AMEN! Particularly in regards to the banner ads. They seem to chew up more and more of the screen all the time! It wasn't so bad when it stayed in the lower black bar area - but some of the banner ads block as much as half of the video. Why bother watching the show anyway? Next thing you know, the banner ads will cover the whole screen and run the duration of the show. If I wanted to watch all that junk, might as well watch Home Shopping or something stupid like that. I suppose that the whole point is so people can't skip over the commercials without skipping over their show. But frankly, I don't care that there is a Buffy marathon next Friday all day. (or something like that!)
Score *one* for scifi? How about "one more?" There are uncountable scores for scifi in the "modern" technical community! What a wonderful world it is that has been created by the group of people that used to be rejected as "nerds."
I have used linux for many years now, and the only reason I still keep Windoze on any of my computers is so my son can play his games. Even for Windoze-only supported hardware, I use Win4Lin, available from netraverse. As long as a program does not use the DirectX drivers, there are very few programs that fail to run through the Win4Lin environment. I have several oscilloscope cards and various hardware that is not supported outside of Windoze, and they all seem to work just fine. Win4Lin just released version 5. I've been using version 4, and have not yet purchased my upgrade. For the price, this is an excellent product. One great advantage is, any files used in the Win4Lin environment is available in the user's $HOME/data directory (or however the drive is mapped - see Win4Lin documents), so these files are immediately available within both the Win4Lin environment AND the linux environment, even simultaneously!
For any manager to claim that free software is not worth the time or effort, I'd suggest you tell him/her that by the same logic, your time and effort is clearly worth a raise! They obviously have money to burn.
As a reminder, most linux software is coveres under the GNU Public License (GPL) and "Free software" does NOT neccessarily mean "free of cost." Visit the Free Software Foundation website and follow links. There are many excellent links that discuss how to deal with people who only believe that, "you get what you pay for, and free software is worth what you pay!" Such beliefs are foolish and quickly becoming outdated.
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AMEN! Particularly in regards to the banner ads. They seem to chew up more and more of the screen all the time! It wasn't so bad when it stayed in the lower black bar area - but some of the banner ads block as much as half of the video. Why bother watching the show anyway? Next thing you know, the banner ads will cover the whole screen and run the duration of the show. If I wanted to watch all that junk, might as well watch Home Shopping or something stupid like that. I suppose that the whole point is so people can't skip over the commercials without skipping over their show. But frankly, I don't care that there is a Buffy marathon next Friday all day. (or something like that!)
Score *one* for scifi? How about "one more?" There are uncountable scores for scifi in the "modern" technical community! What a wonderful world it is that has been created by the group of people that used to be rejected as "nerds."
I have used linux for many years now, and the only reason I still keep Windoze on any of my computers is so my son can play his games. Even for Windoze-only supported hardware, I use Win4Lin, available from netraverse. As long as a program does not use the DirectX drivers, there are very few programs that fail to run through the Win4Lin environment. I have several oscilloscope cards and various hardware that is not supported outside of Windoze, and they all seem to work just fine. Win4Lin just released version 5. I've been using version 4, and have not yet purchased my upgrade. For the price, this is an excellent product. One great advantage is, any files used in the Win4Lin environment is available in the user's $HOME/data directory (or however the drive is mapped - see Win4Lin documents), so these files are immediately available within both the Win4Lin environment AND the linux environment, even simultaneously!
For any manager to claim that free software is not worth the time or effort, I'd suggest you tell him/her that by the same logic, your time and effort is clearly worth a raise! They obviously have money to burn.
As a reminder, most linux software is coveres under the GNU Public License (GPL) and "Free software" does NOT neccessarily mean "free of cost." Visit the Free Software Foundation website and follow links. There are many excellent links that discuss how to deal with people who only believe that, "you get what you pay for, and free software is worth what you pay!" Such beliefs are foolish and quickly becoming outdated.
But that'sjust my opinion.