Man...I stopped buying EA when they took the fighting out of NHL '94.
On top of the stories a few years back about how they treat their employees and the fact that they just pump the same crap out once a year with a few tiny upgrades, I don't know why anyone actually buys their games.
AVG is getting almost as bad. Some of the update times on startup are now exceeding 3 minutes on some of my older machines. But generally you're right.
Even more than that... the fact that the GP believes that "that religion is the relationship between the individual and God and the foundation of that is forgiveness for our sins and an offer of salvation that must be PERSONALLY accepted and cannot happen any other way".
That very sentence demonstrates the control you've already handed over in your life. First, you believe that there is a God. Next, you believe that we "need forgiveness". Next, that "the relationship" is how you get that forgiveness, and finally, "it cannot happen any other way".
And you think there's no control issues there? What if I'm a hot dog maker, and I told you that eating hot dogs was the way to salvation? You'd probably call me out for being a greedy self-serving jackass. Now... why do you need a church again? To develop that special relationship? Pass the collection plate! But don't worry, we're not controlling you.
'The ISP community is going to be at the forefront of this in the future because they have everything to lose and nothing to gain by not seeing that the content is being properly protected...'
That sounds like a pretty serious threat if you ask me. I wonder if ISP's will wake up with severed horse heads in their beds...
What issues are you talking about exactly? I've worked with.Net for six years and am unaware of "all kinds of issues". Got any references? I can't think of a single blocking issue I've ever come up against.
Please post your sources for why.Net has so many issues that make it look like MS is looking for handouts.
http://pc.ncix.com/pcbuilder/index.php?action=config&id=2643518&platformid=1000
That's with a 19" widescreen Samsung LCD. And keyboard/mouse and all the junk. But it is in CDN, so I guess it's slightly more than $1391.
Mac != games, and any rig you can come up with on a Mac you can build cheaper as a PC, and until Apple licenses their stuff to third parties like they did with the PowerPC's in the mid '90's, that will never change.
Absolutely the best de-bloating move I ever made. I was so sick of Adobe's Reader phoning home, downloading slower and slower updates with more crap, crashing my web browsers, and generally taking 30+ seconds to start up. If you've never heard of Foxit reader, I strongly recommend it!
And so, beardy unix guy berates frustrated user, and linux remains a poor contender in the desktop marketplace. And the vicious cycle continues ad infinitum.
' According to the Commercial Tax Department, optical broadband providers operate on light energy which is 'artificially created and sold to customers for the purpose of data transmission and information.'
Your argument is retarded. If Gates didn't make "something that so many people find valuable enough to pay for", he wouldn't have his obscene wealth either. Even with his "monopoly power", Gates built himself a market to manipulate. With his valuable product that people were paying for. And calling someone's wealth "obscene", is a perception that has nothing to do with the rest of your post.
Uh... what the hell are you talking about? "Does this mean that we never have had.net"? Think before you post for craps sake.
.Net is three things - a strategy, a platform, and a suite of development tools. The strategy has been in place for five years. The platform has been in place and stable for three years. The development tools have been good for almost two years.
Why would Longhorn "be" WinFS? Man, go do some reading before you post. WinFS is a file system that's been in development for almost 10 years. Longhorn was supposed to finally implement it. Avalon is the UI subsystem of Longhorn, and yes, it will be in Longhorn, you're just spreading uncertainty with your crap that you "swear you read it wasn't". Don't post that crap without a link.
Go read MSDN if you want to find out what longhorn is. It's about the most useful development reference on the internet, right up there with the php site.
I agree...It seems to me that if you're quitting over the choice of tools, then there must be other reasons behind it. If you loved software programming, then the tools you use should be a secondary issue. Obviously it's better to use tools you want to, but to quit over the prospect of having to learn a new set of tools seems a little bit narrow-minded or elitist.
Do you love going to your job every day? Do you have fun with your co-workers? Are you motivated, or do you spend lots of time being bored at your job?
If you answered no to these, then maybe that's why you're really quitting. But to give up good pay for something you love to do simply because they want you to do it a little bit differently seems like a very bad decision.
Gee, funny how there was no pirated release on the internet weeks before the actual release date? They couldn't pirate anything until afterwards? And everybody got to start playing at the same time?
No, you can't put in a phone activation feature. Phone activation would mean that the program itself would have to have the routines to authenticate the product. The whole reason for Steam was so that the Steam servers could authenticate the product. If you put the unlocking routines into the actual game files, then pirates will find those in about 10 seconds and bam!... Pirated.
It wouldn't entirely surprise me if there were shennanigans; I've heard of various ugly games played to influence voters. But here it seems that the Deibold machines did their jobs. I stil don't trust them but I'm not going to dispute the results.
So - you've heard of voter manipulation, wouldn't be surprised if there were shenanigans, and don't trust the voting machines. But on nothing but the most preliminary media reports, "it appears they've done their job". Nobody is disputing anything, but an independent audit is good for everyone involved, including the rest of the world, because there is so much mistrust of the Bush administration to begin with. The fact that they've allowed voting machines with no trail is reason in itself; no democracy would allow such a thing (not that anyone can claim that the US is a democracy).
My site is 92.4% IE, 2.8% Moz, 1.5% netscape. However, that is still up from the 0.3% that mozilla had at my site in May. My site might be what you consider more "mainstream", although it's certainly no CNN.
"Maybe this is the real way Windows will be made irrelevant"
Sorry to point this out, but Windows will never be made irrelevant. Fact is, its been running 90% of the world's desktop PC's for a decade, and brought computers to the home market in a way never seen before. Its already made its place in history, and will never be regarded as "irrelevant".
Perhaps the word you really meant to use was "obsolete", but... well, the comment I was going to make has been made many, many time before so I'll leave it at that.
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If you think that the Major New Thing with Windows 7 is "its dock", then you clearly don't use Windows 7....
Don't fret, your kids will be able to experience old diseases thanks to the contributions of Jenny McCarthy and her world order of fruitcakes.
If no one ever reinvented the wheel, we'd all be running around on stone wheels.
Coming from someone whose signature links to a list that claims that Eclipse is one of the reasons that Java is better than .Net.
So now you're comparing using Windows to killing people indiscriminately? That ought to help you not look like a zealot....
Microsoft Windows users are known as the road-kill of the Information Superhighway for a reason....
Seriously though, no one says that. No one even says "Information Superhighway".
Man...I stopped buying EA when they took the fighting out of NHL '94. On top of the stories a few years back about how they treat their employees and the fact that they just pump the same crap out once a year with a few tiny upgrades, I don't know why anyone actually buys their games.
AVG is getting almost as bad. Some of the update times on startup are now exceeding 3 minutes on some of my older machines. But generally you're right.
Even more than that... the fact that the GP believes that "that religion is the relationship between the individual and God and the foundation of that is forgiveness for our sins and an offer of salvation that must be PERSONALLY accepted and cannot happen any other way". That very sentence demonstrates the control you've already handed over in your life. First, you believe that there is a God. Next, you believe that we "need forgiveness". Next, that "the relationship" is how you get that forgiveness, and finally, "it cannot happen any other way". And you think there's no control issues there? What if I'm a hot dog maker, and I told you that eating hot dogs was the way to salvation? You'd probably call me out for being a greedy self-serving jackass. Now... why do you need a church again? To develop that special relationship? Pass the collection plate! But don't worry, we're not controlling you.
'The ISP community is going to be at the forefront of this in the future because they have everything to lose and nothing to gain by not seeing that the content is being properly protected ...'
That sounds like a pretty serious threat if you ask me. I wonder if ISP's will wake up with severed horse heads in their beds...
What issues are you talking about exactly? I've worked with .Net for six years and am unaware of "all kinds of issues". Got any references? I can't think of a single blocking issue I've ever come up against.
Please post your sources for why .Net has so many issues that make it look like MS is looking for handouts.
http://pc.ncix.com/pcbuilder/index.php?action=config&id=2643518&platformid=1000 That's with a 19" widescreen Samsung LCD. And keyboard/mouse and all the junk. But it is in CDN, so I guess it's slightly more than $1391. Mac != games, and any rig you can come up with on a Mac you can build cheaper as a PC, and until Apple licenses their stuff to third parties like they did with the PowerPC's in the mid '90's, that will never change.
Absolutely the best de-bloating move I ever made. I was so sick of Adobe's Reader phoning home, downloading slower and slower updates with more crap, crashing my web browsers, and generally taking 30+ seconds to start up. If you've never heard of Foxit reader, I strongly recommend it!
They have that already. Just move to the UK.
And so, beardy unix guy berates frustrated user, and linux remains a poor contender in the desktop marketplace. And the vicious cycle continues ad infinitum.
' According to the Commercial Tax Department, optical broadband providers operate on light energy which is 'artificially created and sold to customers for the purpose of data transmission and information.'
Totally awesome! They're artificially creating light energy!
This should be struck down on technicalities alone.
Your argument is retarded. If Gates didn't make "something that so many people find valuable enough to pay for", he wouldn't have his obscene wealth either. Even with his "monopoly power", Gates built himself a market to manipulate. With his valuable product that people were paying for. And calling someone's wealth "obscene", is a perception that has nothing to do with the rest of your post.
Why would Longhorn "be" WinFS? Man, go do some reading before you post. WinFS is a file system that's been in development for almost 10 years. Longhorn was supposed to finally implement it. Avalon is the UI subsystem of Longhorn, and yes, it will be in Longhorn, you're just spreading uncertainty with your crap that you "swear you read it wasn't". Don't post that crap without a link.
Go read MSDN if you want to find out what longhorn is. It's about the most useful development reference on the internet, right up there with the php site.
Probably for the same reason that it's hard to master using capitalization and punctuation appropriately. *ducks*
Do you love going to your job every day? Do you have fun with your co-workers? Are you motivated, or do you spend lots of time being bored at your job?
If you answered no to these, then maybe that's why you're really quitting. But to give up good pay for something you love to do simply because they want you to do it a little bit differently seems like a very bad decision.
Gee, funny how there was no pirated release on the internet weeks before the actual release date? They couldn't pirate anything until afterwards? And everybody got to start playing at the same time?
No, you can't put in a phone activation feature. Phone activation would mean that the program itself would have to have the routines to authenticate the product. The whole reason for Steam was so that the Steam servers could authenticate the product. If you put the unlocking routines into the actual game files, then pirates will find those in about 10 seconds and bam!... Pirated.
So - you've heard of voter manipulation, wouldn't be surprised if there were shenanigans, and don't trust the voting machines. But on nothing but the most preliminary media reports, "it appears they've done their job". Nobody is disputing anything, but an independent audit is good for everyone involved, including the rest of the world, because there is so much mistrust of the Bush administration to begin with. The fact that they've allowed voting machines with no trail is reason in itself; no democracy would allow such a thing (not that anyone can claim that the US is a democracy).
My site is 92.4% IE, 2.8% Moz, 1.5% netscape. However, that is still up from the 0.3% that mozilla had at my site in May. My site might be what you consider more "mainstream", although it's certainly no CNN.
Sorry to point this out, but Windows will never be made irrelevant. Fact is, its been running 90% of the world's desktop PC's for a decade, and brought computers to the home market in a way never seen before. Its already made its place in history, and will never be regarded as "irrelevant".
Perhaps the word you really meant to use was "obsolete", but ... well, the comment I was going to make has been made many, many time before so I'll leave it at that.