Once 10% or more of CONSUMERS start running Linux, games will be published for it. The larger the market share, the more games that will be published. Heck, 10% might not even be enough.
I also think that systems like TransGaming are a real bad idea. They give gaming authors an excuse NOT to publish to Linux. They know someone else will get it to work.
It's like the Black people who supported Jim Crow laws by willingly sitting in the back of the bus. Linux should not be a treated as a second class citizen. We should demand real gaming support from publishers and nothing less.
Art is any piece of crap created by an "artist." I realise the definition is circular, but it's the best definition there is. Think about it, when I crap, it's not art. But when an "artist" craps on a cross, it's art.
Thus, if the program used by the computer to create the crap, was itself created by an artist, then it's art. If it was created by anyone else, it's not.
Luckly for the programer, it's quite easy to claim to be an artist, because no objective talent is required.
All the computers where I work have unique numbers clearly marked on them, e.g., nt4039.
I thought those numbers were for identification purposes. Until I had a minor problem with my W2K computer and needed an administrative password. I called the IT department and asked for a password. I was told to use the one on the computer. I replied, what password? And you've guessed it, it's the id number.
Yeah, I've already admitted I'm wrong on this point. When I get home I'm going to have to look into why my firewire drive is slow. It's not REAL slow. But it's noticeably slower than either a SATA or IDE connection.
I agree, I don't see a difference between blogs and those awful personal webpages from the 90s. Sure, some are interesting, but the overwhelming majority are NOT.
The writer holds the copyright unless he or she agreed otherwise. The blogger doesn't have to intend to agree. The agreement could be a part of some click-through licensing screen which the blogger never bothered to read but clicked "yes" or "ok" on anyway.
Mmm... maybe my external firewire drive is set up improperly. Copying from one internal drive to another is faster than copying to or from my external.
I didn't mean to imply that external firewire hard drives wouldn't work. You're right, they'd certainly work. I would just find it annoying. I'm of the opinion that faster is always better. Uncompressed DV files are huge. I get about 12 gigs for one one-hour tape.
I think the Mini would be great for students to learn video editing.
Here is how bad it is in my area. I work for an elected official in a BIG GM town. He can only buy GM vehicles. If the unions ever found out he owned a non-GM vehicle, he'd have to kiss their endorsement good-bye. He's actually looking forward to retirement so he can finally buy a car he really wants.
I get your point that company employees are only subsets of a larger population. But I don't see anything inherent in the iPod to compel Microsoft serfs to buy anything else.
Now I'd certainly see it differently IF Microsoft actually sold its own portable music player, instead of licensing it out. For example, I'd be shocked to learn that there are more PS2s on the Microsoft campus than Xboxes.
But because Microsoft only makes portable music players perhipherally, I don't see anything to cause Microsoft employees to buy them. It's not like Microsoft makes anyone money on them. We all know that Microsoft makes the vast majority of its money on Office and Windows.
Sorry, you picked a bad analogy again. I live right in the middle of the wasteland formerly known as the motor city. Where I live if you work for GM (for example) and buy some other companies' car, it will get keyed, dented, or worse. It's actually getting better. There once was a time when ANY Japanese car found in a GM parking lot would automatically be towed away, regardless of who owned it.
I do see your point, however. I just don't see the iPod as being less geeky than any other music player.
Keyboards?! That sucks. I was hoping since he speaks Swedish that he'd take the band in a more of Hellacopters styled direction. Punk rock is cool, but it's getting kind of old.
Here's a tip. An argument by analogy MUST be analogous.
The Pepsi campus sells Pepsi and NO Coke. (Actually, I'd guess they practically give it away.)
The Microsoft campus sells absolutely NO portable music players. Any portable music player brought onto the Microsoft campus necessarily had to be bought off campus. And I'll say it again, since the iPod is the best selling portable music player in the world, why is it surprising that it is also the best seller in the Seattle area?! Is it news that iPod is the best selling portable music player in Dallas Texas?
"Anti Patent Attack" were one of my favorite DC straight-edge bands from the 80s. I saw them warm up for Fugazi and they ROCKED! Does anyone know what instrument Torvalds even plays?!
First of all, it takes about five minutes to install a PCI card. That is not a "whole bunch of time." Second, it does not save a "few" extra dollars, the RadioShark costs TWICE as much and lacks PVR features. You're paying twice as much for a lot less features.
It takes FIVE mintues to install a PCI card! Five frigging minutes. With the Winfast you'd pay half as much AND get a PVR at the same time! Is that five minutes really worth that?
I'll ask it again, why is ignorance so important to you? You seem to have a low opinion of Cleetus, but at least he has the brains to fix something.
Sure, it takes more time to install. About five minutes more. How long does it take you to put in a PCI card?
And it does have radio "PVR" features. I have three of them. I know.
And who says the WinFast only records over the air? I records cable too? Where are you getting your wacky information?!
And I'll say it again until you refute it, if you're an adult, and if you can read, and of you can use a screw driver, you can install a PCI card. IT IS NOT HARD! It has nothing to do with my abilities, it's simply easy to do.
Paying someone to change your oil is different from the present cicumstance. The RadioShark costs twice as much and lacks PVR features. While quick oil-change places cost about as much as it would to do it yourself. They work entirely on volume.
I didn't gloss over anything. I'll say it again, any adult who can read and use a screw driver COULD install a PCI card. It's just that they choose not to. They'd rather pay twice as much for less features.
Why do you find such virtue in ignorance?! And do you actually consider your self imposed ignorance any reason to spend more money for less product? Very sad.
You can choose ignorance if you'd like, most consumers do nowadays. You must feel really comfortable in the blissfully ignorant bandwagon.
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Once 10% or more of CONSUMERS start running Linux, games will be published for it. The larger the market share, the more games that will be published. Heck, 10% might not even be enough.
I also think that systems like TransGaming are a real bad idea. They give gaming authors an excuse NOT to publish to Linux. They know someone else will get it to work.
It's like the Black people who supported Jim Crow laws by willingly sitting in the back of the bus. Linux should not be a treated as a second class citizen. We should demand real gaming support from publishers and nothing less.
Art is any piece of crap created by an "artist." I realise the definition is circular, but it's the best definition there is. Think about it, when I crap, it's not art. But when an "artist" craps on a cross, it's art.
Thus, if the program used by the computer to create the crap, was itself created by an artist, then it's art. If it was created by anyone else, it's not.
Luckly for the programer, it's quite easy to claim to be an artist, because no objective talent is required.
All the computers where I work have unique numbers clearly marked on them, e.g., nt4039.
I thought those numbers were for identification purposes. Until I had a minor problem with my W2K computer and needed an administrative password. I called the IT department and asked for a password. I was told to use the one on the computer. I replied, what password? And you've guessed it, it's the id number.
Nope, no apology needed. It appears I screwed up and I just wanted that clear.
Yeah, I've already admitted I'm wrong on this point. When I get home I'm going to have to look into why my firewire drive is slow. It's not REAL slow. But it's noticeably slower than either a SATA or IDE connection.
You Mac-heads think you're so special... with your modern near-perfect OS, great sense of style, and a wonderful ease of use. You suck!
I agree, I don't see a difference between blogs and those awful personal webpages from the 90s. Sure, some are interesting, but the overwhelming majority are NOT.
The writer holds the copyright unless he or she agreed otherwise. The blogger doesn't have to intend to agree. The agreement could be a part of some click-through licensing screen which the blogger never bothered to read but clicked "yes" or "ok" on anyway.
Mmm... maybe my external firewire drive is set up improperly. Copying from one internal drive to another is faster than copying to or from my external.
I didn't mean to imply that external firewire hard drives wouldn't work. You're right, they'd certainly work. I would just find it annoying. I'm of the opinion that faster is always better. Uncompressed DV files are huge. I get about 12 gigs for one one-hour tape.
I think the Mini would be great for students to learn video editing.
Heck, I used to do firewire/DV editing on an old 550MHz PIII with a half gig of ram. It did have a RAID-0 drive, but I doubt if that helped that much.
The only problem I see with using the Mini for video editing are the small hard drives. External Firewire drives are still pretty slow.
No, if DeNiro showed up, he'd already be in Brazil.
Here is how bad it is in my area. I work for an elected official in a BIG GM town. He can only buy GM vehicles. If the unions ever found out he owned a non-GM vehicle, he'd have to kiss their endorsement good-bye. He's actually looking forward to retirement so he can finally buy a car he really wants.
I get your point that company employees are only subsets of a larger population. But I don't see anything inherent in the iPod to compel Microsoft serfs to buy anything else.
Now I'd certainly see it differently IF Microsoft actually sold its own portable music player, instead of licensing it out. For example, I'd be shocked to learn that there are more PS2s on the Microsoft campus than Xboxes.
But because Microsoft only makes portable music players perhipherally, I don't see anything to cause Microsoft employees to buy them. It's not like Microsoft makes anyone money on them. We all know that Microsoft makes the vast majority of its money on Office and Windows.
Sorry, you picked a bad analogy again. I live right in the middle of the wasteland formerly known as the motor city. Where I live if you work for GM (for example) and buy some other companies' car, it will get keyed, dented, or worse. It's actually getting better. There once was a time when ANY Japanese car found in a GM parking lot would automatically be towed away, regardless of who owned it.
I do see your point, however. I just don't see the iPod as being less geeky than any other music player.
Keyboards?! That sucks. I was hoping since he speaks Swedish that he'd take the band in a more of Hellacopters styled direction. Punk rock is cool, but it's getting kind of old.
Here's a tip. An argument by analogy MUST be analogous.
The Pepsi campus sells Pepsi and NO Coke. (Actually, I'd guess they practically give it away.)
The Microsoft campus sells absolutely NO portable music players. Any portable music player brought onto the Microsoft campus necessarily had to be bought off campus. And I'll say it again, since the iPod is the best selling portable music player in the world, why is it surprising that it is also the best seller in the Seattle area?! Is it news that iPod is the best selling portable music player in Dallas Texas?
Can you imagine renting a Beowulf cluster of those babies?! That'd be awesome!
The most popular portable music player in the world is the most popular portable music player on Microsoft's campus?! How is that possible?!
"Anti Patent Attack" were one of my favorite DC straight-edge bands from the 80s. I saw them warm up for Fugazi and they ROCKED! Does anyone know what instrument Torvalds even plays?!
First of all, it takes about five minutes to install a PCI card. That is not a "whole bunch of time." Second, it does not save a "few" extra dollars, the RadioShark costs TWICE as much and lacks PVR features. You're paying twice as much for a lot less features.
It takes FIVE mintues to install a PCI card! Five frigging minutes. With the Winfast you'd pay half as much AND get a PVR at the same time! Is that five minutes really worth that?
I'll ask it again, why is ignorance so important to you? You seem to have a low opinion of Cleetus, but at least he has the brains to fix something.
Sure, it takes more time to install. About five minutes more. How long does it take you to put in a PCI card?
And it does have radio "PVR" features. I have three of them. I know.
And who says the WinFast only records over the air? I records cable too? Where are you getting your wacky information?!
And I'll say it again until you refute it, if you're an adult, and if you can read, and of you can use a screw driver, you can install a PCI card. IT IS NOT HARD! It has nothing to do with my abilities, it's simply easy to do.
What rest?! I'll say it again, any adult who can read and use a screw driver can install a PCI card. Have you refuted that?
Paying someone to change your oil is different from the present cicumstance. The RadioShark costs twice as much and lacks PVR features. While quick oil-change places cost about as much as it would to do it yourself. They work entirely on volume.
I didn't gloss over anything. I'll say it again, any adult who can read and use a screw driver COULD install a PCI card. It's just that they choose not to. They'd rather pay twice as much for less features.
Why do you find such virtue in ignorance?! And do you actually consider your self imposed ignorance any reason to spend more money for less product? Very sad.
You can choose ignorance if you'd like, most consumers do nowadays. You must feel really comfortable in the blissfully ignorant bandwagon.