Don't use MS office then either? But what could you replace Excel with?
Open office is still a ways to offering me the features I need. And these features were available in Excel 2003, probably even as far back as 97, and they had that sweet flightsim in 97 too;)
So what should I use instead of Silverlight? Flash?
LOL, from what I've seen most games don't have the nerd factor Linux users crave.
Back in the day many PC games were a lot more nerded out, and much more customizable. i.e. quake/duke3d were very moddable compared to the new FPS shooters. Now everyone plays WOW or something else that sucks just as much.
PC games today remind me of console games. Besides half life 2 and it's mods they all seem pretty similar to console games. Crysis seems pretty good but they designed it so I need very expensive hardware, so I won't be playing it for a while.
As as been stated before, unless it's being sold on Steam, so I have access to my games forever, from any computer I have, I'm not purchasing it, or playing it for that matter.
I completely agree, back in undergrad I pirated everything, I even had professors tell me to go download Matlab, since they wouldn't give it to undergrads for free. Undergrads still don't know what software they need or how to use it properly so it almost makes sense to try everything out for free.
As soon as I hit grad school I went legit as well as broke. The software makes doing research much easier than programming everything from scratch. I just don't feel right producing research from software I stole. If it wasn't for the availability of the software my life would be so much harder, so it's only fair I contribute some cash back to them. It's a two way street.
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But they were animating Asian characters, which to me are already in the uncanny valley, who are likely to be some kind of advanced alien lifeform.
P.S. - Damn asian chicks are hot!
Just like huge amounts of users don't continue when it says bad site certificate?
The average user clicks and clicks and doesn't read warnings. Why would he? They are only slowing him down until he gets to see the streaming video.
It's like saying that I would click disagree because I read the EULA and realized the program was not for me, LOL
Don't use MS office then either? But what could you replace Excel with?
Open office is still a ways to offering me the features I need. And these features were available in Excel 2003, probably even as far back as 97, and they had that sweet flightsim in 97 too ;)
So what should I use instead of Silverlight? Flash?
LOL, from what I've seen most games don't have the nerd factor Linux users crave.
Back in the day many PC games were a lot more nerded out, and much more customizable. i.e. quake/duke3d were very moddable compared to the new FPS shooters. Now everyone plays WOW or something else that sucks just as much.
PC games today remind me of console games. Besides half life 2 and it's mods they all seem pretty similar to console games. Crysis seems pretty good but they designed it so I need very expensive hardware, so I won't be playing it for a while.
As as been stated before, unless it's being sold on Steam, so I have access to my games forever, from any computer I have, I'm not purchasing it, or playing it for that matter.
I completely agree, back in undergrad I pirated everything, I even had professors tell me to go download Matlab, since they wouldn't give it to undergrads for free. Undergrads still don't know what software they need or how to use it properly so it almost makes sense to try everything out for free.
As soon as I hit grad school I went legit as well as broke. The software makes doing research much easier than programming everything from scratch. I just don't feel right producing research from software I stole. If it wasn't for the availability of the software my life would be so much harder, so it's only fair I contribute some cash back to them. It's a two way street.
What next? Legalize drugs so that drug dealers and users suffer less?
I think I've heard these arguments before and this definitely won't happen in the USA.
Although you can patent performing enhancing drugs(unlike recreational ones) so the profit would still be there even if they're legal.