Ubuntu gave me far less problems than Windows in my career just to cite a counterexample, and I certainly see neither FOSS nor general purpose PCs in decline, at least I have no evidence of this happening now, despite all the future predictions I've heard on the subject.
And I call you bullshit, but, even if you weren't blatantly lying, you would only have made the point that Windows 8 would be better for systems with extremely small hard disks in complete disproportion to their physical memory. I fear that this is hardly a selling point for Windows 8.
Not exactly true. You can't correlate quality of software with restrictive licenses. A lot of high quality software is open source nowadays, and the quality of this software is every bit as good as any commercial version available in many areas, and in some better. There is no real proof that copyright, DRM and hard laws against piracy do anything to help to improve the quality of software at all.
You should never ever EVER disable your page file in Windows, it is strongly not recommended by MS to any version of Windows, including Windows 8. Windows is not made to work without a page file, period. Furthermore nobody should have 6 GB of RAM and a HD small enough to be unable to give at least 10 GB to your page file. That is what is called a very bad configuration, and it is certainly not the OS fault that you are utterly ignorant about system design.
You are either a liar or an idiot. I have dozens of machines running Windows 7 under my supervision and I have never got a single memory error in any of them when using very processor and memory intensive applications. Furthermore my personal machine is a little old and has 3 GB, with Windows 7 installed, and I never had absolutely any problems with Minecraft, even though I have played it a lot.
Your provided "reference" is a book as scientific as the Bible. It is not because someone took time to write something that it is true, my dear.
You can't even call what this guy did as research. It is pure speculation, and his conclusions go against the results of all the serious research made on the subject in the last 250 years or so. His conclusions are clearly Lamarckian, which has been scientifically proven false for more than 200 years. I suggest you read Lamarck's evolution theory, then read Darwin's, then read at least fundamentals in genetics, then come back here to apologize for your stupidity.
That is a libertarian view I can't agree with, Some abusive practices must be prevented by laws. Licensing virtual goods for undetermined time at the discretion of the seller simply shouldn't be allowed, as it is not here and in a lot of other places. Copyright in its current implementation is bad enough as it is, this kind of abuse just makes it much worse.
DRM is not essential to delay piracy, because it simply cannot accomplish it. Most AAA games are cracked and available to download even before release. Still many AAA manage to profit a lot. Especially those that are most pirated in their first weeks.
You, and nobody else up to this day, succeeded in correlating piracy with loss of income, maybe because there is no correlation at all.
Furthermore I couldn't care less about AAA games at all. AAA games come from big companies, usually follow trends and add very little innovation to the market. It can be argued that we would be much better without those companies and their games.
And all markets are gambles. You always take the risks when you enter a market. If you can't take the risk don't do it.
Games are profitable enough as it is, and there is no proof that DRM does anything to improve this profitability. Even if piracy is rampant enough people buy to pay the costs. GOG, for example, is doing very well selling stuff that has been pirated on exhaustion, so is Humble Bundle and many other no DRM initiatives. Furthermore DRM does not stop, prevents or even hinders piracy. It just diminishes paying user rights and creates annoyances for them.
It can be argued that server sided DRM has nothing to do with preventing piracy at all, but with having control.
And as I said, if you are competitive and decides to be a career academic you will indeed have a stressful life, but then again it is your choice. You can still live relatively well with no stress if you do not, though.
Which simply isn't legal here in my country, making this clause in their EULA null and void. Still, if I buy a game from them, which they do sell here, and they decide to do the illegal act of locking me up with their DRM I will have to take it and leave then alone because the legal costs to go after them would be prohibitive. See the problem with DRM?
There is no rebuttal to offer save saying he lies, as everything he is saying is overblown. He exaggerates basically about every difficulty he lists. Furthermore nothing he says disagrees with my statement that you can relax and keep your job if you don't care too much about career.
No, 500mb is not that relevant, especially when the average memory size of current computers is 4 GB. I challenge you to find me any benchmark analysis that place Windows 8 far ahead of Windows 7 in basically anything.
But here goes one showing that only in Sleep/Wake and Boot times there is a significant improvement. In every other task the improvement is marginal when it exists at all. Windows 7 is even superior in some tests, like SSD benchmark, 3DMark, DX10 and DX9 anti-aliasing operations, and Battlefield 3 gameplay performance, :
Nope. I just know what I am talking about. It is natural to try to sell what you do as hard work, but it simply isn't compared with us who live from deadlines. The academic career is by far the easiest way to earn money doing very little, and using the work of others. The only problem is to enter in it, which requires a considerable amount of time and politics.
Nope. I mean exactly the opposite. It can be less stressful than any other job, because if you do not worry too much about career you need to do very little and will have almost no pressure over you. You just have to go there and give the same class forever and grade your students once in a while.
If you want to overwork yourself, take lots of research projects with deadlines, and go intop university politics it can become a very stressful career, though. It is a matter of choice. A choice you often do not have in most professions.
Oh I can, but you own the permanent right to use the copy of this data stream in most countries, which for all practical purpose is the same, and cannot be revoked at will by the seller. You can resell this right if you so wish and do basically anything else you could with a physical good.
The thing is, in the academic career your life may be as stressful as you choose it to be. Those that live a stressful life are those that choose to do it this way. That is a lot more freedom of choice than you have in about any other career.
In this sense the article is very accurate. If you are looking for a low stress profession you may as well choose the academic career and opt to avoid any stress within it. Chances are you will succeed, which cannot be said about mostly everything else you decide to work at.
You are insane. There are several regions, in several different countries in Africa where these guys come from. And yes, it has a lot to do with geographic conditions, but not within their lifespan, but within the lifespan of thousands of generations, that evolved them to this genotype.
You need to educate yourself very badly about natural evolution and genetics before engaging in further discussion regarding this subject. You seem to be still in the 18th century and coming to the same wrong conclusions Lamarck had back then.
It does not go away. You keep having to come back to it to do many basic tasks and it keeps hindering you.
And although Windows 8 performance is slightly better than Windows 7, it is very far from being that significant as you paint here. For most systems the difference is completely irrelevant. The hindrances of Metro Interface far outweighed any performance gain.
It works for as long as it is advantageous for the company and not for the user. That is the problem. For now Steam DRM is mostly harmless, but that can change tomorrow, or next month, or next year, at their own discretion. And this change would affect everything you already paid for.
Bottom line is, no DRM is acceptable. Accepting DRM is signing a blank check and giving control over your property to someone else.
In most countries they can't revoke, and most countries consider this "licensing" as buying. Only in US law allows absurd contracts like this where end users end not owning games they paid for.
Sure: right now in all developed countries. Women do have the same rights and better opportunities in many places (including US), because of misguided affirmative actions, and still they achieve less. It doesn't matter if a significant percentage of the population still still treats women as property. Most do not, and there are laws against that, and even speaking the truth about a woman's inabilities can end with you sued by the overly zealous politically correct laws we have in many countries. If anything women are too protected and have too many special rights in our society, and again, they still achieve less.
I never said that individuals cannot be exceptions. The fact that there were not that many brilliant, creative women throughout history, does prove my point and not yours.
Oh, and there is absolute no misogyny in my arguments. There is nothing wrong or misogynic in recognizing that there are differences, especially if like me you defend the strict equality of legal rights and opportunities, which we fortunately have achieved in most contemporary civilizations.
But by all means keep finding excuses to justify your dogmas.
Whoever is this "they" you are talking about you may rest assure will ask for no such thing. The users, on the other hand, who will be infuriated by the Metro interface won't have a say on that.
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Ubuntu gave me far less problems than Windows in my career just to cite a counterexample, and I certainly see neither FOSS nor general purpose PCs in decline, at least I have no evidence of this happening now, despite all the future predictions I've heard on the subject.
And I call you bullshit, but, even if you weren't blatantly lying, you would only have made the point that Windows 8 would be better for systems with extremely small hard disks in complete disproportion to their physical memory. I fear that this is hardly a selling point for Windows 8.
Not exactly true. You can't correlate quality of software with restrictive licenses. A lot of high quality software is open source nowadays, and the quality of this software is every bit as good as any commercial version available in many areas, and in some better. There is no real proof that copyright, DRM and hard laws against piracy do anything to help to improve the quality of software at all.
You should never ever EVER disable your page file in Windows, it is strongly not recommended by MS to any version of Windows, including Windows 8. Windows is not made to work without a page file, period. Furthermore nobody should have 6 GB of RAM and a HD small enough to be unable to give at least 10 GB to your page file. That is what is called a very bad configuration, and it is certainly not the OS fault that you are utterly ignorant about system design.
You are either a liar or an idiot. I have dozens of machines running Windows 7 under my supervision and I have never got a single memory error in any of them when using very processor and memory intensive applications. Furthermore my personal machine is a little old and has 3 GB, with Windows 7 installed, and I never had absolutely any problems with Minecraft, even though I have played it a lot.
Your provided "reference" is a book as scientific as the Bible. It is not because someone took time to write something that it is true, my dear.
You can't even call what this guy did as research. It is pure speculation, and his conclusions go against the results of all the serious research made on the subject in the last 250 years or so. His conclusions are clearly Lamarckian, which has been scientifically proven false for more than 200 years. I suggest you read Lamarck's evolution theory, then read Darwin's, then read at least fundamentals in genetics, then come back here to apologize for your stupidity.
That is a libertarian view I can't agree with, Some abusive practices must be prevented by laws. Licensing virtual goods for undetermined time at the discretion of the seller simply shouldn't be allowed, as it is not here and in a lot of other places. Copyright in its current implementation is bad enough as it is, this kind of abuse just makes it much worse.
DRM is not essential to delay piracy, because it simply cannot accomplish it. Most AAA games are cracked and available to download even before release. Still many AAA manage to profit a lot. Especially those that are most pirated in their first weeks.
You, and nobody else up to this day, succeeded in correlating piracy with loss of income, maybe because there is no correlation at all.
Furthermore I couldn't care less about AAA games at all. AAA games come from big companies, usually follow trends and add very little innovation to the market. It can be argued that we would be much better without those companies and their games.
And all markets are gambles. You always take the risks when you enter a market. If you can't take the risk don't do it.
Games are profitable enough as it is, and there is no proof that DRM does anything to improve this profitability. Even if piracy is rampant enough people buy to pay the costs. GOG, for example, is doing very well selling stuff that has been pirated on exhaustion, so is Humble Bundle and many other no DRM initiatives. Furthermore DRM does not stop, prevents or even hinders piracy. It just diminishes paying user rights and creates annoyances for them.
It can be argued that server sided DRM has nothing to do with preventing piracy at all, but with having control.
And as I said, if you are competitive and decides to be a career academic you will indeed have a stressful life, but then again it is your choice. You can still live relatively well with no stress if you do not, though.
Which simply isn't legal here in my country, making this clause in their EULA null and void. Still, if I buy a game from them, which they do sell here, and they decide to do the illegal act of locking me up with their DRM I will have to take it and leave then alone because the legal costs to go after them would be prohibitive. See the problem with DRM?
There is no rebuttal to offer save saying he lies, as everything he is saying is overblown. He exaggerates basically about every difficulty he lists. Furthermore nothing he says disagrees with my statement that you can relax and keep your job if you don't care too much about career.
Neither does Anonymous Coward. ;)
No, 500mb is not that relevant, especially when the average memory size of current computers is 4 GB. I challenge you to find me any benchmark analysis that place Windows 8 far ahead of Windows 7 in basically anything.
But here goes one showing that only in Sleep/Wake and Boot times there is a significant improvement. In every other task the improvement is marginal when it exists at all. Windows 7 is even superior in some tests, like SSD benchmark, 3DMark, DX10 and DX9 anti-aliasing operations, and Battlefield 3 gameplay performance, :
http://www.techspot.com/review/561-windows8-vs-windows7/
Nope. I just know what I am talking about. It is natural to try to sell what you do as hard work, but it simply isn't compared with us who live from deadlines. The academic career is by far the easiest way to earn money doing very little, and using the work of others. The only problem is to enter in it, which requires a considerable amount of time and politics.
Nope. I mean exactly the opposite. It can be less stressful than any other job, because if you do not worry too much about career you need to do very little and will have almost no pressure over you. You just have to go there and give the same class forever and grade your students once in a while.
If you want to overwork yourself, take lots of research projects with deadlines, and go intop university politics it can become a very stressful career, though. It is a matter of choice. A choice you often do not have in most professions.
Oh I can, but you own the permanent right to use the copy of this data stream in most countries, which for all practical purpose is the same, and cannot be revoked at will by the seller. You can resell this right if you so wish and do basically anything else you could with a physical good.
The thing is, in the academic career your life may be as stressful as you choose it to be. Those that live a stressful life are those that choose to do it this way. That is a lot more freedom of choice than you have in about any other career.
In this sense the article is very accurate. If you are looking for a low stress profession you may as well choose the academic career and opt to avoid any stress within it. Chances are you will succeed, which cannot be said about mostly everything else you decide to work at.
You are insane. There are several regions, in several different countries in Africa where these guys come from. And yes, it has a lot to do with geographic conditions, but not within their lifespan, but within the lifespan of thousands of generations, that evolved them to this genotype.
You need to educate yourself very badly about natural evolution and genetics before engaging in further discussion regarding this subject. You seem to be still in the 18th century and coming to the same wrong conclusions Lamarck had back then.
It does not go away. You keep having to come back to it to do many basic tasks and it keeps hindering you.
And although Windows 8 performance is slightly better than Windows 7, it is very far from being that significant as you paint here. For most systems the difference is completely irrelevant. The hindrances of Metro Interface far outweighed any performance gain.
It works for as long as it is advantageous for the company and not for the user. That is the problem. For now Steam DRM is mostly harmless, but that can change tomorrow, or next month, or next year, at their own discretion. And this change would affect everything you already paid for.
Bottom line is, no DRM is acceptable. Accepting DRM is signing a blank check and giving control over your property to someone else.
In most countries they can't revoke, and most countries consider this "licensing" as buying. Only in US law allows absurd contracts like this where end users end not owning games they paid for.
Sure: right now in all developed countries. Women do have the same rights and better opportunities in many places (including US), because of misguided affirmative actions, and still they achieve less. It doesn't matter if a significant percentage of the population still still treats women as property. Most do not, and there are laws against that, and even speaking the truth about a woman's inabilities can end with you sued by the overly zealous politically correct laws we have in many countries. If anything women are too protected and have too many special rights in our society, and again, they still achieve less.
I never said that individuals cannot be exceptions. The fact that there were not that many brilliant, creative women throughout history, does prove my point and not yours.
Oh, and there is absolute no misogyny in my arguments. There is nothing wrong or misogynic in recognizing that there are differences, especially if like me you defend the strict equality of legal rights and opportunities, which we fortunately have achieved in most contemporary civilizations.
But by all means keep finding excuses to justify your dogmas.
Whoever is this "they" you are talking about you may rest assure will ask for no such thing. The users, on the other hand, who will be infuriated by the Metro interface won't have a say on that.
Which they will never have authorization to install in their machines.