Book rental services do exist, booksfree.com and bookswim.com are examples that send out physical books.
But, according to various sources (http://www.adadpress.com/2011/09/12/a-netflix-for-books-by-amazon/), Amazon is said to be readying an e-book rental service for US customers. Publishers have, not unexpectedly, shown “mixed reaction” to this idea. Oddly, some publishers believe this will “downgrade the value of the book business” which is an odd statement considering the existence of other book rental services (also known as libraries). From an article in the Telegraph:
"Amazon is believed to have offered book publishers a large fee for joining the service. However, the negotiations are said to still be in their early stages. The Seattle-based technology company, which is expected to imminently launch a tablet device to rival Apple’s iPad, has also said that the digital ebook library would feature older titles and be accessible to those who pay for $79 a year for Amazon Prime, the service which allows people unlimited two-day shipping and films and TV shows on demand."
This isn’t necessarily a horrible idea, especially for people who don’t like to keep books after they’ve read them, or perhaps for students who won’t need a book once the essay is written but since this will feature older titles, I would much rather just go to my local library (which, in my case, lends out digital eBooks). Perhaps this will be useful for those without a decent library system?
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I wonder if we should start to worry for Pussypopptimus Prime? It would be sad to see her go! She is, as she says, "the ALPHA and OMEGA in this crazy ass thing called life" after all. Her about page: https://plus.google.com/112816236983095089898/about
(originally found by Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing)
Some of the top Google searches for my website are things like "face book log in" and "how to log in to face book". I have no clue how they get to my site from those searches, but either way - if that many people get to me from those searches, imagine how many people use Google just to find Facebook?
Exactly a reason why I still like my Kindle. Unfortunately, I never got to play with it long enough to see how the long the battery would last, though I was promised it would be equivalent to other e-ink readers (in the weeks with regular use and wi-fi turned off). The original iRiver Story lasts about 9000 page turns, so I'm guessing this would be similar.
I had a chance to check out the iRiver Story HD (at CES 2011 and recently) and it is a good product, on par with other e-readers today (though I think I still prefer the Kindle and the side buttons, even if the screen was a little better). I just wish it and Google eBooks were available in Canada so we would have some good competition in the e-books realm. I'm looking at publishing my first novel (Rawmesh, http://www.rawmesh.net/ [rawmesh.net]) soon and want to have it primarily as an e-book (and print on demand), but I would like a few more options up here sooner rather than later...
I tend to like iRiver’s products, though I have to admit that I’m not a big fan of how this e-reader looks -- and I’m not the only one (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/google-and-iriver-make-worlds-ugliest-e-reader/). One issue I have is with Google’s epub eBooks themselves -- sometimes the OCR software is having a bad day, and the books have some odd (or hilarious) mistakes in them. Evil or not, I’m sticking with Amazon (for now).
Check out http://www.tkb.org/ and get back to us when you have proof of your statement.
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If you follow your link to "What's New" and then click on the "The WASHED-UPdate" on October 16th, there's a story about washed up actors. Guess who it is?
"Yes, after the long wait and hundreds of votes the results are in. The votes were spread out all over the place, but the winner is... drumroll please... Wil "Wesley Crusher" Wheaton"
Of course, IMDb at the time was definitely overrun with computer/sci-fi nerds, so it's probably not a surprise he'd be the most "popular", but it's still sad. (Luckily Clever Nickname has decided to not fade out completely).
Check out Jakob Nielsen's research on this (here's a quickly found page on Google http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html). Anything more then 11 testers would have been completely pointless and a waste of time.
If your OS can handle a large HOSTS file, then check out http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm. I find that nearly all annoying ads are removed, leaving the ones I honestly don't mind around (various simple banners, etc.). That and FlashBlock are all I need to surf happily.
"It was originally written by Richard Brodie for IBM PC computers running DOS in 1983. Later versions were created for the Apple Macintosh (1984), SCO UNIX, and Microsoft Windows (1989)."
In otherwords, Macs had Word 5 years before Windows. Sadly, there are no dates for Works.
There are no (or hardly any) unbiased documentaries. The only thing a documentary needs to be is factual (and informative) - now whether Moore used his facts to coerce the viewer to see his side of the story is not important to the question as hand. He DID use facts, interviews, etc. in his movie.
Dictionary.com has this definition:
"A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration."
It says NOTHING about bias. Moore's movies are documentaries, but they can also be considered propaganda ("Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause").
Nice link, but try reading a dictionary at some point in your life before blasting someone.
(This post is not a defense for Moore, rather, a defense of the English language).
Both of these games had the ability to let the player have gay or lesbian encounters. Sure, it wasn't a major plot point of either game, but the fact that you could, if you wanted to (curious or otherwise) go to a bath house in Buccaneer's Den and have sex with the same sex was definitely pushing boundaries. I remember in Serpent Isle, even though you were female, Frigidazzi would still want to have sex with you. How old are those games now? 1992/1993.
If I gave you the impression that I beliebed that OSS sucked or that its developers all have attitude problems, then I'm sorry, as I don't believe either of those things.
I see what you're saying, and you're right, it is frustrating to have pay for it twice. At least with LOTR, though, each version of the DVDs released were completely different, with nothing overlapping. Who knows about the New Line edition that's forthcoming (which Jackson knows nothing about).
Not many movies are like that, though. My only solution would be to contact the studios about this and, for now, rent the "minor" releases and buy the one you feel is best worth your money - which is what I did with LOR (either that or fire up Bittorent or KaZaa and get the extra footage from there).
It probably makes some sense to sell the extra scenes seperately (at least, online or something), but there's a good chunk of logistical reasons why it won't happen soon...
For whatever reason, some programs still insist on opening URLs in IE... I believe mIRC still does this, along with some shoddy-made instant messengers. There's just no way to force it to always use Mozilla/Firefox/etc.
>I also don't think it's appropriate to bring >things up that you 1) have no intentions of >helping to fix and/or 2) aren't taking to the >right people.
So, what you're saying is, no one should bring anything to a public forum unless they have the ability and knowledge to fix the problem themselves or happen to know a non-asshole to talk to? That doesn't seem to be what I think should happen. Authors, who we both agree can be assholes, DO read public forums such as Slashdot - don't you think that, although they won't change their UI or whatever because of some e-mails, that they might have a different opinion if they see a bunch of posts concerning their software publicly? Sometimes posting problems publicly is the only way people will get the message.
I think Apache is an excellent reason as to why there SHOULD be a better configuration tool/installation, letting your so-called 'sods' into the Linux/OSS fold. I'm sure you'd agree that there'd be a lot less viruses/worms/etc. if more people used Apache than IIS. But why do people use IIS? Because it's easier to set up. If someone were to program a way to make Apache's configuration as easy as IIS, then I'm sure a lot more people would use it. Isn't that a good thing? A win-win situation? Same goes for countless other programs...
Of course, since Apache is -so- much better than the alternatives, I even spent countless hours trying to figure out how to configure it properly (it's okay to have spaces in directory names in one section, but not in others? Frustrating.)
I see what you're saying about Linux being used for a specific purpose, and if we have a problem with the usability of a certain distribution we should bring that up with the company in question... but you didn't address my previous post's concerning with the "community" (on Slashdot) wanting more company's to brings things to the platform. What other way can you bring people like myself (and not really your theoretical Aunt Tillie) to Linux, giving more company incentive to port their programs or support OSS then by making things easier? Personally, I'd be happy more than happy with a bloody text-based configuration utility for programs (as opposed to a X Windows one), but even those are in limited supply, so prettiness definitely isn't an issue...
Okay, let's try to keep this as a civil conversation here (this was never meant to be personal!). I definitely see your point - Unix was once the workhorse of operating systems. Linux was made as a hobby, and hobbyists (for the most part) eventually made it into what it is today.
This is what I have a problem with: at least, on Slashdot (where I admit is the only Linux-based forum I read, which may be one problem), I hear constant grumbling about how Linux does not have this game, or that proprietary program, or that the open source version isn't good enough yet, or how Microsoft is using evil practices to do whatever they're doing. I feel that there is a lot of work left for Linux to solve any of these problems (get the game or program properly ported and supported, bring in more users from outside of the current clique and allow people a PC-based alternative to Windows).
For Adobe to port their programs (without using Wine) for example people will need to buy their program - for enough people to buy their program, enough people have to be using the operating system to begin with. Do you think there are enough people using Linux now who would not use free alternatives and buy the software? I personally don't think so. The only way for enough people to use Linux is for the usability of Linux to be enhanced, allowing people who aren't programmers/whatever such as you to actually use the OS. I'd personally love the stability of Linux for graphic design or gaming, if it were available.
See what I mean? I'm not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination, and so asking me to design something is beyond my skills. What else am I supposed to do? I try Linux, get frustrated by various aspects of it, mention them to the authors (who have, on many occasions, written flamely-replies similar to yours), and reformatted the partition to FAT32 and said "To hell with it!" For Linux to get to the point where many, many people on Slashdot would like it to be (and I'm NOT saying yourself in particular), it needs a larger, stronger population.
That's all I'm saying... sorry if you felt personally offended by anything I might have said.
See, this is the attitude that I'm talking about. I'm not sure why other people can't see it *shrug*. I give my honest opinion of one reason why I don't use Linux, and not say anything about specific person, and yet several people come out and attack me directly. "For some reason it doesn't work for you", "can think [of] this yourself?", "quit your bitching", "whiny bitch", etc.etc.
No wonder I've stopped bothering with Linux forums (and Linux in general). People can't seem to discuss things without degenerating into name calling (amazingly, certain forums, such as Gentoo's, seems to have avoided this... something I definitely appreciate).
Uhm... Yes, the comment was meant for a specific person so they could properly burn MP3s... but what about all of the other people who have the same or similar problems? Lindows is/supposed/ to be about the "average user", which is why I brought that up - why else would it be sold at Walmart? I'm curious to see how many people tried Lindows, got fed up with the crap they had to go through to burn a CD and just borrowed Windows from a friend? Yes, it's probably more of a Lindows problem, but this happens quite often with other distributions too, I'm sure.
And like I said, I'm NOT an average user - but I don't feel like dropping to a shell everytime I want to do anything. Some people, like ESR, want Linux to be the alpha and omega of operating systems, but until there's easier documentation, easier methods of reporting problems in software, and less bloody attitude whenever I or anyone else asks a question, than Linux distributions will remain at 3% or whatever it is now.
And yes, I realise that some people wouldn't mind that... but things like games, Photoshop, and whathave you will NOT be properly ported to Linux until a larger population, i.e. the "average joe" starts using it.
I couldn't even finish your post, sorry. I even bothered to write a response, but I don't even think it'll be worth it, even though you're wrong on so many points.
I do want to mention that, that I/do/ appreciate everything that OSS programmers are doing (even though I don't use their software) - they've all done a wonderful job. Linux has come a long way, but it definitely has a fair ways to go (for the masses, and for people like me who have better things to do with their time).
a) If you don't have enough money to buy movies, why not, you know, not buy them?
b) If you miss a movie, will you be any less of a person? Will you have any less respect from your peers? Less selfworth? I doubt it very much (unless your peers are jerks and you have a self-loathing problem).
c) There are many more important things in life that you should spend time keeping track of. Family, friends, body/mind/soul, new Linux kernels.
If you find yourself saying things like you did, stop and think for a second: are you doing this for yourself, or are you just a cog in the machine of consumerism, following the whims of the companies shoving these things down your throat? I'm not against entertainment (not in the least), but I'm definitely not for sacrificing my life for things that have, and let's face it, no importance to our lives.
So what are any of the "average users" who use the same version of K3B supposed to do? Be told they can't burn MP3s? That's completely ridiculous! I'm not an "average computer user" in the least, but why the hell should I be forced to figure out new commands and their options everytime I want to do something? Shouldn't an audio CD burning program, you know, just work? I have more important things to do in my life then read MAN pages or online documentation - I want it to burn the bloody CD so I can get on with whatever I'd prefer to be doing.
Sorry for the rant, but sometimes I can't stand the arrogance. Of course, now someone is probably thinking to themselves, "Why don't you program something?" or "Why don't you work or so-and-so open source project?" Which is, again, a major problem with the Linux community (at least, some people within it). I don't, because that's not what I'd like to be doing for hours and hours on end?
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Book rental services do exist, booksfree.com and bookswim.com are examples that send out physical books.
But, according to various sources (http://www.adadpress.com/2011/09/12/a-netflix-for-books-by-amazon/), Amazon is said to be readying an e-book rental service for US customers. Publishers have, not unexpectedly, shown “mixed reaction” to this idea. Oddly, some publishers believe this will “downgrade the value of the book business” which is an odd statement considering the existence of other book rental services (also known as libraries). From an article in the Telegraph:
"Amazon is believed to have offered book publishers a large fee for joining the service. However, the negotiations are said to still be in their early stages. The Seattle-based technology company, which is expected to imminently launch a tablet device to rival Apple’s iPad, has also said that the digital ebook library would feature older titles and be accessible to those who pay for $79 a year for Amazon Prime, the service which allows people unlimited two-day shipping and films and TV shows on demand."
This isn’t necessarily a horrible idea, especially for people who don’t like to keep books after they’ve read them, or perhaps for students who won’t need a book once the essay is written but since this will feature older titles, I would much rather just go to my local library (which, in my case, lends out digital eBooks). Perhaps this will be useful for those without a decent library system?
And Arcade Fire's music is a /lot/ better too...
I wonder if we should start to worry for Pussypopptimus Prime? It would be sad to see her go! She is, as she says, "the ALPHA and OMEGA in this crazy ass thing called life" after all. Her about page: https://plus.google.com/112816236983095089898/about
(originally found by Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing)
Some of the top Google searches for my website are things like "face book log in" and "how to log in to face book". I have no clue how they get to my site from those searches, but either way - if that many people get to me from those searches, imagine how many people use Google just to find Facebook?
Exactly a reason why I still like my Kindle. Unfortunately, I never got to play with it long enough to see how the long the battery would last, though I was promised it would be equivalent to other e-ink readers (in the weeks with regular use and wi-fi turned off). The original iRiver Story lasts about 9000 page turns, so I'm guessing this would be similar.
I had a chance to check out the iRiver Story HD (at CES 2011 and recently) and it is a good product, on par with other e-readers today (though I think I still prefer the Kindle and the side buttons, even if the screen was a little better). I just wish it and Google eBooks were available in Canada so we would have some good competition in the e-books realm. I'm looking at publishing my first novel (Rawmesh, http://www.rawmesh.net/ [rawmesh.net]) soon and want to have it primarily as an e-book (and print on demand), but I would like a few more options up here sooner rather than later...
I tend to like iRiver’s products, though I have to admit that I’m not a big fan of how this e-reader looks -- and I’m not the only one (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/07/google-and-iriver-make-worlds-ugliest-e-reader/). One issue I have is with Google’s epub eBooks themselves -- sometimes the OCR software is having a bad day, and the books have some odd (or hilarious) mistakes in them. Evil or not, I’m sticking with Amazon (for now).
And .ca is Canada, which has had the nunchuck controller from day one, so the GP is correct.
Check out http://www.tkb.org/ and get back to us when you have proof of your statement.
If you follow your link to "What's New" and then click on the "The WASHED-UPdate" on October 16th, there's a story about washed up actors. Guess who it is?
"Yes, after the long wait and hundreds of votes the results are in. The votes were spread out all over the place, but the winner is... drumroll please... Wil "Wesley Crusher" Wheaton"
Of course, IMDb at the time was definitely overrun with computer/sci-fi nerds, so it's probably not a surprise he'd be the most "popular", but it's still sad. (Luckily Clever Nickname has decided to not fade out completely).
Check out Jakob Nielsen's research on this (here's a quickly found page on Google http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html). Anything more then 11 testers would have been completely pointless and a waste of time.
If your OS can handle a large HOSTS file, then check out http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm. I find that nearly all annoying ads are removed, leaving the ones I honestly don't mind around (various simple banners, etc.). That and FlashBlock are all I need to surf happily.
Check out Wikipedia. To quote:
"It was originally written by Richard Brodie for IBM PC computers running DOS in 1983. Later versions were created for the Apple Macintosh (1984), SCO UNIX, and Microsoft Windows (1989)."
In otherwords, Macs had Word 5 years before Windows. Sadly, there are no dates for Works.
There are no (or hardly any) unbiased documentaries. The only thing a documentary needs to be is factual (and informative) - now whether Moore used his facts to coerce the viewer to see his side of the story is not important to the question as hand. He DID use facts, interviews, etc. in his movie.
Dictionary.com has this definition:
"A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration."
It says NOTHING about bias. Moore's movies are documentaries, but they can also be considered propaganda ("Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause").
Nice link, but try reading a dictionary at some point in your life before blasting someone.
(This post is not a defense for Moore, rather, a defense of the English language).
Both of these games had the ability to let the player have gay or lesbian encounters. Sure, it wasn't a major plot point of either game, but the fact that you could, if you wanted to (curious or otherwise) go to a bath house in Buccaneer's Den and have sex with the same sex was definitely pushing boundaries. I remember in Serpent Isle, even though you were female, Frigidazzi would still want to have sex with you. How old are those games now? 1992/1993.
If I gave you the impression that I beliebed that OSS sucked or that its developers all have attitude problems, then I'm sorry, as I don't believe either of those things.
I see what you're saying, and you're right, it is frustrating to have pay for it twice. At least with LOTR, though, each version of the DVDs released were completely different, with nothing overlapping. Who knows about the New Line edition that's forthcoming (which Jackson knows nothing about).
Not many movies are like that, though. My only solution would be to contact the studios about this and, for now, rent the "minor" releases and buy the one you feel is best worth your money - which is what I did with LOR (either that or fire up Bittorent or KaZaa and get the extra footage from there).
It probably makes some sense to sell the extra scenes seperately (at least, online or something), but there's a good chunk of logistical reasons why it won't happen soon...
>YOUR DUMB.
hmmmmmm...
For whatever reason, some programs still insist on opening URLs in IE... I believe mIRC still does this, along with some shoddy-made instant messengers. There's just no way to force it to always use Mozilla/Firefox/etc.
>I also don't think it's appropriate to bring
>things up that you 1) have no intentions of
>helping to fix and/or 2) aren't taking to the
>right people.
So, what you're saying is, no one should bring anything to a public forum unless they have the ability and knowledge to fix the problem themselves or happen to know a non-asshole to talk to? That doesn't seem to be what I think should happen. Authors, who we both agree can be assholes, DO read public forums such as Slashdot - don't you think that, although they won't change their UI or whatever because of some e-mails, that they might have a different opinion if they see a bunch of posts concerning their software publicly? Sometimes posting problems publicly is the only way people will get the message.
I think Apache is an excellent reason as to why there SHOULD be a better configuration tool/installation, letting your so-called 'sods' into the Linux/OSS fold. I'm sure you'd agree that there'd be a lot less viruses/worms/etc. if more people used Apache than IIS. But why do people use IIS? Because it's easier to set up. If someone were to program a way to make Apache's configuration as easy as IIS, then I'm sure a lot more people would use it. Isn't that a good thing? A win-win situation? Same goes for countless other programs...
Of course, since Apache is -so- much better than the alternatives, I even spent countless hours trying to figure out how to configure it properly (it's okay to have spaces in directory names in one section, but not in others? Frustrating.)
I see what you're saying about Linux being used for a specific purpose, and if we have a problem with the usability of a certain distribution we should bring that up with the company in question... but you didn't address my previous post's concerning with the "community" (on Slashdot) wanting more company's to brings things to the platform. What other way can you bring people like myself (and not really your theoretical Aunt Tillie) to Linux, giving more company incentive to port their programs or support OSS then by making things easier? Personally, I'd be happy more than happy with a bloody text-based configuration utility for programs (as opposed to a X Windows one), but even those are in limited supply, so prettiness definitely isn't an issue...
Okay, let's try to keep this as a civil conversation here (this was never meant to be personal!). I definitely see your point - Unix was once the workhorse of operating systems. Linux was made as a hobby, and hobbyists (for the most part) eventually made it into what it is today.
This is what I have a problem with: at least, on Slashdot (where I admit is the only Linux-based forum I read, which may be one problem), I hear constant grumbling about how Linux does not have this game, or that proprietary program, or that the open source version isn't good enough yet, or how Microsoft is using evil practices to do whatever they're doing. I feel that there is a lot of work left for Linux to solve any of these problems (get the game or program properly ported and supported, bring in more users from outside of the current clique and allow people a PC-based alternative to Windows).
For Adobe to port their programs (without using Wine) for example people will need to buy their program - for enough people to buy their program, enough people have to be using the operating system to begin with. Do you think there are enough people using Linux now who would not use free alternatives and buy the software? I personally don't think so. The only way for enough people to use Linux is for the usability of Linux to be enhanced, allowing people who aren't programmers/whatever such as you to actually use the OS. I'd personally love the stability of Linux for graphic design or gaming, if it were available.
See what I mean? I'm not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination, and so asking me to design something is beyond my skills. What else am I supposed to do? I try Linux, get frustrated by various aspects of it, mention them to the authors (who have, on many occasions, written flamely-replies similar to yours), and reformatted the partition to FAT32 and said "To hell with it!" For Linux to get to the point where many, many people on Slashdot would like it to be (and I'm NOT saying yourself in particular), it needs a larger, stronger population.
That's all I'm saying... sorry if you felt personally offended by anything I might have said.
See, this is the attitude that I'm talking about. I'm not sure why other people can't see it *shrug*. I give my honest opinion of one reason why I don't use Linux, and not say anything about specific person, and yet several people come out and attack me directly. "For some reason it doesn't work for you", "can think [of] this yourself?", "quit your bitching", "whiny bitch", etc.etc.
No wonder I've stopped bothering with Linux forums (and Linux in general). People can't seem to discuss things without degenerating into name calling (amazingly, certain forums, such as Gentoo's, seems to have avoided this... something I definitely appreciate).
Uhm... Yes, the comment was meant for a specific person so they could properly burn MP3s... but what about all of the other people who have the same or similar problems? Lindows is /supposed/ to be about the "average user", which is why I brought that up - why else would it be sold at Walmart? I'm curious to see how many people tried Lindows, got fed up with the crap they had to go through to burn a CD and just borrowed Windows from a friend? Yes, it's probably more of a Lindows problem, but this happens quite often with other distributions too, I'm sure.
And like I said, I'm NOT an average user - but I don't feel like dropping to a shell everytime I want to do anything. Some people, like ESR, want Linux to be the alpha and omega of operating systems, but until there's easier documentation, easier methods of reporting problems in software, and less bloody attitude whenever I or anyone else asks a question, than Linux distributions will remain at 3% or whatever it is now.
And yes, I realise that some people wouldn't mind that... but things like games, Photoshop, and whathave you will NOT be properly ported to Linux until a larger population, i.e. the "average joe" starts using it.
I couldn't even finish your post, sorry. I even bothered to write a response, but I don't even think it'll be worth it, even though you're wrong on so many points.
/do/ appreciate everything that OSS programmers are doing (even though I don't use their software) - they've all done a wonderful job. Linux has come a long way, but it definitely has a fair ways to go (for the masses, and for people like me who have better things to do with their time).
I do want to mention that, that I
a) If you don't have enough money to buy movies, why not, you know, not buy them?
b) If you miss a movie, will you be any less of a person? Will you have any less respect from your peers? Less selfworth? I doubt it very much (unless your peers are jerks and you have a self-loathing problem).
c) There are many more important things in life that you should spend time keeping track of. Family, friends, body/mind/soul, new Linux kernels.
If you find yourself saying things like you did, stop and think for a second: are you doing this for yourself, or are you just a cog in the machine of consumerism, following the whims of the companies shoving these things down your throat? I'm not against entertainment (not in the least), but I'm definitely not for sacrificing my life for things that have, and let's face it, no importance to our lives.
So what are any of the "average users" who use the same version of K3B supposed to do? Be told they can't burn MP3s? That's completely ridiculous! I'm not an "average computer user" in the least, but why the hell should I be forced to figure out new commands and their options everytime I want to do something? Shouldn't an audio CD burning program, you know, just work? I have more important things to do in my life then read MAN pages or online documentation - I want it to burn the bloody CD so I can get on with whatever I'd prefer to be doing.
Sorry for the rant, but sometimes I can't stand the arrogance. Of course, now someone is probably thinking to themselves, "Why don't you program something?" or "Why don't you work or so-and-so open source project?" Which is, again, a major problem with the Linux community (at least, some people within it). I don't, because that's not what I'd like to be doing for hours and hours on end?