The problem with the Signature series is since no crapware companies are subsidizing the price of the PC, the price goes waaaaaaaay up. It makes far more sense to buy the better but crap filled PC, spend an hour wiping the hard drive and reinstalling Windows. Microsoft even lets you download the Windows 7+ ISO straight from them if your OEM didn't give you a Windows disc.
I wish I had mod points for you. The comments in this article has to be one of the biggest double standards I've seen in a while. The thing protecting the GPL is the same thing protecting music and the like. The only difference is the MAFIAA actually has the money to widely protect their IP.
How many panties would be in a twist on this site if some company was brazenly raking in >$100k/year in misappropriated GPL code, or created a custom flavor of Linux distro that somehow became the next big thing without releasing the source? (the likelihood of this is beside the point.) I have a feeling the overall tone of most of the comments section would be completely different. Just look at what happens when Google doesn't release the source to the next flavor of Android and how everyone panics even just a day beyond when they were supposed to release.
For the record, I don't believe copyright infringement is theft, but I also don't put music, movies, games, etc in a vacuum with regards to the value of copyright like many people seen to do.
Ignore 5 star gushing reviews (and 5 star reviews in general). Start at 4 star reviews. Highest rating reviews rarely give any worthwhile information to begin with. Always better to see what negatives are said. It's also a good idea to take 1 star reviews with a grain of salt as well, to avoid user-error idiots or rating bombers from competing products. Whenever I am shopping on Amazon or similar site, I start from 2 star reviews and go up to 4 star reviews. Never felt misled once about my purchases.
That's really not what room and board means, though. The reality of it is the guy just didn't understand the meaning completely and thought it meant "a place to live" rather than "a place to live and meals" or revised his idea to exclude food and forgot to take the "board" out.
Seems there would be a lot of collateral damage here. Also, what happens when you disable the GPS to save battery life? Will this app be broken/disabled or are we going to be required to enable the GPS at all times and worsen battery life for our own protection?
This is what I don't get about the whole hire a lawyer/go to the mass media answers. If we're really taking a step into the whole Borne style of disappearance then I wouldn't say it was beyond reason the opposing forces would do anything they could to discredit you. So while you're talking about [possibly unbelivable witnessed event], they will be talking about your poor psychiatric past and the child porn den you've got stashed in your house. As sad as it may be, people generally trust the government over one nut job talking about a massive conspiracy. You had better hope you have video evidence of the event taking place rather than just your word.
If only for nostalgic reasons. I used to read Nintendo Power in the 80s and early 90s. My friend had and probably still has a huge stack of them from that time period. I felt similarly sad when GamePro suffered the same fate. I used to read those all the time back in the 90s.
It's kind of like hearing that a relative or old friend you haven't seen in years died.
Their "do not evil" slogan wasn't even meant for the outside world. It was an internal one meant for employees. I'm sure they wish they could take it back given how much it's thrown back at them as though they personally marketed it to the outside world.
After a brief period of instability, we'd be forced to switch to a more sustainable technological model based on renewable energies, reduce pollution, and save the planet.
I'd be interested in knowing what your definition of "brief" means in this context. I have my doubts it would be anywhere close to brief.
This is exactly the reason why I think class actions are for the most part scams. Unless you're one of the named plaintiffs who initiated the class action or their lawyer, those involved will rarely ever see something out of it. I remember getting an email over some class action related to Netflix regarding privacy issues. The proposed settlement by the 3-4 named plaintiffs was some $30k for them, their lawyer was $2 million or more, and some amount I don't recall for a charity. No one else got anything at all. They even made it difficult to opt out because by default everyone is opted in for some stupid reason. I had to scour the webpage they created for it, and it was buried real deep that I had to send a written request to some PO box or something.
Class actions are hardly even an effective punishment most times, because the end amount, added all up, is usually just a slap on the wrist.
The issue is that if the DLC is already on the disc, then development time making the "base game" was spent on it, therefore it should be in the base game. Developers have no reason to delay the launch of the game so they can make all their DLC ahead of time just so it could be on the disc, so anything in day 1 DLC that's on the disc should have been part of the base game. It's really as simple as that.
Day 1 DLC that was on the disc to begin with is not content anyone should be paying money for. It is the most perverse form of DLC and all you're really "downloading" is the key to unlock it.
Day 1 DLC that is a result of work done after the game is gold yet still having the business end finalized are welcome in my opinion. This is the content I can see people finding value in. This is the content I would not mind spending money on.
Of course the distinction between these are often lost to the masses who either don't understand or choose not to listen. BioWare should have clarified that no one wants content locked in the disc, but they don't really care one way or the other, I'm sure.
That reminds me of back in 2003. There was a large fire in San Diego, and the wind carried the smoke and ash all over the city. I remember walking around and thinking how martian it all looked.
If they compared Windows 8 w/ Office 2010, you would have complained about the interfaces not matching.
That doesn't even make sense.
Stop nitpicking. You were going to hate it anyway, so why even pretend there's a real reason behind it.
That makes even less sense. I never mentioned or implied what my feelings regarding Windows 8 was. I was merely calling into question the incomparable results they were passing off as a benchmark. You can't tell what resulted in any performance gains -- Windows 8 or Office 2013. They should have compared both versions of Windows with Office 2013 if they wanted any meaningful results.
You're just going to have to face the facts: A few benchmarks in this article are poorly designed.
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Since he's referring to buying a lot of computers, one can only assume he has a support contract with Dell. Their business support is great.
The problem with the Signature series is since no crapware companies are subsidizing the price of the PC, the price goes waaaaaaaay up. It makes far more sense to buy the better but crap filled PC, spend an hour wiping the hard drive and reinstalling Windows. Microsoft even lets you download the Windows 7+ ISO straight from them if your OEM didn't give you a Windows disc.
You are hilarious.
Yes, the sole purpose of a VPN is to conceal yourself while performing copyright infringement.
It is incredibly easy to dodge the adware completely. It even tells you how in the article.
I wish I had mod points for you. The comments in this article has to be one of the biggest double standards I've seen in a while. The thing protecting the GPL is the same thing protecting music and the like. The only difference is the MAFIAA actually has the money to widely protect their IP.
How many panties would be in a twist on this site if some company was brazenly raking in >$100k/year in misappropriated GPL code, or created a custom flavor of Linux distro that somehow became the next big thing without releasing the source? (the likelihood of this is beside the point.) I have a feeling the overall tone of most of the comments section would be completely different. Just look at what happens when Google doesn't release the source to the next flavor of Android and how everyone panics even just a day beyond when they were supposed to release.
For the record, I don't believe copyright infringement is theft, but I also don't put music, movies, games, etc in a vacuum with regards to the value of copyright like many people seen to do.
Ignore 5 star gushing reviews (and 5 star reviews in general). Start at 4 star reviews. Highest rating reviews rarely give any worthwhile information to begin with. Always better to see what negatives are said. It's also a good idea to take 1 star reviews with a grain of salt as well, to avoid user-error idiots or rating bombers from competing products. Whenever I am shopping on Amazon or similar site, I start from 2 star reviews and go up to 4 star reviews. Never felt misled once about my purchases.
That's really not what room and board means, though. The reality of it is the guy just didn't understand the meaning completely and thought it meant "a place to live" rather than "a place to live and meals" or revised his idea to exclude food and forgot to take the "board" out.
Seems there would be a lot of collateral damage here. Also, what happens when you disable the GPS to save battery life? Will this app be broken/disabled or are we going to be required to enable the GPS at all times and worsen battery life for our own protection?
This is what I don't get about the whole hire a lawyer/go to the mass media answers. If we're really taking a step into the whole Borne style of disappearance then I wouldn't say it was beyond reason the opposing forces would do anything they could to discredit you. So while you're talking about [possibly unbelivable witnessed event], they will be talking about your poor psychiatric past and the child porn den you've got stashed in your house. As sad as it may be, people generally trust the government over one nut job talking about a massive conspiracy. You had better hope you have video evidence of the event taking place rather than just your word.
If only for nostalgic reasons. I used to read Nintendo Power in the 80s and early 90s. My friend had and probably still has a huge stack of them from that time period. I felt similarly sad when GamePro suffered the same fate. I used to read those all the time back in the 90s.
It's kind of like hearing that a relative or old friend you haven't seen in years died.
Their "do not evil" slogan wasn't even meant for the outside world. It was an internal one meant for employees. I'm sure they wish they could take it back given how much it's thrown back at them as though they personally marketed it to the outside world.
No kidding.
You are truly an unbelievable asshole of gargantuan proportions.
Because many ad networks pay per view, not per click, so even if you don't interact with the ads the website can still make money on it.
No one is talking about catastrophic failure. Battery failure generally refers to its inability to hold a charge.
After a brief period of instability, we'd be forced to switch to a more sustainable technological model based on renewable energies, reduce pollution, and save the planet.
I'd be interested in knowing what your definition of "brief" means in this context. I have my doubts it would be anywhere close to brief.
This is exactly the reason why I think class actions are for the most part scams. Unless you're one of the named plaintiffs who initiated the class action or their lawyer, those involved will rarely ever see something out of it. I remember getting an email over some class action related to Netflix regarding privacy issues. The proposed settlement by the 3-4 named plaintiffs was some $30k for them, their lawyer was $2 million or more, and some amount I don't recall for a charity. No one else got anything at all. They even made it difficult to opt out because by default everyone is opted in for some stupid reason. I had to scour the webpage they created for it, and it was buried real deep that I had to send a written request to some PO box or something.
Class actions are hardly even an effective punishment most times, because the end amount, added all up, is usually just a slap on the wrist.
Because that sort of functionality worked so well for user morale with UAC in Vista, right?
The issue is that if the DLC is already on the disc, then development time making the "base game" was spent on it, therefore it should be in the base game. Developers have no reason to delay the launch of the game so they can make all their DLC ahead of time just so it could be on the disc, so anything in day 1 DLC that's on the disc should have been part of the base game. It's really as simple as that.
Day 1 DLC that was on the disc to begin with is not content anyone should be paying money for. It is the most perverse form of DLC and all you're really "downloading" is the key to unlock it.
Day 1 DLC that is a result of work done after the game is gold yet still having the business end finalized are welcome in my opinion. This is the content I can see people finding value in. This is the content I would not mind spending money on.
Of course the distinction between these are often lost to the masses who either don't understand or choose not to listen. BioWare should have clarified that no one wants content locked in the disc, but they don't really care one way or the other, I'm sure.
I still miss Westwood Studios... Once EA got their hooks into the Command & Conquer series, it all went down hill.
They said they were arguing back and forth for 3 months, not that they only had 3 months to attempt to implement changes.
That reminds me of back in 2003. There was a large fire in San Diego, and the wind carried the smoke and ash all over the city. I remember walking around and thinking how martian it all looked.
Not my picture, but one of the event when it happened: http://www.flickr.com/photos/slworking/327999960/sizes/o/in/photostream/
If they compared Windows 8 w/ Office 2010, you would have complained about the interfaces not matching.
That doesn't even make sense.
Stop nitpicking. You were going to hate it anyway, so why even pretend there's a real reason behind it.
That makes even less sense. I never mentioned or implied what my feelings regarding Windows 8 was. I was merely calling into question the incomparable results they were passing off as a benchmark. You can't tell what resulted in any performance gains -- Windows 8 or Office 2013. They should have compared both versions of Windows with Office 2013 if they wanted any meaningful results.
You're just going to have to face the facts: A few benchmarks in this article are poorly designed.