"Argh. Return on investment huh? Well I guess Blizzard is automatically in the hole because they would not release their linux client; which has been proven to exist. In reality, they developed a linux client and the return on investment did not matter. Support was going to be handled by LGP. Something tells me that this so called cost did not matter, and that they just decided to be arrogant and not release a final version of the linux client. Cost did not matter to them, here, even after all, when they are making 1 billion a year."
No, they had a beta build of the client at one point. And your mistaken if you think the cost of development is the only expense in releaseing a comercial software product.
No, they're my bitter enemies whom I cant yet kill because they still serve a purpose.
But one day... their uppance will come!
So... it realy sucks, but its the best 360 game?
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Gears of War Review
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· Score: 4, Insightful
"The much-hyped and highly anticipated Xbox 360 shooter from Epic suffers from some truly terrible AI, a brief single-player campaign, and some unfortunately rough storytelling. Just the same, the flaws in this particular gem make the whole gleam that much brighter. Gears may just be the best game to be released on the 360 this year,"
Sounds like a bad game (not saying it is) yet its the best game on he 360. Dosn't this just say that the platform has few good games?
Short of sending a guy over with a club to keep me away, they will never be able to deny me access to my computer or the data on it. Vista still supports FAT32 and NTFS, you can still get data off drives.
"Microsoft had best find a way of NOT blocking LEGITIMATE COPIES then."
I agree, and thats kinda my point. There is no benefit to Microsoft in blocking legitimate copies. They have thus far been very good about erroring on the side of the user.
This is almost word for word what the fear mongers where saying about XP. Yes software activation is a pain. But so are pirated copies of windows sold as being legit. Which is what this is trying to stop. Yes there will be cracks and work arounds, there allways are. But if your mom buys a computer from the corner store, this will check to make sure that its legit. Microsoft can not remove your access to the files unless they're doing on the fly encryption. They also have no reason to do that. Much like the XP activation, in the case of an illiegal copy Microsoft has been very good about working with the end user to find a resolution.
Bottom line, if you dont like it dont use it. For the non geeks this is a good thing as is the whole bundle of software signing and certs that Microsoft is trying to get out there. People dont want to have to understand how the computer works, they just want to download software and have it do its thing without sending porn spam to half the country. If things like this worry you or you think they're not needed. Then perhaps Windows is not the right OS for you.
Its more or less a means of generating multi pathed radio signals with CRC checking from packet data. So long as they're not greedy with the royalties, more power to em.
Windows users got banned. Linux users got banned. Not all Windows users got banned. Not all Linux users got banned. Could it be that the banned Linux users where doing somthing byond just using Linux?
I thought the FCC spent all its time breakign the 1st amendment. Guess they're getting enough money from unconstitutional fines that they can hire more people.
Twas Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Long Dark teatime of the Soul was about the Norse Gods fighting lawyers, oh and refigerators being left unatended long enough that they spring forth as new deities.
"In a truly free market, you'd see Visual Studio (which is an awesome kit) that runs under Linux/BSD and can be bound to other compilers (e.g. Intel CC, GCC, etc). In a truly free market, you'd see Office work in Linux/BSD and use well documented file formats so people could create 3rd party tools for working with the data... In a truly free market, Windows would strive for UNIX/POSIX compliance underneath so that programs written for it (under the GUI level) would be more portable,..."
No you wouldn't. You'd see software written for the platform that had the best chance of a high return on investment.
You'd see people wanting to protect their work so that outsiders couldn't take it and undersell them by not needing to recover devlopment costs.
What you're talking about is the oposite of a free market, where people are forced to support everyone and everything despite what the market demands.
Microsoft is a buisness, it exists to make money. If there was a market demand for Microsoft products on Linux/BSD they would exist.
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PowerVR is alive and well in my Nokia cell phone.
Why does the National Institute of Standards and Technology hate trees?
"Argh. Return on investment huh? Well I guess Blizzard is automatically in the hole because they would not release their linux client; which has been proven to exist. In reality, they developed a linux client and the return on investment did not matter. Support was going to be handled by LGP. Something tells me that this so called cost did not matter, and that they just decided to be arrogant and not release a final version of the linux client. Cost did not matter to them, here, even after all, when they are making 1 billion a year."
No, they had a beta build of the client at one point. And your mistaken if you think the cost of development is the only expense in releaseing a comercial software product.
Its not a question of technical hurdles, but rather of return on investment and support costs.
"MySQL and Postgres are your friends."
No, they're my bitter enemies whom I cant yet kill because they still serve a purpose.
But one day... their uppance will come!
"The much-hyped and highly anticipated Xbox 360 shooter from Epic suffers from some truly terrible AI, a brief single-player campaign, and some unfortunately rough storytelling. Just the same, the flaws in this particular gem make the whole gleam that much brighter. Gears may just be the best game to be released on the 360 this year,"
Sounds like a bad game (not saying it is) yet its the best game on he 360. Dosn't this just say that the platform has few good games?
Support, trojans, password sniffers, spam, drute force encryption slaves, back doors, etc etc etc.
Short of sending a guy over with a club to keep me away, they will never be able to deny me access to my computer or the data on it. Vista still supports FAT32 and NTFS, you can still get data off drives.
"Microsoft had best find a way of NOT blocking LEGITIMATE COPIES then."
I agree, and thats kinda my point. There is no benefit to Microsoft in blocking legitimate copies. They have thus far been very good about erroring on the side of the user.
This is almost word for word what the fear mongers where saying about XP. Yes software activation is a pain. But so are pirated copies of windows sold as being legit. Which is what this is trying to stop. Yes there will be cracks and work arounds, there allways are. But if your mom buys a computer from the corner store, this will check to make sure that its legit. Microsoft can not remove your access to the files unless they're doing on the fly encryption. They also have no reason to do that. Much like the XP activation, in the case of an illiegal copy Microsoft has been very good about working with the end user to find a resolution.
Bottom line, if you dont like it dont use it. For the non geeks this is a good thing as is the whole bundle of software signing and certs that Microsoft is trying to get out there. People dont want to have to understand how the computer works, they just want to download software and have it do its thing without sending porn spam to half the country. If things like this worry you or you think they're not needed. Then perhaps Windows is not the right OS for you.
This is why I allways solicit underage sex via carrier pigeon.
So the question is, whos grave is it and what did we do to get them to spin that fast?
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5487069.html
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5487069.pdf
Its more or less a means of generating multi pathed radio signals with CRC checking from packet data. So long as they're not greedy with the royalties, more power to em.
"How is This [wikimedia.org] better than this [wikimedia.org]?"
So the only way to tell if a game is good or fun is by the quality of the graphics? Halo was dummed down to work on the xbox and has never recovered.
"Where did you see Halo 1 alpha? And what about it was better then Halo CE?"
At Bungi back before they got purchased by Microsoft. (shrug) Seems I'm a troll however, so dont mind me.
Any chance Halo three will be as good as Halo one was looking beofre it got "xboxed"?
Windows users got banned. Linux users got banned. Not all Windows users got banned. Not all Linux users got banned. Could it be that the banned Linux users where doing somthing byond just using Linux?
Naw, cant be.
I thought the FCC spent all its time breakign the 1st amendment. Guess they're getting enough money from unconstitutional fines that they can hire more people.
I realy cant think of any server crash that would make me rush what ever it was I was doing in the bathroom. The servers can wait.
Twas Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Long Dark teatime of the Soul was about the Norse Gods fighting lawyers, oh and refigerators being left unatended long enough that they spring forth as new deities.
Sounds like this would get anoying realy quick. What's wrong with just running Nagios or the like?
No you wouldn't. You'd see software written for the platform that had the best chance of a high return on investment.
You'd see people wanting to protect their work so that outsiders couldn't take it and undersell them by not needing to recover devlopment costs.
What you're talking about is the oposite of a free market, where people are forced to support everyone and everything despite what the market demands.
Microsoft is a buisness, it exists to make money. If there was a market demand for Microsoft products on Linux/BSD they would exist.
Well, its a bit delayed but NEC has one comming out this year for 120$.
- dvd-drive-for-just-120/
http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/29/snag-an-nec-hd
"I've never even seen an actual computer monitor (not LCD TV/monitor) that can display in full HD"
You've never seen a computer able to display 1920x1080?
Given that there are a number of IDE & SATA drives hitting the market for under 150$ I guess I just dont see what the big deal is.