As a guitarist, US$250 is a hell of alot of money to pay for a pup. And it's very unlikely that a guitarist would shell out $250 and modify his/her axe to play a low quality video game.
Looking down on someone just because they choose to spend their free time plaing games instead of whatever you do with your is stupid. They have different priorities than you and that doesn't make them addicted,and it doesn't make it bad.
Who said I was looking down on anyone? Perhaps you should re-read my comment? I simply voiced an opinion that it still seemed like an addiction. Which by the way, an addiction is an illness, not something to look down on. Unless of course you personally hold a world-view where people with addictions are of less value? It's definitely not how I view addicted people.
15 hours a day reading? Not enough info given, but it doesn't sound balanced. There could be a rational reason why someone would spend 15 hours a day reading e.g. infirmed, on holiday, job requires it, studying, etc.
so i guess most people are addicted to TV then? Personally i appear to be addicted to cooking and working as well. Just because you do something alot doesnt mean you are addicted to it. Its a loaded word that is quite overused.
I guess many people are addicted to TV. Cooking and working usually are things that people do not necessarily because they really love doing it or because it triggers endorphines. Although some are work-a-holics.
Now I restrict myself to raiding (Sun/Tues 6:30 thru Midnight and Mon/Wed 7:30 thru Midnight). I feel this is a pretty reasonable compromise.
Not meaing to be insensitve, but doesn't anyone else think 20 hours (4 evenings) a week devoted to a video game is still an addiction? I mean 20 hours a week is a lot of time and still obsessive in my book. I doubt that most people on their deathbed wished that they had spent more time playing video games. At those times, it's regrets about people and relationships that seem to matter the most when it's all too late.
I quite like how in the desktop wallpaper selection screen it gives an option to download additional wallpapers from some server using it's convenient image preview interface. Lets you see a thumbnail and its rating so you can choose whether to download the actual image. Very cool.
The ATI drivers never could do a cloned display correctly with differing resolutions, despite spending hours trying to tweak 30 or so parameters in the config file.
Neither can their Windows drivers. I end up having to reduce the resolution of my main monitor else I get the virtual thing happening where the desktop scrolls offscreen.
Surely Microsoft's constant supply of security woes is a major factor that keeps Symantec in business? You'd think they'd shut-up until after the final OS is released, and then plug their own security product range.
Then again, Symantec products are just as buggy, so maybe the title should read "People in glasshouses....":-)
Co-incidentally, today I talked to a person who was asking whether they need to buy a new PC because a virus has stopped their PC from booting. Whether or not a virus was too blame or faulty hardware, it doesn't matter. This Joe Sixpack was ignorant enough to think that a virus destroyed OS = need for new computer.
While we are off topic... Bartering != communism. How to the elderly, disabled or infirmed fare under this barter system if they have no means with which to barter?
I did purchase the software license! I don't need no dirty spyware that phones home. They blantantly lie about what it is and what it does on the WindowsUpdate site (if you even read the post that you replied to), and theres no way around installing it if you want to update via WindowsUpdate website. Then there's the fact that the so-called "critical update" is constantly updated. Yes that's excellent business practise, to treat your paying customers like they're criminals.
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Isn't cider made from Apples?
Nice sig bro. Loved that rockumentary! Comic Strip Presents "Bad News" and "More Bad News" are awesome too. :-)
As a guitarist, US$250 is a hell of alot of money to pay for a pup. And it's very unlikely that a guitarist would shell out $250 and modify his/her axe to play a low quality video game.
Obviously you've never seen the price of a guitar with a MIDI pickup? The market for such a game would be tiny.
All MS products are really just betas that are tested on end users. By the time that they are reasonably robust, they drop support for them. :-)
...does it run Linus? :-)
15 hours a day reading? Not enough info given, but it doesn't sound balanced. There could be a rational reason why someone would spend 15 hours a day reading e.g. infirmed, on holiday, job requires it, studying, etc.
Yeah crazy stuff. It's a very amusing show, even with the overtly political agenda/message. :-)
Denny Crane! ....oh wait.
I quite like how in the desktop wallpaper selection screen it gives an option to download additional wallpapers from some server using it's convenient image preview interface. Lets you see a thumbnail and its rating so you can choose whether to download the actual image. Very cool.
Who said either are "worth it"? People often pay more than something is worth.
Does it locate the Windows Genuine dis-Advantage malware?
Surely Microsoft's constant supply of security woes is a major factor that keeps Symantec in business? You'd think they'd shut-up until after the final OS is released, and then plug their own security product range.
:-)
Then again, Symantec products are just as buggy, so maybe the title should read "People in glasshouses...."
Co-incidentally, today I talked to a person who was asking whether they need to buy a new PC because a virus has stopped their PC from booting. Whether or not a virus was too blame or faulty hardware, it doesn't matter. This Joe Sixpack was ignorant enough to think that a virus destroyed OS = need for new computer.
Downloaders should be forced to keep the files and listen to them! Crappy manufactured, processed, RIAA generated McMusic!
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1. Pursuade existing Google advertisers to use GooglePay so transactions can be monitored and click-fraud prevented.
2. ???
3. Profit!
While we are off topic... Bartering != communism. How to the elderly, disabled or infirmed fare under this barter system if they have no means with which to barter?
"your funny"? You miss an apostrophe and an "e" in "you're" (which is short for "you are") and you want to be taken seriously? :-)
I did purchase the software license! I don't need no dirty spyware that phones home. They blantantly lie about what it is and what it does on the WindowsUpdate site (if you even read the post that you replied to), and theres no way around installing it if you want to update via WindowsUpdate website. Then there's the fact that the so-called "critical update" is constantly updated. Yes that's excellent business practise, to treat your paying customers like they're criminals.