Some new "licensed" or "official" content required you have DRM approved connections every step of the way to play it. That means an approved machine, an approved tv, an approved HDMI cable, every single step must be on the "ok to run licensed content" list. The handshaking constantly between them all causes problems - as does any DRM given enough time.
If it's with their consent, I call it the same thing as I call circumcision at that point: body modification with consent.
When it's done with no consent from the person whom the operation is being performed, then it's done to please others, which should be considered something else, perhaps not mutilation.
And your feet look weird, lets shave off that ugly pinky toe.
And why do we have earlobes if we aren't going to wear anything there? Snip those as well.
You're saying parts of the human body look weird, so we should take them off before the person can say otherwise - got it.
This is like going to the snackbar at a movie theater and demanding that they sell steak and lobster otherwise they are censoring you and blocking your freedoms. The hacking is an unrelated issue, China has been hacking everyone for years.
They never sell steak at snack bars. It's not like you're asking for soda and they say they have none, you know there is soda out there but someone is telling the snack bar not to stock it.
Steak and lobster? What search engine do you see your movies at?
I'm half a century old (plus a couple years) and this shit's been going on for longer than I've been alive. Fight it out, get it over with. This silly assed squabble has gotten BORING!! There's never anything new, never any good news, never any peace. Just alternating open warfare, and covert warfare, interspersed with a terrorist attack. Fucking inbred idiots - on BOTH sides!
I hope this is to be taken in jest. While the fighting may have been going on for the larger part of your life doesn't mean people are still dying every day. It's a shitty situation over there but you have to at least realize they are at war, constantly attacking and maiming each other every day. Even if you open up an all-out warfare what good would that do? An entire country napalmed and civilian death tolls in the thousands? You should be thankful that you're not over there having to contribute at ALL to this whole can-o-worms - instead all you have to do is turn off the tv or go to another website if you don't want to read about it.
But yes, it's boring - when is another war going to start?
Many of those people who don't like the new MegaMan games don't like them on the grounds they've added too many options and controls. The new MegaMan games are about action and shooting, the older ones were more about jumping and knowing what was coming next.
And that awful Catch-22 keeps coming up. No games (for some) means they aren't using that OS. If nobody uses that OS, no games will be made for it!
Conundrum!
I can imagine a small portion of those people who bought draft-N know this, they were just tired of waiting while everyone bickered and fought about what should be the final product. I've considered getting a draft-N router because 1.5mb/s really doesn't cut it for trying to stream anything worth watching on a larger screen.
If you pay, are you still forced to listen to music you don't like?
One of the reasons I never used Pandora was that unless I made a new playlist, I couldn't skip songs after a little while.
Pandora may not be the best music solution for you then. Every so often I'll get a song that makes me stop, tab over and hit next, but even some of the more questionable picks will get me to listen through it - I mean the great Pandora overlord picked it, I have to at least see why!
The whole point was to make it so you didn't need any additional plugins or support to get video to play. I know it's a work-around but faking it seems to go against the whole point.
You mustn't allow yourself to be chained to fate, to be ruled by your genes. Human beings can choose the kind of life that they want to live. What's important is that you choose life... and then live.
As much as I'd love to see Microsoft just disappear like that I'm afraid the more realistic (pessimistic?) view is the tag will be pushed back or even worse, just ignored entirely.
I was under the impression that once you validated to B.net it was p2p, meaning if you were all on a LAN then it would just connect using that. And even on a slow connection validating and checking in or whatever it should do can't be that intensive bandwidth wise.
Still don't think it's justified but I don't know enough information about how it actually connects yet.
His reason? "I couldn't get the antivirus to install."
This is why I'm hesitant to suggest / install any linux flavor on my friends' or relatives' computers. I'm the "tech guy" in my circle of friends, the one deemed worthy (or chump enough) to repair "broken" computers. 99% of the problems are spy/adware and windows tomfoolery.
ALL of this can be avoided by switching to linux and firefox. The downside is doing that requires some level of computer knowledge. I'm not talking about knowing how to use your OS, it's more an understanding of how computers work - even on a basic level. I can't explain to my Mom that Windows ISN'T the computer, it's something that helps you use the computer.
"Can't install the antivirus" makes it sound quite like the problems I see. They think the Windows Way(r) is the only way of doing things. So if you download and install a program one way forever, now having to go to Add/Remove Programs (which actually adds!) or worse yet the terminal is going to make some people believe this OS is for hackers and professionals only.
I really want them to stop using Windows, I'm tired of having to explain not every "warning message" they see is real.
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Some new "licensed" or "official" content required you have DRM approved connections every step of the way to play it. That means an approved machine, an approved tv, an approved HDMI cable, every single step must be on the "ok to run licensed content" list. The handshaking constantly between them all causes problems - as does any DRM given enough time.
*whoosh*
If it's with their consent, I call it the same thing as I call circumcision at that point: body modification with consent. When it's done with no consent from the person whom the operation is being performed, then it's done to please others, which should be considered something else, perhaps not mutilation.
And your feet look weird, lets shave off that ugly pinky toe. And why do we have earlobes if we aren't going to wear anything there? Snip those as well. You're saying parts of the human body look weird, so we should take them off before the person can say otherwise - got it.
This is like going to the snackbar at a movie theater and demanding that they sell steak and lobster otherwise they are censoring you and blocking your freedoms. The hacking is an unrelated issue, China has been hacking everyone for years.
They never sell steak at snack bars. It's not like you're asking for soda and they say they have none, you know there is soda out there but someone is telling the snack bar not to stock it. Steak and lobster? What search engine do you see your movies at?
I'm half a century old (plus a couple years) and this shit's been going on for longer than I've been alive. Fight it out, get it over with. This silly assed squabble has gotten BORING!! There's never anything new, never any good news, never any peace. Just alternating open warfare, and covert warfare, interspersed with a terrorist attack. Fucking inbred idiots - on BOTH sides!
I hope this is to be taken in jest. While the fighting may have been going on for the larger part of your life doesn't mean people are still dying every day. It's a shitty situation over there but you have to at least realize they are at war, constantly attacking and maiming each other every day. Even if you open up an all-out warfare what good would that do? An entire country napalmed and civilian death tolls in the thousands? You should be thankful that you're not over there having to contribute at ALL to this whole can-o-worms - instead all you have to do is turn off the tv or go to another website if you don't want to read about it. But yes, it's boring - when is another war going to start?
Many of those people who don't like the new MegaMan games don't like them on the grounds they've added too many options and controls. The new MegaMan games are about action and shooting, the older ones were more about jumping and knowing what was coming next.
And that awful Catch-22 keeps coming up. No games (for some) means they aren't using that OS. If nobody uses that OS, no games will be made for it! Conundrum!
The problem is, "in this economic climate" that second job might be hard to come around.
Maybe if you go to Drugmart or something, as far as I know I've never been offered anything other than my usual plants!
I'm not the target audience for this information but when I have to disable that many features then why even bother using it?
I can imagine a small portion of those people who bought draft-N know this, they were just tired of waiting while everyone bickered and fought about what should be the final product. I've considered getting a draft-N router because 1.5mb/s really doesn't cut it for trying to stream anything worth watching on a larger screen.
If you pay, are you still forced to listen to music you don't like? One of the reasons I never used Pandora was that unless I made a new playlist, I couldn't skip songs after a little while.
Pandora may not be the best music solution for you then. Every so often I'll get a song that makes me stop, tab over and hit next, but even some of the more questionable picks will get me to listen through it - I mean the great Pandora overlord picked it, I have to at least see why!
The whole point was to make it so you didn't need any additional plugins or support to get video to play. I know it's a work-around but faking it seems to go against the whole point.
Brain Surgery: 1. Open head. 2. Fix brain 3. ??? 4. ??? 5. Done!
If a brilliant man who talks like a robot says something - I'm pretty sure I'll listen. It's just THAT cool.
You mustn't allow yourself to be chained to fate, to be ruled by your genes. Human beings can choose the kind of life that they want to live. What's important is that you choose life... and then live.
As much as I'd love to see Microsoft just disappear like that I'm afraid the more realistic (pessimistic?) view is the tag will be pushed back or even worse, just ignored entirely.
I was under the impression that once you validated to B.net it was p2p, meaning if you were all on a LAN then it would just connect using that. And even on a slow connection validating and checking in or whatever it should do can't be that intensive bandwidth wise. Still don't think it's justified but I don't know enough information about how it actually connects yet.
"SHARE" some of those profits maybe...
Took me a second but now I wish I had a few more points to give you.
Compiz is a pretty tasty looking label.
His reason? "I couldn't get the antivirus to install."
This is why I'm hesitant to suggest / install any linux flavor on my friends' or relatives' computers. I'm the "tech guy" in my circle of friends, the one deemed worthy (or chump enough) to repair "broken" computers. 99% of the problems are spy/adware and windows tomfoolery.
ALL of this can be avoided by switching to linux and firefox. The downside is doing that requires some level of computer knowledge. I'm not talking about knowing how to use your OS, it's more an understanding of how computers work - even on a basic level. I can't explain to my Mom that Windows ISN'T the computer, it's something that helps you use the computer.
"Can't install the antivirus" makes it sound quite like the problems I see. They think the Windows Way(r) is the only way of doing things. So if you download and install a program one way forever, now having to go to Add/Remove Programs (which actually adds!) or worse yet the terminal is going to make some people believe this OS is for hackers and professionals only.
I really want them to stop using Windows, I'm tired of having to explain not every "warning message" they see is real.
..as if millions of good ideas suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Can you name one time this didn't completely halve a user base? Charging even a penny would put massive dents in the amount of people that visit.