I have my firefox aranged where I've dropped the google search on the bookmarks toolbar and then have that toolbar disabled, the bookmarks is on the navigation toolbar, of which I have plenty o' room.
Whether or not organized religion is clearly based on lies is a different issue.
My point is that, while everyone on here shows off how much they learned as a result of their privileged backgroudns, it must be acknowledged (as you have) that these laws and theories don't really provide any significant answers and solutions to life's questions.
Wow things have really improved in the last 100 years thanks to that theory.
"It took so long to finally realize...all our hopes are based on such gross lies
Progress, progress it's a pleasant myth "
-Progress, Mission of Burma
Now I want to preempt the inevitable anti-religous replies by saying, yes I know that "religion" has contributed to a great deal of tragedy in the world.
Incidently I am also aware of plenty of experts in Physics who are also extremely religous.
That doesn't mean I am saying that this theory shouldn't be taught, nor am I saying that intelligent design need be taught.
I am saying that the natural sciences are thus far quite incomplete in serving Man.
If their priority is making money for their shareholders (which it seems to be) surely they have the power to make it legal?
Realistically though, upsetting their conservative customer base might outweigh the benefits of selling pot in between their cigarettes and alcohol.
Linux is all about choice. I can choose my windows manager/desktop, I can choose from lots of different shells I can edit and modify my applications to behave exactly like I want them. I just can't choose the video card I want.
I don't think you know what you're talking about.
-Walmart seems to have low prices and make a lot of money.
-Businesses aren't making anything off the selling of pot now, so the current high prices are irrelavant.
It's a bit easier to have a switch campaign when the investment might be $200 instead of the cost of replacing a lot of hardware, plus people still don't intuitively get the concept "sunk costs" (so no need for the inevitable mac mini post)
We've all had scores of friends and family with massive spyware/virus infestiations - those people are in a very good position to switch.
I haven't ever owned a Mac or even played with one much. But they look fun.
Nobody on here knows what's going to happen, that's for certain. It seems clear that there's a lot of money to be made if one could wrestle some of the Pay-For-OS market share from Microsoft.
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..price is right.
Merge records is now on emusic.com, there is so much good stuff on emusic at the momement now it's insane. Average price of song is like.20 so you have no problem making the jump to buy the whole album, especially if you are a band focused fan of music and not a song focused fan of music.
As far as your abritrary "albums only" lifestyle, that is pure preference - all my favorite bands are able to make a complete record, but I still listen on shuffle 99% of the time.
Finally many bands traditionally have started out with EPs of 3 or 4 songs because even in the pre d/l days, there was an understanding that you needed to start on the scene with those emphasis tracks.
I do virtually all my listening on my ipod with my grado headphones, I get all the fidelity I need with that rig.
At least the hackers know this is an issue. I guess I'm sure that they know exactly what the ideal is.
I am just not optimistic that without more capitalism that the linux desktop will ever penetrate. Maybe the evolution will continue and in a few years it will be like "this is the real deal" free and easy and there will be critical mass.
I want to believe in Linux, I can sense the robustness and simple, elegent software writing that is going on, even if I know nothing about programming. I like the idea of free software.
But to get anything done it is just too hard for less knowledgeable users such as myself.
For example, I was very excited by Ubuntu as it finally seemed to be the "real deal" as far as easily adding software and a simple UI. But I wanted to have essential software for example like a Real Audio player and a DVD ripper. I thought I'd found the answer with www.ubuntuguide.org. And yet the DVD ripper settings were extremely complicated, and Real Audio simply didn't load.
Now Linspire supposedly has everything like this ready to go out of the box, but I want to be able to add other software easily, not be limited to one minor distribution.
Until Linux become more simple to use, and more *easily* compatible with existing hardware, I just don't think people are going to think paying $100 per box for windows is a big deal.
Thus the reason why I am so excited about all of this change, with a head-to-head OS fight, it would be very hard for MS resist engaging in obvious monopolistic moves (predatory pricing, etc)
With a hardware battle the few Apple benefits of apple hardware gets adopted by mainstream manufacturers.
It's not all about product costs, dell's box stuffing process is a business model that hasn't been able to be replicated by anybody else. So they would certainly have higher full absorption margins than apple would - even if they all use the same intel motherboards and processors.
There certainly is an industrial design gap, and in a head-to-head battle apple would fight on that front plus they'd try to continue to differenciate on "features" (which would be a tough sell), plus they'd make the case that there is better "compatibility" because the HW and SW are designed in harmony.
Dell's computers 'don't have cheap components that wear out after a year or two.'
it isn't difficult to identify each brand of component in those boxes (primarily the intel motherboard and processors) - they are all perfectly fine. The chasis on the optiplex line are my favorite of any other PC chasis.
Even if you use a $55 fry's motherboard and AMD chip combo in a PC it isn't going to "wear out" at all -- welcome to the solid state era!
This shows a complete lack of business background.
It isn't inherrently more profitable to sell higher-end goods.
Dell just knows that they would blow apple away in a head-to-head raw PC hardware battle.
Also, the guts of dells and apples are likely to be quite similar in the not too distant future.
I'm sure I'll still have apple lust though.
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I tried Ubuntu Live on a more up-to-date machine today and it performed well, couldn't get my wifi card working. I'd love it if there were fewer distros and more centers of ready-to-go packages.
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woops choose HTML formatted instead of plain.
lost some credibility there.
it's only my 4th post on/. though
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I got a PCjr when I was 8 years old and I've been on the DOS/Windows platform since.
I installed redhat and suse a couple of times a couple of summers ago and I have to say that it performed slowly versus the win 98 se I was running on old 450-800 mhz boxes. Maybe I didn't have enough ram I don't know.
What was very difficult was adding software that wasn't part of the original distribution. I guess that's the idea is that the distribution should have everything you need in it? I don't know I may be an idiot.
I am still very intrigued by linux, but I figure that if I can get over my head (e.g. I have no idea how to compile something) it may not work for a lot of the so called power windows users (and I know more about computing than you'd think)
Maybe for people more experienced or less experienced than I - linux is great.
Another thing is that the UI seems very derivitave of Windows and inconsistent. I'd like to see someone really create something special that really draws people in.
Anyway...
Why was that considered a troll? I'm responding to a condescending implication that the overwhelming majority of intel based PCs are thrown together crap.
Shame on you slashdot moderaters... shame on you!
Yes and those computers will actually *increase* in value, as the supply of *real* Macs diminishes - we will come full circle back to the $10K Macs of yore.
The myth that Apple Corporation has some sort of brilliant hardware engineering competency is over. It's the pretty industrial design and intuitive software that's their strength.
I love your implication that there is some sort of secret thing apple corporation knows about "motherboard design" that nobody else knows.
Intel designs motherboards with intel chipsets and auxilary processors for intel CPUs and they are great. If you aren't interested in gaming you'll also have an intel video adapter on there too - do you think they are just throwing crap together or don't know how to handle Intel processors as well as Apple?
Apple doesn't need to design or manufacture any of the hardware at all, other than the inevitable beautful chasis.
Whether or not Apple Corp restricts their operating system will not be an engineering or technological barrier, it will be an arbitrary one.
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I have my firefox aranged where I've dropped the google search on the bookmarks toolbar and then have that toolbar disabled, the bookmarks is on the navigation toolbar, of which I have plenty o' room.
Whether or not organized religion is clearly based on lies is a different issue.
My point is that, while everyone on here shows off how much they learned as a result of their privileged backgroudns, it must be acknowledged (as you have) that these laws and theories don't really provide any significant answers and solutions to life's questions.
They've extended rich nations people's lives a few years and have increased the amount of pr0n available.
No, they have done a lot, but they are QUITE IMCOMPLETE in serving man - they certainly have not offered a complete solution to life.
And yet things were going so brilliantly in the preceding years until he came and messed everything up.
Also, maybe you should read the post you are replying to before you reply.
Wow things have really improved in the last 100 years thanks to that theory.
...all our hopes are based on such gross lies
"It took so long to finally realize
Progress, progress it's a pleasant myth "
-Progress, Mission of Burma
Now I want to preempt the inevitable anti-religous replies by saying, yes I know that "religion" has contributed to a great deal of tragedy in the world.
Incidently I am also aware of plenty of experts in Physics who are also extremely religous.
That doesn't mean I am saying that this theory shouldn't be taught, nor am I saying that intelligent design need be taught.
I am saying that the natural sciences are thus far quite incomplete in serving Man.
If their priority is making money for their shareholders (which it seems to be) surely they have the power to make it legal? Realistically though, upsetting their conservative customer base might outweigh the benefits of selling pot in between their cigarettes and alcohol.
Linux is all about choice. I can choose my windows manager/desktop, I can choose from lots of different shells I can edit and modify my applications to behave exactly like I want them. I just can't choose the video card I want.
This is a red herring.
I don't think you know what you're talking about. -Walmart seems to have low prices and make a lot of money. -Businesses aren't making anything off the selling of pot now, so the current high prices are irrelavant.
It's a bit easier to have a switch campaign when the investment might be $200 instead of the cost of replacing a lot of hardware, plus people still don't intuitively get the concept "sunk costs" (so no need for the inevitable mac mini post)
We've all had scores of friends and family with massive spyware/virus infestiations - those people are in a very good position to switch.
I haven't ever owned a Mac or even played with one much. But they look fun.
Nobody on here knows what's going to happen, that's for certain. It seems clear that there's a lot of money to be made if one could wrestle some of the Pay-For-OS market share from Microsoft.
Ah yes the sense of humor
*YRO:
How the Mandatory Free Hard Core Pr0n Everywhere Act(MFHCPEA) isn't going far enough.
..price is right. Merge records is now on emusic.com, there is so much good stuff on emusic at the momement now it's insane. Average price of song is like .20 so you have no problem making the jump to buy the whole album, especially if you are a band focused fan of music and not a song focused fan of music.
As far as your abritrary "albums only" lifestyle, that is pure preference - all my favorite bands are able to make a complete record, but I still listen on shuffle 99% of the time.
Finally many bands traditionally have started out with EPs of 3 or 4 songs because even in the pre d/l days, there was an understanding that you needed to start on the scene with those emphasis tracks.
I do virtually all my listening on my ipod with my grado headphones, I get all the fidelity I need with that rig.
At least the hackers know this is an issue. I guess I'm sure that they know exactly what the ideal is.
I am just not optimistic that without more capitalism that the linux desktop will ever penetrate. Maybe the evolution will continue and in a few years it will be like "this is the real deal" free and easy and there will be critical mass.
I am afraid OS X is the only hope.
I want to believe in Linux, I can sense the robustness and simple, elegent software writing that is going on, even if I know nothing about programming. I like the idea of free software.
But to get anything done it is just too hard for less knowledgeable users such as myself.
For example, I was very excited by Ubuntu as it finally seemed to be the "real deal" as far as easily adding software and a simple UI. But I wanted to have essential software for example like a Real Audio player and a DVD ripper. I thought I'd found the answer with www.ubuntuguide.org. And yet the DVD ripper settings were extremely complicated, and Real Audio simply didn't load.
Now Linspire supposedly has everything like this ready to go out of the box, but I want to be able to add other software easily, not be limited to one minor distribution.
Until Linux become more simple to use, and more *easily* compatible with existing hardware, I just don't think people are going to think paying $100 per box for windows is a big deal.
Thus the reason why I am so excited about all of this change, with a head-to-head OS fight, it would be very hard for MS resist engaging in obvious monopolistic moves (predatory pricing, etc) With a hardware battle the few Apple benefits of apple hardware gets adopted by mainstream manufacturers.
It's not all about product costs, dell's box stuffing process is a business model that hasn't been able to be replicated by anybody else. So they would certainly have higher full absorption margins than apple would - even if they all use the same intel motherboards and processors.
There certainly is an industrial design gap, and in a head-to-head battle apple would fight on that front plus they'd try to continue to differenciate on "features" (which would be a tough sell), plus they'd make the case that there is better "compatibility" because the HW and SW are designed in harmony.
How is this a "2!"
Dell's computers 'don't have cheap components that wear out after a year or two.'
it isn't difficult to identify each brand of component in those boxes (primarily the intel motherboard and processors) - they are all perfectly fine. The chasis on the optiplex line are my favorite of any other PC chasis.
Even if you use a $55 fry's motherboard and AMD chip combo in a PC it isn't going to "wear out" at all -- welcome to the solid state era!
This shows a complete lack of business background. It isn't inherrently more profitable to sell higher-end goods. Dell just knows that they would blow apple away in a head-to-head raw PC hardware battle. Also, the guts of dells and apples are likely to be quite similar in the not too distant future. I'm sure I'll still have apple lust though.
I tried Ubuntu Live on a more up-to-date machine today and it performed well, couldn't get my wifi card working. I'd love it if there were fewer distros and more centers of ready-to-go packages.
woops choose HTML formatted instead of plain.
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lost some credibility there.
it's only my 4th post on
I got a PCjr when I was 8 years old and I've been on the DOS/Windows platform since. I installed redhat and suse a couple of times a couple of summers ago and I have to say that it performed slowly versus the win 98 se I was running on old 450-800 mhz boxes. Maybe I didn't have enough ram I don't know. What was very difficult was adding software that wasn't part of the original distribution. I guess that's the idea is that the distribution should have everything you need in it? I don't know I may be an idiot. I am still very intrigued by linux, but I figure that if I can get over my head (e.g. I have no idea how to compile something) it may not work for a lot of the so called power windows users (and I know more about computing than you'd think) Maybe for people more experienced or less experienced than I - linux is great. Another thing is that the UI seems very derivitave of Windows and inconsistent. I'd like to see someone really create something special that really draws people in. Anyway...
Why was that considered a troll? I'm responding to a condescending implication that the overwhelming majority of intel based PCs are thrown together crap. Shame on you slashdot moderaters... shame on you!
Yes and those computers will actually *increase* in value, as the supply of *real* Macs diminishes - we will come full circle back to the $10K Macs of yore.
The myth that Apple Corporation has some sort of brilliant hardware engineering competency is over. It's the pretty industrial design and intuitive software that's their strength.
I love your implication that there is some sort of secret thing apple corporation knows about "motherboard design" that nobody else knows.
Intel designs motherboards with intel chipsets and auxilary processors for intel CPUs and they are great. If you aren't interested in gaming you'll also have an intel video adapter on there too - do you think they are just throwing crap together or don't know how to handle Intel processors as well as Apple?
Apple doesn't need to design or manufacture any of the hardware at all, other than the inevitable beautful chasis.
Whether or not Apple Corp restricts their operating system will not be an engineering or technological barrier, it will be an arbitrary one.