A dual boot option is much more appealing when all the hardware just works and generally faster than in Windows. Ok not for everyone I know but it is a big negative when people find their printer isn't going to work in Linux.
If you're going to install a printer on a Linux system, make it an HP. Ubuntu and HPLIP especially seem like they were made for each other, nowadays anyway. HPLIP works fine in Fedora as well. Not sure about it on the other distros though.
Windows 8 is a catastrophe only for those who use it with a keyboard and mouse. For the rest of us, it is the greatest desktop operating system.
That is if you're willing to wait for the OEMs to come forward with tablets that'll run Windows 8. Microsoft is sure to charge a pretty penny for both versions of Surface and will more than likely do anything to hold back OEMs' releases of tablets.
Flash's death would have been better if HTML5 were a more realistic competitor.
Oh, so now you're going to dump on lazy coders who don't want to even touch HTML5 just because it's 'new' or because they don't wan't to uproot the Flash architecture on their websites for fear of ending up with a load of crap they have to clean up afterwards. The only answer to this problem would be to keep the Flash version of the site running and have the HTML5 version running alongside with some kind of Flash detection engine written into the site's code. It'd be messy and would have to be done for quite some time, but it'd work.
Well, these founders are starting to treat Hulu like a bad dog they're putting to sleep, just awful! And who's to say Netflix isn't next. The NYSE maybe? Netflix only gets a pass because it seems to be made of money these days (no thanks to the Quickster fiasco) and relies strictly on paying viewers. If Hulu had gone that route from the start, they wouldn't be in this mess.
To be frank, some of the staff at US airports appear to have an IQ barely above imbecility. I've been in the US four times, and nowhere else have I seen such unfriendly, unhelpful, and downright hostile personnel than at the airports. A man whose only job appeared to be holding a sign pointing to a gate refused to show us the way to the toilets. Another man went through our bags before we boarded and found the remains of a coconut which we'd intended to eat on the plane; he turned to me (I was 12 at the time), said "you must be a real idiot" and threw it in the garbage. If people like that are employed by the TSA, I'm hardly shocked that situations like the one with the little girl make the news every few weeks. If those dimwits don't know how to properly interact with passengers, put them in a position where they don't have to, or don't hire them.
Last year, we did a trip around Iceland. Before our return flight, when we waited at the security check, we found that we still had some 2 liter bottles of lemonade in our bags. So we started chugging away (don't like to waste food), and a security guy came up to us. He told us to relax and take the bottles on the plane. "This is Reykjavik, not New York. Have a nice flight."
Keep in mind that some of these TSA agents are actually cops that may have been fired for whatever reason by their jurisdiction, and they'd do anything just to make a get by in this economy and retain their experience at the same time. Some cops may actually start out as TSA agents instead of serving in the military or, for heaven's sake, being 'mall cops'.
The Year of the Linux (Gaming) Desktop is finally here!
I'm sure that what we're looking at here are the innards of what's going into the purported 'Steambox' mentioned a few months ago. I mean, wouldn't you expect something like that to run off a Linux kernel, and maybe have a Linux-based programming architecture like the original PlayStation and XBox systems did? Not so sure about this stuff showing up in a Linux desktop distro anytime soon though.
Exactly! Sony's PSP, and purportedly its PlayStation 3 as well, seem to require constant system software updates. Most of these seem to be for good reason but every once in a while there comes a 'security-related bug fix'. How many of these are REALLY weeding out bugs and making the system more secure as opposed to kicking out home-brew hacks?
I remember being able to access a non-interactive weather info service from Kentucky Educational Television way back when (late 1980's at least). This service was aimed at farmers but had some weather info worth while to most people as well. It was accessed via a TeleCaption decoder or the built in caption decoder on your TV. This service went silent some time in 2005 if I'm not mistaken, just a few years before the USA made the digital switch.
Exactly, telcos, ISPs, electronics retailers and the like should be required to assist their customers with this kinda' thing. And it shouldn't matter what security software the customer is using or what platform it's installed on. There needs to be a Geek Squad that specializes in this stuff.
In the music area of the local best buy, there's usually one employee and no customers, a pretty limited selection, and it's rare that any price breaks are available. I can't see myself buying anything there.
I can beg to differ, I visited such a Best Buy location in the Portland Oregon metro area in 2010 and noticed quite a few folks there, maybe because it was just after Christmas at the time.
That Metro UI is probably protected by copyright laws and the closest anyone is gonna' come to that is Ubuntu with their Unity UI. Would be cool to see something like that in Fedora or one of the other big distros though.
No kidding, especially when you consider that doing this yourself is time/energy consuming and ILLEGAL. For that matter, I don't see how CoinStar didn't get the jump on this project. I'm starting to imagine UltraViolet conversion functions on the Redboxes. That'd be sweet!
The blame will land on piracy, because they can't admit that things like the Mythbox (mentioned by an AC in another response to my post) and other DVRs totally wreck their scheme.
You forgot Netflix, which just happens to be viewable via most Blu-Ray players and set-top boxes (a handy option if you don't have a smart TV). There's quite a bit of movie content to be had there, even with Starz bowing out.
Account access is one thing, game compatibility is yet another. I'm sure Steam's auths are going to LOVE porting their games to a TV-viewable format. And for that matter, some of Steam's games have keyboard controls. If we're talking about a Bluetooth keyboard here, offering one of those with the gaming system would be expensive (unless companies like Nyko and MadCatz offered them).
Or do you just have a dedicated tablet that never leaves the viewing area? What about multiple TVs? Gets expensive really quick.
That is unless the cable/satellite TV providers start offering subsidized tablets with pre-installed remote control apps. These however will most likely be underpowered as well as locked down (read: no installing your own stuff on these) and will surely become the newest hacker/cracker toys.
Meg Whitman's spreading of FUD isn't going to help HP one iota. HP buttered their bread a long time ago when they bought Palm and put WebOS on the TouchPad, only to have the TouchPad flop a short time later. At least they still have their printers to keep their biz afloat. WebOS, on the other hand, will probably live on in toys, smart TVs, appliances and cars. Just sayin'.
I find no fault with them except for the fact that they hardly ever update their stock (ex. mobile phones, cameras, other portable crap). They may bring in a few new things over the holidays -- particularly in the areas of computer peripherals, toys, home entertainment -- but everything else stays pretty much stagnant. This is especially true in mall locations.
this isn't something unique what Microsoft is doing here
You got that right. Look at what Sony did to the PS3, removing the 'other OS' option there, and this was quite a while ago. At least RIM is being somewhat lenient with its Playbooks, haven't heard a squawk out of 'em after Android started showing up on these.
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How old are you? First of all, you spelled DIARRHEA wrong. Second, mentioning that in the first place is so damn childish. Good grief!!
A dual boot option is much more appealing when all the hardware just works and generally faster than in Windows. Ok not for everyone I know but it is a big negative when people find their printer isn't going to work in Linux.
If you're going to install a printer on a Linux system, make it an HP. Ubuntu and HPLIP especially seem like they were made for each other, nowadays anyway. HPLIP works fine in Fedora as well. Not sure about it on the other distros though.
Windows 8 is a catastrophe only for those who use it with a keyboard and mouse. For the rest of us, it is the greatest desktop operating system.
That is if you're willing to wait for the OEMs to come forward with tablets that'll run Windows 8. Microsoft is sure to charge a pretty penny for both versions of Surface and will more than likely do anything to hold back OEMs' releases of tablets.
A tool built almost entirely in javascript doesn't work with a JAVASCRIPT BLOCKER?!?!?!?!?11111111
That's just crazy talk.
But seriously, expecting to browse the modern web with noscript enabled just isn't sane.
No duh! If you're so afraid of being rained on by the web's foreign particles, use a text-based web browser like Lynx.
Flash's death would have been better if HTML5 were a more realistic competitor.
Oh, so now you're going to dump on lazy coders who don't want to even touch HTML5 just because it's 'new' or because they don't wan't to uproot the Flash architecture on their websites for fear of ending up with a load of crap they have to clean up afterwards. The only answer to this problem would be to keep the Flash version of the site running and have the HTML5 version running alongside with some kind of Flash detection engine written into the site's code. It'd be messy and would have to be done for quite some time, but it'd work.
If you try to download a 20 GB game over 5 GB/mo satellite Internet access, you'll have 4 month latency.
Satellite!?!? What the heck part of frickin' nowhere do you live in? Geez!
This will take needed money from the initiatives to protect the country from zombies, aliens and robots.
Hey! Don't pick on robots! We need them to help manufacture things in this wretched economy. DAMN' YOU OBAMA!! :(
Wait, horseball sounds like something *entirely* different.
Yeah, like some bodily substance you shouldn't mention around women, YUCK!!!
Well, these founders are starting to treat Hulu like a bad dog they're putting to sleep, just awful! And who's to say Netflix isn't next. The NYSE maybe? Netflix only gets a pass because it seems to be made of money these days (no thanks to the Quickster fiasco) and relies strictly on paying viewers. If Hulu had gone that route from the start, they wouldn't be in this mess.
To be frank, some of the staff at US airports appear to have an IQ barely above imbecility. I've been in the US four times, and nowhere else have I seen such unfriendly, unhelpful, and downright hostile personnel than at the airports. A man whose only job appeared to be holding a sign pointing to a gate refused to show us the way to the toilets. Another man went through our bags before we boarded and found the remains of a coconut which we'd intended to eat on the plane; he turned to me (I was 12 at the time), said "you must be a real idiot" and threw it in the garbage. If people like that are employed by the TSA, I'm hardly shocked that situations like the one with the little girl make the news every few weeks. If those dimwits don't know how to properly interact with passengers, put them in a position where they don't have to, or don't hire them.
Last year, we did a trip around Iceland. Before our return flight, when we waited at the security check, we found that we still had some 2 liter bottles of lemonade in our bags. So we started chugging away (don't like to waste food), and a security guy came up to us. He told us to relax and take the bottles on the plane. "This is Reykjavik, not New York. Have a nice flight."
Keep in mind that some of these TSA agents are actually cops that may have been fired for whatever reason by their jurisdiction, and they'd do anything just to make a get by in this economy and retain their experience at the same time. Some cops may actually start out as TSA agents instead of serving in the military or, for heaven's sake, being 'mall cops'.
The Year of the Linux (Gaming) Desktop is finally here!
I'm sure that what we're looking at here are the innards of what's going into the purported 'Steambox' mentioned a few months ago. I mean, wouldn't you expect something like that to run off a Linux kernel, and maybe have a Linux-based programming architecture like the original PlayStation and XBox systems did? Not so sure about this stuff showing up in a Linux desktop distro anytime soon though.
Exactly! Sony's PSP, and purportedly its PlayStation 3 as well, seem to require constant system software updates. Most of these seem to be for good reason but every once in a while there comes a 'security-related bug fix'. How many of these are REALLY weeding out bugs and making the system more secure as opposed to kicking out home-brew hacks?
I remember being able to access a non-interactive weather info service from Kentucky Educational Television way back when (late 1980's at least). This service was aimed at farmers but had some weather info worth while to most people as well. It was accessed via a TeleCaption decoder or the built in caption decoder on your TV. This service went silent some time in 2005 if I'm not mistaken, just a few years before the USA made the digital switch.
Exactly, telcos, ISPs, electronics retailers and the like should be required to assist their customers with this kinda' thing. And it shouldn't matter what security software the customer is using or what platform it's installed on. There needs to be a Geek Squad that specializes in this stuff.
Apple knows how to split it. They just don't know how to split it on Windows. They're simply not good at Windows development.
Hence the PC Free solution they're working on, which should entail adding iTunes' functionality to iCloud. It just makes sense!
In the music area of the local best buy, there's usually one employee and no customers, a pretty limited selection, and it's rare that any price breaks are available. I can't see myself buying anything there.
I can beg to differ, I visited such a Best Buy location in the Portland Oregon metro area in 2010 and noticed quite a few folks there, maybe because it was just after Christmas at the time.
Yup! And I'm sure Wal-Mart, Target and even Rat $hack do nowadays. The latter shoud be lucky to still be in existence.
That Metro UI is probably protected by copyright laws and the closest anyone is gonna' come to that is Ubuntu with their Unity UI. Would be cool to see something like that in Fedora or one of the other big distros though.
No kidding, especially when you consider that doing this yourself is time/energy consuming and ILLEGAL. For that matter, I don't see how CoinStar didn't get the jump on this project. I'm starting to imagine UltraViolet conversion functions on the Redboxes. That'd be sweet!
The blame will land on piracy, because they can't admit that things like the Mythbox (mentioned by an AC in another response to my post) and other DVRs totally wreck their scheme.
You forgot Netflix, which just happens to be viewable via most Blu-Ray players and set-top boxes (a handy option if you don't have a smart TV). There's quite a bit of movie content to be had there, even with Starz bowing out.
Account access is one thing, game compatibility is yet another. I'm sure Steam's auths are going to LOVE porting their games to a TV-viewable format. And for that matter, some of Steam's games have keyboard controls. If we're talking about a Bluetooth keyboard here, offering one of those with the gaming system would be expensive (unless companies like Nyko and MadCatz offered them).
Or do you just have a dedicated tablet that never leaves the viewing area? What about multiple TVs? Gets expensive really quick.
That is unless the cable/satellite TV providers start offering subsidized tablets with pre-installed remote control apps. These however will most likely be underpowered as well as locked down (read: no installing your own stuff on these) and will surely become the newest hacker/cracker toys.
Meg Whitman's spreading of FUD isn't going to help HP one iota. HP buttered their bread a long time ago when they bought Palm and put WebOS on the TouchPad, only to have the TouchPad flop a short time later. At least they still have their printers to keep their biz afloat. WebOS, on the other hand, will probably live on in toys, smart TVs, appliances and cars. Just sayin'.
I find no fault with them except for the fact that they hardly ever update their stock (ex. mobile phones, cameras, other portable crap). They may bring in a few new things over the holidays -- particularly in the areas of computer peripherals, toys, home entertainment -- but everything else stays pretty much stagnant. This is especially true in mall locations.
this isn't something unique what Microsoft is doing here
You got that right. Look at what Sony did to the PS3, removing the 'other OS' option there, and this was quite a while ago. At least RIM is being somewhat lenient with its Playbooks, haven't heard a squawk out of 'em after Android started showing up on these.