I tend to agree with that. Although I've never been a big fan of panasonic, this unit just plain looks cool! Too bad it couldn't be merely a 'monitor array' that could be connected to anything... I've been running out of room on my desktop lately anyhow... hmm.. a couple of these puppies tied together and I could get rid of that start bar all together! YAY!
People tend to vote with their feet. This is evident with Windows XP (sales may be good but they're definitely not what Bill expected). With the current system, it'll be easy to just stay with what I've got. I don't need to change, or pay by the hour. The installed software base is already there; on both the server and client side. While they may want to make us pay for MPEG-4, they can't force us to use it...
I may be way overly simplistic in this, but we don't *need* to blast off into the future unless we actually *want* to. Nothing is stopping us from doing this stuff now, and hell standards are only standards if we accept them.
Given this whole scenario the gentleman in the article describes himself has having a large "bevy" devices in his possession when he roams to San Franciso. Is he doing this on his horse or is he using his automobile which generates high voltage to make a spark, and lots of EMI from all those sensors talking to the cars computer? Personally I think the guys a whacko and probably would be thrown out of Amish country for being just a tad too conservative and holding them back!
Faq-O-Matic [sourceforge.net] is an attempt to deal with some of these problems. Look at the idea... not the ugly colors in the frames. btw 63.96.88.170/halt/ [63.96.88.170] is my attempt at an open source document.
Lord! I looked at this twice and had to click on the actual link before I realized it didn't say FAG-O-Matic. Got my interest AND attention *sedutive wink*
Redhat stinks of money and still can't produce anything of significance. The real stuff is happening elsewhere.
While RH may not be producing any free software of significance, they *are* getting linux out into the world and into the hands of a lot of new people every single day. Without users all you nice freebie coders would only be able give your stuff to anyone other than another coder. Now maybe your version of world domination is "us instead of them" -- I don't know. In the end users are far more significant than you guys give them credt.
Amen! Finally somebody who actually cares about the quality and usability of a product in general. It may be an old saw, but Quality does have to be at the beginning and end of everything. As long as open source has the opinion that "the user will fix it" it'll never be any better than Microsoft, but will always be the "joke" or "toy" operating system.
Lets face it.. spending two days trying to get X11 to function with relatively current hardware is stupid. Having to boot into windows to search a crapload of poorly written web pages (that can't be viewed in lynx) to find ONE piece of information to GET it to work is even more stupid.
OSS will always be behind the power curve on hardware so I'm not asking for a windows-esque install procedure. But a bit more help past "Device not present" is required. If the OS install can find the device enough to make a pretty graphical process of installing, one would thing the actual program used would be able to do it too.. Maybe I'm just crazy and you folks can flame/mod the hell out of me. I'm both a geek and a user. Sure I take the challenge of fixing this stuff *if* I can, but I'm also a user that gets frustrated at having to fix crap I shouldn't have to. If I download beta software I expect glitches, if I get alphas I expect crashes. If I download a release or final.. I expect it to friggin work. I don't want to chase down through dependency hell, nor do I want to pour through 15 directory levels of source code and README's to find out I need one or more *.so.1's from some obscure library the programmer used during development and didn't bother to tell me about upfront.
Yeah I'm whining. I'm whining because I have three linux machines in my house and my kids can't use a single one of them unless I'm standing right here to help them when the damn software blows up in their face. I feel like a traitor for having a Windows 98 partition on the same machine as my linux workstation... I have to though. I'd like my kids to be able to use the machine on their own. When they get older and more savvy (yeah I said the word) maybe they'll decide to spend more time in a vastly superior OS. On the other hand I can't blame them for mousing around with software that *generally* works as planned.
Flame on folks! Take your best shot. You can't hit me with any shot I've not already tossed at myself.
There was a really good post here explaining why linux can't be on my desktop, but the submit failed, and the browser ate it. I'm not gonna retype the whole diatribe again.
Oh for Chrissakes! I'm no fan of Microsoft but this kind of drivel is just too freaky. Why don't we all just file a really huge class action suit claiming Microsoft is the cause of air pollution because all these people are driving to the stores to buy Windows/Office XP?!? Maybe we could include Staples and Office Max as co defendants! Yeah! That's the ticket! While we're at it maybe we can find some fat sweaty ambulance chaser to cook up a fender bender and go for the personal injury angle!!!
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I tend to agree with that. Although I've never been a big fan of panasonic, this unit just plain looks cool! Too bad it couldn't be merely a 'monitor array' that could be connected to anything... I've been running out of room on my desktop lately anyhow... hmm.. a couple of these puppies tied together and I could get rid of that start bar all together! YAY!
People tend to vote with their feet. This is evident with Windows XP (sales may be good but they're definitely not what Bill expected). With the current system, it'll be easy to just stay with what I've got. I don't need to change, or pay by the hour. The installed software base is already there; on both the server and client side. While they may want to make us pay for MPEG-4, they can't force us to use it...
I may be way overly simplistic in this, but we don't *need* to blast off into the future unless we actually *want* to. Nothing is stopping us from doing this stuff now, and hell standards are only standards if we accept them.
Given this whole scenario the gentleman in the article describes himself has having a large "bevy" devices in his possession when he roams to San Franciso. Is he doing this on his horse or is he using his automobile which generates high voltage to make a spark, and lots of EMI from all those sensors talking to the cars computer? Personally I think the guys a whacko and probably would be thrown out of Amish country for being just a tad too conservative and holding them back!
Faq-O-Matic [sourceforge.net] is an attempt to deal with some of these problems. Look at the idea... not the ugly colors in the frames. btw 63.96.88.170/halt/ [63.96.88.170] is my attempt at an open source document.
Lord! I looked at this twice and had to click on the actual link before I realized it didn't say FAG-O-Matic. Got my interest AND attention *sedutive wink*
Redhat stinks of money and still can't produce anything of significance. The real stuff is happening elsewhere.
While RH may not be producing any free software of significance, they *are* getting linux out into the world and into the hands of a lot of new people every single day. Without users all you nice freebie coders would only be able give your stuff to anyone other than another coder. Now maybe your version of world domination is "us instead of them" -- I don't know. In the end users are far more significant than you guys give them credt.
Amen! Finally somebody who actually cares about the quality and usability of a product in general. It may be an old saw, but Quality does have to be at the beginning and end of everything. As long as open source has the opinion that "the user will fix it" it'll never be any better than Microsoft, but will always be the "joke" or "toy" operating system.
Lets face it.. spending two days trying to get X11 to function with relatively current hardware is stupid. Having to boot into windows to search a crapload of poorly written web pages (that can't be viewed in lynx) to find ONE piece of information to GET it to work is even more stupid.
OSS will always be behind the power curve on hardware so I'm not asking for a windows-esque install procedure. But a bit more help past "Device not present" is required. If the OS install can find the device enough to make a pretty graphical process of installing, one would thing the actual program used would be able to do it too.. Maybe I'm just crazy and you folks can flame/mod the hell out of me. I'm both a geek and a user. Sure I take the challenge of fixing this stuff *if* I can, but I'm also a user that gets frustrated at having to fix crap I shouldn't have to. If I download beta software I expect glitches, if I get alphas I expect crashes. If I download a release or final.. I expect it to friggin work. I don't want to chase down through dependency hell, nor do I want to pour through 15 directory levels of source code and README's to find out I need one or more *.so.1's from some obscure library the programmer used during development and didn't bother to tell me about upfront.
Yeah I'm whining. I'm whining because I have three linux machines in my house and my kids can't use a single one of them unless I'm standing right here to help them when the damn software blows up in their face. I feel like a traitor for having a Windows 98 partition on the same machine as my linux workstation... I have to though. I'd like my kids to be able to use the machine on their own. When they get older and more savvy (yeah I said the word) maybe they'll decide to spend more time in a vastly superior OS. On the other hand I can't blame them for mousing around with software that *generally* works as planned.
Flame on folks! Take your best shot. You can't hit me with any shot I've not already tossed at myself.
There was a really good post here explaining why linux can't be on my desktop, but the submit failed, and the browser ate it. I'm not gonna retype the whole diatribe again.
Oh for Chrissakes! I'm no fan of Microsoft but this kind of drivel is just too freaky. Why don't we all just file a really huge class action suit claiming Microsoft is the cause of air pollution because all these people are driving to the stores to buy Windows/Office XP?!? Maybe we could include Staples and Office Max as co defendants! Yeah! That's the ticket! While we're at it maybe we can find some fat sweaty ambulance chaser to cook up a fender bender and go for the personal injury angle!!!