But you have nothing to back up your guess at all, do you? Much of reducing the threat surface had to do with disabling features by default, not adding more security checks. IIS 7 may be another story though.. but IIS 6 I seriously doubt.
Ah well, at least you got a +3 for posting something as a statement even if you can't back it up.
I agree, I was suprised how nice the GC Resident Evil remake was, but when I played RE2, the graphics did kinda take some of the realism out. I'd never played any RE until RE4 on the Wii, and I liked it so much I bought all the RE gamecube games. As it was, some of the controls like the 180 turn missing in RE2 (but in the remake) threw me quite a bit as well.
The same thing with Tomb Raider; I just picked up Legend on the GC and enjoyed it quite a bit. I would like to replay the originals, but I don't think I could even if I wanted to (I'm going to get a PS or PS2, and I doubt they'd run on Windows anymore). I'm glad Anniversary is coming out and targeting the Wii, and intend to scoop that up as soon as its out too.
No, part of the jury's duty is exactly do determine if the law makes sense. I hate when people post about stuff like this, not knowing the founders intent. Go check it out for yourself; they supported jury nullification, as its known.
Where is your evidence that the government doesn't continue pushing for more and more power? I've not seen it yet where they say, "well this is far enough, we shouldn't get this much involved in people's lives."
Which is yet another reason why car insurance should not be mandatory.
So, how exactly do I get my car fixed when some idiot in a VW smashes into my car because she changed lanes without looking? I'm just SOL, and need to fix the car myself?
That's about the stupidest thing i ever heard. Locking your brakes won't help stop you.. pumping them will, which is exactly what ABS does. That said, the BEST way to stop in snowy conditions is to let your car coast to a stop, if possible. Braking can cause your car to skid out of control.
IIRC, the Catholic church is the largest landowner in the world. Its also the most rich. Yes, you're right to wonder why they have millions to give to families after they let their priests molest kids, but lock homeless out in the street when winter arrives.
You do realize that if the government hadn't demanded one, than Wal-Mart and other "morally obligated" retailers would have demanded the same thing, and then we're back to the same exact outcome (which is what we have here in the US).
Bull. People would buy the content at other, amoral, stores, and WalMart would lose out big time. Then it would rethink its policy.
Its not the majority of society that is trying to force their values on others, its a very loud minority.
Even if what you think is true (its not), goverment is NOT more quickly swayed. Look how long junk laws stay on the books. And they'll keep on pressing for restrictions, because they do NOT want to give up power. See the War on drugs for an example.
Now compare that to how graphic games were getting once businesses saw how popular things like Mortal Kombat were.
No, not uninterupted at all. This private ratings organization only came about because otherwise the GOVERNMENT was threatening to do so. If the government hadn't said otherwise, its likely ratings wouldn't have been adopted at all.
This is how any ratings systems have come to be; whether for movies, music and now video games.
Ah, yes. Typos. The eternal excuse of the illiterate.
What, you never hit the wrong key while typing? Sorry I'm not as perfect as you. And personally, for a slashdot post, its not worth my time to go back and proofread anything. Especially when its just a post to a crook.
It has to do something with pronunciation. Please turn in your geek card, it has been revoked.
Ha! Says the thief that isn't even out of college. Fsck is typically pronounced F Suck. Notice, its not run together. Its ok though, I know the only exposure to UNIX that you've had is Linux, its not your fault you're young and stupid.
Well, I've had to call, um, nonce, never.
All this badgering over spelling and you've not written two things which aren't even words. You may think five minutes is a big deal, but its really not. Your argument is crap.
Microsoft's anti-piracy measures primarily give lots of grief to their legal customers. I wonder how long before they turn towards something more Red Hat-like.
If that were the case, people would be switching in droves. As it is though, MS sales are doing fine. People may not like Vista, but they're still buying XP, and not using RedHat. Besides, I'd rather take MS' "inconvenience" of activation of the nightmare that is RPM hell.
Good for you. Not all of us can afford that. Having to deal with Microsoft's de facto monopoly, we do what we can.
But you don't have to deal with it, I've given you perfectly valid reasons you don't need MS' software. Hell, I'll give you another one; run VWD under WINE! Or use SharpDevelop or one of the other Linux based.Net IDEs. There are ways for you to be legal, you just choose not to.
No, I wouldn't. It's not cheaper to steal - or infringe copyright, for that matter - if there is a substantial risk of getting caught. For instance, if you're running a business.
Its not? How much did it cost for your pirate copy of Windows? Running a business has nothing to do with you, since you're not running once. Your risk of being caught is low, so it is cheaper. You'd be surprised how many businesses run pirated software as well; its a big problem in China, for example.
Now, I'd never run a business with a pirated copy of Windows; that would be plainly stupid. However, since nobody ever comes after home users, I read it as a tacit permission to use such a copy at home.
I'm sure you could get away with shoplifting too, or murder. But does that mean that because you've gotten away with it, its ok?
But the minority that had it happen to them were quite inconvenienced, although they'd paid.
And MS quickly fixed the problem, didn't they? Of course, if people were just honest they wouldn't need to buy such systems to try and stop piracy, would they?
Oh, great... so even if I pay up, I cannot be sure I got a legit copy. Nice. Do you see now why it's more convenient to pirate?
And if you legitimately didn't know you were using pirated software until their tool told you, they give you a legal to use key when you report the person that sold you the pirated copy. Again, that's a small, one time process.
Well, good code has value; every monkey can write bad code. OK, perl code at least.
Well you seem to think its good enough, since you're not willing to say no to using it. Perl? Funny. I can see you've never programmed anything worthwhile in your life.
No, you don't see. I think a course covering the bare basics of an area shouldn't require a proprietary tool running on a proprietary system. And trust me, the tools we'd used were overkill.
Yet your complaint was that it didn't work on Windows 2000. If you feel that way, drop the course. Or run the freely available VWD on WINE on Linux.
Ah, so you're redefining words...
Well, I'm no native speaker, but the first definition says something to the point "unlawfully taking som
Yes, you only get fscked in the ass once in a while, no big deal.
I see you bolded typos, where-as you continue to to mispell words. Its FUCKED, not fscked... unless running a linux filesystem repair tool has something to do with spelling. Anyway, I've had to call, um, once, ever. So yea, not really a big deal. I don't expect it to be a big deal either, considering I bought the full retail version, which DOES allow me to move to another computer.
I still don't see how you fail to see how much more convenient it is to pirate Windows: it's cheaper, and it's the legitimate users who have to prove they're legitimate.
I never argued it was cheaper; its ALWAYS cheaper to steal. That a no brainer, wouldn't you agree? I've already addressed your activation argument.
Nobody ever bothers the rest of us; when Windows Update tells several thousand legitimate Windows users they're pirates, we who use pirated versions are not annoyed at all. And you are the ones who'd paid money for it, too.
Its never happened to a vast majority, and did you consider that perhaps those users WERE pirating it, although they thought they got a genuine license? How would you really know if some ISV was illegally putting the same key on every machine? You wouldn't.
No, they tolerated it because it helped them establish their monopolly.
Ah, a mind reader now?
That means you don't know how to offer something beyond the code.
What, I should include comic books in my software as well? Obviously code has value, not everyone can write it.
Some idiotic obligatory course on web design or whatever required MS Visual Web Developer. Or whatever it's called.
Try installing that on something not WinXP SP2 or newer.
Oh, i see. You think all future products should be supported on all older products. Should they make it work on Win95 too? DOS? WinXP is seven years old at this point.. I see no reason to support anything older than that. Hell, I can't even get a car to support my car after three years without paying.
Check your fscking laws.
I'm not using legal terminology; stealing is depriving someone of something of value. Lawyer can quibble over the diffence, but in the end its the same thing... depriving someone of something of value.
Yeah, as if you'd know...
I do actually; I'm much older than you, I was around during MS' rise.
Now you've opened yourself for a whole barrage of anti-American flaming, but I'll let it pass.
Mainly because you aren't worth that much of my time.
Again you have no real counter argument. Its not worth your time to continue bashing me? You already have. BTW, its FUCK, not fsck, as I've written earlier.
BTW, check your spelling and grammar before even attempting to comment on some foreigner's.
You, sir, are the very stereotype of an American asshole.
You misspelt fuck multiple times. I've made some typos. A bit of a difference there. My grammar is fine thank you, but I don't expect someone that never lived in the US to understand. But I suppose YOUR language has not changed at all in the last 200 years, has it?
You're rationalizing again; I bring up points, you fail miserably to address them, so you feel the need to stero-type you. I've done no such thing, YOU yourself said most people in your country steal.
Please, don't. We've already got too many tourists for our road capacity as it is.
And the morons working in tourism still haven't figured out what to offer those tourists.
Hmm, for a poor country I'd think you'd want tourists so that they would add to your economy.
Oh, great; you don't even seem to know the difference between MAC and a Mac.
Other than that, you're not even making sense any more.
Guess you never saw an Apple computer when the Macs first came out. But I guess you need filler, since you don't really have an argument whi
I did, and I can see that they WERE targeting mac exclusively. The question still remains as to WHY. It doesn't make good economic sense.
They can port all they want; I don't think many people knew of Marathon 2. Hits on the Mac don't necessarly translate to hits on the PC. Again, if MS didn't buy Bungie, I would've never heard of them or Marathon.
Even though the pirated version is already patched and activated, and does not complain if you change your MB?
I don't change out my MB every two weeks, so no, its not a big deal.
My point is that you do not understand why they tolerate piracy, especially home piracy.
And why they are developing anti-piracy measures only now.
I seems to be they tolerated it because until recently there wasn't any good way to stop it. WinXP was the first OS that started to try to address the issue. Win2k was their first OS really designed to be on the internet.
Many people do.
Many more do not; many, like myself, don't even bother attempting to, because I'm afraid piracy wouldn't allow me to earn back as much as I put in.
I, however, am not primarily a programmer; my career choice is a bit different.
So then plese tell me, what course exactly requires Windows on your home computer if you're not programming? You already said you use open office. I don't know why you'd wnat to be a windows network admin (and even then, I'm not sure how much homework you could get out of such a class).
Copyright infringement is not theft.
Moron.
You've deprived someone of money they would have gotten if you didn't pirate it. I don't care how often you repeat that to me or yourself, to make yourself not feel guilty, that doesn't make it true.
Well, in Croatia, the telco didn't own the lines until they took them. And though disputes are not over yet, they use them like they own them and cut other companies' lines, just like MS got rid of their competition.
MS did no such thing; there are always workarounds in software, and agreessive licensing is not criminal. Theft of the lines certainly is though. But your telco and MS are not the same. But you tell yourself whatever you need to to sleep at night.
And by this logic, I can't change MS's monopolly either.
But it doesn't matter. You're almost MS free already! So just give up the games and get rid of Windows. Drop your course or pay for a license.
You are really the first example of a real asshole I've seen on/.
Learn how to fscking read.
Aww, starting to feel bad about your stealing? Perhaps you should learn spelling. I'm not goign to sugar coat anything for you, sorry if it hurts your feelings and I'm calling you out.. but your choices are your choices, and you'll have to live with them.
Not around here, they don't.
Unless they're so clueless that not even their friends have a clue.
Ahh, a nation of criminals. I'll be sure never to visit.
Oh, I wish I could steal from them. I'm merely infringing their copyright, though.
How much would a license cost you? That's how much you've taken from MS (or any other software vendor who's products you pirate).
I wish I could do some real damage apart from switching people over to Linux or Mac.
There you go! You are doing some damage; you're not giving them money, but you're doing it legally! Good for you! Too bad you won't do the same. (Oh, MAC isn't any better than MS, BTW.)
No, but if they're close enough, I can punch them in the face if they get on my nerves.
And it'd stil be illegal, imagine that.
Pray tell, how do you even find the On switch on your PC?
Hmm, well I'm not the one too stupid to move out of a country filled with criminals and find good employment. Unlike you, I've actually already completed my degree program as well, and people pay me because I am smart. Oh and honest too.
Well, you win teh internetz.
I guess you are realizing you don't really have a point.
Oh, no, they wouldn't have.
Well you REQUIRE it for your course right? So yes, they would have.
Besides, the Windows EULA clearly states that the software is not fit for any specific purpose or whatever; how do I benefit
That still doesn't answer why they'd create a mac exclusive. If it wouldn't have been for Halo on the Xbox, I would have never heard of bungie or marathon. I'm betting there's plenty of people out there just like me.
I don't get your point; my whole argument was that no software company has yet to be held responsible for the damage their software has done... so I don't really see why you bothered replying to me.
I'm sorry you got a Troll though; seems some asshats out there just like picking on people (I have four comments in a row, across three different stories that were all marked as Troll or FB. Interesting.. not the first time.. oh well, I have more than enough karma).
You're kidding right? Xbox was what, $300 at most when it came out? And you honestly think people would buy a Mac if Halo would have been an exclusive title? Not very likely at all. I doubt having Halo exclusively cause that many Xboxes to even be sold.
You don't need at-will employment laws to give employees the right to leave without penalty. States without (and from my what HR manager tells me, more and more states are abandoning at-will) you need an actual reason to let someone go. Which is how it should be. If I'm doing a good job, but my manager or someone else just doesn't like me, why should they be able to fire me? Likewise, if my company is not doing a good job (no raises, too much overtime, etc.) why should I not be allowed to leave?
Because to do otherwise would keep minorities unemployed?
Or, should you be able to hire a kid to work in a factory? After all, thier little hands might be able to reach in and grap whatever is jammed and keeping the machine from working..
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But you have nothing to back up your guess at all, do you? Much of reducing the threat surface had to do with disabling features by default, not adding more security checks. IIS 7 may be another story though.. but IIS 6 I seriously doubt.
Ah well, at least you got a +3 for posting something as a statement even if you can't back it up.
I agree, I was suprised how nice the GC Resident Evil remake was, but when I played RE2, the graphics did kinda take some of the realism out. I'd never played any RE until RE4 on the Wii, and I liked it so much I bought all the RE gamecube games. As it was, some of the controls like the 180 turn missing in RE2 (but in the remake) threw me quite a bit as well.
The same thing with Tomb Raider; I just picked up Legend on the GC and enjoyed it quite a bit. I would like to replay the originals, but I don't think I could even if I wanted to (I'm going to get a PS or PS2, and I doubt they'd run on Windows anymore). I'm glad Anniversary is coming out and targeting the Wii, and intend to scoop that up as soon as its out too.
Legally, yes, there is a difference. Morally, no, there isn't.
No, part of the jury's duty is exactly do determine if the law makes sense. I hate when people post about stuff like this, not knowing the founders intent. Go check it out for yourself; they supported jury nullification, as its known.
Is it the same on Win2k3 Server?
Where is your evidence that the government doesn't continue pushing for more and more power? I've not seen it yet where they say, "well this is far enough, we shouldn't get this much involved in people's lives."
Which is yet another reason why car insurance should not be mandatory.
So, how exactly do I get my car fixed when some idiot in a VW smashes into my car because she changed lanes without looking? I'm just SOL, and need to fix the car myself?
That's about the stupidest thing i ever heard. Locking your brakes won't help stop you.. pumping them will, which is exactly what ABS does. That said, the BEST way to stop in snowy conditions is to let your car coast to a stop, if possible. Braking can cause your car to skid out of control.
And yes, I do almost live in Canada.
True, but getting the iPhone going is a simple google seach away I'd imagine. Its not something you would need to keep on top of..
IIRC, the Catholic church is the largest landowner in the world. Its also the most rich. Yes, you're right to wonder why they have millions to give to families after they let their priests molest kids, but lock homeless out in the street when winter arrives.
It is crucial, they say, to reach the elusive audience of boys and young men."
It seems to be with all the problems, in the Catholic church at least, we should be keeping boys and young men AWAY from churches.
You do realize that if the government hadn't demanded one, than Wal-Mart and other "morally obligated" retailers would have demanded the same thing, and then we're back to the same exact outcome (which is what we have here in the US).
Bull. People would buy the content at other, amoral, stores, and WalMart would lose out big time. Then it would rethink its policy.
Its not the majority of society that is trying to force their values on others, its a very loud minority.
Even if what you think is true (its not), goverment is NOT more quickly swayed. Look how long junk laws stay on the books. And they'll keep on pressing for restrictions, because they do NOT want to give up power. See the War on drugs for an example.
Now compare that to how graphic games were getting once businesses saw how popular things like Mortal Kombat were.
No, not uninterupted at all. This private ratings organization only came about because otherwise the GOVERNMENT was threatening to do so. If the government hadn't said otherwise, its likely ratings wouldn't have been adopted at all.
This is how any ratings systems have come to be; whether for movies, music and now video games.
Hmm, I think your anectode is pretty useless. Park your car in the Bronx, with doors locked, and see if they prevent your car from being stolen.
Ah, yes. Typos. The eternal excuse of the illiterate.
.Net IDEs. There are ways for you to be legal, you just choose not to.
What, you never hit the wrong key while typing? Sorry I'm not as perfect as you. And personally, for a slashdot post, its not worth my time to go back and proofread anything. Especially when its just a post to a crook.
It has to do something with pronunciation. Please turn in your geek card, it has been revoked.
Ha! Says the thief that isn't even out of college. Fsck is typically pronounced F Suck. Notice, its not run together. Its ok though, I know the only exposure to UNIX that you've had is Linux, its not your fault you're young and stupid.
Well, I've had to call, um, nonce, never.
All this badgering over spelling and you've not written two things which aren't even words. You may think five minutes is a big deal, but its really not. Your argument is crap.
Microsoft's anti-piracy measures primarily give lots of grief to their legal customers. I wonder how long before they turn towards something more Red Hat-like.
If that were the case, people would be switching in droves. As it is though, MS sales are doing fine. People may not like Vista, but they're still buying XP, and not using RedHat. Besides, I'd rather take MS' "inconvenience" of activation of the nightmare that is RPM hell.
Good for you. Not all of us can afford that. Having to deal with Microsoft's de facto monopoly, we do what we can.
But you don't have to deal with it, I've given you perfectly valid reasons you don't need MS' software. Hell, I'll give you another one; run VWD under WINE! Or use SharpDevelop or one of the other Linux based
No, I wouldn't. It's not cheaper to steal - or infringe copyright, for that matter - if there is a substantial risk of getting caught. For instance, if you're running a business.
Its not? How much did it cost for your pirate copy of Windows? Running a business has nothing to do with you, since you're not running once. Your risk of being caught is low, so it is cheaper. You'd be surprised how many businesses run pirated software as well; its a big problem in China, for example.
Now, I'd never run a business with a pirated copy of Windows; that would be plainly stupid. However, since nobody ever comes after home users, I read it as a tacit permission to use such a copy at home.
I'm sure you could get away with shoplifting too, or murder. But does that mean that because you've gotten away with it, its ok?
But the minority that had it happen to them were quite inconvenienced, although they'd paid.
And MS quickly fixed the problem, didn't they? Of course, if people were just honest they wouldn't need to buy such systems to try and stop piracy, would they?
Oh, great... so even if I pay up, I cannot be sure I got a legit copy. Nice. Do you see now why it's more convenient to pirate?
And if you legitimately didn't know you were using pirated software until their tool told you, they give you a legal to use key when you report the person that sold you the pirated copy. Again, that's a small, one time process.
Well, good code has value; every monkey can write bad code. OK, perl code at least.
Well you seem to think its good enough, since you're not willing to say no to using it. Perl? Funny. I can see you've never programmed anything worthwhile in your life.
No, you don't see. I think a course covering the bare basics of an area shouldn't require a proprietary tool running on a proprietary system. And trust me, the tools we'd used were overkill.
Yet your complaint was that it didn't work on Windows 2000. If you feel that way, drop the course. Or run the freely available VWD on WINE on Linux.
Ah, so you're redefining words...
Well, I'm no native speaker, but the first definition says something to the point "unlawfully taking som
No, not for me. For me, its google maps as the first unsponsered link, followed by mapquest in 2 and 3. Yahoo is #4.
Yes, you only get fscked in the ass once in a while, no big deal.
I see you bolded typos, where-as you continue to to mispell words. Its FUCKED, not fscked... unless running a linux filesystem repair tool has something to do with spelling. Anyway, I've had to call, um, once, ever. So yea, not really a big deal. I don't expect it to be a big deal either, considering I bought the full retail version, which DOES allow me to move to another computer.
I still don't see how you fail to see how much more convenient it is to pirate Windows: it's cheaper, and it's the legitimate users who have to prove they're legitimate.
I never argued it was cheaper; its ALWAYS cheaper to steal. That a no brainer, wouldn't you agree? I've already addressed your activation argument.
Nobody ever bothers the rest of us; when Windows Update tells several thousand legitimate Windows users they're pirates, we who use pirated versions are not annoyed at all. And you are the ones who'd paid money for it, too.
Its never happened to a vast majority, and did you consider that perhaps those users WERE pirating it, although they thought they got a genuine license? How would you really know if some ISV was illegally putting the same key on every machine? You wouldn't.
No, they tolerated it because it helped them establish their monopolly.
Ah, a mind reader now?
That means you don't know how to offer something beyond the code.
What, I should include comic books in my software as well? Obviously code has value, not everyone can write it.
Some idiotic obligatory course on web design or whatever required MS Visual Web Developer. Or whatever it's called.
Try installing that on something not WinXP SP2 or newer.
Oh, i see. You think all future products should be supported on all older products. Should they make it work on Win95 too? DOS? WinXP is seven years old at this point.. I see no reason to support anything older than that. Hell, I can't even get a car to support my car after three years without paying.
Check your fscking laws.
I'm not using legal terminology; stealing is depriving someone of something of value. Lawyer can quibble over the diffence, but in the end its the same thing... depriving someone of something of value.
Yeah, as if you'd know...
I do actually; I'm much older than you, I was around during MS' rise.
Now you've opened yourself for a whole barrage of anti-American flaming, but I'll let it pass.
Mainly because you aren't worth that much of my time.
Again you have no real counter argument. Its not worth your time to continue bashing me? You already have. BTW, its FUCK, not fsck, as I've written earlier.
BTW, check your spelling and grammar before even attempting to comment on some foreigner's.
You, sir, are the very stereotype of an American asshole.
You misspelt fuck multiple times. I've made some typos. A bit of a difference there. My grammar is fine thank you, but I don't expect someone that never lived in the US to understand. But I suppose YOUR language has not changed at all in the last 200 years, has it?
You're rationalizing again; I bring up points, you fail miserably to address them, so you feel the need to stero-type you. I've done no such thing, YOU yourself said most people in your country steal.
Please, don't. We've already got too many tourists for our road capacity as it is.
And the morons working in tourism still haven't figured out what to offer those tourists.
Hmm, for a poor country I'd think you'd want tourists so that they would add to your economy.
Oh, great; you don't even seem to know the difference between MAC and a Mac.
Other than that, you're not even making sense any more.
Guess you never saw an Apple computer when the Macs first came out. But I guess you need filler, since you don't really have an argument whi
No worries.. probably just missed the ? mark ;-)
I did, and I can see that they WERE targeting mac exclusively. The question still remains as to WHY. It doesn't make good economic sense.
They can port all they want; I don't think many people knew of Marathon 2. Hits on the Mac don't necessarly translate to hits on the PC. Again, if MS didn't buy Bungie, I would've never heard of them or Marathon.
Even though the pirated version is already patched and activated, and does not complain if you change your MB?
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I don't change out my MB every two weeks, so no, its not a big deal.
My point is that you do not understand why they tolerate piracy, especially home piracy.
And why they are developing anti-piracy measures only now.
I seems to be they tolerated it because until recently there wasn't any good way to stop it. WinXP was the first OS that started to try to address the issue. Win2k was their first OS really designed to be on the internet.
Many people do.
Many more do not; many, like myself, don't even bother attempting to, because I'm afraid piracy wouldn't allow me to earn back as much as I put in.
I, however, am not primarily a programmer; my career choice is a bit different.
So then plese tell me, what course exactly requires Windows on your home computer if you're not programming? You already said you use open office. I don't know why you'd wnat to be a windows network admin (and even then, I'm not sure how much homework you could get out of such a class).
Copyright infringement is not theft.
Moron.
You've deprived someone of money they would have gotten if you didn't pirate it. I don't care how often you repeat that to me or yourself, to make yourself not feel guilty, that doesn't make it true.
Well, in Croatia, the telco didn't own the lines until they took them. And though disputes are not over yet, they use them like they own them and cut other companies' lines, just like MS got rid of their competition.
MS did no such thing; there are always workarounds in software, and agreessive licensing is not criminal. Theft of the lines certainly is though. But your telco and MS are not the same. But you tell yourself whatever you need to to sleep at night.
And by this logic, I can't change MS's monopolly either.
But it doesn't matter. You're almost MS free already! So just give up the games and get rid of Windows. Drop your course or pay for a license.
You are really the first example of a real asshole I've seen on
Learn how to fscking read.
Aww, starting to feel bad about your stealing? Perhaps you should learn spelling. I'm not goign to sugar coat anything for you, sorry if it hurts your feelings and I'm calling you out.. but your choices are your choices, and you'll have to live with them.
Not around here, they don't.
Unless they're so clueless that not even their friends have a clue.
Ahh, a nation of criminals. I'll be sure never to visit.
Oh, I wish I could steal from them. I'm merely infringing their copyright, though.
How much would a license cost you? That's how much you've taken from MS (or any other software vendor who's products you pirate).
I wish I could do some real damage apart from switching people over to Linux or Mac.
There you go! You are doing some damage; you're not giving them money, but you're doing it legally! Good for you! Too bad you won't do the same. (Oh, MAC isn't any better than MS, BTW.)
No, but if they're close enough, I can punch them in the face if they get on my nerves.
And it'd stil be illegal, imagine that.
Pray tell, how do you even find the On switch on your PC?
Hmm, well I'm not the one too stupid to move out of a country filled with criminals and find good employment. Unlike you, I've actually already completed my degree program as well, and people pay me because I am smart. Oh and honest too.
Well, you win teh internetz.
I guess you are realizing you don't really have a point.
Oh, no, they wouldn't have.
Well you REQUIRE it for your course right? So yes, they would have.
Besides, the Windows EULA clearly states that the software is not fit for any specific purpose or whatever; how do I benefit
That still doesn't answer why they'd create a mac exclusive. If it wouldn't have been for Halo on the Xbox, I would have never heard of bungie or marathon. I'm betting there's plenty of people out there just like me.
I don't get your point; my whole argument was that no software company has yet to be held responsible for the damage their software has done... so I don't really see why you bothered replying to me.
I'm sorry you got a Troll though; seems some asshats out there just like picking on people (I have four comments in a row, across three different stories that were all marked as Troll or FB. Interesting.. not the first time.. oh well, I have more than enough karma).
You're kidding right? Xbox was what, $300 at most when it came out? And you honestly think people would buy a Mac if Halo would have been an exclusive title? Not very likely at all. I doubt having Halo exclusively cause that many Xboxes to even be sold.
You don't need at-will employment laws to give employees the right to leave without penalty. States without (and from my what HR manager tells me, more and more states are abandoning at-will) you need an actual reason to let someone go. Which is how it should be. If I'm doing a good job, but my manager or someone else just doesn't like me, why should they be able to fire me? Likewise, if my company is not doing a good job (no raises, too much overtime, etc.) why should I not be allowed to leave?
Because to do otherwise would keep minorities unemployed?
Or, should you be able to hire a kid to work in a factory? After all, thier little hands might be able to reach in and grap whatever is jammed and keeping the machine from working..