Comment Re:Bout time (Score 1) 349
The same way it was a myth with PalmOS. I see the Android/iOS battle going down the same way too, even with Apple being the sole vendor of iOS devices.
Comment Not without precedent... (Score 1) 338
...the same thing happened with Boxee and Hulu after Boxee supposedly had Hulu's blessing to integrate Hulu into Boxee. A little while later, Hulu Desktop was released. I guess the networks want people using their TVs to watch their on the actual TV channels.
Comment Re:Too quickly (Score 1) 172
I'll have to disagree with you there. 6.06, Dapper Drake, the original LTS release (that they took 3 extra months on) was superb in every way, and (at least for me) an improvement over the previous release in stability and features. Then the next release was rushed out the door after three whole months of development, and is the one release I ever wholly passed up.
The Latest, Greates, and Most Shiny is what Ubuntu is about. It was meant to be a more current version than w/e Debian's current release is, while still offering people a more stable system than if they used Debian testing. If you want slower and more stable, go with Lenny. Or wait until Squeeze is released, it should be sometime this year.
Comment Re:Already here (Score 1) 482
Doesn't surprise me, considering how many people say PIN number.
Comment Re:Not a surprise (Score 1) 324
You could just turn down the sensitivity...
Comment Re: Is this the future of television? Yep. (Score 1) 321
The Guild is primarily funded by MS...that is why it ends up on their video site before it shows up anywhere else.
Comment Re:Space exploration is conservative. (Score 1) 433
Bush didn't stop stem cell research, only federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, and the redefining pi thing as 3 is an urban legend.
Amazon Pulls Book Publisher's Listings; Ebook Wars Underway? 297
As of last night, Amazon stopped listing all books from Macmillan Publishers, referring searches to other sellers instead. According to the New York Times, this is because Macmillan is one of the companies that now has an agreement to sell ebooks through Apple's new iBooks store, and asked Amazon to raise the price of their ebooks from $9.99 to $15. An industry source told the Times that the de-listing is Amazon's way of "expressing its strong disagreement" with the idea of a price hike. Gizmodo suggests this is the first volley in an Apple-Amazon ebook war. Quoting: "It feels like a repeat of the same s*** Universal Music, and later, NBC Universal pulled with iTunes, trying to counter the leverage Apple had because of iTunes' insane marketshare. Same situation here, really: Content provider wants more money/control over their content, fights with the overwhelmingly dominant, embedded service that's selling the content. Last time, everybody compromised and walked away mostly happy: Universal and NBC got more flexible pricing, iTunes got DRM-free music and more TV shows for its catalog to sell. ... The difference in this fight is that Macmillan is one of the publishers signed to deliver books for Apple's iBooks store. They have somewhere to run. And credibly. That wasn't really the case with record labels, who tried to fuel alternatives to dilute iTunes power, and failed."
Comment Re:Mod parent way the hell up, plz. (Score 1) 256
And people have the option of opting out of the class action, too, allowing them to sue on their own behalf and get however many hojillions from it themselves. The only people who lose the right to sue are those who don't opt out.
Comment Re:Enter the Matrix was OK... (Score 1) 397
The game for the first Spider-Man movie was decent, mainly because it was essentially the Spider-Man game released in 2000 with then new generation shiney and what amounted to approximately the movie plot tacked on.
Comment Re:They should never expire (Score 1) 145
No, but you can mail a check, which is redeemable for cash.
Comment Re:Alternative? (Score 1) 71
Not right off the bat, but a slow transition from one brand to the other, like what is happening now, can be quite good for them.
Comment Re:Yep (Score 4, Insightful) 900
Why is this stupid? Most users photo editing is limited to stuff like removing red-eye. A lot of users don't even do that. Not to say that GIMP isn't good, but one does have to wonder exactly why it should be in the default install or live CD. Can you explain why you think it is borderline stupid for them to pull something out most users aren't using, especially considering they are likely to use the space for a bunch of other software that more people are likely to use (why else would they give a limited room excuse)?
Comment Re:Whichever moron tagged this as "irrelevant"... (Score 1) 267
Yeah, a bunch of users/developers who happen to like where the OS is, because where it is happens to suit their wants/needs. How fucking deluded of them. Good thing you are out there, because surely your preferences/needs are the only ones that matter when determining something is junk.
Comment Re:Professionalism (Score 1) 1231
Same here, I installed Karmic and it has been, at least for me, a big improvement over Jaunty, from performance to giving me the option to install a PAE-enabled kernel without having to use the server kernel or recompile it myself.
