Or what you meant to say was giving a non-destructive copy of something that belongs to you to someone who didn't pay for it... oh wait, that IS sharing!
Not even a very good one. I already know people, who until that point I thought were at least reasonably intelligent, saying how they wanted windows vista because it has DRM so they could play their music and movies on it...
That's funny, I've always seen windows genuine advantage as a negative spin. The more something is like actual microsoft windows the less likely I am to want to use it!
I'm not going to call it piracy anymore. I prefer Consumer Choice Enablement. CCE allows consumers (not customers, since you won't be paying for the service) to enjoy content not only in ways they haven't before, such as on portable video players like the iAudio A2, but at a more reasonable price than they have been offered in the past. This is also a win-win situation for the content creators as it alleviates all packaging and most distribution costs, as well as providing excellent word-of-mouth advertising for FREE!
microsoft thinking they own and can control the PC platform like it's a console? Is anyone really surprised by this? It's probably the number one reason to not support microsoft (even by running pirated copies) in any way. This is the same kind of crap they do in every business they try to force their way into and all it does is degrade the user experience AND cost more.
Maybe I'll start up an XBL-like service for Linux that actually works and is open. So I'll finally be able to tell if my friends are playing Tux Racer or Tux Kart!
It won't help, people will just find a way to do the activation themselves at home. Just like they have with all the electronic security measures. What's for damn sure is that even if it worked (it won't) it won't do anything to lower prices. They've already got us hooked like junkies at the prices they're charging and there's no way they'll lower them until demand drops off.
Kind of like a Tom Clancy novel... with light sabers.
This is also why the IMAX cut of Episode 2 needs to be put out on DVD. They cut 15 minutes of Anakin trying to act and Lucas trying to write, and the movie actually became kind of good.
Because a lot of streets in Seattle have a 35mph speed limit and it becomes dangerous since four-wheeled electric cars (at least the tiny ones) are legally limited to 25mph in Washington State. Not to mention that it's just annoying for everyone behind you. I already leave early enough as I don't drive at all since I take the bus everywhere. But if I could get a plug-in electric that I could safely drive to the few places that are exceptionally annoying to bus to I might drive to those once in a while.
Otherwise I agree completely. Unless you meant why do I need a Tesla. Because who DOESN'T need one of those? They're freaking SWEET!
So obviously you can swap out the graphical interface (for another gui or just cli) on windows and still have a functioning system? Please! It isn't anything like taking Konqueror out of KDE.
I don't know about strange apps crashing OSX, but normal ones crash on it all the time. What's to say that normal apps (say, I don't know, the DIALER!) wouldn't crash all the time on OSX Lite, too?
I want them in a plug-in electric commuter car that isn't legislated to 25mph! Or in a Tesla, if I can get my $100,000 tax rebate for electric cars pushed through Congress...
I'm calling bullshit. Microsoft has been saying for 10 years that IE is INSEPARABLE from Windows. Any flaw in IE is a flaw in Windows. Because either you believe Microsoft or you stop your cheerleading and admit that Bill Gates and all the other execs at Microsoft are liars and that the feds should have broken the company up into a hundred little Microsofts.
a) Hybrids aren't the end-all, be-all answer the oil industry wants us to think they are so that we'll at least keep using oil. But we already knew that. Incidentally, biodiesel won't be either. At least not in North America where we are using corn, instead of something more suitable like sugarcane, to produce it.
b) If this is such a huge benefit we should be putting it on hybrids (if we have to have them) rather than using it as a reason why we don't need them.
c) From the summary it sounds like more hype to confuse the masses and keep us from actually getting any progress.
I agree, going by the popularity of FFVII over here I'm pretty sure Americans go for the ultimate in anti-hero. That is, a little crying brat who wants his mommy. Particularly telling when compared with the macho persona so many of us try to project.
On the Japanese side, do you think they'll finally just hire Meg Ryan to do the voice work and get her head scanned as the "hero" or will they just have another, slightly closer, interation of generic-Meg-Ryan-a-like filling the role?
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Or what you meant to say was giving a non-destructive copy of something that belongs to you to someone who didn't pay for it... oh wait, that IS sharing!
Games 1.0 is everything up until Games 2.0. And Games 2.0 is the PSTriple, cuz it has 4D and RIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RAAAAAAAAAACER!
Which platforms is Steam on? Would that be Windows XP AND Windows Vista?
Not even a very good one. I already know people, who until that point I thought were at least reasonably intelligent, saying how they wanted windows vista because it has DRM so they could play their music and movies on it...
How does one say something "indistinctly?" That doesn't even make sense! Was he mumbling or something? Looks pretty distinct to me!
That's funny, I've always seen windows genuine advantage as a negative spin. The more something is like actual microsoft windows the less likely I am to want to use it!
I'm not going to call it piracy anymore. I prefer Consumer Choice Enablement. CCE allows consumers (not customers, since you won't be paying for the service) to enjoy content not only in ways they haven't before, such as on portable video players like the iAudio A2, but at a more reasonable price than they have been offered in the past. This is also a win-win situation for the content creators as it alleviates all packaging and most distribution costs, as well as providing excellent word-of-mouth advertising for FREE!
microsoft thinking they own and can control the PC platform like it's a console? Is anyone really surprised by this? It's probably the number one reason to not support microsoft (even by running pirated copies) in any way. This is the same kind of crap they do in every business they try to force their way into and all it does is degrade the user experience AND cost more.
Maybe I'll start up an XBL-like service for Linux that actually works and is open. So I'll finally be able to tell if my friends are playing Tux Racer or Tux Kart!
Also wouldn't hurt to take a lesson from apple and scrap their operating system and start over with a *nix.
Damn, I wasn't fast enough! Also, I think Nintendo actually sold around 110,000 Wiis that week in Japan.
I think microsoft is Atari, too.
No, it's sold separately in Japan.
That's what you get when you have an ignorant, superstitious population that votes accordingly.
It won't help, people will just find a way to do the activation themselves at home. Just like they have with all the electronic security measures. What's for damn sure is that even if it worked (it won't) it won't do anything to lower prices. They've already got us hooked like junkies at the prices they're charging and there's no way they'll lower them until demand drops off.
Kind of like a Tom Clancy novel... with light sabers.
This is also why the IMAX cut of Episode 2 needs to be put out on DVD. They cut 15 minutes of Anakin trying to act and Lucas trying to write, and the movie actually became kind of good.
Because a lot of streets in Seattle have a 35mph speed limit and it becomes dangerous since four-wheeled electric cars (at least the tiny ones) are legally limited to 25mph in Washington State. Not to mention that it's just annoying for everyone behind you. I already leave early enough as I don't drive at all since I take the bus everywhere. But if I could get a plug-in electric that I could safely drive to the few places that are exceptionally annoying to bus to I might drive to those once in a while.
Otherwise I agree completely. Unless you meant why do I need a Tesla. Because who DOESN'T need one of those? They're freaking SWEET!
So obviously you can swap out the graphical interface (for another gui or just cli) on windows and still have a functioning system? Please! It isn't anything like taking Konqueror out of KDE.
I don't know about strange apps crashing OSX, but normal ones crash on it all the time. What's to say that normal apps (say, I don't know, the DIALER!) wouldn't crash all the time on OSX Lite, too?
I want them in a plug-in electric commuter car that isn't legislated to 25mph! Or in a Tesla, if I can get my $100,000 tax rebate for electric cars pushed through Congress...
I'm calling bullshit. Microsoft has been saying for 10 years that IE is INSEPARABLE from Windows. Any flaw in IE is a flaw in Windows. Because either you believe Microsoft or you stop your cheerleading and admit that Bill Gates and all the other execs at Microsoft are liars and that the feds should have broken the company up into a hundred little Microsofts.
a) Hybrids aren't the end-all, be-all answer the oil industry wants us to think they are so that we'll at least keep using oil. But we already knew that. Incidentally, biodiesel won't be either. At least not in North America where we are using corn, instead of something more suitable like sugarcane, to produce it.
b) If this is such a huge benefit we should be putting it on hybrids (if we have to have them) rather than using it as a reason why we don't need them.
c) From the summary it sounds like more hype to confuse the masses and keep us from actually getting any progress.
I agree, going by the popularity of FFVII over here I'm pretty sure Americans go for the ultimate in anti-hero. That is, a little crying brat who wants his mommy. Particularly telling when compared with the macho persona so many of us try to project.
On the Japanese side, do you think they'll finally just hire Meg Ryan to do the voice work and get her head scanned as the "hero" or will they just have another, slightly closer, interation of generic-Meg-Ryan-a-like filling the role?
Just plug the cox DVR into the MythTV box. Done.
Corporations aren't people, they don't have any first amendment rights. Nothing to see here, move along.
But all those extra characters might clog up the tubes!