The NEXTEL-style two way radio feature is by far the most obnoxious thing ever invented for a mobile phone for consumers. Now not only do you have to listen to one person talking too loud, you get to hear both people talking, with annoying beeps in between! Ever have the pleasure of being on the train with one of these people?
BEEP!
YOU THERE?
BEEP!
WHERE YOU AT?
BEEP!
THE TRAIN!
BEEP!
WHERE?
BEEP!
THE TRAIN!!!
BEEP!
OH, THE TRAIN!
ARRRRGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
And now, Verizon, Sprint, and Cingular are going to introduce it...
Why hasn't Linux become the choice alternative to Microsoft at home? One simple reason: usability.
The reason people whine and complain about Windows and yet continue to use it is because it's easy to get things done on. You don't need a lot of tech knowledge to do some of the most mundane tasks on Windows or MacOS like you do on Linux. Who wants to edit a bunch of text files and deal with annoying permissions to change something that would take two seconds and a few clicks in another operating system? The average home user does not understand nor wish to understand "security issues", which in my opinion are over-used and mostly a burden in most of today's Linux flavors.
The two hopes (IMHO) for making Linux a great alternative to Windows is Mandrake, and most recently Ark Linux. They seem to be focusing on usability. In fact, Ark's goal is to be a "Desktop OS". I am typing this now on my Ark install (still in alpha, btw) and I've loved it since I first put it on here. Why? Because it's productive. Because it just works. Because I don't have to be a pseudo system administrator to use my home PC.
In order to succeed in a desktop market, that's what Linux needs to be: a desktop OS.
-Dej, Linux user of 6 years off and on until I found Ark;)
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the new cooper mini s has a built in "audio jack" up front in the car. you can plug anything with an audio out in with the appropriate cable from the shack or wherever.
this thing practically landed in my back yard! my roommate and my girlfriend were eating dinner and i saw the flash out the balcony door; just figured it was lightning. then i got the tribune the next day and i was like holy mother! crazyness...
64-bit software development is a great idea. however, there is too much of a rush on things right now from most commercial vendors. the technology simply isn't developed enough yet. don't expect games or most other software to take advantage of the 64-bit revolution until the platform is more established. of course by the time some vendors *cough* M$ *cough* get the hang of it, we'll probably be developing 128-bit chips;)
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There's a new version of the Shear Thickening Fluid armor that's due to be released soon, dubbed the "Ultra" version, or STFU.
BEEP!
YOU THERE?
BEEP!
WHERE YOU AT?
BEEP!
THE TRAIN!
BEEP!
WHERE?
BEEP!
THE TRAIN!!!
BEEP!
OH, THE TRAIN!
ARRRRGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
And now, Verizon, Sprint, and Cingular are going to introduce it...
Why hasn't Linux become the choice alternative to Microsoft at home? One simple reason: usability.
The reason people whine and complain about Windows and yet continue to use it is because it's easy to get things done on. You don't need a lot of tech knowledge to do some of the most mundane tasks on Windows or MacOS like you do on Linux. Who wants to edit a bunch of text files and deal with annoying permissions to change something that would take two seconds and a few clicks in another operating system? The average home user does not understand nor wish to understand "security issues", which in my opinion are over-used and mostly a burden in most of today's Linux flavors.
The two hopes (IMHO) for making Linux a great alternative to Windows is Mandrake, and most recently Ark Linux. They seem to be focusing on usability. In fact, Ark's goal is to be a "Desktop OS". I am typing this now on my Ark install (still in alpha, btw) and I've loved it since I first put it on here. Why? Because it's productive. Because it just works. Because I don't have to be a pseudo system administrator to use my home PC.
In order to succeed in a desktop market, that's what Linux needs to be: a desktop OS.
-Dej, Linux user of 6 years off and on until I found Ark;)
the new cooper mini s has a built in "audio jack" up front in the car. you can plug anything with an audio out in with the appropriate cable from the shack or wherever.
this thing practically landed in my back yard! my roommate and my girlfriend were eating dinner and i saw the flash out the balcony door; just figured it was lightning. then i got the tribune the next day and i was like holy mother! crazyness...
64-bit software development is a great idea. however, there is too much of a rush on things right now from most commercial vendors. the technology simply isn't developed enough yet. don't expect games or most other software to take advantage of the 64-bit revolution until the platform is more established. of course by the time some vendors *cough* M$ *cough* get the hang of it, we'll probably be developing 128-bit chips;)