Sounds like someone needs his own medication smuggled in for him. I would recommend a Chill Pill, twice a day, along with a single dose of Sarcastanol(tm), the drug that helps you recognise when someone is being sarcastic.
I'd agree with you, but one of the games featured in the mock-up of the front end is Mirror's Edge, which certainly doesn't come under any of the categories you mentioned.
I can't imagine making the inch-perfect jumps required in that game with a 50-100ms latency between me pressing a button and the game responding.
If you are going to seriously try to tell me that it isn't a pervasively well known fact that Windows degrades over time, becoming more and more virus ridden and slower and slower in proportion to the time it has been connected to the internet, then I can't take you seriously.
I would imagine that this is your problem rather than mine.
I'm trying to think of an OS that matches that description but I can't think of one.
If your computer takes 'weeks' to reinstall an OS the very few times in your life that you'll have to do it, then I think you might need to splash out on something a bit faster.
Well done, you've managed to create false dichotomies, (the only thing you can do other than jail someone is free them, the only alternative to violence is discussion) and you've discovered the joys of anecdotal evidence.
You don't? Seriously? I suggest you start a train of thought somewhere around How-Would-Beating-Him-Up-Prove-Violence-Solves-Nothing station.
See, you're trying to solve a problem with someone acting anti-socially by acting anti-socially. All you're telling them is that they're going about it the right way, but it's just their implementation that's wrong.
Actually, it doesn't look fine in Opera. Discussion 1 has odd bugs around the Reply buttons and the occasionally hissyfit with rendering, and Discussion 2 has problems with subject headers coming out in the wrong colour.
I can I have your copy of Opera, because although these are just niggles it still renders better in IE, even if it's horribly slow.
Yes, but I can't drop any of it to drop the price. The fact is, here in the UK I can get a 60GB 360 here for just over $200. The cheapest PS3 bundle is $400. Which do you think people are going to look at first?
Also, 'bang for the buck' implies that games are better quality on the PS3 - which just isn't true. When you actually compare them as consoles, rather than as multimedia centres, the Xbox 360 looks just as good as the PS3 and is half the price.
The only way Sony can win is if they pretend they're not competing with Nintendo, and say that the Xbox 360 will be surpassed in 10 years. This conveniently ignores the high probability that the PS3 will be completely dead in ten years if they don't do something now.
Kaz Hirai is a lunatic and he's going to run the PS3 into the ground.
Aw, did I hurt your feelings? How about Microsoft including a firewall in XP SP2, or the myriad of other extra features that appear in Service Packs? I don't remember paying for any of those, either.
I'd list more but I don't want to shatter your entire world, just make you question why Apple charge you for tiny feature improvements then hide behind 'accounting'.
There is absolutely no legal or accounting reason they have to charge for anything. Anything any Apple employee says to the contrary is a bald-faced lie.
This. Just to offer an example, Creative announced that they would add certain features to the Zen Vision MP3 series including a 'DJ' feature and the ability to record from the radio.
"The city of Redmond says the overpass will relieve congestion on other streets and support a big employer in the region, though one cutting jobs lately. Microsoft said in January that it's eliminating as many as 5,000 jobs, including some from its Seattle-area workforce of 41,480.
"This project is a mobility improvement for the area as a whole," said Lou Gellos, a spokesman for Microsoft. An existing bridge a few blocks away is congested and a nightmare for pedestrians and bicycle riders, he said."
Doesn't sound like it's "directly benefiting Microsoft" at all. Considering that traffic easing and congestion problems are the direct responsibility of the city, they would normally pay for this themselves. However, Microsoft has acknowledged it's culpability and is therefore paying half.
Or my post?
Did you read mine? I asked you to justify how Microsoft were being given anything. You couldn't even manage that.
As far as I am concerned people are going to jail because we are being ORDERED TO CONSUME by corporations and the penalty for not consuming is prison.
You were mostly sensible up to this point - I don't understand how you reached this conclusion from the rest of your post. No corporation has ever successfully ordered me to consume anything, and oddly enough I haven't broken any laws in doing so. Can you elaborate?
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I'm wondering how you heard it this time, because that's not what he said in the slightest.
Sounds like someone needs his own medication smuggled in for him. I would recommend a Chill Pill, twice a day, along with a single dose of Sarcastanol(tm), the drug that helps you recognise when someone is being sarcastic.
I'd agree with you, but one of the games featured in the mock-up of the front end is Mirror's Edge, which certainly doesn't come under any of the categories you mentioned.
I can't imagine making the inch-perfect jumps required in that game with a 50-100ms latency between me pressing a button and the game responding.
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I didn't know Ballmer edited.
Instead of normal online game lag, you have lag between you actually pressing a button and the game responding at the server.
Even a tiny amount in this situation would make the game 'feel' unresponsive.
If you are going to seriously try to tell me that it isn't a pervasively well known fact that Windows degrades over time, becoming more and more virus ridden and slower and slower in proportion to the time it has been connected to the internet, then I can't take you seriously.
I would imagine that this is your problem rather than mine.
I'm trying to think of an OS that matches that description but I can't think of one.
If your computer takes 'weeks' to reinstall an OS the very few times in your life that you'll have to do it, then I think you might need to splash out on something a bit faster.
Microsoft doesn't have anything about open source actually.
Except for the Ms-PL that I mentioned above, which is an OSI-approved open source license.
What was your point, exactly?
It's released under the Ms-PL, which is OSI-approved.
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Well done, you've managed to create false dichotomies, (the only thing you can do other than jail someone is free them, the only alternative to violence is discussion) and you've discovered the joys of anecdotal evidence.
Would you like to try again?
Damn you, sir! You win this round...
Cheers for the Phenom 2 :)
You don't? Seriously? I suggest you start a train of thought somewhere around How-Would-Beating-Him-Up-Prove-Violence-Solves-Nothing station.
See, you're trying to solve a problem with someone acting anti-socially by acting anti-socially. All you're telling them is that they're going about it the right way, but it's just their implementation that's wrong.
Actually, it doesn't look fine in Opera. Discussion 1 has odd bugs around the Reply buttons and the occasionally hissyfit with rendering, and Discussion 2 has problems with subject headers coming out in the wrong colour.
I can I have your copy of Opera, because although these are just niggles it still renders better in IE, even if it's horribly slow.
You get what you pay for, and at least it's optional.
I actually assumed that he was Hirai, just deep undercover...
The PS3 costs more because it comes with more.
Yes, but I can't drop any of it to drop the price. The fact is, here in the UK I can get a 60GB 360 here for just over $200. The cheapest PS3 bundle is $400. Which do you think people are going to look at first?
Also, 'bang for the buck' implies that games are better quality on the PS3 - which just isn't true. When you actually compare them as consoles, rather than as multimedia centres, the Xbox 360 looks just as good as the PS3 and is half the price.
The only way Sony can win is if they pretend they're not competing with Nintendo, and say that the Xbox 360 will be surpassed in 10 years. This conveniently ignores the high probability that the PS3 will be completely dead in ten years if they don't do something now.
Kaz Hirai is a lunatic and he's going to run the PS3 into the ground.
Aw, did I hurt your feelings? How about Microsoft including a firewall in XP SP2, or the myriad of other extra features that appear in Service Packs? I don't remember paying for any of those, either.
I'd list more but I don't want to shatter your entire world, just make you question why Apple charge you for tiny feature improvements then hide behind 'accounting'.
There is absolutely no legal or accounting reason they have to charge for anything. Anything any Apple employee says to the contrary is a bald-faced lie.
This. Just to offer an example, Creative announced that they would add certain features to the Zen Vision MP3 series including a 'DJ' feature and the ability to record from the radio.
It's funny how I didn't have to pay for that.
Did you not read the article?
Did you?
"The city of Redmond says the overpass will relieve congestion on other streets and support a big employer in the region, though one cutting jobs lately. Microsoft said in January that it's eliminating as many as 5,000 jobs, including some from its Seattle-area workforce of 41,480.
"This project is a mobility improvement for the area as a whole," said Lou Gellos, a spokesman for Microsoft. An existing bridge a few blocks away is congested and a nightmare for pedestrians and bicycle riders, he said."
Doesn't sound like it's "directly benefiting Microsoft" at all. Considering that traffic easing and congestion problems are the direct responsibility of the city, they would normally pay for this themselves. However, Microsoft has acknowledged it's culpability and is therefore paying half.
Or my post?
Did you read mine? I asked you to justify how Microsoft were being given anything. You couldn't even manage that.
I'm sorry, what will Microsoft have been 'given' when this is finished?
Just to give you a clue, it won't be a bridge.
As far as I am concerned people are going to jail because we are being ORDERED TO CONSUME by corporations and the penalty for not consuming is prison.
You were mostly sensible up to this point - I don't understand how you reached this conclusion from the rest of your post. No corporation has ever successfully ordered me to consume anything, and oddly enough I haven't broken any laws in doing so. Can you elaborate?
No, it's not. You have displayed intent to share the whole song, even if people are only taking 1 second chunks.