I think it's possible but not going to happen. Linux needs to do something like Apple did with OSX. When you see an OSX screenshot or demo for the first time it's impressive, Linux doesn't accomplish the same thing. Apple is slowly going to take any marketshare Linux might have had on the desktop, simply because you gain things by running OSX, over Linux, and the reverse isn't really true (source code doesn't count for most people).
Linux needs to do more than improve to gain converts from Windows. Linux needs to offer something that looks really nifty to the average user, not just replicate Windows functionality. The Linux is cheaper argument doesn't work for the average home user either, as they don't generally see the cost of Windows (they either still have the OEM install or they pirate).
You know I think XP PA is going to look great compared to what I think may well be coming from MS. I think the next step is basically buying a new machine every time a new major release of Windows comes out. MS is already saying that the broswer needs to be tied to OS revisions, and down the line I wouldn't be suprised if they say they need to control exactly what hardware is in there for security purposes.
My fondly remembred "12 iBook took a hard fall straight down about 4 feet, it was closed at the time. Screen bezel snapped, screen frame snapped, palmrest cracked, and the inverter, which is glued to the inside of the screen bezel put two nice scratches on the LCD. I was not impressed with the durability of that machine, even though I loved it. I did manage to get most of those parts replaced, and then the backlight died, so I ebay'd it.
Nintendo has a similar problem to Apple. Apple still has a stigma of being a toy computer compnay, computers for morons and people who want to color coordinate their machine with the rug. That isn't really true anymore, but still when I tell non-geeks to look at Apple as an option for a new machine they look at me like I am crazy. Nintendo has the same type of issue, a lot of people think of their software and systems as a kiddy thing, and go buy a PS2 or XBOX. I have both a GCN and a PS2, and while I probably rent more games for the PS2 (more releases) the quality of the good ones for the GCN vs the quality of the good ones on the PS2 is much higher. Even the original SNES Mario Kart is far and away more fun (and for a longer period of time) than GTA/GTAVC.
So what, I can't kill whores in Mario Sunshine? At least that game is consistently fun, and well designed. GTA is a buggy mess that only sold well because of it's violence and nonlinear design, which made it accessible to a lot of people who otherwise wouldn't play games or buy an entertainment system.
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The interesting thing about most of the recent Ballmer/Gates interviews is the amount of time they spend talking about Linux. They say it's not a threat, and then proceed to talk about it the entire interview, or much of it.
I don't believe Linux is a threat to Windows on the desktop at all, but based on these interviews it must be at least in some capacity a threat on the server side of things.
is that they have a whole shitload of games that don't belong on a console. You can't play a FPS properly without a mouse. If MS would spend more time getting more games on the thing that lended themselves to consoles, they might do better.
No you are not, I hate it as well, at least the way it's implemented in IE. Give me the option of shrinking the image to fit, with the full size on displayed first, not the other way around.
Yeah, the legal hurdles occured to me several min after I hit submit. So I will just leave it at this, software patents/copyrights should last less time than other things. Software moves very fast, and in most (not all) cases 10 years after the fact most software isn't making anybody anything. So I think (and nobody cares what I think but...) software copyright and patents should expire after 10 years, at least for consumer software.
I think is that they are recycling much of the NES/SNES era stuff on the GBA. So I suppose they could have a valid argument that if ROMs keep floating around a GBA port won't sell. And lagally they are in the right as well. I don't happen to agree in many cases, but they are right.
One thing I'd like to see, but I doubt it will happen is Nintendo throwing the entire NES/SNES library on a GameCube disc for like $50-100, and you could play them all, just choose your game from a menu. That alone would make the 'cube worth purchasing.
Yeah, I thought that was the case as well. Doesn't Apple have the only Java implementation that doesn't spawn a new VM for each new app? I can't remember what the terminology for it was.
There was a Wired article (several years ago prior to Wired sucking) that suggested the reason DVD took off and Lastdisc never really did was that Phillips wouldn't let porn onto the format, and thus it didn't gain momentum with early adopters prior to much "real" content being available for the format. I think it's more likely that laserdiscs were huge, but it's interesting either way.
Isn't it something like OEM licenses are invalid for business use, so you have to buy a volume license or something? My work box came with XP, which was replaced with XP from our Select program, and didn't even use the product key on the box, used the volume license product key we have. So it seems at least where I work we paid twice(one pay as part of machine cost, once again for volume, and then there's that whole SA thing..)
Yeah, I am beginning to tire of it as well. Microsoft owns this computing paradigm like it or not. Nothing lasts forever, someday they will fall back, so lets just use our Linux boxes, keep MS at bay and either a) shut the fuck up or b) work on bringing on the next computing paradigm, whatever it may be.
I wish I had moderator points left, but I'll reply instead. That's the exact question I have been asking for a while. P2P is full of porn, but you never see Jenna Jameson on TV crying about the theft of her (publisher's??) copyrighted material. Maybe she should have a heart to heart with Britney...
When I signed up last year I was using my old phone pretty heavy, so I went with the 700 min plan. Now I use at best 150 a month. So I've got a ton of rollover. So yeah I should drop my plan down, but they'd charge me out the ass to do that so...
I have Cingular here in Nashville, TN. I am pretty happy with it. The rollover min alone make it better than most providers. In this area at least though the GSM network sucks, and doesn't work outside of about a 40-50 mile radius around the city. I had a Moto T720 for about two months, and between spotty coverage and that phone being a POS.. But Cingular/TDMA is great.
I think the biggest problem Linux would have as far as mass desktop acceptance would be with what I would call TechTV geeks. Those wannabe geeks that think if they just keep buying weird crap for their machine it'll make them know what the hell they are doing eventually. Those people won't use Linux a) because it removes them from what they think they know, and b) because their USB2 video capture toaster oven doesn't have drivers on Linux.
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I think it's possible but not going to happen. Linux needs to do something like Apple did with OSX. When you see an OSX screenshot or demo for the first time it's impressive, Linux doesn't accomplish the same thing. Apple is slowly going to take any marketshare Linux might have had on the desktop, simply because you gain things by running OSX, over Linux, and the reverse isn't really true (source code doesn't count for most people).
Linux needs to do more than improve to gain converts from Windows. Linux needs to offer something that looks really nifty to the average user, not just replicate Windows functionality. The Linux is cheaper argument doesn't work for the average home user either, as they don't generally see the cost of Windows (they either still have the OEM install or they pirate).
You know I think XP PA is going to look great compared to what I think may well be coming from MS. I think the next step is basically buying a new machine every time a new major release of Windows comes out. MS is already saying that the broswer needs to be tied to OS revisions, and down the line I wouldn't be suprised if they say they need to control exactly what hardware is in there for security purposes.
My fondly remembred "12 iBook took a hard fall straight down about 4 feet, it was closed at the time. Screen bezel snapped, screen frame snapped, palmrest cracked, and the inverter, which is glued to the inside of the screen bezel put two nice scratches on the LCD. I was not impressed with the durability of that machine, even though I loved it. I did manage to get most of those parts replaced, and then the backlight died, so I ebay'd it.
Nintendo has a similar problem to Apple. Apple still has a stigma of being a toy computer compnay, computers for morons and people who want to color coordinate their machine with the rug. That isn't really true anymore, but still when I tell non-geeks to look at Apple as an option for a new machine they look at me like I am crazy. Nintendo has the same type of issue, a lot of people think of their software and systems as a kiddy thing, and go buy a PS2 or XBOX. I have both a GCN and a PS2, and while I probably rent more games for the PS2 (more releases) the quality of the good ones for the GCN vs the quality of the good ones on the PS2 is much higher. Even the original SNES Mario Kart is far and away more fun (and for a longer period of time) than GTA/GTAVC.
So what, I can't kill whores in Mario Sunshine? At least that game is consistently fun, and well designed. GTA is a buggy mess that only sold well because of it's violence and nonlinear design, which made it accessible to a lot of people who otherwise wouldn't play games or buy an entertainment system.
The interesting thing about most of the recent Ballmer/Gates interviews is the amount of time they spend talking about Linux. They say it's not a threat, and then proceed to talk about it the entire interview, or much of it.
I don't believe Linux is a threat to Windows on the desktop at all, but based on these interviews it must be at least in some capacity a threat on the server side of things.
is that they have a whole shitload of games that don't belong on a console. You can't play a FPS properly without a mouse. If MS would spend more time getting more games on the thing that lended themselves to consoles, they might do better.
No you are not, I hate it as well, at least the way it's implemented in IE. Give me the option of shrinking the image to fit, with the full size on displayed first, not the other way around.
Yeah, the legal hurdles occured to me several min after I hit submit. So I will just leave it at this, software patents/copyrights should last less time than other things. Software moves very fast, and in most (not all) cases 10 years after the fact most software isn't making anybody anything. So I think (and nobody cares what I think but...) software copyright and patents should expire after 10 years, at least for consumer software.
Kicks the shit out of my the 2MB NeoMagic in my Thinkpad..
lagally == legally
I think is that they are recycling much of the NES/SNES era stuff on the GBA. So I suppose they could have a valid argument that if ROMs keep floating around a GBA port won't sell. And lagally they are in the right as well. I don't happen to agree in many cases, but they are right.
One thing I'd like to see, but I doubt it will happen is Nintendo throwing the entire NES/SNES library on a GameCube disc for like $50-100, and you could play them all, just choose your game from a menu. That alone would make the 'cube worth purchasing.
I am quite certain their is no blessed image, we have no stadards, it's a big mess.
I wish I could mod this up, but I can't so I salute you for a great post that should get modded up.
Yeah, I thought that was the case as well. Doesn't Apple have the only Java implementation that doesn't spawn a new VM for each new app? I can't remember what the terminology for it was.
Hey fuck you, it's not my decision. I think it's stupid too, but nobody gives a flying fuck what I think.
There was a Wired article (several years ago prior to Wired sucking) that suggested the reason DVD took off and Lastdisc never really did was that Phillips wouldn't let porn onto the format, and thus it didn't gain momentum with early adopters prior to much "real" content being available for the format. I think it's more likely that laserdiscs were huge, but it's interesting either way.
Isn't it something like OEM licenses are invalid for business use, so you have to buy a volume license or something? My work box came with XP, which was replaced with XP from our Select program, and didn't even use the product key on the box, used the volume license product key we have. So it seems at least where I work we paid twice(one pay as part of machine cost, once again for volume, and then there's that whole SA thing..)
Oh, there for a min I thought you were talking about my erection, and I was gonna say you're incorrect there, but then I got it...
Yeah, I am beginning to tire of it as well. Microsoft owns this computing paradigm like it or not. Nothing lasts forever, someday they will fall back, so lets just use our Linux boxes, keep MS at bay and either a) shut the fuck up or b) work on bringing on the next computing paradigm, whatever it may be.
Jenna has bad teeth dude...and Britney needs her vocal cords cut out.
I wish I had moderator points left, but I'll reply instead. That's the exact question I have been asking for a while. P2P is full of porn, but you never see Jenna Jameson on TV crying about the theft of her (publisher's??) copyrighted material. Maybe she should have a heart to heart with Britney...
When I signed up last year I was using my old phone pretty heavy, so I went with the 700 min plan. Now I use at best 150 a month. So I've got a ton of rollover. So yeah I should drop my plan down, but they'd charge me out the ass to do that so...
I have Cingular here in Nashville, TN. I am pretty happy with it. The rollover min alone make it better than most providers. In this area at least though the GSM network sucks, and doesn't work outside of about a 40-50 mile radius around the city. I had a Moto T720 for about two months, and between spotty coverage and that phone being a POS.. But Cingular/TDMA is great.
I think the biggest problem Linux would have as far as mass desktop acceptance would be with what I would call TechTV geeks. Those wannabe geeks that think if they just keep buying weird crap for their machine it'll make them know what the hell they are doing eventually. Those people won't use Linux a) because it removes them from what they think they know, and b) because their USB2 video capture toaster oven doesn't have drivers on Linux.