Unless you want a laptop, you can avoid paying MS anything by building your own computer or having one built for you.
I have only ever paid for one MS operating system (the other I got legally from my uncle, a copy of Win98 when he went to 2000, which I got from him when he went to XP), and I only bought that one because my school had a deal where I could get XP for $5.
I believe the point Mr. Bradbury was trying to make was that he hopes this won't become another gimic to turn an otherwise medeocre film into a "blockbuster", like CGI has become lately (where many movies have essentially become advertisements for Computer Graphics companies and programs).
Lately when asking people about a movie they've seen, one of the first things they ALWAYS say is "Dude, the effects were awesome!". They also rarely make comments like "The story was excelent" or "The actors were very convincing, you could almost imagine these characters being real people, and not 'Brad Pitt as Joe Blow'."
Some people just don't need their mice to do all that stuff. Some people actually find computers confusing to use, with all the buttons and icons and crap (I'm thinking of my one uncle and my grandmother, personally. You probably know someone like that). They both have two button mice (with scroll wheel), and unless I'm working on their computers, they don't use anything but the left mouse button (hell, on my grandmothers machine, i've set it up so she doesn't have to double-click). Honestly, for her, at least, I sometimes wish I could get her a one button mouse.
You're a computer guy, and a gamer, so of course you would need a "better" mouse that you can program some of your more used tasks with. Other people, however, get confused if you give them too many buttons/options. Sometimes simplicity is the best thing.
Do you really think the invention of a second mouse button is up there with the automobile or the lightbulb?
Please, it's a mouse button. If a person is comfortable with a single mouse button, let them use it. Just like if someone prefers a different layout to their keyboard instead of qwerty.
There was a dvd recently released of a "Best Of" of Mickey Mouse cartoons (or something like that), and it included Steamboat Willie (actually, a still from Steamboat Willie was on the cover).
Maybe he didn't say it directly, but that's the feeling I got from it.
Whether it's true or not, I don't care at the moment, I don't even have a computer of my own (well, I actually have two, but I lent my laptop to my sister because she didn't have the room for her desktop, which I got, then lent to my uncle because his was messed up, and I lent my desktop to my mother because my decent video card died, preventing me from playing games, and I had my laptop. Now I have my uncle's busted ass computer).
I'd love to try BSD, if I could find a place where I could download the cd images _quickly_ (any of the official BSD sites or mirrors maxed out at about 45KB/s) and without corrupting the iso (the one fast site I found had crapped out images).
I don't know about you, but I generally only watch one thing at a time (maybe two, something on TV and whatever I'm doing on my computer).
So, they'd STILL be having my eyes on theirs, and not on the competition's, for the duration of the show. What happens after the show is the same as regular TV, we could change the channel, and watch the competition.
Yes, I could watch the "supersized" Friends, followed by Survivor (or vice versa, if you assume that I'd watch either), but during those times, I'd be stuck watching their content and their commercials, and not watching anything else.
No they're not the "be all and end all" of browsing, however, there are people who like using them, and still use Win2k (or earlier). This means that they're not going to be able to use the new IE. It doesn't make a big difference because they're already NOT using IE.
Because there will be applications that are popular, yet won't work on your systems without either rewriting some of the program, or replacing some of the libraries your system uses (which may break other packages).
Linux's major benefit and major drawback is choice. The benefit comes from enhanced configurability and the ability to streamline the system for specific purposes. The drawback comes in cases like this, where you have to have multiple versions of a program because distro_A uses a modified version of library_x, and distro_B uses a different, incompatable version of library_x (we could call them library_x.a and library_x.b). Now, who would take responsability of porting the software package to these distros, the initial programmer, or the Distribution Developers who decided to use the modified library?
A standards base would enable _all_ distros to use the same program, and the same source code, without patching or rewriting. Saving time, both in programing and deployment.
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Would people necessarily switch from Windows if MS Office was available for Linux?
Microsoft gave us Clippy!
Unless you want a laptop, you can avoid paying MS anything by building your own computer or having one built for you.
I have only ever paid for one MS operating system (the other I got legally from my uncle, a copy of Win98 when he went to 2000, which I got from him when he went to XP), and I only bought that one because my school had a deal where I could get XP for $5.
I believe the point Mr. Bradbury was trying to make was that he hopes this won't become another gimic to turn an otherwise medeocre film into a "blockbuster", like CGI has become lately (where many movies have essentially become advertisements for Computer Graphics companies and programs).
Lately when asking people about a movie they've seen, one of the first things they ALWAYS say is "Dude, the effects were awesome!". They also rarely make comments like "The story was excelent" or "The actors were very convincing, you could almost imagine these characters being real people, and not 'Brad Pitt as Joe Blow'."
Some people just don't need their mice to do all that stuff. Some people actually find computers confusing to use, with all the buttons and icons and crap (I'm thinking of my one uncle and my grandmother, personally. You probably know someone like that). They both have two button mice (with scroll wheel), and unless I'm working on their computers, they don't use anything but the left mouse button (hell, on my grandmothers machine, i've set it up so she doesn't have to double-click). Honestly, for her, at least, I sometimes wish I could get her a one button mouse.
You're a computer guy, and a gamer, so of course you would need a "better" mouse that you can program some of your more used tasks with. Other people, however, get confused if you give them too many buttons/options. Sometimes simplicity is the best thing.
Yes, female dogs hump legs (or anything else they can, when it's that time).
Either that, or every dog I've had (which, oddly enough have only been female), were gay.
Do you really think the invention of a second mouse button is up there with the automobile or the lightbulb?
Please, it's a mouse button. If a person is comfortable with a single mouse button, let them use it. Just like if someone prefers a different layout to their keyboard instead of qwerty.
There was a dvd recently released of a "Best Of" of Mickey Mouse cartoons (or something like that), and it included Steamboat Willie (actually, a still from Steamboat Willie was on the cover).
I would expect a horse to kick you across a room if you tried to look at it's kernel.
Cause I did. HP (Harry Potter) fires father of OOP (Order Of the Phoenix).
No, it doesn't make much sense. But still.
Maybe I'm loosing my computer geekdom.
Aren't severance packages generally for people who are laid off, and not for those who quit or are fired?
My player allows me to skip them on most DVD's, and fast forward through the ones I can't skip.
Clarence? Atta-boy, Clarence!
Maybe he didn't say it directly, but that's the feeling I got from it.
Whether it's true or not, I don't care at the moment, I don't even have a computer of my own (well, I actually have two, but I lent my laptop to my sister because she didn't have the room for her desktop, which I got, then lent to my uncle because his was messed up, and I lent my desktop to my mother because my decent video card died, preventing me from playing games, and I had my laptop. Now I have my uncle's busted ass computer).
I'd love to try BSD, if I could find a place where I could download the cd images _quickly_ (any of the official BSD sites or mirrors maxed out at about 45KB/s) and without corrupting the iso (the one fast site I found had crapped out images).
Any suggestions?
She's allergic to acrylic.
How about popular to the general public? That should be a more accurate description.
I don't know about you, but I generally only watch one thing at a time (maybe two, something on TV and whatever I'm doing on my computer).
So, they'd STILL be having my eyes on theirs, and not on the competition's, for the duration of the show. What happens after the show is the same as regular TV, we could change the channel, and watch the competition.
Yes, I could watch the "supersized" Friends, followed by Survivor (or vice versa, if you assume that I'd watch either), but during those times, I'd be stuck watching their content and their commercials, and not watching anything else.
It won't be _your_ computer, anymore.
No they're not the "be all and end all" of browsing, however, there are people who like using them, and still use Win2k (or earlier). This means that they're not going to be able to use the new IE. It doesn't make a big difference because they're already NOT using IE.
I thought they were paper clipped?
Since Apple doesn't have any "clone" builders anymore, who else is going to patent it, and who else would build it?
Maybe I'm missing something.
The glasses, they do nothing!
They're for the un-psychic.
You'd pretty much have to download it.
Because there will be applications that are popular, yet won't work on your systems without either rewriting some of the program, or replacing some of the libraries your system uses (which may break other packages).
Linux's major benefit and major drawback is choice. The benefit comes from enhanced configurability and the ability to streamline the system for specific purposes. The drawback comes in cases like this, where you have to have multiple versions of a program because distro_A uses a modified version of library_x, and distro_B uses a different, incompatable version of library_x (we could call them library_x.a and library_x.b). Now, who would take responsability of porting the software package to these distros, the initial programmer, or the Distribution Developers who decided to use the modified library?
A standards base would enable _all_ distros to use the same program, and the same source code, without patching or rewriting. Saving time, both in programing and deployment.