If you honestly believe that all people are that vindictive, then perhape you gotta seek some help.
Most people go to work, try to do a decent job, and go home. They just want to live, enjoy themselves, and screwing people is not often on the top of their list.
You get the wrong idea from the BIG companies and the RICH people. People that got rich the wrong way. These people do not represent the majority of the citizens in the US.
Current focus? It's ALWAYS been the focus of video games! From the first video arcade games, to the ataris, nintendos, segas.. It's always been about graphics as much as anything else. It sells, people like cool graphics, they always will.
Nope, good graphics don't make a game any more then special effects make the new Star Wars movies. There's always been bad games and there's always been good ones. Cutting-edge graphics are a constant, they will always be of major importance.
I agree with you; people quite often demand a sequel because they liked the original so much. It's not that the game companies want to stay safe, it's that they give people what they want. They want Doom3. They want Halo 2.
"1. The Cable Company You can get a Satellite Dish any day of the week."
I can't get satellite because I have too many trees. There's a number of reasons someone might not be able to use sattelite, that being one of them. So no, I have no choice, when it comes to cable TV, most people only have the choice of one cable company.
"2. The Phone Company Where I live there is a bunch around. If you dont like them, there is always getting a cell only. Even a satellite cell phone is available-- and thats no matter where you are."
Where I live, and everywhere but major metropolitan areas in the NE, we have Verizon, or nothing. Cell phones are good but they cannot replace a good hard line when you need one.
"3. The Electric Company Those have recently been privatized too. There is competition, plus you could buy a generator."
Not really. I can choose another power company, but they just buy the power from the same source. It ends up being more expensive. Privatizing power has been a big flop. GENERATORS? You're kidding right?
"4. Microsoft No. They are a dominant firm in monopolistic competition (they have a strong impact on prices and control a large market share). Software (except some specialized stuff) is mostly a monopolistic competition kind of environment. Lots of Product Differentiation, Advertisement etc. Versioning is important here too."
Many US States and the EU would disagree. As do I.
"5. Viacom Come on. There is other players in the entertainment business too. Oligopoly, maybe. Monopolistic Competion, most likely."
I dunno about Viacom. So whatever.
"NO ACCOUNTABILITY WHATSOEVER" Well, sometimes it seems that way, but that is really not the case quite yet."
It is the case. I need 5 phone lines at a customer site, and we HAVE TO USE VERIZON. We can't hook up five cell phones on the wall. When they screw up, it can sometimes be days before they fix something. They raise prices and the only thing we can do is pay. Same with Microsoft. Same with Cox Cable. Same with Naraganset Electric.
Internet Access is often another form of monopoly since it rides on the same line as cable. A lot of people can get DSL, but a lot more cannot. So besides dial-up (which you can't effectively do with a cell phone, and dialup is becomming more and more obsolete) you have to use Cable Internet. I have no choice for my ISP, and they know it. They raise the prices often, they keep blocking more and more stuff, and there's nothing I can do besides pay. Not having high speed internet is not an option for me.
There may be no hard, true, 100% monopolies around, but it's close enough to not matter. Sure, you could always live in a straw hut and shovel shit for a living, but if you want to actually participate in society you have no choice but to buy their services, good or not.
Trends come and go. Consoles are good for the average person wishing to play a few video games, but many of them would rather have a bunch of cool games on the PC if they had one or if the one they have was powerful enough.
Consoles have their place and I have an XBox because the mod chip stuff on the Xbox is fun, but overall I find that PC games are more fun, more interesting, and more detailed.
I do enjoy some titles on the Xbox; Outlaw Golf is fun and Fusion Frenzy on a big TV with four people can be fun too. Consoles are better for having a friend over to play a game then a PC is.
But, PC's will always have the edge for technological superiority and so games will always be written for them to make use of this cool stuff. And there will always be games where you need a Keyboard, and console games with keyboards aren't very practical. MMORPG's on consoles may be okay for some aspects, but in order for an online RPG to have any decent community people need to be able to communicate fluidly. Can't do that with a gamepad..
Like someone said up a ways, neither is going to die, and they both have their pros and cons. They can and will coexist for some time to come.
Well, when upgrades can be deployed with the on-staff IT people, and they won't incurr any software costs, open source software provides a nice strady way to keep your systems upgraded.
The biggest reason for not deploying the next MS version are mostly cost, or other reasons like hardware capabilities. But mostly because upgrades for Windows and Office are boat loads of cash.
What the fuck is your problem? Of course Windows Update doesn't work without IE, and it's incredibly ignorant of you to even try and make a point out of it. It's way out of context.
I didn't click your stupid link because you're a stupid fuck and it would have been a waste of my time to click your dumbshit link.
Next time just say what you want to say instead of trying to be all smartass.
Yes, I do agree with many of your points. Being able to configure the bios via telnet or even a serial link would be very helpful in any data center or even a few servers in a closet.
The feature set of LinuxBIOS is really neat and it would be great if these features were universal.
As far as the actuall "quality" of existing BIOS's, I think they are pretty good. Sure, there's been bugs, but usually minor and almost always fixed asap. The major motherboard manufacturers make most of their money on these things and they tend to be on top of things like that, even well past the "normal" lifetime of PC hardware.
This is not to say that it's not very nice to be able to hack your own bios with LinuxBIOS in case there's a bug, but this only suits a small percentage of the admins out there that are able to do such a thing.
Like all OSS projects, I appreciate them quite a bit and I hope LinuxBIOS gains more vendor support. It would be really cool if it started replacing the standard BIOS on systems alltogether, especially with this DRM crap heading our way.
I'm not a corporation. I am not running a business. And I want a unified Desktop. I don't care; KDE or Gnome. I want market share for Linux.
I want to use Linux full time, have it be 100% supported by hardware and software vendors. I want to be TOTALLY free of Microsoft.
Some of you can be free now, but for all the things I use my computer for I cannot be. Market share will allow it to happen, and I feel as though Linux can gain more ground faster on the Desktop front if there were a single big popular DE.
Of course, it's all good either way. Linux will gain dominance, I think it's inevitable. It probably won't matter what DE you use in the end.
Yea, you're right, but it also made installing non-Redhat RPM's or tarballs very difficult. They switched around how their version of KDE saves configuration, plugin, theme, etc stuff. Installing anything took modification.
I am not saying that I don't like the psuedo integration aspect, but I'd rather just pick Gnome OR KDE for a particular workstation instead of being able to hop between the two.
They HAVE to sell their products in the EU and everywhere else. Microsoft holds it's grip on the industry because it's everywhere. Windows is everywhere.
Whatever it takes they will never pull out of a market. If they have to pay a yearly fine of 500Million, they will do it, if it holds their monopoly in place.
Even if the EU market itself didn't cover legal fees, they would still sell there because if the EU was forced to use something other then Microsoft, that's a big group of people that's going to be using something else. And it could easily spread into the US.
I should add that I'm coming from a non-cluster non-big datacenter viewpoint here. For my needs, the standard BIOS's have more then enough quality for what they do.
All I do is set a few things in there when I build a box and forget it. My BIOS seems to work just fine on all the many hundreds of ASUS/Abit/Whatever boards I've touched.
I've looked at the processor specs, and although it is faster then a same-clocked "old" Mobile Pentium chip it's still not nearly as fast as what is currently available. And no, I'm not saying that a 10LB machine and a 200 degree chip is good; not all machines are like this, even ones with the 2.4Ghz pentium 4.
They market Centrino as "Wireless Technology" with scenes of people pulling up a desk at a swimming pool. It's crap and you know it. Whether or not the chip is better, or whatever, it's not a miracle wireless network like they make it out to be. It's a lower performance CPU, 802.11 built-in. Some frills added in. Slightly longer battery life, and it's not much better then "non-centrino" models; I've used both.
Any late model notebook these days includes 802.11 even if it's not "centrino."
The thing about the Pentium-M's is that they clock in at something like 1.3Ghz, where as you can find 2.4Ghz Mobile Pentium 4's. They may be faster then same clock Pentiums, but they are basically just repackaged old CPU's that they sell for new-cpu prices.
Supposedly you get longer battery life with a Centrino notebook then a standard one, but I have not found it to be significant. The screen eats the most power, and you gotta have one on either.
My old Sony notebook lasts something like an hour and fifteen minutes with the screen on, but it lasts almost five hours with the lid shut, not in standby.
FireWire is sort of a "Serial SCSI" much like how Serial ATA is a serial version of ATA.
FireWire/IEEE1394/iLink is a very fast interface with low latency in a peer setup. Devices do not need a host to process the communication, they can talk to each other directly. Example: DV Camcorder to a DV VTR deck.
USB is a lot different in the way it works. USB2.0 is technically faster then FireWire 1 (80Mbit faster) however for streaming data FireWire is generally more efficient.
That being said, both are plenty fast for any DVD recorder, so the interface isn't going to make any difference for speed, the recorder itself will.
I think the odds are actually pretty good of everyone eventually switching, but it won't be soon, and it won't be fast, so your idea still works. Until everyone switches, that is =)
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If you honestly believe that all people are that vindictive, then perhape you gotta seek some help.
Most people go to work, try to do a decent job, and go home. They just want to live, enjoy themselves, and screwing people is not often on the top of their list.
You get the wrong idea from the BIG companies and the RICH people. People that got rich the wrong way. These people do not represent the majority of the citizens in the US.
Rhode Island. Cox cable or no cable.
In Massachusetts, you only have Comcast, except if you live in Boston, which I believe there may be one other company.
And stop counting Satellite, it's not the same.
Current focus? It's ALWAYS been the focus of video games! From the first video arcade games, to the ataris, nintendos, segas.. It's always been about graphics as much as anything else. It sells, people like cool graphics, they always will.
Nope, good graphics don't make a game any more then special effects make the new Star Wars movies. There's always been bad games and there's always been good ones. Cutting-edge graphics are a constant, they will always be of major importance.
I agree with you; people quite often demand a sequel because they liked the original so much. It's not that the game companies want to stay safe, it's that they give people what they want. They want Doom3. They want Halo 2.
"1. The Cable Company
You can get a Satellite Dish any day of the week."
I can't get satellite because I have too many trees. There's a number of reasons someone might not be able to use sattelite, that being one of them. So no, I have no choice, when it comes to cable TV, most people only have the choice of one cable company.
"2. The Phone Company
Where I live there is a bunch around. If you dont like them, there is always getting a cell only. Even a satellite cell phone is available-- and thats no matter where you are."
Where I live, and everywhere but major metropolitan areas in the NE, we have Verizon, or nothing. Cell phones are good but they cannot replace a good hard line when you need one.
"3. The Electric Company
Those have recently been privatized too. There is competition, plus you could buy a generator."
Not really. I can choose another power company, but they just buy the power from the same source. It ends up being more expensive. Privatizing power has been a big flop. GENERATORS? You're kidding right?
"4. Microsoft
No. They are a dominant firm in monopolistic competition (they have a strong impact on prices and control a large market share). Software (except some specialized stuff) is mostly a monopolistic competition kind of environment. Lots of Product Differentiation, Advertisement etc. Versioning is important here too."
Many US States and the EU would disagree. As do I.
"5. Viacom
Come on. There is other players in the entertainment business too. Oligopoly, maybe. Monopolistic Competion, most likely."
I dunno about Viacom. So whatever.
"NO ACCOUNTABILITY WHATSOEVER"
Well, sometimes it seems that way, but that is really not the case quite yet."
It is the case. I need 5 phone lines at a customer site, and we HAVE TO USE VERIZON. We can't hook up five cell phones on the wall. When they screw up, it can sometimes be days before they fix something. They raise prices and the only thing we can do is pay. Same with Microsoft. Same with Cox Cable. Same with Naraganset Electric.
Internet Access is often another form of monopoly since it rides on the same line as cable. A lot of people can get DSL, but a lot more cannot. So besides dial-up (which you can't effectively do with a cell phone, and dialup is becomming more and more obsolete) you have to use Cable Internet. I have no choice for my ISP, and they know it. They raise the prices often, they keep blocking more and more stuff, and there's nothing I can do besides pay. Not having high speed internet is not an option for me.
There may be no hard, true, 100% monopolies around, but it's close enough to not matter. Sure, you could always live in a straw hut and shovel shit for a living, but if you want to actually participate in society you have no choice but to buy their services, good or not.
Not everyone's goal is to screw everyone all the time.
Trends come and go. Consoles are good for the average person wishing to play a few video games, but many of them would rather have a bunch of cool games on the PC if they had one or if the one they have was powerful enough.
Consoles have their place and I have an XBox because the mod chip stuff on the Xbox is fun, but overall I find that PC games are more fun, more interesting, and more detailed.
I do enjoy some titles on the Xbox; Outlaw Golf is fun and Fusion Frenzy on a big TV with four people can be fun too. Consoles are better for having a friend over to play a game then a PC is.
But, PC's will always have the edge for technological superiority and so games will always be written for them to make use of this cool stuff. And there will always be games where you need a Keyboard, and console games with keyboards aren't very practical. MMORPG's on consoles may be okay for some aspects, but in order for an online RPG to have any decent community people need to be able to communicate fluidly. Can't do that with a gamepad..
Like someone said up a ways, neither is going to die, and they both have their pros and cons. They can and will coexist for some time to come.
Well, when upgrades can be deployed with the on-staff IT people, and they won't incurr any software costs, open source software provides a nice strady way to keep your systems upgraded.
The biggest reason for not deploying the next MS version are mostly cost, or other reasons like hardware capabilities. But mostly because upgrades for Windows and Office are boat loads of cash.
Next time I'll be more specific so that retards like yourself don't feel the need to be even bigger retards.
How about this: "I've yet to find any sites, BESIDES THE FUCKING OBVIOUS ONES, that are IE only" - is that clear enough for you, dipshit?
What the fuck is your problem? Of course Windows Update doesn't work without IE, and it's incredibly ignorant of you to even try and make a point out of it. It's way out of context.
I didn't click your stupid link because you're a stupid fuck and it would have been a waste of my time to click your dumbshit link.
Next time just say what you want to say instead of trying to be all smartass.
Yes, I do agree with many of your points. Being able to configure the bios via telnet or even a serial link would be very helpful in any data center or even a few servers in a closet.
The feature set of LinuxBIOS is really neat and it would be great if these features were universal.
As far as the actuall "quality" of existing BIOS's, I think they are pretty good. Sure, there's been bugs, but usually minor and almost always fixed asap. The major motherboard manufacturers make most of their money on these things and they tend to be on top of things like that, even well past the "normal" lifetime of PC hardware.
This is not to say that it's not very nice to be able to hack your own bios with LinuxBIOS in case there's a bug, but this only suits a small percentage of the admins out there that are able to do such a thing.
Like all OSS projects, I appreciate them quite a bit and I hope LinuxBIOS gains more vendor support. It would be really cool if it started replacing the standard BIOS on systems alltogether, especially with this DRM crap heading our way.
I'm not a corporation. I am not running a business. And I want a unified Desktop. I don't care; KDE or Gnome. I want market share for Linux.
I want to use Linux full time, have it be 100% supported by hardware and software vendors. I want to be TOTALLY free of Microsoft.
Some of you can be free now, but for all the things I use my computer for I cannot be. Market share will allow it to happen, and I feel as though Linux can gain more ground faster on the Desktop front if there were a single big popular DE.
Of course, it's all good either way. Linux will gain dominance, I think it's inevitable. It probably won't matter what DE you use in the end.
Yea, you're right, but it also made installing non-Redhat RPM's or tarballs very difficult. They switched around how their version of KDE saves configuration, plugin, theme, etc stuff. Installing anything took modification.
I am not saying that I don't like the psuedo integration aspect, but I'd rather just pick Gnome OR KDE for a particular workstation instead of being able to hop between the two.
They HAVE to sell their products in the EU and everywhere else. Microsoft holds it's grip on the industry because it's everywhere. Windows is everywhere.
Whatever it takes they will never pull out of a market. If they have to pay a yearly fine of 500Million, they will do it, if it holds their monopoly in place.
Even if the EU market itself didn't cover legal fees, they would still sell there because if the EU was forced to use something other then Microsoft, that's a big group of people that's going to be using something else. And it could easily spread into the US.
I should add that I'm coming from a non-cluster non-big datacenter viewpoint here. For my needs, the standard BIOS's have more then enough quality for what they do.
All I do is set a few things in there when I build a box and forget it. My BIOS seems to work just fine on all the many hundreds of ASUS/Abit/Whatever boards I've touched.
I've looked at the processor specs, and although it is faster then a same-clocked "old" Mobile Pentium chip it's still not nearly as fast as what is currently available. And no, I'm not saying that a 10LB machine and a 200 degree chip is good; not all machines are like this, even ones with the 2.4Ghz pentium 4.
They market Centrino as "Wireless Technology" with scenes of people pulling up a desk at a swimming pool. It's crap and you know it. Whether or not the chip is better, or whatever, it's not a miracle wireless network like they make it out to be. It's a lower performance CPU, 802.11 built-in. Some frills added in. Slightly longer battery life, and it's not much better then "non-centrino" models; I've used both.
If you're happy, fantastic!
They ARE lower speed, significantly slower then what's currently available for notebooks.
Any late model notebook these days includes 802.11 even if it's not "centrino."
The thing about the Pentium-M's is that they clock in at something like 1.3Ghz, where as you can find 2.4Ghz Mobile Pentium 4's. They may be faster then same clock Pentiums, but they are basically just repackaged old CPU's that they sell for new-cpu prices.
Supposedly you get longer battery life with a Centrino notebook then a standard one, but I have not found it to be significant. The screen eats the most power, and you gotta have one on either.
My old Sony notebook lasts something like an hour and fifteen minutes with the screen on, but it lasts almost five hours with the lid shut, not in standby.
pfft whatever =P
You got the point.
FireWire is sort of a "Serial SCSI" much like how Serial ATA is a serial version of ATA.
FireWire/IEEE1394/iLink is a very fast interface with low latency in a peer setup. Devices do not need a host to process the communication, they can talk to each other directly. Example: DV Camcorder to a DV VTR deck.
USB is a lot different in the way it works. USB2.0 is technically faster then FireWire 1 (80Mbit faster) however for streaming data FireWire is generally more efficient.
That being said, both are plenty fast for any DVD recorder, so the interface isn't going to make any difference for speed, the recorder itself will.
Even if they are just dealing with locals to use their wifi setups, it's better then the non-existant Intel "wireless world of centrino."
As far as I can tell, all "centrino" is is a lower speed CPU notebook with a built in 802.11 board built in.
Microsoft.com works fine with Mozilla, it actually behaves and works quite nicely.
So much for your whitty rebuttle.
A bank in Sweedin. Damn ye Microsoft to HELL!!! Now where am I going to bank!
I think the odds are actually pretty good of everyone eventually switching, but it won't be soon, and it won't be fast, so your idea still works. Until everyone switches, that is =)