I reckon your success with Cedega will depend on your game selection. So far, I've had wonderful luck. I just finished Jedi Academy in Cedega. I have the original Rollercoaster Tycoon (gotta love the bargain bin) running fine after following the directions in the game FAQ. I'm playing through Knights of the Old Republic now. I even have GTA: Vice City playing in Cedega, though I am not happy with the sound.
When the MPAA first released titles on DVD, they were in the $20 range. They lowered prices when releases of older movies came out on DVD, many to the $10-$12 range, and low and behold, people buy them.
$20? Hell, when I first starting buying movies on DVD in 1999, movies were around $40. Though both Amazon and Buy.com would offer special 40-50% sales on pre-orders. The abundance of $10-$15 movies nowadays seems amazing to me.
Actually, this makes what the MPAA has done even more incredible. They've lowered their price by 75%, and are still making tons of money. The RIAA needs to stop being such asses and lower their prices.
I set my browser to load up Amphetadesk. Nothing like getting some blogs read on initial startup. I can do a quick glance and see if there are any headlines on the first couple of sources while I am typing in the URL for the next page.
My father in law is homeless and it is his choice. He has family that would take him in, but he is unwilling to:
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Programs are not a solution for someone who does not want to be helped. He can't wait until he can start collecting SS checks that can help him sustain his "lifestyle." [...]
Free medical and mental help won't help someone who doesn't want to change.
So are you trying to create a logical fallacy here, stating that since your father-in-law is trying to scam the system, then every homeless person is trying to scam the system?
There is good and bad everywhere. Take a group of 100 people, chosen by any criteria you want, and you will find good and bad people within that 100. But that doesn't mean that all 100 are bad.
Yes, it sounds like programs offering free medical and mental health coverage would not help your FIL. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't help other homeless people.
Unlike other people, I am not going to hold my tongue and say for sure that its not terrorism until I know exactly what did happen.
My computer rebooted unexpectedly. I can't tell what the reason was, so I guess I can't rule out terrorism at the current time.
The local show store didn't get its shipment of Reebox DMX walking shoes on time. No one is certain exactly why the shipment is late. So I guess they can't rule out terrorism...
They just needed to get tech support from me. My support doesn't suck; I'm the tech support MASTER!
True, I might've been rude to them if they couldn't grasp computer basics. And I would be writing a perl script, reading slashdot and editing an XMMS playlist while helping them out with their problem. This might make me lose track of what their problem was part of the way through the call, but I would be able to get back on track by grumpily asking them to restate the problem.
But at least their experience wouldn't suck...
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But, what's the difference between making illegal copies of a dollar bill and making illegal copies of a CD? None that I can see. So, let's call filesharing counterfeiting. Happy now?
I'm happy! If your last sentence means that you are going to get off your soapbox. Really, this whole argument is so 2002.
*yawn*...
Please, wake me up when you are less BO-RING! BO-RING! BO-RING!!!
while napster was great, I personally preferred audiogalaxy. I found that a lot easier to find more obscure music on, not to mention that it had an open source client and you could use it at work and come home to find the files waiting for you. not to mention the great community that was there, and the suggestions of other tracks to listen to
I must be the only person here who didn't like Napster. Couldn't stand it. I used it once, then tossed it in favor of AudioGalaxy.
AudioGalaxy rocked, pure and simple. I cannot count the number of ultra-rare tracks that I found thanks to AG. And it was so easy... leave the Satellite running on my Linux box, then log onto their website from anywhere (work, home, school, parent's house) and add some more songs to the queue.
It was such a brilliant system that I actually subscribed! I was an Audiogalaxy Gold member right up to the day that they turned the service off. And I still miss it, right to this very day. [sniff]
The day that AG's service was shut down was the day that I started my boycott against the RIAA, actually. Up until that point, I bought three CDs a month, mostly of artists that I found on AG. Since then, I've switched completely to Independents.
That's why I clicked "Yes" when it asked "Do you want to make Firebird your default browser?" Really wasn't all that hard and the application did the prompting.
-sam, posting from IE because he's at work.
First of all, let me say that I love Mozilla. Mozilla Firebird is my default browser at home, on my laptop, on my wife's PC and on my work desktop.
However, your signature shows the exact problem, and the reason why IE will (unfortunately) continue to hold onto the browser market. You use IE at work because that is what is installed (and I am guessing you cannot download a different browser). For Joe Consumer, IE is what is installed on their computer, and Joe doesn't know that he can download a different browser. He'll continue using IE, because he doesn't know any better.
M$'s move to tie IE to Windows may have been a questionable marketing move, but having an IE icon on every Windows desktop was brilliant. People are lazy and unmotivated to download something if they have another program that works "just as well."
It does not matter how easy getting and installing Mozilla is for users. Most users still will not, they'll still just use what is installed on their computer.
What the Mozilla Foundation needs to do is get deals with computer manufacturers to pre-install Mozilla, and put an icon for the big lizard on the desktop. However, that'd cost millions, millions that the Foundation does not have.
I just hope that they get Blair Tefkin to record a couple of songs for the soundtrack.
She can do double-duty: reprise her role as Robin, and provide some tunes for the show.
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The only thing that Apple has EVER proven is the ol' saying "there's a sucker born every minute"... remember the good ol' Performa machines? You had to be a sucker to buy one.
Damn our reality knocks! You definitely sound like you believe that people shouldn't have to pay for music. Not everyone believes the same, however. That doesn't make us suckers.
Out of 275 million americans, some 30,000 people bought songs? That's.01% of the american public... not to impressive in my book.
How many of those 275 million Americans have a Mac? If you don't have a Mac, then you can't buy from Apple. So people who don't have Mac's don't count in figuring the percentage of peopl who are buying music from Apple right now.
Divide 30,000 by Apple's installed base right now, and then you'll get a relevant percentage of people actually paying for digital music. And you'll find the percentage is high enough to give RIAA executives wet dreams and nightmares, all at the same time.
Or, hit up the Starbucks all over town if you want to pay $6/sitting for some internet access in Fresno.
I just got back from a Starbucks here. T-Mobile charges a small fortune ($40 per month if you don't sign up for a year's access). However, I am being forced out of my house a lot now that it is on the market. I want to have 'net access while I am away from home. This seems like the best option right now in the Denver area
Fascinating -- the ONLY thing I get out of contributing to Open Source Code is -- developer's ego.Thanks for labelling me "stupid". Just for that, you can't use my open-source software.
I think you took the original posters remarks so personally that you completely lost track of the point being made.
I have a story to tell. It's a true story. The "user" may have been YOU (the attitude is right).
Good story, but it doesn't address the point being made. To add to your example to illustrate the point: suppose that someone else decided that your 8087 emulator was good, but lacked some features. Instead of offering to help you implement those features, however, they decided to write a brand-new emulator, starting from scratch. They finish, they get it running, and it does have the features your emulator lacked. However, their emulator lacks some features that your emulator has.
Obviously, if the person who wrote the other emulator had simply joined forces with you, the result would've been an emulator that had all of your features and all the features that she wanted added, too. It would make an all-around better piece of software, instead of two emulators that are good, but lack certain features.
That is what keeps happening in the free software realm today. A lot of programmers are essentially saying, "well, ksampleprogram doesn't have a file import feature, so I'll build kanothersample that does the same thing AND has an import feature." Which is counter to the driving philosophies of open source. Instead, programmers should say, "ksampleprogram doesn't have a file import feature, so I'll add it and submit it back to the ksampleprogram team."
Why isn't this happening? Programmer ego probably does have a lot to do with it. A lot of people would rather be listed as Project Owner than Contributing Programmer.
A quick cruise thru emusic's listings didn't cough up any names I knew, but if I had the bandwidth to do lots of sampling, that wouldn't be any drawback -- who knows what's yet undiscovered. Kinda hard to do when a single cut takes half an hour to download, tho.:(
emusic.com is simply awesome. And you don't have to download a full song to see if you like it or not. emusic provides low and high quality streaming MP3 samples of all of their tracks. Preview a 30-second snippet of the song at low quality; if you like it, then download the mother.
Even better, emusic supports full album download with a single click using empxform or Zinf (silly Windows users can use emusic's own client)! Click the button, go away, come back in an hour or two and your album is there. (Or, for those of us with a broadband connection, come back in 15 minutes or so.)
I've found a ton of great artists thanks to emusic, including Jackpot, Tripping Daisy, Jill Olsen, The Flaming Sideburns, Bunny Wailer....
Perhaps they should offer some payment if someone happens to help find a cure for something. It's a bit strange that people are willing to help as long as someone else does not make a profit.
Perhaps they should release the cures found to the public, patent-free, so that the discoveries benefit the entire human race, instead of one pharmaceutical firm?
If they agreed to that, I would be right there helping them along.
actually, I think their prefferred title is "the idle rich"
If I had lots o cash to waste, SURE, I'd buy from e-music.
Ummm... $10 per month makes one "idly rich"? Wow... I'm rich and I didn't know it? Amazing, absolutely amazing! I wish someone had told me that.
Seriously, though, $10 per month is not a bad deal at all. eMusic is a wonderful service. There's a rich variety of music, music that I simply would've never had the chance to listen to had eMusic not existed. The convenience of knowing that I am going to get what I am trying to download is a big bonus. As is being able to download an entire album with one click.
The only gripe I have with emusic is that they continue to encode their files at 128kbps. If they'd go up to at least 160k, I'd be in heaven.
But I still don't think I am rich. Hell, $10/month won't even get you onto AOL!
Yes, if you mess up part of the configuration, then zeroconf may not work. That is precisely what I said. Thanks, I guess...
The problem is, the configuration you are talking about has nothing to do with ZeroConf or Rendezvous. It was configuration of the computer's IP address. So saying "...work great if configured correctly" is like saying "my car works great if I open the garage door."
You are assuming that Wal-Mart is aiming these PCs at novices, which I don't agree with. I think Wal-Mart is aiming for geeks who want cheap hardware. But I'll go with your assumption to answer the rest of your comment...
with StarOffice or OpenOffice, with all the icons changed to look like MS Office XP icons,
You think that novice users/new computer owners are going to know the Office XP icons? I've talked with users here at work (I work on a help desk) that have been using Windows and Office for years and still can't remember which icon launches which office app.
As long as the icon is labelled, users won't care what it looks like.
install Opera as the default browser, change the icons as above and set it up to mimic IE,
See above. For a novice user, it'd be better to make the icon look like AOL's icon instead of IE. But the best thing to do is to make sure the icon, no matter what it LOOKS like, is labelled "Internet".
install GIMP and change it as above to look like MS Paint,
Novice users are not going to expect a paint program to come with their computer. And The Gimp is not equivalent to MS Paint, anyway, it's more of a Paint Shop Pro/Photoshop application.
port Real Player and WMP to Linux and then somehow set it up so it crashes more often.
There's a native version of Real Player for Linux; Mandrake includes it with their distro. There's no solution for WMP, of course. For everything that you mentioned in your comment, WMP is the only valid point. Lack of WMP support just may be a problem on these computers. But it won't be a big one.
Audiogalaxy has been a good source for music online. I will now have much greater difficulty finding and trying out new bands. This will of course result in fewer purchased CDs. Again, too bad.
This was the last straw for me. The RIAA wants to shut down Audio Galaxy to force people to buy CDs? It's going to have the OPPOSITE effect on me. As of today, I am boycotting the RIAA completely. I won't buy another RIAA CD (or any other product) again.
I am going to start getting very familiar with independent artists. I have a feeling I am going to start enjoying music much more than I have in the past, too.
...but Mandrake has always been damn near as problematic as Windows.
You do mean that, in your experience Mandrake has been as problematic as Windows, right? Because in MY experience, Mandrake has been pretty damned solid. True, their pre-compiled 2.4.x kernels don't like my system very much, but the first thing I do with any distro is compile my own kernel anyway.
All in all, in my experience, Mandrake has always been rock-solid, while Redhat has been flakey.
Interesting.. Once again Microsoft proves just how stupid their Rhode's scholar winning, 4.0 GPA, full ride to Haaahhhhvaaad (MIT, Cal-tech, Yale, etc.), over achieving, 1600 on the SAT, employees really are.
Actually, I thought this showed that some of their executives actually are honest enough to tell the truth when under oath. If the employees were stupid, they would be trying to lie while they are up on the stand.
What I think this does show is how unprepared M$'s lawyers are for some of these witnesses. The lawyers should have spent a lot of time prepping the witnesses; they should have expected these questions and coached the witnesses on how to answer truthfully without hurting the case.
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I reckon your success with Cedega will depend on your game selection. So far, I've had wonderful luck. I just finished Jedi Academy in Cedega. I have the original Rollercoaster Tycoon (gotta love the bargain bin) running fine after following the directions in the game FAQ. I'm playing through Knights of the Old Republic now. I even have GTA: Vice City playing in Cedega, though I am not happy with the sound.
I set my browser to load up Amphetadesk. Nothing like getting some blogs read on initial startup. I can do a quick glance and see if there are any headlines on the first couple of sources while I am typing in the URL for the next page.
So are you trying to create a logical fallacy here, stating that since your father-in-law is trying to scam the system, then every homeless person is trying to scam the system?
There is good and bad everywhere. Take a group of 100 people, chosen by any criteria you want, and you will find good and bad people within that 100. But that doesn't mean that all 100 are bad.
Yes, it sounds like programs offering free medical and mental health coverage would not help your FIL. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't help other homeless people.
My computer rebooted unexpectedly. I can't tell what the reason was, so I guess I can't rule out terrorism at the current time.
The local show store didn't get its shipment of Reebox DMX walking shoes on time. No one is certain exactly why the shipment is late. So I guess they can't rule out terrorism...
Do you get a general idea of where I am going with this?
They just needed to get tech support from me. My support doesn't suck; I'm the tech support MASTER! True, I might've been rude to them if they couldn't grasp computer basics. And I would be writing a perl script, reading slashdot and editing an XMMS playlist while helping them out with their problem. This might make me lose track of what their problem was part of the way through the call, but I would be able to get back on track by grumpily asking them to restate the problem. But at least their experience wouldn't suck...
I'm happy! If your last sentence means that you are going to get off your soapbox. Really, this whole argument is so 2002.
*yawn*...
Please, wake me up when you are less BO-RING! BO-RING! BO-RING!!!
I must be the only person here who didn't like Napster. Couldn't stand it. I used it once, then tossed it in favor of AudioGalaxy.
AudioGalaxy rocked, pure and simple. I cannot count the number of ultra-rare tracks that I found thanks to AG. And it was so easy... leave the Satellite running on my Linux box, then log onto their website from anywhere (work, home, school, parent's house) and add some more songs to the queue.
It was such a brilliant system that I actually subscribed! I was an Audiogalaxy Gold member right up to the day that they turned the service off. And I still miss it, right to this very day. [sniff]
The day that AG's service was shut down was the day that I started my boycott against the RIAA, actually. Up until that point, I bought three CDs a month, mostly of artists that I found on AG. Since then, I've switched completely to Independents.
First of all, let me say that I love Mozilla. Mozilla Firebird is my default browser at home, on my laptop, on my wife's PC and on my work desktop.
However, your signature shows the exact problem, and the reason why IE will (unfortunately) continue to hold onto the browser market. You use IE at work because that is what is installed (and I am guessing you cannot download a different browser). For Joe Consumer, IE is what is installed on their computer, and Joe doesn't know that he can download a different browser. He'll continue using IE, because he doesn't know any better.
M$'s move to tie IE to Windows may have been a questionable marketing move, but having an IE icon on every Windows desktop was brilliant. People are lazy and unmotivated to download something if they have another program that works "just as well."
It does not matter how easy getting and installing Mozilla is for users. Most users still will not, they'll still just use what is installed on their computer.
What the Mozilla Foundation needs to do is get deals with computer manufacturers to pre-install Mozilla, and put an icon for the big lizard on the desktop. However, that'd cost millions, millions that the Foundation does not have.
I just hope that they get Blair Tefkin to record a couple of songs for the soundtrack.
She can do double-duty: reprise her role as Robin, and provide some tunes for the show.
Damn our reality knocks! You definitely sound like you believe that people shouldn't have to pay for music. Not everyone believes the same, however. That doesn't make us suckers.
How many of those 275 million Americans have a Mac? If you don't have a Mac, then you can't buy from Apple. So people who don't have Mac's don't count in figuring the percentage of peopl who are buying music from Apple right now.
Divide 30,000 by Apple's installed base right now, and then you'll get a relevant percentage of people actually paying for digital music. And you'll find the percentage is high enough to give RIAA executives wet dreams and nightmares, all at the same time.
I just got back from a Starbucks here. T-Mobile charges a small fortune ($40 per month if you don't sign up for a year's access). However, I am being forced out of my house a lot now that it is on the market. I want to have 'net access while I am away from home. This seems like the best option right now in the Denver area
I think you took the original posters remarks so personally that you completely lost track of the point being made.
Good story, but it doesn't address the point being made. To add to your example to illustrate the point: suppose that someone else decided that your 8087 emulator was good, but lacked some features. Instead of offering to help you implement those features, however, they decided to write a brand-new emulator, starting from scratch. They finish, they get it running, and it does have the features your emulator lacked. However, their emulator lacks some features that your emulator has.
Obviously, if the person who wrote the other emulator had simply joined forces with you, the result would've been an emulator that had all of your features and all the features that she wanted added, too. It would make an all-around better piece of software, instead of two emulators that are good, but lack certain features.
That is what keeps happening in the free software realm today. A lot of programmers are essentially saying, "well, ksampleprogram doesn't have a file import feature, so I'll build kanothersample that does the same thing AND has an import feature." Which is counter to the driving philosophies of open source. Instead, programmers should say, "ksampleprogram doesn't have a file import feature, so I'll add it and submit it back to the ksampleprogram team."
Why isn't this happening? Programmer ego probably does have a lot to do with it. A lot of people would rather be listed as Project Owner than Contributing Programmer.
emusic.com is simply awesome. And you don't have to download a full song to see if you like it or not. emusic provides low and high quality streaming MP3 samples of all of their tracks. Preview a 30-second snippet of the song at low quality; if you like it, then download the mother.
Even better, emusic supports full album download with a single click using empxform or Zinf (silly Windows users can use emusic's own client)! Click the button, go away, come back in an hour or two and your album is there. (Or, for those of us with a broadband connection, come back in 15 minutes or so.)
I've found a ton of great artists thanks to emusic, including Jackpot, Tripping Daisy, Jill Olsen, The Flaming Sideburns, Bunny Wailer....
Hell yeah. I have a couple hundred OGGs right now, and every new CD that I rip gets encoded to OGG. Eventually, I'll have more OGGs than MP3s.
Perhaps they should release the cures found to the public, patent-free, so that the discoveries benefit the entire human race, instead of one pharmaceutical firm?
If they agreed to that, I would be right there helping them along.
Seriously, though, $10 per month is not a bad deal at all. eMusic is a wonderful service. There's a rich variety of music, music that I simply would've never had the chance to listen to had eMusic not existed. The convenience of knowing that I am going to get what I am trying to download is a big bonus. As is being able to download an entire album with one click.
The only gripe I have with emusic is that they continue to encode their files at 128kbps. If they'd go up to at least 160k, I'd be in heaven.
But I still don't think I am rich. Hell, $10/month won't even get you onto AOL!
You are assuming that Wal-Mart is aiming these PCs at novices, which I don't agree with. I think Wal-Mart is aiming for geeks who want cheap hardware. But I'll go with your assumption to answer the rest of your comment...
You think that novice users/new computer owners are going to know the Office XP icons? I've talked with users here at work (I work on a help desk) that have been using Windows and Office for years and still can't remember which icon launches which office app.
As long as the icon is labelled, users won't care what it looks like.
See above. For a novice user, it'd be better to make the icon look like AOL's icon instead of IE. But the best thing to do is to make sure the icon, no matter what it LOOKS like, is labelled "Internet".
Novice users are not going to expect a paint program to come with their computer. And The Gimp is not equivalent to MS Paint, anyway, it's more of a Paint Shop Pro/Photoshop application.
There's a native version of Real Player for Linux; Mandrake includes it with their distro. There's no solution for WMP, of course. For everything that you mentioned in your comment, WMP is the only valid point. Lack of WMP support just may be a problem on these computers. But it won't be a big one.
This was the last straw for me. The RIAA wants to shut down Audio Galaxy to force people to buy CDs? It's going to have the OPPOSITE effect on me. As of today, I am boycotting the RIAA completely. I won't buy another RIAA CD (or any other product) again.
I am going to start getting very familiar with independent artists. I have a feeling I am going to start enjoying music much more than I have in the past, too.
Dark Helmet: I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.
Lone Star: What does that make us?
Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing...
You do mean that, in your experience Mandrake has been as problematic as Windows, right? Because in MY experience, Mandrake has been pretty damned solid. True, their pre-compiled 2.4.x kernels don't like my system very much, but the first thing I do with any distro is compile my own kernel anyway.
All in all, in my experience, Mandrake has always been rock-solid, while Redhat has been flakey.
No problem. I fully support Open Source projects!
:)
How can you "accidentally" not show Real Audio search results?
Well, a programmer accidentally writes a filter along the lines of:
if strSrchResult == ["rm"|"ra"] then strSrchResult = null
Then a programmer accidentally copies this filter into the source code.
Then a programmer accidentally enables this part of the source code.
Then a programmer accidentally compiles this (along with the rest of the program).
It's all accidentally easy, dontcha know!
Actually, I thought this showed that some of their executives actually are honest enough to tell the truth when under oath. If the employees were stupid, they would be trying to lie while they are up on the stand.
What I think this does show is how unprepared M$'s lawyers are for some of these witnesses. The lawyers should have spent a lot of time prepping the witnesses; they should have expected these questions and coached the witnesses on how to answer truthfully without hurting the case.