Don't be a dick, just give your mom a Ubuntu install disk.
You guys love making things way harder than they have to be. It's the geeks way, but as much as people have to get over their own mental blocks about trying new things, we have to get over our mental block that everyone _should_ think like us. (I know they _should_ but they're never going to. Humans hate changing their way of doing things to fit someone else's agenda.)
I work at an employment center in a small-ish (10-15,000) logging and fishing community and I can state, as an absolute fact, that people are indeed stupid.
However, just last week a man who's on disabilities for a brain injury (He has little to no short term memory) came in and asked me if I could get him a free operating system. (He wanted Windows XP. He had bought a refurb p3-500 that came with XP, the hard drive bought the farm, and when the guy who sold it to him fixed it he wiped the OS. He said it was only a "trial version until you got your own system". Full of shit, I know.)
Anyways, on a whim I did a quick google for linux distros, caught a wikipedia page that seemed to make Ubuntu out to be what I was looking for.
Now, I've never touched linux, except for playing counter-strike and quake on linux servers. I downloaded an install image, installed it, and voila.
It was beyond easy and it came with everything I needed. I sent the man with the brain injury home with a disk and he came back the next day with a huge smile on his face.
It worked. First time, totally out of the box. Recognized all his hardware, and came with everything he could possibly want. He was acting rather cheeky about the presentation he put together with OpenOffice and was pleased as punch.
So yeah, if the unemployed and brain injured can install and configure and use with great ease a linux distro, I'd say they've finally made that first big step towards main-stream acceptance.
(And now my other Ubuntu box has become my baby. Too bad it won't run half-life 2. Oh well, worry about an install base first, the developers will follow.)
Superior design? What, the soft edges make you feel comfortable? An easy to use interface is nothing new, and HD-based mp3 player is nothing new, and frankly, when I spent $300 on a fuckin iPod I expected damn good audio quality. I got, at best, mid-range _consumer_ quality sound. And don't fuckin tell me it was my Bang and Olufsen speakers.
The iPod is NOT innovative. Innovation's definition is specifically something _new_. Soft rounded edges and a UI, however simple, do not count as innovations for a MUSIC PLAYER. Fairplay is about the only "new" thing the iPod brings to the table. It doesn't bring better, more sophisticated and higher quality audio, it doesn't give us psycho-low-bitrate codecs a la sony, frankly I don't know what about it actually is innovative.
Another slashdotter said it best; You guys (mac users) are way too emotional to be nerds.
It's not only music videos you can buy. No, Apple's set up to allow you to purchase TV shows for $1.99 apiece. Get Desperate Housewives or four other ABC shows premiering on iTunes at two bucks an ep. Videos are native QVGA resolution.
Are you listening? Sell me episodes. Now. Not 25 fucking dollars for an import dvd with 2 episodes. Internet. 2 dollars.
Please define doing something wrong. Exercizing my 4th amendment rights in the face of tyrranical government?
Are there guidelines published somewhere that say when I should start acting against a government when it has become too insane? I'd like to know, other wise I'm forced to make it up.
Besides, I only said Big Bro would disappear the website. The operators probably just get a heavy-handed dose of "doing-your-country-a-service-by-shutting-up", with an appetizer of "fed-waving-a-gun-in-your-face".
I might need a tin-foil hat, but I could also use a government that lets me sleep soundly at night.
When you consider that you've already got a 2 out of 113 record of complete Shuttle failure, I don't think the pool of willing astronauts is going to be significantly decreased by this
You have to have balls the size of Texas to strap yourself to hundreds of tons of high explosives with nothing more than the minimum amount of ceramic and aluminum protecting you from either burning up in the atmosphere or freezing in the relentless vacuum of space.
Astronauts are some of the baddest ass people on the planet. A cursory amount of shielding would satisfy them, if it meant the opportunity to go to frickin Mars.
I would love to visit a planet as an alien. That would blow my mind.
A CIA agent, who at the time was under-cover in a foreign country, was outed. Every countries security service would have run her name through their databases.
This is an act of TREASON. Punishable only by DEATH.
This is not nonsense, but a crime against every single American.
Not even Federal Agents are safe from this White House?!
Repeated blows to the head may have been the instrument of his karma, but that does not make karma good or bad. It doesn't need justification, it is nothing and everything.
Hey douchebag. I realize as a mac hippie you've never played a 3d game in your life. This is not your fault, nor a shortcoming.
But listen, and listen well, when I remind you (AGAIN) that the single driver of innovation in the speed of computers is truly 3d processing.
SlashDot has abandoned the legions of gamers out there. Everyone loves to Fellate (or hate) Macs, or Linux. But why abandon logic?
Frankly I'm one-thousand times more impressed by a gamer geek who can get XP running smooth as butter than some lame ass Mac IT dweeb who runs 30 applications concurrently and fucking drags and drops everything.
In fact, I hate that mac guy. But not all mac guys are that aggravating. Most are quite pleasant and just trying to avoid the hassle of computing. Completely understandable, but no excuse for not knwoing what's going on on the inside of that box.
Silly Rabbit, Macs are for kids. (Mod me flamebait and I will become more powerful than you can ever imagine.)
Windows is for gamers.
Linux is for servers and geeks that love to tweak.
Any of the Mainframe shows were really good. They were this awesome studio out of Vancouver that are most notorious (depends who you ask) for Reboot. They did subsequent versions of transformers that I absolutely LOVED. Transformers meets a real writer.
Seriously man, the Mainframe beauties are to transformers what DS9 is to Star Trek. That really awesome show with great production value, entertaining dialogue, massive story arcs, plot twists and damn fine effects. And both are completely unsung and often ignored.
After this evil director lays this turd is when you should have your first watch of these shows (if you haven't seen it). Just to drive home everything that's wrong with hollywood...
Put most of the money in the script, something really good. I would rather have an awesome story and so-so graphics than a bad story and million dollar graphics.
Do you have any idea who Michael Bay is??? He's going to shit on your childhood 10 times worse than Lucas could ever dream of. It's going to be Bad Boys 2 meets Transformers.
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Don't be a dick, just give your mom a Ubuntu install disk.
You guys love making things way harder than they have to be. It's the geeks way, but as much as people have to get over their own mental blocks about trying new things, we have to get over our mental block that everyone _should_ think like us. (I know they _should_ but they're never going to. Humans hate changing their way of doing things to fit someone else's agenda.)
I work at an employment center in a small-ish (10-15,000) logging and fishing community and I can state, as an absolute fact, that people are indeed stupid.
However, just last week a man who's on disabilities for a brain injury (He has little to no short term memory) came in and asked me if I could get him a free operating system. (He wanted Windows XP. He had bought a refurb p3-500 that came with XP, the hard drive bought the farm, and when the guy who sold it to him fixed it he wiped the OS. He said it was only a "trial version until you got your own system". Full of shit, I know.)
Anyways, on a whim I did a quick google for linux distros, caught a wikipedia page that seemed to make Ubuntu out to be what I was looking for.
Now, I've never touched linux, except for playing counter-strike and quake on linux servers. I downloaded an install image, installed it, and voila.
It was beyond easy and it came with everything I needed. I sent the man with the brain injury home with a disk and he came back the next day with a huge smile on his face.
It worked. First time, totally out of the box. Recognized all his hardware, and came with everything he could possibly want. He was acting rather cheeky about the presentation he put together with OpenOffice and was pleased as punch.
So yeah, if the unemployed and brain injured can install and configure and use with great ease a linux distro, I'd say they've finally made that first big step towards main-stream acceptance.
(And now my other Ubuntu box has become my baby. Too bad it won't run half-life 2. Oh well, worry about an install base first, the developers will follow.)
I know this sounds like a troll, but am I the only one who makes use of Alt+Tab? I can multi-task as well on a 15 inch as I can a 20-inch.
Free your mind people, it's the user that's important, not the hardware.
Java is dead? PHP > Java?
Tell that to the hundred thousand people playing runescape.com at any given moment.
Let's see a 3d mmorpg done in PHP.
Yeah, right.
2 words. Bounce pads.
What the hell? Does the Macintosh day-care center let out this early now?
Superior design? What, the soft edges make you feel comfortable? An easy to use interface is nothing new, and HD-based mp3 player is nothing new, and frankly, when I spent $300 on a fuckin iPod I expected damn good audio quality. I got, at best, mid-range _consumer_ quality sound. And don't fuckin tell me it was my Bang and Olufsen speakers.
The iPod is NOT innovative. Innovation's definition is specifically something _new_. Soft rounded edges and a UI, however simple, do not count as innovations for a MUSIC PLAYER. Fairplay is about the only "new" thing the iPod brings to the table. It doesn't bring better, more sophisticated and higher quality audio, it doesn't give us psycho-low-bitrate codecs a la sony, frankly I don't know what about it actually is innovative.
Another slashdotter said it best; You guys (mac users) are way too emotional to be nerds.
Are you listening? Sell me episodes. Now. Not 25 fucking dollars for an import dvd with 2 episodes. Internet. 2 dollars.
Now.
Lost is a fucking fantastic show, which is why I would not want to watch it on an iPod.
However, the idea of an extensive anime library in... my... pocket...
why it's... beautiful. My god, I do believe I'm crying.
But seriously, if you own this content, it's going to be a TV revolution. And advertizers are going to feel so left out.
Mod me down and I will become stronger than you ever imagined.
The iPod is JUST A FUCKING MP3 PLAYER.
Don't mean to nitpick but if an asteroid the size of Texas hit Texas you'd have alot bigger problems than even Dubya is now.
I wonder how many mice out of a thousand re-grew festering limbs of pure cancer?
Fuck, imagine being the DEVELOPER.
Oh I get it. They're tying the iTunes database into AdSense.
Who's paying whom?
Please define doing something wrong. Exercizing my 4th amendment rights in the face of tyrranical government?
Are there guidelines published somewhere that say when I should start acting against a government when it has become too insane? I'd like to know, other wise I'm forced to make it up.
Besides, I only said Big Bro would disappear the website. The operators probably just get a heavy-handed dose of "doing-your-country-a-service-by-shutting-up", with an appetizer of "fed-waving-a-gun-in-your-face".
I might need a tin-foil hat, but I could also use a government that lets me sleep soundly at night.
1) Toss opposition website/organization metaphorical football
2) Label terrorists; play smear the queer
3) ???
4) Victory...
How long before the government disappears non-conformists with this label?
"Terrorist Web-site shut down: al-kay-duh torrents found"
When you consider that you've already got a 2 out of 113 record of complete Shuttle failure, I don't think the pool of willing astronauts is going to be significantly decreased by this
You have to have balls the size of Texas to strap yourself to hundreds of tons of high explosives with nothing more than the minimum amount of ceramic and aluminum protecting you from either burning up in the atmosphere or freezing in the relentless vacuum of space.
Astronauts are some of the baddest ass people on the planet. A cursory amount of shielding would satisfy them, if it meant the opportunity to go to frickin Mars.
I would love to visit a planet as an alien. That would blow my mind.
Off-topic but...
Plame nonsense?!
A CIA agent, who at the time was under-cover in a foreign country, was outed. Every countries security service would have run her name through their databases.
This is an act of TREASON. Punishable only by DEATH.
This is not nonsense, but a crime against every single American.
Not even Federal Agents are safe from this White House?!
That's just insane.
Karma is karma. It is not good. It is not bad.
Karma is karma.
Repeated blows to the head may have been the instrument of his karma, but that does not make karma good or bad. It doesn't need justification, it is nothing and everything.
Hey douchebag. I realize as a mac hippie you've never played a 3d game in your life. This is not your fault, nor a shortcoming.
But listen, and listen well, when I remind you (AGAIN) that the single driver of innovation in the speed of computers is truly 3d processing.
SlashDot has abandoned the legions of gamers out there. Everyone loves to Fellate (or hate) Macs, or Linux. But why abandon logic?
Frankly I'm one-thousand times more impressed by a gamer geek who can get XP running smooth as butter than some lame ass Mac IT dweeb who runs 30 applications concurrently and fucking drags and drops everything.
In fact, I hate that mac guy. But not all mac guys are that aggravating. Most are quite pleasant and just trying to avoid the hassle of computing. Completely understandable, but no excuse for not knwoing what's going on on the inside of that box.
Silly Rabbit, Macs are for kids. (Mod me flamebait and I will become more powerful than you can ever imagine.)
Windows is for gamers.
Linux is for servers and geeks that love to tweak.
I've been saying this for years. A 10 year old could do any MCSE's job.
Any of the Mainframe shows were really good. They were this awesome studio out of Vancouver that are most notorious (depends who you ask) for Reboot. They did subsequent versions of transformers that I absolutely LOVED. Transformers meets a real writer.
Seriously man, the Mainframe beauties are to transformers what DS9 is to Star Trek. That really awesome show with great production value, entertaining dialogue, massive story arcs, plot twists and damn fine effects. And both are completely unsung and often ignored.
After this evil director lays this turd is when you should have your first watch of these shows (if you haven't seen it). Just to drive home everything that's wrong with hollywood...
They also make the coolest desktop backgrounds ever.
http://www.artlebedev.com/posters
Russian design geeks with a bar code fetish. And a rather flighty motto that I like; "Design will save the world."
Maybe in Soviet Russia...
And CHEAP! I have friends with a parts store and they're practically giving floppy drives away. At that price point, why not??
Anyways, you're not a real geek if you don't have a library of every old media to still support. I must bristle with peripherals to perform optimally.