>> People are incapable of appreciating anything from them because they continue harbor a negative impression of the brand. It's at a point where people are grasping at straws to find fault with the company.
Wow my bet is your'e a Microsoft stooge, but that said I guess you could have been been living under a rock.
Windows 8 is still a joke, the new Xbox has such bad DRM, privacy and fair use issues they had to do multiple PR U turns even before it was launched. Their surface and phone platforms haven't sold at all, and my friend who works for Microsoft so gets a Windows Phone and an unlimited data plan for free still wants an Android phone. Did I miss anything?
Did you notice that even your own list of what yu think are the best Microsoft products needed to include caveats for each? Seems to me all you need is better experience with the alternatives.
Firstly I disagree with your observations about controllers. There are many people who prefer to play those same PC games with a console-type controller, no matter how illogical it may appear to those of us that prefer keyboard/mouse . I regularly wup their asses when they play online but even that doesnt seem to convince them to give up those controllers.
Secondly, if _ALL_ your games were actually available on Linux via Steam, why wouldn't you choose to run SteamOS even on your PC over the piece of crap known as Windows? Having a dual-boot PC just for gaming is a (currently unavoidable) pain in the ass. I've been dreaming of the day for literally decades when I can finally completely uninstall windows. Gaming is the only reason I still keep a Windows partition around, I already use Gnu/Linux for everything else.
Sorry, but to the 1% of new users that can't understand "middle button = paste": go back to windows.
If we keep dumbing everything down so that the lowestt 1% of stupid retards out there can get it, then we're just gonna end up with a mess like MS Windows again.
At least dont permanently remove it, just make it an option that can be disabled by the 1%.
I do agree with your sentiment, however Microsoft and Sony both pay literally millions of dollars to premium games developers just to secure exclusive access to iconic gaming brands for their respective platforms.
Even if Linux starts getting its own native versions of premium games, that whole artificial platform lock-in model isn't going away anytime soon, both because there's too much money being made because of it, and because that's the only way companies like Sony and Microsoft are able to think.
>>> It was intended to reassure them that the NSA is not really the abusive and unchecked spying agency engaged in illegal activity that someone reading former NSA contractor Edward Snowdenâ(TM)s disclosures might think...
Uhh what? Snowden just released existing documents, he didn't create them. It stands to reason that the NSA should be judged exactly by their actions, i.e. the content of the documents they themselves created.
They actually exceeded their donations goal by $26,125 yet still didnt deliver so where does that leave people that donated their hard-earned moeny to see this thing through? I'd be REALLY pissed if I was one of the 9 people that donated over $10,000.
If it is so easy to get over half a million in donations by claiming you're gonna do something cool then just coming up with some lame excuse a few months later, I think I might have to come up with my own kickstarter page with no intentions of ever actually delivering. I'm thinking a kit that costs $5000 and turns your car into a personal spaceship sounds cool.
Sorry but no. The phones that are free/cheap are mostly the really old shit stock no-one wants so they cant even sell at any price any more. Even then they are still locked down and full of carrier-specific bloatware. In reality they still aren't actually free/cheap because they just build the hardware cost into the plan/usage cost (which btw is also on average quite a lot higher than in Europe because the US have also allowed their whole cell system to be collectively dominated by just 3 phone companies).
Just another case of right wing media and politicians consistently denying climate change. I guess US big oil must be the force (read: money) behind them.
I'm still hanging on to my old-style cable plan on purpose (as it requires no box) so everything is effectively OTA but most channels are coming in as digital. I have a haupauge WinTV-HVR-2200. It's 2 analog/digital tuners. I've not ever found a problem of needing more.
If I ever had to upgrade my plan, I'd go with an HDHomeRun Prime, which is a mythtv-compatible digital (only) TV tuner with cablecard support, I think I read somewhere it can record upto 6 digital channels at once (I'm guessing thats assuming optimal multiplex).
>> MythTV can only watch the Copy Freely channels,
I'm not 100% sure as with the cable plan I have I've never had that problem, however I dont think this is necessarily true. It maybe one of those things that you need to know where to look.
For listings data I use schedulesdirect. its only $25/year.
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I wasn't arguing that absolutely all parts of it are rubbish, but I was arguing as you also correctly point out, that its fatally flawed.
By resorting to ad hominems rather than any fact-based or even subject-based argument you only validate my point further.
>> People are incapable of appreciating anything from them because they continue harbor a negative impression of the brand. It's at a point where people are grasping at straws to find fault with the company.
Wow my bet is your'e a Microsoft stooge, but that said I guess you could have been been living under a rock.
Windows 8 is still a joke, the new Xbox has such bad DRM, privacy and fair use issues they had to do multiple PR U turns even before it was launched. Their surface and phone platforms haven't sold at all, and my friend who works for Microsoft so gets a Windows Phone and an unlimited data plan for free still wants an Android phone. Did I miss anything?
Did you notice that even your own list of what yu think are the best Microsoft products needed to include caveats for each?
Seems to me all you need is better experience with the alternatives.
>> I still believe they do some things right
Really? like what? I'm genuinely asking/interested.
>> I manage to be very productive in Windows... I don't mind it at all.
That just suggests to me that you haven't ever gotten familiar with Gnu/Linux.
Firstly I disagree with your observations about controllers. There are many people who prefer to play those same PC games with a console-type controller, no matter how illogical it may appear to those of us that prefer keyboard/mouse . I regularly wup their asses when they play online but even that doesnt seem to convince them to give up those controllers.
Secondly, if _ALL_ your games were actually available on Linux via Steam, why wouldn't you choose to run SteamOS even on your PC over the piece of crap known as Windows? Having a dual-boot PC just for gaming is a (currently unavoidable) pain in the ass. I've been dreaming of the day for literally decades when I can finally completely uninstall windows. Gaming is the only reason I still keep a Windows partition around, I already use Gnu/Linux for everything else.
>> with a brand new phone of the same configuration .... so they replaced your phone with an exact duplicate? huh?
>> 'I now have to close my eyes or cover the screen during transitions, which is ridiculous,'
Yes it is. just get a non-Apple phone dumbass....
Sorry, but to the 1% of new users that can't understand "middle button = paste": go back to windows.
If we keep dumbing everything down so that the lowestt 1% of stupid retards out there can get it, then we're just gonna end up with a mess like MS Windows again.
At least dont permanently remove it, just make it an option that can be disabled by the 1%.
Im totally with you on that one.
OK so how can texting while you're stationary kill?
I do agree with your sentiment, however Microsoft and Sony both pay literally millions of dollars to premium games developers just to secure exclusive access to iconic gaming brands for their respective platforms.
Even if Linux starts getting its own native versions of premium games, that whole artificial platform lock-in model isn't going away anytime soon, both because there's too much money being made because of it, and because that's the only way companies like Sony and Microsoft are able to think.
They are trying hard to make it sound like Xbox-one is actually doing something.
All its doing is passing the signal through. Hardly justifies a buzzword, does it?
>>> It was intended to reassure them that the NSA is not really the abusive and unchecked spying agency engaged in illegal activity that someone reading former NSA contractor Edward Snowdenâ(TM)s disclosures might think...
Uhh what? Snowden just released existing documents, he didn't create them.
It stands to reason that the NSA should be judged exactly by their actions, i.e. the content of the documents they themselves created.
They actually exceeded their donations goal by $26,125 yet still didnt deliver so where does that leave people that donated their hard-earned moeny to see this thing through? I'd be REALLY pissed if I was one of the 9 people that donated over $10,000.
If it is so easy to get over half a million in donations by claiming you're gonna do something cool then just coming up with some lame excuse a few months later, I think I might have to come up with my own kickstarter page with no intentions of ever actually delivering.
I'm thinking a kit that costs $5000 and turns your car into a personal spaceship sounds cool.
I forsee a not-so-far-off time when it will actually be illegal to manually drive your car unless under some kind of emergency.
A few years after that, the mechanisms that allow a person to drive a car will not even be included in new cars.
As a classic car hobbyist who enjoys driving, that whole possibility scares me a lot.
OK my bad I thought you were saying the opposite.
Sorry but no.
The phones that are free/cheap are mostly the really old shit stock no-one wants so they cant even sell at any price any more. Even then they are still locked down and full of carrier-specific bloatware. In reality they still aren't actually free/cheap because they just build the hardware cost into the plan/usage cost (which btw is also on average quite a lot higher than in Europe because the US have also allowed their whole cell system to be collectively dominated by just 3 phone companies).
Just another case of right wing media and politicians consistently denying climate change.
I guess US big oil must be the force (read: money) behind them.
I'm still hanging on to my old-style cable plan on purpose (as it requires no box) so everything is effectively OTA but most channels are coming in as digital. I have a haupauge WinTV-HVR-2200. It's 2 analog/digital tuners. I've not ever found a problem of needing more.
If I ever had to upgrade my plan, I'd go with an HDHomeRun Prime, which is a mythtv-compatible digital (only) TV tuner with cablecard support, I think I read somewhere it can record upto 6 digital channels at once (I'm guessing thats assuming optimal multiplex).
>> MythTV can only watch the Copy Freely channels,
I'm not 100% sure as with the cable plan I have I've never had that problem, however I dont think this is necessarily true. It maybe one of those things that you need to know where to look.
For listings data I use schedulesdirect. its only $25/year.
>> There is too much music and too many musicians,
Yeah and most of its crap not worth listening to, especially the commercial stuff.
What there is a shortage of is GOOD music.
Quite happy with my MythTV box thanks. It does a lot more than any commercial product.
>> In world war I gas killed almost the whole British army in about an hour.
This sounds highly unlikely. Reference please.
OK call me naive but what is the big advantage (that I'm not seeing) of scripting over something that runs natively?