I'd also mention that he did a lot/most of the production work on Gorillaz' last album, Demon Days. (EMI, apparently, shat themselves when they heard of Gorillaz' choice, as they were the ones who sued Danger Mouse over the Beatles sampling...)
I read an interesting theory somewhere that depression is just a manifestation of problems with current society, and that by attempting to treat it as an illness all we're doing is papering over the cracks, so to speak, and masking those problems.
Just a theory, but thought it had some relevance to your post.
Seriously, does this have to do with April 1st or something?
YES.
Now don't mention it again. I've tried washing my eyes out with neat bleach and I still can't remove the horrific sight of Slashdot that day from my retinas.
Look, for the last friggin time, desktop users don't care about high falutin' ideas of freedom. They want to watch DVDs, play MP3s and watch those oh-so-funny videos of people falling over on eBaumsWorld. Going on a rampage against such functionality because it isn't under the GPL is bullshit, and yet another example of certain sections of the Linux community placing ideology above functionality.
And you, twitter, would have your hands in your little girly panties masturbating out every turgid drop of semen you have in your pathetic tiny testicles over M$ (LOL that makes them evil LOL) being sent down.
Funny, my Windows NVidia drivers enable a little slider for every window. It works really well and is far faster than Xorg does on the same hardware. And guess what? Windows did it first.
Nowadays, Google is percieved as the ultimate digital destructor - crushing internet opposition wherever it rises, brutally redefining markets and networking in that fashion most likely to lead to their own growth and the demise of competing technologies.
Yeah, that's why GMail is the world's biggest webmail service, MSN Messenger and Skype died in the face of Google Talk, Google News is the world's favourite news source...
Face it; Google's strength is in search. That's it.
You don't answer my point sending the artist $15. My guess is that you're only suggesting $1 because you, like most other people who use P2P, are too cheap to pay full price.
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You don't get my point. If I appreciated someone's work, I'd happily spend the $15 and get a proper CD to boot. Sending $1 just seems cheap, and probably would be an insult. At least send the full $15. That WOULD make a difference.
Not to mention the message you're sending to the artist. "Hey, I can't be fucked to spare 15 dollars to buy your album, so i've sent you a SHINY NEW DOLLAR and got your album off the Internet!"
Erm...they made the software, right? It's a general assumption that #titleofsoftware is a support channel for $titleofsoftware. Even if not, the developers made the damn software, because of that they are the defacto support. If I made garden gnomes or something as a hobby and out of the goodwill of my heart gave them to random people on the streets for free, then I reckon they'd have a perfect right to come screaming up to me going "OMG HELP ME WITH YOUR GNOME" if it, i dunno, exploded or came to life and murdered their spouse or something. I made the damn gnomes, they're my problem.
Point is, the GAIM devs made it and they are by default the tech support for it. For them to act all indignant when someone asks them an innocent question on IRC is wrong (and trying to use it as some kind of recruitment tool for Linux makes me want to smack them in the mouth...I mean how elitist do you have to get?).
That help is for KDE apps and KDE apps alone. There is no help given for setting up hardware, connecting to the internet (except possibly with KPPP), installing new software...Windows gives help with all of these in a friendly handholding manner.
I agree on Linux being better under the hood, it's a very snappy OS and some great strides have been made in making it more desktop-ready. Like you say it is just the interfaces that need work. KDE and GNOME need to look at what Windows and OSX do (lots of wizards, simple options at the fore with less necessary ones not removed but a few tabs away, explanatory text where necessary) and do that. Even having an integrated video/audio player along the lines of Windows Media Player would be an improvement. All that really needs to happen is someone with programming skills, cash and vision needs to say "this is all bullshit, we're doing it the right way this time" and invest some time and effort into making, at a simple level, a user-friendly layer for Linux. Doesn't even need to use X, just look at what people want and Linux does not offer and give it to them.
It makes office documents and browses the web better then one could hope for considering the price.
Considering the price, perhaps, but that's only because it does those things at all. Compatibility with Microsoft Office is not 100% and OpenOffice.org is a slow piece of shit even at the best of times. The Java plugin is a pain in the hole to set up on Linux compared to Windows and the Flash plugin (yes, lots of people, myself included, like Flash movies) is absolutely terrible on Linux. KDE and GNOME both "feel" less snappy on this Duron 1.8GHz than Windows XP does on a P3 766MHz. And this isn't just uninformed trolling, I've tried Linux a lot of times and always gone back because nothing has improved. Fuck, I'm in a Gentoo LiveCD right now!
All this in mind, Linux is nowhere near suitable for the average user. Support, or the lack of it, is just icing on the cake.
Slashdot Mirror
Quake 3, Doom 3, Quake 4, Unreal Tournament...
I'd also mention that he did a lot/most of the production work on Gorillaz' last album, Demon Days. (EMI, apparently, shat themselves when they heard of Gorillaz' choice, as they were the ones who sued Danger Mouse over the Beatles sampling...)
Thank god, someone HAD to say it eventually...
Not if they called it ShitCarrier.
I read an interesting theory somewhere that depression is just a manifestation of problems with current society, and that by attempting to treat it as an illness all we're doing is papering over the cracks, so to speak, and masking those problems.
Just a theory, but thought it had some relevance to your post.
Seriously, does this have to do with April 1st or something?
YES.
Now don't mention it again. I've tried washing my eyes out with neat bleach and I still can't remove the horrific sight of Slashdot that day from my retinas.
5MB/s?! Bloody hell...I don't get that good a transfer rate over my internal LAN! Lucky bugger :|
I'd hate to see the ugly grey sludgy mess the web would be with people like you making design decisions.
Yes yes yes but the blue links are what is important. You're losing track, dude.
You could probably miss off that last word of your comment, and it'd still be correct...
Look, for the last friggin time, desktop users don't care about high falutin' ideas of freedom. They want to watch DVDs, play MP3s and watch those oh-so-funny videos of people falling over on eBaumsWorld. Going on a rampage against such functionality because it isn't under the GPL is bullshit, and yet another example of certain sections of the Linux community placing ideology above functionality.
Here, I have a riddle for you. What's the difference between a softball that hits you square in the face and that joke?
Got it yet? No? Here's the answer:
The joke went over your head.
Sorry.
And you, twitter, would have your hands in your little girly panties masturbating out every turgid drop of semen you have in your pathetic tiny testicles over M$ (LOL that makes them evil LOL) being sent down.
Funny, my Windows NVidia drivers enable a little slider for every window. It works really well and is far faster than Xorg does on the same hardware. And guess what? Windows did it first.
+1 Uncomfortable truth
Nowadays, Google is percieved as the ultimate digital destructor - crushing internet opposition wherever it rises, brutally redefining markets and networking in that fashion most likely to lead to their own growth and the demise of competing technologies.
Yeah, that's why GMail is the world's biggest webmail service, MSN Messenger and Skype died in the face of Google Talk, Google News is the world's favourite news source...
Face it; Google's strength is in search. That's it.
You don't answer my point sending the artist $15. My guess is that you're only suggesting $1 because you, like most other people who use P2P, are too cheap to pay full price.
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
/usr/share/doc.
/etc/motd to change this login announcement.
Welcome to FreeBSD!
Before seeking technical support, please use the following resources:
o Security advisories and updated errata information for all releases are
at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ - always consult the ERRATA section
for your release first as it's updated frequently.
o The Handbook and FAQ documents are at http://www.freebsd.org/ and,
along with the mailing lists, can be searched by going to
http://www.freebsd.org/search/. If the doc distribution has
been installed, they're also available formatted in
If you still have a question or problem, please take the output of
`uname -a', along with any relevant error messages, and email it
as a question to the questions@FreeBSD.org mailing list. If you are
unfamiliar with FreeBSD's directory layout, please refer to the hier(7)
manual page. If you are not familiar with manual pages, type `man man'.
You may also use sysinstall(8) to re-enter the installation and
configuration utility. Edit
joe@gateway$
hth.
You don't get my point. If I appreciated someone's work, I'd happily spend the $15 and get a proper CD to boot. Sending $1 just seems cheap, and probably would be an insult. At least send the full $15. That WOULD make a difference.
Not to mention the message you're sending to the artist. "Hey, I can't be fucked to spare 15 dollars to buy your album, so i've sent you a SHINY NEW DOLLAR and got your album off the Internet!"
You do realise that Fedora Core isn't a boxed operating system and isn't available in stores, don't you?
You may. Newbies wouldnt.
Erm...they made the software, right? It's a general assumption that #titleofsoftware is a support channel for $titleofsoftware. Even if not, the developers made the damn software, because of that they are the defacto support. If I made garden gnomes or something as a hobby and out of the goodwill of my heart gave them to random people on the streets for free, then I reckon they'd have a perfect right to come screaming up to me going "OMG HELP ME WITH YOUR GNOME" if it, i dunno, exploded or came to life and murdered their spouse or something. I made the damn gnomes, they're my problem.
Point is, the GAIM devs made it and they are by default the tech support for it. For them to act all indignant when someone asks them an innocent question on IRC is wrong (and trying to use it as some kind of recruitment tool for Linux makes me want to smack them in the mouth...I mean how elitist do you have to get?).
That help is for KDE apps and KDE apps alone. There is no help given for setting up hardware, connecting to the internet (except possibly with KPPP), installing new software...Windows gives help with all of these in a friendly handholding manner.
I agree on Linux being better under the hood, it's a very snappy OS and some great strides have been made in making it more desktop-ready. Like you say it is just the interfaces that need work. KDE and GNOME need to look at what Windows and OSX do (lots of wizards, simple options at the fore with less necessary ones not removed but a few tabs away, explanatory text where necessary) and do that. Even having an integrated video/audio player along the lines of Windows Media Player would be an improvement. All that really needs to happen is someone with programming skills, cash and vision needs to say "this is all bullshit, we're doing it the right way this time" and invest some time and effort into making, at a simple level, a user-friendly layer for Linux. Doesn't even need to use X, just look at what people want and Linux does not offer and give it to them.
It makes office documents and browses the web better then one could hope for considering the price.
Considering the price, perhaps, but that's only because it does those things at all. Compatibility with Microsoft Office is not 100% and OpenOffice.org is a slow piece of shit even at the best of times. The Java plugin is a pain in the hole to set up on Linux compared to Windows and the Flash plugin (yes, lots of people, myself included, like Flash movies) is absolutely terrible on Linux. KDE and GNOME both "feel" less snappy on this Duron 1.8GHz than Windows XP does on a P3 766MHz. And this isn't just uninformed trolling, I've tried Linux a lot of times and always gone back because nothing has improved. Fuck, I'm in a Gentoo LiveCD right now!
All this in mind, Linux is nowhere near suitable for the average user. Support, or the lack of it, is just icing on the cake.