Now that Linux installers have improved so much, one of the biggest deterrents seems to be the software. I think there's ton's of good stuff, with many choices...but it can be overwhelming to a new user. If joe user is exposed to OSS software on the Windows platform, he'd be more accepting of it when trying Linux.
I don't know what killer app joe users going to find in KDE that will convince him to take the leap anyway. Firefox and OpenOffice would be good examples if they weren't already available to the win32 platform.
Myself, I'm still waiting for a decent 3d video driver.
You're quite right. It's gotten so prevalent in the games that I'm not as shocked as I used to be, but I should. Things like that shouldn't be left alone.
They sound like kids, but I have a bad feeling a lot of the players you're talking about are more into the 20-40 age group. I'm all for anonymous, free speech, but I do see the downside to it in this context. All you can really do is stop playing or frag the h*ll out of them.
I think it's stupid too, but I do see their motivation. Right now, a device like this is $27,000.00. Think about how much cheaper hard drives have gotten over the last 5-10 years. In another 5 years, our desktops will have the same storage capacity and devices like this could be sold at much more affordable prices. I don't think someone with $27,000 would bother pirating movies, but if you make the device $200-$300...well, I'd be off to Blockbuster myself:)
No kidding...I've got a couple of hundred on demand for only the cost of some spare hardware and a couple of hundred in drives. Although, if I could justify a plasma, I'd probably notice the compression.
A friend of mine is dealing with a "fraudulent click" right now. The way the ads work is that you get charged every time someone clicks on your ad. A competitor in his area was clicking the ad over and over again, racking up hundreds of dollars and eventually knocking his site (ad budget ran out for the month) off the results. Competitors bid for keywords....If I bid $3 for keyword and someone else bids $2.99, my ad would show up first. If they wanted first place and didn't want to over bid me...they could click on my ads over and over until I ran out of money. It would seem fairly trivial to block charges from the same IP address (ignoring proxies), but Google doesn't do this by default. You have to go through a long process, filling out complaints, waiting for them to do nothing.
If you're still around...what platform/software are you using to stream ATI's AIW over the internet?? I'm guessing with an ATI, you're not using a NIX. Anyway, I'm aware of ATI's bundled software that can share the EASYVIEW over a LAN, but what do you use over the internet? WMP encoder?
Snapstream's Beyond TV server is kind of like this. You can log on anywhere with an interenet connection and view live streams from your home PC's tv-tuner card. It will only stream mpeg2, but you can also access recorded shows (can encode in divx or whatever you want). The quality might not be as high, but it looks like a cheap alternative. There are other options for streaming Live TV from your home pc that I've been playing around with, but with Snapstream, you can change channels much easier from remote locations. It's not exactly the same, but you can get your local cable from remote locations. $100 vs. $6500??
Has anyone tested this out yet? I'd be interested in how it compares with Meedio, WMCE, Sage TV, Snapstream, etc... I guess I'll have to wait until I get home.
I used myHTPC for a while and it worked pretty good. They moved to a commercial project called Meedio (probably worth the money when they get the TV tuner working), but I've been looking for other solutions.
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In Soviet Russia, Korea jokes you.
Now that Linux installers have improved so much, one of the biggest deterrents seems to be the software. I think there's ton's of good stuff, with many choices...but it can be overwhelming to a new user. If joe user is exposed to OSS software on the Windows platform, he'd be more accepting of it when trying Linux.
I don't know what killer app joe users going to find in KDE that will convince him to take the leap anyway. Firefox and OpenOffice would be good examples if they weren't already available to the win32 platform.
Myself, I'm still waiting for a decent 3d video driver.
If that ad really bugs you, just download a cam version of the movie...they usually edit out the commercials.
From what I've heard, there are no members of the TOH...it's all this Sollog guy.
You're quite right. It's gotten so prevalent in the games that I'm not as shocked as I used to be, but I should. Things like that shouldn't be left alone.
They sound like kids, but I have a bad feeling a lot of the players you're talking about are more into the 20-40 age group. I'm all for anonymous, free speech, but I do see the downside to it in this context. All you can really do is stop playing or frag the h*ll out of them.
sorry:
"I don't think someone with $27,000 would "
should have read
"I don't think someone with $27,000 for a dvd player would"
I think it's stupid too, but I do see their motivation. Right now, a device like this is $27,000.00. Think about how much cheaper hard drives have gotten over the last 5-10 years. In another 5 years, our desktops will have the same storage capacity and devices like this could be sold at much more affordable prices. I don't think someone with $27,000 would bother pirating movies, but if you make the device $200-$300...well, I'd be off to Blockbuster myself :)
No kidding...I've got a couple of hundred on demand for only the cost of some spare hardware and a couple of hundred in drives. Although, if I could justify a plasma, I'd probably notice the compression.
I actually just got 4 or 5 copies of the Bill Gates chain letter the other day. What is that, like 5 years old?
"there's seems to be no dissesion among them"
I think they ran over all of the dissenters with tanks.
"Taiwan, interpreted by processors and motherboard made in China, seen on a monitor made in China...
Maybe the simplest reason for not going to war with China is that without Chinese goods we wouldnt have anything to fight with. "
Are you talking about war or a video game??
They are one of our biggest trading partners.
This is the only place in the world where a video game can be described as a physical activity. /wish a had a mind controller for CS
You better hope they accept email, cause that's going to run you around $89,000.00 in postage.
If I find out that this was why Sliders was canceled, why I'll.....
RTFA :) It actually looks pretty cool, the software is looking through the actual handwritten pages.
lol
A friend of mine is dealing with a "fraudulent click" right now. The way the ads work is that you get charged every time someone clicks on your ad. A competitor in his area was clicking the ad over and over again, racking up hundreds of dollars and eventually knocking his site (ad budget ran out for the month) off the results. Competitors bid for keywords....If I bid $3 for keyword and someone else bids $2.99, my ad would show up first. If they wanted first place and didn't want to over bid me...they could click on my ads over and over until I ran out of money. It would seem fairly trivial to block charges from the same IP address (ignoring proxies), but Google doesn't do this by default. You have to go through a long process, filling out complaints, waiting for them to do nothing.
If you're still around...what platform/software are you using to stream ATI's AIW over the internet?? I'm guessing with an ATI, you're not using a NIX. Anyway, I'm aware of ATI's bundled software that can share the EASYVIEW over a LAN, but what do you use over the internet? WMP encoder?
Who wants to bet on how long it takes for a worm to spread around and redirect this screensaver to non-spam targets?
Snapstream's Beyond TV server is kind of like this. You can log on anywhere with an interenet connection and view live streams from your home PC's tv-tuner card. It will only stream mpeg2, but you can also access recorded shows (can encode in divx or whatever you want). The quality might not be as high, but it looks like a cheap alternative. There are other options for streaming Live TV from your home pc that I've been playing around with, but with Snapstream, you can change channels much easier from remote locations. It's not exactly the same, but you can get your local cable from remote locations. $100 vs. $6500??
Has anyone tested this out yet? I'd be interested in how it compares with Meedio, WMCE, Sage TV, Snapstream, etc... I guess I'll have to wait until I get home.
I used myHTPC for a while and it worked pretty good. They moved to a commercial project called Meedio (probably worth the money when they get the TV tuner working), but I've been looking for other solutions.
The project is at SourceForge if you guys want to give maxconsole a break.
Are the first and third somehow related?