), more stable, cheaper and cooler. But Windows is more refined and MUCH better supported than anything else. That's why Microsoft won't fall off the face of the earth anytime soon.
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I've done some searches on Google recently, google being as awesome as it is comes back with billions of results. Recently I've noticed that some of the first results are, of course, bigger name sites that are taking on more and more ad's that are actually getting in the way of me seeing what I want. Big flash windows that slide in from the side or top... wanting you to click on them. They are semi acceptable in that they give you a CLOSE button, but ya know... by the time I see that there is something trying to get in my way... I"m already going for the back button. There's other places to get the info I need and I'm not going to put up with ad's. DO YOU HEAR ME YOU LOW LIFE ASSHOLE MARKETING DEPARTMENTS?!?!?!?! AS SOON AS I SEE YOUR CRAP I GO ELSEWHERE!... thank you.
That's because they have a product that can support itself and then some. They don't have to "subsidize" their costs with advertizing. It's a product that is in demand and works well. Imagine if other companies stepped back and looked at it like that, might they actually improve their own products and then realize they can cut back on the marketing department by a ton!? Naw. :-( Little advertizing for a good product, LOTS of advertizing for a shitty product. The more advertizing I see for something, the more flashy it is, the more money they obvisiouly put into marketing, the more I think it's a cheezy gimick of a product and won't buy it.
Companies seem to be pumping more money into advertizing than into product development. Make the products last longer and actually try to do something to make the product do more than we expect. Cut the advertizing costs and divert that money into the R&D/Manuf. departments. If you have a product thats actually good and worth my time, I'll hear about it either from normal convo's or normal ad's. Don't try to push substandard products at me with extra flasy crap! Make the products better and you won't need all the ad's. Can I say it again, MAKE BETTER PRODUCTS!!!!!!!!
Yes, it is already a real thing. http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/3669/
Oh man that's disgusting. Those fuckers better put that crap in fertalizer or where those "fill needed" signs are... not in my food!
What I find interesting is that they tested this thing with rocks... why would they seem to step backwards and test anything less than rocks?
"WOW! This thing can pulverize this rock into almost nothing! I wonder if it could do anything to this grape!??!?!?!"
I think it was Alan Cox that gave his definition of hacker as anyone that uses something for a use other than it was designed or indened to be used for. So that makes everyone a hacker... so now can we say he's lieing under oath?
After the text you want to copy is highlighted... Click on Edit and then on Copy. Then move to the text field where you wish to have the text pasted, click one time with your primary (usually left) mouse button to select that text field. Then click on the Edit Menu and then on Paste. Enjoy :-)
But it is pretty funny post about how your parents must feel about your statement.
If a webpage is going to give me the runaround just to get to info I want (ala Gamespy, fileplanet, NYTIMES...) I'm going to avoid them. I'm not going to support them and I'm going to tell friends to avoid them. Slashdot needs to stop posting stories to sites that force you to register or give you a run around just to get the story. ("just search google!!" NO!!! If I can't click on the link from the /. article I'm not going to view it unless someone pastes it to the comments, then I might)
NYTimes has some nice stuff. But I'm not registering for it. The auto/random reg generators don't work well/reliably. STOP POSTING NYTIMES ARTILES. (or any that require registration for that matter)
Yea, slashdot has been slow(since the move to west side)... but maybe because Rob has been busy with the wedding plans and shiznit. I'm happy for them and wish them the best!
So that means we can have wireless CPU's and chipsets on our motherboards... cool... I will be able to have a stack of cpu's NEXT to my computer and can just add another cpu to the stack of wireless cpu's (cept for power) and it'll get faster... like a beowulf cluster... just add more and it's faster. NICE
Back in my day we had to reboot the machines just to shut them down! Our data went uphill both ways.... even in the snow! AND WE WERE HAPPY!
It's news to me. Maybe you should have submitted the story months ago.
Ever since the move from East side to the West side... things been sluggish. Come on CmdrTaco... get them server monkies to kick it up.
Actually in Japan, that's just like one apartment building worth.
Don't filter what your kids see and hear... actually BE a parent and teach them right from wrong and all the many aspects that they have. Then you won't have to filter things, kids will filter themselves. It DOES actually work, think about it for a second and don't just respond saying it doesn't. THINK!
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I think I needed to word my point better, there's no quick easy way to play shockwave/quicktime without some fuddling around with things.
"Ignorage is bliss" is a very fitting statement to this situation. Most people that I've talked to aren't looking to compare KDE to Windows Explorer like most geeks do. First thing I think of when I look at Lindows is "how does it compare to my win2k and xp machines". "Can I do this in Lindows, does Lindows let me do this" I start testing it. Pushing it's limits. Yea, I find quite a few... my grandmother won't find them nor care if I do. She'll use it to get online and check some webpages and do some email... play some simple games... and have a good time. Suprize, that's EXCATLY what these pc's and Lindows are made to do and are marketed to do.
Well when Intel has so many patents on the way their cpu's work and at least 70% of the computer industry make their hardware and software to work around the Intel way of doing things... Yes I can see why people would think of AMD as "one of the other guys that try to do the same thing" ... simply because they are.
Hell, get Internet Explorer and Outlook Express to run on Lindows and I'd be a happy camper. I'd probably switch and sign up for thier click-n-run service.
Of course you know that Lindows IS Linux.... right?
Shockwave, doesn't run on linux. Quicktime, doesn't run on linux. There are a couple others too. Yes linux is quicker(some areas, windows UI is actually much quicker than anything else), more stable, cheaper and cooler. But Windows is more refined and MUCH better supported than anything else. That's why Microsoft won't fall off the face of the earth anytime soon.