Exactly. People tend to forget who actually votes in this country. All the "smart people" stay home assuming it all went to plan. I stayed home in 2000 assuming all went to plan (that and I live in a red state, my vote doesn't count anyway), I mean how could anyone with half a brain vote for Bush? I voted in 2004, but by then the fox "news" terror generator was in full effect. I voted in 2008, but I also noticed it wasn't even close to a landslide for Obama. People voted for her then, and now that the right's childish stalling tactics have been "vindicated" by the "Anger of the people" (never mind most are angry about completely made up things) they'll be even stronger in 2012 (I'll bet good money that the guy I drove to work behind today with the handmade "Obama is a Natzi prick" (sic) sign in his rear window votes religiously). The sad part is that once healthcare is repealed, and the insurance companies are given free reign to increase costs and deny more coverage, people still won't "get it" and continue to blame it all on the "liberal bastards".
Pilots do sometimes stop giving a fuck, whip out their laptops and start "training". Down goes a plane. That's a big deal.
Sometimes doctors do quit caring and hand out misdiagnoses and leave sponges in people. Person dies. That's a big deal.
And the guy assembling the brakes is a robot, but sometimes the guy watching the robots misses something and a wire isn't connected. Car can't stop, people might die. That's a big deal.
However, loading trailers for UPS you're expected to move 400-800 packages an hour (400 load-800 unload as of 10 years ago, it's probably worse now) get paid minimum wage, never get enough hours a week to pay the bills so it's obviously your second job. And it's monotonous, hard labor. And sometimes, yes, someone's "expensive shit" gets dropped.
Except it doesn't work in the most widely used version of Windows, XP. So the most Microsoft compatible browser under development must be Firefox. (Chrome and Safari provide their own UI and no one actually used Opera...)
Right, but it requires a full XP license which these companies don't want to pay for. They're talking about virtualizing IE 6 only, nothing else. This means no extra license revenue for MS. I wouldn't be surprised to see a startup start hawking some patchwork IE running in WINE running under cygwin running on Windows 7 concoction... Hmmm..../me runs for the nearest patent office.
True, smaller kids do destroy everything, but I can't remember any real destruction in 7-12 grades. Mostly the stuff was just falling apart from normal use for the last 20 years. I like what I see in the linked product, but $500 is just ridiculous. Get them to $99 and we'll talk. We can spend the savings on developing a low level EMP that temporarily disables all electronics inside the classroom...
Agreed. I've spent all of 10 minutes in the campaign of Reach, but I've racked up almost 300 multiplayer matches in the last month. I just play for fun, and am continuously amazed by the headshot abilities of most other players... But it's still fun; especially with a group of friends. I could care less about the campaign, I got my money's worth already in MP.
Cute, but not quite accurate. Last I checked consumption of big media wasn't compulsory (yet). Don't like Microsoft's lockdown on the 360? Don't buy one. Don't like Sony's rootkits? Don't buy their CD's. The only way any of the DRM shenanigans will change is if we stop buying into them. Fine for you and me, but the vast majority of consumers don't know and or care. Our only hope is that these companies will screw it up so bad that people will start to be frustrated by the constant and needless hoops they have to jump through. Seeing as how people have been trained to just put up with all the BS associated with proprietary software, and just accept that "computers just get slow" and "nothing can be done about malware", I won't be holding my breath...
Agreed. If you're working with Photoshop and Lightroom, you'll definitely be frustrated. CPU and mem usage may not suffer (although you better have a lot of RAM, I pushed my machine to 4.5GB actual mem usage recently doing an HDR w/PS and LR), but graphics will. Having an actual dedicated card that meets aero glass requirements is a must, and as far as I know, no VM host can do that. You'd get better performance via Wine.
Personally, I like the ribbon, but thats just me. One humorous side effect of the ribbon is that it seems that MS is saying, "Look we know 90% of you only use 10% of our "features", so here they are."
And if market share was the goal of Linux and FOSS in general, that would mean something.
I use what I like, and I know that no matter what the "market" does; Linux will be around forever and there will always be a thriving OSS community. The same can't be said for any proprietary software.
Don't get me wrong, I use windows regularly, and like a lot about it, but at the end of the day you just have to face the fact that the software is written with only the following in mind: Lock you in, force upgrades, increase market share. I'd much rather use the software that was simply written to be the best it can be.
Partitioning ignored my choice (install side by side) and wiped my whole disk. Not much of a loss, I was really done with Windows anyway. Too bad I relied upon it to do my backups... So then I got to unzip a few thousand zip files to recover my important stuff. If I ever run windows again, I sure won't be using the built in backup... But on the bright side, Ubuntu mounted my fake-raid and allowed me to access said zip files. Windows 7 wouldn't even see the drives without a special driver.
FGLRX is just broken. Installing it succeeded (or at least it said it did) but upon reboot, video output was hosed. No problem, I'll just boot from the live cd and change xorg.conf back to use the OSS driver. Except, xorg.conf was missing... All the info I could find said "X doesn't need that anymore", but no one could say how the fudge I could change the driver it was using...
Really, the thing I take the most issue with was the partitioner snafu. I didn't care about losing the windows part and knew I had a good backup. But Ubuntu is aimed at people that would care about that stuff and don't even know how to spell backup. The video driver is not all canonical's fault, but it still needs to be worked out. I would really expect a working 3D setup less than a month out.
Other than all that, I liked all the new changes. Even the new theme. I really wish they'd ditch tomboy and gbrainy and just purge mono, and also add gimp back into the install. And port steam and source engine to Linux. And buy me a pony.
And by pretty good, do you mean 30-40fps on a phenom II quad @ 3Ghz w/8GB DDR3 RAM and a 1Gb Radeon 5770? I love Linux, but barely being able to play CS:S made me take MS up on their $30 upgrade offer. Now all my games work perfectly, and I have a dual boot w/Ubuntu Studio for photo/music creation work. I was really looking forward to native Linux source games, but whatever, right tool for the job and all that. And yes I pay for software, when it's reasonable.
Agreed. The problem has been over the last 20 years, all the general public hears is "Greenpeace says we're murdering mother earth". What needs to be drilled into their heads is that "We're transforming the earth into a place in which we cannot live." Maybe even get a "I'm doing my part!" advertising campaign for public transit and what not. Maybe if we pooled our money, we could get Glenn Beck to announce on TV/Radio that God allowed 9/11 to happen because we're slowly ruining the paradise he so graciously gave us. We'll even let him blame Obama for it (mainly because I want to see the chalkboard diagram that explains that...) and promise to elect Palin in 2012 (it is the year for apocalypses I hear).
Judging by how fast the squad car was behind them, I'm thinking there was a bit of a chase going. The off duty (if he wasn't just plainclothes) cop saw it going and decided to help out. And from what I saw the stop was very reasonable. He just pulled up next to him while stopped at a red light, and if there was a chase going (as the off duty probably believed) then drawing his weapon was the proper response he was trained for. I'm wondering why there's no audio until the stop, were their sirens going the whole time? I think the guy should get at least some jail time and hefty community service for doing 50 over and wheelies on a public freeway.
But all that said, he is perfectly within his rights to tape the whole thing, and it should be a non-issue.
Definitely #1. People are too conditioned to believe that computers just fail and there's nothing that can be done about it.
And for the record, all anti-malware software is snake-oil. A deadbolt on the front door does no good when you leave all the windows open (no pun intended).
And since in the real world, people use macs and linux and whatnot (android and iphone) don't "code for x browser" code for the standards that IE, Gecko, and webkit all share. And quit trying to do everything in the browser, generate a PDF for download and let the user print with reader, preview or evince. Thats not the seamless "Experience" you've probably been tasked with, but it's the solution that covers all the bases reliably (except on windows which still doesn't come with a pdf viewer for some reason).
Or just do what everyone else does, code for IE/Adobe and come back here to post about how awful it is.
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Exactly. People tend to forget who actually votes in this country. All the "smart people" stay home assuming it all went to plan. I stayed home in 2000 assuming all went to plan (that and I live in a red state, my vote doesn't count anyway), I mean how could anyone with half a brain vote for Bush? I voted in 2004, but by then the fox "news" terror generator was in full effect. I voted in 2008, but I also noticed it wasn't even close to a landslide for Obama. People voted for her then, and now that the right's childish stalling tactics have been "vindicated" by the "Anger of the people" (never mind most are angry about completely made up things) they'll be even stronger in 2012 (I'll bet good money that the guy I drove to work behind today with the handmade "Obama is a Natzi prick" (sic) sign in his rear window votes religiously). The sad part is that once healthcare is repealed, and the insurance companies are given free reign to increase costs and deny more coverage, people still won't "get it" and continue to blame it all on the "liberal bastards".
Pilots do sometimes stop giving a fuck, whip out their laptops and start "training". Down goes a plane. That's a big deal.
Sometimes doctors do quit caring and hand out misdiagnoses and leave sponges in people. Person dies. That's a big deal.
And the guy assembling the brakes is a robot, but sometimes the guy watching the robots misses something and a wire isn't connected. Car can't stop, people might die. That's a big deal.
However, loading trailers for UPS you're expected to move 400-800 packages an hour (400 load-800 unload as of 10 years ago, it's probably worse now) get paid minimum wage, never get enough hours a week to pay the bills so it's obviously your second job. And it's monotonous, hard labor. And sometimes, yes, someone's "expensive shit" gets dropped.
Not even remotely close to a big deal.
Except it doesn't work in the most widely used version of Windows, XP. So the most Microsoft compatible browser under development must be Firefox. (Chrome and Safari provide their own UI and no one actually used Opera...)
Right, but it requires a full XP license which these companies don't want to pay for. They're talking about virtualizing IE 6 only, nothing else. This means no extra license revenue for MS. I wouldn't be surprised to see a startup start hawking some patchwork IE running in WINE running under cygwin running on Windows 7 concoction... Hmmm.... /me runs for the nearest patent office.
True, smaller kids do destroy everything, but I can't remember any real destruction in 7-12 grades. Mostly the stuff was just falling apart from normal use for the last 20 years. I like what I see in the linked product, but $500 is just ridiculous. Get them to $99 and we'll talk. We can spend the savings on developing a low level EMP that temporarily disables all electronics inside the classroom...
Force him to use an unpatched XP machine for 30 minutes. He'll either kill himself or swear off technology for good.
Agreed. I've spent all of 10 minutes in the campaign of Reach, but I've racked up almost 300 multiplayer matches in the last month. I just play for fun, and am continuously amazed by the headshot abilities of most other players... But it's still fun; especially with a group of friends. I could care less about the campaign, I got my money's worth already in MP.
Cute, but not quite accurate. Last I checked consumption of big media wasn't compulsory (yet). Don't like Microsoft's lockdown on the 360? Don't buy one. Don't like Sony's rootkits? Don't buy their CD's. The only way any of the DRM shenanigans will change is if we stop buying into them. Fine for you and me, but the vast majority of consumers don't know and or care. Our only hope is that these companies will screw it up so bad that people will start to be frustrated by the constant and needless hoops they have to jump through. Seeing as how people have been trained to just put up with all the BS associated with proprietary software, and just accept that "computers just get slow" and "nothing can be done about malware", I won't be holding my breath...
Easy. The laser assembly motor noise could be damn near unbearable. Seriously, F that thing. But I do miss my DC...
Agreed. If you're working with Photoshop and Lightroom, you'll definitely be frustrated. CPU and mem usage may not suffer (although you better have a lot of RAM, I pushed my machine to 4.5GB actual mem usage recently doing an HDR w/PS and LR), but graphics will. Having an actual dedicated card that meets aero glass requirements is a must, and as far as I know, no VM host can do that. You'd get better performance via Wine.
Or you could always switch to the Gimp and Rawstudio and/or RawTherapee under Linux...
Personally, I like the ribbon, but thats just me. One humorous side effect of the ribbon is that it seems that MS is saying, "Look we know 90% of you only use 10% of our "features", so here they are."
They like to refer to it as "Looking Ironic". Fanny packs and Velcro sneakers are next.
And if market share was the goal of Linux and FOSS in general, that would mean something.
I use what I like, and I know that no matter what the "market" does; Linux will be around forever and there will always be a thriving OSS community. The same can't be said for any proprietary software.
Don't get me wrong, I use windows regularly, and like a lot about it, but at the end of the day you just have to face the fact that the software is written with only the following in mind: Lock you in, force upgrades, increase market share. I'd much rather use the software that was simply written to be the best it can be.
Cross platform support will remain. The same quality flash/reader performance you enjoy today will be available for Window 7 and Windows 7 64 bit.
Looking at the latest versions of reader, I would think Adobe has the upper hand regarding "insecure bloat". 200MB+ of disk space used. To open a PDF.
True Combat: Elite looks to be already delivering on that front. Too bad I've found it impossible to get running on Windows or Linux.
Really, the thing I take the most issue with was the partitioner snafu. I didn't care about losing the windows part and knew I had a good backup. But Ubuntu is aimed at people that would care about that stuff and don't even know how to spell backup. The video driver is not all canonical's fault, but it still needs to be worked out. I would really expect a working 3D setup less than a month out. Other than all that, I liked all the new changes. Even the new theme. I really wish they'd ditch tomboy and gbrainy and just purge mono, and also add gimp back into the install. And port steam and source engine to Linux. And buy me a pony.
No, that was just a ridiculously small budget.
Actually, I'll bet there are plenty of pirates (the "infringe copyright for financial gain" kind) on the street right now selling Inception on VHS...
And by pretty good, do you mean 30-40fps on a phenom II quad @ 3Ghz w/8GB DDR3 RAM and a 1Gb Radeon 5770? I love Linux, but barely being able to play CS:S made me take MS up on their $30 upgrade offer. Now all my games work perfectly, and I have a dual boot w/Ubuntu Studio for photo/music creation work. I was really looking forward to native Linux source games, but whatever, right tool for the job and all that. And yes I pay for software, when it's reasonable.
Agreed. The problem has been over the last 20 years, all the general public hears is "Greenpeace says we're murdering mother earth". What needs to be drilled into their heads is that "We're transforming the earth into a place in which we cannot live." Maybe even get a "I'm doing my part!" advertising campaign for public transit and what not. Maybe if we pooled our money, we could get Glenn Beck to announce on TV/Radio that God allowed 9/11 to happen because we're slowly ruining the paradise he so graciously gave us. We'll even let him blame Obama for it (mainly because I want to see the chalkboard diagram that explains that...) and promise to elect Palin in 2012 (it is the year for apocalypses I hear).
Unless they bring up gaming, then you're going to have quite a bit of shrinkage to deal with...
Judging by how fast the squad car was behind them, I'm thinking there was a bit of a chase going. The off duty (if he wasn't just plainclothes) cop saw it going and decided to help out. And from what I saw the stop was very reasonable. He just pulled up next to him while stopped at a red light, and if there was a chase going (as the off duty probably believed) then drawing his weapon was the proper response he was trained for. I'm wondering why there's no audio until the stop, were their sirens going the whole time? I think the guy should get at least some jail time and hefty community service for doing 50 over and wheelies on a public freeway.
But all that said, he is perfectly within his rights to tape the whole thing, and it should be a non-issue.
Definitely #1. People are too conditioned to believe that computers just fail and there's nothing that can be done about it.
And for the record, all anti-malware software is snake-oil. A deadbolt on the front door does no good when you leave all the windows open (no pun intended).
And since in the real world, people use macs and linux and whatnot (android and iphone) don't "code for x browser" code for the standards that IE, Gecko, and webkit all share. And quit trying to do everything in the browser, generate a PDF for download and let the user print with reader, preview or evince. Thats not the seamless "Experience" you've probably been tasked with, but it's the solution that covers all the bases reliably (except on windows which still doesn't come with a pdf viewer for some reason).
Or just do what everyone else does, code for IE/Adobe and come back here to post about how awful it is.