Funny. When I develop applications its usually my fee as senior architect, a handful of mid to juniors, a couple of blokes doing QA/testing/tech writing, and someone that looks good in a suit to keep the clients away from my team.
All up you are looking at the best part of a million dollars to develop anything "serious". The cost of licensing MS products is bugger all in comparison.
As for smaller shops banging together basic sharepoint crap, I'm sure you are aware that a license for Small Business Server is a couple of hundred bucks.
And don't start whinging about CAL's either. They're like $50 a seat, and that seat is at a desk, upon which is a $1500 computer.
Get some fucking business sense before you start whinging about the costs and lock-in. If the tool is too expensive, then its not for you and you don't need it. Get the baby edition for small players.
The MOD must demand from it's subcontractors a certain level of service, and be responsible for it. "Well it wasn't our fault, it was that guy" doesn't cut it when it comes to state secrets.
Get better subcontractors next time or DIY, retards.
Kadenshi has already given you a well reasoned reply, completely free of ad-homienems and other totally awesome methods of debate that the wikipedia generation tends to frown on.
Best part about that is being high level in say Combat Magic and then pulling out a bow and plugging an arrow into a high level enemy. The result on your stats is like:
*whock*... "Oh thats how you use this thing".... Brrrrrr.tika.tik.tik.tik (+5 levels to Ranged Combat).
besides MS has shown its willing to please content providers over consumers disallowing recording of certain content
Name the "certain content". What magical "certain content" does MS block from recording but other companies can record without getting "the crap sued out of them"? I thought so. Back in your box.
I agree on the DRM issue though. I've watched DRM'd movie rentals from the Bigpond Movies store in vista media center. I was playing with media center, noticed the store and really wanted to watch Top Gun (guess that makes me a fag). It was $3.20 for a month of Cruise trying to get up Kilmar's ass. Sue me:(
My windows media center box does that now... with the remote, and the buying and selling, and the bsods. It also does TV, epg, timeshifting, etc. Its also a laptop with a $90 usb dvb-t dongle so I can pick it up and take it on a plane. And apart from installing the crappy korean drivers for the dongle, it all worked out the damn box.
Also full length movies are only like 30c more expensive than the local rental joint (probably less than the fuel cost to get there), and you DRM-Rent them for a month or so.
Oh I see, the reality distortion field, we're not _calling_ it a "computer", we're going to pretend theres not one and call it an "internet tv". Way to innovate, Jobs! GO APPLE!
Then add your own external manifest file, or turn off this behaviour. Hell I wish more setup programs caused UAC to trigger... its a pain in the ass ending up with a half-fucked virtualized install.
Or you could run them from an elevated command prompt. Sheesh, the installer API has been in Windows for almost ten fucking years now. If you want to half-bake your own stupid xcopy installer, dont be surprised that it doesnt work.
Theres also a bloody option for this behaviour somewhere. Complaining about default settings that work for 95% of the target audience makes you look like a retard.
A study would be nice wouldn't it? There isn't one.
So I guess we will have to go on common fucking sense? Theres a whole bunch of articles that note a slight net decline in sales (per track) as people move from CDs to digital distribution. Common sense would attribute that to people not wanting a whole bunch of filler and the "Radio Edit" that usually comes with a whole album.
Basic logic would then suggest that if sales aren't being impacted by piracy, then the pirated tracks are not supplanting purchases.
Common fucking sense would tell you that your mates would never have purchased that 100 gig mp3 collection.
Dolt? Retard? You, sir, are a cunt. You are trolling around with your retarded dissenting opinion, ignoring any information avaliable, and bleating "more studies are needed".
So again: College students won't spend thousands of bucks on CDs. They don't have thousands of bucks. Retard.
- It's an automatic prompt on some applications (i.e. anything called Setup.exe triggers UAC even when it isn't required.)
Good thing. Otherwise your setup process might end up triggering off virtualization instead of UAC. Elevation helps older setup programs work.
- If you block UAC on some programs, the program doesn't even attempt to run. In some cases, this is inappropriate since the program in question doesn't require those additional privilages or is semi-capable of running without them.
Then that program should come with a manifest file which describes this requirement. Either your program is written badly, or you haven't finished "configuring the UAC" for it by writing a manifest.
You are increasing complexity of a key security system in order to play nicely with apps that aren't working properly.
Bugger it. Theres HKCU for that reason. If it really needs to play with the LM key, well the installer could set the goddamn ACL to allow access.
You also miss the point on how elevation works. You elevate the process, and once elevated it can do what it wants. Adding fine grained elevation would be a very complex undertaking. Arguably it should be like that. Can you imagine your UAC box for Windows Update? "Update wants to change these 50 pages of files!" Cancel or Allow?
If I've installed some NerglePlus which promises to give me improved snerd nergling and I run the damn thing and it pops UAC in my face, then it gets the fucking boot. I couldn't care less how "harmlessly" its going to use admin rights for, it doesnt need them for what its doing, it can fuck off, and theres plenty of other options out there.
It was well labelled. It even came with a note. Apparantly with some effort for keybinding I would be able to make it urinate *and* ejaculate. Also it was "compatible" with someones sex animation system, or whatever the hell.
I did put it on, scale it to around 12 foot long, and go walk around IBM SOA island for a while, while their foreign outsourced builders told me to "Please wear off that penis".
So I guess the moral of the story is that there is an objective to SL, trolling. I think I won, because I got booted by IBM:P
Theres just something inside my rather well-developed brain that screams out "dressing up as animals and fucking each other is not right". Logic suggests the only reason real foxes aren't being fucked is because people would have their cocks bitten off.
Its like a giant cult of bestiality, with a reaction on par with the scientologists when you let them know they are a bunch of loonies.
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Fuck. That was meant to be a reply to #25343419 :(
Funny. When I develop applications its usually my fee as senior architect, a handful of mid to juniors, a couple of blokes doing QA/testing/tech writing, and someone that looks good in a suit to keep the clients away from my team.
All up you are looking at the best part of a million dollars to develop anything "serious". The cost of licensing MS products is bugger all in comparison.
As for smaller shops banging together basic sharepoint crap, I'm sure you are aware that a license for Small Business Server is a couple of hundred bucks.
And don't start whinging about CAL's either. They're like $50 a seat, and that seat is at a desk, upon which is a $1500 computer.
Get some fucking business sense before you start whinging about the costs and lock-in. If the tool is too expensive, then its not for you and you don't need it. Get the baby edition for small players.
Quality is irrelevant to whether the company is dying or not.
Ah ok, so Geeks will inherit ass. My bad ;)
Vista Home Premium on my old primary laptop, hooked up to my TV.
Im venting on the Apple fanbois touting this as an "innovation".
What other companies can circumvent that *cough* mechanism without getting sued. Your PVR box will respect that flag too.
Undoubtably Apple's product will do the same.
Exactly, $MusicLabel aside, its hard to blame Walmart for trying. Same territory as blaming MS/Apple for including DRM support in their products.
I'd include Sony in that bunch, but they have content as well, so I don't think they are strictly being forced down the DRM route too hard :P
The MOD must demand from it's subcontractors a certain level of service, and be responsible for it. "Well it wasn't our fault, it was that guy" doesn't cut it when it comes to state secrets.
Get better subcontractors next time or DIY, retards.
Kadenshi has already given you a well reasoned reply, completely free of ad-homienems and other totally awesome methods of debate that the wikipedia generation tends to frown on.
For myself, I am going to call you a cunt.
You are a cunt.
You are thinking of Dungeon Siege.
Best part about that is being high level in say Combat Magic and then pulling out a bow and plugging an arrow into a high level enemy. The result on your stats is like:
*whock*... "Oh thats how you use this thing".... Brrrrrr.tika.tik.tik.tik (+5 levels to Ranged Combat).
Yeah, apart from the penis, a lot like a sorceress.
I mean "MOLTAR'S GREAT HARDWOOD STAFF OF THE BEAR" (+3 Bludgeoning).
Name the "certain content". What magical "certain content" does MS block from recording but other companies can record without getting "the crap sued out of them"? I thought so. Back in your box.
I agree on the DRM issue though. I've watched DRM'd movie rentals from the Bigpond Movies store in vista media center. I was playing with media center, noticed the store and really wanted to watch Top Gun (guess that makes me a fag). It was $3.20 for a month of Cruise trying to get up Kilmar's ass. Sue me :(
Yeah wait what?
My windows media center box does that now... with the remote, and the buying and selling, and the bsods. It also does TV, epg, timeshifting, etc. Its also a laptop with a $90 usb dvb-t dongle so I can pick it up and take it on a plane. And apart from installing the crappy korean drivers for the dongle, it all worked out the damn box.
Also full length movies are only like 30c more expensive than the local rental joint (probably less than the fuel cost to get there), and you DRM-Rent them for a month or so.
Oh I see, the reality distortion field, we're not _calling_ it a "computer", we're going to pretend theres not one and call it an "internet tv". Way to innovate, Jobs! GO APPLE!
Playboy: Models with tits out composing a further model with tits out.
Google: Kids bricks composing a shitty flower.
Geeks will inherit the earth my ass.
Then add your own external manifest file, or turn off this behaviour. Hell I wish more setup programs caused UAC to trigger... its a pain in the ass ending up with a half-fucked virtualized install.
Or you could run them from an elevated command prompt. Sheesh, the installer API has been in Windows for almost ten fucking years now. If you want to half-bake your own stupid xcopy installer, dont be surprised that it doesnt work.
Theres also a bloody option for this behaviour somewhere. Complaining about default settings that work for 95% of the target audience makes you look like a retard.
A study would be nice wouldn't it? There isn't one.
So I guess we will have to go on common fucking sense? Theres a whole bunch of articles that note a slight net decline in sales (per track) as people move from CDs to digital distribution. Common sense would attribute that to people not wanting a whole bunch of filler and the "Radio Edit" that usually comes with a whole album.
Basic logic would then suggest that if sales aren't being impacted by piracy, then the pirated tracks are not supplanting purchases.
Common fucking sense would tell you that your mates would never have purchased that 100 gig mp3 collection.
Dolt? Retard? You, sir, are a cunt. You are trolling around with your retarded dissenting opinion, ignoring any information avaliable, and bleating "more studies are needed".
So again: College students won't spend thousands of bucks on CDs. They don't have thousands of bucks. Retard.
Good thing. Otherwise your setup process might end up triggering off virtualization instead of UAC. Elevation helps older setup programs work.
Then that program should come with a manifest file which describes this requirement. Either your program is written badly, or you haven't finished "configuring the UAC" for it by writing a manifest.
It is pretty dumb though.
Set your own account to admin. You still get UAC boxes and have to elevate to do any damage, and you don't need to type your password.
You only get asked for the admin password if your account doesnt have the perms...
Bad idea.
You are increasing complexity of a key security system in order to play nicely with apps that aren't working properly.
Bugger it. Theres HKCU for that reason. If it really needs to play with the LM key, well the installer could set the goddamn ACL to allow access.
You also miss the point on how elevation works. You elevate the process, and once elevated it can do what it wants. Adding fine grained elevation would be a very complex undertaking. Arguably it should be like that. Can you imagine your UAC box for Windows Update? "Update wants to change these 50 pages of files!" Cancel or Allow?
It adds nothing.
Who gives a freaking toss?
If I've installed some NerglePlus which promises to give me improved snerd nergling and I run the damn thing and it pops UAC in my face, then it gets the fucking boot. I couldn't care less how "harmlessly" its going to use admin rights for, it doesnt need them for what its doing, it can fuck off, and theres plenty of other options out there.
It was well labelled. It even came with a note. Apparantly with some effort for keybinding I would be able to make it urinate *and* ejaculate. Also it was "compatible" with someones sex animation system, or whatever the hell.
I did put it on, scale it to around 12 foot long, and go walk around IBM SOA island for a while, while their foreign outsourced builders told me to "Please wear off that penis".
So I guess the moral of the story is that there is an objective to SL, trolling. I think I won, because I got booted by IBM :P
That would be the failure. The gentlemen over at NASA would agree with me.
Theres just something inside my rather well-developed brain that screams out "dressing up as animals and fucking each other is not right". Logic suggests the only reason real foxes aren't being fucked is because people would have their cocks bitten off.
Its like a giant cult of bestiality, with a reaction on par with the scientologists when you let them know they are a bunch of loonies.
{citation needed}
I mean seriously last time I installed this there was a "Virtual Badger Dick" lying on the ground at the first random place I went to...