If you dont like the country, government or whatever, then just go away. I am talking as a immigrant. I have lived in the UK, and even tough I whine a lot abou their unreasonable laws, their tax-everything mentality, their awful food and their stupid sense of humour, I am having a great time and I am enjoying my life here a lot.
There was a reason why I prefered to do my PhD on UK rather than going to a USA University, and it was that I really do not want to be in the USA, I dont like their government, I dont like the perjudices against Latins (I am Mexican) I dont like to live in fear or thinking at some racist will just beat myself if I get out and I hate Mr. Bush policies.
So, what did I do?, I did not go bombing the school or whatever. I go on with my life. As some philosopher said "I do not agree with your point of view but I would give my life to make sure that you can say it" (or something like that). I only stay away from USA and continue with my life, and get people over there continue with their lives.
When we (and by we, I mean the linux community) hit a larger portion of user base, say 10% of desktop market (if that will ever happen) linux is going to be well known, and I don't mean that just by the name, but people will actually from time to time use a computer that has linux installed.
One of the problems that I see with Linux is that it is always "almost" there in hardware support. What I mean is that, on eacn new technology, Open source entusasts put all their effort to make it work and add it to Linux (from say, modems [the winmodems time], video drivers [3d acceleration and everything you can do on other OS], wireless networking [actually making it work, right now my laptop wifi adapter is not supported], etc).
I konw the issue are the driver manufacturers, but this is more like a catch 22 situation, manufacturers just wont support Linux (lots of them dont support OSX after all [not that they have to of course, you wont see someone changing their Mac86 graphics card). Until they dont support linux with the drivers then it wont be possible for linux to get the edge technology when it is arriving, as some time would have to pass until hackers get the technology an provide compatibility for Linux.
The other problem (related) is that a lot of hardware companies wont release source code for their drivers, I am ok with that, I just want my hardware to work, and I want them to provide that funcitonality, I am no driver developer so I dont care about the drviers source code as long as they work. BUT, a lot of hard open source people (including I guess Linus Trovalds and the kernel community) make everything they can to avoid companies creating drivers in an easy way. Hence, from a hardware manufacturer perspective, there is no sense in spending time creating a driver (closed source, as they WONT open source it, it is their decision) for a platform that is just 5% of the population.
It would be nice if some major linux distro changes the Linux kernel with something like FreeBSD, which is less restrictive, and then makes it easy to create drivers for its platform for manufacturers. OH! but there already is one, it is called Apple... now the only thing we need is one that supports PeeCees
Herein lies an additional problem with security questions. I
Ya, security questions are stupid. I remember going into several chicks account on the ICQ times. The recipe was:
1. Search for interesting (age, city, status of profile) girl with ICQ search option. 2. Get into email page (preferably hotmail or yahoo mail or any other webmail) and go through the "forgot my password" 3. Bypass the "whats your age and other general info" filter, looking of courrse in their profile, it was so funny to look how they filled their profile with everything i needed. 4. Answer their stupid password (I liked how some sites had and still have 3 or 4 compulsory "questions" to be answered, and I loved more how people *really* answered them). 5. Profit (with the best thing is when this webmail pages would let you in the mail after doing that, or better yet just gave you the password in plain).
Nowadays is a bit more difficult (of course, if you dont have the general informaiton). But, as they say Google is your friend. And I am sure it might be possible (if you live for example in the same country of the "victim") to use other means to get more informaiton (white pages, etc etc).
What I usually do, is write something completely unrelated as the answer to the security question. It is in some way another password for me.
But what about a two-second video, consisting mostly of a logo?
Hey that worked for me, I went to one of those videogame site (dont remember if it was IGN or gamespy or the others) looking for a video of the upcoming Dragon Quest game for the Wii. Before watching the video I had to watch something like 20 seconds of a Snickers add, after watching it I was able to see the 3 seconds video of the game. The thing is that I did got the desire to get a Snickers... grrr and the worst thing is that now that I remember it, I am again getting the desire of a Snickers.
Anyway, 30 seconds add before or after the content (I presumably believe before the content is better) is okey, we are used to that, of course it would be good if the time of the ad was in some way correspondent to the time on the video, that is, watching an add for 30 seconds for a video of 3 is not good.
Oh yeah, I love that about linux zealots, if Windows crashes due to shitty drivers or shitty hardware then it is Microsoft fault (BURN THE BASTARDS!) however the fact that I can not enable 3D acceleration for my ATI RADEON 9100 IGP card or that I can not resume after hibernating my laptop or that the bloody touchpad is more sensitive that a girls u-know-what when I touch it or that my laptop's Broadcom wifi chip can not work on Ubuntu (yah, I have seen all the forum posts in ubuntu.org thank you) then it is the fault of the bloody hardware or hardware manufacturers.
Yeah, I love those double standards of the Linux community...
Now mod me down, and yeah, I dont care if you hate that I write "mod me down" so what I have a lot of karma to burn
. They are the opposite of competition. When a proprietary format becomes the de facto standard due not to its superiority, but due to its selection by the established companies, it's not a success of capitalism.
I believe that MP3 is one of the few file formats that has gained popularity by its own merits. I mean, if you look at the story of MP3 it was at the right place at the right time.
MP3 popularity was mostly due to, and interchangeable with, the successes of companies and software packages like Nullsoft's Winamp (released in 1997), mpg123, and Napster (released in 1999). Those programs made it very easy for the average user to playback, create, share, and collect MP3s.
So, the fact that all the digital media player manufacturers want to provide compatibility for that format is in my humble opinion just the product of pure demand. MP3 is then a standard in the industry. I think that, the problem is that this standard is encumbered with a number of patents, but as somebody else said, for all the DMP manufacturers it is worth it. Really, have you seeen ANY media player that DOES NOT play MP3 files?
just don't think I could bring myself to go into a shop and ask for an OGG player without sounding like a caveman.
You could just ask for a Vorbis player, which is the actual Audio format within the OGG container.
And about all those MP3, you would only have to re-rip and encode them from your original CD source (you DO have the original CD no?), or tell your preffered e music store to offer them as OGG instead of MP3 (some music stores already do that).
Just today I was thinking (and looked a bit on how to setup an email server on Ubuntu and found a nice howto over the forums) on a way to prevent spam.
I have seen something similar in some emails that, after you send an email they return a mail saying that you need to re-send the email to verify that you are a human. However, I thought that It would be excellent to send this mail with a CAPTCHA and tell the recipent just to hit REPLY and write in the subject of the message the text in the image.
I would use something like that, and of course after the sender has passed the CAPTCHA test, it would be added to a white list. I thik it is a great way to remove spam once and for all. Does anyone know of a web mail provided that does that?
in the real world, this is very likely rediculous. If I'm a criminal, what are the chances that I'm going to find someone in my area that uses google calendar on a regular basis, AND has a trip or event planned with specific times that tell me when they're going to be out of the house.
The chances keep getting greater and greater. As the article said, not only GOOGLE calendars but all other information pusblishing page. I find interesting how easly people share their personal information via webpages. Even some people share that informaiton without knowing it. For example, if you search for a telephone number in google you can get the complete address and name of that person, and from that you can go to Google maps and get a nice aereal photo.
I used to get into ppl email quite esaly in the ICQ era, see, on the ICQ profile people used to write down all their information with their email account (for hotmail or another email provider), then, if you went to the email page and requested to "remind me my password", the web page would ask you some personal information (name, birthday, etc etc) and then it will give you the password. The only thing I had to do is look at the ICQ profile to get all the personal information.
I think parents MUST take more care of what their children are publishing on their MySpace and other web pages, you dont know how much informaiton someone can get from you via google. Nowadays I usually run a google search for each ebayer I deal with (before dealing with him/her or sometimes after as the email usually lets you get lots of more informaiton), it is quite easy to find a lot of info about the person.
In general, when people say England is a police state, it's preparatory to a diatribe against either a) speed cameras or b) immigration.
Well I dont know too much about what a police state is but from the time I have spent here (2 years now) I can say that the government DO have you controlled under a "scared to hell" tactic. I mean, you just have to read the letters I have received from the "TV Licesnse authority", god, although I dont give a shit about the TV license ( as I dont watch TV doh!) I have quite a lot of fun at reading those letters "To the occuppier of XXXX, I am in charge of TV licensing in you area, surrender to us and pay the license or we will fine your ass until you can only shit legal bills".
And, from the comments that my girlfriend has told me other ppl at her work (all of them British), it seems they are *affraid* of their government. I mean, dont you guys know that the government was made to serve people? of course maybe I should be affraid as the new mode is to shoot foreigners because they seem suspicious and are running in the tube stations (not that they had to get early to work of course...).
Well, besides of that, UK is great:) but really I understand why Britons are so cold and that (can you imagine that the *most* "crazy" thing Britons do in a ROCK concert [steve vai or joe satriani] is to *clap* their hands, people saw me with a weird look because I was head-banging on some songs... COME ON PEOPLE!!).
Hey! Using a Hp Pavillion Zv5000 here and having also a lot of problems. I recently installed Ubuntu 6.06 and unfortunately the broadcom wireless didnt work. I went to the forum and wasted something like 4 hours trying to get the firmware copy it to the/var/firmware folder and doing other dozen tricks to *try* to make it work. Of coruse without success.
Then I proceeded to download the brand new Ati drivers and after installing them and wandering trou the forums I wasted another 5 hours trying to make my Ati IGP Radeon 9100 3D acceleration work. Of course again without success (I also tried with the open source x.org drivers). After all this time I saw x.org log and I learnt that the IGP 9100 is not supported for 3D acceleration on linux (only 2D).
Oh, and while Ubuntu did have suspend and hibernate when I installed Kubuntu (ubuntu crashed randomly when login in on my laptop... just after a fresh install), and Kubuntu did not showed any place to hibernate or suspend. Oh and when you connect/disconnect the AC the tray icion is not updated accordingly, and in Ubuntu if you change the time (say from 9:00 to 8:00) double clicking the clock, the change is NOT reflected until after some time passes.
So, no, there are several problems with Ubuntu. I will try Linsipire after I can download the free live cd and I will try with it. I use a FC4 PC at work and I am happy to run Linux but, for my home (my laptop), I just want things to WORK so I can get home and rest.
Although, It does not mean I will buy Vista for my laptop, until I see something really cool that makes me want it (I havent see nothing so far). 4 years ago I got really exited by the SQL based file managing but unfortunatley it got wiped trough the development.
Tantos satélites en la era comunicacional aún no logran acercarnos totalmente bien
Translation:
"Many satellites were inside, with us before the interior come close the good full communicational of the fist already".
Wow your spanish is pretty screwed.
the translation is:
"So many satellites in the communication era still can't make us get totally close" (literally, or so many sattelites in the communication age and we still cant get close enough)
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I have always thought when I read comments here on slashdot on all the "Linux is ready for the desktop" flamewars that, it is not us geeks the ones that have to answer the question "is Linux ready for Joe Sixpack and Grandma?", it is THEY the ones that have to answer and so far they have answered NO (it is the overall answer relfexed by the Linux adoption.
I like doing the analogy with what happened to Nintendo. I believe it was Shigeru Miyamoto or the CEO of the company who put it this way: "If you ask the current players about, what is wrong with the consoles, or what would be better, they always said that nothing is wrong, and they would only want some minor improvements. We had to ask the people that was NOT using the games what was wrong with them and WHY were they not playing". The quote was something like that. But the point is there, if the "linux community" keep asking the "linunx community" why are other people not using Linux, or why can be improved then nothing will change (specifically, nothing that attracts people that is NOT using it).
Are you serious? The only reason why I have not bought a CD for the 2 years I have been on UK is that I refuse to pay ALMOST two times the PRICE for a CD. Xe.com:
10.99 GBP United Kingdom Pounds = 20.9513 USD United States Dollars
Prices in UK are ourtageusly fucked. Your head would explode if you saw all the music you can get for £4.5 or LESS. (including double CDs like Satriani Anthology)
MMmm I dont know why I did not see anyone mention Code Blocks. I have been following the development and it is quite good. It is cross platform and open source.
Although they have been in 1.0rc2 for quite some time, they make nightly bulds which are very good.
[Th3No0b] Im going to be the next hitler [Th3No0b] Im going to burn all the MS-Windows servers and 1 BSD server [RageAgainsttheAmish] why the BSD server [Th3No0b] See? no one cares about Windows [RageAgainsttheAmish] lmao
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My question would then be,
WHY THE FUCK HAVENT THEY MOVED OUT OF HERE?
If you dont like the country, government or whatever, then just go away. I am talking as a immigrant. I have lived in the UK, and even tough I whine a lot abou their unreasonable laws, their tax-everything mentality, their awful food and their stupid sense of humour, I am having a great time and I am enjoying my life here a lot.
There was a reason why I prefered to do my PhD on UK rather than going to a USA University, and it was that I really do not want to be in the USA, I dont like their government, I dont like the perjudices against Latins (I am Mexican) I dont like to live in fear or thinking at some racist will just beat myself if I get out and I hate Mr. Bush policies.
So, what did I do?, I did not go bombing the school or whatever. I go on with my life. As some philosopher said "I do not agree with your point of view but I would give my life to make sure that you can say it" (or something like that). I only stay away from USA and continue with my life, and get people over there continue with their lives.
When we (and by we, I mean the linux community) hit a larger portion of user base, say 10% of desktop market (if that will ever happen) linux is going to be well known, and I don't mean that just by the name, but people will actually from time to time use a computer that has linux installed.
One of the problems that I see with Linux is that it is always "almost" there in hardware support. What I mean is that, on eacn new technology, Open source entusasts put all their effort to make it work and add it to Linux (from say, modems [the winmodems time], video drivers [3d acceleration and everything you can do on other OS], wireless networking [actually making it work, right now my laptop wifi adapter is not supported], etc).
I konw the issue are the driver manufacturers, but this is more like a catch 22 situation, manufacturers just wont support Linux (lots of them dont support OSX after all [not that they have to of course, you wont see someone changing their Mac86 graphics card). Until they dont support linux with the drivers then it wont be possible for linux to get the edge technology when it is arriving, as some time would have to pass until hackers get the technology an provide compatibility for Linux.
The other problem (related) is that a lot of hardware companies wont release source code for their drivers, I am ok with that, I just want my hardware to work, and I want them to provide that funcitonality, I am no driver developer so I dont care about the drviers source code as long as they work. BUT, a lot of hard open source people (including I guess Linus Trovalds and the kernel community) make everything they can to avoid companies creating drivers in an easy way. Hence, from a hardware manufacturer perspective, there is no sense in spending time creating a driver (closed source, as they WONT open source it, it is their decision) for a platform that is just 5% of the population.
It would be nice if some major linux distro changes the Linux kernel with something like FreeBSD, which is less restrictive, and then makes it easy to create drivers for its platform for manufacturers. OH! but there already is one, it is called Apple... now the only thing we need is one that supports PeeCees
Herein lies an additional problem with security questions. I
Ya, security questions are stupid. I remember going into several chicks account on the ICQ times. The recipe was:
1. Search for interesting (age, city, status of profile) girl with ICQ search option.
2. Get into email page (preferably hotmail or yahoo mail or any other webmail) and go through the "forgot my password"
3. Bypass the "whats your age and other general info" filter, looking of courrse in their profile, it was so funny to look how they filled their profile with everything i needed.
4. Answer their stupid password (I liked how some sites had and still have 3 or 4 compulsory "questions" to be answered, and I loved more how people *really* answered them).
5. Profit (with the best thing is when this webmail pages would let you in the mail after doing that, or better yet just gave you the password in plain).
Nowadays is a bit more difficult (of course, if you dont have the general informaiton). But, as they say Google is your friend. And I am sure it might be possible (if you live for example in the same country of the "victim") to use other means to get more informaiton (white pages, etc etc).
What I usually do, is write something completely unrelated as the answer to the security question. It is in some way another password for me.
But what about a two-second video, consisting mostly of a logo?
Hey that worked for me, I went to one of those videogame site (dont remember if it was IGN or gamespy or the others) looking for a video of the upcoming Dragon Quest game for the Wii. Before watching the video I had to watch something like 20 seconds of a Snickers add, after watching it I was able to see the 3 seconds video of the game. The thing is that I did got the desire to get a Snickers... grrr and the worst thing is that now that I remember it, I am again getting the desire of a Snickers.
Anyway, 30 seconds add before or after the content (I presumably believe before the content is better) is okey, we are used to that, of course it would be good if the time of the ad was in some way correspondent to the time on the video, that is, watching an add for 30 seconds for a video of 3 is not good.
Oh yeah, I love that about linux zealots, if Windows crashes due to shitty drivers or shitty hardware then it is Microsoft fault (BURN THE BASTARDS!) however the fact that I can not enable 3D acceleration for my ATI RADEON 9100 IGP card or that I can not resume after hibernating my laptop or that the bloody touchpad is more sensitive that a girls u-know-what when I touch it or that my laptop's Broadcom wifi chip can not work on Ubuntu (yah, I have seen all the forum posts in ubuntu.org thank you) then it is the fault of the bloody hardware or hardware manufacturers.
Yeah, I love those double standards of the Linux community...
Now mod me down, and yeah, I dont care if you hate that I write "mod me down" so what I have a lot of karma to burn
I believe that MP3 is one of the few file formats that has gained popularity by its own merits. I mean, if you look at the story of MP3 it was at the right place at the right time.
So, the fact that all the digital media player manufacturers want to provide compatibility for that format is in my humble opinion just the product of pure demand. MP3 is then a standard in the industry. I think that, the problem is that this standard is encumbered with a number of patents, but as somebody else said, for all the DMP manufacturers it is worth it. Really, have you seeen ANY media player that DOES NOT play MP3 files?
just don't think I could bring myself to go into a shop and ask for an OGG player without sounding like a caveman.
You could just ask for a Vorbis player, which is the actual Audio format within the OGG container.
And about all those MP3, you would only have to re-rip and encode them from your original CD source (you DO have the original CD no?), or tell your preffered e music store to offer them as OGG instead of MP3 (some music stores already do that).
Just today I was thinking (and looked a bit on how to setup an email server on Ubuntu and found a nice howto over the forums) on a way to prevent spam.
I have seen something similar in some emails that, after you send an email they return a mail saying that you need to re-send the email to verify that you are a human. However, I thought that It would be excellent to send this mail with a CAPTCHA and tell the recipent just to hit REPLY and write in the subject of the message the text in the image.
I would use something like that, and of course after the sender has passed the CAPTCHA test, it would be added to a white list. I thik it is a great way to remove spam once and for all. Does anyone know of a web mail provided that does that?
1. Create subliminal spam message.
2. (was ???) post it on slashdot so everyone read it
3. Profit!
This spammers are getting smarter and smarter, how can a spam image get to the homepage of such a news site like slashdot?
in the real world, this is very likely rediculous. If I'm a criminal, what are the chances that I'm going to find someone in my area that uses google calendar on a regular basis, AND has a trip or event planned with specific times that tell me when they're going to be out of the house.
The chances keep getting greater and greater. As the article said, not only GOOGLE calendars but all other information pusblishing page. I find interesting how easly people share their personal information via webpages. Even some people share that informaiton without knowing it. For example, if you search for a telephone number in google you can get the complete address and name of that person, and from that you can go to Google maps and get a nice aereal photo.
I used to get into ppl email quite esaly in the ICQ era, see, on the ICQ profile people used to write down all their information with their email account (for hotmail or another email provider), then, if you went to the email page and requested to "remind me my password", the web page would ask you some personal information (name, birthday, etc etc) and then it will give you the password. The only thing I had to do is look at the ICQ profile to get all the personal information.
I think parents MUST take more care of what their children are publishing on their MySpace and other web pages, you dont know how much informaiton someone can get from you via google. Nowadays I usually run a google search for each ebayer I deal with (before dealing with him/her or sometimes after as the email usually lets you get lots of more informaiton), it is quite easy to find a lot of info about the person.
M!!i
Your sig gave me the idea =oP
>>put if the reports are correct
Slashdot only has 15-20 stories a day...would it be too much to ask someone to proofread the briefs before posting them?
Not only that but, there isnt even an article linked in the summary, I mean, WTF has happened here?.
The sad thing is that I only realized that *after* reading the comments (maybe the Editors already gave up as nobody RTFA anyway).
In general, when people say England is a police state, it's preparatory to a diatribe against either a) speed cameras or b) immigration.
:) but really I understand why Britons are so cold and that (can you imagine that the *most* "crazy" thing Britons do in a ROCK concert [steve vai or joe satriani] is to *clap* their hands, people saw me with a weird look because I was head-banging on some songs... COME ON PEOPLE!!).
Well I dont know too much about what a police state is but from the time I have spent here (2 years now) I can say that the government DO have you controlled under a "scared to hell" tactic. I mean, you just have to read the letters I have received from the "TV Licesnse authority", god, although I dont give a shit about the TV license ( as I dont watch TV doh!) I have quite a lot of fun at reading those letters "To the occuppier of XXXX, I am in charge of TV licensing in you area, surrender to us and pay the license or we will fine your ass until you can only shit legal bills".
And, from the comments that my girlfriend has told me other ppl at her work (all of them British), it seems they are *affraid* of their government. I mean, dont you guys know that the government was made to serve people? of course maybe I should be affraid as the new mode is to shoot foreigners because they seem suspicious and are running in the tube stations (not that they had to get early to work of course...).
Well, besides of that, UK is great
Hey! Using a Hp Pavillion Zv5000 here and having also a lot of problems. I recently installed Ubuntu 6.06 and unfortunately the broadcom wireless didnt work. I went to the forum and wasted something like 4 hours trying to get the firmware copy it to the /var/firmware folder and doing other dozen tricks to *try* to make it work. Of coruse without success.
Then I proceeded to download the brand new Ati drivers and after installing them and wandering trou the forums I wasted another 5 hours trying to make my Ati IGP Radeon 9100 3D acceleration work. Of course again without success (I also tried with the open source x.org drivers). After all this time I saw x.org log and I learnt that the IGP 9100 is not supported for 3D acceleration on linux (only 2D).
Oh, and while Ubuntu did have suspend and hibernate when I installed Kubuntu (ubuntu crashed randomly when login in on my laptop... just after a fresh install), and Kubuntu did not showed any place to hibernate or suspend. Oh and when you connect/disconnect the AC the tray icion is not updated accordingly, and in Ubuntu if you change the time (say from 9:00 to 8:00) double clicking the clock, the change is NOT reflected until after some time passes.
So, no, there are several problems with Ubuntu. I will try Linsipire after I can download the free live cd and I will try with it. I use a FC4 PC at work and I am happy to run Linux but, for my home (my laptop), I just want things to WORK so I can get home and rest.
Although, It does not mean I will buy Vista for my laptop, until I see something really cool that makes me want it (I havent see nothing so far). 4 years ago I got really exited by the SQL based file managing but unfortunatley it got wiped trough the development.
Tantos satélites en la era comunicacional aún no logran acercarnos totalmente bien
Translation:
"Many satellites were inside, with us before the interior come close
the good full communicational of the fist already".
Wow your spanish is pretty screwed.
the translation is:
"So many satellites in the communication era still can't make us get totally close" (literally, or so many sattelites in the communication age and we still cant get close enough)
This is the 'Internet Paradox' because while the internet is heavily used for communication, it makes people lonelier.
"Tantos satélites en la era comunicacional aún no logran acercarnos totalmente bien"
Error in java lanucher. Error ocurred while attempting to find Java class org/herac/tuxguitar/gui/TuxGuitar
Mmmm... so much for the Open Source is better than...
..the tabloïd-style headline ? I mean, it looks like the nerd equivalent of "Elvis Lives!", or "Brittney's secret child tells us EVERYTHING!"...
Oh, that is just slashdot replicating the 13-year-old-Digg type post.
Editors, it really looks bad, please leave the OMGWTFBBQ BESTEST EXPLOITION EVAR!!!!!! comments to Digg, please?
Wow, seems that BSD is OLD SCHOOL,
Just take a look at the ID's of people posting. I thought that IDs 300000 where dead:
rsidd (6328)
BluBrick (1924)
hey! (33014)
chaoskitty (11449)
DavidpFitz (136265)
Snap E Tom (128447)
zensonic (82242)
StarKruzr (74642)
QuantumFTL (197300)
evilviper (135110)
(etc).
I think this is the thread where I have seen the biggest quantity of low id posts =o).
Seems Old guys come out of their chairs to defend their lawn =oP
You hit the nail!
I have always thought when I read comments here on slashdot on all the "Linux is ready for the desktop" flamewars that, it is not us geeks the ones that have to answer the question "is Linux ready for Joe Sixpack and Grandma?", it is THEY the ones that have to answer and so far they have answered NO (it is the overall answer relfexed by the Linux adoption.
I like doing the analogy with what happened to Nintendo. I believe it was Shigeru Miyamoto or the CEO of the company who put it this way: "If you ask the current players about, what is wrong with the consoles, or what would be better, they always said that nothing is wrong, and they would only want some minor improvements. We had to ask the people that was NOT using the games what was wrong with them and WHY were they not playing".
The quote was something like that. But the point is there, if the "linux community" keep asking the "linunx community" why are other people not using Linux, or why can be improved then nothing will change (specifically, nothing that attracts people that is NOT using it).
The only reason why I have not bought a CD for the 2 years I have been on UK is that I refuse to pay ALMOST two times the PRICE for a CD.
Xe.com:
Prices in UK are ourtageusly fucked. Your head would explode if you saw all the music you can get for £4.5 or LESS. (including double CDs like Satriani Anthology)
MMmm I dont know why I did not see anyone mention Code Blocks. I have been following the development and it is quite good. It is cross platform and open source.
Although they have been in 1.0rc2 for quite some time, they make nightly bulds which are very good.
I don't work for Mozy or know anything else about them;
https://mozy.com/ ?ref=UPYJ5F
Free slashdot refering: Priceless
Slightly modified to mantain it on topic
[Th3No0b] Im going to be the next hitler
[Th3No0b] Im going to burn all the MS-Windows servers and 1 BSD server
[RageAgainsttheAmish] why the BSD server
[Th3No0b] See? no one cares about Windows
[RageAgainsttheAmish] lmao