I disagree with you there - I use iTunes to catalogue all my music, but I don't own an iPod - I bought a far cheaper MP3 player than the iPod. I'm sure there are a lot of people that love the free software, without wanting to spend several hundred dollars on the hardware.
I picked it up at TOEvolt as well - Dan Cederholm is a super-nice guy, and gave a pretty good presentation on bullet-proof design. I pretty much devoured the book when I got home, and then updated my site to valid XHTML 1.1 and CSS, as well as switching it around so that the text comes before the navigation in the code. Makes it a little bit nicer for people on Links and screen readers.
And some of us have grown up and continue to play games, what the hell does being grown up have to do with playing or not playing games? I'll never understand why people continue to equate game playing with being juvenile. The reason not many grown ups in the past played games is that they didn't grow up with them. For those of us who have had the hobby since we were kids, why the hell would we give it up just to be "responsible grown ups" in someone elses eyes? People find their interests and hobbies when they are young, and most often continue with the same hobbies for their entire lives.
I also will not buy games with this form of protection, but my husband and I have mostly stopped buying PC games at all and stick to consoles. Most of the games that come out for the PC now are just MMORPGs and FPSs, neither of which can hold our interest for any length of time.
The problem is - Windows doesn't need to be a Linux killer, it just needs to be "good enough" to keep people from looking for a new solution. I look forward to Linux having a much greated share of the desktop market, and I'm sure that one day it will. It just feels better to run. But in the mean time, if people have fewer compelling reasons to switch, they're not going to switch just for the hell of it. Linux needs to be a Windows killer.
For instance, when I go to thinkgeek or jinxhackwear to check out the t-shirts, the first results in women's shirts are almost always some variation on "I love my geek".
I AM the geek in my marriage. I fix the computers and I work in a geeky field (web developer learning real programming). My husband is in Customer Service. Why can't I find a mens' shirt that says "I love my geek"?
It's one of the things that pisses me off most - the almost unnoticable sidelining of geeks who are women. You'll notice I put geeks first there - I have a hell of a lot more in common with any geek guy I've met than with any non-geek woman.
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I disagree with you there - I use iTunes to catalogue all my music, but I don't own an iPod - I bought a far cheaper MP3 player than the iPod. I'm sure there are a lot of people that love the free software, without wanting to spend several hundred dollars on the hardware.
Yeah - and he's not going to fly, and he's not going to wear the superman suit ;)
This is going to be the best Superman ever!
I picked it up at TOEvolt as well - Dan Cederholm is a super-nice guy, and gave a pretty good presentation on bullet-proof design. I pretty much devoured the book when I got home, and then updated my site to valid XHTML 1.1 and CSS, as well as switching it around so that the text comes before the navigation in the code. Makes it a little bit nicer for people on Links and screen readers.
And some of us have grown up and continue to play games, what the hell does being grown up have to do with playing or not playing games? I'll never understand why people continue to equate game playing with being juvenile. The reason not many grown ups in the past played games is that they didn't grow up with them. For those of us who have had the hobby since we were kids, why the hell would we give it up just to be "responsible grown ups" in someone elses eyes? People find their interests and hobbies when they are young, and most often continue with the same hobbies for their entire lives. I also will not buy games with this form of protection, but my husband and I have mostly stopped buying PC games at all and stick to consoles. Most of the games that come out for the PC now are just MMORPGs and FPSs, neither of which can hold our interest for any length of time.
The problem is - Windows doesn't need to be a Linux killer, it just needs to be "good enough" to keep people from looking for a new solution. I look forward to Linux having a much greated share of the desktop market, and I'm sure that one day it will. It just feels better to run. But in the mean time, if people have fewer compelling reasons to switch, they're not going to switch just for the hell of it. Linux needs to be a Windows killer.
For instance, when I go to thinkgeek or jinxhackwear to check out the t-shirts, the first results in women's shirts are almost always some variation on "I love my geek".
I AM the geek in my marriage. I fix the computers and I work in a geeky field (web developer learning real programming). My husband is in Customer Service. Why can't I find a mens' shirt that says "I love my geek"?
It's one of the things that pisses me off most - the almost unnoticable sidelining of geeks who are women. You'll notice I put geeks first there - I have a hell of a lot more in common with any geek guy I've met than with any non-geek woman.