Instead of growing up like the rest of us they where transformed into an unabashed Disney-style theme ride. This was a chance for Lucas to show how he's matured. To show us he was a real film maker. Instead we got a live-action coloring book. That's a bit disappointing.
I think he probably means did Metallica stop piracy. Which they didn't. Napter is probably a bad choice, but for a the legal noise that surrounded it P2P sharing was just getting started, it didn't stop and barely slowed down.
...the case of Dr Alfred Mencina of the Harvard School of Environment Studies, who published a paper contradicting official White House policy, and was subsequently found full of birdshot off a quail hunting range in Maine.
"Skin is bad, and I can't wait to get rid of it," said Dr Wilson Triplehorn, a genetics professor at USC, "Someone get me a carrot peeler. And tell the Vice President I like his tie. Heh. Ouch!"
It's a few years before they'll actually start shooting scientists.
Okay, I agree about misunderstandings and short comments. But the other obvious difference is consequence. Misunderstandings in real life, face-to-face, can and often do result in physical violence.
That means that before I yell an obscenity I have to consider the consequence of my action (even if that consequence might be based in a possible misunderstanding).
Online dominance is often established as a consequence of your behavior, not your action.
But sometimes people need to hear the obvious in a manner that suits them. I figure frequently this is what Psychology accomplishes. It's our collective filter and we use it to help verify and establish what it is we believe today. It's the structural Psychology that gets interesting. The beautiful machine.
EX results used to drive me crazy before I figured out how and why it happened. Each resulting link will give you a page with a question and then a long strings of images with fake/greyed out answers. Think of the fake answers as their advertising (which is forgivable only because the real answers tend to be decent quality). Continuing to scroll below these fake/image answers will provide the real ones. That's why they show up so frequently in google searches (the images don't get parsed) and look confusingly legitimate in the search and deceptively useless when you check the link.
I've actually sat over the shoulder of one of our programmers while he was looking though and EX post and was going to give up because he thought there was no answer until I took the page and flipped his scroll further towards the bottom (viola).
At least the ones who have a reasonably large user base and don't want to be fired or retrain them all. Windows succeed because it's known. Vista kind of sucks because it seems to arbitrarily making some things which are known unknown and you end up having to retrain users anyway.
More seriously, the problem is Vista isn't really fast or slick. The UI changes seem arbitrary. The hardware requirements might not be unreasonable, but they also seem to presume that performance related advances in computer science stopped suddenly sometime after XP. I'm not interested in the UAC or the improved DRM lock-down. I want to see better mobility and power management. Better multi-tasking and real-time scheduling. Want to sell me something? Give me a better version of what I have today. Apple users get the Time Machine, we get confirmation dialogs. And most users today are savvy enough to see the difference.
Often times more things worked better after the switch.
This has been the deal-breaker for me. We've deployed Vista in tests. Had none of the application issues that we couldn't at least work around. But after using it for any amount of time the one issue that really sticks is that Vista is not an improvement. Instead of building on their flagship OS they have taken lateral and even some backward steps. If all I wanted was a nice looking OS (Aero) I'd have moved to a company that's built a business doing it (Apple). But what I want is something that can run my business applications rock-solid and excels at playing games at home.
If you think about it Microsoft didn't really have to do too much to make Vista a quietly successful operating system. It didn't have to be revolutionary, it just needed to build on their existing success.
In the future I hope that they learn from this experience. I should never be asked to buy a new operating system that degrades performance. Rearranging the system layout and adding new layers of anti-consumer DRM just adds insult to injury.
I don't know how your company works but technology decisions where I work get vet by technology people, not the bean counters. I mean some decisions get made based on application, but not broadly based on the whims of uninformed individuals (who would have to answer to problems and revenue lost due to poor decisions, just like we do).
Linux as it is now will NEVER be any sort of viable replacement to Windows. The biggest problem Linux has is its lack of a central authority. There are too many distributions with low standardization.
Because I understand where you're coming from but you seem confused about something. Linux doesn't have to do shit to succeed. That's the kernel and you can harp on it till you're blue in the face but you're still going to be harping on the wrong portion. And before you get the idea that what I'm pointing out is semantic, let me clarify: individual distributions create, package, support and sell the end-user experience. So while to you the Linux desktop might look chaotic before you start making constructive comments you need to narrow your criticisms down to a single company, project or distribution.
Ubuntu is a good desktop OS. Linux is the name of the kernel.
Just like Red Hat produce a great enterprise product. The user experience is still defined by the quality of the product provided by Red Hat. Linux based distributions usually share from the wealth of quality software produced and provided by the community, but that doesn't mean that the responsibility (or blame) for the quality of the distribution falls on the KDE or Gnome project manager. That's backwards. These projects do great work and then give you (or in the two examples the companies) the source. To presume that this is the final product would show an amazing lack of imagination.
An individual distribution can do as much to improve or customize the operating environment as they want. Including developing standards and improvements based on their target market. When people expect "Linux" or the community at large to do this I find it kind of alarming. Linux and the open source projects surrounding it are far too diverse in scope and purpose to create the kind of one-size-fits-all user utopia you seem to be suggesting. But if you're interested in seeing it succeed in a particular segment (desktop in this case) then focusing your comments or energy on a single distribution would probably be the right way to address your concerns (and maybe even help or make a difference).
Finally (sorry, this is long) a Windows compatibility layer does not mean Windows clone. If that's something you're actually looking for I think you'll always be disappointed. At best Wine is a crutch to possibly ease the transition.
Without Tesla there's be nothing to watch the Super Bowl on. I'm pretty sure I could live without the Bengals or the 49ers (some might disagree with me).
The final products are way too far off to know, but the software demo did look promising and barring any hardware SNAFU's I don't see too much they can go wrong with (that can't be fixed from within the community).
I like Miro well enough. I use it under Ubuntu and it does a pretty good job. My one complaint would be dupes, as in downloading 'new' copies of programs you already have, which is kind of funny because aside from the fact that the file really is new (just a new version of an existing torrent) Miro does a nice job of displaying the program name and episode title correctly (it just doesn't seem to use this information to figure out that it already has a copy of SHOW NAME, SHOW TITLE). Is this fixed in the most recent release? Or am I missing something?
The nice thing about Miro is the exposure I get to net series I might not notice otherwise. Some reasonably entertaining stuff and Miro is a nice platform to view it on (of course the RSS is what hooked me).
I think (or hope) at this point enough regular consumers have been burned and remember it that the more user friendly format will win. As tech geeks we are probably the front line and when friends and family ask for our opinions we should remember that some technical details (30GB/50GB dual-layer, more with triple-layer) won't have nearly as much impact as the possible limitations (AACS vs. AACS, BD+ and BD-ROM Mark, region coding, cost, availability and now base feature-set).
The truth is neither of these technologies are 'leapfrog' technologies, they are simply better DVD's with differing levers of user encumbrance.
How can you judge the product before it's launched? The same could have been said regarding the iPhone, but you'd have been wrong. Google got the 'aura' by creating a unique culture and hiring some very smart people, that doesn't mean that everything they do will be innovative but certainly gives enough reason to take interest.
And if there is a marketplace that has desperately needed real innovation, this is it. Apple made smart phones sexy and usable, I'd like to see what happens next.
Dvorak seems to be missing some pretty elemental things. A search engine is, among a number of other things, a repository of information made (get this..) searchable. I don't know how many times I've been out, running errands or otherwise away from my computer and wanted or needed a piece of information (is besan flour toasted chickpeas?). Maybe it's a generational thing, but I like having a question and being able to access the answer. My phone is a networked computer, to say that that makes it a 'clunky gizmo' shows he's completely missing the point.
Let's say we not only find intelligent life but that we can communicate with them and they have the answers to all our problems... ...
Or will you take what's in the magic box?
They both sound like magic boxes. I'd have left off at "say we find intelligent life" what would you pay? Right there I think every grown up dreamer has to at least acknowledge that while the results may or may not pan out, just the chance that they could justifies the small amount of time and money.
I always wince when I read things like "XXX is horribly unstable". If it's a development branch and you need bullet-proof use something Q/A'd. If you want gee-wiz and maybe some more cutting edge performance (or simply to help develop a great project) then stick with the cutting edge.
BUT, if you put any development quality software on a server for purposes other then your own testing my sympathy and willingness to listen to you are gone.
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Instead of growing up like the rest of us they where transformed into an unabashed Disney-style theme ride. This was a chance for Lucas to show how he's matured. To show us he was a real film maker. Instead we got a live-action coloring book. That's a bit disappointing.
I think he probably means did Metallica stop piracy. Which they didn't. Napter is probably a bad choice, but for a the legal noise that surrounded it P2P sharing was just getting started, it didn't stop and barely slowed down.
Actually it's neurophysiology. Please play again.
someone should setup a fake RIAA fund. You know, think of the lawyers.
Okay, I agree about misunderstandings and short comments. But the other obvious difference is consequence. Misunderstandings in real life, face-to-face, can and often do result in physical violence.
That means that before I yell an obscenity I have to consider the consequence of my action (even if that consequence might be based in a possible misunderstanding).
Online dominance is often established as a consequence of your behavior, not your action.
But sometimes people need to hear the obvious in a manner that suits them. I figure frequently this is what Psychology accomplishes. It's our collective filter and we use it to help verify and establish what it is we believe today. It's the structural Psychology that gets interesting. The beautiful machine.
EX results used to drive me crazy before I figured out how and why it happened. Each resulting link will give you a page with a question and then a long strings of images with fake/greyed out answers. Think of the fake answers as their advertising (which is forgivable only because the real answers tend to be decent quality). Continuing to scroll below these fake/image answers will provide the real ones. That's why they show up so frequently in google searches (the images don't get parsed) and look confusingly legitimate in the search and deceptively useless when you check the link.
I've actually sat over the shoulder of one of our programmers while he was looking though and EX post and was going to give up because he thought there was no answer until I took the page and flipped his scroll further towards the bottom (viola).
At least the ones who have a reasonably large user base and don't want to be fired or retrain them all. Windows succeed because it's known. Vista kind of sucks because it seems to arbitrarily making some things which are known unknown and you end up having to retrain users anyway.
If you think about it Microsoft didn't really have to do too much to make Vista a quietly successful operating system. It didn't have to be revolutionary, it just needed to build on their existing success.
In the future I hope that they learn from this experience. I should never be asked to buy a new operating system that degrades performance. Rearranging the system layout and adding new layers of anti-consumer DRM just adds insult to injury.
I don't know how your company works but technology decisions where I work get vet by technology people, not the bean counters. I mean some decisions get made based on application, but not broadly based on the whims of uninformed individuals (who would have to answer to problems and revenue lost due to poor decisions, just like we do).
Am I? Maybe you should re-read my post.
Ubuntu is a good desktop OS. Linux is the name of the kernel.
Just like Red Hat produce a great enterprise product. The user experience is still defined by the quality of the product provided by Red Hat. Linux based distributions usually share from the wealth of quality software produced and provided by the community, but that doesn't mean that the responsibility (or blame) for the quality of the distribution falls on the KDE or Gnome project manager. That's backwards. These projects do great work and then give you (or in the two examples the companies) the source. To presume that this is the final product would show an amazing lack of imagination.
An individual distribution can do as much to improve or customize the operating environment as they want. Including developing standards and improvements based on their target market. When people expect "Linux" or the community at large to do this I find it kind of alarming. Linux and the open source projects surrounding it are far too diverse in scope and purpose to create the kind of one-size-fits-all user utopia you seem to be suggesting. But if you're interested in seeing it succeed in a particular segment (desktop in this case) then focusing your comments or energy on a single distribution would probably be the right way to address your concerns (and maybe even help or make a difference).
Finally (sorry, this is long) a Windows compatibility layer does not mean Windows clone. If that's something you're actually looking for I think you'll always be disappointed. At best Wine is a crutch to possibly ease the transition.
Without Tesla there's be nothing to watch the Super Bowl on. I'm pretty sure I could live without the Bengals or the 49ers (some might disagree with me).
And please keep your dwarf fantasies to yourself.
The final products are way too far off to know, but the software demo did look promising and barring any hardware SNAFU's I don't see too much they can go wrong with (that can't be fixed from within the community).
I like Miro well enough. I use it under Ubuntu and it does a pretty good job. My one complaint would be dupes, as in downloading 'new' copies of programs you already have, which is kind of funny because aside from the fact that the file really is new (just a new version of an existing torrent) Miro does a nice job of displaying the program name and episode title correctly (it just doesn't seem to use this information to figure out that it already has a copy of SHOW NAME, SHOW TITLE). Is this fixed in the most recent release? Or am I missing something?
The nice thing about Miro is the exposure I get to net series I might not notice otherwise. Some reasonably entertaining stuff and Miro is a nice platform to view it on (of course the RSS is what hooked me).
I could be.
;)
Just saying.
The truth is neither of these technologies are 'leapfrog' technologies, they are simply better DVD's with differing levers of user encumbrance.
Corporations can be considered greedy because people still run them. Sometimes these people seem greedier then others. Get over yourself.
How can you judge the product before it's launched? The same could have been said regarding the iPhone, but you'd have been wrong. Google got the 'aura' by creating a unique culture and hiring some very smart people, that doesn't mean that everything they do will be innovative but certainly gives enough reason to take interest.
And if there is a marketplace that has desperately needed real innovation, this is it. Apple made smart phones sexy and usable, I'd like to see what happens next.
Dvorak seems to be missing some pretty elemental things. A search engine is, among a number of other things, a repository of information made (get this..) searchable. I don't know how many times I've been out, running errands or otherwise away from my computer and wanted or needed a piece of information (is besan flour toasted chickpeas?). Maybe it's a generational thing, but I like having a question and being able to access the answer. My phone is a networked computer, to say that that makes it a 'clunky gizmo' shows he's completely missing the point.
I always wince when I read things like "XXX is horribly unstable". If it's a development branch and you need bullet-proof use something Q/A'd. If you want gee-wiz and maybe some more cutting edge performance (or simply to help develop a great project) then stick with the cutting edge.
BUT, if you put any development quality software on a server for purposes other then your own testing my sympathy and willingness to listen to you are gone.