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Listed below are comments made by kryme76 between Friday, 10th July 2009 and Friday, 4th December 2009.

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Flattening, not falling? 7:23pm on 04 Dec 2009 Robiati wrote: UK Govt. debt is currently 59.2% of GDP. High, yes. But...
Robiati wrote: Specifically, stimulus is 1.5% of GDP for the UK...

The liabilities taken on mean UK debt could end up far higher.
A lot of that debt is stimulus by another name.
Stephen Fry on copyright 7:28pm on 13 Jul 2009 @32 Anglophone

"Surely the point here is that people are outraged at the idea of paying almost anything for content yet will happily be ripped off frontways, sideways and backwards by the techies to buy their latest little slab of plastic"

I don't relate to that type of consumer (it took me 5 years to bother replacing my first mobile phone), so I can't really comment.

Mixing fashion with hard to recycle objects that often end up in landfill always struck me as absurd, as does 'built in obsolescence' as they politely refer to stuff designed to break 5 mins after the warranty expires, and indeed many other sick constructions of the capitalist system.

The point is, nobody makes people buy the same gadget repeatedly. If it comes out again with a minimal improvement, let someone else who aint got one buy it.

Buying unique media without the overheads of a bundle of plastic/card, distribution costs, etc, plus wages to pay the operators of these pointless extras is harder.

Doing this whilst honestly supporting the artist is something these middlemen will always have a vested interest in preventing.
Stephen Fry on copyright 5:00pm on 13 Jul 2009 I'd be interested to see what would happen if there was such a thing as a 'piracy amnesty site', by which I mean a place you could make donations targeted to the artist/production house whose wares you'd already ripped off.

If Radiohead can do well off of honesty, I'm pretty sure there are many UK fans of Battlestar Galactica (who downloaded the torrents rather than wait for the UK release) that would rather make a donation direct to the producers, the SciFi channel, rather than pay a premium for DVDs they don't need or on Apple iTunes to pay a premium for data services they don't need.

Yeah, cut out the middle men who skim a fortune by insisting we buy things we don't even need and which are of no benefit to the actual creatives behind the work anyway.

"You wouldn't steal a handbag"?
You wouldn't buy (a cheap photocopy of) a handbag if it came in a box that tripled the cost just to line the pockets of a greedy middle man either.
Google Chrome - one day on... 10:30am on 13 Jul 2009 @44 mitachu

And to those who make a big deal about transition from Office to Open Office, shall we have a discussion about differences between Office97->2003 or 2003->2007?
Google Chrome - one day on... 10:26am on 13 Jul 2009 @39 Auqakuh1123

Please look at the Google native client stuff, then read a bit about browser caching, then right click any image on this page and notice that you can save it locally if you so wish.
Google Chrome - one day on... 10:24am on 13 Jul 2009 @36 - errr, they eat the grass...
Google Chrome - one day on... 6:44pm on 10 Jul 2009 @27 Mark_MWFC

"You do realise that Windows market share didn't suffer at all from Me, right? It was a rubbish OS but it still sold."

Yep, true.
It didn't exactly sell though, did it. It was foisted on people who didn't know better, who then complained loudly causing it to be withdrawn at the earliest opportunity.

"SUSE, Red Hat and others need to die first."

100% agree.

"Which would be silly. It wouldn't have mattered what distro it shipped with, Linux has failed to capture the mainstream interest."

The point I was trying to make is that it's first entry into the mainstream was marred by their choosing the worst of breed ambassador to represent Linux. First impressions last, and it was a tragedy.

As for Dell, they could only sell to the converted.

The Aspire was something people bought in Linux form without even realising. If they found Ubuntu it could well have been a pleasant enough experience to keep going with.
As it was, Linpus scared them witless.

I actually tried to keep going with it to get it doing something useful, but adding 'livna' (or whatever) to get repositories just so I could install VLC was a right pain. Hideous. Loathsome.

"I like Ubuntu but the very fact that Linux has so many distributions is what makes it so appallingly unattractive as a mass market proposition."

Yeah, as I said before it needs a strong brand to trust. Several dozen 'what the heck is that' brands is a burden not a choice, and means none get much of a reputation.

I think we agree on the solution then... a good cull!
(step in Google...)
Chrome - living in a Google world? 3:47pm on 10 Jul 2009 @54 Tomcat-50

"Maybe one day the iplayer will work on Linux..."

err, it already does...
I don't -think- I did anything special

Oh, and XBMC has an iplayer plugin too
Google Chrome - one day on... 3:15pm on 10 Jul 2009 @22 kevinmorice

"No matter how much better Chrome is, it won't overcome the decades of user familiarity..."

Err, so how do you find these people that are so unfamiliar with a web browser? They've been around for a while now...

'The operating system, which will run on an open source licence, was a "natural extension" of its Chrome browser, the firm said.'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8139711.stm

Did people fail to use Facebook because it didn't follow Windows style guides, or was it familiar enough to get started?

Now imagine the web browsers we all know and love are powerful enough to do everything as well as a Windows/Mac/Linux application can natively.

Imagine everything you want to do can be done through the web browser as more and more applications get written or converted.

Imagine the browser is the first thing you load to do everything, and ask... do you really need Windows anymore? Just to load a browser?

Imagine installing Chrome Linux (let's be honest, its a superior distribution rather than an OS in its own right) means your browser loads in half the time or saves you £60 on the price of a PC.

Windows will be a middle man, and ripe for cutting out.
Google Chrome - one day on... 11:37am on 10 Jul 2009 @7 Mark_MWFC

"Linux didn't fail because of the distribution, it failed because it's Linux."

Bad distributions can't make for failure?
Then was the failure of WindowsME just a dream?!

"Nobody wants it in comparison to Windows and until the Linux communities actually realise that until they have a single homogeneous distribution no-one will."

Well, it looked like Ubuntu would be the distro which could dominate and enter mainstream consciousness, but yes, a champion is required.

If the Aspire One wasn't shipped with that crippled Linpus distro it would've helped. I almost believe Microsoft paid them to ship that, to poison public perception.

"As for Chrome OS, surely Apple will also be concerned? An OS that's secure, safe and 'just works' but which can be installed on countless hardware combinations? I can see that putting a dent in Mac sales too."

Aye, perhaps. I guess it depends how niche a particular user is. Are Mac users still mostly artists? It might take a while for comparable tools to appear - though, that cosy relationship with Adobe will help!

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