"Instead of driving to get CDs, buying pre-packaged software from megacorporations and wasting energy, you can help fight Global Warming by using P2P. Help save resources, fight pollution and save the environment. - It's what Jesus would do."
WRONG, piracy (in the form of copyright infringement) is not strictly a criminal activity in most places (unless you profit from it), and ends up only being civil case, not criminal.
The main issue is relatively few people will ever be able to get the full 22Mb/s for that price, especially outside of major cities. Most people will see 10-16 ish.
The benefit of cable is you don't lose the speed with distance as you do with ADSL.
Unfortunately the only cable is run by Virgin, which screw over their users in order to get to 50Mb but don't invest in the network to get better speeds for everyone else and this results in massive throttleing pretty much all the time
Accept you could say that about pretty much EVERY SINGLE OS.
You say XP is faster than Vista, but the difference is minimal on new and recent hardware and even less of a difference with 7 (on older hardware I agree, XP will be better).
As hardware gets better, 7 and Vista will come into their own more and more (if not already so) as they've been designed to take advantage of more RAM and CPU cores that XP simply can't and nothing will change that.
Are you saying you'd rather be happier with Windows 95 on a new hardware (ignoring incompatibilities) simply cos it'll be "faster" than have a new OS with new features, more stable and generally better in every way.
Yeah I realise the results don't show actual figures and we have no idea how close they actually are, (but the reviewer can't due to the EULA, MS don't allow actual figures), so it's the best we can hope for, but it's still pretty damning evidence of how far 7 has come.
The DRM issue is rubbish, it doesn't cripple performance if it's not being used, and it simply allows you to play stuff you wouldn't otherwise be able to, the fact it is there makes no difference.
RAM is there to be used, that's the whole point of it. Vista has considerably better memory management than XP ever had so the fact its using 800MB is a non-issue.
Vista pre-caches often used apps, which makes it sooo much better than XP (just cos it uses more RAM doesn't make it worse). It's using that RAM because it is there, not because it needs to, there's a difference.
The fact it takes 15 mins to boot means there is something very wrong with your PC and it certainly isn't Vista (dodgy driver/startup prog) perhaps?
FYI, patching is NOT done through the PSN store, this ONLY applies to Demos. Patching is done via a separate system and is automatic when you start the game, so this $.16 per GB doesn't apply here.
In the UK at least debit cards DON'T have the same protection as using credit cards, so it's not FUD at all.
Your bank MAY reimburse you, but they don't have to. However when you use a credit card, the company in effect owes the bank rather than you as it has been bought on 'credit' (from the bank). So it's generally guaranteed to get any money back as long as the value is above £50.
For the same reason you actually have more protection if your debit card goes into your overdraft resulting in a negative balance (as it's 'credit' from the bank), rather than if you had a positive balance and you didn't owe the bank anything.
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That's where you are wrong ;)
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/881/piracyglobalwarmingd.jpg
"Instead of driving to get CDs, buying pre-packaged software from megacorporations and wasting energy, you can help fight Global Warming by using P2P. Help save resources, fight pollution and save the environment. - It's what Jesus would do."
WRONG, piracy (in the form of copyright infringement) is not strictly a criminal activity in most places (unless you profit from it), and ends up only being civil case, not criminal.
The main issue is relatively few people will ever be able to get the full 22Mb/s for that price, especially outside of major cities. Most people will see 10-16 ish.
The benefit of cable is you don't lose the speed with distance as you do with ADSL.
Unfortunately the only cable is run by Virgin, which screw over their users in order to get to 50Mb but don't invest in the network to get better speeds for everyone else and this results in massive throttleing pretty much all the time
I'm pretty sure they don't intend to make their lawyers rich, but that's what does happen.
You realise right all of those things you mention aren't actually bugs.
All of those are additional programs separate from the XP core system, (and so will continue to be updated as necessary according to their version).
Office has nothing to do with Windows XP, neither does silverlight, .Net or graphics drivers.
Make that more like 3 years time, XP came out in '01
Perhaps they'll accept payment in the form of 'chairs being thrown at Jobs' ;)
Except Google doesn't have Ads on the pages they have news on, so Google probably makes very little if anything on aggregating news.
Accept you could say that about pretty much EVERY SINGLE OS.
You say XP is faster than Vista, but the difference is minimal on new and recent hardware and even less of a difference with 7 (on older hardware I agree, XP will be better).
As hardware gets better, 7 and Vista will come into their own more and more (if not already so) as they've been designed to take advantage of more RAM and CPU cores that XP simply can't and nothing will change that.
Are you saying you'd rather be happier with Windows 95 on a new hardware (ignoring incompatibilities) simply cos it'll be "faster" than have a new OS with new features, more stable and generally better in every way.
the music on the ipod was not open source)?
FYI, open source != Free
Yeah I realise the results don't show actual figures and we have no idea how close they actually are, (but the reviewer can't due to the EULA, MS don't allow actual figures), so it's the best we can hope for, but it's still pretty damning evidence of how far 7 has come.
The DRM issue is rubbish, it doesn't cripple performance if it's not being used, and it simply allows you to play stuff you wouldn't otherwise be able to, the fact it is there makes no difference.
Only on older hardware is XP better than Vista/7.
ZDNet did a 'test' and found that with modern hardware 7/Vista (but more so with 7) easily beat XP comfortably.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3789&page=3
The better the hardware, the smaller the difference I suppose or the bigger the advantage Vista/7 has over XP.
There's a whole lot more to this than simple searching via the URL bar.
See this video and shows how powerful it could be: http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/
No, it's oh so much more than that.
Watch the video, it explains everything, and looks like a very cool feature with a LOT of potential.
http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/
IE collection has EVERY version of IE (and it's portable).
http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm
Granted it's not the same thing, but it saves messing around with virtual machines etc.
I was under the impression most O2 phones actually are unlocked (with the iPhone being the big exception).
The article is only DATED May 2009, and it does NOT explicitly say when the RC will be out.
Of course you could be really picky and point out "stones" are used for measuring one's mass not weight.
Except the UK and Europe will see it.
It's called the Tata Europa, granted it will also cost about 3-4 times the price due to all the extra safety features required.
RAM is there to be used, that's the whole point of it. Vista has considerably better memory management than XP ever had so the fact its using 800MB is a non-issue.
Vista pre-caches often used apps, which makes it sooo much better than XP (just cos it uses more RAM doesn't make it worse). It's using that RAM because it is there, not because it needs to, there's a difference.
The fact it takes 15 mins to boot means there is something very wrong with your PC and it certainly isn't Vista (dodgy driver/startup prog) perhaps?
Patching is still free, this only applies to demos downloaded via the PSN store (which patching isn't, its done in-game.)
FYI, patching is NOT done through the PSN store, this ONLY applies to Demos. Patching is done via a separate system and is automatic when you start the game, so this $.16 per GB doesn't apply here.
In other words patching is still free.
In the UK at least debit cards DON'T have the same protection as using credit cards, so it's not FUD at all.
Your bank MAY reimburse you, but they don't have to. However when you use a credit card, the company in effect owes the bank rather than you as it has been bought on 'credit' (from the bank). So it's generally guaranteed to get any money back as long as the value is above £50.
For the same reason you actually have more protection if your debit card goes into your overdraft resulting in a negative balance (as it's 'credit' from the bank), rather than if you had a positive balance and you didn't owe the bank anything.
I have, but even then it will still use up more RAM than if it was all in one process.
Simply doing a quick test on FF3 and IE8 and opening up 10-20 different tabs or something will clearly illustrate this.
The other big problem of course is as it has each tab in a separate process, it eats up RAM at a rate that makes Firefox look like it's on a diet.
This applies to Chrome too (so you need a LOT of RAM to run these browsers with lots of tabs open).