"For me, the biggest selling point is that it is the least toy-like in appearance of the three. The DS may be fun, but I think it looks a little too much like a kid's toy."
No matter how sleek, how tiny, or how shiny a portable is, you'll still look like a nerd when you're hunched over it at a bus stop. A legion of dancing silhouettes and Apple's marketing department couldn't change that.
Not going to happen, because Apple is extremely protective of FairPlay (Their DRM scheme). When Real made their songs iPod compatible, Apple immediately released an update that made Real's songs incompatible.
I think the only solution would be a standardized DRM scheme that could be attached to any type of codec, be it WMA, AAC, or MP3, but I really don't see Apple licencing Fairplay to other companies or paying Microsoft for WM10 DRM compatibility (even though MS practically gives it away).
I'll bite, since everyone's sharing their stories.
I'm a Junior Biomedical Engineering major in a program that's ranked in the top 10. Our engineering school as a whole is ranked around 30, or some such.
At this school, BME consists of taking standard engineering courses (with the exception of two biology courses, chemistry, introductory course, and a 300-level BME-specific course) until you're a Senior, when you'll be able to take courses that are related to your field of interest. Yep, all two of them.
Anyways. Every pure engineering class I've ever taken was completely and totally worthless, in terms of what I got out of the class. The closest most professors come to explaining a concept is mathematically deriving a formula. Engineering can't be taught in a class environment. In can be clarified, but in order to actually understand it, you have to work out problems, and lots of them. In fact, there have been several times in classes where I went into the lecture with an elementary understanding of the subject, and I came out of the lecture more confused then ever.
The worst problem with being an engineering major is that you're being driven towards industry. There's little, if any, discussion of the research going on in the field. I felt like I got screwed, because the introductory course focused on the research that each professor conducted within the department, but by the time you get to the 300 level course, they're assuming you're all going to be designing marketable products. That's one thing I miss about the pure sciences they actually focus on the theory and recent research, wheras engineering courses usually focus on industry and 50-60 year old material.
Engineering degree programs aslo have to adhere to ABET certification. ABET certification requires you to take 45 credits of engineering topics. This becomes a problem when you want to take science courses as your electives. Any science course that doesn't fall under the jurisdiction of the engineering school (Chemistry, Biology, Math, some Physics) do not count as engineering topics.
And even if you do make it into industry, you'll often find that all the hard work you spent to fully understand PDE's and Fourier Transforms was pretty much worthless, as every moderately challenging mathematical problem is taken care of by computation. Most of the guys I run into live their lives out of reference books and modeling/computation programs.
Honestly... I'm an engineering major and I can't understand what the hell people are thinking when they set out to work in industry. While the starting pay is substantially higher than average when compared to that of other disciplines, you're more disposable and moving between industries is quite a pain (as you have to be retrained to deal with that industry's product). And then there's IP.
Nintendo didn't develop or publish Resident Evil 4 or Killer 7, those were both developed and published by Capcom. That's why they were also released for the PS2.
Perfect Dark, on the other hand, was developed by Rare, which was part of Nintendo at the time. Now Rare is owned by Microsoft.
"They probably didn't buy their way through life, but paid their way through life. Their financial decisions were smart decisions, not selfish ones."
True, but you forget one thing: College.
It used to be normal for most people not to go to college. Now it's pretty much a requirement if you want a decent paying job that won't be outsourced. I know there are exceptions, but they're relatively rare. Any good parent these days know that they'll have to save up a good 40-50k for a public university.
On top of that, many parents are *still* paying off their loans (I'll be paying ~$200 a month for 15 years after I finish college), some need a car for their hour commute ($300-$500), and have a nice mortgage to top it all off (add another $500-$800).
I don't think you should be worried about teenagers getting their hands on 'hot coffee' material. Most kids older than 12 has already seen/read/discussed material that's MUCH dirtier than the pixelated bumping and grinding that's in the mod.
I think people should me more worried about those parents who buy games like GTA for their 8 to 10 year olds. Sure, they won't like the fact that they can't get the game, but what can they do? Most 8 year olds don't have $50-$60 lying around, and I think most cashiers would be a little bit weary of a preteen attempting to purchase a game rated M or AO.
Too bad all of those suck except Pikmin and Eternal Darkness.
I own a GC myself. There are some amazing games on the system (Wind Waker, Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil 4, Pikmin, Metroid Prime, Tales of Symphonia). But I always find myself not even touching the system for six months at a time, because I'm waiting for the next game that interests me to be released.
Wheras with my PS2, there's always a new game every month or so that is worth playing, just because of the sheer amount of games that are being published. Does Nintendo make better games on average? Of course. But their third party support? Horrible (For the GC, not for the GBA:P).
While Sony or Microsoft may not be able to compete with Nintendo in terms of quality, the sheer volume of games being published on their platform guarantees that there will be at least one game every two months that I'll want to buy or check out.
Let me compare the number of games that I have enjoyed which have been released in the past year in both lineups:
GCN: Resident Evil 4 Metroid Prime 2
Sony: God of War Atelier Iris Stella Deus Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga Phantom Brave Gran Turismo 4...
How many people were successfully prosecuted AS TERRORISTS under the Patriot Act again?
Interesting you use the word 'prosecute', given that most suspected terrorists don't even get that kind of attention, and are indefinitely detained as 'enemy combatants'.
2) Going through Microsoft's dehumanizing interview process
I don't know where you got that one from. Sure, they ask strange questions, but they treat you quite well when you're interviewing.
I've had two friends interview for internships with Microsoft, and a third who got a job there after college. All three of them made it a point to brag about how well MS treated them at the interviews (despite the bizarre questions asked), and how well they treat their employees.
It seems like a Linux user's definition of power user and mine are quite different. This is what I 'do' as a 'power user':
1) Fiddle around with different shells (LiteStep, Talisman, etc...). Good for a little fun. Fooling around with other people's widgets is fun, too. (I'm not motivated enough to write my own, so I just modify other people's to run on my computer.)
2) Tweak my drivers. I use the Omega drivers and play around with the settings to get the most out of my rapidly aging Radeon 9000. I've probably juiced a little bit more life out of the card because of this.
3) Rip/encode CD's & DVD's.
4) Manage my (small) home network.
Pretty much anything short of writing my own drivers or apps is what I see as being a power user.
Heh, this entire thread reminds me of a bash quote:
<dm> I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem. <dm> For example, I didn't know how to find files by contents and the man pages were way too confusing. What did I do? I knew from experience that if I just asked, I'd be told to read the man pages even though it was too hard for me. <dm> Instead, I did what works. Trolling. By stating that Linux sucked because it was so hard to find a file compared to Windows, I got every self-described Linux Guru around the world coming to my aid. They gave me examples after examples of different ways to do it. All this in order to prove to everyone that Linux was better. * ion has quit IRC (Ping timeout) <dm> brings a tear to my eye...:') so true.. <dm> So if you're starting out Linux, I advise you to use the same method as I did to get help. Start the sentence with "Linux is gay because it can't do XXX like Windows can". You will have PhDs running to tell you how to solve your problems. <dm> this person must be a kindred spirit of mine
"Now, however, you're a big bad "power user" and your ego won't let you go back to being a noob and learning Linux. To bad - your loss."
If you actually read the end of my post, the learning curve for Linux kills it for me. I don't mind being a noob. I do mind having to spend an inordinate amount of time to get back to the level I was before. OS X took me 2 hours. XP took me 4. Kubuntu.... I spent the better part of two days and I was still as frustrated as ever.
Also, when I first installed Kubunutu, it was around two weeks after its release. Most of those solutions probably weren't posted. I did find instructions on how to get the Intel 2100 to work with my laptop, but as I stated, it required compiling, which I wasn't comfortable with.
Secondly, every time I wanted to access the internet, I had to reboot into Windows, which in itself made me more frustrated with the system. I know that's not a logical complaint, but I'm trying to demonstrate what drives someone to believe that Linux isn't anywhere as advanced when it comes to ease-of-use as XP or OS X.
I'll admit I wasn't willing to spend the time to learn. That's what I was trying to get across. I have better things to do then wrestle with my computer all day. As I stated in my conclusion, it shouldn't take someone like me longer than a day to learn an operating system if it's supposed to be 'ready'.
I'm not signing off Linux forever, though. I tend to try it every two or three years or so, just to see how it's going. I do like the idea of Linux, but until it becomes easier to learn, I don't think I'll use it.
"Have you tried the program synaptic? The GUI package manager? It should be in your KDE menu. If not just run "sudo synaptic". For that matter, did you even read the documentation [kubuntu.org] telling you in clear and simple steps exactly what to do?"
ACtually, I did.. I don't remember exactly what was wrong, but it internet updating was disabled by default, or something like that. It also didn't help much that pretty much every KDE utility consistently crashed on me. I found that a bit confusing. it may have not reacted well with my laptop, but I'm not sure.
Yes, I have, with decent success. Beyond my modem, I get pretty much everything running fine on a clean install of XP. I wasn't expecting video acceleration, but I was hoping I could at least get my wireless card working.
I'd read that Intel had released Linux drivers for my wireless card about a year ago. I had figured that such support would have been integrated into Kubuntu, which was the most recent distribution at the time, but I was wrong.
IMO, if a driver for a wireless card that's as popular as the Intel ones still isn't supported in a default install when drivers were released months ago, Linux still has serious support issues.
Which will, finally, result in power users and gamers having Linux as an option. That means that the latest hardware will be released with good Linux drivers and the games will be available on Linux. The biggest problem here is the Microsoft desktop monopoly.
Uh, no. I'm one such power user, and the problem with Linux is that moderate customization requires intimate knowledge of the command line and Linux's quirks.
I'm an XP man, but when I used a PowerBook for two weeks, I could easily install and remove programs, connect my external hard drive, and had some interface customizations up and running in a matter of minutes.
Compare that with my Linux experience: Two months ago, I installed Kubuntu onto my laptop. It's very likely that all of the issues that I ran into are easily fixable, but the solutions were simply not apparent or mentioned on all the help sites I went to. Let me tell you one thing: Most people don't like recompiling the kernel, compiling programs, or compiling drivers. It's probably a simple process (I've never had success with it myself), but it simply should not be required for usability purposes.
First issue: Installing software. This blew ass. First, I had to find out the name of the package, and tried to use apt-get. This didn't pan out. Then I found out that the servers that apt-get was trying to use were disabled, or something to that effect, so I had to go and edit a text file to allow for this. This pissed me off quite a bit, because had I not been dual-booting Windows at the time, I would have had no way of knowing how to fix it.
Second Issue: Getting my wifi card to work. This was fairly important, as my connection utilized my campus's wireless. So whenever I had an issue, I had to reboot into Windows and search for it. I never managed to get it to work, even though I have one that's fairly ubiquitous (Intel 2100). After futzing around with the command line for a couple of hours and browsing some sites, I tried to figure out how to install the drivers derived from the intel open-source release. Then I foudn I'd have to compile the drivers or whatnot, and I gave up there until I could find someone experienced in the matter.
Third Issue: I couldn't get it to sleep. I spent a good 40 or 50 minutes to find out that I needed to recompile the kernel to include support for sleep.
Fourth Issue: Realizing that I had just wasted my time installing Linux. I could do everything I could do in Windows, except it took me twice as long. Screen space was a serious issue. Using OpenOffice at 1024x768 felt like using MS Word at 640x480. My screen always felt cramped. Image editing in GIMP just sucked. Even when using Photoshop, I felt that 1024x768 wasn't sufficient for some of the stuff I was working on, and using GIMP made me feel like I was working at 800x600.
Obviously, I'm back to XP. I'm willing to spend the extra $300 to save the time and frustration that I've had using Linux. I realize that pretty much all of these issues are 'trivial', but the fact that I ran into all of these problems in the span of two days seems unacceptable. When I used OSX for the very first time, it took me less than two hours to become proficient. XP took me 4. Linux needs to get to the point where a power user like myself can be quite proficient over the span of a day.
Have they disabled a lot of stuff like they have in the 'rc' releases of longhorn? Or is all the 'glits' tossed in (visual effects and the like)?
If previous betas (of Whistler/XP) are any indication, this beta should have about 70-80% of the features in the final product, including the interface. But considering the interface is the easiest thing to change, I wouldn't count on the 'glits' being the one found in the final product.
No more. God damn. How many times can you recycle the same fucking joke? There have been thousands of articles that have come through this website, and in every single one, morons manage to work in 'Does it run Linux?', '....you insenstiive clod!' and 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' 'jokes'.
They were funny the first ten times. They're not funny the millionth time. God damn. Stop. Is your life so pathetic that you can only regurgitate memes from a fucking geek news site? You're worse than the morons who constantly quote Star Trek. Burn in hell, all of you.
The sick irony is that some motherfucker is going to reply to this comment using all three of those memes somehow.
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"For me, the biggest selling point is that it is the least toy-like in appearance of the three. The DS may be fun, but I think it looks a little too much like a kid's toy."
No matter how sleek, how tiny, or how shiny a portable is, you'll still look like a nerd when you're hunched over it at a bus stop. A legion of dancing silhouettes and Apple's marketing department couldn't change that.
Not going to happen, because Apple is extremely protective of FairPlay (Their DRM scheme). When Real made their songs iPod compatible, Apple immediately released an update that made Real's songs incompatible.
I think the only solution would be a standardized DRM scheme that could be attached to any type of codec, be it WMA, AAC, or MP3, but I really don't see Apple licencing Fairplay to other companies or paying Microsoft for WM10 DRM compatibility (even though MS practically gives it away).
I'll bite, since everyone's sharing their stories.
I'm a Junior Biomedical Engineering major in a program that's ranked in the top 10. Our engineering school as a whole is ranked around 30, or some such.
At this school, BME consists of taking standard engineering courses (with the exception of two biology courses, chemistry, introductory course, and a 300-level BME-specific course) until you're a Senior, when you'll be able to take courses that are related to your field of interest. Yep, all two of them.
Anyways. Every pure engineering class I've ever taken was completely and totally worthless, in terms of what I got out of the class. The closest most professors come to explaining a concept is mathematically deriving a formula. Engineering can't be taught in a class environment. In can be clarified, but in order to actually understand it, you have to work out problems, and lots of them. In fact, there have been several times in classes where I went into the lecture with an elementary understanding of the subject, and I came out of the lecture more confused then ever.
The worst problem with being an engineering major is that you're being driven towards industry. There's little, if any, discussion of the research going on in the field. I felt like I got screwed, because the introductory course focused on the research that each professor conducted within the department, but by the time you get to the 300 level course, they're assuming you're all going to be designing marketable products. That's one thing I miss about the pure sciences they actually focus on the theory and recent research, wheras engineering courses usually focus on industry and 50-60 year old material.
Engineering degree programs aslo have to adhere to ABET certification. ABET certification requires you to take 45 credits of engineering topics. This becomes a problem when you want to take science courses as your electives. Any science course that doesn't fall under the jurisdiction of the engineering school (Chemistry, Biology, Math, some Physics) do not count as engineering topics.
And even if you do make it into industry, you'll often find that all the hard work you spent to fully understand PDE's and Fourier Transforms was pretty much worthless, as every moderately challenging mathematical problem is taken care of by computation. Most of the guys I run into live their lives out of reference books and modeling/computation programs.
Honestly... I'm an engineering major and I can't understand what the hell people are thinking when they set out to work in industry. While the starting pay is substantially higher than average when compared to that of other disciplines, you're more disposable and moving between industries is quite a pain (as you have to be retrained to deal with that industry's product). And then there's IP.
Nintendo didn't develop or publish Resident Evil 4 or Killer 7, those were both developed and published by Capcom. That's why they were also released for the PS2.
Perfect Dark, on the other hand, was developed by Rare, which was part of Nintendo at the time. Now Rare is owned by Microsoft.
Well, WashU does love money....
"They probably didn't buy their way through life, but paid their way through life. Their financial decisions were smart decisions, not selfish ones."
True, but you forget one thing: College.
It used to be normal for most people not to go to college. Now it's pretty much a requirement if you want a decent paying job that won't be outsourced. I know there are exceptions, but they're relatively rare. Any good parent these days know that they'll have to save up a good 40-50k for a public university.
On top of that, many parents are *still* paying off their loans (I'll be paying ~$200 a month for 15 years after I finish college), some need a car for their hour commute ($300-$500), and have a nice mortgage to top it all off (add another $500-$800).
No shit, but that doesn't seem to prevent them from going ahead and doing it anyways. :P
"Ah, but is what's working for BMW and Mercedes sustainable in the long run?"
Is what's working for the iPod sustainable in the long run? They're both selling a good product based on image, not on features.
I don't think you should be worried about teenagers getting their hands on 'hot coffee' material. Most kids older than 12 has already seen/read/discussed material that's MUCH dirtier than the pixelated bumping and grinding that's in the mod.
I think people should me more worried about those parents who buy games like GTA for their 8 to 10 year olds. Sure, they won't like the fact that they can't get the game, but what can they do? Most 8 year olds don't have $50-$60 lying around, and I think most cashiers would be a little bit weary of a preteen attempting to purchase a game rated M or AO.
Too bad all of those suck except Pikmin and Eternal Darkness.
:P).
I own a GC myself. There are some amazing games on the system (Wind Waker, Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil 4, Pikmin, Metroid Prime, Tales of Symphonia). But I always find myself not even touching the system for six months at a time, because I'm waiting for the next game that interests me to be released.
Wheras with my PS2, there's always a new game every month or so that is worth playing, just because of the sheer amount of games that are being published. Does Nintendo make better games on average? Of course. But their third party support? Horrible (For the GC, not for the GBA
While Sony or Microsoft may not be able to compete with Nintendo in terms of quality, the sheer volume of games being published on their platform guarantees that there will be at least one game every two months that I'll want to buy or check out.
Let me compare the number of games that I have enjoyed which have been released in the past year in both lineups:
GCN:
Resident Evil 4
Metroid Prime 2
Sony:
God of War
Atelier Iris
Stella Deus
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
Phantom Brave
Gran Turismo 4...
You get the idea.
Maybe if you want a real explanation of a scientific theory, you should read a fucking textbook. /. isn't going to get you anywhere.
How many people were successfully prosecuted AS TERRORISTS under the Patriot Act again?
Interesting you use the word 'prosecute', given that most suspected terrorists don't even get that kind of attention, and are indefinitely detained as 'enemy combatants'.
2) Going through Microsoft's dehumanizing interview process
I don't know where you got that one from. Sure, they ask strange questions, but they treat you quite well when you're interviewing.
I've had two friends interview for internships with Microsoft, and a third who got a job there after college. All three of them made it a point to brag about how well MS treated them at the interviews (despite the bizarre questions asked), and how well they treat their employees.
They're really all the same, minus some extra shiny icons.
And the drivers included. And the (non-shell) user interface. And the installation/packaging system.
Linux could definitely benefit from *some* consolidation.
It seems like a Linux user's definition of power user and mine are quite different. This is what I 'do' as a 'power user':
1) Fiddle around with different shells (LiteStep, Talisman, etc...). Good for a little fun. Fooling around with other people's widgets is fun, too. (I'm not motivated enough to write my own, so I just modify other people's to run on my computer.)
2) Tweak my drivers. I use the Omega drivers and play around with the settings to get the most out of my rapidly aging Radeon 9000. I've probably juiced a little bit more life out of the card because of this.
3) Rip/encode CD's & DVD's.
4) Manage my (small) home network.
Pretty much anything short of writing my own drivers or apps is what I see as being a power user.
Heh, this entire thread reminds me of a bash quote:
:') so true..
<dm> I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.
<dm> For example, I didn't know how to find files by contents and the man pages were way too confusing. What did I do? I knew from experience that if I just asked, I'd be told to read the man pages even though it was too hard for me.
<dm> Instead, I did what works. Trolling. By stating that Linux sucked because it was so hard to find a file compared to Windows, I got every self-described Linux Guru around the world coming to my aid. They gave me examples after examples of different ways to do it. All this in order to prove to everyone that Linux was better.
* ion has quit IRC (Ping timeout)
<dm> brings a tear to my eye...
<dm> So if you're starting out Linux, I advise you to use the same method as I did to get help. Start the sentence with "Linux is gay because it can't do XXX like Windows can". You will have PhDs running to tell you how to solve your problems.
<dm> this person must be a kindred spirit of mine
Educational discounts. Well, maybe it's more like $400, but the cost of XP is irrelevant to me, as my laptop costs the same regardless.
"Now, however, you're a big bad "power user" and your ego won't let you go back to being a noob and learning Linux. To bad - your loss."
If you actually read the end of my post, the learning curve for Linux kills it for me. I don't mind being a noob. I do mind having to spend an inordinate amount of time to get back to the level I was before. OS X took me 2 hours. XP took me 4. Kubuntu.... I spent the better part of two days and I was still as frustrated as ever.
Also, when I first installed Kubunutu, it was around two weeks after its release. Most of those solutions probably weren't posted. I did find instructions on how to get the Intel 2100 to work with my laptop, but as I stated, it required compiling, which I wasn't comfortable with.
Secondly, every time I wanted to access the internet, I had to reboot into Windows, which in itself made me more frustrated with the system. I know that's not a logical complaint, but I'm trying to demonstrate what drives someone to believe that Linux isn't anywhere as advanced when it comes to ease-of-use as XP or OS X.
I'll admit I wasn't willing to spend the time to learn. That's what I was trying to get across. I have better things to do then wrestle with my computer all day. As I stated in my conclusion, it shouldn't take someone like me longer than a day to learn an operating system if it's supposed to be 'ready'.
I'm not signing off Linux forever, though. I tend to try it every two or three years or so, just to see how it's going. I do like the idea of Linux, but until it becomes easier to learn, I don't think I'll use it.
"Have you tried the program synaptic? The GUI package manager? It should be in your KDE menu. If not just run "sudo synaptic". For that matter, did you even read the documentation [kubuntu.org] telling you in clear and simple steps exactly what to do?"
ACtually, I did.. I don't remember exactly what was wrong, but it internet updating was disabled by default, or something like that. It also didn't help much that pretty much every KDE utility consistently crashed on me. I found that a bit confusing. it may have not reacted well with my laptop, but I'm not sure.
Yes, I have, with decent success. Beyond my modem, I get pretty much everything running fine on a clean install of XP. I wasn't expecting video acceleration, but I was hoping I could at least get my wireless card working.
I'd read that Intel had released Linux drivers for my wireless card about a year ago. I had figured that such support would have been integrated into Kubuntu, which was the most recent distribution at the time, but I was wrong.
IMO, if a driver for a wireless card that's as popular as the Intel ones still isn't supported in a default install when drivers were released months ago, Linux still has serious support issues.
Which will, finally, result in power users and gamers having Linux as an option. That means that the latest hardware will be released with good Linux drivers and the games will be available on Linux. The biggest problem here is the Microsoft desktop monopoly.
Uh, no. I'm one such power user, and the problem with Linux is that moderate customization requires intimate knowledge of the command line and Linux's quirks.
I'm an XP man, but when I used a PowerBook for two weeks, I could easily install and remove programs, connect my external hard drive, and had some interface customizations up and running in a matter of minutes.
Compare that with my Linux experience: Two months ago, I installed Kubuntu onto my laptop. It's very likely that all of the issues that I ran into are easily fixable, but the solutions were simply not apparent or mentioned on all the help sites I went to. Let me tell you one thing: Most people don't like recompiling the kernel, compiling programs, or compiling drivers. It's probably a simple process (I've never had success with it myself), but it simply should not be required for usability purposes.
First issue: Installing software. This blew ass. First, I had to find out the name of the package, and tried to use apt-get. This didn't pan out. Then I found out that the servers that apt-get was trying to use were disabled, or something to that effect, so I had to go and edit a text file to allow for this. This pissed me off quite a bit, because had I not been dual-booting Windows at the time, I would have had no way of knowing how to fix it.
Second Issue: Getting my wifi card to work. This was fairly important, as my connection utilized my campus's wireless. So whenever I had an issue, I had to reboot into Windows and search for it. I never managed to get it to work, even though I have one that's fairly ubiquitous (Intel 2100). After futzing around with the command line for a couple of hours and browsing some sites, I tried to figure out how to install the drivers derived from the intel open-source release. Then I foudn I'd have to compile the drivers or whatnot, and I gave up there until I could find someone experienced in the matter.
Third Issue: I couldn't get it to sleep. I spent a good 40 or 50 minutes to find out that I needed to recompile the kernel to include support for sleep.
Fourth Issue: Realizing that I had just wasted my time installing Linux. I could do everything I could do in Windows, except it took me twice as long. Screen space was a serious issue. Using OpenOffice at 1024x768 felt like using MS Word at 640x480. My screen always felt cramped. Image editing in GIMP just sucked. Even when using Photoshop, I felt that 1024x768 wasn't sufficient for some of the stuff I was working on, and using GIMP made me feel like I was working at 800x600.
Obviously, I'm back to XP. I'm willing to spend the extra $300 to save the time and frustration that I've had using Linux. I realize that pretty much all of these issues are 'trivial', but the fact that I ran into all of these problems in the span of two days seems unacceptable. When I used OSX for the very first time, it took me less than two hours to become proficient. XP took me 4. Linux needs to get to the point where a power user like myself can be quite proficient over the span of a day.
No, Blizzard would have lost, if anything. StarCraft boats has been around for 100 years.
I like the idea of trying to push along basic research with incentives.
I think they're called 'grants'.
Have they disabled a lot of stuff like they have in the 'rc' releases of longhorn? Or is all the 'glits' tossed in (visual effects and the like)?
If previous betas (of Whistler/XP) are any indication, this beta should have about 70-80% of the features in the final product, including the interface. But considering the interface is the easiest thing to change, I wouldn't count on the 'glits' being the one found in the final product.
I live in Burkina Faso, you insensitive clod!
No more. God damn. How many times can you recycle the same fucking joke? There have been thousands of articles that have come through this website, and in every single one, morons manage to work in 'Does it run Linux?', '....you insenstiive clod!' and 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' 'jokes'.
They were funny the first ten times. They're not funny the millionth time. God damn. Stop. Is your life so pathetic that you can only regurgitate memes from a fucking geek news site? You're worse than the morons who constantly quote Star Trek. Burn in hell, all of you.
The sick irony is that some motherfucker is going to reply to this comment using all three of those memes somehow.