I use a 30" monitor. To get native resolution, I have to run at 2560x1600.
Monitor size and native resolution, in my case, definitely effects which video card I can use.
A 17" or a 19" might have the same video resolutions in certain cases, but it's hard to believe that if you get larger than 24" that you can get away with a 1280x1024 native resolution.
I bounced back and forth like this for a while. I'm a 10 year Java vet, it's served me well in that the Java+Linux server programing duopoly has allowed me to live in some cool place, and allowed my family a great lifestyle.
I remember facing the same question back when, "should I keep forging ahead with PHP or give this Java thing a try". Looking back, thank god I gave Java a fair shake. Even though my first major project could of been done probably a lot easier in PHP, it was worth it's time in gold, big time.
Now having Java behind my belt, it's not a tool that's going away, but something that will be used a little bit differently. I've spent a few months now working on a couple major projects with Rails and I am starting to feel the same gratification of leaving my comfort zone of PHP for Java.
I can simply get things done faster, and less pain, than I ever could with Java. I'm not a raging Rails fanboy, it's still painful to do some things I know how to do easily in Java, but it's easy to forget how many times I spent looking for hours at a Null Point exception wondering how the hell I'm going to fix it, when in fact that was a small step in a large adventure of life's career learning.
I watched for a few years, as the rails train was moving, and determined that it was likely not just a fad, and I either had to get on it or possibly get behind.
When Java was starting to hit the servers, people called it a fad, too slow, a passing thing.. thank god I didn't listen.
It seriously boggles my mind how people get their panties in a bunchie because a game doesn't work in software emulation mode.
I don't do THAT well, but i can at least afford a last-generation budget video card. ($100 video card can play just about any game on a 19" at decent framerate)
Yup, I'm not much for MMO's any more, but I spent years playing DAoC. The endgame was sooo much more interesting to myself than WoW. (I played wow for a couple years as well, but have stopped playing about 6 months after BC launched).
In trying to qualify my above statement, DAoC had a magic formula of never-ending endgame fun. There was enough mass warfare that could involve people of various levels of commitment.
I played an Archer (scout), I could login, check the map and see where there was action going on at.. in the old gate, a miles-gate or post Frontiers, the new keeps. I could crawl up , find a kill spot and try to get a few snipes in before I was caught and killed.
While I was running with friends, we would use Teamspeak to coordinate ambushes, and sometimes even go and take a tower, or pick on an apposing realm while they where chewing on a enemy keep.
My group of friends, we where not coordinated or time committed enough to be a formidable frontal threat, but we REALLY enjoyed playing the role of guerrilla tactics in that game.
There was an almost sub-game of stealth-war going on, and it didn't require standing around at a portal keep hoping you where in a guild or had a spot in a really good 8 man group.
In a lot of ways, World of Warcraft satisfied that same play style in AV, for example going around and re-taking towers making it hard for the apposing team to kill the map lord, a good group of 6-8 people could make all the difference in a game of AV. Arena's where too dependant on gear at first , I just never got into the arena matches.
Anyway, after watching a year or two go by of craptastic WoW PvP, I have little doubt that there will definitely be an appeal for a next generation 'daoc' style pvp game. I know that people like my wife would never move beyond WoW to something like that, it's just not her playstyle... but for people like me, WoW is pretty much tired and boring, and it's not just level achievement or a new set of gear to grind through that has us waiting for something new.
One of these days a company will impliment a game in the spirit of DAoC and do it without all the bugs, and imballance that impaired DaoC.
You can get a low cost dell server for cheap, 1u or even cheaper if you go with a low end desk-side server.
Why do you need a rack mount? Seems like for a home server a quiet desk-side server would be easier to keep cool and quiet, and more space conservative.
I wasn't sure how much I'd like it, or actually use it. I have a hard time going to bed a night, so I like to read myself to sleep, so I read on it for about 45-1 hour a day. I've gone through about 10 books, and absolutely love it.
Is it for everyone? Obviously not.. But, I find myself using this thing a LOT.
If your teetering on picking one up, I doubt you'll regret it if you really do enjoy reading.
Serious, I've been here for a LONG time and I think I'll rack this into my noodle as being one of the lamest postings that have managed to slip through in a while.
At least the spam-link-bot posters are giving content that's interesting. This is just stupid.
Congratulations to the Debian team for letting themselves define what success is, not others.
Just because success to the many means building a huge company, profits, power. It absolutely doesn't mean it's the same for everyone. It's hard not to find it fascinating when groups get fixated on this.
For the Debian folks, independence and freedom is success, of that they've done a great job!
But C and a C++ background will help you keep that job.
It's very hard to be taken serious as a computer programmer, even a Java one, if you aren't able to understand memory allocation, points, etc. Often times it's critical to understand that so you can understand what the garbage collector is doing.
I'm the director of technology for a small/medium company (about 5 programmers), and when I'm interviewing a new job candidate for a Java position, during the interview I ask them to explain to me how they would achieve writing a linked-list in Java without using the collection class.
First let me say, I'm not really a Apple Fanboi, but hardly anti Microsoft. I'm using MS at home (for gaming mostly) and my work computer is a Mac Pro tower (Developer/admin/etc.. small company so I do a LOT of different things).
I don't find Vista bad, or Mac perfect. I think both are fine if used in the context of what they where designed to do, but I digress. I'd just like to add a few things to what you said.
> Gutsy Gibbon is not an option for some people, due to its lack of some key software (games, 100% MS Office-compatible suite, driver support). That's not saying anything bad about GG, just that it's not a panacea for those wishing to ditch The Beast
I tried installing it at home on my Dell XPS-710 H2C. It didn't work. I ran into problems with my video cards (Dual 8800GTX boards). The raid card wasn't read right off the bad, so I tracked down a cheap single SATA drive and the OS was able to see it.
After installing, countless playing with the video drivers, twiddling with different tools to configure X I gave up. Granted I use Linux for all our office servers and our datacenter, it was just more than I wanted to mess with. To the credit of Gutsy, it did install perfect on a couple of office machines and it seemed pretty slick. I haven't used Linux as a full desktop machine since the old Redhat 8 / 9 days, and I was more curious to see how far they have come. (I'm very happy with linux as our server platform of choice though:) ).
Gutsy is probably good for most people, but definitely not everyone.
>OS X is not as stable as you think. Sure, it's BSD underneath, but on top it's still an operating system. It still has drivers that are not 100% fantastic. It still crashes. On some peoples' machines, frequently. You also ignore the cost of the hardware, which is greater than for those wishing to run either GG or Vista.
OS X isn't infallible to problems, that's for sure. I've had a few over the years.. but I still measure my uptime on my Mac Pro at the office in months. (Usually only rebooting to install software updates). The OS is rock solid from my experience. Some things that kind of annoy me about it are the lack of real options on 3rd party hardware. If you want to upgrade the video card, forget it.. unless you want to buy Apples outdated and overpriced ATI board (Which i did for a second display that required Dual-DVI). For apple to ship that computer with a NVidia 7300 is just offensive. There are so many decent cards out there that are cheap and fast, I just don't understand the reasoning other than maybe wanting a passive cooling card.
Now price rant:
The hardware is expensive, but I make my living on that machine. I find that I am more productive on what I consider to be an elegant user experience. Maybe it's silly, but that's just how I am. It's the reason I don't drive a 79 Renault to work, it's not because the car wouldn't get me there and it's cheaper.. the car is just not something I want to be driving, and I enjoy nice things. Practicality does not always trump, and in my case I spend too much time behind the machine to not be using exactly what I want. I know that a lot of people don't have the option to even make the choice, but I do and I've never regretted picking up my mac for the office.:)
>Vista Ultimate (which is not $700 but about $200, depending on the dealer) offers a lot more than just a waterfall background. I can't believe I have to go into this, but I will anyway. It has a 3D-accelerated desktop, which means it can move a lot of the processing of windows and redrawing into the GPU, which would otherwise just be sat there, doing nothing, thereby increasing performance of your CPU (which also allows the "waterfall background" to not eat lots of resources). It has far more aggressive memory-handling techniques, which load apps into and out of memory at certain times to increase their loading times. It can use the hybrid HDDs, external flash memo
I've been running Caucho's resin as an alternative to Tomcat for many years and it's been an outstanding product with none of the headaches I've had with Tomcat. Resin is GPL'd with very good documentation and optional low-cost commercial support.
Just because it's from apache doesn't mean it's the best for the job at hand. I find more often than not, people use tomcat because they believe that there are few options available, let alone easier and more elegant open source solutions.
> I seriously don't know if GP did that on purpose or not...
Could be that he's dyslexic?
Just that short spat of his writing reminds me of how my wife and some of her family write, who are all very dyslexic. Even though they are all VERY intelligent people and tend to lean towards being very good in the math & science side of academia, writing is something that they all work hard to do without appearing to be very unintelligent.
Unfortunately all you have to go by on the internet is someones writing ability, but it's not always a fair assessment of how smart or educated someone is or isn't.
I dropped for a order the other day, I wrestled back and forth if this is something I really wanted.
My wife was the person that ended up pushing me to order it. We'll be sharing the device, and are buying it for ourselves as a Christmas present.
How on earth could I justify spending $400 on it?
I guess at the end of the day, over the last 2 years my reading habits have changed drastically.
When I bought my first blackberry, I found myself going to bed at night reading blogs, websites and forums such as slashdot instead of playing with books. I moved over to the iphone and have been very happy with the device as a reading unit. I feel that I have got value out of the iphone not because 'its the best and shiniest' or that it's something that I will maybe use, it's a device I use ALL THE TIME. Every night I'll spend time on it reading myself to sleep, during the day, etc. I'll likely subscribe to a couple content providers on the kindel that I enjoy reading. (NY Times, etc) and possibly even a few blogs. I don't mind spending a few bucks a month for content that I can enjoy, shit I'll spend more than what I'll allocate as my monthly budget for Kindle reading material than one or two trips or two to Starbucks.
I guess I enjoy reading on electronic devices, I know I'll use it. I'm satisfied with the reviews, good and bad.
Maybe having purchased a lot of my media and content in the past in digital format, I'm not so sticker shocked by $10 for a digital book.
I spend money here-and-there for stuff that is digitally delivered and I don't own.
- Hollywood Video movie pass.. $20sh monthly - Various songs on itunes store, now amazon when I can get it ($5-$10 a month) - Cable TV - $30 a month - Magazines and shit that I'll grab here and there as I'm interested ($5-$10 a month) - iPhone internet package ($20 month? forgot exactly what it is for the data package) - Safari online bookshelf, $20 or so a month for the entire bookshelf which I use for working. - Books? My wife is a serious reader and buys a few books a month.
Anyway, I'm already spending money on bunch of crap that's entertainment oriented.
I don't really care if tons of others buy this thing or not, but knowing my own usage habits and what I enjoy doing it wasn't hard for me to justify spending a good chunk of change on the little reader. The sony reader has been on my horizon for a while, but I never got into their ebook platform for selling content, and it just never pushed me over the edge from being curious to pulling out my wallet.
Who knows, maybe I'll be disappointed when i get it.. but if I am, I'll just send it back within 30 days for a refund and wait for a better device.
Then on the second reason.. my wife is a serious reader. She'll read through a huge paperback in 3-4 days and loves to chew through them quickly. I believe that we'll save money just based on what she's already buying every month and the savings in the digital version, but at the end of the day that doesn't really sway me one way or another (the savings on her hardback purchases).
I just wanted a device that will be more portable than my laptop, easier to read for long periods of time than my laptop or iphone for that matter. This device is filling a direct need for myself and my wife and it's something that I feel will be used daily. I don't want the device to be able to install linux, I have a macbook pro that works fine and I have an older thinkpad if I really want to run Linux. I don't want something that does everything, I want it to allow me to easily READ BOOKS and periodicals. i could care less that it costs ten cents to send a PDF or something to the device. Fortuately for me, that won't break the bank.. and I don't generate my own content. For me that's like being upset that my car doesn't have an in-dash waffle-iron, I'd never use it even if it did have the ability.
When I look at how many thousands of dollars I spend a year on bullshit-consumer
"Windoze is like a Ford Pinto. It'll get you to work and back home again, just don't expect it to have any real power."
Except when you go to Napa to buy an oil filter, freon for the AC or any other accessories the only thing that 99% of the retailers have is Pinto parts. Sure, things can be hacked to work in the Ferrari, but it still was still built for a pinto... even down to the fuzzy-dice, made for Pinto.. might work in Ferrari (Your mileage may vary).
I think it's a waste to use a mac mini as a firewall, but if you where so inclined couldn't you just toss a USB->Ethernet adapter on the mini and call it a day?
I am not a typical FPS gamer, but for me TF2 is like giving a fat-man the keys to the twinky factory. I just can't get enough of it!!
There are only a couple minor complaints about game-balance swirling around (Scouts shooter is a little over the top), but it's a real blast. To get this kind of online experience without having to do any kind of recurring payments is really a nice change from the trend of online-only gaming.
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Yeah, I know this has been said ad-nasium here, but I'm on my last Windows box as well.
I regret buying a high-end XPS gaming system from Dell, I should of just bought a Mac Pro and dual booted if I really needed to do something in windows.
I'll definately be buying a Mac for my next home computer.
"But what makes OS/X good is that it is unixish and it uses cups, I just noticed my hp printer works totally out of the box in ubuntu and that was because it was built to be compatible with OS/X and thus it is a cups printer. Without OS/X hp wouldn't care."
CUPS is what makes OSX good? The fact that printers work out of the box is great, the fact I buy a printer 1x every 5 years maybe, it's not even a big deal to download a driver and install it.
I like OSX for the fact it's a nice work environment that I'm productive in. The OS doesn't get in my way, I'm not fighting with X-window drivers, hoping 3D drivers will work with my cards, etc. Everything is pleasant and easy to work with.
I could give a rats-ass if OSX uses cups or not, I just want my printer to work. Like most things on the mac, things are pretty simple and just work as expected. It has everything I need for both my hobbies, personal life and work to be productive and make my computing experience pleasant. I used Linux as a desktop OS for years before OSX became more mainstream, and enjoyed it but I doubt there is any chance I'll go back now that osx is as far along as it is.
Really? Everyone I know using a mac is on Firefox.
I think I'd be happy using Safari but I'm addicted to the bookmark syncing (google labs firefox plugin). I have 3-4 different machines between work, work laptop.. home gaming box (windows).. home laptop (macbook).. all of them are on sync w/Firefox's browser syncing, regardless of the OS.
If I want to play around with a Live CD (Ubuntu or whatever), it only takes a few minutes to get all my settings and bookmarks that I'm used to into the browser.. remembers passwords on sites from shit I signed up on a year ago across all my browsers...
To each their own, but the cross-platform browser syncing is a KILLER app for me.
It started up faster than NeoOffice, but when I tried to type something.. it wouldn't display what I was typing until after I hit entered a space or hit enter.
The product crashed when I tried to Exit wanting to give me a crash report. They have a -LONG- way to go.
Also, the widgets all feel strangely out of place (Like a Mac OSX theme running on top of Gnome).
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I use a 30" monitor. To get native resolution, I have to run at 2560x1600.
Monitor size and native resolution, in my case, definitely effects which video card I can use.
A 17" or a 19" might have the same video resolutions in certain cases, but it's hard to believe that if you get larger than 24" that you can get away with a 1280x1024 native resolution.
I bounced back and forth like this for a while. I'm a 10 year Java vet, it's served me well in that the Java+Linux server programing duopoly has allowed me to live in some cool place, and allowed my family a great lifestyle.
I remember facing the same question back when, "should I keep forging ahead with PHP or give this Java thing a try". Looking back, thank god I gave Java a fair shake. Even though my first major project could of been done probably a lot easier in PHP, it was worth it's time in gold, big time.
Now having Java behind my belt, it's not a tool that's going away, but something that will be used a little bit differently. I've spent a few months now working on a couple major projects with Rails and I am starting to feel the same gratification of leaving my comfort zone of PHP for Java.
I can simply get things done faster, and less pain, than I ever could with Java. I'm not a raging Rails fanboy, it's still painful to do some things I know how to do easily in Java, but it's easy to forget how many times I spent looking for hours at a Null Point exception wondering how the hell I'm going to fix it, when in fact that was a small step in a large adventure of life's career learning.
I watched for a few years, as the rails train was moving, and determined that it was likely not just a fad, and I either had to get on it or possibly get behind.
When Java was starting to hit the servers, people called it a fad, too slow, a passing thing.. thank god I didn't listen.
Having an iPhone but being stuck on ATT's network is like having a supermodel girlfriend that refuses to put out.
I actually paid the $170 to cancel my att contract and get back onto verizon, ATT was that terrible for me.
Until you upgrade your 12" monitor.
It seriously boggles my mind how people get their panties in a bunchie because a game doesn't work in software emulation mode.
I don't do THAT well, but i can at least afford a last-generation budget video card. ($100 video card can play just about any game on a 19" at decent framerate)
Cheap ass
Yup, I'm not much for MMO's any more, but I spent years playing DAoC. The endgame was sooo much more interesting to myself than WoW. (I played wow for a couple years as well, but have stopped playing about 6 months after BC launched).
In trying to qualify my above statement, DAoC had a magic formula of never-ending endgame fun. There was enough mass warfare that could involve people of various levels of commitment.
I played an Archer (scout), I could login, check the map and see where there was action going on at
While I was running with friends, we would use Teamspeak to coordinate ambushes, and sometimes even go and take a tower, or pick on an apposing realm while they where chewing on a enemy keep.
My group of friends, we where not coordinated or time committed enough to be a formidable frontal threat, but we REALLY enjoyed playing the role of guerrilla tactics in that game.
There was an almost sub-game of stealth-war going on, and it didn't require standing around at a portal keep hoping you where in a guild or had a spot in a really good 8 man group.
In a lot of ways, World of Warcraft satisfied that same play style in AV, for example going around and re-taking towers making it hard for the apposing team to kill the map lord, a good group of 6-8 people could make all the difference in a game of AV. Arena's where too dependant on gear at first , I just never got into the arena matches.
Anyway, after watching a year or two go by of craptastic WoW PvP, I have little doubt that there will definitely be an appeal for a next generation 'daoc' style pvp game. I know that people like my wife would never move beyond WoW to something like that, it's just not her playstyle... but for people like me, WoW is pretty much tired and boring, and it's not just level achievement or a new set of gear to grind through that has us waiting for something new.
One of these days a company will impliment a game in the spirit of DAoC and do it without all the bugs, and imballance that impaired DaoC.
You can get a low cost dell server for cheap, 1u or even cheaper if you go with a low end desk-side server.
Why do you need a rack mount? Seems like for a home server a quiet desk-side server would be easier to keep cool and quiet, and more space conservative.
My wife bought me a kindle for Christmas.
I wasn't sure how much I'd like it, or actually use it. I have a hard time going to bed a night, so I like to read myself to sleep, so I read on it for about 45-1 hour a day. I've gone through about 10 books, and absolutely love it.
Is it for everyone? Obviously not.. But, I find myself using this thing a LOT.
If your teetering on picking one up, I doubt you'll regret it if you really do enjoy reading.
Serious, I've been here for a LONG time and I think I'll rack this into my noodle as being one of the lamest postings that have managed to slip through in a while.
At least the spam-link-bot posters are giving content that's interesting. This is just stupid.
Congratulations to the Debian team for letting themselves define what success is, not others.
Just because success to the many means building a huge company, profits, power. It absolutely doesn't mean it's the same for everyone. It's hard not to find it fascinating when groups get fixated on this.
For the Debian folks, independence and freedom is success, of that they've done a great job!
Does BR play 1080p on anything but HDMI outside the computer? Is it possible to get 1080p on component?
Not a jab, just curious. My hunch is the same limitations are on parity with non-computer consumer electronics BR players, though I could be wrong.
I agree, Java does equal Jobs.
:)
But C and a C++ background will help you keep that job.
It's very hard to be taken serious as a computer programmer, even a Java one, if you aren't able to understand memory allocation, points, etc. Often times it's critical to understand that so you can understand what the garbage collector is doing.
I'm the director of technology for a small/medium company (about 5 programmers), and when I'm interviewing a new job candidate for a Java position, during the interview I ask them to explain to me how they would achieve writing a linked-list in Java without using the collection class.
Interesting some of the responses I get.
First let me say, I'm not really a Apple Fanboi, but hardly anti Microsoft. I'm using MS at home (for gaming mostly) and my work computer is a Mac Pro tower (Developer/admin/etc.. small company so I do a LOT of different things).
I don't find Vista bad, or Mac perfect. I think both are fine if used in the context of what they where designed to do, but I digress. I'd just like to add a few things to what you said.
> Gutsy Gibbon is not an option for some people, due to its lack of some key software (games, 100% MS Office-compatible suite, driver support). That's not saying anything bad about GG, just that it's not a panacea for those wishing to ditch The Beast
I tried installing it at home on my Dell XPS-710 H2C. It didn't work.
I ran into problems with my video cards (Dual 8800GTX boards). The raid card wasn't read right off the bad, so I tracked down a cheap single SATA drive and the OS was able to see it.
After installing, countless playing with the video drivers, twiddling with different tools to configure X I gave up. Granted I use Linux for all our office servers and our datacenter, it was just more than I wanted to mess with. To the credit of Gutsy, it did install perfect on a couple of office machines and it seemed pretty slick. I haven't used Linux as a full desktop machine since the old Redhat 8 / 9 days, and I was more curious to see how far they have come. (I'm very happy with linux as our server platform of choice though
Gutsy is probably good for most people, but definitely not everyone.
>OS X is not as stable as you think. Sure, it's BSD underneath, but on top it's still an operating system. It still has drivers that are not 100% fantastic. It still crashes. On some peoples' machines, frequently. You also ignore the cost of the hardware, which is greater than for those wishing to run either GG or Vista.
OS X isn't infallible to problems, that's for sure. I've had a few over the years.. but I still measure my uptime on my Mac Pro at the office in months. (Usually only rebooting to install software updates). The OS is rock solid from my experience. Some things that kind of annoy me about it are the lack of real options on 3rd party hardware. If you want to upgrade the video card, forget it.. unless you want to buy Apples outdated and overpriced ATI board (Which i did for a second display that required Dual-DVI). For apple to ship that computer with a NVidia 7300 is just offensive. There are so many decent cards out there that are cheap and fast, I just don't understand the reasoning other than maybe wanting a passive cooling card.
Now price rant:
The hardware is expensive, but I make my living on that machine. I find that I am more productive on what I consider to be an elegant user experience. Maybe it's silly, but that's just how I am. It's the reason I don't drive a 79 Renault to work, it's not because the car wouldn't get me there and it's cheaper.. the car is just not something I want to be driving, and I enjoy nice things. Practicality does not always trump, and in my case I spend too much time behind the machine to not be using exactly what I want. I know that a lot of people don't have the option to even make the choice, but I do and I've never regretted picking up my mac for the office.
>Vista Ultimate (which is not $700 but about $200, depending on the dealer) offers a lot more than just a waterfall background. I can't believe I have to go into this, but I will anyway. It has a 3D-accelerated desktop, which means it can move a lot of the processing of windows and redrawing into the GPU, which would otherwise just be sat there, doing nothing, thereby increasing performance of your CPU (which also allows the "waterfall background" to not eat lots of resources). It has far more aggressive memory-handling techniques, which load apps into and out of memory at certain times to increase their loading times. It can use the hybrid HDDs, external flash memo
I actually agree with the AC.
I've been running Caucho's resin as an alternative to Tomcat for many years and it's been an outstanding product with none of the headaches I've had with Tomcat. Resin is GPL'd with very good documentation and optional low-cost commercial support.
Just because it's from apache doesn't mean it's the best for the job at hand. I find more often than not, people use tomcat because they believe that there are few options available, let alone easier and more elegant open source solutions.
> I seriously don't know if GP did that on purpose or not...
Could be that he's dyslexic?
Just that short spat of his writing reminds me of how my wife and some of her family write, who are all very dyslexic. Even though they are all VERY intelligent people and tend to lean towards being very good in the math & science side of academia, writing is something that they all work hard to do without appearing to be very unintelligent.
Unfortunately all you have to go by on the internet is someones writing ability, but it's not always a fair assessment of how smart or educated someone is or isn't.
I dropped for a order the other day, I wrestled back and forth if this is something I really wanted.
My wife was the person that ended up pushing me to order it. We'll be sharing the device, and are buying it for ourselves as a Christmas present.
How on earth could I justify spending $400 on it?
I guess at the end of the day, over the last 2 years my reading habits have changed drastically.
When I bought my first blackberry, I found myself going to bed at night reading blogs, websites and forums such as slashdot instead of playing with books. I moved over to the iphone and have been very happy with the device as a reading unit. I feel that I have got value out of the iphone not because 'its the best and shiniest' or that it's something that I will maybe use, it's a device I use ALL THE TIME. Every night I'll spend time on it reading myself to sleep, during the day, etc. I'll likely subscribe to a couple content providers on the kindel that I enjoy reading. (NY Times, etc) and possibly even a few blogs. I don't mind spending a few bucks a month for content that I can enjoy, shit I'll spend more than what I'll allocate as my monthly budget for Kindle reading material than one or two trips or two to Starbucks.
I guess I enjoy reading on electronic devices, I know I'll use it. I'm satisfied with the reviews, good and bad.
Maybe having purchased a lot of my media and content in the past in digital format, I'm not so sticker shocked by $10 for a digital book.
I spend money here-and-there for stuff that is digitally delivered and I don't own.
- Hollywood Video movie pass.. $20sh monthly
- Various songs on itunes store, now amazon when I can get it ($5-$10 a month)
- Cable TV - $30 a month
- Magazines and shit that I'll grab here and there as I'm interested ($5-$10 a month)
- iPhone internet package ($20 month? forgot exactly what it is for the data package)
- Safari online bookshelf, $20 or so a month for the entire bookshelf which I use for working.
- Books? My wife is a serious reader and buys a few books a month.
Anyway, I'm already spending money on bunch of crap that's entertainment oriented.
I don't really care if tons of others buy this thing or not, but knowing my own usage habits and what I enjoy doing it wasn't hard for me to justify spending a good chunk of change on the little reader. The sony reader has been on my horizon for a while, but I never got into their ebook platform for selling content, and it just never pushed me over the edge from being curious to pulling out my wallet.
Who knows, maybe I'll be disappointed when i get it.. but if I am, I'll just send it back within 30 days for a refund and wait for a better device.
Then on the second reason.. my wife is a serious reader. She'll read through a huge paperback in 3-4 days and loves to chew through them quickly. I believe that we'll save money just based on what she's already buying every month and the savings in the digital version, but at the end of the day that doesn't really sway me one way or another (the savings on her hardback purchases).
I just wanted a device that will be more portable than my laptop, easier to read for long periods of time than my laptop or iphone for that matter. This device is filling a direct need for myself and my wife and it's something that I feel will be used daily. I don't want the device to be able to install linux, I have a macbook pro that works fine and I have an older thinkpad if I really want to run Linux. I don't want something that does everything, I want it to allow me to easily READ BOOKS and periodicals. i could care less that it costs ten cents to send a PDF or something to the device. Fortuately for me, that won't break the bank.. and I don't generate my own content. For me that's like being upset that my car doesn't have an in-dash waffle-iron, I'd never use it even if it did have the ability.
When I look at how many thousands of dollars I spend a year on bullshit-consumer
"Windoze is like a Ford Pinto. It'll get you to work and back home again, just don't expect it to have any real power."
.. even down to the fuzzy-dice, made for Pinto.. might work in Ferrari (Your mileage may vary).
Except when you go to Napa to buy an oil filter, freon for the AC or any other accessories the only thing that 99% of the retailers have is Pinto parts. Sure, things can be hacked to work in the Ferrari, but it still was still built for a pinto.
Is there really anything wrong with having to use 3rd party libraries to do regex operations?
I think it's a waste to use a mac mini as a firewall, but if you where so inclined couldn't you just toss a USB->Ethernet adapter on the mini and call it a day?
I am not a typical FPS gamer, but for me TF2 is like giving a fat-man the keys to the twinky factory. I just can't get enough of it!!
There are only a couple minor complaints about game-balance swirling around (Scouts shooter is a little over the top), but it's a real blast. To get this kind of online experience without having to do any kind of recurring payments is really a nice change from the trend of online-only gaming.
Gmail doesn't do IMAP, though this might be an option in the future.
Yeah, I know this has been said ad-nasium here, but I'm on my last Windows box as well.
I regret buying a high-end XPS gaming system from Dell, I should of just bought a Mac Pro and dual booted if I really needed to do something in windows.
I'll definately be buying a Mac for my next home computer.
"But what makes OS/X good is that it is unixish and it uses cups, I just noticed my hp printer works totally out of the box in ubuntu and that was because it was built to be compatible with OS/X and thus it is a cups printer. Without OS/X hp wouldn't care."
CUPS is what makes OSX good? The fact that printers work out of the box is great, the fact I buy a printer 1x every 5 years maybe, it's not even a big deal to download a driver and install it.
I like OSX for the fact it's a nice work environment that I'm productive in. The OS doesn't get in my way, I'm not fighting with X-window drivers, hoping 3D drivers will work with my cards, etc. Everything is pleasant and easy to work with.
I could give a rats-ass if OSX uses cups or not, I just want my printer to work. Like most things on the mac, things are pretty simple and just work as expected. It has everything I need for both my hobbies, personal life and work to be productive and make my computing experience pleasant. I used Linux as a desktop OS for years before OSX became more mainstream, and enjoyed it but I doubt there is any chance I'll go back now that osx is as far along as it is.
Really? Everyone I know using a mac is on Firefox.
.. home laptop (macbook).. all of them are on sync w/Firefox's browser syncing, regardless of the OS.
I think I'd be happy using Safari but I'm addicted to the bookmark syncing (google labs firefox plugin). I have 3-4 different machines between work, work laptop.. home gaming box (windows)
If I want to play around with a Live CD (Ubuntu or whatever), it only takes a few minutes to get all my settings and bookmarks that I'm used to into the browser.. remembers passwords on sites from shit I signed up on a year ago across all my browsers...
To each their own, but the cross-platform browser syncing is a KILLER app for me.
It started up faster than NeoOffice, but when I tried to type something.. it wouldn't display what I was typing until after I hit entered a space or hit enter.
The product crashed when I tried to Exit wanting to give me a crash report. They have a -LONG- way to go.
Also, the widgets all feel strangely out of place (Like a Mac OSX theme running on top of Gnome).
1. Pick distro's nobody is using. ...
2. Give them patent protection hoping people will use them knowing they suck.
3.
4. Profit!!