I'm probably not going to be the only one saying this, but I almost feel the need to shout it...
They don't want to spend time to learn it so they bring it back to the store.
People have no problem learning how to use a phone or PDA, some of which already use Linux, people have no trouble using TiVO, which uses Linux. People can figure out how to operate games consoles, portable media players, etc... all of which are becoming increasingly complex, and some of which use Linux. Even in the context of desktop computing, people have no trouble learning to use Macs...
From a usability perspective, users shouldn't even need to know what OS they're running, let alone "learn" how to use it.
"There has to be a real trust relationship with users, built around privacy and security and change," he says. If people don't trust Google, they won't use its apps. So "this company really does want to do the right thing".
There mere act of owning an email address already ties you up to whoever provides it, unless you own the domain, embracing Cloud Computing doesn't mean giving up your rights as an user, it's simply a paradigm shift, I don't understand how RMS doesn't see an implied benefit on freeing up users from the Microsoft monopoly.
Is how quickly they were to turn around and cancel them... specially since the second one was better received.
They were generating a lot of interest, and the intent was clearly not to sell stuff, but to portray Microsoft as out of touch but willing to listen and learn.
Canceling something so drastically gives the impression Microsoft are genuinely clueless as to which direction to follow, it's not a good sign.
If Bush created a plan to control the press corps in the US via a groomed method you'd be up in arms.
Press corps?... you mean any of those corporations like Sony or Disney or News Corp that pretty much control what is seen or read in the US?
Propaganda?, try watching the trailers for the US and international versions of the new "Indiana Jones" trailer.
And no, regardless of what you may have read chidren do not get finger printed without permission, and no before you even bring up the topic... Socialized Medicine is not a bad thing.
You can't have free trade when a single corporation owns the marketplace. That is why the EU stepped in, to preserve "free trade" ensuring there IS competition.
The EU is not an evil government and Microsoft is not a defenseless do-gooder. This is not the first time MS has been in trouble because of its business practices, althought in the US, since Bush came to power, they've sure enjoyed a nice ride over there, haven't they?
Oh no! Did a company make products that go well together? Could it be that they were designed for eachother?
Seriously, afterwards, let's launch an antitrust case against playstation because their platform doesn't play wii and xbox games. The problem is not simply that they make products that work well with each other, it's also that they do it while owning the desktop OS business.
Not to mention their attempts to squeeze the life out of open formats like ODF.
Also, it shows the EU has the balls to stand up to MS and their anti competitive practices, something the US has been unable to do for a while.
I'll bite, this is not just about a bunch of gaming servers going down, this is about Microsoft wanting everything to go through their servers, and then being unable to cope with it.
1. microsoft is apparently doing something about it on their own EVEN THOUGH SOME DOUCHE is trying to get free money from them because their game didn't work for a couple days. Waah waah waah.
It was not a couple days, it was a couple weeks. A couple days it's fine, some people may have gotten an XBOX for XMas, as far as they knew, that's how it was always going to be...
2. you accept an agreement that says if the service doesn't work all the time, you give up responsibility.
XBOX 360 users have no choice but to accept the agreement, there's no other way for them to play online.
3. Xbox live is one of the few services that actually has a customer service line. IN THE US. Your dell, dude, doesn't even have that.
The issue is not customer service, it's reliability... having "Steve" read lines off a script with a fake Boston accent won't bring the servers back online.
4. go outside and play.
But... but... I just spent hundreds of dollars on this shiny games console.... besides, it's cold and I lost my legs on a bizarre cooking accident.
5. They don't have to do a DAMN thing about it and most people would still accept it.
Actually they do, a good chunck of their users pay monthly fees, also, their LIVE service is going to be added for Windows as well, where they have to compete aganist services like Steam.
6. Lemme guess, if Google had a game console, it would always work perfectly.
The best thing about Google: You can always go somewhere else, which is why it's always up.
7. Did you notice that nintendo shipped thousands of wiis with faulty video cards? I have one, it sucks, i'm sending it back, but thems the breaks. Are you telling me that you have never bought a new complex electronic item and had it not work properly and had to replace it? is that unique to microsoft?
This is so off the mark... but ok: If you purchase a faulty item, you can take it back to the shop and get another one. XBOX Live is the only way for XBOX users to get online.
8. I think that it's obvious that they realize that they need to serve their customers to keep them, and that xbox and live are a big part of that. if it wasn't they wouldn't even bother.
That's the thing isn't it... just imagine what kind of service you'd get if they weren't trying hard... now, some people purchase DRM'ed music, and depend on Microsoft's servers to license their tracks, or when using Windows Update, a false positive could cause Windows Vista to cripple your PC.... I think it's not a bad idea to be ready to snap at Microsoft the second they screw up, because if you don't, then they'll screw up a lot more often.
Yeah, because every time I turn on my device I really want to wait while it scans the ID3 information from 40 GB of MP3 files before it can display a menu of available tracks... that kind of logic worked great in the days of 128 MB flash players, but doesn't keep up with current tech very well...
I'm sorry but that is just not true:
My player has a music indexing system, it only checks for changes and adds/removes data as required. I'm yet to have a single problem with it and takes 5-10 seconds to update after adding/removing a few dozen tracks.
It seems "that kind of logic" works all too well nowadays.
It blows both EDGE and GPRS away in terms of bandwith and latency, and has a much wider coverage than WiFi and WiMax could ever hope for, it's only drawback could be a higher battery drain, but research focus has recently shifted towards maximizing power for portable devices.
I think WiFi is better suited towards local networking just as Bluetooth is useful to eliminate the need for wires, I don't see how WiMax can make that much of an impact unless they use an incredibly competitive pricing scheme...
Those who claim DRM is nothing but the "lock to your door" or "the alarm in your" car are going to have a hard time trying justify their business model when things like this end up happening...
I'm still not going to buy a Vista machine. Funny I remember similar things being said about Windows 95.
Vista will be shoved down our throats whether we like it or not.
Is there some secret meaning for that word that I don't know? In the Catholic Church's Latin rite, venerable is the title of a person who has been posthumously declared "heroic in virtue" [Wikipedia.org]
I think he means XP was a great OS before it died, maybe his computer blew up or something.
Oh, please. There's no overhead cost on MP3s, not cd pressing, labelling, etc... regardless of whether allofmp3's pricing scheme is legal or not, it works, and with a revenue sharing scheme it would be far better for artists than the current one.
The reason?, with sites like Itunes, people choose to download tracks illegally rather than pay their stupid prices, with allofmp3 people are willing to pay for the music.
Me, I'd rather see record labels die a slow and painful death, and change their business model to some form of music marketing, they're not needed.
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They don't want to spend time to learn it so they bring it back to the store.
People have no problem learning how to use a phone or PDA, some of which already use Linux, people have no trouble using TiVO, which uses Linux. People can figure out how to operate games consoles, portable media players, etc... all of which are becoming increasingly complex, and some of which use Linux. Even in the context of desktop computing, people have no trouble learning to use Macs... From a usability perspective, users shouldn't even need to know what OS they're running, let alone "learn" how to use it.
"There has to be a real trust relationship with users, built around privacy and security and change," he says. If people don't trust Google, they won't use its apps. So "this company really does want to do the right thing".
There mere act of owning an email address already ties you up to whoever provides it, unless you own the domain, embracing Cloud Computing doesn't mean giving up your rights as an user, it's simply a paradigm shift, I don't understand how RMS doesn't see an implied benefit on freeing up users from the Microsoft monopoly.
It's not gay, it's Metrosexual, we're totally straight, just happen to be in touch with our feminine side.
That's the thing isn't it.... what's the point of so much portability if you still need to plug wires into it.
I think he accidentally the whole server....
Or £5 for the whole week. They used to restrict it to GPRS, but it's worked with 3G/HSDPA phones for a while.
Ah, so they're not over after all... that makes more sense. :)
Is how quickly they were to turn around and cancel them... specially since the second one was better received. They were generating a lot of interest, and the intent was clearly not to sell stuff, but to portray Microsoft as out of touch but willing to listen and learn. Canceling something so drastically gives the impression Microsoft are genuinely clueless as to which direction to follow, it's not a good sign.
Press corps?... you mean any of those corporations like Sony or Disney or News Corp that pretty much control what is seen or read in the US?
Propaganda?, try watching the trailers for the US and international versions of the new "Indiana Jones" trailer.
And no, regardless of what you may have read chidren do not get finger printed without permission, and no before you even bring up the topic... Socialized Medicine is not a bad thing.
You can't have free trade when a single corporation owns the marketplace. That is why the EU stepped in, to preserve "free trade" ensuring there IS competition.
The EU is not an evil government and Microsoft is not a defenseless do-gooder. This is not the first time MS has been in trouble because of its business practices, althought in the US, since Bush came to power, they've sure enjoyed a nice ride over there, haven't they?
Not to mention their attempts to squeeze the life out of open formats like ODF.
Also, it shows the EU has the balls to stand up to MS and their anti competitive practices, something the US has been unable to do for a while.
1. microsoft is apparently doing something about it on their own EVEN THOUGH SOME DOUCHE is trying to get free money from them because their game didn't work for a couple days. Waah waah waah.
It was not a couple days, it was a couple weeks. A couple days it's fine, some people may have gotten an XBOX for XMas, as far as they knew, that's how it was always going to be...
2. you accept an agreement that says if the service doesn't work all the time, you give up responsibility.
XBOX 360 users have no choice but to accept the agreement, there's no other way for them to play online.
3. Xbox live is one of the few services that actually has a customer service line. IN THE US. Your dell, dude, doesn't even have that.
The issue is not customer service, it's reliability... having "Steve" read lines off a script with a fake Boston accent won't bring the servers back online.
4. go outside and play.
But... but... I just spent hundreds of dollars on this shiny games console.... besides, it's cold and I lost my legs on a bizarre cooking accident.
5. They don't have to do a DAMN thing about it and most people would still accept it.
Actually they do, a good chunck of their users pay monthly fees, also, their LIVE service is going to be added for Windows as well, where they have to compete aganist services like Steam.
6. Lemme guess, if Google had a game console, it would always work perfectly.
The best thing about Google: You can always go somewhere else, which is why it's always up.
7. Did you notice that nintendo shipped thousands of wiis with faulty video cards? I have one, it sucks, i'm sending it back, but thems the breaks. Are you telling me that you have never bought a new complex electronic item and had it not work properly and had to replace it? is that unique to microsoft?
This is so off the mark... but ok: If you purchase a faulty item, you can take it back to the shop and get another one. XBOX Live is the only way for XBOX users to get online.
8. I think that it's obvious that they realize that they need to serve their customers to keep them, and that xbox and live are a big part of that. if it wasn't they wouldn't even bother.
That's the thing isn't it... just imagine what kind of service you'd get if they weren't trying hard... now, some people purchase DRM'ed music, and depend on Microsoft's servers to license their tracks, or when using Windows Update, a false positive could cause Windows Vista to cripple your PC.... I think it's not a bad idea to be ready to snap at Microsoft the second they screw up, because if you don't, then they'll screw up a lot more often.
Yeah, because every time I turn on my device I really want to wait while it scans the ID3 information from 40 GB of MP3 files before it can display a menu of available tracks... that kind of logic worked great in the days of 128 MB flash players, but doesn't keep up with current tech very well...
I'm sorry but that is just not true: My player has a music indexing system, it only checks for changes and adds/removes data as required. I'm yet to have a single problem with it and takes 5-10 seconds to update after adding/removing a few dozen tracks. It seems "that kind of logic" works all too well nowadays.
It blows both EDGE and GPRS away in terms of bandwith and latency, and has a much wider coverage than WiFi and WiMax could ever hope for, it's only drawback could be a higher battery drain, but research focus has recently shifted towards maximizing power for portable devices.
I think WiFi is better suited towards local networking just as Bluetooth is useful to eliminate the need for wires, I don't see how WiMax can make that much of an impact unless they use an incredibly competitive pricing scheme...
When Sexybabe88, the Night Elf Priestess, gets on vent and sounds like the guy from "Saw"... my heart breaks a little every time it happens :(
Those who claim DRM is nothing but the "lock to your door" or "the alarm in your" car are going to have a hard time trying justify their business model when things like this end up happening...
I think he means XP was a great OS before it died, maybe his computer blew up or something.
It sure is a fun way to make money?
I'm having trouble figuring that one out.
My tinfoil armor will reflect those microwaves back to the cast... er, I mean shooter... Arrr!
lol, that's exactly what I thought when I read that. What the hell does "bad" employee mean anyway?
Nonono, we gotta support the underdog here! Go MS go.
Oh, please. There's no overhead cost on MP3s, not cd pressing, labelling, etc... regardless of whether allofmp3's pricing scheme is legal or not, it works, and with a revenue sharing scheme it would be far better for artists than the current one.
The reason?, with sites like Itunes, people choose to download tracks illegally rather than pay their stupid prices, with allofmp3 people are willing to pay for the music. Me, I'd rather see record labels die a slow and painful death, and change their business model to some form of music marketing, they're not needed.