.... click and read... click and read... I can't do that for you... if you just had clicked and read you would have noticed they are exactly about hemp and how it became illegal and how DuPont had a huge role in it and how it effected their nylon industry... click and read...
Yes, the entire planet is part of an evil plot to replace hemp with nylon. Countries which can't even agree on the color of the sky have all magically agreed to artificially make hemp obsolete.
No, Cheech and Chong made a van out of cannabis, this is made of hemp. They aren't the same thing (its like saying Coors Original and O'Doul's Beer are the same). The cannabis plants that Cheech and Chong used had high levels of THC (and if I remember the movie right, they could smoke the van too meaning it was made from the buds and not the stock of the plants), hemp on the other hand when grown for industrial usage are bred to have little to no THC and hemp is made from the stock that never has any THC anyways, and not the buds. Meaning you could smoke as much hemp-anything products and you won't get high. Same goes with eating hemp foods like hemp nut/seed and hemp oil, they have no THC (but are considered some of the healthiest foods you can add to your diet).
Mostly likely it is that Apple is more of a threat then Amazon. At the moment if they leave it alone they can let it sit in legal limbo and allow themselves to build up the case then push forward (something they might have learned from Amazon) and try to make it illegal in the future. If they went for the legal attack now and lose to Apple they run the risk of the law stating that this is a legally acceptable option and would allow all future devices to allow for this. So waiting would more or less be a good move for them at the moment I feel, because while current TTS isn't that great and doesn't hold up well against a real speaker, the technology will improve with time. Now with the TTS moving forward and improving with time there runs a chance that TTS systems can sound pleasant and possibly understand word usage enough to make them just as good (or even better) then the audio version (lets be honest, some audio book readers could stand to sound less bored and more into what they are reading). When this happens and TTS is on par or better then the real thing then people won't want to buy the audio book version and if they lose now then they won't be able to do anything legally about it, but if they wait and build a solid case to make it illegal then this won't be a problem in the future.
This might remove piracy but will give forth to a new breed of problems and headaches, ones we are already seeing today. Keyloggers/bots/"trainers" become the new cracks. We already see this today, with WoW being the most common issue.
DRM-free games might be pirated, even to the same point as DRM games but the deference is that the DRM-free games didn't have to pay extra money for the tech behind the normal DRM. Things like Starforce aren't free, so in the end you might end up making more by just saving on the price of Starforce... or a company can learn to make a good game but doubt that will happen (remember even though games like Bioshock, Starcraft 2, Modern Warfare 3, ect... were pirated many more people bought the games because they were, you know, good games worth buying).
TO start with, I haven't been online in days (RL issues) so sorry about the delayed answering.
Now, after getting through your 4th sentence I'm already questioning your legitimacy of if you know what your talking about. Your ATI Nvidia GPUs? Its either an ATI card or an Nvidia card (or did you mean some had ATI and some had Nvidia?). Thats like telling me your Microsoft MacBookPro had an issue. Its either one or the other.
Then you've mentioned your "Sigma sound". Do you mean the SigmaTel? They went out of business in 2007, but sold their PC audio tech in mid-2006 to Integrated Device Technology. In short, no modern OS is going to support it, I don't even think Vista would support their cards since it was released in November of 2006, months later and they would have expected SigmaTel to update those drivers (which they wouldn't since they didn't make them anymore). I admit, I only started using Ubuntu since 8.04, but your asking a lot for any OS to support that sound card. Similar arguement for the AC'97 since that was retired in 2004. Vista and Windows 7 might support these, but this is old gear that isn't really found anymore so support gets questionable for any OS, let alone Ubuntu.
The SiS network slot (I'm guessing you meant SiS 900 networking cards) are again really old tech that was built to run on Windows 2000, then got some working drivers for XP and 2003 as an after thought. Again, these won't be supported today and I'm aware that driver support of hardware from pre-2001 is shaky at best. But like your other examples nothing newer won't run it, even Vista would be lucky if possible which is the time line of Ubuntu 6.06. Now since both Ubuntu 6.06 were released in 2006 I'm putting it on driver support-par of Vista, not XP.
As for "the Broadcom", Broadcom deals in many different things so I might need you to define Broadcom a little better then the companies name.
Now, this is all just going over your HD that you couldn't get working. The issue is, your answers are still vague to almost impossible to answer and would explain why no forum/person could help you. You need to do more then throw out some company names, more so when the companies in question produce multiple kinds of hardware.
As for your complaint about being told to "embrace the power of cli", he didn't say that. He said we need to stop dumbing down things, AKA like Windows having you always log into an Administrators account. You can have a GUI that doesn't dumb down the experience and make it easy to break the machine, problem is when the original Windows GUI was made, the internet wasn't really a thought so you could dumb down the experience since without physical access to the machine you couldn't do much. Both Ubuntu and Vista/Windows 7 now do this with the pop-up warnings that show the user that be careful with what your doing since it might be bad, allowing a GUI that helps make things simple and accessible without making problems worse down the road.
You then complain about "Now do you know what a NORMAL person, one that doesn't find spending all day staring at a terminal "fun" is gonna say to that bullshit?" about CLI to Windows GUI. I'd say to start with, what NORMAL person uses Start, Run on Windows? Normal people go Start, All Programs and then chooses whatever they want. On Ubuntu its click on Applications and click whatever you want. Or if you really need to do the same things as Start, Run just press Alt-F2. You sound like your purposely trying to over-complicate something that doesn't need to be so complex. Like changing a tire on a car, you can either take the tire iron and the carjack and use those to remove/change the tire, or you can take the power drill, drive/push the car onto the car lift, secure the car to the lift, raise the car into the air, remove the entire tire and wheel rims, remove the tire from the rims, add the new tire to the rim, inflate tire, use PSI gauge to make sure tire is at right pressure, ect...
Diet/exercise companies do this all the time. They show you ads of people with amazing figures stating they used their products and look at them. For the diet ads its the rare person that comes out looking like that but by US law they can use those people as their examples because they did use the product, they just had a rare outcome (why the fine print tends to state that these aren't normal outcomes, but most people don't read the fine print). Similar for exercise equipment, but while also "forgetting" to mention that the person had to diet a lot and do much, much more then the "minimum amount of time needed" and had to use more then the equipment shown. Its all in what it takes to stay just legal enough to push your product for the most amount to money.
Game Boy Advances and DSs all use ARM processors, and they weren't niche at all.
Not in the mobile gaming market, but when considering the amount sold of ARM devices to the amount of x86 devices sold, it shows that the lions share goes to x86 devices making ARM devices more of a niche.
In short, you have a pretty interesting idea of "niche".
And desktop sales (not laptops) were at around 126 million in 2009. Each one of those sales used an x86 chipset. 11.5 million... 126 million... Yeah, I'd call that a niche market when you take in the full picture. And these numbers don't take into consideration laptops which for the past few years have been more then desktops.
Let's face it: no one is going to be really playing Quake N in their browser any time soon
Tell that to all the people who are playing Quake Live.
You could have almost the exact same conversation about x86 versus ARM... ARM has its own charms and is good enough for a lot of people, as evidenced by sales of iPhones, iPods, iPads, and other ultra-portable devices
Thats great for the mobile (still niche) market. Now how about bigger picture market of desktops and notebooks? Why aren't we seeing ARM's in these systems? Just because the technology of one product got better it doesn't mean that it was the only one to improve. The x86 has improved greatly since the ARM was introduced and still is pretty much the only option when your looking at something that needs horsepower. Sure, ARM's may improve in the future to the point that they can match todays x86 but then again, the x86s will have improved too at that point in time.
Did you see the video of that Quake 2? It has major frame rate drops (and I doubt it was running on specs from 5 years ago) and took many elements beyond html5 to do that (in their words "we use WebGL, the Canvas API, HTML 5 elements, the local storage API, and WebSockets"). So many extras means more problems to support on different OS's. They also stated that they needed to create a new WebGL based renderer, not the standard one. Now go try Quake Live which is running Flash. Its recommended (not minimum) specs are: 2 GHz Intel Processor or better, 1680x1050 or higher screen size (can be as low as 1024x600), NVIDIA GeForce 7 Series or better, ATI Radeon X1800 series or better. These specs would run on a computer from 5 years ago without the frame rate drops and all the extras (including a custom built WebGL renderer). And the graphic load is more for Quake Live then Quake 2. Now are you really trying to tell me that the choppy, customized Quake 2 that most likely took quite modern hardware to run at even that level of "smoothness" is somehow proof that the Flash version of Quake Live (Quake 3) that runs smooth, without customized extras on hardware that is 5 years old is the proof that Flash is dying and ready to be replaced by the standard HTML5?
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At least your not using a gerbil in your description.
Keeping your complaints as vague as possible... PROBLEM. In your post you claim same old problems. What are those? I haven't seen problems beyond the DVD playback issue which is easily fixed. You've just pretty much went "I had a problem, but it's a secret so it can stay a problem." Thats pretty much trolling, trying to keep your answers as vague as possible so they can't be called is what people typically do when are BSing. So, what DIDN'T work on Ubuntu? You claim hardware then give a list of hardware but refuse to say what part of the hardware didn't work. As I mentioned in one of my others posts, I have a franken-desktop that has many new parts and you know what? Ubuntu recognized them without issue even though they were new. As for proof, how do you propose I do that? Buy a bunch of new equipment and video it for you? Your demands of proof are just as turnable as your "proof" is to us. Show us your proof that you couldn't get Ubuntu to run on 4 different systems. As for your Dell issue, that sounds like a Dell problem that you want to force upon Ubuntu even though THEY DIDN'T CAUSE THE PROBLEM. Thats like my car dealer altering my engine until it doesn't work and I bitch at Ford. Ford didn't cause the problem, the dealer did.
And please, which post demanded you "embrace the power of CLI" like its the fucking force. Because you sound like your trying to stir up crap while refusing to show proof. Again, this is trolling behavior.
As for Ubuntu not having nationwide support, its the forums, which there is a link in Firefox to it on the bar by default. Not like you can call up Microsoft or Apple for answers for free anytime you want. And as for the help desks in their personal stores, great if you live by them. Useless when you don't. Also, as for Ubuntus forums, those questions get answered, typically within a few hours and unlike some other companies official forums, you don't need to worry about your posts being deleted.
And complaining that people are just trying to hide the problems when they want some clarity of the vague "problems"... that is a PROBLEM.
Its like asking "How is the most stimulating way to self file my taxes?" The answer is most likely there isn't unless you're of the rare few that do enjoy doing just that. Easiest way is to just hand it to someone else and get creative in forms of payment, maybe booze or some movie/music/game they want for doing it (everyone is different).
I haven't had driver issues with my franken-desktop with Ubuntu since 9.04 (A HP m7640n, granted all thats left of that system is the motherboard, HD and DVD drive, changed all the RAM, graphic cards, PSU, added a wireless USB drive, and have an external sound card). Windows 7 took a few hours to find the wireless drivers (I dual boot both, Windows for my games since I tend to have issues with it, Ubuntu never seems to have issues for me). I'm wanting to ask you what your idea of "random hardware" is, and then question why a 67 year old clueless dad is using "random hardware" since everyone I know that is clueless about computers isn't going to build their own system which is pretty much the only time you'll have the hopes of using "random hardware". Anyone who is clueless about computers is going to use a pre-built system that uses pretty standard, easy to find parts since those are the cheapest and those are going to be the best supported. As for your other comments about Ubuntu and needing to play "hunt the fix", aside from DVD playback, I haven't had issues right out of the box and not have had to play "hunt the fix". Mind giving me an example or two of which ones you needed to do that for?
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It's a Linux system presented in all stores across the planet, on prime shelf space.
Just like the thousands of other Linux systems presented in stores across the planet on prime shelf space?
Exactly.
HD audio on a flat screen speaker set.
.... click and read... click and read... I can't do that for you... if you just had clicked and read you would have noticed they are exactly about hemp and how it became illegal and how DuPont had a huge role in it and how it effected their nylon industry... click and read...
Yes, the entire planet is part of an evil plot to replace hemp with nylon. Countries which can't even agree on the color of the sky have all magically agreed to artificially make hemp obsolete.
No, seriously .... are you retarded?
Seriously... are you retarted?
Didn't Cheech and Chong already do this?
No, Cheech and Chong made a van out of cannabis, this is made of hemp. They aren't the same thing (its like saying Coors Original and O'Doul's Beer are the same). The cannabis plants that Cheech and Chong used had high levels of THC (and if I remember the movie right, they could smoke the van too meaning it was made from the buds and not the stock of the plants), hemp on the other hand when grown for industrial usage are bred to have little to no THC and hemp is made from the stock that never has any THC anyways, and not the buds. Meaning you could smoke as much hemp-anything products and you won't get high. Same goes with eating hemp foods like hemp nut/seed and hemp oil, they have no THC (but are considered some of the healthiest foods you can add to your diet).
How can they expect to make screen readers illegal? Simple, the TOS of the ebook state that its for non-audio purposes only.
Mostly likely it is that Apple is more of a threat then Amazon. At the moment if they leave it alone they can let it sit in legal limbo and allow themselves to build up the case then push forward (something they might have learned from Amazon) and try to make it illegal in the future. If they went for the legal attack now and lose to Apple they run the risk of the law stating that this is a legally acceptable option and would allow all future devices to allow for this. So waiting would more or less be a good move for them at the moment I feel, because while current TTS isn't that great and doesn't hold up well against a real speaker, the technology will improve with time. Now with the TTS moving forward and improving with time there runs a chance that TTS systems can sound pleasant and possibly understand word usage enough to make them just as good (or even better) then the audio version (lets be honest, some audio book readers could stand to sound less bored and more into what they are reading). When this happens and TTS is on par or better then the real thing then people won't want to buy the audio book version and if they lose now then they won't be able to do anything legally about it, but if they wait and build a solid case to make it illegal then this won't be a problem in the future.
their 100% compatibility statement is garbage
What OS are you running? They claim compatibility for Windows XP and Vista, not for Windows 7 though so that might get iffy.
Can't get any cheaper then free.
This might remove piracy but will give forth to a new breed of problems and headaches, ones we are already seeing today. Keyloggers/bots/"trainers" become the new cracks. We already see this today, with WoW being the most common issue.
DRM-free games might be pirated, even to the same point as DRM games but the deference is that the DRM-free games didn't have to pay extra money for the tech behind the normal DRM. Things like Starforce aren't free, so in the end you might end up making more by just saving on the price of Starforce... or a company can learn to make a good game but doubt that will happen (remember even though games like Bioshock, Starcraft 2, Modern Warfare 3, ect... were pirated many more people bought the games because they were, you know, good games worth buying).
TO start with, I haven't been online in days (RL issues) so sorry about the delayed answering.
Now, after getting through your 4th sentence I'm already questioning your legitimacy of if you know what your talking about. Your ATI Nvidia GPUs? Its either an ATI card or an Nvidia card (or did you mean some had ATI and some had Nvidia?). Thats like telling me your Microsoft MacBookPro had an issue. Its either one or the other.
Then you've mentioned your "Sigma sound". Do you mean the SigmaTel? They went out of business in 2007, but sold their PC audio tech in mid-2006 to Integrated Device Technology. In short, no modern OS is going to support it, I don't even think Vista would support their cards since it was released in November of 2006, months later and they would have expected SigmaTel to update those drivers (which they wouldn't since they didn't make them anymore). I admit, I only started using Ubuntu since 8.04, but your asking a lot for any OS to support that sound card. Similar arguement for the AC'97 since that was retired in 2004. Vista and Windows 7 might support these, but this is old gear that isn't really found anymore so support gets questionable for any OS, let alone Ubuntu.
The SiS network slot (I'm guessing you meant SiS 900 networking cards) are again really old tech that was built to run on Windows 2000, then got some working drivers for XP and 2003 as an after thought. Again, these won't be supported today and I'm aware that driver support of hardware from pre-2001 is shaky at best. But like your other examples nothing newer won't run it, even Vista would be lucky if possible which is the time line of Ubuntu 6.06. Now since both Ubuntu 6.06 were released in 2006 I'm putting it on driver support-par of Vista, not XP.
As for "the Broadcom", Broadcom deals in many different things so I might need you to define Broadcom a little better then the companies name.
Now, this is all just going over your HD that you couldn't get working. The issue is, your answers are still vague to almost impossible to answer and would explain why no forum/person could help you. You need to do more then throw out some company names, more so when the companies in question produce multiple kinds of hardware.
As for your complaint about being told to "embrace the power of cli", he didn't say that. He said we need to stop dumbing down things, AKA like Windows having you always log into an Administrators account. You can have a GUI that doesn't dumb down the experience and make it easy to break the machine, problem is when the original Windows GUI was made, the internet wasn't really a thought so you could dumb down the experience since without physical access to the machine you couldn't do much. Both Ubuntu and Vista/Windows 7 now do this with the pop-up warnings that show the user that be careful with what your doing since it might be bad, allowing a GUI that helps make things simple and accessible without making problems worse down the road.
You then complain about "Now do you know what a NORMAL person, one that doesn't find spending all day staring at a terminal "fun" is gonna say to that bullshit?" about CLI to Windows GUI. I'd say to start with, what NORMAL person uses Start, Run on Windows? Normal people go Start, All Programs and then chooses whatever they want. On Ubuntu its click on Applications and click whatever you want. Or if you really need to do the same things as Start, Run just press Alt-F2. You sound like your purposely trying to over-complicate something that doesn't need to be so complex. Like changing a tire on a car, you can either take the tire iron and the carjack and use those to remove/change the tire, or you can take the power drill, drive/push the car onto the car lift, secure the car to the lift, raise the car into the air, remove the entire tire and wheel rims, remove the tire from the rims, add the new tire to the rim, inflate tire, use PSI gauge to make sure tire is at right pressure, ect...
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Diet/exercise companies do this all the time. They show you ads of people with amazing figures stating they used their products and look at them. For the diet ads its the rare person that comes out looking like that but by US law they can use those people as their examples because they did use the product, they just had a rare outcome (why the fine print tends to state that these aren't normal outcomes, but most people don't read the fine print). Similar for exercise equipment, but while also "forgetting" to mention that the person had to diet a lot and do much, much more then the "minimum amount of time needed" and had to use more then the equipment shown. Its all in what it takes to stay just legal enough to push your product for the most amount to money.
Game Boy Advances and DSs all use ARM processors, and they weren't niche at all.
Not in the mobile gaming market, but when considering the amount sold of ARM devices to the amount of x86 devices sold, it shows that the lions share goes to x86 devices making ARM devices more of a niche.
In short, you have a pretty interesting idea of "niche".
And desktop sales (not laptops) were at around 126 million in 2009. Each one of those sales used an x86 chipset. 11.5 million... 126 million... Yeah, I'd call that a niche market when you take in the full picture. And these numbers don't take into consideration laptops which for the past few years have been more then desktops.
Let's face it: no one is going to be really playing Quake N in their browser any time soon
Tell that to all the people who are playing Quake Live.
You could have almost the exact same conversation about x86 versus ARM... ARM has its own charms and is good enough for a lot of people, as evidenced by sales of iPhones, iPods, iPads, and other ultra-portable devices
Thats great for the mobile (still niche) market. Now how about bigger picture market of desktops and notebooks? Why aren't we seeing ARM's in these systems? Just because the technology of one product got better it doesn't mean that it was the only one to improve. The x86 has improved greatly since the ARM was introduced and still is pretty much the only option when your looking at something that needs horsepower. Sure, ARM's may improve in the future to the point that they can match todays x86 but then again, the x86s will have improved too at that point in time.
Did you see the video of that Quake 2? It has major frame rate drops (and I doubt it was running on specs from 5 years ago) and took many elements beyond html5 to do that (in their words "we use WebGL, the Canvas API, HTML 5 elements, the local storage API, and WebSockets"). So many extras means more problems to support on different OS's. They also stated that they needed to create a new WebGL based renderer, not the standard one. Now go try Quake Live which is running Flash. Its recommended (not minimum) specs are: 2 GHz Intel Processor or better, 1680x1050 or higher screen size (can be as low as 1024x600), NVIDIA GeForce 7 Series or better, ATI Radeon X1800 series or better. These specs would run on a computer from 5 years ago without the frame rate drops and all the extras (including a custom built WebGL renderer). And the graphic load is more for Quake Live then Quake 2. Now are you really trying to tell me that the choppy, customized Quake 2 that most likely took quite modern hardware to run at even that level of "smoothness" is somehow proof that the Flash version of Quake Live (Quake 3) that runs smooth, without customized extras on hardware that is 5 years old is the proof that Flash is dying and ready to be replaced by the standard HTML5?
At least your not using a gerbil in your description.
Keeping your complaints as vague as possible... PROBLEM. In your post you claim same old problems. What are those? I haven't seen problems beyond the DVD playback issue which is easily fixed. You've just pretty much went "I had a problem, but it's a secret so it can stay a problem." Thats pretty much trolling, trying to keep your answers as vague as possible so they can't be called is what people typically do when are BSing. So, what DIDN'T work on Ubuntu? You claim hardware then give a list of hardware but refuse to say what part of the hardware didn't work. As I mentioned in one of my others posts, I have a franken-desktop that has many new parts and you know what? Ubuntu recognized them without issue even though they were new. As for proof, how do you propose I do that? Buy a bunch of new equipment and video it for you? Your demands of proof are just as turnable as your "proof" is to us. Show us your proof that you couldn't get Ubuntu to run on 4 different systems. As for your Dell issue, that sounds like a Dell problem that you want to force upon Ubuntu even though THEY DIDN'T CAUSE THE PROBLEM. Thats like my car dealer altering my engine until it doesn't work and I bitch at Ford. Ford didn't cause the problem, the dealer did.
And please, which post demanded you "embrace the power of CLI" like its the fucking force. Because you sound like your trying to stir up crap while refusing to show proof. Again, this is trolling behavior.
As for Ubuntu not having nationwide support, its the forums, which there is a link in Firefox to it on the bar by default. Not like you can call up Microsoft or Apple for answers for free anytime you want. And as for the help desks in their personal stores, great if you live by them. Useless when you don't. Also, as for Ubuntus forums, those questions get answered, typically within a few hours and unlike some other companies official forums, you don't need to worry about your posts being deleted.
And complaining that people are just trying to hide the problems when they want some clarity of the vague "problems"... that is a PROBLEM.
*insert joke about needing to learn to blow it correctly to get what you want*
Its like asking "How is the most stimulating way to self file my taxes?" The answer is most likely there isn't unless you're of the rare few that do enjoy doing just that. Easiest way is to just hand it to someone else and get creative in forms of payment, maybe booze or some movie/music/game they want for doing it (everyone is different).
Thats just a great mental image in the winter of everyone needing to have one of those in their car .
"Hold on, I'll go outside and blow the car to help get it hot."
I haven't had driver issues with my franken-desktop with Ubuntu since 9.04 (A HP m7640n, granted all thats left of that system is the motherboard, HD and DVD drive, changed all the RAM, graphic cards, PSU, added a wireless USB drive, and have an external sound card). Windows 7 took a few hours to find the wireless drivers (I dual boot both, Windows for my games since I tend to have issues with it, Ubuntu never seems to have issues for me). I'm wanting to ask you what your idea of "random hardware" is, and then question why a 67 year old clueless dad is using "random hardware" since everyone I know that is clueless about computers isn't going to build their own system which is pretty much the only time you'll have the hopes of using "random hardware". Anyone who is clueless about computers is going to use a pre-built system that uses pretty standard, easy to find parts since those are the cheapest and those are going to be the best supported. As for your other comments about Ubuntu and needing to play "hunt the fix", aside from DVD playback, I haven't had issues right out of the box and not have had to play "hunt the fix". Mind giving me an example or two of which ones you needed to do that for?
As for Dell, you don't suppose it was Microsoft leaning on them with OS prices as to why they disabled the Canonical repos? Remember, according to Dell a little while ago you should only be using Ubuntu if your interesting in open source programming.
What about the morning after? Should I call a cab then too?
$70-125 to install and another $70-110 per month isn't cheap, especially on top of the major bump in car insurance that they already ate
Yeah, that is pretty outrageously expensive. I bet it'd be cheaper to call a cab.
That would be a great idea... if only the small, tiny fact that you can still blow a positive on those tests the morning after. You've slept it off, but your breath will still hold enough traces to show your loaded to hell and back again.