"Garcia also said that downloading and installing the software over the net is too difficult for anyone over 30 years old to install."
This is hilarious. Generally, censorship is defended with "we have to protect our children" rhetoric. This is the first time that I have ever seen "we have to protect our adults" rhetoric to do the same thing.
If you have to try so hard to advocate a given platform, then is it really worth it? I was in this position a few years back when I was trying to develop for the Atari Jaguar. The Jaguar was a neat little box, arguably one of the first 'next generation' machines, but it just wasn't destined to succeed. We tried for a while to participate in the Jaguar advocate crowds before realizing that spending so much time supporting a given platform instead of working on our own game was just silly.
I just happened to stop by Best Buy tonight looking for something else, and stumbled upon a couple of the new consumer-oriented net appliances. They sure are neat, but I was amazed at how expensive they were. Who other than an ubergeek is going to spend $500 on a box for sticking in front of the toilet for reading web sites? For these things to work, the price really needs to drop in a big way. For $150 or so, I would have them all over my house. For $500, they are going to sit at Best Buy for a very long time.
I was also amazed at the poor quality of the screens, but I suppose that has something to do with an attempt to keep the price down, so I can't complain. I did really like the little navigation knob doohickey on one of them, very neat feature for quick instant-on web site checking.
Okay, call me crazy, but I actually LIKE ads sometimes. On CNN when I'm just getting random shotgun ads squirted at me, I don't pay any attention to them. The Slashdot ads, though, are a service. Targeted ads for nerdy stuff that I might be interested in. I consider that useful. I frequently click on ads that I see on Slashdot, and I've learned about some interesting new products or companies because of it. I really don't see ads as a huge problem.
One thing that continues to amaze me is how the Slashdot crowd are so vehemently opposed to all things commercial. 'Ads are evil', 'software licensing is evil', etc. If you are so opposed to capitalism, then move to Cuba.
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This is hilarious. Generally, censorship is defended with "we have to protect our children" rhetoric. This is the first time that I have ever seen "we have to protect our adults" rhetoric to do the same thing.
-Keslin, the naked nerd girl
If you have to try so hard to advocate a given platform, then is it really worth it? I was in this position a few years back when I was trying to develop for the Atari Jaguar. The Jaguar was a neat little box, arguably one of the first 'next generation' machines, but it just wasn't destined to succeed. We tried for a while to participate in the Jaguar advocate crowds before realizing that spending so much time supporting a given platform instead of working on our own game was just silly.
-Keslin, the naked nerd girl
I just happened to stop by Best Buy tonight looking for something else, and stumbled upon a couple of the new consumer-oriented net appliances. They sure are neat, but I was amazed at how expensive they were. Who other than an ubergeek is going to spend $500 on a box for sticking in front of the toilet for reading web sites? For these things to work, the price really needs to drop in a big way. For $150 or so, I would have them all over my house. For $500, they are going to sit at Best Buy for a very long time.
I was also amazed at the poor quality of the screens, but I suppose that has something to do with an attempt to keep the price down, so I can't complain. I did really like the little navigation knob doohickey on one of them, very neat feature for quick instant-on web site checking.
-Keslin, the naked nerd girl
Okay, call me crazy, but I actually LIKE ads sometimes. On CNN when I'm just getting random shotgun ads squirted at me, I don't pay any attention to them. The Slashdot ads, though, are a service. Targeted ads for nerdy stuff that I might be interested in. I consider that useful. I frequently click on ads that I see on Slashdot, and I've learned about some interesting new products or companies because of it. I really don't see ads as a huge problem.
One thing that continues to amaze me is how the Slashdot crowd are so vehemently opposed to all things commercial. 'Ads are evil', 'software licensing is evil', etc. If you are so opposed to capitalism, then move to Cuba.
-Keslin, the naked nerd girl