"I've always thought that Dell does not like to be a leader in technology, that they were a strong follower...But I didn't realize they were going to be dead last"
Retailers can't break designers. The other way around is possible. He can say what he wants, and let's hope dell goes down for someone with decent customer support.
Ah the lengthen the installation cycle by removing the very tool most users use to find tools in the first place.
The integrated features of Outlook are so powerful that OSS doesn't have anything close. Don't ask the programmers ask the guys doing IT who will tell you, nothing microsoft does individually is increadible but you can't beat the suite.
Telling them to remove some of the most powerfully integrated features and thereby break their operating system's image as coming complete with everything you need is ridiculous.
I love Opera, I install it at web cafes. But trying to fight Microsoft in areas where people want things to "Just work" and "Be integrated" is not something the open source community is capable of.
In fact it seems like most of the OSS dev team is actively derogatory of the above chains of thought.
I think Msoft should allow pirated users to patch.
If technically savy enough to purchase a computer without a bundled OS and then to pirate a copy with a CD that passes initial checks then they are obviously a pretty savvy pirate.
Microsoft understands that pirates like gamers are a small but prolific group inside the computer community. I have influenced about 150 people (designed specs) in their computer purhcasing decisions and their Operating System desisions. Some of them could afford the MS tax others could not, I acted accordingly.
If Microsoft limits useability any further for this group they will be more likely to find open source alternatives and use their role as "computer nerds" to influence those around them.
Microsoft currently enjoys enormous sucess without badgering this 0.3% of the market and I think rocking the boat on this one might be quite costly.
Operating system piracy will never replace big box installation as the primary force for operating system distribution because formatting and installing a new OS is a terifying task for a new user. (Not as terrifying as choosing a Linux distro and feature set mind you but still) Also increasing CD security or required networking for use might be the change that pushes the term "evil empire" into the public consciousness.
I omitted GCC by accident. (first install ever, never figured out how we lost it, and it's impossible to install later)
But my point is that Linux suffers from a pretty serious level of bloat while many of the features that the common user would want are not implemented by default or not even included on any distro.
Taking the combined complaining power of the internet and using people to edit their peers work to create corperate quality blandness.
Musicians say they can't afford to privately pay for studio time which is why they need to sign with producers, offer a cheap form of production and B.M.G. will evaporate.
How come even wallmart can see the advantages of a $199 PC and no one has figured out that people will suffer an 8" screen and a p300 if you give us a $350 laptop with decent battery life (12).
Hell the thing can weight 4 pounds if you like, you are so close to gaining the lucrative PDA money pit market share, come on people!
AMD put some power at my price point and so did ATi... when someone does that I appreciate it. Computers are a little more expensive then they should be, most people who have bought a lot of hardware feel this pinch.
When a company brings us a business model that offers performance/price metrics with a tinge of sanity how can we help but love them.
Now if AMD and Ati become the big players maybe they will monopoly price their processors too:(
Actually while you were sleeping DDR2 and DDR3 came out.
Also much of the RAM manufacturing was moved back to the west from Asia as prices there were being fixed.
After several lawsuits and DDR2 being scrapped as power hungry and inefficient DDR3 was drawn up with the major advantages being scalability to 2.x gighz (DDR) and a price of production several orders of magnitude cheaper than existing DDR.
there are some interesting articles over on CNET about the big box computer manufacturers fighting with memory makers.
Dual Core CPU... AMD is releasing them first Intel will likely follow. Basically imagine two processors inside your CPU able to run 2 processes or even two operating systems simultaneously.
After the Hyper-Threading fiasco and considering how relativly simple this is to implement it really is amazing it took this long.
I don't understand how research into DRM can lead to any kind of useful goal.
Some information needs to be free, some needs to be locked down. This sissy encryption stuff that fits in 1k is a waste of everyone's time. It hurts the uninformed keeping them that way.
Sigh I feel lazy about this issue too but someone should really make an effort to at least try and get the government to listen to reason on this one.
If some modicum of honesty is telling you not to steal, listen to it.
See when I look at someone's wallet I feel the urge not to steal when I look at a juicy ISO file I feel the urge to encourage the programmer to continue making more quality video games and show my respect for his skill.
When I go to a video game store I feel revulsion for the idea of paying a producer to bombard me with advertising and copy-protection thus making my life more difficult.
There are lots of alternatives. Wait till the game has been out a while and is in the bargin bins. Have your kids mow an extra lawn or two. Cook them dinner instead of taking them to McDonald's for a huge dose of fat. Subscribe to a gamer mag and get demos to the latest games on CD so they can try them out, have fun, and decide which games they REALLY want.
See this doesn't make sense either, playing games over and over again or missing out on questionable titles for no reason? If the game maker KNEW I wouldn't be able to buy his game he would gladly allow me to get it for free. Waiting till it hits the bargain bin doesn't really get the game makers any additional money as the retail channel marks the game as a loss anyway and even if you purchase it they won't replenish their stock. So many of the reasons why I woudn't steal don't apply to information freedom that piracy or theft doesn't even come close to describing it. The nature of the damage inflicted is a matter of personal opinion and the whole issue reaks so badly that it's opening a generation's eye's to the relationship between the law and justice.
Do you really want your kids to be learning to steal at age 10 and 13? Is it really that critical that they have the very latest game that they may play for 30 minutes and decide is crap?
As a twenty something adult with a teenage younger sibling I do question the moral value of allowing her access to free media, when it gets to easy and she doesn't seem to care about the people who put creativity into a title I feel a tinge of remorse.
But I know she gets to experience all the media she wants regardless of producers, costs, or anything else and I think there is something valuable about her access to any kind of information.
She recently picked up iTunes, at first I was disapointed but if she wants to spend money in a way which will make her life easier so much the better. I won't judge her for contributing to SONY, BMG or any of the other creativity destroying, crap promoting,and media INDUSTRY creating corperations, somehow they made it easier for her, it's the first time they've managed to do it and I commend them for it, me I'll stick with Tag and Rename.
The original Shinning force is my favorite game of all time.
It's a combination RPG and Turn based strategy that is just spectacular.
Pick up the rom and play until you get past the battle with the marionette. (About 3 hours) It's well worth a look, the music becomes captivating and the story is quite interesting though obviously a little simple.
"So... You ask what happens? What happens is you discover, even with the tools only a handful of people ever made *good* music. For every good one, there's thousands of crap mod files, crap flash animations, and now crap "machinima". Having cheap and easy tools can't make everyone a great animator anymore than the availability of cheap pencils and paper made everyone a great writer."
Ah but I have 20 megs of midi files:) They teh leet. I'm a bit depressed about how difficult it is to find well written free works of literature on the net, music is a bit easier but then there was napster. I think if p2p and #bookwarez weren't around we might see some improvement in this space but at the moment it is indeed stagnant.
As it stands there is no reason for someone with an internet connection to ever go without media (even a 56ker can get 12h of.rm anime a day). It's useful if you like things that are really obscure like post apocalyptic cyberpunk or furry stories or something but the quality is just too low to break into the mainstream.
Public ratings need to break out, I check imdb before watching a movie, usually the demographic breakdown gives you a pretty good idea of what the movie will be like.
Features like - "Which book does this remind you of." or "What genre is it." And an understanding of your peers can lead you to very interesting choices.
Doesn't this limit the programing languages that can be used to develop the code? I mean you can only include a finite number of compilers.
Also some code is massive but becomes tiny once compiled, doesn't that make no sense to include the source? What if someone wrote this firmware in Visual Basic (exageration but whatever) Linux has to miss out on it for that reason? Unfortunate.
Solution proposal from noob: Leave source online, don't include non-esential drivers with the distro.
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"I've always thought that Dell does not like to be a leader in technology, that they were a strong follower...But I didn't realize they were going to be dead last"
Retailers can't break designers.
The other way around is possible.
He can say what he wants, and let's hope dell goes down for someone with decent customer support.
Interesting days when retailers actually start to realize true quality in regards to PC hardware!
Never going to happen.
You installed Windows on a four CPU box?
*SMACK*
Ah the lengthen the installation cycle by removing the very tool most users use to find tools in the first place.
The integrated features of Outlook are so powerful that OSS doesn't have anything close. Don't ask the programmers ask the guys doing IT who will tell you, nothing microsoft does individually is increadible but you can't beat the suite.
Telling them to remove some of the most powerfully integrated features and thereby break their operating system's image as coming complete with everything you need is ridiculous.
I love Opera, I install it at web cafes. But trying to fight Microsoft in areas where people want things to "Just work" and "Be integrated" is not something the open source community is capable of.
In fact it seems like most of the OSS dev team is actively derogatory of the above chains of thought.
But are the duplicators reliable. Can I stick any CD(game)(audio)(data)/DVD(data)(game)(movie) in and expect it to copy?
:(
Or even give an error if it won't work?
With minimal effort?
How about a program to consolidate all my CD's onto DVDs? Such an obvious concept but once again left wanting
I think Msoft should allow pirated users to patch.
If technically savy enough to purchase a computer without a bundled OS and then to pirate a copy with a CD that passes initial checks then they are obviously a pretty savvy pirate.
Microsoft understands that pirates like gamers are a small but prolific group inside the computer community. I have influenced about 150 people (designed specs) in their computer purhcasing decisions and their Operating System desisions. Some of them could afford the MS tax others could not, I acted accordingly.
If Microsoft limits useability any further for this group they will be more likely to find open source alternatives and use their role as "computer nerds" to influence those around them.
Microsoft currently enjoys enormous sucess without badgering this 0.3% of the market and I think rocking the boat on this one might be quite costly.
Operating system piracy will never replace big box installation as the primary force for operating system distribution because formatting and installing a new OS is a terifying task for a new user. (Not as terrifying as choosing a Linux distro and feature set mind you but still) Also increasing CD security or required networking for use might be the change that pushes the term "evil empire" into the public consciousness.
I omitted GCC by accident. (first install ever, never figured out how we lost it, and it's impossible to install later)
But my point is that Linux suffers from a pretty serious level of bloat while many of the features that the common user would want are not implemented by default or not even included on any distro.
And new media formats are embraced not maligned.
You can't copywrite Mozart.
They copywrite the production, though there are free orchestral recordings of all the good stuff out there.
A P2P one :)
Taking the combined complaining power of the internet and using people to edit their peers work to create corperate quality blandness.
Musicians say they can't afford to privately pay for studio time which is why they need to sign with producers, offer a cheap form of production and B.M.G. will evaporate.
How come even wallmart can see the advantages of a $199 PC and no one has figured out that people will suffer an 8" screen and a p300 if you give us a $350 laptop with decent battery life (12).
Hell the thing can weight 4 pounds if you like, you are so close to gaining the lucrative PDA money pit market share, come on people!
AMD put some power at my price point and so did ATi... when someone does that I appreciate it. Computers are a little more expensive then they should be, most people who have bought a lot of hardware feel this pinch.
:(
When a company brings us a business model that offers performance/price metrics with a tinge of sanity how can we help but love them.
Now if AMD and Ati become the big players maybe they will monopoly price their processors too
Actually while you were sleeping DDR2 and DDR3 came out.
Also much of the RAM manufacturing was moved back to the west from Asia as prices there were being fixed.
After several lawsuits and DDR2 being scrapped as power hungry and inefficient DDR3 was drawn up with the major advantages being scalability to 2.x gighz (DDR) and a price of production several orders of magnitude cheaper than existing DDR.
there are some interesting articles over on CNET about the big box computer manufacturers fighting with memory makers.
Dual Core CPU... AMD is releasing them first Intel will likely follow. Basically imagine two processors inside your CPU able to run 2 processes or even two operating systems simultaneously.
After the Hyper-Threading fiasco and considering how relativly simple this is to implement it really is amazing it took this long.
I managed to install a 4 gig Redhat 8.1 with no Gcc so there you go.
I don't understand how research into DRM can lead to any kind of useful goal.
Some information needs to be free, some needs to be locked down. This sissy encryption stuff that fits in 1k is a waste of everyone's time. It hurts the uninformed keeping them that way.
Sigh I feel lazy about this issue too but someone should really make an effort to at least try and get the government to listen to reason on this one.
If some modicum of honesty is telling you not to steal, listen to it.
See when I look at someone's wallet I feel the urge not to steal when I look at a juicy ISO file I feel the urge to encourage the programmer to continue making more quality video games and show my respect for his skill.
When I go to a video game store I feel revulsion for the idea of paying a producer to bombard me with advertising and copy-protection thus making my life more difficult.
There are lots of alternatives. Wait till the game has been out a while and is in the bargin bins. Have your kids mow an extra lawn or two. Cook them dinner instead of taking them to McDonald's for a huge dose of fat. Subscribe to a gamer mag and get demos to the latest games on CD so they can try them out, have fun, and decide which games they REALLY want.
See this doesn't make sense either, playing games over and over again or missing out on questionable titles for no reason? If the game maker KNEW I wouldn't be able to buy his game he would gladly allow me to get it for free. Waiting till it hits the bargain bin doesn't really get the game makers any additional money as the retail channel marks the game as a loss anyway and even if you purchase it they won't replenish their stock.
So many of the reasons why I woudn't steal don't apply to information freedom that piracy or theft doesn't even come close to describing it. The nature of the damage inflicted is a matter of personal opinion and the whole issue reaks so badly that it's opening a generation's eye's to the relationship between the law and justice.
Do you really want your kids to be learning to steal at age 10 and 13? Is it really that critical that they have the very latest game that they may play for 30 minutes and decide is crap?
As a twenty something adult with a teenage younger sibling I do question the moral value of allowing her access to free media, when it gets to easy and she doesn't seem to care about the people who put creativity into a title I feel a tinge of remorse.
But I know she gets to experience all the media she wants regardless of producers, costs, or anything else and I think there is something valuable about her access to any kind of information.
She recently picked up iTunes, at first I was disapointed but if she wants to spend money in a way which will make her life easier so much the better. I won't judge her for contributing to SONY, BMG or any of the other creativity destroying, crap promoting,and media INDUSTRY creating corperations, somehow they made it easier for her, it's the first time they've managed to do it and I commend them for it, me I'll stick with Tag and Rename.
The original Shinning force is my favorite game of all time.
It's a combination RPG and Turn based strategy that is just spectacular.
Pick up the rom and play until you get past the battle with the marionette. (About 3 hours) It's well worth a look, the music becomes captivating and the story is quite interesting though obviously a little simple.
"So... You ask what happens? What happens is you discover, even with the tools only a handful of people ever made *good* music. For every good one, there's thousands of crap mod files, crap flash animations, and now crap "machinima". Having cheap and easy tools can't make everyone a great animator anymore than the availability of cheap pencils and paper made everyone a great writer." Ah but I have 20 megs of midi files :) They teh leet. I'm a bit depressed about how difficult it is to find well written free works of literature on the net, music is a bit easier but then there was napster. I think if p2p and #bookwarez weren't around we might see some improvement in this space but at the moment it is indeed stagnant.
.rm anime a day). It's useful if you like things that are really obscure like post apocalyptic cyberpunk or furry stories or something but the quality is just too low to break into the mainstream.
:(
As it stands there is no reason for someone with an internet connection to ever go without media (even a 56ker can get 12h of
Public ratings need to break out, I check imdb before watching a movie, usually the demographic breakdown gives you a pretty good idea of what the movie will be like.
Features like - "Which book does this remind you of." or "What genre is it." And an understanding of your peers can lead you to very interesting choices.
The stuff we pay for is breaking the free stuff
It's intentionally bad. The jokes are sometimes intentionally not funny. The political satire is often intentionally inane, with that in mind enjoy.
I was going to say you jokers pay for things ruining them for the rest of us.
You just crazy man.
Sorry if I'm a tech newbie but...
Doesn't this limit the programing languages that can be used to develop the code? I mean you can only include a finite number of compilers.
Also some code is massive but becomes tiny once compiled, doesn't that make no sense to include the source? What if someone wrote this firmware in Visual Basic (exageration but whatever) Linux has to miss out on it for that reason? Unfortunate.
Solution proposal from noob: Leave source online, don't include non-esential drivers with the distro.
Linux Zealots who think that one application is the best in every situation really aren't helping things :(
Ease of use requires one interface, windows offers that, situations which require ease of use require windows.
Wham, bam, thank you ma'am.
Or else Msoft will get their sh!# together and there will be no reason to ever switch.
Or blame the people for giving them their mandate?
Whether you blame the people for the policy or for not speaking out against it the results are the same.