any members of the MPAA actually sat through Gigli.. I'm sure they'd retract their statements.. (or they'd text one another going.. 'eeps.. wtf were we thinking?')
To do anything on your Windows machine.. you need to have admin-like privileges.. or else you're dead in the water when it comes to installing applications, etc.. Why didn't they architect it to where you install applications and whatnot for your individual user (w/o admin privileges) into their home directory.. (like ~/bin).. and it modifies your individual registry entries for your user? It seems like that's what they were going for but.. it didn't quite get there all the way.. *shrug*
*shrug* maybe what I'm getting at is.. M$ needs to change up their defaults a bit.. They released XP as a transition up from windows 98 (for the typical home user) but didn't make the conversion to NTFS a default.. Most people who have a general knowledge for this kinda stuff just hits enter and clicks ok whenever they're prompted to do anything.. This kinda eliminates (data) security for them from the get-go..
The other problem we're dealing with is on more of a social level. People need to be more educated about information security and how to protect their data. Perhaps by some kinda tutorial after you install the OS or super-anal retentive security settings that are turned on by default?
You can be logged in as guest and still screw the system up if it was installed on a FAT32 drive (most of the people who upgrade to WinXP from 98.. etc.. end up keeping their stuff at fat32..) *shrug*
I don't think you can really compare that to a *nix box where users are "jailed" into keeping their files in their home..
But.. After reading the list of annoyances people have been spouting out.. you have to realize.. some of these things are how they are because it gives us more control over what's going on with the system..
An example to this is.. pressing the eject button on the cd drive.. You'd expect it to pop out your CD unless you were using it somewhere on the system. You would be compromising the ability to trace down what process is using the CD if you were to force an eject whenever the eject button is pressed..
Question #1: Why was it decided that Lindows would always run as 'root' by default?
"Take a Microsoft Windows XP or Mac OS X machine out of the box and use it and it operates in a similar manner to LindowsOS ? the first person to touch it can do whatever they want."
And Mac OS X runs a *NIX base and doesn't run everything as root.. >=P Everything makes use of sudo, wheel users, etc.. *shrug* Sounds like he didn't really have a valid answer to justify this... (They could have written the tools to do the administrative functions.. just like RedHat has done..)
I was watching the webcast.. He did mention that you could buy the entire album at a flat rate.. (Like Alanis Morisette Jagged Little Pill was displayed for $9.95)
Personally with this kinda flexibility.. I think it all works out.. $.99 for a song.. your normal ~$15 for an album.. *shrug* and you don't have to search for the music on kazaa, or drive to the store to buy it..
I "switched" a little over a month ago to my new 12" PowerBook and hope to be able to pick up a G4 for a new desktop machine. =)
I was always "iffy" about getting a Mac, mainly because I felt like Mac's were only used for doing graphic work and running general purpose applications. I knew
the latest version of Os X had moved over to a BSD based kernel and you could pull up a window and run most of your traditional *NIX commands. I figured, getting
a PowerBook would end up working out best for me because I could run all of my traditional office applications and have a portable BSD machine. Welp, after
powering my PowerBook on after getting it in the mail, I haven't touched my PC, my Sun Blade, or my Silicon Graphics O2. (Okay, so I powered on my PC to copy some
of the files off of it, which was surprisingly easy.) I've been able to do everything I hoped and more on my PowerBook.
In the morning, I pack it into my laptop bag, tote it off to work, and administrate Solaris systems all day. With Os X letting me run X11, I can export any
graphics programs that I used on my Sun machine over to my laptop. At the end of my work day, I'll put it back into my laptop bag, chug off to school, and use it
to take lecture notes. In my computer science classes, I use the free developer tools Apple provides to test out code my instructor writes up on the chalkboard.
After classes are over, I head home, plop down on the couch, and browse the net with my Airport Extreme card while watching TV.
I am also amazed at the "coolness" factor of having a PowerBook. The first day I pulled it out before class started, I was swamped with people staring at the
glowing apple on the backside of my LCD. I think I gave the "Os X feature tour" to 10 people, watching them "ooh" and "aah" as they watched the windows get sucked
into my finder bar while my background faded to the next image. At the coffee shop, people with Sony Viao's are coming to me asking me how I like it and are
amazed to find out that it does CD burning and DVD burning off of the almost non-existant slot on the side.
The only gripe I have about my new PowerBook is, it's made me spoiled. In just this past month, I've grown so used to doing everything I need on my laptop. My
poor PC that I custom built has gone untouched the entire time. *shrug* Maybe I'll sell it. =)
Actually.. I went and bought a PowerBook because I wanted Os X.. A multimedia platform, a development platform, and a portable unix workstation all rolled into one.. I haven't touched my PC, Sparc, or SGI machines since I've picked it up. =)
They do have Darwin ported.. (it's not really useful as it only supports very limited hardware..)
You also have to keep in mind.. if they're building an OS for their hardware, it's much easier to keep wraps on bug issues, etc.. If they were to move to intel, they'd have SOOO many device drivers to write, etc..
I wasn't able to find any cards out on the market that'll work under Linux.. Most of them use the Broadcom chipset (or a newer rev of the prism chipset) that doesn't work with the existing prism drivers out there.. =/ I tried to toy around with the Linksys "54g" card.. but.. ended up giving up and brought it back.
*shrug* I figure I'll just wait the 4 months until 802.11g is out of draft and is actually standardized.. People are saying there will be flash updates for the cards.. but.. *shrug* I don't trust word of mouth too much..
My major flick against optical media is.. it gets damaged too easy. If they had mini-dvd's (like the gamecube discs) with rw capability all stored inside of a mini-caddy.. it'd be all over it.
I haven't really followed up with MiniDisc technology too much, but.. why don't we use MD's for storage? They're re-writable, it's optical media, it stores a fair amount of data, and the media is relatively cheap.. Does Sony own exclusive rights to MD or is something else standing in the path for this to happen?
I'd like to see SuperDrives as standard equipment on PC's.. either that or find some way to incorporate MiniDisc technology... (Hey.. maybe Sony will replace floppies w/ MD on the Vaio line..)
I think you're right about trying to get sales, and not subscriptions for this type of game. However, the way it's modeled, it's not peer-to-peer like the Battle.net games are. They have to come up with some sort of pricing structure to maintain the bandwith / equipment that goes along with offering this kind of game, or find some way to make it peer-to-peer.
It'd be interesting if they found a way to do the peer-to-peer thing (like Kazaa/Morpheus/Gnutella/etc..) and incorporate that into a game.. Like.. as you're walking around, you poll data from another client in the same region. Then you wouldn't have to pay monthly fee's for a game that definately doesn't deserve it..
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but.. this reminds me of something the government would do with TIA.. Perhaps there is some sort of connection here?
Where is Jay Sherman when you need him.. *sigh*
any members of the MPAA actually sat through Gigli.. I'm sure they'd retract their statements.. (or they'd text one another going.. 'eeps.. wtf were we thinking?')
I wonder when they'll start making auto manufacturers put tracking devices into cars so they can track us.. =)
This sparked off an idea in my mind..
.. and it modifies your individual registry entries for your user? It seems like that's what they were going for but.. it didn't quite get there all the way.. *shrug*
To do anything on your Windows machine.. you need to have admin-like privileges.. or else you're dead in the water when it comes to installing applications, etc.. Why didn't they architect it to where you install applications and whatnot for your individual user (w/o admin privileges) into their home directory.. (like ~/bin)
Ignore me if I sound foolish.. >=)
*shrug* maybe what I'm getting at is.. M$ needs to change up their defaults a bit.. They released XP as a transition up from windows 98 (for the typical home user) but didn't make the conversion to NTFS a default.. Most people who have a general knowledge for this kinda stuff just hits enter and clicks ok whenever they're prompted to do anything.. This kinda eliminates (data) security for them from the get-go..
The other problem we're dealing with is on more of a social level. People need to be more educated about information security and how to protect their data. Perhaps by some kinda tutorial after you install the OS or super-anal retentive security settings that are turned on by default?
You can be logged in as guest and still screw the system up if it was installed on a FAT32 drive (most of the people who upgrade to WinXP from 98.. etc.. end up keeping their stuff at fat32..) *shrug*
I don't think you can really compare that to a *nix box where users are "jailed" into keeping their files in their home..
Admiral Ackbar called me and said... "It's a trap!"
But.. After reading the list of annoyances people have been spouting out.. you have to realize.. some of these things are how they are because it gives us more control over what's going on with the system..
An example to this is.. pressing the eject button on the cd drive.. You'd expect it to pop out your CD unless you were using it somewhere on the system. You would be compromising the ability to trace down what process is using the CD if you were to force an eject whenever the eject button is pressed..
Maybe my thought process is flawed?
that thinks TechnoPope was looking at an inkblot while writing this? I had to re-read everything to make sense outta what this was trying to say.. >=)
Hey.. maybe you could convince the people out of the earlier story to build you a cardboard case for your mac? =)
Question #1: Why was it decided that Lindows would always run as 'root' by default?
"Take a Microsoft Windows XP or Mac OS X machine out of the box and use it and it operates in a similar manner to LindowsOS ? the first person to touch it can do whatever they want."
And Mac OS X runs a *NIX base and doesn't run everything as root.. >=P Everything makes use of sudo, wheel users, etc.. *shrug* Sounds like he didn't really have a valid answer to justify this... (They could have written the tools to do the administrative functions.. just like RedHat has done..)
I was watching the webcast.. He did mention that you could buy the entire album at a flat rate.. (Like Alanis Morisette Jagged Little Pill was displayed for $9.95)
Personally with this kinda flexibility.. I think it all works out.. $.99 for a song.. your normal ~$15 for an album.. *shrug* and you don't have to search for the music on kazaa, or drive to the store to buy it..
My swtich --
I "switched" a little over a month ago to my new 12" PowerBook and hope to be able to pick up a G4 for a new desktop machine. =)
I was always "iffy" about getting a Mac, mainly because I felt like Mac's were only used for doing graphic work and running general purpose applications. I knew the latest version of Os X had moved over to a BSD based kernel and you could pull up a window and run most of your traditional *NIX commands. I figured, getting a PowerBook would end up working out best for me because I could run all of my traditional office applications and have a portable BSD machine. Welp, after powering my PowerBook on after getting it in the mail, I haven't touched my PC, my Sun Blade, or my Silicon Graphics O2. (Okay, so I powered on my PC to copy some of the files off of it, which was surprisingly easy.) I've been able to do everything I hoped and more on my PowerBook.
In the morning, I pack it into my laptop bag, tote it off to work, and administrate Solaris systems all day. With Os X letting me run X11, I can export any graphics programs that I used on my Sun machine over to my laptop. At the end of my work day, I'll put it back into my laptop bag, chug off to school, and use it to take lecture notes. In my computer science classes, I use the free developer tools Apple provides to test out code my instructor writes up on the chalkboard. After classes are over, I head home, plop down on the couch, and browse the net with my Airport Extreme card while watching TV.
I am also amazed at the "coolness" factor of having a PowerBook. The first day I pulled it out before class started, I was swamped with people staring at the glowing apple on the backside of my LCD. I think I gave the "Os X feature tour" to 10 people, watching them "ooh" and "aah" as they watched the windows get sucked into my finder bar while my background faded to the next image. At the coffee shop, people with Sony Viao's are coming to me asking me how I like it and are amazed to find out that it does CD burning and DVD burning off of the almost non-existant slot on the side.
The only gripe I have about my new PowerBook is, it's made me spoiled. In just this past month, I've grown so used to doing everything I need on my laptop. My poor PC that I custom built has gone untouched the entire time. *shrug* Maybe I'll sell it. =)
Actually.. I went and bought a PowerBook because I wanted Os X.. A multimedia platform, a development platform, and a portable unix workstation all rolled into one.. I haven't touched my PC, Sparc, or SGI machines since I've picked it up. =)
They do have Darwin ported.. (it's not really useful as it only supports very limited hardware..)
You also have to keep in mind.. if they're building an OS for their hardware, it's much easier to keep wraps on bug issues, etc.. If they were to move to intel, they'd have SOOO many device drivers to write, etc..
Bleh.. $130? I think not.. =)
If you're a student, you can usually go to your campus computer store and pick up a copy for $20..
I can just play media content off of my dreamcast (running linux) for less $$ =P
Or is PalmOS kinda falling behind PocketPC / WindowsCE ? *shrug*
You can have yesterday's technology.. Today!
I wasn't able to find any cards out on the market that'll work under Linux.. Most of them use the Broadcom chipset (or a newer rev of the prism chipset) that doesn't work with the existing prism drivers out there.. =/ I tried to toy around with the Linksys "54g" card.. but.. ended up giving up and brought it back.
*shrug* I figure I'll just wait the 4 months until 802.11g is out of draft and is actually standardized.. People are saying there will be flash updates for the cards.. but.. *shrug* I don't trust word of mouth too much..
Yea.. and with patriot part 2, if you're using WEP you get 5 years for it! =)
My major flick against optical media is.. it gets damaged too easy. If they had mini-dvd's (like the gamecube discs) with rw capability all stored inside of a mini-caddy.. it'd be all over it.
I haven't really followed up with MiniDisc technology too much, but.. why don't we use MD's for storage? They're re-writable, it's optical media, it stores a fair amount of data, and the media is relatively cheap.. Does Sony own exclusive rights to MD or is something else standing in the path for this to happen?
I'd like to see SuperDrives as standard equipment on PC's.. either that or find some way to incorporate MiniDisc technology... (Hey.. maybe Sony will replace floppies w/ MD on the Vaio line..)
I think you're right about trying to get sales, and not subscriptions for this type of game. However, the way it's modeled, it's not peer-to-peer like the Battle.net games are. They have to come up with some sort of pricing structure to maintain the bandwith / equipment that goes along with offering this kind of game, or find some way to make it peer-to-peer.
It'd be interesting if they found a way to do the peer-to-peer thing (like Kazaa/Morpheus/Gnutella/etc..) and incorporate that into a game.. Like.. as you're walking around, you poll data from another client in the same region. Then you wouldn't have to pay monthly fee's for a game that definately doesn't deserve it..