This article is ridiculous. Who cares what ANY company's PR group says about a competitor's product? It's always going to be the same: OUR COMPETITOR SUCKS. This article is just trolling for "M$ is stoopid" posts. The story is iTunes, not what any other company says about 'em.
I'm *definitely* gonna try it. In all of my time sitting in front of a box, I have yet to figure out Windows Media Player. Just getting shit to play is too damn complicated. A playlist? Forget about it. Winamp 2.8 is the only thing I use, but I like the idea of buying music too (stuff that I can't find on Kazaa Lite K++)
Actually, its the "bad" guys who usually get the girl. Go figure.
How right you are. And how my life change for the better once I understood this. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go buy some more condoms and cigarettes.
But...I like NTFS!
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NTFS has been an excellent FS for years! It's fast, it supports massive drives and massive quantities of files and directories, and it's incredibly fault-tolerant. What's wrong with NTFS?
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Hmm, the holy grail that I seek will not loose any data on a suprise power-down.
NTFS won't "lose" data when the power is cut off. I don't know if it'll "loose" data, though.
Nor will it overwrite important data just because I told it to.
So then you want a FS that *doesn't* do what you tell it to do? Somehow, that sounds like a really, really bad idea.
I'm sorry, but you're 100% wrong on this. I'm sitting at some kind of old Pentium 2 (3, maybe?) with 128 Meg of RAM, playing MP3's, working in a few web browsers, running an anti-virus app, a firewall, serving VNC, and running a point of sale application, all while it's being used as a print server. It works fine, and the hard drive isn't going when it's just playing music (idling). I don't know what you did to that poor machine of yours, but mine runs like a champ.
Now you're telling me I've gotta go back to all those stupid workstations and patch each individually again?
Yes you do. You gotta because you're a fucking idiot. Anyone with half a brain would just turn on Automatic Updating for most of the machines. But then again, you are in academia, which isn't exactly known for producing the sharpest people...
Yeah, they wouldn't want to use Automatic Updating that comes with Windows. That would be too easy. Besides, patching machines provides the whiners with job security, right?
You're missing the point. You don't do anything. That's why it's called automatic updating. Set it to happen at 2:00 AM every day. There's nothing to do. If a reboot is required, reboot when you're getting your coffee. It's not a big deal at all.
Travel much? How many times a week do you have to set up and tear down your computer? Think plugging and unplugging that cable every time is good entertainment? How about unsnarling a hastily packed accessory bag.. For people who live out of their suitcases, it's a pretty nice toy.
I did. Was on the road 5 days a week for a year. I used a laptop.
Wireless keyboards and mice are just toys. There's no real advantage to them at all... just more headache (yet another thing to configure/put batteries in/go wrong). Besides, wireless keyboards have been around since the beginning of time. I had a great one with my PCjr. Worked like a champ, but I really didn't care that it was wireless.
There's a much bigger threat to large parts of the economy, and that's OSS. It's already starting to take it's toll. I don't know of any instances where patents have hurt the economy, but large software companies are doing layoffs, due in part to OSS. You want to be mad about something, be mad about OSS. That's really going to be horribly destructive. Then, when the economy is in the toilet and ever the rich little college kids can't afford to write OSS in their free time (they might have to get a *job*!), then we'll be really fucked.
...so why am I supposed to babysit them? Take responsibility for your own kid and get a piece of software, or monitor them, or some shit. Whatever you decide, it isn't my problem. Just because YOU had kids and YOU don't want to babysit doesn't make it MY problem.
Most users would've quit at the installation because it was entirely too esoteric.
OK, 127.0.0.1:8888 doesn't explain anything. What in the hell do I do?
On top of that, why don't I have an Internet connection any more, and why is my computer so goddamned slow? (Note, I have a *very* big pipe here, and it seems to be saturated, with not even Freenet working).
And I click on the "bookmarks" on that page, and none of them seem to work.
Regardless of what Freenet is doing in the back end, to me, it looked and acted like a piece of shit that ate up all of my resources and didn't do anything. No average user is EVER going to use Freenet.
The point is that it's fucking *hard* to figure out how to use. Average peolpe CANNOT use Freenet. It's a clusterfuck of an applciation. Great idea. Shitty implementation.
Unfortunately, Freenet in it's current form is virtually unuseable for most average users. I was even reading through all of the FAQ and scratching my head after a half hour.
Oh sure... charities and PR is one thing, but this is another. Thousands of anonymous (to anyone outside of their tight knit circle) people attempting to re-create an entire industry (arguably the most important industry in the US right now) for free. It boggles the mind.
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Sounds like someone's more than a bit jealous. You should probably work on not being quite so obvious.
but what about the people who want a PDA with phone functionality!?
They're a tiny minority... that's the point of the damn article.
So then what's left to Google, if not copyrighted words? That's insane.
This article is ridiculous. Who cares what ANY company's PR group says about a competitor's product? It's always going to be the same: OUR COMPETITOR SUCKS. This article is just trolling for "M$ is stoopid" posts. The story is iTunes, not what any other company says about 'em.
I'm *definitely* gonna try it. In all of my time sitting in front of a box, I have yet to figure out Windows Media Player. Just getting shit to play is too damn complicated. A playlist? Forget about it. Winamp 2.8 is the only thing I use, but I like the idea of buying music too (stuff that I can't find on Kazaa Lite K++)
Actually, its the "bad" guys who usually get the girl. Go figure.
How right you are. And how my life change for the better once I understood this. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go buy some more condoms and cigarettes.
I'm a series of 5 underscores??
NTFS has been an excellent FS for years! It's fast, it supports massive drives and massive quantities of files and directories, and it's incredibly fault-tolerant. What's wrong with NTFS?
Hmm, the holy grail that I seek will not loose any data on a suprise power-down.
NTFS won't "lose" data when the power is cut off. I don't know if it'll "loose" data, though.
Nor will it overwrite important data just because I told it to.
So then you want a FS that *doesn't* do what you tell it to do? Somehow, that sounds like a really, really bad idea.
You are easily one of the most annoying posters on this board.
As are you. I see more shit from "Anonymous Coward"...
I'm sorry, but you're 100% wrong on this. I'm sitting at some kind of old Pentium 2 (3, maybe?) with 128 Meg of RAM, playing MP3's, working in a few web browsers, running an anti-virus app, a firewall, serving VNC, and running a point of sale application, all while it's being used as a print server. It works fine, and the hard drive isn't going when it's just playing music (idling). I don't know what you did to that poor machine of yours, but mine runs like a champ.
Now you're telling me I've gotta go back to all those stupid workstations and patch each individually again?
Yes you do. You gotta because you're a fucking idiot. Anyone with half a brain would just turn on Automatic Updating for most of the machines. But then again, you are in academia, which isn't exactly known for producing the sharpest people...
Yeah, they wouldn't want to use Automatic Updating that comes with Windows. That would be too easy. Besides, patching machines provides the whiners with job security, right?
You're missing the point. You don't do anything. That's why it's called automatic updating. Set it to happen at 2:00 AM every day. There's nothing to do. If a reboot is required, reboot when you're getting your coffee. It's not a big deal at all.
That theory isn't very good, especially considering any new flavor of Windows has automatic updating that requires *zero* intervention from the user.
Travel much? How many times a week do you have to set up and tear down your computer? Think plugging and unplugging that cable every time is good entertainment? How about unsnarling a hastily packed accessory bag.. For people who live out of their suitcases, it's a pretty nice toy.
I did. Was on the road 5 days a week for a year. I used a laptop.
Simple. Nobody's actually using it, and the public doesn't even know what it is.
Wireless keyboards and mice are just toys. There's no real advantage to them at all... just more headache (yet another thing to configure/put batteries in/go wrong). Besides, wireless keyboards have been around since the beginning of time. I had a great one with my PCjr. Worked like a champ, but I really didn't care that it was wireless.
There's a much bigger threat to large parts of the economy, and that's OSS. It's already starting to take it's toll. I don't know of any instances where patents have hurt the economy, but large software companies are doing layoffs, due in part to OSS. You want to be mad about something, be mad about OSS. That's really going to be horribly destructive. Then, when the economy is in the toilet and ever the rich little college kids can't afford to write OSS in their free time (they might have to get a *job*!), then we'll be really fucked.
...so why am I supposed to babysit them? Take responsibility for your own kid and get a piece of software, or monitor them, or some shit. Whatever you decide, it isn't my problem. Just because YOU had kids and YOU don't want to babysit doesn't make it MY problem.
You really want to know?
Most users would've quit at the installation because it was entirely too esoteric.
OK, 127.0.0.1:8888 doesn't explain anything. What in the hell do I do?
On top of that, why don't I have an Internet connection any more, and why is my computer so goddamned slow? (Note, I have a *very* big pipe here, and it seems to be saturated, with not even Freenet working).
And I click on the "bookmarks" on that page, and none of them seem to work.
Regardless of what Freenet is doing in the back end, to me, it looked and acted like a piece of shit that ate up all of my resources and didn't do anything. No average user is EVER going to use Freenet.
The point is that it's fucking *hard* to figure out how to use. Average peolpe CANNOT use Freenet. It's a clusterfuck of an applciation. Great idea. Shitty implementation.
Then you have to find lists of servers, etc... ugh. too damn complicated when I can just fire up K++ Lite and search.
Unfortunately, Freenet in it's current form is virtually unuseable for most average users. I was even reading through all of the FAQ and scratching my head after a half hour.
Oh sure... charities and PR is one thing, but this is another. Thousands of anonymous (to anyone outside of their tight knit circle) people attempting to re-create an entire industry (arguably the most important industry in the US right now) for free. It boggles the mind.