It is going after bittorrent. Most people who are downloading movies and TV shows aren't going to be able to find another way if they can kill the torrents. Well, until the next thing comes along.
Those are the same people that are most likely scared away when they hear about this, or when they get caught the first time. My mother, who knows nothing about computers and does not care to learn, told me to "be careful downloading movies, because they are cracking down on that".
I guess it depends what field you are in...or maybe just where you happen to work. The Sysadmins here are all complete 100% windows guys. They couldn't get a job in any other environment. Some of the employees are windows only at work people...but the infrastructure guys are all windows only. It has been this way at the last couple places I have worked. I haven't changed companies in a while, however.
While I am sure the parent was kidding...I have a friend who is only moderately stupid that firmly believes that the moon landings were faked. I found this a couple weeks ago, an interesting point of view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU
We would have faked it...but actually doing it was easier at the time.
Counterstrike is usually in the top 5 of current users on steam. It's number 2 at the moment.I type this. I don't mean global offensive, or source. I mean the halflife mod. There are a shocking number of people that find a game they like and never stop playing it. Never need to upgrade until something you can't replace anymore breaks.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
I quit playing dota2 early on because I couldn't stand the people that play it, but I don't recall that it would really need anything special to run, Football manager is probably the 2nd most played steam game, that will run on nothing. Tf2 will run just fine on old machines with the graphics turned down. You don't need a killer rig to play the most popular steam games.
Same boat. Got my 920 in early 09...got an extra 5870 about a year later because it was good price. I looked into a complete new build a few months ago and just couldn't justify it. I have the money, I just don't need it. Funny to think back on all those years my computer was usually 50% borrowed/gifted old parts and I would build machines at newegg that I didn't have the money for.
It doesn't bother me that they would make fun of that type of person...it is just how they do it. But...if they really wrote those characters to be the hard core geeks they are supposed to be, nobody would watch the show. I still leave it on sometimes, but I got sick of it really quickly from starting off watching it all the time.
Family guy is terrible....we just all (myself included) don't realize it yet.
Or get a Dominican, Honduran, or Nicaraguan cigar that is just as good. Aficionado's can argue this point. I smoke about 5 a year...I can't tell the difference and most other people probably can't either.
I work for a clearinghouse. I always enjoy giving anyone new that came from a payer a hard time. Along the lines of "Why in the world would you leave a payer to go to a clearinghouse? Now you have to figure out why the claims aren't being paid".
I use sumatra to view pdf's (just wanted to try a different one that foxit and have never been given a reason to try another one). I only need acrobat to make minor changes to pdf's generated internally. And I really don't absolutely need it for that. That was just the one I could justify trying out.
I think that the niche that Paint.net fills is still there...even if PS cs2 is free (still up in the air). I could have warez'd photoshop whenever I wanted before this...it just wasn't worth it. Paint.net does everything I need a photo editor to do. I am sure there are plenty of people that it doesn't work for...I am also sure that there are plenty that are the same as I am.
I just installed acrobat pro from that site on windows 7. It asks you where adobePDF.dll is on the Vista CD....but a quick google search found the solution to that. (Browse, up a level, go into the AMD64 folder, there it is.). Seems to be working fine.
I work in this industry. I pay my bills because of it, but I will still state this with complete conviction. Computers never saved any patient a dime in healthcare.
We should be thankful for TLC (it isn't even programmed on my TV at home, but I do have to hear people talk about some of the shows at work). Anyway, TLC is the poster child for why we should never cut all funding for PBS. Because that is what the lowest common denominator turns it into.
That is a pretty interesting show about the giant squid (they also briefly discuss the completely fucking scary looking colossal squid) . DVR the discovery channel nonsense, watch this show, then skip thru the discovery channel show just to see the video. Or just find it on the net somewhere...
So you are saying that the French don't do the same thing the other way around? I am ignoring your grandstanding about the gulf war, I mean that the French don't immediately dismiss as inferior, unrefined, or belittle something just because it is American? (Let me guess, they do but they are correct)
Also, this has been going on for far, far longer than since the gulf war. Your point doesn't fit.
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It is going after bittorrent. Most people who are downloading movies and TV shows aren't going to be able to find another way if they can kill the torrents. Well, until the next thing comes along.
Those are the same people that are most likely scared away when they hear about this, or when they get caught the first time. My mother, who knows nothing about computers and does not care to learn, told me to "be careful downloading movies, because they are cracking down on that".
I guess it depends what field you are in...or maybe just where you happen to work. The Sysadmins here are all complete 100% windows guys. They couldn't get a job in any other environment. Some of the employees are windows only at work people...but the infrastructure guys are all windows only. It has been this way at the last couple places I have worked. I haven't changed companies in a while, however.
not nearly as bad as me wondering why they filmed the helicopter and not the volcanoes for around 2 minutes before I realized you can move the camera.
Computers are my forte.
While I am sure the parent was kidding...I have a friend who is only moderately stupid that firmly believes that the moon landings were faked. I found this a couple weeks ago, an interesting point of view.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU
We would have faked it...but actually doing it was easier at the time.
Counterstrike is usually in the top 5 of current users on steam. It's number 2 at the moment.I type this. I don't mean global offensive, or source. I mean the halflife mod. There are a shocking number of people that find a game they like and never stop playing it. Never need to upgrade until something you can't replace anymore breaks.
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
I quit playing dota2 early on because I couldn't stand the people that play it, but I don't recall that it would really need anything special to run, Football manager is probably the 2nd most played steam game, that will run on nothing. Tf2 will run just fine on old machines with the graphics turned down. You don't need a killer rig to play the most popular steam games.
Same boat. Got my 920 in early 09...got an extra 5870 about a year later because it was good price. I looked into a complete new build a few months ago and just couldn't justify it. I have the money, I just don't need it. Funny to think back on all those years my computer was usually 50% borrowed/gifted old parts and I would build machines at newegg that I didn't have the money for.
It doesn't bother me that they would make fun of that type of person...it is just how they do it. But...if they really wrote those characters to be the hard core geeks they are supposed to be, nobody would watch the show. I still leave it on sometimes, but I got sick of it really quickly from starting off watching it all the time.
Family guy is terrible....we just all (myself included) don't realize it yet.
Or get a Dominican, Honduran, or Nicaraguan cigar that is just as good. Aficionado's can argue this point. I smoke about 5 a year...I can't tell the difference and most other people probably can't either.
I had this exact same problem with radeon drivers and Win7.
Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions
An expert would easily limit the E-playing options
I understand the point you are making...but easily limit options for E? I am not sure if that is possible at all, much less easy.
A hacker is someone who isn't particularly good at golf. A cracker is...who you calling a cracker motherfucker?
I work for a clearinghouse. I always enjoy giving anyone new that came from a payer a hard time. Along the lines of "Why in the world would you leave a payer to go to a clearinghouse? Now you have to figure out why the claims aren't being paid".
It's a witch!
Well, neither .It wouldn't have been hard to do, and it wouldn't have bothered me to do so. The point I was making was that I just don't need it.
I use sumatra to view pdf's (just wanted to try a different one that foxit and have never been given a reason to try another one). I only need acrobat to make minor changes to pdf's generated internally. And I really don't absolutely need it for that. That was just the one I could justify trying out.
I think that the niche that Paint.net fills is still there...even if PS cs2 is free (still up in the air). I could have warez'd photoshop whenever I wanted before this...it just wasn't worth it. Paint.net does everything I need a photo editor to do. I am sure there are plenty of people that it doesn't work for...I am also sure that there are plenty that are the same as I am.
ciderbrew posted this below. Probably what you did
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/windows-7-is-not-compatible-with-adobe-photoshop/6f1b4955-7166-4b8f-ad9b-5d19150f803f
change the install dir to C:\progra~2\adobe\whateveritalreadyis for anyone that doesn't want to click.
I just installed acrobat pro from that site on windows 7. It asks you where adobePDF.dll is on the Vista CD....but a quick google search found the solution to that. (Browse, up a level, go into the AMD64 folder, there it is.). Seems to be working fine.
I work in this industry. I pay my bills because of it, but I will still state this with complete conviction. Computers never saved any patient a dime in healthcare.
We should be thankful for TLC (it isn't even programmed on my TV at home, but I do have to hear people talk about some of the shows at work). Anyway, TLC is the poster child for why we should never cut all funding for PBS. Because that is what the lowest common denominator turns it into.
http://video.pbs.org/video/2247683791/
That is a pretty interesting show about the giant squid (they also briefly discuss the completely fucking scary looking colossal squid) . DVR the discovery channel nonsense, watch this show, then skip thru the discovery channel show just to see the video. Or just find it on the net somewhere...
So you are saying that the French don't do the same thing the other way around? I am ignoring your grandstanding about the gulf war, I mean that the French don't immediately dismiss as inferior, unrefined, or belittle something just because it is American? (Let me guess, they do but they are correct)
Also, this has been going on for far, far longer than since the gulf war. Your point doesn't fit.
It makes your plan easier, considering that all soda in the US is already in metric sized containers. (takes a sip of my 355mL diet mountain dew)
This is the internet sir. Only the United States and it's citizens do stupid things. Please stay on target.