That's because when you add in the time of manually having to 'activate' the thousands of product installs you just rolled out at MegaMonkey Inc. (multiplied by however many Microsoft products you had on your Ghost image - XP, Outlook/Office, Visio,.NET, Studio, etc) it gets insane quick. And it becomes a powerful disincentive to purchasing all that shit in the first place.
"Automatic activation" you say? What if all that stuff is for internal use only? What if you don't have 'general Internet access' at all? Some companies and governments still restrict that, ya know.
Thus, enterprise versions will not have activation requirements. There's a point of diminishing returns to product activation, and that's it. Do it once, hassle but not a big deal. Do it 1000 times, 'Just Say No'.
However, none of that means they're not serious about stopping piracy. It's just that pesky point of diminishing returns - when does it become a hindrance to initial sales.
Sell 10000 licenses and deal with 1000 'pirates', or sell 5000 licenses but have no pirates cos the activation requires so much effort? Which would you pick?
Two years ago we had, what, the Dreamcast? Ubermega console built to last? No, it was a suckass piece of pixellated shit. Same with N64 and Playstation. Where are they? Sitting unused in your closet, I bet.
Consoles don't last any longer than PCs. If they did, you'd still be playing all the 'latest and greatest' games on a Playstation instead of an Xbox.
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Moderators are still on crack, I see... a post gets funny, but a response to it gets off-topic.
Well, here's another one you can burn points on:
Fuck off, pinhead.
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And we'll all finally be able to wash those hot grits out of our pants.
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Until Oliver Stone gets a bug up his ass about it, that is...
The ONLY thing I was taking issue with was the claim of them deriving "ActiveBuddy" from "Activerse", which is ridiculous. I was NOT disagreeing with anything else he said.
"Activerse" is derived from "Universe". ActiveBuddy is not. What ActiveBuddy IS derived from is ActiveX and all the other Active-whatevers out there.
For this guy's derivative-name complaint to hold water, his company name would have to have been written as "ActiveRse", and it wasn't.
Oh, now don't you start that 'derivative name ripoff' bullshit too. Leaving alone the rest of the claims against them, I have to object to the 'derivative name' remark.. just cos they both have the word 'Active' in it doesn't mean anything.
"Activerse" is a mutation of the word "Universe", while "ActiveBuddy" seeks to imply some kind of autonomous creature. "ActiveBuddy" is actually much more descriptive of what they're selling than "Activerse" is.
But after 10 years of existence it would no longer be a "new building" (it might be colloquially called that for many years in reference to the fact that it was the most recent one built, but that doesn't mean it actually is still "new").
Just as an 11-year-old child is not generally referred to as a "newborn".
If Linux is an "upstart" OS then so is Windows NT. They are approximately the same age.
Cool, so if you, your wife, or any of your family get trampled to death or encounter some other kind of animal-induced mortality, especially if it's a circus animal, I'll be sure to root for the critter that did it. I'll laugh and laugh and laugh as she dies in your arms, coughing up blood and piteously mewling your name. Stompachu, I choose you! Use Morally Superior Smash Attack! Huzzah!
Well, no. See, unlike you, I wouldn't actually do that... cos it's a goddamn sick thing to do..
Quite a disturbing image when it gets personal like that, though, isn't it? Not nearly as fun to contemplate when you're on the other end of that scenario, is it?
Ok, for the poon that modded this 'off-topic': it's time for you to go read "The Briar Patch" by Joel Chandler Harris, and then look up the definition of 'off-topic' since you obviously haven't got a clue as to what it means.
It's only 'rare' and 'expensive' because there was so little of it brought back, and what was brought back is jealously hoarded by the government and scientists.
Start bringing back dumpsters full of the stuff and see how quickly the price plummets.
Imagine if one of those weird quantum probability seizures happened and all the quartz in the world was replaced by diamond. De Beers would go out of business - it'd be like trying to sell sand as the most precious substance in the universe.
Right, so then you think it's ok to set up a dictatorship? No need for any of that pesky 'democratic debate' nonsense? Just get it done with no accountability whatsoever?
Listen to your fringe.. you'll hear the lunacy. Hell, listen to your congressbeings, cos there are just as many loopy loons on the left side of the aisle as there are on the right.
Hahaha, you don't like being labelled? Well goddamn, you folks should have thought about that before you went apeshit with them on everyone. Turnabout is fair play.
No, it's not just the fault of the developers. At some point you have to step back and say, "Who the hell made this abuse possible anyway?"
The only difference between Flash and a BLINK tag is that Flash is worse. It needs to go away. It's fine for sublevels of sites (i.e., games), but hung anywhere on the front of a website it's an abomination of design and common courtesy.
Just because you *can* do a thing (induce seizure in your audience via Flash), doesn't mean you *have* to.
Or you might get your life threatened by the militant liberals who've noticed you're not calling PBS or the Democratic Party with pledges often enough. After all, according to their own diatribes, if you don't give money and support to PBS and the Dems, you're killing children.
The Lifestyle Police might like it too... "I see here that you've been having pizza delivered just a little too often, and you actually called Phillip Morris to order tobacco-branded merchandise. We're going to have to pack some tofu up your ass to compensate. Stay right there."
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(goddamn stupid lameness filter.. can't even post a silly joke without getting kicked by some idjit who thinks he's a master codemonkey)
If they weren't serious about stopping piracy, there wouldn't be any activation nonsense at all.
So it's back to that point of diminishing returns again. The much-ballyhooed 'margin'.
That's because when you add in the time of manually having to 'activate' the thousands of product installs you just rolled out at MegaMonkey Inc. (multiplied by however many Microsoft products you had on your Ghost image - XP, Outlook/Office, Visio, .NET, Studio, etc) it gets insane quick. And it becomes a powerful disincentive to purchasing all that shit in the first place.
"Automatic activation" you say? What if all that stuff is for internal use only? What if you don't have 'general Internet access' at all? Some companies and governments still restrict that, ya know.
Thus, enterprise versions will not have activation requirements. There's a point of diminishing returns to product activation, and that's it. Do it once, hassle but not a big deal. Do it 1000 times, 'Just Say No'.
However, none of that means they're not serious about stopping piracy. It's just that pesky point of diminishing returns - when does it become a hindrance to initial sales.
Sell 10000 licenses and deal with 1000 'pirates', or sell 5000 licenses but have no pirates cos the activation requires so much effort? Which would you pick?
Well, the moderators' minds are already pretty well-boggled, so it does make sense. In a bent sort of fashion.
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Two years ago we had, what, the Dreamcast? Ubermega console built to last? No, it was a suckass piece of pixellated shit. Same with N64 and Playstation. Where are they? Sitting unused in your closet, I bet.
Consoles don't last any longer than PCs. If they did, you'd still be playing all the 'latest and greatest' games on a Playstation instead of an Xbox.
Moderators are still on crack, I see... a post gets funny, but a response to it gets off-topic.
Well, here's another one you can burn points on:
Fuck off, pinhead.
And we'll all finally be able to wash those hot grits out of our pants.
Until Oliver Stone gets a bug up his ass about it, that is...
Lemme guess, you play for the Allies in WWII Online.. with a razor-sharp wit like that, it's plain to see.
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Next time, try reading *before* responding. Damn.
The ONLY thing I was taking issue with was the claim of them deriving "ActiveBuddy" from "Activerse", which is ridiculous. I was NOT disagreeing with anything else he said.
"Activerse" is derived from "Universe". ActiveBuddy is not. What ActiveBuddy IS derived from is ActiveX and all the other Active-whatevers out there.
For this guy's derivative-name complaint to hold water, his company name would have to have been written as "ActiveRse", and it wasn't.
Oh, now don't you start that 'derivative name ripoff' bullshit too. Leaving alone the rest of the claims against them, I have to object to the 'derivative name' remark.. just cos they both have the word 'Active' in it doesn't mean anything.
"Activerse" is a mutation of the word "Universe", while "ActiveBuddy" seeks to imply some kind of autonomous creature. "ActiveBuddy" is actually much more descriptive of what they're selling than "Activerse" is.
Ah, gotcha.. so you're saying you don't understand reality or logic, and probably never will. That's cool, to each their own.
Have fun in your little fantasy Dr. Doolittle world...
But after 10 years of existence it would no longer be a "new building" (it might be colloquially called that for many years in reference to the fact that it was the most recent one built, but that doesn't mean it actually is still "new").
Just as an 11-year-old child is not generally referred to as a "newborn".
If Linux is an "upstart" OS then so is Windows NT. They are approximately the same age.
Cool, so if you, your wife, or any of your family get trampled to death or encounter some other kind of animal-induced mortality, especially if it's a circus animal, I'll be sure to root for the critter that did it. I'll laugh and laugh and laugh as she dies in your arms, coughing up blood and piteously mewling your name. Stompachu, I choose you! Use Morally Superior Smash Attack! Huzzah!
Well, no. See, unlike you, I wouldn't actually do that... cos it's a goddamn sick thing to do..
Quite a disturbing image when it gets personal like that, though, isn't it? Not nearly as fun to contemplate when you're on the other end of that scenario, is it?
What the hell is an asshat? Is it kinda like a bootyberet? Or a vaginavisor? Or a scrotumcap? Or a pwethelmet?
... boring.
At least come up with a new word.. 'asshat' is just kinda
Ok, for the poon that modded this 'off-topic': it's time for you to go read "The Briar Patch" by Joel Chandler Harris, and then look up the definition of 'off-topic' since you obviously haven't got a clue as to what it means.
It's only 'rare' and 'expensive' because there was so little of it brought back, and what was brought back is jealously hoarded by the government and scientists.
Start bringing back dumpsters full of the stuff and see how quickly the price plummets.
Imagine if one of those weird quantum probability seizures happened and all the quartz in the world was replaced by diamond. De Beers would go out of business - it'd be like trying to sell sand as the most precious substance in the universe.
If you have to resort to analogies involving time travel, you've already lost the argument.
Come back when you have something meaningful to contribute.
Right, so then you think it's ok to set up a dictatorship? No need for any of that pesky 'democratic debate' nonsense? Just get it done with no accountability whatsoever?
Wrong.
The ends do not justify the means. Ever.
Listen to your fringe.. you'll hear the lunacy. Hell, listen to your congressbeings, cos there are just as many loopy loons on the left side of the aisle as there are on the right.
Hahaha, you don't like being labelled? Well goddamn, you folks should have thought about that before you went apeshit with them on everyone. Turnabout is fair play.
No, it's not just the fault of the developers. At some point you have to step back and say, "Who the hell made this abuse possible anyway?"
The only difference between Flash and a BLINK tag is that Flash is worse. It needs to go away. It's fine for sublevels of sites (i.e., games), but hung anywhere on the front of a website it's an abomination of design and common courtesy.
Just because you *can* do a thing (induce seizure in your audience via Flash), doesn't mean you *have* to.
Why not just have a shitload of BLINK tags and be done with it?
That's got to be the most annoying website design in the history of history.
Or you might get your life threatened by the militant liberals who've noticed you're not calling PBS or the Democratic Party with pledges often enough. After all, according to their own diatribes, if you don't give money and support to PBS and the Dems, you're killing children.
The Lifestyle Police might like it too... "I see here that you've been having pizza delivered just a little too often, and you actually called Phillip Morris to order tobacco-branded merchandise. We're going to have to pack some tofu up your ass to compensate. Stay right there."