Don't forget most places that sell CDs do let you listen to them. Even Wal-Mart has/had those preview machines that let you listen to stuff. Proper run music shops will normally let you listen to quite big chunks of the CD if you ask.
Some people are just cheap and don't want to pay because the option to preview has been there for ages. If you need to listen to every single second of the CD then there is something wrong with you.
Mormons aren't much different from Scientology believers. Don't be surprised if that 3% is being very vocal behind everyone else's back. After all they have to appease space Jesus to get their planet to populate for an eternity of sex.
A lot of people in Europe won't admit that the UK is in Europe and a lot of people in the UK claim not to be part of Europe so it's not really fair to paint all of Europe with the same brush.
I'm not bothered about someone outside of the factory touching the game. That's no problem.
My problem is generally display boxes are in worse shape than a sealed box and yes, in my experience, the discs usually aren't as clean as a disc from a sealed box. If you're lucky it's just finger prints but too often there is some level of scratching and nothing takes the joy out a purchase like wondering if the game will work when you get it home.
Besides, if I can get something in a nice sealed package and, likely, for a lower price then why in the world would I pay for something that's open and in a less than perfect case for a higher cost?
The wait is minimal and if you pre-order it you get it on launch day if not earlier in some instances.
If they have any sense they won't shill the product because they'll likely lose that respect once it's discovered and I'm sure there are some respected fanboys out there. After all, Fox news is very biased and they have a large following.;)
There are already enough drooling brain dead fanboys for most of the companies going telling anyone willing to listen that their favourite product is the best ever. In fact if they want to compensate people for promotion, they'll probably do it for some cheap shitty little sticker of their favourite corporate logo.
I don't care if the can't afford them. I don't want some minimum wage jack-off's grubby finger prints and scratches all over my disc that is supposed to be new and that said jack-off won't let me return when I find out it's been ruined.
Regarding theft, photocopy the damn box and put the paper out on the shelf or put the sealed copy in a case and chain it to the wall. Stores used to do this or put them behind glass. But I think they realised it's better for them to use the empty box tactic and con a lot of people by reselling software because no one knows any better when everything they sell is opened.
I think people are starting to complain more because it's getting harder to return software, prices are going up, if it's a PC game with certain DRM then it can really screw the customer and, from my experience, they're getting worse at it and the state of games that are left in plastic bags can be appalling in some shops. That and games are more often disc based rather than carts so on top of being more expensive, they're more delicate.
What good is another copy that's all grubby because it's been taken out of it's shrink-wrapped case? The fact is someone is still paying the same price as someone else and getting something in an inferior state. It shouldn't be legal.
Seriously, what kind of people buy games from retail anymore?
The price of games are increasing and you rarely get a sealed game. A lot of places only give you the knackered display box and a game form a plastic bag.
Let's say for a minute that the employees don't play the games. Does it matter? You're paying $60/£45 for a game and you get a box that's been fingered by every nose picking mongoloid to walk through the shop and you get a disc that will often have finger prints or scratches on it. You may also be lucky to get a box full of price tag and promo stickers that, if you try to take them off, leave you with those lovely ugly sticker marks all over it.
When you take it they'll almost certainly say they can't trust that you're not a thief because the fucking box is open.
In the UK HMV and Game Station are the absolute worst for this even after Game bought up Game Station they don't use the same rules. Game isn't bad, usually you get a new sealed game unless it actually is the last one. Even then I don't think I should get a lesser product purely because I bought the last one.
In the case of Game Station, I know they sell used games as new. I think with the advent of disc based games they forgot carts can save and I've bought a few GBA games from there that had save games on them. One game was completed. An HMV employee told me they do it to save space. I'm not sure how you save space by storing the box in a different location than it's contents.
Some shops try to re-shrink-wrap but luckily Nintendo has their own custom shrink-wrap and you can catch them in the act.
Unfortunately even if the government did something to stop them from selling unsealed game as new it wouldn't have much effect seeing how they're selling the latest used games at virtually the same price as their sealed counterparts. In fact, there was a particular DS game on shop.game.net that was more expensive if you bought it used as the new title was on sale. Clearly it was set up to lure people in and once the new versions ran out they get charged full priced for the used copies.
Apache, Lighttpd and my current favorite nginx are awesome, but they dont have the close integration with their development tools and operating system that IIS does.
Clearly they don't need it because they're suprioer to IIS.
Speaking of development tools... there is no open source equivalant of Visual Studio and there is no MSDN of open source.
Netbeans or Eclipse can get close enough to being point & click programming as they should be allowed to. Part Visual Studio is the reason there's so much shit software on Windows. Any jack-off with little to no programming knowledge and bodge something together.
- There is no common way to install and remove software.
Yes there is, it's called a package mamanger.
- There is no stable base to write drivers (thus no hardware support)
Any lack of driver support usually comes from a lack of interest from the companies creating the hardware or the community.
- There are too many distros with too many proprietary ways of doing things. Too many proprietary repositories, too many proprietary package systems, to many proprietary filesystem layouts.
Having a choice isn't a bad thing and I've yet to rnu in to a problem with my Linux installs just because KDE exists along side Gnome for example.
- Gimp is *not* Photoshop. Sorry. I know I mentioned this, but I'll repeat it again. You insult people who actually use Photoshop by making this claim.
Just because you're too stupid to use Linux doesn't mean people should support MS' monopoly and it doesn't mean people won't eventually wise up to how MS treats them.
We're in a transitional phase were we still have a lot of people that didn't grow up with computers so they're more scared of them than they should be. Once they die off then we'll be left with people are more confident and will expect more from their computers. The dinosaurs, like you, need to die off first.
10 years as a contractor means they're screwing you and with the economy being shit you, assuming you're still with them, means they can drop you at any time. That doesn't necessarily mean much for you if others are will to hire you shortly afterwards.
This is true but they can't have it both ways. It's either one or the other.
Plus if they're as big and respected as Murdoch claims then they don't need Google.
The fact is the likes of Murdoch know people aren't that picky about news. In fact he relies on that for Fox news and it's questionable ethics. So they know they can't rely on their name or to get money from users so they're going to try to get it from the the likes of Google.
Why should bloggers be reliable when the big guys, like Fox news, are just as bad?
The problem started when cable news started and it became more of a race to be the whole of America's news provider rather than something local and 24 hour news has just completely ruined it because, while the world is large, there is not enough real news to fill 12 hours let alone 24.
The should clamp down on televised news first as that will be the easiest to control and will hopefully set the tone on the internet. If not, start regulating sites that earn money as a news provider.
At my worst I was having around 8 cups of tea or coffee at work with the occasional Red Bull from the canteen, and 3 litres of Red Bull-like energy drinks in the evening.
Doing that on a regular basis started making it so I felt almost high or drunk at some points in the day while consuming caffeine so I gave up all but about 1 cup of tea a day. My usage of energy drinks and coffee are climbing again but yeah the headaches are the worst bit more so because I hate taking pain killers.
But I think I am going to have to give up cold turkey. I need a new group of friends that don't think caffeine is excellent!
Oddly enough, I was just looking at property in Compton. I think it'd be interesting to live there but then again $350,000+ for a place with bars on all the windows doesn't exactly seem appealing.
For starters, if they speak French then it should be reasonable to get to play games in French.
Secondly, why does this matter? It shouldn't really cost extra because games already have to be translated to French. If anything, give them the same version you give France. They're happy and the rest of Canada can have their game in English.
The continents are North American, South America and Central America.
America is short for the United States of America which is the only country to use the America on its own. So saying America is no different than saying Britain despite the fact the nation's actual name is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Britain is a good example too because, speaking of mistakes with locations, it's often referred to as a country but Britain is not a country but a nation or state made up of countries. But British people seem to have less of an issue with this than Canadians do with the term America even though it's 100% correct to abbreviate the USA as America and Canada has nothing to do with America as there is no continent America.
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So Microsoft can only do something if Google does it?
This says it all really. http://www.microsoft.com/READER/find/book.aspx?isbn=0759516677
Don't forget most places that sell CDs do let you listen to them. Even Wal-Mart has/had those preview machines that let you listen to stuff. Proper run music shops will normally let you listen to quite big chunks of the CD if you ask.
Some people are just cheap and don't want to pay because the option to preview has been there for ages. If you need to listen to every single second of the CD then there is something wrong with you.
What can't Mormons do?
Use logic and common sense.
Mormons aren't much different from Scientology believers. Don't be surprised if that 3% is being very vocal behind everyone else's back. After all they have to appease space Jesus to get their planet to populate for an eternity of sex.
A lot of people in Europe won't admit that the UK is in Europe and a lot of people in the UK claim not to be part of Europe so it's not really fair to paint all of Europe with the same brush.
Well duh, the US has gets a lot of its heritage from the UK and Ireland. Of course it's going to have issues with drinking.
FreeBSD is a UNIX-based operating system that provides a high level of security and stability
Maybe I'm wrong (never used Free BSD) but I didn't think it was based on Unix but instead Unix-like.
I'm not bothered about someone outside of the factory touching the game. That's no problem.
My problem is generally display boxes are in worse shape than a sealed box and yes, in my experience, the discs usually aren't as clean as a disc from a sealed box. If you're lucky it's just finger prints but too often there is some level of scratching and nothing takes the joy out a purchase like wondering if the game will work when you get it home.
Besides, if I can get something in a nice sealed package and, likely, for a lower price then why in the world would I pay for something that's open and in a less than perfect case for a higher cost?
The wait is minimal and if you pre-order it you get it on launch day if not earlier in some instances.
If they have any sense they won't shill the product because they'll likely lose that respect once it's discovered and I'm sure there are some respected fanboys out there. After all, Fox news is very biased and they have a large following. ;)
There are already enough drooling brain dead fanboys for most of the companies going telling anyone willing to listen that their favourite product is the best ever. In fact if they want to compensate people for promotion, they'll probably do it for some cheap shitty little sticker of their favourite corporate logo.
I don't care if the can't afford them. I don't want some minimum wage jack-off's grubby finger prints and scratches all over my disc that is supposed to be new and that said jack-off won't let me return when I find out it's been ruined.
Regarding theft, photocopy the damn box and put the paper out on the shelf or put the sealed copy in a case and chain it to the wall. Stores used to do this or put them behind glass. But I think they realised it's better for them to use the empty box tactic and con a lot of people by reselling software because no one knows any better when everything they sell is opened.
I think people are starting to complain more because it's getting harder to return software, prices are going up, if it's a PC game with certain DRM then it can really screw the customer and, from my experience, they're getting worse at it and the state of games that are left in plastic bags can be appalling in some shops. That and games are more often disc based rather than carts so on top of being more expensive, they're more delicate.
What good is another copy that's all grubby because it's been taken out of it's shrink-wrapped case? The fact is someone is still paying the same price as someone else and getting something in an inferior state. It shouldn't be legal.
Seriously, what kind of people buy games from retail anymore?
The price of games are increasing and you rarely get a sealed game. A lot of places only give you the knackered display box and a game form a plastic bag.
Let's say for a minute that the employees don't play the games. Does it matter? You're paying $60/£45 for a game and you get a box that's been fingered by every nose picking mongoloid to walk through the shop and you get a disc that will often have finger prints or scratches on it. You may also be lucky to get a box full of price tag and promo stickers that, if you try to take them off, leave you with those lovely ugly sticker marks all over it.
When you take it they'll almost certainly say they can't trust that you're not a thief because the fucking box is open.
In the UK HMV and Game Station are the absolute worst for this even after Game bought up Game Station they don't use the same rules. Game isn't bad, usually you get a new sealed game unless it actually is the last one. Even then I don't think I should get a lesser product purely because I bought the last one.
In the case of Game Station, I know they sell used games as new. I think with the advent of disc based games they forgot carts can save and I've bought a few GBA games from there that had save games on them. One game was completed. An HMV employee told me they do it to save space. I'm not sure how you save space by storing the box in a different location than it's contents.
Some shops try to re-shrink-wrap but luckily Nintendo has their own custom shrink-wrap and you can catch them in the act.
Unfortunately even if the government did something to stop them from selling unsealed game as new it wouldn't have much effect seeing how they're selling the latest used games at virtually the same price as their sealed counterparts. In fact, there was a particular DS game on shop.game.net that was more expensive if you bought it used as the new title was on sale. Clearly it was set up to lure people in and once the new versions ran out they get charged full priced for the used copies.
So this is why I buy all my games from Play.com.
Apache, Lighttpd and my current favorite nginx are awesome, but they dont have the close integration with their development tools and operating system that IIS does.
Clearly they don't need it because they're suprioer to IIS.
Speaking of development tools... there is no open source equivalant of Visual Studio and there is no MSDN of open source.
Netbeans or Eclipse can get close enough to being point & click programming as they should be allowed to. Part Visual Studio is the reason there's so much shit software on Windows. Any jack-off with little to no programming knowledge and bodge something together.
- There is no common way to install and remove software.
Yes there is, it's called a package mamanger.
- There is no stable base to write drivers (thus no hardware support)
Any lack of driver support usually comes from a lack of interest from the companies creating the hardware or the community.
- There are too many distros with too many proprietary ways of doing things. Too many proprietary repositories, too many proprietary package systems, to many proprietary filesystem layouts.
Having a choice isn't a bad thing and I've yet to rnu in to a problem with my Linux installs just because KDE exists along side Gnome for example.
- Gimp is *not* Photoshop. Sorry. I know I mentioned this, but I'll repeat it again. You insult people who actually use Photoshop by making this claim.
For professionals perhaps but for the average user it's close enough. In fact for most people the comparision should be between Gimp and PS Elements and PS Elements loses, imo. http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/photoshop/f/elementscompare.htm
Just because you're too stupid to use Linux doesn't mean people should support MS' monopoly and it doesn't mean people won't eventually wise up to how MS treats them.
We're in a transitional phase were we still have a lot of people that didn't grow up with computers so they're more scared of them than they should be. Once they die off then we'll be left with people are more confident and will expect more from their computers. The dinosaurs, like you, need to die off first.
10 years as a contractor means they're screwing you and with the economy being shit you, assuming you're still with them, means they can drop you at any time. That doesn't necessarily mean much for you if others are will to hire you shortly afterwards.
This is true but they can't have it both ways. It's either one or the other.
Plus if they're as big and respected as Murdoch claims then they don't need Google.
The fact is the likes of Murdoch know people aren't that picky about news. In fact he relies on that for Fox news and it's questionable ethics. So they know they can't rely on their name or to get money from users so they're going to try to get it from the the likes of Google.
Why should bloggers be reliable when the big guys, like Fox news, are just as bad?
The problem started when cable news started and it became more of a race to be the whole of America's news provider rather than something local and 24 hour news has just completely ruined it because, while the world is large, there is not enough real news to fill 12 hours let alone 24.
The should clamp down on televised news first as that will be the easiest to control and will hopefully set the tone on the internet. If not, start regulating sites that earn money as a news provider.
At my worst I was having around 8 cups of tea or coffee at work with the occasional Red Bull from the canteen, and 3 litres of Red Bull-like energy drinks in the evening.
Doing that on a regular basis started making it so I felt almost high or drunk at some points in the day while consuming caffeine so I gave up all but about 1 cup of tea a day. My usage of energy drinks and coffee are climbing again but yeah the headaches are the worst bit more so because I hate taking pain killers.
But I think I am going to have to give up cold turkey. I need a new group of friends that don't think caffeine is excellent!
The prices should reflect that then. :P
I don't think I'd seriously consider living there but it would be one of the few places where I wouldn't look out of place with a machine gun.
Oddly enough, I was just looking at property in Compton. I think it'd be interesting to live there but then again $350,000+ for a place with bars on all the windows doesn't exactly seem appealing.
I'd definitely turn around and sue them for selling your material, harassment, lose of business, etc.
They're trying to destroy him so he has to turn around and crush the scum bags.
For starters, if they speak French then it should be reasonable to get to play games in French.
Secondly, why does this matter? It shouldn't really cost extra because games already have to be translated to French. If anything, give them the same version you give France. They're happy and the rest of Canada can have their game in English.
Yes it is.
The continents are North American, South America and Central America.
America is short for the United States of America which is the only country to use the America on its own. So saying America is no different than saying Britain despite the fact the nation's actual name is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Britain is a good example too because, speaking of mistakes with locations, it's often referred to as a country but Britain is not a country but a nation or state made up of countries. But British people seem to have less of an issue with this than Canadians do with the term America even though it's 100% correct to abbreviate the USA as America and Canada has nothing to do with America as there is no continent America.