Clearly it's public knowledge where these pirate nests are so why haven't they been bombed and napalmed to dust?
None of the people there are innocent not even the supplier of RPGs that is so happy she's gotten $78,000 as a result of terrorism, extortion and kidnapping.
I'd be prepared to 'invest' in a bombing run by a single fighter-bomber even if I got no return.
So these are the guys responsible for Windows (all versions), Internet Explorer, Excel right? So why should we take any notice of these guys? Unless of course we wanted to learn how to develop slow, buggy, insecure applications that suffer from chronic feature bloat.
I wouldn't touch a Windows Mobile Device with a barge-pole. The UI is clunky, the OS is so amazingly slow - I often wonder if the Microsoft engineers gained degrees is 'making decent hardware really slows - and it's completely unreliable.
And I've yet to find any device, let alone a WMD, that's in the same league as the Newton when it comes to making notes.
You can't really use the word 'only' and then list 'many' advantages of the iphone: ecosystem, brand loyalty, huge number of apps, huge installed base.
What you missed off that list is: it's also an iPod and the touch-screen (and supporting gestures).
...and told buyers about the limitation on the warranty before they bought the device then sure.
But it is obvious some buyers of Apple products will be smokers so if they're prepared to take their money then they should ensure they can honour the warranty that's part of the sale.
It's Apple's problem to solve any health and safety issues.
The reason is the smokers are seriously inconsiderate: they smoke in restaurants, they smoke around the entrances/exits of buildings. They smoke wherever they want without any consideration for others.
A ban was the only way to force them to "be considerate" and they're still carrying on with their own selfish ways: smoking right outside the doors of no-smoking buildings, smoking in areas clearly marked no smoking.
If the only way to make smokers show some consideration is to ban them then so be it, but smokers have only brought it on themselves after decades of selfish behaviour.
Smokers have only themselves to blame for the smoking bans.
...mainly because they're selfish and inconsiderate fuckers.
But this is going a too far: I see a law suit coming. Any health and safety issues are Apple's problem, not the purchaser's. Apple knows some people who buy their kit are smokers and if there's a genuine health and safety issue with servicing those machines then it's up to Apple to provide the safe environment in which to do so.
It's just an ill-considered argument in favour of a corporation being able to trample all over the little man. At best it's a glaring example of Google fanboi ranting (which is kind of sad).
It's not as if there's a shortage of names that Google could pick from. Perhaps they should have used Bing to check on language names before picking Go.
Although that does rely on her not being able to work out that your the root cause (installing Windows 7) of here difficulties. Unless of course she's really smart and can work out why you did it.
You really should learn to spell "Atheism". The old 'i' before 'e' except after 'c' rule doesn't work with Greek-derived words.
And a more accurate rendition of of your signature would be "Atheism is a religion like standing outside Stanley Gibbons and yelling at anyone that goes inside is a hobby."
This is what I did. I bought a Mac. After a while I started claiming I wasn't up to speed with PC/Windows anymore so I probably couldn't help them. They then started buying Macs and I haven't needed to help them. The most I've had to do is recommend software or lend my sister-in-law my external DVD for use with her MacBook Air.
It also says nothing about the size of the vulnerability.
"Something in IE allows an attacker to take-over your machine" is somewhat different from "A flaw in the webkit api allows the setting of an invalid colour in 13pt Arial bold fonts". (Obviously I've made these up just to illustrate my point).
Or alternatively you employ a competent software architect who doesn't choose to use DirectX thus tying your programme to a single OS.
Blizzard manage to release both Windows and Mac versions of their games at the same time and presumably Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft and WoW have all made their money back.
Mythic have recently released a beta of a Mac client for Warhammer Online (based on Cider).
More pertinently though, if you know nothing about software development perhaps you should forgo making comments as if you do. Although you do score a consolation point for knowing the computer is a Mac not a MAC.
I think that's an excellent example of the ST:TNG writers (and many SF writers in general) just not thinking things through.
Other examples include: + Replicators obviate the need for any merchants/traders let alone pirates (like the Orions)? + Transporters (every trip requires you to make a new copy and murder the original: witness 'Thomas' versus William Riker), + Cloaking (believable technology but with a huge impact: would the Federation really not use it?) And the worst of all: + Time Travel (possibility of paradoxes, too easy to endlessly go back and change then re-change things, or simply go back and wipe out your opponents long in the past as the Borg try to do),
I think that's fair of the 'modern' Star Treks, particularly Voyager and Enterprise but I definitely don't think that's fair of the original which was a trail blazer and defined many of the things we now think of as cliches. You also have to remember the original Star Trek was quite subversive and a socially innovative: a black female officer, inter-racial sexual relations (Kirk kissing alien women) to name a few (whether you think those were 'good' innovations or not isn't relevant).
Anyone else have the impression the author of the summary had no clue about the subject and just took the original document and threw away the words he understood to produce his gibberish summary?
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Clearly it's public knowledge where these pirate nests are so why haven't they been bombed and napalmed to dust?
None of the people there are innocent not even the supplier of RPGs that is so happy she's gotten $78,000 as a result of terrorism, extortion and kidnapping.
I'd be prepared to 'invest' in a bombing run by a single fighter-bomber even if I got no return.
So these are the guys responsible for Windows (all versions), Internet Explorer, Excel right? So why should we take any notice of these guys? Unless of course we wanted to learn how to develop slow, buggy, insecure applications that suffer from chronic feature bloat.
Actually I disagree.
I wouldn't touch a Windows Mobile Device with a barge-pole. The UI is clunky, the OS is so amazingly slow - I often wonder if the Microsoft engineers gained degrees is 'making decent hardware really slows - and it's completely unreliable.
And I've yet to find any device, let alone a WMD, that's in the same league as the Newton when it comes to making notes.
You can't really use the word 'only' and then list 'many' advantages of the iphone: ecosystem, brand loyalty, huge number of apps, huge installed base.
What you missed off that list is: it's also an iPod and the touch-screen (and supporting gestures).
I think yours is probably the most insightful comment to this article.
If you believe in 'free' you shouldn't be using Apple stuff at all: support the FSF and GNU and run applications on a free operating system.
Shame you posted anonymously.
...and told buyers about the limitation on the warranty before they bought the device then sure.
But it is obvious some buyers of Apple products will be smokers so if they're prepared to take their money then they should ensure they can honour the warranty that's part of the sale.
It's Apple's problem to solve any health and safety issues.
...posting anonymously.
Grow some balls and put your name to your ranting or STFU.
No it's not.
The reason is the smokers are seriously inconsiderate: they smoke in restaurants, they smoke around the entrances/exits of buildings. They smoke wherever they want without any consideration for others.
A ban was the only way to force them to "be considerate" and they're still carrying on with their own selfish ways: smoking right outside the doors of no-smoking buildings, smoking in areas clearly marked no smoking.
If the only way to make smokers show some consideration is to ban them then so be it, but smokers have only brought it on themselves after decades of selfish behaviour.
Smokers have only themselves to blame for the smoking bans.
...mainly because they're selfish and inconsiderate fuckers.
But this is going a too far: I see a law suit coming. Any health and safety issues are Apple's problem, not the purchaser's. Apple knows some people who buy their kit are smokers and if there's a genuine health and safety issue with servicing those machines then it's up to Apple to provide the safe environment in which to do so.
I have my 'phone with 02 and I've been getting these cold calls as well.
How is this post insightful?
It's just an ill-considered argument in favour of a corporation being able to trample all over the little man. At best it's a glaring example of Google fanboi ranting (which is kind of sad).
It's not as if there's a shortage of names that Google could pick from. Perhaps they should have used Bing to check on language names before picking Go.
If you don't understand teasing by your girlfriend then you are not marriage material.
Hehehe.
Although that does rely on her not being able to work out that your the root cause (installing Windows 7) of here difficulties. Unless of course she's really smart and can work out why you did it.
You really should learn to spell "Atheism". The old 'i' before 'e' except after 'c' rule doesn't work with Greek-derived words.
And a more accurate rendition of of your signature would be "Atheism is a religion like standing outside Stanley Gibbons and yelling at anyone that goes inside is a hobby."
I think it's a bit sad that you guys think it should be normal to bill family and friends for giving help.
This is what I did. I bought a Mac. After a while I started claiming I wasn't up to speed with PC/Windows anymore so I probably couldn't help them. They then started buying Macs and I haven't needed to help them. The most I've had to do is recommend software or lend my sister-in-law my external DVD for use with her MacBook Air.
It also says nothing about the size of the vulnerability.
"Something in IE allows an attacker to take-over your machine" is somewhat different from "A flaw in the webkit api allows the setting of an invalid colour in 13pt Arial bold fonts". (Obviously I've made these up just to illustrate my point).
Be interesting to see if this then get's applied to DVDs.
Why do you have to "jump over £1200 to the £1,899 quad core beast"? Why not jump £300 to the £949 21.5" 3.06GHz 'base' model iMac?
But that wouldn't have worked as a troll would it.
It's "Mac" or "Macintosh" not MAC (unless your seriously suggesting something along the lines of porting DDO to run on a network card...)
Or alternatively you employ a competent software architect who doesn't choose to use DirectX thus tying your programme to a single OS.
Blizzard manage to release both Windows and Mac versions of their games at the same time and presumably Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft and WoW have all made their money back.
Mythic have recently released a beta of a Mac client for Warhammer Online (based on Cider).
More pertinently though, if you know nothing about software development perhaps you should forgo making comments as if you do. Although you do score a consolation point for knowing the computer is a Mac not a MAC.
I think that's an excellent example of the ST:TNG writers (and many SF writers in general) just not thinking things through.
Other examples include:
+ Replicators obviate the need for any merchants/traders let alone pirates (like the Orions)?
+ Transporters (every trip requires you to make a new copy and murder the original: witness 'Thomas' versus William Riker),
+ Cloaking (believable technology but with a huge impact: would the Federation really not use it?) And the worst of all:
+ Time Travel (possibility of paradoxes, too easy to endlessly go back and change then re-change things, or simply go back and wipe out your opponents long in the past as the Borg try to do),
I think that's fair of the 'modern' Star Treks, particularly Voyager and Enterprise but I definitely don't think that's fair of the original which was a trail blazer and defined many of the things we now think of as cliches. You also have to remember the original Star Trek was quite subversive and a socially innovative: a black female officer, inter-racial sexual relations (Kirk kissing alien women) to name a few (whether you think those were 'good' innovations or not isn't relevant).
Anyone else have the impression the author of the summary had no clue about the subject and just took the original document and threw away the words he understood to produce his gibberish summary?
And how exactly would buying a game that doesn't run on Linux encourage developers to develop for Linux?