At one point I lost an auction to a sniper, it pissed me off so bad I emailed ebay asking them to ban sniping software. Thier reply was to the effect of "we're sorry you suck at life, but sniping in all its forms helps us get more money, so STFU N00B"
I paraphrased, but that's more or less the tone of the email.
Just a little FYI, I have two things there. One is AVG antivirus, the other is the equalizer program for my sound card. Both are there by choice. I also dont have iTunes installed just because well, I cant stand the progam (the ipod helper deal doesnt help either) I also do not have realplayer, again due to the fact I do not like the official player.
Firefox isnt that slow on my machine, but on many others (including two other houshold machines) it's rather slow. The main "shared" computer in the house is so slow FF isnt used just because IE loads faster.
That having been said, every update that comes out is causing a noticeable decrease in initial load time.
One of my friends was trying to get the "free ipod" deal, so I signed up for a free trial of AOL to help him out. I even went so far as to use it to see if it was as bad as I remembered. It was much, much worse.
After a day or so, I decided to cancel. The operator tried to ask me why I was cancelling and blah blah blah, I simply said it was not a service I was willing to use and I was canceling my account. The process took about 5 minutes. I wouldnt go so far as to say it was frustrating, difficult, or even an annoyance beyond having used AOL in the first place. This guy obviously had a bad experiance, but as my experiance was about as easy as it could be, not all AOL reps are bad... Other than working for AOL of course;)
I like the tabbed browsing, that's one of the reasons I switched. But I gotta say the pop up blocker leaves alot to be desired. Like blocking popups for one. With IE6, you have an option to block *all* popups. It does exactly that. FF's popup blocker does block some popups, however it does let a significant amount get by.
Also, I'm not a fan of load time. I dont mean rendering pages, maybe one out of every seven hundred pages I view has any noticeable difference in "rendering" (that word is another pet peeve of mine, I always just called it "loading") but I mean the more important load time: Where I hit the firefox icon then go get a cup of coffee and smoke a cigarette while I wait for the program to open. If I'm lucky it'll be done by the time I get back from my coffee break. IE6 on the other hand doesnt have that problem. Most likely due to the fact that it's integrated into the OS, but that's an argument for a different day.
I think you missed a good portion of his point. The point was not piracy = good or piracy = bad, it was declaring war on an abstract idea = bad because it does nothing but criminlaize those who politicians choose to make examples of. Chances are you're guilty of something right now even though you havent broken any laws you know about. And on to your point, I think more than 70% of the population supports freedom of speech, however we've given that up under the guise of "security" because it's "for our own good". We let them take it from us. Now that they've proven we as Americans will give up anything if we're told "it's for your own good" just think of the field day the politicians will have when the anti-porn lobby starts making "contributions". It will be fed to us as a measure of protecting our children. It's for our own good. The same idea can be applied to any law that would never under any circumstance be allowed to pass because it's grossly unconstitutional, yet because it's for our own good, we must ignore rational thought and act quickly before someone realises what's going on.
The world will never be a safe place to live as long as we let others decide what's in our best interest.
That rant being over, Piracy is bad. But forcing other countries to do what we want is not the answer. Our problem only exists in this country. Outside of America, it's not our problem, it's Their problem. Let them deal with it however they want to.
At least in my experiance, windows boxes are generally set up for single user environments. Sure there could very well be more than one user account (administrator and guest for example) but only the account with admin rights will be used. In linux you are more or less required to run multiple user accounts.
So what's to stop someone from making a new IM worm that advertises itself as a program to disable the constant password/security warnings instead of a "safety browser"?
No, it's pretty pointfull actually. You compare the product in development's R&D cost plus projected sales/loss vs the product on the market's actual R&D cost plus actual sales/losses.
...But their business plan/must/ be better than Microsoft's, because you know, it's Sony. Even if they are going to lose just as much if not more.
What alot of people are not taking into account is video games. The whole idea of selling a conslole at a loss is to make it up on game sales. Do you really think it costs near $50 to make each game? There's a one time development cost, and a manufacturing cost after that. Games are not sold anywhere near a loss.
Trust me, I have a point. Lack of coffee is making it hard for me to get there.
While working at Electronics Boutique a few years ago, not a week went by that we didnt make the Playstation 2 games section smaller, and the Xbox section bigger. Sales for Playstation 2 games fell, and the section got even smaller. Over the course of a few months, Sony and Microsoft basically switched places in terms of game sales and market share, at least in our store. People still bought Playstation 2's, but they also still bought Nintendo 64's and Sega Dreamcasts. On several occasions, someone came in and purchased an Xbox, an xbox live starter kit, 10 - 15 games, 3 extra controllers, DVD remote, and a good number of third party accessories. That's where the money is. Microsoft might have lost money on the Xbox, but they more than made up for it with other products and services.
There was never a similar purchase for the Playstation 2. People who bought those usually said "I like how I can play my PS1 games on it" and either bought a game or two or no games at all with it. Most of the people who bought xboxes from me became regulars, buying (at least) one $50 game every week or two, for months (possibly years). That's all that matters to the console maker.
I dont remember being charged for windows media player (beyond paying for windows itself). I do however remember both quicktime and realplayer asking me for money repeatedly. When will there be a lawsuit against apple for bundling itunes with quicktime? Or Quicktime with OSX?
But I thought being a jerk was what the internet was made for, not all this productive jibberish you be talkin' about. I mean really, who in their right mind would buy books off the internet? That's just silly.
However if invites you in and convinces you he has the authority to do so, at the very least you would have diminished culpability in the act of going in to the apartment.
At the same time I didnt see anything in TFA about them being 'invited', just they were given access.
They're punishing reporters for reporting? If they were given access when they shouldnt have had it, wouldnt it be the fault of the person who gave them access, not them for accessing it?
All I know is this'll sure make a good news story. Oh; wait, nevermind.
I have no idea what brand it was (pioneer or something), but a friend of mine has a nav system in his element. Maps are WAY more dangerous, because well, you have to look at a map. Once you've typed in the endpoint, it tells you when to turn and whatnot. No human interaction is needed after you've set the waypoints. When was the last time a paper map spoke up to let you know you missed your exit or to tell you traffic is slowing ahead?
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I paraphrased, but that's more or less the tone of the email.
Firefox isnt that slow on my machine, but on many others (including two other houshold machines) it's rather slow. The main "shared" computer in the house is so slow FF isnt used just because IE loads faster.
That having been said, every update that comes out is causing a noticeable decrease in initial load time.
After a day or so, I decided to cancel. The operator tried to ask me why I was cancelling and blah blah blah, I simply said it was not a service I was willing to use and I was canceling my account. The process took about 5 minutes. I wouldnt go so far as to say it was frustrating, difficult, or even an annoyance beyond having used AOL in the first place. This guy obviously had a bad experiance, but as my experiance was about as easy as it could be, not all AOL reps are bad... Other than working for AOL of course ;)
Also, I'm not a fan of load time. I dont mean rendering pages, maybe one out of every seven hundred pages I view has any noticeable difference in "rendering" (that word is another pet peeve of mine, I always just called it "loading") but I mean the more important load time: Where I hit the firefox icon then go get a cup of coffee and smoke a cigarette while I wait for the program to open. If I'm lucky it'll be done by the time I get back from my coffee break. IE6 on the other hand doesnt have that problem. Most likely due to the fact that it's integrated into the OS, but that's an argument for a different day.
The world will never be a safe place to live as long as we let others decide what's in our best interest.
That rant being over, Piracy is bad. But forcing other countries to do what we want is not the answer. Our problem only exists in this country. Outside of America, it's not our problem, it's Their problem. Let them deal with it however they want to.
Why do you need permission to sell/copy your own creation under those rules?
I thought it was torturing your children, threatening animals, and governor pornography.
At least in my experiance, windows boxes are generally set up for single user environments. Sure there could very well be more than one user account (administrator and guest for example) but only the account with admin rights will be used. In linux you are more or less required to run multiple user accounts.
So what's to stop someone from making a new IM worm that advertises itself as a program to disable the constant password/security warnings instead of a "safety browser"?
In Soviet Russia, Latin learns YOU!
So how are they going to protect the spectators on mars?
No, it's pretty pointfull actually. You compare the product in development's R&D cost plus projected sales/loss vs the product on the market's actual R&D cost plus actual sales/losses.
What alot of people are not taking into account is video games. The whole idea of selling a conslole at a loss is to make it up on game sales. Do you really think it costs near $50 to make each game? There's a one time development cost, and a manufacturing cost after that. Games are not sold anywhere near a loss.
Trust me, I have a point. Lack of coffee is making it hard for me to get there.
While working at Electronics Boutique a few years ago, not a week went by that we didnt make the Playstation 2 games section smaller, and the Xbox section bigger. Sales for Playstation 2 games fell, and the section got even smaller. Over the course of a few months, Sony and Microsoft basically switched places in terms of game sales and market share, at least in our store. People still bought Playstation 2's, but they also still bought Nintendo 64's and Sega Dreamcasts. On several occasions, someone came in and purchased an Xbox, an xbox live starter kit, 10 - 15 games, 3 extra controllers, DVD remote, and a good number of third party accessories. That's where the money is. Microsoft might have lost money on the Xbox, but they more than made up for it with other products and services.
There was never a similar purchase for the Playstation 2. People who bought those usually said "I like how I can play my PS1 games on it" and either bought a game or two or no games at all with it. Most of the people who bought xboxes from me became regulars, buying (at least) one $50 game every week or two, for months (possibly years). That's all that matters to the console maker.
Only if you're a 14 year old girl.
I liked 8 bit tetris better. Now tetris attack on the other hand is another story.
This just in: Water is wet.
I dont remember being charged for windows media player (beyond paying for windows itself). I do however remember both quicktime and realplayer asking me for money repeatedly. When will there be a lawsuit against apple for bundling itunes with quicktime? Or Quicktime with OSX?
But I thought being a jerk was what the internet was made for, not all this productive jibberish you be talkin' about. I mean really, who in their right mind would buy books off the internet? That's just silly.
While your sarcasm is not lost on me, I must say I trust google more than I trust microsoft with that data.
Friday is bad for me. Could we do it monday morning, say 10am?
But that's not using a realistic timetable.
At the same time I didnt see anything in TFA about them being 'invited', just they were given access.
All I know is this'll sure make a good news story. Oh; wait, nevermind.
I have no idea what brand it was (pioneer or something), but a friend of mine has a nav system in his element. Maps are WAY more dangerous, because well, you have to look at a map. Once you've typed in the endpoint, it tells you when to turn and whatnot. No human interaction is needed after you've set the waypoints. When was the last time a paper map spoke up to let you know you missed your exit or to tell you traffic is slowing ahead?
So how many units will sony have to move to cover the billions of dollars spent on development?