Question: All modern smartphones have doc connects right? So why not simply add a joypad and buttons that connect to the port? Then those that only want phone games don't have to shell out and those that want something meatier can have it.
Because that seems smarter to me than coming out with a $500+ device that only plays games in a dead economy. Did you look at the specs? there ain't no way in hell unless Sony is willing to take a bath on the BOM to get that thing for less than $500, and as we saw with the 3DS folks just ain't shelling out right now, not at those prices.
Bottom line: Under $250 a decent hit, under $200 a major seller, over that price it is DOA and will end up next to the Gizmondo and Touchpad on the "cool but stupid priced" shelf.
So it IS the government saying "fuck the free market!" and trying to ram through formats. Thanks for clearing that up. Still won't work unless the danes are gonna give away free money to rewrite all those Excel sheets, data analysis software, etc. No what will happen is like most government crap they'll pass the costs over to businesses who will know have to deal with TWO Office suites and all the bullshit and compatibility that comes with it.
Because unless the Danes ONLY do business with the government (considering how much cash the US Gov blows like a crack whore in Vegas frankly some might actually fit that description) then they are STILL gonna have to be compatible with ALL the other businesses in their supply chain, that means MS Office.
I have to say THANK YOU TWINBEE for FINALLY getting it! oh and you want to see the future? here it is...Ninite and it is EXACTLY how you described. You simply check a single box by what you want, and hit go. That's it, no next next next, do fiddling, just sane defaults.
But sadly as you have seen in this tread as they become more and more desperate to come up with any reason why a CLI would be better (and failing horribly) it comes down to the fact that Linux nerds think CLI makes them leet and gives them gonad powers, like by having a blinking cursor they become a hacker ninja instead of just being someone dealing with a bad design.
But I have to agree if they user is doing more than 3 clicks to get to anything? Then you're doing it wrong. But just because there are some bad design choices in Windows (which I'd argue they are getting better about) doesn't mean one should fall back to 1970s design choices. it is stupid, pointless, and about as unintuitive and user unfriendly as one could possibly be.
Uhhh...you DO realize that with the exception of...well no I can't even say with the exception of dick sucking because most females do suck the dick, you have described pretty much everything that goes on in straight sex as well, yes? Ass to mouth? Hell there is whole porn houses dedicated to THAT one, oh and there's pegging, butt fucking? Oh hell that one is popular, fisting? Not as big but there are quite a few that enjoy it.
Again not really finding the insult here, unless you think being a nice dresser is evil, or having lots of money is bad. if so i have a lovely trailer park that has a vacancy, perhaps you might be interested?
So you are telling me there are NO insurance companies in Denmark? No claims, no adjusters, nobody to interact with but the government? Must be candyland to have everything work without a single interaction with the outside world.
Here is what I find funny, and I'm gonna give a big golf clap to the community for it...here goes/GOLF CLAP/....is that you are cheering what could possibly be THE WORST USAGE of LO ever.
Let me use a car analogy, maybe then everyone will understand. You have this econo car, and it is a sweet little thing. It is great on gas, it is cute, cheap to own, cheap to drive, it is just an adorable fun little ride. So you have some company go "Hey, that econo car is great! Lets stick a trailer hitch on it and put this 60 ton trailer on the back. Why our gas bills will fall like a stone!"
Now does anyone think that like the little engine that could that econo car is gonna pull 60 tons? Nope, the axle is gonna shatter, the motor and tranny is gonna fry, you are gonna kill the poor little thing. And the sad part is people WON'T go "Well its your fault for hooking up the trailer dumbass!" nope they'll say "Wow that econo car is a POS!" and the company that makes Peterbuilt will say "This is why you should drive a Peterbuilt, even to the store for some milk. It is because the econo car is shit!"
Now everyone who has had to work with hospital IT raise their hands.../raises hand/....thought so. Let me explain a little something about hospital IT, kay? It is a motherfucking mess. You are talking word docs from hell with more embedded crap than a fricking thesis, even worse you are talking "applications" made by stuffing enough VBA into an Excel sheet to choke a fricking horse (oh and that crap is mission critical BTW, so you better have a full team of programmers on hand ready to rewrite that in the language of your choice STAT) and PPTs with so damn many charts, and docs, and every other damned thing embedded in them they can truly become mythic in size and complexity.
Now am I saying LO is shit? Am I saying there is no place for it? No in fact I'll be happy to name a place it should be right now everywhere...schools. There shouldn't be a single school on the planet paying a penny for MS Office. If MSFT wants to give it away fine, but not a single cent. LO would fill that job wonderfully because millions of dollars aren't riding on little Billy's term paper. with hospitals you got HMOs, you got the various carriers, you got literally dozens of groups ALL of which need data for various purposes. And ALL will be using MS Office unless the Danes are gonna say;'fuck the free market!" and simply ban MSFT products from their shores.
So cheer all you want/. but don't say old Feet didn't warn ya. In 3 years the headline will be "Danish hospitals go back to MS Office, consider LO massive failure" and then we'll get the usual circle jerk about how everyone should have used PDF (PROTIP: Every company uses data analysis software that DOES NOT WORK on PDF) and how its everybody else's fault instead of laying blame where it should be, on the fact they were using LO in a place it shouldn't have been.
More likely 'come for the beer, get royally fucked like a drunken prom date when it comes to compatibility'.
Like it or not LO compatibility with MS Office royally sucks ass, and big businesses? they use MS Office. Wait until they start getting complaints like "What is wrong with this doc you sent us, it is just gibberish!" or "Hey we need this Excel sheet to open and all it does is crash!" or "What happened to my PPT? It looks like it has been fed through a grinder!"
LO works great if you are little Timmy writing a report he is gonna print anyway, I give it to my home users for just that purpose. but I have to warn them not to be sending any LO docs by email because anything of ANY complexity, like say headers and footers and fonts? Word Salad. I have seen students dinged over LO docs turning to crap when the teacher opened them in MS Office. it was bad enough at the local college they got a site license for the students just so they wouldn't have to deal with it.
But of course all we'll hear after I post this is "La la la I can't hear you, you must be a M$ Ninja!" to which I say here is the proof, try it yourself IF YOU DARE. There are tons of nice and complex Word docs on government websites, help yourself, download a dozen. do the same for Excel sheets. I'm sure most geeks here have access to MS Office yes? Try editing one of those complex docs or sheets in LO, IF you can get then to open correctly, and then save it in a standard Word 97-03 format. Now open that same doc and sheet you just saved in MS Office, version of your choice. What do you get? Word Salad or number hosing.
The fact they can get it to open at all is frankly a miracle but don't kid yourselves, the world uses MS Office for a REASON. it is because everyone has to share docs and sheets and PPTs with everyone else and that means compatibility. Now I'm sure some dude will chime in about how some doc he saw or heard about in 2004 didn't open right in MS Office to which I say, so what? for 99.9995% it "just works". I've had to deal with projects where I had Office 2K, 2K3, 2K4 for Mac, and 2K7 all collaborating on a 14Mb mess of a doc, the ONLY one who had trouble with it? The one kid trying to use open Office. We ended up getting him a copy of 2K3 just so we didn't have to deal, and sadly we'll see in 2 or 3 years the same in TFA.
This is a classic case of "penny wise pound foolish" as it'll cost them more in lost hours dealing with borked data than it would be just to buy the damned MS Office licenses, which they could probably get a discount on if their guy in charge of purchasing didn't suck.
Yeah but they are making a crucial mistake...the economy is DOA so this is about the WORST time they could possibly be thinking of releasing crazy priced gear! Just look at the HP Tablet, according to most sources with specs a hell of a lot less than this they had a BOM of $318 for the 16Gb. If they can't get this thing at or below the $199 price point then it is gonna just rot on the shelves. look at how the PS3 sales jumped when they hit $250.
You just won't see crazy priced gear sell in this economy, well except if it starts with a lower cased i. If those specs are true unless they sell at a loss (which considering how much money Sony has bled these past two years is doubtful) this thing will sit gathering dust by those inventories of 3DS units. why would you pay crazy money for a games unit when you often see ION based Atom netbooks going for around $250 now? Or have the original PSP or DS for less than $150 bucks?
Personally I wish them luck but I doubt it'll sell. maybe I'll get lucky and score one when it hits $99 like the Touchpad did. i missed out on those dammit. Oh well I got 4 off lease laptops in today to play with and I'll probably pick up one of those cool "portable emulator" game handhelds for when I want to blow something up. I hear the dingoo is quite nice.
You know, I never really understood why "fag" is supposed to be an insult. I have known plenty of gay men and women and you know what? they have nicer clothes, nicer cars, better jobs, and live in nicer neighborhoods than straight folks. So what you are basically saying is "I hope you dress well and have a good job with lots of money in a nice area, so there!" it really doesn't make much sense. Douchenozzle, shitstain, hell even halo player would probably be better insults.
As for TFA and the asshole that hoped people who smoke pot get cancer? Please kill yourself. this is not a joke, the world would be a better place without you. Suck the barrel of a gun, get a rope, buy a razor, kill yourself.
Alcohol causes more deaths in a single month than pot has EVER. Alcohol causes more misery, more illness, more suffering than all the other drugs combined frankly. As part of the nearly extinct breed known as a conservative socialist whatever you do in your home? None of my damned business and frankly shouldn't be any of the state's business either.
I don't care what God you believe in, what you put in your body, whom you share your body with (or even if you choose to sell it) frankly it should be none of the government's business as long as you are over 18 and not forcing anyone else. I only hope the endless greed of both the Ds and Rs will give us the legalization of what is commonly known as "sin" crimes even if it is only so they can tax and spend on their pet projects. Then maybe we can grow the fuck up and stop treating adults like 3 years olds that need mommy government to spank them.
Oh and before someone pops up with "what about health insurance!" I'll tell you what: I'll happily sign a contract that the government pisses off and takes away the taxes on my cigarettes or anything else I put in my body and if i get cancer the ONLY treatment i'll get is morphine which is cheap, kay? But we know that won't happen because just as we have seen with social security, the tobacco settlements, and every other dime that was supposed to ONLY go for X the second the politicos get their hands on it they are blowing it on anything and everything.
I believe everyone should have a roof over their head, food in their belly, clothes on their back, and free or low cost medical care, but I'm also a realist. How many wanna bet that if Obama gets that mandatory insurance bit passed the congress will blow that money on bridges to nowhere?
Exactly! And you have NO idea how happy it makes a horror fan like my mom to have a constant stream of books showing up at her door. With Amazon used books it is as simple as "hand mom my account, tell her what she can spend, let her loose".. never any problem finding say book 5 out of a series of 8, never any problems with the quality of the books, its all easy peasy.
How could anyone think dead tree databases are going away when it has never been easier and cheaper to get them? And I can tell you that you don't need some hipster joint to "create" new readers. I walk into the local library hefting mom's latest Sci Fi/horror donation and I'm swarmed by college girls all trying to see what goodies mom has brought the library. They often have to do a "slap and scan" as I call it because the college girls have carried off the entire donation before they can even do more than slap a scan tag!
So I don't see it going anywhere. Amazon makes it so damned easy to shop that it is one click and here is a book. How much nicer and simpler can you get?
Bullshit, if anything Amazon makes it sweeter for the little guys! I've probably been blowing a good $100 a month on little bookstores through Amazon, because my mom loves funky cheesy horror that you can't find around here and thanks to Amazon having such a HUGE selection of used books cheap thanks to all the little mom and pop shops instead of trying to figure out which books she's read or not I just throw a C-note on my account and tell mom to go nuts. She's happy with having new books constantly showing up, I'm happy because i don't have to figure out what to buy her anymore, hell even the local library is happy because when mom runs out of shelf space she brings them another load!
Book people are book people, same as nerds are nerds and jocks are jocks. that is just who they are and that won't change with the loss of hipster hangouts like Borders, where overpriced books and overpriced coffee collide. Instead what will happen to the little mom and pop shops will be the same thing that happened to the local pawn shop. I walked in and said "How do you guys stay in business, when there is hardly ever any cars here?" and he just pulled back to curtain to show his kid hunched over a PC. he said "eBay and Amazon friend, we make a good 25% profit and nothing stays more than a week or so."
It'll be the same with books, hell you'll have relationships with the booksellers even! There is one little gal in I believe SF mom has bought enough from she shoots me a heads up when they get a new one by one of mom's authors and I get a free bump to first class shipping. She's happy she has a steady customer that always buys from her, I'm happy because yet again I don't have to guess. it works nicely and its all thanks to Amazon!
Oh horseshit. This is yet another classic example of "moving the goal posts" where if you point out a car is a gas pig they go "Well well, your airplane sucks teh gas too!" WTF? NEWS FLASH. Powershell is for SERVERS AND WORKSTATIONS ONLY. Sure you CAN install it on the Home SKUs but you know what? you're as likely to find Powershell on a home system as you are netbeans IDE, that is NOT AT ALL.
Look you can't beat the math, kay? Linux is at 1%, where was it 5 years ago? Where will it be 5 years from now? 1%. Why is that? Because YOU DON'T LISTEN TO THE USERS and instead expect the whole damned world to do things YOUR way. Well ya know what? Ain't gonna happen, everyone else abandoned the term in 95 and there ain't no going back, no matter how badly basement dwellers have a hard on for the days when nerds sat around programming Pong games on PDP 11 systems.
As a retailer with over 25 years in the biz, let me spell it out, kay? ALL GUI, NO CLI, NO DRIVER BORKAGE. Do that and then we'll talk. hell every little shop will have Linux machines on their shelves simply because it lets us shave $100 off a new build. Don't do that, and instead expect people to jump through the terminal hoops and 6 month driver breakage bullshit? Enjoy your one percent because you ain't going nowhere.
I have tried just about every major distro and it is ALL the same. 6 month driver borkage, too much term bullshit, it is about as user unfriendly as one could possibly get. Oh and for the one guy who ALWAYS screams LTS!? Got news for ya Sparky LTS has less time left than WinXP at this point and frankly LTS is a code for "really old software" as nobody backports more than a handful of apps for the old crap.
Riiight. Your response is an insult because you have NO ANSWER to all the links I posted showing retailers RUNNING AWAY from linux as fast as they can. Did you read the post I responded to? Crutchy was going/pulls sheet over head/ "Why are you picking on poor wittle linus? what has he done to you? linux is teh leet! It gives you gonad powerz!"
You and the precious community can have little circle jerks and tell each other it is a secret conspiracy by gates and the illuminati, but that won't make you ANY less full of shit. here is some facts for you, like it or lump it...
FACT it has been TWENTY YEARS and Linux has gained NO SHARE on the desktop. it was at 1% nearly a decade ago, guess what it is now? FACT As iOS and Android and Win 7 have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt THE TERMINAL IS DEAD as far as consumers are concerned. What does Linux do? 'they don't know whats leet! We'll put the term on teh desktop and make everyone use it! that'll give teh gonad powerz!"
You can sum up EVERY Linux post by simply going to TM Repo and picking out what standard bullshit excuses get trotted out. oh its the OEMs, oh it retail, oh its everybody's fault but ours! Bullshit, complete and utter bullshit. Waste you mod points all you want but it won't turn your complete and utter bullshit into anything resembling reality, and that's what hurts don't it? that even FOR FREE nobody wants what you're shoveling? When MSFT puts out a turd and your FREE OS gains NO SHARE while an OS with a $1000 barrier to entry stomps your ass? wake up and smell the shit buddy, wake up and smell the shit.
Bimbo Newton Crosby. We had a truly wonderful history teacher, right in the middle of the bible belt, that actually had students WANTING to learn American history! How did he do that? Because he said like six degrees EVERYTHING in American history can be traced forwards or backwards to Woodstock in under 6 steps. to him Woodstock was a watershed moment and all us kids worked our ass off trying to stump him, never did.
So what happened? At the end of the semester as a consolation prize after our tests (highest scores ever for that class in that school BTW) he played us the entire Woodstock concert...and was promptly fired for showing a movie that promoted sex and drugs to HS students.
So everything went back to the way it was, scores sucked in american history because most of the guys were blowing joints in the parking lot before class and were sleeping through most of it, just another wasted class in another wasted day in the sausage factory. Like George Carlin said they don't want those that can think, they want worker drones.
So lets see, your response is...suckup suckup suckup, bullshit bullshit bullshit and finally "Fight teh powerz!" am I right? Sum it up?
I don't give a shit if in 1979 he invented the fucking takeout pizza okay? WTF does what he did in the past matter now? does that give him a "be a douchebag free" card? I guess it does as far as you're concerned.
And what are you fucking smoking? What corp in their right mind would be running 16 bit apps nearly 15 YEARS after support ended? Security hole much? hell why not just put some Win98 machines on the network while you're at it. Anybody who actually needs code THAT old has these wonderful things called "VMs" maybe you've heard of them? because nobody in their right mind is gonna let a gaping security hole like 16 bit crapola run on a modern desktop. Oh and how does that 16bit code run on 64bit Linux? Oh that's right IT DON'T.
And I'm about as jealous of Linus dumbass Torvalds as I am of any other cult figure, that is NOT AT ALL. If anything all I feel is pity, pity that otherwise sane people (I assume you're sane, can't tell by your post) would bend over backwards to kiss his ass and take the big steaming turds he hands you and say "Please sir, can I sniff your asshole?". FACT-It has been TWENTY YEARS and Linux is NO FURTHER on the desktop than when it started 20 YEARS AGO. FACT- OSX, BSD, Windows, hell even OS/2 have an ABI and guess what? the DRIVERS WORK which is more than can be said for Linux. But why am I wasting my breath, maybe you'd enjoy some nice copypasta where I point out what a TOTAL FAILURE LINUX IS? As for why it pisses me off, it pisses me off because it COULD be good, if it weren't for assholes like Torvalds and suckups like you. Enjoy
Isn't it sad, how like a frightened child afraid to look under the bed, you cower at the truth? if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos even though we are talking a teeny tiny subset of hardware? Oh right because Linux shits itself and dies if you use the default repos! Man that is some excellent product you got there! you think I can get better QA than the third largest OEM on the planet? What, you expect me to tell paying customers "Go to the forum, kiss some loser ass, and maybe, just maybe, in a few days someone will have mercy and give you a big pile of bullshit that may or may not make your sound work again"?
You see you whiny little delusional mama's boy, I'm your worst fucking nightmare...a retailer that still believes. I believe that the community doesn't have to take Torvalds shit sandw
You want to know how to get Linux some share? As a retailer I'll be happy to let you know, it is really easy...1.-GET RID OF THE DAMNED TERMINAL! It ain't 1979 anymore and disco is fricking dead, let go of the fucking blinking cursor, alright? Consumers ain't gonna put up with that shit, it has to go DIAF.
2.-FIX YOUR DAMNED DRIVER MODEL! It is 2011 and the constant driver borkage is getting old, okay? It is bad when a long term Linux user tells me "Well Linux just does that, what you need to do is" and then here comes the terminal bullshit. I don't care if you do it with an ABI, or offer Linus to Cthulu, but the reason NO shop will touch your OS is in no small part to the 6 month driver borkage!
You get rid of these two little things? Well I can tell you as a retailer a LARGE amount of the folks out there frankly don't need Windows. They surf, they watch YouTube, they check their Webmail, they play FB games. NONE of that requires Windows, but because Linux is such a fiddly little bitch, filled to the brim with basement dwellers that think terminals give them special gonad powers, that Linux don't gain shit.
Make it ALL GUI, NO CLI, make it so drivers don't break with every damned update, oh and get rid of that "software tied to which kernel you're running" while you're at it, and plenty of shops like mine would be more than happy to sell and support your OS. of course the day that happens I'll be riding a purple pony with She Ra because of all the lousy hacker wannabes that think having a term makes them something more than what they are, just another lamer. Hell why don't you get rid of your storage and use punch cards while you're at it? Modern tech piffle! Real men load their OS from cardboard!
As for TFA? Its a hobby OS, made by guys that KNOW its a Hobby OS, they have fun doing it, I'm totally happy for them and wish them another happy 20 years. As someone who ran OS/2 when everyone else was running Win 3.x I can understand the appeal of "what if" things would have been different, I really can. I saw everyone shit themselves with wonder at Win95 and went "What? That isn't as good as what I've been running for nearly 2 years!"
But sadly just like VHS VS Beta sometimes the best one loses, especially if the other guy is "good enough" and cheap. Amiga was good but too expensive and Commodore didn't know how to sell it so it went tits up. OS/2 was cool but IBM wanted to control the hardware and wanted crazy money for shitty behind the curve chips so it too went tits up. But as long as they have fun with it? Cool beans, everybody needs a way to burn off stress. Some folks play guitar, some build models, The Haiku guys try to build a modern Amiga. Hats off to 'em and I wish them all the luck in the world.
Uhhh...where you been AC? Tigerdirect ALREADY does that, they have their own brand called SystemMax. Still not as cheap as you can DIY, but for those that don't want to take the whole 30 minutes to put the thing together it is cheaper than most.
But good luck on the laptop thing, as the OEMs like Dell have found the easiest way to make people constantly buy new machines is to ass rape them on parts. The OEM laptop are nothing but proprietary in a plastic case and damned near nothing is interchangeable. I don't know how many mom and pop shops I've seen go under because they were stupid enough to try to get into laptop repairs and quickly found out they needed back rooms filled to the brim with dead laptops to scrounge for parts because of the insane rates someone like Dell or Compaq charge for those bits of plastic. hell even then they were screwed because often lappys with the same model number had completely different incompatible parts!
Nope until the economy collapses so it is too damned expensive to constantly build "designed for the dump" plastic POS laptops all you'll see is proprietary in a plastic box. That is why I tell folks to have me build them a really good desktop then buy the cheapest POS laptop they can find, because I've seen $1500 lappys not last a damned bit longer or be any cheaper to fix than $299 specials. Its all designed for the dump.
WTF?!?!? Are you stoned, or are you just stupid? Let me make this clear, I'll be sure to use little words okay? We are NOT talking about, in any particular order, PS3s, your watch, your toaster, servers, or any other crap you've managed to squeeze a Linux term onto, kay? This ENTIRE thread was about desktops and here you are, bring up oracle and SAP like a desktop user is actually gonna run that shit. Clueless much? Or just THAT desperate to find anything where Linux isn't dead last?
Seriously did you not get the memo? Nobody gives a flying fuck about what the server guys do, we really really don't. Why is that? Because they are paid big bucks to deal with the fiddly bitch that is Linux and as long as they stay in the basement frankly nobody gives a shit. there is also on average 10 or 11 orders of magnitude MORE desktop users at any company than fiddly term loving server guys so if the desktop users can't get their work done? The server guys can go compile for all anyone will care because the company will go tits up. The server guys? Replaceable, hell you can go cloud and just fire their asses. Kinda hard to do that to the entire workforce.
So the sooner the Linux nerds get their collective heads out their asses and realize nobody gives a shit what they run on their Proliants the better. in case you haven't kept up with current events the world is going user centric NOT task centric which is what Linux is. This is why Apple and MSFT are making crazy money while Linux is still stuck at 1%, it is because you term lovers won't accept reality and the fact nobody wants your 70s era terminal bullshit.
So either accept nobody wants to play your little bash games or please go back to your server room and let those of us talking about DESKTOPS continue to do so without you babbling about shit nobody but server nerds give a shit about, kay?
Actually I would argue that Windows 7 is the FIRST version of Windows that is a real game changer for the average user. The combination of jumplists, intelligent search, and breadcrumbs mean people like my dad that barely ever scratched the surface of Windows are now getting their monies worth.
For example my dad wanted to know how to set the volume on his microphone so he launched a search from the start button for mic and not only did it give him the control he needed but also a nice tutorial on Windows voice recognition which he had no idea Windows 7 even had. Now he is typing his letter by voice and quite happy about that. On the wireless front dad didn't have a clue how to connection and share his new laptop and I couldn't swing by until the weekend. naturally he decided to do it himself and Windows walked him through setting up Homegroup so he can drag and drop between his home machine and his laptop.
So I'd say for the first time since the conversion from Win9X to WinXP that Windows 7 really is worth it for the masses. I just recently finished converting the last of my family and when I offered the youngest a PC to use while I finished upgrading his hardware when he found out it had XP he said he'd rather do without. when I asked why he said "because XP sucks and Windows 7 is nice" and that sums it up better than I could. Win 7 is just a nice OS to use all around.
If you haven't seen a quality.H264 rip then you have no clue what you are talking about. And with the PC if you don't want to compress it? Then fuck it, you can get a 2Tb HDD for like $69 on sale. Most mid towers can hold 4 or even 5 drives now and a 1Tb Seagate green is on sale this weekend at Newegg for $44.
And if you like the Blu ray and Sixaxis I'm happy for you, you and the other 6 guys should have a club or something. I can only speak for my shop and my area but while I've set up plenty of honking big sets the reaction to BD has been a giant "meh" from the customers. Nobody wants it, they are happy with upscaled DVD for their collections and streaming Netflix for everything else. You mark my words BD is gonna be the laserdisc of the 21st century, a format that held promise of better graphics that the consumer just didn't give a crap about.
You wanna jump on the "next big thing" I can tell ya what is selling like hotcakes around here, and that is media tanks. The WDTV for the parents, the Nbox for the kiddies. Man those things really move! Now that even basic motherboards come with hardware transcoding it is beyond trivial to show folks how to rip their movies into nice.avi files and instead of worrying about scratched discs or where their movie is they can just fire up WMC on their new Win 7 HTPC or the media tank in theirs or their kids bedroom and BAM! All their entertainment, right at their fingertips.
You see that is the problem with Sony also being a media company. They are more worried about DRM than what you should be able to do with the box. With the cell you should have been able to transcode at frankly insane speeds straight to a USB HDD and had all your entertainment right there easy peasy. Instead you have the local Walmart giving less space to BDs every month because they simply don't sell while the DVD aisle is beyond capacity and they are actually setting up kiosks in the aisles to make up for all the content they are moving.
THANK YOU! You nailed it better than I ever could, I would only add that the annoying kid and the Bambi bimbette neither of which could act scared if you stuck a gun to their heads frankly suck major ass. And I'd add frankly he doesn't really do the boom booms that well, too many of the shots are either too close or too far to get a real feel for the action. I mean when you have this great giant robot battle and you keep cutting to annoying kid and Bambi bimbette? fuck off Bay and give us the robot battle!
And as for your last point? Dark Knight. Dark Knight had the action but was...oh what was the word?....oh yeah GOOD. It had this nice undercurrent on vigilantism and anarchy vs society and while there were a few nigglers (like how the Joker got crazy henchmen that actually were dependable) overall frankly at its worst it was the Godfather compared to anything Michael Bay has ever put out.
I like how Movie Bob over at Zero Punctuation (which if you haven't watched him you really should, he reminds me of Ebert back in the day) described Michael bay films: Movies BY douchebags FOR douchebags. Like you said a two hour "You are teh stupid!" while bright lights flash in your face. After seeing good action movies like Iron Man and Dark Knight watching a Bay film is about as pleasant as watching a Uwe Boll film, only you don't even get the pleasure of making fun of it, its just bad with a capital B.
Trivial OEM keys baby, trivial OEMs. I've just now started to see a few of the keys blacklisted by MSFT, it took them THIS long to do so. While I don't mess with pirated Windows mind you, do you have ANY idea how simple it is to fix when one of those machines are blacklisted? This is how simple: "Run WGA Killer by going clicky clicky, reboot, turn off Windows updates and set WSUS Offline to run instead" and that's it. Hell most of the OEM Win 7 discs floating around out there need NO key at all!
And if you have an old box lying around or a spare partition you really need to try the "Tiny" series, it is bloody brilliant. We aren't talking some NLite/VLite bullshit, this guy tears into the guts of Windows and cuts out the bullshit to make insane gamer versions that have almost no overhead. We are talking WinXP that runs killer on 256Mb of RAM and a 1GHz CPU, same for WinServer 2K3, and for Vista and 7? Hows a fully functional WITH Aero Windows Vista/7 that runs sweet and snappy on a 1.4GHz with 512Mb of RAM sound? And you can imagine if it runs sweet and snappy on gear THAT old how fast it runs on a modern multicore, it is almost like having an SSD upgrade for free!
If anyone at MSFT had a brain they'd hire this guy, because in my experiments at the shop I've tried WinFLP, WinEmbedded, and frankly even stripped to their most useless they don't hold a candle to the Tiny series on resource usage, and the Tiny installs keep nearly all the functionality!
Uhhh...dude? 16 bit apps are more than A DECADE AND A HALF old okay? And you can STILL use them with DOSBox trivially. How well does 15 year old Linux apps run? try not at all. BTW I just got done playing some No One Lives Forever, that is 1998 vintage gaming on windows 7 X64. That is 13 YEARS worth of playability.
One thing you can NOT complain about with MSFT is backwards compatibility, hell I'd say more than half of the patches released for Windows 7 so far have been more shims for compatibility to make even more old programs run.
BTW did you know that you too can write shims to improve compatibility? And unlike Linux there is ZERO CLI involved, nor need for scripting? All you need is the Application Compatibility Toolkit and MSFT is even nice enough to provide several Technet videos to walk you through making your own shims. this is how dedicated gamers have gotten games like the Star Wars VS TIE Fighter to run.
So I really don't see how you have ANY leg to stand on when it comes to BC. With Windows you have DOSBox and XP Mode for 16bit, you have incredible support for 32bit in 64bit Windows with NO recompiling bullshit, and they even give you tools that you can use to make your own shims if the ones included don't work for you, and it is all easy peasy beautiful.
No compare that to Linux. Every 6 months? Driver borkage thanks to Linus going Goatse on the kernel, need to run old apps? Well you better have the correct kernel for those old apps or be ready for a recompile friend! And don't say LTS because currently the LTS has less time to EOL than XP does, and I DARE you to try to go from the previous LTS to the latest without having to start over thanks to borkage.
The simple fact is Linus don't give a shit about users, or consumers, the only person Linus gives a shit about is Linus. He still acts like it is 93 and the kernel is his personal science project, free for him to scratch itches wherever and whenever he wants, fuck everybody else. You mark my words less than 6 months after Linus retires Linux WILL have a stable ABI and the constant kernel Goatse bullshit will end. But as long as he is the head of the kernel team he is the worst enemy of his own creation.
The problem with SSDs are the failure rates on those are frankly insane, so bad that Atwood at Coding Horror thinks they should be judged on a hot/crazy scale as in how much are you willing to lose and how much money/downtime are you willing to put up with for the speed. He still recommends them but then again this is a guy that recommends spending over $400 on a pair of headphones with another couple of hundred on an amp to drive them.
This of course doesn't even figure in the facts that SSDs are frankly tiny little suckers and that one of any decent size would frankly be several orders of magnitude higher than the price increase on HDDs. Hell in my own case my basic WinXP/7 dual boot is taking up probably close to 200Gb simply because with 3Tb I never have to give a crap. I don't even want to know what an SSD big enough to hold that would cost, not to mention the 500Gb+ in movies, music, games, and audio projects I have on board.
No, frankly the answer is quite simple and something we should have been doing for a long time and would have been if it weren't for traitors in congress giving tax breaks to those that offshore so they have NO penalty for exporting vital industry. what we should do is fire the mines back up in NM and treat it as what it is, vital to our national interest. it should be nationalized (I believe We, The People already own the land) and Americans should be put to work mining that ore. Too many electronics require those metals to have our industry cut off at the knees by the Chinese, and Lord knows there are plenty of Americans that can use the work.
And I'd argue that Linus is a selfish arrogant asshole that shouldn't be listened to. Look at the facts: In 1993 Linus decides that hardware ABIs are evil and he won't allow them. now at the time the PC was at 30Mhz and RAM was worth more per Mb than diamonds so this view may or may not have been justified depending on the overhead.
But now here it is 2011, and ALL of the major OSes, MSFT Windows, Apple OSX, BSD all flavors, hell even OS/2 has an ABI. This allows a person or company to "write once, use for years" thus making it easier on BOTH the company AND the user who doesn't have to deal with constant driver breakage. Also PCs are multicores with even old machines having 512Mb of RAM, so overhead for an ABI would be trivial. Does Linus admit times have changed and change his tune? Fuck no! He continues to Goatse the kernel anytime he pleases and acts like it is still 1993 and he can do whatever he wants, fuck everybody else.
Crap like this and TFA just shows that Linus is completely out of touch and frankly needs to "pursue other interests" so that Linux can go forward. I can tell you both in my shop and talking to other shops it is the fucking driver mess that keeps anyone from offering Linux because frankly the support costs of having one or more drivers break every 6 months would drive our costs through the roof. I can also give links to articles on big name corps like Walamrt and ASUS bailing on Linux. Why? same thing fiddly driver bullshit shoots up support costs.
So can we PLEASE have someone fork the kernel already? that is what is supposed to happen in FOSS when a sitch gets bad, fork right? Well I'd argue the sitch with Linus is bad with a capital B. he was great back in the day but we ain't in back in the day anymore. He doesn't get VMs and he doesn't get ABIs, what else doesn't he get? I'd argue if it weren't for driver borkage Linux could be making serious inroads. there are plenty of whitebox shops that would be happy to get rid of Windows licensing costs, plenty of places like Walmart that are always looking for a way to lower the price. No Windows tax? means I can undercut my competition by a cool $100 right off the top.
But until Linux gets someone at the helm that doesn't treat the kernel as his personal playtoy and thinks about the consumers Linux will stay stuck at
1%.
Linux is a good OS, it has great DEs, tons of nice software, good security, frankly it deserves better than Torvalds and his kernel screwing.
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Wow, watch how easy is it to blow your arguments to complete shit...Southern Strategy and Willie_HortonYou Lose.. HAND.
Question: All modern smartphones have doc connects right? So why not simply add a joypad and buttons that connect to the port? Then those that only want phone games don't have to shell out and those that want something meatier can have it.
Because that seems smarter to me than coming out with a $500+ device that only plays games in a dead economy. Did you look at the specs? there ain't no way in hell unless Sony is willing to take a bath on the BOM to get that thing for less than $500, and as we saw with the 3DS folks just ain't shelling out right now, not at those prices.
Bottom line: Under $250 a decent hit, under $200 a major seller, over that price it is DOA and will end up next to the Gizmondo and Touchpad on the "cool but stupid priced" shelf.
So it IS the government saying "fuck the free market!" and trying to ram through formats. Thanks for clearing that up. Still won't work unless the danes are gonna give away free money to rewrite all those Excel sheets, data analysis software, etc. No what will happen is like most government crap they'll pass the costs over to businesses who will know have to deal with TWO Office suites and all the bullshit and compatibility that comes with it.
Because unless the Danes ONLY do business with the government (considering how much cash the US Gov blows like a crack whore in Vegas frankly some might actually fit that description) then they are STILL gonna have to be compatible with ALL the other businesses in their supply chain, that means MS Office.
I have to say THANK YOU TWINBEE for FINALLY getting it! oh and you want to see the future? here it is...Ninite and it is EXACTLY how you described. You simply check a single box by what you want, and hit go. That's it, no next next next, do fiddling, just sane defaults.
But sadly as you have seen in this tread as they become more and more desperate to come up with any reason why a CLI would be better (and failing horribly) it comes down to the fact that Linux nerds think CLI makes them leet and gives them gonad powers, like by having a blinking cursor they become a hacker ninja instead of just being someone dealing with a bad design.
But I have to agree if they user is doing more than 3 clicks to get to anything? Then you're doing it wrong. But just because there are some bad design choices in Windows (which I'd argue they are getting better about) doesn't mean one should fall back to 1970s design choices. it is stupid, pointless, and about as unintuitive and user unfriendly as one could possibly be.
Uhhh...you DO realize that with the exception of...well no I can't even say with the exception of dick sucking because most females do suck the dick, you have described pretty much everything that goes on in straight sex as well, yes? Ass to mouth? Hell there is whole porn houses dedicated to THAT one, oh and there's pegging, butt fucking? Oh hell that one is popular, fisting? Not as big but there are quite a few that enjoy it.
Again not really finding the insult here, unless you think being a nice dresser is evil, or having lots of money is bad. if so i have a lovely trailer park that has a vacancy, perhaps you might be interested?
So you are telling me there are NO insurance companies in Denmark? No claims, no adjusters, nobody to interact with but the government? Must be candyland to have everything work without a single interaction with the outside world.
Here is what I find funny, and I'm gonna give a big golf clap to the community for it...here goes /GOLF CLAP/....is that you are cheering what could possibly be THE WORST USAGE of LO ever.
Let me use a car analogy, maybe then everyone will understand. You have this econo car, and it is a sweet little thing. It is great on gas, it is cute, cheap to own, cheap to drive, it is just an adorable fun little ride. So you have some company go "Hey, that econo car is great! Lets stick a trailer hitch on it and put this 60 ton trailer on the back. Why our gas bills will fall like a stone!"
Now does anyone think that like the little engine that could that econo car is gonna pull 60 tons? Nope, the axle is gonna shatter, the motor and tranny is gonna fry, you are gonna kill the poor little thing. And the sad part is people WON'T go "Well its your fault for hooking up the trailer dumbass!" nope they'll say "Wow that econo car is a POS!" and the company that makes Peterbuilt will say "This is why you should drive a Peterbuilt, even to the store for some milk. It is because the econo car is shit!"
Now everyone who has had to work with hospital IT raise their hands.../raises hand/....thought so. Let me explain a little something about hospital IT, kay? It is a motherfucking mess. You are talking word docs from hell with more embedded crap than a fricking thesis, even worse you are talking "applications" made by stuffing enough VBA into an Excel sheet to choke a fricking horse (oh and that crap is mission critical BTW, so you better have a full team of programmers on hand ready to rewrite that in the language of your choice STAT) and PPTs with so damn many charts, and docs, and every other damned thing embedded in them they can truly become mythic in size and complexity.
Now am I saying LO is shit? Am I saying there is no place for it? No in fact I'll be happy to name a place it should be right now everywhere...schools. There shouldn't be a single school on the planet paying a penny for MS Office. If MSFT wants to give it away fine, but not a single cent. LO would fill that job wonderfully because millions of dollars aren't riding on little Billy's term paper. with hospitals you got HMOs, you got the various carriers, you got literally dozens of groups ALL of which need data for various purposes. And ALL will be using MS Office unless the Danes are gonna say ;'fuck the free market!" and simply ban MSFT products from their shores.
So cheer all you want /. but don't say old Feet didn't warn ya. In 3 years the headline will be "Danish hospitals go back to MS Office, consider LO massive failure" and then we'll get the usual circle jerk about how everyone should have used PDF (PROTIP: Every company uses data analysis software that DOES NOT WORK on PDF) and how its everybody else's fault instead of laying blame where it should be, on the fact they were using LO in a place it shouldn't have been.
More likely 'come for the beer, get royally fucked like a drunken prom date when it comes to compatibility'.
Like it or not LO compatibility with MS Office royally sucks ass, and big businesses? they use MS Office. Wait until they start getting complaints like "What is wrong with this doc you sent us, it is just gibberish!" or "Hey we need this Excel sheet to open and all it does is crash!" or "What happened to my PPT? It looks like it has been fed through a grinder!"
LO works great if you are little Timmy writing a report he is gonna print anyway, I give it to my home users for just that purpose. but I have to warn them not to be sending any LO docs by email because anything of ANY complexity, like say headers and footers and fonts? Word Salad. I have seen students dinged over LO docs turning to crap when the teacher opened them in MS Office. it was bad enough at the local college they got a site license for the students just so they wouldn't have to deal with it.
But of course all we'll hear after I post this is "La la la I can't hear you, you must be a M$ Ninja!" to which I say here is the proof, try it yourself IF YOU DARE. There are tons of nice and complex Word docs on government websites, help yourself, download a dozen. do the same for Excel sheets. I'm sure most geeks here have access to MS Office yes? Try editing one of those complex docs or sheets in LO, IF you can get then to open correctly, and then save it in a standard Word 97-03 format. Now open that same doc and sheet you just saved in MS Office, version of your choice. What do you get? Word Salad or number hosing.
The fact they can get it to open at all is frankly a miracle but don't kid yourselves, the world uses MS Office for a REASON. it is because everyone has to share docs and sheets and PPTs with everyone else and that means compatibility. Now I'm sure some dude will chime in about how some doc he saw or heard about in 2004 didn't open right in MS Office to which I say, so what? for 99.9995% it "just works". I've had to deal with projects where I had Office 2K, 2K3, 2K4 for Mac, and 2K7 all collaborating on a 14Mb mess of a doc, the ONLY one who had trouble with it? The one kid trying to use open Office. We ended up getting him a copy of 2K3 just so we didn't have to deal, and sadly we'll see in 2 or 3 years the same in TFA.
This is a classic case of "penny wise pound foolish" as it'll cost them more in lost hours dealing with borked data than it would be just to buy the damned MS Office licenses, which they could probably get a discount on if their guy in charge of purchasing didn't suck.
Yeah but they are making a crucial mistake...the economy is DOA so this is about the WORST time they could possibly be thinking of releasing crazy priced gear! Just look at the HP Tablet, according to most sources with specs a hell of a lot less than this they had a BOM of $318 for the 16Gb. If they can't get this thing at or below the $199 price point then it is gonna just rot on the shelves. look at how the PS3 sales jumped when they hit $250.
You just won't see crazy priced gear sell in this economy, well except if it starts with a lower cased i. If those specs are true unless they sell at a loss (which considering how much money Sony has bled these past two years is doubtful) this thing will sit gathering dust by those inventories of 3DS units. why would you pay crazy money for a games unit when you often see ION based Atom netbooks going for around $250 now? Or have the original PSP or DS for less than $150 bucks?
Personally I wish them luck but I doubt it'll sell. maybe I'll get lucky and score one when it hits $99 like the Touchpad did. i missed out on those dammit. Oh well I got 4 off lease laptops in today to play with and I'll probably pick up one of those cool "portable emulator" game handhelds for when I want to blow something up. I hear the dingoo is quite nice.
You know, I never really understood why "fag" is supposed to be an insult. I have known plenty of gay men and women and you know what? they have nicer clothes, nicer cars, better jobs, and live in nicer neighborhoods than straight folks. So what you are basically saying is "I hope you dress well and have a good job with lots of money in a nice area, so there!" it really doesn't make much sense. Douchenozzle, shitstain, hell even halo player would probably be better insults.
As for TFA and the asshole that hoped people who smoke pot get cancer? Please kill yourself. this is not a joke, the world would be a better place without you. Suck the barrel of a gun, get a rope, buy a razor, kill yourself.
Alcohol causes more deaths in a single month than pot has EVER. Alcohol causes more misery, more illness, more suffering than all the other drugs combined frankly. As part of the nearly extinct breed known as a conservative socialist whatever you do in your home? None of my damned business and frankly shouldn't be any of the state's business either.
I don't care what God you believe in, what you put in your body, whom you share your body with (or even if you choose to sell it) frankly it should be none of the government's business as long as you are over 18 and not forcing anyone else. I only hope the endless greed of both the Ds and Rs will give us the legalization of what is commonly known as "sin" crimes even if it is only so they can tax and spend on their pet projects. Then maybe we can grow the fuck up and stop treating adults like 3 years olds that need mommy government to spank them.
Oh and before someone pops up with "what about health insurance!" I'll tell you what: I'll happily sign a contract that the government pisses off and takes away the taxes on my cigarettes or anything else I put in my body and if i get cancer the ONLY treatment i'll get is morphine which is cheap, kay? But we know that won't happen because just as we have seen with social security, the tobacco settlements, and every other dime that was supposed to ONLY go for X the second the politicos get their hands on it they are blowing it on anything and everything.
I believe everyone should have a roof over their head, food in their belly, clothes on their back, and free or low cost medical care, but I'm also a realist. How many wanna bet that if Obama gets that mandatory insurance bit passed the congress will blow that money on bridges to nowhere?
Exactly! And you have NO idea how happy it makes a horror fan like my mom to have a constant stream of books showing up at her door. With Amazon used books it is as simple as "hand mom my account, tell her what she can spend, let her loose".. never any problem finding say book 5 out of a series of 8, never any problems with the quality of the books, its all easy peasy.
How could anyone think dead tree databases are going away when it has never been easier and cheaper to get them? And I can tell you that you don't need some hipster joint to "create" new readers. I walk into the local library hefting mom's latest Sci Fi/horror donation and I'm swarmed by college girls all trying to see what goodies mom has brought the library. They often have to do a "slap and scan" as I call it because the college girls have carried off the entire donation before they can even do more than slap a scan tag!
So I don't see it going anywhere. Amazon makes it so damned easy to shop that it is one click and here is a book. How much nicer and simpler can you get?
Bullshit, if anything Amazon makes it sweeter for the little guys! I've probably been blowing a good $100 a month on little bookstores through Amazon, because my mom loves funky cheesy horror that you can't find around here and thanks to Amazon having such a HUGE selection of used books cheap thanks to all the little mom and pop shops instead of trying to figure out which books she's read or not I just throw a C-note on my account and tell mom to go nuts. She's happy with having new books constantly showing up, I'm happy because i don't have to figure out what to buy her anymore, hell even the local library is happy because when mom runs out of shelf space she brings them another load!
Book people are book people, same as nerds are nerds and jocks are jocks. that is just who they are and that won't change with the loss of hipster hangouts like Borders, where overpriced books and overpriced coffee collide. Instead what will happen to the little mom and pop shops will be the same thing that happened to the local pawn shop. I walked in and said "How do you guys stay in business, when there is hardly ever any cars here?" and he just pulled back to curtain to show his kid hunched over a PC. he said "eBay and Amazon friend, we make a good 25% profit and nothing stays more than a week or so."
It'll be the same with books, hell you'll have relationships with the booksellers even! There is one little gal in I believe SF mom has bought enough from she shoots me a heads up when they get a new one by one of mom's authors and I get a free bump to first class shipping. She's happy she has a steady customer that always buys from her, I'm happy because yet again I don't have to guess. it works nicely and its all thanks to Amazon!
Oh horseshit. This is yet another classic example of "moving the goal posts" where if you point out a car is a gas pig they go "Well well, your airplane sucks teh gas too!" WTF? NEWS FLASH. Powershell is for SERVERS AND WORKSTATIONS ONLY. Sure you CAN install it on the Home SKUs but you know what? you're as likely to find Powershell on a home system as you are netbeans IDE, that is NOT AT ALL.
Look you can't beat the math, kay? Linux is at 1%, where was it 5 years ago? Where will it be 5 years from now? 1%. Why is that? Because YOU DON'T LISTEN TO THE USERS and instead expect the whole damned world to do things YOUR way. Well ya know what? Ain't gonna happen, everyone else abandoned the term in 95 and there ain't no going back, no matter how badly basement dwellers have a hard on for the days when nerds sat around programming Pong games on PDP 11 systems.
As a retailer with over 25 years in the biz, let me spell it out, kay? ALL GUI, NO CLI, NO DRIVER BORKAGE. Do that and then we'll talk. hell every little shop will have Linux machines on their shelves simply because it lets us shave $100 off a new build. Don't do that, and instead expect people to jump through the terminal hoops and 6 month driver breakage bullshit? Enjoy your one percent because you ain't going nowhere.
I have tried just about every major distro and it is ALL the same. 6 month driver borkage, too much term bullshit, it is about as user unfriendly as one could possibly get. Oh and for the one guy who ALWAYS screams LTS!? Got news for ya Sparky LTS has less time left than WinXP at this point and frankly LTS is a code for "really old software" as nobody backports more than a handful of apps for the old crap.
Riiight. Your response is an insult because you have NO ANSWER to all the links I posted showing retailers RUNNING AWAY from linux as fast as they can. Did you read the post I responded to? Crutchy was going /pulls sheet over head/ "Why are you picking on poor wittle linus? what has he done to you? linux is teh leet! It gives you gonad powerz!"
You and the precious community can have little circle jerks and tell each other it is a secret conspiracy by gates and the illuminati, but that won't make you ANY less full of shit. here is some facts for you, like it or lump it...
FACT it has been TWENTY YEARS and Linux has gained NO SHARE on the desktop. it was at 1% nearly a decade ago, guess what it is now? FACT As iOS and Android and Win 7 have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt THE TERMINAL IS DEAD as far as consumers are concerned. What does Linux do? 'they don't know whats leet! We'll put the term on teh desktop and make everyone use it! that'll give teh gonad powerz!"
You can sum up EVERY Linux post by simply going to TM Repo and picking out what standard bullshit excuses get trotted out. oh its the OEMs, oh it retail, oh its everybody's fault but ours! Bullshit, complete and utter bullshit. Waste you mod points all you want but it won't turn your complete and utter bullshit into anything resembling reality, and that's what hurts don't it? that even FOR FREE nobody wants what you're shoveling? When MSFT puts out a turd and your FREE OS gains NO SHARE while an OS with a $1000 barrier to entry stomps your ass? wake up and smell the shit buddy, wake up and smell the shit.
Bimbo Newton Crosby. We had a truly wonderful history teacher, right in the middle of the bible belt, that actually had students WANTING to learn American history! How did he do that? Because he said like six degrees EVERYTHING in American history can be traced forwards or backwards to Woodstock in under 6 steps. to him Woodstock was a watershed moment and all us kids worked our ass off trying to stump him, never did.
So what happened? At the end of the semester as a consolation prize after our tests (highest scores ever for that class in that school BTW) he played us the entire Woodstock concert...and was promptly fired for showing a movie that promoted sex and drugs to HS students.
So everything went back to the way it was, scores sucked in american history because most of the guys were blowing joints in the parking lot before class and were sleeping through most of it, just another wasted class in another wasted day in the sausage factory. Like George Carlin said they don't want those that can think, they want worker drones.
So lets see, your response is...suckup suckup suckup, bullshit bullshit bullshit and finally "Fight teh powerz!" am I right? Sum it up?
I don't give a shit if in 1979 he invented the fucking takeout pizza okay? WTF does what he did in the past matter now? does that give him a "be a douchebag free" card? I guess it does as far as you're concerned.
And what are you fucking smoking? What corp in their right mind would be running 16 bit apps nearly 15 YEARS after support ended? Security hole much? hell why not just put some Win98 machines on the network while you're at it. Anybody who actually needs code THAT old has these wonderful things called "VMs" maybe you've heard of them? because nobody in their right mind is gonna let a gaping security hole like 16 bit crapola run on a modern desktop. Oh and how does that 16bit code run on 64bit Linux? Oh that's right IT DON'T.
And I'm about as jealous of Linus dumbass Torvalds as I am of any other cult figure, that is NOT AT ALL. If anything all I feel is pity, pity that otherwise sane people (I assume you're sane, can't tell by your post) would bend over backwards to kiss his ass and take the big steaming turds he hands you and say "Please sir, can I sniff your asshole?". FACT-It has been TWENTY YEARS and Linux is NO FURTHER on the desktop than when it started 20 YEARS AGO. FACT- OSX, BSD, Windows, hell even OS/2 have an ABI and guess what? the DRIVERS WORK which is more than can be said for Linux. But why am I wasting my breath, maybe you'd enjoy some nice copypasta where I point out what a TOTAL FAILURE LINUX IS? As for why it pisses me off, it pisses me off because it COULD be good, if it weren't for assholes like Torvalds and suckups like you. Enjoy
Isn't it sad, how like a frightened child afraid to look under the bed, you cower at the truth? if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos even though we are talking a teeny tiny subset of hardware? Oh right because Linux shits itself and dies if you use the default repos! Man that is some excellent product you got there! you think I can get better QA than the third largest OEM on the planet? What, you expect me to tell paying customers "Go to the forum, kiss some loser ass, and maybe, just maybe, in a few days someone will have mercy and give you a big pile of bullshit that may or may not make your sound work again"?
Bleeding yet douchey? want some more? nice thing about having the truth on your side, you can keep throwing punches all day! How about how a decade old Windows beat the shit out of Linux on netbooks or how ASUS has given up on your bullshit or how about Walmart running away from linux as fast as it can? You got the crazy koolaid drunk enough to say they ALL are paid shills because they won't do your forum dance or CLI horseshit? Meanwhile your "hero" Torvalds the great says Plans? We don't need no steenkin plans!. Why don't you tell them that at work next week, see how quick you get a pink slip? More? How about you actually have the balls to celebrate getting a whole 1% market share while you are actually lower than JavaME and there is a whole website dedicated To your bullshit and excuses .
You see you whiny little delusional mama's boy, I'm your worst fucking nightmare...a retailer that still believes. I believe that the community doesn't have to take Torvalds shit sandw
You want to know how to get Linux some share? As a retailer I'll be happy to let you know, it is really easy...1.-GET RID OF THE DAMNED TERMINAL! It ain't 1979 anymore and disco is fricking dead, let go of the fucking blinking cursor, alright? Consumers ain't gonna put up with that shit, it has to go DIAF.
2.-FIX YOUR DAMNED DRIVER MODEL! It is 2011 and the constant driver borkage is getting old, okay? It is bad when a long term Linux user tells me "Well Linux just does that, what you need to do is" and then here comes the terminal bullshit. I don't care if you do it with an ABI, or offer Linus to Cthulu, but the reason NO shop will touch your OS is in no small part to the 6 month driver borkage!
You get rid of these two little things? Well I can tell you as a retailer a LARGE amount of the folks out there frankly don't need Windows. They surf, they watch YouTube, they check their Webmail, they play FB games. NONE of that requires Windows, but because Linux is such a fiddly little bitch, filled to the brim with basement dwellers that think terminals give them special gonad powers, that Linux don't gain shit.
Make it ALL GUI, NO CLI, make it so drivers don't break with every damned update, oh and get rid of that "software tied to which kernel you're running" while you're at it, and plenty of shops like mine would be more than happy to sell and support your OS. of course the day that happens I'll be riding a purple pony with She Ra because of all the lousy hacker wannabes that think having a term makes them something more than what they are, just another lamer. Hell why don't you get rid of your storage and use punch cards while you're at it? Modern tech piffle! Real men load their OS from cardboard!
As for TFA? Its a hobby OS, made by guys that KNOW its a Hobby OS, they have fun doing it, I'm totally happy for them and wish them another happy 20 years. As someone who ran OS/2 when everyone else was running Win 3.x I can understand the appeal of "what if" things would have been different, I really can. I saw everyone shit themselves with wonder at Win95 and went "What? That isn't as good as what I've been running for nearly 2 years!"
But sadly just like VHS VS Beta sometimes the best one loses, especially if the other guy is "good enough" and cheap. Amiga was good but too expensive and Commodore didn't know how to sell it so it went tits up. OS/2 was cool but IBM wanted to control the hardware and wanted crazy money for shitty behind the curve chips so it too went tits up. But as long as they have fun with it? Cool beans, everybody needs a way to burn off stress. Some folks play guitar, some build models, The Haiku guys try to build a modern Amiga. Hats off to 'em and I wish them all the luck in the world.
Uhhh...where you been AC? Tigerdirect ALREADY does that, they have their own brand called SystemMax. Still not as cheap as you can DIY, but for those that don't want to take the whole 30 minutes to put the thing together it is cheaper than most.
But good luck on the laptop thing, as the OEMs like Dell have found the easiest way to make people constantly buy new machines is to ass rape them on parts. The OEM laptop are nothing but proprietary in a plastic case and damned near nothing is interchangeable. I don't know how many mom and pop shops I've seen go under because they were stupid enough to try to get into laptop repairs and quickly found out they needed back rooms filled to the brim with dead laptops to scrounge for parts because of the insane rates someone like Dell or Compaq charge for those bits of plastic. hell even then they were screwed because often lappys with the same model number had completely different incompatible parts!
Nope until the economy collapses so it is too damned expensive to constantly build "designed for the dump" plastic POS laptops all you'll see is proprietary in a plastic box. That is why I tell folks to have me build them a really good desktop then buy the cheapest POS laptop they can find, because I've seen $1500 lappys not last a damned bit longer or be any cheaper to fix than $299 specials. Its all designed for the dump.
WTF?!?!? Are you stoned, or are you just stupid? Let me make this clear, I'll be sure to use little words okay? We are NOT talking about, in any particular order, PS3s, your watch, your toaster, servers, or any other crap you've managed to squeeze a Linux term onto, kay? This ENTIRE thread was about desktops and here you are, bring up oracle and SAP like a desktop user is actually gonna run that shit. Clueless much? Or just THAT desperate to find anything where Linux isn't dead last?
Seriously did you not get the memo? Nobody gives a flying fuck about what the server guys do, we really really don't. Why is that? Because they are paid big bucks to deal with the fiddly bitch that is Linux and as long as they stay in the basement frankly nobody gives a shit. there is also on average 10 or 11 orders of magnitude MORE desktop users at any company than fiddly term loving server guys so if the desktop users can't get their work done? The server guys can go compile for all anyone will care because the company will go tits up. The server guys? Replaceable, hell you can go cloud and just fire their asses. Kinda hard to do that to the entire workforce.
So the sooner the Linux nerds get their collective heads out their asses and realize nobody gives a shit what they run on their Proliants the better. in case you haven't kept up with current events the world is going user centric NOT task centric which is what Linux is. This is why Apple and MSFT are making crazy money while Linux is still stuck at 1%, it is because you term lovers won't accept reality and the fact nobody wants your 70s era terminal bullshit.
So either accept nobody wants to play your little bash games or please go back to your server room and let those of us talking about DESKTOPS continue to do so without you babbling about shit nobody but server nerds give a shit about, kay?
Actually I would argue that Windows 7 is the FIRST version of Windows that is a real game changer for the average user. The combination of jumplists, intelligent search, and breadcrumbs mean people like my dad that barely ever scratched the surface of Windows are now getting their monies worth.
For example my dad wanted to know how to set the volume on his microphone so he launched a search from the start button for mic and not only did it give him the control he needed but also a nice tutorial on Windows voice recognition which he had no idea Windows 7 even had. Now he is typing his letter by voice and quite happy about that. On the wireless front dad didn't have a clue how to connection and share his new laptop and I couldn't swing by until the weekend. naturally he decided to do it himself and Windows walked him through setting up Homegroup so he can drag and drop between his home machine and his laptop.
So I'd say for the first time since the conversion from Win9X to WinXP that Windows 7 really is worth it for the masses. I just recently finished converting the last of my family and when I offered the youngest a PC to use while I finished upgrading his hardware when he found out it had XP he said he'd rather do without. when I asked why he said "because XP sucks and Windows 7 is nice" and that sums it up better than I could. Win 7 is just a nice OS to use all around.
If you haven't seen a quality .H264 rip then you have no clue what you are talking about. And with the PC if you don't want to compress it? Then fuck it, you can get a 2Tb HDD for like $69 on sale. Most mid towers can hold 4 or even 5 drives now and a 1Tb Seagate green is on sale this weekend at Newegg for $44.
And if you like the Blu ray and Sixaxis I'm happy for you, you and the other 6 guys should have a club or something. I can only speak for my shop and my area but while I've set up plenty of honking big sets the reaction to BD has been a giant "meh" from the customers. Nobody wants it, they are happy with upscaled DVD for their collections and streaming Netflix for everything else. You mark my words BD is gonna be the laserdisc of the 21st century, a format that held promise of better graphics that the consumer just didn't give a crap about.
You wanna jump on the "next big thing" I can tell ya what is selling like hotcakes around here, and that is media tanks. The WDTV for the parents, the Nbox for the kiddies. Man those things really move! Now that even basic motherboards come with hardware transcoding it is beyond trivial to show folks how to rip their movies into nice .avi files and instead of worrying about scratched discs or where their movie is they can just fire up WMC on their new Win 7 HTPC or the media tank in theirs or their kids bedroom and BAM! All their entertainment, right at their fingertips.
You see that is the problem with Sony also being a media company. They are more worried about DRM than what you should be able to do with the box. With the cell you should have been able to transcode at frankly insane speeds straight to a USB HDD and had all your entertainment right there easy peasy. Instead you have the local Walmart giving less space to BDs every month because they simply don't sell while the DVD aisle is beyond capacity and they are actually setting up kiosks in the aisles to make up for all the content they are moving.
THANK YOU! You nailed it better than I ever could, I would only add that the annoying kid and the Bambi bimbette neither of which could act scared if you stuck a gun to their heads frankly suck major ass. And I'd add frankly he doesn't really do the boom booms that well, too many of the shots are either too close or too far to get a real feel for the action. I mean when you have this great giant robot battle and you keep cutting to annoying kid and Bambi bimbette? fuck off Bay and give us the robot battle!
And as for your last point? Dark Knight. Dark Knight had the action but was...oh what was the word?....oh yeah GOOD. It had this nice undercurrent on vigilantism and anarchy vs society and while there were a few nigglers (like how the Joker got crazy henchmen that actually were dependable) overall frankly at its worst it was the Godfather compared to anything Michael Bay has ever put out.
I like how Movie Bob over at Zero Punctuation (which if you haven't watched him you really should, he reminds me of Ebert back in the day) described Michael bay films: Movies BY douchebags FOR douchebags. Like you said a two hour "You are teh stupid!" while bright lights flash in your face. After seeing good action movies like Iron Man and Dark Knight watching a Bay film is about as pleasant as watching a Uwe Boll film, only you don't even get the pleasure of making fun of it, its just bad with a capital B.
Trivial OEM keys baby, trivial OEMs. I've just now started to see a few of the keys blacklisted by MSFT, it took them THIS long to do so. While I don't mess with pirated Windows mind you, do you have ANY idea how simple it is to fix when one of those machines are blacklisted? This is how simple: "Run WGA Killer by going clicky clicky, reboot, turn off Windows updates and set WSUS Offline to run instead" and that's it. Hell most of the OEM Win 7 discs floating around out there need NO key at all!
And if you have an old box lying around or a spare partition you really need to try the "Tiny" series, it is bloody brilliant. We aren't talking some NLite/VLite bullshit, this guy tears into the guts of Windows and cuts out the bullshit to make insane gamer versions that have almost no overhead. We are talking WinXP that runs killer on 256Mb of RAM and a 1GHz CPU, same for WinServer 2K3, and for Vista and 7? Hows a fully functional WITH Aero Windows Vista/7 that runs sweet and snappy on a 1.4GHz with 512Mb of RAM sound? And you can imagine if it runs sweet and snappy on gear THAT old how fast it runs on a modern multicore, it is almost like having an SSD upgrade for free!
If anyone at MSFT had a brain they'd hire this guy, because in my experiments at the shop I've tried WinFLP, WinEmbedded, and frankly even stripped to their most useless they don't hold a candle to the Tiny series on resource usage, and the Tiny installs keep nearly all the functionality!
Uhhh...dude? 16 bit apps are more than A DECADE AND A HALF old okay? And you can STILL use them with DOSBox trivially. How well does 15 year old Linux apps run? try not at all. BTW I just got done playing some No One Lives Forever, that is 1998 vintage gaming on windows 7 X64. That is 13 YEARS worth of playability.
One thing you can NOT complain about with MSFT is backwards compatibility, hell I'd say more than half of the patches released for Windows 7 so far have been more shims for compatibility to make even more old programs run.
BTW did you know that you too can write shims to improve compatibility? And unlike Linux there is ZERO CLI involved, nor need for scripting? All you need is the Application Compatibility Toolkit and MSFT is even nice enough to provide several Technet videos to walk you through making your own shims. this is how dedicated gamers have gotten games like the Star Wars VS TIE Fighter to run.
So I really don't see how you have ANY leg to stand on when it comes to BC. With Windows you have DOSBox and XP Mode for 16bit, you have incredible support for 32bit in 64bit Windows with NO recompiling bullshit, and they even give you tools that you can use to make your own shims if the ones included don't work for you, and it is all easy peasy beautiful.
No compare that to Linux. Every 6 months? Driver borkage thanks to Linus going Goatse on the kernel, need to run old apps? Well you better have the correct kernel for those old apps or be ready for a recompile friend! And don't say LTS because currently the LTS has less time to EOL than XP does, and I DARE you to try to go from the previous LTS to the latest without having to start over thanks to borkage.
The simple fact is Linus don't give a shit about users, or consumers, the only person Linus gives a shit about is Linus. He still acts like it is 93 and the kernel is his personal science project, free for him to scratch itches wherever and whenever he wants, fuck everybody else. You mark my words less than 6 months after Linus retires Linux WILL have a stable ABI and the constant kernel Goatse bullshit will end. But as long as he is the head of the kernel team he is the worst enemy of his own creation.
The problem with SSDs are the failure rates on those are frankly insane, so bad that Atwood at Coding Horror thinks they should be judged on a hot/crazy scale as in how much are you willing to lose and how much money/downtime are you willing to put up with for the speed. He still recommends them but then again this is a guy that recommends spending over $400 on a pair of headphones with another couple of hundred on an amp to drive them.
This of course doesn't even figure in the facts that SSDs are frankly tiny little suckers and that one of any decent size would frankly be several orders of magnitude higher than the price increase on HDDs. Hell in my own case my basic WinXP/7 dual boot is taking up probably close to 200Gb simply because with 3Tb I never have to give a crap. I don't even want to know what an SSD big enough to hold that would cost, not to mention the 500Gb+ in movies, music, games, and audio projects I have on board.
No, frankly the answer is quite simple and something we should have been doing for a long time and would have been if it weren't for traitors in congress giving tax breaks to those that offshore so they have NO penalty for exporting vital industry. what we should do is fire the mines back up in NM and treat it as what it is, vital to our national interest. it should be nationalized (I believe We, The People already own the land) and Americans should be put to work mining that ore. Too many electronics require those metals to have our industry cut off at the knees by the Chinese, and Lord knows there are plenty of Americans that can use the work.
And I'd argue that Linus is a selfish arrogant asshole that shouldn't be listened to. Look at the facts: In 1993 Linus decides that hardware ABIs are evil and he won't allow them. now at the time the PC was at 30Mhz and RAM was worth more per Mb than diamonds so this view may or may not have been justified depending on the overhead.
But now here it is 2011, and ALL of the major OSes, MSFT Windows, Apple OSX, BSD all flavors, hell even OS/2 has an ABI. This allows a person or company to "write once, use for years" thus making it easier on BOTH the company AND the user who doesn't have to deal with constant driver breakage. Also PCs are multicores with even old machines having 512Mb of RAM, so overhead for an ABI would be trivial. Does Linus admit times have changed and change his tune? Fuck no! He continues to Goatse the kernel anytime he pleases and acts like it is still 1993 and he can do whatever he wants, fuck everybody else.
Crap like this and TFA just shows that Linus is completely out of touch and frankly needs to "pursue other interests" so that Linux can go forward. I can tell you both in my shop and talking to other shops it is the fucking driver mess that keeps anyone from offering Linux because frankly the support costs of having one or more drivers break every 6 months would drive our costs through the roof. I can also give links to articles on big name corps like Walamrt and ASUS bailing on Linux. Why? same thing fiddly driver bullshit shoots up support costs.
So can we PLEASE have someone fork the kernel already? that is what is supposed to happen in FOSS when a sitch gets bad, fork right? Well I'd argue the sitch with Linus is bad with a capital B. he was great back in the day but we ain't in back in the day anymore. He doesn't get VMs and he doesn't get ABIs, what else doesn't he get? I'd argue if it weren't for driver borkage Linux could be making serious inroads. there are plenty of whitebox shops that would be happy to get rid of Windows licensing costs, plenty of places like Walmart that are always looking for a way to lower the price. No Windows tax? means I can undercut my competition by a cool $100 right off the top.
But until Linux gets someone at the helm that doesn't treat the kernel as his personal playtoy and thinks about the consumers Linux will stay stuck at 1%.
Linux is a good OS, it has great DEs, tons of nice software, good security, frankly it deserves better than Torvalds and his kernel screwing.