Read the link the GP included. Crotty is only speculating that Sony will lose money but Sony has turned a profit on PS2 hardware and their announcements for the PS3 indicate that they expect a profit there as well.
I expect you probably posted your comment without reading the numberless comments above explaining that only MS loses money consistently on their hardware.
It could fit well enough. I haven't looked at which songs are included.
I use a rule of thumb of about !M a minute for mp3's at 128 kbps. (128 / 8 * 60 = 960). If the tracks are on average 4 minutes long then it will fill 116MB leaving 12MB for extra content.
I'm sure this back-of-an-envelope math is somewhat off but it shows that there is plenty of space to fit 29 songs at a decent bit rate.
When you say "software support" are you talking about a lack of professional support for the software or a lack of software packages to do what you want?
If it is the latter what applications do you need that don't have some equivalent that runs in Linux?
I'm only an ammature Linux user and I don't do any gaming but I have yet to come across a function I was not able to perform with software that was already included in my Suse 9.3 distribution. The only exception was Lotus Notes but it seems to run better under wine than it did in Windows.
I suppose you could look at it that way as it has gained in popularity recently.
Lets not forget that it has still lost Microsoft $7 billion over the last four years. It hasn't done well for them and probably won't for a few years.
I'm considering buying one to put Linux on and never buying any games. Its a good deal for the hardware and I'd like to do my little part in costing MS $75 or whatever it is.
Caps lock is used extensively by people who have been taught to type.
That statement seems a bit too condesending to me. I've was taught how to type in junior high and I never use the Caps lock key. Are you referring to some sort of professional typist training I'm not aware of?
What is it about "people who have been taught to type" that makes them need uppercase letters so much more frequently than people who "taught themselves to type"?
Do you really want the car to stall when your child drives into some seedy forbidden neighborhood?
How long until my car decides I am driving to fast, and calls the police to mail me a ticket.
...
And imagine how many more tickets they will need to write
You seem to be a little paranoid about speeding tickets? Perhaps you have a speeding problem? I'm signing you up with your local police speeding ticket subscription plan!
It's when idealism meets reality... that IT staff go with Windows.
Do you mean that IT staff only go with Windows because they won't get paid otherwise?
I agree that if the only work I could find was working with Windows that's what I would be doing.
If an IT manager is hard pressed to attract new talent perhaps it would be in the best interest of the company to offer a job where the employee can work with ideals and get paid.
And you're not going to talk to "operations" to find out what the best tools for the job are?
What are you planning on doing then- read a trade magazine or discuss it with the very impartial vendor over a game of golf?
Part of the "right tool for the job" is what your operations staff is able to work with. A CTO who makes a decision like that without taking into account the skills of his it staff or even their opinions is going to waste a lot of money on rehiring and retraining.
When a pool is filled to capacity a life guard would have to be looking right at her to notice her slip under. Once underwater it is unlikely that she would be noticed be someone above water- especially with all the movement going on.
In my opinion the advantage of the system is not just another set of eyes (that never get tired). But a set of eyes underwater where it would be difficult for even the most attentive life guard to see.
"A program called Linux"
So now, the kernel of a lot of distributions is just a program...
It makes sense if you think of the word "program" in this context doesn't mean "executable" but rather a system as in "Buy my miraculous 5-day weightloss program!"
Sounds to me like you're an extrovert since you honestly seem to believe that there are lots os suitable friends out there.
There probably are a lot of suitable friends for you out there, but, as you said, they would be introverts so you would be unlikely to meet one another.
I don't enjoy interacting with crude, boisterous, (or overly sportsy) people either but I don't have any trouble making friends at work or even with neighbors. Give people some credit- most people are likeable. Only a small portion are really obnoxious.
I don't have anything but anecdotal evidence- my own experience and that of my friends.
About 5 of us graduated at the same time with CS degrees. All of us had job offers months before graduation. One of my friends had 5 good offers to decide between.
The offer that I ended up taking paid significantly more than I was expecting out of college. The best part of it is that none of us had to comprimise and do Cold Fusion programming.
I think that it is important to be concerned about your job. We should have to work hard and keep up to date in your field. I think its appropriate that CS is like every other profession in that regard now. It is possible to be creative at whatever job you are doing- even if you end up coding business apps- but in the end you have to make a profit for the company so they can afford to keep paying you.
I read everywhere (especially slashdot) how impossible it is to find work in IT anymore but my own experience suggest that isn't the case. There are jobs- you just have to be willing to look for them and move to where they are if necessary.
I am annoyed with agressive marketing of any sort. I almost never see any ads anymore. I throw away paper-junk mail without reading it, I use my tivo to kindly strip out tv ads, firefox blocks 99.9% of web ads for me, and I can easily enough ignore the billboards I pass on the way to work.
When I've decided that there is a particular product that I need I will do the research and compare different competitors. Admittedly doing this I read content that is designed to sell the product but anything ad-like won't impress me. I look for more technical descriptions.
I don't know how most people operate on the web (I assume most don't hate all ads like I do) but cookies don't fit the way I intend to shop.
I've always wondered about that. It almost seems like there is a conflict of interests of sorts.
Those companies are some of the major contributors towards the advancement of the usability of Linux but they make their money supporting it. Wouldn't it make them more money if Linux were fast, stable, effective, and impossible to figure out on your own. Customers would want to use it and would need to pay for support.
So why doesn't it work that way? Is it just the ethics of the companies involved or is there some market force that I don't see that keeps them honest?
During the install, the screen would go blank and nothing would happen. I solved this by using the following install line at the boot prompt:
linux vga=771
I have a desktop and a server that I run linux on but this is exactly the kind of thing that drives me crazy! It went amazingly smoothly except that it locked up and was unrecoverable with no error on installation!!!!! How is that smooth in any way! How long would have taken a novice to find the line 'linux vga=771' using a friend's computer in some obscure mailing list?
My third computer is in the kitchen. It connects to my wireless network. After months of intense frustration trying to get my wireless card to work in FC3 I found out that I had to recompile the kernel to get it to work. By then I was done- I formatted the hard drive and installed winXP (and SP2). Everything worked right away. Every single obscure piece of cheap hardware worked with the default install.
I love the concept of open source software and the power of linux but until things work without days of research there is no point talking about how much "cheaper" it is than windows.
If you were joking about the "I was amazed at how slick it went." comment then please accept my appology for this rant.
I agree with you. The true advantage of FF is that it is written by people who want a browser that does what they want - not by people trying to enforce some strategy to make a profit.
An open source project could be weakened by a lack of interest but it can't ever really be killed as long as there still one person working on it. And as soon as the dominant, proprietary solution becomes inadequate there will be interest in the open source project again.
the general public doesn't necessarily want to support Independent Music, because it isn't what they hear on the radio
Actually, in my case at least, the reason that I gave up trying to listen to independent music was that about 80% of the songs I listened to were completely unappealing to me. At least with the radio someone has filtered out the universally bad music and tried to catagorize what was left.
I experimented with iRate for a while and found that only about 1 in 5 songs was worth keeping on my drive and then only 1 in 5 of those were truly good. I'm sick of wading through obnoxious new age techno and those silly girls that sing celtic music to find one good song.
At least with the radio I can expect to like 1 in 3 songs that are played.
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It runs just fine for me under wine. I know that isn't what you were asking.
I just get excited when I actually get something working under wine.
I expect you probably posted your comment without reading the numberless comments above explaining that only MS loses money consistently on their hardware.
I use a rule of thumb of about !M a minute for mp3's at 128 kbps. (128 / 8 * 60 = 960). If the tracks are on average 4 minutes long then it will fill 116MB leaving 12MB for extra content.
I'm sure this back-of-an-envelope math is somewhat off but it shows that there is plenty of space to fit 29 songs at a decent bit rate.
Or a job.
If it is the latter what applications do you need that don't have some equivalent that runs in Linux?
I'm only an ammature Linux user and I don't do any gaming but I have yet to come across a function I was not able to perform with software that was already included in my Suse 9.3 distribution. The only exception was Lotus Notes but it seems to run better under wine than it did in Windows.
I'm legitimately curious what is missing for you.
I suppose you could look at it that way as it has gained in popularity recently.
Lets not forget that it has still lost Microsoft $7 billion over the last four years. It hasn't done well for them and probably won't for a few years.
I'm considering buying one to put Linux on and never buying any games. Its a good deal for the hardware and I'd like to do my little part in costing MS $75 or whatever it is.
I was under the impression that the people that were technically breaking the law and being sued were those distributing pirated material.
Of course its probably a moot point considering most P2P programs are designed to do both.
From your response to a sibling I see you meant "on a typewriter".
I appologize for my ignorant rant.
That statement seems a bit too condesending to me. I've was taught how to type in junior high and I never use the Caps lock key. Are you referring to some sort of professional typist training I'm not aware of?
What is it about "people who have been taught to type" that makes them need uppercase letters so much more frequently than people who "taught themselves to type"?
You mean people that call India on a regular basis?
The reason most people use Skype is because it is much cheaper to many destinations.
The earlier article is about how they were awarded the patent. This article is about them starting to try and enforce it.
There is no dupe here. Save your complaints for an article a few hours in the future when I'm sure they'll be more justified.
Do you really want the car to stall when your child drives into some seedy forbidden neighborhood?
You seem to be a little paranoid about speeding tickets? Perhaps you have a speeding problem? I'm signing you up with your local police speeding ticket subscription plan!
Additionally I don't really care about the news anyway. I come here for the discussion.
Do you mean that IT staff only go with Windows because they won't get paid otherwise?
I agree that if the only work I could find was working with Windows that's what I would be doing.
If an IT manager is hard pressed to attract new talent perhaps it would be in the best interest of the company to offer a job where the employee can work with ideals and get paid.
What are you planning on doing then- read a trade magazine or discuss it with the very impartial vendor over a game of golf?
Part of the "right tool for the job" is what your operations staff is able to work with. A CTO who makes a decision like that without taking into account the skills of his it staff or even their opinions is going to waste a lot of money on rehiring and retraining.
When a pool is filled to capacity a life guard would have to be looking right at her to notice her slip under. Once underwater it is unlikely that she would be noticed be someone above water- especially with all the movement going on.
In my opinion the advantage of the system is not just another set of eyes (that never get tired). But a set of eyes underwater where it would be difficult for even the most attentive life guard to see.
It makes sense if you think of the word "program" in this context doesn't mean "executable" but rather a system as in "Buy my miraculous 5-day weightloss program!"
There probably are a lot of suitable friends for you out there, but, as you said, they would be introverts so you would be unlikely to meet one another.
I don't enjoy interacting with crude, boisterous, (or overly sportsy) people either but I don't have any trouble making friends at work or even with neighbors. Give people some credit- most people are likeable. Only a small portion are really obnoxious.
About 5 of us graduated at the same time with CS degrees. All of us had job offers months before graduation. One of my friends had 5 good offers to decide between.
The offer that I ended up taking paid significantly more than I was expecting out of college. The best part of it is that none of us had to comprimise and do Cold Fusion programming.
I think that it is important to be concerned about your job. We should have to work hard and keep up to date in your field. I think its appropriate that CS is like every other profession in that regard now. It is possible to be creative at whatever job you are doing- even if you end up coding business apps- but in the end you have to make a profit for the company so they can afford to keep paying you.
I read everywhere (especially slashdot) how impossible it is to find work in IT anymore but my own experience suggest that isn't the case. There are jobs- you just have to be willing to look for them and move to where they are if necessary.
When I've decided that there is a particular product that I need I will do the research and compare different competitors. Admittedly doing this I read content that is designed to sell the product but anything ad-like won't impress me. I look for more technical descriptions.
I don't know how most people operate on the web (I assume most don't hate all ads like I do) but cookies don't fit the way I intend to shop.
Those companies are some of the major contributors towards the advancement of the usability of Linux but they make their money supporting it. Wouldn't it make them more money if Linux were fast, stable, effective, and impossible to figure out on your own. Customers would want to use it and would need to pay for support.
So why doesn't it work that way? Is it just the ethics of the companies involved or is there some market force that I don't see that keeps them honest?
I have a desktop and a server that I run linux on but this is exactly the kind of thing that drives me crazy! It went amazingly smoothly except that it locked up and was unrecoverable with no error on installation!!!!! How is that smooth in any way! How long would have taken a novice to find the line 'linux vga=771' using a friend's computer in some obscure mailing list?
My third computer is in the kitchen. It connects to my wireless network. After months of intense frustration trying to get my wireless card to work in FC3 I found out that I had to recompile the kernel to get it to work. By then I was done- I formatted the hard drive and installed winXP (and SP2). Everything worked right away. Every single obscure piece of cheap hardware worked with the default install.
I love the concept of open source software and the power of linux but until things work without days of research there is no point talking about how much "cheaper" it is than windows.
If you were joking about the "I was amazed at how slick it went." comment then please accept my appology for this rant.
Elmendorf AFB, Ak
Tinker AFB, Ok
I assume both of these bases have sensitive strategic value but you can almost make out people on the flight lines.
An open source project could be weakened by a lack of interest but it can't ever really be killed as long as there still one person working on it. And as soon as the dominant, proprietary solution becomes inadequate there will be interest in the open source project again.
I experimented with iRate for a while and found that only about 1 in 5 songs was worth keeping on my drive and then only 1 in 5 of those were truly good. I'm sick of wading through obnoxious new age techno and those silly girls that sing celtic music to find one good song.
At least with the radio I can expect to like 1 in 3 songs that are played.