Be honest, when the novelty wore off, how many times did you REALLY use it not to show off but to actually get info you wanted? How often do you see QR codes in the wild? (Not in japan, japan is the exception for everything)
One of the few shows I watch is Have I Got News For you. I also admit to having liked Miranda... so you are going to give me ads for loud shirts, big girls clothes and boring suits?
Well, they sure got my number.
Except I don't wear suits, my shirts are black and I am not a big girl.
Most people just don't ads, targetted or otherwise. Stop listening to focus groups, only inbred mutants ever volunteer for them. Ask around, who do you know that has ever been in one?
Now there is a group who likes ads but they tend to be the sort that are a bit... stupid. The kind who want a hat just like XXX who is having their 15 minutes of fame. That is not a large enough group for advertisers.
Stuff like this is very old, there are countless attempts to get people to consume advertising. QR codes? OLD hate, barcodes were earlier. CueCat anyone? Total failure. People just ain't that into ads. Most ads realize this and therefor different from the advertising in a supermarket where an ad is a sign telling you this item can be bought for this right now. Rather a car ad wants to create a feeling with you so that in future, that feeling might come back when you are considering buying a car. People aren't going to jump up from their TV show to google that car the criminal was driving. Or stop their movie evening to google what her names dress.
Oh a small percentage might but are they going to buy a new TV just for that?
So you have a subset of a subset and then they have to agree to buy THAT tv and not one of the countless other models.
Not enough of a market. These things NEED mass adoption in a small time frame to survive. Nothing has worked in the past. Just name one of the countless once introcuced over time that have made it. A free cuecat for the winner.
Explain Einstein then. A jew. Oh, jews don't count. How german of you.
How come asians do well then? Hispanics?
So race only matters to blacks... the peers don't guess the race from Mr Hernandez Lopez? But guess the race of Denzel Washington? I see.
Last time I checked many American blacks have western names, some might resent it but how then can I tell color from it?
I think there is something else going on, something that nobody dares the touch. Me? I am not going to touch it either. Lets just all dance around the elephant in the room.
Oh never mind. How come that is acceptable to claim Jews are smart or asians study hard? But if you dare to even hint that maybe some other cultures (Since jews are not a race but a religion (with many divisions into different cultures)) have negative standouts?
There is a black stand-up comedian who always bitches about race. Then a black man becomes president. His comments? This ain't going change anything and just make it harder for blacks.
With an attitude like that I bet all the black papers are marked down by black peers angry another black man is doing well.
Oh wait, the article forgot that didn't it. There are plenty of peer's who are NOT white racists like me. So are they saying ALL peer reviewers got it in for the black man?
Oh and what about women? Science is old men, how are papers with female names rated?
The problem is simple, KDE doesn't realize that most apps can understand samba like paths so it thinks, "Hey, I don't know this app (mplayer) so it might not get this url so I just copy it to temp and give it that". It is a known bug.
Gnome/Ubuntu does it different by mounting samba shares on the fly and simply giving the path to that. It is not perfect either because that mount point is in a hidden dir which not all programs can open in their file open dialog.
Try this. Kubuntu, install smplayer or vlc and open a file on a samba share. Happy copying.
The country is morally corrupt. When lords are send to jail by the bus load but still only a fraction of the ones who made a complete mess of things can you expect the people on the bottom not to feel they can do some leeching of society as well?
Human society doesn't work because we are social or because we are good but because more or less the majority doesn't want to much fuzz so they get along. Just see how on footpads people tend to go left-right despite their not being any law for it. Because going against the stream is a nuisance.
But there are some people who love going against the stream and that is okay, society needs a few to shake it up and then. A few. Not the entire bloody lot. One shady lord just makes for some good headlines and a feeling that they are the same as us after all. Hundreds of corrupt lords makes people feel they are being told to be behave by criminals.
In England so far the elections are not so much about electing the most popular party but the party that is considered the least sleaziest. The tories got kicked out because there sleaze just got so big nobody could ignore it anymore, then labour sleezed it up and now the tories are back with their sleaze. It is almost amusing until you realize that in many ways england is as bankrupt as greece. Worse even if you realize that greece isn't supposed to be rich, any loss in wealth is fictional wealth. England was a rich nation and now it isn't. When you got to sell of your carriers and lay of thousands of police, you are not doing well. But no brit can admit it.
If you visited England over the last few decades you have seen a country sliding into poverty. No income, no plan, hoodlums at the controls.
The problem with trying to explain these myths is that by doing so you have come to assume they are real. There is only a need to explain a great flood if you assume it ever happened.
It is like Atlantis, you can go to great lengths coming up with an explanation for it and completely fail to question how it comes only one person in history ever wrote about it.
Take this story, some nutters believe there is a brown star (a super gas giant just shy of being big enough to be a sun) to be hiding in our solar system without us knowing about it... compared to that a giant flood with one boat with 2 or more of every animal almost makes sense... until you seen a wooden boat and realise just how small sea going wooden vessels were in far more advanced times. Really, even two elephants would be a LOT of animal on a thousands of year old wooden vessel. ARGH, now I am doing it, trying to make sense of the non-sensible.
I am addicted to focus follows mouse and silly OSX can't handle that because of its insane menu (you would loose focus of the windows whose menu you are trying to reach, Unity has the same problem).
The real problem is that Gnome2 worked, yes it took a long time, yes it was not perfect either when it started but recently it became simply usable.
And suddenly almost every distro out there throws it all away for a new window manager that is not just incomplete but even downright buggy. What else do you call it when you have to kill processes for browsing windows/samba shares? Is that such a complex hardcore hacker task?
KDE ain't much better, open a file from the network and it will often try to copy it locally first before it can play. Very useful for large movie files I can tell you.
The alternatives? Not much better either. xfce seems determined to use 100% cpu power for showing its native cpu widget.... why bother writing code at all, just put a red picture on the taskbar and call it a day. Same result.
Gnome 3 should have been a side project and an optional desktop. Wanna play with it? Go ahead but if you don't, you don't see it. Ubuntu sorta allows this if you don't upgrade to the next big release but many small distro's just throw it in an update. And there you are, suddenly nothing works anymore and when you reboot you go "Oh shit".
It just ain't ready yet. It crashes randomly, misses functionality, forgets to suspend when a laptop is closed (which finally started to work perfectly and now they broken it again). This is a beta, no an alpha release. Why is everyone using it as their main desktop. Ubuntu and Fedora/Red hat. WHY? They didn't start to use Enlightenment a mere decade after its first alpha release? Why use Gnome 3 straight away?
I think there is a desperate wish for the year of the linux desktop. Fuck it, ain't gonna happen. Never. Why not? Because of this kinda crap. I have converted people to Ubuntu, it is easy, it works, it plays farmville and has no malware. Buttons the wrong side? Noobs don't care they literally just shrug their shoulders and click the other side of the window.
But the Ubuntu 11.01 upgrade? I converted them all back to a pirated windows system. I installed Ubuntu for them because I was fed up constantly supporting them, now I was going to explain to them Unity/Gnome3 instead with more bugginess and unwanted changes then Vista? Is there some opensource developers penis envy? MS can produce a desktop nobody wants, we want it too?
This weekend I will be installing an old ubuntu on my desktop (this is written from a windows game machine) having tried various releases. I have come to a conclusion. I am old. I did gentoo, I did linux from scratch, I made skins, I tweaked, I compiled. Now I just want a fucking simple desktop that just fucking stays the fucking same for longer then two seconds. I REALLY do not give a fuck WHERE the close buttons is but I expect my fucking laptop to fucking suspend when I fucking close it and NOT for this YEARS old GODDAMN issue to come back because some fuck face wants to do a touch desktop and then forgets to include touch because he has some jerkwad fantasy about Linux on some device.
Upset? YES.
Nerd rage? Abso-fucking-lutely.
The proof that Gnome 3 sucks? They had to kill off gnome 2. If they are so convinced 3 was going to be the hottest thing ever, then they could just have let gnome 2 running in low maintenance mode and given the people a choice. You only have to pull a new coke if you know people don't WANT your new crap so you are not giving them an option and hope the rage dies out before you do. Well, I am nerd, hear me roar!
I did know some blind people, granted fully blind as in being unable to see anything at all and while they did indeed hear tv and movies they did so mostly to fit in. It just isn't a medium aimed at them. Just as a deaf person might go to a concert just to experience it so he at least has some idea what everyone else is talking about or someone with no taste might go to a fine restaurant because that is where the party is being held.
The idea that a person with a very high degree of blindness watches porn is not completely insane but it is highly unlikely. It is described in the article just how blind he is, note he has to have his email read out to him. So he obviously can't even READ pure text comfortable enough, the magnyfying probably allows him to see buttons and hit checkboxes.
It is a different world, not completely seperate but there is a difference to listening to a movie so you can talk to your seeing friends AND listening to porn in private.
Just because some legally blind people can see something doesn't mean all can. 99% blind is damned fucking blind.
Nintendo got greedy and instead of producing high quality games worth a few tenners it charges 50 euro's for games that are free on phones. Play Ridge Racer. It is an insult at the price. It is the same exact game you paid for decades ago at full price. Where are the triple A titles? Zelda? A remake of an old game that wasn't exactly the best to begin with.
And while I think there is a market for a GOOD handheld console, the 3DS just wasn't it. 3D and gyro's in the same system. How insane can you get? The screen brightness is a joke in even dim sunlight, the battery life is abysmal and the screen is smaller then the DSi XL. The styling? Decades out of date. This is a kids device but is harmfull for kids eyes according to Nintendo itself and costs a fortune and the games are insanely expensive.
The GB and GBA came into a world with no competition at the their price point. The quality sucked but hey, they were cheap. Now the 3DS ain't cheap and there is plenty of competition.
And I am not going to struggle with an insane 3D camera control in Splinter Cell all the while having to hold the machine perfectly still while trying to make anything out on a blackscreen blasted by sunlight.
Meantime I can play free games all I want on a high-rez amoled screen that automatically adjusts its brightness according to the environment and not worry about the battery draining before it has booted up.
Back to the drawing board Nintendo or you might just see Sony produce a handheld that does better then a gameboy.
The Netherlands benefit from the Marshall plan, American tax payers money send to Holland to restart the economy after WW2. One of the most notable was the investment that allowed Hoogovens, an iron smelter, to be created. It would become one of the better ones in the world, a major contribution to the dutch economy AND a competitor to American steel.
Japan was also selected by the US for enhanced economic growth. Much of its culture was heavily guided by McArthur including things as schooling. Now MAYBE some Americans thought they could turn that country into a source of cheap labor but the Japanese government had an entirely different idea. With long term plans they setup entire industries with a clear goal of first producing crap for the local market and parts for the foreign market then improving the local products and shipping cheap but not good to foreign markets, then good products locally and finally good products abroad. Honda? Toyota? Sony? There is a long list of super companies that ALL started out with lousy reps in the west. Then for a long time they were just known for high quality. Japanese cars especially went from barely fit to drive to examples of just how crap American made cars were by comparison.
Korea saw all this and liked it and did EXACTLY the same thing. All the Asian tigers are copying it and China is just very very good and extremely large. A few japanese cars coming on to the western market just meant Detroit lost a bit of fat. Korea made Detroit go hungry. Chinese cars will finish Detroit off. Indian cars will rape its corpse.
What was produced in Japan was copied in Japan. Same for Korea and China. And then Japan changed and actually started to produce better good themselves because the Japanese government still invested in industry not the financial market. Anyone who think the financial market is an industry should just die. Why was the transistor pocket radio made in Japan? Transistors were not a Japanese invention. Name an American consumer electronics brand. I don't know any and I am near half a century old. (Meaning I saw some of the switch from Japanese crap to Japanese quality) Granted I am from Holland but why do I know several Japanese and other asian brands but not a single US brand for TV's?
It shows just how long this process has already been going on. The process of all production shifting to the east.
The portable transistor radio was a famous Sony product for fitting a radio into a shirt pocket if you first enlarged the pocket. But the walkman then came into fashion. An American concept? A European one? No, Japanese again. MP3 players would re-boot that industry. Did Sony make them? No. Were they made in the US? If you now happily shout YES because of Diamond... oops sorry, the first mp3 player was made and sold in asia. Search for MPMan.
And for a long time the biggest players were Korean. Not American until the iPod hit the scene. A device entirely made in China. US design, asian production... cheap knockoffs... gosh if only there was an example in history... well there isn't ONE example in history, there are LOTS.
What is forgotten by a lot of people is that the west did not get what it was thanks to the million dollar incomes. It got there on the back of people making a mimimum wage but making it reliable. Working on an assembly line may not be glamorous and may not be the future you want for your kids but it puts bread on the table and pays the rent. 1 iPod designer, 1000 people on the factory line supporting their families. Only problem, the 1 iPod designer is in the US,the 1000 people are in China. What do the 1000 Americans do? Work for the iPod designer? That is what reaganomics would tell you. But reagan and his supporters are morons. The current economic cricis is the proof.
The US, the west, ANY country NEEDS those 1000 factory workers because if those 1000 aren't on the assembly line they are un-employed. England and its riots, France and its riots and the US and its riots are the warning signs.
Really? Unity vs Gnome 3 vs KDE 4 whatever? There is no difference, they ALL suck. I have used Linux for a LONG time but the recent changes to the basic desktops have me ready to throw in the towel. Yesterday I accidently let Sabayon upgrade... instant problems as gnome 3 greeted me with its "fuck you". As simple a thing as opening a samba share requires killing a runaway browser process every single time.
The odd thing is that I had just helped some people migrate to Gnome 2 to get rid of constant virus infections when all they wanted to do is browse the net and play flash games when this shit hit. First Ubuntu and now everyone else.
I am now considering going for a Ubuntu LTE and just not updating it at least Ubuntu makes it bloody clear you are about to destroy your productivity.
The author claims Linux people should work together. Well they have. KDE/Gnome/Unity bundled forces and ruined the desktop. And for what? Tons of bugs, lots of disgruntled users and still not going to be adopted mainstream.
I had to check if Smedley hadn't finally led off by SOE and started working for opensource. Gnome 3 and the NGE have a LOT in common. Wonder if any of the three desktops will ever admit they were wrong.
1132: BBC reporter at Highbury Magistrates Court John Brain tells BBC 5 live the first person who appeared in the dock this morning was a 31-year-old teacher called Alexis Bailey. She pleaded guilty to being part of the looting of the Richer Sounds store in Croydon
The above from the BBC.
The below from me.
Now I guess some will say that teachers are not payed well enough but second class citizens? Come on, it ain't that bad. Not even for art teachers.
In a US mortgage, the bank owns the house. That is why people can walk away from a mortgage in the US by leaving the house. Try that in the EU...
Anyway, US debt is NOT the same because if the US walks away from the debt, debtors can't just try to resell the white house or Florida to recover the money.
The republicans are pretty damn obvious with their policies, cut back anything that benefits the poor and keep and increase benefits oops tax cuts for the rich. They don't even bother to try to disguise this as trickle down economics anymore.
Yet West Virigina, which you claim is filled with poor people, colors very red on the election maps I can find.
But hey, if I am a small shop-keeper why should I pay for medi-care or social security for other people. I AM NOT UN-EMPLOYED, I got my own business, I don't need a handout... why isn't there anyone in my store? People to afraid to spend because if they loose their job they need every penny they got? Oops, now my store has gone bust... I need social security to stay alive!
Really, the republicans in the recent debt talks insisited openly that a tax cut for people making more then 250.000 dollars introduced by econimic wonder boy Bush was extended. And every single republican making less then 50.000 was in favor through their vote for the republican party. Because when you are on minimum wage, guys making a quarter of a million are your first priority.
It must be the American dream. Someday I will be rich so I better make sure I vote in the tax cuts for my future self right now.
In most of the rest of the world people vote in social security should their future self need it.
At 25 I stopped drinking to save the liver of a 40 year old man. An American commits suicide at 25 to stop a man from dying at 40.
Washington will take care of Main Street when the people in Main Street stop making it very clear with their votes that the people in Richville are their main concern.
A credit rating has NOTHING to do with how much you borrow, it has to do with how well you pay your debts. And the US has always payed its debts. It really is not that complex. Borrow lots and pay the interest every single time and you people want to lend you more. Borrow a little and don't pay the interest and people won't want to lend to you anymore.
That broadcasts "things" that pose such questions as "how would earth defend itself from alien attack". Imagine Independence Day with the indepth research, the special effects, the realism.
The humans ultimate attack? Lifting themselves up by balloons to the space ships hovering about the earth. Oh and it is a globally coordinated strike... apparently the weather is the same all over the planet in the future. Oh god, now I am trying to make sense of it.
You do know how the canary test works don't you? Either Neil Degrasse Tyson will play ball or he will be pining for the fjords. Either way, Fox wins. They always do. *Omnious music plays*
Morrowind, horribly crippled on the PC with regards to loading, although this was fixed when the PC only expansions arrived which suddenly realized PC's had more then 32mb of ram available and a speedy HD. Before: Loading every other step After: No loads ever.
Oblivion, OH MY GOD CAN THAT TEXT BE ANY LARGER and an inventory system from hell.
Consolitus has struck heavily in the realms of the elder scrolls. Luckily so far the games have been very modifiable meaning paying customers could fix the game unpaid but beggars can't be choosers.
At least they still bother with PC versions. Yes I am looking at you Rockstar, feeling to good to acknowledge your roots eh?
What is stopping you? Or do you just talk though on a nerd forum? You do know that isn't very hard do you? We run scared of guys who dare to run with scissors and have pens in their shirt pockets with NO pocket protector!
This is a shill article because the lie is so fucking obvious to detect. First of all, Android is made by the Open Handset Alliance. Google is of course a very major player in it same as Nokia was a major player in Symbian BUT it is called an alliance for a reason. Google doesn't work on it alone.
Second, and this is the big whopper. Where do you think MS gets the money from to fund WM7? If it had to charge full market price the handsets would cost a fortune because it would have to pay for ALL the losses of all the previous windows mobile versions. The constant rename campaigns alone would set you back a hundred bucks per license.
MS is using its monopoly on the desktop and office software market to fund its other operations, from the original x-box (which was economically a dismall failure) to MS phone software which so far has NOT had the kind of sales to pay for its own development costs.
And Apple? Same deal, no upstart company could have done the iPod whose profits were used to then launch the iPhone and then the iPad. The major advantage Apple always had over smaller players is that thanks to its massive reserves it could place orders so large that it got discounts nobody else gets making their players cheaper by comparison (MB for MB).
So basically Google and a LOT of other players pooled their resources to create a product they could all benefit from and made it available for "free". So? MS used its monopoly resources to create a product nobody else can use for free. Apple used it fast wealth to create a product nobody else can use or even create gadgets for without paying them and they often just refuse to license stuff.
Who is being the bad guy again? Oh of course, Google for being less evil. What people forget about Googles "Don't be evil" slogan is that doesn't say "Be good" it just means don't be as evil as the rest... and in American Business, that is a pretty low standard.
They are still buying their centrifuges and pretty all equipment from outside. Iran doesn't have much choice. I am not going to point out that the russians did in a few years what has Iran so far taken decades. There might be a reason they are slow other then outside influences.
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Be honest, when the novelty wore off, how many times did you REALLY use it not to show off but to actually get info you wanted? How often do you see QR codes in the wild? (Not in japan, japan is the exception for everything)
One of the few shows I watch is Have I Got News For you. I also admit to having liked Miranda... so you are going to give me ads for loud shirts, big girls clothes and boring suits?
Well, they sure got my number.
Except I don't wear suits, my shirts are black and I am not a big girl.
Most people just don't ads, targetted or otherwise. Stop listening to focus groups, only inbred mutants ever volunteer for them. Ask around, who do you know that has ever been in one?
Now there is a group who likes ads but they tend to be the sort that are a bit... stupid. The kind who want a hat just like XXX who is having their 15 minutes of fame. That is not a large enough group for advertisers.
Stuff like this is very old, there are countless attempts to get people to consume advertising. QR codes? OLD hate, barcodes were earlier. CueCat anyone? Total failure. People just ain't that into ads. Most ads realize this and therefor different from the advertising in a supermarket where an ad is a sign telling you this item can be bought for this right now. Rather a car ad wants to create a feeling with you so that in future, that feeling might come back when you are considering buying a car. People aren't going to jump up from their TV show to google that car the criminal was driving. Or stop their movie evening to google what her names dress.
Oh a small percentage might but are they going to buy a new TV just for that?
So you have a subset of a subset and then they have to agree to buy THAT tv and not one of the countless other models.
Not enough of a market. These things NEED mass adoption in a small time frame to survive. Nothing has worked in the past. Just name one of the countless once introcuced over time that have made it. A free cuecat for the winner.
Explain Einstein then. A jew. Oh, jews don't count. How german of you.
How come asians do well then? Hispanics?
So race only matters to blacks... the peers don't guess the race from Mr Hernandez Lopez? But guess the race of Denzel Washington? I see.
Last time I checked many American blacks have western names, some might resent it but how then can I tell color from it?
I think there is something else going on, something that nobody dares the touch. Me? I am not going to touch it either. Lets just all dance around the elephant in the room.
Oh never mind. How come that is acceptable to claim Jews are smart or asians study hard? But if you dare to even hint that maybe some other cultures (Since jews are not a race but a religion (with many divisions into different cultures)) have negative standouts?
There is a black stand-up comedian who always bitches about race. Then a black man becomes president. His comments? This ain't going change anything and just make it harder for blacks.
With an attitude like that I bet all the black papers are marked down by black peers angry another black man is doing well.
Oh wait, the article forgot that didn't it. There are plenty of peer's who are NOT white racists like me. So are they saying ALL peer reviewers got it in for the black man?
Oh and what about women? Science is old men, how are papers with female names rated?
Mplayer can read samba url, so simply pass that url?
There are many non-kde apps, making it hard to use them with network shares just is not userfriendly. Come on, other desktops handle this, KDE can to.
It for me is a sign of the big two, they focus on next generation wet dreams but can't even get the basics right.
The problem is simple, KDE doesn't realize that most apps can understand samba like paths so it thinks, "Hey, I don't know this app (mplayer) so it might not get this url so I just copy it to temp and give it that". It is a known bug.
Gnome/Ubuntu does it different by mounting samba shares on the fly and simply giving the path to that. It is not perfect either because that mount point is in a hidden dir which not all programs can open in their file open dialog.
Try this. Kubuntu, install smplayer or vlc and open a file on a samba share. Happy copying.
The country is morally corrupt. When lords are send to jail by the bus load but still only a fraction of the ones who made a complete mess of things can you expect the people on the bottom not to feel they can do some leeching of society as well?
Human society doesn't work because we are social or because we are good but because more or less the majority doesn't want to much fuzz so they get along. Just see how on footpads people tend to go left-right despite their not being any law for it. Because going against the stream is a nuisance.
But there are some people who love going against the stream and that is okay, society needs a few to shake it up and then. A few. Not the entire bloody lot. One shady lord just makes for some good headlines and a feeling that they are the same as us after all. Hundreds of corrupt lords makes people feel they are being told to be behave by criminals.
In England so far the elections are not so much about electing the most popular party but the party that is considered the least sleaziest. The tories got kicked out because there sleaze just got so big nobody could ignore it anymore, then labour sleezed it up and now the tories are back with their sleaze. It is almost amusing until you realize that in many ways england is as bankrupt as greece. Worse even if you realize that greece isn't supposed to be rich, any loss in wealth is fictional wealth. England was a rich nation and now it isn't. When you got to sell of your carriers and lay of thousands of police, you are not doing well. But no brit can admit it.
If you visited England over the last few decades you have seen a country sliding into poverty. No income, no plan, hoodlums at the controls.
The problem with trying to explain these myths is that by doing so you have come to assume they are real. There is only a need to explain a great flood if you assume it ever happened.
It is like Atlantis, you can go to great lengths coming up with an explanation for it and completely fail to question how it comes only one person in history ever wrote about it.
Take this story, some nutters believe there is a brown star (a super gas giant just shy of being big enough to be a sun) to be hiding in our solar system without us knowing about it... compared to that a giant flood with one boat with 2 or more of every animal almost makes sense... until you seen a wooden boat and realise just how small sea going wooden vessels were in far more advanced times. Really, even two elephants would be a LOT of animal on a thousands of year old wooden vessel. ARGH, now I am doing it, trying to make sense of the non-sensible.
I am addicted to focus follows mouse and silly OSX can't handle that because of its insane menu (you would loose focus of the windows whose menu you are trying to reach, Unity has the same problem).
The real problem is that Gnome2 worked, yes it took a long time, yes it was not perfect either when it started but recently it became simply usable.
And suddenly almost every distro out there throws it all away for a new window manager that is not just incomplete but even downright buggy. What else do you call it when you have to kill processes for browsing windows/samba shares? Is that such a complex hardcore hacker task?
KDE ain't much better, open a file from the network and it will often try to copy it locally first before it can play. Very useful for large movie files I can tell you.
The alternatives? Not much better either. xfce seems determined to use 100% cpu power for showing its native cpu widget.... why bother writing code at all, just put a red picture on the taskbar and call it a day. Same result.
Gnome 3 should have been a side project and an optional desktop. Wanna play with it? Go ahead but if you don't, you don't see it. Ubuntu sorta allows this if you don't upgrade to the next big release but many small distro's just throw it in an update. And there you are, suddenly nothing works anymore and when you reboot you go "Oh shit".
It just ain't ready yet. It crashes randomly, misses functionality, forgets to suspend when a laptop is closed (which finally started to work perfectly and now they broken it again). This is a beta, no an alpha release. Why is everyone using it as their main desktop. Ubuntu and Fedora/Red hat. WHY? They didn't start to use Enlightenment a mere decade after its first alpha release? Why use Gnome 3 straight away?
I think there is a desperate wish for the year of the linux desktop. Fuck it, ain't gonna happen. Never. Why not? Because of this kinda crap. I have converted people to Ubuntu, it is easy, it works, it plays farmville and has no malware. Buttons the wrong side? Noobs don't care they literally just shrug their shoulders and click the other side of the window.
But the Ubuntu 11.01 upgrade? I converted them all back to a pirated windows system. I installed Ubuntu for them because I was fed up constantly supporting them, now I was going to explain to them Unity/Gnome3 instead with more bugginess and unwanted changes then Vista? Is there some opensource developers penis envy? MS can produce a desktop nobody wants, we want it too?
This weekend I will be installing an old ubuntu on my desktop (this is written from a windows game machine) having tried various releases. I have come to a conclusion. I am old. I did gentoo, I did linux from scratch, I made skins, I tweaked, I compiled. Now I just want a fucking simple desktop that just fucking stays the fucking same for longer then two seconds. I REALLY do not give a fuck WHERE the close buttons is but I expect my fucking laptop to fucking suspend when I fucking close it and NOT for this YEARS old GODDAMN issue to come back because some fuck face wants to do a touch desktop and then forgets to include touch because he has some jerkwad fantasy about Linux on some device.
Upset? YES.
Nerd rage? Abso-fucking-lutely.
The proof that Gnome 3 sucks? They had to kill off gnome 2. If they are so convinced 3 was going to be the hottest thing ever, then they could just have let gnome 2 running in low maintenance mode and given the people a choice. You only have to pull a new coke if you know people don't WANT your new crap so you are not giving them an option and hope the rage dies out before you do. Well, I am nerd, hear me roar!
I did know some blind people, granted fully blind as in being unable to see anything at all and while they did indeed hear tv and movies they did so mostly to fit in. It just isn't a medium aimed at them. Just as a deaf person might go to a concert just to experience it so he at least has some idea what everyone else is talking about or someone with no taste might go to a fine restaurant because that is where the party is being held.
The idea that a person with a very high degree of blindness watches porn is not completely insane but it is highly unlikely. It is described in the article just how blind he is, note he has to have his email read out to him. So he obviously can't even READ pure text comfortable enough, the magnyfying probably allows him to see buttons and hit checkboxes.
It is a different world, not completely seperate but there is a difference to listening to a movie so you can talk to your seeing friends AND listening to porn in private.
Just because some legally blind people can see something doesn't mean all can. 99% blind is damned fucking blind.
Motorola sold its TV division to Panasonic in japan in the 70's.
Where are Apples factories?
Nintendo got greedy and instead of producing high quality games worth a few tenners it charges 50 euro's for games that are free on phones. Play Ridge Racer. It is an insult at the price. It is the same exact game you paid for decades ago at full price. Where are the triple A titles? Zelda? A remake of an old game that wasn't exactly the best to begin with.
And while I think there is a market for a GOOD handheld console, the 3DS just wasn't it. 3D and gyro's in the same system. How insane can you get? The screen brightness is a joke in even dim sunlight, the battery life is abysmal and the screen is smaller then the DSi XL. The styling? Decades out of date. This is a kids device but is harmfull for kids eyes according to Nintendo itself and costs a fortune and the games are insanely expensive.
The GB and GBA came into a world with no competition at the their price point. The quality sucked but hey, they were cheap. Now the 3DS ain't cheap and there is plenty of competition.
And I am not going to struggle with an insane 3D camera control in Splinter Cell all the while having to hold the machine perfectly still while trying to make anything out on a blackscreen blasted by sunlight.
Meantime I can play free games all I want on a high-rez amoled screen that automatically adjusts its brightness according to the environment and not worry about the battery draining before it has booted up.
Back to the drawing board Nintendo or you might just see Sony produce a handheld that does better then a gameboy.
The Netherlands benefit from the Marshall plan, American tax payers money send to Holland to restart the economy after WW2. One of the most notable was the investment that allowed Hoogovens, an iron smelter, to be created. It would become one of the better ones in the world, a major contribution to the dutch economy AND a competitor to American steel.
Japan was also selected by the US for enhanced economic growth. Much of its culture was heavily guided by McArthur including things as schooling. Now MAYBE some Americans thought they could turn that country into a source of cheap labor but the Japanese government had an entirely different idea. With long term plans they setup entire industries with a clear goal of first producing crap for the local market and parts for the foreign market then improving the local products and shipping cheap but not good to foreign markets, then good products locally and finally good products abroad. Honda? Toyota? Sony? There is a long list of super companies that ALL started out with lousy reps in the west. Then for a long time they were just known for high quality. Japanese cars especially went from barely fit to drive to examples of just how crap American made cars were by comparison.
Korea saw all this and liked it and did EXACTLY the same thing. All the Asian tigers are copying it and China is just very very good and extremely large. A few japanese cars coming on to the western market just meant Detroit lost a bit of fat. Korea made Detroit go hungry. Chinese cars will finish Detroit off. Indian cars will rape its corpse.
What was produced in Japan was copied in Japan. Same for Korea and China. And then Japan changed and actually started to produce better good themselves because the Japanese government still invested in industry not the financial market. Anyone who think the financial market is an industry should just die. Why was the transistor pocket radio made in Japan? Transistors were not a Japanese invention. Name an American consumer electronics brand. I don't know any and I am near half a century old. (Meaning I saw some of the switch from Japanese crap to Japanese quality) Granted I am from Holland but why do I know several Japanese and other asian brands but not a single US brand for TV's?
It shows just how long this process has already been going on. The process of all production shifting to the east.
The portable transistor radio was a famous Sony product for fitting a radio into a shirt pocket if you first enlarged the pocket. But the walkman then came into fashion. An American concept? A European one? No, Japanese again. MP3 players would re-boot that industry. Did Sony make them? No. Were they made in the US? If you now happily shout YES because of Diamond... oops sorry, the first mp3 player was made and sold in asia. Search for MPMan.
And for a long time the biggest players were Korean. Not American until the iPod hit the scene. A device entirely made in China. US design, asian production... cheap knockoffs... gosh if only there was an example in history... well there isn't ONE example in history, there are LOTS.
What is forgotten by a lot of people is that the west did not get what it was thanks to the million dollar incomes. It got there on the back of people making a mimimum wage but making it reliable. Working on an assembly line may not be glamorous and may not be the future you want for your kids but it puts bread on the table and pays the rent. 1 iPod designer, 1000 people on the factory line supporting their families. Only problem, the 1 iPod designer is in the US,the 1000 people are in China. What do the 1000 Americans do? Work for the iPod designer? That is what reaganomics would tell you. But reagan and his supporters are morons. The current economic cricis is the proof.
The US, the west, ANY country NEEDS those 1000 factory workers because if those 1000 aren't on the assembly line they are un-employed. England and its riots, France and its riots and the US and its riots are the warning signs.
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Really? Unity vs Gnome 3 vs KDE 4 whatever? There is no difference, they ALL suck. I have used Linux for a LONG time but the recent changes to the basic desktops have me ready to throw in the towel. Yesterday I accidently let Sabayon upgrade... instant problems as gnome 3 greeted me with its "fuck you". As simple a thing as opening a samba share requires killing a runaway browser process every single time.
The odd thing is that I had just helped some people migrate to Gnome 2 to get rid of constant virus infections when all they wanted to do is browse the net and play flash games when this shit hit. First Ubuntu and now everyone else.
I am now considering going for a Ubuntu LTE and just not updating it at least Ubuntu makes it bloody clear you are about to destroy your productivity.
The author claims Linux people should work together. Well they have. KDE/Gnome/Unity bundled forces and ruined the desktop. And for what? Tons of bugs, lots of disgruntled users and still not going to be adopted mainstream.
I had to check if Smedley hadn't finally led off by SOE and started working for opensource. Gnome 3 and the NGE have a LOT in common. Wonder if any of the three desktops will ever admit they were wrong.
1132: BBC reporter at Highbury Magistrates Court John Brain tells BBC 5 live the first person who appeared in the dock this morning was a 31-year-old teacher called Alexis Bailey. She pleaded guilty to being part of the looting of the Richer Sounds store in Croydon
The above from the BBC.
The below from me.
Now I guess some will say that teachers are not payed well enough but second class citizens? Come on, it ain't that bad. Not even for art teachers.
In a US mortgage, the bank owns the house. That is why people can walk away from a mortgage in the US by leaving the house. Try that in the EU...
Anyway, US debt is NOT the same because if the US walks away from the debt, debtors can't just try to resell the white house or Florida to recover the money.
Mortgage is a very bad comparison.
The republicans are pretty damn obvious with their policies, cut back anything that benefits the poor and keep and increase benefits oops tax cuts for the rich. They don't even bother to try to disguise this as trickle down economics anymore.
Yet West Virigina, which you claim is filled with poor people, colors very red on the election maps I can find.
But hey, if I am a small shop-keeper why should I pay for medi-care or social security for other people. I AM NOT UN-EMPLOYED, I got my own business, I don't need a handout... why isn't there anyone in my store? People to afraid to spend because if they loose their job they need every penny they got? Oops, now my store has gone bust... I need social security to stay alive!
Really, the republicans in the recent debt talks insisited openly that a tax cut for people making more then 250.000 dollars introduced by econimic wonder boy Bush was extended. And every single republican making less then 50.000 was in favor through their vote for the republican party. Because when you are on minimum wage, guys making a quarter of a million are your first priority.
It must be the American dream. Someday I will be rich so I better make sure I vote in the tax cuts for my future self right now.
In most of the rest of the world people vote in social security should their future self need it.
At 25 I stopped drinking to save the liver of a 40 year old man. An American commits suicide at 25 to stop a man from dying at 40.
Washington will take care of Main Street when the people in Main Street stop making it very clear with their votes that the people in Richville are their main concern.
A credit rating has NOTHING to do with how much you borrow, it has to do with how well you pay your debts. And the US has always payed its debts. It really is not that complex. Borrow lots and pay the interest every single time and you people want to lend you more. Borrow a little and don't pay the interest and people won't want to lend to you anymore.
Isn't this covered in economics 101?
That broadcasts "things" that pose such questions as "how would earth defend itself from alien attack". Imagine Independence Day with the indepth research, the special effects, the realism.
The humans ultimate attack? Lifting themselves up by balloons to the space ships hovering about the earth. Oh and it is a globally coordinated strike... apparently the weather is the same all over the planet in the future. Oh god, now I am trying to make sense of it.
NatGeo and Discovery are not what it once was.
You do know how the canary test works don't you? Either Neil Degrasse Tyson will play ball or he will be pining for the fjords. Either way, Fox wins. They always do. *Omnious music plays*
Morrowind, horribly crippled on the PC with regards to loading, although this was fixed when the PC only expansions arrived which suddenly realized PC's had more then 32mb of ram available and a speedy HD. Before: Loading every other step After: No loads ever.
Oblivion, OH MY GOD CAN THAT TEXT BE ANY LARGER and an inventory system from hell.
Consolitus has struck heavily in the realms of the elder scrolls. Luckily so far the games have been very modifiable meaning paying customers could fix the game unpaid but beggars can't be choosers.
At least they still bother with PC versions. Yes I am looking at you Rockstar, feeling to good to acknowledge your roots eh?
Do it yourself.
What is stopping you? Or do you just talk though on a nerd forum? You do know that isn't very hard do you? We run scared of guys who dare to run with scissors and have pens in their shirt pockets with NO pocket protector!
This is a shill article because the lie is so fucking obvious to detect. First of all, Android is made by the Open Handset Alliance. Google is of course a very major player in it same as Nokia was a major player in Symbian BUT it is called an alliance for a reason. Google doesn't work on it alone.
Second, and this is the big whopper. Where do you think MS gets the money from to fund WM7? If it had to charge full market price the handsets would cost a fortune because it would have to pay for ALL the losses of all the previous windows mobile versions. The constant rename campaigns alone would set you back a hundred bucks per license.
MS is using its monopoly on the desktop and office software market to fund its other operations, from the original x-box (which was economically a dismall failure) to MS phone software which so far has NOT had the kind of sales to pay for its own development costs.
And Apple? Same deal, no upstart company could have done the iPod whose profits were used to then launch the iPhone and then the iPad. The major advantage Apple always had over smaller players is that thanks to its massive reserves it could place orders so large that it got discounts nobody else gets making their players cheaper by comparison (MB for MB).
So basically Google and a LOT of other players pooled their resources to create a product they could all benefit from and made it available for "free". So? MS used its monopoly resources to create a product nobody else can use for free. Apple used it fast wealth to create a product nobody else can use or even create gadgets for without paying them and they often just refuse to license stuff.
Who is being the bad guy again? Oh of course, Google for being less evil. What people forget about Googles "Don't be evil" slogan is that doesn't say "Be good" it just means don't be as evil as the rest... and in American Business, that is a pretty low standard.
They are still buying their centrifuges and pretty all equipment from outside. Iran doesn't have much choice. I am not going to point out that the russians did in a few years what has Iran so far taken decades. There might be a reason they are slow other then outside influences.
Parts are restricted to non-muslims. Presumably not the parts westerners buy oil but Mekka is not a city known for its openness to visitors.