As previous posts mentioned, it doesn't seem to be capable of playing "open" formats. It's just another me-too product, nothing to see here...
IMHO, trying to compete with the iPod purely on technical things (size, capacity, price and the like) is futile (at least for now), the iPod is just too desirable of a product. Won't stop people from trying though...
You'd trust your kids if you actually bothered educating them about what's right and what's wrong. But most parents have outsourced that function to a third entity (School/ Friends/ Neighbours/ TV/ All of the above).
We don't educate our kids anymore, we give them Ritalin.
-Fill out this form, tell us what you want in the next MacOS, and give your name, age, address.
- Hell no I'm not filling no form I have my privacy to protect you sodding bastards rant-rant-rant-rant....
[1 week later]
- Hey come join our new crappy tv show where the best application ideas can be selected and win! All you need to do is fill in an application with your name, age, address, and the premise of your idea.
- Where do I sign up ??!?
Seriously, lessons on how to protect your intellectual capital should be taught in schools or something... it's amazing that people still haven't caught on to what these kind of "games" are actually for:/
The article (and most posts) have been focusing on things that aren't particularly relevant. Why Konqueror ? Why not Firefox? Who cares? You can install Firefox with a single line in the konsole.
What else is bad... the installation should hide command-line scrolling and be able to more automatically install standard graphics card drivers.
Why hide the command-line? Does it "put off" users? Will it provoque an epileptic reaction in newbie?... Again a totally useless comment in itself.
As for installing the graphics card drivers, well if I'm not mistaken it's done on purpose to avoid legal repercussions in the US.
That being said, I haven't used the distro, but it does look pretty easy to use, just as much as Ubuntu (or should I say Kubuntu), and judging by the default programs it installs, it seems that they have tried to avoid bloating the thing with shitloads of apps that most users will never touch.
Oh, and the default desktop background is butt-ugly, so you should install Ubuntu which comes with a much better default background:)
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Gee, thanx !
It's obvious that W is evil and has no respect for human rights as the Abu Ghraib scandal has shown, and he loves to help his corrupt cronies like Halliburton get the big contracts, it just shows that he's just trying to make the most money he can while he's still in power since the US citizens have been totally incurious about the moral precepts guiding this loon, I mean, it's not like we found any WMD's in Iraq even though he swore on his mother's grave that Iraq was chockfull of it.
That's about as relevant to linux users as getting IE explorer (which is to say not very relevant).
But it could be useful for companies who actually don't have much use for a PC except for reading emails and writing.docs and.xls', and I do believe that this should be the case for a huge number of companies out there. Which is why it will never happen, not until Microsoft starts losing cash in droves and get desperate (which, coincidentally, is also highly unlikely:)
Raymond warned that Linux risks getting locked out of new hardware platforms for the next 30 years unless it proves it can work with iPods, MP3s and WMP.
Easy one... just install gtkpod for the first, XMMS/Amarok for the second, and shoot yourself if you still need the third:)
Consumers win, consumers lose... all of this is irrelevant, the truth is that we have a sh*tty patent system that's vague enough to have two judges give 2 different verdicts on the same case.
In all cases I believe that it is wrong to make EchoStar stop its service immediately, and to remotely disable the current consumers. Consumers that have already paid shouldn't be the ones to bear the consequences. But then again, the consumers' interest is the least of the worries of those concerned...
Tomorrow's headline: Teenagers are not literate in copyright laws! There was the same response as this to the article about evolution illiteracy. The average person simply doesn't know.
Doesn't know, and doesn't care... Apathetic and amoral are the values that prevail today. Not that it's a bad thing, mind you. But I would've preferred to hear that Teens don't think copying CD's is illegal in a defiant stand against the RIAA, "THE RIAA CAN SUCK ON THESE", said one young man as he pointed his two index fingers to the sky, instead of I want to listen to MY Justin Timberlake/Ciara/Fergie and nobody's gonna stop me...
A rose by any other name is still a rose, I believe; Pythagarose?
There's also the recurring WOW WOW WOW's which I believe delightfully attempts to break the morose ambiance that prevails throughout the maelstrom of words that the author has deemed fit to call a critique of Wildberger's latest publication.
Why, Mr. Andreessen? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than just your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Andreessen. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Andreessen. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Andreessen? Why?! Why do you persist!?
A more intelligent thing to do would be to add 5$ surcharge per ticket on business/first class tickets and then propose FREE UNLIMITED BROADBAND CONNECTION on flights. They're paying shitloads of money for those tickets anyway, so the surcharge would pass unnoticed, allowing the company to one-up other airlines in terms of service:)
Well the correct thing to do would be to let those that have ALREADY subscribed to the service to benefit from it until it expires (or go for another 6 months-year), and just tell new potential customers that "the service has been disabled due to the sh*tty patent laws our country currently has".
But that would be in the consumers' interest, and the right thing to do. We here at Megacorp prefer to screw people over as hard as we can before you run out of cash since HyperCorp will soon leech you of your disposable income for the next 15 years.
In most countries, Internet users oppose government attempts to censor the Internet. In South Korea, however, in both government-funded and private surveys, a majority of people support official intervention to check unbridled freedom of speech on the Internet.
Oh I get it now... Throw around a few anecdotes of people who got harassed using the intarweb, the thinkofthechildren crowd stands up and starts spewing forth its usual crap (such as somethingmustbedonewhereisthegovernment), and presto, censorship of the aforementioned intarweb.
There are weirdos everywhere, and it's not the government's job to slap on a pair of balls to people to make them stand up for themselves.
Besides, like that guy's sig says, The plural of anecdote is not data.
I don't have anything against it but if it is under the state grant program, it should try to standarize on one or two flavors of Linux
Err, no. The "biodiversity" of Linux is one of its strong points, and one that is frequently brought up by supporters of OSS. If we start "standardizing", then all we are doing is replacing Windoze by 2 (or 3) different Linux distros. Better, but not the optimal solution.
Of all people, students should be the first to learn how to cope with new OSes (or distros) as they arise, to build fundamental computer skills instead of learning through the click here to do this approach.
1- High profile terror case/natural disaster/act of God has just occurred
2- Previously unknown company proposes its bulletproof and cheap product which they claim have been proposing for years
3- Get suckers to invest in your product by tapping into people's irrational fears that naturally follow 1-
4- Profit!!!
In this case, 1- is obviously the UK terror plot to blow up planes by smuggling explosives onto the plane (like that's gonna work, but whatever gets the thinkofthechildren crowd going)...
The problem with the platform genre is that it's just very easy to make a boring and repetitive game. Do you really want to go through n+1 levels of jumping on the heads of enemies that look like they escaped from the Teletubbies world?
What the genre needs is a new Kirby (the SNES version, I dunno any other one), a game that just comes and changes the way the whole "Pick up mushroom/coin/magic fruit/hash bag and touch the enemies in a particular fashion", and 2D/3D shouldn't be an issue. Some games will feel better in 2D, others much less.
Even if there was such a thing as people coming over to your house to install a linux distro, and 3 years of free service afterwards, people will stick to Windows for now.
If they're unhappy with the next Windows' performance/price, they'll just NOT upgrade (that'll work for at least a year or so)... after that they'll find a way to crack Vista, or just pay up for a version that'll do.
Ad-sponsored Windows? It'll work if Vista "spartan edition" is sold for 450$, and Vista "the-one-you're-supposed-to-have edition" for 600$.
Well if Vista was half-ready it would already be on the shelves. The holes can always be patched later... (Not flaming Microsoft particularly, but software developers in general:)
What's next ? The MLB suing Rockstar for giving baseball bats a bad name ?
Then again, they had no chance of winning. They didn't have the "thinkofthechildren" edge that most successful lawsuits against videogames require in order to win.
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As previous posts mentioned, it doesn't seem to be capable of playing "open" formats. It's just another me-too product, nothing to see here... IMHO, trying to compete with the iPod purely on technical things (size, capacity, price and the like) is futile (at least for now), the iPod is just too desirable of a product. Won't stop people from trying though...
Seriously, lessons on how to protect your intellectual capital should be taught in schools or something... it's amazing that people still haven't caught on to what these kind of "games" are actually for :/
The article (and most posts) have been focusing on things that aren't particularly relevant. Why Konqueror ? Why not Firefox? Who cares? You can install Firefox with a single line in the konsole.
What else is bad... the installation should hide command-line scrolling and be able to more automatically install standard graphics card drivers.
Why hide the command-line? Does it "put off" users? Will it provoque an epileptic reaction in newbie? ... Again a totally useless comment in itself.
As for installing the graphics card drivers, well if I'm not mistaken it's done on purpose to avoid legal repercussions in the US.
That being said, I haven't used the distro, but it does look pretty easy to use, just as much as Ubuntu (or should I say Kubuntu), and judging by the default programs it installs, it seems that they have tried to avoid bloating the thing with shitloads of apps that most users will never touch.
Oh, and the default desktop background is butt-ugly, so you should install Ubuntu which comes with a much better default background :)
But it could be useful for companies who actually don't have much use for a PC except for reading emails and writing .docs and .xls', and I do believe that this should be the case for a huge number of companies out there. Which is why it will never happen, not until Microsoft starts losing cash in droves and get desperate (which, coincidentally, is also highly unlikely :)
Some feel that per-track downloads hurt the artistic integrity of albums as a whole
Then they shouldn't complain when I download the .rar of their albums :)
I hate to be a dink, but we've had a way to completely control this infection for about 20 years now; it's called abstinence
No need to preach abstinence here; we at Slashdot have been abstaining from sex all our lives (not by choice though :)
Pah! Any true geek would know that TV ITSELF is a waste of our time :)
Raymond warned that Linux risks getting locked out of new hardware platforms for the next 30 years unless it proves it can work with iPods, MP3s and WMP.
Easy one... just install gtkpod for the first, XMMS/Amarok for the second, and shoot yourself if you still need the third :)
Consumers win, consumers lose... all of this is irrelevant, the truth is that we have a sh*tty patent system that's vague enough to have two judges give 2 different verdicts on the same case.
In all cases I believe that it is wrong to make EchoStar stop its service immediately, and to remotely disable the current consumers. Consumers that have already paid shouldn't be the ones to bear the consequences. But then again, the consumers' interest is the least of the worries of those concerned...
Tomorrow's headline: Teenagers are not literate in copyright laws! There was the same response as this to the article about evolution illiteracy. The average person simply doesn't know.
Doesn't know, and doesn't care... Apathetic and amoral are the values that prevail today. Not that it's a bad thing, mind you. But I would've preferred to hear that Teens don't think copying CD's is illegal in a defiant stand against the RIAA, "THE RIAA CAN SUCK ON THESE", said one young man as he pointed his two index fingers to the sky, instead of I want to listen to MY Justin Timberlake/Ciara/Fergie and nobody's gonna stop me...
A rose by any other name is still a rose, I believe; Pythagarose?
There's also the recurring WOW WOW WOW's which I believe delightfully attempts to break the morose ambiance that prevails throughout the maelstrom of words that the author has deemed fit to call a critique of Wildberger's latest publication.
Why, Mr. Andreessen? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than just your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Andreessen. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love. You must be able to see it, Mr. Andreessen. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Andreessen? Why?! Why do you persist!?
A more intelligent thing to do would be to add 5$ surcharge per ticket on business/first class tickets and then propose FREE UNLIMITED BROADBAND CONNECTION on flights. They're paying shitloads of money for those tickets anyway, so the surcharge would pass unnoticed, allowing the company to one-up other airlines in terms of service :)
Oh yeah, I forgot 4- Profit !!
Well the correct thing to do would be to let those that have ALREADY subscribed to the service to benefit from it until it expires (or go for another 6 months-year), and just tell new potential customers that "the service has been disabled due to the sh*tty patent laws our country currently has".
But that would be in the consumers' interest, and the right thing to do. We here at Megacorp prefer to screw people over as hard as we can before you run out of cash since HyperCorp will soon leech you of your disposable income for the next 15 years.
In most countries, Internet users oppose government attempts to censor the Internet. In South Korea, however, in both government-funded and private surveys, a majority of people support official intervention to check unbridled freedom of speech on the Internet.
Oh I get it now... Throw around a few anecdotes of people who got harassed using the intarweb, the thinkofthechildren crowd stands up and starts spewing forth its usual crap (such as somethingmustbedonewhereisthegovernment), and presto, censorship of the aforementioned intarweb.
There are weirdos everywhere, and it's not the government's job to slap on a pair of balls to people to make them stand up for themselves.
Besides, like that guy's sig says, The plural of anecdote is not data.
I don't have anything against it but if it is under the state grant program, it should try to standarize on one or two flavors of Linux
Err, no. The "biodiversity" of Linux is one of its strong points, and one that is frequently brought up by supporters of OSS. If we start "standardizing", then all we are doing is replacing Windoze by 2 (or 3) different Linux distros. Better, but not the optimal solution.
Of all people, students should be the first to learn how to cope with new OSes (or distros) as they arise, to build fundamental computer skills instead of learning through the click here to do this approach.
1- High profile terror case/natural disaster/act of God has just occurred
2- Previously unknown company proposes its bulletproof and cheap product which they claim have been proposing for years
3- Get suckers to invest in your product by tapping into people's irrational fears that naturally follow 1-
4- Profit!!!
In this case, 1- is obviously the UK terror plot to blow up planes by smuggling explosives onto the plane (like that's gonna work, but whatever gets the thinkofthechildren crowd going)...
And why exactly do you need to refer to a googol in front of people ? ... Unless by "people", you're referring to your imaginary math-freak friends :)
What the genre needs is a new Kirby (the SNES version, I dunno any other one), a game that just comes and changes the way the whole "Pick up mushroom/coin/magic fruit/hash bag and touch the enemies in a particular fashion", and 2D/3D shouldn't be an issue. Some games will feel better in 2D, others much less.
What kind of company that has patents on GAME CONTROLLERS doesn't even have its own website ??
If they're unhappy with the next Windows' performance/price, they'll just NOT upgrade (that'll work for at least a year or so)... after that they'll find a way to crack Vista, or just pay up for a version that'll do.
Ad-sponsored Windows? It'll work if Vista "spartan edition" is sold for 450$, and Vista "the-one-you're-supposed-to-have edition" for 600$.
Well if Vista was half-ready it would already be on the shelves. The holes can always be patched later... (Not flaming Microsoft particularly, but software developers in general :)
Then again, they had no chance of winning. They didn't have the "thinkofthechildren" edge that most successful lawsuits against videogames require in order to win.