where you can't be sure the clipboard is going to work across applications Just want to add my non-AC voice to this - why don't you cite your examples of where the clipboard doesn't work between applications and we'll see if we can verify them.
You would be absolutely right if it was just Windows machines cracked on the net that were sending spam and viruses. Unfortunately, it's not, so you aren't.
The criteria for something to be 'free' according to you, then are:
- It has to be accessible to everyone on the planet - It has to cost nothing to everyone on the planet - It has to be obtainable conveniently to everyone on the planet
Thanks for the clarification. I was using the archaic definition of free, meaning "something I can get for nothing".
This will have the handy side-effect of killing 99% of the spam that's out there too. And the even handier side-effect of driving away about 90% of your customers.
It must be nice to cling to an ideology so tightly that you can ignore practical concerns in order to follow it.
I still want a stock Best Buy special PC without Vista. I want a Ford with a Ferrari engine in it. However, I don't have unrealistic expectations so if I want a Ferrari engine I realise I might have to buy a Ferrari.
This isn't correct either. The well-established norm is that device manufacturers will take a hit on each console sold. They make the difference up in licensing.
Well, that is basically what I said: On re-reading... yes, it is.
But if they had surveyed the kids, they would find that 99% will get totally pissed off by the new feature. Who cares? Parents have to make these decisions for their children until they have the intelligence and the foresight to decide for themselves.
A good parent will put the limit on, tell their child why. Then, when the child has proved they have the presence of mind to manage their own time between homework and play, then they can remove the limit.
The rest of your comment seems to work on the assumption that kids will gravitate to the house of the friend with the least strict parents, and therefore nobody will want to play Xbox any more. The hot news on that is that this happened long before consoles were mainstream, and depends on the parents not the console. A parent can easily manage their child's time on a Playstation 3 by taking the power cord away. All Microsoft have done is provide a tool to make it easier for them.
Since most profit from XBOXes comes not from the initial device purchase but later on from games, etc., this doesn't seem very wise. This isn't correct either. The well-established norm is that device manufacturers will take a hit on each console sold. They make the difference up in licensing.
An article posted on OpenGL.org explaining the OpenGl works perfectly well on Vista, with Aero. Relevant quotation would be:
Windows Vista fully supports hardware accelerated OpenGL; OpenGL applications can benefit from Window Vistas improved graphics resource management; OpenGL performance on Windows Vista is extremely competitive with the performance on Windows XP. Well done for not even managing 25 seconds of research on something you're claiming to know.
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I don't remember this, nor can I find any reference to it. Do you have a link?
As the person above kindly pointed out, you missed my meaning.
Just because you can't get it for free, it doesn't mean it's not free.
Whether 'restrictions by region' works or not is a completely different kettle of herring.
You would be absolutely right if it was just Windows machines cracked on the net that were sending spam and viruses. Unfortunately, it's not, so you aren't.
The criteria for something to be 'free' according to you, then are:
- It has to be accessible to everyone on the planet
- It has to cost nothing to everyone on the planet
- It has to be obtainable conveniently to everyone on the planet
Thanks for the clarification. I was using the archaic definition of free, meaning "something I can get for nothing".
I'd like to remind you that this is Slashdot, and therefore there is a much higher chance that he is sincere ;)
It must be nice to cling to an ideology so tightly that you can ignore practical concerns in order to follow it.
Because I couldn't have been referring to wanting a choice, of course.
I'm sure they saw the sales of Danish bacon go waaaaay down.
Well he can't have been running it on Linux - the universe is clearly proprietary.
So many obfuscated laws...
Sorry about that.
A good parent will put the limit on, tell their child why. Then, when the child has proved they have the presence of mind to manage their own time between homework and play, then they can remove the limit.
The rest of your comment seems to work on the assumption that kids will gravitate to the house of the friend with the least strict parents, and therefore nobody will want to play Xbox any more. The hot news on that is that this happened long before consoles were mainstream, and depends on the parents not the console. A parent can easily manage their child's time on a Playstation 3 by taking the power cord away. All Microsoft have done is provide a tool to make it easier for them. Since most profit from XBOXes comes not from the initial device purchase but later on from games, etc., this doesn't seem very wise. This isn't correct either. The well-established norm is that device manufacturers will take a hit on each console sold. They make the difference up in licensing.
I hear a 'whoosh' noise...
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An article posted on OpenGL.org explaining the OpenGl works perfectly well on Vista, with Aero. Relevant quotation would be: Windows Vista fully supports hardware accelerated OpenGL;
OpenGL applications can benefit from Window Vistas improved graphics resource management;
OpenGL performance on Windows Vista is extremely competitive with the performance on Windows XP. Well done for not even managing 25 seconds of research on something you're claiming to know.
Okay, explain how I'm playing City of Heroes then, an exclusively OpenGL game.
Check your facts.
Is there an echo in here?
Wait... you're a fake! That cowboy hat comes right off!
OpenGL isn't broken in Vista.
David Hayter wrote the X-Men movie.
Someone who needs to reinstall Windows even yearly is exactly the kind of idiot that would fall for this same attack on Mac.
Good work on the hyperbole though - well formed, and hard to rebut despite being a load of absolute tosh.
Software is a tool, nothing more. How you use it says more about you than it does about the company you bought it from.
Such an angry person, aren't you Twitter?
Down to anonymously trolling me now?
How low you've sunk, Twitter.