I'm a windows power user... i'm also a linux power user, it's not exactly hard to learn how to use another OS, especially nowadays where everything you need to know is in forums posted all over the net.
"2.) The RIAA is a convenient scapegoat to distract everyone and make them forget you're ripping off the humans who made the music."
because the RIAA never tried to rip off a musician before...
OS X is only "stable" because most trojans/malware/viruses target the OS with the biggest market share... if OS X starts getting a bigger chunk of the pie more and more trojans/malware/viruses will be written for it and Apple won't be able to keep up with security patches, hell they aren't even keeping up now... still haven't fixed the DNS flaw, have they?
drugs are the problem in the world today as far as I'm concerned... it wasn't totally a joke, I do find it very hard to focus on mundane tasks (especially when plodding through some code I don't really want to be debugging... like right now actually:D ), so i have to find ways to keep my brain interested.
once you are hooked on the drugs getting off them can be a very difficult ordeal, my brother was on anti-depressants for a year even though he wasn't really that depressed to begin with. It took him a long time to ween himself off of them because going cold turkey would have sent him into a depression spiral that would have been far worse than his original condition. A friend of ours went cold turkey after being on them and ended up being commited for 2 weeks because her mind couldn't cope without the anti-depresants any more.
if this were true then my redhat 6 box would've sucked and always crashed back in the day... but it didn't, the only time it ever got rebooted was when there was a power out
you might feel differently if you were out the front at the time wearing nothing but a towel which had just unraveled itself, leaving your exposed genitalia on google street view for millions of people to see
another problem with an online account is you can't resell the product once your done with it, even if you buy a physical copy of the game. Of course, you could sell your entire account, but then you'd have to sell all games that are linked to that account.
And if game devs think that resale shouldn't be allowed then they can go f*** themselves. If I can sell used furniture, why can't I sell used CDs. If the games were licenced as a "loan" or subscription model then they could argue against resale... but if that were the case I wouldn't be willing to pay nearly as much for a game.
when it all comes down to it pirating is just so much easier and hassle-free... no need to insert the disc to play, no need to be connected to the web in order to start your game (ie how steam works).
If a game is really good value and really enjoyable I'll pay for it, the last game i bought was the Orange box, the next game I buy will be fallout 3.
seems to me he was charging for the service of installing vista, not charging them for vista, hence why he'd only do it "if they were a college student", because they apparently got the licence for free from the college.
not everyone in this world can install an operating system in their sleep.
they've put unskipable ads on a lot of dvds as well, which is why the first thing I do with any dvd I get is open it up in dvdShrink and strip out that crap then burn my "backup"
my old 56k modem won't work with XP... as I found out when my dsl router died and I tried to connect to the web via the old beast, hunted and hunted for drivers and none worked. so i plugged it into a linux box and bang, it just worked.
small businesses don't want to spend $2k on hardware just to run vista, small businesses would probably not want to spend more than $400 on a pc to run quickbooks and MS Office.
FTFA:
"Aren't they supposed to be held in the spirit of freedom and openness?
Not in China."
yeah, blame china... The IOC doesn't have a track record for sending takedown notices / sueing to people displaying anything remotely Olympic branded: http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/ioc_sues_website_using_olympics_logos_552593 http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-7217512_ITM
the IOC are just as bad as the MAFIIA, but they've got a perfect scapegoat to trial DRM this time around because the West aren't big fans of china as it is, so the IOC spin doctors say "we didn't want drm" publicly, while privately supporting the concept./rant
if Linux is excrement, and OSX is based off of BSD which has a lot of ties with Linux... then OSX is like a turd dropping a turd? or perhaps you'd prefer the delusion that it's a polished turd?
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I'm a windows power user... i'm also a linux power user, it's not exactly hard to learn how to use another OS, especially nowadays where everything you need to know is in forums posted all over the net.
"2.) The RIAA is a convenient scapegoat to distract everyone and make them forget you're ripping off the humans who made the music." because the RIAA never tried to rip off a musician before...
Bad luck. you won't be able to sue anyone on this planet.
by using metrics of course
OS X is only "stable" because most trojans/malware/viruses target the OS with the biggest market share... if OS X starts getting a bigger chunk of the pie more and more trojans/malware/viruses will be written for it and Apple won't be able to keep up with security patches, hell they aren't even keeping up now... still haven't fixed the DNS flaw, have they?
drugs are the problem in the world today as far as I'm concerned... it wasn't totally a joke, I do find it very hard to focus on mundane tasks (especially when plodding through some code I don't really want to be debugging... like right now actually :D ), so i have to find ways to keep my brain interested.
once you are hooked on the drugs getting off them can be a very difficult ordeal, my brother was on anti-depressants for a year even though he wasn't really that depressed to begin with. It took him a long time to ween himself off of them because going cold turkey would have sent him into a depression spiral that would have been far worse than his original condition. A friend of ours went cold turkey after being on them and ended up being commited for 2 weeks because her mind couldn't cope without the anti-depresants any more.
I don't know why this got modded redundant... I find it hard to believe that a moderator wouldn't understand a regex joke when they saw one.
...or at least a robot that is powered by human blood and fear
...or from hanging out the side of your speedos
you just described my typical behaviour... but I've never been diagnosed with ADD, I just have a short... ooh a penny!
isn't this exactly how the jewellery industry works?
if this were true then my redhat 6 box would've sucked and always crashed back in the day... but it didn't, the only time it ever got rebooted was when there was a power out
you might feel differently if you were out the front at the time wearing nothing but a towel which had just unraveled itself, leaving your exposed genitalia on google street view for millions of people to see
the internet isn't a myth, it was create by al gore.
I've also been manbearpig hunting and those things are not pretty.
another problem with an online account is you can't resell the product once your done with it, even if you buy a physical copy of the game. Of course, you could sell your entire account, but then you'd have to sell all games that are linked to that account. And if game devs think that resale shouldn't be allowed then they can go f*** themselves. If I can sell used furniture, why can't I sell used CDs. If the games were licenced as a "loan" or subscription model then they could argue against resale... but if that were the case I wouldn't be willing to pay nearly as much for a game. when it all comes down to it pirating is just so much easier and hassle-free... no need to insert the disc to play, no need to be connected to the web in order to start your game (ie how steam works). If a game is really good value and really enjoyable I'll pay for it, the last game i bought was the Orange box, the next game I buy will be fallout 3.
seems to me he was charging for the service of installing vista, not charging them for vista, hence why he'd only do it "if they were a college student", because they apparently got the licence for free from the college.
not everyone in this world can install an operating system in their sleep.
they've put unskipable ads on a lot of dvds as well, which is why the first thing I do with any dvd I get is open it up in dvdShrink and strip out that crap then burn my "backup"
... or sends mars landers plummeting to the surface at break neck speeds :)
my old 56k modem won't work with XP... as I found out when my dsl router died and I tried to connect to the web via the old beast, hunted and hunted for drivers and none worked. so i plugged it into a linux box and bang, it just worked.
small businesses don't want to spend $2k on hardware just to run vista, small businesses would probably not want to spend more than $400 on a pc to run quickbooks and MS Office.
FTFA: /rant
"Aren't they supposed to be held in the spirit of freedom and openness?
Not in China."
yeah, blame china... The IOC doesn't have a track record for sending takedown notices / sueing to people displaying anything remotely Olympic branded:
http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/ioc_sues_website_using_olympics_logos_552593
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-7217512_ITM
the IOC are just as bad as the MAFIIA, but they've got a perfect scapegoat to trial DRM this time around because the West aren't big fans of china as it is, so the IOC spin doctors say "we didn't want drm" publicly, while privately supporting the concept.
whoops, posted in the wrong article
FTFA:
/rant
"Arenâ(TM)t they supposed to be held in the spirit of freedom and openness?
Not in China."
yeah, blame china... The IOC doesn't have a track record for sending takedown notices / sueing to people displaying anything remotely Olympic branded:
http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/ioc_sues_website_using_olympics_logos_552593
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-7217512_ITM
the IOC are just as bad as the MAFIIA, but they've got a perfect scapegoat to trial DRM this time around because the West aren't big fans of china as it is, so the IOC spin doctors say "we didn't want drm" publicly, while privately supporting the concept.
if Linux is excrement, and OSX is based off of BSD which has a lot of ties with Linux... then OSX is like a turd dropping a turd? or perhaps you'd prefer the delusion that it's a polished turd?
I stayed on Server 2K until XP SP2, it wasn't quite as game friendly but it was a lot more stable than XP before SP2