This explains the texture maps, but how do they know the heights for each building? And some buildings seem to have multiple heights.. ie. different levels or landings... part of the same building... where'd they get that data? Or does their "laser" go over buildings?
This isn't that difficult people. Let's say you just downloaded PhotoshopCS2.torrent, and you go to the folder and you see what looks like a legit photoshop CD folder structure. One of the following could happen:
1 - Setup.exe is a virus/spyware
2 - Setup.exe is the real setup with a virus/spyware attached to it
3 - Keygen.exe is one of the above.
"Forced to upgrade" in this case is very simply the lack of support that win2k will fall under very shortly. Now, while your school district may not give a crap about having a non-MS supported os, most corporations out there care about this very much. If your school system goes down, they don't stand to potentially lose $$$.
If you think about it, MS was actually smart in releasing intermediate OS (Win ME? possibly XP?)after Win2k. They know most companies are slow to upgrade, so why waste money developing a kickass amazing Windows 2002, when they know very few will upgrade. They just release a few smaller upgraded versions and milk them for what they can.
Technically speaking, if you believe in the quantuum model and string theory, Isn't it feasable that while you thought of the idea to patent and sleep on, someone with enough technical/business background 'picked-up' your idea from our subconsious minds, and implemented it.
Is it not fair then, that the originator of the idea should be compensated?
Man, if I was Bill, I'd give the EU the middle finger and stop selling them my software. So it'll put a little dent in my billion dollar revenues... but fuck em. You don't like my os, don't buy it!
Uhmm.. I benefite from Microsoft. XP makes it quite easy to do small video editing, import photos, and regular family stuff, like share pictures, email/net and ofcourse office.
Ofcourse, I could do the same with a Mac, but I definitely have the benefit of all the games I can play on MSFT's one-player-system.
Even though I posted a 'price' reason post just above yours, I have to disagree that the problem is Overpriced software; it's disproportionate economies.
I think good software deserves the money, and while we all love to hate windows and office, in my opinion they are quite amazing pieces of software when you look at all that they can do. Same goes for photoshop, and despite it's 500$ price, I really do think it's worth it.
In most of those countries at the top of the list, the cost of windows is about a month's salary. Let's not talk about other 'useful' stuff, like office, photoshop, etc,etc...
Those of you too happy to pay for the next version of anything, ask yourselves this... if an OS or office app cost $2,000, would you still buy it, or look to alternative means of aquisition?
If I'm not mistaken (and I could be) microsoft sold about 20 million xbox... and they have 2 million live subscribers...
How is this a mild success for a concept that's never been brought to the console before? I don't care what anyone says, but MS did a wonderful job with Live.
How exactly did MS force it's way in??? From what I know, they developed the console, made a few hundred thousand of them, put them in stores to sell.
Where's this force people keep talking about?
I didn't realize the Chinese Government had such a big slice of the software economic pie. Remember, this is just bans other countries from selling software to the Goverment, not the whole country.
As cool as this sounds, I really doubt we'll see these things at the consumer level even when they are ready.... This will KILL the current battery market, and I'm sure Energizer and Duracell will do anything and everything to stop these from killing their business....
Add to this something that will stream my music right to my phone, this way we can avoid the "All new LG VX50000, now with a 50GB drive". Let me keep my music on my PC and let me stream it to my phone... what are you using 3G for anyways?? 2 min clips of caca content?
You're wrong. Cell phone makersonly care about selling phones. The service providers (ie. VZW) don't really give a rat about selling the phones... in fact. they're almost giving them away for free.
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STFU and get your facts. You can download the schema to MS XML right here. Let us know if you find where they binary encode anything.
As any child would say... 'would you like some cheese with that whine?'
Anyone else feel it?
This explains the texture maps, but how do they know the heights for each building? And some buildings seem to have multiple heights.. ie. different levels or landings... part of the same building... where'd they get that data? Or does their "laser" go over buildings?
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This isn't that difficult people. Let's say you just downloaded PhotoshopCS2.torrent, and you go to the folder and you see what looks like a legit photoshop CD folder structure. One of the following could happen:
1 - Setup.exe is a virus/spyware
2 - Setup.exe is the real setup with a virus/spyware attached to it
3 - Keygen.exe is one of the above.
Offer OXS like how? On Dell x86 boxes, or Dell made apple branded hardware, or what?
"Forced to upgrade" in this case is very simply the lack of support that win2k will fall under very shortly. Now, while your school district may not give a crap about having a non-MS supported os, most corporations out there care about this very much. If your school system goes down, they don't stand to potentially lose $$$.
If you think about it, MS was actually smart in releasing intermediate OS (Win ME? possibly XP?)after Win2k. They know most companies are slow to upgrade, so why waste money developing a kickass amazing Windows 2002, when they know very few will upgrade. They just release a few smaller upgraded versions and milk them for what they can.
Technically speaking, if you believe in the quantuum model and string theory, Isn't it feasable that while you thought of the idea to patent and sleep on, someone with enough technical/business background 'picked-up' your idea from our subconsious minds, and implemented it.
Is it not fair then, that the originator of the idea should be compensated?
hehe.
Man, if I was Bill, I'd give the EU the middle finger and stop selling them my software. So it'll put a little dent in my billion dollar revenues... but fuck em. You don't like my os, don't buy it!
All 3 of you?
Roland?!??? Roland of Gilliad?
So what's to stop me from cutting someone's finger off and use that to log on? All this security shmecurity and people overlook the obvious.
Uhmm.. I benefite from Microsoft. XP makes it quite easy to do small video editing, import photos, and regular family stuff, like share pictures, email/net and ofcourse office. Ofcourse, I could do the same with a Mac, but I definitely have the benefit of all the games I can play on MSFT's one-player-system.
So if I ran one, would I have everyones authentication information?
No. Just a token. SHeesh.. i didn't even RTFA
Even though I posted a 'price' reason post just above yours, I have to disagree that the problem is Overpriced software; it's disproportionate economies.
I think good software deserves the money, and while we all love to hate windows and office, in my opinion they are quite amazing pieces of software when you look at all that they can do. Same goes for photoshop, and despite it's 500$ price, I really do think it's worth it.
In most of those countries at the top of the list, the cost of windows is about a month's salary. Let's not talk about other 'useful' stuff, like office, photoshop, etc,etc... Those of you too happy to pay for the next version of anything, ask yourselves this... if an OS or office app cost $2,000, would you still buy it, or look to alternative means of aquisition?
If I'm not mistaken (and I could be) microsoft sold about 20 million xbox... and they have 2 million live subscribers... How is this a mild success for a concept that's never been brought to the console before? I don't care what anyone says, but MS did a wonderful job with Live.
How exactly did MS force it's way in??? From what I know, they developed the console, made a few hundred thousand of them, put them in stores to sell. Where's this force people keep talking about?
Yeah!! Mod Parent Up!!! And while we're at it, require everyone to cary ID at all times...,
I didn't realize the Chinese Government had such a big slice of the software economic pie. Remember, this is just bans other countries from selling software to the Goverment, not the whole country.
Wait... explain to me how exit signs use this, if only 1.5 Kilograms are made a year?????
As cool as this sounds, I really doubt we'll see these things at the consumer level even when they are ready.... This will KILL the current battery market, and I'm sure Energizer and Duracell will do anything and everything to stop these from killing their business....
Add to this something that will stream my music right to my phone, this way we can avoid the "All new LG VX50000, now with a 50GB drive". Let me keep my music on my PC and let me stream it to my phone... what are you using 3G for anyways?? 2 min clips of caca content?
You're wrong. Cell phone makers only care about selling phones. The service providers (ie. VZW) don't really give a rat about selling the phones... in fact. they're almost giving them away for free.