In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Homer
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wrote
on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:53:30 +0100
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> Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
>
>> Why fix Amarok when Zune's player is so much better? ;-)
>
> I wasn't aware that Amarok needed fixing.
Neither was I, but then I don't use it. Maybe Moshe knows
something we don't. (No, I don't believe it either.)
>
> As for the ZZZzzzoon ... the best thing that anyone can say about that
> is that is seems to be practically dead.
Yay for small favors on that hunkajunka. I'm not sure I
want an iPod either, but that's more tolerable than "OK
you can play this song for 3 days then it dies" Zoops --
erm, I mean, Zune. (Plus, the $0.99 per is an easy pricepoint,
though I still prefer free. Dunno if there's an iTunes variant
that runs on Linux.)
At least with MP3 I don't have to worry about DRM, though
I don't have an MP3 player anyway; I'd play things through
my laptop if I really wanted to (and it does have a DVD
reader).
> Let's hope the rest of Vole's
> portfolio of Crapware follows shortly.
>
I'm not that hopeful. Microsoft has a great racket going
in that they sell licenses by the bushel to OEMs, who put
them on machines that sit in warehouses apparently, or
get slicked by their users with an older OS (XP).
Now they've got another one ... and the beauty is (FSVO)
that it's what the customer wants (sort of); they sell the
OEM a Vista license, but allow the OEM to preinstall XP.
Can someone say "bait and switch"?
And yet, Joe Customer is satisfied, when in fact he's
being led by the nose straight into the briar patch --
and unlike Brer Rabbit, he's going to get skinned alive...
And then there's Media Edition. If we're not careful,
it'll end up on every TV in the nation...though hopefully
the HD TV manufacturers are smart enough to recognize the
issue early. If we're real lucky one of the TV channels
will be the All Virus channel (all malware, all the time).
At least the mindless drek of Big Time Television Network
(Max Headroom) was mildly entertaining and not that
dangerous (except to the power structure on occasion).
Makes Standard Oil look almost squeaky clean -- at least
*they* had an actual product to peddle, smelly and viscous
though it was (and still is).
And then there's Monica Goodling [*]: blonde, cute,
capable, totally corrupt, determined one's hiring
qualifications apparently for the DoJ by asking party
affiliation and going by hunches -- if anyone even looked
like a Democrat or looked gay [+], regardless of actual
party affiliation or sexual preference apparently (or for
that matter actual competence), roundfile. Given crap
like that in the highest annals of the Justice Department,
Microsoft's manipulation of the software/OS market is
relatively small potatoes. (Rotten potatoes, to be sure.)
One wonders what Julius Caesar had to deal with...
[*] too early for me to tell whether she's a scapegoat
or what...I suspect not, though she might be protecting
someone higher up with our luck by taking the fall.
[+] don't ask me how one can look at an individual and
determine his sexual orientation... ;-) Best I can
do is point at stereotypes, which are easy, simple,
and usually dead wrong.
--
#191, ewill3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Linux sucks efficiently, but Windows just blows around
a lot of hot air and vapor.
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