PC gamers like to spend time mess with hardware, not software. And that one thing is what limits both Mac and PC gaming: Linux because of driver issues, Macs because of platform expansion restrictions. You can't even upgrade RAM anymore on any Macs except the outrageously priced Pro mini towers, which themselves have very limited expansion.
Until you can put X amount of graphics cards into a Mac or Linux box and they just work, and work together, PC gaming is never going away.
Men have to deal with women's problems ad nauseum and are never allowed to comment upon it, women are allowed to hound and degrade men ad infinitum and it is always OK. If you are going into anything dominated by another culture, it is not that culture's responsibility to change for you. The idea that all cultures need to accept and make allowances for minority ideals is an asinine American concept that is not shared anywhere else in the world.
If you are not prepared to deal quietly and gracefully with the norms and mores of another culture, STAY THE FUCK OUT OF IT.
Believe me, I had this problem. My PS+ sub renewed with an out-of-date credit card and 3 months later I am told I don't have access to PSN. No email, no reason, just call Sony. They want me to send a cashier's check, by postage mail, to them for the amount then they will "consider" unbanning my account. I can't pay it electronically where I can be sure they receive the amount and there is no guarantee they will unban my account after they receive payment.
I sold my PS3 the next day and I'm trying to sell my PSV.
You can use the United States as a prime example. I'm not here to do the job of educating you, we have complimentary public schools for that. Since you couldn't be bothered to participate in your education, then you can just research crime rates in the US.
Also, since you couldn't be bothered to participate in your education, you can research the Roman Empire and its welfare system and the reasoning behind it.
In addition, since you couldn't be bothered to participate in your education, feel free to research communism and the reasoning behind it.
I still have many 68k Macs that could be put to some kind of use if they could run a modern OS. The issue is that everything that sits on top of the Linux kernel has unfortunately followed the Windows and Mac OS trend of requiring GPU support. I don't know (yes, I could Bing it) if LXDE requires compositing to run decently...
Social security numbers are public information. How do you think agencies and businesses can use that number to identify you? People think SSN is some secret number, it most certainly isn't.
Credit score is owned by private agencies. Nothing about credit is registered with the government.
Medical information is covered by HIPPA that supersedes the fact that medical records had no embargo of any kind on them.
We have no guarantee of privacy in this country. Nowhere in the constitution is privacy even mentioned.
Educate yourself. At your intelligence level it will be profoundly simple.
An American company really believes they can force Germany to change their laws or allow Facebook to operate outside of the law? Just WOW. What the hell kind of shenanigans are they pulling over here, then?
Yup, quite often in fact. He has been seen with and known to have met with dozens of politicians. That's in addition to the money he has directly and indirectly paid for lobbying.
I am glad there won't be any "guilt by association" witch hunts like people already have engaged in incorrectly by hunting down Ryan Lanza and attacking Blizzard.
I would argue that no one would say their desktop/laptop is easier to use than their phone. The desktop moving to a simplified, streamlined experience is preferable to me. I was without a proper computer for about 4 months and I used my ASUS Transformer TF101 as a laptop replacement quite efficiently. Windows 8 is definitely the right directions where the OS recedes into the background.
When I report a bug to Microsoft they don't tell me to fix it myself. I'm grateful that adding new hardware to Windows is an automated process and Microsoft doesn't tell me I need to recompile the NT kernel if I want my USB camera to work. I'm particularly pleased that my integrated graphics card is supported by the OS and every application I use on it.
How about you send me an email with the correct INI file attached, then I drag and drop it to the appropriate directory? How about I copy the correct INI file statements off a website and paste them into the correct INI file? How about I restore an INI file from the backup I have on a CD?
Of which Linux has no standard repository for INI files. Even Mac OS X has a "Preferences" folder. I can't tell you how many times I tried to hunt down where the fuck Linux applications store all their fiddly bits. It's more than INI files applications shit out, they seem to think the entire file system is designed for them to squirt files into every possible directory they can.
I found iWork to be more usable than Office until version 15 came out, but absolutely NOTHING opens iWork documents. Basically everything on the planet opens Office documents to some extent and half the planet will save to Office to some extent. It really has very little to do with the format and the fact that MS Office has no competitors.
The biggest issue is that MS (so far) has not let any kind of third-party desktop app run on RT. Even if they created an API that was more secure and limited, it would still make RT more udseful. I have a Samsung Series 7 Slate that I have been running Win8 on since RTM and I love it and I almost exclusively use it with keyboard and mouse docked to a TV. As a former Mac user, I find mouse gestures a welcome addition to Windows, since Macs have had them for probably 5 years or more.
I also love the fact that it is a tablet with all that means and then I can plug it into a dock and have a real computer. This is such an attractive idea I can't believe Apple didn't do it first.
I would drop x86 and get a Surface or other RT device if it was just possible to get future versions of desktop apps on ARM.
Java is garbage. It's a PITA to write and debug and it DEVOURS RAM. Dalvik just makes it worse. You can, quite literally, do the same app native on iOS and Windows Phone for a half to a quarter of the RAM.
If Java were any good, it would not have been abandoned by every desktop platform and basically every smartphone platform.
Qt on ARM is looking to be the future for mobile OSes and the added benefit is that Qt is pretty much available for every desktop platform including legacy systems like OS/2.
Well, you can always switch to Linux or Mac, I hear both of those are more much responsive than Microsoft when it comes to meeting expectations about what a customer wants./sarcasm
It goes beyond adding features; it's also about allocating resources to build compatibility for multiple versions of the OS, test on multiple versions and support multiple versions. "The new shiny" is not the issue. Windows 8 is Microsoft's upgrade path, if you want to continue to be current, you upgrade. Windows 8 has not made Windows 7 obsolete, it just means you need to be happy where you are.
Apple has always been their fans and not the other way around. Originally Apple's fans were tinkerers and engineers, so Apple was all about that until the MCA, them artists were all about Apple so Apple was an artistic company devoted to making a better experience for the user. Then the damn iPod came along and ruined everything. Suddenly Apple's fans were a bunch of assholes who thought they were superior to everyone else because they all listened to the same awful noise they swore was music. Now it has become so horrible that every time I have to go into an Apple Store I feel like I am in an episode of a new Sartre TV show called "No Exit"
Feel free to browse my user profile and see what a massive fan I used to be of Apple but that was the old Apple. In August I bought a Samsung Series 7 Slate and I have had RTM on it since.
I now know what women who leave abusive relationships must feel like.
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PC gamers like to spend time mess with hardware, not software. And that one thing is what limits both Mac and PC gaming: Linux because of driver issues, Macs because of platform expansion restrictions. You can't even upgrade RAM anymore on any Macs except the outrageously priced Pro mini towers, which themselves have very limited expansion.
Until you can put X amount of graphics cards into a Mac or Linux box and they just work, and work together, PC gaming is never going away.
Men have to deal with women's problems ad nauseum and are never allowed to comment upon it, women are allowed to hound and degrade men ad infinitum and it is always OK. If you are going into anything dominated by another culture, it is not that culture's responsibility to change for you. The idea that all cultures need to accept and make allowances for minority ideals is an asinine American concept that is not shared anywhere else in the world.
If you are not prepared to deal quietly and gracefully with the norms and mores of another culture, STAY THE FUCK OUT OF IT.
Believe me, I had this problem. My PS+ sub renewed with an out-of-date credit card and 3 months later I am told I don't have access to PSN. No email, no reason, just call Sony. They want me to send a cashier's check, by postage mail, to them for the amount then they will "consider" unbanning my account. I can't pay it electronically where I can be sure they receive the amount and there is no guarantee they will unban my account after they receive payment.
I sold my PS3 the next day and I'm trying to sell my PSV.
Citation needed.
You can use the United States as a prime example. I'm not here to do the job of educating you, we have complimentary public schools for that. Since you couldn't be bothered to participate in your education, then you can just research crime rates in the US.
Also, since you couldn't be bothered to participate in your education, you can research the Roman Empire and its welfare system and the reasoning behind it.
In addition, since you couldn't be bothered to participate in your education, feel free to research communism and the reasoning behind it.
I agree. Plasma Active is looking to be the default Linux for Tablets. You can't shoehorn touch onto WIMP, even Microsoft has conceded that.
I still have many 68k Macs that could be put to some kind of use if they could run a modern OS. The issue is that everything that sits on top of the Linux kernel has unfortunately followed the Windows and Mac OS trend of requiring GPU support. I don't know (yes, I could Bing it) if LXDE requires compositing to run decently...
Social security numbers are public information. How do you think agencies and businesses can use that number to identify you? People think SSN is some secret number, it most certainly isn't.
Credit score is owned by private agencies. Nothing about credit is registered with the government.
Medical information is covered by HIPPA that supersedes the fact that medical records had no embargo of any kind on them.
We have no guarantee of privacy in this country. Nowhere in the constitution is privacy even mentioned.
Educate yourself. At your intelligence level it will be profoundly simple.
An American company really believes they can force Germany to change their laws or allow Facebook to operate outside of the law? Just WOW. What the hell kind of shenanigans are they pulling over here, then?
Yup, quite often in fact. He has been seen with and known to have met with dozens of politicians. That's in addition to the money he has directly and indirectly paid for lobbying.
I am glad there won't be any "guilt by association" witch hunts like people already have engaged in incorrectly by hunting down Ryan Lanza and attacking Blizzard.
(Phil-Ken-Sebben)balance the scales...Ha Haaa!(/Phil-Ken-Sebben)
I've been waiting for you to give sharks opposable thumbs...
I would argue that no one would say their desktop/laptop is easier to use than their phone. The desktop moving to a simplified, streamlined experience is preferable to me. I was without a proper computer for about 4 months and I used my ASUS Transformer TF101 as a laptop replacement quite efficiently. Windows 8 is definitely the right directions where the OS recedes into the background.
When I report a bug to Microsoft they don't tell me to fix it myself. I'm grateful that adding new hardware to Windows is an automated process and Microsoft doesn't tell me I need to recompile the NT kernel if I want my USB camera to work. I'm particularly pleased that my integrated graphics card is supported by the OS and every application I use on it.
That's worth money to me.
Of which Linux has no standard repository for INI files. Even Mac OS X has a "Preferences" folder. I can't tell you how many times I tried to hunt down where the fuck Linux applications store all their fiddly bits. It's more than INI files applications shit out, they seem to think the entire file system is designed for them to squirt files into every possible directory they can.
I found iWork to be more usable than Office until version 15 came out, but absolutely NOTHING opens iWork documents. Basically everything on the planet opens Office documents to some extent and half the planet will save to Office to some extent. It really has very little to do with the format and the fact that MS Office has no competitors.
The biggest issue is that MS (so far) has not let any kind of third-party desktop app run on RT. Even if they created an API that was more secure and limited, it would still make RT more udseful. I have a Samsung Series 7 Slate that I have been running Win8 on since RTM and I love it and I almost exclusively use it with keyboard and mouse docked to a TV. As a former Mac user, I find mouse gestures a welcome addition to Windows, since Macs have had them for probably 5 years or more.
I also love the fact that it is a tablet with all that means and then I can plug it into a dock and have a real computer. This is such an attractive idea I can't believe Apple didn't do it first.
I would drop x86 and get a Surface or other RT device if it was just possible to get future versions of desktop apps on ARM.
Not so great? It didn't have email or calendar! I mean, WebOS had THAT and it was a flop.
Java is garbage. It's a PITA to write and debug and it DEVOURS RAM. Dalvik just makes it worse. You can, quite literally, do the same app native on iOS and Windows Phone for a half to a quarter of the RAM.
If Java were any good, it would not have been abandoned by every desktop platform and basically every smartphone platform.
Qt on ARM is looking to be the future for mobile OSes and the added benefit is that Qt is pretty much available for every desktop platform including legacy systems like OS/2.
Well, you can always switch to Linux or Mac, I hear both of those are more much responsive than Microsoft when it comes to meeting expectations about what a customer wants. /sarcasm
It goes beyond adding features; it's also about allocating resources to build compatibility for multiple versions of the OS, test on multiple versions and support multiple versions. "The new shiny" is not the issue. Windows 8 is Microsoft's upgrade path, if you want to continue to be current, you upgrade. Windows 8 has not made Windows 7 obsolete, it just means you need to be happy where you are.
Unfortunately it has been discovered that DNA has a half-life...and it's not really that long.
Apple has always been their fans and not the other way around. Originally Apple's fans were tinkerers and engineers, so Apple was all about that until the MCA, them artists were all about Apple so Apple was an artistic company devoted to making a better experience for the user. Then the damn iPod came along and ruined everything. Suddenly Apple's fans were a bunch of assholes who thought they were superior to everyone else because they all listened to the same awful noise they swore was music. Now it has become so horrible that every time I have to go into an Apple Store I feel like I am in an episode of a new Sartre TV show called "No Exit"
Feel free to browse my user profile and see what a massive fan I used to be of Apple but that was the old Apple. In August I bought a Samsung Series 7 Slate and I have had RTM on it since.
I now know what women who leave abusive relationships must feel like.
Corporations are people.