The thing that gets me is that PC games are almost an afterthought to most companies. Take for example, the latest Rainbow six series. The controls are designed for simple console control. The number of keys required to command complex squads are too many for the console so they just don't have them. It's much more action packed rather than strategic. Take also, Assassin's creed. The control is also obviously made for a console. I feel dumb, really dumb, playing these games. They are fun, button meshing games, but not much more than that. PC games are now PORTS of console versions whereas years ago it would be the other way around.
So why didn't YOU call EA and tell them you want your 4th computer to be activated? Why did you decide to use the crack? Obviously YOU don't want to deal with the hassle of calling EA so why tell others that they should do the right thing and call? You don't agree with them, so why pay your money to continue supporting them? I wish you had pirated the game instead of paying for a copy and then cracking it.
And what happens when they release a patch? You can't install it or else the game will phone home again. So you go and find a crack for the patch, and so on and so forth. Not to mention some patches contain spyware and malware that installs backdoors so your computer turns into a zombie (not saying that yours has one, but still, could...)
It's the same behavior on Vista. It won't let me update windows defender, replaces my desktop screen with black, and has that "your copy of windows is not genuine". Lovely. For people pirating Windows XP, look for the corporate edition so your copy will pass WGA test without cracks. For vista lovers, well, even a corporate edition will require activation so I don't know the solution there.
Running unverified cracks from the web is like having sex with a prostitute without protection - don't do it. Your computer will end up with a funny itch.
They can't either. Their whole anti-trust argument was that the ie browser is somehow interwoven into the operating system somehow and couldn't be separated. If they provided IE for linux it would obviously prove that it was bullshit, which we all know was.
who does the moon belong to? I certainly don't want the US to start mining the moon and then have a world war erupt over the right to mine it from the Chinese, Russian, or whoever.
more expensive = more pirating -> macosx activation.
No, I believe Apple has another trick up its sleeves. There were recent rumors that Apple will not go with Intel chipset, only the CPUs in the future. This could mean that they are buying or designing a chipset that noone else has for their next gen computers. This will make it impossible to run OSX on anything other than apple hardware.
chinese women tend to look younger than they really are. Think of it as a plus.
think of the disgrace brought upon the chinese, the host country, if what you said is true and is exposed by some creditable source? gymnastics is one of the strongest program the chinese has. I don't think they would risk it.
software design/development is number 2. So does that mean programmers are pretty recession proof? Does this mean IT does not encompass programmers? Then what is IT? I'm more suspect of the finding than anything. I thought doctors are pretty recession proof but it's not on that list.
AMD/ATI's Linux driver has been open source, released at the same time as their windows driver for sometime now, compared to nVidia's linux drivers which are still closed source and is a pain to get installed.
I think that misconception needs to die, and die yesterday.
-what-/the/ _fuck_ \is\ [up] =with= ~people~ >using> MOTHERFUCKING _weird_ -delimiters- for -emphasis-?! What happened to good ol' MOTHERFUCKING CAPS!?
I shoot with a Nikon D50. It's an old DSLR, but takes all Nikon lenses and it was cheap on the used market. After I got the camera I did some tests to see how good the jpeg engine is. I shot RAW and jpeg then converted the RAW to jpeg in Lightroom and compared to the jpeg from the camera. Result was I found a big difference in quality. The jpeg from the camera had more artifacts and the colors looked washed out. Consequently I have been shooting RAW and let my computer with Lightroom handle the jpeg conversion in post process. I've been very happy with that decision ever since.
You comment is just smug, but I don't know how to refute it. I didn't go to a four year college.
I think if you want to learn you have to do it yourself. Going to classes, or attending school don't make you learn. You learn by questioning things, thinking, and being your own researcher. But you go to school because there are things people have already figured out and all you have to do it absorb it and build on it. Think about how inefficient it would be if you had to reinvent rules of physics or a new computer language just so you could get on to what you want to do. Schools are there to disseminate knowledge, so a factory model isn't really all that bad.
If you really want to do some original thinking, find a job that allows for that, or go to grad school. Hell, even grad school now-a-days I'm not so sure are promoting original thinking, but mostly just grad students doing work for their professors and then write about it later.
you mean/. ing is better than myspacing??? sweet! Surely there is an overabundance of insightful posts like yours to make this a much better way to spend my time than e-stalking cute girls!!!1
I introduce myself as a software programmer. Every once in a while I have people call me up and ask me why is my computer not starting up, etc. Even though that's not what I do, I just happen to have an interest in fixing them that I am generally helpful in some way.
where am I going with this???
And I suspect if they included all those real-world lessons that we'll see far less CS graduates, from the sheer boredom. But I wish they had included those courses in my CS curriculum because now I would be doing something else, other than programming. I realized after I started working that programming for a small semester project is very different from programming in the real world and if I had gotten the entire picture I would have said, "this looks interesting, but there is too much stuff other than programming that I have to do that I absolutely don't care about... I think I will pass." But of course not too much highly ranked CS departments will allow this because it's not theoretical enough.
I think this is also why there are so many open source programmers, because their day job just don't allow them to do what they love, or they don't have a significant role.
Um... why would Intel care about radiation hardened manufacturing for it's next fab? This stuff is purely for application in space, like in satellites and rovers. The electronics on them are exposed to space radiation and unless properly factored into, the hardware could fail. Projects with more funding probably use custom chips that are fabbed using older processes that result in less densely packed transistors so that the chance of a cosmic particle striking and damaging a transistor is reduced.
On the other hand, Intel wants to make things smaller, pack more cores into an area, so it's not going to care about the radiation hardened stuff, unless the Ozone melts again or something.
a little off topic, but...
I know to write new code do things YOUR way is much more pleasant than maintaining old code, but where I work (for $$$), that would never be an option. Application is pushing 10 years old and we add new features to it. Then we run tests to make sure we didn't break things. Just as you may think you are really smart for being able to rewrite X from scratch with your implementation, and possibly throw out stuff that you don't care about, I think to be able to understand old code and then add stuff on top of it and take ownership of it takes quite a bit of ingenuity and intelligence too.
Absolutely.
Sugar, the interface is not that snappy, but it should appeal to kids, which is what this program _WAS_ all about. Sugar was also designed for mesh networking with other OLPCS to share videos, tam tam projects, codes, writing, whatever. With XP, you would lose the mesh network feature and now have to navigate network through network explorer?? I don't think that's a win. Clearly having XP available for OLPC means western consumers can actually use one. I am actually looking forward to getting XP on mine so I can use it. I don't care about hacking on Sugar anymore.
Maybe OLPC is trying to survive... generate revenue through western consumers with XP machines to continue R&D but ship Linux versions to 3rd world countries. I hope so, but I don't know.
But back to my original topic: Why has Apple been silent? Sometimes inaction speaks as loudly as action. In the case of Apple, who gloriously donated thousands of Macs to schools in the US, they could've ported OSX to it easily (look at the iPhone). They could've saved the project and be seen as a savior. I think most people here would prefer OSX on it than XP, am I right, even though they are both closed. Of course, it would eat away at Apple's high margins and no, we don't want that.
I think it all comes down to is all corporations are financially motivated. Apple and Microsoft aren't all that different, although they acted differently in this case.
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Right on.
The thing that gets me is that PC games are almost an afterthought to most companies. Take for example, the latest Rainbow six series. The controls are designed for simple console control. The number of keys required to command complex squads are too many for the console so they just don't have them. It's much more action packed rather than strategic. Take also, Assassin's creed. The control is also obviously made for a console. I feel dumb, really dumb, playing these games. They are fun, button meshing games, but not much more than that. PC games are now PORTS of console versions whereas years ago it would be the other way around.
So why didn't YOU call EA and tell them you want your 4th computer to be activated? Why did you decide to use the crack? Obviously YOU don't want to deal with the hassle of calling EA so why tell others that they should do the right thing and call? You don't agree with them, so why pay your money to continue supporting them? I wish you had pirated the game instead of paying for a copy and then cracking it.
And what happens when they release a patch? You can't install it or else the game will phone home again. So you go and find a crack for the patch, and so on and so forth. Not to mention some patches contain spyware and malware that installs backdoors so your computer turns into a zombie (not saying that yours has one, but still, could...)
It's the same behavior on Vista. It won't let me update windows defender, replaces my desktop screen with black, and has that "your copy of windows is not genuine". Lovely. For people pirating Windows XP, look for the corporate edition so your copy will pass WGA test without cracks. For vista lovers, well, even a corporate edition will require activation so I don't know the solution there.
Running unverified cracks from the web is like having sex with a prostitute without protection - don't do it. Your computer will end up with a funny itch.
They can't either. Their whole anti-trust argument was that the ie browser is somehow interwoven into the operating system somehow and couldn't be separated. If they provided IE for linux it would obviously prove that it was bullshit, which we all know was.
*microsoft engineer*: one resource-hogging plug-in is enough, the server can't hold up much longer as it is!
who does the moon belong to? I certainly don't want the US to start mining the moon and then have a world war erupt over the right to mine it from the Chinese, Russian, or whoever.
more expensive = more pirating -> macosx activation.
No, I believe Apple has another trick up its sleeves. There were recent rumors that Apple will not go with Intel chipset, only the CPUs in the future. This could mean that they are buying or designing a chipset that noone else has for their next gen computers. This will make it impossible to run OSX on anything other than apple hardware.
chinese women tend to look younger than they really are. Think of it as a plus.
think of the disgrace brought upon the chinese, the host country, if what you said is true and is exposed by some creditable source? gymnastics is one of the strongest program the chinese has. I don't think they would risk it.
software design/development is number 2. So does that mean programmers are pretty recession proof? Does this mean IT does not encompass programmers? Then what is IT? I'm more suspect of the finding than anything. I thought doctors are pretty recession proof but it's not on that list.
this balloon was used to contain gas, not liquid.
AMD/ATI's Linux driver has been open source, released at the same time as their windows driver for sometime now, compared to nVidia's linux drivers which are still closed source and is a pain to get installed. I think that misconception needs to die, and die yesterday.
-what- /the/ _fuck_ \is\ [up] =with= ~people~ >using> MOTHERFUCKING _weird_ -delimiters- for -emphasis-?! What happened to good ol' MOTHERFUCKING CAPS!?
I shoot with a Nikon D50. It's an old DSLR, but takes all Nikon lenses and it was cheap on the used market. After I got the camera I did some tests to see how good the jpeg engine is. I shot RAW and jpeg then converted the RAW to jpeg in Lightroom and compared to the jpeg from the camera. Result was I found a big difference in quality. The jpeg from the camera had more artifacts and the colors looked washed out. Consequently I have been shooting RAW and let my computer with Lightroom handle the jpeg conversion in post process. I've been very happy with that decision ever since.
but I still can't afford one.
You comment is just smug, but I don't know how to refute it. I didn't go to a four year college.
I think if you want to learn you have to do it yourself. Going to classes, or attending school don't make you learn. You learn by questioning things, thinking, and being your own researcher. But you go to school because there are things people have already figured out and all you have to do it absorb it and build on it. Think about how inefficient it would be if you had to reinvent rules of physics or a new computer language just so you could get on to what you want to do. Schools are there to disseminate knowledge, so a factory model isn't really all that bad.
If you really want to do some original thinking, find a job that allows for that, or go to grad school. Hell, even grad school now-a-days I'm not so sure are promoting original thinking, but mostly just grad students doing work for their professors and then write about it later.
you mean /. ing is better than myspacing??? sweet! Surely there is an overabundance of insightful posts like yours to make this a much better way to spend my time than e-stalking cute girls!!!1
I introduce myself as a software programmer. Every once in a while I have people call me up and ask me why is my computer not starting up, etc. Even though that's not what I do, I just happen to have an interest in fixing them that I am generally helpful in some way. where am I going with this???
And I suspect if they included all those real-world lessons that we'll see far less CS graduates, from the sheer boredom. But I wish they had included those courses in my CS curriculum because now I would be doing something else, other than programming. I realized after I started working that programming for a small semester project is very different from programming in the real world and if I had gotten the entire picture I would have said, "this looks interesting, but there is too much stuff other than programming that I have to do that I absolutely don't care about... I think I will pass." But of course not too much highly ranked CS departments will allow this because it's not theoretical enough.
I think this is also why there are so many open source programmers, because their day job just don't allow them to do what they love, or they don't have a significant role.
Um... why would Intel care about radiation hardened manufacturing for it's next fab? This stuff is purely for application in space, like in satellites and rovers. The electronics on them are exposed to space radiation and unless properly factored into, the hardware could fail. Projects with more funding probably use custom chips that are fabbed using older processes that result in less densely packed transistors so that the chance of a cosmic particle striking and damaging a transistor is reduced.
On the other hand, Intel wants to make things smaller, pack more cores into an area, so it's not going to care about the radiation hardened stuff, unless the Ozone melts again or something.
a little off topic, but... I know to write new code do things YOUR way is much more pleasant than maintaining old code, but where I work (for $$$), that would never be an option. Application is pushing 10 years old and we add new features to it. Then we run tests to make sure we didn't break things. Just as you may think you are really smart for being able to rewrite X from scratch with your implementation, and possibly throw out stuff that you don't care about, I think to be able to understand old code and then add stuff on top of it and take ownership of it takes quite a bit of ingenuity and intelligence too.
Absolutely. Sugar, the interface is not that snappy, but it should appeal to kids, which is what this program _WAS_ all about. Sugar was also designed for mesh networking with other OLPCS to share videos, tam tam projects, codes, writing, whatever. With XP, you would lose the mesh network feature and now have to navigate network through network explorer?? I don't think that's a win. Clearly having XP available for OLPC means western consumers can actually use one. I am actually looking forward to getting XP on mine so I can use it. I don't care about hacking on Sugar anymore. Maybe OLPC is trying to survive... generate revenue through western consumers with XP machines to continue R&D but ship Linux versions to 3rd world countries. I hope so, but I don't know. But back to my original topic: Why has Apple been silent? Sometimes inaction speaks as loudly as action. In the case of Apple, who gloriously donated thousands of Macs to schools in the US, they could've ported OSX to it easily (look at the iPhone). They could've saved the project and be seen as a savior. I think most people here would prefer OSX on it than XP, am I right, even though they are both closed. Of course, it would eat away at Apple's high margins and no, we don't want that. I think it all comes down to is all corporations are financially motivated. Apple and Microsoft aren't all that different, although they acted differently in this case.
do you have a link to the basejumping video on youtube?? thanks.
really? I use google talk and I don't see what you are talking about. elaborate?
I'm 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Italian, you insensitive clod!