Red ink really, i was thinking more of a supersoaker with urine at least. Urine is fairly readily available and is good for the environment since its recycling.
That happens all the time actually they are called Fanfics. By using the Fanfic name it is implied that it was not a story of the original owners, but of fans.
I'll counter your anecdote with my own: I had Vista installed on my MacBook for about a month. Read: I installed it myself, no vendor crapware involved. Once I got fed up with the atrocious startup time I wiped it and switched to XP and it's much faster all-around.
There is still a notable gain from both fixes that is only noticed if you do both separately, I bought a Inspiron with Home Premium on it and did not care for the 3 min boot (to the logon screen) I was getting. So I installed Vista Ultimate from a full install disk and it got faster up and running, but took almost 5 mins after I logged in to actually do anything, plus the loading program times and hangups were still bad. Finally I got fed up and went out and got Windows XP and installed it and it boots about the same length as Vista did after the fresh install, but now runs the programs themselves smoother and with much better response all around.
Due to the fact that windows has had a 90+% marketshare since the dawn of time, do you really think people are gonna waste time writing viruses for the 6 people using a mac or the 2 people using linux? No, they aren't. It's cost benefit analysis at it's finest, they're aiming for the larger audience, just as they are doing now with firefox which was claimed to be 893589023x more secure than IE, but as soon as it gained popularity the bugs/exploits came out of the woodwork like fucking crazy.
I personally use windows, and prefer windows, and since XP came out have never had a problem with it myself. The biggest problem with computers is they're technical machines which lend themselves to needing to have technical knowledge in order to use one safely/correctly....which the majority of people do not have.
Since XP came out, really thats all? SHIT, I have been using a keyboard longer than I have a pencil. You really should check all sides before you get stuck on one or another being almighty. Playing devil's advocate really could atleast give you a basis for fanboish arguments, since there are certain parts done better and far worse on the other sides.
Sounds alot like that movie Antitrust. Using a mass backdoor to show everyone the same thing, whether its a good or bad thing for the group implementing it.
These corporations operate in a predictable fashion according to their environment in order to maximize profits. Good old fashioned competition changes that environment to the advantage of the consumer.
Competition would work well if every competing business didn't have "Screw the consumer" in the plan.
p>It seems to me like things usually work out this way: news organizations cover some topic, congress and the President start discussing it, lobbyists come onto the scene, and in the end the Congress either (a) sells us out to lobbyists, or (b) makes a completely irrational piece of legislation.
When is it either (a) or (b), usually its (a) resulting in (b) and becomes both.
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Isn't the idea of a game to escape reality, not have it mimic so flawlessly the errors that exist in reality so heavily?
supersoakers loaded with red ink.
Red ink really, i was thinking more of a supersoaker with urine at least. Urine is fairly readily available and is good for the environment since its recycling.
Best: Eliminate single points of failure...
Earth is a single point of failure.
Milky Way Galaxy is a single point of failure.
There is a reason its a 99.9% uptime and not 100%, this can happen and you can't really sue them if they argue that this is the .1% its down.
That happens all the time actually they are called Fanfics. By using the Fanfic name it is implied that it was not a story of the original owners, but of fans.
and we have a government that still could require you to use proprietary technologies to do things like file tax returns.
I was unaware that pen and paper are proprietary technology, as that format will be available for a lot longer than you think.
Agreed, Correlation does not equal causation.
Is that why the Mountain Dew game fuel came back, to insure the removal from the gene pool of certain classes of person?
I know there are rebel kids that get the games anyway, but punishments have gone out to for kids.
Leading to the "just let them do it" conversations that occur, thinking that there is no way the game is that bad.
However it will only become a bad influence when people do something that is a "bad thing", which it often to late.
Overall, the system has low and high points of what is the social norm, and certain levels of violence in games are normal.
It's successful if people buy Vista, then buy a copy of XP afterwards. Two OS sales for one computer, that's a win in Microsoft's financial books.
Shouldn't XP sell more then, it had a era of coming out and being the OEM standard and such, and an extra era of downgrade sales?
I may want some features, but I don't want to pay extra for the features I get little to no wanted use from, like the UI "Enhancements"
I'll counter your anecdote with my own: I had Vista installed on my MacBook for about a month. Read: I installed it myself, no vendor crapware involved. Once I got fed up with the atrocious startup time I wiped it and switched to XP and it's much faster all-around.
There is still a notable gain from both fixes that is only noticed if you do both separately, I bought a Inspiron with Home Premium on it and did not care for the 3 min boot (to the logon screen) I was getting. So I installed Vista Ultimate from a full install disk and it got faster up and running, but took almost 5 mins after I logged in to actually do anything, plus the loading program times and hangups were still bad. Finally I got fed up and went out and got Windows XP and installed it and it boots about the same length as Vista did after the fresh install, but now runs the programs themselves smoother and with much better response all around.
waitasec... #4, www.bing.com, runs on *LINUX*? Man, the kool-aid in Redmond must SUCK.
Microsoft doesn't want bing.com to get attacked by the same malicious entities everything else they run does?
Due to the fact that windows has had a 90+% marketshare since the dawn of time, do you really think people are gonna waste time writing viruses for the 6 people using a mac or the 2 people using linux? No, they aren't. It's cost benefit analysis at it's finest, they're aiming for the larger audience, just as they are doing now with firefox which was claimed to be 893589023x more secure than IE, but as soon as it gained popularity the bugs/exploits came out of the woodwork like fucking crazy. I personally use windows, and prefer windows, and since XP came out have never had a problem with it myself. The biggest problem with computers is they're technical machines which lend themselves to needing to have technical knowledge in order to use one safely/correctly....which the majority of people do not have.
Since XP came out, really thats all? SHIT, I have been using a keyboard longer than I have a pencil. You really should check all sides before you get stuck on one or another being almighty. Playing devil's advocate really could atleast give you a basis for fanboish arguments, since there are certain parts done better and far worse on the other sides.
Sounds alot like that movie Antitrust. Using a mass backdoor to show everyone the same thing, whether its a good or bad thing for the group implementing it.
It doesn't make the code less debug-able at all.
These corporations operate in a predictable fashion according to their environment in order to maximize profits. Good old fashioned competition changes that environment to the advantage of the consumer.
Competition would work well if every competing business didn't have "Screw the consumer" in the plan.
Made her look like a moron teaching the advanced class bad grammar and usage.
I bet it is file systems with different block sizes rounding slightly differently, and an OP that does not understand.
But the computers on both ends are running Windows, even if it is FAT32 and NTFS is this really a possible outcome?
Even the NES had a chip that determined if it was a real game or not, so the legitimate game test is not a new one by far.
As stated in Men in Black, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
p>It seems to me like things usually work out this way: news organizations cover some topic, congress and the President start discussing it, lobbyists come onto the scene, and in the end the Congress either (a) sells us out to lobbyists, or (b) makes a completely irrational piece of legislation.
When is it either (a) or (b), usually its (a) resulting in (b) and becomes both.
Trusting your government is not part of trusting the technology not to screw you and your entire country over.
Reminds me of what Shat was like and what Dalaran is like in WoW now, giant laggy hotspots due to accessibility to other places.
It won't work. Canadian public won't trust it and won't be for a very long time.
Looks to draw the same ends, its every bit as sporadically reliable as any other technology.
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