does that mean that if no one else happens to be playing their playstation 3 at the same time you are you can't play at all or the game will look and play terrible?
Sure, most people will take advantage of the situation and never register software that they decide to use beyond the trial period, but some people are more honest and will happily pony up $20 for a package that does the job they want done.
there are other reasons besides dishonesty that cause people to not send in registration money for shareware. i am a college student (read 'poor') and literally do not have the money to pay for these things, even if it is a program that i really like or need. i keep track of what i'm using that i should pay for, and when i have some money that doesn't have to go to car payments and the like, i will send it along.
i believe lack of wealth is behind some of non-shareware piracy as well. i think that if adobe illustrator didn't cost $399, then not so many people would use it without paying. i certainly don't have $400 to be spending on making pretty graphics for my website.
not all people who 'pirate' shareware are dishonest. some of us are simply delaying payment until we have it
i don't think the problem is that the non-tech savvy people don't have the ability to figure out all the features of their computers, cell phones, etc., i just think they aren't interested in knowing all that stuff they consider useless. for instance, my girlfriend is not what i would call a techie. she used the computer for the internet, word, and a couple games. she has no desire to dive into everything the computer can do. she simply doesn't care. i am the opposite, in that i want to know everything it does and want to know how to do it, so i consequently figure out nearly all the features. it's not a matter of technology being too complicated to understand by non-tech people (ease of use has really come a long way since the altair:) ), it's that the non-tech people really don't give a damn.
i went to tower this evening stupidly thinking i would pick up jason falkner's cd "author unknown" (it was out of stock). i wandered over to the punk section to find some new found glory, and found a 5 song ep selling for $13.99 and an 8 song cd for $18.99. i laughed at the employee watching me as i left the store, because if this keeps up he'll be out of a job soon.
i do remember seeing some trailers on tv several weeks before 9/11, and i thought it was kind of strange how after 9/11, the movie seemingly dropped off the face of the earth. no on even mentioned that it was being pushed back that i ever heard. this movie was made without any influence of 9/11.
i've also noticed several people pointing out that 'gee, aren't there a lot of war movies coming out right now? it's all because of september 11th'. no it's not! i don't think some people know how long it takes to make a movie. you could easily spend weeks making a 5 minute short, so how long do you think a 2 hour movie takes?
i personally believe that flexibility of the assembly instructions as well as the number of instructions executed per cycle contribute greatly to the dominant speed (at any given MHz/GHz) of the ppc processor. compare any intel/amd processor to a ppc at the same clock speed, and the ppc will kick its x86 ass.
the high end ppc desktops are topping out around 900MHz, while the p4's are hitting 2GHz. there has to be another explanation besides the complaint that jobs is ignorantly sitting on his thumbs. i think he knows what he's doing.
note: i am not a mac zealot.. i don't even own a mac - only 4 x86 pc's (1 athlon, 2 p133, 1 p120). i simply can appreciate the speed of the ppc.
while i don't pretend to know a lot about how to code kernels or vm's, if the new vm is better and faster than the old, i say kudos to linus and alan. this will bring linux one step closer to being ready for primetime on the desktop. little improvements such as this (although some may not see it as being as little as others) will further solidify the linux reputation as a fast, stable platform for desktop computing.
i upgraded to xp from 98se, and even though i've noticed a slight (but quite acceptable) performance hit, the dramatically increased stability makes up for it completely. i would much rather have my system run a little slower and much more reliably than have it chugging a little faster but having any given application bring it down every couple days.
The fact that mHz aren't the ultimate measure of speed can be seen even when comparing PCs to PCs (aka Intel to AMD). In an article in PC World, it was determined that a 1.3GHz outperformed a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 in many cases, despite the lower clock speed. I have worked with a few Macs over the years (although admittedly not many), and while they have generally been slower than most PCs by a hair, the difference is negligible to your average Joe Six-Pack user. Macs and PCs both have their places, and it's useless to try to argue that one or the other is better is every situation.
i really don't want to have to install another plugin to view web pages. first it was flash, then shockwave... now i've got so many plugins weighing down my poor browser that i don't even know what i have in there.
if curl is going to become a standard like javascript and html, then support for it needs to be built into the browser
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does that mean that if no one else happens to be playing their playstation 3 at the same time you are you can't play at all or the game will look and play terrible?
i'm not so sure this is a great idea.
Sure, most people will take advantage of the situation and never register software that they decide to use beyond the trial period, but some people are more honest and will happily pony up $20 for a package that does the job they want done.
there are other reasons besides dishonesty that cause people to not send in registration money for shareware. i am a college student (read 'poor') and literally do not have the money to pay for these things, even if it is a program that i really like or need. i keep track of what i'm using that i should pay for, and when i have some money that doesn't have to go to car payments and the like, i will send it along.
i believe lack of wealth is behind some of non-shareware piracy as well. i think that if adobe illustrator didn't cost $399, then not so many people would use it without paying. i certainly don't have $400 to be spending on making pretty graphics for my website.
not all people who 'pirate' shareware are dishonest. some of us are simply delaying payment until we have it
i don't think the problem is that the non-tech savvy people don't have the ability to figure out all the features of their computers, cell phones, etc., i just think they aren't interested in knowing all that stuff they consider useless. for instance, my girlfriend is not what i would call a techie. she used the computer for the internet, word, and a couple games. she has no desire to dive into everything the computer can do. she simply doesn't care. i am the opposite, in that i want to know everything it does and want to know how to do it, so i consequently figure out nearly all the features. it's not a matter of technology being too complicated to understand by non-tech people (ease of use has really come a long way since the altair :) ), it's that the non-tech people really don't give a damn.
prices are ridiculous
i went to tower this evening stupidly thinking i would pick up jason falkner's cd "author unknown" (it was out of stock). i wandered over to the punk section to find some new found glory, and found a 5 song ep selling for $13.99 and an 8 song cd for $18.99. i laughed at the employee watching me as i left the store, because if this keeps up he'll be out of a job soon.
i do remember seeing some trailers on tv several weeks before 9/11, and i thought it was kind of strange how after 9/11, the movie seemingly dropped off the face of the earth. no on even mentioned that it was being pushed back that i ever heard. this movie was made without any influence of 9/11.
i've also noticed several people pointing out that 'gee, aren't there a lot of war movies coming out right now? it's all because of september 11th'. no it's not! i don't think some people know how long it takes to make a movie. you could easily spend weeks making a 5 minute short, so how long do you think a 2 hour movie takes?
oy ve
i personally believe that flexibility of the assembly instructions as well as the number of instructions executed per cycle contribute greatly to the dominant speed (at any given MHz/GHz) of the ppc processor. compare any intel/amd processor to a ppc at the same clock speed, and the ppc will kick its x86 ass.
the high end ppc desktops are topping out around 900MHz, while the p4's are hitting 2GHz. there has to be another explanation besides the complaint that jobs is ignorantly sitting on his thumbs. i think he knows what he's doing.
note: i am not a mac zealot.. i don't even own a mac - only 4 x86 pc's (1 athlon, 2 p133, 1 p120). i simply can appreciate the speed of the ppc.
while i don't pretend to know a lot about how to code kernels or vm's, if the new vm is better and faster than the old, i say kudos to linus and alan. this will bring linux one step closer to being ready for primetime on the desktop. little improvements such as this (although some may not see it as being as little as others) will further solidify the linux reputation as a fast, stable platform for desktop computing.
i upgraded to xp from 98se, and even though i've noticed a slight (but quite acceptable) performance hit, the dramatically increased stability makes up for it completely. i would much rather have my system run a little slower and much more reliably than have it chugging a little faster but having any given application bring it down every couple days.
try heading over to hitsquad.com.
:)
- peachboy
plenty of software for several os'es, including linux, windows, beos, and amiga
The fact that mHz aren't the ultimate measure of speed can be seen even when comparing PCs to PCs (aka Intel to AMD). In an article in PC World, it was determined that a 1.3GHz outperformed a 1.5GHz Pentium 4 in many cases, despite the lower clock speed. I have worked with a few Macs over the years (although admittedly not many), and while they have generally been slower than most PCs by a hair, the difference is negligible to your average Joe Six-Pack user. Macs and PCs both have their places, and it's useless to try to argue that one or the other is better is every situation.
i really don't want to have to install another plugin to view web pages. first it was flash, then shockwave... now i've got so many plugins weighing down my poor browser that i don't even know what i have in there.
if curl is going to become a standard like javascript and html, then support for it needs to be built into the browser