I second that, the Descent series was great, specially Descent 3 which was my first online 3d game experience. And of course it was a huge benefit to have a good joystick, in my case a $50 MS Sidewinder, which I sold later to my neighbor who is really into MS Flight Simulator.
TFA is very shallow and offers nothing new but a few numbers and a nonsense bash against linux. For starters according to their data, linux adoption has more than doubled, not diminished as the title suggests.
Anyway, why is most people thinking in black and white? The future is not Win or Mac or Linux. It's not like it's Linux' aim to dominate the desktop market, kicking windows and mac to the curb, but to provide free, feasible alternatives. At most we should aim to a healthy balance between some free and some proprietary options so the market gets truly competitive and no one will get their way with weaselly behavior.
The way I see it no OS should be so dominant as to distort markets and damage the users to the benefit of some entity, not even Linux or some sort of FOSS.
I think your point is right but...
There's simply no way an album production costs as much as any hollowood movie, and the fact that DVD's retail for half as much as CD's is absurd. What we are paying for here is what I would like to call the "MTV tax".
That is, all the promotion money that is needed to position a bunch of untalented, tone-deaf pricks on radio and TV play, ultraslick musical productions with lots of hired guns, production of stupidly lavish videos, payola, lots and lots of marketing. Left to their own devices, 90% of the artists you find in the music store would be begging in the street. And really talented people has been trying to fight their way out this machinery for years, but they are not deemed "cool enough" by some random "talent seekers".
Kudos for "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" (though I still hate his music) and some others for pissing those bastards off a bit. We need more of that, and we need to get rid of MTV and co. For the first time, independent artists can reach a broader audience cheaply and democratically, and it seems logical that the music industry as we know it will became less and less relevant, but not without giving a tough fight.
As much as i like my Ubuntu install, I find it highly unlikely that the poor guys still running Win98 will come knocking on Linus' door. I would classify current W98 users in two categories.
1) People who doesn't tinker with computers too much and has been using their old box for years just for web surfing and doing some office work. These guys are hardly concerned about computer security and most probably don't know their OS was supported anyway.
2) Guys that for some reason (games, especial software or hardware that won't run on NT) require to stick with the old OS even though they may have another, newer box running XP.
No way any of these two animals is downloading and installing the next fedora DVD anytime soon. I love the slashdot spin on regular news.
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By "being taken seriously" you must be talking about "staying alive for more than 10 seconds at a time". Top hat and a lot of buttons where essential.
I second that, the Descent series was great, specially Descent 3 which was my first online 3d game experience. And of course it was a huge benefit to have a good joystick, in my case a $50 MS Sidewinder, which I sold later to my neighbor who is really into MS Flight Simulator.
TFA is very shallow and offers nothing new but a few numbers and a nonsense bash against linux. For starters according to their data, linux adoption has more than doubled, not diminished as the title suggests. Anyway, why is most people thinking in black and white? The future is not Win or Mac or Linux. It's not like it's Linux' aim to dominate the desktop market, kicking windows and mac to the curb, but to provide free, feasible alternatives. At most we should aim to a healthy balance between some free and some proprietary options so the market gets truly competitive and no one will get their way with weaselly behavior. The way I see it no OS should be so dominant as to distort markets and damage the users to the benefit of some entity, not even Linux or some sort of FOSS.
I think your point is right but... There's simply no way an album production costs as much as any hollowood movie, and the fact that DVD's retail for half as much as CD's is absurd. What we are paying for here is what I would like to call the "MTV tax". That is, all the promotion money that is needed to position a bunch of untalented, tone-deaf pricks on radio and TV play, ultraslick musical productions with lots of hired guns, production of stupidly lavish videos, payola, lots and lots of marketing. Left to their own devices, 90% of the artists you find in the music store would be begging in the street. And really talented people has been trying to fight their way out this machinery for years, but they are not deemed "cool enough" by some random "talent seekers". Kudos for "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince" (though I still hate his music) and some others for pissing those bastards off a bit. We need more of that, and we need to get rid of MTV and co. For the first time, independent artists can reach a broader audience cheaply and democratically, and it seems logical that the music industry as we know it will became less and less relevant, but not without giving a tough fight.
You should have gotten your mom a Canon 30D or at least a Rebel XT, not a powershot.
As much as i like my Ubuntu install, I find it highly unlikely that the poor guys still running Win98 will come knocking on Linus' door. I would classify current W98 users in two categories. 1) People who doesn't tinker with computers too much and has been using their old box for years just for web surfing and doing some office work. These guys are hardly concerned about computer security and most probably don't know their OS was supported anyway. 2) Guys that for some reason (games, especial software or hardware that won't run on NT) require to stick with the old OS even though they may have another, newer box running XP. No way any of these two animals is downloading and installing the next fedora DVD anytime soon. I love the slashdot spin on regular news.