Here is a tip: no one likes a grammar natzee. Usually people know the difference between "your" and "you're" they are just in too much of a rush to proofread.
Actually you are very much on to something, different capacities for different needs. In a town the size of 10-50 thousand people the driving needs are different than a larger city. I could get by on a certain capacity, whereas someone in say Omaha or Denver might need something else. This would allow people to use their SUV/minivan/sedan for family trips where the size of the vehicle (plus carrying capacity and ease of use of gasoline or ethanol or bio-diesel) would be useful. They could also have their electric vehicle for around town and the main 90% of driving they do each year. The half solutions we have now (small engines, CVT transmissions, "hybrid mode", etc) is not enough, while these all electric small cars are exactly what we need.
I use this card and its open source driver on an x86 box, but perhaps this driver doesn't work on PPC? Does anyone have a Mac Mini w/ this card that can chime in? It is possible this integrated card is slightly different than the older retail versions. Last I knew the ati radeon 9000 card worked well also, and it has versions still available with dual output. (Not that this helps the guy with a Mac Mini though:-(
A lot of good libraries have texts on this. A quote from that book is now my sig: "but money is the God of Algiers & Mohamet their prophet." - Rich. O'Bryen June 8th 1786
It isn't entirely fair to talk about the corrupt Ottoman empire and modern radical Muslims as they are quite different. The only thing the Ottomans cared about was money.
"unless he decides to unilaterally declare himself dictator".
That is the problem. It seems to me that American people have nothing prepared for that type scenario. We have ammunition, lots of ammunition. Though I think the first thing we would have to do is have an immediate and hopefully nonviolent takeover of the media - tv, radio, and print. Those assholes are too complacent and have stopped being relevant to real news for years. Personally I would place everyone from the homeless to hippy college professors to be on boards running such things as a television station.
HomelessInLaJolla is just acting retarded. The only thing I ever see him post on/. is how there are AC trolls out to get him - thus making anything he says a Troll by never staying on topic. The anonymous cowards feed on the fact that he continually recognizes them.
If you read my other comment you see the hdtv issue further discussed (as well as my wish to get one eventually, just not yet.) As for the Explorer, it's a great metal guitar! I have an older Epiphone Les Paul w/ two Seymour Duncans ('59 and JB), as well as a decent Ibanez RGT. But I have always wanted a Gibson Explorer, nothing else really comes close to the look and vibe, except for maybe the V guitars. So for me a Tele or a Strat just isn't going to work.
and shame on us users for completely misinterpreting the article. I saw very few responses talking about the real point of the article: the kernel developers are completely out of touch with the desktop. Instead we take the flamebait from the article summary and go running off with it.
Andrew to this day remains unconvinced it helps and that it 'might' have negative consequences elsewhere. No bug report or performance complaint has been forthcoming in the last 9 months. I even wrote a benchmark that showed how it worked, which managed to quantify it! In a hilarious turnaround Linus asked me offlist 'yeah but does it really help'. Well, user reports and benchmarks weren't enough... Personally I hope that this can change, I hope that the mentality of the kernel developers can change. Developers testing bugs with quad core machines with 4 gigs of ram, and multiple hard drives running raid!?!? Let the argument never come up, whether Linux is ready for the desktop.
And there are all the obvious bug reports. They're afraid to mention these. How scary do you think it is to say 'my Firefox tabs open slowly since the last CPU scheduler upgrade'? To top it all off, the enterprise users are the opposite. Just watch each kernel release and see how quickly some $bullshit_benchmark degraded by.1% with patch $Y gets reported. See also how quickly it gets attended to. Now we know, that Linux isn't even aimed at the desktop, and won't be for the foreseeable future. Not with such developers, and not with a scheduler aimed at the enterprise, and not when the only people submitting bug requests whine about how their benchmark lost.1% with the latest patch.
I never figured out why people are masochistic enough to play anything without the beauty of widescreen, a large (32"+) screen and a hd signal. This is moot, since a widescreen tv is merely able to keep up with a good computer monitor. A top notch HDTV is 1920x1080, you can achieve similar (1920x1200) on a 24" computer screen for about $500. This is going to look very crisp for a great price. If you want to be sarcastic and just write PC gaming off then feel free to carry on, but what you brought up holds no bearing to the discussion. There are other benefits to console gaming, but having an a couple analog sticks is most definitely a detriment.
You were probably trying to insult me based on me having a Wii and not being able enjoy the beauty of a PS3 or an XBox360. Don't get me wrong, I will eventually go that route, but in the meantime the 360 is a reliability gamble, and the PS3 is too expensive without enough games. The sales figures indicate that my position as a customer is what many are experiencing. The Wii sold twice as many as the 360, and much more than the PS3. Hell, the PS2 outsells the PS3!
Oh wait... maybe its a personal preference? Yes, personal preference is important.
Hell, I bought a Wii, with the money I saved on the console and the lack of a need for an HDTV I plan on buying a Gibson Explorer this fall. Sounds like a great deal long term to me.
I never figured out why people are masochistic enough to play FPSes with dual-analog controllers (i.e on consoles). I totally agree.
A rant about rants. How about that! By replying to these articles and by giving/. page hits (by reading the ensuing non-discussion) we just propagate the problem.
Oh, Yes. The author is a pussy and you are such a brave man. I am in awe in front of your bold and fearless attitude. I mean... it certainly takes a lot of courage to break the law when you are almost certain that you'll never get caught. Not a lot of person would dare to click on "I agree". You are a hero. Yes, Anonymous Cowards unite! Call out other people for being weak, tell them you do not respect them and tell them they have no courage! If you persist in your efforts eventually every one will realize that the only people with a backbone and any respectability are those that post anonymously. You, AC, are my hero.
Pathetic wastes of life aside, I think the author does have a point. So does everyone else, These projects redistributing these codecs have no direct relation to groups such as Microsoft who we would need to be a licensee under to use WMV. At the same time, the usage of widely available information under these codecs should be handled better in the future so that a user of open source software can become a legal user. In all likely hood this probably doesn't matter. By downloading the codec we likely become a user of the EULA anyways even if we don't see it and click accept. It is our responsibility to read it. IANAL so what I said is likely wrong, or merely half truths. The point being companies have some responsibility to society to be fair with their creations... just because Microsoft may not want their codec used on non authorized platforms doesn't make their stance just. A lawyer once told me though, that laws and court rooms don't care about whats right and fair, they just care about interpreting the law correctly.
I actually wish Amazon would just sell $30 or $40 boxed sets with complete collections of artists (perhaps with premiums if it included recent releases). It would be great to just buy straight up the whole collection of a band. Especially lesser known stuff like Testament, Exodus, Overkill (to single out a genre like Thrash metal.) Or to move to something different, consider that the first few Garth Brooks albums are not available brand new from Amazon.com!? The first few were Garth's best work, but you have to buy them threw the used channels.
I think if there were metrics available (which the Overlords of the Internet don't allow to be studied) the industry would have more information on how to actually reach their customers. This is why most bands love it that people are downloading their music, because its the best way to reach the people. Radio and conventional sales channels have failed. These metrics would also probably also provide proof that the music currently released isn't what people want.
I saw the headline and thought, "Why would I want to market myself as an IT Jack Ass?" and the thought crossed my head that it must work because so many IT people I meet should probably have a tail pinned on. Anyways I'm a programmer so this isn't exactly my discussion, but for me I am sort of a jack of all trades, with an extra emphasis on C/C++. This fits well with the modern shop that does a lot more C# these days, but still has needs for someone who has a good background in C.
I am going to say this once: Please move on. Software is a moving target, maybe there was a problem with Ubuntu. I am sorry you had to experience it, I am sure the developers are sorry too. But for you to be bringing this up a year later is not fair, and to be frank is trolling. As others have indicated, we have heard your contempt expressed. There has to be something that would be more worthy of your time than to be going through this again and again. Quick side note: I am not an Ubuntu user, so please accept my opinion as unbiased. I use both Windows and Linux, and this 'Just Works' mantra gets old. Nothing just works, all software has problems, the only thing we can do is keep trying.
In all fairness Microsoft is missing a massive window of opportunity. Sony has had their console priced too high for a while now, and with no games to fight back. Meanwhile Microsoft has had a slightly lower price but more games. The only problem is their hardware is unreliable on an epic level. If they could have fixed this the word would have gotten out and they could have put a stranglehold on the market. Not to mention the online experience from the 360 is leading the pack.
But if it captures muslim terrorists, then I'm all for it. And when it captures white political dissidents? Why was the parent moderated Flamebait? I was going to moderate several posts up on this article, but I must call this to attention instead! This is a very relevant question, not only this but others questions must be asked.
Will this be used to maintain picket zones? What kind of data aggregation will take place? How many databases will this tie in with? Which organizations will have access to this data? What systems will be used to cull license plate numbers/face recognition/and other such patterns? How many people will be employed to watch these cameras? What are the metrics for results that they see as being acceptable results? The UK/London results were quite bad but the government groups that they were responsible thought the numbers were acceptable enough for a larger rollout. There are all kinds of questions that should be asked - besides the initial WTF?! that goes along with such intrusive surveillance system.
You are obviously a Mac user. Only Apple charges for point release updates, as your yearly "Apple Tax" can attest to. Unlike Windows users who can get the free service pack and laugh at you Apple users the way to the bank. I am not an Apple fan, my past comments will attest to that, and I used to have a sig that made fun of the shills... but I don't think that a Windows user will be laughing at Mac users any time soon.
May I repeat myself? If this were the case the article would have to be talking about how he goes through so many of these various gaming devices no matter what he buys. Does the article say he went through an abnormal number of PSPs, PS3s or DSs? No. I also mentioned the PA post that talked about how these XBox 360 issues are not exactly rare, so someone with a story like this is bound to happen eventually.
Yea but that same customer owns a DS, PSP, PS3 and probably others. Why are people on/. proposing that this is his fault? This is ridiculous. If this were the case the article would have to be talking about how he goes through so many of these various gaming devices no matter what he buys. Why are so many of you wanting to blame him. It is fairly common knowledge that these XBox 360s are sucking at life at a truly epic level.
At least this guy is saying what I said and not trying to relocate blame.
Finally, I leave you with a paragraph from a recent Penny Arcade post: It looks like Microsoft is trying to get out ahead of heat complaints on their system, which I think we may take as an admission of guilt. Hardware troubles on the Xbox 360 have ceased to be something one reads about deep in forum threads, buried on page four, beyond the depth that wisdom can penetrate. Certainly, such tales would break the surface and then recede. Anecdotal offerings of a user's "fifth" or "seventh" consecutive failed Xbox always struck me as worse, the implication being that they have no solution, and are waving a censer over it or something and sending it back out. I wondered to what extent these reports were being gamed, their message of widespread failure amplified, but I don't think we need to look for a knife in the dark. I think it really is that bad.
Because it has long long been considered to be more profitable for broadcasters to play the songs for free with the thought that listeners would buy the music, attend concerts, get a t-shirt, etc. Great comment, and this was definitely true in the past. The only place this may have changed is the fringe, I have bought almost all of my music from the last year from listening to internet radio. Through Chronix radio, and Chronix metal I have discovered bands that I would've never heard otherwise. This is especially true in less poplated areas. For larger cities (thus the main audience) this is not as big of a deal, but how many radio stations play bands like: Otep, Overkill, Testament, Trivium, Lamb of God, Machine Head, Gojira, Atreyu.
by Anonymous Coward... Why the hell would you post something so fucking inane with your real account?
If you're going to make up stories...of fuck it dimwit. Plonk! Yea, you really told him. Way to stand up and be accountable, you Anonymous fucking Coward. He told a decent story, giving a representative demonstration of one of the main markets that the PS3 is for and how Sony has failed to enthuse. I really feel trolled for even responding, and I am probably bringing the conversation down - but this story among others is an indication into how Nintendo has seen it's market share grow so healthy.
Nintendo is very good at making their product smaller, cheaper, and more energy efficient. They chose to stick to the basics of what they had with the GameCube and it has payed off. They have to have saved so much money with that choice, that they could put a bunch of time and research into a next gen console in a year or two that would be able to take the gains in UI from the gamecube and bring to market a system that would just amaze the market. These factors, as well as others (Virtual Console, etc) lead them to where they are today. The interesting part is not many saw this coming. The Playstation came out of no where and did great for years, and the PS2 carried this forward for Sony. How the PS3 has failed so far in the market place should be looked into more... but instead we just get typical "we love the Wii" journalism.
The more interesting part is how the creativity of Myspace and the spartan/clean layout of Facebook has attracted entirely different personalities. Please mod parent up! This is what I perceived as the primary difference of the two sites; great post.
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Here is a tip: no one likes a grammar natzee. Usually people know the difference between "your" and "you're" they are just in too much of a rush to proofread.
And you sir, are the metric by which all peoples popularity is measured.
Actually you are very much on to something, different capacities for different needs. In a town the size of 10-50 thousand people the driving needs are different than a larger city. I could get by on a certain capacity, whereas someone in say Omaha or Denver might need something else. This would allow people to use their SUV/minivan/sedan for family trips where the size of the vehicle (plus carrying capacity and ease of use of gasoline or ethanol or bio-diesel) would be useful. They could also have their electric vehicle for around town and the main 90% of driving they do each year. The half solutions we have now (small engines, CVT transmissions, "hybrid mode", etc) is not enough, while these all electric small cars are exactly what we need.
I use this card and its open source driver on an x86 box, but perhaps this driver doesn't work on PPC? Does anyone have a Mac Mini w/ this card that can chime in? It is possible this integrated card is slightly different than the older retail versions. Last I knew the ati radeon 9000 card worked well also, and it has versions still available with dual output. (Not that this helps the guy with a Mac Mini though :-(
A lot of good libraries have texts on this. A quote from that book is now my sig:
"but money is the God of Algiers & Mohamet their prophet." - Rich. O'Bryen June 8th 1786
It isn't entirely fair to talk about the corrupt Ottoman empire and modern radical Muslims as they are quite different. The only thing the Ottomans cared about was money.
That is the problem. It seems to me that American people have nothing prepared for that type scenario. We have ammunition, lots of ammunition. Though I think the first thing we would have to do is have an immediate and hopefully nonviolent takeover of the media - tv, radio, and print. Those assholes are too complacent and have stopped being relevant to real news for years. Personally I would place everyone from the homeless to hippy college professors to be on boards running such things as a television station.
HomelessInLaJolla is just acting retarded. The only thing I ever see him post on /. is how there are AC trolls out to get him - thus making anything he says a Troll by never staying on topic. The anonymous cowards feed on the fact that he continually recognizes them.
If you read my other comment you see the hdtv issue further discussed (as well as my wish to get one eventually, just not yet.) As for the Explorer, it's a great metal guitar! I have an older Epiphone Les Paul w/ two Seymour Duncans ('59 and JB), as well as a decent Ibanez RGT. But I have always wanted a Gibson Explorer, nothing else really comes close to the look and vibe, except for maybe the V guitars. So for me a Tele or a Strat just isn't going to work.
and shame on us users for completely misinterpreting the article. I saw very few responses talking about the real point of the article: the kernel developers are completely out of touch with the desktop. Instead we take the flamebait from the article summary and go running off with it.
Andrew to this day remains unconvinced it helps and that it 'might' have negative consequences elsewhere. No bug report or performance complaint has been forthcoming in the last 9 months. I even wrote a benchmark that showed how it worked, which managed to quantify it! In a hilarious turnaround Linus asked me offlist 'yeah but does it really help'. Well, user reports and benchmarks weren't enough...
Personally I hope that this can change, I hope that the mentality of the kernel developers can change. Developers testing bugs with quad core machines with 4 gigs of ram, and multiple hard drives running raid!?!? Let the argument never come up, whether Linux is ready for the desktop.
And there are all the obvious bug reports. They're afraid to mention these. How scary do you think it is to say 'my Firefox tabs open slowly since the last CPU scheduler upgrade'? To top it all off, the enterprise users are the opposite. Just watch each kernel release and see how quickly some $bullshit_benchmark degraded by .1% with patch $Y gets reported. See also how quickly it gets attended to. .1% with the latest patch.
Now we know, that Linux isn't even aimed at the desktop, and won't be for the foreseeable future. Not with such developers, and not with a scheduler aimed at the enterprise, and not when the only people submitting bug requests whine about how their benchmark lost
I never figured out why people are masochistic enough to play anything without the beauty of widescreen, a large (32"+) screen and a hd signal.
This is moot, since a widescreen tv is merely able to keep up with a good computer monitor. A top notch HDTV is 1920x1080, you can achieve similar (1920x1200) on a 24" computer screen for about $500. This is going to look very crisp for a great price. If you want to be sarcastic and just write PC gaming off then feel free to carry on, but what you brought up holds no bearing to the discussion. There are other benefits to console gaming, but having an a couple analog sticks is most definitely a detriment.
You were probably trying to insult me based on me having a Wii and not being able enjoy the beauty of a PS3 or an XBox360. Don't get me wrong, I will eventually go that route, but in the meantime the 360 is a reliability gamble, and the PS3 is too expensive without enough games. The sales figures indicate that my position as a customer is what many are experiencing. The Wii sold twice as many as the 360, and much more than the PS3. Hell, the PS2 outsells the PS3!
Oh wait... maybe its a personal preference?Yes, personal preference is important.
Hell, I bought a Wii, with the money I saved on the console and the lack of a need for an HDTV I plan on buying a Gibson Explorer this fall. Sounds like a great deal long term to me.
I never figured out why people are masochistic enough to play FPSes with dual-analog controllers (i.e on consoles).
I totally agree.
A rant about rants. How about that! /. page hits (by reading the ensuing non-discussion) we just propagate the problem.
By replying to these articles and by giving
Pathetic wastes of life aside, I think the author does have a point. So does everyone else, These projects redistributing these codecs have no direct relation to groups such as Microsoft who we would need to be a licensee under to use WMV. At the same time, the usage of widely available information under these codecs should be handled better in the future so that a user of open source software can become a legal user. In all likely hood this probably doesn't matter. By downloading the codec we likely become a user of the EULA anyways even if we don't see it and click accept. It is our responsibility to read it. IANAL so what I said is likely wrong, or merely half truths. The point being companies have some responsibility to society to be fair with their creations ... just because Microsoft may not want their codec used on non authorized platforms doesn't make their stance just. A lawyer once told me though, that laws and court rooms don't care about whats right and fair, they just care about interpreting the law correctly.
I actually wish Amazon would just sell $30 or $40 boxed sets with complete collections of artists (perhaps with premiums if it included recent releases). It would be great to just buy straight up the whole collection of a band. Especially lesser known stuff like Testament, Exodus, Overkill (to single out a genre like Thrash metal.) Or to move to something different, consider that the first few Garth Brooks albums are not available brand new from Amazon.com!? The first few were Garth's best work, but you have to buy them threw the used channels.
I think if there were metrics available (which the Overlords of the Internet don't allow to be studied) the industry would have more information on how to actually reach their customers. This is why most bands love it that people are downloading their music, because its the best way to reach the people. Radio and conventional sales channels have failed. These metrics would also probably also provide proof that the music currently released isn't what people want.
I saw the headline and thought, "Why would I want to market myself as an IT Jack Ass?" and the thought crossed my head that it must work because so many IT people I meet should probably have a tail pinned on. Anyways I'm a programmer so this isn't exactly my discussion, but for me I am sort of a jack of all trades, with an extra emphasis on C/C++. This fits well with the modern shop that does a lot more C# these days, but still has needs for someone who has a good background in C.
I am going to say this once: Please move on. Software is a moving target, maybe there was a problem with Ubuntu. I am sorry you had to experience it, I am sure the developers are sorry too. But for you to be bringing this up a year later is not fair, and to be frank is trolling. As others have indicated, we have heard your contempt expressed. There has to be something that would be more worthy of your time than to be going through this again and again. Quick side note: I am not an Ubuntu user, so please accept my opinion as unbiased. I use both Windows and Linux, and this 'Just Works' mantra gets old. Nothing just works, all software has problems, the only thing we can do is keep trying.
In all fairness Microsoft is missing a massive window of opportunity. Sony has had their console priced too high for a while now, and with no games to fight back. Meanwhile Microsoft has had a slightly lower price but more games. The only problem is their hardware is unreliable on an epic level. If they could have fixed this the word would have gotten out and they could have put a stranglehold on the market. Not to mention the online experience from the 360 is leading the pack.
Will this be used to maintain picket zones? What kind of data aggregation will take place? How many databases will this tie in with? Which organizations will have access to this data? What systems will be used to cull license plate numbers/face recognition/and other such patterns? How many people will be employed to watch these cameras? What are the metrics for results that they see as being acceptable results? The UK/London results were quite bad but the government groups that they were responsible thought the numbers were acceptable enough for a larger rollout. There are all kinds of questions that should be asked - besides the initial WTF?! that goes along with such intrusive surveillance system.
May I repeat myself? If this were the case the article would have to be talking about how he goes through so many of these various gaming devices no matter what he buys. Does the article say he went through an abnormal number of PSPs, PS3s or DSs? No. I also mentioned the PA post that talked about how these XBox 360 issues are not exactly rare, so someone with a story like this is bound to happen eventually.
"Oh by the way, you're welcome!"
They teach this type of stuff on Blues Clues.
Yea but that same customer owns a DS, PSP, PS3 and probably others. Why are people on /. proposing that this is his fault? This is ridiculous. If this were the case the article would have to be talking about how he goes through so many of these various gaming devices no matter what he buys. Why are so many of you wanting to blame him. It is fairly common knowledge that these XBox 360s are sucking at life at a truly epic level.
At least this guy is saying what I said and not trying to relocate blame.
Finally, I leave you with a paragraph from a recent Penny Arcade post:
It looks like Microsoft is trying to get out ahead of heat complaints on their system, which I think we may take as an admission of guilt. Hardware troubles on the Xbox 360 have ceased to be something one reads about deep in forum threads, buried on page four, beyond the depth that wisdom can penetrate. Certainly, such tales would break the surface and then recede. Anecdotal offerings of a user's "fifth" or "seventh" consecutive failed Xbox always struck me as worse, the implication being that they have no solution, and are waving a censer over it or something and sending it back out. I wondered to what extent these reports were being gamed, their message of widespread failure amplified, but I don't think we need to look for a knife in the dark. I think it really is that bad.
Because it has long long been considered to be more profitable for broadcasters to play the songs for free with the thought that listeners would buy the music, attend concerts, get a t-shirt, etc.
Great comment, and this was definitely true in the past. The only place this may have changed is the fringe, I have bought almost all of my music from the last year from listening to internet radio. Through Chronix radio, and Chronix metal I have discovered bands that I would've never heard otherwise. This is especially true in less poplated areas. For larger cities (thus the main audience) this is not as big of a deal, but how many radio stations play bands like: Otep, Overkill, Testament, Trivium, Lamb of God, Machine Head, Gojira, Atreyu.
by Anonymous Coward...
Why the hell would you post something so fucking inane with your real account?
If you're going to make up stories...of fuck it dimwit. Plonk!
Yea, you really told him. Way to stand up and be accountable, you Anonymous fucking Coward. He told a decent story, giving a representative demonstration of one of the main markets that the PS3 is for and how Sony has failed to enthuse. I really feel trolled for even responding, and I am probably bringing the conversation down - but this story among others is an indication into how Nintendo has seen it's market share grow so healthy.
Nintendo is very good at making their product smaller, cheaper, and more energy efficient. They chose to stick to the basics of what they had with the GameCube and it has payed off. They have to have saved so much money with that choice, that they could put a bunch of time and research into a next gen console in a year or two that would be able to take the gains in UI from the gamecube and bring to market a system that would just amaze the market. These factors, as well as others (Virtual Console, etc) lead them to where they are today. The interesting part is not many saw this coming. The Playstation came out of no where and did great for years, and the PS2 carried this forward for Sony. How the PS3 has failed so far in the market place should be looked into more ... but instead we just get typical "we love the Wii" journalism.
The more interesting part is how the creativity of Myspace and the spartan/clean layout of Facebook has attracted entirely different personalities.
Please mod parent up! This is what I perceived as the primary difference of the two sites; great post.