There are services such as eMusic.com that sell music without DRM. This gets rid of the whole problem with music not playing on one player or the other, because MP3 plays on just about everything, even the iPod.
I always remember it being quite easy to find the drivers for creative sound cards. You can go there right now and download drivers for just about any card they've every produced. I really don't see where the problem is.
A better analogy. I don't see Dell getting a cut when PC games are sold. I don't think that the designers of the console should be entitle to anything. However, with this model Nintendo would still do well as they don't sell the console for less than it costs to manufacture, and they have a lot of first party games that sell quite well. Sony and MS would have a much harder time making ends meet if they didn't get a cut of every game.
Maybe this is because they figured they could actually charge per person listening, which is the most fair way to charge when you think of it. With traditional radio, it is impossible to tell how many people are listening at any one time. With internet radio, it's extremely easy to tell how many people are listening, as least in terms of number of computers tuned in. Maybe the internet radio will just have to start putting on commercials like the FM stations do. Sure it makes the radio suck more, but somebody has to pay for the music.
Maybe they are higher for a reason. Maybe because the broadcast area for an FM channel is maybe 200 miles (I'm guessing, but I don't think it's more than that for most radio stations), and the broadcast range of internet radio is the entire world (or at least the entire US as far as the royalties go). Shouldn't they be paying more if they have a larger potential audience?
I just think this was bound to happen. You couldn't expect them to let people broadcast music for no fee forever. I don't see how it even lasted so long. If I was an FM broadcaster I'd be really mad that I was paying more to broadcast than people broadcasting the exact same music on the internet. I don't think that there's really much they should be complaining about. If they don't like what it costs to broadcast the music, then they should be broadcasting music that doesn't require royalties, or pay the same amount as all the other broadcasters. Just because it's easy to set up a server that has 100 different stations, doesn't mean that they shouldn't have to pay for those broadcasts.
Wow, two days? How long did you spend learning Photoshop? I'm pretty sure you didn't learn all you know in 2 days. It's going to take a lot more than 2 days to learn how to do things in GIMP. The UI isn't terrible, it's just that it's completely different. I've used GIMP a lot more than Photoshop, and I find the exact same problem as you do. The program I don't use so often (in my case, PhotoShop) is really frustrating, and doesn't act at all like what I'm used to. Using Photoshop in Windows with it's MDI interface is an extreme pain for me, and I find this much less efficient than the multi-window design of GIMP. 2 days isn't really giving any program a fair chance. Photoshop does provide a lot more features, and is a good package, but isn't worth the $100 price tag that even Elements has. I doubt that photoshop would be as popular as it is, if it wasn't for piracy. Given the choice, I think most home users would choose the GIMP over paying $100 for photoshop elements.
Hope that unlike the HTML/Javascript/CSS soup we have now, this technology is designed from the ground up with security in mind.
I find that most of the time, the security problems don't come from anything to do with HTML/CSS/Javascript, but have more to do with web programmers who don't understand the implications of putting a database driven application online for anybody in the world to use, when contrasted with an application that runs on your local computer. Take a simple application that stores a list of movies you own. If the user is running it locally on their own machine, there's much less to worry about in terms of security. The worst that could happen is the user may delete their own data. When you take this application and put in online, then there's a lot more stuff to worry about. Ensuring that a user's movie list remains private, Making sure there are no SQL injection attacks, and lots of other security related issues. Applications on the internet are less secure because there's a lot more to consider as far as security goes, and most people who program these web applications don't take the proper precautions.
People are just looking for an excuse not to use Linux, so they say Photoshop. Most home users don't need photoshop, probably haven't paid for it, and could do just as well with GIMP. For professional graphic artists, I guess can see a need for Photoshop, but those are the extreme minority of users. Even some professionals could probably get by with only using GIMP. I don't think that having Photoshop on Linux would do anything to increase the number of people using linux. People who say they need photoshop are just looking for something to complain about.
This is pretty bad considering in Ottawa, rent on a 1 bedroom apartment is around $700 for a moderately nice place. The PS3 is $699. Which means that in the UK, the price of the system is twice that as in Canada based on the cost of living index. Then again, that's just the city. Living in a small town, you could pay $300 a month for a similar apartment. So, I guess it depends. Are your UK prices for rent based on living in downtown London, or in some small town?
I've found that for the price of a 15 LCD TV, it's almost worth my money to get a cheap notebook with wifi, and watch stuff that I've recorded using my TV Tuner, or DVDs which are also playable with a laptop. I would normally just use the bedroom tv for DVDs anyway, so I don't think this would be a disadvantage.
Even a small HD set seems really overpriced. You can get a 27 or 32 inch CRT for the price of most 15 inch high definition televisions. I find it hard to drop so much money on such a small screen. I don't care how good it looks. I've been looking for a nice small flat panel for my bedroom, and can't find anything to compete with the $100 15 inch CRT you can get. A similarly sized flat panel costs upwards of $400. You can get monitors for cheaper, but they don't have speakers or TV Tuners.
Sounds to me like you learned a lot more by learning how to "game the game" rather then spending the time playing the game. I find this to be a big problem with educational games. They are very repetitive. You can basically get really good at the games without learning anything and by just memorizing the answers. Kids are very good at memorization. I remember hearing about a study where children of a certain age group can memorize things without even understanding them. So if you have a 3 year old who memorized the capital of every country, then he could tell you the capital of England is London if you asked him "What is the capital of England?". If you asked him "What country is London the capital of?" he wouldn't know the answer. There's a big difference between learning how to apply something, and just memorizing facts. I find that most learning games are very bad at teaching kids to learn and apply new concepts and are only good at helping them to memorize stuff.
This is why I like NFS 4 on the PC better than a lot more than other racing games. In most racing games, there's no reason to learn how to drive well, because at worst you will lose a few seconds as your car is put back on the track. However, when the damage to your car actually affects the car, then you make it a point not to get into accidents. Going through an 8 lap race is a lot harder when you can't get into an accident. It makes you a lot better at other racing games as you're not always running into things.
That's seen as an advantage to some. Fedora likes to ride the bleeding edge, but there's a lot more bugs because of this. Debian stable is called that for a reason. A lot less patches, and a lot less bugs. As a desktop user I can see the desire to run a more up-to-date OS, but if you're running servers I would probably opt for a more stable distro over having all the latest toys.
I concur. I think that a lot of books that are required reading in schools, while being good books, don't really appeal to all the students. I think students should have much more freedom with the books they read. Making people read something they don't want to read is a sure way to make sure they will never enjoy reading. Give them a choice, and the teachers may recommend other books they may like based on other ones. I really hated a lot of my highschool english classes because we had to read Shakespeare. I could have done a lot better if I had the choice of what I wanted to read instead of some 450 year old plays.
We had these games in school. Mind you, they weren't as violent as typing of the dead, but we had lots of learning games. I think we got about an hour of computer time every week. Some of us actually played the games, but a lot of students didn't play the games or get anything out of it. Most students had already played a fair number of non-learning games, and were quite put off by the learning games. It was easy to see that they were educational, and weren't anywhere close to as fun as the real thing. Math Maze was kind of like an RPG, but to beat the enemies you had to answer math questions correctly. Most students didn't enjoy this type of stuff. I think it's great that they are trying to get more students interested in learning, but I don't think that they would succeed much more than they did 15-20 years ago when the exact same thing was being done.
Wouldn't it make a lot of sense if you could just train it once, and then take your profile with you on a USB key? That way you wouldn't have to train the work computer, the home computer, the new laptop, the computer in the internet cafe, or any of the other computers you deal with on a daily basis.
I know when I took a first aid course, we were always supposed to ask the person if they needed help. Good Samaritan laws only kicked in if the person couldn't answer. In the majority of CPR cases, this would be true, however it's kind of an odd rule. And I live in Canada. If you saw someone with a gash to the head, and they were still conscious, then you were supposed to ask them if they needed help before applying pressure with a clean cloth. And if they refuse, you're supposed to just not do anything. Possibly wait for them to pass out and then help them. What a screwed up world we live in.
That's why I wish they would just drop the use of the word free, and go with "open". It's much less confusing this way. The word free gets used for a lot of "free" software, that isn't open, so I don't know why they continue to push the usage of this word.
So they're not really going all mac. Sure they have all Mac hardware, but they still run windows. Which is still specious. I could claim that my university was all Sun, or all Linux, because both were accessible in a remote X terminal from every computer. However, we still used windows as the main OS on 90% of the machines, but we can just ignore that.
Really? So if I plug in my PC monitor, Change the color balance so that it's completely blue (with the buttons on the monitor), then the Mac will magically take consideration for this and display the right colors anyway? I seriously doubt it. There's so many variables in getting the rigth color that I don't believe any computer, Mac, PC, or Linux is capable of showing colors properly short of being calibrated by a professional. And even then, some monitors don't even have the capabilities to show colors properly. I have a monitor at work that has so little contrast, that if you want it to show dark grey and black as different colours, then you have to turn the brightness way up. Which causes there to be no difference between light grey and white.
That is unless Microsoft designed their software specifically so it wouldn't run if it detected you were running a Mac. That's basically what Apple did. They detect if you're running a "PC" (non-mac) and it won't run if it detects this. This is just stupid limits put in place by Apple, and has nothing to do with whether or not a PC is actually capable of running on a Mac.
You may want to try VMware again. The free version I donwloaded allows you to make virtual disks, use physical drive, and do just about everything you would expect to be able to do with a virtual machine. I'm not sure what extra perks come with the pay version. I think you can run the pay version without a host OS, saving on resources.
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There are services such as eMusic.com that sell music without DRM. This gets rid of the whole problem with music not playing on one player or the other, because MP3 plays on just about everything, even the iPod.
I always remember it being quite easy to find the drivers for creative sound cards. You can go there right now and download drivers for just about any card they've every produced. I really don't see where the problem is.
A better analogy. I don't see Dell getting a cut when PC games are sold. I don't think that the designers of the console should be entitle to anything. However, with this model Nintendo would still do well as they don't sell the console for less than it costs to manufacture, and they have a lot of first party games that sell quite well. Sony and MS would have a much harder time making ends meet if they didn't get a cut of every game.
Maybe this is because they figured they could actually charge per person listening, which is the most fair way to charge when you think of it. With traditional radio, it is impossible to tell how many people are listening at any one time. With internet radio, it's extremely easy to tell how many people are listening, as least in terms of number of computers tuned in. Maybe the internet radio will just have to start putting on commercials like the FM stations do. Sure it makes the radio suck more, but somebody has to pay for the music.
Maybe they are higher for a reason. Maybe because the broadcast area for an FM channel is maybe 200 miles (I'm guessing, but I don't think it's more than that for most radio stations), and the broadcast range of internet radio is the entire world (or at least the entire US as far as the royalties go). Shouldn't they be paying more if they have a larger potential audience?
I just think this was bound to happen. You couldn't expect them to let people broadcast music for no fee forever. I don't see how it even lasted so long. If I was an FM broadcaster I'd be really mad that I was paying more to broadcast than people broadcasting the exact same music on the internet. I don't think that there's really much they should be complaining about. If they don't like what it costs to broadcast the music, then they should be broadcasting music that doesn't require royalties, or pay the same amount as all the other broadcasters. Just because it's easy to set up a server that has 100 different stations, doesn't mean that they shouldn't have to pay for those broadcasts.
Wow, two days? How long did you spend learning Photoshop? I'm pretty sure you didn't learn all you know in 2 days. It's going to take a lot more than 2 days to learn how to do things in GIMP. The UI isn't terrible, it's just that it's completely different. I've used GIMP a lot more than Photoshop, and I find the exact same problem as you do. The program I don't use so often (in my case, PhotoShop) is really frustrating, and doesn't act at all like what I'm used to. Using Photoshop in Windows with it's MDI interface is an extreme pain for me, and I find this much less efficient than the multi-window design of GIMP. 2 days isn't really giving any program a fair chance. Photoshop does provide a lot more features, and is a good package, but isn't worth the $100 price tag that even Elements has. I doubt that photoshop would be as popular as it is, if it wasn't for piracy. Given the choice, I think most home users would choose the GIMP over paying $100 for photoshop elements.
People are just looking for an excuse not to use Linux, so they say Photoshop. Most home users don't need photoshop, probably haven't paid for it, and could do just as well with GIMP. For professional graphic artists, I guess can see a need for Photoshop, but those are the extreme minority of users. Even some professionals could probably get by with only using GIMP. I don't think that having Photoshop on Linux would do anything to increase the number of people using linux. People who say they need photoshop are just looking for something to complain about.
This is pretty bad considering in Ottawa, rent on a 1 bedroom apartment is around $700 for a moderately nice place. The PS3 is $699. Which means that in the UK, the price of the system is twice that as in Canada based on the cost of living index. Then again, that's just the city. Living in a small town, you could pay $300 a month for a similar apartment. So, I guess it depends. Are your UK prices for rent based on living in downtown London, or in some small town?
I've found that for the price of a 15 LCD TV, it's almost worth my money to get a cheap notebook with wifi, and watch stuff that I've recorded using my TV Tuner, or DVDs which are also playable with a laptop. I would normally just use the bedroom tv for DVDs anyway, so I don't think this would be a disadvantage.
Even a small HD set seems really overpriced. You can get a 27 or 32 inch CRT for the price of most 15 inch high definition televisions. I find it hard to drop so much money on such a small screen. I don't care how good it looks. I've been looking for a nice small flat panel for my bedroom, and can't find anything to compete with the $100 15 inch CRT you can get. A similarly sized flat panel costs upwards of $400. You can get monitors for cheaper, but they don't have speakers or TV Tuners.
Sounds to me like you learned a lot more by learning how to "game the game" rather then spending the time playing the game. I find this to be a big problem with educational games. They are very repetitive. You can basically get really good at the games without learning anything and by just memorizing the answers. Kids are very good at memorization. I remember hearing about a study where children of a certain age group can memorize things without even understanding them. So if you have a 3 year old who memorized the capital of every country, then he could tell you the capital of England is London if you asked him "What is the capital of England?". If you asked him "What country is London the capital of?" he wouldn't know the answer. There's a big difference between learning how to apply something, and just memorizing facts. I find that most learning games are very bad at teaching kids to learn and apply new concepts and are only good at helping them to memorize stuff.
This is why I like NFS 4 on the PC better than a lot more than other racing games. In most racing games, there's no reason to learn how to drive well, because at worst you will lose a few seconds as your car is put back on the track. However, when the damage to your car actually affects the car, then you make it a point not to get into accidents. Going through an 8 lap race is a lot harder when you can't get into an accident. It makes you a lot better at other racing games as you're not always running into things.
That's seen as an advantage to some. Fedora likes to ride the bleeding edge, but there's a lot more bugs because of this. Debian stable is called that for a reason. A lot less patches, and a lot less bugs. As a desktop user I can see the desire to run a more up-to-date OS, but if you're running servers I would probably opt for a more stable distro over having all the latest toys.
I concur. I think that a lot of books that are required reading in schools, while being good books, don't really appeal to all the students. I think students should have much more freedom with the books they read. Making people read something they don't want to read is a sure way to make sure they will never enjoy reading. Give them a choice, and the teachers may recommend other books they may like based on other ones. I really hated a lot of my highschool english classes because we had to read Shakespeare. I could have done a lot better if I had the choice of what I wanted to read instead of some 450 year old plays.
We had these games in school. Mind you, they weren't as violent as typing of the dead, but we had lots of learning games. I think we got about an hour of computer time every week. Some of us actually played the games, but a lot of students didn't play the games or get anything out of it. Most students had already played a fair number of non-learning games, and were quite put off by the learning games. It was easy to see that they were educational, and weren't anywhere close to as fun as the real thing. Math Maze was kind of like an RPG, but to beat the enemies you had to answer math questions correctly. Most students didn't enjoy this type of stuff. I think it's great that they are trying to get more students interested in learning, but I don't think that they would succeed much more than they did 15-20 years ago when the exact same thing was being done.
Wouldn't it make a lot of sense if you could just train it once, and then take your profile with you on a USB key? That way you wouldn't have to train the work computer, the home computer, the new laptop, the computer in the internet cafe, or any of the other computers you deal with on a daily basis.
I know when I took a first aid course, we were always supposed to ask the person if they needed help. Good Samaritan laws only kicked in if the person couldn't answer. In the majority of CPR cases, this would be true, however it's kind of an odd rule. And I live in Canada. If you saw someone with a gash to the head, and they were still conscious, then you were supposed to ask them if they needed help before applying pressure with a clean cloth. And if they refuse, you're supposed to just not do anything. Possibly wait for them to pass out and then help them. What a screwed up world we live in.
Where is the word open in the term "shared source"
That's why I wish they would just drop the use of the word free, and go with "open". It's much less confusing this way. The word free gets used for a lot of "free" software, that isn't open, so I don't know why they continue to push the usage of this word.
So they're not really going all mac. Sure they have all Mac hardware, but they still run windows. Which is still specious. I could claim that my university was all Sun, or all Linux, because both were accessible in a remote X terminal from every computer. However, we still used windows as the main OS on 90% of the machines, but we can just ignore that.
Really? So if I plug in my PC monitor, Change the color balance so that it's completely blue (with the buttons on the monitor), then the Mac will magically take consideration for this and display the right colors anyway? I seriously doubt it. There's so many variables in getting the rigth color that I don't believe any computer, Mac, PC, or Linux is capable of showing colors properly short of being calibrated by a professional. And even then, some monitors don't even have the capabilities to show colors properly. I have a monitor at work that has so little contrast, that if you want it to show dark grey and black as different colours, then you have to turn the brightness way up. Which causes there to be no difference between light grey and white.
That is unless Microsoft designed their software specifically so it wouldn't run if it detected you were running a Mac. That's basically what Apple did. They detect if you're running a "PC" (non-mac) and it won't run if it detects this. This is just stupid limits put in place by Apple, and has nothing to do with whether or not a PC is actually capable of running on a Mac.
You may want to try VMware again. The free version I donwloaded allows you to make virtual disks, use physical drive, and do just about everything you would expect to be able to do with a virtual machine. I'm not sure what extra perks come with the pay version. I think you can run the pay version without a host OS, saving on resources.