I'd have expected the PS2 to far outsell the DS after so many people got burned with Nintendo's last cool handheld, the Gameboy Advance. People don't seem to learn from their purchasing mistakes, it seems.
Sometimes I give them a quick checking over the first time, then want to go back and find them again to bookmark them if I think I'll find them interesting in future.
The first time I clicked this link, it was a normal page about liberals wanting to vote out Bush. The second time, it took me to one of those pages that shows goatse and shouts "hey everybody I'm looking at gay porno". This guy's running a random redirection thing to avoid getting moderated.
He can't really see into the future and say with any certainty that Linux is going to "win out" other any other operating system. There's no reason why Windows or a BSD variant won't become more entrenched. There's no reason why Linux won't go through a "shadowy fate" either, if we think about. There's no doubt that it's a nice niche for some applications in that it's got faster turnover and is more stable than other, more convential operating systems.
Nonetheless, the hardware support of even the latest Linux distributions is inferior to that of Windows or even Mac OS X, and it's difficult to see how this is going to change when manufacturers continue to make their drivers closed-source and binary so that they only work with one kernel version, one distro, one libc.
In a way, its immense flexibility is a bad thing. Open source is a nice thing, and has the potential to take over - just look at Firefox. But Linux is just too monolithic and slow-to-change to be easy to toss onto a new PC and get up and running with. There's a proliferation of different versions, all incompatible, making ease-of-use impossible to attain.
In summation, Linus is noble for releasing so much hard work to the public for all to enjoy. But unfortunately, not all of us are capable of enjoying it.
This is just more hyperbolic editorial blather on the part of timothy. If you can name a couple of significant competitors off of the top of your head, then it's not a monopoly. It would be a monopoly if it were impossible to use anything but PayPal, but it's not. We all have a choice. If we hate PayPal that much maybe we should launch a boycott of them and all tangentially related companies. Then we can use the superior alternatives instead of letting PP become the next Microsoft.
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I'd have expected the PS2 to far outsell the DS after so many people got burned with Nintendo's last cool handheld, the Gameboy Advance. People don't seem to learn from their purchasing mistakes, it seems.
Sometimes I give them a quick checking over the first time, then want to go back and find them again to bookmark them if I think I'll find them interesting in future.
The first time I clicked this link, it was a normal page about liberals wanting to vote out Bush. The second time, it took me to one of those pages that shows goatse and shouts "hey everybody I'm looking at gay porno". This guy's running a random redirection thing to avoid getting moderated.
He can't really see into the future and say with any certainty that Linux is going to "win out" other any other operating system. There's no reason why Windows or a BSD variant won't become more entrenched. There's no reason why Linux won't go through a "shadowy fate" either, if we think about. There's no doubt that it's a nice niche for some applications in that it's got faster turnover and is more stable than other, more convential operating systems.
Nonetheless, the hardware support of even the latest Linux distributions is inferior to that of Windows or even Mac OS X, and it's difficult to see how this is going to change when manufacturers continue to make their drivers closed-source and binary so that they only work with one kernel version, one distro, one libc.
In a way, its immense flexibility is a bad thing. Open source is a nice thing, and has the potential to take over - just look at Firefox. But Linux is just too monolithic and slow-to-change to be easy to toss onto a new PC and get up and running with. There's a proliferation of different versions, all incompatible, making ease-of-use impossible to attain.
In summation, Linus is noble for releasing so much hard work to the public for all to enjoy. But unfortunately, not all of us are capable of enjoying it.
Isn't there already a Final Fantasy 8 and 9?
This is just more hyperbolic editorial blather on the part of timothy. If you can name a couple of significant competitors off of the top of your head, then it's not a monopoly. It would be a monopoly if it were impossible to use anything but PayPal, but it's not. We all have a choice. If we hate PayPal that much maybe we should launch a boycott of them and all tangentially related companies. Then we can use the superior alternatives instead of letting PP become the next Microsoft.