The website cdwow.co.uk tried (legally, I might add) importing CDs from the continent and selling them for about £8.99 as opposed to the high street price of £13.99+. They were made to stop very quickly
They still do CDs for £8.99 it was a legal technicality that they have now over come and for those who think that the companies shouldn't do lower margin CDs everyone I know who uses CD wow buys a lot more than they used to from the shops. That means me and some of my friends and family are putting more money in the pockets of the record companies via CD wow than we did in the stores, talk about trying to shot yourself in the foot.
Apart from the Auto game launch (and i'm sure I could work out some sort of scripting to do that) my home PC does all of that for $1039 I don't think I will pay $2000 for something i'm already doing. Not sure I would want Discover anyway how does it deal with games that it hasn't been programmed for? It is likely only to be useful for popular titles.
'It's high time that the computer stop lurking in the shadows of dusty computer desks in forgotten rarely-used bedrooms. If PC gaming is going to survive it's going to have to do so in the well-lit family rooms and dens of America right along side the Game Cube, PS2 and Xbox
Most consoles I have ever seen are sitting slap bang along side a PC in peoples bedrooms etc and if the console is in a family place then the PC is right there next to it anyway, PC's don't need to "compete" with Consoles there a different machine, it's like a sports car trying to be a truck or vice a versa both are excellent at what there designed for but don't work when doing the others job.
Seems like if he were out to help, he should have responded with a tutorial detailing what is wrong with their site, and how to fix it.
But he wasn't out to make a profit from this, he wasn't charging for the service, also he has a history of doing this with a site setup for the rail companies. They happy for him to do this and his version will be taken down when the officals ones are up to the same standard.
I had the same issue with the uk jobcenter site, they provide a text version, but there's no job search.. bloody stupid really!
I sent them an e-mail, even indicating which JS script was to blame, and how to fix, got an email telling me to visit a different site.
Why not pass on my info to someone who could edit 1 file and make the thing work again!?
this is what happens when governments do public private partnerships. They start acting like a business rather than a public service and you end up with a lower quality service for more cost.
Would that make it Virtual Reality Soviet bloc style?
Think if the thrill of accurately simulated bread queue the excitement as you arrange for someone to lift you over the Berlin wall in an armoured box. Or you could play it as a member of the KGB elite Loo roll division hunting down those traitors who take more than there fair share of state manufactured loo rolls
and I'm reasonably certain that they don't support older versions.
What like 9 which i linked to the support page.
In what way does Microsoft stop you have having third parties provides patches to you Windows system? They may not help those groups but I can't imagine that they could stop them
by there proprietry copyrighted code making it harder than it needs to be and possibly even illegal at times for third parties to write patches, i can only think of very few windows patches released by third parties, coming back to cars Toyota don't and can't (in the UK) seal the engines so you can't service them yourselves.
Why don't they do this? after all it works for Microsoft.
Now you're just being silly.
Why? It is a system that has worked to make money for microsoft. Name calling is a bad way to defend your point come on were adults at least come up with an argument to show that they don't do this.
Look, I don't approve of Microsoft's business practices either, but screaming about every little move they make doesn't exactly lend credibility to our position. As much as I don't like them, I don't believe that they consult an "evil calculus" before each and every business decision.
Neither do I in fact i don't think they have an "evil Calculus" at all and what position are you talking about? I don't care what OS others use whatever suits them is fine with me they can use Windows if they like it's a (mostly) free world when it comes to choice.
Unless you really think that Toyota keeps adding cool new stuff to their cars because it gives them a warm fuzzy feeling and not because they have to have some way to convince people to upgrade their perfectly good five-year-old cars, this shouldn't come as a surprise to you.
They "upgrade" (I don't consider a new bits of plastic trim an upgrade) them to make people think there getting something new to replace there old car, What they don't do is stop you from getting your repaired by them or anyone else. Why don't they do this? after all it works for Microsoft. Because they are not a monopoly and this action would drive customers away, to there competitors who didn't do this sort of trick.
Having you say that jogged a memory it did install and work fine on a friends very diffrent machine but i fiddle a bit with mine and it needs re avtivating. Xp seems to install fine a very different machines but subtle changes upset it!
What I'd like to see is Windows switch to a more corporate model of paying a smaller price for the software and then forcing people to purchase an annual support contract if they want updates and support
I think your one of the few who would like to see this.
It's a win-win situation for everyone except software pirates and your average home user and educational sites.
You meen it's a win for MS because there taxing users every year and the pirates will work around it so no, only microsoft will win and the average user will lose again.
you could be right about open source winning as it could be the last money grab that persuades people to change.
Just changing just one thing hardware wise and reinstalling has resulted in me having to ring there customer support and spend time and money trying to get XP to register. It's a pain in the arse if you change hardware alot.
Ulysses $ Grant Led the Redmondees to significant victory against Robert E Leenux and his rebel open source confederacy. Despite the loss of several cannon through crashes on the way to the battlefield the redmondees where not at a disadvantage as the rebels had trouble installing there cannonballs into the canons. The day was finally won by some fool accidentally leaving open the rebel Armys root the redmonees where able to press this advantage despite some of the suffering a virus that was going thought the army. Despite this setback Robert E Leenux has vowed to continue the fight and it is surely far from over.
this case seems to basicly to be about a password protected maintenance system.... wait 'till the car companies start putting passwords on their engine computers and claiming this as a precedent....
The fact that for 20-30 years after the end of the war, there were marooned Japanese soldiers on islands who were STILL WILLING to fight shows the resolve of the Japanese people
who where unaware the war was over they all surendered when they where finally told and persuaded it wasn't a trick.
Hell, if you want to play that game lets really play. How about if Europe hadn't punished Germany with crushing reparations after WWI we could have prevented Hitler's rise and the slaughter of a few million Jews in death camps and the soldiers who had to die in the effort to stop him.
get it right it was France and America who punished germany. Britain's Lloyd George predicted WW2 because of America and France's actions at the treaty of Versailles.
Wilson is much more to blame than anyone else for being weak at least Lloyd George tried to ameliorate the others lust for money.
How about if the US hadn't had to use it's trade with Japan as a foil against the colonialization of China by the Europeans then perhaps Japan wouldn't have felt the need to put themselves on a steroid enhanced industrialization of their nation that ultimately led to their invasion of China So your claiming Britain didn't have an alliance with Japan? It was the isolation of Japan by America and it's wish for more land in the pacific that did a lot to cause Japans involvement with Germany in WW2
And the fact that DEC, the company that build those VAXen, went tits-up five years ago is a testament to how unprofitable it is to build machines that are engineered so well that they never need to be replaced...
It's Sad but true. It also shows how stupid some people are buying the same faulty product that breaks again and again.
Hmm Twitter stands by his posts you don't and post AC. twitter wins because he belives what he writes you don't and won't let other see your posting history.
i have seen alot worse than twitter. and It's You
I don't know about you, but I'd rather take the trolls and crapflooders over people like "twitter" any day.
I guess you read and respond to every piece of spam that comes in or would rather put up with organised crime but clamps down on littering.
Slashdot Mirror
just wait for one of these to arrive at a capital hill inbox bet it would get taken at face value and cause some sort of panic.
I don't belive anyone would pay $40,000 to anyone to have someone else given a vasectomey
No he wasn't
Yes whenever the judge asked him his occupation he would say none.
modern cars come with standard Iso connectors there must be some propriatery ones out there but I haven't seen any newer that 1990.
Windows still costs time as well as money
They still do CDs for £8.99 it was a legal technicality that they have now over come and for those who think that the companies shouldn't do lower margin CDs everyone I know who uses CD wow buys a lot more than they used to from the shops. That means me and some of my friends and family are putting more money in the pockets of the record companies via CD wow than we did in the stores, talk about trying to shot yourself in the foot.
'It's high time that the computer stop lurking in the shadows of dusty computer desks in forgotten rarely-used bedrooms. If PC gaming is going to survive it's going to have to do so in the well-lit family rooms and dens of America right along side the Game Cube, PS2 and Xbox
Most consoles I have ever seen are sitting slap bang along side a PC in peoples bedrooms etc and if the console is in a family place then the PC is right there next to it anyway, PC's don't need to "compete" with Consoles there a different machine, it's like a sports car trying to be a truck or vice a versa both are excellent at what there designed for but don't work when doing the others job.
Worked fine a speedy. What is diffrence? as i won't be able to find out until i get home as i only have IE at work.
But he wasn't out to make a profit from this, he wasn't charging for the service, also he has a history of doing this with a site setup for the rail companies. They happy for him to do this and his version will be taken down when the officals ones are up to the same standard.
I sent them an e-mail, even indicating which JS script was to blame, and how to fix, got an email telling me to visit a different site.
Why not pass on my info to someone who could edit 1 file and make the thing work again!?
this is what happens when governments do public private partnerships. They start acting like a business rather than a public service and you end up with a lower quality service for more cost.
Think if the thrill of accurately simulated bread queue the excitement as you arrange for someone to lift you over the Berlin wall in an armoured box. Or you could play it as a member of the KGB elite Loo roll division hunting down those traitors who take more than there fair share of state manufactured loo rolls
What like 9 which i linked to the support page.
In what way does Microsoft stop you have having third parties provides patches to you Windows system? They may not help those groups but I can't imagine that they could stop them
by there proprietry copyrighted code making it harder than it needs to be and possibly even illegal at times for third parties to write patches, i can only think of very few windows patches released by third parties, coming back to cars Toyota don't and can't (in the UK) seal the engines so you can't service them yourselves.
Why don't they do this? after all it works for Microsoft.
Now you're just being silly.
Why? It is a system that has worked to make money for microsoft. Name calling is a bad way to defend your point come on were adults at least come up with an argument to show that they don't do this.
Look, I don't approve of Microsoft's business practices either, but screaming about every little move they make doesn't exactly lend credibility to our position. As much as I don't like them, I don't believe that they consult an "evil calculus" before each and every business decision.
Neither do I in fact i don't think they have an "evil Calculus" at all and what position are you talking about? I don't care what OS others use whatever suits them is fine with me they can use Windows if they like it's a (mostly) free world when it comes to choice.
They support OS 9 as well. Red Hat don't support 6 but they still support there last 5 OS releases does Microsoft?
Unless you really think that Toyota keeps adding cool new stuff to their cars because it gives them a warm fuzzy feeling and not because they have to have some way to convince people to upgrade their perfectly good five-year-old cars, this shouldn't come as a surprise to you.
They "upgrade" (I don't consider a new bits of plastic trim an upgrade) them to make people think there getting something new to replace there old car, What they don't do is stop you from getting your repaired by them or anyone else. Why don't they do this? after all it works for Microsoft. Because they are not a monopoly and this action would drive customers away, to there competitors who didn't do this sort of trick.
Having you say that jogged a memory it did install and work fine on a friends very diffrent machine but i fiddle a bit with mine and it needs re avtivating. Xp seems to install fine a very different machines but subtle changes upset it!
If he's from the UK he has a right to trial by jury. Something Labour are trying to stop.
I think your one of the few who would like to see this.
It's a win-win situation for everyone except software pirates and your average home user and educational sites.
You meen it's a win for MS because there taxing users every year and the pirates will work around it so no, only microsoft will win and the average user will lose again.
you could be right about open source winning as it could be the last money grab that persuades people to change.
Just changing just one thing hardware wise and reinstalling has resulted in me having to ring there customer support and spend time and money trying to get XP to register. It's a pain in the arse if you change hardware alot.
Ulysses $ Grant Led the Redmondees to significant victory against Robert E Leenux and his rebel open source confederacy. Despite the loss of several cannon through crashes on the way to the battlefield the redmondees where not at a disadvantage as the rebels had trouble installing there cannonballs into the canons. The day was finally won by some fool accidentally leaving open the rebel Armys root the redmonees where able to press this advantage despite some of the suffering a virus that was going thought the army. Despite this setback Robert E Leenux has vowed to continue the fight and it is surely far from over.
Cough second Cough
They can't in the UK a precident has been set that they must make the diagnostic computers Etc acessable to third parties, They can't block customers from chosing who fixes there cars. It's even recomended to go to independants for a cheaper better job.
who where unaware the war was over they all surendered when they where finally told and persuaded it wasn't a trick.
get it right it was France and America who punished germany. Britain's Lloyd George predicted WW2 because of America and France's actions at the treaty of Versailles.
Wilson is much more to blame than anyone else for being weak at least Lloyd George tried to ameliorate the others lust for money.How about if the US hadn't had to use it's trade with Japan as a foil against the colonialization of China by the Europeans then perhaps Japan wouldn't have felt the need to put themselves on a steroid enhanced industrialization of their nation that ultimately led to their invasion of China So your claiming Britain didn't have an alliance with Japan? It was the isolation of Japan by America and it's wish for more land in the pacific that did a lot to cause Japans involvement with Germany in WW2
I notice you supplied no reference to your claims you really should when playing "time Generals".
It's Sad but true. It also shows how stupid some people are buying the same faulty product that breaks again and again.
i have seen alot worse than twitter. and It's You
I don't know about you, but I'd rather take the trolls and crapflooders over people like "twitter" any day.
I guess you read and respond to every piece of spam that comes in or would rather put up with organised crime but clamps down on littering.
What that the poor sods couldn't go to the loo.