Of course not all hardware is supported, but that, again, is the result of Microsoft's monopoly.
Wrong. That is the result of lazy open source driver authors with selfish attitudes. If your hardware doesn't work in Linux, you're supposed to submit extremely detailed bug reports to mailing lists where they won't care about your problems or solve them in a timely fashion.
Then why doesn't the Windows XP installer recognize my FreeBSD and Linux partitions and allow me to select them from its boot manager, or allow me to resize or create any non-Windows file system?
This is not a priority for 99.99% of the computing population. Windows runs more games, more personal productivity software, and supports more consumer hardware than all "consumer" UNIX systems combined. The option to resize partitions is not only unnecessary, but it would make the process needlessly complicated for many users.
The show was called "Nick Arcade". The "Arcade" games that were played were actually just Genesis and SNES games set up in arcade cabinets. There were actually two systems in each cabinet; one would have the game in "attract mode," and the other would have the game in a paused state, ready to play. If you watched carefully, you would see the host actually flip a switch on the side of the machine to get it ready for play. To win the challenge, you would have to get X number of points or complete some task.
The final game was the best, though: you would play a video game using simple blue-screen effects. It was so fun to watch little kids go apeshit over those simple games.:)
Navi (written "Nabi" since the "V" sound is rarely used in Japanese) is short for "navigation." For example, many vehicles in Japan have in-car navigation systems, or "kaa-nabi," installed.
As other posters have mentioned, it's also a character/computer from Lain.
I installed Kazaa Lite recently, having never installed a file sharing program since I got my new hard drive. Although most of the ads have been removed, and I don't see any suspicious processes in the background, Kazaa will randomly pop up a web page on its own. Fortunately, I have Pop-Up Stopper, so the pop-up is closed immediately.:)
So it's not 100% ad-free, but all of the really egregious spyware stuff appears to be gone.
It should be illegal to have complicated and misleading user-agreements in software. Over the course of a day, a consumer might have to agree to several of these, not to mention other contracts, service agreements, etc. they have to sign in their non-computer life. Invariably, these sorts of things are unreadably long and full of Legalese unintelligible to the average Joe. We're bombarded by so many, that it is literally impossible to read and understand them all, let alone send them to our lawyers (as we are "supposed" to do with contracts).
Because of the size, complexity and volume of these things (and the need to usually get past them quickly), I would argue that they amount to coercion (which would invalidate them). The same is true of shrink-wrap software licenses (which you are rarely able to examine until well after you've unwittingly agreed to them). Of course, I doubt a court of law would agree with me. However, I think it would make sense to have a consumer protection law that requires that these sorts of things have a short, concise, easy to read summary at the beginning that gives the user an idea of what they're getting in to (with all the legalese below for completeness). That would prevent companies from creating scumware like this then hiding behind their user-auto-agreements.
Two percent is a very good ratio, assuming that you're not making it up. Most sites which have switched to a subscription model have ended up going bankrupt because they converted well under one percent of their users to subscribers.
The problem would be solved if Microsoft made Microsoft Windows XP work from the moment it was shipped, with no bugs and no security vulnerabilities. That's why I use Linux: ever since I installed Red Hat 5.1, I've never had to download a "critical system update" or "kernel upgrade" to prevent an attack.
No problem. I'm boycotting Best Buy, Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee, and Slashdot. I'm also boycotting DVDs, CDs, Adobe, and all AOL Time Warner companies.
I feel that my actions are making a better future for all of society.
It isn't rewriteable. While I like the idea of a tiny, durable 500 MB optical disc, the article stated that you can write data to DataPlay discs but not erase them.
Think about it: major record companies aren't going to walk into Best Buy to purchase their blank discs at $10-12 each. They're going to buy them by the truckload, getting a much better deal. As a result, I would estimate that the profit margins would be much better than $4-6 per disc.
To me, Visa and MasterCard are effectively one and the same. My bank (Citibank) had issued me a Visa, and then one day they announced that they were "upgrading" me to a MasterCard with the same level of credit and benefits. The reason? Citibank had cut a deal with MasterCard, and was phasing out Visa.
MasterCard has millions of members in the U.S. I used to carry a low-limit Visa card just in case I ran into a situation where "Visa is the only card accepted," but cancelled it because I never ran into such a situation. Any merchant that doesn't accept MasterCard has lost my business. Sorry.
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For chrissake, somebody mail photos of Rob, ESR and RMS to imdb!
Okay. Now who's going to come up with the $105.00 that it'll cost to have those pictures submitted? The IMDb is a profit-making venture, you know...
I'm not exactly expecting a fair and balanced review of a Microsoft product from a site with a name like NeoWin. Look at the look-and-feel of the site: with all those copyrighted images, it's probably being run by Microsoft anyway.
I would like to say that I am personally offended by the presence of a web site that exists solely to promote Microsoft products.
As an American who has watched the Cable News Network (hereinafter "CNN") extensively, I feel compelled to offer the following information to the global information community of the Inter-net. The following piece of information will be useful for Americans.
I would like you to open your Internet Relay Chat (hereinafter "IRC") client, and instead of connecting to "leet-warez.ru", connect to "chat.cnn.com". Now you will have access to over ten illegals.
Hackers do not hang out in malls. Because hackers have no legitimate source of income, they can only purchase goods and services using stolen credit card numbers on the Inter-net.
Hackers do not hang out in coffee shops, since they eschew coffee in favor of Mountain Dew (non-Canadian version).
Hackers have all been expelled from their respective schools for subversive computer-related activities, such as hacking.
Newsgroups are used primarily for "flame-wars" (which is a hacker term to describe the practice of systematically destroying a user's e-mail box through consistent "flame" mails) and for the distribution of copyrighted materials without their authors' consent. I am currently in talks with the management of this alleged "Use-net," and will likely require that all use-net users provide proof of identity prior to use.
It wasn't Bob that became Clippy -- it was the little animated dog character in Microsoft Bob. That was the first use of what would go on to become Microsoft Agent technology, which powered Clippy and all of his friends.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly to leverage, so there is no recourse. For the same reason, Red Hat doesn't get in trouble for bundling various applications with their Linux distribution since they are not a monopoly.
The reason why they used a non-standard DVD is to prevent piracy. The people whining the loudest about this are the PSX fanboys who download and burn all their games.
OS/2 was very popular in Europe, with many large corporations still using it. (That's the reason why IBM won't open the code or give away the binaries, BTW.) Back when I used OS/2 in the states, a lot of the programs I used came from Germany, Finland, etc. Microsoft has run into much more resistance in Europe than in the U.S. as far as competition and government are concerned.
Then they upgraded to Windows 2000, which runs games like Starcraft just fine. They did break the sound drivers, but that's okay.
What's even nicer is that the G3s and G4s that they buy have very gamer-friendly specs. One organization on campus has reserved computer clusters during off-peak times to play games like UT in there. Runs great.
Many people do record the songs from the radio. I've downloaded a few songs from file-sharing services that were obviously ripped from the radio, and avoided some that had "ripped from radio" in the file names. Needless to say, the sound quality is awful.
As a long-time devotee of the music industry, I agree that it is my right to download high-quality rips of all the music I want. It is also my right to not pay for any of it.
The installer spent five minutes scouring my hard drive for music. The second installer (!!) isn't even necessary for the program to run. The interface is horrible -- the programmers didn't even have the good judgment to use real pull-down menus like any decent Windows application. The help menu has a greyed-out option which refers to "Xotella." When I close the application, it reappears in the system tray, and must be closed from there. (Gnucleus at least gives you an option to turn this behavior off.)
Slow, horribly designed, and difficult to use. If Gnucleus is too hard, then you should just go back to the store and buy your CDs like every other luser. Don't make me LART you!
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Of course not all hardware is supported, but that, again, is the result of Microsoft's monopoly.
Wrong. That is the result of lazy open source driver authors with selfish attitudes. If your hardware doesn't work in Linux, you're supposed to submit extremely detailed bug reports to mailing lists where they won't care about your problems or solve them in a timely fashion.
Then why doesn't the Windows XP installer recognize my FreeBSD and Linux partitions and allow me to select them from its boot manager, or allow me to resize or create any non-Windows file system?
This is not a priority for 99.99% of the computing population. Windows runs more games, more personal productivity software, and supports more consumer hardware than all "consumer" UNIX systems combined. The option to resize partitions is not only unnecessary, but it would make the process needlessly complicated for many users.
The show was called "Nick Arcade". The "Arcade" games that were played were actually just Genesis and SNES games set up in arcade cabinets. There were actually two systems in each cabinet; one would have the game in "attract mode," and the other would have the game in a paused state, ready to play. If you watched carefully, you would see the host actually flip a switch on the side of the machine to get it ready for play. To win the challenge, you would have to get X number of points or complete some task.
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The final game was the best, though: you would play a video game using simple blue-screen effects. It was so fun to watch little kids go apeshit over those simple games.
Navi (written "Nabi" since the "V" sound is rarely used in Japanese) is short for "navigation." For example, many vehicles in Japan have in-car navigation systems, or "kaa-nabi," installed.
As other posters have mentioned, it's also a character/computer from Lain.
I installed Kazaa Lite recently, having never installed a file sharing program since I got my new hard drive. Although most of the ads have been removed, and I don't see any suspicious processes in the background, Kazaa will randomly pop up a web page on its own. Fortunately, I have Pop-Up Stopper, so the pop-up is closed immediately. :)
So it's not 100% ad-free, but all of the really egregious spyware stuff appears to be gone.
It should be illegal to have complicated and misleading user-agreements in software. Over the course of a day, a consumer might have to agree to several of these, not to mention other contracts, service agreements, etc. they have to sign in their non-computer life. Invariably, these sorts of things are unreadably long and full of Legalese unintelligible to the average Joe. We're bombarded by so many, that it is literally impossible to read and understand them all, let alone send them to our lawyers (as we are "supposed" to do with contracts).
Because of the size, complexity and volume of these things (and the need to usually get past them quickly), I would argue that they amount to coercion (which would invalidate them). The same is true of shrink-wrap software licenses (which you are rarely able to examine until well after you've unwittingly agreed to them). Of course, I doubt a court of law would agree with me. However, I think it would make sense to have a consumer protection law that requires that these sorts of things have a short, concise, easy to read summary at the beginning that gives the user an idea of what they're getting in to (with all the legalese below for completeness). That would prevent companies from creating scumware like this then hiding behind their user-auto-agreements.
Two percent is a very good ratio, assuming that you're not making it up. Most sites which have switched to a subscription model have ended up going bankrupt because they converted well under one percent of their users to subscribers.
The problem would be solved if Microsoft made Microsoft Windows XP work from the moment it was shipped, with no bugs and no security vulnerabilities. That's why I use Linux: ever since I installed Red Hat 5.1, I've never had to download a "critical system update" or "kernel upgrade" to prevent an attack.
No problem. I'm boycotting Best Buy, Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee, and Slashdot. I'm also boycotting DVDs, CDs, Adobe, and all AOL Time Warner companies.
I feel that my actions are making a better future for all of society.
Every iMac has had a reset button. The first generation's reset button had to be pressed with a paper clip.
It isn't rewriteable. While I like the idea of a tiny, durable 500 MB optical disc, the article stated that you can write data to DataPlay discs but not erase them.
Think about it: major record companies aren't going to walk into Best Buy to purchase their blank discs at $10-12 each. They're going to buy them by the truckload, getting a much better deal. As a result, I would estimate that the profit margins would be much better than $4-6 per disc.
Remember that since Office apps can be embedded in applications, your "boss key" could actually launch PowerPoint or Excel inside the game.
To me, Visa and MasterCard are effectively one and the same. My bank (Citibank) had issued me a Visa, and then one day they announced that they were "upgrading" me to a MasterCard with the same level of credit and benefits. The reason? Citibank had cut a deal with MasterCard, and was phasing out Visa.
MasterCard has millions of members in the U.S. I used to carry a low-limit Visa card just in case I ran into a situation where "Visa is the only card accepted," but cancelled it because I never ran into such a situation. Any merchant that doesn't accept MasterCard has lost my business. Sorry.
For chrissake, somebody mail photos of Rob, ESR and RMS to imdb!
Okay. Now who's going to come up with the $105.00 that it'll cost to have those pictures submitted? The IMDb is a profit-making venture, you know...
I'm not exactly expecting a fair and balanced review of a Microsoft product from a site with a name like NeoWin. Look at the look-and-feel of the site: with all those copyrighted images, it's probably being run by Microsoft anyway.
I would like to say that I am personally offended by the presence of a web site that exists solely to promote Microsoft products.
As an American who has watched the Cable News Network (hereinafter "CNN") extensively, I feel compelled to offer the following information to the global information community of the Inter-net. The following piece of information will be useful for Americans.
I would like you to open your Internet Relay Chat (hereinafter "IRC") client, and instead of connecting to "leet-warez.ru", connect to "chat.cnn.com". Now you will have access to over ten illegals.
Hackers do not hang out in malls. Because hackers have no legitimate source of income, they can only purchase goods and services using stolen credit card numbers on the Inter-net.
Hackers do not hang out in coffee shops, since they eschew coffee in favor of Mountain Dew (non-Canadian version).
Hackers have all been expelled from their respective schools for subversive computer-related activities, such as hacking.
Newsgroups are used primarily for "flame-wars" (which is a hacker term to describe the practice of systematically destroying a user's e-mail box through consistent "flame" mails) and for the distribution of copyrighted materials without their authors' consent. I am currently in talks with the management of this alleged "Use-net," and will likely require that all use-net users provide proof of identity prior to use.
It wasn't Bob that became Clippy -- it was the little animated dog character in Microsoft Bob. That was the first use of what would go on to become Microsoft Agent technology, which powered Clippy and all of his friends.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly to leverage, so there is no recourse. For the same reason, Red Hat doesn't get in trouble for bundling various applications with their Linux distribution since they are not a monopoly.
The reason why they used a non-standard DVD is to prevent piracy. The people whining the loudest about this are the PSX fanboys who download and burn all their games.
No, I don't need another DVD player either.
That's Initech, not Innotek.
OS/2 was very popular in Europe, with many large corporations still using it. (That's the reason why IBM won't open the code or give away the binaries, BTW.) Back when I used OS/2 in the states, a lot of the programs I used came from Germany, Finland, etc. Microsoft has run into much more resistance in Europe than in the U.S. as far as competition and government are concerned.
Then they upgraded to Windows 2000, which runs games like Starcraft just fine. They did break the sound drivers, but that's okay.
What's even nicer is that the G3s and G4s that they buy have very gamer-friendly specs. One organization on campus has reserved computer clusters during off-peak times to play games like UT in there. Runs great.
Many people do record the songs from the radio. I've downloaded a few songs from file-sharing services that were obviously ripped from the radio, and avoided some that had "ripped from radio" in the file names. Needless to say, the sound quality is awful.
As a long-time devotee of the music industry, I agree that it is my right to download high-quality rips of all the music I want. It is also my right to not pay for any of it.
The installer spent five minutes scouring my hard drive for music. The second installer (!!) isn't even necessary for the program to run. The interface is horrible -- the programmers didn't even have the good judgment to use real pull-down menus like any decent Windows application. The help menu has a greyed-out option which refers to "Xotella." When I close the application, it reappears in the system tray, and must be closed from there. (Gnucleus at least gives you an option to turn this behavior off.)
Slow, horribly designed, and difficult to use. If Gnucleus is too hard, then you should just go back to the store and buy your CDs like every other luser. Don't make me LART you!