A standard Brick and Mortar store isn't quite the same, though.
Think of the Apple App Store (and Google Play, whatever MSFT still has running, etc) not as typical stores, but as consignment shops, which is essentially what they are. Put with the proper analogy, it makes a lot more sense, no?
Buying M$ from an Apple store, that's just stupid.
To be fair, sometimes you're stuck with doing just that (e.g. your company issues Mac laptops, which is nice, but uses MS Office on them, which is not nice.) For instance, I get and use the Microsoft RDP client because 1) I'm cheap (it's $0.00 in the App Store), and 2) it does what I need it to do for the occasional/rare Windows server that I get asked to go fix.
Buying fake M$ from an Apple store, is utterly moronic.
1) It's not Apple's job to police Microsoft's trademarks - that's Microsoft's job. Same with any other trademark that the store owner does not own or control.
2) If the worst you get is an app that has a semi-misleading title that sells you nothing but MS Office templates (for $30? Caveat Emptor, eh?), then it's miles better than the outright malware and data-harvesting apps to be found in other stores. Also, did the author bother to read the description of the item before buying it? Pretty sure that if an app only says "Office Bindle" and has little-to-no description of the product, it's probably going to be a crap purchase.
This is going to sound a bit trollish, but this is the Internet, FFS... show some brains before you buy.
Devil's Advocate: There is a problem with the phrase "...but unless its something completely out of our control, like a massive cosmic event, then sorry, I'm not buying the doom and gloom anymore."
By the time humanity comes to the realization that something terminally wrong is occurring, it may well be too late to reach out into space as a second home.
If the calamity involves resource depletion, we will have run out of sufficient resources to create a self-sustaining colony somewhere else. If it involves something cosmic like an asteroid impact, we'll have no time at all to work with in such a scenario. If it involves war, obviously 'The Enemy' will actively prevent 'The Other Side' from setting up something like a space colony.
It's a bit more complex than you think, and partially untrue.
Take Oregon for example when it comes to federal Presidential/Senate elections: Every rural county in the state could have its population vote 100% for Kodos, but if Portland, Salem, and Bend vote 100% for Kang, then Kang wins, period. (Now the reality is that something like 60% of the rural counties go for Kodos, and 60% of the urban ones vote Kang... and Kang still wins because of aggregate population. The population differential really is that lopsided.) This also goes for state-wide offices such as Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, etc.
Now Congressional House elections and state legislature/senate elections are a different story, where your assertion would hold a bit more truth to it.
Fun fact: nearly all Android phones are made in places just like China...
But please continue.
In other news, that is curious that the Chinese would call out the iPhone, since a few of their own corporations make some not-insubstantial cash from manufacturing the things...
Was thinking the same thing (Oregon resident here).
Then again, at least in Oregon, they only need count votes from the counties of Multnomah (Portland), Marion (Salem) and Deschutes (Bend). Not like the rest of us in Oregon have any real influence or notice (except in the travel brochures, but you know...)
It does lead to a question... are they going to project/call individual states for Kodos or Kang before we get to that 99% mark, like most cable TV networks do?
You're either voting against Trump, or against Hillary.
Not really.
You see, I live in a very heavy deep-blue-neoMarxist-just-right-of-Stalin... err, I meant that I live in Oregon.
I already know where the 7 electoral votes here will go, thanks to the easily-led masses in Portland, Salem, and Bend. This gives me a very unique luxury... I can write-in or vote for whoever the hell I want (and indeed I already did. I voted by mail, just like the rest of Oregon). Kinda cool how that works out.
1) Absolutely correct... once someone actually *reads* what Deming wrote, you can almost see the lightbulb go off over their heads. It is solid stuff.
2) The younger folk may not know/remember this, but during the early-to-mid 1990s, Dr. Deming's writings became the basis of that wonderful little fad which most in the business world called "TQM" (that is, Total Quality Management). It spread like wildfire - I saw it slathered around in everything from government (Dept. of Veterans Affairs) to private industry (a small Arkansas Poultry company - no, not Tyson's, though they did as well.)
The reason #2 failed miserably in the business world (more often than not) was because it was all-too-often implemented poorly. Oh, and in those instances where it was even halfway implemented right, management realized very quickly that (post-implementation) they really didn't want to hear what their underlings had to say.
Doubtful, The parent company of the place I work demands all PCs worldwide to be Windows 7 only and they aren't the only corporation that has this policy.
Doesn't matter too much - EA licensees will still have access, but no one who isn't paying $$$$$($!) to Microsoft will.
Actually, yes they are, at least in this case... after all, how else are they going to shove their userbase into something that they have a more direct sphere of control over?
Not too many people are going to be clinging to their old install CDs/DVDs over time, and forcing OEMs to 'update' their UEFI firmware to disallow the older OS versions isn't too far-fetched ("This computer does not support outdated operating systems. Please press Enter to restore from the backup partition, or contact your computer manufacturer.")
Thinking it won't be the color per se, but an enforced OS 'rental' that we should be on the lookout for... on the plus side they won't charge you for upgrades.:/
MSM stopped reporting the news a long time ago. It is now just propaganda for the power class.
...and the people too old/lazy/busy to get it anywhere else than their TV set. Until the baby-boom generation is dead, it'll still have that influence for a very long time (that is, the 'TV and papers are the only place to get legitimate news' mindset.)
The children and hipster types will have long since moved on, but it is still massively used for older folks (25 yrs and up) to keep in touch with their family members... and that much-higher-disposable-income demographic is probably much more to Facebook's liking insofar as advertising revenue is concerned.
Given that, I don't think Facebook particularly cares right now if the kids think it's passe', because even the younger crowd will likely still keep an account handy, if only to talk to their parents, siblings, (maybe) cousins, etc.
Makes me just want to run out and restore a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air with nothing more than a Philips screwdriver, three rolls of duct tape, and a wad of used chewing gum...:/
Most likely because, traditionally, Macs are used by graphic artist types who already have near-literal arsenals of graphics/CG applications. Even though I only do grpahics/art for fun, my own Mac has GIMP, DAZ Studio, Maya, Carrara, Modo, Poser, and a zillion smaller applications that support all of those (Iray, Reality, LuxRender, UV Mapping utilities, various image/video viewers, etc). Pretty certain that the pros have way more stuff installed, and they installed them the same day they unboxed the computer.
A simple paint-type program would just sit around useless, yanno?
Okay, that's probably the artist in me talking, but seriously - outside of some really non-professional home stuff (or the occasional semi-dank meme that makes fun of childish actions), MS Paint falls way, way, way short for illustration. No, really... I'd rather masturbate with a handful of glass shards than use MS Paint for *anything* work-related... and no, I'm not a professional artist.
They did (they picked up a *lot* of stuff...) I did find out they sold Canoma to Adobe sometime in the past decade, though. Learn something new every day.
Microsoft could have saved themselves some coding time by going into Corel's Graveyard and buying the source for Canoma (originally made by the same folks who made Poser and Bryce, so the codebase is more than a little yucky and tangled, but still...)
Actually, Microsoft did try to take a stab at Photoshop back in 1998-1999 or so, using (IIRC) the same name - "Paint 3D". They included an application CDs in their TechNet subscription packages for awhile; it stopped showing up in 2000-ish.
The interface blew goats, it was slow and occasionally quite buggy (at least on NT 4), but it did have some ideas in it worth exploring; I think it most likely died a quiet death due to the monopoly lawsuit...
Seriously - they both suck, and are singularly unqualified for the job. Most of us with more than two working neurons know this.
The problem is two-fold: 1) There is a huge mass of low-information sheep who don't really bother with politics (either by ignorance, stupidity, or laziness), but will nonetheless do whatever they're told by their ideological 'betters', mostly to look good in the eyes of their social peers - hell, there's even a satchel of soundbites and pre-digested 'debate' techniques that are supplied to them.
2) There are also two masses of howling hyper-partisan ideologues who each abandon logic and reason in order to 'win' at all costs.
The sad part is, the aforementioned masses comprise the majority of our populace. I'm certain that the US isn't the only country that has this affliction, but as the US is among (if not atop the list of all) world leaders, what happens here will affect the rest of the planet one way or the other. I fear that no matter who gets it, it will be to the detriment of us all.
I know on my part? I happily voted third-party (yes, I'm that disgusted with both the major candidates), but I live in a state where the outcome is pretty much predestined (thanks to the hivemind living in Portland, Salem, and Bend), so I could have written in my dog as President, and no one will notice here.
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A standard Brick and Mortar store isn't quite the same, though.
Think of the Apple App Store (and Google Play, whatever MSFT still has running, etc) not as typical stores, but as consignment shops, which is essentially what they are. Put with the proper analogy, it makes a lot more sense, no?
Buying M$ from an Apple store, that's just stupid.
To be fair, sometimes you're stuck with doing just that (e.g. your company issues Mac laptops, which is nice, but uses MS Office on them, which is not nice.) For instance, I get and use the Microsoft RDP client because 1) I'm cheap (it's $0.00 in the App Store), and 2) it does what I need it to do for the occasional/rare Windows server that I get asked to go fix.
Buying fake M$ from an Apple store, is utterly moronic.
Now this, I can agree with.
Let's be fair for a moment here...
1) It's not Apple's job to police Microsoft's trademarks - that's Microsoft's job. Same with any other trademark that the store owner does not own or control.
2) If the worst you get is an app that has a semi-misleading title that sells you nothing but MS Office templates (for $30? Caveat Emptor, eh?), then it's miles better than the outright malware and data-harvesting apps to be found in other stores. Also, did the author bother to read the description of the item before buying it? Pretty sure that if an app only says "Office Bindle" and has little-to-no description of the product, it's probably going to be a crap purchase.
This is going to sound a bit trollish, but this is the Internet, FFS... show some brains before you buy.
Devil's Advocate: There is a problem with the phrase "...but unless its something completely out of our control, like a massive cosmic event, then sorry, I'm not buying the doom and gloom anymore."
By the time humanity comes to the realization that something terminally wrong is occurring, it may well be too late to reach out into space as a second home.
If the calamity involves resource depletion, we will have run out of sufficient resources to create a self-sustaining colony somewhere else. If it involves something cosmic like an asteroid impact, we'll have no time at all to work with in such a scenario. If it involves war, obviously 'The Enemy' will actively prevent 'The Other Side' from setting up something like a space colony.
I trust you see what I'm getting at here, yes?
It's a bit more complex than you think, and partially untrue.
Take Oregon for example when it comes to federal Presidential/Senate elections: Every rural county in the state could have its population vote 100% for Kodos, but if Portland, Salem, and Bend vote 100% for Kang, then Kang wins, period. (Now the reality is that something like 60% of the rural counties go for Kodos, and 60% of the urban ones vote Kang... and Kang still wins because of aggregate population. The population differential really is that lopsided.) This also goes for state-wide offices such as Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, etc.
Now Congressional House elections and state legislature/senate elections are a different story, where your assertion would hold a bit more truth to it.
Fun fact: nearly all Android phones are made in places just like China...
But please continue.
In other news, that is curious that the Chinese would call out the iPhone, since a few of their own corporations make some not-insubstantial cash from manufacturing the things...
Was thinking the same thing (Oregon resident here).
Then again, at least in Oregon, they only need count votes from the counties of Multnomah (Portland), Marion (Salem) and Deschutes (Bend). Not like the rest of us in Oregon have any real influence or notice (except in the travel brochures, but you know...)
It does lead to a question... are they going to project/call individual states for Kodos or Kang before we get to that 99% mark, like most cable TV networks do?
You're either voting against Trump, or against Hillary.
Not really.
You see, I live in a very heavy deep-blue-neoMarxist-just-right-of-Stalin... err, I meant that I live in Oregon.
I already know where the 7 electoral votes here will go, thanks to the easily-led masses in Portland, Salem, and Bend. This gives me a very unique luxury... I can write-in or vote for whoever the hell I want (and indeed I already did. I voted by mail, just like the rest of Oregon). Kinda cool how that works out.
1) Absolutely correct... once someone actually *reads* what Deming wrote, you can almost see the lightbulb go off over their heads. It is solid stuff.
2) The younger folk may not know/remember this, but during the early-to-mid 1990s, Dr. Deming's writings became the basis of that wonderful little fad which most in the business world called "TQM" (that is, Total Quality Management). It spread like wildfire - I saw it slathered around in everything from government (Dept. of Veterans Affairs) to private industry (a small Arkansas Poultry company - no, not Tyson's, though they did as well.)
The reason #2 failed miserably in the business world (more often than not) was because it was all-too-often implemented poorly. Oh, and in those instances where it was even halfway implemented right, management realized very quickly that (post-implementation) they really didn't want to hear what their underlings had to say.
Doubtful, The parent company of the place I work demands all PCs worldwide to be Windows 7 only and they aren't the only corporation that has this policy.
Doesn't matter too much - EA licensees will still have access, but no one who isn't paying $$$$$($!) to Microsoft will.
Actually, yes they are, at least in this case... after all, how else are they going to shove their userbase into something that they have a more direct sphere of control over?
Not too many people are going to be clinging to their old install CDs/DVDs over time, and forcing OEMs to 'update' their UEFI firmware to disallow the older OS versions isn't too far-fetched ("This computer does not support outdated operating systems. Please press Enter to restore from the backup partition, or contact your computer manufacturer.")
Thinking it won't be the color per se, but an enforced OS 'rental' that we should be on the lookout for... on the plus side they won't charge you for upgrades. :/
MSM stopped reporting the news a long time ago. It is now just propaganda for the power class.
...and the people too old/lazy/busy to get it anywhere else than their TV set. Until the baby-boom generation is dead, it'll still have that influence for a very long time (that is, the 'TV and papers are the only place to get legitimate news' mindset.)
Well, yes and no.
The children and hipster types will have long since moved on, but it is still massively used for older folks (25 yrs and up) to keep in touch with their family members... and that much-higher-disposable-income demographic is probably much more to Facebook's liking insofar as advertising revenue is concerned.
Given that, I don't think Facebook particularly cares right now if the kids think it's passe', because even the younger crowd will likely still keep an account handy, if only to talk to their parents, siblings, (maybe) cousins, etc.
Makes me just want to run out and restore a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air with nothing more than a Philips screwdriver, three rolls of duct tape, and a wad of used chewing gum... :/
(Okay, props to the dude and all, but damn.)
Most likely because, traditionally, Macs are used by graphic artist types who already have near-literal arsenals of graphics/CG applications. Even though I only do grpahics/art for fun, my own Mac has GIMP, DAZ Studio, Maya, Carrara, Modo, Poser, and a zillion smaller applications that support all of those (Iray, Reality, LuxRender, UV Mapping utilities, various image/video viewers, etc). Pretty certain that the pros have way more stuff installed, and they installed them the same day they unboxed the computer.
A simple paint-type program would just sit around useless, yanno?
Ugh. No, no it does not.
Okay, that's probably the artist in me talking, but seriously - outside of some really non-professional home stuff (or the occasional semi-dank meme that makes fun of childish actions), MS Paint falls way, way, way short for illustration. No, really... I'd rather masturbate with a handful of glass shards than use MS Paint for *anything* work-related... and no, I'm not a professional artist.
They did (they picked up a *lot* of stuff...) I did find out they sold Canoma to Adobe sometime in the past decade, though. Learn something new every day.
Microsoft could have saved themselves some coding time by going into Corel's Graveyard and buying the source for Canoma (originally made by the same folks who made Poser and Bryce, so the codebase is more than a little yucky and tangled, but still...)
Actually, Microsoft did try to take a stab at Photoshop back in 1998-1999 or so, using (IIRC) the same name - "Paint 3D". They included an application CDs in their TechNet subscription packages for awhile; it stopped showing up in 2000-ish.
The interface blew goats, it was slow and occasionally quite buggy (at least on NT 4), but it did have some ideas in it worth exploring; I think it most likely died a quiet death due to the monopoly lawsuit...
...did y'all run out of single moms to sue for $millions or something?
That's getting pretty desperate for income when you're trying to screw over a vendor because they're too dumb to have a proper IT department...
So you prefer Kang over Kodos, then?
Seriously - they both suck, and are singularly unqualified for the job. Most of us with more than two working neurons know this.
The problem is two-fold:
1) There is a huge mass of low-information sheep who don't really bother with politics (either by ignorance, stupidity, or laziness), but will nonetheless do whatever they're told by their ideological 'betters', mostly to look good in the eyes of their social peers - hell, there's even a satchel of soundbites and pre-digested 'debate' techniques that are supplied to them.
2) There are also two masses of howling hyper-partisan ideologues who each abandon logic and reason in order to 'win' at all costs.
The sad part is, the aforementioned masses comprise the majority of our populace. I'm certain that the US isn't the only country that has this affliction, but as the US is among (if not atop the list of all) world leaders, what happens here will affect the rest of the planet one way or the other. I fear that no matter who gets it, it will be to the detriment of us all.
I know on my part? I happily voted third-party (yes, I'm that disgusted with both the major candidates), but I live in a state where the outcome is pretty much predestined (thanks to the hivemind living in Portland, Salem, and Bend), so I could have written in my dog as President, and no one will notice here.
Yeah... because, as we all know, buying a genuine big name brand makes things completely safe...
Nope, but it'll make it a hell of a lot easier to get the warranty honored when you can show them the fried genuine part.
Some do, some don't. The ones that do usually don't have adequate insulation somewhere in it, or was never burned-in/tested.
It's not proof that all counterfeits will catch fire, but the odds go way up under such conditions.