Vancouver area basic insurance covering only 3rd party liability for 200,000$ if sued for injures and the cost of repairs for their vehicle is about 90$ a month.
This doesn't cover if your vehicle gets stolen, any recover costs or damages caused by the vehicle while stolen (You're still responsible financially unless the thief gets caught). It doesn't cover any of your own vehicle damage, injuries, glass replacement, nothing. It literally only covers the other people involved if you're at fault. That price is if you have 10 years of driving with no accidents and are at the maximum discount available for your driving record which is a 43% discount.
New drivers start at about 130$ for liability only with 0% discount. If you want comprehensive to cover your own vehicle, theft, vandalism, fire etc you're well over 200$ a month, with I believe a 200$ deductible (This is all at the 43% discount). Which of course if someone smashes out only one window, it's about 200$ to replace it. Go figure.
So you save a lot of money for the more common things that happen by not getting the extra insurance.
We have a company in British Columbia that is government run called ICBC for auto insurance. Single player.
What happens is that they keep raising the rates as they need to hold a minimum of 8 billion or something for ensuring they have cover legal costs and insurance claims etc.
The government constantly siphons money from ICBC and redirects it elsewhere. E.G It's no longer an insurance company but a new tax machine and they keep increasing the taxes.
Okay what, it's a thing? I mean we always knew most companies are cheap greedy pieces of shit who don't really understand how the magic box works and just wants to pay the least possible for making the magic box work.
They also don't understand how the failures cost them so much money and they could have saved it with experienced IT workers but fuck them, they made their bed, let them lie in it.
Automatically refuels you to full once per launch with your Kerbal remembering about the emergency fuel!
Besides jokes I have no idea if this will be bad. Take two owns rockstar and grand theft auto. Now, the hacking and security online is complete shit. Players shouldn't be able to set fire or explosions at all players at once...stupid as hell.
However beyond that, the game itself is fun. I don't really see microtransactions or anything that would ruin the game for me. In addition, they purchased squad. So it's just another developer under their belt, and they may get access to some serious experience and way better engines (Sorry unity, I have a perm hate on you for performance reasons. Yeah I can run it well, but the resources for what I'm getting? Questionable.)
Can you imagine a space game with orbiting etc that has an engine more like grand theft auto? Multiplayer? Amazing. Although unlikely it's nice to have fantasies. Keep in mind both studios are separate so it's very unlikely to see anything like that but, a man can dream.
I'll admit it is a very simplified concept I put out that doesn't even begin to address all the nuances of the problem.
As an example would be an alternative currency. Items purchased with the alternative currency (some sort of government plastic) must be billed at cost.)
So items for those purchasing beyond or even if we limit to people below certain income levels, the government isn't forking out money to inflated items since stores are practically promised consumers since people can only spend it there.
Items purchased with standard currency would follow the same rules we currently have.
As for the fact that if companies don't get their ways, people starve and die, which means we're at the complete mercy of corporations, then obviously the solution is a government based food and other supplies. E.G The basics were originally subsidized by the government in the first place Farms, utilities etc. Keep control over basic foods.
Okay this universal basic income is too generalized for what needs to be taken care of. It needs to be a specialized approach to be economically viable.
You can't just give money away, and let people spend it on ipads.
What you need is to take care of the most abundant things in the world, that tend to be the most lacking, that are the most essential and cover those. Universal food program. Everyone is entitled to a certain amount of food per month. Universal housing program. North america, massive land space, utilization is low, but somehow you can't find a place to live. Universal transit - Public transit shouldn't have execs making huge bonuses, it should be a non profit system run by the government. Need it for work and getting around with huge stores pushing out stores to be spread instead of small towns having everything close by. Universal utilities - Basic amount of energy and water allowed to people at no cost.
I give you - Universal essentials. Besides the transit, land is huge and cheap, food is tons, cheap, and tons thrown out, and renewables are driving down utility prices.
This works out way better as it puts in more effort at reducing the cost of these items, so the government doesn't have to spend a ton of money for someone to have the essentials while a company rakes in the profit. Maybe costs + 10% or something for items part of the program.
Want to do business in north america? Your company in these sectors will have to offer at cost prices for the basic amount for individuals. It won't take money from you. Your profit is on non essential items, premium items. People who choose to purchase beyond their basic allotted amounts.
Companies will go "Fuck you I'll go elsewhere since I won't make as much and you'll have no food etc!" Go ahead, the more companies that leave, the more business for the ones that stay, so they'll still be quite profitable.
See, people are delusional. They imagine that, because something was viewed, you'd absolutely paying for this thing above other priorities.
Which is wrong, lots of people watch content because the movie was available, either they torrented it, a friend has it, it's on netflix and someone has a sub.
They imagine that every individual who views that movie, would totally pay for their service if they couldn't get it elsewhere. This is where their dreams are going to die. There are plenty of things I've watched because someone had the movie or it happens to be on netflix (Which more than just me uses) but if I had to PAY like 3$ to see the movie or something, a lot of these movies I'd never watch. Yes, it's actually not worth my 3$, I'd rather buy a loaf of bread.
Period.
I think the number of people who would rather go buy a few beers then pay for that movie are significantly higher than they can imagine. They're chasing money that was never going to be theirs in the first place and it still won't.
Scientists as a group or community talk about matters that result from the scientific process. You can't separate the two. There can be additional bias but not a bias due to a lack of discussion that doesn't relate to anything with the scientific process. If you do have an issue with them anyway then you must have a problem with the scientific process.
Here's another literal for you sure to earn your ire and straw man comments.
Scientist posting under topic 'Science' "Hey science peeps, if I drop this rock, this thing called gravity pulls it to the ground" Special interest "But how does that support and address the issues of minorities and woman in science?" Scientist posting under topic 'Science' "Hey science peeps, I dropped two different things in a vacuum and they both fell at the same speed" Special Interest "Science is discriminatory and ignoring the issues"
I suggest someone moves their posts to the "Social" section of the forum and leaves 'Science' alone.
No I'm not, rtfa. "many issues about which scientists as a group have largely remained silent—attacks on black & brown lives, oil pipelines through indigenous lands, sexual harassment and assault, ADA access in our communities, immigration policy, lack of clean water in several cities across the country, poverty wages, LGBTQIA rights, and mass shootings are scientific issues. Science has historically—and generally continues to support discrimination.
"SCIENCE HAS HISTORICALLY -- AND GENERALLY CONTINUES TO SUPPORT DISCRIMINATION.
It didn't refer to the scientific community, it implies that science itself, the process of science, should be supporting political issues. The articles DOES NOT state "Accurate, tested, and scientific discovery properly able to be reproduced, is ignored if it isn't done by a white male"
You're talking about bias in a scientific community because the SCIENTIFIC E.G a community about SCIENCE (Which goes back to my literal term of SCIENCE) isn't discussing NON SCIENCE things like immigration policy etc.
What, did you hear the word strawman somewhere and just couldn't help yourself but to try and find a place to use it? If anything it's quite the opposite.
Science: Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Special interest groups: Yeah but woman and minorities and not white men and political correctness, how are you supporting that?
Science: Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Special interest groups: Yeah I don't see how you're supporting our agenda on equal rights for human behavior etc.
Science: Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Special interest groups: Science is discriminating against us! Down with "their" science.
There are a lot of ways to protect your hardware, yes a bare system on the internet directly is vulnerable to a lot of exploits but IT professionals have been protecting these systems for decades from things before microsoft releases a patch and protects them.
Windows 10 single handedly caused far more problems and cost for users of production software that any viruses for one company I worked for. We were flooded with calls from users who were FORCED into windows 10 and now ALL THEIR SHIT DON'T WORK.
Trusting microsoft completely is bullshit, review the updates, decide if they're relevant. We can't trust these companies to blindly accept all their software "updates", a lot of them these days aren't even things that affect you, but they want their software to gather more data or other garbage.
Yes I could always spend even more money than getting it from other sources, cancelling netflix and paying even less money...
You also need to keep in mind you're comparing apples to oranges. I didn't complain that my android didn't support the device I wanted to use directly. I found away to access/my/ device that/I/ paid for therefore/own/ the hardware, and enabled a way to use it the way/I/ want.
Since it's/mine/ I should have the simple right to do that. Punishing me and disabling features for it is crap and we all know it, only corporate shills would invite that to be the norm and "like it".
Imagine if you purchased a wrench and used it to tighten a bolt that wasn't certified so they disabled your wrench so you couldn't use it anymore. Sounds absolutely crazy, except that is exactly what they're doing with digital equipment, but people don't realize it fully as they don't fully understand technology (but do a wrench) and just let it slide. It's crap.
I have wifi in enough places if I actually need data, and otherwise I'm out and about, and don't need it.
I refuse to deal with contracts, locking me into shitty deals when better ones come out, their prices are over the top for data as is, always has been.
They keep trying to add more value but take more dollars while as employers they keep trying to add more value but not pay more. People are trying to minimize the money you get constantly while trying to maximize what they take from you.
Their only luck when it comes to me is that in todays day and age everyone has to have a phone, and a landline is just as expensive (as intended).
If I don't own it then you can pay all associated recycling fees for the device, if it's left in places that are not appropriate you will be responsible for removal of it, if it's stolen you need to provide the replacement and you need to pay the insurance for it as well, since you own it, not me.
It doesn't get stolen from me, it gets stolen from you. Since I paid for the use of the product within a warranty period, you can ensure I have it for that time regardless what happens to it.
Sounds far fetched? So does the rest of the shit you guys are trying to do.
Eventually I will, but I'm not interested in investing into especially expensive graphics cards to get the same performance under windows.
As for multimedia, linux is almost completely on pair, so more realistically I'd just say for gaming. Just because I can get a game to run under linux, does not mean it runs well. You usually suffer some frame drops on a lot of games and I like to keep mine at 60 when possible.
It's also far less forgiving to multi tasking while gaming. I can run many games even in fullscreen on windows, and switch to other screens and processes without any hiccups, but if I'm using wine to run it, I'm likely asking for a crash.
Right now I don't need to give it up as my current windows OS isn't 10, and still compatible with it. But as you said, for what I can't run, I'll get over it.
But I'll get over it when I need to, not to burn microsoft for something they already got my money for. I'm only hurting myself at that point. By refusing their next OS and not purchasing more of their products, that's how I get them.
I've been running Windows 8, the start menu change didn't bother me and I found it ran rather well and stable.
I've secured my install, and finally after windows 10 garbage and microsoft doing shitty "telemetry" I mean I can't believe they even call it that. It's flat out spyware that watches how you use it and sells the information to people, and advertisers.
Anyway, I stopped windows update when I saw this coming out as I knew I couldn't trust their updates and just have to watch out for exploits released and lock it down myself. Fortunately I don't need a lot of windows services for how I use my system.
After things finally stop running on windows, I'll be switching to fulltime linux. In fact, just for multi-media / gaming, is the only reason I keep windows. I dual boot to linux as is. I'll be sad to lose some performance and ability to play some games, but I'll get over it.
Using my bandwidth and my hardware that I pay for that is not subsidized by microsoft to serve me ads and collect data from me by microsoft, is not happening.
Oh man thank you so much, please try again with services where you get 100% of the hardware and software and we just funnel money to you. That way you can eventually charge per hour of a game played instead of just buying the game and playing it for as much as you want.
Thats like the unlimited data scams. What, you're losing profits over people who play your game for 400 hours vs those who play for 20 hours and need to charge these heavy users more money since they're getting more out of it?
Every time a company provides a good alternative that's good for consumers they either buy it out or use lobbyists to try and shut that business down.
It's so fucking obvious that everyone is becoming aware of it and we're getting sick and tired of it. They act as if they government is different from the people.
Eat dick if the people. E.G Your consumers, decides your practices are shitty and we're going to regulate them, tough shit.
The problem they have is pirates have the better product.
It just works, it doesn't hassle me for what devices I play it on, it's not greedy trying to make me pay for every device I watch it on. I mean fuck that's like if a VCR tape worked only on one TV and if you bought a new TV they expect you to buy a new tape to watch the same movie you already paid for.
Stop being retarded maybe, that's a good start. Stop region locking, there's a lot of content I'd happily buy at a reasonable price to add to my collect, but then PIRACY so DRM and if your shit service goes down, I lose my collection.
Pirated content can be safely at high quality stored on other media and collections saved.
The only real future is if they develop an international system that all countries support including the government and it's people to subscribe services and licenses to, the licensing and distribution has to include the government and be attached to government IDs for the country to apply their licenses.
If I purchase the collection of sword art online, it's registered to me forever, I can watch it on any device I own, and if you are at someones house you can temp sign in to watch a movie you paid for etc.
Like real media then you can share it reasonably, but once you leave, it goes with you, which protects the copyright holders as well as applies the convenience we expect.
That's the only realistic future for these kinds of things, and even so it won't be perfect, but until your product is better than pirated content, you're fucked.
It's not like all shows are available at a price and you just refused to pay it.
Content is often... Old so not available Not available in/your country/ Not available when you want to watch it Has commercials Better quality elsewhere, ability to pause play rewinid at your leisure.
Basically as usual, pirated content has the better product, even if you had to "pay" for it.
Stop restricting content by country Stop restricting content to try and force people to accept certain content.
Oh yeah, they do it, fyi, deliberately pull other popular content from access just to get people watching their "new" show. It's like products, installing updates or things that cause it to run worse but it's a "security update" until they tell you to buy a newer, faster shinier product.
They keep trying to section off markets to milk the most of it etc. If instead, part of harmonization the entire world, allowed content to be accessible on a global level with specific standards for quality control, performance and user interfaces (As every company wants a piece of the pie) you would have a lot less people pirating.
I don't even watch netflix anymore because I've already seen anything good and their library is started to suck ass. I only keep it since a family member watches it still.
Pirates have global access to high quality on demand content of their choosing, free for the most part no less. Your expensive services are terrible and don't even come close.
There's a lot of content I'd like to watch and would pay for access to watch it, but I can't, then you whine and complain because I'm not buying the products you want me to.
Yeah I've worked retail in the past and actually have put higher prices on products that were "on sale" with new higher prices that were never charged.
It's dirty. Thankfully I saw that when I was a lot younger so I made sure to value products through research on what they do and their value to me than what a store tells me.
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Yeah you can't really compare the US and Canada like that.
Lot of things are more expensive here, and in other provinces the prices are a lot cheaper for insurance.
Vancouver area basic insurance covering only 3rd party liability for 200,000$ if sued for injures and the cost of repairs for their vehicle is about 90$ a month.
This doesn't cover if your vehicle gets stolen, any recover costs or damages caused by the vehicle while stolen (You're still responsible financially unless the thief gets caught).
It doesn't cover any of your own vehicle damage, injuries, glass replacement, nothing. It literally only covers the other people involved if you're at fault.
That price is if you have 10 years of driving with no accidents and are at the maximum discount available for your driving record which is a 43% discount.
New drivers start at about 130$ for liability only with 0% discount. If you want comprehensive to cover your own vehicle, theft, vandalism, fire etc you're well over 200$ a month, with I believe a 200$ deductible (This is all at the 43% discount). Which of course if someone smashes out only one window, it's about 200$ to replace it. Go figure.
So you save a lot of money for the more common things that happen by not getting the extra insurance.
It doesn't work that way.
We have a company in British Columbia that is government run called ICBC for auto insurance. Single player.
What happens is that they keep raising the rates as they need to hold a minimum of 8 billion or something for ensuring they have cover legal costs and insurance claims etc.
The government constantly siphons money from ICBC and redirects it elsewhere. E.G It's no longer an insurance company but a new tax machine and they keep increasing the taxes.
Okay what, it's a thing? I mean we always knew most companies are cheap greedy pieces of shit who don't really understand how the magic box works and just wants to pay the least possible for making the magic box work.
They also don't understand how the failures cost them so much money and they could have saved it with experienced IT workers but fuck them, they made their bed, let them lie in it.
flight!
Automatically refuels you to full once per launch with your Kerbal remembering about the emergency fuel!
Besides jokes I have no idea if this will be bad. Take two owns rockstar and grand theft auto. Now, the hacking and security online is complete shit. Players shouldn't be able to set fire or explosions at all players at once...stupid as hell.
However beyond that, the game itself is fun. I don't really see microtransactions or anything that would ruin the game for me. In addition, they purchased squad. So it's just another developer under their belt, and they may get access to some serious experience and way better engines (Sorry unity, I have a perm hate on you for performance reasons. Yeah I can run it well, but the resources for what I'm getting? Questionable.)
Can you imagine a space game with orbiting etc that has an engine more like grand theft auto? Multiplayer? Amazing. Although unlikely it's nice to have fantasies. Keep in mind both studios are separate so it's very unlikely to see anything like that but, a man can dream.
I'll admit it is a very simplified concept I put out that doesn't even begin to address all the nuances of the problem.
As an example would be an alternative currency. Items purchased with the alternative currency (some sort of government plastic) must be billed at cost.)
So items for those purchasing beyond or even if we limit to people below certain income levels, the government isn't forking out money to inflated items since stores are practically promised consumers since people can only spend it there.
Items purchased with standard currency would follow the same rules we currently have.
As for the fact that if companies don't get their ways, people starve and die, which means we're at the complete mercy of corporations, then obviously the solution is a government based food and other supplies. E.G The basics were originally subsidized by the government in the first place Farms, utilities etc.
Keep control over basic foods.
Okay this universal basic income is too generalized for what needs to be taken care of. It needs to be a specialized approach to be economically viable.
You can't just give money away, and let people spend it on ipads.
What you need is to take care of the most abundant things in the world, that tend to be the most lacking, that are the most essential and cover those.
Universal food program. Everyone is entitled to a certain amount of food per month.
Universal housing program. North america, massive land space, utilization is low, but somehow you can't find a place to live.
Universal transit - Public transit shouldn't have execs making huge bonuses, it should be a non profit system run by the government. Need it for work and getting around with huge stores pushing out stores to be spread instead of small towns having everything close by.
Universal utilities - Basic amount of energy and water allowed to people at no cost.
I give you - Universal essentials. Besides the transit, land is huge and cheap, food is tons, cheap, and tons thrown out, and renewables are driving down utility prices.
This works out way better as it puts in more effort at reducing the cost of these items, so the government doesn't have to spend a ton of money for someone to have the essentials while a company rakes in the profit. Maybe costs + 10% or something for items part of the program.
Want to do business in north america? Your company in these sectors will have to offer at cost prices for the basic amount for individuals. It won't take money from you. Your profit is on non essential items, premium items. People who choose to purchase beyond their basic allotted amounts.
Companies will go "Fuck you I'll go elsewhere since I won't make as much and you'll have no food etc!"
Go ahead, the more companies that leave, the more business for the ones that stay, so they'll still be quite profitable.
See, people are delusional. They imagine that, because something was viewed, you'd absolutely paying for this thing above other priorities.
Which is wrong, lots of people watch content because the movie was available, either they torrented it, a friend has it, it's on netflix and someone has a sub.
They imagine that every individual who views that movie, would totally pay for their service if they couldn't get it elsewhere.
This is where their dreams are going to die. There are plenty of things I've watched because someone had the movie or it happens to be on netflix (Which more than just me uses) but if I had to PAY like 3$ to see the movie or something, a lot of these movies I'd never watch. Yes, it's actually not worth my 3$, I'd rather buy a loaf of bread.
Period.
I think the number of people who would rather go buy a few beers then pay for that movie are significantly higher than they can imagine. They're chasing money that was never going to be theirs in the first place and it still won't.
Scientists as a group or community talk about matters that result from the scientific process. You can't separate the two. There can be additional bias but not a bias due to a lack of discussion that doesn't relate to anything with the scientific process. If you do have an issue with them anyway then you must have a problem with the scientific process.
Here's another literal for you sure to earn your ire and straw man comments.
Scientist posting under topic 'Science' "Hey science peeps, if I drop this rock, this thing called gravity pulls it to the ground"
Special interest "But how does that support and address the issues of minorities and woman in science?"
Scientist posting under topic 'Science' "Hey science peeps, I dropped two different things in a vacuum and they both fell at the same speed"
Special Interest "Science is discriminatory and ignoring the issues"
I suggest someone moves their posts to the "Social" section of the forum and leaves 'Science' alone.
No I'm not, rtfa.
"many issues about which scientists as a group have largely remained silent—attacks on black & brown lives, oil pipelines through indigenous lands, sexual harassment and assault, ADA access in our communities, immigration policy, lack of clean water in several cities across the country, poverty wages, LGBTQIA rights, and mass shootings are scientific issues. Science has historically—and generally continues to support discrimination.
"SCIENCE HAS HISTORICALLY -- AND GENERALLY CONTINUES TO SUPPORT DISCRIMINATION.
It didn't refer to the scientific community, it implies that science itself, the process of science, should be supporting political issues. The articles DOES NOT state "Accurate, tested, and scientific discovery properly able to be reproduced, is ignored if it isn't done by a white male"
You're talking about bias in a scientific community because the SCIENTIFIC E.G a community about SCIENCE (Which goes back to my literal term of SCIENCE) isn't discussing NON SCIENCE things like immigration policy etc.
What, did you hear the word strawman somewhere and just couldn't help yourself but to try and find a place to use it?
If anything it's quite the opposite.
Science: Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Special interest groups: Yeah but woman and minorities and not white men and political correctness, how are you supporting that?
Science: Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Special interest groups: Yeah I don't see how you're supporting our agenda on equal rights for human behavior etc.
Science: Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Special interest groups: Science is discriminating against us! Down with "their" science.
There are a lot of ways to protect your hardware, yes a bare system on the internet directly is vulnerable to a lot of exploits but IT professionals have been protecting these systems for decades from things before microsoft releases a patch and protects them.
Windows 10 single handedly caused far more problems and cost for users of production software that any viruses for one company I worked for.
We were flooded with calls from users who were FORCED into windows 10 and now ALL THEIR SHIT DON'T WORK.
Trusting microsoft completely is bullshit, review the updates, decide if they're relevant. We can't trust these companies to blindly accept all their software "updates", a lot of them these days aren't even things that affect you, but they want their software to gather more data or other garbage.
Yes I could always spend even more money than getting it from other sources, cancelling netflix and paying even less money...
You also need to keep in mind you're comparing apples to oranges. I didn't complain that my android didn't support the device I wanted to use directly. I found away to access /my/ device that /I/ paid for therefore /own/ the hardware, and enabled a way to use it the way /I/ want.
Since it's /mine/ I should have the simple right to do that. Punishing me and disabling features for it is crap and we all know it, only corporate shills would invite that to be the norm and "like it".
Imagine if you purchased a wrench and used it to tighten a bolt that wasn't certified so they disabled your wrench so you couldn't use it anymore.
Sounds absolutely crazy, except that is exactly what they're doing with digital equipment, but people don't realize it fully as they don't fully understand technology (but do a wrench) and just let it slide. It's crap.
I rooted my android so I can run special bluetooth drivers to work with some controllers.
Oh netflix, go on, make it easier to get content from sources other than you..will work so well..
I have wifi in enough places if I actually need data, and otherwise I'm out and about, and don't need it.
I refuse to deal with contracts, locking me into shitty deals when better ones come out, their prices are over the top for data as is, always has been.
They keep trying to add more value but take more dollars while as employers they keep trying to add more value but not pay more. People are trying to minimize the money you get constantly while trying to maximize what they take from you.
Their only luck when it comes to me is that in todays day and age everyone has to have a phone, and a landline is just as expensive (as intended).
and other people can find out before giving you money, somehow that's wrong?
Yeah you and every scammer who releases shitty products and wants to make a ton of money anyway.
Maybe stop making tons of cheap shitty CG for everything and just hope to cash in.
If I don't own it then you can pay all associated recycling fees for the device, if it's left in places that are not appropriate you will be responsible for removal of it, if it's stolen you need to provide the replacement and you need to pay the insurance for it as well, since you own it, not me.
It doesn't get stolen from me, it gets stolen from you. Since I paid for the use of the product within a warranty period, you can ensure I have it for that time regardless what happens to it.
Sounds far fetched? So does the rest of the shit you guys are trying to do.
Eventually I will, but I'm not interested in investing into especially expensive graphics cards to get the same performance under windows.
As for multimedia, linux is almost completely on pair, so more realistically I'd just say for gaming. Just because I can get a game to run under linux, does not mean it runs well. You usually suffer some frame drops on a lot of games and I like to keep mine at 60 when possible.
It's also far less forgiving to multi tasking while gaming. I can run many games even in fullscreen on windows, and switch to other screens and processes without any hiccups, but if I'm using wine to run it, I'm likely asking for a crash.
Right now I don't need to give it up as my current windows OS isn't 10, and still compatible with it. But as you said, for what I can't run, I'll get over it.
But I'll get over it when I need to, not to burn microsoft for something they already got my money for. I'm only hurting myself at that point.
By refusing their next OS and not purchasing more of their products, that's how I get them.
I've been running Windows 8, the start menu change didn't bother me and I found it ran rather well and stable.
I've secured my install, and finally after windows 10 garbage and microsoft doing shitty "telemetry" I mean I can't believe they even call it that.
It's flat out spyware that watches how you use it and sells the information to people, and advertisers.
Anyway, I stopped windows update when I saw this coming out as I knew I couldn't trust their updates and just have to watch out for exploits released and lock it down myself. Fortunately I don't need a lot of windows services for how I use my system.
After things finally stop running on windows, I'll be switching to fulltime linux. In fact, just for multi-media / gaming, is the only reason I keep windows.
I dual boot to linux as is. I'll be sad to lose some performance and ability to play some games, but I'll get over it.
Using my bandwidth and my hardware that I pay for that is not subsidized by microsoft to serve me ads and collect data from me by microsoft, is not happening.
less control!
Oh man thank you so much, please try again with services where you get 100% of the hardware and software and we just funnel money to you.
That way you can eventually charge per hour of a game played instead of just buying the game and playing it for as much as you want.
Thats like the unlimited data scams. What, you're losing profits over people who play your game for 400 hours vs those who play for 20 hours and need to charge these heavy users more money since they're getting more out of it?
Exactly.
Every time a company provides a good alternative that's good for consumers they either buy it out or use lobbyists to try and shut that business down.
It's so fucking obvious that everyone is becoming aware of it and we're getting sick and tired of it. They act as if they government is different from the people.
Eat dick if the people. E.G Your consumers, decides your practices are shitty and we're going to regulate them, tough shit.
The problem they have is pirates have the better product.
It just works, it doesn't hassle me for what devices I play it on, it's not greedy trying to make me pay for every device I watch it on. I mean fuck that's like if a VCR tape worked only on one TV and if you bought a new TV they expect you to buy a new tape to watch the same movie you already paid for.
Stop being retarded maybe, that's a good start. Stop region locking, there's a lot of content I'd happily buy at a reasonable price to add to my collect, but then PIRACY so DRM and if your shit service goes down, I lose my collection.
Pirated content can be safely at high quality stored on other media and collections saved.
The only real future is if they develop an international system that all countries support including the government and it's people to subscribe services and licenses to, the licensing and distribution has to include the government and be attached to government IDs for the country to apply their licenses.
If I purchase the collection of sword art online, it's registered to me forever, I can watch it on any device I own, and if you are at someones house you can temp sign in to watch a movie you paid for etc.
Like real media then you can share it reasonably, but once you leave, it goes with you, which protects the copyright holders as well as applies the convenience we expect.
That's the only realistic future for these kinds of things, and even so it won't be perfect, but until your product is better than pirated content, you're fucked.
Well, paranoid people were suspicious before that they could watch you through the monitor.
Now it's coming true!
It's not like all shows are available at a price and you just refused to pay it.
Content is often... /your country/
Old so not available
Not available in
Not available when you want to watch it
Has commercials
Better quality elsewhere, ability to pause play rewinid at your leisure.
Basically as usual, pirated content has the better product, even if you had to "pay" for it.
Stop restricting content by country
Stop restricting content to try and force people to accept certain content.
Oh yeah, they do it, fyi, deliberately pull other popular content from access just to get people watching their "new" show. It's like products, installing updates or things that cause it to run worse but it's a "security update" until they tell you to buy a newer, faster shinier product.
They keep trying to section off markets to milk the most of it etc. If instead, part of harmonization the entire world, allowed content to be accessible on a global level with specific standards for quality control, performance and user interfaces (As every company wants a piece of the pie) you would have a lot less people pirating.
I don't even watch netflix anymore because I've already seen anything good and their library is started to suck ass. I only keep it since a family member watches it still.
Pirates have global access to high quality on demand content of their choosing, free for the most part no less.
Your expensive services are terrible and don't even come close.
There's a lot of content I'd like to watch and would pay for access to watch it, but I can't, then you whine and complain because I'm not buying the products you want me to.
Yeah I've worked retail in the past and actually have put higher prices on products that were "on sale" with new higher prices that were never charged.
It's dirty. Thankfully I saw that when I was a lot younger so I made sure to value products through research on what they do and their value to me than what a store tells me.