Most places these days, you're forced to join a homeowners association and they may not have guns, but there will still be consequences if you put up some big honking piece of art they don't like.
Who forces you to live there?
You signed the contract, so you can't even complain.
Who enforces the contract?
I'm sorry, but the "men with guns" argument is old and tired. Put it to rest.
We may have advanced high-level languages and object-oriented paradigms, but it all comes down to the ones and zeros. At the end of the day, it's violence (or its looming threat) that enforces the law.
You're only partially correct. Government isn't just "other people", it's "other people with guns and a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence".
There's a pretty damn significant difference between my neighbor telling me he doesn't like the modern art masterpiece on my front lawn and my government sending over the jackbooted constabulary to remove it (and remove me for having placed it there).
Never mind that that he ignores all real problems that led me to leave Feodora for Ubuntu, he focuses on the multimedia codecs issue, and issues a screed against open source.
Ubuntu, at least as of Dapper Drake, was just as political about MP3 and nvidia binary GL drivers as Fedora was. I don't see the win here.
An unwillingness to use "grey market multimedia libraries" is hardly a reason to knock a serious commercial distribution.
It depends. If a distro claims to be a fully-featured desktop OS, and it can't do stuff that an average user would consider part of a fully-featured OS (that is, play MP3s and videos, or have fully-featured drivers even if they're binary), then the failure to do that is a flaw that is legitimate to flame against. Fedora may or may not portray itself as a fully-featured desktop OS, the fact is that if it can't play MP3s it is in the eyes of many users _not_ a fully-featured OS. And it certainly isn't an option for "switchers" who have lots of MP3s they'd want to use. Making those users feel like criminals for wanting to do so is also not a way to win friends and influence people.
People wonder why Linux doesn't do better on the desktop? _This_ is exactly why. Maybe Desktop Linux for normal users isn't a priority for you. So be it. But don't be surprised if the wider computing populace continues to stay away in droves.
At this rate, MS will have worked out all the kinks in Vista and the next desktop replacement cycle (you know, the one that plops 4GB into the desktop to make Vista work tolerably well) will have passed desktop Linux right on by. Oh well.
Umm... I think by definition that actually would make his arguments less valid.
IFF they were based on a lie. Otherwise it's just more ad-hominem hijinx. Ala "Vegetarians are evil because Hitler was a vegetarian": it might be fun, but it's not necessarily valid logic.
I don't recall any lies in TFA, but it's getting late and MEGO...
Well, at least he has the rocks to put up a cogent flame about it.
Nonconfrontational folks like me just get fed up with the puritanical bullshit about MP3 playback and NVidia drivers, buy a Macbook, and have done with it.
I'd have said go Gentoo, which I did for awhile (abandoned about 1yr ago), but I find OS X just a whole lot less stressful than dealing with Yet Another Buggy App or Yet Another Goddamn Artsd Collision or Yet Another Flash Thing That Doesn't Work Well With Linux or Yet Another Codec That Isn't Available On Linux Without Getting The Stinkeye From RMS or Yet Another Ban From WoW For Cedega Use or or or or...
And I may roll with CentOS at work, but I have no illusions of any 'normals' being happy with it. Even with my pymp'd Baghira themes!
Possibly, but it'll probably get more expensive...
In comparison, a small company like Fairpoint is going to have to focus on the customers they've got. Which means either making them happy, or losing the business to local Co-Ops setup to provide the missing services.
Not a lot of telco-heads out in farm country, the skills are either not there or are already fully-employed elsewhere. Also, depending on the state, this is legally tedious.
Nope, rural folk will probably just get jacked even harder.
So here's a question: if we stopped emitting burning fossil fuels entirely, right now, would the earth start cooling?
No, but if we set off some hydrogen bombs in uninhabited areas (such as the Aussie outback or Siberia), we could kick enough dust into the upper atmosphere to block sunlight... Just be sure to pack your iodine pills!
CraptiveX is what keeps me from going completely Linux at work on my desktop.. There's a browser-based bug system that only runs CraptiveX and it fails to load under crossover.
Yeah. Instead they're using that nasty old cell tower triangulation thing, which is only what pretty much every other mobile phone offering GPS functionality does.
Have you checked a Cingular coverage map lately?
I'll take MilSpec satellite signals, thanks.
And who cares what every other mobile phone does, this is Apple, it's supposed to be Insanely Great. Lacking GPS? Insanely Meh.
Because you can't slip a PS3 into your pocket, drive into town, and have it show you your present location on Google Maps, then automatically find the nearest Starbucks and phone it for you, all things which Jobs demoed in the keynote.
And FWIW, the only "non-pirate" downloadable movie format that has a future is HD video, since the physical format will be torpedoed by proprietary format bickering.
(And remember how bad some of the original DVDs were, when the studios were too cheap to do new transfers, and just slapped the 'letterbox' laserdisc video onto a DVD? Methinks there'll be a ton of "pre-upconverted" high-def vids being pimped around...)
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Most places these days, you're forced to join a homeowners association and they may not have guns, but there will still be consequences if you put up some big honking piece of art they don't like.
Who forces you to live there?
You signed the contract, so you can't even complain.
Who enforces the contract?
I'm sorry, but the "men with guns" argument is old and tired. Put it to rest.
We may have advanced high-level languages and object-oriented paradigms, but it all comes down to the ones and zeros. At the end of the day, it's violence (or its looming threat) that enforces the law.
You're only partially correct. Government isn't just "other people", it's "other people with guns and a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence".
There's a pretty damn significant difference between my neighbor telling me he doesn't like the modern art masterpiece on my front lawn and my government sending over the jackbooted constabulary to remove it (and remove me for having placed it there).
The casual player gets next to nothing out of this.
;)
What, green epix aren't enough?
Never mind that that he ignores all real problems that led me to leave Feodora for Ubuntu, he focuses on the multimedia codecs issue, and issues a screed against open source.
Ubuntu, at least as of Dapper Drake, was just as political about MP3 and nvidia binary GL drivers as Fedora was. I don't see the win here.
Fascists want private enterprise and religion all up in government's business, socialists don't.
s#don't#want government all up in private enterprise's, religion's, and my business#g
An unwillingness to use "grey market multimedia libraries" is hardly a reason to knock a serious commercial distribution.
It depends. If a distro claims to be a fully-featured desktop OS, and it can't do stuff that an average user would consider part of a fully-featured OS (that is, play MP3s and videos, or have fully-featured drivers even if they're binary), then the failure to do that is a flaw that is legitimate to flame against. Fedora may or may not portray itself as a fully-featured desktop OS, the fact is that if it can't play MP3s it is in the eyes of many users _not_ a fully-featured OS. And it certainly isn't an option for "switchers" who have lots of MP3s they'd want to use. Making those users feel like criminals for wanting to do so is also not a way to win friends and influence people.
People wonder why Linux doesn't do better on the desktop? _This_ is exactly why. Maybe Desktop Linux for normal users isn't a priority for you. So be it. But don't be surprised if the wider computing populace continues to stay away in droves.
At this rate, MS will have worked out all the kinks in Vista and the next desktop replacement cycle (you know, the one that plops 4GB into the desktop to make Vista work tolerably well) will have passed desktop Linux right on by. Oh well.
Umm... I think by definition that actually would make his arguments less valid.
IFF they were based on a lie. Otherwise it's just more ad-hominem hijinx. Ala "Vegetarians are evil because Hitler was a vegetarian": it might be fun, but it's not necessarily valid logic.
I don't recall any lies in TFA, but it's getting late and MEGO...
Well, at least he has the rocks to put up a cogent flame about it.
Nonconfrontational folks like me just get fed up with the puritanical bullshit about MP3 playback and NVidia drivers, buy a Macbook, and have done with it.
I'd have said go Gentoo, which I did for awhile (abandoned about 1yr ago), but I find OS X just a whole lot less stressful than dealing with Yet Another Buggy App or Yet Another Goddamn Artsd Collision or Yet Another Flash Thing That Doesn't Work Well With Linux or Yet Another Codec That Isn't Available On Linux Without Getting The Stinkeye From RMS or Yet Another Ban From WoW For Cedega Use or or or or...
And I may roll with CentOS at work, but I have no illusions of any 'normals' being happy with it. Even with my pymp'd Baghira themes!
Crap, gotta kill artsd again...
2006 was the year of the shitty CGI kid's movie, and Aardman gets the blame?
That's a crock of weapons-grade bullshit if I've ever heard one.
On the enterprise level there's of course the infamous TestDirector from Mercury Interactive
OMG what a pile of fetid shite, imagine a ticket system that demands ActiveX!
Better RT or Bugzilla than that loathsome junk...
I do. I also got a sound card that renders DTS 5.1 in realtime.
I SAID WHO WANTS TO FUCKIN TOUCH ME?!?
Where the fsck is WiMAX?
:p
Ask Wal-Mart (and Cringely)
They get better service?
Possibly, but it'll probably get more expensive...
In comparison, a small company like Fairpoint is going to have to focus on the customers they've got. Which means either making them happy, or losing the business to local Co-Ops setup to provide the missing services.
Not a lot of telco-heads out in farm country, the skills are either not there or are already fully-employed elsewhere. Also, depending on the state, this is legally tedious.
Nope, rural folk will probably just get jacked even harder.
So here's a question: if we stopped emitting burning fossil fuels entirely, right now, would the earth start cooling?
No, but if we set off some hydrogen bombs in uninhabited areas (such as the Aussie outback or Siberia), we could kick enough dust into the upper atmosphere to block sunlight... Just be sure to pack your iodine pills!
CraptiveX is what keeps me from going completely Linux at work on my desktop.. There's a browser-based bug system that only runs CraptiveX and it fails to load under crossover.
:(
Glad to see my tax dollars at work
Or maybe Google passed OSTG a couple bucks under the table? /tinfoil
Yeah. Instead they're using that nasty old cell tower triangulation thing, which is only what pretty much every other mobile phone offering GPS functionality does.
Have you checked a Cingular coverage map lately?
I'll take MilSpec satellite signals, thanks.
And who cares what every other mobile phone does, this is Apple, it's supposed to be Insanely Great. Lacking GPS? Insanely Meh.
My space probes get forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!!!
Because you can't slip a PS3 into your pocket, drive into town, and have it show you your present location on Google Maps, then automatically find the nearest Starbucks and phone it for you, all things which Jobs demoed in the keynote.
Too bad they forgot to put GPS in.
Its running OS X from what I have read.
If so, then Whither Inkwell?
Get an 850/1900 capable GSM fone and roam on Cingular 850 for no extra cost.
About the only thing on your list that's missing is Exchange/Outlook. :-)
.Mac substitute >>> Exchange/Outlook.
.Mac"!
Mail.app + iCal + AddressBook + iChat + iSync + internal
Here's hoping we see that internal "enterprise
Yes, John Bigbooty, that's what we want them to think!
TorrentSpy FTW.. (shush!)
And FWIW, the only "non-pirate" downloadable movie format that has a future is HD video, since the physical format will be torpedoed by proprietary format bickering.
(And remember how bad some of the original DVDs were, when the studios were too cheap to do new transfers, and just slapped the 'letterbox' laserdisc video onto a DVD? Methinks there'll be a ton of "pre-upconverted" high-def vids being pimped around...)
.... I was wondering if the next edition of Ticket To Ride was being attacked..