You may not need 11 Megapixels, but professional photographers sure do. The more detail you can get out of an image, the better. Especially when dealing with 600dpi printing.
Actually, a couple of years ago at Comdex Toronto, some Linux booth had some guy dressed in an actual Dustbunny costume as a promotional tool. ("Tool" being the key word.)
I thought to myself "It just might be worth being barred from Comdex for life just to go over there and kick the tar out of him..."
But then my train of thought was derailed by another booth giving away free squishy toys.
I think JeffK hit the nail right on the head when he said UF's target audience is a buncha nerds who will laugh at the lamest joke as long as it has the word "Linux" in it.
Here's a joke guaranteed to raise howls of laughter:
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he wanted to use Linux!
Please don't. Sorry, buy guys aren't attracted to computer chicks. She'll never have a boyfriend. She'll just be referred to as 'that weird computer girl.' Just some suggestions for life.
Wrong.
There was this one girl at my high school who was a mad hacker, hung around in the computer labs, and had this wicked personality. Not only that, but she was HOT. Even the cool guys wanted her.
There *IS* such a thing as "the best of both worlds".
What will it take to get them to support vorbis !?!?!?!
Actual demand.
Out of all the people out there who want to buy an MP3 player, perhaps 0.1% have actually heard of "Ogg Vorbis". Outside of the Slashdot community, I have not seen it mentioned once.
It's called an MP3 Player for a reason: people buy them to play MP3s. These profit-concious companies aren't going to start building in support for obscure formats just to appease a vocal extreme-minority.
Oh, and it would help if the bloody format weren't called "Ogg Vorbis". It's a name only a nerd could love.
Well, with all the "Blah, blah, blah! I hate Microsoft! They are assholes! We must make a Microsoft-free world!" that goes on, I don't know any Linux user that would willingly put down $400 for Microsoft Office.
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I saw the fuckin' thing at E3, jackass.
Nintendo DEMONSTRATED IT TO ME.
The cards don't actually hold the games, the games are already stored in the Gamecube's disc. The cards simply UNLOCK the ability to play the games.
You may not need 11 Megapixels, but professional photographers sure do. The more detail you can get out of an image, the better. Especially when dealing with 600dpi printing.
Hey, I know plenty of people who can talk bullshit all day about computer science and stuff. I just tune them out, though.
Actually, a couple of years ago at Comdex Toronto, some Linux booth had some guy dressed in an actual Dustbunny costume as a promotional tool. ("Tool" being the key word.)
I thought to myself "It just might be worth being barred from Comdex for life just to go over there and kick the tar out of him..."
But then my train of thought was derailed by another booth giving away free squishy toys.
I think JeffK hit the nail right on the head when he said UF's target audience is a buncha nerds who will laugh at the lamest joke as long as it has the word "Linux" in it.
Here's a joke guaranteed to raise howls of laughter:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Because he wanted to use Linux!
I can honestly say Wil is a nice guy. I met him in person on day, made an innocent joke at his expense, and shook his hand.
The smile never left his face.
Or she could say:
RTFM: Read the fucking magazine!
Umm... why doesn't Piro, instead, put his efforts into ACTUALLY DOING HIS COMIC?
In the past few months he's done maybe FIVE...
oh man, that commercial ins fucking hilareious
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I'd say it's most certainly the sheep that attract aliens.
I hope Robocop goes and beats up those lousy terrorists!
...oh, wait. RoboCUP?
That's just boring, then...
That must be one really big company...
...just like this universe idea.
Honestly, I used to find this debate interesting, but now it's just gotten so dull and boring...
Like we're ever actually going to FIND OUT if the universe will collapse on itself.
Ooh... I wanna touch THAT!
No Vorbis?
Probably because only 1% of the people they're marketing it to actually want it, so it's not worth the effort for them to put it in.
It's like going to Ford, and asking why the hell their cars don't support MiniDisc. (Which I personally love.)
That, and Ogg Vorbis NEEDS A NEW NAME BEFORE IT'S EVEN MARKETABLE!
I know this is going to get trolled down, but you have two options:
1) Buy a different motherboard. They sell more than one, you know.
2) Use an OS that actually has *features*, instead of constantly bitching that your OS doesn't support hardware any newer than two years old.
Try saying "GameMan" out loud, and I guarantee it will sound somewhat like "Gay Man".
It brings up all kinds of odd-sounding phrases like: "Sorry ladies, don't have the time, I'm going home to play with my Gay Man."
(No offense to gay people of course.)
Warning: It's not at 9:00 pm, it's at 8:55. If you tune in at nine, all you'll see is the intro to the X-Files.
I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with that. The Gameboy Advance screen works wonderfully.
Most of the bitching I've heard comes from nerds who are bitter that the can't play it in their dimly lit caves.
Wrong.
There was this one girl at my high school who was a mad hacker, hung around in the computer labs, and had this wicked personality. Not only that, but she was HOT. Even the cool guys wanted her.
There *IS* such a thing as "the best of both worlds".
You certainly can't call music by those singers "intellectual" property, can you?
What will it take to get them to support vorbis !?!?!?!
Actual demand.
Out of all the people out there who want to buy an MP3 player, perhaps 0.1% have actually heard of "Ogg Vorbis". Outside of the Slashdot community, I have not seen it mentioned once.
It's called an MP3 Player for a reason: people buy them to play MP3s. These profit-concious companies aren't going to start building in support for obscure formats just to appease a vocal extreme-minority.
Oh, and it would help if the bloody format weren't called "Ogg Vorbis". It's a name only a nerd could love.
Well, with all the "Blah, blah, blah! I hate Microsoft! They are assholes! We must make a Microsoft-free world!" that goes on, I don't know any Linux user that would willingly put down $400 for Microsoft Office.