I see how that was contradictory.....I wasn't referring ot the Gentoo part of things, but more like the few KDE quirks (off the top of my head,.txt iframes in konqueror opening kwrite... try going to www.crownweather.com/tropical.html in konq to see what I mean)...or the aggrivation I had with Samba, or the lack of a decent user switching dialog.
How upgrading WINE suddenly broke DVDShrink (yea yea, I know, whatever you say though doesn't change the fact that this is something I had to deal with...would be nice if there were a DVDShrink equiv in Linux).
As far as Gentoo goes though, I was fully prepared to do all the extra work for that system. Portage itself was worth it for me. I had that part of the system under control very well with no complaints there.
My post wasn't even a complaint about Linux really though, more of a reason why a lot of people don't use it. I mean, I really wanted to make it my desktop...it was for a year...but when I switched back to Windows it was very obvious that there was less overhead involved with using that OS.
I mean, even if Linux was BETTER for a regular user out-of-the-box in every way than Windows you'd STILL have a problem getting people to switch. As it is right now, Linux doesn't even have THAT going for it. Not for home users anyways. Corp. environments are a whole different story.
Bah! I used Gentoo for over a year. No dual-boot bullshit. Had Gentoo at home for over a year and had Gentoo at work for 2 months.
It was fine...pretty to use...just had a few gotcha's here and there. I'd spend time researching this (TwinView, for instance) trying to figure out why that (password protected samba shared) doesn't work right...etc...
Eventually, I decided to give Windows another try...go ahead and make the plunge.
HAH! The SAME DAY I installed Windows (XP at home, 2000 at work) I had everything setup the way I want it....torrent associated with the right app...java install was a click away...hell even CTRL+backspace worked *properly* in the Firefox location bar.
I had access to the apps I had missed that really have no comparable alternatives in Linux...UltraEdit, GDS, Visual Studio.NET, PartyPoker (with no bugs) And most importantly, the OS just worked. Also, had a SANE UI to User Switching at home...no more finding out another user has opened 3 sessions and can't figure out why Firefox wont' start in the 2nd or 3rd one...
No recompiling the kernel for this or that....Apps were a LOT faster.
I've gone back and forth with Linux using various distros for a while.....my last stay was by far my longest though...and hopefully my last.
I'm not quite sure if my distaste for Linux is caused by the loose coupling of UI to OS or if it's more of the hacky feel most apps have....or probably both. Either way....sheep? Sure....there are sheep out there. It sure as hell doesn't have to do with their choice of OS though.
I had to cancel 3 AOL accounts while trying to get (and succeeding at!) getting a free 40gig iPod a while back (1 acct for AOL service, 1 for music service and 1 for my wife who was trying the same thing). The second and third time I did the same thing as you mentioned above. Last time I told them we were in a bad financial situation and had to pawn all of our expensive electronics...the rep said "well, you may want to use our service at a friends house?" HAH! My friends would shoot me for putting AOL on their computers....:)
I've looked, and didn't find it consistently on TPB or TorrentSpy. I must admit Mininova is one I didn't check out though.
It's nice to see though, on most trackers, when the Daily Show is there it is one of the most properly seeded torrents available. Must be all of the ShunTV loyalists who knew how to properly use BT.
Have you tried Flashblock? I haven't seen anything get around standard firefox popup blocking and flashblock. Most sites that get around firefox's popup blocking are using flash to open the window.
I don't know. I mean...if you want to get your TV shows then you want something reliable (like ShunTV or BTEfnet were). Reliable = big = big target. They seem pretty capable of bringing down big targets (probably small ones too but they only focus on the big ones).
I don't think many people are going drop TV as the medium in favor of something that's unreliable. I know I sure didn't tune in to the Daily Show on TV when ShunTV was around...but now, without a consistently reliable source for it I watch it on TV.
I don't think we're going to be able to get a good distribution point for it as long as a threatening letter or a lawsuit can bring one down (which will be the case for the foreseeable future).
I didn't call him an idiot because he said people do mod consoles so they can copy games. I called him an idiot because he said chipping IMPLIES piracy. That is a broad generalization and overall idiotic.
There are even some modchips out there that are NOT capapble of playing copied games.
Do you have any idea how big the community built around things like XBoxMediaCenter and GentooX are? (14,000 registered users on the XBMC forums...and even more on xbox-scene.net).
Now, I know that doesn't mean ALL of them aren't pirating games...but that is a NON-PIRATING use of it that a LARGE (relative to modded xbox consoles) number of users are actually using their XBox for.
So, how exactly does chipping IMPLY piracy?
I called him an idiot because he is an idiot, not because I disagree with him. Assumptions and generalizations can make you sound like an idiot.
Are you serious? Idiot. Do you have any idea how many people use it JUST for things like Xbox Media Center? I haven't even played an XBox game on my xbox ever, much less a copied game.
And everyone whose XBox I've modded haven't either (unless they know someone other than me to burn them which they don't). They play their own games that they bought/rented, but that's it.
That's stupid logic. Doing something you like isn't a waste of time in the same sense as doing something which is not necessary (or wouldn't be necessary) that you don't enjoy doing.
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I see how that was contradictory.....I wasn't referring ot the Gentoo part of things, but more like the few KDE quirks (off the top of my head, .txt iframes in konqueror opening kwrite... try going to www.crownweather.com/tropical.html in konq to see what I mean)...or the aggrivation I had with Samba, or the lack of a decent user switching dialog.
How upgrading WINE suddenly broke DVDShrink (yea yea, I know, whatever you say though doesn't change the fact that this is something I had to deal with...would be nice if there were a DVDShrink equiv in Linux).
As far as Gentoo goes though, I was fully prepared to do all the extra work for that system. Portage itself was worth it for me. I had that part of the system under control very well with no complaints there.
My post wasn't even a complaint about Linux really though, more of a reason why a lot of people don't use it. I mean, I really wanted to make it my desktop...it was for a year...but when I switched back to Windows it was very obvious that there was less overhead involved with using that OS.
I mean, even if Linux was BETTER for a regular user out-of-the-box in every way than Windows you'd STILL have a problem getting people to switch. As it is right now, Linux doesn't even have THAT going for it. Not for home users anyways. Corp. environments are a whole different story.
Bah! I used Gentoo for over a year. No dual-boot bullshit. Had Gentoo at home for over a year and had Gentoo at work for 2 months.
It was fine...pretty to use...just had a few gotcha's here and there. I'd spend time researching this (TwinView, for instance) trying to figure out why that (password protected samba shared) doesn't work right...etc...
Eventually, I decided to give Windows another try...go ahead and make the plunge.
HAH! The SAME DAY I installed Windows (XP at home, 2000 at work) I had everything setup the way I want it....torrent associated with the right app...java install was a click away...hell even CTRL+backspace worked *properly* in the Firefox location bar.
I had access to the apps I had missed that really have no comparable alternatives in Linux...UltraEdit, GDS, Visual Studio.NET, PartyPoker (with no bugs) And most importantly, the OS just worked. Also, had a SANE UI to User Switching at home...no more finding out another user has opened 3 sessions and can't figure out why Firefox wont' start in the 2nd or 3rd one...
No recompiling the kernel for this or that....Apps were a LOT faster.
I've gone back and forth with Linux using various distros for a while.....my last stay was by far my longest though...and hopefully my last.
I'm not quite sure if my distaste for Linux is caused by the loose coupling of UI to OS or if it's more of the hacky feel most apps have....or probably both. Either way....sheep? Sure....there are sheep out there. It sure as hell doesn't have to do with their choice of OS though.
Haha. I know a few people who I'd consider capable of writing that.
I had to cancel 3 AOL accounts while trying to get (and succeeding at!) getting a free 40gig iPod a while back (1 acct for AOL service, 1 for music service and 1 for my wife who was trying the same thing). The second and third time I did the same thing as you mentioned above. Last time I told them we were in a bad financial situation and had to pawn all of our expensive electronics...the rep said "well, you may want to use our service at a friends house?" HAH! My friends would shoot me for putting AOL on their computers.... :)
Umm...looks to me like they're catching that exception.... :)
Wouldn't have to be an update to add it to the sidebar....you can already download additional panels for the sidebar...that's all it'd be.
Yea. The other 99.9981% of us out there.
Registry: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell
Does the fact that Windows 3.1 doesn't have anywhere near 95% compatibility with modern software have any bearing on the comparison?
I've looked, and didn't find it consistently on TPB or TorrentSpy. I must admit Mininova is one I didn't check out though.
It's nice to see though, on most trackers, when the Daily Show is there it is one of the most properly seeded torrents available. Must be all of the ShunTV loyalists who knew how to properly use BT.
Thanks for the tip.
Have you tried Flashblock? I haven't seen anything get around standard firefox popup blocking and flashblock. Most sites that get around firefox's popup blocking are using flash to open the window.
I don't know. I mean...if you want to get your TV shows then you want something reliable (like ShunTV or BTEfnet were). Reliable = big = big target. They seem pretty capable of bringing down big targets (probably small ones too but they only focus on the big ones).
I don't think many people are going drop TV as the medium in favor of something that's unreliable. I know I sure didn't tune in to the Daily Show on TV when ShunTV was around...but now, without a consistently reliable source for it I watch it on TV.
I don't think we're going to be able to get a good distribution point for it as long as a threatening letter or a lawsuit can bring one down (which will be the case for the foreseeable future).
JMHO
If you had told me we were just making up numbers then I would've used totally different arguments.
Please let me know in advance next time.
My grandma calls it Mozulla Foxfire.
Swear to God.
Nah, decentralized tracking works and it works well. We just need Azureus and the mainline client to work together on their implementations.
www.xboxmediacenter.de not not media center extender. You DO need to chip to run that.
It's more like saying it's not OK to drink (alcohol) at all because some people drive after doing it.
Chipping and pirating are two DIFFERENT actions. That's the point.
So, if I drive a truck towards your house but jump out before it hits your house, I should be able to walk away?
Hell, I could probably even contact your insurance company for damage to my truck!
What's your address?
I didn't call him an idiot because he said people do mod consoles so they can copy games. I called him an idiot because he said chipping IMPLIES piracy. That is a broad generalization and overall idiotic.
There are even some modchips out there that are NOT capapble of playing copied games.
Do you have any idea how big the community built around things like XBoxMediaCenter and GentooX are? (14,000 registered users on the XBMC forums...and even more on xbox-scene.net).
Now, I know that doesn't mean ALL of them aren't pirating games...but that is a NON-PIRATING use of it that a LARGE (relative to modded xbox consoles) number of users are actually using their XBox for.
So, how exactly does chipping IMPLY piracy?
I called him an idiot because he is an idiot, not because I disagree with him. Assumptions and generalizations can make you sound like an idiot.
Are you serious? Idiot. Do you have any idea how many people use it JUST for things like Xbox Media Center? I haven't even played an XBox game on my xbox ever, much less a copied game.
And everyone whose XBox I've modded haven't either (unless they know someone other than me to burn them which they don't). They play their own games that they bought/rented, but that's it.
Nice assumption though.
Irony in action.
High relative profit.
That's stupid logic. Doing something you like isn't a waste of time in the same sense as doing something which is not necessary (or wouldn't be necessary) that you don't enjoy doing.
Do you really not see the difference?
There isn't a single program yet to be completely secure.
Speak for yourself! My implementation of 'Hello World' has undergone hundreds of security audits and not one hole has ever been found. EVER
Scroll down and skip it you ass. It has the fucking foot icon, you can see it's humor.
Damn what an idiot.
Who mod'ed the parent 'insightful'?!?
The same people who AREN'T modding you insightful.
Mindless anti-microsoft drone.