in video game technology we bring an 8-bit system that actually works. After you cut a hole in the back, make a ton of soldering connections and order $10 ($3 parts, $7 shipping) worth of supplies IF you have the tools laying close by.
The goal of Linux should be to provide a useable, friendly operating system that is very cheap or free.
People don't have to know how to build an enginer to drive a car. They know that being able to open the hood and fiddle with the engine is dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, and to lock the car when you are away from it, that's common sense.
This common sense should come to computers as well. Locking them when you are away and not fiddling under the hood. However the option SHOULD be there for people who know what they're doing.
If Linux can bring that option and reduce the cost of new operating systems to a reasonable amount, THEN it will have achieved a respectable goal.
If more people use it because it is clearly the best choice, depending on distro, then Linux will be where we want it to be. Those of you who only use it as an OS because it's different, you will have an excuse to move on to bigger, better things.
It's Monday, so we like video games, so this is bad news. But it's February, so this is good news. But the day of the week is odd, so we're supposed to only bash Sony and Blizzard. But the day matches the 2-digit year, so we only especially make fun of Macintosh users. But it was posted AFTER lunch, so this is good news.
As long as humans must defecate, and they do so in a civilized manner at work, a room that is built to echo any noise as loudly as possible, the newspaper is essential. As nice and convenient as reading a newspaper on a laptop is, it will never be as comfortable an emergency "wiper" as the new york post.
I think a better question to ask Mr. Baily (May I call you that Dave?) would be to inquire his stance on giving away content versus charging for it.
I'm not talking just monetary compensation either. For example, you can contribute a non-contrite view to a conversation, you get the content for a reduced or free fee.
Oh, and Dale, I am truly your largest fan.
O.k.. I've just *got* to ask... which movie is this?
Haven't you
read his other comments?
It's "Chicken Run".
(To keep from being offtopic: I got into game programming using SDL with Dev-C++, it's a free way to learn the software side and determine whether or not it's really for you).
Thanks for the correction. I just thought this was a ridiculous statement in such a fluctuating industry. Especially after Sega bowed out of the console market.
'Iwata emphasized Nintendo's plans to stick in the console industry by saying, "When we withdraw from the home game console, that's when we withdraw from the video game business."'"
"Read my lips, no new taxes" - George Bush
"Let them eat cake" - Marie Antionette
"No one will ever need more than 16KB of RAM" - Bill Gates
I agree that every consumer bears the cost of lost sales due to piracy, but why do so many people go there in the first place?
I downloaded from Napster when I couldn't find music on the store shelves (Try finding / Ordering the CD's "Heroes and Villians" by Exposition, or "What's the Name of that dog" by Shithook to name a few), they were right there on Napster. Even with the music companies consent, how many back-albums will they update to sell (Do you honestly think they will update all the old "Go-Bot" cartoons to DVD, or what about "Pee-Wee Herman")?
They should recoup some money from sales lost to Piracy, but they shouldn't charge $2 less for a single opposed to the whole album.
How many casualties have you actually seen in the news these days? From afghanistan or elsewhere?
Watch for casualty pictures in the news during the next gulf war (I hope not, but I'm a pessimist these days). Chances are, you might hear about casualties, but look for any actual dead bodies. They will not show them, because then it makes the war "real", and dirty, and unpopular.
Another point is that the Finnish telecom, (Sonera) got thoroughly blasted by an anonymous book first published on the web. The book seemed credible enough, and later a police investigation showed that the security department of Sonera had been scanning the e-mail and the phone calls of the employees, without their consent. Probably this was done by a pissed-off employee. However, a big company got in trouble because the net allowed fast spreading of the book, and there was no way to press the publisher.
This really disturbs me with the implications. Publishing a book anonymously on the web with no editor is a big responsibility.
This is a freedom that should be protected, but continue to keep it unregulated. This presents a possiblity to publish good books ("The Jungle", where an industry should improve for health reasons) before a huge crisis ensues (Think Enron), or it could be misused (The Globe, National Inquirer, etc.).
It would simultanously be a great loss and huge gain if you held no liability for what was said on the internet.
This just in: New York has officially become the center of the universe. When asked to comment about this, several New Yorkers mugged and beat this reporter to death.
If the user gets frustrated enough when trying to download music illegally maybe they'll actually spend money to buy music.
And the money spent on this music funds the company putting random noise on this medium instead of producing more, better music.
What happends when more money is spent on protecting the music than actually producing music?
I mean, if *I* were going to bike to the south pole, I would at least start from home instead of antartica.
Why not just say: "Guy plans on biking 50 miles in sub-zero temps, hopes no to die". This would have been kick-ass if would have risked mexico, panama, the amazon, just to come close to biking in sub-zero temperatures.
The sky did not fall, and tomorrow will be another day.
Disney will run out of money eventually. Someone in the corporation will get greedy, or lazy, or a power-struggle in the company will happen and they will fall from power. Will we ever see it, probably not.
As long as someone is willing to question these practices and challenge them, no matter the outcome, we have not lost the war.
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in video game technology we bring an 8-bit system that actually works. After you cut a hole in the back, make a ton of soldering connections and order $10 ($3 parts, $7 shipping) worth of supplies IF you have the tools laying close by.
How far we've come.
"How well do you know _______'s job?"
Yet it takes a cornhusker national championship to make people conglomerate in the middle of 72nd & Dodge and act like total idiots.
from the it's-extremely-obvious-you-knucklehead department.
Buy her flowers. Buy her nice* jewelry.
* - If you can find it at a department store or in the mall, it isn't nice jewelry.
Linux is non-graphical, people. X is separate from Linux - it runs on many Unices.
Sorry, my mistake.
The goal of Linux should be to provide a useable, friendly operating system that is very cheap or free.
People don't have to know how to build an enginer to drive a car. They know that being able to open the hood and fiddle with the engine is dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, and to lock the car when you are away from it, that's common sense.
This common sense should come to computers as well. Locking them when you are away and not fiddling under the hood. However the option SHOULD be there for people who know what they're doing.
If Linux can bring that option and reduce the cost of new operating systems to a reasonable amount, THEN it will have achieved a respectable goal.
If more people use it because it is clearly the best choice, depending on distro, then Linux will be where we want it to be. Those of you who only use it as an OS because it's different, you will have an excuse to move on to bigger, better things.
I've only been saying this since I started using Linux in 97/8... Think, but can your DAD use it?
You think this is funny, until you have children.
If they are going to use Radioactive waste as an energy source, more power to them.
Help, tell me what to think!!!
It's Monday, so we like video games, so this is bad news. But it's February, so this is good news. But the day of the week is odd, so we're supposed to only bash Sony and Blizzard. But the day matches the 2-digit year, so we only especially make fun of Macintosh users. But it was posted AFTER lunch, so this is good news.
Got it?
As long as humans must defecate, and they do so in a civilized manner at work, a room that is built to echo any noise as loudly as possible, the newspaper is essential. As nice and convenient as reading a newspaper on a laptop is, it will never be as comfortable an emergency "wiper" as the new york post.
I think a better question to ask Mr. Baily (May I call you that Dave?) would be to inquire his stance on giving away content versus charging for it.
I'm not talking just monetary compensation either. For example, you can contribute a non-contrite view to a conversation, you get the content for a reduced or free fee.
Oh, and Dale, I am truly your largest fan.
Why can't people enjoy browsers with brains AND "Hot Adult Entertainment"? I want to have my cake and eat it, too!
I would suggest contacting the Better Business Bureau to get these complaints addressed.
O.k.. I've just *got* to ask... which movie is this?
Haven't you read his other comments?
It's "Chicken Run".
(To keep from being offtopic: I got into game programming using SDL with Dev-C++, it's a free way to learn the software side and determine whether or not it's really for you).
Just keep an eye out for ice!
Thanks for the correction. I just thought this was a ridiculous statement in such a fluctuating industry. Especially after Sega bowed out of the console market.
'Iwata emphasized Nintendo's plans to stick in the console industry by saying, "When we withdraw from the home game console, that's when we withdraw from the video game business."'"
"Read my lips, no new taxes" - George Bush
"Let them eat cake" - Marie Antionette
"No one will ever need more than 16KB of RAM" - Bill Gates
relativly unknown SimDesk suite, which has nothing to do with The Sims
I wasted ALL that time for nothing?
I agree that every consumer bears the cost of lost sales due to piracy, but why do so many people go there in the first place?
I downloaded from Napster when I couldn't find music on the store shelves (Try finding / Ordering the CD's "Heroes and Villians" by Exposition, or "What's the Name of that dog" by Shithook to name a few), they were right there on Napster. Even with the music companies consent, how many back-albums will they update to sell (Do you honestly think they will update all the old "Go-Bot" cartoons to DVD, or what about "Pee-Wee Herman")?
They should recoup some money from sales lost to Piracy, but they shouldn't charge $2 less for a single opposed to the whole album.
Just playing Devils Advocate.
How many casualties have you actually seen in the news these days? From afghanistan or elsewhere?
Watch for casualty pictures in the news during the next gulf war (I hope not, but I'm a pessimist these days). Chances are, you might hear about casualties, but look for any actual dead bodies. They will not show them, because then it makes the war "real", and dirty, and unpopular.
Another point is that the Finnish telecom, (Sonera) got thoroughly blasted by an anonymous book first published on the web. The book seemed credible enough, and later a police investigation showed that the security department of Sonera had been scanning the e-mail and the phone calls of the employees, without their consent. Probably this was done by a pissed-off employee. However, a big company got in trouble because the net allowed fast spreading of the book, and there was no way to press the publisher.
This really disturbs me with the implications. Publishing a book anonymously on the web with no editor is a big responsibility.
This is a freedom that should be protected, but continue to keep it unregulated. This presents a possiblity to publish good books ("The Jungle", where an industry should improve for health reasons) before a huge crisis ensues (Think Enron), or it could be misused (The Globe, National Inquirer, etc.).
It would simultanously be a great loss and huge gain if you held no liability for what was said on the internet.
This just in: New York has officially become the center of the universe. When asked to comment about this, several New Yorkers mugged and beat this reporter to death.
If the user gets frustrated enough when trying to download music illegally maybe they'll actually spend money to buy music.
And the money spent on this music funds the company putting random noise on this medium instead of producing more, better music.
What happends when more money is spent on protecting the music than actually producing music?
Just random thought noise.
This guy is kind of a wuss, isn't he?
I mean, if *I* were going to bike to the south pole, I would at least start from home instead of antartica.
Why not just say: "Guy plans on biking 50 miles in sub-zero temps, hopes no to die". This would have been kick-ass if would have risked mexico, panama, the amazon, just to come close to biking in sub-zero temperatures.
I think someone tried this by getting sick on a cruise ship.
The sky did not fall, and tomorrow will be another day.
Disney will run out of money eventually. Someone in the corporation will get greedy, or lazy, or a power-struggle in the company will happen and they will fall from power. Will we ever see it, probably not.
As long as someone is willing to question these practices and challenge them, no matter the outcome, we have not lost the war.