He is truly a master alchemist. Take an awesome premise, add cool actors, and VOILA! - Another completely flushable turd. Damn you for ruining so many great gaming memories with your pathetic directorial vision.
Bundling. It will take a hardware company to take Linux to the mainstream. What percentage of Windows users could do an install of Windows, much less Linux? They use Windows because that is what came on their pc. Once the OS becomes all crufted up, as it will inevitably do, they go buy another computer.
IBM is doing great things in pushing Linux in the server market. Now we need a desktop equivalent to that. IMHO, Wal-Mart should try this again. I know it didn't go over well the first time, but I still see them along with a cheap hardware supplier as the best answer for pushing Linux into the mainstream.
Provide a cheap computer that gets you on the web, gets your email, lets you look at pictures and listen to music, play a few timekiller games, and you've made 90% on the home pc users happy. Linux is ready for the desktop, and once it's a easily available alternative (already on the new computer) it will begin a new era of personal computing for the masses.
To me, it seems that this is one of the UI items that has worked out pretty well. You have automatic saves going on to a temporary file in case of system crash / power loss / whatever, and you have the save option to explicitly save your changes to the original document. Sounds like a pretty good setup to me.
Also, you don't have to use the save command at all if you hate it so much. Just make your changes, exit, and answer yes to save.
So what happens when updates no longer require rebooting, and users realize they still need periodic reboots to prevent crashes and lockups? And no, I'm not being a smartass / troll / whatever, I'm just speaking from lots of experience.
Christianity is steadily dying out in the United States. Christianity now claims 10% less of the population than it did a decade ago. Still a long way to go, though.
Unfortunately, the percentage of the population's wishes are irrelevant. What percentage want more gun control? What percentage either want gays to be able to marry or could care less? What percentage disagree with the the war? What percentage feel abortion should be a private decision? All very high, and all very irrelevant in the current administration.
"All of our products now certified 'Good Enough'(tm). The new version will fix (insert issue here) anyway."
On a related note, don't you just love the dinosaur ads MS is now using. "Still using Office 2000?!? What a relic you are! You ever heard of the dinosaurs? Well that's you if you don't upgrade RIGHT NOW! Also, the 'Good Enough'(tm) guarantee expires the day the new version comes out."
but I play games for entertainment, and buy paintings, sculptures, etc for art. The downfall of many a game has been trying to be beautiful without having entertaining / engaging content. 'Beautiful to look at' + 'no content' = 'screensaver'. Who cares or for that matter wants games to be considered art?
All OS's are going to have their vulnerabilities. Without even looking at number and severity of them, look at the typical response. Apple finds what they also may consider "highly critical" issues (although relatively not), and they are all over it. Someone finds an issue in Linux, and coders all over the world are all over it. Microsoft finds a critical flaw (or more likely is told about it) and it's, "Bah, minor DDoS issue. Nothing to worry about." And we've recently seen how that ended up.
I'm not trying to be flamebait, but c'mon. How low can "Good enough" get?
I know my first reaction to this is similar to many others -- keep all my data on someone else's servers? No thanks.
But maybe the "permanent" merging of IE and Windows was just step one in the seemingly inevitable convergence of desktop OS and Internet. Step two was a plethora of security flaws that got people used to the fact that their data could possibly be easily accessed by unknown entities on the web. Step three, which is starting now, is to let other companies innovate the technology and work out the bugs and issues involved. Then of course use their monopo^H^H^H market share to take over the market. This would be followed by, "So, keep your data on your own pc that you know we can't secure for you, or keep it on our WinNet(tm) servers which are secure? No more worrying about security / virus / malware updates - we take care of that for you! Access all your data from anywhere! All for a low monthly fee!"
Think about it...
While I certainly agree that "protecting the consumer from price gouging package deals" is a very low priority for the FCC, the Religious Right(TM) is actually against this proposal as channels such as PTL, etc will be the first to die from subscriber anemia.
They must have hated the press Firefox received over it's first security issues. "No one takes over our exploit vulnerability market! This is MY HOUSE, bee-otch!!!"
My Powerbook and Linux server look better every day.
Due to the backlog, we have now increased to two (or more) Sony DRM stories per day. To make room, we are temporarily cutting back on dupes. Please be aware that this is only temporary, and it will shortly be deja vu all over again. Thank you.
On a serious tip, thank God they are being publicly called on this. They have to realize that screaming "Waaahhh, piracy is killing us, we're losing 18 gazillion dollars a day!" does not justify a flagrant disregard of consumers' rights. I love the quote, "It's your IP, but it's not your computer."
Thank God someone got it. This was referenced in a recent/. article, and is exactly what I was referring to. Maybe next time I should put an "obscure/. reference" disclaimer after my post.
"That's pretty sad...
[google: newsgroup, how to]
a truly sad commentary...
[download: Agent, Newsbin, Unison, Thoth]
I mean come on, teen girls?!?"
[...teen.female (click)]
"Sweeeeeet... Uh, I mean shameful!"
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If our wrists survived the proliferation of web porn, I'm sure our thumbs can handle some text messaging.
Umm...I mean...because of moving the mouse so much. Yeah, that's it.
Blasphemer! Burn in hell!
I just watched the long version of the trailer.
He is truly a master alchemist. Take an awesome premise, add cool actors, and VOILA! - Another completely flushable turd. Damn you for ruining so many great gaming memories with your pathetic directorial vision.
Bundling. It will take a hardware company to take Linux to the mainstream. What percentage of Windows users could do an install of Windows, much less Linux? They use Windows because that is what came on their pc. Once the OS becomes all crufted up, as it will inevitably do, they go buy another computer.
IBM is doing great things in pushing Linux in the server market. Now we need a desktop equivalent to that. IMHO, Wal-Mart should try this again. I know it didn't go over well the first time, but I still see them along with a cheap hardware supplier as the best answer for pushing Linux into the mainstream.
Provide a cheap computer that gets you on the web, gets your email, lets you look at pictures and listen to music, play a few timekiller games, and you've made 90% on the home pc users happy. Linux is ready for the desktop, and once it's a easily available alternative (already on the new computer) it will begin a new era of personal computing for the masses.
Insightful? Really? Try "legally" as in according to the level determined by local laws.
It's not really fair to imply G.W. hates black people. He simply doesn't care about poor people, regardless of color.
To me, it seems that this is one of the UI items that has worked out pretty well. You have automatic saves going on to a temporary file in case of system crash / power loss / whatever, and you have the save option to explicitly save your changes to the original document. Sounds like a pretty good setup to me.
Also, you don't have to use the save command at all if you hate it so much. Just make your changes, exit, and answer yes to save.
Be careful what you say! Look here and here for listings of several examples of French domination.
So what happens when updates no longer require rebooting, and users realize they still need periodic reboots to prevent crashes and lockups? And no, I'm not being a smartass / troll / whatever, I'm just speaking from lots of experience.
"All of our products now certified 'Good Enough'(tm). The new version will fix (insert issue here) anyway."
On a related note, don't you just love the dinosaur ads MS is now using. "Still using Office 2000?!? What a relic you are! You ever heard of the dinosaurs? Well that's you if you don't upgrade RIGHT NOW! Also, the 'Good Enough'(tm) guarantee expires the day the new version comes out."
but I play games for entertainment, and buy paintings, sculptures, etc for art. The downfall of many a game has been trying to be beautiful without having entertaining / engaging content. 'Beautiful to look at' + 'no content' = 'screensaver'. Who cares or for that matter wants games to be considered art?
All OS's are going to have their vulnerabilities. Without even looking at number and severity of them, look at the typical response. Apple finds what they also may consider "highly critical" issues (although relatively not), and they are all over it. Someone finds an issue in Linux, and coders all over the world are all over it. Microsoft finds a critical flaw (or more likely is told about it) and it's, "Bah, minor DDoS issue. Nothing to worry about." And we've recently seen how that ended up.
I'm not trying to be flamebait, but c'mon. How low can "Good enough" get?
I know my first reaction to this is similar to many others -- keep all my data on someone else's servers? No thanks. But maybe the "permanent" merging of IE and Windows was just step one in the seemingly inevitable convergence of desktop OS and Internet. Step two was a plethora of security flaws that got people used to the fact that their data could possibly be easily accessed by unknown entities on the web. Step three, which is starting now, is to let other companies innovate the technology and work out the bugs and issues involved. Then of course use their monopo^H^H^H market share to take over the market. This would be followed by, "So, keep your data on your own pc that you know we can't secure for you, or keep it on our WinNet(tm) servers which are secure? No more worrying about security / virus / malware updates - we take care of that for you! Access all your data from anywhere! All for a low monthly fee!" Think about it...
Well said! If I had mod points they'd be yours.
While I certainly agree that "protecting the consumer from price gouging package deals" is a very low priority for the FCC, the Religious Right(TM) is actually against this proposal as channels such as PTL, etc will be the first to die from subscriber anemia.
So how do you say, "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." in Maori?
They must have hated the press Firefox received over it's first security issues. "No one takes over our exploit vulnerability market! This is MY HOUSE, bee-otch!!!"
My Powerbook and Linux server look better every day.
Due to the backlog, we have now increased to two (or more) Sony DRM stories per day. To make room, we are temporarily cutting back on dupes. Please be aware that this is only temporary, and it will shortly be deja vu all over again. Thank you.
On a serious tip, thank God they are being publicly called on this. They have to realize that screaming "Waaahhh, piracy is killing us, we're losing 18 gazillion dollars a day!" does not justify a flagrant disregard of consumers' rights. I love the quote, "It's your IP, but it's not your computer."
Two wrongs don't make a right (but three lefts do).
Thank God someone got it. This was referenced in a recent /. article, and is exactly what I was referring to. Maybe next time I should put an "obscure /. reference" disclaimer after my post.
I read somewhere recently that 'more watts used' = 'more powerful'
According to TFA, if you are on the 8 at a time plan, you will get 9 for one month, then go back to 8.
"That's pretty sad... [google: newsgroup, how to] a truly sad commentary... [download: Agent, Newsbin, Unison, Thoth] I mean come on, teen girls?!?" [...teen.female (click)] "Sweeeeeet... Uh, I mean shameful!"
"That's pretty sad... a truly sad commentary... I mean come on, teen girls?!?" "Sweet... Uh, I mean shameful!"