1) Find an alternative compatible program, there seems to be 95% coverage of that in linux 2) Vmware 3) Wine 4) If it's only one person that needs auto-CAD, why not have 1 extra machine, a KVM and let them switch as needed. This way you could even keep the Windows PC off the network, solving a lot of its possible problems at a stroke. 4) (the least good) Dual-boot.
I don't use Linux because I have too much that would need 2 and 3, but if it's one program, suck it up man!
The 1-1 "double" thing even SOUNDS good too. If they could somehow align it to the "sponser a child" thing of them sending you a letter it'd be superb.
Buy yourself a cheap $200 laptop, couple of months later get a letter/picture of the kid in somewhere unpronounceable who got the other one you paid for. Feel great.
I know I'd sign up. My laptop's a sodding P150. That thing could do my word processing and wireless interweb and come on, it's ORANGE!
Charity can move forward by being a little bit commercial in a commercialised world while remembering that "charity" itself isn't quite enough to convince most people any more. This kind of scheme could, and should be a massive successs.
But in the case of GTA : San Andreas and Indigo Prophercy to name but two, the only way US kids can play the real versions of those games is to import them.
2. The Russian site AllOfMP3.com is not operating or advertising its business on the territory of other countries.
Is a lie. If you go to their site from a UK address you get offered the chance to pay by mobile phone (UK only). That's operating and advertising as I see it.
It also suffered because there was another way to watch video on the PSP. Without the ability to rip a DVD to the PSP it would have done better I'd imagine. I'd have probably bought a couple for trips rather than just ripping my simpsons dvds.
Commodore Format did the same. But 1995 it was effectively being run as one magazine with Amstrad Action. In mid-1995 they closed Amstrad Action very suddenly (ironically leaving the last issue with the headline 'Publish and be damned!') and the next CF insisted they could survive. Given it shared every staff member with its long dead brother and was by that stage a 24 page magazine for £3.25 we were not surprised to see it die itself 2 months later (although unlike AA it got a farewell issue)
The charge for thing it to stop MS saying "yeah we removed it" when the first time you start word it says "Hey! There's a PDF update! Download it free!"
Which would be exactly like bundling but with 150kb of network traffic.
True (and I'm so tempted to see if a windows version of your example would actually work) but the point is you'll have to live with all malicious code being called a virus because the great unwashed doesn't know any different.
Get used to it. 99.9999% of windows "viruses" are just people dumb enough to go "OOOH LOOK IT SAYS IT'S A SCREENSAVER OF PONNIES!" rather than you know, viruses.
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Other alternative, with any Tom's article in fact, is to append print.html to the url. Then it loads the whole thing pageless.
And at least unlike Apple, MS don't charge full price for every service pack.
1) Find an alternative compatible program, there seems to be 95% coverage of that in linux
2) Vmware
3) Wine
4) If it's only one person that needs auto-CAD, why not have 1 extra machine, a KVM and let them switch as needed. This way you could even keep the Windows PC off the network, solving a lot of its possible problems at a stroke.
4) (the least good) Dual-boot.
I don't use Linux because I have too much that would need 2 and 3, but if it's one program, suck it up man!
Completely agree.
The 1-1 "double" thing even SOUNDS good too. If they could somehow align it to the "sponser a child" thing of them sending you a letter it'd be superb.
Buy yourself a cheap $200 laptop, couple of months later get a letter/picture of the kid in somewhere unpronounceable who got the other one you paid for. Feel great.
I know I'd sign up. My laptop's a sodding P150. That thing could do my word processing and wireless interweb and come on, it's ORANGE!
Charity can move forward by being a little bit commercial in a commercialised world while remembering that "charity" itself isn't quite enough to convince most people any more. This kind of scheme could, and should be a massive successs.
It's nice to have a more functional space program again, isn't it?
:)
Might want to wait to make that assertion
Allofmp3 sell that music legally in Russia, they've been investigated.
Therefore I'm buying music legally in russia.
I refuse to see it as any different than importing a CD from Russia that the police say is legal there.
Which is precisely why I don't want to listen to their opinon on legality.
Exactly. If they want to make stuff like that illegal I'm not listening to their views of what I consider importing goods.
They would want importing a region 1 DVD to be illegal too I'm sure.
Actually that's quite interesting. Let's assume for a moment that this service is fully legal in Russia and fully not legal in the UK.
Would it be legal for you to use it here?
But in the case of GTA : San Andreas and Indigo Prophercy to name but two, the only way US kids can play the real versions of those games is to import them.
So they won't "find a way"
They also say ripping a CD you own is illegal. They've just copy/pasted the RIAA version and probably not even read it.
Presumably you've never imported a CD or DVD from another country then.
I like them, I use them but
2. The Russian site AllOfMP3.com is not operating or advertising its business on the territory of other countries.
Is a lie. If you go to their site from a UK address you get offered the chance to pay by mobile phone (UK only). That's operating and advertising as I see it.
It also suffered because there was another way to watch video on the PSP. Without the ability to rip a DVD to the PSP it would have done better I'd imagine. I'd have probably bought a couple for trips rather than just ripping my simpsons dvds.
Most studios released stuff on minidisk and betamax too.
Possibly.
Commodore Format did the same. But 1995 it was effectively being run as one magazine with Amstrad Action. In mid-1995 they closed Amstrad Action very suddenly (ironically leaving the last issue with the headline 'Publish and be damned!') and the next CF insisted they could survive. Given it shared every staff member with its long dead brother and was by that stage a 24 page magazine for £3.25 we were not surprised to see it die itself 2 months later (although unlike AA it got a farewell issue)
Most of those studios released UMD movies too.
For a while.
You remember wrongly.
I have ST Format's last issue. The headline is "All good things" and they made a big thing of it being the last issue.
But is this a bad thing? Maybe the cinema has outlived its usefulness?
DVDs canabalised the market for VHS too for instance. TV canabalised the market of the theatre to a degree (and probably cinema too come to that).
Wouldn't it just be that maybe, just maybe, we've all outgrown the cinema.
Because obviously there's no message board based support for windows that's free.
For instance there's definately not a wide variety of free forums and Over 2000 free newsgroups or anything.
The charge for thing it to stop MS saying "yeah we removed it" when the first time you start word it says "Hey! There's a PDF update! Download it free!"
Which would be exactly like bundling but with 150kb of network traffic.
Where's the contradiction here? Linksys/Cisco do a reasonable amount of networking of all types.
True (and I'm so tempted to see if a windows version of your example would actually work) but the point is you'll have to live with all malicious code being called a virus because the great unwashed doesn't know any different.
Get used to it. 99.9999% of windows "viruses" are just people dumb enough to go "OOOH LOOK IT SAYS IT'S A SCREENSAVER OF PONNIES!" rather than you know, viruses.
If you're at the wrong kind of workplace, suddenly having porn on your screen is pretty bloody malicious.