Two of the options are just really lame examples of innuendo. What's the tech angle on these? God, I hate the Register. It's nice to be reminded why I stopped reading.
Me: Ok, can you right-click on the My Computer icon, please.
Clot: OK....
Clot: C... L... I... C... K
Me: Er, what's happening? A menu should have popped up.
Clot: I've written 'click' on the icon, what next?
Me: THWACK (as my head hits the desk)
In a travel agency somewhere in the UK, there is still a PC where the My Computer icon actually reads 'click'.
I'd imagine it's the first option, in the main. Computers are expensive purchases and no-one will take a risk with something totally unknown, unless they know what they're doing. For the average person, I'd imagine that Macs & Linux don't even register. They might think they're different versions of Windows. They won't know what an OS is.
Therefore, articles like this will only encourage switching in that section of users who understand the differences (and even then it might not succeed). Which, in my experience, is a tiny fraction of the general computer-using population.
No, but understanding the difference between an "internet" and (one assumes) an "e-mail" might be a start. Also useful would be understanding the notion that the presumed delayed e-mail was not delayed because I was downloading Superman Returns, for example.
You're not familiar with Sunday paper journalism in the UK? Nearly every title will, every week, feature some kind of "exclusive" blue-sky puff-piece about a "new" technology or scientific "breakthrough" which is invariably based on studies or announcements made months ago, or is in fact a highly speculative "what-if?" prediction. If the story contains the sentence, "scientist/engineers predict that in ten years' time...", then you know it's probably not worth reading for ten years.
But who uses recovery CDs. Most of the time you just want a clean slate, and don't want an OS loaded with all sorts of Free ISP offers and annoying desktop icons that you don't need. You want to stick to what you know.
Secondly, one has to question the sense of sticking the valuable code on the SIDE of the computer. Just what purpose did this serve? No-one really gives two hoots whether you have a genuine Mickeysoft sticker on your box. It's not a legal requirement to stick it on, I'm sure, so why bother? Indeed, why put the CD key on it? The words "only themselves to blame" are springing to mind.
I like the way that in the second picture, the laptop is still burning, yet just in the shot you can see some geek typing on another laptop, just a couple of feet away. Not even a fire can stop a geek from bashing out some code! Or maybe he's on IRC: "d00dz, a laptop just caught fire in front of me!!! Freaky!! Its still burnin..."
To me it looks like a bloke wearing headphones with loads of wires coming out of it. I'm having difficulty believing that this device can record eye movements.
Some peolpe are forced to use Windows in the workplace. That's just the kind of location where spurious piracy messages on a copy of Windows you know is legal, but might've been installed from an image.
That truly is the worst pun ever. Not only is it hackneyed but it doesn't make literal sense. The future is in whales would mean phones will be made from whalebone, or whales will ferry your conversation over the seas.
Absolutely agree, and one of the first things they should look at is "are you allowed to send balloons into space filled with rings, bottle-caps and toys".
But in those days, emulation (or in another form, backwards compatibility) was not popular or even possible in some cases. However, the Sega Megadrive (OK, Genesis) had a plug-in you could buy that played Master System games.
I'd say MP3 was a huge change in the way audio is consumed, much bigger than CD. Plus, to be fair to Sony, as they were making ARTAC players, they also made unencumbered MP3 players too. I have one. Maybe they tried to purchase cake + consume it.
Google generates suggested search terms such as serverscheck crack, serverscheck pro crack and serverscheck keygen which lead to pirated software
Can anyone get to any "pirated software"? All I find are links to crack programs or keygens, which is good since it's what I searched for. Now then, are cracks & keygens illegal? In the US, does the DMCA make the answer yes? Fair enough if so, but should Google withdraw the data and apply the US law across the world? Of course this is only one step away from removing "torrent" - which incidentally comes up with a useful set of suggestions.
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Two of the options are just really lame examples of innuendo. What's the tech angle on these? God, I hate the Register. It's nice to be reminded why I stopped reading.
Me: Ok, can you right-click on the My Computer icon, please. Clot: OK.... Clot: C... L... I... C... K Me: Er, what's happening? A menu should have popped up. Clot: I've written 'click' on the icon, what next? Me: THWACK (as my head hits the desk) In a travel agency somewhere in the UK, there is still a PC where the My Computer icon actually reads 'click'.
Don't worry, I'd already stopped reading your post when I reached "effects".
I'd imagine it's the first option, in the main. Computers are expensive purchases and no-one will take a risk with something totally unknown, unless they know what they're doing. For the average person, I'd imagine that Macs & Linux don't even register. They might think they're different versions of Windows. They won't know what an OS is.
Therefore, articles like this will only encourage switching in that section of users who understand the differences (and even then it might not succeed). Which, in my experience, is a tiny fraction of the general computer-using population.
No, but understanding the difference between an "internet" and (one assumes) an "e-mail" might be a start. Also useful would be understanding the notion that the presumed delayed e-mail was not delayed because I was downloading Superman Returns, for example.
You're not familiar with Sunday paper journalism in the UK? Nearly every title will, every week, feature some kind of "exclusive" blue-sky puff-piece about a "new" technology or scientific "breakthrough" which is invariably based on studies or announcements made months ago, or is in fact a highly speculative "what-if?" prediction. If the story contains the sentence, "scientist/engineers predict that in ten years' time...", then you know it's probably not worth reading for ten years.
Maybe they would blame their demise on cheaper, bigger hard drives?
But who uses recovery CDs. Most of the time you just want a clean slate, and don't want an OS loaded with all sorts of Free ISP offers and annoying desktop icons that you don't need. You want to stick to what you know.
Secondly, one has to question the sense of sticking the valuable code on the SIDE of the computer. Just what purpose did this serve? No-one really gives two hoots whether you have a genuine Mickeysoft sticker on your box. It's not a legal requirement to stick it on, I'm sure, so why bother? Indeed, why put the CD key on it? The words "only themselves to blame" are springing to mind.
Doubly so if it is captured on video.
Heheh. In South London ver kidz call it "happy-(thunder)-clapping".
But then if it's to be broadcast on Comedy Central, it will be DRM-free and will be on the p2p networks within minutes of finishing.
Simple, just turn it into a prequel. Add some bollocks about a space academy, job done.
I like the way that in the second picture, the laptop is still burning, yet just in the shot you can see some geek typing on another laptop, just a couple of feet away. Not even a fire can stop a geek from bashing out some code! Or maybe he's on IRC: "d00dz, a laptop just caught fire in front of me!!! Freaky!! Its still burnin..."
To me it looks like a bloke wearing headphones with loads of wires coming out of it. I'm having difficulty believing that this device can record eye movements.
Some peolpe are forced to use Windows in the workplace. That's just the kind of location where spurious piracy messages on a copy of Windows you know is legal, but might've been installed from an image.
But I use my USB drive to quickly ssh&vnc into my home box.
That truly is the worst pun ever. Not only is it hackneyed but it doesn't make literal sense. The future is in whales would mean phones will be made from whalebone, or whales will ferry your conversation over the seas.
Microsoft owns that software, not you
In Soviet Russia, YOU own that SOFTWARE. Hang on, that's not right...
Absolutely agree, and one of the first things they should look at is "are you allowed to send balloons into space filled with rings, bottle-caps and toys".
People need to read this, assuming they can cope with the font. Why no changey in a drop-downey?
But in those days, emulation (or in another form, backwards compatibility) was not popular or even possible in some cases. However, the Sega Megadrive (OK, Genesis) had a plug-in you could buy that played Master System games.
Cos I'm forever landing on cell IV16384 and wishing that I could add just one more column.
I'd say MP3 was a huge change in the way audio is consumed, much bigger than CD. Plus, to be fair to Sony, as they were making ARTAC players, they also made unencumbered MP3 players too. I have one. Maybe they tried to purchase cake + consume it.
Might be tricky - he's been in one film, he was uncredited, and he had to wear a nasty green boiler suit. Yup, he wouldn't mind the publicity.
They're below the median/mean/mode.