Before the destruction of the proprietary home computer market by the PC, software was a lot more efficiently written because the authors couldn't expect people to just upgrade their hardware.
Do 99% of PC games use DX10? NVidia and ATI have drivers for Linux. DVD seems to work for me. I agree on the crap support for wireless though - that really is a ludicrous situation.
Ironman blatantly advertised Audi, Burger King, LG and Dell that I can remember off the top of my head. As you say if it doesn't distract - well in Ironman it certainly did.
Ironman was ruined for me by the relentless advertising which led my girlfriend to ask sarcastically at one point "does everyone drive an Audi in America?" No to product placement - it sucks massively.
Are you the same guy that used to drive Linux nerds mad on Linuxtoday or some site like that by sticking up for Windows and knocking Linux around 1999 / 2000 time?
VBA at least is perfect for what it is designed for which is to allow the automation of common tasks. It's a godsend for people like me who know how to program but have a non-programming job (and therefore can't justify having dev tools installed).
You need to change supplier if you're paying that sort of money for a PC unless you're doing something very serious on it (i.e. unlike the huge majority of PC users).
Just like the directly elected politicians are now? So how many people working for the government should have to go up for re-election and who is going to pay for all these elections?
And what's preventing that competition from existing?
The initial expense and the long period before that expense is recouped perhaps? The government is not preventing competition in broadband provision, money is.
Some people would disagree with you there. Another excellently written article deconstructs the pathetic excuses of the clowns that have so spectacularly fucked up the world economies.
The music industry were DRMing away long before the internet came along to threaten their business model. The two digital tape formats were trashed thanks to them.
Well given that the state is the one granting corporate officers immunity from all sorts of risks like prosecution and bankruptcy in exchange for the benefits to society of risk-taking commerce the state should get the right to set limits on what the corporate entity is allowed to do. Unless the corporate officers want a truly free market where they can lose everything if their business fails? Didn't think so.
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Before the destruction of the proprietary home computer market by the PC, software was a lot more efficiently written because the authors couldn't expect people to just upgrade their hardware.
Do 99% of PC games use DX10? NVidia and ATI have drivers for Linux. DVD seems to work for me. I agree on the crap support for wireless though - that really is a ludicrous situation.
Most large businesses are just as dumb as government organisations - you just don't get to hear about most of it.
Ironman blatantly advertised Audi, Burger King, LG and Dell that I can remember off the top of my head. As you say if it doesn't distract - well in Ironman it certainly did.
Ironman was ruined for me by the relentless advertising which led my girlfriend to ask sarcastically at one point "does everyone drive an Audi in America?" No to product placement - it sucks massively.
If it was just words then there wouldn't be a problem. Perhaps you should read some history.
Yes just look at the banking sector....oh wait....
Are you the same guy that used to drive Linux nerds mad on Linuxtoday or some site like that by sticking up for Windows and knocking Linux around 1999 / 2000 time?
VBA at least is perfect for what it is designed for which is to allow the automation of common tasks. It's a godsend for people like me who know how to program but have a non-programming job (and therefore can't justify having dev tools installed).
You need to change supplier if you're paying that sort of money for a PC unless you're doing something very serious on it (i.e. unlike the huge majority of PC users).
Just like the directly elected politicians are now? So how many people working for the government should have to go up for re-election and who is going to pay for all these elections?
And what's preventing that competition from existing?
The initial expense and the long period before that expense is recouped perhaps? The government is not preventing competition in broadband provision, money is.
what entity can apply physical force
Me, I'm quite strong and aggressive.
Some people would disagree with you there. Another excellently written article deconstructs the pathetic excuses of the clowns that have so spectacularly fucked up the world economies.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/10/11/subprime_scapegoats/
But the overuse of external subcontractors is a political decision. Fuck New Labour and fuck the Tories who started it all.
I hate that term "unelected bureaucrat". Do you and all the others that misuse it think that every single public employee should be elected?
Does that include the right of the individual not to be taken advantage of by a private monopoly?
People do have problems learning to use a phone because a lot of their UIs are appalling too.
The music industry were DRMing away long before the internet came along to threaten their business model. The two digital tape formats were trashed thanks to them.
Uhuhuhuhuhuh you said pubic
How is this a troll.....sigh
Well given that the state is the one granting corporate officers immunity from all sorts of risks like prosecution and bankruptcy in exchange for the benefits to society of risk-taking commerce the state should get the right to set limits on what the corporate entity is allowed to do.
Unless the corporate officers want a truly free market where they can lose everything if their business fails? Didn't think so.
Remind me what the price of IE7 is again...
How would he/she do that with no knowledge of the DBMS or the underlying OS. It's probably not running anything remotely Unix-like.
I wish Microsoft would create great software.
A lot of the United Kingdom is now run by private corporations. Utopia it ain't.