I saw a press conference where the mayor or someone in charge said "shame on you for saying we were overreacting." Basically that douchebag head was saying that they were doing their job because of those suspicious packages.
I say douchebag in charge should resign instead because of lack of common sense. He'd probably shut down the city of a truckload of Panasonic Toughbooks jacknifed and scattered over the freeway because they look like bombs.
VLK require product keys. Ever since Microsoft started that nonsense, the process has been more cumbersome. Initally they sent you a hologrammed certificate with it on it. Now they require you to setup an eopen account.
The way you get around the key installation is by creating in install script where the key is part of it. It takes ten minutes to setup and a few minutes to install through the enterprise if done correctly.
No, they don't but they do require a valid product key and in order to get a product key, you have to have access to an eopen account which requires some sort of microsoft admission.
It situations like yours that makes me feel good about buying hardware that is equally supported between the Lin/Mac/Win world.
I have an Epson 3490 Scanner Samsung ML-1710 printer MadDog external dual layer DVD burner (haven't burned it in linux yet but it works so far as a drive)
Yeah, that limits it to a few vendors but I got burned on a scanner back in the Win9x days and I'll never do that again.
It's kind of a kick in the groin for Windows users as well.
What if a business user is running the next Windows OS (Windows 2012) and wants to run Vista (due to some software bugginess or other) in a VM using their own VM solution? Is the user required to get another license?
According to your logic, just about every president of the US as well as most heads of state would be considered a mass murderer.
If your country were to be invaded by Chinese with the intent of taking over, would you fight for your life, fight for your country, or just go into the camps and take a shower if asked/told to?
I believe you can try but it won't be supported but legal to do.
Running some versions of Windows Vista in a virtual environment won't be supported either and would break the terms of the license agreement. I'm not sure if breaking the EULA is an illegal thing or just that Microsoft can turn off the OS from afar and you're SOL.
Another way to look at it is that the MAC software accompanies the hardware like a fax machine has software. Would you want to run Brother's Fax software on a Sharp unit?
It comes boxed specifically to run with the Apple hardware brand no different than Palm Pilot upgrades Palm Pilots and not Windows CE devices.
My first DVD player was a DVD player for my computer that had a decoder card to go with it. It cost me $79. The card was a HollywoodPlus or something like that. About a year later, my local grocery store had a pallet of DVD players with 5 free movies. The DVD player was $200 which was the cheapest then. That was my first stand alone player and I still have it.
The original Unreal had a multiplayer that was leagues better than Quake, Quake 2 and Quake 3. That multiplayer bred Unreal Tournament that bore the familiar quips "Headshot" and "M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL"
Unreal and UT (and subsequent) had alternate fire for weapons. It had sniper rifle that Quake didn't. It's closest relative, the Rail Gun?? Sorry. Where else could you get a blade gun and ricochet a round to get a head shot or even accidentally cut off your own head?
How about teleportation within a person?
Also, Duke NukeEm 3D was loads of fun for multiplayer as well. Shrinking an enemy then stepping him and hearing "Ewwww!" is classic.
Quake offers nothing new that Duke Nuke'em didn't already have except better graphics.
Unreal had even better graphics, gameplay, weapons, online server browser, and multiplayer.
My complaint is from the fact that states like to spend too much.
I'm not against Google paying taxes. They should. $3 million just seems too steep for any business to pay unless it is the only manufacturer of toilet paper or something like that.
Add to that, the 'tax' is from something that isn't generated within NC. The tax is just because a company decides to have an address there.
$3 million per year comes out to be $15,000 per employee/year. That's a bit steep. Even federal taxes aren't that high if you count what Google will pay added with the employee contrib. If Google is paying their employees a salary > $1,000,000 - then maybe it's called for but I doubt an office of 200 people will have a payroll of a quarter billion a year.
Google is providing income by means of jobs. Something that North Carolina isn't doing. That means more state income tax payers. Retail and health care services will be used by employees and may even mean more people in the state.
I agree that states have expenses like road upkeep, schools, etc... But damn, look at any downtown infrastructure, are each of those tennants paying into $3 million a year each. That's a bit much for NC to ask.
I'm not part of the "Google does noe evil" but what is wrong with wanting to get tax/extortion breaks?
It all comes down to the bottom line and the purpose of all businesses is to make money.
$3 million a year in taxes is a lot of money. Why the hell does North Carolina need that much from 1 company???? Does North Carolina have a secret army? What does Red Hat pay? What does any medium sized bank pay?
When Ballmer and Gates are no longer the driving force behind Microsoft, that company will really erode. Common sense of interoperability will prevail instead of a monoculture of patches upon patches.
That is when Linux will really have a chance.
The unknown factor at this point is what platform will the RIAA/MPAA be tied to and support.
There is absolutely no common sense reason why Windows can't be completely new as OSX (as Longhorn was supposed to be) and run leagacy in VM. Instead we get bloated Vista with DRM hooks and PMP tollways to eat up the physically superior processors and bandwidth friendly bus speeds.
The logical reason why Vista isn't a 'NEW' OS is because of the developers. Micrsoft doesn't want developers learning something new unless it's Microsoft and a platform switch could cause mutiny.
Apple, with less resources, brought us OSX with legacy support in less time that it took Vista to get to retail from XP.
At this point, Microsoft is stricly playing the shareholder game.
Appease the largest customer base, the enterprise, and focus on bad publicity, the security angle.
It appears that Microsoft is not the fun place it once was during the 95/98 era when competition was in full swing.
Microsoft no longer has the enthusiast OS crown it had back in the DOS days. Vista is an incredibly complex (in the context of proprietary hooks and validation) piece of software that you have to be damn sure you want it installed on a certain piece of hardware before you load it up.
How many times have us older guys installed DOS to Win2K on multiple systems just to see if something worked and not really use that system anymore? Can't do that with Vista. (OK, there is that 30 day grace period thing)
Microsoft says it wants to appease the hobbyist types (that is for the shareholder press releases) but with all the lockdown, all it's doing is being available to be used - something it doesn't want to do. Microsoft wants Windows to be used for specific tasks, not be available at a hobbyists whim.
I remember setting up an old Win95 system some 10 years ago with some Bitware Fax software that came with a modem and I set that up as my Fax machine. The system also recorded messages and had a SkyTel messaging system that was part of the suite. I had a SkyTel pager at the time so that was cool and everytime I had a fax or message, I received a page with the caller ID and wether or not there was a voice or fax with it. Of course I could remotely retrieve the message and/or fax and it proved to be very useful.
Would I do it now if I had to ante up first? No way. If I had to pay for it, it would have been worth under $70 to me to shell out. I paid something like $35 for the modem and that software made it very well worth it.
If I had to, I could have run the software on my primary machine but I didn't want to. I had an older machine and I could let that machine just be a fax machine without compromising my machine. Vista (and XP for that matter) stops that type of mentality and that is what Microsoft wants. Planned usage.
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Doesn't really matter.
As crappy of a movie it is, I still want The Incredible Melting Man on DVD and it's not available legally in the US of A.
I remember seeing that at the local grindhouse with trailers for Suspiria and other shlock fests back in the day.
You know, Windows used to be like Linux back some 12+ years ago.
Click RUN type D:\setup.exe
I saw a press conference where the mayor or someone in charge said "shame on you for saying we were overreacting."
Basically that douchebag head was saying that they were doing their job because of those suspicious packages.
I say douchebag in charge should resign instead because of lack of common sense. He'd probably shut down the city of a truckload of Panasonic Toughbooks jacknifed and scattered over the freeway because they look like bombs.
VLK require product keys. Ever since Microsoft started that nonsense, the process has been more cumbersome.
Initally they sent you a hologrammed certificate with it on it.
Now they require you to setup an eopen account.
The way you get around the key installation is by creating in install script where the key is part of it. It takes ten minutes to setup and a few minutes to install through the enterprise if done correctly.
No, they don't but they do require a valid product key and in order to get a product key, you have to have access to an eopen account which requires some sort of microsoft admission.
It's probably for a VLK version. There was some issue with those associated with Eopen in the beginning.
It situations like yours that makes me feel good about buying hardware that is equally supported between the Lin/Mac/Win world.
I have an Epson 3490 Scanner
Samsung ML-1710 printer
MadDog external dual layer DVD burner (haven't burned it in linux yet but it works so far as a drive)
Yeah, that limits it to a few vendors but I got burned on a scanner back in the Win9x days and I'll never do that again.
It's kind of a kick in the groin for Windows users as well.
What if a business user is running the next Windows OS (Windows 2012) and wants to run Vista (due to some software bugginess or other) in a VM using their own VM solution?
Is the user required to get another license?
Porn sites could just litter their pages with images from CNN and Disney and hide them using CSS just to create false traffic reports.
According to your logic, just about every president of the US as well as most heads of state would be considered a mass murderer.
If your country were to be invaded by Chinese with the intent of taking over, would you fight for your life, fight for your country, or just go into the camps and take a shower if asked/told to?
I believe you can try but it won't be supported but legal to do.
Running some versions of Windows Vista in a virtual environment won't be supported either and would break the terms of the license agreement. I'm not sure if breaking the EULA is an illegal thing or just that Microsoft can turn off the OS from afar and you're SOL.
Another way to look at it is that the MAC software accompanies the hardware like a fax machine has software. Would you want to run Brother's Fax software on a Sharp unit?
It comes boxed specifically to run with the Apple hardware brand no different than Palm Pilot upgrades Palm Pilots and not Windows CE devices.
My first DVD player was a DVD player for my computer that had a decoder card to go with it. It cost me $79. The card was a HollywoodPlus or something like that.
About a year later, my local grocery store had a pallet of DVD players with 5 free movies. The DVD player was $200 which was the cheapest then. That was my first stand alone player and I still have it.
And CD and 8MM video tape.
You must mean a need for people like Adam Quark.
Unreal has/had the best software rendering engine so the answer to LOD would be no.
Sorry, Unreal blows Quake away.
The original Unreal had a multiplayer that was leagues better than Quake, Quake 2 and Quake 3.
That multiplayer bred Unreal Tournament that bore the familiar quips "Headshot" and "M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL"
Unreal and UT (and subsequent) had alternate fire for weapons.
It had sniper rifle that Quake didn't. It's closest relative, the Rail Gun?? Sorry.
Where else could you get a blade gun and ricochet a round to get a head shot or even accidentally cut off your own head?
How about teleportation within a person?
Also, Duke NukeEm 3D was loads of fun for multiplayer as well.
Shrinking an enemy then stepping him and hearing "Ewwww!" is classic.
Quake offers nothing new that Duke Nuke'em didn't already have except better graphics.
Unreal had even better graphics, gameplay, weapons, online server browser, and multiplayer.
My complaint is from the fact that states like to spend too much.
I'm not against Google paying taxes. They should.
$3 million just seems too steep for any business to pay unless it is the only manufacturer of toilet paper or something like that.
Add to that, the 'tax' is from something that isn't generated within NC. The tax is just because a company decides to have an address there.
$3 million per year comes out to be $15,000 per employee/year. That's a bit steep.
Even federal taxes aren't that high if you count what Google will pay added with the employee contrib.
If Google is paying their employees a salary > $1,000,000 - then maybe it's called for but I doubt an office of 200 people will have a payroll of a quarter billion a year.
Google is providing income by means of jobs. Something that North Carolina isn't doing. That means more state income tax payers. Retail and health care services will be used by employees and may even mean more people in the state.
I agree that states have expenses like road upkeep, schools, etc... But damn, look at any downtown infrastructure, are each of those tennants paying into $3 million a year each. That's a bit much for NC to ask.
I'm not part of the "Google does noe evil" but what is wrong with wanting to get tax/extortion breaks?
It all comes down to the bottom line and the purpose of all businesses is to make money.
$3 million a year in taxes is a lot of money. Why the hell does North Carolina need that much from 1 company????
Does North Carolina have a secret army? What does Red Hat pay? What does any medium sized bank pay?
When Ballmer and Gates are no longer the driving force behind Microsoft, that company will really erode.
Common sense of interoperability will prevail instead of a monoculture of patches upon patches.
That is when Linux will really have a chance.
The unknown factor at this point is what platform will the RIAA/MPAA be tied to and support.
There is absolutely no common sense reason why Windows can't be completely new as OSX (as Longhorn was supposed to be) and run leagacy in VM.
Instead we get bloated Vista with DRM hooks and PMP tollways to eat up the physically superior processors and bandwidth friendly bus speeds.
The logical reason why Vista isn't a 'NEW' OS is because of the developers.
Micrsoft doesn't want developers learning something new unless it's Microsoft and a platform switch could cause mutiny.
Apple, with less resources, brought us OSX with legacy support in less time that it took Vista to get to retail from XP.
Which also means physical access to the machine.
Hell, I can just yell "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all" and hose a Vista machine.
Because if Intel gives Dell a lower price, HP will want the same.
I am dating my self but I remember seeing that skit when it was first aired.
Mod parent Funny.
At this point, Microsoft is stricly playing the shareholder game.
Appease the largest customer base, the enterprise, and focus on bad publicity, the security angle.
It appears that Microsoft is not the fun place it once was during the 95/98 era when competition was in full swing.
Microsoft no longer has the enthusiast OS crown it had back in the DOS days.
Vista is an incredibly complex (in the context of proprietary hooks and validation) piece of software that you have to be damn sure you want it installed on a certain piece of hardware before you load it up.
How many times have us older guys installed DOS to Win2K on multiple systems just to see if something worked and not really use that system anymore?
Can't do that with Vista. (OK, there is that 30 day grace period thing)
Microsoft says it wants to appease the hobbyist types (that is for the shareholder press releases) but with all the lockdown, all it's doing is being available to be used - something it doesn't want to do.
Microsoft wants Windows to be used for specific tasks, not be available at a hobbyists whim.
I remember setting up an old Win95 system some 10 years ago with some Bitware Fax software that came with a modem and I set that up as my Fax machine.
The system also recorded messages and had a SkyTel messaging system that was part of the suite.
I had a SkyTel pager at the time so that was cool and everytime I had a fax or message, I received a page with the caller ID and wether or not there was a voice or fax with it. Of course I could remotely retrieve the message and/or fax and it proved to be very useful.
Would I do it now if I had to ante up first? No way.
If I had to pay for it, it would have been worth under $70 to me to shell out. I paid something like $35 for the modem and that software made it very well worth it.
If I had to, I could have run the software on my primary machine but I didn't want to.
I had an older machine and I could let that machine just be a fax machine without compromising my machine.
Vista (and XP for that matter) stops that type of mentality and that is what Microsoft wants. Planned usage.
One of my biggest problems is the fact that the UI sucks.
Granted, a free image hosting site is great, I'm not knocking that.
The UI is horrible and I can't stand albums that are on that site.
There is some pretty amazing imagery there and it's a shame it's on such a sorry site.
It feels incomplete.