My opinion of Rockefeller changed a lot after reading his biography, "Titan". Philanthropy had been part of his life even as a child. He always gave something like 10-20% of his allowance to charity, and had stated that he intended to get as much money as possible IN ORDER TO give it away.
"The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition."
"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake."
I'm not saying he didn't do some shady crap to get what he did, but giving it away definitely wasn't an afterthought for him.
> No, Linux is ready for the desktop. It's about as ready as it's going to get.
No, it's REALLY not.
Anecdote:
I run Ubuntu on my laptop. A recent Ubuntu kernel update stomped my/boot/grub/menu.lst and replaced it with the default. I had to re-create it by hand, which is fine (but annoying) for a computer geek like me, but if that happened to my mom or dad's computer, they'd have no idea what to do.
If a windows update required modifying C:\boot.ini to get working, there'd be a huge outcry, and loads of mocking from the linux community.
Yes, linux is easIER than it was. The Synaptic Package Manager allows for the installing of most programs without touching a command line, which is a good step. But until it a command line doesn't need touch for any things a normal user could be expected to do, the public will (and should) stay away from it.
If you think you need it for some app, think again.
I disagree. I love having global keyboard shortcuts for winamp. Off by default, completely customizable. Focus stays at whatever it was previously on.
As I'm typing this, I throw in 'Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C' and keep typing, and the music pauses as I still type in Firefox. Works wonderfully.
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The fact that the hardware's the same doesn't mean it won't be better technologically - the longer a console's out, the better developers have an understanding of it.
Just at Super Mairo Bros. vs. Super Mario Bros. 3 - that's on the same hardware, but the later is better in both quantity and quality of content.
People keep saying, "this is good for Microsoft because they lose money on hardware and make money on software, so pure software is good for them!"
In the pre-XBox days, Microsoft had a software games divison. They were already producing software. By that logic, they'd have no reason to make a console, because people always lose money on console hardware. Why didn't htey just stick with games for PCs?
They did it for "living room presence." Right now, or at least moreso 3 years ago, people thought of computers as a workstation. Microsoft's wants to push computers to all areas of the home, and the XBox in the living room is their foot in the door. By establishing a foothold in the console division, they'll be able to have future hardware generations integrate better with with normal PCs to give "ubiquituous computing" or some such.
Microsoft *could* make an XBox emulator on the PC, but they just don't want to.
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My opinion of Rockefeller changed a lot after reading his biography, "Titan". Philanthropy had been part of his life even as a child. He always gave something like 10-20% of his allowance to charity, and had stated that he intended to get as much money as possible IN ORDER TO give it away.
"The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition."
"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake."
I'm not saying he didn't do some shady crap to get what he did, but giving it away definitely wasn't an afterthought for him.
EXACTLY. Through the whole trailer, all I could think was, "OMG! Sylar killed Spock and toko his powers!"
> No, Linux is ready for the desktop. It's about as ready as it's going to get.
/boot/grub/menu.lst and replaced it with the default. I had to re-create it by hand, which is fine (but annoying) for a computer geek like me, but if that happened to my mom or dad's computer, they'd have no idea what to do.
No, it's REALLY not.
Anecdote:
I run Ubuntu on my laptop. A recent Ubuntu kernel update stomped my
If a windows update required modifying C:\boot.ini to get working, there'd be a huge outcry, and loads of mocking from the linux community.
Yes, linux is easIER than it was. The Synaptic Package Manager allows for the installing of most programs without touching a command line, which is a good step. But until it a command line doesn't need touch for any things a normal user could be expected to do, the public will (and should) stay away from it.
If you think you need it for some app, think again.
I disagree. I love having global keyboard shortcuts for winamp. Off by default, completely customizable. Focus stays at whatever it was previously on.
As I'm typing this, I throw in 'Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C' and keep typing, and the music pauses as I still type in Firefox. Works wonderfully.
The fact that the hardware's the same doesn't mean it won't be better technologically - the longer a console's out, the better developers have an understanding of it. Just at Super Mairo Bros. vs. Super Mario Bros. 3 - that's on the same hardware, but the later is better in both quantity and quality of content.
People keep saying, "this is good for Microsoft because they lose money on hardware and make money on software, so pure software is good for them!"
In the pre-XBox days, Microsoft had a software games divison. They were already producing software. By that logic, they'd have no reason to make a console, because people always lose money on console hardware. Why didn't htey just stick with games for PCs?
They did it for "living room presence." Right now, or at least moreso 3 years ago, people thought of computers as a workstation. Microsoft's wants to push computers to all areas of the home, and the XBox in the living room is their foot in the door. By establishing a foothold in the console division, they'll be able to have future hardware generations integrate better with with normal PCs to give "ubiquituous computing" or some such.
Microsoft *could* make an XBox emulator on the PC, but they just don't want to.