Heh, I don't know if "everyone" would dive in. There are plenty of good retro games out there that have gone absolutely nowhere. You'd need to serious advertising dollars to have more than a scant chance of real success. Heck, I'm building an old-school party-based RPG (Think Bard's Tale) for Android and iOS once I either learn Cocoa or see if there are any good cross-compilers when I'm done, but I'm not betting on it doing more than making me a few bucks. It's fun to dream, but try to keep your expectations low. At worst, it'll probably meet those expectations. At best, you'll have them vastly exceeded.
Except that Blizzard has been releasing Mac games for nearly two decades now. Macs still aren't a real gaming platform. Why would Linux, which has a much smaller piece of the desktop market than Apple, suddenly become a gaming platform when Blizzard releases a game for it? You'd need a serious Linux EXCLUSIVE game to do that, and I don't see that happening.
So it's perfectly okay to take, take, take, and give nothing in return? If you want to justify this, then make something worthwhile yourself and give it away instead of pirating what other people have done and justifying your own selfishness by whining that the system is broken.
Doesn't help if your car gets stuck in an ugly rain or snowstorm. Doesn't help if you're trying to call in because some maniac is careening all over the road.
Y is preventable and happens due to driver error. Not always the case with X, which can be unavoidable even if the driver of one vehicle is paying attention to the road and surroundings. There's a big difference here. That's why a lot of states now issue fines for cellphone usage while driving.
Yeah, that's a great idea. Now you can't talk on the phone in any instance where you're moving. On a train? Passenger on a bus? How about a friggin' gondola? Or as a passenger in any vehicle? And that assumes GPSes have incredible accuracy (how about not being able to place a call or having it cut off because your GPS adjusted your location?), and then every phone would have to get this implemented, probably retroactively, and dumb phones without GPS wouldn't be able to implement it...
And what if a reckless driver is careening everywhere on the highway? Or someone is chasing you? Or your car is stuck the middle of an ugly rain or snowstorm? How the hell are you supposed to get a call out for help if you can't get out of the car? Just pull over and step out to make the call on the interstate or into driving rain or snow?
That's going to change very soon. I don't say that based on rumors, but on the fact that Android has passed the iPhone in overall marketshare, and the best feasible way for Apple to compete with that is to get on more carriers. Have you noticed how the T-Mobile ads don't bag on the iPhone, just on AT&T? I think there's a very good reason for that. Why bash the phone you're going to be selling within months?
Most of these schools have state funding. Do you really think it would be so difficult for the **AAs to lobby for tighter restrictions on schools and budget cuts for those who don't comply? Higher ed has to watch out for its own ass too, you know.
Then that's part of your business. You also have the choice to not work with people who have Macs. If you want to work with that, then work with that and get what you need to deal with it. If not, then send them somewhere else.
And what Firewire drive doesn't also have USB ports?
Apple has very little control outside of their own products. Ergo, you are perfectly free to choose non-Apple products. I fail to see how they threaten your freedom when you still have the choice to choose something other than Apple.
So what? WebKit is open source. If Google doesn't like what Apple is doing with it, then can fork it. Apple does not own HTML5, which is a set of open standards, and criminy, I find few arguments against the adoption of HTML5 over Flash, at least in the long term. Short term isn't viable in every case.
Just because Apple is involved in something does not mean it's immediately evil and should be avoided.
My father-in-law is a fifty something and he's utterly retarded when it comes to computers. He's fallen for this crap before, which is why I got his family to throw in for a Mac MIni last Christmas. Now, instead of him calling for help when some virus wrecks his shit, he calls for help with burning a CD from iTunes. I'll take the latter, thanks.
Then again, the guy is pretty dumb all around, not just with computers...
Unless there was already a clause that policies may be subject to change with proper notification, in which case it is not void. The university would be retarded not to have that in the contract already.
You do realize that they also own the network, right? And that, as a student, you've signed an agreement at some point stating that you will not use it for purposes they deem inappropriate?
While this policy is idiotic, how the hell can you blame universities for trying to curb file sharing? They have the constant threat of **AA subpoenas over their heads. The last thing they want to do is have enough file sharers that some piece of shit lawyer on their team thinks they should sue the university for facilitating it. I wouldn't put it past them, that's for sure.
Ah, that would be it. It's still ludicrous to not be able to reformat and repartition a GUID drive. It shouldn't need to read the partition table to wipe it out. Using a GPT drive with full support is one thing. Wiping it? That shouldn't need any kind of additional support.
Um, Apple's library of music was far, FAR bigger than that of LegalSounds. There's a huge difference between some cherry-picked tracks and a vast music library.
I've never been able to reformat a drive with a GUID partition table in Windows 7 without pulling the command line. Just try plugging a drive from a Mac into a Windows 7 box and you'll see what I mean.
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Heh, I don't know if "everyone" would dive in. There are plenty of good retro games out there that have gone absolutely nowhere. You'd need to serious advertising dollars to have more than a scant chance of real success. Heck, I'm building an old-school party-based RPG (Think Bard's Tale) for Android and iOS once I either learn Cocoa or see if there are any good cross-compilers when I'm done, but I'm not betting on it doing more than making me a few bucks. It's fun to dream, but try to keep your expectations low. At worst, it'll probably meet those expectations. At best, you'll have them vastly exceeded.
Because they can just wrap it up with Cider.
Except that Blizzard has been releasing Mac games for nearly two decades now. Macs still aren't a real gaming platform. Why would Linux, which has a much smaller piece of the desktop market than Apple, suddenly become a gaming platform when Blizzard releases a game for it? You'd need a serious Linux EXCLUSIVE game to do that, and I don't see that happening.
So it's perfectly okay to take, take, take, and give nothing in return? If you want to justify this, then make something worthwhile yourself and give it away instead of pirating what other people have done and justifying your own selfishness by whining that the system is broken.
Can you put compost in your gas tank?
I think you mean, "Symbian is sitting uncomfortably on his steadily-shrinking throne because he's been unable to really compete with everyone else".
Doesn't help if your car gets stuck in an ugly rain or snowstorm. Doesn't help if you're trying to call in because some maniac is careening all over the road.
Y is preventable and happens due to driver error. Not always the case with X, which can be unavoidable even if the driver of one vehicle is paying attention to the road and surroundings. There's a big difference here. That's why a lot of states now issue fines for cellphone usage while driving.
Yeah, that's a great idea. Now you can't talk on the phone in any instance where you're moving. On a train? Passenger on a bus? How about a friggin' gondola? Or as a passenger in any vehicle? And that assumes GPSes have incredible accuracy (how about not being able to place a call or having it cut off because your GPS adjusted your location?), and then every phone would have to get this implemented, probably retroactively, and dumb phones without GPS wouldn't be able to implement it...
This is just as bad an idea as LaHood's bullshit.
And what if a reckless driver is careening everywhere on the highway? Or someone is chasing you? Or your car is stuck the middle of an ugly rain or snowstorm? How the hell are you supposed to get a call out for help if you can't get out of the car? Just pull over and step out to make the call on the interstate or into driving rain or snow?
This law is nothing but poorly-thought horseshit.
That's going to change very soon. I don't say that based on rumors, but on the fact that Android has passed the iPhone in overall marketshare, and the best feasible way for Apple to compete with that is to get on more carriers. Have you noticed how the T-Mobile ads don't bag on the iPhone, just on AT&T? I think there's a very good reason for that. Why bash the phone you're going to be selling within months?
Most of these schools have state funding. Do you really think it would be so difficult for the **AAs to lobby for tighter restrictions on schools and budget cuts for those who don't comply? Higher ed has to watch out for its own ass too, you know.
Then that's part of your business. You also have the choice to not work with people who have Macs. If you want to work with that, then work with that and get what you need to deal with it. If not, then send them somewhere else.
And what Firewire drive doesn't also have USB ports?
But it also doesn't leave them a mangled, charred mess, either.
Apple has very little control outside of their own products. Ergo, you are perfectly free to choose non-Apple products. I fail to see how they threaten your freedom when you still have the choice to choose something other than Apple.
So what? WebKit is open source. If Google doesn't like what Apple is doing with it, then can fork it. Apple does not own HTML5, which is a set of open standards, and criminy, I find few arguments against the adoption of HTML5 over Flash, at least in the long term. Short term isn't viable in every case.
Just because Apple is involved in something does not mean it's immediately evil and should be avoided.
My father-in-law is a fifty something and he's utterly retarded when it comes to computers. He's fallen for this crap before, which is why I got his family to throw in for a Mac MIni last Christmas. Now, instead of him calling for help when some virus wrecks his shit, he calls for help with burning a CD from iTunes. I'll take the latter, thanks.
Then again, the guy is pretty dumb all around, not just with computers...
Um, yeah, the big difference between surfing the internet and driving on the interstate is that nobody dies when the computer crashes.
Unless there was already a clause that policies may be subject to change with proper notification, in which case it is not void. The university would be retarded not to have that in the contract already.
You do realize that they also own the network, right? And that, as a student, you've signed an agreement at some point stating that you will not use it for purposes they deem inappropriate?
While this policy is idiotic, how the hell can you blame universities for trying to curb file sharing? They have the constant threat of **AA subpoenas over their heads. The last thing they want to do is have enough file sharers that some piece of shit lawyer on their team thinks they should sue the university for facilitating it. I wouldn't put it past them, that's for sure.
Ah, that would be it. It's still ludicrous to not be able to reformat and repartition a GUID drive. It shouldn't need to read the partition table to wipe it out. Using a GPT drive with full support is one thing. Wiping it? That shouldn't need any kind of additional support.
Ah, but how hard would it be to make Netflix think your desktop browser is an Android phone?
Um, Apple's library of music was far, FAR bigger than that of LegalSounds. There's a huge difference between some cherry-picked tracks and a vast music library.
I've never been able to reformat a drive with a GUID partition table in Windows 7 without pulling the command line. Just try plugging a drive from a Mac into a Windows 7 box and you'll see what I mean.
They'd burn out a few drones, then adapt. Nothing special.