I am not totally repulsed by the Steam DRM mechanism. When they try to coerce it into becoming a social network I back away, though.
It is ALWAYS a disappointment, however, when I purchase a boxed physical PC game and discover shortly after opening it and trying to install it that it's another 'Steam' game. It isn't always very well labeled as such on the packaging. Sometimes it's very deep in the fine print.
Tech industry used to be cool. It used to be companies cared at least somewhat about competing on merit providing useful new capabilities and better tools to get the job done.
It's always been dirt-bags competing in a cutthroat fashion. Study the history of companies like Oracle and the way IBM fought against DEC and the minicomputer generation if you doubt this.
You can get hella-powerful Dell Latitudes for a few hundred bucks. They're not as 'powerful' as the current line, but four year old laptops with i7 processors are really cheap. They can take 16G of memory and support multiple drives easily, if you ditch the optical drive caddy and put a fixed drive there.
Use an Offline Update Downloader to create an ISO. Run the ISO's installer to update Windows 7. Do this as frequently as you feel is necessary. Turn Windows Update completely off in the Windows 7 Control Panel.
The nice thing is, you archive your updates this way. I ran the Offline Update Downloader the day they turned off Windows XP updates and made a final update set for XP. Any time I see the need to build an XP system, pull out the ISO and run it on the new XP install.
If businesses can't firewall the hell out of Windows Telemetry on their own corporate networks, they need to hire new IT staff or just shut the dang company down.
I can't believe I need to defend Corporate-grade Windows in this fashion. I'm not really that much a Microsoft shill. But common sense needs to prevail.
The same thing any government would do. But it's appealing to act like a few special companies refuse. It could even become a bit of marketing hype for a company to pretend they refuse. Or even that they're special somehow and have designed their system to make impossible not to refuse. All within a shroud of secrecy, and behind closed-source software and trade secrets, of course...
No, Gandhi never talked about competing brands of personal computer hardware. He would be upset that people use catch-phrases from his ideology to battle about which brand of consumer items is superior.
Furthermore, it is not an ideological issue. It's about different brands of computer.
It's always good when the experts on the Windows OS (Mac users who boast they would never touch a Windows computer) are in the room explaining why it is so bad.
What a scam. Convince your customers to pay more so they won't appear to be one of the unwashed masses out in public. Then claim they will have a superior experience. While slowly removing features from subsequent generations of the product, and increasing the price.
"You are fortunate that we are willing to take your money." Suckers.
The machines in question just happen to be Surface Pros. The problem that frustrates them is the network. They could be Thinkpads, or iPads, or Macintoshes, and they would sutter the same connectivity problems the the Surfaces do, so the jocks would still be raging about them.
I suppose we should all do research about Human Interface Design. Which happens to be technology, btw. But WTF does that have to do with poor networking infrastructure in sports arenas??
Even my weak little Netbook, which is an Acer Aspire One (a $300 system at full retail two years ago), has 8GB of memory. It was sold as a 4GB max system, but you can off-label upgrade it with a 8GB DIMM and it eats it all up and becomes a fairly big (but slow) machine. I run VirtualBox on it and can play with Linux Distros, NetBSD or MINIX, and of course run my old 32 bit XP programs that Windows 7 won't support anymore.
It's a Netbook. With 8GB. Did I mention that?? Fully half as much RAM as the top-end Apple flagship.
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Also there is a 200MB limit to the size of the game.
The original Doom game installer fits on a single floppy diskette.
Size matters, but not nearly as much as some people think.
I am not totally repulsed by the Steam DRM mechanism. When they try to coerce it into becoming a social network I back away, though.
It is ALWAYS a disappointment, however, when I purchase a boxed physical PC game and discover shortly after opening it and trying to install it that it's another 'Steam' game. It isn't always very well labeled as such on the packaging. Sometimes it's very deep in the fine print.
Solitaire isn't even a free Windows game any longer.
But your phone doesn't have an Altivec Unit OR a Secure Enclave.
SCSI!!
RISC!!
It's always been dirt-bags competing in a cutthroat fashion. Study the history of companies like Oracle and the way IBM fought against DEC and the minicomputer generation if you doubt this.
You can get hella-powerful Dell Latitudes for a few hundred bucks. They're not as 'powerful' as the current line, but four year old laptops with i7 processors are really cheap. They can take 16G of memory and support multiple drives easily, if you ditch the optical drive caddy and put a fixed drive there.
Translation: "I write software for a living, and you need to keep buying new software all the time for me to get paid."
Use an Offline Update Downloader to create an ISO. Run the ISO's installer to update Windows 7. Do this as frequently as you feel is necessary. Turn Windows Update completely off in the Windows 7 Control Panel.
The nice thing is, you archive your updates this way. I ran the Offline Update Downloader the day they turned off Windows XP updates and made a final update set for XP. Any time I see the need to build an XP system, pull out the ISO and run it on the new XP install.
If businesses can't firewall the hell out of Windows Telemetry on their own corporate networks, they need to hire new IT staff or just shut the dang company down.
I can't believe I need to defend Corporate-grade Windows in this fashion. I'm not really that much a Microsoft shill. But common sense needs to prevail.
Back then anything Datsun in auto parts was out-of-this-world expensive. Though I loved my Datsun 310 (the near opposite of a 280ZX) for years.
They're picking on Hillary.
Make them stop it!
And that's a problem for whom??
Must have been one heck of a Datsun.
The same thing any government would do. But it's appealing to act like a few special companies refuse. It could even become a bit of marketing hype for a company to pretend they refuse. Or even that they're special somehow and have designed their system to make impossible not to refuse. All within a shroud of secrecy, and behind closed-source software and trade secrets, of course...
Excel was a program for the Macintosh years before it became available for Windows.
Microsoft made a LOT of money selling office software for Macintoshes before Windows even existed.
Did Excel screw up, or did your Mac just run out of memory?
No, Gandhi never talked about competing brands of personal computer hardware. He would be upset that people use catch-phrases from his ideology to battle about which brand of consumer items is superior.
Furthermore, it is not an ideological issue. It's about different brands of computer.
It's always good when the experts on the Windows OS (Mac users who boast they would never touch a Windows computer) are in the room explaining why it is so bad.
I just don't get Microsoft.
Right. But you sure have an opinion about it.
You can only get the Linux Surface if you turn in a MacBook that has been stripped and upgraded to Linux.
What a scam. Convince your customers to pay more so they won't appear to be one of the unwashed masses out in public. Then claim they will have a superior experience. While slowly removing features from subsequent generations of the product, and increasing the price.
"You are fortunate that we are willing to take your money." Suckers.
It's a conspiracy. Microsoft not only wants to sabotage your wifi, they want to keep it a secret while doing so.
The machines in question just happen to be Surface Pros. The problem that frustrates them is the network. They could be Thinkpads, or iPads, or Macintoshes, and they would sutter the same connectivity problems the the Surfaces do, so the jocks would still be raging about them.
I suppose we should all do research about Human Interface Design. Which happens to be technology, btw. But WTF does that have to do with poor networking infrastructure in sports arenas??
Can I turn in my Powerbook 165C? I think it has System 7 on it.
Some of us are expecting her to come out of the closet the week after the election, ditch Bill, and steal Huma from the Weiner.
You should be in Washington, then, and raking in the big bucks.
Hurry, before the swamp gets drained.
Even my weak little Netbook, which is an Acer Aspire One (a $300 system at full retail two years ago), has 8GB of memory. It was sold as a 4GB max system, but you can off-label upgrade it with a 8GB DIMM and it eats it all up and becomes a fairly big (but slow) machine. I run VirtualBox on it and can play with Linux Distros, NetBSD or MINIX, and of course run my old 32 bit XP programs that Windows 7 won't support anymore.
It's a Netbook. With 8GB. Did I mention that?? Fully half as much RAM as the top-end Apple flagship.