I'm guessing this wasn't the only thing that pushed him over the edge, more of the last stroke in a "death of 1000 cuts" scenario that I see played out with others.
Here Here, this is exactly the same reason I don't use linux at home anymore.. I want to spend my time actually doing things with my computers, not spending all my time trying to get things to work so that I can do things with my comptuer.
Yeah linux is "free" (as in speech not beer, BTW I totally agree with the comment eariler that "linux is only free to those who think their time is worthless"), but I can use just about any F/OSS tools on my macs that I have ever needed to. And besides the "NON-F/OSS" tools on the mac are just... more useful.
which Really is quite Nice in the tablet PC. actually using one Right Now. it is Rather Slow to work this way. although you Really have to watch your handwriting..(came out "B old Wily") the first time.
Speaking of DRM, if it gets the Music companies to open up their libaries of music for download at a fee, most of M$ customers would call that a win.
How many home users have ever read a EULA or even know they have agreed to an EULA when then umpack and boot up their new computer with a pre-installed M$ OS? How many home users even care?
Consider closed API's.. how many home users care? Most non-technial home users couldn't tell you what an API is to save their life, let alone care if it is closed or open source? Also M$ products generally just work, if I want the newest version of some app I download an installer and run it, and BANG I got my new app. Linux I am almost always hunting down some lib version conflict.
The point is that most problems with M$ products are Legal or Technical in nature, things that the home-user/non-techinal community don't care about.
At my home, M$ is outnumbered by Linux 2:1, but my primary "user-interface" is Windows XP on a IBM laptop. Why? Technical reasons: Mozilla runs better. X is SLOW. my USB cdrom burner works with out any problems. I don't have to think about how, I just do.
Is this laptop as secure as it could be? Probably not, (better with mozilla as my mail client rather than Outlook Express or Outlook) but it's easy.
Do I love my linux boxes? YES!! It is a supreme OS, but tech people tend to forget how non-technical most people are.
And I am not saying that Windows is easier to install than Linux, Installing Linux is FAR easier to setup them Windows. But its useing the OS after the install, the common tasks that Linux needs to improve on to be a home-user non-technical OS. If that is really what we want?
I totally agree. When I was watching the premier with a group of friends we all picked up on both the "whiteness" and the lack of gay/etc. in all the Treks. Granted there was that Dax thing on DS9, But you'd think that there would be at least a couple more. We haven't seen any real character development, but I hope that THIS Trek has the balls to put a couple gay folks in this one!
Plus when you look at the bridge crew of the TOS you had: a white captain AND a Russian , an Asian, a black woman, and a alien. Common! Even in TNG you had a android, a black man, a woman security officer, and a klingon running around. Why not a gay guy or two??
Financially the movie was a disaster, I would be very supprised if anything came out of hollywood now a days that had even a passing introduction to the thoughful introspection that Contact embraces. Just take a look a Lost In Space, in a movie with so many options, so many opprotunities to examine life, we end up with eye candy. In my opinion it shows more about people than anything else. Seems that the vast majority of people, don't really want to think and complain when they are introduce to something that would expand thier horizions. This is what happend to EDtv. If R.H. had made the movie that J.K. suggested it would have been a terminal flop and been gone in a week. Just my 0.2 cents Christian
Just wanted to say that Heather you are so right..I have spent most of my life in attorneys offices and I can tell you if there is a bootleg copy it will never see the light of day...that movie is worth upwords up 200-300 million dollars...my than enough money to get all the attorneys drooling..
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Exactly it isn't WHO he is. Rather it's WHY he did it.
I'm guessing this wasn't the only thing that pushed him over the edge, more of the last stroke in a "death of 1000 cuts" scenario that I see played out with others.
Here Here, this is exactly the same reason I don't use linux at home anymore.. I want to spend my time actually doing things with my computers, not spending all my time trying to get things to work so that I can do things with my comptuer.
Yeah linux is "free" (as in speech not beer, BTW I totally agree with the comment eariler that "linux is only free to those who think their time is worthless"), but I can use just about any F/OSS tools on my macs that I have ever needed to. And besides the "NON-F/OSS" tools on the mac are just... more useful.
Yes, Gay....Meaning better..
Use MS ONEnote.
which Really is quite Nice in the tablet PC. actually using one Right Now. it is Rather Slow to work this way. although you Really have to watch your handwriting..(came out "B old Wily") the first time.
Speaking of DRM, if it gets the Music companies to open up their libaries of music for download at a fee, most of M$ customers would call that a win. How many home users have ever read a EULA or even know they have agreed to an EULA when then umpack and boot up their new computer with a pre-installed M$ OS? How many home users even care? Consider closed API's.. how many home users care? Most non-technial home users couldn't tell you what an API is to save their life, let alone care if it is closed or open source?
Also M$ products generally just work, if I want the newest version of some app I download an installer and run it, and BANG I got my new app. Linux I am almost always hunting down some lib version conflict.
The point is that most problems with M$ products are Legal or Technical in nature, things that the home-user/non-techinal community don't care about. At my home, M$ is outnumbered by Linux 2:1, but my primary "user-interface" is Windows XP on a IBM laptop. Why?
Technical reasons:
Mozilla runs better.
X is SLOW.
my USB cdrom burner works with out any problems. I don't have to think about how, I just do.
Is this laptop as secure as it could be? Probably not, (better with mozilla as my mail client rather than Outlook Express or Outlook) but it's easy. Do I love my linux boxes? YES!! It is a supreme OS, but tech people tend to forget how non-technical most people are.
And I am not saying that Windows is easier to install than Linux, Installing Linux is FAR easier to setup them Windows. But its useing the OS after the install, the common tasks that Linux needs to improve on to be a home-user non-technical OS. If that is really what we want?
I totally agree. When I was watching the premier with a group of friends we all picked up on both the "whiteness" and the lack of gay/etc. in all the Treks. Granted there was that Dax thing on DS9, But you'd think that there would be at least a couple more. We haven't seen any real character development, but I hope that THIS Trek has the balls to put a couple gay folks in this one!
Plus when you look at the bridge crew of the TOS you had: a white captain AND a Russian , an Asian, a black woman, and a alien. Common! Even in TNG you had a android, a black man, a woman security officer, and a klingon running around. Why not a gay guy or two??
Just my two cents.
Financially the movie was a disaster, I would be very supprised if anything came out of hollywood now a days that had even a passing introduction to the thoughful introspection that Contact embraces. Just take a look a Lost In Space, in a movie with so many options, so many opprotunities to examine life, we end up with eye candy. In my opinion it shows more about people than anything else. Seems that the vast majority of people, don't really want to think and complain when they are introduce to something that would expand thier horizions. This is what happend to EDtv. If R.H. had made the movie that J.K. suggested it would have been a terminal flop and been gone in a week. Just my 0.2 cents Christian
Just wanted to say that Heather you are so right..I have spent most of my life in attorneys offices and I can tell you if there is a bootleg copy it will never see the light of day...that movie is worth upwords up 200-300 million dollars...my than enough money to get all the attorneys drooling..