No fucking joke: start selling Linux at $99 for an install, and maybe the fucker will skyrocket.
Nope...no fucking joke, *sigh*
You'd need a new company to package them - maybe just a little spinoff of redhat. It wouldn't give away anything for free, and sell it's packages of TransLinux TX (cool prefix, two-letter suffix) for $200. I suspect that a lot of the Linux FUD comes from the fact that a lot of decision-makers attribute a value of $0 to something with a cost of $0.
An in case you're wondering (I know I'm not), if you accidentally mis-spell it as "Thudercats" in google and are feeling lucky, you get erotic thundercats art. Mmmmm....Cheetara...
They're preventing sale of *infringing products*. From what I can see, all that means is that they'll have to sell a non-infringing product. Getting rid of the infringing behaviour probably reduces to a few comments. All macromedia should be losing is a bit of stock (the already-packaged infringing versions).
Media player apps? Meh - Mplayer already plays more formats than windows players on my computer.
The next step are some media *creation* tools. The gimp is great for what it does, but Adobe's still clearly ahead. Where are the sound mixing programs? Nothing compares to CoolEdit. What about video editting tools? They exist, but they're nowhere near as clean and usable as the windows alternatives. We've got a great operating system here, but there are a million high-end applications that it's still lacking.
Ever read a good book with a great twist at the end? How about a pulp book with a *decent* ending? And if someone told you before the end? Whether it's TV, movie, or a book people don't want endings spoiled. And get off your holier-than-thou culture horse (yep - mixed metaphors). A) Shows are a matter of taste - it's stupid to go around blasting people for what they enjoy. B) As far as I can tell, an hour a week isn't "horribly addicted" to TV.
...but one oft-proposed use of this technology is to catch shoplifters. If you're running around the store flapping your coat like a bird, I have a feeling that a little computer is a small worry compared to those nice men in white taking you away right now.
Keep in mind that CDs are stored in raw format. I'm sure that with non-lossy compression, you could get it down to at least 50% of it's original size. With 256, or even 512bit mp3s, you'd be able to compress 5 CDs to 500Megs. It's a definite skewage of results by implying that there's 5 times the space of a CD, but not that bad when you consider that your average CD can probably store 5-10 Cd-quality albums.
Ummm....then how is it different then the full version? Evaluation software is supposed to be used for *evaluation*. Not for five-nines critical applications. On a server the popup messages will go unnoticed, and the startup sequence will appear almost never. If you want to use it longer, then maybe it's time you paid for it.
Bottom line is, you can't please all of the people all of the time. Those who seriously have a use for your product and would be prepared to pay don't mind giving an email address.
I can't think of anyone who would choose an option from list 1 (two posts above) over list two. So you *can* please all people, in this limited range of the definition of "please". And I'm someone who would seriously have a use for some products, and would be prepared to pay (and have), and yet will not give out my e-mail address. Instead, I'll try to find a competing product that *does* have an easy download system. It's often faster than waiting for the e-mail reply.
"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
On behalf of all those who have been reading Slashdot for more than 2 hours - shut the fsck up. It's been said time after time after time, and it's *still* used incorrectly.
As the poster said, I'd be perfectly willing to give up some privacy if it would increase security. The amount of privacy I'd be willing to give up wouldn't even border on an "essential" liberty, but I'd be willing to give up some. The safety I'd have to receive would have to be a permanent reduction in terrorists attacks that could hurt me. The proof that the reduction in attacks was linked to the giving up of said privacy would have to be backed by well-conducted research. Therefore I am neither giving up an essential liberty, nor accepting temporary safety.
Hell, according to Mr Franklin, I could give up an essential liberty like freedom of speech if it were to give me some *permanent* safety, or I could give up hundreds of "non-essential" liberties for a permanent increase in safety from accidentally falling out of a window. While the adage works well in many situations, please don't use your post-bot to toss it into any YRO discussion.
I'd say a better example of using Microsoft's attitude against them would be
- It is illegal to accept a computer with the original operating system still on it. You must either purchase a new version of the operating system, or download a free one
Contains about as much true legal information as anything on their own website.
Right - and there are more than one parent in the the world. By saying "the parent", I was referring to a set of people, not to a single, over-riding Parent. Specifically, I was referring to anyone who could be referred to as a parent of the child in question. Of course, that brings up the question of sperm donors, etc. They could be considered a "parent", but probably shouldn't have any say in the outcome of a child they'll never meet. IANAL, I was just outlining one of the *many* guidelines that would be required in a gene-manipulating world.
And now look at me - I thought your sig was part of the comment, and got all defensive. Ah well.
Right - I'll play the devil's advocate - quite possibly literally in this issue, and say it. "What's the problem with cleansing the human race?" Evolution did that for millions of years to *produce* the damn thing, why let it stop there?
That means that killing old people is not an option - they've already reproduced. In a civilized society such as ours, I don't see killing as the answer to improving our race, but sterilization. There's no point to killing people when they can be sterilized. Better than that, though, is the solution in this slashdot article - removing undesirable eggs from the mix altogether.
What's wrong with wanting a society without Alzheimers? Without diabetes?
The huge problem comes when people add "Without blacks or catholics" into this mix, and start killing them off. The main point is who gets to decide what is undesirable? It can't be by majority - "you can't have 4 wolves and one sheep vote on what to have for dinner".
I also think that the parent should have the final veto. They can have whatever kind of child they want.
There are issues that have to be dealt with, but I hardly view the improvement of the human race as a bad thing, just a sensitive one. After all, if we don't start improving ourselves now, we'll have no chance at all when the robots come.
It's brilliant marketing. I've seen fake warning labels like this before, but they've never carried the weight of the law behind them. With this, people will *know* it's true when the box says:
"Warning : This game is extremely addictive and may cause some players to go for days without food or sleep."
If you're willing to wait for future versions, I get the feeling KOffice will be one serious office suite in the next few years, and optimized for KDE, which (as of version three) is already immensely fast. OO is my suite of choice right now, but I'm looking forward to the day when I have an office suite built for my OS and GUI of choice.
Sad thing is, it's probably one of the truest statements you'll ever see on/. The old "version++" way of labelling new releases just doesn't appeal to the public anymore (if it ever did), let alone "stable/unstable"
Throw in two letters after the product name, and people will gain a whole new respect for it. <sigh> I don't make the rules, I merely observe them.
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No fucking joke: start selling Linux at $99 for an install, and maybe the fucker will skyrocket.
Nope...no fucking joke, *sigh*
You'd need a new company to package them - maybe just a little spinoff of redhat. It wouldn't give away anything for free, and sell it's packages of TransLinux TX (cool prefix, two-letter suffix) for $200. I suspect that a lot of the Linux FUD comes from the fact that a lot of decision-makers attribute a value of $0 to something with a cost of $0.
Thundercats was the best cartoon of the time.
An in case you're wondering (I know I'm not), if you accidentally mis-spell it as "Thudercats" in google and are feeling lucky, you get erotic thundercats art. Mmmmm....Cheetara...
Frightening...I read the same thing
Just a "me too" post. Between that and "A black lion does not a Voltron make", there are plenty of reasons to read /.
They're preventing sale of *infringing products*. From what I can see, all that means is that they'll have to sell a non-infringing product. Getting rid of the infringing behaviour probably reduces to a few comments. All macromedia should be losing is a bit of stock (the already-packaged infringing versions).
I *will* check it out, thank you. I don't suppose you know anything about video editting tools?
Media player apps? Meh - Mplayer already plays more formats than windows players on my computer.
The next step are some media *creation* tools. The gimp is great for what it does, but Adobe's still clearly ahead. Where are the sound mixing programs? Nothing compares to CoolEdit. What about video editting tools? They exist, but they're nowhere near as clean and usable as the windows alternatives. We've got a great operating system here, but there are a million high-end applications that it's still lacking.
Maybe not a troll, but it had a definite "The US is dying" tone to it.
Ever read a good book with a great twist at the end? How about a pulp book with a *decent* ending? And if someone told you before the end? Whether it's TV, movie, or a book people don't want endings spoiled. And get off your holier-than-thou culture horse (yep - mixed metaphors).
A) Shows are a matter of taste - it's stupid to go around blasting people for what they enjoy.
B) As far as I can tell, an hour a week isn't "horribly addicted" to TV.
...but one oft-proposed use of this technology is to catch shoplifters. If you're running around the store flapping your coat like a bird, I have a feeling that a little computer is a small worry compared to those nice men in white taking you away right now.
It's too late for me, but if you'd taken some other people's advice earlier, it would *not* have been!
At the very least change the title, and pull all the text.
Dammit though, I want my single-click file opening. Single best KDE feature right there.
Sources?
I don't suppose you have a handy link to a list (as opposed to the 2-minutes google search I'd otherwise do)
These are all stuff I've needed for a while. Why doesn't MS document this stuff in an easy-to-find place?
Keep in mind that CDs are stored in raw format. I'm sure that with non-lossy compression, you could get it down to at least 50% of it's original size. With 256, or even 512bit mp3s, you'd be able to compress 5 CDs to 500Megs. It's a definite skewage of results by implying that there's 5 times the space of a CD, but not that bad when you consider that your average CD can probably store 5-10 Cd-quality albums.
How's this? Find out the most rampant abusers from the logs, and anytime a referral comes in from there, hit 'em with the goatse.cx guy.
Ummm....then how is it different then the full version? Evaluation software is supposed to be used for *evaluation*. Not for five-nines critical applications. On a server the popup messages will go unnoticed, and the startup sequence will appear almost never. If you want to use it longer, then maybe it's time you paid for it.
Bottom line is, you can't please all of the people all of the time. Those who seriously have a use for your product and would be prepared to pay don't mind giving an email address.
I can't think of anyone who would choose an option from list 1 (two posts above) over list two. So you *can* please all people, in this limited range of the definition of "please". And I'm someone who would seriously have a use for some products, and would be prepared to pay (and have), and yet will not give out my e-mail address. Instead, I'll try to find a competing product that *does* have an easy download system. It's often faster than waiting for the e-mail reply.
"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
On behalf of all those who have been reading Slashdot for more than 2 hours - shut the fsck up. It's been said time after time after time, and it's *still* used incorrectly.
As the poster said, I'd be perfectly willing to give up some privacy if it would increase security. The amount of privacy I'd be willing to give up wouldn't even border on an "essential" liberty, but I'd be willing to give up some. The safety I'd have to receive would have to be a permanent reduction in terrorists attacks that could hurt me. The proof that the reduction in attacks was linked to the giving up of said privacy would have to be backed by well-conducted research. Therefore I am neither giving up an essential liberty, nor accepting temporary safety.
Hell, according to Mr Franklin, I could give up an essential liberty like freedom of speech if it were to give me some *permanent* safety, or I could give up hundreds of "non-essential" liberties for a permanent increase in safety from accidentally falling out of a window. While the adage works well in many situations, please don't use your post-bot to toss it into any YRO discussion.
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I'd say a better example of using Microsoft's attitude against them would be
- It is illegal to accept a computer with the original operating system still on it. You must either purchase a new version of the operating system, or download a free one
Contains about as much true legal information as anything on their own website.
Right - and there are more than one parent in the the world. By saying "the parent", I was referring to a set of people, not to a single, over-riding Parent. Specifically, I was referring to anyone who could be referred to as a parent of the child in question. Of course, that brings up the question of sperm donors, etc. They could be considered a "parent", but probably shouldn't have any say in the outcome of a child they'll never meet. IANAL, I was just outlining one of the *many* guidelines that would be required in a gene-manipulating world.
And now look at me - I thought your sig was part of the comment, and got all defensive. Ah well.
Right - I'll play the devil's advocate - quite possibly literally in this issue, and say it. "What's the problem with cleansing the human race?" Evolution did that for millions of years to *produce* the damn thing, why let it stop there?
That means that killing old people is not an option - they've already reproduced. In a civilized society such as ours, I don't see killing as the answer to improving our race, but sterilization. There's no point to killing people when they can be sterilized. Better than that, though, is the solution in this slashdot article - removing undesirable eggs from the mix altogether.
What's wrong with wanting a society without Alzheimers? Without diabetes?
The huge problem comes when people add "Without blacks or catholics" into this mix, and start killing them off. The main point is who gets to decide what is undesirable? It can't be by majority - "you can't have 4 wolves and one sheep vote on what to have for dinner".
I also think that the parent should have the final veto. They can have whatever kind of child they want.
There are issues that have to be dealt with, but I hardly view the improvement of the human race as a bad thing, just a sensitive one. After all, if we don't start improving ourselves now, we'll have no chance at all when the robots come.
It's brilliant marketing. I've seen fake warning labels like this before, but they've never carried the weight of the law behind them. With this, people will *know* it's true when the box says :
"Warning : This game is extremely addictive and may cause some players to go for days without food or sleep."
If you're willing to wait for future versions, I get the feeling KOffice will be one serious office suite in the next few years, and optimized for KDE, which (as of version three) is already immensely fast. OO is my suite of choice right now, but I'm looking forward to the day when I have an office suite built for my OS and GUI of choice.
+5 funny?
/. The old "version++" way of labelling new releases just doesn't appeal to the public anymore (if it ever did), let alone "stable/unstable"
Sad thing is, it's probably one of the truest statements you'll ever see on
Throw in two letters after the product name, and people will gain a whole new respect for it. <sigh> I don't make the rules, I merely observe them.