How can you possibly throw OO (I'm assuming you are referring to OpenOffice) into a list of "crap" software. I've recently been so impressed with OpenOffice that I've replaced M$ Office on all my machines and I use OpenOffice on my Windows, OS-X and Unix box.
Infact, when I send people an e-mail and include a PDF of an OpenOffice document I usually send them the open office formatted file and tell them that it came from OpenOffice. More often then not I get a reply, thanks for the tip this is great. Especially with the OpenOffice Drawing suite.
If any single application is going to bring down Microsoft it will be OpenOffice. Microsoft makes their money off corporate America... and corporate America doesn't want to spend $500.00 a seat for M$ office...
It's not a question of personal preference between Dolby Digital and DTS... DTS produces FAR better audio results for movies as it can place a sound nearly anywhere in the room. The only thing that sucks is the rear speakers have to be angled differently for the two different formats. Dolby Digital wants rears coming from left and right walls while DTS wants speakers coming from just above eye level back wall facing forward.
Back to the main topic... As long as the Movie companies keep focussing on moving forward instead of maintaning status quo they will avoid what the music industry has run into. I have a DVD burner and a blockbuster card. For $1.00/$2.00 I can rent a burn a copy of any movie in Blockbuster. But too me it's not worth it I'd rather pay the $9.99 to $19.99 and support the artform, get quality product, and a pleasurable viewing experience with no hassle.
For that matter here is the Audio industries problem, they have no talent! Should I pay $19.00 for an Audio CD with 70 minutes of garbage and 4 minutes of the one decent song? NO. It is far more convenient to go to Kazaa and download the one good song from that artist that they will probably ever make.
Movie Studios through good competition have managed to produce far better product then the audio industry which is why Piracy hasn't affected them as much and probably never will. BTW, thank you Miramax for waking up the studios and reminding them what good quality movies where./end rant
Linux isn't/shouldn't be made to be the perfect OS for servers, workstations, $1500 recipe books. Linux shouldn't be caught in the Microsoft balancing act of sometime down the road saying... Well we put the X11 library in the kernel mode because Quake users wheren't able to get the same performance that they can in Windows 2000. Making a H/W detection/PnP managment program in X11 is already going that road. UNIX doesn't have a windows mode. X11 happens to be a nifty program added onto UNIX to give it a window look and feel. Because that is true, hardware config shouldn't rely on this non-essential package being there.
Linux is just an open source Microsoft if it continues down the path of trying to be everything. State what Linux is and make it the best whatever it is.
I'd truly like to see this project done in a platform/OS independent architecture. Why not first create the software by laying out the specs and then let people implement those specs for different OSes. (Say using a unified fingerprint DB and a set of API's to speak to the configuration/detection program.) Then you could write a unix/windows/solaris/SCO/BeOS/JavaPC... Interface to this project. If all the program did was report the current configuration and allow you to change it in hardware then you could have a different program for different OSes to use this same data to modify their system configuration files.
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How can you possibly throw OO (I'm assuming you are referring to OpenOffice) into a list of "crap" software. I've recently been so impressed with OpenOffice that I've replaced M$ Office on all my machines and I use OpenOffice on my Windows, OS-X and Unix box.
Infact, when I send people an e-mail and include a PDF of an OpenOffice document I usually send them the open office formatted file and tell them that it came from OpenOffice. More often then not I get a reply, thanks for the tip this is great. Especially with the OpenOffice Drawing suite.
If any single application is going to bring down Microsoft it will be OpenOffice. Microsoft makes their money off corporate America... and corporate America doesn't want to spend $500.00 a seat for M$ office...
It's not a question of personal preference between Dolby Digital and DTS... DTS produces FAR better audio results for movies as it can place a sound nearly anywhere in the room. The only thing that sucks is the rear speakers have to be angled differently for the two different formats. Dolby Digital wants rears coming from left and right walls while DTS wants speakers coming from just above eye level back wall facing forward.
/end rant
Back to the main topic... As long as the Movie companies keep focussing on moving forward instead of maintaning status quo they will avoid what the music industry has run into. I have a DVD burner and a blockbuster card. For $1.00/$2.00 I can rent a burn a copy of any movie in Blockbuster. But too me it's not worth it I'd rather pay the $9.99 to $19.99 and support the artform, get quality product, and a pleasurable viewing experience with no hassle.
For that matter here is the Audio industries problem, they have no talent! Should I pay $19.00 for an Audio CD with 70 minutes of garbage and 4 minutes of the one decent song? NO. It is far more convenient to go to Kazaa and download the one good song from that artist that they will probably ever make.
Movie Studios through good competition have managed to produce far better product then the audio industry which is why Piracy hasn't affected them as much and probably never will. BTW, thank you Miramax for waking up the studios and reminding them what good quality movies where.
Linux isn't/shouldn't be made to be the perfect OS for servers, workstations, $1500 recipe books. Linux shouldn't be caught in the Microsoft balancing act of sometime down the road saying... Well we put the X11 library in the kernel mode because Quake users wheren't able to get the same performance that they can in Windows 2000. Making a H/W detection/PnP managment program in X11 is already going that road. UNIX doesn't have a windows mode. X11 happens to be a nifty program added onto UNIX to give it a window look and feel. Because that is true, hardware config shouldn't rely on this non-essential package being there.
Linux is just an open source Microsoft if it continues down the path of trying to be everything. State what Linux is and make it the best whatever it is.
I'd truly like to see this project done in a platform/OS independent architecture. Why not first create the software by laying out the specs and then let people implement those specs for different OSes. (Say using a unified fingerprint DB and a set of API's to speak to the configuration/detection program.) Then you could write a unix/windows/solaris/SCO/BeOS/JavaPC... Interface to this project. If all the program did was report the current configuration and allow you to change it in hardware then you could have a different program for different OSes to use this same data to modify their system configuration files.