I don't think any sane person can believe that Linux supports the same range of hardware that Windows does, especially in the graphics department.
I agree totally with you. I just wish they'd stop breaking stuff that did work with their constant fiddling. The problem with Linux distributions is that some of the contributors just don't know when they've actually finished something and will take something that was working perfectly well and then break it. Because of the piss poor quality control, those bugs then get through to distro releases.
Please tell me how often you've had to activate your Windows installation after the first time, re-installs excluded?
Hell, if it's a pre-activated installation ala Dell etc, you won't even have to have activated it as it's been done for you. So to say it's constantly harrassing you is just pure bullshit.
Actually it was proven in court that you can. However, take a Linux distribution that uses Gnome or KDE as the default installed desktop and try removing Nautilus or Konqueror (yes Nautilus is a web browser) and you'll find the package manager sticks gnome-desktop or kde-desktop in the list of packages that are also uninstalled.
Average linux/BSD distro, MacOS X, Solaris, etc - comes with a browser, allows you to install others, will not break if you remove the bundled browser,
You what? Last time I tried to uninstall Nautilus or Konqueror, the package manager listed Gnome and KDE desktop under the list of other packages to be removed. And can you show me where Windows doesn't allow me to install another browser or set it as the default? Hell, you can even remove every shortcut to IE if you want.
MS "systems" have lacked and still lack a unified, easy to use package management system such as have been available elsewhere for years. APT is probably one of the oldest and best examples, and there are abundant graphical front-ends. Lacking a point-n-click, (nearly) single step installation method for packages, and automatic handling of dependencies on MS Windows, means that when practicing the MS "reformat, re-install" there is an extra barrier to re-installing 3rd party apps. As a result, given enough iterations of the mantra, or when a large enough install base is considered, the loss of market share through attrition is quite large.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Please can you tell me the last time you installed something on Windows and had to download 100MB of dependencies or in fact, any dependencies at all which would require automatic handling? And as for lacking a single point and click installation - are you on crack? MS software is sold on its unified systems. Perhaps you'd like to tell me what software there's been over the last 5 years which you can't install on every single Microsoft OS since Windows 2000?
There doesn't need to be a package repository because, in the respect to third party software, you don't have to have a version compiled for your OS. If it's win32, which pretty much everything is, it'll work on every version of Windows from 2000 on. You're full of shit.
When I was 16, a ZX Spectrum game cost me £10. I was earning £100 a week so a game cost me 10% of my weekly wages.
Cue 22 years later. A console game now costs £30-£40 but I'm earning £500 a week. A game now costs 6-8% of my weekly wages for something that is far far more richer, longer and more involved than the £10 games of my youth were.
So in real terms, the cost of games has dropped as a percentage of income.
About restricting access to the British store from non-British customers, well I kind of doubt that's illegal. Do you (or someone on the Steam forums) have a source for this law?
Yes it is illegal. Free trade within the EU is part of The Four Freedoms of the EU and many US companies have fallen foul of this.
Personally, I'm reasonably OK with prices - a new title in the UK is around GBP40 but quickly falls to GBP20 or less after a few months. There are some titles which are GBP50 and that's just too much for me though.
If you're paying £40 or £50 for a game in release week, you're shopping in the wrong places. Try looking elsewhere other than the High Street.
Absolutley right. A lot of people seem to imagine entertainment, music, books, films etc are something which are created and brought into being only because of these companies.
Perhaps you'd like to tell me who else would've ponied up the $100,000,000's to make "Dark Knight" for example?
So are you going to say that you should've been given a 80" plasma TV for free when the manufacturer of your old CRT one brought one out or that the maker of your car should give you the new model for free when they bring it out?
TBH, they brought this on themselves with their childish responses to legal letters. They'll bleat on and on about search engines like Google and media services like Youtube but they're perceived as responding to IP holders requests, not telling them to fuck off as TPB did.
If you truly think that the Pirate party is somehow only about "free stuff" then you are ignorant and shut STFU until you've actually bothered learning a bit more about the subject you're discussing.
/Mikael
Perhaps you could tell me which The Pirate Parties policies are in regards to education, the economy, employment, social and welfare reforms, taxation, transportation etc? Oh that's right, they have none. As cliffski said, if that's how little you value your vote, and I'll add - how fucking stupid and completely unaware of anything outside your bedroom and ability to download paid for content for free you are, you shouldn't be allowed within 50 miles of a polling station.
However unlike Google and other search engines, they post childish "fuck you, asshole, we're untouchable" responses to requests for trackers of copyrighted stuff to be withdrawn.
They can be held accountable because they have acknowledged that they host trackers to copyright material on their site and that the copyright holders have made them aware of this.
The servers is not in sweden, so it's impossible for swedish police to shut them down, and 'the pirates' has no reason to do it themself.(Impossible to prove that they are still running it.)
However the Swedes can put them in prison for aiding and facilitating. They've not done themselves any favours in respect to an "I'm innocent, I don't know what content is on there" with their replies to takedown letters. You can be damned sure that the prospect of doing additional 1-2 years jail time for not complying with a court order to shut them down will see a new found ability to do that. Would you be prepared to spend 12-24 months in prison on top of what you'd already been given just to keep a website going? I know for a fact, I wouldn't.
What you're missing is that the court doesn't have to prove they are still running it. The fact the site is up will be sufficient to prove breach of a judgement.
1. I am wardriving this through a poorly encrypted WiFi connection that some guy or girl put up in their apartment.
I wonder if it's like my open wifi connection. I'm quite happy for people to come onto mine so I can have a damned good look through their computers. Depending on how bad I'm feeling, they might go away with an unexpected present...
so even if they are all found guilty, it would be outside their ability to shut it down, even if ordered to do so by a court.
You can damned well guarantee that a jail term for failure to comply will suddenly make it possible. I doubt there's many torrent tracker site owners and admins willing to serve jailtime for it.
Considering that a large majority of trackers are for pirated media anyway, I doubt that anyone other than the thieving hypocrites would likely notice.
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No it isn't, it's you being a prick.
I don't think any sane person can believe that Linux supports the same range of hardware that Windows does, especially in the graphics department.
I agree totally with you. I just wish they'd stop breaking stuff that did work with their constant fiddling. The problem with Linux distributions is that some of the contributors just don't know when they've actually finished something and will take something that was working perfectly well and then break it. Because of the piss poor quality control, those bugs then get through to distro releases.
Hell, if it's a pre-activated installation ala Dell etc, you won't even have to have activated it as it's been done for you. So to say it's constantly harrassing you is just pure bullshit.
So, because of Microsoft's actions, we are STUCK with computers that come with Windows pre-installed.
I must be imagining the Dells and all the netbooks that come with Linux....
But you can't UNINSTALL the browser!
Actually it was proven in court that you can. However, take a Linux distribution that uses Gnome or KDE as the default installed desktop and try removing Nautilus or Konqueror (yes Nautilus is a web browser) and you'll find the package manager sticks gnome-desktop or kde-desktop in the list of packages that are also uninstalled.
Average linux/BSD distro, MacOS X, Solaris, etc - comes with a browser, allows you to install others, will not break if you remove the bundled browser,
You what? Last time I tried to uninstall Nautilus or Konqueror, the package manager listed Gnome and KDE desktop under the list of other packages to be removed. And can you show me where Windows doesn't allow me to install another browser or set it as the default? Hell, you can even remove every shortcut to IE if you want.
MS "systems" have lacked and still lack a unified, easy to use package management system such as have been available elsewhere for years. APT is probably one of the oldest and best examples, and there are abundant graphical front-ends. Lacking a point-n-click, (nearly) single step installation method for packages, and automatic handling of dependencies on MS Windows, means that when practicing the MS "reformat, re-install" there is an extra barrier to re-installing 3rd party apps. As a result, given enough iterations of the mantra, or when a large enough install base is considered, the loss of market share through attrition is quite large.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Please can you tell me the last time you installed something on Windows and had to download 100MB of dependencies or in fact, any dependencies at all which would require automatic handling? And as for lacking a single point and click installation - are you on crack? MS software is sold on its unified systems. Perhaps you'd like to tell me what software there's been over the last 5 years which you can't install on every single Microsoft OS since Windows 2000?
There doesn't need to be a package repository because, in the respect to third party software, you don't have to have a version compiled for your OS. If it's win32, which pretty much everything is, it'll work on every version of Windows from 2000 on. You're full of shit.
Tomtom does indeed use FAT on the memory cards the maps are stored on.
Can you tell me then why they have four computers all doing the same thing then?
What's next? Are they going to tell Ford they have to offer engines from every other manufacturer as an option?
When I was 16, a ZX Spectrum game cost me £10. I was earning £100 a week so a game cost me 10% of my weekly wages.
Cue 22 years later. A console game now costs £30-£40 but I'm earning £500 a week. A game now costs 6-8% of my weekly wages for something that is far far more richer, longer and more involved than the £10 games of my youth were.
So in real terms, the cost of games has dropped as a percentage of income.
Well since getting stuff sent here to Jersey costs a fortune,
Quite ironic when you consider that most of the discount music, film and game companies in the UK (Play.com et al) send their stuff from Jersey.
About restricting access to the British store from non-British customers, well I kind of doubt that's illegal. Do you (or someone on the Steam forums) have a source for this law?
Yes it is illegal. Free trade within the EU is part of The Four Freedoms of the EU and many US companies have fallen foul of this.
Personally, I'm reasonably OK with prices - a new title in the UK is around GBP40 but quickly falls to GBP20 or less after a few months. There are some titles which are GBP50 and that's just too much for me though.
If you're paying £40 or £50 for a game in release week, you're shopping in the wrong places. Try looking elsewhere other than the High Street.
Absolutley right. A lot of people seem to imagine entertainment, music, books, films etc are something which are created and brought into being only because of these companies.
Perhaps you'd like to tell me who else would've ponied up the $100,000,000's to make "Dark Knight" for example?
Of course not. Stupid fucking moron.
TBH, they brought this on themselves with their childish responses to legal letters. They'll bleat on and on about search engines like Google and media services like Youtube but they're perceived as responding to IP holders requests, not telling them to fuck off as TPB did.
If it weren't for thieving cunting pirates in the first place, you'd not have to piss around with half the stuff you do for legitimate sources.
If you truly think that the Pirate party is somehow only about "free stuff" then you are ignorant and shut STFU until you've actually bothered learning a bit more about the subject you're discussing.
/Mikael
Perhaps you could tell me which The Pirate Parties policies are in regards to education, the economy, employment, social and welfare reforms, taxation, transportation etc? Oh that's right, they have none. As cliffski said, if that's how little you value your vote, and I'll add - how fucking stupid and completely unaware of anything outside your bedroom and ability to download paid for content for free you are, you shouldn't be allowed within 50 miles of a polling station.
They can be held accountable because they have acknowledged that they host trackers to copyright material on their site and that the copyright holders have made them aware of this.
The servers is not in sweden, so it's impossible for swedish police to shut them down, and 'the pirates' has no reason to do it themself.(Impossible to prove that they are still running it.)
However the Swedes can put them in prison for aiding and facilitating. They've not done themselves any favours in respect to an "I'm innocent, I don't know what content is on there" with their replies to takedown letters. You can be damned sure that the prospect of doing additional 1-2 years jail time for not complying with a court order to shut them down will see a new found ability to do that. Would you be prepared to spend 12-24 months in prison on top of what you'd already been given just to keep a website going? I know for a fact, I wouldn't.
What you're missing is that the court doesn't have to prove they are still running it. The fact the site is up will be sufficient to prove breach of a judgement.
in my defense I would like to point out that:
1. I am wardriving this through a poorly encrypted WiFi connection that some guy or girl put up in their apartment.
I wonder if it's like my open wifi connection. I'm quite happy for people to come onto mine so I can have a damned good look through their computers. Depending on how bad I'm feeling, they might go away with an unexpected present...
so even if they are all found guilty, it would be outside their ability to shut it down, even if ordered to do so by a court.
You can damned well guarantee that a jail term for failure to comply will suddenly make it possible. I doubt there's many torrent tracker site owners and admins willing to serve jailtime for it.
Considering that a large majority of trackers are for pirated media anyway, I doubt that anyone other than the thieving hypocrites would likely notice.
Are crowbars illegal?
Yes depending on their usage.