"Adobe need to start thinking about what they're going to do when Microsoft has a "default" built-into-Windows program"
This won't be a built-in to Windows app though. Personally I don't think that Adobe has much to worry about. Think app doesn't even run on Macs.
And as much as it would be nice to see, I don't see how selling Photoshop for Linux would help Adobe at all. Lets say that 5% of Windows users use Photoshop on a regular basis. Linux makes up like 2% of the desktop market. How much of a market does that leave? Don't forget that even though Macs may only be up to 5% of the market a large pecentage of Mac users are artists. Compare this to the Linux desktop market which is mostly made of techies and hobbyists and extremely few graphic artists. Linux needs Adobee way more than Adobe needs Linux. Like I said it would be nice to have, but it just isn't gonna happen.
Because mac owners are the only ones naive enough to think that cop-out flies. No our lives WON'T be much easier as Console gaming cannot and does not replace PC gaming. I'm so sick of hearing that suggestion.
Use a Windows PVR then. There are several Free and commercial ones available.
If your just interested in using it as a digital VCR and can afford it, then just use the cable company's PVR. If you want to do PVR/photos/music/games etc then an XP based system should fit the bill. XP MCE is very polished and only costs $110 online.
Of course the DIY PVR industry if fucked bigtime within 2-3 years due to Cablecards and DRM, but don't let that stop you from having some fun until then.
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I was just an ID theft victim. Some douche in Philly opened up a cell phone account with all my info. Now I have to constantly watch my credit for the next year. It's bad enough knowing that your name,address, SS#, etc, all are floating around in 50,000 different legitimate locations, but it really sucks when someone with malicious intent gets ahold of that information. There really isn't anything anyone can do for you either once your information is stolen. You can only file a police report and then notify the credit agenices. Real damage gets done and peoples lives have been completely turned upside because of ID theft. Sadly many people end up battling ID theft for years and years. It's only going to get worse.
Several releases of Itunes have taken away useful features from users while introducing features that users may not need.
Then again Apple isn't the only one doing this and its been SOP in the software industry for many years now. Kind of an odd article when you think about it, they might as well be reporting that spam is now a problem on the Internet. Well Duh.
Of course there are crappy 3rd party products. There are also vastly superior 3rd party products sold to supplement the stuff that Apple puts out.
You can also lose out by buying Apple. A $99 case for an Ipod? Does is massage your ass when you wear it? A $30 armband for the shuffle that only cost $2 to make?
"It all comes down to quality of product, and I would much rather have something confortable and that lasts longer and looks nicer for a little more.. "
"Mozilla is not Microsoft, they shouldn't spend money in an attempt to gain marketshare. "
Why not?
Why because Firefox is OSS does it have to "let the software speak for itself"? Non-Profits need good PR too you know.
Your new way of thinking only gets you so far. I agree that they shouldn't be spending money foolishly but they also shouldn't run away from traditional Media tactics just to be different. Hype is gets users, quality is what keeps them.
There is an entire generation of people who don't know jack about classic arcade games and haven't ever played Pacman. I imagine for them it's quite exciting to see some of the classics. Just as an example, last summer at minigolf they had setup one of those multiarcade systems. Robotron was on there and I was on like level 5(hey, its a hard game), the kids watching me play were blown away by game and couldn't believe how manic it was. In short they were very impressed.
Kids could care less about classic gaming until they have a chance to see it first hand ala Xbox live or some other way. That's why these games are becoming popular and people are paying for games that can be found for free. I'm both sad and happy at the same time that these "next-gen" systems are all falling back on classic gaming to make money.
Funny how all I saw was posts from people lamenting how crappy that GPU is when everyone first learned of this, yet according to your post it's the be-all end-all HDTV GPU.
It's a medicore low end onboard GPU. End of story.
Sorry but I gotta agree with the grandparent. OO.org and SO before it have been notoriously slow to open. That's not a secret. The only thing that made OO.org load in any sort of reasonable amount of time on windows when it first came out was that preload feature.
I couldn't imagine trying to run OO.org on anything less than a PIII. Working is one thing, responsive is another.
Speaking of going down the shitter. Keeping in mind what the traitors in power are doing right now in the US, in my opinion the UK is already a worse place to live than the USA if you value your privacy.
For a business machine NT 4 was good at the time. And man did it run on little resources. BUT and thats a big butt, it could be finicky on the wrong hardware. Not taking care in which hardware, ie vendor drives, you selected would result in a machine that had to be rebooted weekly. If you planned carefully though you were able to get decent uptimes and stability.
For consumers though stabilty aside 98 kicked NT4 to the curb. Multimedia to NT4 was a total graft and it did not enjoyed industry support. It was not user friendly to consumers in the least and was a poor choice in that respect.
So I guess most underrated is a term I won't debate since that probably means different things to different people. I honestly don't miss either one, but I'm still surprised at how well they run on modest hardware.
"The level of contempt toward this verification process is staggering"
When you have committed fraud in the last two elections like the Republicans have would you not also fight, mislead, stall, and lie?
Fraud during elections is nothing new, its been happening for a LONG time. But the way Republicans go about it in such a public way "no we won't explain ourselves, go fuck yourself" is sickening.
Exactly. Consumers actually becoming empowered is the biggest fear that corporations and our government has. Witness the debates on Bloggers rights, P2P trading and communication, etc. It's all about keeping the consumer marginalized and making sure they A) don't post information your trying to hide, *cough* Bu$h *cough*, and B)they don't develop alternative means of developing entertainment and communication that circumvent traditional Media monopolies.
It's all about control, and the fear of losing it.
It's all about people being scared of change. They are terrified of having to learn anything and the idea of having *gasp* seperate email and web browser programs scares the shit out of them. "But then how will people know how to email me?". The majority of them even when they go cable/dsl keep their dam AOL even though I implore them not to. Most AOL users I know don't even use the services AOL offers. It just makes it easy to have one single icon to click to reach "the Internet". I had hoped those days would be gone by now and that AOL would be a distant memory, but I don't see that happening anytime soon no matter how much they charge. I think we are going to have to wait for an entire generation to die before we see any change.
AOL could charge $39 a month for dialup and still keep 75%+ of their userbase.
And then then the 10%(if that) of Slashdot users who ran linux celebrated. Of course you have to be running Gstreamer.083A which is only available in CVS.
The Windows users who make up 85% of Slashdot wondered what the hell an ogg file was and Mac users did nothing because they could care less about the whole idea.
You deserve to go out of business. And screw the apologists who counter with "but at least if you REALLY need xxxx you can at least go there". Their service sucks, they have employees who don't understand the cell phone contracts they push let along electronics, and every God dam thing they sell is fucking "Gold" plated and marked up 10,000%.
Customer: Hi, I need a 6ft USB cable. Ratshack: Sure, we have this $39 Gold plated one, and then a $59 Double Gold plated version. Customer: Your lucky they don't allow citizens to carry hang guns in this state.
I think the point that some people make is that if someone ran rm -rf that you can just reboot and restore from backup and create a new user account and be none for the worse. Well except for the fact that your financial statements, medical information and other personal items just got uploaded to the Internet. Ooops.
The history of that school of thought is that under real multi-user systems if one non-root account gets hosed everyone else can continue on with no ill effects.
Anyway I'm beyond shocked that this setting is defaulted to on is OS X. That sounds like a majore screw up to me.
"Quite literally the only reason people use Firefox at all over Opera is because it's open source. Were Firefox closed source, Opera would be the clear victor."
Sorry but that sounds like sour grapes to me from an Opera supporter. Most firefox users could care less about open source. They use firefox because its Free, its more secure than IE, and it has a fantastic extension system. You'll note that Mozilla only enjoyed limited success and that things only really took off when Firefox was developed. Bloat, memory leaks, etc and all its simply a better browser than IE and Opera. Over time that may change but for now you'll just have to deal with the fact that the kludge that is Firefox is more popular than Opera for reasons other than OSS.
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"Adobe need to start thinking about what they're going to do when Microsoft has a "default" built-into-Windows program"
This won't be a built-in to Windows app though. Personally I don't think that Adobe has much to worry about. Think app doesn't even run on Macs.
And as much as it would be nice to see, I don't see how selling Photoshop for Linux would help Adobe at all. Lets say that 5% of Windows users use Photoshop on a regular basis. Linux makes up like 2% of the desktop market. How much of a market does that leave? Don't forget that even though Macs may only be up to 5% of the market a large pecentage of Mac users are artists. Compare this to the Linux desktop market which is mostly made of techies and hobbyists and extremely few graphic artists. Linux needs Adobee way more than Adobe needs Linux. Like I said it would be nice to have, but it just isn't gonna happen.
Most people can't boot off of thumbdrives. But way more importantly the vast majority of people don't even own 1GB thumbdrives.
Because mac owners are the only ones naive enough to think that cop-out flies. No our lives WON'T be much easier as Console gaming cannot and does not replace PC gaming.
I'm so sick of hearing that suggestion.
Use a Windows PVR then. There are several Free and commercial ones available.
If your just interested in using it as a digital VCR and can afford it, then just use the cable company's PVR. If you want to do PVR/photos/music/games etc then an XP based system should fit the bill. XP MCE is very polished and only costs $110 online.
Of course the DIY PVR industry if fucked bigtime within 2-3 years due to Cablecards and DRM, but don't let that stop you from having some fun until then.
I was just an ID theft victim. Some douche in Philly opened up a cell phone account with all my info. Now I have to constantly watch my credit for the next year. It's bad enough knowing that your name,address, SS#, etc, all are floating around in 50,000 different legitimate locations, but it really sucks when someone with malicious intent gets ahold of that information. There really isn't anything anyone can do for you either once your information is stolen. You can only file a police report and then notify the credit agenices. Real damage gets done and peoples lives have been completely turned upside because of ID theft. Sadly many people end up battling ID theft for years and years. It's only going to get worse.
Several releases of Itunes have taken away useful features from users while introducing features that users may not need.
Then again Apple isn't the only one doing this and its been SOP in the software industry for many years now. Kind of an odd article when you think about it, they might as well be reporting that spam is now a problem on the Internet. Well Duh.
Of course there are crappy 3rd party products. There are also vastly superior 3rd party products sold to supplement the stuff that Apple puts out.
You can also lose out by buying Apple. A $99 case for an Ipod? Does is massage your ass when you wear it? A $30 armband for the shuffle that only cost $2 to make?
"It all comes down to quality of product, and I would much rather have something confortable and that lasts longer and looks nicer for a little more.. "
Again, don't buy shitty 3rd party products.
I meant to say Hype is what gets users, quality is what keeps them.
"Mozilla is not Microsoft, they shouldn't spend money in an attempt to gain marketshare. "
Why not?
Why because Firefox is OSS does it have to "let the software speak for itself"? Non-Profits need good PR too you know.
Your new way of thinking only gets you so far. I agree that they shouldn't be spending money foolishly but they also shouldn't run away from traditional Media tactics just to be different. Hype is gets users, quality is what keeps them.
There is an entire generation of people who don't know jack about classic arcade games and haven't ever played Pacman. I imagine for them it's quite exciting to see some of the classics. Just as an example, last summer at minigolf they had setup one of those multiarcade systems. Robotron was on there and I was on like level 5(hey, its a hard game), the kids watching me play were blown away by game and couldn't believe how manic it was. In short they were very impressed.
Kids could care less about classic gaming until they have a chance to see it first hand ala Xbox live or some other way. That's why these games are becoming popular and people are paying for games that can be found for free. I'm both sad and happy at the same time that these "next-gen" systems are all falling back on classic gaming to make money.
Or force Apple to make Fairplay available to everyone. They could simply revoke Apple's ability to sell through Itunes if they wanted to afterall.
This bullshit of having your downloaded music come in different flavors of DRM is patently unfair to consumers.
Funny how all I saw was posts from people lamenting how crappy that GPU is when everyone first learned of this, yet according to your post it's the be-all end-all HDTV GPU.
It's a medicore low end onboard GPU. End of story.
Sorry but I gotta agree with the grandparent. OO.org and SO before it have been notoriously slow to open. That's not a secret. The only thing that made OO.org load in any sort of reasonable amount of time on windows when it first came out was that preload feature.
I couldn't imagine trying to run OO.org on anything less than a PIII. Working is one thing, responsive is another.
Speaking of going down the shitter. Keeping in mind what the traitors in power are doing right now in the US, in my opinion the UK is already a worse place to live than the USA if you value your privacy.
Ogg is a solution in search of a problem that 99.99% of users don't have.
For a business machine NT 4 was good at the time. And man did it run on little resources. BUT and thats a big butt, it could be finicky on the wrong hardware. Not taking care in which hardware, ie vendor drives, you selected would result in a machine that had to be rebooted weekly. If you planned carefully though you were able to get decent uptimes and stability.
For consumers though stabilty aside 98 kicked NT4 to the curb. Multimedia to NT4 was a total graft and it did not enjoyed industry support. It was not user friendly to consumers in the least and was a poor choice in that respect.
So I guess most underrated is a term I won't debate since that probably means different things to different people. I honestly don't miss either one, but I'm still surprised at how well they run on modest hardware.
"The level of contempt toward this verification process is staggering"
When you have committed fraud in the last two elections like the Republicans have would you not also fight, mislead, stall, and lie?
Fraud during elections is nothing new, its been happening for a LONG time. But the way Republicans go about it in such a public way "no we won't explain ourselves, go fuck yourself" is sickening.
Exactly. Consumers actually becoming empowered is the biggest fear that corporations and our government has. Witness the debates on Bloggers rights, P2P trading and communication, etc. It's all about keeping the consumer marginalized and making sure they A) don't post information your trying to hide, *cough* Bu$h *cough*, and B)they don't develop alternative means of developing entertainment and communication that circumvent traditional Media monopolies.
It's all about control, and the fear of losing it.
It's all about people being scared of change. They are terrified of having to learn anything and the idea of having *gasp* seperate email and web browser programs scares the shit out of them. "But then how will people know how to email me?". The majority of them even when they go cable/dsl keep their dam AOL even though I implore them not to. Most AOL users I know don't even use the services AOL offers. It just makes it easy to have one single icon to click to reach "the Internet". I had hoped those days would be gone by now and that AOL would be a distant memory, but I don't see that happening anytime soon no matter how much they charge. I think we are going to have to wait for an entire generation to die before we see any change.
AOL could charge $39 a month for dialup and still keep 75%+ of their userbase.
And then then the 10%(if that) of Slashdot users who ran linux celebrated. Of course you have to be running Gstreamer .083A which is only available in CVS.
The Windows users who make up 85% of Slashdot wondered what the hell an ogg file was and Mac users did nothing because they could care less about the whole idea.
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"There are people in the US currently running around thinking the US invaded Iraq to "liberate" the people, not go after WMD which wasn't there"
Even worse a substantial percentage of Americans still think that Saddam was responsible for 9/11.
Hunker down, make as much money as you can, don't speak up or assert your rights. If your real quiet they might leave you alone.
All hope is lost.
You deserve to go out of business. And screw the apologists who counter with "but at least if you REALLY need xxxx you can at least go there". Their service sucks, they have employees who don't understand the cell phone contracts they push let along electronics, and every God dam thing they sell is fucking "Gold" plated and marked up 10,000%.
Customer: Hi, I need a 6ft USB cable.
Ratshack: Sure, we have this $39 Gold plated one, and then a $59 Double Gold plated version.
Customer: Your lucky they don't allow citizens to carry hang guns in this state.
I think the point that some people make is that if someone ran rm -rf that you can just reboot and restore from backup and create a new user account and be none for the worse. Well except for the fact that your financial statements, medical information and other personal items just got uploaded to the Internet. Ooops.
The history of that school of thought is that under real multi-user systems if one non-root account gets hosed everyone else can continue on with no ill effects.
Anyway I'm beyond shocked that this setting is defaulted to on is OS X. That sounds like a majore screw up to me.
"Quite literally the only reason people use Firefox at all over Opera is because it's open source. Were Firefox closed source, Opera would be the clear victor."
Sorry but that sounds like sour grapes to me from an Opera supporter. Most firefox users could care less about open source. They use firefox because its Free, its more secure than IE, and it has a fantastic extension system. You'll note that Mozilla only enjoyed limited success and that things only really took off when Firefox was developed. Bloat, memory leaks, etc and all its simply a better browser than IE and Opera. Over time that may change but for now you'll just have to deal with the fact that the kludge that is Firefox is more popular than Opera for reasons other than OSS.