>Oh, you mean the handbrake (I guess "emergency brake" is an Americanism, as it doesn't make sense).
Or, perhaps in countries outside America they don't sell vans and trucks. Must be interesting getting cars from the factory to the dealership without putting miles on them.:-)
In these you operate your so called "hand"brake with a foot. No, I'm not talking about the pedal just beside the gas. I'm talking about a totally separate pedal with a latch release.
Ergo, it is no longer a handbrake. The term "embergency brake" works better as it covers any method of operating a manual brake for the rear wheels only.
>Could the wires lead to some sort of ricer extra lights somewhere?
I sorta doubt that. It wouldn't make much sense, but more importantly, there's no way those tiny connectors there could possibly supply enough juice to power much more than an LED or two.
More likely the letters are there to help troubleshooters figure out what colour to hook the other end of their meter to on the cable that should attach beside them. Or they're there to help slave-labour assemble the board correctly. One or the other.:-)
>Obviously it involves modern technology because that's how this problem will (hopefully) be solved.
So, uhhh, why isn't the fact I'm watching TV covered on slashdot? That's modern technology.
They didn't even MENTION that anything would even be done, at all. The solution, at the moment, won't include ANY modern technology because the solution right now is "sit on your thumbs and close your eyes, you might be in for a big surprise!".
>This article easily could lead into some great posts about the various ways they might be able to learn whether these explosives are still a danger, and if they are, how they might be defused.
ROTFLMAO. Much more likely any responses to this article will lead to that town being exploded.
Sure, I can't get my entire supply of all of those items free, but I definately can get those items in smaller amounts for free. And all of those items cost money, and generally aren't directly paid for through your taxes. Yet there's lots of incentive to open power plants or water facilities, food-share programs, etc, etc.
>Let me put it another way...you're a software developer making a product - the final piece of software represents the work you've put in to devloping something unique and useful....how much is this effort worth? Nothing?
Well, let's ask someone who owns a power plant the same thing first and see what they have to say.
It's all about setting up the business properly, and basing income on things that are saleable. I own a satellite business, I've spent a lot of time developing lists like this. Guess what? I don't charge for that. It's free. I'm still in business because I charge for things people feel happy to pay for, like satellite receivers.
That being said, if I were to compare the time I spent making that chart with the time someone spends coding software, and compare "sales", I *should* be charging about $0.10 a copy for that satellite list.
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>What happens if you have to begin charging for the product itself because it is no longer feasible to offer it for free.
Then you should open source the product so that additional help can be gathered. If the product is so very popular, plenty of people will be more than willing to work on it for free, even if it means your company benefits, so long as features and fixes they want end up in the software.
Quick. Watch the Penn and Teller episode on what you're talking about now (specifically, season 2, episode 5).
Did you know all of the garbage prodced in the US in the next 1,000 years would fit in (about) a 35 x 35 sq mi field at 200 ft high? That's 1,225 sq mi of area, or 0.03% of US owned land (not including seas). I can think of VERY FEW items that are *less* important than landfills filling up the US (that will take some billions of years to happen, give or take a few million). I have a good idea that in the year 1,000,000,000 we'll be way more worried about the sun exploding earth than about landfills. Just my guess.
BTW: The person who wrote the scaremongering EPA report is on record (video tape) as explaining that he really didn't mean to make such a big deal out of it, that there really isn't much problem when it comes to landfills and the US.
You should really watch the show. I think you would enjoy it.
>But that's a good point, you don't really need to keep the key in the camera secret at all, since you can't use it to decrypt the images...
Well, that puts that idea out of the realm of this camera. The LCD lets you check your photography, so we can be sure that any encryption done on this camera (if it is) will be decryptable on the same camera.
>So who exactly is paying for the TV channels in Canada - The viewers, via increased costs of goods to pay for their advertising, or the viewers, via taxes paid to the state ?
Here's the difference:
You don't go to jail if you don't buy products advertised on TV (I know plenty of people, including myself, that see most ads as annoying putoffs and avoid those products instead of purchasing them [I'm looking at you most shampoo companies -- At least generic brands aren't supposed to give me some sort of scalp orgasm.])
Now, you do tend to go to jail if you don't pay taxes.
I hear it's a 5,000 UKP fine for not paying the TV tax in the UK, and about 6 months jail time for chronic offenders. And then even people who are paying have to deal with detector vans invading UK residents' privacy, checking on what channels are being watched.
Am I off on that?
This isn't so say Canada doesn't have TV stations paid for by taxes, such as TV Ontario, we do. However, everyone pays for it so we can avoid the whole invasion of privacy and non-payment type issues. I suppose it sucks for those who refuse to watch TV, however, I can assure you that government funded TV channels like TV Ontario carry absolutely no interest to anyone *except* for the artsy-fartsy type that wouldn't own a TV. Yeah; the fact the channel exists at all makes no sense to me, either...:-)
>What's the incentive for a cracker to crack subsequent versions when they're so involved.
That's the incentive. Since crackers are doing it for fun, I figure they enjoy the challenge. Nothing beats the challenge of doing something that someone says isn't possible.
Thanks for the list. According to the interviewee, no StarForce games are cracked.
According to google, cracks appear to exist for:
Breed Cycling Manager 3 Dead to Rights Fire Department Gangland Korea Fogotten Conflict Prince of Persia Sands of Time Rally Championship Xtreme Restaurant Empire Runaway A Road Adventure Soldiers Heroes of World War 2 Track Mania XIII X2 The Threat
Now, being that I don't want to get my system all infected with virus laden garbage, I'm not going to download any of the cracks I found. I wonder how many work? Perhaps none of them. Or perhaps they all do. In that case, We have a 58% success record. That's not worthy of saying your protection is crack proof, IMHO.
Decent. Glad to hear the UK finally has a good selection of TV channels. I recall coming back to Canada, letting people know how in the UK you could only get 4 channels and, well, people here were quite astonished to hear that a country with twice the population had about 1/4 the free stations [Then when I mentioned that in the UK you guys were paying for that 'privelege', well... I'll leave the reaction to that for your imagination].
When I left the digital switchover was about halfway in progress, so, as I see, it seems that when the UK completely switched over, the BBC took full advantage of the spectrum.
All that being said, I have to say, when I was in the UK I spend most of my time watching ITV / Channel 4 (Big thanks to the UK for introducing me to that crazy game show 'Banzai').
>Streaming internet video, >---not available in the US.
It's actually ironic, considering that for the longest time, the UK had such a screwed up set of laws enacted for the benefit of BT (*) that the idea of streaming *anything* took far longer to materialize in the UK than many other places.
>Free-to-Air DVB satellite >---not available in the US
There's plenty available in the US. Here's a few popular DVB satellites (yellow = FTA DVB signal):
It's just that there's nothing particularly *interesting* to most people there. Now, if you happen to speak arabic or spanish, you're in luck.
As far as pay DVB goes, you'd be surprised to hear it, but DishNetwork is a DVB system (although they hate to admit it). Point a dish at it and hook up a DVB receiver and you can download a list of channels, and watch the unencrypted ones (not many).
>Cheap Broadband >---not available in the US
I hear of all sorts of deals. That being said, you have to expect a small (by area) country like the UK to be able to better provide cheaper internet to its citizens. They're so close together, wiring things is dirt cheap.
>DMCA chip free inkjet cartridges >---not available in the US
LOL:-) Also not available in a lot of other countries. Well, there's no DMCA, but the chip is still there.
>Region code free DVD players >---not available in the US
That's a case of supply and demand. I'm in Canada and I'd offer them in my store, but there's about zero interest in them. I sell specialty products like what you've mentioned (Ex: DVB satellite systems), and if there were more than a couple of hundred people in Canada that *REALLY* wanted a region-free DVD player, *and* didn't want to go to the hassle of DIYing one, I'd have heard about it by now, and I'd be selling them [nothing beats Value Add services for good profit margins].
That being said, oddly enough, I *have* had people come to my store with PAL games they want to play on NTSC PS2s, and PAL PS2s that they want to play NTSC games.
>Wouldn't you pay $3 for 2 extra hours of your life back?
For only 2 channels? Hell no. Americans pay far less and get way more. For example, you can get showtime, which runs 10 channels in the US, for $11.99 a month. That's $1.20 a channel. That's a much better deal than the BBC offers, and unlike the BBC, you can watch movies ALL DAY.
I have to say, it sorta drove me nuts that there are no breaks in BBC programming when I was in the UK. I wanted to get a sandwich, say, but if I did that, I'd have to miss my TV show. That sucked.
I'd go for a half and half system. 10 minutes of commercials an hour at half the price. Gives me time for a washroom break and leaves my wallet a bit heavier.
>Six TV channels
*SIX*? When did that happen? Something major must have happened in the last 5 years to the UK TV market. Last I remember when I was over there, BBC 1 and BBC 2 were all that you could get commercial free without special (expensive) equipment.
>arguably the world's best newsgathering organisation
This I won't deny. BBC world news is good. I haven't a clue how they afford to give it away for free without commercials outside the UK. Fortunately... it's not my problem...:) Although, I would gladly pay for it.
>I wanted the software, so I bought a Mac. That's how it works
Exactly. That's how it works. Now people seem to want (or, well, in the case of certain Apple users, not want) Real's software to work.
So, just like you made a decision, they'll need to make one. Buy windows or don't run all of Real's software.
>I guess I won't be able to convince you that Real is being hypocritical where Apple isn't, since you see both as the same.
No, not as long as you consider it OK for Apple to sell OS X for Apple hardware only (*NO* it is *NO LONGER* part of their computer "package" -- they definately charge for it separately now. I can provide places to buy copies.) I probably won't be convinced, sorry... Oh well.
>I suppose I just want my $0.49 downloads, and you want your yearly $129 OS releases.
There you go! But I thought $129 was the price for Jaguar, no? It seems that's what Amazon was selling the 10.3 (or whatever it was called) upgrade for way back when...
>Is Apple selling OS X as a viable alternative to Windows? No, Apple is selling a Macintosh as a viable alternative to PCs running Microsoft Windows.
I have to call bullshit on that. Remember the "switch" ad where a Microsoft network engineer told windows users how much better he prefers OS X, and so he's switching? Yeah...
>If you'r a Mac using iPod owner, it's nonexistent.
C'est la vie. Just the same as OS X.
>I understand why you want OS X and Apple software for the PC, as I would too, but since I couldn't I bought a Mac.
Well, I'm not all *that* interested in OS X. I'd like to try it, but I simply can't afford hardware to run it. It doesn't make a cost-effective environment for me to use. It's unfortunate, but that's the way it goes.
No, two wrongs don't make a right. It is never "wrong" to be selective about what system you decide to code for. That's the company's choice.
Since Apple users "respected" that Apple inteded for the iPod and iTunes to be Mac only when it was released, I think it's hypocritical that Apple users would whine when software from another company that interworks with the iPod is released for windows only.
>Real talks about choice, competition, and alternatives, and fails to provide choice by only targeting one platform; Windows. If they do believe in choice... if they do believe in alternatives and competition, make their product Mac compatible so I can listen to it in my iTunes.
Look, you don't get to complain about that as long as OS X only works on the Mac, ok? It's just total hypocrisy to want it both ways.
>The world goes down in flames if we live a tit for tat philosophy.
I agree. That's why it's wrong for Apple to make so much non-Windows software. I still recall Steve Jobs saying how hell would freeze over when iTunes was released for windows.
>Real wants a chance, well, give my a chance to. Until they can, all I can do is slam them for not producing a viable competitive product.
I did the same thing about iTunes when it was Mac only and got marked troll. Consider that for a minute.
>I thought that allofmp3.com was the site people keep saying is run by the Russian mafia and is possibly illegal, almost definitely immoral, and is otherwise wrong?
A lot of unions are/were supported by mafia money (ask someone from New York). Does that make joining most unions illegal and/or immoral?
[Personally, I'd say yes, but that's because my union (OPSEU) basically stole my money. Long story which I'd love to get into detail on if you care to email me.]
I can absolutely assure you that their old one (version 6) had no fullscreen. Since that's what most people had to use for YEARS on linux as Real never bothered updating it, well, you can see why people think it doesn't do fullscreen.
If the latest, hottest one off the press does fullscreen, that's awesome. Too bad it took them about a decade to get there.
>"Now insert the CD we gave you when you bought the computer..."
At which point Dell users would insert their Microsoft Money/Office/Works CD and call Dell asking why it didn't work and why their computer is now ruined.
Trust me, I run a computer store. The people who buy Dells who come here, the ones that don't give me the proper install CDs, but give me the wrong ones instead, they're the smart ones. The rest simply throw out all the CDs. We had to start sticking the WinXP key stickers to the front of the computers since customers were throwing them away, too. I guess I'm too nice...
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>Mine got about 5 hrs under normal conditions.
So, less than half what this device can do, eh?
>Oh, you mean the handbrake (I guess "emergency brake" is an Americanism, as it doesn't make sense).
:-)
Or, perhaps in countries outside America they don't sell vans and trucks. Must be interesting getting cars from the factory to the dealership without putting miles on them.
In these you operate your so called "hand"brake with a foot. No, I'm not talking about the pedal just beside the gas. I'm talking about a totally separate pedal with a latch release.
Ergo, it is no longer a handbrake. The term "embergency brake" works better as it covers any method of operating a manual brake for the rear wheels only.
>Could the wires lead to some sort of ricer extra lights somewhere?
:-)
I sorta doubt that. It wouldn't make much sense, but more importantly, there's no way those tiny connectors there could possibly supply enough juice to power much more than an LED or two.
More likely the letters are there to help troubleshooters figure out what colour to hook the other end of their meter to on the cable that should attach beside them. Or they're there to help slave-labour assemble the board correctly. One or the other.
Or did I miss out on a funny? Sorry...
>Obviously it involves modern technology because that's how this problem will (hopefully) be solved.
So, uhhh, why isn't the fact I'm watching TV covered on slashdot? That's modern technology.
They didn't even MENTION that anything would even be done, at all. The solution, at the moment, won't include ANY modern technology because the solution right now is "sit on your thumbs and close your eyes, you might be in for a big surprise!".
>This article easily could lead into some great posts about the various ways they might be able to learn whether these explosives are still a danger, and if they are, how they might be defused.
ROTFLMAO. Much more likely any responses to this article will lead to that town being exploded.
Since when did slashdot become the History Channel or the exploding things alert channel? How does this involve modern technology?
>mmmm chops..
Plo chops?
>If all software was free, why would anyone bother developing it?
Here's a list of things I can get for free, from the top of my head:
- Electricity
- Clean Water
- Heating
- Cooling
- Paper
- Pens
- Food
- Shelter
- Needles
- Condoms
Sure, I can't get my entire supply of all of those items free, but I definately can get those items in smaller amounts for free. And all of those items cost money, and generally aren't directly paid for through your taxes. Yet there's lots of incentive to open power plants or water facilities, food-share programs, etc, etc.
>Let me put it another way...you're a software developer making a product - the final piece of software represents the work you've put in to devloping something unique and useful....how much is this effort worth? Nothing?
Well, let's ask someone who owns a power plant the same thing first and see what they have to say.
It's all about setting up the business properly, and basing income on things that are saleable. I own a satellite business, I've spent a lot of time developing lists like this. Guess what? I don't charge for that. It's free. I'm still in business because I charge for things people feel happy to pay for, like satellite receivers.
That being said, if I were to compare the time I spent making that chart with the time someone spends coding software, and compare "sales", I *should* be charging about $0.10 a copy for that satellite list.
>What happens if you have to begin charging for the product itself because it is no longer feasible to offer it for free.
Then you should open source the product so that additional help can be gathered. If the product is so very popular, plenty of people will be more than willing to work on it for free, even if it means your company benefits, so long as features and fixes they want end up in the software.
Quick. Watch the Penn and Teller episode on what you're talking about now (specifically, season 2, episode 5).
Did you know all of the garbage prodced in the US in the next 1,000 years would fit in (about) a 35 x 35 sq mi field at 200 ft high? That's 1,225 sq mi of area, or 0.03% of US owned land (not including seas). I can think of VERY FEW items that are *less* important than landfills filling up the US (that will take some billions of years to happen, give or take a few million). I have a good idea that in the year 1,000,000,000 we'll be way more worried about the sun exploding earth than about landfills. Just my guess.
BTW: The person who wrote the scaremongering EPA report is on record (video tape) as explaining that he really didn't mean to make such a big deal out of it, that there really isn't much problem when it comes to landfills and the US.
You should really watch the show. I think you would enjoy it.
>But that's a good point, you don't really need to keep the key in the camera secret at all, since you can't use it to decrypt the images...
Well, that puts that idea out of the realm of this camera. The LCD lets you check your photography, so we can be sure that any encryption done on this camera (if it is) will be decryptable on the same camera.
>How in hell can your laptop even go near there?! Are you laying on your back with your computer on your crotch?!
Remember McDonald's coffee lady? Yeah... That's how.
>So who exactly is paying for the TV channels in Canada - The viewers, via increased costs of goods to pay for their advertising, or the viewers, via taxes paid to the state ?
:-)
Here's the difference:
You don't go to jail if you don't buy products advertised on TV (I know plenty of people, including myself, that see most ads as annoying putoffs and avoid those products instead of purchasing them [I'm looking at you most shampoo companies -- At least generic brands aren't supposed to give me some sort of scalp orgasm.])
Now, you do tend to go to jail if you don't pay taxes.
I hear it's a 5,000 UKP fine for not paying the TV tax in the UK, and about 6 months jail time for chronic offenders. And then even people who are paying have to deal with detector vans invading UK residents' privacy, checking on what channels are being watched.
Am I off on that?
This isn't so say Canada doesn't have TV stations paid for by taxes, such as TV Ontario, we do. However, everyone pays for it so we can avoid the whole invasion of privacy and non-payment type issues. I suppose it sucks for those who refuse to watch TV, however, I can assure you that government funded TV channels like TV Ontario carry absolutely no interest to anyone *except* for the artsy-fartsy type that wouldn't own a TV. Yeah; the fact the channel exists at all makes no sense to me, either...
>What's the incentive for a cracker to crack subsequent versions when they're so involved.
That's the incentive. Since crackers are doing it for fun, I figure they enjoy the challenge. Nothing beats the challenge of doing something that someone says isn't possible.
Thanks for the list. According to the interviewee, no StarForce games are cracked.
According to google, cracks appear to exist for:
Breed
Cycling Manager 3
Dead to Rights
Fire Department
Gangland
Korea Fogotten Conflict
Prince of Persia Sands of Time
Rally Championship Xtreme
Restaurant Empire
Runaway A Road Adventure
Soldiers Heroes of World War 2
Track Mania
XIII
X2 The Threat
Now, being that I don't want to get my system all infected with virus laden garbage, I'm not going to download any of the cracks I found. I wonder how many work? Perhaps none of them. Or perhaps they all do. In that case, We have a 58% success record. That's not worthy of saying your protection is crack proof, IMHO.
Decent. Glad to hear the UK finally has a good selection of TV channels. I recall coming back to Canada, letting people know how in the UK you could only get 4 channels and, well, people here were quite astonished to hear that a country with twice the population had about 1/4 the free stations [Then when I mentioned that in the UK you guys were paying for that 'privelege', well... I'll leave the reaction to that for your imagination].
When I left the digital switchover was about halfway in progress, so, as I see, it seems that when the UK completely switched over, the BBC took full advantage of the spectrum.
All that being said, I have to say, when I was in the UK I spend most of my time watching ITV / Channel 4 (Big thanks to the UK for introducing me to that crazy game show 'Banzai').
>Streaming internet video,
:)
:-) Also not available in a lot of other countries. Well, there's no DMCA, but the chip is still there.
>---not available in the US.
It's actually ironic, considering that for the longest time, the UK had such a screwed up set of laws enacted for the benefit of BT (*) that the idea of streaming *anything* took far longer to materialize in the UK than many other places.
>Free-to-Air DVB satellite
>---not available in the US
There's plenty available in the US. Here's a few popular DVB satellites (yellow = FTA DVB signal):
Intelsat Americas 5 (was: Telstar 5)
Galaxy 11
Galaxy 10R
AMC 3
AMC 4
AMC 1
Satmex 5
Intelsat Americas 7 (was: Telstar 7)
There's more, but that should do.
It's just that there's nothing particularly *interesting* to most people there. Now, if you happen to speak arabic or spanish, you're in luck.
As far as pay DVB goes, you'd be surprised to hear it, but DishNetwork is a DVB system (although they hate to admit it). Point a dish at it and hook up a DVB receiver and you can download a list of channels, and watch the unencrypted ones (not many).
>Cheap Broadband
>---not available in the US
I hear of all sorts of deals. That being said, you have to expect a small (by area) country like the UK to be able to better provide cheaper internet to its citizens. They're so close together, wiring things is dirt cheap.
>DMCA chip free inkjet cartridges
>---not available in the US
LOL
>Region code free DVD players
>---not available in the US
That's a case of supply and demand. I'm in Canada and I'd offer them in my store, but there's about zero interest in them. I sell specialty products like what you've mentioned (Ex: DVB satellite systems), and if there were more than a couple of hundred people in Canada that *REALLY* wanted a region-free DVD player, *and* didn't want to go to the hassle of DIYing one, I'd have heard about it by now, and I'd be selling them [nothing beats Value Add services for good profit margins].
That being said, oddly enough, I *have* had people come to my store with PAL games they want to play on NTSC PS2s, and PAL PS2s that they want to play NTSC games.
>Wouldn't you pay $3 for 2 extra hours of your life back?
:) Although, I would gladly pay for it.
For only 2 channels? Hell no. Americans pay far less and get way more. For example, you can get showtime, which runs 10 channels in the US, for $11.99 a month. That's $1.20 a channel. That's a much better deal than the BBC offers, and unlike the BBC, you can watch movies ALL DAY.
I have to say, it sorta drove me nuts that there are no breaks in BBC programming when I was in the UK. I wanted to get a sandwich, say, but if I did that, I'd have to miss my TV show. That sucked.
I'd go for a half and half system. 10 minutes of commercials an hour at half the price. Gives me time for a washroom break and leaves my wallet a bit heavier.
>Six TV channels
*SIX*? When did that happen? Something major must have happened in the last 5 years to the UK TV market. Last I remember when I was over there, BBC 1 and BBC 2 were all that you could get commercial free without special (expensive) equipment.
>arguably the world's best newsgathering organisation
This I won't deny. BBC world news is good. I haven't a clue how they afford to give it away for free without commercials outside the UK. Fortunately... it's not my problem...
>I wanted the software, so I bought a Mac. That's how it works
Exactly. That's how it works. Now people seem to want (or, well, in the case of certain Apple users, not want) Real's software to work.
So, just like you made a decision, they'll need to make one. Buy windows or don't run all of Real's software.
>I guess I won't be able to convince you that Real is being hypocritical where Apple isn't, since you see both as the same.
No, not as long as you consider it OK for Apple to sell OS X for Apple hardware only (*NO* it is *NO LONGER* part of their computer "package" -- they definately charge for it separately now. I can provide places to buy copies.) I probably won't be convinced, sorry... Oh well.
>I suppose I just want my $0.49 downloads, and you want your yearly $129 OS releases.
There you go! But I thought $129 was the price for Jaguar, no? It seems that's what Amazon was selling the 10.3 (or whatever it was called) upgrade for way back when...
>Is Apple selling OS X as a viable alternative to Windows? No, Apple is selling a Macintosh as a viable alternative to PCs running Microsoft Windows.
I have to call bullshit on that. Remember the "switch" ad where a Microsoft network engineer told windows users how much better he prefers OS X, and so he's switching? Yeah...
>If you'r a Mac using iPod owner, it's nonexistent.
C'est la vie. Just the same as OS X.
>I understand why you want OS X and Apple software for the PC, as I would too, but since I couldn't I bought a Mac.
Well, I'm not all *that* interested in OS X. I'd like to try it, but I simply can't afford hardware to run it. It doesn't make a cost-effective environment for me to use. It's unfortunate, but that's the way it goes.
No, two wrongs don't make a right. It is never "wrong" to be selective about what system you decide to code for. That's the company's choice.
Since Apple users "respected" that Apple inteded for the iPod and iTunes to be Mac only when it was released, I think it's hypocritical that Apple users would whine when software from another company that interworks with the iPod is released for windows only.
>Real talks about choice, competition, and alternatives, and fails to provide choice by only targeting one platform; Windows. If they do believe in choice... if they do believe in alternatives and competition, make their product Mac compatible so I can listen to it in my iTunes.
Look, you don't get to complain about that as long as OS X only works on the Mac, ok? It's just total hypocrisy to want it both ways.
>The world goes down in flames if we live a tit for tat philosophy.
I agree. That's why it's wrong for Apple to make so much non-Windows software. I still recall Steve Jobs saying how hell would freeze over when iTunes was released for windows.
>Real wants a chance, well, give my a chance to. Until they can, all I can do is slam them for not producing a viable competitive product.
I did the same thing about iTunes when it was Mac only and got marked troll. Consider that for a minute.
>I thought that allofmp3.com was the site people keep saying is run by the Russian mafia and is possibly illegal, almost definitely immoral, and is otherwise wrong?
A lot of unions are/were supported by mafia money (ask someone from New York). Does that make joining most unions illegal and/or immoral?
[Personally, I'd say yes, but that's because my union (OPSEU) basically stole my money. Long story which I'd love to get into detail on if you care to email me.]
And when the iPod came out it wasn't PC compatible. Tit for tat.
If "PLEASE KEEP THIS -- IT IS YOUR RECEIPT" doesn't work, trust me, a picture of their CD is just going to confuse them.
I can absolutely assure you that their old one (version 6) had no fullscreen. Since that's what most people had to use for YEARS on linux as Real never bothered updating it, well, you can see why people think it doesn't do fullscreen.
If the latest, hottest one off the press does fullscreen, that's awesome. Too bad it took them about a decade to get there.
>"Now insert the CD we gave you when you bought the computer..."
At which point Dell users would insert their Microsoft Money/Office/Works CD and call Dell asking why it didn't work and why their computer is now ruined.
Trust me, I run a computer store. The people who buy Dells who come here, the ones that don't give me the proper install CDs, but give me the wrong ones instead, they're the smart ones. The rest simply throw out all the CDs. We had to start sticking the WinXP key stickers to the front of the computers since customers were throwing them away, too. I guess I'm too nice...