but at least they provide free upgrades. The latest media player requires WinXP in order to use all the features. Purchasing XP to use MP9 is hardly a "free upgrade."
and they both do extremely well I agree they do, yet that is not the issue here. The issue is MS forcing us to use their products, being unable or at least extremely difficult to change the default program asociations if you want to use another product, and MS lying that they cannot be uninstalled. You can uninstall an entire Service Pack, yet MS wants us to believe that individual apps like MP and IE cannot be removed from their OS? Something doesn't add up here, but we've all known that for years.
Jezuz, I forgot all about their little stunt in trying to rewrite WP in java. My god what were they thinking?
Finally a definitive account of the Corel's shoddy history instead of the kneejerk "It's all Microsofts fault" reaction. Michael Cowpland is the reason Corel is where they are today. He was noting but a blowhard. Corel developed one good product (Draw) and everything else they acquired from other companies, usually knee-jerk reactions to jump on the latest bandwagon at the time . Remember "thin-clients?" Remember "Corel-Linux?"
Combine that with the fact that Corel couldn't market water in the middle of the desert and it's obvious that MS isn't the main reason why they are going down the drain.
Oh god, being caught between two "phonies" is so annoying. In my department one pseudo-manager phones her underlings every 20 minutes to talk about their work on the current project ("did you compile yet?", "did you change that variable name yet?","I think we should do it this way"), yet she sits in a cubicle 10 feet away from them and can easily stand up and have a conversation in a normal tone of voice. Luckily I sit away from them and don't hear them anymore, but a coworker of mine sits right in the middle and he hears the whole conversation in stereo-she asks a question, he answers, she replies. Ridiculous.
Meanwhile I sit beside a manager who's native language is French and if you've ever been to queerbec you know how boisterous they can get. His french buddy comes by a half dozen times a day and all I hear is "Pouvoir Boivoir Voulaiz Sucretz Viva bonjoir!" one decibel short of shouting for the next 20 minutes.
Then you got the ones who for some reason think that the office phone is not enough for them and have to leave their cell phones on so everyone can listen to their stupid customized ringer tootin the theme to the A-Team or something. At least take it with you or turn it off when you leave your desk.
Thank god for email! Unlike speaking or the phone, it doesn't make noise, other people's email doesn't distract you, you don't have to read it immediately, and you can ignore the little envelope icon until you are finished with your current task.
Companies crying about copying software was going on long before CD's came around. Piracy was talked about in the mid 80's about how much it was hurting software companies, then in the mid 90's there was a plethora of anti-piracy ads, and now it seems to be happening again. It seems to me that the software industry survived from this onslaught of "piracy"
The simple truth is that most people who use pirated software would not buy the software if they were forced to, and instead they would used their older versions or find cheaper or free alternatives. The company is not losing money in this case. The amount of $$ that the software industry claims to be losing from piracy is exaggerated by a magnitude or two or three.
it is clearly marked as part of the system requirements that this package would only work on one computer
That is a bunch of Baloney and you know it! Most software that requires activation or installs extra applications, spyware, and other warez along with the main application does not express this on the box, or it is extremely small print on a postage size square on one corner of the box, or it is in a ten page EULA. That is hardly "clearly marked"
Into everyones life a little rain must fall
Rain must fall in all our lives, but shit shouldn't be dropped on top of our heads!
One thing that bugs me about trailers is how much the narration repeats itself. Action, sci-fi, and fantasy movies have the same dude with that deep throaty monotonic voice saying the same lines like:
"This time bad must fight alongside good to destroy a more evil enemy" "He must decide what side he's on" "He is the only one who can save the world","" "Evil has a new name" "They are the only hope for mankind" and in every Star Trek trailer, "The crew must disobey direct starfleet orders in order to save a planet"
These lines were cool twenty years ago and it's easier to reuse them instead of come up with something new, but at least try. Oh wait! I forgot this is hollywood.
Could it be that there are actually soverign nations outside of the US that have their own laws and law enforement?
There are, but the US never sees other nations as soverign. It's always 'us' vs 'them', and when 'them' try to uphold their soverign rights, the US sees it as an attack against the "American way" ie) capatalisn, or 'the rich get richer while the poor get poorer"
And the original X-men movie sucked, Hey bub, you don't know what your talking about.
Hulk looks good though Listen Gumbo, you can't tell a thing from trailers. Can you name a movie that looked BAD from its' trailer? RollerBall, Rollerblade, or whatever it was called, even had a great trailer.
Hey Rookie, even if you could, there is NOTHING in the Hulk trailer yet to determine if it looks good or not. A guy standing in front of a sink saying "I feel him inside wanting to come out, I can't control him", then a house getting smashed from the inside, then a big green eye? I mean that looks neat, but that's a far, far cry from what the movie will be like.
known to have realitions w/ race-hate groups Funny, I remember very racist comments by the ruling Liberals; they willingly, dishonestly, and wrongfully slandered ppl in BC by saying they are burning crosses, bigots, and white supremicists and nothing happens to the person who said it when no evidence was discovered. Gee, I wonder which party is more racist?
dont be fooled, the CA would make Corporations your masters in a heartbeat Better them than a having the government your master, like it is now. Unlike the government if I don't like one corp, I take my business to another. And unlike the sheep in Ontario and Quebec that keep voting for these festering Liberal scumbags, I have learned to think on my own and make my own decisions on who to support.
Exactly! WTF exactly is wrong with Mozilla? I tried phoenix and got the same results:mozilla loads in 4 secs, phoenix loads in 3-big fat hairy wet whoop-de-doo. Rendering isn't noticably faster either. When you have a system with 256 or 512 MB of RAM whether an app uses 20 or 26 MB is academic. I just don't know what the big deal is.
Haven't folks argued here since Napster came out that P2P systems resulted in people buying more music once they 'sampled' what they wanted?
It sure the hell does! I bought Ben Folds, PJ Harvey, and Harry Connick Jr. from what I heard from downloading. I definitely would never have purchased those CD's without my friendly neighborhood file sharing program since music like that never gets any exposure on radio.
Yet after hearing the lastest Avril Lavigne, Christina Aguilera, Busta Rhymes, and Pink a zillion time on the radio and TV, I didn't by any of those CD's. Now do you understand why music sales are slipping?
I'm sure the data files are persistent across installations, so this problem doesn't result in you losing your data.
Considering you can get audited for a tax year years later, you better be DARN SURE that the files are persistent. Considering that downloading transactions at most banks is supported only by Quicken 2001 and newer versions, I doubt this is true.
Remember, Intuit is not responsible for anything that happens to your data-you essentially use their products at your own risk. If you cannot retrieve it years later with a newer verision, you are SOL. You think Intuit would give a shit that five years from now you are being audited but you can't retrieve your data?
It's astonishing the quality amateurs can obtain in their images nowadays. It's approaching what professionals did a decade ago.
I was a big amatuer astronomer in the 80's; most clear nights I'd be outside whether it was summer or winter. In the late 80's amateur astronomers were beginning to use CCD's and what was so amazing about that was that in a few seconds to a few minutes you could capture images that previously required many minutes to over an hour of exposure time with film. The resolution was not as good as film or the large professional telescopes, but now it was possible for the backyard amateur to capture images of very faint objects in no time without sitting hunched over your telescope guiding it as exposed the film.
I also remember a big discussion in amatuer astronomy whether using CCD's was 'real astronomy' or not.
It needs a small 2 cycle engine that runs on some kind of fuel, like gasoline
Oh yeah, that's what we need, hundreds or thousands more of pollution spewing, noise making 2 cycle engines crammed into our downtowns. Anyone who has ever used a chainsaw, lawnmower, or ridden a ski-doo just has to smell their clothes after using one for half hour to realize now noxious the fumes are that come out of those things. Something like a quarter of the fuel that goes into the cylinder comes out unburned in the exhaust.
I can understand if you have a medical condition that makes waking difficult these would be useful, but jezus, walking is free, a good bike costs $200, and they burn calories so you don't turn into a fatass!
If these contraptions become popular where would there be room for them to drive? They are too small and wide to fit in bike lanes and traffic lanes, but too wide to fit on the sidewalk. I doubt cities would be willing to spend the $$ for segway lanes.
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but at least they provide free upgrades.
The latest media player requires WinXP in order to use all the features. Purchasing XP to use MP9 is hardly a "free upgrade."
and they both do extremely well
I agree they do, yet that is not the issue here. The issue is MS forcing us to use their products, being unable or at least extremely difficult to change the default program asociations if you want to use another product, and MS lying that they cannot be uninstalled. You can uninstall an entire Service Pack, yet MS wants us to believe that individual apps like MP and IE cannot be removed from their OS? Something doesn't add up here, but we've all known that for years.
Jezuz, I forgot all about their little stunt in trying to rewrite WP in java. My god what were they thinking?
Finally a definitive account of the Corel's shoddy history instead of the kneejerk "It's all Microsofts fault" reaction. Michael Cowpland is the reason Corel is where they are today. He was noting but a blowhard. Corel developed one good product (Draw) and everything else they acquired from other companies, usually knee-jerk reactions to jump on the latest bandwagon at the time . Remember "thin-clients?" Remember "Corel-Linux?"
Combine that with the fact that Corel couldn't market water in the middle of the desert and it's obvious that MS isn't the main reason why they are going down the drain.
Oh god, being caught between two "phonies" is so annoying. In my department one pseudo-manager phones her underlings every 20 minutes to talk about their work on the current project ("did you compile yet?", "did you change that variable name yet?","I think we should do it this way"), yet she sits in a cubicle 10 feet away from them and can easily stand up and have a conversation in a normal tone of voice. Luckily I sit away from them and don't hear them anymore, but a coworker of mine sits right in the middle and he hears the whole conversation in stereo-she asks a question, he answers, she replies. Ridiculous.
Meanwhile I sit beside a manager who's native language is French and if you've ever been to queerbec you know how boisterous they can get. His french buddy comes by a half dozen times a day and all I hear is "Pouvoir Boivoir Voulaiz Sucretz Viva bonjoir!" one decibel short of shouting for the next 20 minutes.
Then you got the ones who for some reason think that the office phone is not enough for them and have to leave their cell phones on so everyone can listen to their stupid customized ringer tootin the theme to the A-Team or something. At least take it with you or turn it off when you leave your desk.
Thank god for email! Unlike speaking or the phone, it doesn't make noise, other people's email doesn't distract you, you don't have to read it immediately, and you can ignore the little envelope icon until you are finished with your current task.
Companies crying about copying software was going on long before CD's came around. Piracy was talked about in the mid 80's about how much it was hurting software companies, then in the mid 90's there was a plethora of anti-piracy ads, and now it seems to be happening again. It seems to me that the software industry survived from this onslaught of "piracy"
The simple truth is that most people who use pirated software would not buy the software if they were forced to, and instead they would used their older versions or find cheaper or free alternatives. The company is not losing money in this case. The amount of $$ that the software industry claims to be losing from piracy is exaggerated by a magnitude or two or three.
it is clearly marked as part of the system requirements that this package would only work on one computer
That is a bunch of Baloney and you know it! Most software that requires activation or installs extra applications, spyware, and other warez along with the main application does not express this on the box, or it is extremely small print on a postage size square on one corner of the box, or it is in a ten page EULA. That is hardly "clearly marked"
Into everyones life a little rain must fall
Rain must fall in all our lives, but shit shouldn't be dropped on top of our heads!
as they still do with the current IBM OS/2.
There's a "current" OS/2?? Isn't that like saying "Current Amiga"?
One thing that bugs me about trailers is how much the narration repeats itself. Action, sci-fi, and fantasy movies have the same dude with that deep throaty monotonic voice saying the same lines like :
"This time bad must fight alongside good to destroy a more evil enemy"
"He must decide what side he's on"
"He is the only one who can save the world",""
"Evil has a new name"
"They are the only hope for mankind"
and in every Star Trek trailer,
"The crew must disobey direct starfleet orders in order to save a planet"
These lines were cool twenty years ago and it's easier to reuse them instead of come up with something new, but at least try. Oh wait! I forgot this is hollywood.
Humanure....The Christmas poo. HiiiDeeeeeHoooooo!
Could it be that there are actually soverign nations outside of the US that have their own laws and law enforement?
There are, but the US never sees other nations as soverign. It's always 'us' vs 'them', and when 'them' try to uphold their soverign rights, the US sees it as an attack against the "American way" ie) capatalisn, or 'the rich get richer while the poor get poorer"
Football is just grown men playing a boys game
Hmm, let's see:
Grown men playing a boys game: $200,000 - $5 million+ per year, average salary over $1 million, 6 months off per year.
Grown men playing with boys computers: $30,000 - $150,000 per year, average salary $73,000, 0.75-2 months off per year.
I really wonder who the stupid ones are?
And the original X-men movie sucked,
Hey bub, you don't know what your talking about.
Hulk looks good though
Listen Gumbo, you can't tell a thing from trailers. Can you name a movie that looked BAD from its' trailer? RollerBall, Rollerblade, or whatever it was called, even had a great trailer.
Hey Rookie, even if you could, there is NOTHING in the Hulk trailer yet to determine if it looks good or not. A guy standing in front of a sink saying "I feel him inside wanting to come out, I can't control him", then a house getting smashed from the inside, then a big green eye? I mean that looks neat, but that's a far, far cry from what the movie will be like.
known to have realitions w/ race-hate groups
Funny, I remember very racist comments by the ruling Liberals; they willingly, dishonestly, and wrongfully slandered ppl in BC by saying they are burning crosses, bigots, and white supremicists and nothing happens to the person who said it when no evidence was discovered. Gee, I wonder which party is more racist?
dont be fooled, the CA would make Corporations your masters in a heartbeat
Better them than a having the government your master, like it is now. Unlike the government if I don't like one corp, I take my business to another. And unlike the sheep in Ontario and Quebec that keep voting for these festering Liberal scumbags, I have learned to think on my own and make my own decisions on who to support.
Do Canadians actually produce TV shows..what?
We do, but I can't remember any names since we all watch American shows.
Exactly! WTF exactly is wrong with Mozilla? I tried phoenix and got the same results:mozilla loads in 4 secs, phoenix loads in 3-big fat hairy wet whoop-de-doo. Rendering isn't noticably faster either. When you have a system with 256 or 512 MB of RAM whether an app uses 20 or 26 MB is academic. I just don't know what the big deal is.
The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.
Holy crow that's funny!
Transmission - car goes in and out of gear, revving the engine when it does it.
That's it? I'm relieved to know that it wasn't doing something dangerous like shifting from 4th to 1st as the prev poster mentioned.
You know, sometimes I'm glad I drive a Ford.
Haven't folks argued here since Napster came out that P2P systems resulted in people buying more music once they 'sampled' what they wanted? It sure the hell does! I bought Ben Folds, PJ Harvey, and Harry Connick Jr. from what I heard from downloading. I definitely would never have purchased those CD's without my friendly neighborhood file sharing program since music like that never gets any exposure on radio. Yet after hearing the lastest Avril Lavigne, Christina Aguilera, Busta Rhymes, and Pink a zillion time on the radio and TV, I didn't by any of those CD's. Now do you understand why music sales are slipping?
I'm sure the data files are persistent across installations, so this problem doesn't result in you losing your data.
Considering you can get audited for a tax year years later, you better be DARN SURE that the files are persistent. Considering that downloading transactions at most banks is supported only by Quicken 2001 and newer versions, I doubt this is true.
Remember, Intuit is not responsible for anything that happens to your data-you essentially use their products at your own risk. If you cannot retrieve it years later with a newer verision, you are SOL. You think Intuit would give a shit that five years from now you are being audited but you can't retrieve your data?
It's astonishing the quality amateurs can obtain in their images nowadays. It's approaching what professionals did a decade ago. I was a big amatuer astronomer in the 80's; most clear nights I'd be outside whether it was summer or winter. In the late 80's amateur astronomers were beginning to use CCD's and what was so amazing about that was that in a few seconds to a few minutes you could capture images that previously required many minutes to over an hour of exposure time with film. The resolution was not as good as film or the large professional telescopes, but now it was possible for the backyard amateur to capture images of very faint objects in no time without sitting hunched over your telescope guiding it as exposed the film. I also remember a big discussion in amatuer astronomy whether using CCD's was 'real astronomy' or not.
Oh yeah, that's what we need, hundreds or thousands more of pollution spewing, noise making 2 cycle engines crammed into our downtowns. Anyone who has ever used a chainsaw, lawnmower, or ridden a ski-doo just has to smell their clothes after using one for half hour to realize now noxious the fumes are that come out of those things. Something like a quarter of the fuel that goes into the cylinder comes out unburned in the exhaust.
I can understand if you have a medical condition that makes waking difficult these would be useful, but jezus, walking is free, a good bike costs $200, and they burn calories so you don't turn into a fatass!
If these contraptions become popular where would there be room for them to drive? They are too small and wide to fit in bike lanes and traffic lanes, but too wide to fit on the sidewalk. I doubt cities would be willing to spend the $$ for segway lanes.