I purchased an xbox 360 at launch, along with a 37 inch LCD HDTV, I played Kameo and even a couple sports games, but honestly they are all the same old games over and over, and I find my xbox quite boring. if its not a 1st person shooter, its a third person shooter. I have to wonder am I the only one who played PGR3 for less than 20 minutes, and stilll foudn that long and painful? Don't get me wrong the 360 is a decent machine Xbox live shows promise, Maybe i'm gettin old but I dont feel like getting "pwnz0rd" by loud mouthed little punks, just because they can play 10 hours a day. Now my 360 is primarily used as a DVD player, and music player. Honestly i'm stuill completely baffled that there is no wifi on the 360, that fact alone was enough for me to cancel XBox Live.
My wii on the other hand has not gone a single week without being used as a gaming machine Zelda, Wario, Sports, Mario 64, excitebike, Hell even punch out has provided me more entertainment than any of my xbox games the last few months.
But to each their own, I suppose if you Really Really like shooters XBOX is heaven.
The possible benifits are tiny? Wow you are arrogent to even think you have a chance of imagining all the possible benifits advance alien life could bring to the planet. How about a cure for cancer? world hunger? How about the potential to solve our energy crisis? Global warming? and those are the things I can think of in two minutes, now imagine all the things we can't think of?
I'm not sayin it would be a slam dunk goood thing for us but for you to sit there and say "the chance that contact with space aliens will bring us benifits is tiny" is foolish. What do you base your assumption on? Humnan history? The fact that humans are selfish, oil hunting warmongers, does not mean all life is.
If aliens have the impressive capablity to get to earth I doubt there is anything on our planet they would need. But you just keep on hiding, and I'll keep on lookin at the sky hoping one day I'll know if anything else is out there.
I've had a windows mobile phone for about a year now, and I have no doubt it is installed on many phones I think "use" is the wrong word. I hate the thing, I need it for work but every cell phone I've ever had dating back to the big old grey Brick phones was WAY better then my windows mobile phone. Sure it can 100 and 10 things it just can't do ANY of them properly. ZIt freezes constantly, its battery use is terrible, I gave up tryin to use it as an audio player the day I got it. It will freeze when calls come in, it will freeze when trying to make calls. I anxiously await the end result of googles "press release", because currently the market is WIDE open.
Ballmer the ever conceded optimist thinks microsoft has a lockdown on mobile phones because they own a small percentage of the market, but yet they think they have a chance on MP3 players, and (LOL) the search market. Maybe one day he will wake up to the Real World and realise the only thing microsoft has ever done right is office, and manipulating a monopoly.
First all of all Iran hos no rocket that could ever hope to be a threat to you or your family. They simply do not have the military, technology, or capability to be a threat to the USA. To people who say they may have nuke grade uranium in 5-10 years, what about the cold war? Russia had litterally thousands of nukes(on rockerts that could actually make it to us soil unlike iran), and it was possible to get out of that situation without a prempive attack infact a preemptive attack (which chaney is trying to setup on iran) could very well have started a war that destroyed the planet. Iran is NOT a threat to the USA, iran is a threat to oil, and (I admit) a threat to isreal. but thats it. SLet me repeat this IRAN IS NOT A THREAT TO USA, and WILL NOT FOR A LONG TIME. the biggest threat to the USA is is warmongers and profitiers.
Remember when pople used to give their life for our freedom? Why are we now giving our freedom for our life?
I'm not so sure about that. If you have a console for 2-3 years and it breaks (like both my game cube and ps2 did) you are left with a ton of games that do nothing without the console so unless your will ing to get rid of your entire game library you will buy another, and in some cases another.
I think KC sue them, and get 18k for each download that was stolen from them by EMI.
Wow even in a sarcastic tone I have a hard time calling copying an mp3 file stealing..
Politics in NA have been a joke for years.. Its the polititians and their curroption/greed/hypocracy that ahve made a joke of elections. Colbert just helps point it out.
LOL, shows how little you know. Colberts bid for president would be PERFECTLY legal IF he kept his total expenses under $5,000. Which is the reason he was not able to even apply for a republican spot in the primary (cost was over 5k).
BTW: You do know big buissness has baught and wilol continue to buy every president the US has seen since before the Bush - Bush - Clinton - Clinton - Bush - Bush - Clinton? era...
Democracy (if you can call it that) in north america is Curropt beyond belief. Which makes our efforts to export democracy to the rest of the world even more laughable. Last election I penciled in Ralph Nader on my ballot, and I live in Canada. Why? Because i'm Damn tired of picking between a Turd and a Douche sandwich. Looking at the front runners down south I see americans will have the same pleasure. Mr. 911 on the right, and Mrs. Flip Flop lets bomb iran on the left.
Scary stuff...
Everything on the internet can be found for free somewhere / somehow but some people like to pay for convience, quality, or to support the "artists".
Just providing the other point of view. Its pretty arrogent for you to sit there and think you know better than everyone else, and everyone who disagree's is wrong, what about people who have interests that can't be filled with WoW on entsity.net?:P
I'm a network specialist for a department of education, and I can say apple is no where near their last legs in education. Infact nextyear we will be removing 2 of our 3 remainging windows labs and replace them with iMacs. This last year we rolled out 300 new iMacs and it went fantastic I'm not sure what your talking about when you say NO computing product for the education market. Apples education discounts are very aggresive, Apple remote desktop is an incredible tool for education deployments, management, and even for classroom management.
Price: Take the cost of an educational iMac and compare it to the price of a dell computer, add on deepfreeze, ghost, and antiviurs licences and you will find that the iMac is actually cheaper. Factor in the fact that our macs have at least a 50% longer life before they need to be replaced and you can see why apple is still king in education.
As for running a windows lab without ghost / deepfreeze to save money we found we spent far more time on repairs, re-images, and RIS issues, than the cost of those two prodcuts. Without them it takes about 30 seconds for a grade 10 student to fry a windows install, to the point of the machine not booting.
Disclaimer I am not a fanboy I will never get rid of my gaming PC at home, but when it comes to Education computers OSX really does provide the best user experience, management capabilities and have a very competitive total cost of ownership.
See the fact that apple sells a 5 licence family pack for about $70 more than a single license but there is NOTHING on the single license disk that will stop you from installing it on every computer in your house. I have had so many headaches with vista activation on my vista machine at home I'm so glad I dont have to deal with it on my macs at work.
Because lots of people who arn't trying to exploit apple would go into the apple stores with 10,000 Cash to buy 20 iphones right? of course not but every single regular customer has to deal with craptivation from vista, to office, to Autocad. the funny thing is you can still download and install anyone of those if you wanted to.. only the PAYING customers have to put up with the DRM crap.
With leoperd blocking runing on a PC only the people stealing and trying to bypass the EULA have to deal with the DRM, everyone with a mac never even has to think about it. Personally I kind of think the people breaking the law should be the one dealing with the DRM pain in the ass.
Its to bad windows pulled EFI support from 64 buit vista, EFI is vastly superior to BIOS I held off buying a new PC under the assumtyion that Vista 64 would support EFI, but alas Microsoft pulled EFI support. Apperently OS independant drivers, half the boot time, and other possible features (such as wireless Network booting / imaging) didn't fit into microsofts "lets make it look pretty" mandate.
To briefly explain EFI, EFI has the ability to load devices without the need of an OS, this means that boot times are cut drasticly, but other great possibilities lay in wait in EFI such as being able to initialize a wireless card with no OS, than use the wireless card to connect, grab an image and throw it on the HD (this is basicly impossible with a BIOS based environent).
I gave in and bought a vista 64 machine(since I need to support them for work I have to learn vista) with an a Motherboard that supports EFI with the hope that SP1 will finally enable EFI.
The one thing no one seems to mention is apple has NO activation process, they are one of the few companies on the planet that dont assume their customers are crooks.
If they opened OSX up to generic hardware they would need to impliment some type of anti theft setup simply because generic PC users are cheap and would steal OSX till the cows come home. Personally that fact alone makes me glad it only runs on Mac hardware, Its so nice never having to deal with activations, or worse false positives and the machine becomming basicly un-usable.
1. Buy Pixar for $10 million
2. Build it into a great animation studio
3. Sell yourself to the devil (Mickey Mouse)
4. Personal profit of $3.5 million!
I hope you meant 3.5 BILLION
I am in the yukon and am not a Bell South customer but it is obvious to me that if this BS does not stop with BS than it could only grow and once that happens it is quite likely it will be impossible to stop. Since I can not send a letter to a political represntitive, or vote with my choice of ISP (anybody who uses bell south should switch ISP's and make sure bell south knows why!). What can I do to fight this from happening? Is there a non-profit group that is fighting this that I can donate to? or?
I have confirmed it, using Mac OSX 10.3.9 using safari the page does not load.
I'm confused how godaddy can blame apple when the problem effects opera users as well..
Than again why accept blame yourself and deal with it when you can just blame someone else.
WIndows CareOne Beta is not free, if you follow the links it wants you to buy it, but they offer you a "free" trial. Wohoo.. for 30 days maybe my computer will be more secure... slower... but just maybe more secure to.
*sigh* I'll stick with AVG
Yea because putting OSX on an intel chip will automaticly give OSX a regiestry, and security loopholes that let software attach itself even to safe / single user / debug mode. In my opinion making the rootkit run while in safe mode was the line that made the software go from annoying to malware. EVERYONE First4Internet has a contact list and you can send an e-mail to their CEO (or at least the admin assistant for the CEO) at the link below.
http://www.first4internet.co.uk/contact.aspx
Than download the episode of lost in iTunes, and watch it on your big TV via a tv out adapter(about $20US) from your mac mini, iBook, powerbook, eMac, PowerMac, or any windows PC (if you have a videocard that supports tv out).
You seem to be forgetting one, even if it is "easier" to play a FPS with a mouse, that doesn't mean it is more enjoyable.
I like a challenge, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
For the lifespan of any new computer (3-5 years) Mac will never be the target, and on that new computer you will not have to worry about the same things you will about a windows computer.
Sure its possible at some point in the future Mac market share will surpass windows and become the big target but not in the next 5 years.
And everyone seems to miss the point that the average user does NOT want to know how to "properly use a computer connected to the internet" and frankly they shouldn't have to. the fact that on a PC they DO need to know IS the problem.
I'm not quite sure of your point, If a regular user is fed up with spyware, adware, hardware probels because they bought that "cheaper" PC. You seem to think that suggesting Linux (or any other OS that runs on x86) is a viable alternative to them?
I dont think it is, without spending three weeks living at their house explaining things like RPMs (that could take a week all by itself), than moving back in with them six months later to get their new digital camera working.
Or I could reccomend they buy a Mac and be done with it. Bill gates said it best when he said if I were to buy a computer for my grandmother it would be a mac. The thing he didn't realise at the time was that people who know nothing or very little about computers (and dont want to know) have become a large part of the market.
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I purchased an xbox 360 at launch, along with a 37 inch LCD HDTV, I played Kameo and even a couple sports games, but honestly they are all the same old games over and over, and I find my xbox quite boring. if its not a 1st person shooter, its a third person shooter. I have to wonder am I the only one who played PGR3 for less than 20 minutes, and stilll foudn that long and painful? Don't get me wrong the 360 is a decent machine Xbox live shows promise, Maybe i'm gettin old but I dont feel like getting "pwnz0rd" by loud mouthed little punks, just because they can play 10 hours a day. Now my 360 is primarily used as a DVD player, and music player. Honestly i'm stuill completely baffled that there is no wifi on the 360, that fact alone was enough for me to cancel XBox Live.
My wii on the other hand has not gone a single week without being used as a gaming machine Zelda, Wario, Sports, Mario 64, excitebike, Hell even punch out has provided me more entertainment than any of my xbox games the last few months.
But to each their own, I suppose if you Really Really like shooters XBOX is heaven.
The possible benifits are tiny? Wow you are arrogent to even think you have a chance of imagining all the possible benifits advance alien life could bring to the planet. How about a cure for cancer? world hunger? How about the potential to solve our energy crisis? Global warming? and those are the things I can think of in two minutes, now imagine all the things we can't think of?
I'm not sayin it would be a slam dunk goood thing for us but for you to sit there and say "the chance that contact with space aliens will bring us benifits is tiny" is foolish. What do you base your assumption on? Humnan history? The fact that humans are selfish, oil hunting warmongers, does not mean all life is.
If aliens have the impressive capablity to get to earth I doubt there is anything on our planet they would need. But you just keep on hiding, and I'll keep on lookin at the sky hoping one day I'll know if anything else is out there.
I've had a windows mobile phone for about a year now, and I have no doubt it is installed on many phones I think "use" is the wrong word. I hate the thing, I need it for work but every cell phone I've ever had dating back to the big old grey Brick phones was WAY better then my windows mobile phone. Sure it can 100 and 10 things it just can't do ANY of them properly. ZIt freezes constantly, its battery use is terrible, I gave up tryin to use it as an audio player the day I got it. It will freeze when calls come in, it will freeze when trying to make calls. I anxiously await the end result of googles "press release", because currently the market is WIDE open.
Ballmer the ever conceded optimist thinks microsoft has a lockdown on mobile phones because they own a small percentage of the market, but yet they think they have a chance on MP3 players, and (LOL) the search market. Maybe one day he will wake up to the Real World and realise the only thing microsoft has ever done right is office, and manipulating a monopoly.
First all of all Iran hos no rocket that could ever hope to be a threat to you or your family. They simply do not have the military, technology, or capability to be a threat to the USA. To people who say they may have nuke grade uranium in 5-10 years, what about the cold war? Russia had litterally thousands of nukes(on rockerts that could actually make it to us soil unlike iran), and it was possible to get out of that situation without a prempive attack infact a preemptive attack (which chaney is trying to setup on iran) could very well have started a war that destroyed the planet. Iran is NOT a threat to the USA, iran is a threat to oil, and (I admit) a threat to isreal. but thats it. SLet me repeat this IRAN IS NOT A THREAT TO USA, and WILL NOT FOR A LONG TIME. the biggest threat to the USA is is warmongers and profitiers.
Remember when pople used to give their life for our freedom? Why are we now giving our freedom for our life?
I'm not so sure about that. If you have a console for 2-3 years and it breaks (like both my game cube and ps2 did) you are left with a ton of games that do nothing without the console so unless your will ing to get rid of your entire game library you will buy another, and in some cases another.
I think KC sue them, and get 18k for each download that was stolen from them by EMI. Wow even in a sarcastic tone I have a hard time calling copying an mp3 file stealing..
Politics in NA have been a joke for years.. Its the polititians and their curroption/greed/hypocracy that ahve made a joke of elections. Colbert just helps point it out.
LOL, shows how little you know. Colberts bid for president would be PERFECTLY legal IF he kept his total expenses under $5,000. Which is the reason he was not able to even apply for a republican spot in the primary (cost was over 5k). BTW: You do know big buissness has baught and wilol continue to buy every president the US has seen since before the Bush - Bush - Clinton - Clinton - Bush - Bush - Clinton? era... Democracy (if you can call it that) in north america is Curropt beyond belief. Which makes our efforts to export democracy to the rest of the world even more laughable. Last election I penciled in Ralph Nader on my ballot, and I live in Canada. Why? Because i'm Damn tired of picking between a Turd and a Douche sandwich. Looking at the front runners down south I see americans will have the same pleasure. Mr. 911 on the right, and Mrs. Flip Flop lets bomb iran on the left. Scary stuff...
You do realise politics in US / Canada have been a joke a LONG time before Colbert was even a household name,
Everything on the internet can be found for free somewhere / somehow but some people like to pay for convience, quality, or to support the "artists". Just providing the other point of view. Its pretty arrogent for you to sit there and think you know better than everyone else, and everyone who disagree's is wrong, what about people who have interests that can't be filled with WoW on entsity.net? :P
I'm a network specialist for a department of education, and I can say apple is no where near their last legs in education. Infact nextyear we will be removing 2 of our 3 remainging windows labs and replace them with iMacs. This last year we rolled out 300 new iMacs and it went fantastic I'm not sure what your talking about when you say NO computing product for the education market. Apples education discounts are very aggresive, Apple remote desktop is an incredible tool for education deployments, management, and even for classroom management. Price: Take the cost of an educational iMac and compare it to the price of a dell computer, add on deepfreeze, ghost, and antiviurs licences and you will find that the iMac is actually cheaper. Factor in the fact that our macs have at least a 50% longer life before they need to be replaced and you can see why apple is still king in education. As for running a windows lab without ghost / deepfreeze to save money we found we spent far more time on repairs, re-images, and RIS issues, than the cost of those two prodcuts. Without them it takes about 30 seconds for a grade 10 student to fry a windows install, to the point of the machine not booting. Disclaimer I am not a fanboy I will never get rid of my gaming PC at home, but when it comes to Education computers OSX really does provide the best user experience, management capabilities and have a very competitive total cost of ownership.
Pretty simple really, just make VMware and Parallels check if it is on mac hardware before it will enable the virtual machine.
See the fact that apple sells a 5 licence family pack for about $70 more than a single license but there is NOTHING on the single license disk that will stop you from installing it on every computer in your house. I have had so many headaches with vista activation on my vista machine at home I'm so glad I dont have to deal with it on my macs at work. Because lots of people who arn't trying to exploit apple would go into the apple stores with 10,000 Cash to buy 20 iphones right? of course not but every single regular customer has to deal with craptivation from vista, to office, to Autocad. the funny thing is you can still download and install anyone of those if you wanted to.. only the PAYING customers have to put up with the DRM crap. With leoperd blocking runing on a PC only the people stealing and trying to bypass the EULA have to deal with the DRM, everyone with a mac never even has to think about it. Personally I kind of think the people breaking the law should be the one dealing with the DRM pain in the ass.
Its to bad windows pulled EFI support from 64 buit vista, EFI is vastly superior to BIOS I held off buying a new PC under the assumtyion that Vista 64 would support EFI, but alas Microsoft pulled EFI support. Apperently OS independant drivers, half the boot time, and other possible features (such as wireless Network booting / imaging) didn't fit into microsofts "lets make it look pretty" mandate. To briefly explain EFI, EFI has the ability to load devices without the need of an OS, this means that boot times are cut drasticly, but other great possibilities lay in wait in EFI such as being able to initialize a wireless card with no OS, than use the wireless card to connect, grab an image and throw it on the HD (this is basicly impossible with a BIOS based environent). I gave in and bought a vista 64 machine(since I need to support them for work I have to learn vista) with an a Motherboard that supports EFI with the hope that SP1 will finally enable EFI.
The one thing no one seems to mention is apple has NO activation process, they are one of the few companies on the planet that dont assume their customers are crooks.
If they opened OSX up to generic hardware they would need to impliment some type of anti theft setup simply because generic PC users are cheap and would steal OSX till the cows come home. Personally that fact alone makes me glad it only runs on Mac hardware, Its so nice never having to deal with activations, or worse false positives and the machine becomming basicly un-usable.
1. Buy Pixar for $10 million 2. Build it into a great animation studio 3. Sell yourself to the devil (Mickey Mouse) 4. Personal profit of $3.5 million! I hope you meant 3.5 BILLION
They are NOT stock options, these are stocks that the founders owned because they inested their life into the company when they founded it.
I am in the yukon and am not a Bell South customer but it is obvious to me that if this BS does not stop with BS than it could only grow and once that happens it is quite likely it will be impossible to stop. Since I can not send a letter to a political represntitive, or vote with my choice of ISP (anybody who uses bell south should switch ISP's and make sure bell south knows why!). What can I do to fight this from happening? Is there a non-profit group that is fighting this that I can donate to? or?
I have confirmed it, using Mac OSX 10.3.9 using safari the page does not load. I'm confused how godaddy can blame apple when the problem effects opera users as well.. Than again why accept blame yourself and deal with it when you can just blame someone else.
WIndows CareOne Beta is not free, if you follow the links it wants you to buy it, but they offer you a "free" trial. Wohoo.. for 30 days maybe my computer will be more secure... slower... but just maybe more secure to. *sigh* I'll stick with AVG
Yea because putting OSX on an intel chip will automaticly give OSX a regiestry, and security loopholes that let software attach itself even to safe / single user / debug mode. In my opinion making the rootkit run while in safe mode was the line that made the software go from annoying to malware. EVERYONE First4Internet has a contact list and you can send an e-mail to their CEO (or at least the admin assistant for the CEO) at the link below. http://www.first4internet.co.uk/contact.aspx
Than download the episode of lost in iTunes, and watch it on your big TV via a tv out adapter(about $20US) from your mac mini, iBook, powerbook, eMac, PowerMac, or any windows PC (if you have a videocard that supports tv out).
You seem to be forgetting one, even if it is "easier" to play a FPS with a mouse, that doesn't mean it is more enjoyable. I like a challenge, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
For the lifespan of any new computer (3-5 years) Mac will never be the target, and on that new computer you will not have to worry about the same things you will about a windows computer.
Sure its possible at some point in the future Mac market share will surpass windows and become the big target but not in the next 5 years.
And everyone seems to miss the point that the average user does NOT want to know how to "properly use a computer connected to the internet" and frankly they shouldn't have to. the fact that on a PC they DO need to know IS the problem.
I'm not quite sure of your point, If a regular user is fed up with spyware, adware, hardware probels because they bought that "cheaper" PC. You seem to think that suggesting Linux (or any other OS that runs on x86) is a viable alternative to them?
I dont think it is, without spending three weeks living at their house explaining things like RPMs (that could take a week all by itself), than moving back in with them six months later to get their new digital camera working.
Or I could reccomend they buy a Mac and be done with it. Bill gates said it best when he said if I were to buy a computer for my grandmother it would be a mac. The thing he didn't realise at the time was that people who know nothing or very little about computers (and dont want to know) have become a large part of the market.