Just get SNES9X and download some games. I used to play that with my GF: - Mario Kart (SNES version is one of the best ones) - Lemmings (2 player snes version quite good) - TMNT (2 player cooperative) - Top Gear (one of the few two player coop. racing games where even if one is good enough, both of you will be able to go through the game [and you can cooperate by trying to block the first place cars to make one of you win:P]) - Super Contra (a bit more "man" oriented, but fun coop too). - Rock and Roll racing (another nice racing game). - Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (two player kind of coop... a bit difficult [but quite fun if you enable infinite lives cheat]) - Bomberman (My girlfriend loves these ones. It is OK multiplayer) - Joe and Mac (really funny caveman characters, multiplayer coop) - Super Mario All Stars (I can never be left out! including Super Mario Bros 3, i have played it with my girlfriend from the beginning to the end)
- Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (not really multiplayer, maybe not really very good, but it is my favourite game of all time [Ninja Gaiden II for the NES] so I had to include it here =oP)
Those are all I can think of now. The reason I choose SNES is because such games are not as complex as todays' games; therefore you can just sit start it and begin playing without two hours of tutorial (I am looking at you Wii Zelda ).
Also, I think the SNES had the best kind of cooperative multiplayer games... these days it is very difficult to find such games in any console. The only cooperative games are FPS like "halo" but they are a turn off for most girls or other "casual" players.
And, the reason I don't choose Wii (even though I have one, which is in its box since I moved home 2 months ago) is because I hate mini-games, and all the multiplayer games from Nintendo are mini games (wiiware, mario party, rayman raymin rabbits, monkeyball banana... etc).
Oh! and the last one I would suggest is Worms. That is a really good game in which I have spent hours with my girlfriend and other friends (even a friend who never had used a computer had no problem playing the N64 emulated game =oO)
But every shady cybercafe I know will gladly support java and flash applications. IIRC tightvnc comes with a handy java applet client. I know there are some flash based clients however I think they are propietary.
The funny thing about all the answers I have read is that they focus too much in the "key" part of the keylogger.
It is pretty easy to catch whatever text you entered in whatever text box and submitted. No matter if it was written with the keyboard or any other way. Also, programs that forward to other terminals video of the current screen state are more than 10 years old (remember the primitive subseven?).
The best way I can think of being secure in these circumstances is to change your password for any other before you are going to travel, and after you used the untrusted computer, change your password again. That way you can will have *at least* two passwords, one for when you are out of your trusted environment and another for when you are in it.
Apple was willing to provide the OS for free, but were denied because it wouldn't be open source. Now Windows is OK? If there is indeed anything positive to say about this at all, please by all means, say it. Other wise, all you are doing is trolling. Said the Apple zealot hahah gotcha!
Do noooot feed the troooooollls! Sheesh, this troll is older than me. There: I did my best =P --- As a table dance club owner, My business faces ruin. table dance sales have dropped through the floor. People aren't buying half as table dances as they did just a year ago. Revenue is down and costs are up. My club has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy. Every day I ask myself why this is happening.
I bought the club about 12 years ago. It was one of those clubs that play obscure, independent releases that no-one listens to, not even the people that buy them. I decided that to grow the business I'd need to aim for a different demographic, the family market. My table dance club specialized in family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to. I don't play sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap, and I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of.
The business strategy worked. People flocked table dance club, knowing that they (and their children) could safely purchase table dances without profanity or violent lyrics. Over the years I expanded the business and took on more clean-cut and friendly employees. It took hard work and long hours but I had achieved my dream - owning a profitable business that I had built with my own hands, from the ground up. But now, this dream is turning into a nightmare.
Every day, fewer and fewer customers enter my store to buy fewer and fewer table dances. Why is no one buying table dances? Are people not interested in lust? Do people prefer to watch TV, see porn films, read erotic books? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - Internet piracy is mostly to blame. The statistics speak for themselves - one in three geek world wide is watches porn. On The Internet, you can find and download hundreds of dollars worth of porn in just minutes. It has the potential to destroy the table dance industry, from dancers, to Djs to table dance club owners my own. Before you point to the supposed "economic downturn", I'll note that the book store just across from my store is doing great business. Unlike porn, it's harder to copy books over The Internet.
A week ago, an unpleasant experience with pirates gave me an idea. In my store, I overheard a teenage patron talking to his friend.
"Dude, I'm going to put this table dance in the Internet right away."
"Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."
I was fuming. So they were out to destroy the table dance industry from right under my nose? Fat chance. When they came to the counter to make their purchase (they ticket for the table dance), I grabbed the little shit by his shirt. "So...you're going to copy this to your friends over The Internet, punk?" I asked him in my best Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry voice.
"Uh y-yeh." He mumbled, shocked.
"That's it. What's your name? You're blacklisted. Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my club - and don't come back." I barked. Cravenly, they complied and scampered off.
So that's my idea - a national blacklist of pirates. If somebody cannot obey the basic rules of society, then they should be excluded from society. If pirates want to steal from the table dance club industry, then the table dance club industry should exclude them. It's that simple. One strike, and you're out - no reputable table dance club will allow you to buy another CD. If the pirates can't buy the table dance tickets to begin with, then they won't be able to watch them over The Internet, will they? It's no different to doctors blacklisting drug dealers from buying prescription medicine.
I have just written a letter to the TIAA outlining my proposal. Suing pirates one by one isn't going far enough. Not to mention pirates use the fact that they're being sued to unfairly portray themselves as victims. A national register of pirates would make the problem far easier to deal with. People would be encouraged to give the names of suspected pirates to
I hope you did not feel offended by my question, as I did not mean it as an offence; it was pure curiosity.
I think that I noticed your posts (and you) mainly because I am kind of interested in all the IP and legal issues of "media" content (music, software, video, books, etc.). I am sure a lot of people who read slashdot do not care about those stories but for the ones that do, It is only two or three submitters (NYCL, you and the odd one).
I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate what you do. I hate that Slashdot quality has been decreasing (and I am kind of "new" here if you see my ID). It is submissions like yours that make me visit slashdot.
Anyway, again thanks for the answer and keep up the good work!
Ah but in "non consumerist societies" we sometimes do have very brilliant ways to fix things. Let me give you two examples.
If you buy a blender (for the kitchen) in the UK and say, after 2 years of use (say, the warranty is over) the vase brakes up, what you will usually do is throw everything to the thrash and buy a new one.
In other countries (like, in Mexico) there are really good markets for replacement parts (like, for example in Mexico city centre). What you will do there is go to such a market and buy just a replacement part which fits your model. And, instead of paying £30 dollars for a new blender, you would be paying like £5.0 for the vase!
Now, what does a Mexican do in the UK when that happens?, what I did is just buy some super-glue and took my time to glue the broken part of the base =o). My blender is still working after more than 3 years yay!.
Another issue is that, in underdeveloped countries, sometimes *services* are very cheap. Therefore, after your 5 year old stereo brakes up, you (or any standard Jose-Promedio) can take it to the "electric" guy to have it fixed. It will cost you maybe $10 bucks. Whereas in the UK (and mabye USA) such thing will cost you about £20 pounds (shit, a bicycle general checkup is £20... and they just see that everything is "ok"). So, what people often do in such cases is throw the broken stuff and buy a new one.
That is why I always laugh when I read on slashdot posts like "oh shit, do not complain that X Linux or Windows is asking for lot of memory, just buy another gig, it is dirty cheap".
So, I will just throw this post on this off-topic thread. Although it might be offtopic, it is related with the poster of the original story.
Since some time ago I have wondered who is this "I do not believe in Imaginary Property" guy/company who posts several IP-based stories on slashdot.
I found it quite interesting that he or she started posting maybe just a year ago. We have always had "recurring" authors (I remember BeatlesBeatles as one of them). However it is intriguing that someone with legal background or interest (after all, even though I do have interest in tecno-legal matters, I could not detect when some legal news relates to IP or other slashdot relevant issue).
In conclusion, do we have an idea of who these guys are?, are they from chilling effects or from groklaw?
And about the troll, yeah, it has been here for loooong time. They have several "templates" that cut and paste sometimes according to the story (the other one I remember is the one about the guy who owned a music shop and two kids get in and decide not to buy some cd and downloaded instead from the internet).
Sigh... yes, I think I should leave slashdot for some time =oP
"When you go fishing with a net, you sometimes are going to catch a few dolphin."
Weren't our Mexican tuna fish banned (sometime ago) from the USA because they where not "Fish friendly"?
Well, these RIAA people should also get sanctions for doing what they do. It is still illegal to defamate (spelling?... firefox extension gives me only difamation) people like that (suing them and making all the theatre).
No, the biggest thing web designers do that breaks the web is using Flash or Java or whatever new fancy non HTML is there (shit, even javascript can reduce usability of the site in a non-supported browser).
There are two solutions the first is to make an independent "text only" web page, which never happens (unless it is a government page) and the second is make your web style blind-friendly and remove all the other crap.
Fourthed. It's like having a library full of all the world's media at your fingertips. Any book. Any song. Any movie.
Fifthed, back when I was in undergrad (1998) I used to download books from eMule, while some of my friends where downloading music and porn. I remember that one friend once told me that "there is just so many things you can download after getting bored" (referring to music). But a lot of people did not (and stil don't) know about all the books you can get from eMule and its networks.
Even, once when I met a Doctor in Comp. Sci. and shown him all the books you can get from there, he was completely fascinated. One of the things (very true if you ask me) he told me when he saw it was that such availability was great for people in our country (Mexico) who did not have the resources to buy such things.
What is needed on Linux is the same panoply of software that is at the same level of quality as found on MacOS or Windows
I remember that I read in one of the Bill Gates interview that, when they were about to release Windows 95, Bill literally drived to the closer retail computer shop and bought a copy of every program available on the shelfs. Then they returned to MS headquarters and made sure all of them ran in Windows 95.
That is what is needed in Linux. We do not need another Free (as in whatever you want) knockoff of Guitar Pro or Adobe Illustrator or ProTools or other not so overspecialized software but that peple use it. We need to be able to install whatever software we happen to buy at the shop or download.
I am talking from one of those overkill specialized software as the ones you named to the one called "alarmclock" or "methronome" which mom or dad downloaded from softpedia.com.
I used to tell my parents abou tLinux (shit, I even tried and regreted to install Mandrake Linux 7 to my father), but there is invariably always something that just doesn't work(TM) or something that can not be done.
And, as far as I am concerned, if I need to have a "windows XP partition" to do X thing, then I can live just having my Windows system and using something like andLinux in the remote occasion when I need to use a linux only software (the only one I think is called Kile... and only because I do not like texniccenter and winedt)
I agree on the spirit of your post. What Linux needs is a good marketing department.
The Lindows/Linspire company are (where?) heading in the right direction.
Linux needs a company to grab some distro (say, Ubuntu), put a decent "theme" (not that craptacular [because it has the color of crap] theme), to make forks of all the main Open source applications and name them in a coherent way and most importantly, to spend a good amount of money in a marketing campaign of THEIR specific distro (not on "Linux", if you market "Linux" people will go download DSLinux and complain because it does not recognize their hardware).
They need to show TV ads, radio ads, magazine ads and news paper ads.
Some of them aren't quite up to par (Gimp), some are roughly equivalent (OpenOffice), and some are leagues better (Firefox). There are more and more proprietary applications being ported to Linux all the time.
Haha, hahaah...
The GIMP is quite up to par with what?, I *really* hope you did not meant Photoshop. Firefox is leagues better than what? I use Firefox in Windows everytime I log on.
OTOH, I needed to open an Adobe Illustrator AI image and all of the options available in Linux I tried could not handle the file correctly. And then, Installing Illustrator in Wine is a complete disaster.
Even though I am using Linux just right now, the fact is that for a *lot* of jobs, Linux just does not cut it. Either because the "Free as in happy hippy" applications are just mediocre or because there just aren't applications.
Right now I am writing this on Ubuntu 7.10 (I like to use Kile for LaTex). I had the previous version installed, and after spending a complete weekend I made 3D acceleration work for my "supported by the open source drivers" ATI card (which IS supposedly supported [both 3D and 2D] by x.org drivers). Everything worked nice until I "upgraded" to 7.10 and now I can only log in into the "failsafe" mode. The bulleproof and Ubuntu forums where complete a waste of time the weekend I decided to spend "fixing" that shit.
After that I returned to my Windows XP partition, being happy with XP + andLinux since then. I am using the broken Ubuntu now because I needed sshfs + kile + some other things.
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I have to second this idea.
:P])
Just get SNES9X and download some games. I used to play that with my GF:
- Mario Kart (SNES version is one of the best ones)
- Lemmings (2 player snes version quite good)
- TMNT (2 player cooperative)
- Top Gear (one of the few two player coop. racing games where even if one is good enough, both of you will be able to go through the game [and you can cooperate by trying to block the first place cars to make one of you win
- Super Contra (a bit more "man" oriented, but fun coop too).
- Rock and Roll racing (another nice racing game).
- Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (two player kind of coop... a bit difficult [but quite fun if you enable infinite lives cheat])
- Bomberman (My girlfriend loves these ones. It is OK multiplayer)
- Joe and Mac (really funny caveman characters, multiplayer coop)
- Super Mario All Stars (I can never be left out! including Super Mario Bros 3, i have played it with my girlfriend from the beginning to the end)
- Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (not really multiplayer, maybe not really very good, but it is my favourite game of all time [Ninja Gaiden II for the NES] so I had to include it here =oP)
Those are all I can think of now. The reason I choose SNES is because such games are not as complex as todays' games; therefore you can just sit start it and begin playing without two hours of tutorial (I am looking at you Wii Zelda ).
Also, I think the SNES had the best kind of cooperative multiplayer games... these days it is very difficult to find such games in any console. The only cooperative games are FPS like "halo" but they are a turn off for most girls or other "casual" players.
And, the reason I don't choose Wii (even though I have one, which is in its box since I moved home 2 months ago) is because I hate mini-games, and all the multiplayer games from Nintendo are mini games (wiiware, mario party, rayman raymin rabbits, monkeyball banana... etc).
Oh! and the last one I would suggest is Worms. That is a really good game in which I have spent hours with my girlfriend and other friends (even a friend who never had used a computer had no problem playing the N64 emulated game =oO)
Not every shady cybercafe allows the use of vnc.
But every shady cybercafe I know will gladly support java and flash applications. IIRC tightvnc comes with a handy java applet client. I know there are some flash based clients however I think they are propietary.
Mod parent insightful!
The funny thing about all the answers I have read is that they focus too much in the "key" part of the keylogger.
It is pretty easy to catch whatever text you entered in whatever text box and submitted. No matter if it was written with the keyboard or any other way. Also, programs that forward to other terminals video of the current screen state are more than 10 years old (remember the primitive subseven?).
The best way I can think of being secure in these circumstances is to change your password for any other before you are going to travel, and after you used the untrusted computer, change your password again. That way you can will have *at least* two passwords, one for when you are out of your trusted environment and another for when you are in it.
hahah
gotcha!
And the problem with such thing is that in theory, theory and practice are the same but in practice they are not... [citation needed]
So in theory the OLPC software design paragidm and approach are great... in practice, well, see it for yourself.
Do noooot feed the troooooollls! Sheesh, this troll is older than me. There: I did my best =P
---
As a table dance club owner, My business faces ruin. table dance sales have dropped through the floor. People aren't buying half as table dances as they did just a year ago. Revenue is down and costs are up. My club has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy. Every day I ask myself why this is happening.
I bought the club about 12 years ago. It was one of those clubs that play obscure, independent releases that no-one listens to, not even the people that buy them. I decided that to grow the business I'd need to aim for a different demographic, the family market. My table dance club specialized in family music - stuff that the whole family could listen to. I don't play sick stuff like Marilyn Manson or cop-killer rap, and I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of.
The business strategy worked. People flocked table dance club, knowing that they (and their children) could safely purchase table dances without profanity or violent lyrics. Over the years I expanded the business and took on more clean-cut and friendly employees. It took hard work and long hours but I had achieved my dream - owning a profitable business that I had built with my own hands, from the ground up. But now, this dream is turning into a nightmare.
Every day, fewer and fewer customers enter my store to buy fewer and fewer table dances. Why is no one buying table dances? Are people not interested in lust? Do people prefer to watch TV, see porn films, read erotic books? I don't know. But there is one, inescapable truth - Internet piracy is mostly to blame. The statistics speak for themselves - one in three geek world wide is watches porn. On The Internet, you can find and download hundreds of dollars worth of porn in just minutes. It has the potential to destroy the table dance industry, from dancers, to Djs to table dance club owners my own. Before you point to the supposed "economic downturn", I'll note that the book store just across from my store is doing great business. Unlike porn, it's harder to copy books over The Internet.
A week ago, an unpleasant experience with pirates gave me an idea. In my store, I overheard a teenage patron talking to his friend.
"Dude, I'm going to put this table dance in the Internet right away."
"Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."
I was fuming. So they were out to destroy the table dance industry from right under my nose? Fat chance. When they came to the counter to make their purchase (they ticket for the table dance), I grabbed the little shit by his shirt. "So...you're going to copy this to your friends over The Internet, punk?" I asked him in my best Clint Eastwood/Dirty Harry voice.
"Uh y-yeh." He mumbled, shocked.
"That's it. What's your name? You're blacklisted. Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my club - and don't come back." I barked. Cravenly, they complied and scampered off.
So that's my idea - a national blacklist of pirates. If somebody cannot obey the basic rules of society, then they should be excluded from society. If pirates want to steal from the table dance club industry, then the table dance club industry should exclude them. It's that simple. One strike, and you're out - no reputable table dance club will allow you to buy another CD. If the pirates can't buy the table dance tickets to begin with, then they won't be able to watch them over The Internet, will they? It's no different to doctors blacklisting drug dealers from buying prescription medicine.
I have just written a letter to the TIAA outlining my proposal. Suing pirates one by one isn't going far enough. Not to mention pirates use the fact that they're being sued to unfairly portray themselves as victims. A national register of pirates would make the problem far easier to deal with. People would be encouraged to give the names of suspected pirates to
There were rumors posted at one point that Apple had offered to donate a core OS,
;-)
The offer was dumped because the OLPC guys already knew that BSD is dead.
mmm, I was serious about warlords, seaquest and g.i. joe... and I was joking about E.T.
Best Atari games?
IMHO:
Seaquest, Warlords, GI Joe AAAAND: E.T. (hehe... just joking)
Thanks a lot for your reply.
I hope you did not feel offended by my question, as I did not mean it as an offence; it was pure curiosity.
I think that I noticed your posts (and you) mainly because I am kind of interested in all the IP and legal issues of "media" content (music, software, video, books, etc.). I am sure a lot of people who read slashdot do not care about those stories but for the ones that do, It is only two or three submitters (NYCL, you and the odd one).
I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate what you do. I hate that Slashdot quality has been decreasing (and I am kind of "new" here if you see my ID). It is submissions like yours that make me visit slashdot.
Anyway, again thanks for the answer and keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Much appreciated
Ah but in "non consumerist societies" we sometimes do have very brilliant ways to fix things. Let me give you two examples.
If you buy a blender (for the kitchen) in the UK and say, after 2 years of use (say, the warranty is over) the vase brakes up, what you will usually do is throw everything to the thrash and buy a new one.
In other countries (like, in Mexico) there are really good markets for replacement parts (like, for example in Mexico city centre). What you will do there is go to such a market and buy just a replacement part which fits your model. And, instead of paying £30 dollars for a new blender, you would be paying like £5.0 for the vase!
Now, what does a Mexican do in the UK when that happens?, what I did is just buy some super-glue and took my time to glue the broken part of the base =o). My blender is still working after more than 3 years yay!.
Another issue is that, in underdeveloped countries, sometimes *services* are very cheap. Therefore, after your 5 year old stereo brakes up, you (or any standard Jose-Promedio) can take it to the "electric" guy to have it fixed. It will cost you maybe $10 bucks. Whereas in the UK (and mabye USA) such thing will cost you about £20 pounds (shit, a bicycle general checkup is £20... and they just see that everything is "ok"). So, what people often do in such cases is throw the broken stuff and buy a new one.
That is why I always laugh when I read on slashdot posts like "oh shit, do not complain that X Linux or Windows is asking for lot of memory, just buy another gig, it is dirty cheap".
So, I will just throw this post on this off-topic thread. Although it might be offtopic, it is related with the poster of the original story.
Since some time ago I have wondered who is this "I do not believe in Imaginary Property" guy/company who posts several IP-based stories on slashdot.
I found it quite interesting that he or she started posting maybe just a year ago. We have always had "recurring" authors (I remember BeatlesBeatles as one of them). However it is intriguing that someone with legal background or interest (after all, even though I do have interest in tecno-legal matters, I could not detect when some legal news relates to IP or other slashdot relevant issue).
In conclusion, do we have an idea of who these guys are?, are they from chilling effects or from groklaw?
And about the troll, yeah, it has been here for loooong time. They have several "templates" that cut and paste sometimes according to the story (the other one I remember is the one about the guy who owned a music shop and two kids get in and decide not to buy some cd and downloaded instead from the internet).
Sigh... yes, I think I should leave slashdot for some time =oP
Mmmm... they surely could sue Emo kids for infringing Gothic and Punk styles =oP.
"When you go fishing with a net, you sometimes are going to catch a few dolphin."
Weren't our Mexican tuna fish banned (sometime ago) from the USA because they where not "Fish friendly"?
Well, these RIAA people should also get sanctions for doing what they do. It is still illegal to defamate (spelling?... firefox extension gives me only difamation) people like that (suing them and making all the theatre).
No, the biggest thing web designers do that breaks the web is using Flash or Java or whatever new fancy non HTML is there (shit, even javascript can reduce usability of the site in a non-supported browser).
There are two solutions the first is to make an independent "text only" web page, which never happens (unless it is a government page) and the second is make your web style blind-friendly and remove all the other crap.
You do know that people have been growing plants in mineral solutions for years don't you?
You will only need a source of Co2 which could be delivered from the earth and use a sealed glasshouse (greenhouse) to conserve the ecosystem.
After you have got "enough" oxygen from the plants you can then send some lambs and rabbits to produce more Co2 for the plants.
Fourthed. It's like having a library full of all the world's media at your fingertips. Any book. Any song. Any movie.
Fifthed, back when I was in undergrad (1998) I used to download books from eMule, while some of my friends where downloading music and porn. I remember that one friend once told me that "there is just so many things you can download after getting bored" (referring to music). But a lot of people did not (and stil don't) know about all the books you can get from eMule and its networks.
Even, once when I met a Doctor in Comp. Sci. and shown him all the books you can get from there, he was completely fascinated. One of the things (very true if you ask me) he told me when he saw it was that such availability was great for people in our country (Mexico) who did not have the resources to buy such things.
What is needed on Linux is the same panoply of software that is at the same level of quality as found on MacOS or Windows
I remember that I read in one of the Bill Gates interview that, when they were about to release Windows 95, Bill literally drived to the closer retail computer shop and bought a copy of every program available on the shelfs. Then they returned to MS headquarters and made sure all of them ran in Windows 95.
That is what is needed in Linux. We do not need another Free (as in whatever you want) knockoff of Guitar Pro or Adobe Illustrator or ProTools or other not so overspecialized software but that peple use it. We need to be able to install whatever software we happen to buy at the shop or download.
I am talking from one of those overkill specialized software as the ones you named to the one called "alarmclock" or "methronome" which mom or dad downloaded from softpedia.com.
I used to tell my parents abou tLinux (shit, I even tried and regreted to install Mandrake Linux 7 to my father), but there is invariably always something that just doesn't work(TM) or something that can not be done.
And, as far as I am concerned, if I need to have a "windows XP partition" to do X thing, then I can live just having my Windows system and using something like andLinux in the remote occasion when I need to use a linux only software (the only one I think is called Kile... and only because I do not like texniccenter and winedt)
I agree on the spirit of your post. What Linux needs is a good marketing department.
The Lindows/Linspire company are (where?) heading in the right direction.
Linux needs a company to grab some distro (say, Ubuntu), put a decent "theme" (not that craptacular [because it has the color of crap] theme), to make forks of all the main Open source applications and name them in a coherent way and most importantly, to spend a good amount of money in a marketing campaign of THEIR specific distro (not on "Linux", if you market "Linux" people will go download DSLinux and complain because it does not recognize their hardware).
They need to show TV ads, radio ads, magazine ads and news paper ads.
Some of them aren't quite up to par (Gimp), some are roughly equivalent (OpenOffice), and some are leagues better (Firefox). There are more and more proprietary applications being ported to Linux all the time.
:)
Haha, hahaah...
The GIMP is quite up to par with what?, I *really* hope you did not meant Photoshop. Firefox is leagues better than what? I use Firefox in Windows everytime I log on.
OTOH, I needed to open an Adobe Illustrator AI image and all of the options available in Linux I tried could not handle the file correctly. And then, Installing Illustrator in Wine is a complete disaster.
Even though I am using Linux just right now, the fact is that for a *lot* of jobs, Linux just does not cut it. Either because the "Free as in happy hippy" applications are just mediocre or because there just aren't applications.
Right now I am writing this on Ubuntu 7.10 (I like to use Kile for LaTex). I had the previous version installed, and after spending a complete weekend I made 3D acceleration work for my "supported by the open source drivers" ATI card (which IS supposedly supported [both 3D and 2D] by x.org drivers). Everything worked nice until I "upgraded" to 7.10 and now I can only log in into the "failsafe" mode. The bulleproof and Ubuntu forums where complete a waste of time the weekend I decided to spend "fixing" that shit.
After that I returned to my Windows XP partition, being happy with XP + andLinux since then. I am using the broken Ubuntu now because I needed sshfs + kile + some other things.
But really, you made me laugh
Kiddos these days...
They thing writing HTML is programming...
Well.. this guy makes about 90% of all the slashdot posts so... if AC says there is not a problem it is the majority of slashdot :)
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take some of them
shit that was so funny :)
thanks!