It's because it gives teens what they want; to be able to talk to each other about shit, make their pages outlandish and stupid, post OMG PONIES bulletins etc etc etc.
Meanwhile, the people who just use it to keep in touch with friends and meet new people get along fine. I mean, I found my girlfriend through MySpace, and my page isn't stupid/outlandish:)
Between the government stating the obvious, DRM and corporate rip offs, M$ is losing most of it's fan base.
Are they? Lots of people (outside Slashdot) are very eager to get their hands on Vista. Windows is still very widely used due to its support for games, its supporting the only fully usable office suite available and its instant accessibility to most computer user's around the world. As far as it goes, people don't care about DRM, because it doesn't actually affect them; for people who want to watch movies on their PC or DVD player or play music on a portable device it won't do much harm.
DRM disasters are turning off home users and reviewers because the systems are so buggy that all of M$'s hardware lock-ins and driver advantages are negated.
Not really. Home users don't care because it doesn't affect them (see above).
Now everyone can look back at the things M$ has said about security and think, "those people are not very honest." All of that animosity makes it that much easier to advocate free software.
Or, conversely, they might just not give a shit and want to get on with their lives. There's not going to be a mass migration to Linux any time soon, get over it.
1) Not everything works with Wine, Crossover etc. And Wine apps tend to look like shit. 2) I'd love to know exactly what's wrong with DirectX. Please. Is it just that Microsoft made it? I'd love to know. 3) Current Linux distros probably wouldn't run on anything below a 1ghz machine without sacrificing a lot of ease of use. It's probably cheaper to get a really low end Dell box, or just carry on using 9x (nobody will stop them).
Given that BitTorrent's number one usage is downloading pirated movies and music, this is a drop in the bucket. And it's not that Hollywood or the RIAA are distrustful of P2P in general, they're distrustful of people using P2P to send around media they own the copyright to.
Good first step, and I don't agree with the people complaining about DRM on the movies...in the world we live in, where people will take anything not nailed down, it's kind of a necessity.
Something being compiled for a processor is not the same thing as that thing comfortably being able to run on a processor. Windows 98 runs on lots of 300MHz machines with 64MB ram, Ubuntu would struggle on that same hardware.
Name length perhaps. Path, no. If that were the case, lots of people with large, comprehensively organised music collections (among other things) would be fucked.
It really isn't. Until "free media" can crank out something as slickly produced and consistently popular as, say, Friends or Family Guy, it ain't gonna happen.
You are talking shit. Again. This story has no relation to Vista, and there's nothing saying the OS is a variety of Windows. In fact, it isn't even an OS (at least not superficially), it's an engine control unit. A physical device.
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I get the feeling that if Microsoft employees were all paid to nurse sick kittens back to health, give babies free toys, adopt orphans, personally go and dismantle every nuclear weapon in the world and irrevocably destroy the plans for them and generally turn the world into a caring, sharing utopia where noone wants anything because they already have it, you would be first on the frontlines screaming about M$' attempt to corner the market in kitten healing and saying how Vista will ruin any society that can possibly exist, including historical ones founded before the word "vista" was even coined. </offtopic>
Last sentence excepted, how is this post a troll? It's true. If you don't want to pay for something and/or you don't like something that is no excuse for getting it for free.
What exactly is wrong with ripping bought CDs then? You mentioned paid download services, so I assume you're willing to pay, and CDs are cheap from Amazon.
So my brother got a PC. It came with XP installed, I thought "fine", installed the drivers for the rest of the hardware, Firefox, MSN Messenger etc and he was on his way.
The thing about MSN Messenger is that whenever someone clicks the Email button to go to Hotmail, or for that matter responds to a new mail notification, it opens in Internet Explorer. And the thing about 14 year olds is that they get sent all kinds of shit in their email. Unlike most people, they also have no judgement. I did tell him, REPEATEDLY, "Do not use Internet Explorer. Go to Hotmail.com in Firefox. Ignore new mail notifications." Didn't work.
This is how I came to be fixing his PC nary a month later. There was spyware on it. Lots and lots of spyware. (Linux fanboys note that I never get any problems with spyware on Windows. It's being silly and using IE that does it.)
Eventually I blew away XP and put Windows 2000 on the thing. It ran faster, it ran better, but little brother hated it. Windows 2000 is teenager poison. There are no cuddly images of fields and clouds and omg ponies on there and MSN Messenger doesn't work properly. I put a trial of WindowBlinds on there, he was happy.
Then the nagging started.
He would find as many flaws in Windows 2000 as it was possible to find. Even flaws that did not actually exist. He would go to painstaking lengths to find things Windows 2000 failed at, and even when I pointed out that he was going hysterical about nothing he would piss and moan about them.
I got the last laugh though. I said I'd reinstall XP on the proviso that he doesn't get any more viruses or spyware, and if he does he'd be straight back to Windows 2000 (or Ubuntu, most likely). No more problems since:)
*hums* When two tribes go to war, one point is all tha..........sorry.
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Well, I'm busy drinking fine cognac and sailing my brand new 120ft yacht across the Pacific with a crew of 46 beautiful Thai girls right now. It'll have to wait until I get back sometime next year...
Ah the trappings, glamour and luxury of having a massive internet penis^W^WMySpace friends list!
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Yeah...you plug in, and 20 minutes later you're infected.
It's because it gives teens what they want; to be able to talk to each other about shit, make their pages outlandish and stupid, post OMG PONIES bulletins etc etc etc.
:)
Meanwhile, the people who just use it to keep in touch with friends and meet new people get along fine. I mean, I found my girlfriend through MySpace, and my page isn't stupid/outlandish
As a file manager, Konqueror is good.
As a web browser, I'd rather die.
HillyTwit strikes again!
Between the government stating the obvious, DRM and corporate rip offs, M$ is losing most of it's fan base.
Are they? Lots of people (outside Slashdot) are very eager to get their hands on Vista. Windows is still very widely used due to its support for games, its supporting the only fully usable office suite available and its instant accessibility to most computer user's around the world. As far as it goes, people don't care about DRM, because it doesn't actually affect them; for people who want to watch movies on their PC or DVD player or play music on a portable device it won't do much harm.
DRM disasters are turning off home users and reviewers because the systems are so buggy that all of M$'s hardware lock-ins and driver advantages are negated.
Not really. Home users don't care because it doesn't affect them (see above).
Now everyone can look back at the things M$ has said about security and think, "those people are not very honest." All of that animosity makes it that much easier to advocate free software.
Or, conversely, they might just not give a shit and want to get on with their lives. There's not going to be a mass migration to Linux any time soon, get over it.
I saw people on the internet worrying about a science-fiction type scenario where the development could lead to a world devoid of women.
I think it's the GNAA.
No rly.
Sorry, Willy The Twit, but:
1) Not everything works with Wine, Crossover etc. And Wine apps tend to look like shit.
2) I'd love to know exactly what's wrong with DirectX. Please. Is it just that Microsoft made it? I'd love to know.
3) Current Linux distros probably wouldn't run on anything below a 1ghz machine without sacrificing a lot of ease of use. It's probably cheaper to get a really low end Dell box, or just carry on using 9x (nobody will stop them).
Why would Joe Sixpack want anything else, especially when none of Joe Sixpack's current software would work with it?
Pentium 3 400mhz that I found in the trash (I love UK)
Dear xtracto,
Please stop taking our bargains.
Yours, the UK
Given that BitTorrent's number one usage is downloading pirated movies and music, this is a drop in the bucket. And it's not that Hollywood or the RIAA are distrustful of P2P in general, they're distrustful of people using P2P to send around media they own the copyright to.
Good first step, and I don't agree with the people complaining about DRM on the movies...in the world we live in, where people will take anything not nailed down, it's kind of a necessity.
Something being compiled for a processor is not the same thing as that thing comfortably being able to run on a processor. Windows 98 runs on lots of 300MHz machines with 64MB ram, Ubuntu would struggle on that same hardware.
They wouldn't say anything. They'd probably change what they were doing and sign different bands.
It won't replace Windows 98 because, by and large, the PCs that are running W98 are too slow to run Ubuntu.
the windoze 256 path + name length limit
Name length perhaps. Path, no. If that were the case, lots of people with large, comprehensively organised music collections (among other things) would be fucked.
It's the fact that certain lines don't fit the tune in any way, shape or form that just makes it funnier. :)
Free media is going to eat their lunch.
It really isn't. Until "free media" can crank out something as slickly produced and consistently popular as, say, Friends or Family Guy, it ain't gonna happen.
At least you didn't mention M$...
Oh my twittering Jesus: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=71864&cid=6492 229
AHAHA! I never thought I'd see someone attempt to link Microsoft and loose sexual morality, but fuck me Twitter goes and does it!
What an utter headcase. I mean, please.
Of course if you wanted to talk about clock cycles it'd be a bit of a shitter to have to explain all the symbols. :)
You are talking shit. Again. This story has no relation to Vista, and there's nothing saying the OS is a variety of Windows. In fact, it isn't even an OS (at least not superficially), it's an engine control unit. A physical device.
<offtopic>
I get the feeling that if Microsoft employees were all paid to nurse sick kittens back to health, give babies free toys, adopt orphans, personally go and dismantle every nuclear weapon in the world and irrevocably destroy the plans for them and generally turn the world into a caring, sharing utopia where noone wants anything because they already have it, you would be first on the frontlines screaming about M$' attempt to corner the market in kitten healing and saying how Vista will ruin any society that can possibly exist, including historical ones founded before the word "vista" was even coined.
</offtopic>
What's next, your claim that not 100% of the population loves Linux??
:)
Naw, twitter's not in the thread yet.
Last sentence excepted, how is this post a troll? It's true. If you don't want to pay for something and/or you don't like something that is no excuse for getting it for free.
What exactly is wrong with ripping bought CDs then? You mentioned paid download services, so I assume you're willing to pay, and CDs are cheap from Amazon.
So my brother got a PC. It came with XP installed, I thought "fine", installed the drivers for the rest of the hardware, Firefox, MSN Messenger etc and he was on his way.
:)
The thing about MSN Messenger is that whenever someone clicks the Email button to go to Hotmail, or for that matter responds to a new mail notification, it opens in Internet Explorer. And the thing about 14 year olds is that they get sent all kinds of shit in their email. Unlike most people, they also have no judgement. I did tell him, REPEATEDLY, "Do not use Internet Explorer. Go to Hotmail.com in Firefox. Ignore new mail notifications." Didn't work.
This is how I came to be fixing his PC nary a month later. There was spyware on it. Lots and lots of spyware. (Linux fanboys note that I never get any problems with spyware on Windows. It's being silly and using IE that does it.)
Eventually I blew away XP and put Windows 2000 on the thing. It ran faster, it ran better, but little brother hated it. Windows 2000 is teenager poison. There are no cuddly images of fields and clouds and omg ponies on there and MSN Messenger doesn't work properly. I put a trial of WindowBlinds on there, he was happy.
Then the nagging started.
He would find as many flaws in Windows 2000 as it was possible to find. Even flaws that did not actually exist. He would go to painstaking lengths to find things Windows 2000 failed at, and even when I pointed out that he was going hysterical about nothing he would piss and moan about them.
I got the last laugh though. I said I'd reinstall XP on the proviso that he doesn't get any more viruses or spyware, and if he does he'd be straight back to Windows 2000 (or Ubuntu, most likely). No more problems since
Having read some bad tech support stories...at least he/she apologised and recognised his/her mistake. More than a lot of people get.
*hums* When two tribes go to war, one point is all tha....... ...sorry.
Well, I'm busy drinking fine cognac and sailing my brand new 120ft yacht across the Pacific with a crew of 46 beautiful Thai girls right now. It'll have to wait until I get back sometime next year...
Ah the trappings, glamour and luxury of having a massive internet penis^W^WMySpace friends list!