so wait....
The EU decided the name
Linux and MacOS X are allowed to have media players in their operating systems
Now consumers loose out on this because they have lsot out of the box features to a product
i just dont understand, where the logic in this. Yeh sure they might try to be heading off a media monopoly but who cares? its the occasional movie and audio file. Pm3 and Xvid will still always be around. The mum and dad consumers just want their computers to be able to play a Cs when they put it in while they are writing their emails and what not.
And why does the european union get to choose the name. Isnt that upto the manufacture? Hell, why dont they just go ahead and remake their own OS.
I understand its as easy to install a Media player, but this is not the point. The Eu has spend a heap of money on fighting a legal battle with a product maker just so that people have to download a program to run their CD's and MP3's instead of out of the boc functionality.
To hell i say with the european union. If i was microsoft i would just pull rank and move out of europe. Sure its an unrealistic measure but MS inst in the wrong on this one.
And thurther more why are the other operating systems allowed to have their own media players (excluding some OS'es and builds of linux) and Windows is not. And dont call the monopoly defence on this one. We are talking about playing MP3s and the occasional film not some propriatary format they are trying to push down our throats, and dont tell me about WMA because for gods sake if the Mum and Dad consumers are going to use that format well good on them who gives a Dam
I just dont get it, that the european union would fight a big evil corperation to cripple the product that their citizens use.
I hate MS and its monoplistic ways but god as my witness forcing manufactures to offer alternative to windows and provding the Europeans Unions media companies with non-MS alternatives that are worth the time is a far better option to stopping your adverage joe having to spend 2 minutes installing Windows Media Player just to play that funny movie his mate sent him.
I remember playing Sim City 2000 when i was younger, there was this one power station called a microwave-station. the bio said something about collecting power from solar cells in space and using microwaves to transmit them back to earth.
IF an anti-hravity machine, as absurd as it may be, would require these amounts of energry why can black hole collisions and massive explosions also warp gravity with far less energy? One would say the fact that the blackholes already warp gravity is a factor but then again mass is energy.
The only forseeable way i think to get "real" flying cars would be anti-gravity though this is far beyond our reach yet. Research is being done at places like cern in the serach for gravitons (the fundamental particles of gravity)
Star gate is less less then 2 eppisodes behind over here in austrlia. but most of us now have 8mbit adsl so i wouldnt be suprised. shows arnt "that" behind down here but even if they are theres a good off put for it and thats that fact that 80% of the time our networks cut out all the crap other tv stations around the world produce and just show stuff they know will get high ratings. might be slower, but ya get more quality
They cradled the pc from the beginning, the reseached much of the technology we take for granted in todays computers, they built many of the best PC products.
Im sure IBM will continue their great work in the field of communication technology and keep releaseing great products, but it still sad to see one of their components responsible for part of the Information ages to be redistributed. Even if your some one who never bought one of thier products the fact that you are using a PC is part because of them. They held down the mac, conjured Microsoft's rise and for that we thank them
RIP, IBM (its PC section at least)
i guess this is sorta an end to an era. BTW, keep up the work on quntum computers IBM
So, according to my sundial, time stops when the sun goes down?
I dont want time to stop, id rather have a sundial that works at night
and for that natter how is it supposed to wake you up for work?
has anyone taken into accound the massive bandwidth issues when they open the buy option on this cache?
Valves swiss bank accound will be/.ed with a billion gamers all wanting to play at once.
I mean in the olden days u used to have a steady cash flow as the game is bough but now Vavles going to get one HUGE amount of money at once. Plus they dont have to pay to release the game boxed ans ship it.
Steam has 1,588,501 unique players per day right now lets just say they were all to Precache and buy HL2 all at once:
Valves bank account would be $95,310,060, instantly. Note the actual number will be less because nto everyone will preload nor buy the game.
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so wait.... The EU decided the name Linux and MacOS X are allowed to have media players in their operating systems Now consumers loose out on this because they have lsot out of the box features to a product i just dont understand, where the logic in this. Yeh sure they might try to be heading off a media monopoly but who cares? its the occasional movie and audio file. Pm3 and Xvid will still always be around. The mum and dad consumers just want their computers to be able to play a Cs when they put it in while they are writing their emails and what not. And why does the european union get to choose the name. Isnt that upto the manufacture? Hell, why dont they just go ahead and remake their own OS. I understand its as easy to install a Media player, but this is not the point. The Eu has spend a heap of money on fighting a legal battle with a product maker just so that people have to download a program to run their CD's and MP3's instead of out of the boc functionality. To hell i say with the european union. If i was microsoft i would just pull rank and move out of europe. Sure its an unrealistic measure but MS inst in the wrong on this one. And thurther more why are the other operating systems allowed to have their own media players (excluding some OS'es and builds of linux) and Windows is not. And dont call the monopoly defence on this one. We are talking about playing MP3s and the occasional film not some propriatary format they are trying to push down our throats, and dont tell me about WMA because for gods sake if the Mum and Dad consumers are going to use that format well good on them who gives a Dam I just dont get it, that the european union would fight a big evil corperation to cripple the product that their citizens use. I hate MS and its monoplistic ways but god as my witness forcing manufactures to offer alternative to windows and provding the Europeans Unions media companies with non-MS alternatives that are worth the time is a far better option to stopping your adverage joe having to spend 2 minutes installing Windows Media Player just to play that funny movie his mate sent him.
do you ever get the feeling that we should be the ones runing the country?
I remember playing Sim City 2000 when i was younger, there was this one power station called a microwave-station. the bio said something about collecting power from solar cells in space and using microwaves to transmit them back to earth.
Sounded good.......Till half my city burnt down.
IF an anti-hravity machine, as absurd as it may be, would require these amounts of energry why can black hole collisions and massive explosions also warp gravity with far less energy? One would say the fact that the blackholes already warp gravity is a factor but then again mass is energy. The only forseeable way i think to get "real" flying cars would be anti-gravity though this is far beyond our reach yet. Research is being done at places like cern in the serach for gravitons (the fundamental particles of gravity)
Star gate is less less then 2 eppisodes behind over here in austrlia. but most of us now have 8mbit adsl so i wouldnt be suprised. shows arnt "that" behind down here but even if they are theres a good off put for it and thats that fact that 80% of the time our networks cut out all the crap other tv stations around the world produce and just show stuff they know will get high ratings. might be slower, but ya get more quality
your an ass hole u know that.
They cradled the pc from the beginning, the reseached much of the technology we take for granted in todays computers, they built many of the best PC products.
Im sure IBM will continue their great work in the field of communication technology and keep releaseing great products, but it still sad to see one of their components responsible for part of the Information ages to be redistributed. Even if your some one who never bought one of thier products the fact that you are using a PC is part because of them. They held down the mac, conjured Microsoft's rise and for that we thank them
RIP, IBM (its PC section at least)
i guess this is sorta an end to an era.
BTW, keep up the work on quntum computers IBM
So, according to my sundial, time stops when the sun goes down? I dont want time to stop, id rather have a sundial that works at night and for that natter how is it supposed to wake you up for work?
i for one welcome our new plane flying rat overlords
has anyone taken into accound the massive bandwidth issues when they open the buy option on this cache?
/.ed with a billion gamers all wanting to play at once.
Valves swiss bank accound will be
I mean in the olden days u used to have a steady cash flow as the game is bough but now Vavles going to get one HUGE amount of money at once. Plus they dont have to pay to release the game boxed ans ship it.
Steam has 1,588,501 unique players per day right now lets just say they were all to Precache and buy HL2 all at once:
Valves bank account would be $95,310,060, instantly. Note the actual number will be less because nto everyone will preload nor buy the game.