I hope patent trolling accelerates to such a point that the US law makers will be forced to confront their stupid decision & rectify it sooner rather than later.
"Although Kilobyte's post may have been a bit exaggerated, I agree that compared to Fedora, Debian and even Suse, Ubuntu can end up shockingly unstable after a while"
See this is the confusing thing for potential Linux users confronted with all these contradictory anecdotal claims.
I've seen lots of people saying unkind things about Fedora & swearing on their mothers grave that Ubuntu is way better...
Ley me get this straight... it's leaking HIGHLY explosive hydrazine & they're planning on firing EXPLOSIVE charges to lower the landing gear... hmmmm....
"Game editor tools are not important, nobody bothers to standardize so they're ad-hoc and recreated from scratch for every new game, and it shows in the results, with overly complicated and extremely user-hostile tools that are basically unusual for someone who simply wants to do what they have to do."
Agree with all your points but the above really touched anervein me... it's the disease of many programmers... reinventing the f**king wheel... same phenomenom plagues Linux distro's... progress is so slow of this same mentality.
"One or two phones in a single airplane shouldn't cause much of a problem"
Look dickhead,
1) Aircraft contain many radio based navigation systems that are vital for getting said craft safely from point a to point b. 2) Cell phones are essentially radios.
Having a bunch of jerks toting uncontrolled radio transmitters inside an aircraft is Not A Good Thing (TM), beleive me...
"Take for example Black Books. That is by far the funniest show in the history of mankind,..."
Let's not forget 'Father Ted' another delightfully quircky comedy about three misfit irish priests stuck on some crag in the irish sea someplace.:)
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Quake marked the beginning of the downhill slide.
The emphasis went from originality, game play & fun design to emphasis on underlying graphics technologies... BORING!
This unfortunately set the tone for the next decade plus... all the promotion & marketing for games is constantly whining & harping on about about pixel this & pipleline that... BORING! BORING! BORING! BORING!
I am sick of downloading packages from weird websites, version conflicts, and typing this stupid and overly long command into the shell over and over, hoping - nay, praying - that RPM won't spit out another conflict error this time. YUM seems tacked on, and I've never gotten it to work properly."
AAAAAAAAmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnn to that brother, I hear ya!
Complex & Fragile package management & Arcane system directory layout are what drove me away from Linux. I eneded up spending just as much time maintaining the system as I did on Windows because of these problems.
"Once Linux (globally) accepts the OSX style application installer..."
Typical of Linux there actually _IS_ hehe:)
It's a distro that emulates the OSX fat binary style of packaging along with (also mac like) a rationalised file system layout that makes sense to mere mortals. It's called Gobo Linux (http://www.gobolinux.org/).
Typical of Linux, all other distros ignore this innovation & continue with their own individual psychoticaly complex packaging schemes instead.
Also typical of Linux the Gobolinux maintainer has adopted a puritanical aversion to not including _ANYTHING_ that isn't open source thereby guaranteeing this distro will wither into obscurity...
swich to something better, nobody is forceing you to use microsoft's product "
Well actually we _are_ being forced to use M$ pretty much.
The M$ company has acheived an almost 100% monopoly through glossy marketing and predatory business practices. Hardware manufacturers are coerced into preinstalling nothing but M$. M$'s monopoly business software is deliberately engineered to have undocumented file formats to frutrate attempts to work with them on anything _but_ M$ software. The peripherals manufacturers now almost invariably provide nothing but M$ compatible device drivers & refuse to provide documentation to enable porting of their drivers to any other architecture.
I run a small international company. I am foraed to use M$'s OS & ome of it's apps because we have so little _real_ choice.
*Take note, I am talking about choice in the business sense, not as in the sitting in my mothers back bedroom pontificating type choice, ok?
Firstly it's obvious after a decade that this has game _NOT_ been in development.
Secondly the companies/[eople responsible for this situation squandered a great opportunity.
Lots of folks (me included) found the cheeky, irreverent & slightly racy tone of this game to be a refreshing change from the deadly serious juvenile stuff that was around at the time. DNF's big contribution was it injected _FUN_ into the gaming experience. Sadly missed...
"or will Windows One Care just be another facet of the continuing Windows problem?"
Ahahahahaha! No NO! NO!!
Windows One Care is just another facet of the continuing to extract money from 'The Market' [TM]
Dontcha understand?????!!!
The people who run this company are _cold_hearted_business_people_ not some software developers lovingly crafting an inspried new idea into a cool app.
They bludgeoned their way into a monopoly & they will fight every way they can to retain it.
" Does anybody else here think that the thought should have been: "How do we fix this for our customers?" MS is clearly not thinking of benefitting the customer but only how to enrich themselves from their own mistakes "
Agree 100%.
This company prospers only through heavy marketing & viciously predatory business conduct.
They are the worst example of commercial software - flashy, buggy, defective by design & built in obsolescence.
Somebody mod this up! The poster is absolutely correct!
Thus far our household & business has been forced by necessity of hardware driver support to keep upgrading Windows versions, but this DRM/TPM crap in Vista is way too much for us to choke down.
We are not pirates, we just demand the right to do what we like with our machines & our media. There is _ZERO_ chance we will be gradually forced into a renting software as a service from Microsoft, no way!
We'll stick at XP & slowly migrate our PC's to a Linux or BSD over the next coupe of years.
One of the few things the monopolist os has always had going for it was wide & often almost exclusive hardware support.
If they lose that then they are in trouble because there are other alternatives nipping at there heels.
I remember being a strong proponent of IBM's OS/2 2.0 but when I saw how finicky it was about hardware & then trying a _beta_ of Windows 95 that installed on the same boxes without a hitch I knew it was the superior hardware support of Win95 that would win the day.
"Creative says that the iPod and iPod Nano infringe on a patent the company has for the interface in its Zen media player, a patent granted last August"
"One fellow even went as far as pushing that to the reasonable limit by showing up to work every day for several months in a bathrobe and sandals (and shorts). I don't recall a word ever being said. I think he actually just gave up because no one said anything"
Man that really brought a smile to my face!
Gotta love human nature eh? Some asshole _always_ has to push the enelope on rules he he:)
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You no longer have to be a M$ hater, to see them for what they are.
Only the ignorant or paid schill's could continue to ignore the track record of this bloated monopolist.
I laugh with every new revelation of M$'s craptastic products.
I hope patent trolling accelerates to such a point that the US law makers will be forced to confront their stupid decision & rectify it sooner rather than later.
"Although Kilobyte's post may have been a bit exaggerated, I agree that compared to Fedora, Debian and even Suse, Ubuntu can end up shockingly unstable after a while"
See this is the confusing thing for potential Linux users confronted with all these contradictory anecdotal claims.
I've seen lots of people saying unkind things about Fedora & swearing on their mothers grave that Ubuntu is way better...
Who do you believe?
"...16,000 packages being useable with no release critial bugs for 11 architectures at the same time..."
Wow!
Now I can finally understand the cause of the glacial slowness of Debian progress.
I wonder how many folks actually need this...
Ley me get this straight... it's leaking HIGHLY explosive hydrazine & they're planning on firing EXPLOSIVE charges to lower the landing gear... hmmmm....
"Game editor tools are not important, nobody bothers to standardize so they're ad-hoc and recreated from scratch for every new game, and it shows in the results, with overly complicated and extremely user-hostile tools that are basically unusual for someone who simply wants to do what they have to do."
Agree with all your points but the above really touched anervein me... it's the disease of many programmers... reinventing the f**king wheel... same phenomenom plagues Linux distro's... progress is so slow of this same mentality.
it's academic wankery waffling on about switching cells etc when the most likely outcome is more probably a smoking cater, dickhead.
"One or two phones in a single airplane shouldn't cause much of a problem"
Look dickhead,
1) Aircraft contain many radio based navigation systems that are vital for getting said craft safely from point a to point b.
2) Cell phones are essentially radios.
Having a bunch of jerks toting uncontrolled radio transmitters inside an aircraft is Not A Good Thing (TM), beleive me...
"Take for example Black Books. That is by far the funniest show in the history of mankind,..."
:)
Let's not forget 'Father Ted' another delightfully quircky comedy about three misfit irish priests stuck on some crag in the irish sea someplace.
Quake marked the beginning of the downhill slide.
The emphasis went from originality, game play & fun design to emphasis on underlying graphics technologies... BORING!
This unfortunately set the tone for the next decade plus... all the promotion & marketing for games is constantly whining & harping on about about pixel this & pipleline that... BORING! BORING! BORING! BORING!
"Fix your package manager!
I am sick of downloading packages from weird websites, version conflicts, and typing this stupid and overly long command into the shell over and over, hoping - nay, praying - that RPM won't spit out another conflict error this time. YUM seems tacked on, and I've never gotten it to work properly."
AAAAAAAAmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnn to that brother, I hear ya!
Complex & Fragile package management & Arcane system directory layout are what drove me away from Linux.
I eneded up spending just as much time maintaining the system as I did on Windows because of these problems.
"Once Linux (globally) accepts the OSX style application installer..."
:)
Typical of Linux there actually _IS_ hehe
It's a distro that emulates the OSX fat binary style of packaging along with (also mac like) a rationalised file system layout that makes sense to mere mortals. It's called Gobo Linux (http://www.gobolinux.org/).
Typical of Linux, all other distros ignore this innovation & continue with their own individual psychoticaly complex packaging schemes instead.
Also typical of Linux the Gobolinux maintainer has adopted a puritanical aversion to not including _ANYTHING_ that isn't open source thereby guaranteeing this distro will wither into obscurity...
" RE:"And what can us consumers do about it?
swich to something better, nobody is forceing you to use microsoft's product "
Well actually we _are_ being forced to use M$ pretty much.
The M$ company has acheived an almost 100% monopoly through glossy marketing and predatory business practices.
Hardware manufacturers are coerced into preinstalling nothing but M$.
M$'s monopoly business software is deliberately engineered to have undocumented file formats to frutrate attempts to work with them on anything _but_ M$ software.
The peripherals manufacturers now almost invariably provide nothing but M$ compatible device drivers & refuse to provide documentation to enable porting of their drivers to any other architecture.
I run a small international company.
I am foraed to use M$'s OS & ome of it's apps because we have so little _real_ choice.
*Take note, I am talking about choice in the business sense, not as in the sitting in my mothers back bedroom pontificating type choice, ok?
Firstly it's obvious after a decade that this has game _NOT_ been in development.
Secondly the companies/[eople responsible for this situation squandered a great opportunity.
Lots of folks (me included) found the cheeky, irreverent & slightly racy tone of this game to be a refreshing change from the deadly serious juvenile stuff that was around at the time. DNF's big contribution was it injected _FUN_ into the gaming experience. Sadly missed...
"or will Windows One Care just be another facet of the continuing Windows problem?"
Ahahahahaha! No NO! NO!!
Windows One Care is just another facet of the continuing to extract money from 'The Market' [TM]
Dontcha understand?????!!!
The people who run this company are _cold_hearted_business_people_ not some software developers lovingly crafting an inspried new idea into a cool app.
They bludgeoned their way into a monopoly & they will fight every way they can to retain it.
" Does anybody else here think that the thought should have been: "How do we fix this for our customers?"
MS is clearly not thinking of benefitting the customer but only how to enrich themselves from their own mistakes "
Agree 100%.
This company prospers only through heavy marketing & viciously predatory business conduct.
They are the worst example of commercial software - flashy, buggy, defective by design & built in obsolescence.
I call BS on this.
This is just Micro$oft marketing softening us up for the big sell to purchase a band aid fix for their defective by design products.
I have been a computer user since the early seventies... I know the smell of marketing.
Somebody mod this up!
The poster is absolutely correct!
Thus far our household & business has been forced by necessity of hardware driver support to keep upgrading Windows versions, but this DRM/TPM crap in Vista is way too much for us to choke down.
We are not pirates, we just demand the right to do what we like with our machines & our media.
There is _ZERO_ chance we will be gradually forced into a renting software as a service from Microsoft, no way!
We'll stick at XP & slowly migrate our PC's to a Linux or BSD over the next coupe of years.
"...upgrade path for a single motherboard system by letting you start with one chip and add another later on."
I laughed so hard when I read this.
The PC industry has been running this BS line for ever.
The reality is by the time you can afford or even _need_ the second CPU it will be long since obsoleted & unobtainable.
Six point two _BILLION_ dollars (us) to come up with crap like Vista et al ???????
Thats nice 'init, coz de FFT's hav 'ad an 'ell ov a time ininday?
One of the few things the monopolist os has always had going for it was wide & often almost exclusive hardware support.
If they lose that then they are in trouble because there are other alternatives nipping at there heels.
I remember being a strong proponent of IBM's OS/2 2.0 but when I saw how finicky it was about hardware & then trying a _beta_ of Windows 95 that installed on the same boxes without a hitch I knew it was the superior hardware support of Win95 that would win the day.
I have no love for either company.
To the casual observer this looks like Creative trying to ride on the coat tails of Apple just like all the other contemptible 'patent squatters'.
It's a prime example of why your patent system is broken.
C'Ya
"Creative says that the iPod and iPod Nano infringe on a patent the company has for the interface in its Zen media player, a patent granted last August"
:) hehe
Oh now that's what I call balsy
"One fellow even went as far as pushing that to the reasonable limit by showing up to work every day for several months in a bathrobe and sandals (and shorts). I don't recall a word ever being said. I think he actually just gave up because no one said anything"
:)
Man that really brought a smile to my face!
Gotta love human nature eh?
Some asshole _always_ has to push the enelope on rules he he