More seriously, I was always curious about where the term came from - I actually assumed it had something to do with burning alcohol made from rice. I didn't know if it was something that was actually done, or just a joke about where "ricer" vehicles come from.
This guy bought a product, and it failed after an absolutely unreasonable timeframe. And you're saying he should have _purchased_ (ie. PAID MORE MONEY!) to protect against such an occurance. So... In other words, it's not the manufacturers responsibility if the product doesn't work?
No. Fuck that.
We are a litigious society because we have no useful consumer protection - here, consumer protection is usually insane over-protection, and a complete lack everywhere else - and our legal system is completely fucked, and encourages frivilous lawsuits. Other countries don't have this problem, and they have much more useful consumer protection.
So will Nintendo finally pull their collective heads out their asses and start working on delivering products people want, instead of trying to stop people from actually enjoying them?
I think Nintendo needs to downsize its legal department, stop going after people with ROMs of 15 year old games, threatening people talking about current games, patenting "multiplayer console" "technology", etc., and put more energy into acquiring more developers for their absolutely kickass gaming platform, which has done only so-so in the market.
Yes, I am completely ignoring the fact that Nintendo makes an absolute killing on their Gameboy product line. I don't own or want a portable game system, so I don't care;)
Going even more OT, I hope Nintendo's next console comes with better controllers*.
* I know I know, some people like 'em, but my medium-sized hands are way too big for the D-pad, and the extra large button gets in the way of many good control schemes.
Hmmm... It seems this comment would be more appropriate if this article were in the "Gaming" section, instead of YRO.
you're wrong and your message was probably just a troll.
Wrong or not, I do not think the guy was trolling. Being ignorant does not a troll make. Goddammit, I really wish people would quit calling everyone who is wrong a troll!
I don't see your point here. People love TV even though it's shoved down their throats.
People love TV because they are lazy animals. I don't mean that in a negative way, actually, because I myself love TV. No, I'll admit it, I do. And in part because I'm lazy. Sometimes there's nothing better than sitting down with a cold beer, hot tea, soft pretzel, or whatever, with my wife, and just killing some time in front of the TV set.
People love the Internet because they can do things they otherwise couldn't. Whether it is getting their own brand of pr0n, bickering on Slashdot, Googling for obscure facts, ebaying for obscure junk, etc., people love the Internet for what it is. If that changes, it will just be more TV, which people get enough of already, usually in greater comfort than sitting at a computer.
The Internet continues to exist because people want it enough to pay for it. Businesses will continue to provide what people want, whether they like it or not. They will be brought kicking and screaming to deliver what people are after. Because if they don't, someone else will.
A lot of things used to be unregulated and now are. People over time will be assimilated. That's how it works.
Regulation does not equal destruction. The Internet is global, and will resist regulation by its very design anyway. The old mantra has some truth, "The Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it."
Of course, the governments of the world(and megacorporations) could work together to bring the Internet under their collective control, but that would mean things far more nefarious are going on than this discussion seems suitable for delving into speculation about.
Then again, I could be completely wrong. Both our opinions are pure speculation. Maybe the much predicted death of the Internet is imminent. Has netcraft confirmed it yet?:D
That's bullshit, because noone will accept it, because 99% of Internet users use the Net for shit like porn, pirated software, music, movies, chatting with crazy-ass people on #analrapefantasies, et cetera. Without the freedom the Internet provides, it's just more television. And people will go back to their couch to watch TV if they can't get to chickswithbighugecocks.and.dildos.pr0n.smut.co.uk, because their couch is more comfortable anyway.
Welcome to the new century. We've got more freedom, and we choose to use it for getting off. We like getting off. And we like getting off to different things, things which will never be provided by the mainstream. We will not accept a non-free Internet, not after having a free one.
Where'd you get the idea that anything coming out of MS is affordable? Maybe some of their software once was, but on this planet, most people I know, in their professional and personal lives, pirate MS Windows and Office (unless they got a good deal with a new machine), because together they cost more than a week's salary, which they can't save much of because they've got a mortgage to pay.
Fucking Christ on a Crutch, my wife and I make about twice that of the average American household, and we still can't really afford it. It's like buying an appliance! We waiting 2 months to buy a new dishwasher when our broke.
Look at the price of XP Pro(or even the horrible-in-a-networked enviornment Home Ed.) or Word, non-upgrade. Hell, even the upgrade prices are ridiculous. Most people simply cannot afford it. So most people "steal" it, except when they get it with a new machine.
Saying that just replacing DOS with CP/M would have made another company become Microsoft, is short sighted and idiotic.
Defending MS after knowing how they got started, and acting as if noone else could have filled their shoes, is short sighted and idiotic.
I just love his conclusions at the end of TFA. Since IE crashes less often with broken HTML(this does, of course, ignore all the other things that cause IE to crash), it obviously went through much more rigorous security QA.
Pfft, bullshit. Security QA? Riiiiight.
My wife switched to the Fox over a year ago(well, it was called something different then...) because IE was too crash-prone. I didn't tell her to, she asked me if there was something else she could use. That is only one example of someone switching because of stability, I personally know several folks at work who did the same. I haven't used SP2, so I don't know if it's better there, I'm sure it is. But to conclude that IE went through more vigorous security QA is absolutely laughable.
OTOH, this does highlight serious problems with other browsers. OTOH2.0, there are a number of crash bugs in Moz that are known and aren't considered security vulnerabilities, so I wonder if any of the crashers the author found are the same.
Anyway, interesting article with ridiculous conclusions, however some very much needed good PR for IE;D
Lincoln was the first Republican to ever hold the office of the President. So yes, at the time, the Republicans were indeed a "third party." The Republican party was very different in that day, at the time actually being more progressive than the Democrats, IMHO. Now the Dems. pretent to be more progressive, while the Repubs. pretend to give a shit about the common folk. All the while both parties continue to bloat the government, sucking us dry, while reaping great benefits for themselves.
Please, put an end to the myth that it's more expensive!
For MOST people, Macs are indeed far more expensive. I just got my wife a laptop(... running XP, *sniff* -- she was running Linux up to now...), and a comparable Mac would have been 50% more expensive, with less memory and a smaller display.
In fact, in her situation, the Mac offering didn't even include a DVD burner or wifi, while the PC included wifi.
Now don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying that Macs are terribly overpriced, just overpriced for the majority of people. There's nothing wrong with that, and indeed, I would recommend a Mac over a PC in a lot of situations.
Just as examples... I'd recommend a Mac for people who aren't saavy enough to keep a clean 'doze machine, or people who ARE saavy enough to take advantage of the nice Unix underpinnings of OS X.
In fact, considering that something insane like 50% of all Windows PCs connected to the 'net are acting as spam relays... Maybe Macs ARE comparatively cheaper!:D
Dvorak is very good at what he is being paid to do. You provided a perfect example.
All that does not make Dvorak less deserving of vitriol and hate. Especially considering that he masquerades as a journalist and there are people that actually listen to him.
No, not at all. If bridge engineers were forced to call their bridges "done" when they weren't, THEN we'd have serious problems.
As it is, serious mission critical software developed by honest companies generally works well, as do bridges. Software sold by sleazy business folk is sold before the engineers are satisfied with its quality, and it always "collapses."
All that is to say, engineers aren't the ones releasing unfinished software that doesn't work right.
A 128MB Radeon isn't that great for Linux, as the drivers are not up to par with their Windows offerings. NVIDIA is the only game in town for Linux gaming, unfortuneately.
Of course not. Why on earth would you say that? I don't know where to get a laptop, with no OS, that suits my needs, and that makes me a troll? I really don't follow that logic at all. But anyway...
I looked at the links given by you folks who responded, and not at a single one was I able to configure a no-OS laptop with an NVIDIA GPU with at least 128MB video memory. As I said, very limited options. Meh, my laptop came with a real Windows XP cd, so I may find a use for it.
Where the fuck do you live that there is a local shop that custom builds laptops? Where can you get a custom built laptop online even? I've been a Linux user for nearly a decade, and I have never found a decent place to get laptops without 'doze. There are some places, but the options are sorely lacking. Of course, getting parts and assembling desktops has always been easy, but laptops... I've asked and asked, everywhere, without ever getting an answer.
I recently got an HP zd7000 for work and occasional gaming. Since the only GPU that works(with Linux) really well for newer games is NVIDIA Geforce, the zd7000 was pretty much the only thing I could find that was suitable for me. Of course, getting it without 'doze was not an option.
Personally, unless you're a multimillionaire and want to hoard more cash and make everyone else work their asses off for slave wages, or are a religious nut who totally falls for Bush's hypocritical appeal to Christians, I really don't understand why anyone would want to vote for this guy.
Yes! That's what I keep telling people, but they just don't listen!
Seriously, many Christians just eat up that shitty rhetoric like smoked Italian sausage sandwiches with mesquite flavoured BBQ sauce. I mean, how could they resist, if it's that tasty to them. Although, you'd think that after four years of eating it up, they'd realize it was actually just sausage flavoured hot dogs(with extra rat hair swept up from the factory floor) with Kraft BBQ sauce(yuck!).
Yeah, I'm having smoked Italian sausage for dinner tonight, and I'm very hungry right now.
180 days is your supposedly impressive uptime? I've had Linux workstations with "buggy" video drivers up longer than that.
YMMV, of course.
Also, uptime is completely meaningless without taking load average into consideration. See how long Windows lasts under heavy load. In my professional experience, it doesn't. Not well. Compared to any reasonably stable *nix.
You may not be able to RTFA, but you could at least read the fucking summary.
Here's the relevant bit:
The study was originally made by Acadys and Microcost and gathered data from 1.2M machines belonging to about one thousand companies over a period of one month in seven different countries."
These are not home machines. Someone else also did a poor translation of TFA, and it seems that the slice of the total that is XP is very low.
Isaac Newton could barely co-exist with himself. He is NOT a good example for your point.
OTOH, I do take your point, and I'll point out another person who I really admire, Larry Wall. Wall is a very unconventional computer scientist, but a great one, IMO. Perhaps he doesn't rank up there with Newton or Knuth, but I don't care.
But don't limit your selection to Christians. Einstein was an orthodox Jew, and is the most well known scientist of the last century.
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More seriously, I was always curious about where the term came from - I actually assumed it had something to do with burning alcohol made from rice. I didn't know if it was something that was actually done, or just a joke about where "ricer" vehicles come from.
Cheers.
No. Fuck that.
We are a litigious society because we have no useful consumer protection - here, consumer protection is usually insane over-protection, and a complete lack everywhere else - and our legal system is completely fucked, and encourages frivilous lawsuits. Other countries don't have this problem, and they have much more useful consumer protection.
I think Nintendo needs to downsize its legal department, stop going after people with ROMs of 15 year old games, threatening people talking about current games, patenting "multiplayer console" "technology", etc., and put more energy into acquiring more developers for their absolutely kickass gaming platform, which has done only so-so in the market.
Yes, I am completely ignoring the fact that Nintendo makes an absolute killing on their Gameboy product line. I don't own or want a portable game system, so I don't care ;)
Going even more OT, I hope Nintendo's next console comes with better controllers*.
* I know I know, some people like 'em, but my medium-sized hands are way too big for the D-pad, and the extra large button gets in the way of many good control schemes.
Hmmm... It seems this comment would be more appropriate if this article were in the "Gaming" section, instead of YRO.
Wrong or not, I do not think the guy was trolling. Being ignorant does not a troll make. Goddammit, I really wish people would quit calling everyone who is wrong a troll!
People love TV because they are lazy animals. I don't mean that in a negative way, actually, because I myself love TV. No, I'll admit it, I do. And in part because I'm lazy. Sometimes there's nothing better than sitting down with a cold beer, hot tea, soft pretzel, or whatever, with my wife, and just killing some time in front of the TV set.
People love the Internet because they can do things they otherwise couldn't. Whether it is getting their own brand of pr0n, bickering on Slashdot, Googling for obscure facts, ebaying for obscure junk, etc., people love the Internet for what it is. If that changes, it will just be more TV, which people get enough of already, usually in greater comfort than sitting at a computer.
The Internet continues to exist because people want it enough to pay for it. Businesses will continue to provide what people want, whether they like it or not. They will be brought kicking and screaming to deliver what people are after. Because if they don't, someone else will.
A lot of things used to be unregulated and now are. People over time will be assimilated. That's how it works.
Regulation does not equal destruction. The Internet is global, and will resist regulation by its very design anyway. The old mantra has some truth, "The Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it."
Of course, the governments of the world(and megacorporations) could work together to bring the Internet under their collective control, but that would mean things far more nefarious are going on than this discussion seems suitable for delving into speculation about.
Then again, I could be completely wrong. Both our opinions are pure speculation. Maybe the much predicted death of the Internet is imminent. Has netcraft confirmed it yet? :D
Cheers.
Welcome to the new century. We've got more freedom, and we choose to use it for getting off. We like getting off. And we like getting off to different things, things which will never be provided by the mainstream. We will not accept a non-free Internet, not after having a free one.
Fucking Christ on a Crutch, my wife and I make about twice that of the average American household, and we still can't really afford it. It's like buying an appliance! We waiting 2 months to buy a new dishwasher when our broke.
Look at the price of XP Pro(or even the horrible-in-a-networked enviornment Home Ed.) or Word, non-upgrade. Hell, even the upgrade prices are ridiculous. Most people simply cannot afford it. So most people "steal" it, except when they get it with a new machine.
Saying that just replacing DOS with CP/M would have made another company become Microsoft, is short sighted and idiotic.
Defending MS after knowing how they got started, and acting as if noone else could have filled their shoes, is short sighted and idiotic.
Pfft, bullshit. Security QA? Riiiiight.
My wife switched to the Fox over a year ago(well, it was called something different then...) because IE was too crash-prone. I didn't tell her to, she asked me if there was something else she could use. That is only one example of someone switching because of stability, I personally know several folks at work who did the same. I haven't used SP2, so I don't know if it's better there, I'm sure it is. But to conclude that IE went through more vigorous security QA is absolutely laughable.
OTOH, this does highlight serious problems with other browsers. OTOH2.0, there are a number of crash bugs in Moz that are known and aren't considered security vulnerabilities, so I wonder if any of the crashers the author found are the same.
Anyway, interesting article with ridiculous conclusions, however some very much needed good PR for IE ;D
Such is the way of politics.
So much for innovation, eh?
And now, Kodak sues Sun similarly. The abused becomes another abuser. The circle continues.
For MOST people, Macs are indeed far more expensive. I just got my wife a laptop(... running XP, *sniff* -- she was running Linux up to now...), and a comparable Mac would have been 50% more expensive, with less memory and a smaller display.
In fact, in her situation, the Mac offering didn't even include a DVD burner or wifi, while the PC included wifi.
Now don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying that Macs are terribly overpriced, just overpriced for the majority of people. There's nothing wrong with that, and indeed, I would recommend a Mac over a PC in a lot of situations.
Just as examples... I'd recommend a Mac for people who aren't saavy enough to keep a clean 'doze machine, or people who ARE saavy enough to take advantage of the nice Unix underpinnings of OS X.
In fact, considering that something insane like 50% of all Windows PCs connected to the 'net are acting as spam relays... Maybe Macs ARE comparatively cheaper! :D
All that does not make Dvorak less deserving of vitriol and hate. Especially considering that he masquerades as a journalist and there are people that actually listen to him.
Someone should seriously kick his as IRL. Heh :D
As it is, serious mission critical software developed by honest companies generally works well, as do bridges. Software sold by sleazy business folk is sold before the engineers are satisfied with its quality, and it always "collapses."
All that is to say, engineers aren't the ones releasing unfinished software that doesn't work right.
Of course not. Why on earth would you say that? I don't know where to get a laptop, with no OS, that suits my needs, and that makes me a troll? I really don't follow that logic at all. But anyway...
I looked at the links given by you folks who responded, and not at a single one was I able to configure a no-OS laptop with an NVIDIA GPU with at least 128MB video memory. As I said, very limited options. Meh, my laptop came with a real Windows XP cd, so I may find a use for it.
Cheers.
I recently got an HP zd7000 for work and occasional gaming. Since the only GPU that works(with Linux) really well for newer games is NVIDIA Geforce, the zd7000 was pretty much the only thing I could find that was suitable for me. Of course, getting it without 'doze was not an option.
Yes! That's what I keep telling people, but they just don't listen!
Seriously, many Christians just eat up that shitty rhetoric like smoked Italian sausage sandwiches with mesquite flavoured BBQ sauce. I mean, how could they resist, if it's that tasty to them. Although, you'd think that after four years of eating it up, they'd realize it was actually just sausage flavoured hot dogs(with extra rat hair swept up from the factory floor) with Kraft BBQ sauce(yuck!).
Yeah, I'm having smoked Italian sausage for dinner tonight, and I'm very hungry right now.
YMMV, of course.
Also, uptime is completely meaningless without taking load average into consideration. See how long Windows lasts under heavy load. In my professional experience, it doesn't. Not well. Compared to any reasonably stable *nix.
Here's the relevant bit: The study was originally made by Acadys and Microcost and gathered data from 1.2M machines belonging to about one thousand companies over a period of one month in seven different countries."
These are not home machines. Someone else also did a poor translation of TFA, and it seems that the slice of the total that is XP is very low.
OTOH, I do take your point, and I'll point out another person who I really admire, Larry Wall. Wall is a very unconventional computer scientist, but a great one, IMO. Perhaps he doesn't rank up there with Newton or Knuth, but I don't care.
But don't limit your selection to Christians. Einstein was an orthodox Jew, and is the most well known scientist of the last century.
OTOH, my point still stands, and you can't knock it down by making fun of me, you ridiculous dipshit.
Christ on a broken crutch, it's right there man.
I don't buy the suicide bit either, but that doesn't resolve Gates of his being a complete ass.
Marked as "foe" until you prove you have your ADHD under control enough that you can read an entire post(not skim!) before responding.