There is one thing that will kill this grand dream, and that will be bandwidth restrictions.
Right now, my ISP limits me to 5 gigs. To add insult to injury, they hiked my rates.
And every gig over 5 costs me $7.00
Who in their right mind is going to watch tv over the net when they're paying out the ass for it? Average Joe internet user is going to flip when he sees that bill in the mail.
When it all adds up, people fill likely find it more cost-effective to stick with cable or network tv.
Paying for content without commercials is a fine idea. I can download it when/where I want and watch it whenever I want to. But paying my ISP per gig of bandwidth AND paying for the content is enough to make me forget about it altogether and go back to dial-up.
Sorry, bud. But people stopped taking you seriously the moment they saw the silly dollar sign in MS. No wonder the business world(see: serious folks) scoffs at the free software movement. You act like a bunch of children.
Rusty's successful donation/subscription drive had nothing to do with "premium services". I would hardly call a spellchecker and a diary watch option(bookmarks, anyone?) a reason to fork over my hard-earned cash. But to save a site we believe in IS worth it. Rusty and the editors are cool guys. They're fun to shoot the shit with. The articles are miles above anything you'll see here, in both quality and quantity. And the moderation system is top-notch. Not flawless, mind you. But it's way better than this "power for the few" bullshit we have here. Giving users the ability to decide what goes in the Front Page would clear up 90% of the crap we see on a daily basis. I would hardly call Slashdot editors "one of us" anymore. They can't be bothered to hang out in the comments section with us "common folk" anymore. Hell, they don't even bother to spell check their own editorials. And forget about checking facts. I can't think of any countermeasure that has prevented freaks from crap-flooding or page-widening. But when I try to use a high-karma legit account, I run into shitloads of problems. Thanks, Rob. Doesn't that just make you want to rush out and pay for a yearly subscription?! *sarcasm*
This site isn't doomed because VA Linux is going under. It's doomed because the editors don't give a rat's ass about it's readership anymore.
If your machine is as slow as you seem to make it out to be, then you're probably running a command line, right? Or at least a stripped down gui. Either way, what the hell would you need 4 gigs of ram for on a machine like that?
....and I knew it would only be a matter of time before Slashdot would pick up on it. Look, guys. It was cool to be Anti-MS a few years ago when Linux was amassing it's own bandwagon. But it's time to grow up. Don't be such a fucking tool.
...as long as you're not using it to store anything you plan on keeping for more than a week at a time. When that bitch crashes, she crashes HARD(and often). Kiss everything you hold dear goodbye.
Just as good at other games? Heh, the Koreans who played UO were a bunch of cheap twats. They would wait in huge packs and gank you when you walked by. The problem is, they all sucked, so you would get 8 people flamestriking you rather than freezing you and THEN flamestriking you. A few friends of mine used to be tactical gods at the game, and they would kill off entire clans of Koreans like it was nothing because they completely sucked ass.
Saftey in numbers isn't always the best policy, as these losers found out. And you always knew they were Korean because their ghosts would curse and swear at you in a Korean Font. ^_^
The more user-friendly something is, the more variables the programmers need to take into account. Which means more code, and more complications(See:bugs). This is why Microsoft has had so many problems. Ease of use comes at a very high cost(60-some million lines of code are NOT easy to maintain). On the user-end of things, ease of use can mean lack of choices. I may not be able to select custom options because everything has been packaged in a convenient one-click interface. For the user who likes more options, the more user-friendly programs out there can actually be counter-productive and even more difficult to use than their more complex counterparts. Some habits are hard to break. Just ask any by-hand HTML coder what he thinks of Frontpage.
...back in the day when I was but a budding 3d artist. After a four year break, I felt it was time to hop back in the saddle and give it another go.
Blender itself was easy enough to use. Don't let the vast array of buttons get you down. It's really not that hard to learn. It will take you an hour. Two tops. The real problem arose when I started getting serious about my 3d art. Don't get me wrong, Blender is a nice program for beginners. But for anyone who is serious about 3d art or animation, Blender doesn't cut it by a long shot. Even Bryce 5 produces nicer effects.
I really hope the OSS community can do something for the program. Afterall, look at POVray. That was one sweet program, considering that it too was free. In the end, though. My employers demand the best. So I'm sitting here hammering out models in Maya 4 with the Renderman plugin, or 3d Studio Max with Cebas Final Render. Check out the girl on the Final Render site, or the Gallery sections and you'll see what I mean. Blender was a pretty sweet program(And you can't beat the price), but it still has a long way to go before professionals will even begin to take it seriously.
"So instead, you will just have to stop using Microsoft software. People bitch and moan and gripe but at the end of the day they sit down and load up Windows."
Hahahah! Do you really thing Taco and the rest of the drones in Geel Land are going to give up their Warcraft 3 or NeverWinter Nights?
Pffft!
Keep dreaming!
...is taking an initiative to push for wide spread adoption of broadband when cable companies are doing everything in their power to kill it.
My DSL provider recently jacked the rates up $5.00, and capped me at 5 gigs.
I will be cancelling my service at the end of the month. Why would I pay for broadband if I can't really utilize it? Dialup will serve just fine.
"Too bad MS shipped the Nimda virus with their Korean version of.Net Visual Studio."
This statement alone is worth article rejection. Just what the hell does shipping the Nimda virus with a product update have to do with online console gaming security?
Even if the two are remotely related, the latter was an internal screwup while the former would likely be a case of l33t h4xx0r5.
Without Microsoft, there would be no Free Software movement or Open Source.
Every religion needs it's God and it's Devil.
Without one, the other would have no reason for being, and would be forgotten.
Look at it this way: If the Open Source hippies had nothing to bitch and moan about, and no one to deem the great evil, they would have had no reason to start the free software movement. And they probably wouldn't have.
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We should be out there bombing sand-niggers and stealing their oil in Jesus' name!
And all you un-American slack-jawed faggots can think of are video games? For shame!
Right now, my ISP limits me to 5 gigs. To add insult to injury, they hiked my rates.
And every gig over 5 costs me $7.00
Who in their right mind is going to watch tv over the net when they're paying out the ass for it? Average Joe internet user is going to flip when he sees that bill in the mail.
When it all adds up, people fill likely find it more cost-effective to stick with cable or network tv.
Paying for content without commercials is a fine idea. I can download it when/where I want and watch it whenever I want to. But paying my ISP per gig of bandwidth AND paying for the content is enough to make me forget about it altogether and go back to dial-up.
Looks like someone already beat you to it. ;p~
Blah blah blah
No wonder the business world(see: serious folks) scoffs at the free software movement. You act like a bunch of children.
Grow up, you tool.
But to save a site we believe in IS worth it.
Rusty and the editors are cool guys. They're fun to shoot the shit with. The articles are miles above anything you'll see here, in both quality and quantity. And the moderation system is top-notch. Not flawless, mind you. But it's way better than this "power for the few" bullshit we have here. Giving users the ability to decide what goes in the Front Page would clear up 90% of the crap we see on a daily basis.
I would hardly call Slashdot editors "one of us" anymore. They can't be bothered to hang out in the comments section with us "common folk" anymore. Hell, they don't even bother to spell check their own editorials. And forget about checking facts.
I can't think of any countermeasure that has prevented freaks from crap-flooding or page-widening. But when I try to use a high-karma legit account, I run into shitloads of problems. Thanks, Rob. Doesn't that just make you want to rush out and pay for a yearly subscription?! *sarcasm*
This site isn't doomed because VA Linux is going under. It's doomed because the editors don't give a rat's ass about it's readership anymore.
If your machine is as slow as you seem to make it out to be, then you're probably running a command line, right? Or at least a stripped down gui.
Either way, what the hell would you need 4 gigs of ram for on a machine like that?
....and I knew it would only be a matter of time before Slashdot would pick up on it.
Look, guys. It was cool to be Anti-MS a few years ago when Linux was amassing it's own bandwagon.
But it's time to grow up. Don't be such a fucking tool.
...as long as you're not using it to store anything you plan on keeping for more than a week at a time.
When that bitch crashes, she crashes HARD(and often). Kiss everything you hold dear goodbye.
And it still makes you look like a twat. Take a hint.
Warning: Stupid "I think I'm l33t and I want the world to know" Buzzword alert!
A few friends of mine used to be tactical gods at the game, and they would kill off entire clans of Koreans like it was nothing because they completely sucked ass.
Saftey in numbers isn't always the best policy, as these losers found out. And you always knew they were Korean because their ghosts would curse and swear at you in a Korean Font. ^_^
In other words, it will probably be a pretty big hit in America as well. ;)
The more user-friendly something is, the more variables the programmers need to take into account. Which means more code, and more complications(See:bugs). This is why Microsoft has had so many problems. Ease of use comes at a very high cost(60-some million lines of code are NOT easy to maintain).
On the user-end of things, ease of use can mean lack of choices. I may not be able to select custom options because everything has been packaged in a convenient one-click interface.
For the user who likes more options, the more user-friendly programs out there can actually be counter-productive and even more difficult to use than their more complex counterparts. Some habits are hard to break. Just ask any by-hand HTML coder what he thinks of Frontpage.
Blender itself was easy enough to use. Don't let the vast array of buttons get you down. It's really not that hard to learn. It will take you an hour. Two tops.
The real problem arose when I started getting serious about my 3d art. Don't get me wrong, Blender is a nice program for beginners. But for anyone who is serious about 3d art or animation, Blender doesn't cut it by a long shot. Even Bryce 5 produces nicer effects.
I really hope the OSS community can do something for the program. Afterall, look at POVray. That was one sweet program, considering that it too was free.
In the end, though. My employers demand the best. So I'm sitting here hammering out models in Maya 4 with the Renderman plugin, or 3d Studio Max with Cebas Final Render.
Check out the girl on the Final Render site, or the Gallery sections and you'll see what I mean.
Blender was a pretty sweet program(And you can't beat the price), but it still has a long way to go before professionals will even begin to take it seriously.
LOL, oh man. This has to be modded up!
That was just too sweet! ^_^
Hahahah! Do you really thing Taco and the rest of the drones in Geel Land are going to give up their Warcraft 3 or NeverWinter Nights?
Pffft!
Keep dreaming!
...is taking an initiative to push for wide spread adoption of broadband when cable companies are doing everything in their power to kill it.
My DSL provider recently jacked the rates up $5.00, and capped me at 5 gigs.
I will be cancelling my service at the end of the month. Why would I pay for broadband if I can't really utilize it? Dialup will serve just fine.
News at eleven!
I can see that nothing gets by you.
Foh Sucky sucky!
Or you could do what most Spring Water companies do and *say* it's from Mars, when in fact it's just imported horse piss(American beer) or tap water.
This statement alone is worth article rejection. Just what the hell does shipping the Nimda virus with a product update have to do with online console gaming security?
Even if the two are remotely related, the latter was an internal screwup while the former would likely be a case of l33t h4xx0r5.
Yeah, but it's not cool to bash on anyone else but Microsoft!
Without Microsoft, there would be no Free Software movement or Open Source.
Every religion needs it's God and it's Devil.
Without one, the other would have no reason for being, and would be forgotten.
Look at it this way: If the Open Source hippies had nothing to bitch and moan about, and no one to deem the great evil, they would have had no reason to start the free software movement. And they probably wouldn't have.