Oh yes, it is. The software is not a service, it is a product. As such you actually did buy it with the hardware and it is yours, at least in any country that does not follow the practice of legislating by EULA, like US.
Not true. Most companies are not multinational and manage very well to compete in foreigner markets with considerably smaller costs by taking local partners, local distributers, etc.
Despite of anything your ignorance may tell you, the main reason to be multinational is to avoid restrictive laws, especially labor laws, and to evade taxes. Everything else are just excuses.
There is no definition of "civilized" or any other abstract noun that does not fit in someone's ideological purpose. That said I gave you a simple enough definition even for you. If you do not agree give me yours and lets see how it goes. But then again you are a just a disgruntled little troll, so I have no real hope of you being able to.
Even if your logic made sense (which it does not) what exactly profit has to do with celebrity coercion? It is more likely that they are talking against Apple because they believe in what they are saying or, even more likely, are being paid to do it by Chinese companies, in the very same way American celebrities are paid by American companies to endorse their products and compare it favorably to others, even slandering the competition as long as they can get away with it.
A company does not need to be multinational to be in the global market. Being multinational gives you some advantages in this but it is not necessary by any means.
On the other hand, the real motive to go multinational is being able to evade taxes, use cheaper labor, and evade inconvenient laws.
Nope. I am lashing at you because you do not make sense. You try to psycho analyze a poster with your mabojambo and half-assed preconceived ideas of what his behavior should be. You added nothing to the discussion and should learn to stay quiet when you don't have anything useful to say.
Thinking in absolutes is silly. That said, there are countries that manage to get nearer this ideal and others that unfortunately are much farther. When you try to define something you have to keep in mind what you are trying to accomplish with such definition. What distinctions exactly you are looking for. In this case you can see this definition of a guideline of civilization, and those countries that are nearer it can be considered "civilized" whilst those that are farther cannot.
A civilized country is a country that follows some widely accepted precepts for a modern civilization, like having a justice system that actually enforces its law code equally for all people, not one that works only for the highest bidder.
A civilized place, on the other hand, is a place that doesn't have assholes like you.
I have Windows 7 64 bits installed and I happen to have Civ 2 Gold Edition (2006) too. It works just fine for me on XP mode. I also have both VMWare and Virtualbox installed and it works in both well too.
Don't take me wrong. I don't like MS either, but XP Mode and Virtual PC are not part of the reasons why I do.
The original release of Civ 2 (from 1996) does not run on XP. The new release of Civ 2 from (2002) runs on XP AND on Windows XP Mode too. You probably forgot to disable XP Mode integration features, which is required for it to run most games. If you don't know how to use XP Mode, the problem is certainly you, not XP Mode.
XP Mode runs on Virtual PC a MS virtualization solution, which is similar to VirtualBox and VMWare, if not as polished. Civilization 2 can be run on Virtual PC as long as the OS you decide to install in it is compatible with Civ 2. Windows XP is not.
Virus developers adapt. No system is 100% secure as this very article shows, and a single exploit is all that is needed. From the security perspective, being mainstream is the greatest problem Windows always faced, not any inherent security issues.
On the other hand, far from me saying Windows is a good OS. From the usability and stability perspectives, of course, Windows has always been bad.
XP Mode is XP installed in a virtual Machine. You can run pretty much whatever you want in a virtual Machine. With the same argument you could say that Windows runs OS X and Linux applications.
Unless the place is designed with the intent of giving people some degree of privacy, like bathrooms for example, nobody is entitled to privacy in public places.
Pixel density is another thing entirely. And exactly because pixel density is the same for the same technology, resolution is higher when the device is bigger. Period.
Yes, no other competitor has ever delivered anything more than that between a release and another. It may not be a revolutionary gadget, but still it is more of an increment from the last version than anyone else has provided until now.
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Oh yes, it is. The software is not a service, it is a product. As such you actually did buy it with the hardware and it is yours, at least in any country that does not follow the practice of legislating by EULA, like US.
Which is just another way of saying: "I am selling you this but it is still mine.", and violates consumer laws in most countries.
You seem to have some very weird ideas. Even worse you seem to believe in them. You definitely should look for a psychiatrist.
That is one of the many problems with relying on clouds.
Not true. Most companies are not multinational and manage very well to compete in foreigner markets with considerably smaller costs by taking local partners, local distributers, etc.
Despite of anything your ignorance may tell you, the main reason to be multinational is to avoid restrictive laws, especially labor laws, and to evade taxes. Everything else are just excuses.
There is no definition of "civilized" or any other abstract noun that does not fit in someone's ideological purpose. That said I gave you a simple enough definition even for you. If you do not agree give me yours and lets see how it goes. But then again you are a just a disgruntled little troll, so I have no real hope of you being able to.
Even if your logic made sense (which it does not) what exactly profit has to do with celebrity coercion? It is more likely that they are talking against Apple because they believe in what they are saying or, even more likely, are being paid to do it by Chinese companies, in the very same way American celebrities are paid by American companies to endorse their products and compare it favorably to others, even slandering the competition as long as they can get away with it.
And how exactly do you know that?
A company does not need to be multinational to be in the global market. Being multinational gives you some advantages in this but it is not necessary by any means.
On the other hand, the real motive to go multinational is being able to evade taxes, use cheaper labor, and evade inconvenient laws.
Nope. I am lashing at you because you do not make sense. You try to psycho analyze a poster with your mabojambo and half-assed preconceived ideas of what his behavior should be. You added nothing to the discussion and should learn to stay quiet when you don't have anything useful to say.
Thinking in absolutes is silly. That said, there are countries that manage to get nearer this ideal and others that unfortunately are much farther. When you try to define something you have to keep in mind what you are trying to accomplish with such definition. What distinctions exactly you are looking for. In this case you can see this definition of a guideline of civilization, and those countries that are nearer it can be considered "civilized" whilst those that are farther cannot.
A civilized country is a country that follows some widely accepted precepts for a modern civilization, like having a justice system that actually enforces its law code equally for all people, not one that works only for the highest bidder.
A civilized place, on the other hand, is a place that doesn't have assholes like you.
I have Windows 7 64 bits installed and I happen to have Civ 2 Gold Edition (2006) too. It works just fine for me on XP mode. I also have both VMWare and Virtualbox installed and it works in both well too.
Don't take me wrong. I don't like MS either, but XP Mode and Virtual PC are not part of the reasons why I do.
The original release of Civ 2 (from 1996) does not run on XP. The new release of Civ 2 from (2002) runs on XP AND on Windows XP Mode too. You probably forgot to disable XP Mode integration features, which is required for it to run most games. If you don't know how to use XP Mode, the problem is certainly you, not XP Mode.
XP Mode runs on Virtual PC a MS virtualization solution, which is similar to VirtualBox and VMWare, if not as polished. Civilization 2 can be run on Virtual PC as long as the OS you decide to install in it is compatible with Civ 2. Windows XP is not.
Virus developers adapt. No system is 100% secure as this very article shows, and a single exploit is all that is needed. From the security perspective, being mainstream is the greatest problem Windows always faced, not any inherent security issues.
On the other hand, far from me saying Windows is a good OS. From the usability and stability perspectives, of course, Windows has always been bad.
XP Mode is XP installed in a virtual Machine. You can run pretty much whatever you want in a virtual Machine. With the same argument you could say that Windows runs OS X and Linux applications.
Unless the place is designed with the intent of giving people some degree of privacy, like bathrooms for example, nobody is entitled to privacy in public places.
Wanna a bone?
Sure and you do know that GS3 came 6 months before the iPhone 5, don't you?
Oh my, he has teeth. How cute.
Resolution is number of pixels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_resolution
Pixel density is another thing entirely. And exactly because pixel density is the same for the same technology, resolution is higher when the device is bigger. Period.
Yes, no other competitor has ever delivered anything more than that between a release and another. It may not be a revolutionary gadget, but still it is more of an increment from the last version than anyone else has provided until now.
Oh, poor Basil. So full of hatred. Your owners will pat your head, rest assured, you have been a good boy.
If you like to play benchmarks I can show you that GS3's CPU overall performance is considerably better: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/136291-iphone-5-benchmarks-slower-than-the-galaxy-s3-faster-than-the-nexus-7