Aaah but that is not completely true, part of the idea of being a hollywood actor is the "image" you will sell. And for movie studios sometime having a popular actor in a movie means that more people will like to see it. To achieve this the studios must create popular figures that people recognize and after the actor gets some reputation it will grab more viewers on the next movie she acts in.
At least that is the case for me at Nicole Kidman, I like her acting and roles, also Steve Buscemi
But kind of interesting on principle. As we humans make something similar (in a smaller scale) trying to plant trees in the earth as they get CO_2 and and release O_2...
Of course, although the theory is good, in practice it is not working that good. On the other hand, we are being very good at improving this CO_2 emissions don't you think?
The UI is clean and polished, it operates quickly on a decent machine, and it's reliable.
Just to add a bit of more wood to the fire, I have always wondered why the hell does MS Office products have "Page Config" under the File menu? that is not design wise!!! When I want to modify the format of my documents I expect to whoops, i just said it, FORMAT the page or pages I am at.
In that way, OpenOffice has it right, Format/Page, as simple as that.
Aside of that I still believe Microsoft Office 2000 is better than OpenOffice 2.0 at thesaurus, dictionary, macros, multilanguage suport [I use Español], change tracking, notes, overal confort 'feeling', versatility[Excel], Formula support[excel], speed, memory (I hate having to load a spreadsheet+drawing program+presentation creator+word processor when trying to write a letter).
And I preffer OpenOffice Draw to draw diagrams (it is very straightforward and has EPS export which I use in Latex). Although this one needs some work as a file I lost some information from one file that in some way OOo 2.0 could not open "right" after I saved it.
I somewhat agree with you, although even text/plain format does not guarantee that people will be able to access it 200 years from now.
You see, even this text plain files are based on some conventions, this is, we all "know" that when your machine reads one of those files a 65 means the character A, 67 character B and so on. Thus, the generation that wants the information must be aware of those things.
Now, with digital information is a bit more difficult than with printed paper, as in 200 years people may look at a magnetic plate hard disk and they may be able to read the train of bits, but there is nothing to give you the "protocol" needed in order to decipher that information.
As an example of that difficulty, take the voynich book, even though it is printed and even though it has clear images and clear recognizable characters, it is impossible to decipher as nobody knows the "protocol" to extract the "information" from the data.
What do I propose? well, I have no idea, maybe having a printed copoy of the ASCII table will be enough, maybe I am being dumb enough to think that in 200,300 or 400 years people may (for some reason) completely lose the meaning of ASCII (or UNICODE). Or as someone may think, in 200 years the information that is *relevant* enough would be in a readable form. Of course, there is a lot of non relevant information that our archeologists and historians are trying to understand even now (Mayan or Aztec civilization for example).
PDA that will do way too many things that most people will never use
I do not know about you but, if the screen is big enough as well as the battery life I will love it as an e-book reader. I have been waiting for an ebook reader where I can run Adobe Reader to read all my pirat^H^H^H*ahem* downloaded ebooks.
This looks promising, of course I do not think it will get more than 3 hours of battery life, which sucks... and we will have to see the weight also.
Yeah, unfortunately mine was an international order (as I am from Mexico) and we tried to contact Amazon. Their only response is "Your case is being investigated".
That plainly sucks.
As for the BBB I am not from USA, so I do not think I can get there and comply.
To the naysayers that argue that you 'pay' for it in ads and ISP fees,
Ok, about the ISP fees you are right, that is bullshit as google does not get anything of those, but about ads you are completely wrong, Google is an advertising company and they make all their money from advertising. That is their cash cow.
All the other cute applications that they make are concieved to attract users (which for them are EYES) to their advertisments. It is like in TV, TV is free ok, but you have the right of getting some quality in the programs.
Man, email attachments of big files is so 90's... nowadays there is YouSendIt, give it a try. I use it quite a lot so share big files with friends, I hate sending files through any messenger service (msn, yahoo, etc etc), yousendit is simpler.
Darn, I did not know that amazon was that bad, anyway there are some other options like Barnes and Noble, and in some cases, if you look in google you can buy the book almost directly to the author/publisher.
Now that you say all that, I remember sometime in the past my brother bought something like 5 CD's from Amazon (we have always bought CD's to them easly), unfortunately none of them arrived and after two months he tried to contact Amazon but of course he did not got any kind of reply, so his $100 were stolen by Amazon.
After that, we changed to CDUniverse to buy CD's (we continue to preffer having the complete plastic product w/booklet, I personally rip them to OGG-6). Although I have not bought from them in a long looong time (it is sad, as I really want to buy some Cd's but, I find that they are too expensive...).
Nope, that's also wrong. Several companies have announced "consumer" Blu-ray authoring software.
I believe the Nero 7 suite already has Blu-ray burning capabilities... I just made the experiment and tried to fill a BD with documents and I got impressed... I may be able to get all my music on 3 of those sweeties.
Of course, I will have to wait 'till holographic disks to burn my pr0n collection =-)
What TF? No, I hope these guys do not Open Source they design, you see, neither Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell nor Marcus Samuel made their buisness by giving away their technology.
I hope these people can get some funding and maybe start a company, who knows, it may become a good energy source.
Okey, I just want to comment on this stereotype thing you said, I have always thought that any stereotyping is wrong. But, if I have learned one thing from my 2 years in UK is that the stereotypes are there *because* of some reason.
Let me explain, I am from Mexico, and I have lived here (UK) for almost 2 years. It has been very interesting and I have had contact with a lot of different kind of people (different contries and races).
I do not know if the stereotype of "arab as radical" is true but, all the middle east or middle east descending persons I have met (in Mexico or UK) are some kind of really "thick" or hard people (sorry if I can not make myself clear). They are quite obstinated and closed.
Now, it may be wrong to generalize upon that, but I think there *is* a patternt. I have also seen a pattern in people from USA, they tend to be dumb, or uncultured, of course I have met several intelligent people (after all, they were in postgraduate levels) but overall they felt a bit dumb.
Then we have the french, haha, I have no predisposition against anyone but, Frenchs are so funny, they are so proud of themseleves and they get angry so fast. Again, I have seen this with at least 2 different French persons.
Now, I want to be fair here, as I said at the beggining I am from Mexico, and I am *sure* there are stereotypes of us as well, maybe one is that we are thieves or lazy, the thing is that it was not made for free.
As a side note, another stereotype I thing middle east (Iranians and Arabs at least) people have is how FUCKING HARD they work, at least where I live (and I think in almost all UK) all the stores close at 5:00. It is only stores run by middle east people that open from 9 am to 9 pm at least, all the week.
I mean, these people really know how to work, and they surely deserve to get a lot, I (as a Mexican presumabley) can not see how can they cope with working 12 hours a day nonstop for 5 years to save money.
Oh yes, I just reminded a mexican stereotype, Mexican usually shoot other mexicans, while you see Japanese people trying to help Japannese, the "£$@! USA government used this "mexican feature" and made a program where an Illegal inmigrator could obtain legal status if he denounced 10 Illegal inmigrators.
That does not surprises me (USA government sucks) what I found outrageous is that Mexicans where indeed turning their relatives to the inmigration police...
So, as you can see, stereotypes have something of truth, there are positive and negative stereoyptes, of course, when it is a positive stereotype nobody cares to whine, but when it is negative we always jump saying "it is wrong to generalize".
As for the real article. Man, I think slashdot editors just made one of the most Trollish posts I have ever read. My question will only be:
How is the interest in Open Source over your country/region? is the government interested in using it? (as, like some countries they see Microsoft as USA company, OS may be a solution) I think it is difficult to ask somethign specific as most of us do not have the slightest knowledge on how things are there, I mean, are schools similar to schools in USA? (classrooms, teachers, school levels as bascic/junior high/high/University), if they are, in which level does the average person has their first contact with computers?
What is the average of people that have a day to day use of a computer over there? is it more than the 50%?,
I agree with GP, I do not know why people continue to *believe* that typing cryptic commands to the computer is easy, again it may be straight forward when YOU KNOW HOW but it is not easy to INFERE when you do not know the commands.
for one, what THE FUCK does eselect opengl set nvidia means? that does not makes any sense, again what does emerge nvidia-kernel means??
Give a doctor those instructions and they will just unplug the cord and go to read a book. You have to have a very narrow perspecitve to think like that. One of the main goals of software usuability is to allow people to INFERE by themselves how to use something with their prior knowledge.
People know how to search in google. And if they need to do something they will search in google.
I will take the time to give you a step by step example. Lets imagine our hypothetical Jane average user who has returned from London and has her digital camera full with pictures, now she wants to make an album on her computer. She has two different choices:
The frist option is a page containing detailed step by step instructions on how to make a Windows Folder and use it as a photo album. The second option is Picasa which will direct you to download and install the program by clicking "open" (after that, you know it is Next/Next/Next). The third option will direct you to download.com, which provides a list of photo album applications like FlipAlbum (ha, my father bought that IIRC).
The first one is the closer to an answer, it takes you to Jalbum, unfortuantely you must register with some personal data (so much for the Open Source karma uh?) and you may need to download and install Java runtime.
If our Jane have not run yet, she will download the.bin, and then she may try to open it (supposing that she is using fedora core 4 with Gnome she may double click or right click and open, or just click open on the firefox download window) and then a big text full big X error window will appear saying: "Cannot open JAlbuminstall.bin".
Of course, she should know better as to change the rights to executable in the properties windows and then after that, open a terminal and run it... but that was just too much, so she went to the second option...... Which takes her to Corel corporation, and after wandering around she finds Corel Photo Album, and after clicking on the "Try It" link she may create an account and download the program just to see that it is an EXE, whoops, not for Linux (she might even read the System Requirments before doing all that...).
So, she goes to the third option, it seems good:
Web Photo Album automatically generates photo albums on the fly from directories containing your favorite photos. Supports captions (including HTML tags), definable page sizes, forward and reverse preview, and index pages. All preview and inde
Someone in the thread touched the main issue, after the average user have installed Linux, they will open the web browser (Firefox), and then they may start browsing the internet and they will suddenly find an interesting (to them) shareware to try. Guess what, the program will run only on Windows, which means they would not be able to run it.
After some time, they will go to BestBuy and look for an application to do make a gift card (and print it), then when arriving they may do 2 things, first is go to the software section and look for a program someone reccommended, if they are a bit saavy, they will look for Linux compatibility or even ask the salesman, and they will find that there is no compatility. Otherwise they will just buy their software, run to their home, open the package insert the CD and see that nothing happens, of course they will not be able to return it to their home (bummer).
After some days they will be some bothered with the lack of features that they will surely call their tech boy to install Windows XP again.
See, the same thing happened around my circle of friends when the Mac vs PC battle was going on. I was always an intel person, always used MS-DOS, and I, with a lot of friends where able to trade games and appliactions, while, there were other few friends (usually 2 of about 10) whose parents have bought that Macintosh because it was supposed to be *easier* to use, of course they could not to anything as the programs were quite expensive and none of the programs we the PC guys had could be used. What happened is that the Apple machines were just thrashed and the guys opted for a PC machine, and then, they could play Prince of Persia, Test Drive, Dangerous Dave and some football game.
You see, nowadays, for the average joe, moving to Linux is similar as if a wheelchair user was choosing to go to a University, he may hear from a lot of people that the University has a lot of facillities for wheelchair users, a lot of ramps, elevators and whatnot, and that he will have all that FOR FREE. A lot of people might tell him that he will feel like home and he will have very little problems living there.
Then, when he decides to go there, he finds that, although there are *some* faccilities for handicapped, they are not enough, there are some things he can not do that he *could* do where he was, there is some people willing to help, but help is not warranted (not that in the other place help was warranted, but, it was surely easier to live there). And then, there are those guys who are just laughing at him telling that he is stupid, that he can not move, that he can not do certain things.
At the end, he gets so pissed of that he can not make his work, he can not study that he decided to get out of this place and return to his expensive old school which, although makes him pay yearly , he at least knows he can blame someone when things are not working, and he knows that things will work at a certain level because, in one way or another, the people working there is living from the service they are providing.
You, like a lot of other Linux users failed in one thing, you generalize Linux. See, one of the problems with Linux is exactly that, people continue to call it Linux. I always tell my friends who use any kind of Linux distro that, if they are trying to convince someone to switch to Linux, they MUST focus specifically in ONE distribution. If you tell me that
"Linux installs in 15 minutes with one reboot", I can call big brown bullshit, as, when I tried to install Gentoo I had to wait for 5 hours for the kernel to compile, and of course, I could do it because I am a Geek. Then, you say that your desktop works perfectly, okey, again, I installed Fedora Core in a PC with a Ati card and whoops, no drivers =-(.
That is why you must spefify WHICH distribution you advocate, which one has worked for you. I use Mandriva, it installed flawlesly in a external USB hard disk, while Fedora Core just did not saw the disk when I was installing, I could say "sure, Linux is freaking easy to install in an external disk", but no, I only say that Mandriva does it.
Now, about why will Linux never be adopted in the desktop as much as Windows or OSX, it is simple, it is all about Merchandising. See, a lot of people has mentioned at least 2 killer features of Linux (no viruses and less security holes), but there is no company that can put money into Windows merchandizing, I have not seen any Linux distro company advertizing in the TV saying "Are you tired of the "£!$@ porno pop ups? use [insert favorite linux distro]". While, I have seen a lot of buzz saying ""Are you tired of the "£!$@ porno pop ups? use Windows Vista".
So, that is the main difference. The technology is *almost* there (some distributions are really user friendly), but NOBODY wants Joe Sixpack to adopt any Linux distro. And that is the difference. Microsoft and Apple are eager to see Joe using their OS.
I believed that the UK License Tax was payed because there where no commercials on T.V... another reason to avoid paying it. Well, although thinking that I did not know that there were actually adverts means I do not see TV =op. I own one, but I only watch DVD's and downloaded movies Aiirrree!
Yes, just give a 5% of every Adword click to some cause, for some time, and then, rotate the causes.
I will *try* to use (more than now) a sevice that does this. At least, I tend to buy those articles at the supermarket that give some cents of each of your purchases to some UNICEF cause.
As Windows users tend to have good paying jobs we can usually afford to buy nice computers
Oh my god, this is the best flamebait I have read in a long looong time.
I know people who use ONLY Linux and have the hell more money you could ever want (for one, my PhD supervisor which is a professor in the UK department I am at). I find stupid how people keep comparing Linux to Windows, if you want to bash any Linux, please bash a distribution specifically, as Gentoo is a PITA to install whereas Mandriva is cool and smooth, Kubuntu is very friendly and Knoppix can be used in a breeze. Of course all of them share the the same stability from the kernel.
I surely use DSLinux in my Pentium MMX 200 PC, I have a HP laptop with windows and use Fedora Core at my office.
The only thing you are demonstrating is that you *really* do not know the different uses of computers, Surely you tried to install Windows XP in a PII and could not make it run fine... and of course installed Microsoft Office 2003 plus ultra...
But when the _only_ purpose of a server is to link to illegal content, you have to be retarded to think it's just for research, or study or for the sake that it's not illegal.
I do not know but, I am sure that razorback linked to linux distributions and thousand of other legal content (documents, videos etc).
Now, about the linking thing, I have one question. Was Razorback2 indexing manually mantained?, if not, I guess it is the same case as Google page indexing, I mean, right now you can go: Google/Maxxus/Violate DMCA in 3 clicks but somehow the government does not gives a shit about google because their indexing is done automagically...
In that case, what happens if Razorback2 indexing is done again automatically???
While the thief may have a laugh that the owner thinks it's worth stealing, is it worth his effort to steal it?
Just a comment, I have an aunt who lives in Mexico City, and you know, car thief is a thing of everyday there. Once, she told could not opened of her car club (it was stuck or something) in a parking place and went to the closer mechanic, there, the main mechanic sent one of the helpers (a guy 18 to 20 at most). My aunt told the she was completely astonished as the guy "unlocked" the club with a screwer and a hammer. Just some small hits in specific places and it was done. My aunt asked the boy how did he do it? and the boy answered that all the clubs where like that, it was stupid and unsecure, it was only a matter of knowing where to hit it and it would be unlocked. Since then, my aunt changed the club for a big chain and a lock.
From the/. article: And many of us know too the story behind the game: creator Shigeru Miyamoto loved to explore in the hills behind his home, found some caves, made a videogame about it
I for one did not know that story, and it is not in the wikipedia, can someone here please explain a bit deeper (and if feeling good, add it to the wiki [if it is stil possible ot add to the wikipedia])
I remember a friend of mine had (do not ask me how) the japanese version (in Mexico). And it was very cool, we all wanted to go to his home to play it, although it was the same as the american. The interesting thing is that I believe he needed an adapter to play the games (or was it the other way around, did we need an adapter to play japanese games??)
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Aaah but that is not completely true, part of the idea of being a hollywood actor is the "image" you will sell. And for movie studios sometime having a popular actor in a movie means that more people will like to see it. To achieve this the studios must create popular figures that people recognize and after the actor gets some reputation it will grab more viewers on the next movie she acts in.
At least that is the case for me at Nicole Kidman, I like her acting and roles, also Steve Buscemi
But kind of interesting on principle. As we humans make something similar (in a smaller scale) trying to plant trees in the earth as they get CO_2 and and release O_2...
Of course, although the theory is good, in practice it is not working that good. On the other hand, we are being very good at improving this CO_2 emissions don't you think?
The UI is clean and polished, it operates quickly on a decent machine, and it's reliable.
Just to add a bit of more wood to the fire, I have always wondered why the hell does MS Office products have "Page Config" under the File menu? that is not design wise!!! When I want to modify the format of my documents I expect to whoops, i just said it, FORMAT the page or pages I am at.
In that way, OpenOffice has it right, Format/Page, as simple as that.
Aside of that I still believe Microsoft Office 2000 is better than OpenOffice 2.0 at thesaurus, dictionary, macros, multilanguage suport [I use Español], change tracking, notes, overal confort 'feeling', versatility[Excel], Formula support[excel], speed, memory (I hate having to load a spreadsheet+drawing program+presentation creator+word processor when trying to write a letter).
And I preffer OpenOffice Draw to draw diagrams (it is very straightforward and has EPS export which I use in Latex). Although this one needs some work as a file I lost some information from one file that in some way OOo 2.0 could not open "right" after I saved it.
Ha! MS Office is in fact 17 years behind my preffered user friendly office suite!
I somewhat agree with you, although even text/plain format does not guarantee that people will be able to access it 200 years from now.
You see, even this text plain files are based on some conventions, this is, we all "know" that when your machine reads one of those files a 65 means the character A, 67 character B and so on. Thus, the generation that wants the information must be aware of those things.
Now, with digital information is a bit more difficult than with printed paper, as in 200 years people may look at a magnetic plate hard disk and they may be able to read the train of bits, but there is nothing to give you the "protocol" needed in order to decipher that information.
As an example of that difficulty, take the voynich book, even though it is printed and even though it has clear images and clear recognizable characters, it is impossible to decipher as nobody knows the "protocol" to extract the "information" from the data.
What do I propose? well, I have no idea, maybe having a printed copoy of the ASCII table will be enough, maybe I am being dumb enough to think that in 200,300 or 400 years people may (for some reason) completely lose the meaning of ASCII (or UNICODE). Or as someone may think, in 200 years the information that is *relevant* enough would be in a readable form. Of course, there is a lot of non relevant information that our archeologists and historians are trying to understand even now (Mayan or Aztec civilization for example).
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PDA that will do way too many things that most people will never use
I do not know about you but, if the screen is big enough as well as the battery life I will love it as an e-book reader. I have been waiting for an ebook reader where I can run Adobe Reader to read all my pirat^H^H^H*ahem* downloaded ebooks.
This looks promising, of course I do not think it will get more than 3 hours of battery life, which sucks... and we will have to see the weight also.
Yeah, unfortunately mine was an international order (as I am from Mexico) and we tried to contact Amazon. Their only response is "Your case is being investigated".
That plainly sucks.
As for the BBB I am not from USA, so I do not think I can get there and comply.
To the naysayers that argue that you 'pay' for it in ads and ISP fees,
Ok, about the ISP fees you are right, that is bullshit as google does not get anything of those, but about ads you are completely wrong, Google is an advertising company and they make all their money from advertising. That is their cash cow.
All the other cute applications that they make are concieved to attract users (which for them are EYES) to their advertisments. It is like in TV, TV is free ok, but you have the right of getting some quality in the programs.
Man, email attachments of big files is so 90's... nowadays there is YouSendIt, give it a try. I use it quite a lot so share big files with friends, I hate sending files through any messenger service (msn, yahoo, etc etc), yousendit is simpler.
Darn, I did not know that amazon was that bad, anyway there are some other options like Barnes and Noble, and in some cases, if you look in google you can buy the book almost directly to the author/publisher.
Now that you say all that, I remember sometime in the past my brother bought something like 5 CD's from Amazon (we have always bought CD's to them easly), unfortunately none of them arrived and after two months he tried to contact Amazon but of course he did not got any kind of reply, so his $100 were stolen by Amazon.
After that, we changed to CDUniverse to buy CD's (we continue to preffer having the complete plastic product w/booklet, I personally rip them to OGG-6). Although I have not bought from them in a long looong time (it is sad, as I really want to buy some Cd's but, I find that they are too expensive...).
Nope, that's also wrong. Several companies have announced "consumer" Blu-ray authoring software.
I believe the Nero 7 suite already has Blu-ray burning capabilities... I just made the experiment and tried to fill a BD with documents and I got impressed... I may be able to get all my music on 3 of those sweeties.
Of course, I will have to wait 'till holographic disks to burn my pr0n collection =-)
Maybe these guys will open source their design.
What TF? No, I hope these guys do not Open Source they design, you see, neither Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell nor Marcus Samuel made their buisness by giving away their technology.
I hope these people can get some funding and maybe start a company, who knows, it may become a good energy source.
Okey, I just want to comment on this stereotype thing you said, I have always thought that any stereotyping is wrong. But, if I have learned one thing from my 2 years in UK is that the stereotypes are there *because* of some reason.
Let me explain, I am from Mexico, and I have lived here (UK) for almost 2 years. It has been very interesting and I have had contact with a lot of different kind of people (different contries and races).
I do not know if the stereotype of "arab as radical" is true but, all the middle east or middle east descending persons I have met (in Mexico or UK) are some kind of really "thick" or hard people (sorry if I can not make myself clear). They are quite obstinated and closed.
Now, it may be wrong to generalize upon that, but I think there *is* a patternt. I have also seen a pattern in people from USA, they tend to be dumb, or uncultured, of course I have met several intelligent people (after all, they were in postgraduate levels) but overall they felt a bit dumb.
Then we have the french, haha, I have no predisposition against anyone but, Frenchs are so funny, they are so proud of themseleves and they get angry so fast. Again, I have seen this with at least 2 different French persons.
Now, I want to be fair here, as I said at the beggining I am from Mexico, and I am *sure* there are stereotypes of us as well, maybe one is that we are thieves or lazy, the thing is that it was not made for free.
As a side note, another stereotype I thing middle east (Iranians and Arabs at least) people have is how FUCKING HARD they work, at least where I live (and I think in almost all UK) all the stores close at 5:00. It is only stores run by middle east people that open from 9 am to 9 pm at least, all the week.
I mean, these people really know how to work, and they surely deserve to get a lot, I (as a Mexican presumabley) can not see how can they cope with working 12 hours a day nonstop for 5 years to save money.
Oh yes, I just reminded a mexican stereotype, Mexican usually shoot other mexicans, while you see Japanese people trying to help Japannese, the "£$@! USA government used this "mexican feature" and made a program where an Illegal inmigrator could obtain legal status if he denounced 10 Illegal inmigrators.
That does not surprises me (USA government sucks) what I found outrageous is that Mexicans where indeed turning their relatives to the inmigration police...
So, as you can see, stereotypes have something of truth, there are positive and negative stereoyptes, of course, when it is a positive stereotype nobody cares to whine, but when it is negative we always jump saying "it is wrong to generalize".
As for the real article. Man, I think slashdot editors just made one of the most Trollish posts I have ever read. My question will only be:
How is the interest in Open Source over your country/region? is the government interested in using it? (as, like some countries they see Microsoft as USA company, OS may be a solution) I think it is difficult to ask somethign specific as most of us do not have the slightest knowledge on how things are there, I mean, are schools similar to schools in USA? (classrooms, teachers, school levels as bascic/junior high/high/University), if they are, in which level does the average person has their first contact with computers?
What is the average of people that have a day to day use of a computer over there? is it more than the 50%?,
I agree with GP, I do not know why people continue to *believe* that typing cryptic commands to the computer is easy, again it may be straight forward when YOU KNOW HOW but it is not easy to INFERE when you do not know the commands.
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.bin, and then she may try to open it (supposing that she is using fedora core 4 with Gnome she may double click or right click and open, or just click open on the firefox download window) and then a big text full big X error window will appear saying: "Cannot open JAlbuminstall.bin".
... Which takes her to Corel corporation, and after wandering around she finds Corel Photo Album, and after clicking on the "Try It" link she may create an account and download the program just to see that it is an EXE, whoops, not for Linux (she might even read the System Requirments before doing all that...).
for one, what THE FUCK does eselect opengl set nvidia means? that does not makes any sense, again what does emerge nvidia-kernel means??
Give a doctor those instructions and they will just unplug the cord and go to read a book. You have to have a very narrow perspecitve to think like that. One of the main goals of software usuability is to allow people to INFERE by themselves how to use something with their prior knowledge.
People know how to search in google. And if they need to do something they will search in google.
I will take the time to give you a step by step example.
Lets imagine our hypothetical Jane average user who has returned from London and has her digital camera full with pictures, now she wants to make an album on her computer. She has two different choices:
google "photo album windows XP"
or
google "photo album linux".
In the first case, if she has Windows, the first 3 google search results are:
1. Microsoft Windows XP - Make a photo album on your computer
2. Picasa
3. Digital Photography - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com
The frist option is a page containing detailed step by step instructions on how to make a Windows Folder and use it as a photo album.
The second option is Picasa which will direct you to download and install the program by clicking "open" (after that, you know it is Next/Next/Next).
The third option will direct you to download.com, which provides a list of photo album applications like FlipAlbum (ha, my father bought that IIRC).
Now, with our Linux Jane, what do we have as the 3 first results:
JAlbum - free web photo album software and photo gallery software
Corel Corporation - Home of CorelDRAW, WordPerfect, Paint Shop Pro
Linux Online - Application: Web Photo Album
The first one is the closer to an answer, it takes you to Jalbum, unfortuantely you must register with some personal data (so much for the Open Source karma uh?) and you may need to download and install Java runtime.
If our Jane have not run yet, she will download the
Of course, she should know better as to change the rights to executable in the properties windows and then after that, open a terminal and run it... but that was just too much, so she went to the second option...
So, she goes to the third option, it seems good:
Web Photo Album automatically generates photo albums on the fly from directories containing your favorite photos. Supports captions (including HTML tags), definable page sizes, forward and reverse preview, and index pages. All preview and inde
Sorry pal but, he is certainly correct.
Someone in the thread touched the main issue, after the average user have installed Linux, they will open the web browser (Firefox), and then they may start browsing the internet and they will suddenly find an interesting (to them) shareware to try. Guess what, the program will run only on Windows, which means they would not be able to run it.
After some time, they will go to BestBuy and look for an application to do make a gift card (and print it), then when arriving they may do 2 things, first is go to the software section and look for a program someone reccommended, if they are a bit saavy, they will look for Linux compatibility or even ask the salesman, and they will find that there is no compatility. Otherwise they will just buy their software, run to their home, open the package insert the CD and see that nothing happens, of course they will not be able to return it to their home (bummer).
After some days they will be some bothered with the lack of features that they will surely call their tech boy to install Windows XP again.
See, the same thing happened around my circle of friends when the Mac vs PC battle was going on. I was always an intel person, always used MS-DOS, and I, with a lot of friends where able to trade games and appliactions, while, there were other few friends (usually 2 of about 10) whose parents have bought that Macintosh because it was supposed to be *easier* to use, of course they could not to anything as the programs were quite expensive and none of the programs we the PC guys had could be used. What happened is that the Apple machines were just thrashed and the guys opted for a PC machine, and then, they could play Prince of Persia, Test Drive, Dangerous Dave and some football game.
You see, nowadays, for the average joe, moving to Linux is similar as if a wheelchair user was choosing to go to a University, he may hear from a lot of people that the University has a lot of facillities for wheelchair users, a lot of ramps, elevators and whatnot, and that he will have all that FOR FREE. A lot of people might tell him that he will feel like home and he will have very little problems living there.
Then, when he decides to go there, he finds that, although there are *some* faccilities for handicapped, they are not enough, there are some things he can not do that he *could* do where he was, there is some people willing to help, but help is not warranted (not that in the other place help was warranted, but, it was surely easier to live there). And then, there are those guys who are just laughing at him telling that he is stupid, that he can not move, that he can not do certain things.
At the end, he gets so pissed of that he can not make his work, he can not study that he decided to get out of this place and return to his expensive old school which, although makes him pay yearly , he at least knows he can blame someone when things are not working, and he knows that things will work at a certain level because, in one way or another, the people working there is living from the service they are providing.
You are, I might say 3% right.
You, like a lot of other Linux users failed in one thing, you generalize Linux. See, one of the problems with Linux is exactly that, people continue to call it Linux. I always tell my friends who use any kind of Linux distro that, if they are trying to convince someone to switch to Linux, they MUST focus specifically in ONE distribution. If you tell me that
"Linux installs in 15 minutes with one reboot", I can call big brown bullshit, as, when I tried to install Gentoo I had to wait for 5 hours for the kernel to compile, and of course, I could do it because I am a Geek. Then, you say that your desktop works perfectly, okey, again, I installed Fedora Core in a PC with a Ati card and whoops, no drivers =-(.
That is why you must spefify WHICH distribution you advocate, which one has worked for you. I use Mandriva, it installed flawlesly in a external USB hard disk, while Fedora Core just did not saw the disk when I was installing, I could say "sure, Linux is freaking easy to install in an external disk", but no, I only say that Mandriva does it.
Now, about why will Linux never be adopted in the desktop as much as Windows or OSX, it is simple, it is all about Merchandising. See, a lot of people has mentioned at least 2 killer features of Linux (no viruses and less security holes), but there is no company that can put money into Windows merchandizing, I have not seen any Linux distro company advertizing in the TV saying "Are you tired of the "£!$@ porno pop ups? use [insert favorite linux distro]". While, I have seen a lot of buzz saying ""Are you tired of the "£!$@ porno pop ups? use Windows Vista".
So, that is the main difference. The technology is *almost* there (some distributions are really user friendly), but NOBODY wants Joe Sixpack to adopt any Linux distro. And that is the difference. Microsoft and Apple are eager to see Joe using their OS.
Sorry guys. You, GP, and GGP should expect to get my lawyers soon,as I have already a patent that covers all what you are saying, it is filed as:
A method, device and idea to X.
Wait just a minute,
I believed that the UK License Tax was payed because there where no commercials on T.V... another reason to avoid paying it. Well, although thinking that I did not know that there were actually adverts means I do not see TV =op. I own one, but I only watch DVD's and downloaded movies Aiirrree!
I dont know but, what about just a 5%.
Yes, just give a 5% of every Adword click to some cause, for some time, and then, rotate the causes.
I will *try* to use (more than now) a sevice that does this. At least, I tend to buy those articles at the supermarket that give some cents of each of your purchases to some UNICEF cause.
Ok, maybe not 5%, but even 1% would be great.
As Windows users tend to have good paying jobs we can usually afford to buy nice computers
Oh my god, this is the best flamebait I have read in a long looong time.
I know people who use ONLY Linux and have the hell more money you could ever want (for one, my PhD supervisor which is a professor in the UK department I am at). I find stupid how people keep comparing Linux to Windows, if you want to bash any Linux, please bash a distribution specifically, as Gentoo is a PITA to install whereas Mandriva is cool and smooth, Kubuntu is very friendly and Knoppix can be used in a breeze. Of course all of them share the the same stability from the kernel.
I surely use DSLinux in my Pentium MMX 200 PC, I have a HP laptop with windows and use Fedora Core at my office.
The only thing you are demonstrating is that you *really* do not know the different uses of computers, Surely you tried to install Windows XP in a PII and could not make it run fine... and of course installed Microsoft Office 2003 plus ultra...
Darn, I do not even know why am I answering you
I have been Trolled.
But when the _only_ purpose of a server is to link to illegal content, you have to be retarded to think it's just for research, or study or for the sake that it's not illegal.
I do not know but, I am sure that razorback linked to linux distributions and thousand of other legal content (documents, videos etc).
Now, about the linking thing, I have one question. Was Razorback2 indexing manually mantained?, if not, I guess it is the same case as Google page indexing, I mean, right now you can go: Google/Maxxus/Violate DMCA in 3 clicks but somehow the government does not gives a shit about google because their indexing is done automagically...
In that case, what happens if Razorback2 indexing is done again automatically???
While the thief may have a laugh that the owner thinks it's worth stealing, is it worth his effort to steal it?
Just a comment, I have an aunt who lives in Mexico City, and you know, car thief is a thing of everyday there. Once, she told could not opened of her car club (it was stuck or something) in a parking place and went to the closer mechanic, there, the main mechanic sent one of the helpers (a guy 18 to 20 at most). My aunt told the she was completely astonished as the guy "unlocked" the club with a screwer and a hammer. Just some small hits in specific places and it was done. My aunt asked the boy how did he do it? and the boy answered that all the clubs where like that, it was stupid and unsecure, it was only a matter of knowing where to hit it and it would be unlocked. Since then, my aunt changed the club for a big chain and a lock.
Thanks for directing to the wikipedia article.
/. article:
From the
And many of us know too the story behind the game: creator Shigeru Miyamoto loved to explore in the hills behind his home, found some caves, made a videogame about it
I for one did not know that story, and it is not in the wikipedia, can someone here please explain a bit deeper (and if feeling good, add it to the wiki [if it is stil possible ot add to the wikipedia])
I remember a friend of mine had (do not ask me how) the japanese version (in Mexico). And it was very cool, we all wanted to go to his home to play it, although it was the same as the american. The interesting thing is that I believe he needed an adapter to play the games (or was it the other way around, did we need an adapter to play japanese games??)