...As a denizen of a region where rednecks are commonly encountered, I can assure you that "redneck" would never be a derogatory term for a Native American. I do agree with you, though-- I think the GGP doesn't know the meaning of a pun.
I would like to ask you this: How many people buying this computer are even going to care about audio and video in this manner?
Also, where are you buying your memory from? I'm not sure how much memory (flash or SDRAM) is in India, but how much memory are you suggesting to be added?
I know many don't like wasting their mod points on AC's, but the parent is dead-on. I'm sure that this new computer isn't going to be marketed toward the MP3-jamming, DVD-viewing set. TFA states its target audience:
The main aim, Mr. Deshpande said, was to develop a system that was affordable and provided the essential features, "without the unnecessary fluff of the conventional systems.'' The target audience is households, small shops, professionals such as lawyers and chartered accountants, and field staff of pharmaceutical, insurance and other industries. It could be used as e-book readers by educational institutions, for telemedicine and as a nurse's aide.
This is a system for people who need email, productivity, etc; "meat and potatoes" stuff. I would have thought it pretty obvious that with the lack of hard drive and limited memory, we wouldn't be having this discussion. But, apparently not. This isn't a device you're going to see some technophile in the subway attaching his little white iPod earbuds to, so he can jam his iTunes on the way to work-- it's just a productivity machine, designed so low-income families/individuals can have *something* to stay connected and productive with.
The ports system is what makes FreeBSD so easy to use. Install whatever you want with "pkg_add -r portname". How hard is that to figure out? The port is installed along with all its dependiencies.
...Not quite. That is a really convenient way to download pre-compiled binaries that are available from the FTP package repository. Ports is still fairly easy-- locate the package you want in/usr/ports and then cd into that directory. Typing make install distclean will compile and install all the packages, as well as any needed dependancies.
I wouldn't have modded you troll for your comment, personally, but I'm not incredibly picky about what they're called.
It's the same thing as calling a NIC a "NIC card", I guess, so I could see where you were coming from. However, I think it's overkill saying calling them Legos is disrespectful-- it's no more disrespectful to call all soft drinks "Cokes", all cotton swabs "Q-tips". "Lego", in American terminology, at least, has been the singular term for an interlocking plastic brick that can be used to build a bunch of different structures.
Anyways, my point is that your energy on such a quest could be better spent. If someone were calling Lego bricks "them damn sticky bricks", then maybe I'd join the cause.
Not trying to troll here, but don't people pronounce these things? I'm not using an OS whose name sounds like a morally-loose member of the Insectivore family.
I did have brains enough to assume that, I just wanted to be sure. The Google search I did for that word turned up that exact same spelling, but no definition. I thought I was the one who wasn't getting something!
I'm going to get modded offtopic for this, but.... What does regural mean? I thought it was a misspelling, but you use this word several times. I tried googling and dictionary.com'ing it, but didn't find a meaning.
...or was it regular? I'm not trying to be a spelling nazi here, seriously.
I'm not so sure about that-- IANA Economics Professor, but I'm guessing that Dell proper did not design the player-- they probably took some design from a Southeast Asian design firm and slapped Dell badging on it. They may have done some R&D, but considering Dell's current track record as far as cost-cutting is concerned, I'm sure that they came out better by licensing a design from some little firm and spending a little on R&D than they did by licensing/retailing the iPod, or similar, outright.
Also, an aside: Until Dell started producing their MP3 player, you could actually buy an Apple-branded iPod from Dell's website. Now, you type in iPod, you get their MP3 player. I'm figuring that my inference is correct-- they switched over to their own brand of MP3 player because they saw how well the iPod was selling from their website, and they wanted to soak up the lion's share of the profits for themselves with an almost in-house designed product.
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Have you ever used their "lame MP3 player"? It's no iPod, granted, but it's nothing to scoff at.
See a market, branch into it if you see profit potential. What's so wrong about that?
I understand your point, but the same point applies to Windows with these people-- If it can't play AVIs, they assume one of two things: 1.)"This dumb file must be for a Mac, or something", or 2.) "My Computer is broken."
True, it's not much more difficult, but it's still nearly impossible grasp for your mom-n-pop set, regardless of what OS you're installing on their system.
My distro of choice is Fedora - it also comes without some multimedia support - but adding it is as simple as adding one line to config file and issuing one command. For grandpa or smth. it is a matter of opening terminal and copying and pasting
one command. And then it works so please don't dramatize. Or go get boxed paid distribution and you will get it all out-of-the-box.
Please... Do yourself a favor. You can sit there and say that it's oh-so-easy to add a line into some config file, but try to get "grandpa or smth." to even know what cutting and pasting is all about. Slashdotters can all consider it second-nature to cut and paste something into a terminal, but based on my "grandpa or smth." technical support experience, if it doesn't work correctly without any fiddling, you've just scared away most Aunt Betties or Grandma Phyllis's from using your "computer and program" (whole computer, not just the OS, mind you), because it's broken, as far as they're concerned.
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I don't want to know how you "viewed" your pr0n...
...As a denizen of a region where rednecks are commonly encountered, I can assure you that "redneck" would never be a derogatory term for a Native American. I do agree with you, though-- I think the GGP doesn't know the meaning of a pun.
Also, where are you buying your memory from? I'm not sure how much memory (flash or SDRAM) is in India, but how much memory are you suggesting to be added?
This is a system for people who need email, productivity, etc; "meat and potatoes" stuff. I would have thought it pretty obvious that with the lack of hard drive and limited memory, we wouldn't be having this discussion. But, apparently not. This isn't a device you're going to see some technophile in the subway attaching his little white iPod earbuds to, so he can jam his iTunes on the way to work-- it's just a productivity machine, designed so low-income families/individuals can have *something* to stay connected and productive with.
How is this Offtopic? I find it interesting. I hope this gets torn up in metamod...
Man, I hate when my filesystems crash when in a lagoon. It's so time consuming to have to fsck them all.
How do we let you know? Got an email or something?
Mods: I have some karma to burn-- mod me down for this if you must...
He didn't-- the system fell out of the box in the parking lot of the UPS store he picked it up from...
It's the same thing as calling a NIC a "NIC card", I guess, so I could see where you were coming from. However, I think it's overkill saying calling them Legos is disrespectful-- it's no more disrespectful to call all soft drinks "Cokes", all cotton swabs "Q-tips". "Lego", in American terminology, at least, has been the singular term for an interlocking plastic brick that can be used to build a bunch of different structures.
Anyways, my point is that your energy on such a quest could be better spent. If someone were calling Lego bricks "them damn sticky bricks", then maybe I'd join the cause.
I'm lucky enough to have my niece call them "nemmmagegno's".
Exactly. There's no way I'm using any OS called "the hoary hedgehog release":
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/504Released
Not trying to troll here, but don't people pronounce these things? I'm not using an OS whose name sounds like a morally-loose member of the Insectivore family.
What are you expecting? It's a processor, not a car... you're not really going to see it "move" while it's working...
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What if you disable the Welcome Screen, as most people running in a Domain do? No fast user switching for those folks...
It's the number one summer jam!
Isn't it funny how the word that describes turning a noun into a verb is actually a noun turned into a verb? Verb that, will ya? Why I oughta...
Did my sig have anything to do with it?
I did have brains enough to assume that, I just wanted to be sure. The Google search I did for that word turned up that exact same spelling, but no definition. I thought I was the one who wasn't getting something!
Maybe he's trying to make up with all the trouble his Law caused. Damn politicians...
Also, an aside: Until Dell started producing their MP3 player, you could actually buy an Apple-branded iPod from Dell's website. Now, you type in iPod, you get their MP3 player. I'm figuring that my inference is correct-- they switched over to their own brand of MP3 player because they saw how well the iPod was selling from their website, and they wanted to soak up the lion's share of the profits for themselves with an almost in-house designed product.
See a market, branch into it if you see profit potential. What's so wrong about that?
True, it's not much more difficult, but it's still nearly impossible grasp for your mom-n-pop set, regardless of what OS you're installing on their system.
one command. And then it works so please don't dramatize. Or go get boxed paid distribution and you will get it all out-of-the-box.
Please... Do yourself a favor. You can sit there and say that it's oh-so-easy to add a line into some config file, but try to get "grandpa or smth." to even know what cutting and pasting is all about. Slashdotters can all consider it second-nature to cut and paste something into a terminal, but based on my "grandpa or smth." technical support experience, if it doesn't work correctly without any fiddling, you've just scared away most Aunt Betties or Grandma Phyllis's from using your "computer and program" (whole computer, not just the OS, mind you), because it's broken, as far as they're concerned.