We have several dozen windows 7 machines running windows xp. Each of those I suppose was a 7 license reported as a satisfied customer. My main windows machine runs 7 because it is a good OS, and XP is a bit long in the tooth. But my windows machine is to run specific applications for work, and even if I wanted to 8 is not an option.
Back when Vista came out Microsoft issued a press release stating that all of the 100K+ desktops at the company I worked for had been migrated to Vista. Of course that is completely ignoring the fact that the corporate desktop engineering team had just started the Vista evaluation process a few weeks earlier and didn't expect to have a pilot in place for another 6-9 months. (Lots of custom mission critical apps that could barely be coaxed to run under XP let alone Vista)
BMC products were the bane of my existence at a previous job.
Typical "Enterprise" crap. Costs a fortune, theoretically can do almost anything you want it to if you throw enough consultants and programmers at it. Out of the box it does very little.
But who says yhou put in voice grade copper?
I think Verizon shpuld be required to replace the downed copper. That's what the maintenence fees the customers have been paying forever were to cover.
You are mistaken. The maintenance fees are for the maintenance of the bank accounts of the board of directors.
Simple solution that politicians would have a hard time saying no to. All products that have DRM should be forced to display a DRM warning message on the outside of the packaging in print, TV and on line advertising. The message should explain in simple terms what the DRM does. IE - requires on line connection all the times, Requires Disk in drive all the time, prevents back up copies...etc. There should be stiff fines for selling products with DRM and no warning label. Then let the market decide. DRM is toxic to computers and users. So the proper warning is the right thing to do.
So it will end up like those 'this product contains substances known to cause cancer by the state of California' warning labels that are ignored because they are on everything.
The new games market is about 22 billion vs a 2.5 billion used game market. While Gamestop may make most of its money on used games, but the used game market is pretty trivial. Very, very, very few people make their game purchases based on how much they will be able to sell them for.
Yet the game publishers seem to be unreasonably concerned about used game sales.
I think the much bigger threat is the mobile phone game market. Your hard core gamers are still going to shell out $70 for a title to run on a console, but that isn't a big enough of an audience to sustain the game industry. The casual gamers are going to shell out $1.99 (or put up with adds and pay nothing) to play games on their mobile phone or tablet.
1. The iPhone 5 was approved by Steve Jobs way before he died.
2. The iPhone is the right width for the human hand. Any larger and you need two hands to use it. It's a phone, not a tablet.
My hands must be larger than I thought. I have no problem using my Galaxy S III with one hand.
University of Nigeria? Hey, Are you the guy who sent me an email claiming to be a grad student who needed to get his money out of the country before his student loans were due?
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Just don't. The people who want to pirate will, no matter what you do. Any DRM would only inconvenience legitimate customers. Just make it easy to buy your software for people who want to do so, and provide something worthwhile for the money (e.g. answer support questions, respond to bug reports, etc.)
Don't be an EA. Be more concerned with keeping the people who do pay happy and less concerned with those that don't.
My neighbor's car caught fire a couple of years ago. He was lucky enough to catch it in the act and pushed it out to the middle of the street. The problem turned out to be the fuel injection system, which somehow did not shut down with the rest of the car. But being fuel injection is old technology, it did not make the news.
Ford F-150 pickup truck by any chance? If so: yes, it did make the news. (albeit not as widely covered as exploding Fiskers. Too bad Justin Beiber's chrome plated Fisker isn't one that exploded.)
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We have several dozen windows 7 machines running windows xp. Each of those I suppose was a 7 license reported as a satisfied customer. My main windows machine runs 7 because it is a good OS, and XP is a bit long in the tooth. But my windows machine is to run specific applications for work, and even if I wanted to 8 is not an option.
Back when Vista came out Microsoft issued a press release stating that all of the 100K+ desktops at the company I worked for had been migrated to Vista. Of course that is completely ignoring the fact that the corporate desktop engineering team had just started the Vista evaluation process a few weeks earlier and didn't expect to have a pilot in place for another 6-9 months. (Lots of custom mission critical apps that could barely be coaxed to run under XP let alone Vista)
BMC products were the bane of my existence at a previous job. Typical "Enterprise" crap. Costs a fortune, theoretically can do almost anything you want it to if you throw enough consultants and programmers at it. Out of the box it does very little.
But who says yhou put in voice grade copper? I think Verizon shpuld be required to replace the downed copper. That's what the maintenence fees the customers have been paying forever were to cover.
You are mistaken. The maintenance fees are for the maintenance of the bank accounts of the board of directors.
Simple solution that politicians would have a hard time saying no to. All products that have DRM should be forced to display a DRM warning message on the outside of the packaging in print, TV and on line advertising. The message should explain in simple terms what the DRM does. IE - requires on line connection all the times, Requires Disk in drive all the time, prevents back up copies...etc. There should be stiff fines for selling products with DRM and no warning label. Then let the market decide. DRM is toxic to computers and users. So the proper warning is the right thing to do.
So it will end up like those 'this product contains substances known to cause cancer by the state of California' warning labels that are ignored because they are on everything.
On the other hand anything that helps to eliminate Flash is probably a good thing.
That would coming mostly from China now, if you can find someone over there that cares.
They are easy to find. The prisons are full of them.
You must not have been paying attention. There were many third party candidates who were not on the corporate payroll.
I demand an end to corruption or a chance to participate!
The new games market is about 22 billion vs a 2.5 billion used game market. While Gamestop may make most of its money on used games, but the used game market is pretty trivial. Very, very, very few people make their game purchases based on how much they will be able to sell them for.
Yet the game publishers seem to be unreasonably concerned about used game sales.
I think the much bigger threat is the mobile phone game market. Your hard core gamers are still going to shell out $70 for a title to run on a console, but that isn't a big enough of an audience to sustain the game industry. The casual gamers are going to shell out $1.99 (or put up with adds and pay nothing) to play games on their mobile phone or tablet.
You can hold your Galaxy S III with one hand and touch every corner of the display without moving your holding position?
No, but I can reach enough of the screen to do everything I would normally need to do.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams
1. The iPhone 5 was approved by Steve Jobs way before he died. 2. The iPhone is the right width for the human hand. Any larger and you need two hands to use it. It's a phone, not a tablet.
My hands must be larger than I thought. I have no problem using my Galaxy S III with one hand.
Apple: New Product Development for Microsoft since 1985!
University of Nigeria? Hey, Are you the guy who sent me an email claiming to be a grad student who needed to get his money out of the country before his student loans were due?
... it's not going to LOSE market share is it? You can't really lose much from 1%
Check with Blackberry on that one.
Most posts are in double ROT-13. Occasionally I've seen a triple ROT-13 encoded message though.
I propose we give each member of Congress a cigarette lighter and send them into the sewers until all the gas leaks are round.
Having said that I see no reason why a Jedi would be worse at doing the paperwork than a pedophile.
These are not the forms you're looking for.
Despite having a Cadillac logo on the front the presidential limo is based on a GMC truck chassis.
You are thinking of Larry Ellison.
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Fify.
Just don't. The people who want to pirate will, no matter what you do. Any DRM would only inconvenience legitimate customers. Just make it easy to buy your software for people who want to do so, and provide something worthwhile for the money (e.g. answer support questions, respond to bug reports, etc.)
Don't be an EA. Be more concerned with keeping the people who do pay happy and less concerned with those that don't.
You can't say a population went extinct if their descendants are still alive!
Dinosaurs and birds spring to mind. Are you saying the dinosaurs aren't extinct because modern birds are very likely to be their descendants?
Walking in to the aviary at the local zoo with Richard Attenborough saying "Welcome to Avifaunic Park" just doesn't seem to have the same ring to it.
...Or perhaps not large enough?
Microsoft has already promised all current Windows Phone 8 handsets will receive the next major version of the operating system.*
*For sufficiently loose definitions of "current".
Current as in most phones released within 2-3 months of the Windows 9 release will probably be able to run it.
My neighbor's car caught fire a couple of years ago. He was lucky enough to catch it in the act and pushed it out to the middle of the street. The problem turned out to be the fuel injection system, which somehow did not shut down with the rest of the car. But being fuel injection is old technology, it did not make the news.
Ford F-150 pickup truck by any chance? If so: yes, it did make the news. (albeit not as widely covered as exploding Fiskers. Too bad Justin Beiber's chrome plated Fisker isn't one that exploded.)