The days where people just queued for hours to get the latest OS/game/etc... are almost gone. Most people have left behind that romanticized period (thanks god).
I think this mentality is still alive in the Linux world, even though the age of the internet makes it unnecessary to wait in line for hours. As soon as a new version of a program comes out or a new distro (e.g. Ubuntu) comes out, everyone has to get it right away (usually crashing the server in Ubuntu's case), even though the old version is working perfectly fine.
You can see this on a distro level as well, where it seems like all the major distros made KDE 4.0 the default even though it wasn't quite ready yet, just because it was the newest thing.
The bad ones don't even try to make small-talk when they call you up ("Jim? It's Bob. I need you to come over and...").
I can't stand it when people call me up for support and make small talk for 10 to 15 minutes before asking their technical question. I much prefer people calling me to talk when they want to talk and calling me for support when they want support.
I bet there will be a shortage of virgin real damn quick, followed real soon by a population increase.
And then the population increase will supply new virgins. Assuming the volcano gods do not specify female virgins, the practice will just shift to throwing children into the volcano. Girls will get married off as soon as they reach puberty, so that they won't be thrown in to the volcano. As a compromise, the Village Elders will decree that only the eldest child of every union will have to be thrown into the volcano. Generations later, no one will remember why they are throwing kids into the volcano, and the people will just assume that is what the volcano gods desired.
"I don't agree that just because a (competing) product has a feature that we don't have, that feature is important," he said. "It is not. It is only important if it is a feature the customer wants. There are plenty of products out there with features we don't have. We have plenty of features that our customers don't use.
"If there are features in our products that are subpar or need to be added, then I have great confidence that we are an organization that responds pretty quickly and effectively to that."
English reiterated that features such as tabbed browsing are not important to IE users. [emphasis mine]
"I don't believe it is a true statement that IE doesn't have the features that our customers want," he said. "We take user feedback very seriously. If you have that feedback, then you should feed it back to us because we will feed it to the product team."
I always thought that the reason why none of IE's customers asked for Tabbed Browsing was because once they used it in Firefox, they never went back to IE.
I have a television with a subscription to a certain channel that airs a certain show. It should be acceptable for me to watch a recording of that particular show that somebody else has made from their television.
Are you saying that it would be unacceptable for me to borrow a tape a friend made of a show if I don't have access to it?
What if I go over to a friend's house and watch a tape of a show that I didn't have access to in my house?
What if he rented/bought a movie I didn't own? Should it be illegal to watch because I didn't pay for the right to view the movie?
I guess I am trying to say that whether or not I have access to the show is irrelevant.
If it was just the show, why is Fox refusing to sell the TV rights to Universal/UPN (like they did for angel AND buffy after canning them)? It's only through a contract oversight that Joss was allowed to have Universal make the movie; Fox has firefly (as well as the next 2-3 show ideas Joss has) "locked up" as far as TV series go for the next something like 5-6 years.
I was just wondering where I could get more information about the 'contract oversight' you mentioned.
Roberto De Leo is the creater/maintainer of The Movix Project, one of the most useful live Linux Distros I have ever used.
With Movix, I can boot up to a linux environment that plays all forms of multimedia. It uses mplayer. It came in really handy my Linux drive died. I was still able to play all the media on my/home partition without issue.
The latest Knoppix Version I used, 3.4 (2004-05-10), has support for Captive NTFS (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/). This lets you use your existing Windows XP NTFS drivers to mount NTFS partitions.
(and Linux was proprietary to begin with, it was liberated in 1992 when Linus changed the license to the GNU GPL.)
Linux wasn't really proprietary, it was open with a stricter license than the GPL. It could not be sold at all. It was later changed to the GPL so (among other things) people could charge distribution costs.
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The days where people just queued for hours to get the latest OS/game/etc... are almost gone. Most people have left behind that romanticized period (thanks god).
I think this mentality is still alive in the Linux world, even though the age of the internet makes it unnecessary to wait in line for hours. As soon as a new version of a program comes out or a new distro (e.g. Ubuntu) comes out, everyone has to get it right away (usually crashing the server in Ubuntu's case), even though the old version is working perfectly fine.
You can see this on a distro level as well, where it seems like all the major distros made KDE 4.0 the default even though it wasn't quite ready yet, just because it was the newest thing.
Apple is the new Microsoft.
And like Microsoft, Apple also patents ideas with clear prior art. Take a look at Daniel Stenberg's post about two cases where Apple patented ideas that were included in Rockbox years before.
My mother loves using skype and google talk to communicate with her granddaughter on the other side of the country.
She would never go back to dialup, knowing that she could no longer video chat.
I wonder how many older people don't even know that such services are available, and how much they would enjoy using them?
Thank you, Mr Shatner.
I bet there will be a shortage of virgin real damn quick, followed real soon by a population increase.
And then the population increase will supply new virgins. Assuming the volcano gods do not specify female virgins, the practice will just shift to throwing children into the volcano. Girls will get married off as soon as they reach puberty, so that they won't be thrown in to the volcano. As a compromise, the Village Elders will decree that only the eldest child of every union will have to be thrown into the volcano. Generations later, no one will remember why they are throwing kids into the volcano, and the people will just assume that is what the volcano gods desired.
There are a few programs out there that will let you format a drive larger than 32GB in FAT32.
Here are some free ones:
SwissKnife
h2format (direct download link)
...I'll be in my room.
"I don't agree that just because a (competing) product has a feature that we don't have, that feature is important," he said. "It is not. It is only important if it is a feature the customer wants. There are plenty of products out there with features we don't have. We have plenty of features that our customers don't use.
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"If there are features in our products that are subpar or need to be added, then I have great confidence that we are an organization that responds pretty quickly and effectively to that."
English reiterated that features such as tabbed browsing are not important to IE users. [emphasis mine]
"I don't believe it is a true statement that IE doesn't have the features that our customers want," he said. "We take user feedback very seriously. If you have that feedback, then you should feed it back to us because we will feed it to the product team."
quote from http://news.com.com/Microsoft+says+Firefox+not+a+
I always thought that the reason why none of IE's customers asked for Tabbed Browsing was because once they used it in Firefox, they never went back to IE.
I have a television with a subscription to a certain channel that airs a certain show. It should be acceptable for me to watch a recording of that particular show that somebody else has made from their television.
Are you saying that it would be unacceptable for me to borrow a tape a friend made of a show if I don't have access to it?
What if I go over to a friend's house and watch a tape of a show that I didn't have access to in my house?
What if he rented/bought a movie I didn't own? Should it be illegal to watch because I didn't pay for the right to view the movie?
I guess I am trying to say that whether or not I have access to the show is irrelevant.
If it was just the show, why is Fox refusing to sell the TV rights to Universal/UPN (like they did for angel AND buffy after canning them)? It's only through a contract oversight that Joss was allowed to have Universal make the movie; Fox has firefly (as well as the next 2-3 show ideas Joss has) "locked up" as far as TV series go for the next something like 5-6 years.
I was just wondering where I could get more information about the 'contract oversight' you mentioned.
You can also try SuperDuper from Shirt-Pocket - http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperD escription.html.
The cloning part of the program is free.
Even I - ever the daft prick - know that.
I had to read that twice, the first time I saw it as draft pick
Roberto De Leo is the creater/maintainer of The Movix Project, one of the most useful live Linux Distros I have ever used.
With Movix, I can boot up to a linux environment that plays all forms of multimedia. It uses mplayer. It came in really handy my Linux drive died. I was still able to play all the media on my /home partition without issue.
AGDI have remade Kings Quest One and Two in VGA modes with voice and music packs.
Awesome stuff!Check it out at http://www.agdinteractive.com
The latest Knoppix Version I used, 3.4 (2004-05-10), has support for Captive NTFS (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/). This lets you use your existing Windows XP NTFS drivers to mount NTFS partitions.
Linux wasn't really proprietary, it was open with a stricter license than the GPL. It could not be sold at all. It was later changed to the GPL so (among other things) people could charge distribution costs.