Re:can anyone tell me a single compelling reason..
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You'll either need to upgrade or risk having your machine be easily exploitable.
i think you're right, but it should be "even more easily exploitable than if you kept it up to date with ms patches".. and with the obvious new issue of them letting through their newly acquired spyware software.
this is why im moving to linux for internet use. windows is only going to become -worse- for 'average joe' not better.
can anyone tell me a single compelling reason...
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When people talk of Free Software, at least on Slashdot and other technical communities, they are usually referring to the freedom to do whatever you want with the code. They are not usually referring to the price.
then they should stop using the words "free software" that way. its confusing.
it makes me instantly suspicious that its the age old tendancy of technical people to try and make their field even more obscure and inpenetrable than it already is.
i agree that demos were often art, and the routines used as art.. but the difficulty wasnt the artistic part.. necessarily, anyway. it was using maths and so forth to make cool looking/expressive/emotional things for the viewer, as well as to impress.
i dont really agree that using ASM = art because they had to innovate and be imaginative. that doesnt really ring true. on the same token, i think there is still potential for people to make digital art using opengl or directx. i know some professional artists have been using such things for a long time.. without any programming skills of their OWN at all.
well there are a finite number of braincells and possible connections thereof. so there is a physical limit. i agree that its probably not possible to max it out in a lifetime. the guy who they based "rainman" on hasnt run out yet.
i recommend this movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/
it hasnt got cliche's and its PG so safe for kids too.
watch it with the japanese dialogue and use subtitles. it really makes a difference to the feel.. it would be spoilt with the cheesy u.s voice actors audio track.
a good question.
ill wager those 5.25" disks are thoroughly dead from bitrot anyway, and indeed most 3.5" copies anyone might have.
under "fair use" you have every right to download and use an 'abandonware' copy of a game you legally own.
not to mention every ethical right in the world, too.
i agree with most of what you say, but its more a case of them mismanaging freeview than a technical issue (apart from the text, which is always going to be crap on digital)
analogue radio has a lot of 'compression' of the musical range, so its probably still worse than DAB, depending on what you're listening to.
ironically, the digital radio on freeview is of a higher quality than DAB.
the uk shut-off date for analogue tv is 2010 (optimistic)
we pay a huge annual licence fee to watch tv (£116). so people who are using analogue arent getting the full value for what theyve already paid for. a certain large supermarket sells a digital terrestrial STB now for £34.80.
providing they make sure everyone can receive terrestrial digital ok (assuming they could get analogue already, that is) they could bring that date forward, by giving anyone on a low income a rebate to buy a STB.
most people who are registered blind can see SOMETHING.. although only a percentage will be able to see anything useful at all on a screen, no matter how zoomed each character is
this was in '97.
one bit of advice i can give is to make it so blind AND sighted people can use it. this is important because often the blind user will need to be taught to use it, and another blind user isnt always available/ideal for teaching another blind user (depending).
i turn that crap off in XP.
why would i want my menus to fade in and out, on my super-fast computer... i want them to appear and disappear INSTANTLY.
if you ever used an amiga 1200 with a 256 colour desktop, you never want to watch your UI slowly drawing itself again.
many live cd linuxes stuck at 60hz refresh......
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guess people have weird priorities in the linux world.
adding bloat and gimmicks isnt fixing the user friendliness problems.
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You'll either need to upgrade or risk having your machine be easily exploitable. i think you're right, but it should be "even more easily exploitable than if you kept it up to date with ms patches".. and with the obvious new issue of them letting through their newly acquired spyware software. this is why im moving to linux for internet use. windows is only going to become -worse- for 'average joe' not better.
why joe average user would want or need longhorn?
id get robbed of that stuff in under 30 minutes
oh wait.
When people talk of Free Software, at least on Slashdot and other technical communities, they are usually referring to the freedom to do whatever you want with the code. They are not usually referring to the price. then they should stop using the words "free software" that way. its confusing. it makes me instantly suspicious that its the age old tendancy of technical people to try and make their field even more obscure and inpenetrable than it already is.
i dont think that's true
i agree that demos were often art, and the routines used as art.. but the difficulty wasnt the artistic part.. necessarily, anyway. it was using maths and so forth to make cool looking/expressive/emotional things for the viewer, as well as to impress. i dont really agree that using ASM = art because they had to innovate and be imaginative. that doesnt really ring true. on the same token, i think there is still potential for people to make digital art using opengl or directx. i know some professional artists have been using such things for a long time.. without any programming skills of their OWN at all.
you can get OLD mahogany, just not new mahogany. it is expensive, obviously.
instead, ill make do with my current tech for as long as it takes. thanks
well there are a finite number of braincells and possible connections thereof. so there is a physical limit. i agree that its probably not possible to max it out in a lifetime. the guy who they based "rainman" on hasnt run out yet.
then they`ll find out the true meaning of 'cyber-terrorism'
also, can all the deluded shareware authors stop categorizing crippleware, nagware, shareware, demoware etc as freeware. thanks!
it might be the low density of the data on those disks. eventually the damage is going to accumulate to make them unreadable.
i recommend this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/ it hasnt got cliche's and its PG so safe for kids too. watch it with the japanese dialogue and use subtitles. it really makes a difference to the feel.. it would be spoilt with the cheesy u.s voice actors audio track.
a good question. ill wager those 5.25" disks are thoroughly dead from bitrot anyway, and indeed most 3.5" copies anyone might have. under "fair use" you have every right to download and use an 'abandonware' copy of a game you legally own. not to mention every ethical right in the world, too.
you need DOSBOX http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
i agree with most of what you say, but its more a case of them mismanaging freeview than a technical issue (apart from the text, which is always going to be crap on digital) analogue radio has a lot of 'compression' of the musical range, so its probably still worse than DAB, depending on what you're listening to. ironically, the digital radio on freeview is of a higher quality than DAB.
the uk shut-off date for analogue tv is 2010 (optimistic) we pay a huge annual licence fee to watch tv (£116). so people who are using analogue arent getting the full value for what theyve already paid for. a certain large supermarket sells a digital terrestrial STB now for £34.80. providing they make sure everyone can receive terrestrial digital ok (assuming they could get analogue already, that is) they could bring that date forward, by giving anyone on a low income a rebate to buy a STB.
not to mention the morse coders have a nice simple switch... the thumb typers have crappy little buttons and a slow cellphone OS to contend with
most people who are registered blind can see SOMETHING .. although only a percentage will be able to see anything useful at all on a screen, no matter how zoomed each character is
this was in '97. one bit of advice i can give is to make it so blind AND sighted people can use it. this is important because often the blind user will need to be taught to use it, and another blind user isnt always available/ideal for teaching another blind user (depending).
i turn that crap off in XP. why would i want my menus to fade in and out, on my super-fast computer... i want them to appear and disappear INSTANTLY. if you ever used an amiga 1200 with a 256 colour desktop, you never want to watch your UI slowly drawing itself again.
guess people have weird priorities in the linux world. adding bloat and gimmicks isnt fixing the user friendliness problems.
"may seepeeyou iz ay newral ned prooozezzor... a laaarning compooota"
if microsoft came out with some claim that windowsCE 'made' some new phone have great power efficiency, people wouldve been all over it laughing.