Or maybe its the fact that the only one this really affects is Windows XP and since XP is EOL there is no point? Vista has IE 9, the rest can upgrade to current so the only version of Windows stuck with IE 8 is XP. I'm sorry but if you are surfing the net with a 13 year old OS? Then you deserve what you get, after all nobody would expect a 13 year old copy of Debian or OSX to get patches so why should Windows?
This is why I give ABP as SOP for all of my builds and by doing so? I've dropped infections right off the chart. people send their families and friends and business partners to me because "When he sets it up they don't 'slow down' and 'get buggy' which with modern OSes mean malware. As I have said before if you want to support your website with ads? Fine then follow best practices, site based only, no leasing out to ad farms, no flash or java, and if you follow best practices? ABP will even put you in the "good adverts" column and whitelist you by default. But MY customers shouldn't have to pay me $75 a pop to clean the messes YOUR business mode makes. As I said on the Escapist when they did their "poo poo bad adblockers" bit "Either you stand by your website and pay the damages when you infect the viewers or you can STFU because nowhere does it say people have to put their machines at risk simply because you are too lazy to vet your ads". ironically the second I posted that? A half a dozen behind me slapped up links showing the number of infected ads run by the Escapist that year which put them in a "high risk" category. Needless to say they moved to another topic right quick LOL.
Oh and as for your sig? I ignore ACs because there is frankly no point in ACs at all. For every insightful AC there is a hundred trolls so having AC doesn't improve comments, and since an AC will never see your response there is no point in responding to them as it will never be seen. So as I see it ACs are only good for one thing, and that is posting without fear of taking a karma hit...aka being douchebags and trolls. So why should i waste my time giving a fuck about somebody too God damned lazy to spend a whole 2 minutes to make a UID?
The FOSS model with old projects doesn't work, I could wallpaper this page with so many abandoned projects it isn't funny but like old FOSS this isn't popular enough so I can't be arsed.
They have the code, if they can't be arsed to fix a product so they can sell it? then no money for them, oh well. And its not like the pirate scene is gonna bitch about them taking their cracks, are they?
What DOES piss me off is GOG selling completely broken games, take for instance i76...if your PC isn't a P3? Its broken, tough shit. the reason why is the dev squeezed so much cutting edge (for the time) graphics he cut corners and used the system timing as an event timer for in game events and since it was only designed for sub 1GHz single cores there are events in later missions you'll never complete because the timing is too fast even with MoSlo to pull it off.
I have thrown away 4 or 5 routers in the past 2 years (and gotten a nice service call fee for doing so) thanks to guys like you saying that shit only for OpenWRT to totally brick the router...thanks, keep up the good work!
Who pays for the patch? Nobody,because the pirates already did the work. IIRC there was a bit of a dust up a few years back when a company released their game on GOG as a DRM free download only for someone to find that the executable were just the old Razr1911 No_DVD patch.
Right. What would you consider a "non faulty OS, Linux? Then I guess Torvalds should be shot because when it comes to bugs heretheycome! . Oh and don't forget which OS it was that gave us heartbleed. Was it Windows? No no no no, was it OSX? No no nooo no, was it Linux? yeah yeah yeah yeah! BTW you should try to play the "how many year old Linux bug" game, its fun and easy! Simply type into any search engine " (X) year old Linux bug" with (X) replaced by a random number, see how far back you can go! I doubt you will be able to top 20 years old but single digits are easy peasy!
Anybody still on XP deserves what they get, they got 12 years of support, which just FYI is 10 years longer than the average Linux distro LOL, unless you consider the bi annual death march to be "support", and they have had more than enough time to switch over to a newer version of Windows. They can't even use the hardware excuse as the average XP box is a power piggie P4 and for less than $100 you can toss that P4 board for a Bobcat or jaguar board that will run rings around the P4 while using less power under load than the piggie P4 does at idle. they can even keep their old IDE drive using a $7 IDE to PCI converter so there really is no longer any excuses, anybody who hangs onto a thirteen year old OS (XP was released in 2001 and has more in common with NT4 than it does with a modern OS like 7/8) that is three and soon to be four versions behind? Deserves what they get.
Out of the hundreds of boxes I moved to 7, how many problems did I have? A grand total of THREE, and one of those doesn't count since the software in question (Quickbooks 07 IIRC, may have been 06) was "broken by design" and tied to a VERY insercure version of Flash (V7) and would refuse to install if ANY version of Flash other than 7 was on the system, but it took less than 30 minutes to turn the XP install into a VM and run it on Win 7 via Virtualbox. The other 2? A scanner from 2000 that was so low res a $35 all in one printer gave the guy a 300%+ increase in quality and an old ATI IGP that ran but was flaky, it cost a grand total of $8 to replace the IGP with an HD2400. That system was a first gen C2D with 2GB of RAM and was recently traded back in on a new quad, I turned around and sold it to my landlord who runs it 6 days a week and it purrs like a kitten. If a 8 year old system can run Win 7 so well the customer who buys it in 2014 says "I just love this machine,it runs my stock software and surfs like a dream" there really is no excuse, let XP die already.
Oh and just for shits and giggles I tried the "hairyfeet challenge" using that box before I reloaded Windows, since it would probably be considered high end of the XP era hardware and thus would give Linux a performance advantage over some dusty P4, result? Ubuntu crapped the video first update, PCLOS crapped out on the second, no point in continuing after that since it had already failed the test.
And THAT, along with the VIC and TRS80 is what REALLY caused computers to explode and become as common as they are today. Sure your big monolithic businesses had their IBM 360s but there wasn't enough of them to spur huge growth, IIRC an IBM exec in the late 60s predicted selling a couple dozen units a year, with those numbers everything is gonna be conservative.
But then came commodore and Tandy and suddenly every SMB was getting PCs. I started out writing a basic bookkeeping program for my dad's TRS and the next thing you know I'm supporting and servicing half the SMBs in town and suddenly computers were everywhere, and it was all thanks to the gamers snatching them up and keeping the competition high and prices low. i would argue that is why we see X86 everywhere now, DOOM,Quake, the rise of the 3D cards, I had customers from 94-06/07 who were going through a PC a year or more chasing that ultimate FPS and all those extra cycles made it easy to write good business programs, one market helping the other grow. Hell look at what is pushing the mobile market, its all those people wanting to play cool games on their tablets and phones. Hell if all you want to do is surf and watch YouTube a phone from 2011 can do that, want to play the latest game? You better have some decent hardware.
For good or ill I think that will be coming to an end soon, just as X86 became so powerful that a 5 year old CPU and $150 GPU can run just about everything out there so too will the mobile chips hit the same wall, where you just can't get any better without blowing the power budget or making games inanely expensive to develop, what will come next? Will it be a "how low can you go" attempt to drop power, or will it be bringing more and more features into the chip like what AMD is doing? Who knows but it should be interesting to watch while looking back on how far we've come.
And if you believe that petitioning get you anything but a round of smoke blown up your ass by a white house lackey? then you should ask the Easter Bunny if he can give you a ride to neverland. Show me a SINGLE time in the last decade, just one, that the people went against corporate interests that got anything but a "silly little peasant, we're ignoring you" bullshit response. Pot decriminalization? bullshit response and feds kicking in doors, stop writing the ACA behind closed doors? bullshit response and lobbyist slots reserved on the panel.
All you can do is grab as much as you can from the government, every single dime you can, and wait for the collapse. that's it, that's ALL you can do because as a study recently showed "The US is an oligarchy" (look it up, the study came out last week and was on several major sites) which means if it comes up against money interests the populace WILL lose, no matter how much they protest. at best all that you will accomplish is to get them to send the propaganda team out to make the rounds so all the talking heads bleat about how wonderful this is and how anybody who doesn't support this is a marxist pinko.
To me the point when HL2 shit the bed is when they pulled a Bioshock Infinite and fell in love with a gimmick...the gravity gun. In HL2 the GG was just another weapon, used in a couple of spots but other than those spots it really wasn't required. What did we get for EP 1? Gravitypaloza. By the time I was being forced to shoot basketballs at striders I was just sick of the stupid gravity gun, just as I got sick of infinite shoving that damned skyhook under my nose going "Isn't this neato"? Sure it was, before you BECAME ANNOYING ABOUT IT!!
As for so many games not played? Bundles, simple as that. You can get so many bundles on Steam that you soon end up with dozens of games and you only have so many hours in the day so...there ya go. Between the big Steam sales and Humble Bundles I probably got a good 50 games in a couple months, just not enough time to play them all before the next killer bundle comes along.
Finally as for Steam being "bloated" on OSX.....ever stop to think that OSX simply isn't very well suited as a gaming platform? Because on Windows you are looking at maybe 60Mb (I have Raptr AND Steam running and barely am using 100Mb) and from what I understand the Steam for Linux also runs quite well, which leaves OSX looking as the culprit from where I sit.
And this is different from what Google is doing with Android....how exactly? In case you missed the memo Google has been taking bog standard X86 laptops and locking them down worse than cellphones and as far as EEE? Google is already moved into the third phase by making more and more apps simply not work without GooglePlay API.
I find it hilarious how many are cheering because "Android has gots teh Linux" when in reality Google is about to make them its bitch. Have fun with that laptop that won't run 90% of the distros on distrowatch thanks to DRM or that latest version of AOSP that won't run half the apps in the playstore because its all tied to Google APIs, but "its teh Linux" so it can't be locked right?....oh wait
MSDN keys ARE ILLEGAL, full stop, and are no better in that regard than TPB. The license for MSDN clearly states they are ONLY to be used on testing systems and NOT for resale and its douches selling keys that got MSFT to get rid of the cheaper MSDN options and severely restrict keys.
So I'm sorry but you might as well go TPB as you aren't anymore legal and the TPB version which also passes WGA,don't mean its a legal copy.
Showing yet again that there is a reason why I like Comodo when it comes to security when Comodo found out their certs were vulnerable thanks to heartbleed Comodo got on the ball replacing certs ASAP.
No company is perfect, every company will fuck up now and then, but the nice thing about Comodo is when they see a problem they don't try to bury it or play the blame game. Instead they announce "here is the problem and here is what we are doing about it" and then they DO IT, no stalling or bullshitting. In the case of heartbleed as companies patch their sites they can get a fresh key, no muss no fuss.
Whether or not it broke the camel's back I would argue its proof of the project being run in-compliantly, because when your project has money woes you don't blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on outreach programs.
I personally think we should thank Obama as he has shown us that voting is without a doubt POINTLESS and that all you can do is grab as much as you can from "big mommy" government and wait for the inevitable collapse. The ones I feel sorry for are the ones that believed in Obama and in the voting process, the ones that held voter drives and went door to door and busted ass to get Obama elected only to find they might as well have given Bush a third term for all the good it did.
If you are gonna use an illegal key why not just use the pirate version? I never understood paying someone for an obviously non-legit key, because sooner or later its gonna get blackballed and if that is the case why not just go TPB and call it a day.
You called? Its really not hard at all to build a sub $500 system that will game quite good, for example we can go AMD Hexacore for $224 after MIR, add $15 for a DVD burner, $55 for a 500GB-1TB drive (depending on what is on sale), and Win 7 Home 64bit for $100 that frankly nearly every build ignores when figuring price....final total? $394, $494 if you get the GPU I'd recommend, the HD7790.
We can go even cheaper if we went with one of the new APUs and many review sites show they do quite well with gaming up to 1080p and at the most common resolution (1600x900 last I checked) they do VERY well. We start with This quad core APU kit for $320 and simply add the Win 7 HP from above....final total? $424. This is of course taking the path of least resistance, if I were to price each part separately and go for the bargains, like for instance grab one of the Athlon X3s where I'm seeing better than 70% unlocks? I could probably shave another $30-$50 off the final total.
So anybody that says gaming can only be done on some $1200 monster is frankly full of bull. Hell my gaming system cost less than $600 and by watching the sales I got an AMD hexacore with 8GB of RAM, 3TB of HDD space, and an HD7750 that plays all the games I like on Win 7 HP smooth as butter.
Because the H1-Bs are indentured servants they can pay them Mickey D's wages and your US tech workers can't live on Mickey wages thanks to our degrees costing 10-20 times as much as theirs? Not to mention unlike before where a person could get an entry level and continue to get an education while getting real world experience thanks to the H1-Bs you have an arms race where you need more and more degrees (and deeper and deeper debt) just to get ANY job other than lackey?
Perhaps you should watch How NOT to hire an American which is a training video by a law firm that specializes in H1-Bs to show how rigged and fucked up the system TRULY is. At the end of the day you are crippling the country in return for short term gains, as India gets a large pool of tech workers and plenty of money coming in for infrastructure and new businesses, while in america the business districts look like ghost towns and the roads and bridges fall down around you.
OS/2 hasn't been IBM's for the better part of a decade, its controlled by eComstation who does a decent amount of business supporting financial markets.
As for those trying to make excuse for Mozilla? 1.- like it or not the CEO is the face of the company and in this case the face belongs to a bigot, 2.- For those that use the "the state voted for it" excuse? The southern states voted repeatedly and by a VERY large margin that Jim Crow was fine, so by your argument the southern states should still be segregated, and finally 3.- Those that make the lame "gay agenda" bullshit excuse? Did you say the same about blacks in the 60s, that it was a "Negro agenda"? Its about CIVIL RIGHTS, PERIOD.
The state gives preferential treatment to married couples when it comes to taxes, child visitation, property inheritance, there are VERY few places that the government doesn't give some sort of preferential treatment to couples. While I personally believe it is unconstitutional since its clearly joining church and state until we are ALL treated as individuals under the law by the government? it very much IS a civil rights issue, since straight couples are given rights and privileges that gay couples do not get. Oh and before somebody makes the foolish statement about wills and the like? In most states the will does NOT change the tax burden which will be felt by a surviving spouse, which again isn't the same if that spouse was in a hetro marriage.
The problem with your logic is thus, unlike Canada where they are holding someone who has broken Canadian laws, go through a Canadian trial etc what we have here is HOSTAGES with no law, multiple accounts of torture (frankly no better than what the Iranians did to the American hostages BTW) so there really is only 1 of 2 choices 1.- They let them free in the USA, 2.- they return them to the country of origin.
And that also sidestepped the point I made which is what exactly will keep any country from doing the exact same with Americans just by using that excuse? last I heard not a single country in question has announced they plan to execute any of them so its just an excuse by the hostage takers at this point isn't it? And with zero evidence to back up that theory to me its just a "she was asking for it" kind of bullshit excuse.
I can't believe this drivel got upvoted enough for me to see it. In REAL communism all live in peace with equal shares but just like so called "real" capitalism IT WILL NEVER EXIST because money equals power and power WILL be abused.
If you want to believe in the invisible hand fairy go right ahead, at no time and in no place has actually existed.
And read the multitude of posters below you, what do they say? "Its free so you can't complain" which just goes to show that even many in the community realize its strictly hobbyist level code and that you get what you pay for, a big nothing.
Meanwhile if they would have went Apple or Windows they would have years of support, a strict timeline so they'd know exactly when the OS would no longer be supported, and with sticky keys and other tools for the disabled being fully functional the entire time.
The simple fact that its stayed broken THIS LONG and that people here honestly think paying extortion so some dipshit programmer will get off his lazy fucking ass and FIX WHAT HE BROKE just shows how honestly piss poor and how little oversight there is in the FOSS community. If the shop I worked at previous fucked over the users that badly their asses would be fired. In the FOSSie community fucking shit up is a moneymaking opportunity for the shitty programmer...nice job guys.
How sad is it that the bias is so bad here that I have to stick up for a company that has been run into the ground by piss poor management but here goes...at least they are actually LISTENING, they may not always get it, like that stupid "start button that takes you back to metro" Windows 8.1 dumb shit but I'd rather have a company that says "Sorry we'll fix that" than to have one that says when caught invading people's privacy "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place".
Maybe I'm weird but I just don't get how company A is bad and company B does THE EXACT SAME THING but is good because they say a catchphrase like "don't be evil"...are people REALLY that easily fooled by marketing?
And that would be our fault...how exactly? If Saudi Arabia decides to execute a Saudi citizen...that is a Saudi problem NOT OURS. The same goes for Yemen or anywhere else. I'm sure many here would not like it if say China or Russia started saying "Oh the Americans would just kill 'em anyway" while holding American citizens hostage (and make no mistake as that is what they are, hostages) and by that same token its NOT OUR JOB to try to mindread what the government of wherever will do with their citizens we are holding hostage if we give 'em back.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter, Obama is the perfect proof that voting in a two party system is completely and utterly pointless. meet the new boss, same as the old boss, just different slogans covering the same old BS.
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Or maybe its the fact that the only one this really affects is Windows XP and since XP is EOL there is no point? Vista has IE 9, the rest can upgrade to current so the only version of Windows stuck with IE 8 is XP. I'm sorry but if you are surfing the net with a 13 year old OS? Then you deserve what you get, after all nobody would expect a 13 year old copy of Debian or OSX to get patches so why should Windows?
This is why I give ABP as SOP for all of my builds and by doing so? I've dropped infections right off the chart. people send their families and friends and business partners to me because "When he sets it up they don't 'slow down' and 'get buggy' which with modern OSes mean malware. As I have said before if you want to support your website with ads? Fine then follow best practices, site based only, no leasing out to ad farms, no flash or java, and if you follow best practices? ABP will even put you in the "good adverts" column and whitelist you by default. But MY customers shouldn't have to pay me $75 a pop to clean the messes YOUR business mode makes. As I said on the Escapist when they did their "poo poo bad adblockers" bit "Either you stand by your website and pay the damages when you infect the viewers or you can STFU because nowhere does it say people have to put their machines at risk simply because you are too lazy to vet your ads". ironically the second I posted that? A half a dozen behind me slapped up links showing the number of infected ads run by the Escapist that year which put them in a "high risk" category. Needless to say they moved to another topic right quick LOL.
Oh and as for your sig? I ignore ACs because there is frankly no point in ACs at all. For every insightful AC there is a hundred trolls so having AC doesn't improve comments, and since an AC will never see your response there is no point in responding to them as it will never be seen. So as I see it ACs are only good for one thing, and that is posting without fear of taking a karma hit...aka being douchebags and trolls. So why should i waste my time giving a fuck about somebody too God damned lazy to spend a whole 2 minutes to make a UID?
The FOSS model with old projects doesn't work, I could wallpaper this page with so many abandoned projects it isn't funny but like old FOSS this isn't popular enough so I can't be arsed.
They have the code, if they can't be arsed to fix a product so they can sell it? then no money for them, oh well. And its not like the pirate scene is gonna bitch about them taking their cracks, are they?
What DOES piss me off is GOG selling completely broken games, take for instance i76...if your PC isn't a P3? Its broken, tough shit. the reason why is the dev squeezed so much cutting edge (for the time) graphics he cut corners and used the system timing as an event timer for in game events and since it was only designed for sub 1GHz single cores there are events in later missions you'll never complete because the timing is too fast even with MoSlo to pull it off.
I have thrown away 4 or 5 routers in the past 2 years (and gotten a nice service call fee for doing so) thanks to guys like you saying that shit only for OpenWRT to totally brick the router...thanks, keep up the good work!
Who pays for the patch? Nobody,because the pirates already did the work. IIRC there was a bit of a dust up a few years back when a company released their game on GOG as a DRM free download only for someone to find that the executable were just the old Razr1911 No_DVD patch.
Sadly no house because while you were chasing FPS I was chasing the ultimate bass tone and British amps be expensive yo ;-)
Right. What would you consider a "non faulty OS, Linux? Then I guess Torvalds should be shot because when it comes to bugs here they come! . Oh and don't forget which OS it was that gave us heartbleed. Was it Windows? No no no no, was it OSX? No no nooo no, was it Linux? yeah yeah yeah yeah! BTW you should try to play the "how many year old Linux bug" game, its fun and easy! Simply type into any search engine " (X) year old Linux bug" with (X) replaced by a random number, see how far back you can go! I doubt you will be able to top 20 years old but single digits are easy peasy!
Anybody still on XP deserves what they get, they got 12 years of support, which just FYI is 10 years longer than the average Linux distro LOL, unless you consider the bi annual death march to be "support", and they have had more than enough time to switch over to a newer version of Windows. They can't even use the hardware excuse as the average XP box is a power piggie P4 and for less than $100 you can toss that P4 board for a Bobcat or jaguar board that will run rings around the P4 while using less power under load than the piggie P4 does at idle. they can even keep their old IDE drive using a $7 IDE to PCI converter so there really is no longer any excuses, anybody who hangs onto a thirteen year old OS (XP was released in 2001 and has more in common with NT4 than it does with a modern OS like 7/8) that is three and soon to be four versions behind? Deserves what they get.
Out of the hundreds of boxes I moved to 7, how many problems did I have? A grand total of THREE, and one of those doesn't count since the software in question (Quickbooks 07 IIRC, may have been 06) was "broken by design" and tied to a VERY insercure version of Flash (V7) and would refuse to install if ANY version of Flash other than 7 was on the system, but it took less than 30 minutes to turn the XP install into a VM and run it on Win 7 via Virtualbox. The other 2? A scanner from 2000 that was so low res a $35 all in one printer gave the guy a 300%+ increase in quality and an old ATI IGP that ran but was flaky, it cost a grand total of $8 to replace the IGP with an HD2400. That system was a first gen C2D with 2GB of RAM and was recently traded back in on a new quad, I turned around and sold it to my landlord who runs it 6 days a week and it purrs like a kitten. If a 8 year old system can run Win 7 so well the customer who buys it in 2014 says "I just love this machine,it runs my stock software and surfs like a dream" there really is no excuse, let XP die already.
Oh and just for shits and giggles I tried the "hairyfeet challenge" using that box before I reloaded Windows, since it would probably be considered high end of the XP era hardware and thus would give Linux a performance advantage over some dusty P4, result? Ubuntu crapped the video first update, PCLOS crapped out on the second, no point in continuing after that since it had already failed the test.
And THAT, along with the VIC and TRS80 is what REALLY caused computers to explode and become as common as they are today. Sure your big monolithic businesses had their IBM 360s but there wasn't enough of them to spur huge growth, IIRC an IBM exec in the late 60s predicted selling a couple dozen units a year, with those numbers everything is gonna be conservative.
But then came commodore and Tandy and suddenly every SMB was getting PCs. I started out writing a basic bookkeeping program for my dad's TRS and the next thing you know I'm supporting and servicing half the SMBs in town and suddenly computers were everywhere, and it was all thanks to the gamers snatching them up and keeping the competition high and prices low. i would argue that is why we see X86 everywhere now, DOOM,Quake, the rise of the 3D cards, I had customers from 94-06/07 who were going through a PC a year or more chasing that ultimate FPS and all those extra cycles made it easy to write good business programs, one market helping the other grow. Hell look at what is pushing the mobile market, its all those people wanting to play cool games on their tablets and phones. Hell if all you want to do is surf and watch YouTube a phone from 2011 can do that, want to play the latest game? You better have some decent hardware.
For good or ill I think that will be coming to an end soon, just as X86 became so powerful that a 5 year old CPU and $150 GPU can run just about everything out there so too will the mobile chips hit the same wall, where you just can't get any better without blowing the power budget or making games inanely expensive to develop, what will come next? Will it be a "how low can you go" attempt to drop power, or will it be bringing more and more features into the chip like what AMD is doing? Who knows but it should be interesting to watch while looking back on how far we've come.
And if you believe that petitioning get you anything but a round of smoke blown up your ass by a white house lackey? then you should ask the Easter Bunny if he can give you a ride to neverland. Show me a SINGLE time in the last decade, just one, that the people went against corporate interests that got anything but a "silly little peasant, we're ignoring you" bullshit response. Pot decriminalization? bullshit response and feds kicking in doors, stop writing the ACA behind closed doors? bullshit response and lobbyist slots reserved on the panel.
All you can do is grab as much as you can from the government, every single dime you can, and wait for the collapse. that's it, that's ALL you can do because as a study recently showed "The US is an oligarchy" (look it up, the study came out last week and was on several major sites) which means if it comes up against money interests the populace WILL lose, no matter how much they protest. at best all that you will accomplish is to get them to send the propaganda team out to make the rounds so all the talking heads bleat about how wonderful this is and how anybody who doesn't support this is a marxist pinko.
To me the point when HL2 shit the bed is when they pulled a Bioshock Infinite and fell in love with a gimmick...the gravity gun. In HL2 the GG was just another weapon, used in a couple of spots but other than those spots it really wasn't required. What did we get for EP 1? Gravitypaloza. By the time I was being forced to shoot basketballs at striders I was just sick of the stupid gravity gun, just as I got sick of infinite shoving that damned skyhook under my nose going "Isn't this neato"? Sure it was, before you BECAME ANNOYING ABOUT IT!!
As for so many games not played? Bundles, simple as that. You can get so many bundles on Steam that you soon end up with dozens of games and you only have so many hours in the day so...there ya go. Between the big Steam sales and Humble Bundles I probably got a good 50 games in a couple months, just not enough time to play them all before the next killer bundle comes along.
Finally as for Steam being "bloated" on OSX.....ever stop to think that OSX simply isn't very well suited as a gaming platform? Because on Windows you are looking at maybe 60Mb (I have Raptr AND Steam running and barely am using 100Mb) and from what I understand the Steam for Linux also runs quite well, which leaves OSX looking as the culprit from where I sit.
And this is different from what Google is doing with Android....how exactly? In case you missed the memo Google has been taking bog standard X86 laptops and locking them down worse than cellphones and as far as EEE? Google is already moved into the third phase by making more and more apps simply not work without GooglePlay API.
I find it hilarious how many are cheering because "Android has gots teh Linux" when in reality Google is about to make them its bitch. Have fun with that laptop that won't run 90% of the distros on distrowatch thanks to DRM or that latest version of AOSP that won't run half the apps in the playstore because its all tied to Google APIs, but "its teh Linux" so it can't be locked right?....oh wait
MSDN keys ARE ILLEGAL, full stop, and are no better in that regard than TPB. The license for MSDN clearly states they are ONLY to be used on testing systems and NOT for resale and its douches selling keys that got MSFT to get rid of the cheaper MSDN options and severely restrict keys.
So I'm sorry but you might as well go TPB as you aren't anymore legal and the TPB version which also passes WGA,don't mean its a legal copy.
Showing yet again that there is a reason why I like Comodo when it comes to security when Comodo found out their certs were vulnerable thanks to heartbleed Comodo got on the ball replacing certs ASAP.
No company is perfect, every company will fuck up now and then, but the nice thing about Comodo is when they see a problem they don't try to bury it or play the blame game. Instead they announce "here is the problem and here is what we are doing about it" and then they DO IT, no stalling or bullshitting. In the case of heartbleed as companies patch their sites they can get a fresh key, no muss no fuss.
Whether or not it broke the camel's back I would argue its proof of the project being run in-compliantly, because when your project has money woes you don't blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on outreach programs.
I personally think we should thank Obama as he has shown us that voting is without a doubt POINTLESS and that all you can do is grab as much as you can from "big mommy" government and wait for the inevitable collapse. The ones I feel sorry for are the ones that believed in Obama and in the voting process, the ones that held voter drives and went door to door and busted ass to get Obama elected only to find they might as well have given Bush a third term for all the good it did.
If you are gonna use an illegal key why not just use the pirate version? I never understood paying someone for an obviously non-legit key, because sooner or later its gonna get blackballed and if that is the case why not just go TPB and call it a day.
You called? Its really not hard at all to build a sub $500 system that will game quite good, for example we can go AMD Hexacore for $224 after MIR, add $15 for a DVD burner, $55 for a 500GB-1TB drive (depending on what is on sale), and Win 7 Home 64bit for $100 that frankly nearly every build ignores when figuring price....final total? $394, $494 if you get the GPU I'd recommend, the HD7790.
We can go even cheaper if we went with one of the new APUs and many review sites show they do quite well with gaming up to 1080p and at the most common resolution (1600x900 last I checked) they do VERY well. We start with This quad core APU kit for $320 and simply add the Win 7 HP from above....final total? $424. This is of course taking the path of least resistance, if I were to price each part separately and go for the bargains, like for instance grab one of the Athlon X3s where I'm seeing better than 70% unlocks? I could probably shave another $30-$50 off the final total.
So anybody that says gaming can only be done on some $1200 monster is frankly full of bull. Hell my gaming system cost less than $600 and by watching the sales I got an AMD hexacore with 8GB of RAM, 3TB of HDD space, and an HD7750 that plays all the games I like on Win 7 HP smooth as butter.
Because the H1-Bs are indentured servants they can pay them Mickey D's wages and your US tech workers can't live on Mickey wages thanks to our degrees costing 10-20 times as much as theirs? Not to mention unlike before where a person could get an entry level and continue to get an education while getting real world experience thanks to the H1-Bs you have an arms race where you need more and more degrees (and deeper and deeper debt) just to get ANY job other than lackey?
Perhaps you should watch How NOT to hire an American which is a training video by a law firm that specializes in H1-Bs to show how rigged and fucked up the system TRULY is. At the end of the day you are crippling the country in return for short term gains, as India gets a large pool of tech workers and plenty of money coming in for infrastructure and new businesses, while in america the business districts look like ghost towns and the roads and bridges fall down around you.
OS/2 hasn't been IBM's for the better part of a decade, its controlled by eComstation who does a decent amount of business supporting financial markets.
As for those trying to make excuse for Mozilla? 1.- like it or not the CEO is the face of the company and in this case the face belongs to a bigot, 2.- For those that use the "the state voted for it" excuse? The southern states voted repeatedly and by a VERY large margin that Jim Crow was fine, so by your argument the southern states should still be segregated, and finally 3.- Those that make the lame "gay agenda" bullshit excuse? Did you say the same about blacks in the 60s, that it was a "Negro agenda"? Its about CIVIL RIGHTS, PERIOD.
The state gives preferential treatment to married couples when it comes to taxes, child visitation, property inheritance, there are VERY few places that the government doesn't give some sort of preferential treatment to couples. While I personally believe it is unconstitutional since its clearly joining church and state until we are ALL treated as individuals under the law by the government? it very much IS a civil rights issue, since straight couples are given rights and privileges that gay couples do not get. Oh and before somebody makes the foolish statement about wills and the like? In most states the will does NOT change the tax burden which will be felt by a surviving spouse, which again isn't the same if that spouse was in a hetro marriage.
The problem with your logic is thus, unlike Canada where they are holding someone who has broken Canadian laws, go through a Canadian trial etc what we have here is HOSTAGES with no law, multiple accounts of torture (frankly no better than what the Iranians did to the American hostages BTW) so there really is only 1 of 2 choices 1.- They let them free in the USA, 2.- they return them to the country of origin.
And that also sidestepped the point I made which is what exactly will keep any country from doing the exact same with Americans just by using that excuse? last I heard not a single country in question has announced they plan to execute any of them so its just an excuse by the hostage takers at this point isn't it? And with zero evidence to back up that theory to me its just a "she was asking for it" kind of bullshit excuse.
I can't believe this drivel got upvoted enough for me to see it. In REAL communism all live in peace with equal shares but just like so called "real" capitalism IT WILL NEVER EXIST because money equals power and power WILL be abused.
If you want to believe in the invisible hand fairy go right ahead, at no time and in no place has actually existed.
And read the multitude of posters below you, what do they say? "Its free so you can't complain" which just goes to show that even many in the community realize its strictly hobbyist level code and that you get what you pay for, a big nothing.
Meanwhile if they would have went Apple or Windows they would have years of support, a strict timeline so they'd know exactly when the OS would no longer be supported, and with sticky keys and other tools for the disabled being fully functional the entire time.
The simple fact that its stayed broken THIS LONG and that people here honestly think paying extortion so some dipshit programmer will get off his lazy fucking ass and FIX WHAT HE BROKE just shows how honestly piss poor and how little oversight there is in the FOSS community. If the shop I worked at previous fucked over the users that badly their asses would be fired. In the FOSSie community fucking shit up is a moneymaking opportunity for the shitty programmer...nice job guys.
How sad is it that the bias is so bad here that I have to stick up for a company that has been run into the ground by piss poor management but here goes...at least they are actually LISTENING, they may not always get it, like that stupid "start button that takes you back to metro" Windows 8.1 dumb shit but I'd rather have a company that says "Sorry we'll fix that" than to have one that says when caught invading people's privacy "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place".
Maybe I'm weird but I just don't get how company A is bad and company B does THE EXACT SAME THING but is good because they say a catchphrase like "don't be evil"...are people REALLY that easily fooled by marketing?
And that would be our fault...how exactly? If Saudi Arabia decides to execute a Saudi citizen...that is a Saudi problem NOT OURS. The same goes for Yemen or anywhere else. I'm sure many here would not like it if say China or Russia started saying "Oh the Americans would just kill 'em anyway" while holding American citizens hostage (and make no mistake as that is what they are, hostages) and by that same token its NOT OUR JOB to try to mindread what the government of wherever will do with their citizens we are holding hostage if we give 'em back.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter, Obama is the perfect proof that voting in a two party system is completely and utterly pointless. meet the new boss, same as the old boss, just different slogans covering the same old BS.