There's nothing stopping you from keeping a non-Apple product for longer than two years, you know. Hell, my Toshiba laptop must be at least 6 years old now.
Resale value. It's much higher with Macs. Just get Apple Care for your Macbook Pro, eBay it with six months left on the extended warranty, and buy a new MBP. You might have a higher initial investment, but over the long run it could cost you quite a bit less money to have a laptop with recent hardware in it.
Aimbots in a MMO are a little more of a problem aren't they?
I suppose you could see it that way, if you were the biggest idiot on the planet. Shooters are based around aiming. RPG's are based around stats, storylines and the level grind.
Looks like the MMO forum kids got over here again.
he common chatter in pubs for nearly a decade leading up to 1776 was that the "sheep" (as you want to call them) -- i.e., the common people -- were ready to take up arms to expel the British presence in the colonies.
Garbage. The colonists wouldn't have been for "expelling the British" for the same reason they didn't really go around yelling "the British are coming, the British are coming": the colonists themselves were British. Just as students at Kent State didn't go around screaming "the Americans are coming" before they were murdered by the Ohio National Guard: they were Americans too.
Its a good point you have their. Irregardless of the facts that English is an mangled language cobbled together from other languages, its good that alot of people such as yourself keep that purities goings.
False equivalency. What has Apple done to it's customers that's remotely as inconvenient as following broadcast flags or shutting down MSN Music servers?
but Microsoft is perfectly within its rights to hold customers to the terms the software was sold on.
Rubbish example and an even worse conclusion. EULA's are irrelevant as you can only read them after you've bought and opened the software, at which point you'll find it nearly impossible to return it to the retailer.
I agree with the other guy in this thread; activation can be a pain, but Microsoft are fully within their rights to hold you to the EULA.
Nonense. Contracts have to be agreed to before money changes hands, not after. Especially when you will have a devil of a time trying to return an opened software package to the retailer.
...there are actually very few PC games released that must have the latest and greatest hardware. A three year old PC will play most PC games. Whereas if you buy an XBox, you can only pay XBox games. So you actually MORE limited with a console, not LESS. Unless you buy each console, but then there goes your supposed cost advantage.
You don't need a refresh, you need a slap upside the head. Both Valve and Blizzard make games. One company encourages modification, and the other freaks the fuck out. WTF difference does it make that one is an FPS and the other is an RPG?
The ISP is complaining that a minority of users are blowing the ratios out of whack and that they need to do something about it.
Then they'd still be lying, as there is no such thing as a bandwidth hog- only customers that use what they pay for and companies that oversell their connections.
If you don't like the terms of the license, you have a choice not to use that software.
You aren't licensing Leopard, you're buying a copy of the software. And that's all. When you buy Oracle's products, that is an actual license since you have to sign a contract before getting the software.
And if your uncle catches someone stealing from his farm, are they finned $200,000 per stolen potato? Are farmers lobbying for federal agencies like the FBI to get involved with potato theft?
Or would the person be charged with trespassing and petty theft by the local DA? In other words, you're being ridiculous. There is juuuuust a bit of a difference between "no punishment" and being sent to a "federal pound me in the ass penitentiary."
Why would you have to ignore the Ewoks for it to be good? I used to love the Ewoks cartoon series as a kid too:D
Sure, because we were kids at the time. The problem wasn't that the Ewoks were cute. The problem wasn't that the Ewoks diverted the Stormtroopers. The problem was that frikkin teddy bears fighting an entire legion of the Emperors best troops to a standoff was complete BUUUUUULSHIT.
If Lucas had gone with his original plan and used Wookies instead of Ewoks it would have been cool instead of total bullshit. It would have even made sense for a bunch of Wookies to be there since the Empire used them as slaves.
If you look at movies like Back to the Future, they did a very convincing job of making Christopher Lloyd appear as different ages.
Say what? They made several tongue-in-cheek references on how Doc ("thank god I've still got my hair") and Strickland ("didn't that guy ever have hair") looked exactly the same. Especially in the 2nd movie where Doc shows Marty that he had plastic surgery...except he looks exactly the same.
Docs told me to give up bacon too, but I told them I would rather fucking die.
Rock on. I'd tell you to try a Benwich from Brugers, except it was a concoction made by just one employee at the store my sister worked at. It's your basic bacon sandwich with some cream cheese, with another layer of bacon and then some lettuce with some more bacon and finally a few extra strips of bacon just to make sure. You'd get six months worth of colesterol with a single sandwich, but it was FUCKING AWESOME.
Saying that Apple is price competitive on PC hardware is just a bold-faced lie.
Too bad the facts don't meet your storyline. Apple is competitive when it comes to similar hardware from similar manufactures. What they don't do is make a plethora of models and options (that hurt them a lot in the 90's), especially on the cheap end. If you have $2500 to spend on a laptop, it's worth looking at Apple's lineup. But if you want a $500 ultra budget portable, you'll have to look elsewhere.
HL2 suffered waaay to much from the rat tunnel effect. That wasn't a problem with HL1, because you were trapped in a collapsing underground base and your travel options would naturally be limited. HL2 on the other hand is almost entirely out in the open, above ground, so there's no excuse.
Contrast that to the original Deus Ex - generally multiple paths to your objective and multiple ways to accomplish said objective. It wouldn't kill Valve to offer some of that variety, but if you listen to their commentaries it's obvious that they want to plan every moment of gameplay.
...I think was how one of the gaming sites put it. The atmosphere was spooky and demonic, and the art was sometimes fantastic, but the game just didn't feel like it was tied together very well. Maybe they should have had Valve do it.:)
Not Napster. It was working under the old "build a big customer base first and figure out a business model later" that worked so well in the dot.com era.
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There's nothing stopping you from keeping a non-Apple product for longer than two years, you know. Hell, my Toshiba laptop must be at least 6 years old now.
Resale value. It's much higher with Macs. Just get Apple Care for your Macbook Pro, eBay it with six months left on the extended warranty, and buy a new MBP. You might have a higher initial investment, but over the long run it could cost you quite a bit less money to have a laptop with recent hardware in it.
Aimbots in a MMO are a little more of a problem aren't they?
I suppose you could see it that way, if you were the biggest idiot on the planet. Shooters are based around aiming. RPG's are based around stats, storylines and the level grind.
Looks like the MMO forum kids got over here again.
Never played online RPG's, never will.
he common chatter in pubs for nearly a decade leading up to 1776 was that the "sheep" (as you want to call them) -- i.e., the common people -- were ready to take up arms to expel the British presence in the colonies.
Garbage. The colonists wouldn't have been for "expelling the British" for the same reason they didn't really go around yelling "the British are coming, the British are coming": the colonists themselves were British. Just as students at Kent State didn't go around screaming "the Americans are coming" before they were murdered by the Ohio National Guard: they were Americans too.
Its a good point you have their. Irregardless of the facts that English is an mangled language cobbled together from other languages, its good that alot of people such as yourself keep that purities goings.
..and so does every other company that uses DRM.
False equivalency. What has Apple done to it's customers that's remotely as inconvenient as following broadcast flags or shutting down MSN Music servers?
but Microsoft is perfectly within its rights to hold customers to the terms the software was sold on.
Rubbish example and an even worse conclusion. EULA's are irrelevant as you can only read them after you've bought and opened the software, at which point you'll find it nearly impossible to return it to the retailer.
I agree with the other guy in this thread; activation can be a pain, but Microsoft are fully within their rights to hold you to the EULA.
Nonense. Contracts have to be agreed to before money changes hands, not after. Especially when you will have a devil of a time trying to return an opened software package to the retailer.
A EULA isn't a contract, it's toilet paper.
...there are actually very few PC games released that must have the latest and greatest hardware. A three year old PC will play most PC games. Whereas if you buy an XBox, you can only pay XBox games. So you actually MORE limited with a console, not LESS. Unless you buy each console, but then there goes your supposed cost advantage.
Refresh my memory, which MMO does Valve run?
You don't need a refresh, you need a slap upside the head. Both Valve and Blizzard make games. One company encourages modification, and the other freaks the fuck out. WTF difference does it make that one is an FPS and the other is an RPG?
The ISP is complaining that a minority of users are blowing the ratios out of whack and that they need to do something about it.
Then they'd still be lying, as there is no such thing as a bandwidth hog- only customers that use what they pay for and companies that oversell their connections.
It can easily be reviewed before purchase
If it's not on the box, it's not easy to read.
If you don't like the terms of the license, you have a choice not to use that software.
You aren't licensing Leopard, you're buying a copy of the software. And that's all. When you buy Oracle's products, that is an actual license since you have to sign a contract before getting the software.
And if your uncle catches someone stealing from his farm, are they finned $200,000 per stolen potato? Are farmers lobbying for federal agencies like the FBI to get involved with potato theft?
Or would the person be charged with trespassing and petty theft by the local DA? In other words, you're being ridiculous. There is juuuuust a bit of a difference between "no punishment" and being sent to a "federal pound me in the ass penitentiary."
Why would you have to ignore the Ewoks for it to be good? I used to love the Ewoks cartoon series as a kid too :D
Sure, because we were kids at the time. The problem wasn't that the Ewoks were cute. The problem wasn't that the Ewoks diverted the Stormtroopers. The problem was that frikkin teddy bears fighting an entire legion of the Emperors best troops to a standoff was complete BUUUUUULSHIT.
If Lucas had gone with his original plan and used Wookies instead of Ewoks it would have been cool instead of total bullshit. It would have even made sense for a bunch of Wookies to be there since the Empire used them as slaves.
If you look at movies like Back to the Future, they did a very convincing job of making Christopher Lloyd appear as different ages.
Say what? They made several tongue-in-cheek references on how Doc ("thank god I've still got my hair") and Strickland ("didn't that guy ever have hair") looked exactly the same. Especially in the 2nd movie where Doc shows Marty that he had plastic surgery...except he looks exactly the same.
Mass is measured in kg
Thrust is measured in N (newtons)
There wouldn't be such confusion if you USians used proper units.
Hey, Captain Pedant of the U.S.S. Hypocrisy, there is no such proper word as "USians".
There's only customers who use what they paid for and companies that oversell their connections.
Docs told me to give up bacon too, but I told them I would rather fucking die.
Rock on. I'd tell you to try a Benwich from Brugers, except it was a concoction made by just one employee at the store my sister worked at. It's your basic bacon sandwich with some cream cheese, with another layer of bacon and then some lettuce with some more bacon and finally a few extra strips of bacon just to make sure. You'd get six months worth of colesterol with a single sandwich, but it was FUCKING AWESOME.
Why not Boot Camp it for her? Gets her a MBP, but with Windows.
Saying that Apple is price competitive on PC hardware is just a bold-faced lie.
Too bad the facts don't meet your storyline. Apple is competitive when it comes to similar hardware from similar manufactures. What they don't do is make a plethora of models and options (that hurt them a lot in the 90's), especially on the cheap end. If you have $2500 to spend on a laptop, it's worth looking at Apple's lineup. But if you want a $500 ultra budget portable, you'll have to look elsewhere.
HL2 suffered waaay to much from the rat tunnel effect. That wasn't a problem with HL1, because you were trapped in a collapsing underground base and your travel options would naturally be limited. HL2 on the other hand is almost entirely out in the open, above ground, so there's no excuse.
Contrast that to the original Deus Ex - generally multiple paths to your objective and multiple ways to accomplish said objective. It wouldn't kill Valve to offer some of that variety, but if you listen to their commentaries it's obvious that they want to plan every moment of gameplay.
...I think was how one of the gaming sites put it. The atmosphere was spooky and demonic, and the art was sometimes fantastic, but the game just didn't feel like it was tied together very well. Maybe they should have had Valve do it. :)
and both made a profit off it.
Not Napster. It was working under the old "build a big customer base first and figure out a business model later" that worked so well in the dot.com era.
The problem isn't underage drinking, it's irresponsible drinking - and for that it doesn't matter if the drinking age is set at 15, 30 or 50.
And it's the same deal with voting and Vietnam - if you're old enough to be drafted, you're old enough to drink and vote.
.05? That's crazy talk. Which states are those?
Australia isn't isolationist AND minds its own business. And funny enough, they've had a whopping 0 terrorist attacks to deal with.