Price is also a factor. Charge $60 for a game on Steam and people will still pirate it simply because it's worth their time to do so. But if Dragon Age 3 came out as a digital download only for $10 there'd be little point to pirate it. Of course that doesn't happen because the publisher sets the digital price to be the same as the boxed copies in stores.
At some point developers will start to do the math and see that they can drastically increase profits by going low price on digital only. I WOULD say that that'd be a dark day for Gamestop, but those retails stores are pretty much all console now anyway. I doubt they'd notice their PC sales going away.
Well, actually I'd put any death's caused by lack of power related to the plants being down as deaths "caused" by the reactor. Solar installs on roof tops wouldn't have this issue, most likely. Though with them you'd have quite a few deaths from the solar installation itself.
Not really. Linus can be pretty stupid. He likes things to be easy and often makes dumb choices in regards to that(hello BitKeeper). In this case saying Debian is "pointless" because Ubuntu make it easier is stupid. Ubuntu wouldn't exist without Debian and the "point" of Debian is to be a stable 100% free open source distribution that will always be there for you.
And it's funny considering the shit that Ubuntu is pulling these days and how people now are looking to move away from that distribution. Guess all that "easy and pretty" has a price, eh?
>Yeah, but isn't the whole draw of RHEL the fact that it isn't one of 500 splintered forks? There is only one RHEL, and that is why companies all over the place use it.
No, companies use it because it's vendor supported. Specifically you can buy support from Red Hat for it, but beyond that because Red Hat does a lot of work with hardware vendors to ensure that the hardware is "certified" for RHEL. Both of those are important for the pointy haired bosses, so you see it used in the corporate environment. And where people don't want to pay for RHEL, they just drop CentOS in it's place in the office.
It's really nothing to do with fragmentation. Debian itself isn't fragmented. It's been running strong since 1993 and has an extremely stable community. It's stability and solid foundation are why it's often used as a base for new distributions.
A very good answer. It's really the nature of broadband TV media. Having a channel on a cable box can't come cheap and you're pretty much at the mercy of ad agencies. You either sell out or die.
I'm really looking forward to more private, smaller shows on the internet taking off. I don't see any reason why something like The Guild, couldn't be done in a lot of different settings, especially as the recording/editing technology keeps getting cheaper and cheaper and more homes switch onto using things like set top boxes that support things like Hulu and Netflix.
> If my child were going truant a lot, I'd approve.
If my child were going truant without my approval, I'd take away his xbox/playstation/tv/computer and ground him in his room until he started going to class again. I don't need a GPS tracker.
On the flip side, if my kid wanted to take a "personal day" off from school now and again, they could ask me and I'd write the sick note myself.
Well, the model is mostly breaking down when it comes to magazines. A normal "novel" 60,000 word type book would run under.25 megs and cost several dollars, so the delivery cost would be quite reasonable.
Even trade manuals(Linux for dummies) would still be very reasonable, considering they sell for $30 or so in the print world.
Magazines should be ad supported in some way. The current readers aren't really setup for them.
I'm among the haters. I think why I hate the show is because it flirts with bad pop science so much. I mean, I can watch Star Trek and listen to them BS about stuff which is completely false, but it's tolerable because no one really believes in it. Or I can watch Warehouse 13 and enjoy that because the science is just so absurd, it's not supposed to feel real.
But Fringe flirts with the Ghost Hunters / CSI type stuff and I just can't get past how stupid it is. it's like, it borders the fake science people really do believe in too much it leaves a bad taste in my mouth watching it.
Well, here's something you can setup your wife can probably use if you're interested.
Popcorn hour + hard drive + the NMT tools. This gives you a Media player with a Torrent and NZB client. Bookmark these clients in your wife's web browser.
Torrents you should know, but they're slow. If you want faster use NZB. You'll need a giganews.com subscription(25 a month for unlimeted) and a place to download NZB files: http://nzbmatrix.com/
Bookmark the NZB site on your wife's browser. The "get a show or movie process":
Kid wants to watch Show X. Wife downloads the NZB for Show X, then uploads it to the popcorn hour. In an hour or so you'll have the show or movie you want.
Benefits are it's only 25 a month for the giganews subscription and you have access to a lot more content that you will via cable or dish tv. You can also watch DvDs before they're released to the public.
I did this about a year ago and also completely love it. No commercials. No BS annoying brainless shows. Well... just the brainless shows I want to watch:)
I remember being on reddit and mention was made of some couple that are doing a reality TV show. Think they have a bunch of children. I'd never heard of them. Jon and Kate? Had to Google it just now.
It's really nice not having all that bullshit pop culture cluttering up your brain.
I wonder if Brad McQuaid wakes up some days and kicks himself repeatedly.
I doubt it. He was the driving force behind Vanguard which flopped completely because it was too hard core. Players of that game repeatedly told him he was going in the wrong direction of design, but he wouldn't listen since he knew best.
WoW did a lot of things right long before other MMO's even considered it. Lack of a death penalty being just one of them.
In a world where these students can, as another poster suggested, elect not to attend college, your idea works and works well. Unfortunately, this is not that world.
Total and absolute BS. Most college educations are completely worthless. Psychology, French Lit, History?
I'd say most people would be much better off financially if they skipped college and used the money that would've gone into that somewhere else.
Now take fields like engineering, law, computer science, and so on, those are totally great fields of study. But if you can't be bothered to pay attention during class then society would probably be better off with you not graduating in the first place. I don't want to drive on a bridge designed by someone who had to be made to stay off Facebook by his mommy professor during class.
Lesson learned: Put a postie note next to the button reminding you it's a trap because in the heat of the moment when your base is being overran and you want to blow it up... you can forget.
> This is essentially the same problem that desktop linux has.
Absolutely not.
The problem with Android is that the carriers have controlled the hardware and they also control the updates. So T-Mobile's G1 is still on 1.6, Droid is on 2.0, Nexus is the latest 2.1. Google can't force updates on those older phones and the customers can't either, unless they jailbreak and jump through massive hoops.
On Linux, there's nothing stopping a user from upgrading Ubuntu on their desktop or laptop. The issue with Linux is apps, Photoshop, Word, Games, and that's just not an issue with Android.
That's been a known limitation since, well, forever. How did you miss that in your basic research before spending several hundred dollars on a device specifically known on Slashdot to be artificially limited by the manufacturer?
Huh, weird. I'm an apple hater, fully admit that, but I'm also surprised to hear you can't USB mount the iTouch. I'm guessing the iPhone is the same?
I can USB mount my Nexus just fine and copy whatever I want over to it. Still waiting on bluetooth file transfers though.
And everyone else is going to be affected by your retarded parenting decisions down the road, because we're all part of a society and you can't escape that.
That's a valid point, except there's no guarantee that our children won't be getting retarded "parenting" decisions in a public school too. In fact, I'd argue very strongly that they currently are.
But while they may also be getting retarded education at home at least it's a different style of retarded education. And as a whole, diversity is a positive thing for any society.
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Where are these jobs people are only writing 200 lines of code a day? I could put in a single 5 hour day and then take the rest of the week off.
Price is also a factor. Charge $60 for a game on Steam and people will still pirate it simply because it's worth their time to do so. But if Dragon Age 3 came out as a digital download only for $10 there'd be little point to pirate it. Of course that doesn't happen because the publisher sets the digital price to be the same as the boxed copies in stores.
At some point developers will start to do the math and see that they can drastically increase profits by going low price on digital only. I WOULD say that that'd be a dark day for Gamestop, but those retails stores are pretty much all console now anyway. I doubt they'd notice their PC sales going away.
AI would also prevent the inevitable corruption and abuse of a no privacy system.
Well, actually I'd put any death's caused by lack of power related to the plants being down as deaths "caused" by the reactor. Solar installs on roof tops wouldn't have this issue, most likely. Though with them you'd have quite a few deaths from the solar installation itself.
Personally, I'm saving up for a decent sextant. The suckers are pricey though.
Great explanation. Thanks.
> That must hurt.
Not really. Linus can be pretty stupid. He likes things to be easy and often makes dumb choices in regards to that(hello BitKeeper). In this case saying Debian is "pointless" because Ubuntu make it easier is stupid. Ubuntu wouldn't exist without Debian and the "point" of Debian is to be a stable 100% free open source distribution that will always be there for you.
And it's funny considering the shit that Ubuntu is pulling these days and how people now are looking to move away from that distribution. Guess all that "easy and pretty" has a price, eh?
>Yeah, but isn't the whole draw of RHEL the fact that it isn't one of 500 splintered forks? There is only one RHEL, and that is why companies all over the place use it.
No, companies use it because it's vendor supported. Specifically you can buy support from Red Hat for it, but beyond that because Red Hat does a lot of work with hardware vendors to ensure that the hardware is "certified" for RHEL. Both of those are important for the pointy haired bosses, so you see it used in the corporate environment. And where people don't want to pay for RHEL, they just drop CentOS in it's place in the office.
It's really nothing to do with fragmentation. Debian itself isn't fragmented. It's been running strong since 1993 and has an extremely stable community. It's stability and solid foundation are why it's often used as a base for new distributions.
A very good answer. It's really the nature of broadband TV media. Having a channel on a cable box can't come cheap and you're pretty much at the mercy of ad agencies. You either sell out or die.
I'm really looking forward to more private, smaller shows on the internet taking off. I don't see any reason why something like The Guild, couldn't be done in a lot of different settings, especially as the recording/editing technology keeps getting cheaper and cheaper and more homes switch onto using things like set top boxes that support things like Hulu and Netflix.
> If my child were going truant a lot, I'd approve.
If my child were going truant without my approval, I'd take away his xbox/playstation/tv/computer and ground him in his room until he started going to class again. I don't need a GPS tracker.
On the flip side, if my kid wanted to take a "personal day" off from school now and again, they could ask me and I'd write the sick note myself.
Well, from my perspective. Having watched the film on a 80ft or so tall IMAX screen, I left the movie feeling totally inadequate.
Well, the model is mostly breaking down when it comes to magazines. A normal "novel" 60,000 word type book would run under .25 megs and cost several dollars, so the delivery cost would be quite reasonable.
Even trade manuals(Linux for dummies) would still be very reasonable, considering they sell for $30 or so in the print world.
Magazines should be ad supported in some way. The current readers aren't really setup for them.
Wow. If I had spoken to a teacher like that when I was in the 8th grade, I would've gotten the paddle.
The one with the holes drilled into it so it went through the air faster.
I'm among the haters. I think why I hate the show is because it flirts with bad pop science so much. I mean, I can watch Star Trek and listen to them BS about stuff which is completely false, but it's tolerable because no one really believes in it. Or I can watch Warehouse 13 and enjoy that because the science is just so absurd, it's not supposed to feel real.
But Fringe flirts with the Ghost Hunters / CSI type stuff and I just can't get past how stupid it is. it's like, it borders the fake science people really do believe in too much it leaves a bad taste in my mouth watching it.
I can't wait to see the marketing buzz for this:
Changes everything.
Magical experience.
Revolutionary.
Well, here's something you can setup your wife can probably use if you're interested.
Popcorn hour + hard drive + the NMT tools. This gives you a Media player with a Torrent and NZB client. Bookmark these clients in your wife's web browser.
Torrents you should know, but they're slow. If you want faster use NZB. You'll need a giganews.com subscription(25 a month for unlimeted) and a place to download NZB files: http://nzbmatrix.com/
Bookmark the NZB site on your wife's browser. The "get a show or movie process":
Kid wants to watch Show X. Wife downloads the NZB for Show X, then uploads it to the popcorn hour. In an hour or so you'll have the show or movie you want.
Benefits are it's only 25 a month for the giganews subscription and you have access to a lot more content that you will via cable or dish tv. You can also watch DvDs before they're released to the public.
I did this about a year ago and also completely love it. No commercials. No BS annoying brainless shows. Well... just the brainless shows I want to watch :)
I remember being on reddit and mention was made of some couple that are doing a reality TV show. Think they have a bunch of children. I'd never heard of them. Jon and Kate? Had to Google it just now.
It's really nice not having all that bullshit pop culture cluttering up your brain.
Of course companies would want the cure. If they have the cure:
1> They'll make a killing selling the cure.
2> They'll put their competitors selling just treatments out of business.
I wonder if Brad McQuaid wakes up some days and kicks himself repeatedly.
I doubt it. He was the driving force behind Vanguard which flopped completely because it was too hard core. Players of that game repeatedly told him he was going in the wrong direction of design, but he wouldn't listen since he knew best.
WoW did a lot of things right long before other MMO's even considered it. Lack of a death penalty being just one of them.
> I find Office much easier to deploy than Firefox,
Office requires you to buy and manage licenses, Firefox doesn't.
In a world where these students can, as another poster suggested, elect not to attend college, your idea works and works well. Unfortunately, this is not that world.
Total and absolute BS. Most college educations are completely worthless. Psychology, French Lit, History?
I'd say most people would be much better off financially if they skipped college and used the money that would've gone into that somewhere else.
Now take fields like engineering, law, computer science, and so on, those are totally great fields of study. But if you can't be bothered to pay attention during class then society would probably be better off with you not graduating in the first place. I don't want to drive on a bridge designed by someone who had to be made to stay off Facebook by his mommy professor during class.
I did the button thing to 4k volts once.
Lesson learned: Put a postie note next to the button reminding you it's a trap because in the heat of the moment when your base is being overran and you want to blow it up... you can forget.
> This is essentially the same problem that desktop linux has.
Absolutely not.
The problem with Android is that the carriers have controlled the hardware and they also control the updates. So T-Mobile's G1 is still on 1.6, Droid is on 2.0, Nexus is the latest 2.1. Google can't force updates on those older phones and the customers can't either, unless they jailbreak and jump through massive hoops.
On Linux, there's nothing stopping a user from upgrading Ubuntu on their desktop or laptop. The issue with Linux is apps, Photoshop, Word, Games, and that's just not an issue with Android.
That's been a known limitation since, well, forever. How did you miss that in your basic research before spending several hundred dollars on a device specifically known on Slashdot to be artificially limited by the manufacturer?
Huh, weird. I'm an apple hater, fully admit that, but I'm also surprised to hear you can't USB mount the iTouch. I'm guessing the iPhone is the same?
I can USB mount my Nexus just fine and copy whatever I want over to it. Still waiting on bluetooth file transfers though.
And everyone else is going to be affected by your retarded parenting decisions down the road, because we're all part of a society and you can't escape that.
That's a valid point, except there's no guarantee that our children won't be getting retarded "parenting" decisions in a public school too. In fact, I'd argue very strongly that they currently are.
But while they may also be getting retarded education at home at least it's a different style of retarded education. And as a whole, diversity is a positive thing for any society.