What are you talking about? Oh, you mean my Commodore PET. Well, yeah, I admit it. I started using a PET in the first grade and never looked back. The trick to keeping them around so long is to make sure that when I have people over, I keep an eye on them so they don't enter the killer POKE command. Some people have no manners!
...you were inferring that Real is an evil corporation for patenting something useful, not Apple. Had this been about QuickTime and you said something negative about Apple, your karma would've sunk faster than the Titanic. But according to my reading of the current state of Slashpolitik, Real is a perfectly safe target for criticism. Hammer away!;)
Hey, I agree. It annoys me to no end that I have to get the Dish "America's 180" package just because I can't otherwise have FX and Boomerang. The thing is, though, the $50 a month or so I spend, divided among all those channels does not begin to cover the cost of producing and delivering the programming. They still need advertising.
Not being able to change channels during an advertisement is going, IMO, a bit too far. I can understand preventing someone from fast-forwarding through them, but how does preventing someone from changing the channel benefit anyone? I mean, most programming shows advertisements at roughly 15 minute intervals, so even if I change the channel during a commercial break, I'm probably going to find just about everything else on TV is also on commercial break.
So, I mean, the ads are not the problem. Do I skip commercials? Yeah. Would I mind if I couldn't skip them? Probably, but I'd understand why that restriction is in place. But preventing changing the channel? That's too extreme!
Well, things like television production and broadcast are very expensive. Someone has to pay for them. And we, at least in America, have come to expect these things for free. So the advertisements are necessary in order to make money to continue to produce and broadcast television programs. There's really no way around this. Either we pay for TV, or the broadcasters are going to have to sell commercial time. Even PBS works like this. If no one donates money or underwrites programming, the stations can't survive.
Mind you, that's still illegal. First sale does not apply here. The license for OEM versions of Windows explicitly ties it to the hardware it was purchased with. If you replace your Dell with something else, you need to get another copy of Windows. Your license only was valid for the Dell computer the OEM Windows was bundled with.
Actually, they found Saddam's weapons of mass destruction at the same Afghan market, but it took too long to draw up a military purchase order to "repurchase" them, so they've since been sold to someone else.
Poor guys... Now their addresses are in the hands of the entrepreneurs in Kabul... they're going to be getting tons of junk mail for "Habib's Roof and Tile" and "Afghan National Platinum MasterCard"...:(
"...Furthermore, since software wants to be completely free and unfettered, it should not be subject to the legal process. Any disputes concerning software licensed under this agreeement shall be decided by a CodeWars competition. Best 2 of 3. And it must be a GPL'd implementation of CodeWars..."
The only category that I see here where Windows definitely has a lot of options above and beyond MacOS is games. So go for that. Go down to the local video game store and look for some things on the PC shelf that aren't on the Macintosh shelf, and buy them. Over all, you probably aren't missing much.
Ah, yes. BUT.. remember that the new Macs are going to be running PPC-native software in Rosetta, which if you've got games that were PPC-native, they're going to run like crud on your shiny new iMac. So, it might be worthwhile to pick up the Windows versions to play them at full speed. Then again, there's also games that ran like crud natively on PPC. I bought C&C Generals for my 1.33 GHz iBook with 1G of RAM and found that it was unplayable because it was so slow. The Windows version runs fine on my son's 1300 MHz Duron with 256MB. Ouch! Actually, I've found that to be the case with most Aspyr games. They've got to be using some kind of emulation to be that painfully slow. Just get the Windows versions and save yourself the grief!
It's funny, I'm a former OS/2 user myself. When Windows 95 came out, and OS/2 software was becoming rarer and rarer, I broke down and bought it. It was about as dreadful as Windows 3.1 was, but at least had a useful desktop. I ended up going back to OS/2 and started using Linux regularly at that point, dual-booting between Warp 4 and Slackware (thanks, OS/2 Boot Manager!).
But, eventually, I found that a lot of the mainstream stuff just wasn't available. It took a long time to compile software on a 486 under Linux (there wasn't much binary software for Linux at the time.. all the a.out vs. ELF, Slackware vs. Red Hat... it was ugly) and OS/2 was practically dead at that point. So when I bought a new computer, I got Windows NT 4.0. Other than software that was designed for 95 that didn't like NT and having to be a little choosier with peripherals, I was happy. It was close enough to the OS/2 experience that I was comfortable, so I've been on Windows (NT) ever since.. from 4.0 to 2000 (5.0) to XP (5.1) to XP x64 (5.2).
I'm just guessing, but I think most people's aversion to all things Microsoft stems mostly from the utter unreliability and crudness of Windows 95 and 98. Had they been NT users, I think that they'd have had a different opinion of Microsoft operating systems.
But also, I'm not a developer. I'm more interested in the web, multimedia, and games. Microsoft Money is the one application I can't live without. I used to use Quicken on OS/2, but using MS Money for the first time was an epiphany. I even tried switching to Mac a couple of times, but Quicken is just crap compared to MS Money (for someone like me who knows jack #?@! about finance and needs something that is mistake-proof and simple and interfaces directly with my bank).
These days, you have to right-click on My Computer, select Manage, then use the Microsoft Management Console to select Storage Management, then manage your partitions there. Windows XP.. it's all about the eXPerience!
...and failed. The Commodore 128 had twice the memory, twice the video resolution, and ran at twice the speed of the Commodore 64. Unfortunately, the software market never really took off for the C128 because Commodore had the grand idea of putting the C64 ROMs in it and a Z80 processor to run CP/M. What ended up happening was that people used the C128 either as a Kaypro or Osbourne replacement, or in C64 mode and hardly ever touched the C128 mode. Developers continued to write software mostly for the C64 since it was hard to justify the effort and expense of developing for the C128 since every C128 was also a fully-functional C64. I can see this having a huge, and quite disastrous effect on the Apple software market. Why bother developing for both Mac and Windows, if every Mac can now run Windows? The only Mac-native apps that will be left several years from now will be stuff that Apple develops like iLife and Final Cut. And you can forget about games. No one is going to port Windows games to Mac OS anymore. It's just not worth it if Mac users can now just boot into Windows to play games.
wait a minute.. Apple actually gets bad press??!! You can't even post about actual negative experiences with Apple products on/. without getting modded "flamebait" by every fanboi in town. I swear I'm going to stop replying to anything Apple-related before my karma suffers any worse.
Now, consider that something like 80-90% of journalists primarily use Apple. Very, very little bad press comes their way, except possibly in suit-and-tie business-oriented publications.
By your reasoning, we shouldn't even bother with trials or even investigations. Heck, if it's likely someone committed a crime and is a viable suspect, of course they did it!
Just because it's "likely" that it was abused doesn't mean that it was, in fact, abused. In this case, it may have been a tiny puncture or hairline crack that wasn't noticed when I opened the box, but got worse. Heck, if it were in the box like this, would Apple have believed me then?! Treating customers like this is unpardonable
I worked at Staples, too, and we were very liberal with returns. I think it really depends on the manager on duty at the time as well as the overall attitude of the store management towards returns. Our general manager was incredibly lenient, while the sales manager was a little more reasonable. A lot of times it came down to what day you came in with your return.
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What are you talking about? Oh, you mean my Commodore PET. Well, yeah, I admit it. I started using a PET in the first grade and never looked back. The trick to keeping them around so long is to make sure that when I have people over, I keep an eye on them so they don't enter the killer POKE command. Some people have no manners!
Splendid!
...you were inferring that Real is an evil corporation for patenting something useful, not Apple. Had this been about QuickTime and you said something negative about Apple, your karma would've sunk faster than the Titanic. But according to my reading of the current state of Slashpolitik, Real is a perfectly safe target for criticism. Hammer away! ;)
This is not true. OS/2 failed because Windows 95 made the Win32 API the new standard and OS/2 did not have a Win32 runtime.
We're fucked!
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PROFIT!
OK, so it's legal to sell the physical CD. It still doesn't mean you can legally USE it.
We're fucked!
...Intel is expected to announce what it is going to do with all of the Pentiums with the FDIV bug that were recalled... stay tuned...
Not being able to change channels during an advertisement is going, IMO, a bit too far. I can understand preventing someone from fast-forwarding through them, but how does preventing someone from changing the channel benefit anyone? I mean, most programming shows advertisements at roughly 15 minute intervals, so even if I change the channel during a commercial break, I'm probably going to find just about everything else on TV is also on commercial break.
So, I mean, the ads are not the problem. Do I skip commercials? Yeah. Would I mind if I couldn't skip them? Probably, but I'd understand why that restriction is in place. But preventing changing the channel? That's too extreme!
Well, things like television production and broadcast are very expensive. Someone has to pay for them. And we, at least in America, have come to expect these things for free. So the advertisements are necessary in order to make money to continue to produce and broadcast television programs. There's really no way around this. Either we pay for TV, or the broadcasters are going to have to sell commercial time. Even PBS works like this. If no one donates money or underwrites programming, the stations can't survive.
Mind you, that's still illegal. First sale does not apply here. The license for OEM versions of Windows explicitly ties it to the hardware it was purchased with. If you replace your Dell with something else, you need to get another copy of Windows. Your license only was valid for the Dell computer the OEM Windows was bundled with.
Can I actually mod down an article, not just the comments?
Actually, they found Saddam's weapons of mass destruction at the same Afghan market, but it took too long to draw up a military purchase order to "repurchase" them, so they've since been sold to someone else.
Poor guys... Now their addresses are in the hands of the entrepreneurs in Kabul... they're going to be getting tons of junk mail for "Habib's Roof and Tile" and "Afghan National Platinum MasterCard"... :(
It'll be cool to watch Farooq and Bradshaw kick SCO's butts!
"...Furthermore, since software wants to be completely free and unfettered, it should not be subject to the legal process. Any disputes concerning software licensed under this agreeement shall be decided by a CodeWars competition. Best 2 of 3. And it must be a GPL'd implementation of CodeWars..."
Oh, they must be using sub-pixel rendering, like ClearType! :)
Ah, yes. BUT.. remember that the new Macs are going to be running PPC-native software in Rosetta, which if you've got games that were PPC-native, they're going to run like crud on your shiny new iMac. So, it might be worthwhile to pick up the Windows versions to play them at full speed. Then again, there's also games that ran like crud natively on PPC. I bought C&C Generals for my 1.33 GHz iBook with 1G of RAM and found that it was unplayable because it was so slow. The Windows version runs fine on my son's 1300 MHz Duron with 256MB. Ouch! Actually, I've found that to be the case with most Aspyr games. They've got to be using some kind of emulation to be that painfully slow. Just get the Windows versions and save yourself the grief!
But, eventually, I found that a lot of the mainstream stuff just wasn't available. It took a long time to compile software on a 486 under Linux (there wasn't much binary software for Linux at the time.. all the a.out vs. ELF, Slackware vs. Red Hat... it was ugly) and OS/2 was practically dead at that point. So when I bought a new computer, I got Windows NT 4.0. Other than software that was designed for 95 that didn't like NT and having to be a little choosier with peripherals, I was happy. It was close enough to the OS/2 experience that I was comfortable, so I've been on Windows (NT) ever since.. from 4.0 to 2000 (5.0) to XP (5.1) to XP x64 (5.2).
I'm just guessing, but I think most people's aversion to all things Microsoft stems mostly from the utter unreliability and crudness of Windows 95 and 98. Had they been NT users, I think that they'd have had a different opinion of Microsoft operating systems.
But also, I'm not a developer. I'm more interested in the web, multimedia, and games. Microsoft Money is the one application I can't live without. I used to use Quicken on OS/2, but using MS Money for the first time was an epiphany. I even tried switching to Mac a couple of times, but Quicken is just crap compared to MS Money (for someone like me who knows jack #?@! about finance and needs something that is mistake-proof and simple and interfaces directly with my bank).
These days, you have to right-click on My Computer, select Manage, then use the Microsoft Management Console to select Storage Management, then manage your partitions there. Windows XP.. it's all about the eXPerience!
...and failed. The Commodore 128 had twice the memory, twice the video resolution, and ran at twice the speed of the Commodore 64. Unfortunately, the software market never really took off for the C128 because Commodore had the grand idea of putting the C64 ROMs in it and a Z80 processor to run CP/M. What ended up happening was that people used the C128 either as a Kaypro or Osbourne replacement, or in C64 mode and hardly ever touched the C128 mode. Developers continued to write software mostly for the C64 since it was hard to justify the effort and expense of developing for the C128 since every C128 was also a fully-functional C64. I can see this having a huge, and quite disastrous effect on the Apple software market. Why bother developing for both Mac and Windows, if every Mac can now run Windows? The only Mac-native apps that will be left several years from now will be stuff that Apple develops like iLife and Final Cut. And you can forget about games. No one is going to port Windows games to Mac OS anymore. It's just not worth it if Mac users can now just boot into Windows to play games.
Sing: "Old Macdonald had a processor farm..."
Now, consider that something like 80-90% of journalists primarily use Apple. Very, very little bad press comes their way, except possibly in suit-and-tie business-oriented publications.
Just because it's "likely" that it was abused doesn't mean that it was, in fact, abused. In this case, it may have been a tiny puncture or hairline crack that wasn't noticed when I opened the box, but got worse. Heck, if it were in the box like this, would Apple have believed me then?! Treating customers like this is unpardonable
I worked at Staples, too, and we were very liberal with returns. I think it really depends on the manager on duty at the time as well as the overall attitude of the store management towards returns. Our general manager was incredibly lenient, while the sales manager was a little more reasonable. A lot of times it came down to what day you came in with your return.