It's an "ok" replica but I don't see why should anybody buy Xandros when you can take an easy distro like fedora or mandrake and get wine to work for your M$ programs. Reading a page or two of instructions won't kill you.
No matter how "easy to use" somebody will make a linux desktop look like, users will sooner or later have to search for something on the net to make "A" thing work or simply to get info. Not because it LOOKS like windows that it means the users will be headache-free. Have a few friends who use KDE but still go nuts on some things that just won't function right but they know how to use google or forums so they get the answers. Will the average joe have time to go on forums, post or search thru pages and pages found on search engines?
Frankly, I'l stick with fluxbox cause I like simplicity, want performance and I know how to read documentation. IT's NOT HARD TO READ, just matter of not being lazy. Sadly, people are so thats why Xandros exist I guess.. right?
Everything you described to me in that post seems like the needs of a user such as yourself, NOT The average user who uses microsoft office and sends email.
you do realize how much 1TB is do you? it's easy to make it sound so little when you're saying "20mbit/s" but I'd like to actually see it happening from a family who shopped for a pc at BestBuy and ended up buying a compaq pc and are ignorant of its components.
I have 200gb total on my pc, my friend has 400gb, my other has 260 and I could go on with my friend's and their hard drive capacities but we aren't the "end-user". Take a look at the current complete PC's (for mr. joe and mrs. jane) and their specs.
an affordable PC will have from 40 to 80GB of hard drive. (check for urself on dell, compaq and other vendor sites). This is today. Four years ago, I bought a 20GB Maxtor for ~280CND. Pc's back then had from 8 to 20GB four years ago running Windows M.E.
Now I'd like to see the jump from 40-80GB to 500GB-1TB in the average computers in 4 years starting from today
Why do I got a feeling that more and more big companies will enter this market of online music store and that this will create a chain reaction where everybody will start lowering prices per mp3/album or shove more offers.
my.02 on sony is the following.
I love Sony products. They're top notch and they perform like I expect them to but one thing I hate is the way they try to force the user to use their technology (kinda like SUN with Java). Here's why:
The NetMD players isn't that popular cause it doesn't store enough mp3's and cause ATRAC blows (here me out.) Force to user to use their "high-tech codec" called ATRAC which is only available in either uber-low quality (~32kbit) or the "ok" level of quality (~132kbit). Problem is doing the conversion from mp3 (doesn't work ogg so if u have ogg, u have to convert to mp3 first) to atrac (.omg OpenMG. very omg!).
The HI-MD will feature the possibility to store up to 1GB. That's a fair amount of songs and + the long playback of ~40-50 hours, it's gonna be one rock solid player BUT because sony are forcing us to use ATRAC (since that's the only format the player understands) and because we have to use their software available on WINDOWS only. I've seen projects on OSX/BSD & Linux but they will never manage to find a way to do the conversion from mp3 to atrac. Result? People become aware of these limitations which are obvious.
Basically, this example just to say how Sony are proud of their technology which may OR MAY NOT be all that good.
So what does all of this have to do with Sony's new online music store? the fact that you have to use their portable players and to use the SonicStage software which is horrible IMO because it's a software with more candy-eye than features. GUI's have to be STRAIGT FORWARD. the first time I opened SonicStage 1.5, I searched for 2 whole minutes where the heck I had to go to transfer music! Ended up googling and finding an alternate way to transfer music (w/ simpleburner).
Online Music Stores have to be the most flexible possible. Giving the user the possibility to get the songs no matter what O/S he uses and no matter what Portable Music Player he owns. Therefore, I think Apple will continue to be on top in this market.
I'l stick with buying albums/ripped to 320kbit mp3's
thank you come again!
When you think about it, longhorn will take AT LEAST a few more years before a near "complete" version will be released for testers and/or testers.
For the video card part, it's somewhat plausible considering new video cards come out every half a year to a year and prices of precedent generation cards go down pretty fast.
As for storage, that's pure bullshit... I stil know people who have a hard time filling up their 20GB (without pr0n). the AVERAGE user won't know what to do with that space (unless he's told to download like a freak)
2 cpu's? Right so I'm gonna use a windows operating system for a multi-cpu system when linux handles smp way beter AFAIK. People won't get a multicpu system to use word/excel and use email.
2GB of ram? and my friend's name is richard simmons. Are they saying that based on their current longhorn versions running in DEBUG-MODE? 2GB could be a mainstream for gamers or developpers but I doubt it will be for the average joe.
1gbit ethernet. oh isn't that nice. Microsoft are predicting the evolution of home networks with the transition from 100->1000. Unless it's a house with crazy exchange of pr0n, then I don't see the use of 1gbit lan (/. talked about transition to gigabit lan I think). Even if there's no home network established, is this a hint given to us that says "our future residential service offered by isp's will offer blazing speed?"
wireless? Can't say much for this one really. Have friends who need wireless, some who totally don't care. Can't really say if later, wireless would be introduced in products other than laptops and pocket pc's
Basically, what I think on this article? nice way to tell pc vendors "sell monster pc's for the people who would want to play 3d minesweeper with AA/AF)
I donno about you guys but the glow is nothing more than another way to show off friends at lan parties or turn your room into some sick shrine. Sure it looks good but who even looks at the keyboard anymore? People playing solitaire all day long and wondering what those ads in their inbox are?
I put myself a barrier. To buy anything useful which will always affect me or my computer's performance. A computer, I look at it as if it was a car. Here's my example.
You got those civic cars "ricers". people who modify a lot the exterior (body, mags, muffler playing the trumpet). Sure it might look "nice" but does it affect the way you drive if you don't even touch at the engine? Basically you're adding weight on the car and attracting more cops.
Same thing with a computer. You take a 3ghz cpu running all settings at stock. u decide to change intel hsf by a thermalright HS with a Vantec Tornado. HAVE YOU GONE MAD?! Waste of money, cpu doesn't need it and you're screwing up your ear's hearing capabilities.
In this case, we got a keyboard that GLOWS for "x" reason. Same thing with case neons. They glow, they take power, in the end, does it affect the way you play your games?
Indeed, what counts for me is performance but different people like different stuff and I respect that although I have to say that a computer case is not a mini discotech with hamsters getting jiggy with it.
Updating windows for the average user doesn't give a bigger headache than fixing something on linux (unless using debian-based distros or gentoo) but is it the same story for companies running winnt-based servers? Just curious since it must be annoying for them and must be these things which makes them think of moving away from the buttafly!
Green tea has so much health benefits (we all know about it) so now the scientists decided "hey... we're out of compound, lets try green tea!" and HURRAY! it does wonders on hardware also.
is there anything tea can't do?
doesnt' say that they actually builded it. just said the U.S. air force RELEASED the picture. Never claimed that it was anything "new"
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MAXIMIZE! "CHRRRRRCHRRRROUCHHHHHURHCHRHUUUUTTTTTTTTRRRRR"
we can use this against birds that dare to shit their guano in the air. Now we can walk around in the city and not worry about anything.
Now we know what the person behind goatse had. One day he probably felt like farting real loud in his webcam to one of his so-called "friends" and *OOPS*, pic goes in the net, the host then made the guy famous for defying the laws of "elasticity"
and I for one welcome our new mermaid human-sea leaders. To remind them that we on sea are dry to the bone and that we can send you Richard Rimmons as our representative jester.
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It's an "ok" replica but I don't see why should anybody buy Xandros when you can take an easy distro like fedora or mandrake and get wine to work for your M$ programs. Reading a page or two of instructions won't kill you.
No matter how "easy to use" somebody will make a linux desktop look like, users will sooner or later have to search for something on the net to make "A" thing work or simply to get info. Not because it LOOKS like windows that it means the users will be headache-free. Have a few friends who use KDE but still go nuts on some things that just won't function right but they know how to use google or forums so they get the answers. Will the average joe have time to go on forums, post or search thru pages and pages found on search engines?
Frankly, I'l stick with fluxbox cause I like simplicity, want performance and I know how to read documentation. IT's NOT HARD TO READ, just matter of not being lazy. Sadly, people are so thats why Xandros exist I guess.. right?
yeah now instead of interviewing new models to become pr0nstars, they will interview computer-generated models running on windows. ON THE HORROR !
Can we just buy one of those magic bicycle and keep it in our room?
Everything you described to me in that post seems like the needs of a user such as yourself, NOT The average user who uses microsoft office and sends email.
you do realize how much 1TB is do you? it's easy to make it sound so little when you're saying "20mbit/s" but I'd like to actually see it happening from a family who shopped for a pc at BestBuy and ended up buying a compaq pc and are ignorant of its components.
I have 200gb total on my pc, my friend has 400gb, my other has 260 and I could go on with my friend's and their hard drive capacities but we aren't the "end-user". Take a look at the current complete PC's (for mr. joe and mrs. jane) and their specs.
an affordable PC will have from 40 to 80GB of hard drive. (check for urself on dell, compaq and other vendor sites). This is today. Four years ago, I bought a 20GB Maxtor for ~280CND. Pc's back then had from 8 to 20GB four years ago running Windows M.E.
Now I'd like to see the jump from 40-80GB to 500GB-1TB in the average computers in 4 years starting from today
Why do I got a feeling that more and more big companies will enter this market of online music store and that this will create a chain reaction where everybody will start lowering prices per mp3/album or shove more offers.
.02 on sony is the following.
my
I love Sony products. They're top notch and they perform like I expect them to but one thing I hate is the way they try to force the user to use their technology (kinda like SUN with Java). Here's why:
The NetMD players isn't that popular cause it doesn't store enough mp3's and cause ATRAC blows (here me out.) Force to user to use their "high-tech codec" called ATRAC which is only available in either uber-low quality (~32kbit) or the "ok" level of quality (~132kbit). Problem is doing the conversion from mp3 (doesn't work ogg so if u have ogg, u have to convert to mp3 first) to atrac (.omg OpenMG. very omg!).
The HI-MD will feature the possibility to store up to 1GB. That's a fair amount of songs and + the long playback of ~40-50 hours, it's gonna be one rock solid player BUT because sony are forcing us to use ATRAC (since that's the only format the player understands) and because we have to use their software available on WINDOWS only. I've seen projects on OSX/BSD & Linux but they will never manage to find a way to do the conversion from mp3 to atrac. Result? People become aware of these limitations which are obvious.
Basically, this example just to say how Sony are proud of their technology which may OR MAY NOT be all that good. So what does all of this have to do with Sony's new online music store? the fact that you have to use their portable players and to use the SonicStage software which is horrible IMO because it's a software with more candy-eye than features. GUI's have to be STRAIGT FORWARD. the first time I opened SonicStage 1.5, I searched for 2 whole minutes where the heck I had to go to transfer music! Ended up googling and finding an alternate way to transfer music (w/ simpleburner).
Online Music Stores have to be the most flexible possible. Giving the user the possibility to get the songs no matter what O/S he uses and no matter what Portable Music Player he owns. Therefore, I think Apple will continue to be on top in this market.
I'l stick with buying albums/ripped to 320kbit mp3's
thank you come again!
When you think about it, longhorn will take AT LEAST a few more years before a near "complete" version will be released for testers and/or testers.
For the video card part, it's somewhat plausible considering new video cards come out every half a year to a year and prices of precedent generation cards go down pretty fast.
As for storage, that's pure bullshit... I stil know people who have a hard time filling up their 20GB (without pr0n). the AVERAGE user won't know what to do with that space (unless he's told to download like a freak)
2 cpu's? Right so I'm gonna use a windows operating system for a multi-cpu system when linux handles smp way beter AFAIK. People won't get a multicpu system to use word/excel and use email.
2GB of ram? and my friend's name is richard simmons. Are they saying that based on their current longhorn versions running in DEBUG-MODE? 2GB could be a mainstream for gamers or developpers but I doubt it will be for the average joe.
1gbit ethernet. oh isn't that nice. Microsoft are predicting the evolution of home networks with the transition from 100->1000. Unless it's a house with crazy exchange of pr0n, then I don't see the use of 1gbit lan (/. talked about transition to gigabit lan I think). Even if there's no home network established, is this a hint given to us that says "our future residential service offered by isp's will offer blazing speed?"
wireless? Can't say much for this one really. Have friends who need wireless, some who totally don't care. Can't really say if later, wireless would be introduced in products other than laptops and pocket pc's
Basically, what I think on this article? nice way to tell pc vendors "sell monster pc's for the people who would want to play 3d minesweeper with AA/AF)
giddy up!
I donno about you guys but the glow is nothing more than another way to show off friends at lan parties or turn your room into some sick shrine. Sure it looks good but who even looks at the keyboard anymore? People playing solitaire all day long and wondering what those ads in their inbox are?
.02 (not worth much but it's somethin!)
I put myself a barrier. To buy anything useful which will always affect me or my computer's performance. A computer, I look at it as if it was a car. Here's my example.
You got those civic cars "ricers". people who modify a lot the exterior (body, mags, muffler playing the trumpet). Sure it might look "nice" but does it affect the way you drive if you don't even touch at the engine? Basically you're adding weight on the car and attracting more cops.
Same thing with a computer. You take a 3ghz cpu running all settings at stock. u decide to change intel hsf by a thermalright HS with a Vantec Tornado. HAVE YOU GONE MAD?! Waste of money, cpu doesn't need it and you're screwing up your ear's hearing capabilities.
In this case, we got a keyboard that GLOWS for "x" reason. Same thing with case neons. They glow, they take power, in the end, does it affect the way you play your games?
Indeed, what counts for me is performance but different people like different stuff and I respect that although I have to say that a computer case is not a mini discotech with hamsters getting jiggy with it.
my
Updating windows for the average user doesn't give a bigger headache than fixing something on linux (unless using debian-based distros or gentoo) but is it the same story for companies running winnt-based servers? Just curious since it must be annoying for them and must be these things which makes them think of moving away from the buttafly!
Green tea has so much health benefits (we all know about it) so now the scientists decided "hey... we're out of compound, lets try green tea!" and HURRAY! it does wonders on hardware also. is there anything tea can't do?
doesnt' say that they actually builded it. just said the U.S. air force RELEASED the picture. Never claimed that it was anything "new"
MAXIMIZE! "CHRRRRRCHRRRROUCHHHHHURHCHRHUUUUTTTTTTTTRRRRR" we can use this against birds that dare to shit their guano in the air. Now we can walk around in the city and not worry about anything.
Now we know what the person behind goatse had. One day he probably felt like farting real loud in his webcam to one of his so-called "friends" and *OOPS*, pic goes in the net, the host then made the guy famous for defying the laws of "elasticity"
and I for one welcome our new mermaid human-sea leaders. To remind them that we on sea are dry to the bone and that we can send you Richard Rimmons as our representative jester.