Bingo. Same here. Firefox is slow and buggy, but you're right. Adblock is why I am putting up with it. I didn't realize why I was still using it until you said so.
In the case of iPod's, it really is Apple's fault since they make the battery impossible or expensive to replace. It's MUCH more environmentally friendly to make fixable electronic gadgets instead of disposable ones.
First line: "To those of us in the games press, Thursday's announcement of Ken Kutaragi's retirement from Sony Computer Entertainment came as no surprise.". This guy is not "press". He's a damn blogger. All he did was pull together other people's actual journalism and comment on it.
Maybe Balmer knows something I don't (always possible), but methinks that he needs to go back to CEO school* for lessons on how to pay attention to your competition.
You're right. The CEO of one of the most successful companies in the history of capitalism needs to go back to school. I'm sure he needs some help from some MBA professors. Riiiight. But, if he does go to school, though, I would pay a large chunk of money to attend classes taught by him.
Do you honestly that Joe is going to opt for the $800 "vista ready" computer when it looks as though the $500 "ubuntu loaded" one is right next to it on the virtual shelf?
What about those people who (rightly) believe that you usually get what you pay for? Ubuntu, in your scenario, is a cheap, no-name, Microsoft knock off. The people who do buy purely on price (the average big-box American consumer) are usually absolute morons, and are going to require ungodly amounts of support.
Hang on... you're saying that a for-profit advertising company prefers clients that pay them over clients who don't? That's pure, unadulterated insanity, I tell you! Crazy!
It's not like someone's gonna be able to plop the code on some server farm in a couple weeks and make a competing mmo.
Why not? If it was sold to a "large" company as the article suggests, that's entirely possible. I have no idea what "Lineage" is, but at the very least, the competition now knows exactly how "Lineage" is written, and this company has lost any competitive edge that it may have had based on technology.
I had no idea. I would never imagine that somebody would invent an entire technology just to charge gadgets. It seems beyond ridiculous to me. It seems like a solution in search of a (real) problem.
I don't know anything about hospitals, but I can't agree with you about wires being "a bitch". It's a wire. How is that a "bitch"? What is Bluetooth used for? To eliminate wires? Are you serious?
Sorry to be blunt, but this is just stupid. Plug your phone into the little wire, and be done with it. Plus, it's going to waste a lot of extra electricity.
Well, that's neat and all, but I still don't see what the big deal is. Pick an ISP. Upload the docs. If that ISP gets freaked out after a bit, do the same. We have a wonderful thing called "DNS" so it doesn't matter how often you change your ISP.
My comment wasn't meant to be funny. I'm sure that Google collects, stores, and analyzes every single click that they get on each and every product, whether it's search, blogs, ads, etc. They're not building all of these giant data centers all over the country for no reason.
So a web site has a problem with their ISP. So friggin' what? Pick a different ISP. There are millions of hosting companies out there. Everybody has problems of one kind or another with their web host, and switches. These guys should pick a new ISP and be done with it. I mean, tell people that Verio sucks for these reasons, but there's no reason the web site should shut down permanently... this whole thing sounds like drama for the sake of drama.
As an adult should be able to walk down the cereal aisle without having to put your hands over your eyes to resist buying the Fruity Pebbles. Just stick to your damn list like a big boy or girl.
You clearly have never been to the grocery store while high.
I have a better way to game the system: don't participate in "the system". Shop at your friendly local, independent retailers. In our store, we put things where people can find them, and price them competitively.
Very dramatic. But let me tell ya'... nothing screams "geek" louder than a prosthetic leg that sounds like a light saber. Well, maybe one that sounds like a light saber and runs Linux.:)
It's good that our US government has their priorities straight: Building levies: no. Health care: no. Education: no. Really, really, really deadly weapons: hell yeah!
You should see if you can get a bionic leg that is better than human legs. Something with some kind of super-jumping power, or maybe something made out of solid titanium so you can whack the hell out of people. Oh, and maybe you can get something with the Million-Dollar-Man super sound effects. That would be really cool. You'd have to beat the chicks off with a stick.
Call me cynical, but it is possible that companies making *very* expensive, prosthetic limbs for the Defense Department that happens to have many, MANY soldiers coming back missing limbs, that the companies involved with making these things could be considered one of the defense contractors that are pretty happy about the current war-happy administration?
I agree 100%. I've been doing this for years. Most people are just too lazy. I'd like to propose that if you buy your music over iTunes, or from BestBuy, or any of those nasty places, that you can't bitch about the RIAA on Slashdot.
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Bingo. Same here. Firefox is slow and buggy, but you're right. Adblock is why I am putting up with it. I didn't realize why I was still using it until you said so.
In the case of iPod's, it really is Apple's fault since they make the battery impossible or expensive to replace. It's MUCH more environmentally friendly to make fixable electronic gadgets instead of disposable ones.
First line: "To those of us in the games press, Thursday's announcement of Ken Kutaragi's retirement from Sony Computer Entertainment came as no surprise.". This guy is not "press". He's a damn blogger. All he did was pull together other people's actual journalism and comment on it.
Maybe Balmer knows something I don't (always possible), but methinks that he needs to go back to CEO school* for lessons on how to pay attention to your competition.
You're right. The CEO of one of the most successful companies in the history of capitalism needs to go back to school. I'm sure he needs some help from some MBA professors. Riiiight. But, if he does go to school, though, I would pay a large chunk of money to attend classes taught by him.
Do you honestly that Joe is going to opt for the $800 "vista ready" computer when it looks as though the $500 "ubuntu loaded" one is right next to it on the virtual shelf?
What about those people who (rightly) believe that you usually get what you pay for? Ubuntu, in your scenario, is a cheap, no-name, Microsoft knock off. The people who do buy purely on price (the average big-box American consumer) are usually absolute morons, and are going to require ungodly amounts of support.
Hang on... you're saying that a for-profit advertising company prefers clients that pay them over clients who don't? That's pure, unadulterated insanity, I tell you! Crazy!
It's not like someone's gonna be able to plop the code on some server farm in a couple weeks and make a competing mmo.
Why not? If it was sold to a "large" company as the article suggests, that's entirely possible. I have no idea what "Lineage" is, but at the very least, the competition now knows exactly how "Lineage" is written, and this company has lost any competitive edge that it may have had based on technology.
Either way it's a lot, but the Slashdot editors really suck.
I had no idea. I would never imagine that somebody would invent an entire technology just to charge gadgets. It seems beyond ridiculous to me. It seems like a solution in search of a (real) problem.
I don't know anything about hospitals, but I can't agree with you about wires being "a bitch". It's a wire. How is that a "bitch"? What is Bluetooth used for? To eliminate wires? Are you serious?
Sorry to be blunt, but this is just stupid. Plug your phone into the little wire, and be done with it. Plus, it's going to waste a lot of extra electricity.
Well, that's neat and all, but I still don't see what the big deal is. Pick an ISP. Upload the docs. If that ISP gets freaked out after a bit, do the same. We have a wonderful thing called "DNS" so it doesn't matter how often you change your ISP.
My comment wasn't meant to be funny. I'm sure that Google collects, stores, and analyzes every single click that they get on each and every product, whether it's search, blogs, ads, etc. They're not building all of these giant data centers all over the country for no reason.
And let's not forget Google's ubiquitous ads. I know that those have got to have some pretty heavy duty tracking software behind them, as well.
So a web site has a problem with their ISP. So friggin' what? Pick a different ISP. There are millions of hosting companies out there. Everybody has problems of one kind or another with their web host, and switches. These guys should pick a new ISP and be done with it. I mean, tell people that Verio sucks for these reasons, but there's no reason the web site should shut down permanently... this whole thing sounds like drama for the sake of drama.
Actually, every time I try Linux, my hard drive *never* stops running, even when nothing is running. I thought that all Linux just did that. Oh well.
As an adult should be able to walk down the cereal aisle without having to put your hands over your eyes to resist buying the Fruity Pebbles. Just stick to your damn list like a big boy or girl.
You clearly have never been to the grocery store while high.
I have a better way to game the system: don't participate in "the system". Shop at your friendly local, independent retailers. In our store, we put things where people can find them, and price them competitively.
What's an "XO"?
Very dramatic. But let me tell ya'... nothing screams "geek" louder than a prosthetic leg that sounds like a light saber. Well, maybe one that sounds like a light saber and runs Linux. :)
It's good that our US government has their priorities straight: Building levies: no. Health care: no. Education: no. Really, really, really deadly weapons: hell yeah!
You should see if you can get a bionic leg that is better than human legs. Something with some kind of super-jumping power, or maybe something made out of solid titanium so you can whack the hell out of people. Oh, and maybe you can get something with the Million-Dollar-Man super sound effects. That would be really cool. You'd have to beat the chicks off with a stick.
I'm just gonna add *.myspace.* to adblock right now. I don't want to accidentally run into somebody's horrible remix of any of these great tracks.
Call me cynical, but it is possible that companies making *very* expensive, prosthetic limbs for the Defense Department that happens to have many, MANY soldiers coming back missing limbs, that the companies involved with making these things could be considered one of the defense contractors that are pretty happy about the current war-happy administration?
That would be disturbing.
I agree 100%. I've been doing this for years. Most people are just too lazy. I'd like to propose that if you buy your music over iTunes, or from BestBuy, or any of those nasty places, that you can't bitch about the RIAA on Slashdot.