> Think of the PC in the 90's. If you want the best games, applications, etc, you need a PC. If you're making something, chances are your platform is a PC. Microsoft's control of the platform extended out into control over the world. Sure, Apple hadn't completely failed. Amiga devotees were eagerly expecting the second coming. But Microsoft's monopoly was unassailable, and was weilded like a sledgehammer against its enemies.
I think you meant late 90's there.
I was thinking early 90s myself and nothing was like you say.... yet.
> after ten days the os required re-installation with a resultant loss of all data.
I really do't get people's attitudes these days.
It's windows, an OS re-instrallation is always the first choice.
For one it cleans up the system with the installed and never removed or not correctly removed programs.
And why would there be data loss, programs can be re-installed and your stuff can be saved unless it has been messed with, in which case it was lost anyway.
Try the sane method of windows pc restorration.
1. boot from usb or cd and dump the contents of the drive to a handy usb drive. 2. re-install windows and update and antivirus. 3. connect usb drive with old system dump. 4. restore user data.
Spending days trying to save a install is dumb and a waste of time. Only idiots would do it. (if you have spare drives handy then you can remove the old and install it in a usb caddy and skip part 1 and use a new drive in the machine.
HELLO! Please stop it with your statistics already.
ANyone wiuth an IQ over 12 knows stats prove nothing.
You cannot measure the piracy rate.
Even your linked article says as much.
The other main factor around piracy is just the hording factor. Even back in the amiga days I knew people who just got pirated stuff to say they had it. They never used it, just had it. How is that harming anyone? (hey you could have put pics of a mokey's arese on a disk and told them it was x great new games and they would never know the difference),
Wait a moment, I though I had a point but I forget it now....
When will people stop saying that X is the answer?
Life aint like that.
X is good for some, Y for others. Even Q is good for some weirdos.
There is no one best way, everyone is different, what is good for one is bad for another.
Everything needs to be tailored to the individual.
The end.
Thank you for paying attention.
(sorry, think this just irked me, I liked maths and not much else when young, I also like proper maths, not where they tried to dress it up with silly stories to help me relate ane make it easier, that just madfe it harder, just fucking get to the point fool)
I know what you mean but there is not need to express it though lies.
98 was the best of it's line.
And 2000 supported games very well thankyou. Unless you were still playing dos games, in which case you were an idiot.
2000 was great. ME was released because microsaoft marketed 2000 wrong. 2000 was ready for the home user as long as they did not want to play dos games (and dos games died out years earlier (beyond a few games that were dos/windows with 2 clients on the disk)) (and the lack of dos games was just because of no dos mode sound driver, and someone eventually wrote one).
Sorry though, you were probably 5 at the time, or 60 and now can;t remeber it right.
> For £11.99 a month I can see as many movies as I want. www.cineworld.co.uk If I see a movie a week, thats pretty cheap.
Still about 50% above what I would deem reasonable.
Well unless they want to give a quality experience (I experienced the first 40 mins of a film in the wrong aspect ratio once, no one else seemed to notice but they are probably the same goons that stretch 4:3 to 16:9 on thier TVs)
And sell me food/drink at a reasonable price.
And beer too, that always used to be a nice part of going to a cinema, the bar. (and as long as they are not up to club prices I don't mind paying above average pub prices)
I think no one was under that impression and neither do you if you took a minute to think about it.
We are just upset at the change of license from a one off payment for a complete product license to a pay for x now and pay for y later (and don't even get me started on z).
It just appeals to today's I want it now idiots though. In the old days you had to play the game and be good to unlock additional content. Now you just pay for it.
I would be kinda ok with it if it was just an idiot fee and was unlockable via normal play (and I mean normal play, not the it's near impossible so you will pay for it method).
They have ignored emails from me and I have even had a spam and a trojan sent to me using the address I use for them, my domain using aria@, never get anything on it other than theirs so it is unlikely coincidence, they are either insecure of selling emails without permission.
They are a known ignorer of distance selling laws and EU regulation.
I try not to use them and have not in over 2 years, sometimes though they are the only ones with what I want at a price I will pay. However I know what to expect from them overall.
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> Think of the PC in the 90's. If you want the best games, applications, etc, you need a PC. If you're making something, chances are your platform is a PC. Microsoft's control of the platform extended out into control over the world. Sure, Apple hadn't completely failed. Amiga devotees were eagerly expecting the second coming. But Microsoft's monopoly was unassailable, and was weilded like a sledgehammer against its enemies.
I think you meant late 90's there.
I was thinking early 90s myself and nothing was like you say.... yet.
> I don't remember anyone saying that 3G wasn't desirable, only that it wasn't a deal breaker.
Way to pay attention to the world market. Much like apple does.
Yes no 3g was a deal breaker outside the us.
> after ten days the os required re-installation with a resultant loss of all data.
I really do't get people's attitudes these days.
It's windows, an OS re-instrallation is always the first choice.
For one it cleans up the system with the installed and never removed or not correctly removed programs.
And why would there be data loss, programs can be re-installed and your stuff can be saved unless it has been messed with, in which case it was lost anyway.
Try the sane method of windows pc restorration.
1. boot from usb or cd and dump the contents of the drive to a handy usb drive.
2. re-install windows and update and antivirus.
3. connect usb drive with old system dump.
4. restore user data.
Spending days trying to save a install is dumb and a waste of time. Only idiots would do it. (if you have spare drives handy then you can remove the old and install it in a usb caddy and skip part 1 and use a new drive in the machine.
Do you by any chance set the policy at the company I work for?
indeed who is the bigger fool, apple for being so petty or gizmodo for caring about this shit.
Well for one I do not care about apple crap.
If you do more fool you.
> Those "studies" must be BS, because nobody ever said "man I'll suck your dick" for a pack of sugar.
I recomend you don't ask your nan what she did back in the war to get by then.
In conclusion supply / demand. If sugar were as restricted as coke your dick would be sucked for it just as much.
Remeber, the bacon is not cripsy enough until the bacon has been on fire for 5 mins.
> Even World of Goo had piracy rate of around 90%
HELLO! Please stop it with your statistics already.
ANyone wiuth an IQ over 12 knows stats prove nothing.
You cannot measure the piracy rate.
Even your linked article says as much.
The other main factor around piracy is just the hording factor. Even back in the amiga days I knew people who just got pirated stuff to say they had it. They never used it, just had it. How is that harming anyone? (hey you could have put pics of a mokey's arese on a disk and told them it was x great new games and they would never know the difference),
Wait a moment, I though I had a point but I forget it now....
No, no that was not asking for an answer.
When will people stop saying that X is the answer?
Life aint like that.
X is good for some, Y for others. Even Q is good for some weirdos.
There is no one best way, everyone is different, what is good for one is bad for another.
Everything needs to be tailored to the individual.
The end.
Thank you for paying attention.
(sorry, think this just irked me, I liked maths and not much else when young, I also like proper maths, not where they tried to dress it up with silly stories to help me relate ane make it easier, that just madfe it harder, just fucking get to the point fool)
Juts because current "REAL" os's as they stand can not run on a tablet does not mean that I want a gimped halfassed os on a tablet.
Plesase design me a useable input mechanisam for a full proepr os for mny tablet thanks.
(Yes I know I am in the sane minoroty there)
I know what you mean but there is not need to express it though lies.
98 was the best of it's line.
And 2000 supported games very well thankyou. Unless you were still playing dos games, in which case you were an idiot.
2000 was great. ME was released because microsaoft marketed 2000 wrong. 2000 was ready for the home user as long as they did not want to play dos games (and dos games died out years earlier (beyond a few games that were dos/windows with 2 clients on the disk)) (and the lack of dos games was just because of no dos mode sound driver, and someone eventually wrote one).
Sorry though, you were probably 5 at the time, or 60 and now can;t remeber it right.
> For £11.99 a month I can see as many movies as I want. www.cineworld.co.uk If I see a movie a week, thats pretty cheap.
Still about 50% above what I would deem reasonable.
Well unless they want to give a quality experience (I experienced the first 40 mins of a film in the wrong aspect ratio once, no one else seemed to notice but they are probably the same goons that stretch 4:3 to 16:9 on thier TVs)
And sell me food/drink at a reasonable price.
And beer too, that always used to be a nice part of going to a cinema, the bar. (and as long as they are not up to club prices I don't mind paying above average pub prices)
To be honest I am against thius as much as the average sane rest of you.
However the thing that pees me off most is trhe use of the term DLC.
If they called it "pay for additional features" then it would not be half as bad in my view.
DLC is downloadable add ons.
Additional featues are things you pay to enable that are already there.
Personally I like neither, I just however would like the abuse of langage to stop.
> That's the prime reason that developers feel the need to protect their software.
I think you mean publishers.
I know developers, they are happy to have you play their efforts.
Hey, I have known devolpers to "pirate" copies of games they (significantly) helped make because they got a new job and changed companies.
Saying the it protects developers and such just buys into the publishers warped view of the world.
You are halfway right.
It's more like having the supercharger in already but taking the fuse out and charging to thousands to fit the fuse.
You know like the old tv's (sont was it not) that just needed a resistor putting in to "upgrade" it to the top end model.
I think no one was under that impression and neither do you if you took a minute to think about it.
We are just upset at the change of license from a one off payment for a complete product license to a pay for x now and pay for y later (and don't even get me started on z).
It just appeals to today's I want it now idiots though. In the old days you had to play the game and be good to unlock additional content. Now you just pay for it.
I would be kinda ok with it if it was just an idiot fee and was unlockable via normal play (and I mean normal play, not the it's near impossible so you will pay for it method).
> What kinds of tasks could a 7MHz Amiga do that would cause your 2GHz PC to struggle
Not have the OS lock up when a new volume is attached for one. (I'm pretty sure it is just in windows these days because people expect it though!)
Indeed.
The worst thing about the 701's battery was that even when the machine was off it ran down overnight.
But for that I would still have one. (I am too lazy to remove the battery when not using the machine, whichmeant it ran down at a reasonable rate).
> Or, we can distribute our code under the GPL, and thus avoid these situations.
Maybe some people like to unconditionally share stuff.
Maybe some people are still nice that way.
People needing release will always find something.
In some contries around the world alcohol is not allowed.
If you think that means they have no recreational drugs (legal ones as like alcohol) then you are very naive.
The only solution to addiction is to make people happy and contented. No one seems to be interested in this. there is no money in it.\
Yes from now on let us only mention Sexy JarJar!
Remeber a Sexy JarJar is obviously beter than a normal JarJar.
What? No I don't have a point.
> People got so hung up on the "Ford isn't supposed to be black" thing
They did? Which people? Where
Probably an american thing I guess, seemed a fairly unimportant point to a Brit like me.
No sure which side you are arguing for there.
>Users are hurt by not having source?
Yes indeed they are.
Users are also hurt by having GPL source.
The GPL irks me a little (though not much) because i want the source because someone wants me to have it, not they are forced to.
Being nice because you have to is not being nice.
Aria are what they are.
Cheap.
Nasty.
They have ignored emails from me and I have even had a spam and a trojan sent to me using the address I use for them, my domain using aria@, never get anything on it other than theirs so it is unlikely coincidence, they are either insecure of selling emails without permission.
They are a known ignorer of distance selling laws and EU regulation.
I try not to use them and have not in over 2 years, sometimes though they are the only ones with what I want at a price I will pay. However I know what to expect from them overall.