You mean like Google's BS patent application for a notification system despite the fact it's a butt ton of prior art on the top three desktop operating systems?
They all patent bullshit because the system allows it. So you can't complain that one company is doing something they all do. The system needs fixing.
Of course they cross licence. You end up having 20 patents you have to licence at 2% each and that's 40%. Even racking up 20% would be quite significant for anyone and the thing is, it's not Apple that should be a concern, it's that anyone that wants to enter the market and may not have patents to cross licence is effectively locked out.
That's why patents don't spawn innovation. They kill it.
You think more of people that I do obviously. Keeping in mind going to pirate bay isn't that straight forward for some people these days and I'm guessing 13% for them isn't millions or even thousands so one country with blocked access might be enough to easily get 13%
Maybe because we all have different needs and the best way to cater to all of them is to give something very flexible. That and you're comparing a handful of cars driven with extra car and professionals watching over it vs billions of people using computers for thousands of different tasks.
Most people aren't that smart. They probably got the crack from a friend or download a cracked version. They don't know how to crack it themselves and realise that actually maybe a few bucks isn't that bad of a deal especially compared to trying to find how to get the crack and apply it themselves in a reasonable amount of time.
I agree, I don't think anyone thinks piracy will go away completely. They want to make a nice living and be able to make the games they want to make. I don't think you can blame them for not being impressed with 90% piracy and the best alternative is Steam selling your game for a couple bucks.
I can't say I have the perfect solution to all of this but we can't expect epic stories, quality bug-free code and bleeding edge graphics for little to nothing. I don't think gaming is still as big as we think, at least amongst groups with money. I think that's partially because they do pander to children much more now than they used to. You just don't get quality adventure games, war games, sims, and similar "boring" games these days.
TF2 and Dota 2 are free to play. Because of that I'm not going to bother with Dota 2 because tbh, I think TF2 has been ruined by going free to play. Man vs Machine is a good sign of that. It's crap and playing on certain servers means buying gold tickets.
But forgetting mvm, before that all those stupid hats an accessories (that cost more than the game half the time) lead to the growth of beggars and scammers trying to get items from people. I paid for the game and I want to enjoy a nice game online and not have children begging for crap that their can't afford.
I'd argue that Quake Live's f2p isn't that bad but even then they're slowly trying to make paying look more lucrative because actually most people don't want to pay anything or they can't. As much as we claim gaming is big with adults, these "mature" games are mostly played by children who don't even have credit cards so the idea of free to play is a bit hopeless anyway. As an adult I don't think I should have to subsidise gaming for children so they can annoy me.
Valve give the numbers to publishers. They've said publishers are more than welcome to release their own numbers and Steam doesn't guarantee people pay. You can pirate Valves games and they're as tied into Steam as you can get. Besides, how would you expect publishers to get paid and not know how many titles they sold?
The more logical excuse as to why no one sees Steam sales numbers is because they're not that great so Valve says nothing, publishers have nothing to brag about and, you and many others, assume it's a gold mine.
And that also means that Ubisoft's numbers will include Steam sales because they get to see those.
And yet small indies with cheap, great, DRM free games still have the same piracy rates. So it's all well to try and blame big corporations but the proof is just pointing more towards PC gamers being freetards.
The idea of doing nothing will some how make it better is false. World of Goo is about as cheap as you can get, an exceptionally fun game and DRM free and still had 80+% piracy rates on the PC.
I'm sure if you need the battery replaced they'll sort it out for you and take care of the old one just like Apple or anyone else.
Everyone bitched when Apple was supposedly making their system proprietary to lock people in but this is the thing, it's hard to make something that small and still get all the benefits of a big ass laptop. You can still buy a big thinkpad. Do that instead if you want.
I believe it does have a docking station but obviously it won't use the old ones and what does the windows key have to do with anything? I believe think pads always had them. I know the one I'm using right now has one and it's around 6 years old.
My MBP has a 128 gb SSD and the Thinkpad I'm on has a 256gb. Both are far more than enough for a portable device. My MBP has all my work plus some games and music and I still have more than enough room to transfer any project I'd need to or even HD videos. The only thing it would *really* need more than that for is gaming and it's certainly not a gaming laptop.
Some of us use more than one computer and they don't have standard layouts, certainly not on laptops so yes if you're brain is still set on another keyboard then you do. For me the alphabetical keys aren't an issue but why only light some keys which may only suit some people and not others?
Apple hasn't patented a wedge shape and in fact mention previous wedge shaped designs beforehand and actually doesn't mention wedge at all in their airbook design patent because the patent is for the whole design of the airbook. Not wedges.
Just how long do you expect something to be supported? Especially given how Microsoft's expertise in legacy support has done nothing but cause problems for 3rd parties and themselves.
My 6 year old Thinkpad was quite expensive at the time but it's still like new and with the SSD I've put in it, I'd argue it's a better laptop than what most people buy new today. My MBP is still more portable though so eventually Linux will go on that.
Mac supported a lot of things before PCs but they ended up on PCs. Thunderbolt isn't meant to be a Mac only thing nor are retina displays (if laptop manufactuers have any intelligence).
That's like saying it's a problem that Apple opted to support firewire or be the first to dump floppies and push USB. The only problem with it is that there is only one company that's willing to push hardware futher than the bare minimum necessary.
Because whether you want to believe it or not, it's good hardware. More importantly with this particular version it has a screen you can't get elsewhere.
But that is also why it's destined for failure. He's trying to install an OS that does sometimes lag behind others on hardware support on a system featuring various hardware that's not really used anywhere else for the time being. I don't blame him but it wasn't ever going to go well.
The US rates horribly for human rights and corruption. They'll happily torture anyone and assinate their own citizens. Any reasonable country would ensure that no one gets sent there,
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A lot of the claims have nothing to do with the shape of the device but how the software operates and looks
You mean like Google's BS patent application for a notification system despite the fact it's a butt ton of prior art on the top three desktop operating systems?
They all patent bullshit because the system allows it. So you can't complain that one company is doing something they all do. The system needs fixing.
They did (the payment was through pre-IPO stock) and also ended up with some Xerox employees afterwards too.
I'd hate to see someone have to trust their life in an OS that attracts malware like Android does.
Of course they cross licence. You end up having 20 patents you have to licence at 2% each and that's 40%. Even racking up 20% would be quite significant for anyone and the thing is, it's not Apple that should be a concern, it's that anyone that wants to enter the market and may not have patents to cross licence is effectively locked out.
That's why patents don't spawn innovation. They kill it.
You think more of people that I do obviously. Keeping in mind going to pirate bay isn't that straight forward for some people these days and I'm guessing 13% for them isn't millions or even thousands so one country with blocked access might be enough to easily get 13%
Maybe because we all have different needs and the best way to cater to all of them is to give something very flexible. That and you're comparing a handful of cars driven with extra car and professionals watching over it vs billions of people using computers for thousands of different tasks.
Most people aren't that smart. They probably got the crack from a friend or download a cracked version. They don't know how to crack it themselves and realise that actually maybe a few bucks isn't that bad of a deal especially compared to trying to find how to get the crack and apply it themselves in a reasonable amount of time.
I agree, I don't think anyone thinks piracy will go away completely. They want to make a nice living and be able to make the games they want to make. I don't think you can blame them for not being impressed with 90% piracy and the best alternative is Steam selling your game for a couple bucks.
I can't say I have the perfect solution to all of this but we can't expect epic stories, quality bug-free code and bleeding edge graphics for little to nothing. I don't think gaming is still as big as we think, at least amongst groups with money. I think that's partially because they do pander to children much more now than they used to. You just don't get quality adventure games, war games, sims, and similar "boring" games these days.
TF2 and Dota 2 are free to play. Because of that I'm not going to bother with Dota 2 because tbh, I think TF2 has been ruined by going free to play. Man vs Machine is a good sign of that. It's crap and playing on certain servers means buying gold tickets.
But forgetting mvm, before that all those stupid hats an accessories (that cost more than the game half the time) lead to the growth of beggars and scammers trying to get items from people. I paid for the game and I want to enjoy a nice game online and not have children begging for crap that their can't afford.
I'd argue that Quake Live's f2p isn't that bad but even then they're slowly trying to make paying look more lucrative because actually most people don't want to pay anything or they can't. As much as we claim gaming is big with adults, these "mature" games are mostly played by children who don't even have credit cards so the idea of free to play is a bit hopeless anyway. As an adult I don't think I should have to subsidise gaming for children so they can annoy me.
Valve give the numbers to publishers. They've said publishers are more than welcome to release their own numbers and Steam doesn't guarantee people pay. You can pirate Valves games and they're as tied into Steam as you can get. Besides, how would you expect publishers to get paid and not know how many titles they sold?
The more logical excuse as to why no one sees Steam sales numbers is because they're not that great so Valve says nothing, publishers have nothing to brag about and, you and many others, assume it's a gold mine.
And that also means that Ubisoft's numbers will include Steam sales because they get to see those.
And yet small indies with cheap, great, DRM free games still have the same piracy rates. So it's all well to try and blame big corporations but the proof is just pointing more towards PC gamers being freetards.
Because they do see a reward for it. Reflextive had piracy rates around 90% and also give stats on how doing certain things resulted in improving sales. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17350
The idea of doing nothing will some how make it better is false. World of Goo is about as cheap as you can get, an exceptionally fun game and DRM free and still had 80+% piracy rates on the PC.
Yeah PC gaming must be a doing well if the fabulous and amazing Steam owner, Valve, is having to resort to ruining games with free to play.
Polish people don't pay for software and movies. He wants something that's more friendly towards sharing with your vast community of friends online.
I'm sure if you need the battery replaced they'll sort it out for you and take care of the old one just like Apple or anyone else.
Everyone bitched when Apple was supposedly making their system proprietary to lock people in but this is the thing, it's hard to make something that small and still get all the benefits of a big ass laptop. You can still buy a big thinkpad. Do that instead if you want.
I believe it does have a docking station but obviously it won't use the old ones and what does the windows key have to do with anything? I believe think pads always had them. I know the one I'm using right now has one and it's around 6 years old.
My MBP has a 128 gb SSD and the Thinkpad I'm on has a 256gb. Both are far more than enough for a portable device. My MBP has all my work plus some games and music and I still have more than enough room to transfer any project I'd need to or even HD videos. The only thing it would *really* need more than that for is gaming and it's certainly not a gaming laptop.
Some of us use more than one computer and they don't have standard layouts, certainly not on laptops so yes if you're brain is still set on another keyboard then you do. For me the alphabetical keys aren't an issue but why only light some keys which may only suit some people and not others?
Apple hasn't patented a wedge shape and in fact mention previous wedge shaped designs beforehand and actually doesn't mention wedge at all in their airbook design patent because the patent is for the whole design of the airbook. Not wedges.
My thinkpad is 6 years old and has a windows key and a windows sticker.
Just how long do you expect something to be supported? Especially given how Microsoft's expertise in legacy support has done nothing but cause problems for 3rd parties and themselves.
My 6 year old Thinkpad was quite expensive at the time but it's still like new and with the SSD I've put in it, I'd argue it's a better laptop than what most people buy new today. My MBP is still more portable though so eventually Linux will go on that.
Mac supported a lot of things before PCs but they ended up on PCs. Thunderbolt isn't meant to be a Mac only thing nor are retina displays (if laptop manufactuers have any intelligence).
That's like saying it's a problem that Apple opted to support firewire or be the first to dump floppies and push USB. The only problem with it is that there is only one company that's willing to push hardware futher than the bare minimum necessary.
Because whether you want to believe it or not, it's good hardware. More importantly with this particular version it has a screen you can't get elsewhere.
But that is also why it's destined for failure. He's trying to install an OS that does sometimes lag behind others on hardware support on a system featuring various hardware that's not really used anywhere else for the time being. I don't blame him but it wasn't ever going to go well.
The US rates horribly for human rights and corruption. They'll happily torture anyone and assinate their own citizens. Any reasonable country would ensure that no one gets sent there,