Japan is a much smaller country than the U.S. so it's debt will naturally be smaller in proportion. I don't know what their population is, I'm guessing it's in the same neighborhood as our own but you have to remember the trend in Japan is only a decade old where as ours has been several decades long. There are to many variables to work out in a slashdot post but the underlying point I was making is that Japan moved way to fast and is now suffering a terrible price as we are. It's a bit worse for them however. Cultural issues must come into play as well so like I said I can't possibly run all the numbers in a post.
The corporations in Japan have a habit of ditching older technology altogether rather than working on things like backwards compatibility. I mean this in the broader sense, there are of course plenty of exceptions such as Sony and the Playstation 2. This is what I meant by shoving it down their throats. It's often times upgrade and keep up or lose what you have.
There have been many companies offering cheap and fast broadband. They all died. If the demand for broadband was there on a large scale then people would be paying for T1's etc and driving the cost down as a result. The fact is I have a cable modem that sits idle most of the time because all I do is surf the web and answer email with the occasional streaming video. My 2 meg connection is wasted in many ways. Why would I demand 12 megs when I barely use 2? Most people are in line with me. If there was a demand for 12 in this country you bet your ass companies would be scrambling to provide it.
American companies don't milk every dime. HDTV has been slow to adoption because most people don't have it and are perfectly comfortable with what they have. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Most people can't afford or are smart enough to not waste money on every new hot gadget and technology that comes out. This is a lesson they haven't learned yet in Japan where the national debt is HUGE and their economy is just barely staying afloat. Japan got drunk on western democracy and capitalism after WWII. They will slow down and pace themselves in the near future and find themselves in the same boat as us, pacing themselves on the rate of adoption of technologies. Capitalism is about building better mouse traps. When a company builds a better mouse trap the market will change, government intervention destroys that natural process. Tivo is a classic example of this, it's a better mouse trap and as such is being adopted by people who find it valuable.
Blaming a nations corporate sector because it isn't forcing technology down peoples throats is ignorant, disgusting and makes me damn glad I live in a free country with a free market where I can decide the direction corporate America takes by voting with my hard earned dollars.
Your grudge against corporate America is unfounded in fact. Corporations go where the money is, if there is money to be made in new ventures it will be.
Communism is the system of government, socialism is the economic system underlying the system of government. They go hand in hand and are inseperable. Any rational person can tell you that controlling the economy means controlling the people and controlling the people is only possible through force. Socialism + communism = oppression. It's sad you don't understand this.
"However Bush did run as a moderate and turned out to be more conservative then Reagon himself"
The above is so blatantly wrong it's frightening. Bush has passed every Dem agenda that's come to him, from medicare health benefits to education spending increases. Every conservative I know is mad at Bush for pushing the liberal agendas. The NRA and even the nut job Jerry Falwell have threatened to pull support from him.
You have a lot of mistakes in your post. I won't go down the list and pick at it but I'll just say that you have a very wrong idea of what conservatism and Republicans are about. They aren't nearly the boogie men you think they are. As Reagan once said "The Democratic party left ME!". The Democrats up to about 1975 were the conservative party and the Republicans were the liberals. The poles switched and people have gotten extremely confused as to the positions of both sides.
I would recommend reading some conservative books such as "Useful idiots" by Mona Charen and "Let Freedom Ring" by Sean Hannity. Hannity is a religious nut but his stance on education is spot on.
It does neither side any good to be shouting slurs and hate mongering. I listen to both sides and vote for the best candidate regardless of political associations. It's a bad idea to put all your eggs in one basket in politics, you never know who's lying.
You are a prime example of why people are avoiding the Democratic party like the plague. I never swore at anyone nor put them down for their political stance, yet you came out like a rabid nutcase.
All you need to see Deans socialist record is to see what he did as Governor. If you choose to ignore his socilist record that's your poor decision, i can't force you to research it and I'm not about to make a 10 page post about it on a slashdot forum.
By all means tho continue flaming and acting the fool. I never said I was a Republican and you don't know anything about me. You however exposed your ignorance for the world to see. The more people like you who do means the more people who will avoid you and vote for decent candidates. Dean is not one I'm sorry to say.
Credible sources are everywhere. No need to be hostile. Just look at his track record as Governor, he implimented a socialist state run health care system that's bleeding them dry. Just look at his stances on things. I don't understand the rabid defense of the far left, it's as evil as the far right is yet people seem to ignore it and even apologize for it.
You do your political ideologies a great disservice with this rabid hate mongering of yours. You hate Bush so much you are willing to put left wing socialists into office. The Democrats have some fine people in their party, Howard Dean however is not one of them. You would do good in recognizing this.
Dean is a socialist, openly so at that. He is about the last person in the world you want associated with your agenda if you want to be taken seriously.
If you don't like Bush then at least vote for a serious contender like Liberman or Kerry. Voting for Dean is a vote for socialism and state control over everything. You haven't seen big brother until someone like Dean takes control.
Most do not make their money on the road. "Most" musicians today don't even tour, if they did we would need to build thousands more auditoriums to accomodate them. Artists like Enya don't tour, even Modonna didn't tour for like 10 years (someone correct me on this). They make most of their money in album sales because it takes many many more people to set up a concert than it does to make an album. The costs are insane.
Now with that out of the way. If labels want money out of the concerts then they need to put more into them. They need to pony up the initial money for the artists and handle the management issues. This would eleviate costs for the artists on hiring tour managers and possibly even stage crew. Then there is something in it for all involved. If however they are just sticking their noses in and trying to drain the river dry we should all make it clear to them that sales will suffer as a result.
As it is, I haven't seen a live show in ten years. I refuse to pay the ridiculous costs they now charge. Besides that I can't honestly think of any bands I want to see live. Why spend a ton of money to stand in an auditorium listening to music you already own surrounded by strangers who sweat all over you while dodging the random sporadic fights that break out all over the place. I don't see the appeal but obviously some people do.
"Alright, lets compare that to Reagans feats. When did he ever get on national television and draw a line in the sand, saying that if the USSR didn't stop what they were doing right now, it would amount to "an act of war?""
"Mr. Gorbachev TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" You're obviously to young to remember the evil empire speech and Reagans very public support of Polands Solidarity group. Like I said, you need some real history lessons. It's pathetic you couldn't even recall this.
"Sure buddy, keep smokin that cheap crack. Addicts can vote, too."
And if you haven't noticed they all vote Democrat thanks to you're free hand outs and welfare programs.
They we're afraid of such because they were isolationist libertarians. This is a failed ideology thanks to the creation of mass media and global telecommunications and global economic markets. Isolationism is idiotic, just look at China for an economic example of what it does.
If we are to be players on the world stage then we have to understand defending freedom is a 24/7 job and not something we do only after we get hit at Pearl Harbor or the WTC. You don't solve problems by simply reacting to their symptoms, that is perpetual war, hit and run tactics. Peace through stregth proved valid in the cold war and remains so today with rogue regimes. Perhaps we should disband like you say and let North Korea do what ever the hell they want as long as it doesn't come to our shores? That's brilliant, then when the global market collapses due to communist Korea invading everyone we can just say "Look we told you so!".
Pacifism gets you killed in a world where evil is allowed to exist. That's reality.
You call the missle crisis an accomplishment? We gave up strategic advantage in Turkey because the soviets bluffed in Cuba. We could have hit those targets strategicly or done a multitude of other things. That was in no way putting your foot down, that was compromise. We have nothing to gain from compromising with evil empires. You need a dose of morality and intelligence. You keep voting for the rapists and moral degenerates and we'll keep taking election after election.
It's not about the holiness of our military. It's like spending money on a really great security system for your home and getting that warm fuzzy feeling your kids won't be attacked by some nut case sneaking into their room and keeping them for 9 months (Elizabeth Smart).
Our military is what ensures our freedom. Respecting it and appreciating it is moral and right. Just as you would appreciate art or education, so you should also respect freedom and sacrifice. Freedom is not free.
Don't forget that he accomplished all of this despite the democrats controlling the other two thirds of government!! The "Great Communicator" indeed!!
The revisionist historians will twist him no doubt. They already do. However the liberals don't control the media anymore so alternative means of finding the truth are available. The truth always finds it's way to the top. They still demonize Nixon for catching Hiss spying for crying out loud. Yet we now know the truth thanks to a free and competitive media.
Reagan was big on technology because he believed it scared the hell out of the USSR. Gorbi was scared to death of Reagans Star Wars plans, he knew the USSR couldn't ever possibly compete with us economically and technology was all about investment. Reagan knew this to be their weakness so he increased military spending and investmets in technology and let the USSR bankrupt itself trying to keep up. Every president before him took part in dente which was basically a welfare program, we gave them money and in return they didn't nuke us.
In every summit Gorbi and Reagan had Gorbi pushed to end Star Wars, even coming to the brink of war over it. Reagan never relented and continued to push the technology. He had the forsight to know that overcoming evil, poverty and every other ill on this Earth involved investment in technology.
No kidding. The accomplishments of Reagan are just astounding. Passing the largest tax cut in U.S. history whil the democrats control the house and the senate? Bush couldn't do that with the republicans controlling all three branches of the government. The man was just amazing.
You are right and wrong. Yes it's best to pause, if we had I doubt anyone would be willing to name one after JFK, a proven drug addict and womanizer who never did anything great other than become a martyr for unknown reasons and wrapped in a conspiracy.
Reagan is a special case because he really was great and over came odds in a way that is just unheard of. It's all the little things about "The Great Communicator" that make him great. Like passing the largest tax cuts in history despite the Democrats controling the house AND the Senate, a feat Bush couldn't pull off with the Republicans controlling all three branchs. Reagan got more judicial nominees in than any president in history. He was the first president to put his foot down and stop the USSR. Had Reagan not done this the USSR would be alive today thanks to the pathetic dente pushed by Nixon and Carter. How many presidents can win 48 states in an election? Especially when democrats outnumber republicans.
There is a real problem in this country right now in regards to partisan history. No one is teaching the truth. It's revisionist history to the extreme. Reagan over saw the largest economic boom in history only however, after dragging the economy out of Carters hole. The man was simply amazing and anyone doubting it needs to read "Reagans War".
Consider Reagan took on the USSR and won without a military conflict!! This alone deserves a nobel peace prize. Yet Carter who was giving the USSR money and allowing the KGB access to sensitive areas of our military gets a nobel peace prize for simply calling GWB a few names.
You don't have to agree with Reagans politics. You do however have to give the man the respect he deserves for being the single most productive and accomplished president in 50 years of American history.
Ok so I started on linux back in 1996 with some old version of Red Hat, can't remember what release it was. I remember the 2 months it took me to initially figure everything out. Back then I was constantly on IRC and got a lot of help from OctobrX who was also sorta new at the time. I was 19 then and had nothing but time on my hands to sit and learn this stuff. Windows was just coming into Win95 and the nightmare blue screen of death was a twice hourly occurrence.
Fast forward to 2003. WinXP is plenty stable, much more so than any windows OS thusfar. MacOSX offers all of the benefits a UNIX systems can plsu a stable non-beta interface with standards and a lot of really great off the shelf software. I don't see the appeal of Linux on the desktop and I don't think most others do either who aren't visiting this site.
Linux is ok in servers, i use FreeBSD personally but to each their own. Linux makes a semi adequate desktop if you look past the old, antiquated install processes, weak package management, lack of uninstall options, the nightmare library system that's almost impossible to keep under control without spending more time on it than you do actual work. The GUI's are sorry to say, horribly old and overly complex. There is no standard GUI for developers to code too without pissing off one side or the other (KDE or GNOME). Commercial developers are treated like dirt when they actually want to charge for software and/or wont release their hard work to everyone open source.
For the geeks Linux is ok. It's even fun to tinker with. Consider however most people could care less, and when I say most I mean MOST, I don't see any gains being made. My mom has enough trouble with MacOSX I can't imagine giving her Red Hat 9 and telling her how to use GNOME. "Here mom just compile this program with 'make install &' and then run it at the terminal". This is far far far from user friendly and as far as I can tell NO ONE is working to change this at all.
Linux is doomed to niche status until people in the OSS community start caring about ALL users and not just people who know what man pages are. This is the same with Apple and their closed hardware and stupid advertising. I don't know a single person that understands apples commercials enough to research them and figure out what they hell they are trying to sell.
Ok, so ending this rant I will say that Linux on the desktop is fine for some, even preferable. But don't even think that Linux in it's current state will be making any major headway into the desktop market. Servers and some business and scientific apps sure, but never the consumer desktop market.
There is a serious flaw in your reasoning, Final Cut doesn't even use the standard widgets. Apple bought Final Cut and ported it over, custome widgets and all. Premire should have had, for all intents and purposes the "head start" thanks to Carbon.
Because the OS maker has a few months head start shouldn't be a deterent to building a better mouse trap. Microsoft has had 20 years to build windows, that hasn't stopped OSS from trying has it?
Fact of the matter is, Final Cut is just better. Apple isn't bundling it, they aren't giving special breaks or sneaking in special API's. They aren't even competing on price, yet Premier STILL can't beat it. That alone speaks volumes about Adobe. I haven't seen such blatant incompentence since Quark waited 3 years to release an OSX native app.
Apple left third parties to their own vices for many many years and the market dried up, became uncompetitive and utterly boring. Apple took matters into their own hands by improving and innovating. It's not their fault Adobe is a company of cowards who refuse to compete in a fair market. Apple's API's are open and they provide all the tools needed to get the job done for free.
The only reason Adobe pulled out was spite and cowardice. You can probably blame arrogance too with Adobe thinking they own the multimedia market.
Apple hardly shot themselves in the foot. They released a better product and took over the market. That's what happens in a free society. Adobe shot themselves in the foot by showing their customers and their investors they have no spine, and perhaps worse, no ideas.
Once again the Euros get it all wrong. I predict another 50 years before we have to bail them out again of some world war. It's certainly heading there with the vast number of socialists in France, Germany and even the U.K. They have an average 14% unemployment, Argentina collapsed at 10%. They can't maintian this stupidity much longer, evident in Frances welfare and social security systems being officially bankrupt. They just keep passing the buck to future generations the way our liberal socialist democratic party does.
Dude take a reality pill. Every conservative I know uses a Mac, including Rush Limbaugh. Conservatives use what works and what is cost effective. BTW Bill Gates is a Liberal.
Now grow up please and leave politics out of benchmarks, thank you.
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Japan is a much smaller country than the U.S. so it's debt will naturally be smaller in proportion. I don't know what their population is, I'm guessing it's in the same neighborhood as our own but you have to remember the trend in Japan is only a decade old where as ours has been several decades long. There are to many variables to work out in a slashdot post but the underlying point I was making is that Japan moved way to fast and is now suffering a terrible price as we are. It's a bit worse for them however. Cultural issues must come into play as well so like I said I can't possibly run all the numbers in a post.
The corporations in Japan have a habit of ditching older technology altogether rather than working on things like backwards compatibility. I mean this in the broader sense, there are of course plenty of exceptions such as Sony and the Playstation 2. This is what I meant by shoving it down their throats. It's often times upgrade and keep up or lose what you have.
There have been many companies offering cheap and fast broadband. They all died. If the demand for broadband was there on a large scale then people would be paying for T1's etc and driving the cost down as a result. The fact is I have a cable modem that sits idle most of the time because all I do is surf the web and answer email with the occasional streaming video. My 2 meg connection is wasted in many ways. Why would I demand 12 megs when I barely use 2? Most people are in line with me. If there was a demand for 12 in this country you bet your ass companies would be scrambling to provide it.
American companies don't milk every dime. HDTV has been slow to adoption because most people don't have it and are perfectly comfortable with what they have. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Most people can't afford or are smart enough to not waste money on every new hot gadget and technology that comes out. This is a lesson they haven't learned yet in Japan where the national debt is HUGE and their economy is just barely staying afloat. Japan got drunk on western democracy and capitalism after WWII. They will slow down and pace themselves in the near future and find themselves in the same boat as us, pacing themselves on the rate of adoption of technologies. Capitalism is about building better mouse traps. When a company builds a better mouse trap the market will change, government intervention destroys that natural process. Tivo is a classic example of this, it's a better mouse trap and as such is being adopted by people who find it valuable.
Blaming a nations corporate sector because it isn't forcing technology down peoples throats is ignorant, disgusting and makes me damn glad I live in a free country with a free market where I can decide the direction corporate America takes by voting with my hard earned dollars.
Your grudge against corporate America is unfounded in fact. Corporations go where the money is, if there is money to be made in new ventures it will be.
Communism is the system of government, socialism is the economic system underlying the system of government. They go hand in hand and are inseperable. Any rational person can tell you that controlling the economy means controlling the people and controlling the people is only possible through force. Socialism + communism = oppression. It's sad you don't understand this.
"However Bush did run as a moderate and turned out to be more conservative then Reagon himself"
The above is so blatantly wrong it's frightening. Bush has passed every Dem agenda that's come to him, from medicare health benefits to education spending increases. Every conservative I know is mad at Bush for pushing the liberal agendas. The NRA and even the nut job Jerry Falwell have threatened to pull support from him.
You have a lot of mistakes in your post. I won't go down the list and pick at it but I'll just say that you have a very wrong idea of what conservatism and Republicans are about. They aren't nearly the boogie men you think they are. As Reagan once said "The Democratic party left ME!". The Democrats up to about 1975 were the conservative party and the Republicans were the liberals. The poles switched and people have gotten extremely confused as to the positions of both sides.
I would recommend reading some conservative books such as "Useful idiots" by Mona Charen and "Let Freedom Ring" by Sean Hannity. Hannity is a religious nut but his stance on education is spot on.
It does neither side any good to be shouting slurs and hate mongering. I listen to both sides and vote for the best candidate regardless of political associations. It's a bad idea to put all your eggs in one basket in politics, you never know who's lying.
How could Kucinich vote? He was a mayor I thought and not a Senator or Congressman.
You are a prime example of why people are avoiding the Democratic party like the plague. I never swore at anyone nor put them down for their political stance, yet you came out like a rabid nutcase.
All you need to see Deans socialist record is to see what he did as Governor. If you choose to ignore his socilist record that's your poor decision, i can't force you to research it and I'm not about to make a 10 page post about it on a slashdot forum.
By all means tho continue flaming and acting the fool. I never said I was a Republican and you don't know anything about me. You however exposed your ignorance for the world to see. The more people like you who do means the more people who will avoid you and vote for decent candidates. Dean is not one I'm sorry to say.
Credible sources are everywhere. No need to be hostile. Just look at his track record as Governor, he implimented a socialist state run health care system that's bleeding them dry. Just look at his stances on things. I don't understand the rabid defense of the far left, it's as evil as the far right is yet people seem to ignore it and even apologize for it.
You do your political ideologies a great disservice with this rabid hate mongering of yours. You hate Bush so much you are willing to put left wing socialists into office. The Democrats have some fine people in their party, Howard Dean however is not one of them. You would do good in recognizing this.
So we care about this why??
Dean is a socialist, openly so at that. He is about the last person in the world you want associated with your agenda if you want to be taken seriously.
If you don't like Bush then at least vote for a serious contender like Liberman or Kerry. Voting for Dean is a vote for socialism and state control over everything. You haven't seen big brother until someone like Dean takes control.
Most do not make their money on the road. "Most" musicians today don't even tour, if they did we would need to build thousands more auditoriums to accomodate them. Artists like Enya don't tour, even Modonna didn't tour for like 10 years (someone correct me on this). They make most of their money in album sales because it takes many many more people to set up a concert than it does to make an album. The costs are insane.
Now with that out of the way. If labels want money out of the concerts then they need to put more into them. They need to pony up the initial money for the artists and handle the management issues. This would eleviate costs for the artists on hiring tour managers and possibly even stage crew. Then there is something in it for all involved. If however they are just sticking their noses in and trying to drain the river dry we should all make it clear to them that sales will suffer as a result.
As it is, I haven't seen a live show in ten years. I refuse to pay the ridiculous costs they now charge. Besides that I can't honestly think of any bands I want to see live. Why spend a ton of money to stand in an auditorium listening to music you already own surrounded by strangers who sweat all over you while dodging the random sporadic fights that break out all over the place. I don't see the appeal but obviously some people do.
"Alright, lets compare that to Reagans feats. When did he ever get on national television and draw a line in the sand, saying that if the USSR didn't stop what they were doing right now, it would amount to "an act of war?""
"Mr. Gorbachev TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" You're obviously to young to remember the evil empire speech and Reagans very public support of Polands Solidarity group. Like I said, you need some real history lessons. It's pathetic you couldn't even recall this.
"Sure buddy, keep smokin that cheap crack. Addicts can vote, too."
And if you haven't noticed they all vote Democrat thanks to you're free hand outs and welfare programs.
Personally, I don't think you need to be a genius to see the rewards in a family and friends.
They we're afraid of such because they were isolationist libertarians. This is a failed ideology thanks to the creation of mass media and global telecommunications and global economic markets. Isolationism is idiotic, just look at China for an economic example of what it does.
If we are to be players on the world stage then we have to understand defending freedom is a 24/7 job and not something we do only after we get hit at Pearl Harbor or the WTC. You don't solve problems by simply reacting to their symptoms, that is perpetual war, hit and run tactics. Peace through stregth proved valid in the cold war and remains so today with rogue regimes. Perhaps we should disband like you say and let North Korea do what ever the hell they want as long as it doesn't come to our shores? That's brilliant, then when the global market collapses due to communist Korea invading everyone we can just say "Look we told you so!".
Pacifism gets you killed in a world where evil is allowed to exist. That's reality.
You call the missle crisis an accomplishment? We gave up strategic advantage in Turkey because the soviets bluffed in Cuba. We could have hit those targets strategicly or done a multitude of other things. That was in no way putting your foot down, that was compromise. We have nothing to gain from compromising with evil empires. You need a dose of morality and intelligence. You keep voting for the rapists and moral degenerates and we'll keep taking election after election.
It's not about the holiness of our military. It's like spending money on a really great security system for your home and getting that warm fuzzy feeling your kids won't be attacked by some nut case sneaking into their room and keeping them for 9 months (Elizabeth Smart).
Our military is what ensures our freedom. Respecting it and appreciating it is moral and right. Just as you would appreciate art or education, so you should also respect freedom and sacrifice. Freedom is not free.
Don't forget that he accomplished all of this despite the democrats controlling the other two thirds of government!! The "Great Communicator" indeed!!
The revisionist historians will twist him no doubt. They already do. However the liberals don't control the media anymore so alternative means of finding the truth are available. The truth always finds it's way to the top. They still demonize Nixon for catching Hiss spying for crying out loud. Yet we now know the truth thanks to a free and competitive media.
Reagan was big on technology because he believed it scared the hell out of the USSR. Gorbi was scared to death of Reagans Star Wars plans, he knew the USSR couldn't ever possibly compete with us economically and technology was all about investment. Reagan knew this to be their weakness so he increased military spending and investmets in technology and let the USSR bankrupt itself trying to keep up. Every president before him took part in dente which was basically a welfare program, we gave them money and in return they didn't nuke us.
In every summit Gorbi and Reagan had Gorbi pushed to end Star Wars, even coming to the brink of war over it. Reagan never relented and continued to push the technology. He had the forsight to know that overcoming evil, poverty and every other ill on this Earth involved investment in technology.
No kidding. The accomplishments of Reagan are just astounding. Passing the largest tax cut in U.S. history whil the democrats control the house and the senate? Bush couldn't do that with the republicans controlling all three branches of the government. The man was just amazing.
You are right and wrong. Yes it's best to pause, if we had I doubt anyone would be willing to name one after JFK, a proven drug addict and womanizer who never did anything great other than become a martyr for unknown reasons and wrapped in a conspiracy.
Reagan is a special case because he really was great and over came odds in a way that is just unheard of. It's all the little things about "The Great Communicator" that make him great. Like passing the largest tax cuts in history despite the Democrats controling the house AND the Senate, a feat Bush couldn't pull off with the Republicans controlling all three branchs. Reagan got more judicial nominees in than any president in history. He was the first president to put his foot down and stop the USSR. Had Reagan not done this the USSR would be alive today thanks to the pathetic dente pushed by Nixon and Carter. How many presidents can win 48 states in an election? Especially when democrats outnumber republicans.
There is a real problem in this country right now in regards to partisan history. No one is teaching the truth. It's revisionist history to the extreme. Reagan over saw the largest economic boom in history only however, after dragging the economy out of Carters hole. The man was simply amazing and anyone doubting it needs to read "Reagans War".
Consider Reagan took on the USSR and won without a military conflict!! This alone deserves a nobel peace prize. Yet Carter who was giving the USSR money and allowing the KGB access to sensitive areas of our military gets a nobel peace prize for simply calling GWB a few names.
You don't have to agree with Reagans politics. You do however have to give the man the respect he deserves for being the single most productive and accomplished president in 50 years of American history.
Ok so I started on linux back in 1996 with some old version of Red Hat, can't remember what release it was. I remember the 2 months it took me to initially figure everything out. Back then I was constantly on IRC and got a lot of help from OctobrX who was also sorta new at the time. I was 19 then and had nothing but time on my hands to sit and learn this stuff. Windows was just coming into Win95 and the nightmare blue screen of death was a twice hourly occurrence.
Fast forward to 2003. WinXP is plenty stable, much more so than any windows OS thusfar. MacOSX offers all of the benefits a UNIX systems can plsu a stable non-beta interface with standards and a lot of really great off the shelf software. I don't see the appeal of Linux on the desktop and I don't think most others do either who aren't visiting this site.
Linux is ok in servers, i use FreeBSD personally but to each their own. Linux makes a semi adequate desktop if you look past the old, antiquated install processes, weak package management, lack of uninstall options, the nightmare library system that's almost impossible to keep under control without spending more time on it than you do actual work. The GUI's are sorry to say, horribly old and overly complex. There is no standard GUI for developers to code too without pissing off one side or the other (KDE or GNOME). Commercial developers are treated like dirt when they actually want to charge for software and/or wont release their hard work to everyone open source.
For the geeks Linux is ok. It's even fun to tinker with. Consider however most people could care less, and when I say most I mean MOST, I don't see any gains being made. My mom has enough trouble with MacOSX I can't imagine giving her Red Hat 9 and telling her how to use GNOME. "Here mom just compile this program with 'make install &' and then run it at the terminal". This is far far far from user friendly and as far as I can tell NO ONE is working to change this at all.
Linux is doomed to niche status until people in the OSS community start caring about ALL users and not just people who know what man pages are. This is the same with Apple and their closed hardware and stupid advertising. I don't know a single person that understands apples commercials enough to research them and figure out what they hell they are trying to sell.
Ok, so ending this rant I will say that Linux on the desktop is fine for some, even preferable. But don't even think that Linux in it's current state will be making any major headway into the desktop market. Servers and some business and scientific apps sure, but never the consumer desktop market.
I screwed up the title. DOH! I hate it when that happens.
"At least the Russian has the courtesy to warn all their phone users that this was going on"
Yo Al Qaeda, we'll be listening to your phone calls on September 16th from 4am to 5am. Just FYI, so go about your day as usual.
Just brilliant isn't it? Next we'll be mailing crack houses letters informing them of the raid 3 weeks later.
There is a serious flaw in your reasoning, Final Cut doesn't even use the standard widgets. Apple bought Final Cut and ported it over, custome widgets and all. Premire should have had, for all intents and purposes the "head start" thanks to Carbon.
Because the OS maker has a few months head start shouldn't be a deterent to building a better mouse trap. Microsoft has had 20 years to build windows, that hasn't stopped OSS from trying has it?
Fact of the matter is, Final Cut is just better. Apple isn't bundling it, they aren't giving special breaks or sneaking in special API's. They aren't even competing on price, yet Premier STILL can't beat it. That alone speaks volumes about Adobe. I haven't seen such blatant incompentence since Quark waited 3 years to release an OSX native app.
Apple left third parties to their own vices for many many years and the market dried up, became uncompetitive and utterly boring. Apple took matters into their own hands by improving and innovating. It's not their fault Adobe is a company of cowards who refuse to compete in a fair market. Apple's API's are open and they provide all the tools needed to get the job done for free.
The only reason Adobe pulled out was spite and cowardice. You can probably blame arrogance too with Adobe thinking they own the multimedia market.
Apple hardly shot themselves in the foot. They released a better product and took over the market. That's what happens in a free society. Adobe shot themselves in the foot by showing their customers and their investors they have no spine, and perhaps worse, no ideas.
Once again the Euros get it all wrong. I predict another 50 years before we have to bail them out again of some world war. It's certainly heading there with the vast number of socialists in France, Germany and even the U.K. They have an average 14% unemployment, Argentina collapsed at 10%. They can't maintian this stupidity much longer, evident in Frances welfare and social security systems being officially bankrupt. They just keep passing the buck to future generations the way our liberal socialist democratic party does.
Dude take a reality pill. Every conservative I know uses a Mac, including Rush Limbaugh. Conservatives use what works and what is cost effective. BTW Bill Gates is a Liberal.
Now grow up please and leave politics out of benchmarks, thank you.