Windows XP *MAY* be a decent product(licensing issues aside, have you even read them? Goddam! How the fuck can any business agree to such utter nonsense, what a liability!, sorry, ranting.... breath in, breath out..;-).
But FORCING ACPI ON MAKES NO SENSE!!!
How does that help any more than having it default to being on, and then letting the user make changes if they like? If the user doesn't know what they're doing, they're not going to disable ACPI!
Considering that WindowsTM can cost as much as a cheap PC these days, not to mention OfficeTM, this truly might be the case.
Whatever happens, SOMETHING is going to have to give, either the pricing of WindowsTM and OfficeTM or the software people use.
Microsoft is going to have to drastically cut prices, or lose a huge segment of the market in the near future. This must be why they are trying so hard to go with a "renting" scheme, but I don't think that's going to be workable anytime soon.
So no matter how things work out, Microsoft's profits are probably going to drop sometime soon, they can either cut prices to hold onto the market, or lose a large part of the market.
That's how I see it anyway. Anyone see why that's not the case?
When music was easy to find online, I could hear about a new album, find and download it in under 15 minutes.
If I liked it, I would usually go and buy it just to have a nice hard copy of it, even better if it has lyrics and band pics etc. Everyone I know with the money to spare would do the same.
Now that I can never find music anymore, I simply don't buy CDs anymore. I haven't bought a CD in months, and the last one I bought was a Christmas present for my fiancee.
Someone please tell me, just how the fuck am I supposed to find music when I have no interest int he type of music that gets radio play? Even if I was interested in that type of music, most stations play the same 20 songs 10 times every day, for months and months at a time.
The only catch to this, any Linux distro really, is that it's not like Windows. If you spend your hard earned cash on it and you don't like it, you've only spent $29, unlike windows where you would have spent well over $100!;-)
Seriously, with a pricetag like that, it sure isn't much of a risk. Why not just give it a try?
You are correct, we simply do not know the numbers, but that's not what you said in your original post.
In any case, you are certainly correct that first and foremost we need to "change the rules".
The DMCA simply has to go, but I think pressure should be applied to companies to not use the DMCA as part of that effort. But, I'll be honest, that probably won't really help. What we need is sane representatives who understand these issues, which is obviously not the case today.
Get the wife a Mac? My fiance wants a Mac, as she's really getting tired of using windows. She's tired of the way every piece of MS software just gets in her way when she's just trying to get work done.
Of course, this is all because I showed her the new Imac;-)
But for me, it's Linux all the way. My fiance likes Linux too, but it just doesn't have all the software she wants/needs.
If I can just find a few more Linux apps that'll work for her, I may get us both a Linux laptop.
For me, I'm completely done with windows, I will never buy another copy again.
Did you even read his post? It would seem not, as what you have just stated is completely beside the point of his post. Without the huge fanbase that is created by projects like bnetd, they would seel even fewer copies of their games.
You sir, need to get a clue. Companies are in the business of making money, and by extension of that shareholders are as well. Shareholders demand that the company make as much money as possible.
When you do not buy a companies products, they make LESS money. If they can make MORE money by changing one of their policies, then they will change their policy. The policy is there in the first place to try to make as much money as possible, so when it fails, they change their policy.
That's how business works. They need people to buy their products in order to make money. If people don't buy their products, they do whatever they can to change that.
I think you are just so addicted to their games that you want to excuse yourself from doing what you believe to be the responsible thing. That's your call, maybe it's worth it for you, but don't lie to yourself about it.
He's probably changed his mind about desktop penetration because, while it's penetrated the desktop in a big way among geeks and highly computer literate people, it still hasn't become a mainstream desktop OS.
When it first started getting good recognition for being usable on the desktop, he probably thought it would take off. Unfortuneately, that hasn't happened yet for a number of reasons. That is mainly the result, I think, of the chicken and egg problem.
With increasing usage in servers by large business, and also for cool stuff like doing graphics rendering for big movie studios, hopefully it will steadily gain recognition and people will start using it.
I think first it needs more support from manufacturers. At least one of the big ones needs to push Linux in a big way and include a ton of apps, and it would probably help for it to be on a really slick iMAC-like PC.
Yes, that is exactly my point. There was nothing ever good about D3D, it's all about stealing a market. It is incredible that anyone fell for D3D in the first place...
As I said, it's only now, 7 or 8 years later, that D3D is up to the performance of OpenGL. If that effort had been put into OpenGL, it'd be even better.
Why would any sane developer even touch D3D in the first place? I can understand direct input and direct draw. Windows had absolutely horrible 2D graphics and input performance, but why even touch D3D when OpenGL has always been better.
After 7 YEARS (or is it 8, or only 6?) D3D is finally at the performance level of OpenGL(arguably not, seeing as how Q3A STILL outperforms games with similar graphics today).
When D3D was first created by MS, it was an extremely unstable, lousy performing, moving target! And don't even think about upgrading D3D, your current set of games probably won't work! And on top of everything else already wrong with it, it is completely non-portable! Why the fuck did anyone adopt it in the first place?
If you can't stand it, then don't buy a new friggin card, that's what I do! Damn, do we really need 20 posts whining like this every time there is an article about new graphics cards on/.?
Graphics cards today are far, far, far away from what they could be. Games still do not look like Real LifeTM, so there is still a long, long way to go.
Graphics cards will continue to get incrementally better until they can push enough polygons(or whatever) to create fully realistic life-like real-time fully 3D images at a constant framerate high enough so slowdown is completely imperceptible to the human eye.
That is still very, very far away. Your post is AT LEAST a decade too early.
This is truly sad. It's really amazing that with all the ranting and raving about Linux that goes on here, very few people voted with their wallets and paid for some truly great products from Loki.
I'm really disgusted by this.
So, to all you who never put your money where your mouth is, thanks a whole fucking lot, hypocritical fuckers.
Oh well, that's how it goes. You all better show some friggin support in the future so you can redeem yourselves;-)
No, really. Sure, the show is really old and has probably gone on long enough, but I think the new characters have really breathed new life into it. I like Agent Dogget and Agent What's-Her-Name.
Oh well, it has had a good run. I guess it's good to take it off the air while it's not such a bad show.
The company I worked for switched to Apache simply because it is far more reliable than any other www server we tried. Not to mention the security aspects, Apache having few security problems over the years, other web servers having many.
Why do you think Amazon.com, Fatbrain.com, 3DRealms.com, Egghead.com, etc, etc, etc, use Apache? Because they can't afford IIS?;-) Ha!
Apache is simply better, in every single aspect that matters for a web server, high end or low end.
I won't pay for any service like this until I get the following...
1. 192kbps+ Ogg Vorbis or MP3 files, no exceptions, proprietary files are simply unacceptable.
2. Central servers. Why the fucking hell would I PAY for a service that allows me to SHARE? Why do I care about SHARING if I'm PAYING?!? WTF? I can share on my own thankyouverymuch!
3. Relaxed licensing dammit! I should be allowed to share a few files with friends or bring the files into work. I'm not talking about setting up a free-for-all ftp, if I could simply buy the files in a decent format for a reasonable price I would which would make running an ftp unnecessary.
FYI, I currently share MP3 files with 2 people. I'm not into "piracy" at all, I simply like music and like to listen to music before I buy it.
Is that such a huge problem for the music industry to handle? Can't they deliver what their customers want?
Yeah, I know you're a big fan of playing "Devil's Advocate" (often, you're simply being sane, as sanity is lacking here at times), but you've got to be fucking kidding me on this one. Artists don't get paid unless/untill the labels make millions off their music.
I personally know some artists who have been on the verge of making it big for the last 4 years, every chance their labels(yes, plural, they've been all over) get they totally fuck them over. If you listen to metal much, you've probably heard them.
They're simply whores and their labels are their pimp. The labels get the money, the artists do the work and get bullied and pushed around and just generally disprespected and treated like shit. Lables are in constant violation of their already extremely label favoring contracts.
It's really one of the most ridiculous industries on this sad little planet.
note: I won't disclose the name of the band because I'm not sure what they have publicly disclosed about the trouble they've had with their labels.
The Linux development process is much, much different from *BSD, different but not worse or better. If you want to always have a stable kernel, use a distro and only use the updates specifically for that distro, which is equivalent to what you do when you use *BSD. Debian is an excellent distro, RedHat is pretty good, Slackware rocks(not for what you want, really), Mandrake is good, etc.
If you don't want to keep up with kernel development in Linux, you don't friggin have to, so STFU, you're full of shit.
note: My apparent hostility is not actually real, I'm only being halfway serious, so, no offense is intended.
So, since you were too stupid to keep up with Kernel development in Linux, and were also too stupid to realize that you can simply apt-get everything with Debian or download RPM's with RedHat, which is essentially what you would do with *BSD, you switched to FreeBSD...
Glad you let us all know, this is such valuable information.
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But FORCING ACPI ON MAKES NO SENSE!!!
How does that help any more than having it default to being on, and then letting the user make changes if they like? If the user doesn't know what they're doing, they're not going to disable ACPI!
Whatever happens, SOMETHING is going to have to give, either the pricing of WindowsTM and OfficeTM or the software people use.
Microsoft is going to have to drastically cut prices, or lose a huge segment of the market in the near future. This must be why they are trying so hard to go with a "renting" scheme, but I don't think that's going to be workable anytime soon.
So no matter how things work out, Microsoft's profits are probably going to drop sometime soon, they can either cut prices to hold onto the market, or lose a large part of the market.
That's how I see it anyway. Anyone see why that's not the case?
If I liked it, I would usually go and buy it just to have a nice hard copy of it, even better if it has lyrics and band pics etc. Everyone I know with the money to spare would do the same.
Now that I can never find music anymore, I simply don't buy CDs anymore. I haven't bought a CD in months, and the last one I bought was a Christmas present for my fiancee.
Someone please tell me, just how the fuck am I supposed to find music when I have no interest int he type of music that gets radio play? Even if I was interested in that type of music, most stations play the same 20 songs 10 times every day, for months and months at a time.
Abso-fucking-lutely ri-fucking-diculous!
Seriously, with a pricetag like that, it sure isn't much of a risk. Why not just give it a try?
In any case, you are certainly correct that first and foremost we need to "change the rules".
The DMCA simply has to go, but I think pressure should be applied to companies to not use the DMCA as part of that effort. But, I'll be honest, that probably won't really help. What we need is sane representatives who understand these issues, which is obviously not the case today.
Of course, this is all because I showed her the new Imac ;-)
But for me, it's Linux all the way. My fiance likes Linux too, but it just doesn't have all the software she wants/needs.
If I can just find a few more Linux apps that'll work for her, I may get us both a Linux laptop.
For me, I'm completely done with windows, I will never buy another copy again.
When you do not buy a companies products, they make LESS money. If they can make MORE money by changing one of their policies, then they will change their policy. The policy is there in the first place to try to make as much money as possible, so when it fails, they change their policy.
That's how business works. They need people to buy their products in order to make money. If people don't buy their products, they do whatever they can to change that.
I think you are just so addicted to their games that you want to excuse yourself from doing what you believe to be the responsible thing. That's your call, maybe it's worth it for you, but don't lie to yourself about it.
When it first started getting good recognition for being usable on the desktop, he probably thought it would take off. Unfortuneately, that hasn't happened yet for a number of reasons. That is mainly the result, I think, of the chicken and egg problem.
With increasing usage in servers by large business, and also for cool stuff like doing graphics rendering for big movie studios, hopefully it will steadily gain recognition and people will start using it.
I think first it needs more support from manufacturers. At least one of the big ones needs to push Linux in a big way and include a ton of apps, and it would probably help for it to be on a really slick iMAC-like PC.
After 7 YEARS (or is it 8, or only 6?) D3D is finally at the performance level of OpenGL(arguably not, seeing as how Q3A STILL outperforms games with similar graphics today).
When D3D was first created by MS, it was an extremely unstable, lousy performing, moving target! And don't even think about upgrading D3D, your current set of games probably won't work! And on top of everything else already wrong with it, it is completely non-portable! Why the fuck did anyone adopt it in the first place?
If you can't stand it, then don't buy a new friggin card, that's what I do! Damn, do we really need 20 posts whining like this every time there is an article about new graphics cards on /.?
Graphics cards will continue to get incrementally better until they can push enough polygons(or whatever) to create fully realistic life-like real-time fully 3D images at a constant framerate high enough so slowdown is completely imperceptible to the human eye.
That is still very, very far away. Your post is AT LEAST a decade too early.
I'm really disgusted by this.
So, to all you who never put your money where your mouth is, thanks a whole fucking lot, hypocritical fuckers.
Oh well, that's how it goes. You all better show some friggin support in the future so you can redeem yourselves ;-)
Mozilla, Konqueror, Galeon, Opera...
What's not to like about any of those? I especially like Galeon, as I use Gnome and I really like the tabbed browsing. Konq is also really good.
Mozilla is absolutely outstanding if you have a decent machine, 500MHZ (or thereabouts), and Opera is pretty good too.
Oh well, it has had a good run. I guess it's good to take it off the air while it's not such a bad show.
Why do you think Amazon.com, Fatbrain.com, 3DRealms.com, Egghead.com, etc, etc, etc, use Apache? Because they can't afford IIS? ;-) Ha!
Apache is simply better, in every single aspect that matters for a web server, high end or low end.
1. 192kbps+ Ogg Vorbis or MP3 files, no exceptions, proprietary files are simply unacceptable.
2. Central servers. Why the fucking hell would I PAY for a service that allows me to SHARE? Why do I care about SHARING if I'm PAYING?!? WTF? I can share on my own thankyouverymuch!
3. Relaxed licensing dammit! I should be allowed to share a few files with friends or bring the files into work. I'm not talking about setting up a free-for-all ftp, if I could simply buy the files in a decent format for a reasonable price I would which would make running an ftp unnecessary.
FYI, I currently share MP3 files with 2 people. I'm not into "piracy" at all, I simply like music and like to listen to music before I buy it.
Is that such a huge problem for the music industry to handle? Can't they deliver what their customers want?
Yeah, I know you're a big fan of playing "Devil's Advocate" (often, you're simply being sane, as sanity is lacking here at times), but you've got to be fucking kidding me on this one. Artists don't get paid unless/untill the labels make millions off their music.
I personally know some artists who have been on the verge of making it big for the last 4 years, every chance their labels(yes, plural, they've been all over) get they totally fuck them over. If you listen to metal much, you've probably heard them.
They're simply whores and their labels are their pimp. The labels get the money, the artists do the work and get bullied and pushed around and just generally disprespected and treated like shit. Lables are in constant violation of their already extremely label favoring contracts.
It's really one of the most ridiculous industries on this sad little planet.
note: I won't disclose the name of the band because I'm not sure what they have publicly disclosed about the trouble they've had with their labels.
If you don't want to keep up with kernel development in Linux, you don't friggin have to, so STFU, you're full of shit.
note: My apparent hostility is not actually real, I'm only being halfway serious, so, no offense is intended.
Glad you let us all know, this is such valuable information.