No, I just want him to know Linux has come a long way in the last year and nine months.
Come on, he was as rude as possible on the Ubuntu forums.
Was he? Perhaps it's my memory failing, but I was under the impression he was relatively calm until people started replying offering advice without even reading his post (something I've seen pretty often myself -- "I've tried *appX* but it didn't work, are there alternatives?" Idiot: "Have you tried *appX*?")
Feel free to cite evidence to the contrary -- I just want people to know that things are improving rapidly with Linux because I care about it.
It's an accepted fact the PS3 costs more than $600 to make. The X-Box 360 costs more than $(whatever) to make, too. the PS2 originally cost more to make than they made back selling it. So does the PSP, or rather, so did the PSP. I'm not sure about it now.
They accept a hardware loss on the hopes of making it back through software (games) and marketshare. If they didn't, the PS3 would have came out costing like $800 and the 360 like $600.
At which point Nintendo would have had only one thing to say: LAWL! $_$
I can guarantee you it's changed since then. The June 06 version (Dapper Drake, 6.06) was the first version I ever installed, and it worked pretty much flawlessly. I went that direction after getting fed UP with configuring text files.
I've seen you post about this before, and the way the install and then problems after went with you is not acceptable. I'm sorry it went the way it did. From what I gather, the community has grown a lot since then, as well -- there are still the occasional jackasses, but they tend to be a vocal minority. Just thought I'd throw that out there as I tend to agree with your other posts -- your user name is very easy to remember.
Oh, I know after the SNES, Nintendo had a generation of idiocy. The N64, while it had a few good games, hurt them and they didn't recover until the Wii. I was a much bigger gamer back then, so I remember the idiocy. Had they switched to CD-ROM I probably wouldn't have purchased a Playstation, because like others, FF7 was the driving force in my PSX purchase.
Yamauchi sounds like just some old coot. You know, the crazy uncle who always has weird theories about "those people"? The best decision he made was appointing Arakawa to head NOA. Also, note that Yamauchi's asshole-quote is from 1999, when Nintendo was decidly lacking in RPGs. It sounds kind of bitter.
I'm not so sure anything old Nintendo did is worse than the things Sony and Microsoft have done. Maybe their game divisions haven't done things as bad, but c'mon, both of those companies have done some seriously awful stuff: Rootkits, Windows ME...
Some of Nintendo's policies in the past, like limiting games per year, had to do with avoiding a repeat of the crash. Others were just stupid legalese (suing over the Game Genie, for example) and every big company does stupid things with lawyers.
Whatever happend to "sorry man, I fucked up, my mistake" "oh, ok, shit happens, have a good day, watch it next time" and simply get on with your life?
Easy: After finding out they fucked up, the cop charged him with "obstructing official business" anyway. Therefore, even though he was legally in the right, the cop went after him anyway for... what reason?
You fuck up, you apologize, not charge someone with a crime anyway.
As someone who ran away from Windows, screaming in terror, I have to say: Probably not.
I went to Linux exclusively over a year and a half ago, but I'm not about to recommend it to most non-techies I know. Even when I've cleaned all the crap off of their computers that they accumulate in the form of spyware and viruses. I have no experience with Mac or any BSD variant, so I can't recommend that, either.
Warts and all, Windows is what most people know, and most aren't interested enough to learn anything new -- even if it's not complicated (which Linux can be). And by "warts" I mean "Zango and friends."
Besides... I like the non-techie admiration of my "genius" when I run AdAware and Spybot for them and get rid of spyware. It must be the feeling jocks get when they win a game.
I actually had to look up who they were, because I honestly had no idea. Not that I've never had to deal with spyware on a windows machine, just, I never paid enough attention to the names. I knew of Gator and Cool WWW Search by name before reading this.
I'm a little surprised they had the balls to bring a lawsuit about. Their hotbar apparently sends surfing habits back, they display pop ups, and it's somewhat of a bitch to uninstall -- my first question to their lawyers would be "So how are you NOT malware?"
Actually, he thought it seemed kind of silly that a Vulcan would punch someone, given their calm demeanor. At least, that's what I recall him saying in I am Spock.
So use a different distribution. I know that's sort of the flaming typical reply, but really, there are a lot of options out there. It'd be much easier to pick a different distro than change Ubuntu and the entire community (which seem to overwhelmingly prefer the nicknames).
While we're talking about names: Hardy Heron is still a much better name than "The Gimp." That's the number one bit of software I'd like to see get a name change in the OS world.
Actually, a better comparison is NC-17 to R, not R to PG-13. Most movie theater chains won't show NC-17 movies -- it's a kiss of death from the MPAA. Since most retailers won't sell AO games, that's a good way to compare.
This Film Is Not Yet Rated is a pretty decent documentary on the MPAA ratings and board. There are a few times when I feel like they go overboard, but the general information about the ratings process and history was interesting.
I'd be interested to know how the ESRB comes to ratings conclusions. I mean I know "Violence" or "Sexual Situations" but I'd like to know how they judge them.
Ah, okay. I was wondering since what he said and the summary didn't jive, and there was nothing backing up his statement.
I imagine one reason the PS3 is doing well internationally is that it's still somewhat "new" in Europe. Another is that it's not catching on in Japan very well at all -- and I'm not really seeing Microsoft taking steps to fix this.
Tax receipts will go down over this? Not likely, at least not in any measureable way.
If every video game publisher closed up shop in Germany, they'd lose any sales tax revenue, and any corporate taxes the companies paid.
It might not be much, but if other media companies followed? It might sting enough. Never underestimate how much governments value other people's money.
I have a right not to shop at Wal-Mart to buy my music. And I don't. I've avoided them for as long as I can remember when it comes to buying music. Wal-Mart has a right to not sell what they don't want to sell.
The silly part is that they DO sell R-rated movies. I saw Porky's for sale at Wal-Mart, and Slither -- the latter of which has more profanity than most non-rap albums, I'd wager.
Still, can't we have a tech discussion without the "people are starving" bullshit?
Apparently not. Someone above said something about how if we weren't in Iraq, we could have spent the money on the internet backbone in the US. technically, this is true, but we wouldn't have spent the money on the internet. Can't we have a technical discussion without Iraq popping up?
Seriously, some shit isn't related to the discussion and bringing it up is just stupid. So what if people are starving? Did this Ask Slashdot post make anyone in Africa any hungrier? I seriously doubt it. Does lowering the price of broadband in the US make anyone hungrier?
Only if we lower the price by making new broadband lines out of their food.
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What, are you this guy's best friend?
No, I just want him to know Linux has come a long way in the last year and nine months.
Come on, he was as rude as possible on the Ubuntu forums.
Was he? Perhaps it's my memory failing, but I was under the impression he was relatively calm until people started replying offering advice without even reading his post (something I've seen pretty often myself -- "I've tried *appX* but it didn't work, are there alternatives?" Idiot: "Have you tried *appX*?")
Feel free to cite evidence to the contrary -- I just want people to know that things are improving rapidly with Linux because I care about it.
Um. Yes they do.
It's an accepted fact the PS3 costs more than $600 to make. The X-Box 360 costs more than $(whatever) to make, too. the PS2 originally cost more to make than they made back selling it. So does the PSP, or rather, so did the PSP. I'm not sure about it now.
They accept a hardware loss on the hopes of making it back through software (games) and marketshare. If they didn't, the PS3 would have came out costing like $800 and the 360 like $600.
At which point Nintendo would have had only one thing to say: LAWL! $_$
I can guarantee you it's changed since then. The June 06 version (Dapper Drake, 6.06) was the first version I ever installed, and it worked pretty much flawlessly. I went that direction after getting fed UP with configuring text files.
I've seen you post about this before, and the way the install and then problems after went with you is not acceptable. I'm sorry it went the way it did. From what I gather, the community has grown a lot since then, as well -- there are still the occasional jackasses, but they tend to be a vocal minority. Just thought I'd throw that out there as I tend to agree with your other posts -- your user name is very easy to remember.
Oh, I know after the SNES, Nintendo had a generation of idiocy. The N64, while it had a few good games, hurt them and they didn't recover until the Wii. I was a much bigger gamer back then, so I remember the idiocy. Had they switched to CD-ROM I probably wouldn't have purchased a Playstation, because like others, FF7 was the driving force in my PSX purchase.
Yamauchi sounds like just some old coot. You know, the crazy uncle who always has weird theories about "those people"? The best decision he made was appointing Arakawa to head NOA. Also, note that Yamauchi's asshole-quote is from 1999, when Nintendo was decidly lacking in RPGs. It sounds kind of bitter.
I'm not so sure anything old Nintendo did is worse than the things Sony and Microsoft have done. Maybe their game divisions haven't done things as bad, but c'mon, both of those companies have done some seriously awful stuff: Rootkits, Windows ME...
Some of Nintendo's policies in the past, like limiting games per year, had to do with avoiding a repeat of the crash. Others were just stupid legalese (suing over the Game Genie, for example) and every big company does stupid things with lawyers.
Whatever happend to "sorry man, I fucked up, my mistake" "oh, ok, shit happens, have a good day, watch it next time" and simply get on with your life?
Easy: After finding out they fucked up, the cop charged him with "obstructing official business" anyway. Therefore, even though he was legally in the right, the cop went after him anyway for... what reason?
You fuck up, you apologize, not charge someone with a crime anyway.
Almost all settings are in a place called "/etc"
I dunno, she might sound better giving a hummer than singing.
As someone who ran away from Windows, screaming in terror, I have to say: Probably not.
I went to Linux exclusively over a year and a half ago, but I'm not about to recommend it to most non-techies I know. Even when I've cleaned all the crap off of their computers that they accumulate in the form of spyware and viruses. I have no experience with Mac or any BSD variant, so I can't recommend that, either.
Warts and all, Windows is what most people know, and most aren't interested enough to learn anything new -- even if it's not complicated (which Linux can be). And by "warts" I mean "Zango and friends."
Besides... I like the non-techie admiration of my "genius" when I run AdAware and Spybot for them and get rid of spyware. It must be the feeling jocks get when they win a game.
I actually had to look up who they were, because I honestly had no idea. Not that I've never had to deal with spyware on a windows machine, just, I never paid enough attention to the names. I knew of Gator and Cool WWW Search by name before reading this.
I'm a little surprised they had the balls to bring a lawsuit about. Their hotbar apparently sends surfing habits back, they display pop ups, and it's somewhat of a bitch to uninstall -- my first question to their lawyers would be "So how are you NOT malware?"
Actually, he thought it seemed kind of silly that a Vulcan would punch someone, given their calm demeanor. At least, that's what I recall him saying in I am Spock.
I was referring more to the people who own consoles from ONLY one brand because it is "better" than the rest and the rest "suck".
Most of these people are mentally 14 years old, if not physically. That kind of mentality is immature and stupid.
A female nipple. No one seems to object to hairy-dude-nipple. Which, of the two, is the more offensive to ME...
So does that make a game with two tits "AO and a half"?
So use a different distribution. I know that's sort of the flaming typical reply, but really, there are a lot of options out there. It'd be much easier to pick a different distro than change Ubuntu and the entire community (which seem to overwhelmingly prefer the nicknames).
While we're talking about names: Hardy Heron is still a much better name than "The Gimp." That's the number one bit of software I'd like to see get a name change in the OS world.
No way, the L release should be Llama. Lovable Llama.
Picture it: A Llama in a leisure suit.
Actually, a better comparison is NC-17 to R, not R to PG-13. Most movie theater chains won't show NC-17 movies -- it's a kiss of death from the MPAA. Since most retailers won't sell AO games, that's a good way to compare.
This Film Is Not Yet Rated is a pretty decent documentary on the MPAA ratings and board. There are a few times when I feel like they go overboard, but the general information about the ratings process and history was interesting.
I'd be interested to know how the ESRB comes to ratings conclusions. I mean I know "Violence" or "Sexual Situations" but I'd like to know how they judge them.
Ah, okay. I was wondering since what he said and the summary didn't jive, and there was nothing backing up his statement.
I imagine one reason the PS3 is doing well internationally is that it's still somewhat "new" in Europe. Another is that it's not catching on in Japan very well at all -- and I'm not really seeing Microsoft taking steps to fix this.
...since when does "blatantly wrong" quality for "insightful" mods?
Um.
Your logic is faulty.
First, the Wii hasn't been out as long as the 360, and has apparently caught up to it in sales.
Second, the 360 has had a year headstart -- so more people should have them, and less people should be buying them.
Third, "building momentum" or just a boost because of the 80GB version and lowered price for the 60GB?
I do sort-of agree that the numbers don't mean much. The holiday season numbers will be more important.
penny arcade is the most over-rated bullshit on the Internet.
I disagree.
Myspace is the most over-rated bullshit on the Internet.
Tax receipts will go down over this? Not likely, at least not in any measureable way.
If every video game publisher closed up shop in Germany, they'd lose any sales tax revenue, and any corporate taxes the companies paid.
It might not be much, but if other media companies followed? It might sting enough. Never underestimate how much governments value other people's money.
I think given his contribution, Linus at least deserves to be listened to. Now, to be obeyed on the other hand...
Except it doesn't do anything to my rights.
I have a right not to shop at Wal-Mart to buy my music. And I don't. I've avoided them for as long as I can remember when it comes to buying music. Wal-Mart has a right to not sell what they don't want to sell.
The silly part is that they DO sell R-rated movies. I saw Porky's for sale at Wal-Mart, and Slither -- the latter of which has more profanity than most non-rap albums, I'd wager.
Uh, we pay farmers not to grow certain crops. We're not exactly hurting for farmers.
And I don't think the people who lay broadband fiber are exactly interested in being farmers instead.
Unless you're being sarcastic.
Still, can't we have a tech discussion without the "people are starving" bullshit?
Apparently not. Someone above said something about how if we weren't in Iraq, we could have spent the money on the internet backbone in the US. technically, this is true, but we wouldn't have spent the money on the internet. Can't we have a technical discussion without Iraq popping up?
Seriously, some shit isn't related to the discussion and bringing it up is just stupid. So what if people are starving? Did this Ask Slashdot post make anyone in Africa any hungrier? I seriously doubt it. Does lowering the price of broadband in the US make anyone hungrier?
Only if we lower the price by making new broadband lines out of their food.