If these people needed to, they could get one. It's not really that hard.
Actually that's not really true. I've been in the states legally for 14 years, and am still waiting on my citizenship. (Be able to apply for it in a couple of years.)
Only part of the problem lies with the border security. The other part lies with the USCIS. What, you don't know what USCIS is? Well, maybe you'll know it by its previous name... BCIS. They must have decided that Bureau sounds too KGBish...
Well, hate to defend the MAFIAA here, but the content creators gave them the copyright of their own free will. If an artist so easily releases his copyright, then they're not really an artist, but more like the guy who draws filler animation cells in North Korea. Just an employee of the company.
Exactly. That's why I've given up on Valve. They're MS OS exclusive, and I really have no interest in supporting a company with such a narrow business plan.
id, Blizzard have the right approach when it comes to OS support.
I am no "BadAnalogyGuy" but wouldn't it be more like the cops raiding a house because the guy was distributing directions on where to get free copies of movies and music, as opposed to drugs and hookers.
Let's face it, most of us have broken the law at one time or another (speeding, not returning the 20 found on the street...) but have not really been into drugs or hookers.
Do more people break the maximum safe speed laws, or DUI, or infringe copyrights? And which one of these gets more press coverage? Every buck spent on rounding up pirates could be spent on keeping people driving safer.
I ride a motorcycle, so I'll let you figure out which one matters more to me and my family.
Not only that, but if a customer looks at the display of 2 systems side by side, I would bet that most of them could not tell a difference between Wii and 360. Particles and antialiasing are nice, but they don't matter as much as fluid animation. Throw in the 200 bucks price difference and parents and fence-sitters will vote with their wallets.
They use Windows *because* they don't want to deal with the details of system administration.
That's kinda backwards. You're right that that's why they do use it, but it turns out that even the simplest of windows users now needs to be a system admin. "Well, first you need a firewall, now you need an antivirus, and you've got to run updates on it constantly. OK, then you should have some form of a spyware solution, also requiring updates. Of course, don't forget that the OS must be maintained and updated... " all to be able to surf the web and send email.
OS X doesn't require you to know about file permission models, even though it's there.
And not just the permissions, most everything (except for mice) that Microsoft manufactures is halfassed. Take for example the "Movie Maker"... What good is it? It can't burn movies to a DVD. Without a webserver you can't host them on your own machine. (Sure you can install IIS, but if the average user can't handle IE security, how well could they admin IIS?) So that pretty much leaves you with emailing your clips. How great of a movie file can be sent through email?
Not a whole lot of thought goes into the design, it seems.
My monnocle almost fell out as I saw your snide remarque!
If you would have been reading all the latest quantity meassurement journals, you would have known that recently it has been discovered that if you mate 3 VW Bugs, you will end up with precisely one wagon.
The conversion for 2 VW Bugs into a wagon is QED, and I will leave it as an exercise for the reader.
Will somebody please explain to me what technical characteristics of a processor allow you to "share experiences with movies, photos, and music with your friends and family?"
Think of Viiv as a loose certification standard. If the system meets certain specs (Fast HD, fast ram, certain processor speed) then the system gets the Viiv designation, and you can be fairly certain that you can take advantage of your digicam toys you've spent a small fortune on.
So, Viiv is not a CPU name, it's like a standards designation. (I think that all started with Centrino -- it wasn't just the CPU, it was the CPU and wireless and such stuff.)
I think it's a good effort. Takes the focus off the MHz war, and steers it on the useability of the PC.
But then again, I use a Mac, and don't really concern myself with not being able to burn home movies, or organize my images, since my 1.4GHz G4 excels at those tasks. (At the same time. And then some.)
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What if Adobe realized that MS was probably going to bastardize their PDF and simply didn't want MS to have a free reign with it?
If these people needed to, they could get one. It's not really that hard.
Actually that's not really true. I've been in the states legally for 14 years, and am still waiting on my citizenship. (Be able to apply for it in a couple of years.)
Only part of the problem lies with the border security. The other part lies with the USCIS.
What, you don't know what USCIS is? Well, maybe you'll know it by its previous name... BCIS. They must have decided that Bureau sounds too KGBish...
Hot batshit. Nicely done.
You should be an editor.
You can't have it both ways
Actually, you can. See OS X. Usability and security are both there.
It's only in the Windows world that you can't have it both.
Well, hate to defend the MAFIAA here, but the content creators gave them the copyright of their own free will.
If an artist so easily releases his copyright, then they're not really an artist, but more like the guy who draws filler animation cells in North Korea.
Just an employee of the company.
Quit your preaching stupidfoo.
The software isn't shitty because it's downloaded for free.
It's shitty because it was designed shitty.
At my workplace we pay for Windows twice for each machine, and it still blows ass.
You can say that again!
Exactly.
That's why I've given up on Valve. They're MS OS exclusive, and I really have no interest in supporting a company with such a narrow business plan.
id, Blizzard have the right approach when it comes to OS support.
Funny, those are the exact reasons why OpenGL and Console gaming will prosper while Bungie and Valve are asking WTF?
I do, I only wish the elevator manufacturers could follow the same suit.
As you must understand, elevators are not a part of "Apple stuff".
I am no "BadAnalogyGuy" but wouldn't it be more like the cops raiding a house because the guy was distributing directions on where to get free copies of movies and music, as opposed to drugs and hookers.
Let's face it, most of us have broken the law at one time or another (speeding, not returning the 20 found on the street...) but have not really been into drugs or hookers.
Do more people break the maximum safe speed laws, or DUI, or infringe copyrights? And which one of these gets more press coverage?
Every buck spent on rounding up pirates could be spent on keeping people driving safer.
I ride a motorcycle, so I'll let you figure out which one matters more to me and my family.
Let's not forget the massage equipment, beds, and buffet tables.
Ramen.
Not only that, but if a customer looks at the display of 2 systems side by side, I would bet that most of them could not tell a difference between Wii and 360.
Particles and antialiasing are nice, but they don't matter as much as fluid animation.
Throw in the 200 bucks price difference and parents and fence-sitters will vote with their wallets.
'lax man. I'm pretty sure we can just reverse the polarity of the deflector beam, point it south by south and drive in reverse at warp 2.
...but all that mumbo-jumbo about weak this and that seems really complicated.
Couldn't the inward bulge on the south be because the turtle shell is pushing in on it?
The new Aerosmythe CD is going to sound awesome on those.
Looks like someone got a couple of iPods.
They use Windows *because* they don't want to deal with the details of system administration.
That's kinda backwards. You're right that that's why they do use it, but it turns out that even the simplest of windows users now needs to be a system admin.
"Well, first you need a firewall, now you need an antivirus, and you've got to run updates on it constantly. OK, then you should have some form of a spyware solution, also requiring updates. Of course, don't forget that the OS must be maintained and updated... " all to be able to surf the web and send email.
OS X doesn't require you to know about file permission models, even though it's there.
And not just the permissions, most everything (except for mice) that Microsoft manufactures is halfassed.
Take for example the "Movie Maker"...
What good is it? It can't burn movies to a DVD. Without a webserver you can't host them on your own machine. (Sure you can install IIS, but if the average user can't handle IE security, how well could they admin IIS?) So that pretty much leaves you with emailing your clips.
How great of a movie file can be sent through email?
Not a whole lot of thought goes into the design, it seems.
I'm proud to be an American, well at least I know I'm free!
Alot of what youre saying makes good sense.
Sorry, sir, I'll get my car off your lawn;)
He finds their lack of faith disturbing?
My monnocle almost fell out as I saw your snide remarque!
If you would have been reading all the latest quantity meassurement journals, you would have known that recently it has been discovered that if you mate 3 VW Bugs, you will end up with precisely one wagon.
The conversion for 2 VW Bugs into a wagon is QED, and I will leave it as an exercise for the reader.
Will somebody please explain to me what technical characteristics of a processor allow you to "share experiences with movies, photos, and music with your friends and family?"
Think of Viiv as a loose certification standard. If the system meets certain specs (Fast HD, fast ram, certain processor speed) then the system gets the Viiv designation, and you can be fairly certain that you can take advantage of your digicam toys you've spent a small fortune on.
So, Viiv is not a CPU name, it's like a standards designation. (I think that all started with Centrino -- it wasn't just the CPU, it was the CPU and wireless and such stuff.)
I think it's a good effort. Takes the focus off the MHz war, and steers it on the useability of the PC.
But then again, I use a Mac, and don't really concern myself with not being able to burn home movies, or organize my images, since my 1.4GHz G4 excels at those tasks. (At the same time. And then some.)