I'm pretty sure I've said this at least one occasion before on/., but it bears repeating.
I wouldn't turn ads off if they weren't so idiotic, invasive, and everywhere.
Half of the websites I use are significantly faster because my browser isn't loading 8 flash instances for one page for all of the ads.
Then there's the ads that try and make themselves look like they're part of the site you're visiting to intentionally bait you into clicking on them.
Why not actually try and sell me shit I might actually want to buy, with tasteful or even funny ads that actually convey something about the product I might be interested in?
I heard rumours of this system and held off on a new laptop purchase until after the announcement in the hopes they'd release something at a reasonable price tag and with hardware I'd like.
And they didn't.
$999 for the 11" cheap version of a system with a CPU that is already outdated? No thanks.
Instead, I bought an ASUS U30Jc: Core I3, 4G of RAM, 13.3" screen, aluminum, replaceable battery, relatively light, albeit not as thin as the macbook, and all for $200 less. Throw in an SSD and we're still at $100 less.
I mean, 1.4GHz? The used laptop I sold for $200 last week had a 1.6GHz dual core.
Every once in a while, another story like this pops up on/. They're either talking about the strides its making in the desktop market, how it's stagnating on the desktop, or outright troll summaries like this one.
I just don't give a shit.
I run linux on my desktop. My wife does too. As do my parents. Know why? Because my 'support calls' are ZERO. My mother NEVER calls me because something screwed up on her computer like she did with Windows. She sits down, she plays some fucking farmville, talks to her sisters on facebook, reads her e-mail, and she goes away.
All that said, I couldn't possibly care less what you run, or what your family runs. It doesn't affect my life any. If linux becomes the defacto desktop OS, great. If not, great.
My only gripe, the one thing that pisses me off, is how it's still damn near impossible to get a competitively priced, good hardware laptop without fucking Windows on it. That infuriates the shit out of me.
Other than that, use Windows or Mac OS all you want. They're not for me, and they never just do what I want them to. If they do for you, wonderful.
I have it in a box somewhere. I've played it, and intend to play it through, but the battle system is just infuriating.
And a story I cared about still hadn't jumped out at me after a fair bit of gameplay -- I figured it would given more time, like X did, I just never got there (yet).
I haven't even bothered with FF XIV. I do have XIII, and it hasn't captured me like the previous games have -- even X. I love the hell out of Final Fantasy, and my favourite games of all time are pretty much all of them up until X.
The point of my post, though, is that they could make another 16 bit version of the game like FFIV or FFVI, and I'd still play it because those games had amazing story lines. The story in XIII was more confusing than anything for quite some time. It took me a while just to figure out WHAT was happening, much less why I was interested in playing it.
I spend most of my time searching for good old SNES RPGs on the Internet because most of the new ones spent more time making the special moves look pretty and less time making the story interesting and in-depth.
Story of my life. I commute on Highway 401 in Southern Ontario, Canada every day. I spend the vast majority of my time in the far right lane passing everybody because it's EMPTY. Everyone is in the left and middle lanes going too slow or blocking up traffic. It's insane.
And yes, the 'get to the right' law exists here too. Nobody pays attention to it, nor is it enforced.
In all seriousness, though, there's plenty of documented issues. Many of which have bitten me or a friend/colleague:
- Pressing the 'wireless lock' button on a coworker's netbook would kernel panic. - My wife's netbook would randomly crash, and on reboot have lost half its filesystem. - Major (recent) releases have shipped without working WPA.
And yes, I understand many of these may be upstream's fault, or someone outside of the Ubuntu world, but these same issues didn't impact other distros.
Ubuntu seems to put more effort into making it pretty and changing the UI than making it stable.
A very good friend of mine was murdered in October of 2008 (for those of you in Toronto/Ontario/Canada, Bailey Zaveda, the girl that was gunned down while outside of a bar having a cigarette) by someone she didn't know and had no involvement with.
Anyway, her facebook account still exists, and I don't see the problem with that. Everyone knows what happened to her, and her profile served as part of the grieving process for many people. To this day, they post their latest happenings in their lives on her wall, say happy birthday to her, etc.
I mean, if the interest here is to get the facebook.com/username or twitter userid back, then revoke those after say, 1 year of inactivity, but I don't see the harm in leaving the account there for people to reminisce, grieve, or whatever.
More specifically, if they're price fixing, how cheap should these things be? 24" IPS panels go on sale for like $249. That's price fixed? That already seems insanely cheap to me.
How about we stop giving driver's licenses to anyone who can manage to stand up? Make them more difficult to get, and remove drivers from the road when they become unsafe.
I know, what a concept, right?
I bet if the drivers on the road were better tested and more competent, the rate of serious injuries and fatailities might not get to zero, but it'd be way closer than it is now.
"What's that clicking? Oh my left blinker's on. Wonder how long that's been on for. I got in the left lane doing less than the speed limit only a few minutes ago, so it must have been then."
Slashdot Mirror
They already make one. It's called an iPhone.
We wish you could, but we don't know who to write the cheque out to.
I'm pretty sure I've said this at least one occasion before on /., but it bears repeating.
I wouldn't turn ads off if they weren't so idiotic, invasive, and everywhere.
Half of the websites I use are significantly faster because my browser isn't loading 8 flash instances for one page for all of the ads.
Then there's the ads that try and make themselves look like they're part of the site you're visiting to intentionally bait you into clicking on them.
Why not actually try and sell me shit I might actually want to buy, with tasteful or even funny ads that actually convey something about the product I might be interested in?
One of the scientists is just fat and wants to redefine the kilo to be a bit bigger so he weighs less.
It beats NOT eating Double Downs.
I heard rumours of this system and held off on a new laptop purchase until after the announcement in the hopes they'd release something at a reasonable price tag and with hardware I'd like.
And they didn't.
$999 for the 11" cheap version of a system with a CPU that is already outdated? No thanks.
Instead, I bought an ASUS U30Jc: Core I3, 4G of RAM, 13.3" screen, aluminum, replaceable battery, relatively light, albeit not as thin as the macbook, and all for $200 less. Throw in an SSD and we're still at $100 less.
I mean, 1.4GHz? The used laptop I sold for $200 last week had a 1.6GHz dual core.
Me too. I haven't purchased an RIAA or MPAA licensed product since 2001.
I still go to concerts, buy CDs off of artists who aren't members (the list is increasing), and pay a fair bit of money for music.
Just not to those assholes.
Every once in a while, another story like this pops up on /. They're either talking about the strides its making in the desktop market, how it's stagnating on the desktop, or outright troll summaries like this one.
I just don't give a shit.
I run linux on my desktop. My wife does too. As do my parents. Know why? Because my 'support calls' are ZERO. My mother NEVER calls me because something screwed up on her computer like she did with Windows. She sits down, she plays some fucking farmville, talks to her sisters on facebook, reads her e-mail, and she goes away.
All that said, I couldn't possibly care less what you run, or what your family runs. It doesn't affect my life any. If linux becomes the defacto desktop OS, great. If not, great.
My only gripe, the one thing that pisses me off, is how it's still damn near impossible to get a competitively priced, good hardware laptop without fucking Windows on it. That infuriates the shit out of me.
Other than that, use Windows or Mac OS all you want. They're not for me, and they never just do what I want them to. If they do for you, wonderful.
I love you guys.
You should be more impressed that the value didn't change.
I have it in a box somewhere. I've played it, and intend to play it through, but the battle system is just infuriating.
And a story I cared about still hadn't jumped out at me after a fair bit of gameplay -- I figured it would given more time, like X did, I just never got there (yet).
I haven't even bothered with FF XIV. I do have XIII, and it hasn't captured me like the previous games have -- even X. I love the hell out of Final Fantasy, and my favourite games of all time are pretty much all of them up until X.
The point of my post, though, is that they could make another 16 bit version of the game like FFIV or FFVI, and I'd still play it because those games had amazing story lines. The story in XIII was more confusing than anything for quite some time. It took me a while just to figure out WHAT was happening, much less why I was interested in playing it.
I spend most of my time searching for good old SNES RPGs on the Internet because most of the new ones spent more time making the special moves look pretty and less time making the story interesting and in-depth.
I'm still waiting for Windows to work well on ONE.
That's what upsets me the most about this sort of thing.
Be a man, respond with, "he's right; we need to fix that."
There's honour in that. Not filing charges against him, that's just sleazy.
I make slightly more than $75k/year on my full-time job. I have a wife (who doesn't work), and a son. We do pretty well for ourselves.
Story of my life. I commute on Highway 401 in Southern Ontario, Canada every day. I spend the vast majority of my time in the far right lane passing everybody because it's EMPTY. Everyone is in the left and middle lanes going too slow or blocking up traffic. It's insane.
And yes, the 'get to the right' law exists here too. Nobody pays attention to it, nor is it enforced.
I was totally going to hack the gibson, but Snoop Dogg is my nizzle, and he's taught me that hacking is wrizong.
Excuse me, I think I have a church sermon to attend now.
Anyone that can help this idiotic patent system implode upon itself is alright by me.
A company that would profit from net neutrality being abolished states its bad for the Internet.
More at 11.
This is /. I'm all about the hyperbole.
In all seriousness, though, there's plenty of documented issues. Many of which have bitten me or a friend/colleague:
- Pressing the 'wireless lock' button on a coworker's netbook would kernel panic.
- My wife's netbook would randomly crash, and on reboot have lost half its filesystem.
- Major (recent) releases have shipped without working WPA.
And yes, I understand many of these may be upstream's fault, or someone outside of the Ubuntu world, but these same issues didn't impact other distros.
Ubuntu seems to put more effort into making it pretty and changing the UI than making it stable.
Because I always wonder if they can actually be better.
To the distro I keep crawling back to. I always go off searching for the next great thing, and realise debian was the great thing all along.
And ubuntu is second rate (at best) compared to debian. Ubuntu's got severe stability problems. debian almost never fails me.
A very good friend of mine was murdered in October of 2008 (for those of you in Toronto/Ontario/Canada, Bailey Zaveda, the girl that was gunned down while outside of a bar having a cigarette) by someone she didn't know and had no involvement with.
Anyway, her facebook account still exists, and I don't see the problem with that. Everyone knows what happened to her, and her profile served as part of the grieving process for many people. To this day, they post their latest happenings in their lives on her wall, say happy birthday to her, etc.
I mean, if the interest here is to get the facebook.com/username or twitter userid back, then revoke those after say, 1 year of inactivity, but I don't see the harm in leaving the account there for people to reminisce, grieve, or whatever.
I know all about molecular biology:
Fatal exception 0E has occurred in module NTKERNEL.DLL.
More specifically, if they're price fixing, how cheap should these things be? 24" IPS panels go on sale for like $249. That's price fixed? That already seems insanely cheap to me.
How about we stop giving driver's licenses to anyone who can manage to stand up? Make them more difficult to get, and remove drivers from the road when they become unsafe.
I know, what a concept, right?
I bet if the drivers on the road were better tested and more competent, the rate of serious injuries and fatailities might not get to zero, but it'd be way closer than it is now.
"What's that clicking? Oh my left blinker's on. Wonder how long that's been on for. I got in the left lane doing less than the speed limit only a few minutes ago, so it must have been then."