The fact that you refer to people who "click 'ok' on all the addons their favourite 'free' download site suggests" as "douchehats" is precisely why the rest of the world thinks IT heads are assholes. And the rest of the world is right to think so. This applies to all your other examples.
So let me rephrase your conclusion:
If you are unable to help and educate your users, your customers, or your students, if you are not willing to make your software, your service or product or whatever it is you provide friendly to non-expert, then my self-righteous friend you should get out of your field and get a fucking factory job, because you are the problem.
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Starting an argument by claiming that "iTunes is an average music player," then linking to an alternative that looks like a pixel-for-pixel rip-off of said application is a very poor way to make a point. Seriously.
The only "real" advantage I see here is support for Vorbis, and even still -- the reality is that 99.99% of users do not care -- or even know what it is, for that matter.
And as for Amarok... I don't know how much "sexy" there was in there previously, but if I was willing to put up with this sort of mess, I wouldn't be using a mac in the first place. A for effort, but I think I'll stick with iTunes, thanks...
It absolutely is. The third comment below TFA is actually more insightful than the article itself, I quoth (emphasis mine):
Jack Crow 6 Oct 2008 at 6:46 pm PST
"Still, a lot of people are playing it, both out of curiosity and because it has quite a few converts. Why are so many excited? Because it's new? That can't completely account for it; there are plenty of new games, and if they're bad, the novelty wears off quickly."
Most players are on their 3rd or more MMO. Do people just ignore failures as if they were never part of gaming history? Shadowbane persists YEARS later and didn't see a player exodus until the the bonus characters were unlocked, 6 months later. You can't sit atop a tower 20 days later and declare a game has a special draw because it's no longer "new". It's following the standard MMO pattern, in that, the release sees a subscriber datapoint larger than the beta-testing pool. Way to break the mold. The draw is that it is the newest and still has not shown whether or not it will be supported in a way that retains customers. EVERY person I know (3+me) has decided NOT to renew, or not bothered to purchase it at all after witnessing the gameplay, how's that for anecdotal data? It's not worth arguing many of the ideas presented in this article, as they are essentially excerpts from that say "it's unknown so it's good", which is the newest failure of online reviewing.
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The fact that you refer to people who "click 'ok' on all the addons their favourite 'free' download site suggests" as "douchehats" is precisely why the rest of the world thinks IT heads are assholes. And the rest of the world is right to think so. This applies to all your other examples.
So let me rephrase your conclusion:
If you are unable to help and educate your users, your customers, or your students, if you are not willing to make your software, your service or product or whatever it is you provide friendly to non-expert, then my self-righteous friend you should get out of your field and get a fucking factory job, because you are the problem.
No, we get a bunch of autistic monkeys instead.
Expect a statement from renowned scientists and vaccine experts Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carey soon.
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Starting an argument by claiming that "iTunes is an average music player," then linking to an alternative that looks like a pixel-for-pixel rip-off of said application is a very poor way to make a point. Seriously.
The only "real" advantage I see here is support for Vorbis, and even still -- the reality is that 99.99% of users do not care -- or even know what it is, for that matter.
And as for Amarok... I don't know how much "sexy" there was in there previously, but if I was willing to put up with this sort of mess, I wouldn't be using a mac in the first place. A for effort, but I think I'll stick with iTunes, thanks...
Zing, end of debate. Next article please!
I used to come to slashdot for the summaries. Then the community grew and it was the comments that drew me here. But now, I just come for the tags.
You folks crack me up.
I don't see what the big deal is, I've been downloading stuff "legally" for years...
Is Lucas trying to make a point?
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I hope so anyways. The originals look like crapola compared to the new releases:
http://www.starwars.com/episode-v/release/video/f
Don't let your childhood memories of these movie cloud your judgement... let's stop whining and be glad that he could afford to go back and fix them!
if I had points I would mod you +1 insightful.
Thank you.