Intel already stated that wimax was definitely a go for next year. Isn't wimax better? Would some uber nerd explain the different road maps and the likelihood of which one we'll be following? kthnxbye
and the dozen or so police brutality videos that have cropped up on YouTube (taserings, taser-killings, Old man face in asphalt) I'm convinced that it is WE should have cameras, not the government. I didn't see a single cop get his ass kicked all week.
PS Venture capitalists: I have other no brainer ideas that could work right now in tech convergence between cell phones and PCs, and in other technologies altogether. Give me a ring (email first).
Much Love homies, rhY
PS Since it's got a vid cam already can we vid chat in h.264 Please? How much bandwidth is that at 320x240? Hook a brother up!
And the speex technology has come a long way. They could really kick everyone's ass if they do everything right. Less data = Less power, right? More information through the network? Better service and coverage? Who know's what's up? They could be planning anything! Maybe it's an iPhone clone with surround sound built in? God only knows. If they use the openmoko platform, though, and really make some killer apps (picasa, google earth, GPS, mp3, ogg, super fast youtube....., SNES emu...), I want one! Actually, I want it to be cheap and hook up to a monitor and mouse if I'm on the road, and charge from there and be my Ubuntu desktop on the road, at work, at home, and everywhere else. Maybe that's 2009 though. Whoever does it first for under $100 gets my money. Consider this a pre-order. Oh yeah, and I want it to have wifi (duh!), and I want to get a LCD and keyboard for an extra $100. Or use the ones I already have....
OK, last thing. Can I get a joystick? It'd be sweet if could do Grand Theft Auto online under winehq while I'm in Starbucks. Fuck it, here's an extra $50.
Well, I am a dyed in the wool Ubuntu fan, but this article is sadly spot on. There should certainly be an easier way to install codecs for instance. Also, out of box camera support should be more like Windows. Further, there should be more right click options by default, and an easier way to run things as root without entering the command line. I love the password box that comes up when running synaptic. Would it be so hard to have one of those boxes come up if you are editing a text file you don't have permissions for, but need to save it? And what about a GUI way to install AND SETUP Privoxy. I'm sick of editing text files to configure my system, anyway, and there's NO FUCKING WAY gramma is gonna figure that out. That's just one example, but you can replace the name Privoxy with about 20 other software packages that many regular users might need. Also, all the torrent programs are a sad joke compared to utorrent, and it's ludicrous that Ubuntu is trying to gain market share (obviously), but for some reason still defaults to evolution instead of Thunderbird. Obviously Cannonical, or the Ubuntu devs, or maybe both are at odds with themselves in some way, as there are several issues that seem to have been left unfixed that would seem to be rather easy to fix. I just wish they would all get on board with the Windows Killer Platform idea they are so close to and really do it (though I do see this happening with Gutsy, some of these stupid issues are still persisting). Also, some of the FOSS apps that Ubuntu relies on need a massive over haul or major fixing as well. I'm looking at you, GIMP (who also needs a new name), and you Krita (who doesn't recognize my uber generic wacom tablet).
I've come up with other crits in my blog, but I think at this point most of the Ubuntu crowd will be familiar with their deficiencies, now whether they are agreed they need to be fixed or not......
That is awesome, but I've been using the GIMP for 3 years and didn't know. Furthermore, the defaults should just be right from the get go. Not having delete delete stuff is retarded. Seriously, wtf?
I wasn't going to buy their over-priced DRM bullshit anyway. This is not exactly a tragedy, or a surprise. Steve is his own worst enemy, vendor lock-in, no 3rd party apps, DRM, they would've already dominated the market true hegemony style if he would've avoided just one of these stupid things. It's like the whole Windows lesson never got learned. What a tard!
...is much better than CS:S. At least in my opinion (and many of my gamer friends as well), the gameplay is superior to any version of counter strike, and it is free and available for Linux NATIVELY. Give it a shot, and if you like it, free up that windows drive. I'll see you on there....:)
Now even MORE people will start switching to Ubuntu. Nicely done Microsoft! It's almost like you're on our side:
1. Over charge for Vista. 2. Make sure Vista is bloated and slow. 3. Make the 3d interface of Vista inferior to last year's 3d linux desktop. 4. Continue not following standards. 5. Continue attempting to lock people in with proprietary formats. 6. Make sure that Internet Explorer remains grossly inferior to Firefox. 7. Make sure that Outlook remains grossly dangerous and bloated compared to Thunderbird. 8. Try to thwart Piracy. 9. Windows Media Player. Seriously: WTF? 10. Lack a proper modern package management system. 11. Fail to make any OS secure at all, ever. 12. Continue poorly coded and buggy updates. 13. Force said updates on people without their choice. 14. Have I left something out?
It's almost like Redmond is DEMANDING that everybody upgrade to Ubuntu. Maybe I'm missing something, but now with the opened up ATI drivers, the continued improvement of dozens of FOSS apps:
Firefox Thunderbird Open Office Gimp Pidgin 7zip VLC Rhythmbox Ardour etc.
And how seriously bitching all the compiz-fusion eye candy is.... All we need now is a couple of really good games to leave no reason for people to continue using Windows. And we already have a couple:
Urban Terror Mupen
Anyone else smell the dying last few breaths of the Microsoft hegemony?
I'm just going to go ahead and predict the future and say that as Dell and others continue to offer Ubuntu, and start offering them for CHEAPER, since you save money on the OS (market economics dictate that this WILL happen, eventually), and as Ubuntu continues to improve and outshine Windows across the board (compiz>aero, firefox>IE, Pidgin>MSN, Thunderbird>Outlook, Gimp>Paint, Open Office (free)> MS Office (paid)), more people will BY DEFAULT be running Firefox, and then the market share will REALLY start to climb. Firefox is probably nearly as high as it can get considering the amount of n00bs out there that think the big blue E is their Internet. But as Vista continues to tank and suck, and Ubuntu continues to dominate, grow and improve......
Well, let's just hope Canonical realizes soon for all of us that Thunderbird is a better choice than that other crap email client and accelerate the process.
Firefox is definitely ftw, even if it takes another 5 years (which it might!).
I for one am certainly switching to BSD, which doesn't do half what Ubuntu currently does, and doesn't have the UPGRADED and improved license. As a matter of fact, I'm going to skip BSD and just go ahead and install some other arcane proprietary OS. Maybe TRS-DOS or re-hook up my sinclair. I mean, why bother with compiz-fusion, rhythmbox, ooo, gimp, pidgin, tvtime, firefox, and thunderbird? I don't want free and stable often updated software. I want some arcane bullshit that might get co-opted and corrupted by some corporation. Fuck the GPL v3!!! FREEDOM NAZIS!!!!
This country was founded on civil liberties. Without them, you can expect another violent and bloody revolution, although, with pharmaceuticals, they can probably postpone the inevitable for some time. Welcome to 1984, eh? Better keep taking your pills, our you might become one of us terrorists. I caught myself and my room mate acting the part of Mildred, and we got a gym membership, and quit all drugs and now we do things like go out and protest. It's amazing what you can do by removing yourself from the corporate America statistics.
I'll take encryption, freedom, and having my own guns for any asshole who wants to come into my house unannounced. Trust me, there are many logical premises that bear this philosophy out. Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, et al were much smarter than I am, and certainly much smarter than you are. Don't drink the kool aid, and don't let YOUR government tell YOU that they need to spy on YOU. It's all bullshit that our corporate media masters use to up production, limit competition, and control YOU, their employees and market share. You really want a free market? Go burn down a Starbucks and grow some fucking balls. Otherwise you're just another mindless idiot parroting the bullshit they are feeding you on TV.
Um yeah, why are people still buying discs ???!? I agree with the above poster, there is no way porno is even going to effect this format war. The internet has taken over that industry and distribution completely.
Anybody here taking this activity more seriously? For instance, is there a possibility that this is a military operation? Seems a lot more advanced than most of the usual spam/bot/virus stuff I read about. I hope they don't screw up TOR, especially since I'm living in more and more of a police state these days (US).
Now I saw tons of lists for media players and other semi-work related apps, but there are some REAL killers when you are in the fun department.
Mupen (Or more specifically Mupen++) takes like 6 mb. It's totally portable, runs under wine, and contains nearly everything needed to play over 300 Nintendo 64 games. I pack this and about 20 of my favorite games on a USB stick, and take them with me everywhere I go.
If you want even smaller file sizes, you can do the same with Super Nintendo roms, but for my money Mario Kart 64 is one of the best games ever made, and well worth the 9mb. Other favorites on my USB stick:
Bust A move 7mb Dr Mario 3mb Super Mario 64 6mb Mortal Kombat 4 13mb
Plus, let's face it, most of those old console titles are much more fun than even the latest hi budget commercial DirectX titles....
Because eventually it could lead to a trojan horse hegemony like we currently have in IE? Because they may have malicious spyware you don't know about? Because some people DO want to look at the source code?
Opera is great, but if it ain't FOSS, it ain't good enough, not for some people, myself being one of them.
I'm not saying Opera isn't great, I'm just saying it isn't open source, and therefore lacks key things that I require from my software. TOTAL FREEDOM being just one of them, no possible vendor lock in being a second, and also knowing that if there IS something drastically wrong, I can fix it or hire somebody else to fix it. And just because Mozilla is dropping Thunderbird doesn't mean it's dead. It's already the best mail client in my opinion, I don't think development is just going to cease over night.... LOL
That's not a benefit *i* use, however, I do like that in the event that the developers go under or get bought out, I will still have an actively updated browser. Oh yeah, and I'm morally for freedom of information. All information. I want to know that what I have on my machine can be checked out by myself or a hired professional at any time.
You missed a couple of ingredients of the perfect storm, and compiz-fusion and it's inclusion by default into Ubuntu (maybe not this time, but soon enough!) means that the eye candy is higher even than mac for the first time. I've switched all my friends and family over to Ubuntu. Beats the hell out of trying to find drivers all day, so my reformats take half as long. Most of them like Compiz A LOT once we get it up and running, and beryl was really kind of a beta for what is soon coming.
Add those two to the storm..... Yeah, MS is in trouble, they will soon loose their hegemony. I gladly welcome our nerdy GPL over lords!
PS for those of you decrying linux games, give Urban Terror a shot, it's probably one of the most fun FPSes out, and uses an updated quake 3 engine. If those graphics aren't fancy enough, check out Quake 2 Evolved, which is GPL and has graphic effects rivaling brand new games. Not that either of thos matter when 99% of my family/friend gamers are more stoked about Mario Kart in Mupen, or Mario Kart 64 ON LINE with mupen++ under wine.
Yeah, Linux day has finally arrived, and this time it isn't just hype. I use it, and so does my dad, half my cousins, and a bunch of other friends who aren't completely tied to San Andreas (or online) with a joystick.
With apologies to Old Ben, I for one would rather give up a little speed for stability, portability, and adblock, foxmarks, and the very real benefits of using an open source product.
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..to welcome our new unaffected by gravity genetically superior overlords!
Intel already stated that wimax was definitely a go for next year. Isn't wimax better? Would some uber nerd explain the different road maps and the likelihood of which one we'll be following? kthnxbye
and the dozen or so police brutality videos that have cropped up on YouTube (taserings, taser-killings, Old man face in asphalt) I'm convinced that it is WE should have cameras, not the government. I didn't see a single cop get his ass kicked all week.
rhY
PS Venture capitalists: I have other no brainer ideas that could work right now in tech convergence between cell phones and PCs, and in other technologies altogether. Give me a ring (email first).
Much Love homies,
rhY
PS Since it's got a vid cam already can we vid chat in h.264 Please? How much bandwidth is that at 320x240? Hook a brother up!
And the speex technology has come a long way. They could really kick everyone's ass if they do everything right. Less data = Less power, right? More information through the network? Better service and coverage? Who know's what's up? They could be planning anything! Maybe it's an iPhone clone with surround sound built in? God only knows. If they use the openmoko platform, though, and really make some killer apps (picasa, google earth, GPS, mp3, ogg, super fast youtube....., SNES emu...), I want one! Actually, I want it to be cheap and hook up to a monitor and mouse if I'm on the road, and charge from there and be my Ubuntu desktop on the road, at work, at home, and everywhere else. Maybe that's 2009 though. Whoever does it first for under $100 gets my money. Consider this a pre-order. Oh yeah, and I want it to have wifi (duh!), and I want to get a LCD and keyboard for an extra $100. Or use the ones I already have....
OK, last thing. Can I get a joystick? It'd be sweet if could do Grand Theft Auto online under winehq while I'm in Starbucks. Fuck it, here's an extra $50.
rhY
Well, I am a dyed in the wool Ubuntu fan, but this article is sadly spot on. There should certainly be an easier way to install codecs for instance. Also, out of box camera support should be more like Windows. Further, there should be more right click options by default, and an easier way to run things as root without entering the command line. I love the password box that comes up when running synaptic. Would it be so hard to have one of those boxes come up if you are editing a text file you don't have permissions for, but need to save it? And what about a GUI way to install AND SETUP Privoxy. I'm sick of editing text files to configure my system, anyway, and there's NO FUCKING WAY gramma is gonna figure that out. That's just one example, but you can replace the name Privoxy with about 20 other software packages that many regular users might need. Also, all the torrent programs are a sad joke compared to utorrent, and it's ludicrous that Ubuntu is trying to gain market share (obviously), but for some reason still defaults to evolution instead of Thunderbird. Obviously Cannonical, or the Ubuntu devs, or maybe both are at odds with themselves in some way, as there are several issues that seem to have been left unfixed that would seem to be rather easy to fix. I just wish they would all get on board with the Windows Killer Platform idea they are so close to and really do it (though I do see this happening with Gutsy, some of these stupid issues are still persisting). Also, some of the FOSS apps that Ubuntu relies on need a massive over haul or major fixing as well. I'm looking at you, GIMP (who also needs a new name), and you Krita (who doesn't recognize my uber generic wacom tablet).
I've come up with other crits in my blog, but I think at this point most of the Ubuntu crowd will be familiar with their deficiencies, now whether they are agreed they need to be fixed or not......
That is awesome, but I've been using the GIMP for 3 years and didn't know. Furthermore, the defaults should just be right from the get go. Not having delete delete stuff is retarded. Seriously, wtf?
If you don't mention Ubuntu, currently the fastest growing OS on the planet, then you are really telling the news, are you?
Or give it a year or so when fully functional computers can be had in an iphone factor and cost less than $70. I mean, it's at least possible.
I wasn't going to buy their over-priced DRM bullshit anyway. This is not exactly a tragedy, or a surprise. Steve is his own worst enemy, vendor lock-in, no 3rd party apps, DRM, they would've already dominated the market true hegemony style if he would've avoided just one of these stupid things. It's like the whole Windows lesson never got learned. What a tard!
rhY
...is much better than CS:S. At least in my opinion (and many of my gamer friends as well), the gameplay is superior to any version of counter strike, and it is free and available for Linux NATIVELY. Give it a shot, and if you like it, free up that windows drive. I'll see you on there.... :)
Dude, you have friends with XP that doesn't have it crash once a day!??!? Where did you find THEM!??!
Now even MORE people will start switching to Ubuntu. Nicely done Microsoft! It's almost like you're on our side:
1. Over charge for Vista.
2. Make sure Vista is bloated and slow.
3. Make the 3d interface of Vista inferior to last year's 3d linux desktop.
4. Continue not following standards.
5. Continue attempting to lock people in with proprietary formats.
6. Make sure that Internet Explorer remains grossly inferior to Firefox.
7. Make sure that Outlook remains grossly dangerous and bloated compared to Thunderbird.
8. Try to thwart Piracy.
9. Windows Media Player. Seriously: WTF?
10. Lack a proper modern package management system.
11. Fail to make any OS secure at all, ever.
12. Continue poorly coded and buggy updates.
13. Force said updates on people without their choice.
14. Have I left something out?
It's almost like Redmond is DEMANDING that everybody upgrade to Ubuntu. Maybe I'm missing something, but now with the opened up ATI drivers, the continued improvement of dozens of FOSS apps:
Firefox
Thunderbird
Open Office
Gimp
Pidgin
7zip
VLC
Rhythmbox
Ardour
etc.
And how seriously bitching all the compiz-fusion eye candy is.... All we need now is a couple of really good games to leave no reason for people to continue using Windows. And we already have a couple:
Urban Terror
Mupen
Anyone else smell the dying last few breaths of the Microsoft hegemony?
I'm just going to go ahead and predict the future and say that as Dell and others continue to offer Ubuntu, and start offering them for CHEAPER, since you save money on the OS (market economics dictate that this WILL happen, eventually), and as Ubuntu continues to improve and outshine Windows across the board (compiz>aero, firefox>IE, Pidgin>MSN, Thunderbird>Outlook, Gimp>Paint, Open Office (free)> MS Office (paid)), more people will BY DEFAULT be running Firefox, and then the market share will REALLY start to climb. Firefox is probably nearly as high as it can get considering the amount of n00bs out there that think the big blue E is their Internet. But as Vista continues to tank and suck, and Ubuntu continues to dominate, grow and improve......
Well, let's just hope Canonical realizes soon for all of us that Thunderbird is a better choice than that other crap email client and accelerate the process.
Firefox is definitely ftw, even if it takes another 5 years (which it might!).
I for one am certainly switching to BSD, which doesn't do half what Ubuntu currently does, and doesn't have the UPGRADED and improved license. As a matter of fact, I'm going to skip BSD and just go ahead and install some other arcane proprietary OS. Maybe TRS-DOS or re-hook up my sinclair. I mean, why bother with compiz-fusion, rhythmbox, ooo, gimp, pidgin, tvtime, firefox, and thunderbird? I don't want free and stable often updated software. I want some arcane bullshit that might get co-opted and corrupted by some corporation. Fuck the GPL v3!!! FREEDOM NAZIS!!!!
This country was founded on civil liberties. Without them, you can expect another violent and bloody revolution, although, with pharmaceuticals, they can probably postpone the inevitable for some time. Welcome to 1984, eh? Better keep taking your pills, our you might become one of us terrorists. I caught myself and my room mate acting the part of Mildred, and we got a gym membership, and quit all drugs and now we do things like go out and protest. It's amazing what you can do by removing yourself from the corporate America statistics.
I'll take encryption, freedom, and having my own guns for any asshole who wants to come into my house unannounced. Trust me, there are many logical premises that bear this philosophy out. Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, et al were much smarter than I am, and certainly much smarter than you are. Don't drink the kool aid, and don't let YOUR government tell YOU that they need to spy on YOU. It's all bullshit that our corporate media masters use to up production, limit competition, and control YOU, their employees and market share. You really want a free market? Go burn down a Starbucks and grow some fucking balls. Otherwise you're just another mindless idiot parroting the bullshit they are feeding you on TV.
http://www.youporn.com/
http://www.pornotube.com/
http://www.shareaza.com/
Um yeah, why are people still buying discs ???!? I agree with the above poster, there is no way porno is even going to effect this format war. The internet has taken over that industry and distribution completely.
...for those of thinking we will finally get FOSS gfx drivers?
Anybody here taking this activity more seriously? For instance, is there a possibility that this is a military operation? Seems a lot more advanced than most of the usual spam/bot/virus stuff I read about. I hope they don't screw up TOR, especially since I'm living in more and more of a police state these days (US).
Now I saw tons of lists for media players and other semi-work related apps, but there are some REAL killers when you are in the fun department.
Mupen (Or more specifically Mupen++) takes like 6 mb. It's totally portable, runs under wine, and contains nearly everything needed to play over 300 Nintendo 64 games. I pack this and about 20 of my favorite games on a USB stick, and take them with me everywhere I go.
If you want even smaller file sizes, you can do the same with Super Nintendo roms, but for my money Mario Kart 64 is one of the best games ever made, and well worth the 9mb. Other favorites on my USB stick:
Bust A move 7mb
Dr Mario 3mb
Super Mario 64 6mb
Mortal Kombat 4 13mb
Plus, let's face it, most of those old console titles are much more fun than even the latest hi budget commercial DirectX titles....
Because eventually it could lead to a trojan horse hegemony like we currently have in IE? Because they may have malicious spyware you don't know about? Because some people DO want to look at the source code?
Opera is great, but if it ain't FOSS, it ain't good enough, not for some people, myself being one of them.
rhY
I'm not saying Opera isn't great, I'm just saying it isn't open source, and therefore lacks key things that I require from my software. TOTAL FREEDOM being just one of them, no possible vendor lock in being a second, and also knowing that if there IS something drastically wrong, I can fix it or hire somebody else to fix it. And just because Mozilla is dropping Thunderbird doesn't mean it's dead. It's already the best mail client in my opinion, I don't think development is just going to cease over night.... LOL
rhY
That's not a benefit *i* use, however, I do like that in the event that the developers go under or get bought out, I will still have an actively updated browser. Oh yeah, and I'm morally for freedom of information. All information. I want to know that what I have on my machine can be checked out by myself or a hired professional at any time.
You missed a couple of ingredients of the perfect storm, and compiz-fusion and it's inclusion by default into Ubuntu (maybe not this time, but soon enough!) means that the eye candy is higher even than mac for the first time. I've switched all my friends and family over to Ubuntu. Beats the hell out of trying to find drivers all day, so my reformats take half as long. Most of them like Compiz A LOT once we get it up and running, and beryl was really kind of a beta for what is soon coming.
Add those two to the storm..... Yeah, MS is in trouble, they will soon loose their hegemony. I gladly welcome our nerdy GPL over lords!
PS for those of you decrying linux games, give Urban Terror a shot, it's probably one of the most fun FPSes out, and uses an updated quake 3 engine. If those graphics aren't fancy enough, check out Quake 2 Evolved, which is GPL and has graphic effects rivaling brand new games. Not that either of thos matter when 99% of my family/friend gamers are more stoked about Mario Kart in Mupen, or Mario Kart 64 ON LINE with mupen++ under wine.
Yeah, Linux day has finally arrived, and this time it isn't just hype. I use it, and so does my dad, half my cousins, and a bunch of other friends who aren't completely tied to San Andreas (or online) with a joystick.
With apologies to Old Ben, I for one would rather give up a little speed for stability, portability, and adblock, foxmarks, and the very real benefits of using an open source product.
But, if they were to GPL it.....
rhY