So could someone explain how this effects us? How is this a major leap as the article says? Watching it be born seems cool and all but how does that help us kill it?
Or if they do they're insane. Product tie-in is why people ran to Apple in the first place, to get away from the Microsoft lock-in. Now Apple is doing it. I recently dumped everything I had Apple and moved to FOSS for exactly this reason. It kills competition and locks you into inferior products all for the sack of compatibility.
I like that I can have different components from different manufacturers. It means I can shop around for the best deals. As soon as one company ties it all in you can look forward to the death of standards like HDMI. Anyone remember ADC? The Apple Display Connector? Don't think for a second Apple wont start doing this to lock you in.
It boggles the mind why people get so excited about vendor lock-in like this. Suddenly it's a good thing? Did we learn nothing from the 90's and the Microsoft/Intel/Cisco empire?
Well if you combine it with voice recognition a lot of the problems disappear. The thing is though that VR isn't very good these days. Perhaps in the future.
I have to disagree about grinding. The only reason they continue to use grinding is because everyone else uses it. It's a vicious circle.
"If every level is as easy to reach as the last then no one would play because there is no challenge in it"
How do you know? No one has tried. Every MMO has gone the same exact leveling, grinding, dull route.If someone actually tried something new that didn't involve lackluster game play maybe we would see less botting.
I suppose my biggest issue is that MMO's are supposed to be sorta open ended and yet each and every one of them has an "end game" which is some sort of raiding that involves tons of grinding of the same crap, over and over.
Wake me up when a developer comes up with something original.
Wouldn't removing the other two types of bonds make it naturally more likely to break to begin with? My chem background isnt great, maybe someone could break it down for me.
That may be true for ABBA and The Village People but Prince is quite well off with his own gig in Vegas. Prince has been very vocal about the music industry and how fucked up it is. Regardless of whether you call them has beens or not, people ARE stealing the music and not paying the artist. It's a crime, doesn't matter if they are still popular or not.
The same goes for offline advertisements. How many of the junk snail mail adverts do you read? I grab it all and toss it without a second look, most people do. I've recently gone over this issue with a modern art professor (many of todays ads get taught in art classes now believe it or not) and he talked at length about saturation. You can't do anything, go any where without being bombarded with this crap and it's gotten to the point that most people tune it out.
I myself make mental notes to never do business with certain advertisers I feel are shady (which is more than I like to admit). Most people however are oblivious to it and the information just hits the subliminal. I feel the bombardment is backfiring and the whole advertising industry is in a huge bubble that's about to burst. Companies wont be able to justify the extreme costs of advertisiments when most people just don't care anymore.
I wouldn't eve call this theoretical. My understanding of the scientific community (which isn't great, admittedly) is that a theory is proven somewhat true and supported by facts as well as holds up to testing, like relativity. This is just wild speculation and guesswork. It seem to sit more in the philosophical than anything else.
It's like proving something exists buy using something that doesn't exist. I admire the guys imagination though. Just seems like he wants it to exist so he's making it so. IMHO science should be about working with the facts, which isn't what's going on here.
3 version ago Ubuntu worked flawlessly on my laptop. Lacked some features etc but it worked. Now with 7.10 wireless is flakey, video craps out all the time and I can't suspend or hibernate without it crashing on resume. This is the only distro I have ever seen that gets worse in terms of stability with each release. Fedora on the other hand works brilliantly except that wireless on Fedora is a nightmare. I just don't see why people can't combine resources to make stuff work and once it works, don't freaking break it afterwards.
They aren't policing the planes. They are policing the SKIES and the potential threat of them dropping on my head. I could care less about the guy in a hurry taking a cheap flight with no security checks, I do however care about the cheap guy landing in my backyard on my family during a BBQ.
Never really looked at it this way. I think it's become ingrained in us that IP's are a way of tracking instead of a way of communicating. Being able to track them is just a side issue. If we look at an IP as a means of communication then does that not make it private in some way? I don't know exactly how I feel about this but I'd certainly like to have more rights rather than less of them.
I remember reading about that before. I'm old though, I remember when Peter Gabriel was the bomb. I remember when "the bomb" was created =o
It would seem that the nickle and dime tactics of the RIAA and the industry as a whole has come back to haunt them. Artists in the past used to make more money from the live performances than from the albums sales, now that tickets cost more than a college education I don't go to shows anymore either. They're losing money from every direction it seems.
Back in the day my friends and I made more mixed tapes for each other than we bought. If one friend bought a new tape, within the next few days, all of their friends also had one. This was true until CD's came out, but then again, once burners were introduced it happened again. I've never really downloaded music illegally, almost all of my music was purchased from iTunes or is from my very old CD collection pre-internet. I simply don't buy physical media anymore. But lately my choice to not buy anything at all has been more about the quality of music than anything else. Musicians these days just suck.
The only way it could backfire is if they write crappy software and do damage to the reputation of OSS in general. People can't just drop windows. How many Linux users dual boot for example? So whether you're dual booting, or installing OSS on windows, what's the true difference? People will switch when they have the ability too and when it makes economic sense. Migration is a very slow process and only makes huge leaps when market factors change. The release of Vista is one such factor, whether the Linux community can capitalize on it is another question.
Some people, occasionally myself included, often find the OSX GUI to be too repressive, inhibiting a lot of the functionality we may wish to have. It's a fine line between bloat and cutomization. KDE 3.X IMHO was very bloated and out of control, KDE4 in it's current form is just the opposite. It would be nice to at least have the option on OSX. Choice isn't a bad thing and only the people who truly want it will install it since there is no chance of Apple installing it by default.
Well I tested KDE4 on my Ubuntu machine, found it too be very incomplete and buggy. I understand that Qt4 is quite easy to develop with, much like Cocoa is for OSX, so the development time may be shorter than I expect.
It's not that I want the newest up to date stuff. Amarok is hardly new, it's the underlying Qt4 that's the culprit IMO. Getting Amarok on OSX would be very nice as I could replace iTunes and switch my library over to Ogg, something I've really been wanting to do. The Ogg plugin for iTunes is a little lacking and iTunes has just gotten too "in your face" with it's store for my tastes. KDE4 has a lot of promise, I admit that and applaud them on their work. I just feel they broke a trust with the user base by releasing a.0 version which was clearly still alpha software.
I really don't know when KDE4 will be "ready". I suspect when i can run it without trouble on my Linux laptop then it'll be very soon after that the OSX port would be stable enough.
I do enjoy some of the KDE applications and want to install them deep down in my soul, but because of the buggy nature and pre-release nonsense with KDE4 I'd really never trust it on my MacOSX system. I got my mac so that I wouldn't have to deal with the eternally beta Linux software situation. I want things to work, KDE4 doesn't work. Maybe in a couple years when they get their act together I'll trust it on my system but right now, as a MacOSX user, there is nothing KDE has to offer that's worth trying out. They really screwed up releasing KDE4 early. I don't trust it, I wont trust it for a long time and they're giving me no reason to begin trust any time soon.
I used to be a diehard FreeBSD fan. Used it on all my servers and my desktop. I'd still use it before Linux on a server but on the desktop there just is no comparison to something like Ubuntu. The last time I installed FreeBSD on my laptop I felt I had gone back in time 10 years to 1998. Everything I wanted seemed to be a linux emulation too. That's just how I felt anyway. I love FreeBSD and always will, but they don't seem to have the focus on usability for the desktop that distros like Ubuntu have.
If you were implanted with special hearing aids that gave you 30% better hearing than others you would see things differently. That's what's going on here. We've made advances in prosthetics that in some cases, make them better than actually having limbs. No muscles to tire, extra spring in the steps and so forth.
Seeing as how many Russian hospitals can't even get running water, it's not unreasonable to call bullshit on this claim. The country is still by-and-large in shambles, struggling to survive. They just recently announced a military build-up as well. Good'ole Putin sure is a winner, sinking that ship even further.
The only thing keeping ODF and hence OpenOffice from replacing Office with students is the lack of a grammar checker. Students are lazy and need that function of MS Office. Spell check is great, but a grammar checker is required to be an Office replacement.
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So could someone explain how this effects us? How is this a major leap as the article says? Watching it be born seems cool and all but how does that help us kill it?
Or if they do they're insane. Product tie-in is why people ran to Apple in the first place, to get away from the Microsoft lock-in. Now Apple is doing it. I recently dumped everything I had Apple and moved to FOSS for exactly this reason. It kills competition and locks you into inferior products all for the sack of compatibility.
I like that I can have different components from different manufacturers. It means I can shop around for the best deals. As soon as one company ties it all in you can look forward to the death of standards like HDMI. Anyone remember ADC? The Apple Display Connector? Don't think for a second Apple wont start doing this to lock you in.
It boggles the mind why people get so excited about vendor lock-in like this. Suddenly it's a good thing? Did we learn nothing from the 90's and the Microsoft/Intel/Cisco empire?
Well if you combine it with voice recognition a lot of the problems disappear. The thing is though that VR isn't very good these days. Perhaps in the future.
I haven't driven a car further than the local grocery store (about once a week, sometimes less) in almost 2 years.
Another "easy to use" distro. We have enough of those. Focus your resources on stuff that matters.
I have to disagree about grinding. The only reason they continue to use grinding is because everyone else uses it. It's a vicious circle.
"If every level is as easy to reach as the last then no one would play because there is no challenge in it"
How do you know? No one has tried. Every MMO has gone the same exact leveling, grinding, dull route.If someone actually tried something new that didn't involve lackluster game play maybe we would see less botting.
I suppose my biggest issue is that MMO's are supposed to be sorta open ended and yet each and every one of them has an "end game" which is some sort of raiding that involves tons of grinding of the same crap, over and over.
Wake me up when a developer comes up with something original.
Wouldn't removing the other two types of bonds make it naturally more likely to break to begin with? My chem background isnt great, maybe someone could break it down for me.
That may be true for ABBA and The Village People but Prince is quite well off with his own gig in Vegas. Prince has been very vocal about the music industry and how fucked up it is. Regardless of whether you call them has beens or not, people ARE stealing the music and not paying the artist. It's a crime, doesn't matter if they are still popular or not.
The same goes for offline advertisements. How many of the junk snail mail adverts do you read? I grab it all and toss it without a second look, most people do. I've recently gone over this issue with a modern art professor (many of todays ads get taught in art classes now believe it or not) and he talked at length about saturation. You can't do anything, go any where without being bombarded with this crap and it's gotten to the point that most people tune it out.
I myself make mental notes to never do business with certain advertisers I feel are shady (which is more than I like to admit). Most people however are oblivious to it and the information just hits the subliminal. I feel the bombardment is backfiring and the whole advertising industry is in a huge bubble that's about to burst. Companies wont be able to justify the extreme costs of advertisiments when most people just don't care anymore.
I wouldn't eve call this theoretical. My understanding of the scientific community (which isn't great, admittedly) is that a theory is proven somewhat true and supported by facts as well as holds up to testing, like relativity. This is just wild speculation and guesswork. It seem to sit more in the philosophical than anything else.
It's like proving something exists buy using something that doesn't exist. I admire the guys imagination though. Just seems like he wants it to exist so he's making it so. IMHO science should be about working with the facts, which isn't what's going on here.
3 version ago Ubuntu worked flawlessly on my laptop. Lacked some features etc but it worked. Now with 7.10 wireless is flakey, video craps out all the time and I can't suspend or hibernate without it crashing on resume. This is the only distro I have ever seen that gets worse in terms of stability with each release. Fedora on the other hand works brilliantly except that wireless on Fedora is a nightmare. I just don't see why people can't combine resources to make stuff work and once it works, don't freaking break it afterwards.
They aren't policing the planes. They are policing the SKIES and the potential threat of them dropping on my head. I could care less about the guy in a hurry taking a cheap flight with no security checks, I do however care about the cheap guy landing in my backyard on my family during a BBQ.
Never really looked at it this way. I think it's become ingrained in us that IP's are a way of tracking instead of a way of communicating. Being able to track them is just a side issue. If we look at an IP as a means of communication then does that not make it private in some way? I don't know exactly how I feel about this but I'd certainly like to have more rights rather than less of them.
I remember reading about that before. I'm old though, I remember when Peter Gabriel was the bomb. I remember when "the bomb" was created =o
It would seem that the nickle and dime tactics of the RIAA and the industry as a whole has come back to haunt them. Artists in the past used to make more money from the live performances than from the albums sales, now that tickets cost more than a college education I don't go to shows anymore either. They're losing money from every direction it seems.
Back in the day my friends and I made more mixed tapes for each other than we bought. If one friend bought a new tape, within the next few days, all of their friends also had one. This was true until CD's came out, but then again, once burners were introduced it happened again. I've never really downloaded music illegally, almost all of my music was purchased from iTunes or is from my very old CD collection pre-internet. I simply don't buy physical media anymore. But lately my choice to not buy anything at all has been more about the quality of music than anything else. Musicians these days just suck.
The only way it could backfire is if they write crappy software and do damage to the reputation of OSS in general. People can't just drop windows. How many Linux users dual boot for example? So whether you're dual booting, or installing OSS on windows, what's the true difference? People will switch when they have the ability too and when it makes economic sense. Migration is a very slow process and only makes huge leaps when market factors change. The release of Vista is one such factor, whether the Linux community can capitalize on it is another question.
Some people, occasionally myself included, often find the OSX GUI to be too repressive, inhibiting a lot of the functionality we may wish to have. It's a fine line between bloat and cutomization. KDE 3.X IMHO was very bloated and out of control, KDE4 in it's current form is just the opposite. It would be nice to at least have the option on OSX. Choice isn't a bad thing and only the people who truly want it will install it since there is no chance of Apple installing it by default.
Well I tested KDE4 on my Ubuntu machine, found it too be very incomplete and buggy. I understand that Qt4 is quite easy to develop with, much like Cocoa is for OSX, so the development time may be shorter than I expect.
.0 version which was clearly still alpha software.
It's not that I want the newest up to date stuff. Amarok is hardly new, it's the underlying Qt4 that's the culprit IMO. Getting Amarok on OSX would be very nice as I could replace iTunes and switch my library over to Ogg, something I've really been wanting to do. The Ogg plugin for iTunes is a little lacking and iTunes has just gotten too "in your face" with it's store for my tastes. KDE4 has a lot of promise, I admit that and applaud them on their work. I just feel they broke a trust with the user base by releasing a
I really don't know when KDE4 will be "ready". I suspect when i can run it without trouble on my Linux laptop then it'll be very soon after that the OSX port would be stable enough.
I do enjoy some of the KDE applications and want to install them deep down in my soul, but because of the buggy nature and pre-release nonsense with KDE4 I'd really never trust it on my MacOSX system. I got my mac so that I wouldn't have to deal with the eternally beta Linux software situation. I want things to work, KDE4 doesn't work. Maybe in a couple years when they get their act together I'll trust it on my system but right now, as a MacOSX user, there is nothing KDE has to offer that's worth trying out. They really screwed up releasing KDE4 early. I don't trust it, I wont trust it for a long time and they're giving me no reason to begin trust any time soon.
Thanks for the tip. I'm going to give it a shot and see how it goes. Much appreciated.
I used to be a diehard FreeBSD fan. Used it on all my servers and my desktop. I'd still use it before Linux on a server but on the desktop there just is no comparison to something like Ubuntu. The last time I installed FreeBSD on my laptop I felt I had gone back in time 10 years to 1998. Everything I wanted seemed to be a linux emulation too. That's just how I felt anyway. I love FreeBSD and always will, but they don't seem to have the focus on usability for the desktop that distros like Ubuntu have.
If you were implanted with special hearing aids that gave you 30% better hearing than others you would see things differently. That's what's going on here. We've made advances in prosthetics that in some cases, make them better than actually having limbs. No muscles to tire, extra spring in the steps and so forth.
Seeing as how many Russian hospitals can't even get running water, it's not unreasonable to call bullshit on this claim. The country is still by-and-large in shambles, struggling to survive. They just recently announced a military build-up as well. Good'ole Putin sure is a winner, sinking that ship even further.
The only thing keeping ODF and hence OpenOffice from replacing Office with students is the lack of a grammar checker. Students are lazy and need that function of MS Office. Spell check is great, but a grammar checker is required to be an Office replacement.