ORN: So what have you been playing lately on your Xbox?
BH: Linux. I don't use my Xbox to play games.
I used to own a copy of Dead or Alive 3, but I gave that to a friend after I got bored of it. I also tried Halo once and bored of it pretty quickly. I tend to play the Nintendo GameCube the most; its games are the most fun. I am still working on beating the new Zelda.
Why would you buy one of these to put linux on? If your not playing games wiht it why not do one of the following:
1) Use a small older computer from ebay and install linux
2) Build a computer and install linux
3) Buy a PS2 with the Linux Kit
4) Buy a dreamcast and burn your linux boot cd
And even then WHAT IS THE POINT? It seems like people just do this because THEY CAN and are not asking whether they SHOULD be doing this?
And I still don;t see the use for it. What are you possibly going to do with Linux on an Xbox that you couldn't do with Linux on your computer?
Oh the drivers are the same here in NorCal, but the freeway speed limit is 65mph and drivers have the tendancy to go 5-10mph over the speed limit normally so driving at 65-75mph is the "norm" with those of us who need to get from A to B asap drive in the 80-90mph aggressive range....
This is likely to have repercussions in the Open Source Community too. [STOP] If MS is found to be infringing the patent, that ruling could be extended to other browsers like Opera and Mozilla.
This is so retarded, yet based on the fact that Apple Corp has one all (2) it's previous lawsuits against Apple Computer, it seems obvious that no matter how ridiculous this sounds poor Apple Computer is gonna get screwed and have to pay lots of money. Way to go Apple Corp, why don;t you start sueing P2P users for downloading music as well...
How can you complain about the games being on "small sd cards" - thats perfect IMO. After all your wanting a PORTABLE game device that is SMALL and takes up LESS SPACE on the go right? After all your playing games not working on your laptop? So how is that a valid complaint that "wah the cartidges are so small and easy to loose"
Also his description of putting a game in and switching cartidges is somewhat nonsense. If I compared it to my game it'd be somehting liek this: I have to put the cartidge in then turn the gameboy on then hit start to play the next game I have to turn it off then take out the cartidge then put the new one in the slot then turn it on then hit start - NO SHIT.
On another note i'm not getting one of these simply because I wouldn't be able to play Pokemon on it and trade my Machop for your Squirtle, thats really the only factor in my choices.
Normally this is the kind of story that would bring out the Troll in me to laugh or bitch at the oodles of/. posters that have given their first son the name Linus.....
But in my own experience, and maybe it's just cause i'm not as popular as say Google.com or Msn.com, but one of the sites I maintain (www.reptiliansystems.com) off of IIS gives me a lot of headaches, where as my personal site (www.galthor.com) running off of a redhat system has been nothing but porn-butt smooth from day 1.
Actually your part right - i'm totally down with porn and girls showing off their asses, but I wouldn't listen to Jenna Jameson maoning while fucking and call it ARTISTIC MUSIC.
What I don't like is how the RIAA will take someone who looks attractive to the 16yr old crowd (take Anvril Laverge - whatever the fuck her name is) and then market the shit out of her and call her an ARTISTS?!!
And as far as a respectable artists showing off her body, there are artistic ways to go about it (Alanis Morisette - whatever her name is) and then there are just slutty (christina agulaera) ways to go about it.
There are definately some songs/bands that are mainstream and good, but to list them all here would just be pointless, what i'd point out instead is my main point that most RIAA bands are NOT valid "Musical Artists" in my opinion, because they can not sing well and cannot write their own music.
Now 2.5mil woul be painful, but 250k doesn't seem like much. But at least another one bites the dust. And hopefully this will encourage others who have the means to continue to sue spammers. I have the will, but no means. As in I have a desire and a bunch of email records yet I have no money for a lawyer and googling for free info seems to bring up useless adds for stuff I don't need.
On another note I was eating dinner wiht a friend and she told me in VERY strong terms that spam would "never go away" and as a business practice it works great and she supports it. She said in her company's case they "send" out their marketing material to harvested emails that are sold to them froma third party. Yet inthe next sentence she complains about getting penis enlargemtn emails and breast enhancers.....
Well I was always for P2P since I grab a lot of things other than music, however I would occassionally snag a Supercharger or Hellbillies mp3. But it seems that the majority of people dlowding are grabbing the SHITTY music they keep complaining about. Looking at the site it seems to prove this with the top 10 listed songs/albums including 50 Cent, beyonce, Lil Kim, and every other bullshit artist on MTV. If people stopped lsitening to crap and started only dloading songs from GOOD non-commercialized bands or at least bands that were not the latest-and-greatest-company-endorsed-sings-through -a-voicebox-shows-their-ass-whore "musician" the RIAA wouldn't be sueing 12 years olds or college kids.
"It's not like we were doing anything illegal," said Torres. "This is a 12-year-old girl, for crying out loud."
Actually you ARE according to the RIAA. Whether you agree or disagree with that is another issue, but as of TODAY, if you are downloading AND sharing music using Kazaa or something else, the RIAA CAN and WILL sue you. They have the power and as of right now - THE RIGHT. Just because your 12 doesn't mean you can't be sued. Just because your mom pays $30 for the full version of Kazaa, doesn't mean it makes music sharing right.
Now please don't take this the wrong way - i'm just stating the obvious. I personally am against the RIAA, but you know what? I don't download or share music. In fact I hardly listen to music at all so I don't care. It seems like the people getting in trouble for this fall into 2 categories 1) The uber ignorant who dload britneys spears all day and have never paid attention to the news (probably highschool students) or 2) The uber arrogant who think their such a 1337 haxor that they are going to fight the RIAA or some nonsense by continueing to dload music rather than lobby congress
Um... my G4 that I have came with a 2 button mouse and I use the second button rather than "option-click" because my work doesn't require very much of the keyboard - so the less I have to touch anything other than my mouse the better.
Your forgetting that until Apple makes something it doesn't exist to the fanatics. For example apparently 64bit processors were a world-wide delusion and were never invented until 2003 when the Apple G5 was released. No one could purchase mp3's untill itunes came out. Apparently mp3.com and emusic.com and others were fabrications as well. There were also no mp3 players before the ipod.
Of course some zealot will just say soemthing along the lines of "well it was't done right till Apple did it" or some other such nonsense.
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU ON?
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"Imagine if William Gibson wrote a James Bond adventure in which a sexual tigress seduces Bond into a Caribbean political crisis, requiring a nighttime scuba-dive into a sunken treasure-wreck, and then a voodoo ceremony that reads like a nightmare acid trip. Now replace James Bond with an "overeducated hick" atheist literature professor from Minnesota. And target the writing to intelligent adults, rather than adolescents. That should give you an idea of the latest novella from Robert Stone, Bay of Souls:"
Imagine a sci-fi story written by Ron Hubbart with Aliens from the planet whatever who have come to suck out the life force humans and enslave them. Now replace Ron Hubbart with Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman and instead of sci-fi make it fantasy and instead of aliens make it a sorcerer who creates a cataclysm.....And you have Dragonlance instead of Battlefield Earth....
I think these are really cool, but from playing with my cat, all I really want is a pet that can talk and do things for me. I swear if my cat coul get me a beer from the fridge by just me telling him, i'd be willing to pay a few grand for that.
On another note this whole camera in the AIBO that you can watch - does anyone else think of "Familiars"
I totally love my SL-5500, I use it mostly for phone/address stuff and quick notes from meetings and calls, but even as an mp3 player with a 64mb SD in the side and a good headset it's great even at the gym . Looking on the Ezaurus.com page looks like there is a higher end version called the C760 (the article reviews the C750) - I'm sure by the time they actually start selling in America (what maybe 2 years from now) my 5500 will just start "feeling" old.
Ok advertising linux is nice, but it doesn't change the fact that there is no distro "friendly" enough for the "normal" masses. A good example is the fact that the majority of people like Windows (any version) and Mac OS (any version) over Linux for 1 reason and 1 reason only.
GUI
The majority of people - read: every person outside of the Programming, Development, and IT fields who use a computer for Accounting, Business, Graphics, Presentations, Email, Web Browsing, etc... want to be able to click and drag and NEVER use a command line. Although KDE/Gnome/Etc... allows people some of these features, they don't allow the installation of hardware (ok Mandrake has the Hard Drake thing, but when I tried it didnt work worth shit and I was still stuck dloading and installing Alsa drivers via the command line)
THE MASSES DO NOT WANT TO TYPE IN SHIT LIKE THIS: bzip2 -d -c alsa-driver-0.5.10b.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf - Take this example of me and my friend. My friend whos going to school for programming created a program called UrlToys. It's free, written in Pearl and can run on Linux, Windows, and OS X. It's a great program. BUT it runs out of a command prompt ONLY. Therefore I have to "type" commands in for it work.
There is me who likes to test out his programs. The first thing that comes ot mind is i'd rather use a software like Packrat because I can copy and paste into the desired field and then click a couple buttons and it does the same thing.
As someone who comes from a graphic design background, I like pretty shit and want my computer to make things EASIER for me. I dont want to feel like i'm writing a program just so I can grab some porn picks off a site. I want someone else to program shit for me and let me get back to work, whcih in MY case is making pretty shit - NOT fucking with a command prompt.
So I read this "The project comes at a time when the university's academic departments are struggling to fulfill students' educational needs in the wake of a $72 million reduction in state support."
and then I wonder why you would spend $5mil dollars over the next 5 years to build a supercomputer? It seems like a better idea would be to reach out to the slahsdot/linux communities and see what kind of equipment they could get donated/free and then build a semi-super computer with that - or hell even just buy a shitload of cheap pc's to do it with....
Oh come one - who the hell uses those still. Even the people out in the hills have some kind of highspeed access, DSL, DirectPC, or some other form of wirless like P2P (Point to Point). And the fact that these services are low in cost (around $40/mo for a 1.5mb connection) there isn;t any reason to keep including modems in systems. Especially if the systems are "name brand off the shelf for the popular crowd" - meaning most people.
Then again I understand the linux community likes their systems old and unique and would rather spend money tweaking and shogunning their modems than spending half the amount on a newer and more productive piece of hardware.
Don't mind me it's too early in the morning to make too much sense....
From the article I gathered that Microsoft plans to release a new version of Office. This new version of Office will have a feature where the users can encrypt there files so only people they want to read their files can. In addition this new version of Office will have a server software addition where netadmins can control the access to shared documents from a central location.
If you want these new features you have to use the new version of Office. Why is that a big deal or problem? I'm sure there were features added in Office XP that were not in Office 2000 right? It doesn't change the fact that I can still open the document in either program (granted formatings are changed based on what functions of the newer version were used) but this isn't an "EVIL" thing.
All new apps come out with newer features that are not supported in the older versions - and honestly I like that - it's not a problem. If you want to use your New Document in an Older version it's easy 1) downsave and/or 2) don't use the encryption option.
I can't agree about Jason X, however over here in San Jose, Comcast sucks balls too. Me and the GF tried digital cable for about 6 months and after continuous outages, supposed upgrades, and ordering shows that would cutout during important dialogues or just get all scrambled for a bit during the great sex scenes, we decided to get rid of it. Now we are much more happy with being able to rent/buy a good movie put it in and not have to worry about it skipping (unless the dvd is dirty, but thats rare) - hell we can even pause it and then go back to watching it something digital cables hasn't figured in yet.
I agree that for obvious reason the Apples and self uilt systems do not open with EULA's, but I think there was some method to his rant. The truth of the matter is any name brand system whether it's IBM, HP-Compaq, DELL, etc... ALL turn on to a EULA that basically states you have to agree to all the Microsoft Licenses associated with this system. It makes sense because these systems shit with Windows for people who will only use Windows and Windows apps. Mainstream PC's bought at Compusa or Frys are nto guaranteed to run linux and the people that do run Linux on them don't usually buy over the counter systems anyway.
I can understand his frustration with the person in this article who seems to be escalating a already KNOWN issue to people who don't care. And this isn't a form of government here where the consumers have a say. Microsoft and PC Manufacturers will always and have always had EULA's that are very encompassing. People have complained so much about it yet the companies will not listen, and it's gotten to the point that the majority of people don;t care anymore and will just hit "I agree" so they can use the app. It doesn;t stop them from "sharing" there program and it doesnt stop them from "warezing" because people will still do that even tho they hit "I agree"
This author just seemed like a prime candidate of someone who just wanted the attention of slashdot....
When it comes down to it, just because your not supposed to doesnt mean you wont and just because you shouldnt doesnt mean you cant.
I agree with his frustration, but honestly, if your buying a namebrand system (especially M$ henchmen Dell) you should expect to agree to every EULA ever written for any and every version of Windows. All name brand systems pretty much have the standard "This is sold with Windows OS and you agree to all Microsoft End User Licenses by using this system because they paid us a lot of money to ship our systems with their OS and you are not smart enough to build your own and/or install something other than Windows"
The fact that he escalted such an issue shows more of how much time he is willing to waste to prove HIS point. Thats really all this was.
I can imagine the author thinking - Hay i'm bored so i'm gonna bitch about the most mundain part of a contract I can and see how far I can get with this, then i'll post it to slashdot where everyone hates M$ and Dell enough that it'll get posted and my website will get tons of traffic and i'll become an internet rockstar - look how 1337 I am.
Besides - how many people "borrow" software from firends - install it, yet obviously had to agree to the EULA that came with it that told them specifically not to do that? And i'm not talking about software "piracy" in the sense of warez, i'm talking about how my aunt gets some cheeseball program and then my cousin says - hay that looks cool can I borrow that to install on my system and so she does - neither one knows/realizes they did anythign wrong - but then again - neither one has that thing called "the internet web"
Ok, well maybe thats not true, but I do have an important question to ask those that own one of these Robo Vacs (whatever they're called) How well do they get along with cats? I currently have a little 1 floor condo that I think this would work well on, but I wouldn't want my cat to get eaten by it well I was away. As well as I wouldn't want my cat to kill $250 worth of gears on my carpet. Any ideas, comments, true stories?
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Now I wont b'e made fun of for NOT using correct punkduation and gramer when poesting on /.
will actually win the Linux war since "Why wouldn't they want to tap into this growing market"
hmmm....what a valid reason? NOT...how about I just want to jock google for reason....
ORN: So what have you been playing lately on your Xbox?
BH: Linux. I don't use my Xbox to play games.
I used to own a copy of Dead or Alive 3, but I gave that to a friend after I got bored of it. I also tried Halo once and bored of it pretty quickly. I tend to play the Nintendo GameCube the most; its games are the most fun. I am still working on beating the new Zelda.
Why would you buy one of these to put linux on? If your not playing games wiht it why not do one of the following:
1) Use a small older computer from ebay and install linux
2) Build a computer and install linux
3) Buy a PS2 with the Linux Kit
4) Buy a dreamcast and burn your linux boot cd
And even then WHAT IS THE POINT? It seems like people just do this because THEY CAN and are not asking whether they SHOULD be doing this?
And I still don;t see the use for it. What are you possibly going to do with Linux on an Xbox that you couldn't do with Linux on your computer?
enlighten me please.
Oh the drivers are the same here in NorCal, but the freeway speed limit is 65mph and drivers have the tendancy to go 5-10mph over the speed limit normally so driving at 65-75mph is the "norm" with those of us who need to get from A to B asap drive in the 80-90mph aggressive range....
Not at all....
This is likely to have repercussions in the Open Source Community too. [STOP] If MS is found to be infringing the patent, that ruling could be extended to other browsers like Opera and Mozilla.
2 sentences 2 different trains of thought.
This is so retarded, yet based on the fact that Apple Corp has one all (2) it's previous lawsuits against Apple Computer, it seems obvious that no matter how ridiculous this sounds poor Apple Computer is gonna get screwed and have to pay lots of money. Way to go Apple Corp, why don;t you start sueing P2P users for downloading music as well...
How can you complain about the games being on "small sd cards" - thats perfect IMO. After all your wanting a PORTABLE game device that is SMALL and takes up LESS SPACE on the go right? After all your playing games not working on your laptop? So how is that a valid complaint that "wah the cartidges are so small and easy to loose"
Also his description of putting a game in and switching cartidges is somewhat nonsense. If I compared it to my game it'd be somehting liek this: I have to put the cartidge in then turn the gameboy on then hit start to play the next game I have to turn it off then take out the cartidge then put the new one in the slot then turn it on then hit start - NO SHIT.
On another note i'm not getting one of these simply because I wouldn't be able to play Pokemon on it and trade my Machop for your Squirtle, thats really the only factor in my choices.
Normally this is the kind of story that would bring out the Troll in me to laugh or bitch at the oodles of /. posters that have given their first son the name Linus.....
But in my own experience, and maybe it's just cause i'm not as popular as say Google.com or Msn.com, but one of the sites I maintain (www.reptiliansystems.com) off of IIS gives me a lot of headaches, where as my personal site (www.galthor.com) running off of a redhat system has been nothing but porn-butt smooth from day 1.
Actually your part right - i'm totally down with porn and girls showing off their asses, but I wouldn't listen to Jenna Jameson maoning while fucking and call it ARTISTIC MUSIC.
What I don't like is how the RIAA will take someone who looks attractive to the 16yr old crowd (take Anvril Laverge - whatever the fuck her name is) and then market the shit out of her and call her an ARTISTS?!!
And as far as a respectable artists showing off her body, there are artistic ways to go about it (Alanis Morisette - whatever her name is) and then there are just slutty (christina agulaera) ways to go about it.
There are definately some songs/bands that are mainstream and good, but to list them all here would just be pointless, what i'd point out instead is my main point that most RIAA bands are NOT valid "Musical Artists" in my opinion, because they can not sing well and cannot write their own music.
Now 2.5mil woul be painful, but 250k doesn't seem like much. But at least another one bites the dust. And hopefully this will encourage others who have the means to continue to sue spammers. I have the will, but no means. As in I have a desire and a bunch of email records yet I have no money for a lawyer and googling for free info seems to bring up useless adds for stuff I don't need.
On another note I was eating dinner wiht a friend and she told me in VERY strong terms that spam would "never go away" and as a business practice it works great and she supports it. She said in her company's case they "send" out their marketing material to harvested emails that are sold to them froma third party. Yet inthe next sentence she complains about getting penis enlargemtn emails and breast enhancers.....
meh!
Well I was always for P2P since I grab a lot of things other than music, however I would occassionally snag a Supercharger or Hellbillies mp3. But it seems that the majority of people dlowding are grabbing the SHITTY music they keep complaining about. Looking at the site it seems to prove this with the top 10 listed songs/albums including 50 Cent, beyonce, Lil Kim, and every other bullshit artist on MTV. If people stopped lsitening to crap and started only dloading songs from GOOD non-commercialized bands or at least bands that were not the latest-and-greatest-company-endorsed-sings-through -a-voicebox-shows-their-ass-whore "musician" the RIAA wouldn't be sueing 12 years olds or college kids.
STOP MTV MUSIC NOW
"It's not like we were doing anything illegal," said Torres. "This is a 12-year-old girl, for crying out loud."
Actually you ARE according to the RIAA. Whether you agree or disagree with that is another issue, but as of TODAY, if you are downloading AND sharing music using Kazaa or something else, the RIAA CAN and WILL sue you. They have the power and as of right now - THE RIGHT. Just because your 12 doesn't mean you can't be sued. Just because your mom pays $30 for the full version of Kazaa, doesn't mean it makes music sharing right.
Now please don't take this the wrong way - i'm just stating the obvious. I personally am against the RIAA, but you know what? I don't download or share music. In fact I hardly listen to music at all so I don't care. It seems like the people getting in trouble for this fall into 2 categories 1) The uber ignorant who dload britneys spears all day and have never paid attention to the news (probably highschool students) or 2) The uber arrogant who think their such a 1337 haxor that they are going to fight the RIAA or some nonsense by continueing to dload music rather than lobby congress
GGAAAAHHHHHHAAAARRRRRRRGGGG!!!!!
Um... my G4 that I have came with a 2 button mouse and I use the second button rather than "option-click" because my work doesn't require very much of the keyboard - so the less I have to touch anything other than my mouse the better.
Your forgetting that until Apple makes something it doesn't exist to the fanatics. For example apparently 64bit processors were a world-wide delusion and were never invented until 2003 when the Apple G5 was released. No one could purchase mp3's untill itunes came out. Apparently mp3.com and emusic.com and others were fabrications as well. There were also no mp3 players before the ipod.
Of course some zealot will just say soemthing along the lines of "well it was't done right till Apple did it" or some other such nonsense.
"Imagine if William Gibson wrote a James Bond adventure in which a sexual tigress seduces Bond into a Caribbean political crisis, requiring a nighttime scuba-dive into a sunken treasure-wreck, and then a voodoo ceremony that reads like a nightmare acid trip. Now replace James Bond with an "overeducated hick" atheist literature professor from Minnesota. And target the writing to intelligent adults, rather than adolescents. That should give you an idea of the latest novella from Robert Stone, Bay of Souls:"
Imagine a sci-fi story written by Ron Hubbart with Aliens from the planet whatever who have come to suck out the life force humans and enslave them. Now replace Ron Hubbart with Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman and instead of sci-fi make it fantasy and instead of aliens make it a sorcerer who creates a cataclysm.....And you have Dragonlance instead of Battlefield Earth....
I think these are really cool, but from playing with my cat, all I really want is a pet that can talk and do things for me. I swear if my cat coul get me a beer from the fridge by just me telling him, i'd be willing to pay a few grand for that.
On another note this whole camera in the AIBO that you can watch - does anyone else think of "Familiars"
I totally love my SL-5500, I use it mostly for phone/address stuff and quick notes from meetings and calls, but even as an mp3 player with a 64mb SD in the side and a good headset it's great even at the gym . Looking on the Ezaurus.com page looks like there is a higher end version called the C760 (the article reviews the C750) - I'm sure by the time they actually start selling in America (what maybe 2 years from now) my 5500 will just start "feeling" old.
Ok advertising linux is nice, but it doesn't change the fact that there is no distro "friendly" enough for the "normal" masses. A good example is the fact that the majority of people like Windows (any version) and Mac OS (any version) over Linux for 1 reason and 1 reason only.
GUI
The majority of people - read: every person outside of the Programming, Development, and IT fields who use a computer for Accounting, Business, Graphics, Presentations, Email, Web Browsing, etc... want to be able to click and drag and NEVER use a command line. Although KDE/Gnome/Etc... allows people some of these features, they don't allow the installation of hardware (ok Mandrake has the Hard Drake thing, but when I tried it didnt work worth shit and I was still stuck dloading and installing Alsa drivers via the command line)
THE MASSES DO NOT WANT TO TYPE IN SHIT LIKE THIS:
bzip2 -d -c alsa-driver-0.5.10b.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf -
Take this example of me and my friend. My friend whos going to school for programming created a program called UrlToys. It's free, written in Pearl and can run on Linux, Windows, and OS X. It's a great program. BUT it runs out of a command prompt ONLY. Therefore I have to "type" commands in for it work.
There is me who likes to test out his programs. The first thing that comes ot mind is i'd rather use a software like Packrat because I can copy and paste into the desired field and then click a couple buttons and it does the same thing.
As someone who comes from a graphic design background, I like pretty shit and want my computer to make things EASIER for me. I dont want to feel like i'm writing a program just so I can grab some porn picks off a site. I want someone else to program shit for me and let me get back to work, whcih in MY case is making pretty shit - NOT fucking with a command prompt.
So I read this "The project comes at a time when the university's academic departments are struggling to fulfill students' educational needs in the wake of a $72 million reduction in state support."
and then I wonder why you would spend $5mil dollars over the next 5 years to build a supercomputer? It seems like a better idea would be to reach out to the slahsdot/linux communities and see what kind of equipment they could get donated/free and then build a semi-super computer with that - or hell even just buy a shitload of cheap pc's to do it with....
maybe i'm just missing something...
Oh come one - who the hell uses those still. Even the people out in the hills have some kind of highspeed access, DSL, DirectPC, or some other form of wirless like P2P (Point to Point). And the fact that these services are low in cost (around $40/mo for a 1.5mb connection) there isn;t any reason to keep including modems in systems. Especially if the systems are "name brand off the shelf for the popular crowd" - meaning most people.
Then again I understand the linux community likes their systems old and unique and would rather spend money tweaking and shogunning their modems than spending half the amount on a newer and more productive piece of hardware.
Don't mind me it's too early in the morning to make too much sense....
From the article I gathered that Microsoft plans to release a new version of Office. This new version of Office will have a feature where the users can encrypt there files so only people they want to read their files can. In addition this new version of Office will have a server software addition where netadmins can control the access to shared documents from a central location.
If you want these new features you have to use the new version of Office. Why is that a big deal or problem? I'm sure there were features added in Office XP that were not in Office 2000 right? It doesn't change the fact that I can still open the document in either program (granted formatings are changed based on what functions of the newer version were used) but this isn't an "EVIL" thing.
All new apps come out with newer features that are not supported in the older versions - and honestly I like that - it's not a problem. If you want to use your New Document in an Older version it's easy 1) downsave and/or 2) don't use the encryption option.
Done.
I can't agree about Jason X, however over here in San Jose, Comcast sucks balls too. Me and the GF tried digital cable for about 6 months and after continuous outages, supposed upgrades, and ordering shows that would cutout during important dialogues or just get all scrambled for a bit during the great sex scenes, we decided to get rid of it. Now we are much more happy with being able to rent/buy a good movie put it in and not have to worry about it skipping (unless the dvd is dirty, but thats rare) - hell we can even pause it and then go back to watching it something digital cables hasn't figured in yet.
I agree that for obvious reason the Apples and self uilt systems do not open with EULA's, but I think there was some method to his rant. The truth of the matter is any name brand system whether it's IBM, HP-Compaq, DELL, etc... ALL turn on to a EULA that basically states you have to agree to all the Microsoft Licenses associated with this system. It makes sense because these systems shit with Windows for people who will only use Windows and Windows apps. Mainstream PC's bought at Compusa or Frys are nto guaranteed to run linux and the people that do run Linux on them don't usually buy over the counter systems anyway.
I can understand his frustration with the person in this article who seems to be escalating a already KNOWN issue to people who don't care. And this isn't a form of government here where the consumers have a say. Microsoft and PC Manufacturers will always and have always had EULA's that are very encompassing. People have complained so much about it yet the companies will not listen, and it's gotten to the point that the majority of people don;t care anymore and will just hit "I agree" so they can use the app. It doesn;t stop them from "sharing" there program and it doesnt stop them from "warezing" because people will still do that even tho they hit "I agree"
This author just seemed like a prime candidate of someone who just wanted the attention of slashdot....
When it comes down to it, just because your not supposed to doesnt mean you wont and just because you shouldnt doesnt mean you cant.
I agree with his frustration, but honestly, if your buying a namebrand system (especially M$ henchmen Dell) you should expect to agree to every EULA ever written for any and every version of Windows. All name brand systems pretty much have the standard "This is sold with Windows OS and you agree to all Microsoft End User Licenses by using this system because they paid us a lot of money to ship our systems with their OS and you are not smart enough to build your own and/or install something other than Windows"
The fact that he escalted such an issue shows more of how much time he is willing to waste to prove HIS point. Thats really all this was.
I can imagine the author thinking - Hay i'm bored so i'm gonna bitch about the most mundain part of a contract I can and see how far I can get with this, then i'll post it to slashdot where everyone hates M$ and Dell enough that it'll get posted and my website will get tons of traffic and i'll become an internet rockstar - look how 1337 I am.
Besides - how many people "borrow" software from firends - install it, yet obviously had to agree to the EULA that came with it that told them specifically not to do that? And i'm not talking about software "piracy" in the sense of warez, i'm talking about how my aunt gets some cheeseball program and then my cousin says - hay that looks cool can I borrow that to install on my system and so she does - neither one knows/realizes they did anythign wrong - but then again - neither one has that thing called "the internet web"
Ok, well maybe thats not true, but I do have an important question to ask those that own one of these Robo Vacs (whatever they're called) How well do they get along with cats? I currently have a little 1 floor condo that I think this would work well on, but I wouldn't want my cat to get eaten by it well I was away. As well as I wouldn't want my cat to kill $250 worth of gears on my carpet. Any ideas, comments, true stories?