Its not a question of ugly duck or swan. I understand Apple is a mix of hardware and software: for which am thankful to Apple for my iBook. Long after my friends' Dell DVD drives had stopped working, my iBook is still running smooth despite having to change my keyboard (my son pulled out each key meticulously) and hard drive (dropped from bed). I also know the hassles of making it work on non-Apple machines. But having paid $199 for 5 licenses, i want to use it.
Probably true. One thing that is better is wifi is better, and the battery life a little longer, although spotlight kicks in and re-indexes my whole drive. But am not buying an intel mac. I own an AMD X2, and i would rather hack Leopard to run on it. Seems fair enough. After all i have a family license, so i can run it on another machine.
Actually you are right and wrong. I have G4 iBook. I upgraded to Leopard last week from Tiger. Tiger was the fastest OS i had. The upgrade failed. iBook became terribly slow (no, spotlight was done). I had to wipe and install. Somehow it seems slower and less colorful now. Panther was slow. Tiger was fastest. Leopard is like XP. powerPC is something i like. It is a different architecture than the staid crappy x86. It was beautiful. I don't know whom to blame: arrogant IBM or impatient Apple or us suckers.
Probably after the dream cabinet choices. My choices for cabinet would be: 1) Chuck Hagel: Defense 2) Ron Paul(R): Treasury (!!!) 3) Clinton: Spl. Envoy to Pakistan 4) Ralph nader: OSHA chief 5) Spitzer(yes): SEC chief 6) Schwarzenegger: State
Make it a point to get a diploma in the book Code Complete. I have the first edition, and even 12 years after buying it, i STILL discover a new idea or good teaching in that book. Some days, when it is snowing hard outside, and the TV is on the blink, and the radio throws out random hijinks, and all the other books have no meaning, i open a random page in this book, to learn a new thing that i not forsook,
sorry about the rhyme less lyrics, its just that i had a hard day today, and i love the aged book very much. Surprising is the fact it comes from Microsoft.
Man i pine for the old days. I had a 486DX2 running at 66MHz with 8MB RAM and windows 3.11 WFW. It used up 24 3.5 floppies. I even cracked a shareware which provided simulated taskbar for Win 3.11 (this was just after Win 95 release). The code was COOKIEFEAST. I also tried to run the JDK 1.0.2 on it by adding 32-bit extensions to the Win 3.11 but it never ran. The bootup was significantly faster than my vista today (am downgrading to XP today; call up Dell and tell them to shove their Vista DVD up their a**** and send me an XP CD).
Obama may be immune, but not the congress; whose critters have drawn down billions from the credit line of lobbyists. The money controls the congress so much that critters don't hesitate to handout 700 billions to their "uncles" & "aunties". One law is all that is needed: Make all campaign contributions illegal. The government will fund election campaign for candidates who have got the signatures of atleast 1% of the electorate. Simple.
The problem is all the bile, hate and bias is all true. That's how free press is supposed to work: Fifth Estate. To take a critical look at all government actions, and to bias against the government, as people have no other means of controlling the government. If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, then the jails of the country are filled with good people. Probably you are an american who has only seen Fox News and read Newyork post all his life so anything that does not toadie up to the government seems surprising to you. This itself is surprising since you guys hated King George so much...
Gordon Brown has made a frank admission that government cannot promise the safety of personal data entrusted by the public.
The British Taxpayers association has made a frank admission that the taxpayers CANNOT guarantee that income & VAT taxes would be paid by its 1.8 million members.
...that the cards would allow people to "easily and securely prove their identity". "We want to be able to prevent those here illegally from benefiting from the privileges of Britain," she said
The British Citizens Association is proposing a "compulsorily voluntary" ID card for public servants and MPs starting from January 1, 2009. The president of the association has stated "...this is to prevent brain-damaged MPs and low IQ civil servants from grabbing power, and to ensure the safety and security of all citizens against illegal elections.". he further stated that the cards would be a bright Pink, with a large 24-point number indicating the holder's IQ score. All campaign advertisements should carry the image of the card to enable citizens to make an "informed" judgement about the person standing in election. "This is to prevent the riff-raff and the dumb people from being elected.", he said.
Firing is insulting to the victims. I *dearly* hope a super-rich-parents' 2-year old infant dies in this battery fire. Then we have a solid case for murder against Sony CEO and Sony US. Now, since Sony (like all other corps) claim they are a *person*, let them feel the effects of being indicted and convicted of murder. The entire board should be hanged till death for the murder of a 2-year old; in public. That will freeze any such quality vs money discussions in companies. Only one lesson is needed.
Month??? You are highly optimistic. Most of these MTF visit the legal whore houses daily to spend OUR money. All of them should be outed out, and thrown out of their repossessed houses with no money.
Time to put up a few spycams in EVERY MP's bedroom and car plus spycams in the dingo house called parliment and to broadcast it 24x7 on the 'net. After all if i have nothing to hide why worry is their argument, so apply it to them! Once a few MPs are SPitzer'ed then the law will be gone. Until then the law stays. Which aussie wants to volunteer?
Look, iam not with EA or any other gaming guys. Heck,am not even with Microsoft. All am saying is cracking is OK IF you own a license to that game: like i did with Spore. For instance in my case after EA support validated my keys they infact advised me to download a cracked copy and install it with keys.
Cracking is NOT OK is you don't have a license. That's just mean stealing.
I also don't like the licensing concept. But we are free to crack a game IF the provider tries to harm our computer; to keep our property safe. The law allows for that. But cracking just for stealing a game is not right. Cracking a game AFTER you have a valid license should be perfectly valid, but unfortunately our congresscritters made sure we are criminals. For once i love to see a senior congressman's son or daughter caught, indicted and convicted of Limewire or piratebay stuff.
Losing an install credit is bad, but in your case if you had NOT done any changes to hardware, the credit would never have been tripped. Securom checks for hardware hashes. A MAJOR change in hardware results in reactivation much like XP does. I used to download cracked games and stuff, until i kaspersky did a deep scan of my drive and came up with 100 trojans. I stopped after that. People who upload to RS or ML or even torrents patched or "cracked" games are not altruistic. Most time it is just trojans. So why take a risk.
The stardock game is DRM-free, even today, The Impulse client is not. But stardock is listening to its customers and removed DRM. And enough with the 3-use limit of SPORE and etc.: Its NOT limited to multiple installs on SAME hardware. It covers different hardware. Like me reparing my XP partition nn times. No, Windows will never ask for activation when i repair it, and even it does the activation limit is NOT tripped. That's what Spore DRM does. The first time you install it, your hardware signature is sent to EA with your login. Next time, you re-install it with SAME CD key and same user login on same machine, it gets activated without tripping anything. Third time you try same login on different hardware, it trips the first countdown. I have Company of Heroes and opposing fronts, they too use the same method, and i have reinstalled on same machine thrice so far (first time times i added a new hard drive and "moved" the game to new drive, the 2nd time i had to reinstall XP, and third time i bought OF and had to uninstall CoH and install OF first). No, my activation crap was NOT tripped. I also own Crysis, which after my xp reinstall i have NOT installed. but yes, it too will not trip up since the hardware is same. I guess some like it raw, and that is why they like to hack and slash to play a game. For me i like it cooked and served to eat. I pay to play, and if i don't pay, i don't play.
Oh yeah??? Well stardock has no DRM: zero for its Games. I bought SoSE primarily to support stardock (i don't play it, but that's another matter). They care a sh1t if i share my keys with my friend or my brat brother. Which is exactly why my brother also bought a copy: he says the stardock game is "cool" to buy and he hates sharing the key with anyone else. or take WarCraft for instance. I can install the game client on any machine anywhere any number of times. Warcraft makers don't care. Thier model is to make money off the online battles i do and not the damn client.
No i didn't. I paid them BECAUSE i wanted to support good games. Like i paid for Stardock games because they have no DRM. When i found somehow the DVD could not be read in my PC, EA told me to get a refund. I didnt want a refund. I wanted to play. It was then that EA admin directed me to download a copy from elsewhere and use my keys for install. I don't regret paying EA for a good game. And i didn't get banned from EA forums for that. Supporting good games with your wallet makes good sense: makes them produce good games. Using illegal copies extensively makes them more nervous and introduce more dangerous DRM.
Exactly! Even my puny iBook G4 can automatically reduce its clock speed to conserving battery life when idle. Dumb x86 architecture. Why is that the best technology never wins? HD DVD and Blu-Ray? PowerPC and x86? Linux and Windows?
Getting yourself banned in a forum is a tough task even for a normal troll. The procedure is like deportation procedures of DHS: warnings, appeals, temporary bans and then the final permanent ban. In the forums i lurk, i have fiery trolls flame going nuclear with some idiotic comment, insulting everyone, etc., but the administrator will barely notice. The moment the insults turn personal, the Admin jumps in and warns the offender. If the offender continues his rampage he is given a time-out as a temporary ban. if the timeout didn't cool him and he comes back again bashing people, he is permanently banned. In my opinion, this is very good. I use forums for tips, or cheat codes or advice on a couple of hardware. Like the time my PC was unable to read Spore DVD, and an admin of EA came and told me to copy off the install files from someone else's dvd or download it, and then use my own keys to install the same. I did that and iam now a proud player! Sometimes i was flamed for asking if SLI-ing 2 8600 GT cards equals one 9800 GT... The flame was good-natured, but i have seen innocent questions come back and bite the questioner in their as$ (like installing Spore on 1 Mac iBook G4 and 1 PC and not able to install). The insults were personal and referred to anatomies. People can do without those insults. I support EA in this regard. I have karma to burn, but i stand by my conviction: I support EA in banning trolls in forums and banning them from the Game itself.
Wrong. The panic of 1907 is exactly same as today: A Republican moralist in the White House. War fresh in [public] mind. Immigration fueling dramatic changes in society. New technologies changing people's everyday lives. Business consolidators and their Wall Street advisers creating large, new combinations through mergers and acquisitions, while the government was investigating and prosecuting prominent executives--led by an aggressive young prosecutor from New York. The public's attitude toward business leaders, fueled by a muckraking press, was largely negative. The government itself was becoming increasingly interventionist in society and, in some ways, more intrusive in individual life. These are views from 1907. See the similarities?
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Its not a question of ugly duck or swan.
I understand Apple is a mix of hardware and software: for which am thankful to Apple for my iBook.
Long after my friends' Dell DVD drives had stopped working, my iBook is still running smooth despite having to change my keyboard (my son pulled out each key meticulously) and hard drive (dropped from bed).
I also know the hassles of making it work on non-Apple machines.
But having paid $199 for 5 licenses, i want to use it.
Probably true. One thing that is better is wifi is better, and the battery life a little longer, although spotlight kicks in and re-indexes my whole drive.
But am not buying an intel mac.
I own an AMD X2, and i would rather hack Leopard to run on it.
Seems fair enough. After all i have a family license, so i can run it on another machine.
Actually you are right and wrong.
I have G4 iBook. I upgraded to Leopard last week from Tiger.
Tiger was the fastest OS i had.
The upgrade failed. iBook became terribly slow (no, spotlight was done).
I had to wipe and install.
Somehow it seems slower and less colorful now.
Panther was slow. Tiger was fastest. Leopard is like XP.
powerPC is something i like. It is a different architecture than the staid crappy x86. It was beautiful.
I don't know whom to blame: arrogant IBM or impatient Apple or us suckers.
Probably after the dream cabinet choices.
My choices for cabinet would be:
1) Chuck Hagel: Defense
2) Ron Paul(R): Treasury (!!!)
3) Clinton: Spl. Envoy to Pakistan
4) Ralph nader: OSHA chief
5) Spitzer(yes): SEC chief
6) Schwarzenegger: State
That's all i can remember...
I did and i also lost a bet on it.
EUR 100.
I was paranoid and obviously thought that Rove or Bush would be brilliant like Stalin,
By bad.
Make it a point to get a diploma in the book Code Complete.
I have the first edition, and even 12 years after buying it, i STILL discover a new idea or good teaching in that book.
Some days, when it is snowing hard outside, and the TV is on the blink,
and the radio throws out random hijinks,
and all the other books have no meaning,
i open a random page in this book,
to learn a new thing that i not forsook,
sorry about the rhyme less lyrics, its just that i had a hard day today, and i love the aged book very much.
Surprising is the fact it comes from Microsoft.
1930s??? WHAT are you?
Sorry. I was wrong. Thanks for the correction though. Guess after 13 years i forgot how many floppies i kept shoving into that gaping hole...
Man i pine for the old days.
I had a 486DX2 running at 66MHz with 8MB RAM and windows 3.11 WFW. It used up 24 3.5 floppies.
I even cracked a shareware which provided simulated taskbar for Win 3.11 (this was just after Win 95 release). The code was COOKIEFEAST.
I also tried to run the JDK 1.0.2 on it by adding 32-bit extensions to the Win 3.11 but it never ran.
The bootup was significantly faster than my vista today (am downgrading to XP today; call up Dell and tell them to shove their Vista DVD up their a**** and send me an XP CD).
Obama may be immune, but not the congress; whose critters have drawn down billions from the credit line of lobbyists.
The money controls the congress so much that critters don't hesitate to handout 700 billions to their "uncles" & "aunties".
One law is all that is needed: Make all campaign contributions illegal. The government will fund election campaign for candidates who have got the signatures of atleast 1% of the electorate. Simple.
The problem is all the bile, hate and bias is all true. ...
That's how free press is supposed to work: Fifth Estate.
To take a critical look at all government actions, and to bias against the government, as people have no other means of controlling the government.
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, then the jails of the country are filled with good people.
Probably you are an american who has only seen Fox News and read Newyork post all his life so anything that does not toadie up to the government seems surprising to you. This itself is surprising since you guys hated King George so much
Gordon Brown has made a frank admission that government cannot promise the safety of personal data entrusted by the public.
The British Taxpayers association has made a frank admission that the taxpayers CANNOT guarantee that income & VAT taxes would be paid by its 1.8 million members.
...that the cards would allow people to "easily and securely prove their identity".
"We want to be able to prevent those here illegally from benefiting from the privileges of Britain," she said
The British Citizens Association is proposing a "compulsorily voluntary" ID card for public servants and MPs starting from January 1, 2009. The president of the association has stated "...this is to prevent brain-damaged MPs and low IQ civil servants from grabbing power, and to ensure the safety and security of all citizens against illegal elections.". he further stated that the cards would be a bright Pink, with a large 24-point number indicating the holder's IQ score.
All campaign advertisements should carry the image of the card to enable citizens to make an "informed" judgement about the person standing in election.
"This is to prevent the riff-raff and the dumb people from being elected.", he said.
Ugh!!! You are dirty man. Although perfectly right.
Firing is insulting to the victims.
I *dearly* hope a super-rich-parents' 2-year old infant dies in this battery fire.
Then we have a solid case for murder against Sony CEO and Sony US.
Now, since Sony (like all other corps) claim they are a *person*, let them feel the effects of being indicted and convicted of murder.
The entire board should be hanged till death for the murder of a 2-year old; in public.
That will freeze any such quality vs money discussions in companies. Only one lesson is needed.
Month??? You are highly optimistic.
Most of these MTF visit the legal whore houses daily to spend OUR money.
All of them should be outed out, and thrown out of their repossessed houses with no money.
Time to put up a few spycams in EVERY MP's bedroom and car plus spycams in the dingo house called parliment and to broadcast it 24x7 on the 'net.
After all if i have nothing to hide why worry is their argument, so apply it to them!
Once a few MPs are SPitzer'ed then the law will be gone.
Until then the law stays.
Which aussie wants to volunteer?
Look, iam not with EA or any other gaming guys. Heck,am not even with Microsoft.
All am saying is cracking is OK IF you own a license to that game: like i did with Spore. For instance in my case after EA support validated my keys they infact advised me to download a cracked copy and install it with keys.
Cracking is NOT OK is you don't have a license. That's just mean stealing.
I also don't like the licensing concept.
But we are free to crack a game IF the provider tries to harm our computer; to keep our property safe.
The law allows for that.
But cracking just for stealing a game is not right.
Cracking a game AFTER you have a valid license should be perfectly valid, but unfortunately our congresscritters made sure we are criminals.
For once i love to see a senior congressman's son or daughter caught, indicted and convicted of Limewire or piratebay stuff.
Losing an install credit is bad, but in your case if you had NOT done any changes to hardware, the credit would never have been tripped.
Securom checks for hardware hashes. A MAJOR change in hardware results in reactivation much like XP does.
I used to download cracked games and stuff, until i kaspersky did a deep scan of my drive and came up with 100 trojans. I stopped after that.
People who upload to RS or ML or even torrents patched or "cracked" games are not altruistic. Most time it is just trojans.
So why take a risk.
The stardock game is DRM-free, even today, The Impulse client is not. But stardock is listening to its customers and removed DRM.
And enough with the 3-use limit of SPORE and etc.: Its NOT limited to multiple installs on SAME hardware. It covers different hardware.
Like me reparing my XP partition nn times. No, Windows will never ask for activation when i repair it, and even it does the activation limit is NOT tripped.
That's what Spore DRM does. The first time you install it, your hardware signature is sent to EA with your login. Next time, you re-install it with SAME CD key and same user login on same machine, it gets activated without tripping anything.
Third time you try same login on different hardware, it trips the first countdown.
I have Company of Heroes and opposing fronts, they too use the same method, and i have reinstalled on same machine thrice so far (first time times i added a new hard drive and "moved" the game to new drive, the 2nd time i had to reinstall XP, and third time i bought OF and had to uninstall CoH and install OF first). No, my activation crap was NOT tripped.
I also own Crysis, which after my xp reinstall i have NOT installed. but yes, it too will not trip up since the hardware is same.
I guess some like it raw, and that is why they like to hack and slash to play a game. For me i like it cooked and served to eat.
I pay to play, and if i don't pay, i don't play.
Oh yeah???
Well stardock has no DRM: zero for its Games.
I bought SoSE primarily to support stardock (i don't play it, but that's another matter).
They care a sh1t if i share my keys with my friend or my brat brother.
Which is exactly why my brother also bought a copy: he says the stardock game is "cool" to buy and he hates sharing the key with anyone else.
or take WarCraft for instance. I can install the game client on any machine anywhere any number of times. Warcraft makers don't care. Thier model is to make money off the online battles i do and not the damn client.
No i didn't.
I paid them BECAUSE i wanted to support good games. Like i paid for Stardock games because they have no DRM.
When i found somehow the DVD could not be read in my PC, EA told me to get a refund. I didnt want a refund. I wanted to play.
It was then that EA admin directed me to download a copy from elsewhere and use my keys for install.
I don't regret paying EA for a good game.
And i didn't get banned from EA forums for that.
Supporting good games with your wallet makes good sense: makes them produce good games.
Using illegal copies extensively makes them more nervous and introduce more dangerous DRM.
Exactly!
Even my puny iBook G4 can automatically reduce its clock speed to conserving battery life when idle.
Dumb x86 architecture.
Why is that the best technology never wins?
HD DVD and Blu-Ray?
PowerPC and x86?
Linux and Windows?
Getting yourself banned in a forum is a tough task even for a normal troll.
The procedure is like deportation procedures of DHS: warnings, appeals, temporary bans and then the final permanent ban.
In the forums i lurk, i have fiery trolls flame going nuclear with some idiotic comment, insulting everyone, etc., but the administrator will barely notice.
The moment the insults turn personal, the Admin jumps in and warns the offender. If the offender continues his rampage he is given a time-out as a temporary ban.
if the timeout didn't cool him and he comes back again bashing people, he is permanently banned.
In my opinion, this is very good.
I use forums for tips, or cheat codes or advice on a couple of hardware. Like the time my PC was unable to read Spore DVD, and an admin of EA came and told me to copy off the install files from someone else's dvd or download it, and then use my own keys to install the same.
I did that and iam now a proud player!
Sometimes i was flamed for asking if SLI-ing 2 8600 GT cards equals one 9800 GT... The flame was good-natured, but i have seen innocent questions come back and bite the questioner in their as$ (like installing Spore on 1 Mac iBook G4 and 1 PC and not able to install).
The insults were personal and referred to anatomies.
People can do without those insults.
I support EA in this regard.
I have karma to burn, but i stand by my conviction: I support EA in banning trolls in forums and banning them from the Game itself.
Wrong. The panic of 1907 is exactly same as today:
A Republican moralist in the White House.
War fresh in [public] mind.
Immigration fueling dramatic changes in society.
New technologies changing people's everyday lives.
Business consolidators and their Wall Street advisers creating large, new combinations through mergers and acquisitions, while the government was investigating and prosecuting prominent executives--led by an aggressive young prosecutor from New York.
The public's attitude toward business leaders, fueled by a muckraking press, was largely negative.
The government itself was becoming increasingly interventionist in society and, in some ways, more intrusive in individual life.
These are views from 1907. See the similarities?