The whole problem here is that you are applying 19th Century thinking to a 21st century problem. We love the car because we can go where we want (assuming there is a road to it) when we want and take as much or as little time doing it as suits us. The New Society envisioned by our betters says that thinking is wrong, we need to travel in a regimented, directed manner. Society is developing according to the directives of chaos, in a more and more individual, creative, ungovernable and surprising manner. This must be stopped, we must have great leaps forward, 5 year plans, a New Socialist Man who is subject to the collective. Until we give up our ideas of individual choice and thought we can not truly be free. Slavery is Freedom.
I was dealing with a voodoo user, he has a Master's degree. When I came back to the office, I mentioned that there is simply tech that older people can't get and that Eddy (my 25 year old fellow IT person) would someday be at a point where he doesn't get stuff.
"No I won't" ahh, the hubris of youth.
Garage mechanics and nurses. If you think about it, they work in the same field. They let you do your job and understand "repairman's syndrome" i.e., that something that won't work fixes itself when the repair guy shows up.
until it became obvious that they couldn't find their butt even when using both hands. A lot of loyal *spire users felt the same way, especially when KC and friends decided to dance with the "Devil" to cover the butt they could not find. KC said "If you're so smart why don't you start your own distro?" And Chris Medico, with the help and encouragement of his friends, did. It's a fully realized (even though it's only just about to hit beta) Kubuntu derivative called "Klikit" www.klikit.org
He's solved most of the codec problems and it's remarkably stable. I'm a 15 year Mac and Window guy and I run Klikit 95% of the time on my home machines. Linspire is so 2005...
Linspire and Xandros lost a lot of good will when they ponied up the protection money.
You know, reading your article about Ubuntu and Linux in general, I couldn't help wondering if you expected everything in Linux to be free. MP3 players are bundled with most distros, so music playing isn't an issue. So the only problem I have had, and the one you note is DVD playing. There are US legal DVD players available. They simply aren't free. I find it quite odd that since you can't legally get a free DVD player in Linux, you are consoling people to buy a non-free OS to play DVDs. Occam's razor would suggest that if you like Linux, pony up the small fee to buy the software you need that isn't free. I'm not going to do your research for you here, after all you are getting paid to do that and I wouldn't want to give you something free.
i.e, a senselees application of technology. This makes little logical or financial sense. I really doubt it would pay for itself, besides if you are somewhere where you can not get to an electrical outlet to plug in a $10 battery recharger, do you really want to drain the battery of your laptop like this? Makes for a fun/. article, but only the most tech-obsessed will buy this.
I already have 2 extensions that do this, Foxmarks http://www.foxcloud.com/ and Chipmarks www.chipmark.com/.Google is late to the party on this, and besides one of these days Google will turn it's info over to the Government or a corporation that gives it enough money. FWIW, Foxmarks is more automated, Chipmarks seems static to me.
This is the SAME pitch that has been bouncing around since about 1980! This story shows up about every 18 months. I'll beliueve it when Aint it Cool has production photos.
Well, since this will essentially only harm people, what's wrong with it? If human society is destroyed by global warming isn't that a good thing? If this wipes out New York and LA isn't that a good thing? We know nature can adapt as the earth has been much warmer in the past without human activity./moonbat.
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The whole problem here is that you are applying 19th Century thinking to a 21st century problem. We love the car because we can go where we want (assuming there is a road to it) when we want and take as much or as little time doing it as suits us. The New Society envisioned by our betters says that thinking is wrong, we need to travel in a regimented, directed manner. Society is developing according to the directives of chaos, in a more and more individual, creative, ungovernable and surprising manner. This must be stopped, we must have great leaps forward, 5 year plans, a New Socialist Man who is subject to the collective. Until we give up our ideas of individual choice and thought we can not truly be free. Slavery is Freedom.
I was dealing with a voodoo user, he has a Master's degree. When I came back to the office, I mentioned that there is simply tech that older people can't get and that Eddy (my 25 year old fellow IT person) would someday be at a point where he doesn't get stuff. "No I won't" ahh, the hubris of youth.
Garage mechanics and nurses. If you think about it, they work in the same field. They let you do your job and understand "repairman's syndrome" i.e., that something that won't work fixes itself when the repair guy shows up.
until it became obvious that they couldn't find their butt even when using both hands. A lot of loyal *spire users felt the same way, especially when KC and friends decided to dance with the "Devil" to cover the butt they could not find. KC said "If you're so smart why don't you start your own distro?" And Chris Medico, with the help and encouragement of his friends, did. It's a fully realized (even though it's only just about to hit beta) Kubuntu derivative called "Klikit" www.klikit.org He's solved most of the codec problems and it's remarkably stable. I'm a 15 year Mac and Window guy and I run Klikit 95% of the time on my home machines. Linspire is so 2005... Linspire and Xandros lost a lot of good will when they ponied up the protection money.
what does Open Office cost? the only restrictions I see are on personal use software like DVD players
You know, reading your article about Ubuntu and Linux in general, I couldn't help wondering if you expected everything in Linux to be free. MP3 players are bundled with most distros, so music playing isn't an issue. So the only problem I have had, and the one you note is DVD playing. There are US legal DVD players available. They simply aren't free. I find it quite odd that since you can't legally get a free DVD player in Linux, you are consoling people to buy a non-free OS to play DVDs. Occam's razor would suggest that if you like Linux, pony up the small fee to buy the software you need that isn't free. I'm not going to do your research for you here, after all you are getting paid to do that and I wouldn't want to give you something free.
You could try FreeSpire which will now be build on Ubuntu. I have high hopes for it.
Crud, for a minute I thought they where gonna cater to us old farts whose reflexes aren't what they used to be...
i.e, a senselees application of technology. This makes little logical or financial sense. I really doubt it would pay for itself, besides if you are somewhere where you can not get to an electrical outlet to plug in a $10 battery recharger, do you really want to drain the battery of your laptop like this? Makes for a fun /. article, but only the most tech-obsessed will buy this.
This might seem a little Office Spacey, but if that happened to me, I'd go into work and make them fire me in front of customers.
I already have 2 extensions that do this, Foxmarks http://www.foxcloud.com/ and Chipmarks www.chipmark.com/.Google is late to the party on this, and besides one of these days Google will turn it's info over to the Government or a corporation that gives it enough money. FWIW, Foxmarks is more automated, Chipmarks seems static to me.
This is the SAME pitch that has been bouncing around since about 1980! This story shows up about every 18 months. I'll beliueve it when Aint it Cool has production photos.
I am at risk of hunger, in fact I am hungry now. I got up late to go to work and didn't eat breakfast
Well, since this will essentially only harm people, what's wrong with it? If human society is destroyed by global warming isn't that a good thing? If this wipes out New York and LA isn't that a good thing? We know nature can adapt as the earth has been much warmer in the past without human activity. /moonbat.
Ballmer is guilty of it! (j/k don't sue me!)