Was he an asshole?
If he was, then it's great if you expose the fucking cocksucker for the fraud that he is!
I worked as salesman for a high tech software company, the CEO was the biggest fucking asshole that the world has ever seen, and it took a year, and 3 months before I couldn't take anymore of his shit. Unfortunately, he didn't do anything like what your boss did. If he did, I'd be outing him for the piece of shit that he was...but that's me:-)
What's being overlooked here is that you are the owner of the paper, so it's your property. It sounds like she's one of those church lady type teachers, so all you have to do is stand up to her by simply saying NO! They don't know what to do with themselves after to stick it to them like that. Of course, I like taking down bureaucrats, but that's just me:-)
They must be purchasing it themselves from shell companies to make it look like it's viable.
It's never been about winning, but making as much money off of this thing as possible. If they did win, then that would be a bonus, but only if the courts screwed up.
He's a genius for being able to make it this long, and still get paid, but that's it. He's a total asshole, and a thief!
Mod me down, but I won't be installing Chrome for about year or so as every time that it installs it just stalls on importing my search settings. I've tried disabling my av, and everything else, and it still doesn't do it. Has anybody else had this problem? I was really excited about Chrome too...Firefox for me until they get the bugs cleared out of it.
AWESOMELY PUT!!!! OMG, you nailed it right on the proverbial head!!! GREAT READ!!!
A friend of mine worked for a server company, and they took a look at what they were spending on software licenses, and hardware, and they came to the realization that they only need 1 computer that ran Microsoft Windows, and that was it out of all of their computers! So, they put on Ubuntu on everything else, and never looked back! Too funny, and they saved literally thousands, and thousands of dollars on licenses! Ummm, I guess the loser there is Microsoft...am I wrong?
Have you ever worked for a company that has all this amazing technology, and then they hire people that have never used a computer in their life? I agree, they shouldn't be using office software, or even a computer, but then you're tasked to train them because they have to now use it for their jobs. For the average user they should know the basics, but for 12 o'clock flashers, which I've had to train many of them, it IS training them on how to do EVERYTHING. You have to admit that there are lot of people out there that really don't give 2 shits about trying to learn anything, and would much rather some knowledgeable techie type to tell them. For those people you can throw any sort of software at them even if they've used it all their lives, and they'd still come up, and ask you questions about the most rudimentary function for the software...people who have university degrees! My point to all of this is that no matter where you go if a computer is involved, then training will have to go along with it.
I really don't accept your statement that "OpenOffice wouldn't be free in accounting terms as there would be training and admin costs on top of that." Just about every office suite is basically the same, and it doesn't matter what software package that you give your people because there will "always" be training involved. The only difference here is that OpenOffice is free. I can't begin to tell you the amount of time that I had to spend training people on Microsoft Office on just the basic functions, so it wouldn't have mattered if it was OpenOffice, or Microsoft Office because most of people out there don't have a clue. Most of them don't even use any advanced features, so in reality they could just use Google Docs...but, I'd have to train them on that too;-)
I'm kind of getting the feeling that Intel is seeing the writing on the wall, and understanding that Linux isn't going away, and could quite possibly in the very near future take over a considerable amount of the desktop share especially for businesses that want to severely reduce their IT budgets.
"Call me naive, but I have faith in these companies that they made these changes for a reason, namely that they did tests and concluded it would improve the user experience, and that the bugs will be worked out in time."
Okay, "Naive" you have faith in these companies that they've made a change for a reason??? Have you ever worked in the IT industry? Changes can be on the whim of 1 person regardless of what EVERYBODY tells he or she about their shiny new changes! OMG, I've seen terrible, horrible failures from one person wanting to create their little empire, and yet there's the people that are the experts advising, and even pleading with this person to not make the changes! Yyes you can't please everybody, but if you make a change without at least showing a preview to the people that use your product to get feedback---does that make sense??? It Makes Bloody Good Sense!!! They didn't even try! Then you're left with a mess as what's going on with iGoogle. They didn't make that big of a change, except put a tab to the left of everything, and now EVERYTHING is moved over to the right, and now all the settings, and all of the layouts, and all of the little widgets are having problems. So this affects literally millions of people, and that's not an understatement. Google wants you to use their products, and if you piss people off enough they'll go somewhere else, and that equals to lost revenue, and you can be your ass that they won't want that to happen! I'd love to be a fly on the wall to see the look on the loser that decided to make this "little" change to iGoogle when the brass comes by for a little visit, or if it was one of the brass that did it, then the look on their face as he or she is shown a significant drop in revenue from their "little" change! Too bloody funny! Are you getting it yet? The company is just a shell, and is made up with people, and people are the solution, but also the problem. Wake up, and see the big picture here!
My buddy's wife got a brand new computer from work, and it has Vista, and, if you can believe it, 512MB of RAM!!! It was pathetic, and they literally would start the computer, and go downstairs to the living room, and wait for about 15 minutes for the computer to start, and load up, and then maybe they'd be able to retrieve their e-mails. I got there, and got physically ill watching this P.O.S. running if you could call it that. Get this...this was directly from the factory! 512MB of RAM straight from the bloody factory! It was unusable!!! I took pity on them, and went and bought 2Gigs of Ram for them, and installed it, and then proceeded to clean their computer out of all the bloat, and stupid little effects that were just eating the memory. Now, it runs a little bit slower than XP, but it's usable. Why would I ever purchase that polished turd of an OS?
Years ago Corel was developing WordPerfect for Linux, and the along come Microsoft, and gave them a huge sum of cash to cease all development of WP for Linux, and now look at where they are now...Novell is going to suddenly realize years down the road that they really did sell out, and there's no going back, and it's obvious that the owners of the company don't give 2 shits, so now Microsoft will find some way to weasel Linux from the world. Yay for interoperability...whatever the hell that means, and what is involved!
I actually received a pirated DVD from EBay, and I contacted all the right authorities such as EBay, Universal Pictures, the local Police, the Sheriff, and the FBI. Guess what happened??? Diddley squat!!! Months later they were still hawking their pirated DVD's with the soundtrack, and even added in more movie stills, and bigger banners to suck everyone into buying their crap! I can honestly say that I'll never use EBay ever again because of this, and as far as the warnings that everyone sees at the beginning of every movie...what a load of crap!!! Ooooohhh, they went after some woman, but these Assholes get to make money off of innocent people buying stuff in good faith, and all of the right people are contacted, and made aware of it....give me a break!!!!
Do these Clowns even have anymore customers after what they've pulled?
Who the hell would even stick with their products with all of this fiasco going on?
If they do have any, then perhaps we of the Tech Field should point them to a much better solution for their needs, eh?
Could someone clarify a question that has been nagging me for quite a while now, and that is "the lawyers for SCO have known right from the beginning that they had no claim, and they did not own the UNIX copyrights, and yet they put the courts through 4 years of this, so aren't these lawyers in contempt of court, and shouldn't criminal charges be laid against them, and at the very least have these lawyers lose their licenses?"
Thanks
1mck
"A what the hell are people printing so damn much of that the consumables business is sooooo lucrative?"
Well, I used to work as a Technical Support Agent for HP, and what they are zeroing in on is Newbies. They'll put together these fantastic packages of getting a computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and...a printer/scanner/copier/fax machine, and when these people get all this stuff, they go crazy trying it all out! They want people who do not know very much about computers to use their products because they'll use everything, and I mean everything up right away, and then they'll buy more stuff:-)
Is it a scam? YES! We would just shake our heads when a "NEW" printer model would come into the centre for us to train on, and when they implemented having the print heads separate from the printing cartridges, then we really, really, really knew it was a scam! Oh my god, the amount of calls we would get about the print heads being clogged, and god forbid that they went on holidays, and didn't put their print heads, and cartridges in a sealed plastic bag....they would dry up, and be totally unusable. Then guess what...yup, they'd get new stuff again! This cycle is repeated over, and over, and over again until the "Newbies" suddenly get wise, and purchase a laser printer, or something else.
I'm using a Brother laser printer, and it's not as good as an HP AIO, but it does the job, and here I am sitting with it for over a year, and I don't have to worry about going on holidays. If you really need something printed in colour, then just go to your local copier centre, and get them to do it because the costs are just too high for maintaining these ink cartridge printers! I liken them to "One armed Bandits" (Slot Machines), but we should be calling them "Print Bandits" because that is exactly what they are! Don't forget to factor in your time, and effort into adding up the costs of maintaining an ink jet printer...it really doesn't make any sense to purchase these things when you look at it from this point of view. So, yes, I agree with you, but then again look who you are dealing with, eh?lol Can a Newbie see the big picture...nope, and that's how these companies make their money.
I like to read a lot of e-books...mostly in pdf format, and my old Palm Pilot, while able to do the job, just isn't living up to what I want, which is a much larger screen, colour, and able to surf the internet, light, hand held, and have a really great battery life...oh, and be somewhat affordable. My Toshiba Satellite laptop is too bulky, and it suffers from over heating way too much, so that's out, so other than that, what are my options? Would you fellow/.'ers suggest this?
Good for you for quitting!!! I worked at a software company as a sales manager, and the fucking CEO/Manager with this bi-polar, ADD, fucking asshole! The fucking nut would not train us, but yet expect us to know the products, and demonstrate them, and they he would say that if we had any questions we could come and ask him. Yeah, right...I did that once, and he blew up at me, and told me that I got myself in a corner, and I was just stupid for doing that...I should have realized right there that I was working for an asshole, but I had to stay for financial reasons at first, but later on, when I was able to get out of the hole finacially, I quit, and I left professionally unlike him. I'm more angry with myself right now for staying as long as I did, but tomorrow morning I start my new job as an entry level technician, and I'm happy to say that I even used my letter of resignation from asshole in my interview...I think it helped me get the job!lol
Bill Gates was a skinny nerd, who was probably beat-up, and picked on really bad in school, and this is his way of compensating, and making himself feel superior. Now, he's the bully, and every time someone lets him win it just validates him even further. He'll get his eventually, and this turd of an operating system, Vista, is it...just wait and see:-)
Jesus, we all watch tv, and listen to the radio, and we all understand about getting the content for free...I downloaded all of the songs, and I really couldn't give 2 shits if they put a small commercial at the front! They should do this for Battlestar Galactica...they'd make a fortune off of the advertisers!!!
Yes, I can easily take out the commercials by just converting it, and cutting it out, but really I don't want to waste my time. After all, I get to listen to artists that I want to, and then later on if I like them enough I'll go out, and buy their albums.
This is incredible exposure for artists that can't get any air play at any radio station, so I applaud anyone who has the foresight to actually use this new technology to their advantage, and actually give the people access to their favourite artists, or even new ones! I'm really liking this song "Touch" by "Public Symphony!" Now, I would have never heard of them except for this service, and I don't have to worry about the fucking RIAA after me!
I think those fucking suits at the movie/television/music industries, are probably the most fucking ignorant, stunned, blind, fucktards that can't see a fucking goldmine if they were actually thrown into one!!! This is the future of content delivery to the users!!!! Fucking recognize that it doesn't matter what they hell that you give out to the people as it is the commercials that will allow you to fucking rake, and I mean fucking rake in the dough$$$!!!! Advertisers have captive audiences, and for the general populace, they won't even know how to edit out the commercials, so it will actually get to your target audiences!!! This will be balloon so that there will be more of a need for people to produce, and make the commercials, and it just goes from there!
This is a win-win for everybody...I do not agree that this will fail whatsoever! You'll always have people who will skirt DRM, or even editing out commercials, but as I stated before, for the general masses they'll accept this wholeheartedly, and won't even try to edit them!
Those fucking suits must subscribe to "DUH" magazine!!! Idiots!!!
All of my friends own PSP's, and I haven't ponied up for one yet, but I'm totally blown away at what these things can do. It struck me that this,IMHO, is the future of portable computers!
The screen resolution is incredible, and the menus are really cool, and it has it's own browser (proprietary), and it does everything that I would want in a portable computer except for office software...I really think if they were to do a slight paradigm shift, and make it both a portable game console, multimedia centre, and a laptop replacement with all the standard office software (Open Office), and they could even incorporate a cell phone into it with a blue tooth ear piece, then they'll have the winner that they've been looking for.
Wouldn't be great to just have this thing on your hip, and have your entire office/game system/multimedia/cell phone right there? I really think it would kill everything out there that are trying to do just this, but of course this are just my thoughts.
Christ...I thought I was doing something wrong! Well, that explains that! The "special Desktop effects" for the windows, and stuff doesn't work, and now when I click on the icon it says that it's not there. Well, I guess I'll just wait for the next update, but I must say getting online was the easiest I've ever experienced in my life! Xmms locks up so bad that I have to reboot just about every time, and that goddamned Totem is pissing me right off...I hate that thing as it takes over everything! Anyway...yay...I got online!
I've been waiting a long time to see who makes the first move!!! Man, I hope someone makes a movie out of this, or a book...maybe Groklaw or something, eh?
Really...religion is more dangerous than any gun, or pistol, or any death ray gun that we'll ever create. Whip on over to http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/harm.html to see what religion does. Out of the millions of gamers, statistically how many are the cause of deaths, and now religion??? Yeah, the "Fundy's" win by a long shot! Excuse the tasteless pun.
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Was he an asshole? If he was, then it's great if you expose the fucking cocksucker for the fraud that he is! I worked as salesman for a high tech software company, the CEO was the biggest fucking asshole that the world has ever seen, and it took a year, and 3 months before I couldn't take anymore of his shit. Unfortunately, he didn't do anything like what your boss did. If he did, I'd be outing him for the piece of shit that he was...but that's me:-)
That was AWESOME!!!! Her little world just came crashing down around her! Good for you! Little frumpy authoritarian gets her hand smacked!
What's being overlooked here is that you are the owner of the paper, so it's your property. It sounds like she's one of those church lady type teachers, so all you have to do is stand up to her by simply saying NO! They don't know what to do with themselves after to stick it to them like that. Of course, I like taking down bureaucrats, but that's just me:-)
They must be purchasing it themselves from shell companies to make it look like it's viable. It's never been about winning, but making as much money off of this thing as possible. If they did win, then that would be a bonus, but only if the courts screwed up. He's a genius for being able to make it this long, and still get paid, but that's it. He's a total asshole, and a thief!
Mod me down, but I won't be installing Chrome for about year or so as every time that it installs it just stalls on importing my search settings. I've tried disabling my av, and everything else, and it still doesn't do it. Has anybody else had this problem? I was really excited about Chrome too...Firefox for me until they get the bugs cleared out of it.
AWESOMELY PUT!!!! OMG, you nailed it right on the proverbial head!!! GREAT READ!!! A friend of mine worked for a server company, and they took a look at what they were spending on software licenses, and hardware, and they came to the realization that they only need 1 computer that ran Microsoft Windows, and that was it out of all of their computers! So, they put on Ubuntu on everything else, and never looked back! Too funny, and they saved literally thousands, and thousands of dollars on licenses! Ummm, I guess the loser there is Microsoft...am I wrong?
Are you serious...no one really noticed it?????? LOL Too funny!!! And Too Awesome!!! Didn't they clue in to the name "OpenOffice?"
Have you ever worked for a company that has all this amazing technology, and then they hire people that have never used a computer in their life? I agree, they shouldn't be using office software, or even a computer, but then you're tasked to train them because they have to now use it for their jobs. For the average user they should know the basics, but for 12 o'clock flashers, which I've had to train many of them, it IS training them on how to do EVERYTHING. You have to admit that there are lot of people out there that really don't give 2 shits about trying to learn anything, and would much rather some knowledgeable techie type to tell them. For those people you can throw any sort of software at them even if they've used it all their lives, and they'd still come up, and ask you questions about the most rudimentary function for the software...people who have university degrees! My point to all of this is that no matter where you go if a computer is involved, then training will have to go along with it.
I really don't accept your statement that "OpenOffice wouldn't be free in accounting terms as there would be training and admin costs on top of that." Just about every office suite is basically the same, and it doesn't matter what software package that you give your people because there will "always" be training involved. The only difference here is that OpenOffice is free. I can't begin to tell you the amount of time that I had to spend training people on Microsoft Office on just the basic functions, so it wouldn't have mattered if it was OpenOffice, or Microsoft Office because most of people out there don't have a clue. Most of them don't even use any advanced features, so in reality they could just use Google Docs...but, I'd have to train them on that too;-)
I'm kind of getting the feeling that Intel is seeing the writing on the wall, and understanding that Linux isn't going away, and could quite possibly in the very near future take over a considerable amount of the desktop share especially for businesses that want to severely reduce their IT budgets.
"Call me naive, but I have faith in these companies that they made these changes for a reason, namely that they did tests and concluded it would improve the user experience, and that the bugs will be worked out in time." Okay, "Naive" you have faith in these companies that they've made a change for a reason??? Have you ever worked in the IT industry? Changes can be on the whim of 1 person regardless of what EVERYBODY tells he or she about their shiny new changes! OMG, I've seen terrible, horrible failures from one person wanting to create their little empire, and yet there's the people that are the experts advising, and even pleading with this person to not make the changes! Yyes you can't please everybody, but if you make a change without at least showing a preview to the people that use your product to get feedback---does that make sense??? It Makes Bloody Good Sense!!! They didn't even try! Then you're left with a mess as what's going on with iGoogle. They didn't make that big of a change, except put a tab to the left of everything, and now EVERYTHING is moved over to the right, and now all the settings, and all of the layouts, and all of the little widgets are having problems. So this affects literally millions of people, and that's not an understatement. Google wants you to use their products, and if you piss people off enough they'll go somewhere else, and that equals to lost revenue, and you can be your ass that they won't want that to happen! I'd love to be a fly on the wall to see the look on the loser that decided to make this "little" change to iGoogle when the brass comes by for a little visit, or if it was one of the brass that did it, then the look on their face as he or she is shown a significant drop in revenue from their "little" change! Too bloody funny! Are you getting it yet? The company is just a shell, and is made up with people, and people are the solution, but also the problem. Wake up, and see the big picture here!
My buddy's wife got a brand new computer from work, and it has Vista, and, if you can believe it, 512MB of RAM!!! It was pathetic, and they literally would start the computer, and go downstairs to the living room, and wait for about 15 minutes for the computer to start, and load up, and then maybe they'd be able to retrieve their e-mails. I got there, and got physically ill watching this P.O.S. running if you could call it that. Get this...this was directly from the factory! 512MB of RAM straight from the bloody factory! It was unusable!!! I took pity on them, and went and bought 2Gigs of Ram for them, and installed it, and then proceeded to clean their computer out of all the bloat, and stupid little effects that were just eating the memory. Now, it runs a little bit slower than XP, but it's usable. Why would I ever purchase that polished turd of an OS?
Years ago Corel was developing WordPerfect for Linux, and the along come Microsoft, and gave them a huge sum of cash to cease all development of WP for Linux, and now look at where they are now...Novell is going to suddenly realize years down the road that they really did sell out, and there's no going back, and it's obvious that the owners of the company don't give 2 shits, so now Microsoft will find some way to weasel Linux from the world. Yay for interoperability...whatever the hell that means, and what is involved!
I actually received a pirated DVD from EBay, and I contacted all the right authorities such as EBay, Universal Pictures, the local Police, the Sheriff, and the FBI. Guess what happened??? Diddley squat!!! Months later they were still hawking their pirated DVD's with the soundtrack, and even added in more movie stills, and bigger banners to suck everyone into buying their crap! I can honestly say that I'll never use EBay ever again because of this, and as far as the warnings that everyone sees at the beginning of every movie...what a load of crap!!! Ooooohhh, they went after some woman, but these Assholes get to make money off of innocent people buying stuff in good faith, and all of the right people are contacted, and made aware of it....give me a break!!!!
Do these Clowns even have anymore customers after what they've pulled? Who the hell would even stick with their products with all of this fiasco going on? If they do have any, then perhaps we of the Tech Field should point them to a much better solution for their needs, eh?
Could someone clarify a question that has been nagging me for quite a while now, and that is "the lawyers for SCO have known right from the beginning that they had no claim, and they did not own the UNIX copyrights, and yet they put the courts through 4 years of this, so aren't these lawyers in contempt of court, and shouldn't criminal charges be laid against them, and at the very least have these lawyers lose their licenses?" Thanks 1mck
"A what the hell are people printing so damn much of that the consumables business is sooooo lucrative?" Well, I used to work as a Technical Support Agent for HP, and what they are zeroing in on is Newbies. They'll put together these fantastic packages of getting a computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and...a printer/scanner/copier/fax machine, and when these people get all this stuff, they go crazy trying it all out! They want people who do not know very much about computers to use their products because they'll use everything, and I mean everything up right away, and then they'll buy more stuff:-) Is it a scam? YES! We would just shake our heads when a "NEW" printer model would come into the centre for us to train on, and when they implemented having the print heads separate from the printing cartridges, then we really, really, really knew it was a scam! Oh my god, the amount of calls we would get about the print heads being clogged, and god forbid that they went on holidays, and didn't put their print heads, and cartridges in a sealed plastic bag....they would dry up, and be totally unusable. Then guess what...yup, they'd get new stuff again! This cycle is repeated over, and over, and over again until the "Newbies" suddenly get wise, and purchase a laser printer, or something else. I'm using a Brother laser printer, and it's not as good as an HP AIO, but it does the job, and here I am sitting with it for over a year, and I don't have to worry about going on holidays. If you really need something printed in colour, then just go to your local copier centre, and get them to do it because the costs are just too high for maintaining these ink cartridge printers! I liken them to "One armed Bandits" (Slot Machines), but we should be calling them "Print Bandits" because that is exactly what they are! Don't forget to factor in your time, and effort into adding up the costs of maintaining an ink jet printer...it really doesn't make any sense to purchase these things when you look at it from this point of view. So, yes, I agree with you, but then again look who you are dealing with, eh?lol Can a Newbie see the big picture...nope, and that's how these companies make their money.
I like to read a lot of e-books...mostly in pdf format, and my old Palm Pilot, while able to do the job, just isn't living up to what I want, which is a much larger screen, colour, and able to surf the internet, light, hand held, and have a really great battery life...oh, and be somewhat affordable. My Toshiba Satellite laptop is too bulky, and it suffers from over heating way too much, so that's out, so other than that, what are my options? Would you fellow /.'ers suggest this?
Good for you for quitting!!! I worked at a software company as a sales manager, and the fucking CEO/Manager with this bi-polar, ADD, fucking asshole! The fucking nut would not train us, but yet expect us to know the products, and demonstrate them, and they he would say that if we had any questions we could come and ask him. Yeah, right...I did that once, and he blew up at me, and told me that I got myself in a corner, and I was just stupid for doing that...I should have realized right there that I was working for an asshole, but I had to stay for financial reasons at first, but later on, when I was able to get out of the hole finacially, I quit, and I left professionally unlike him. I'm more angry with myself right now for staying as long as I did, but tomorrow morning I start my new job as an entry level technician, and I'm happy to say that I even used my letter of resignation from asshole in my interview...I think it helped me get the job!lol
Bill Gates was a skinny nerd, who was probably beat-up, and picked on really bad in school, and this is his way of compensating, and making himself feel superior. Now, he's the bully, and every time someone lets him win it just validates him even further. He'll get his eventually, and this turd of an operating system, Vista, is it...just wait and see:-)
Jesus, we all watch tv, and listen to the radio, and we all understand about getting the content for free...I downloaded all of the songs, and I really couldn't give 2 shits if they put a small commercial at the front! They should do this for Battlestar Galactica...they'd make a fortune off of the advertisers!!!
Yes, I can easily take out the commercials by just converting it, and cutting it out, but really I don't want to waste my time. After all, I get to listen to artists that I want to, and then later on if I like them enough I'll go out, and buy their albums.
This is incredible exposure for artists that can't get any air play at any radio station, so I applaud anyone who has the foresight to actually use this new technology to their advantage, and actually give the people access to their favourite artists, or even new ones! I'm really liking this song "Touch" by "Public Symphony!" Now, I would have never heard of them except for this service, and I don't have to worry about the fucking RIAA after me!
I think those fucking suits at the movie/television/music industries, are probably the most fucking ignorant, stunned, blind, fucktards that can't see a fucking goldmine if they were actually thrown into one!!! This is the future of content delivery to the users!!!! Fucking recognize that it doesn't matter what they hell that you give out to the people as it is the commercials that will allow you to fucking rake, and I mean fucking rake in the dough$$$!!!! Advertisers have captive audiences, and for the general populace, they won't even know how to edit out the commercials, so it will actually get to your target audiences!!! This will be balloon so that there will be more of a need for people to produce, and make the commercials, and it just goes from there!
This is a win-win for everybody...I do not agree that this will fail whatsoever! You'll always have people who will skirt DRM, or even editing out commercials, but as I stated before, for the general masses they'll accept this wholeheartedly, and won't even try to edit them!
Those fucking suits must subscribe to "DUH" magazine!!! Idiots!!!
All of my friends own PSP's, and I haven't ponied up for one yet, but I'm totally blown away at what these things can do. It struck me that this ,IMHO, is the future of portable computers!
The screen resolution is incredible, and the menus are really cool, and it has it's own browser (proprietary), and it does everything that I would want in a portable computer except for office software...I really think if they were to do a slight paradigm shift, and make it both a portable game console, multimedia centre, and a laptop replacement with all the standard office software (Open Office), and they could even incorporate a cell phone into it with a blue tooth ear piece, then they'll have the winner that they've been looking for.
Wouldn't be great to just have this thing on your hip, and have your entire office/game system/multimedia/cell phone right there? I really think it would kill everything out there that are trying to do just this, but of course this are just my thoughts.
I should have prefaced this that not only was I having problems with Beryl, but also with that, and not make it seem like they were one in the same.
Christ...I thought I was doing something wrong! Well, that explains that! The "special Desktop effects" for the windows, and stuff doesn't work, and now when I click on the icon it says that it's not there. Well, I guess I'll just wait for the next update, but I must say getting online was the easiest I've ever experienced in my life! Xmms locks up so bad that I have to reboot just about every time, and that goddamned Totem is pissing me right off...I hate that thing as it takes over everything! Anyway...yay...I got online!
I've been waiting a long time to see who makes the first move!!! Man, I hope someone makes a movie out of this, or a book...maybe Groklaw or something, eh?
This is fantastic entertainment!!!!:-)))))
Really...religion is more dangerous than any gun, or pistol, or any death ray gun that we'll ever create. Whip on over to http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/harm.html to see what religion does. Out of the millions of gamers, statistically how many are the cause of deaths, and now religion??? Yeah, the "Fundy's" win by a long shot! Excuse the tasteless pun.