Umm, you do know with sub prime mortgages, it's about the rich people/companies GIVING out their money to keep a lean on an asset (ex: a home) and with the housing market vastly undervalued, the value of the asset is less than the cash given to the previous owner.
I'm not pro bail-out, this the matter is way more complicated than simply "giving money to rich people".
Not appearing on the servers I'm seeing, but somebody the size of Amazon will have multiple hosting locations, mirrors, caching etc. It might take an hour or more for everybody to see any changes to the site.
Mark me down as one of those "been a computer gamer for the past 25yrs but lately all I play is console games". And mind you, my computer is cutting edge but if I have the choice between a PC version or the Xbox 360 version, I'll pick the 360 every time.
Although having a large HDTV is requirement of this mindset.
I've written a pretty extensive list of what worked for me in treating and preventing carpal tunnel, perhaps you should give it a read, you can get beyond 70%.
It both surprised and made me proud of my fellow consumers that so many people do care about the unacceptable DRM being used in this game.
EA marketing can spin it all they want, but they will kill their DRM servers the moment: 1. The game no longer makes money 2. The server gets a non compatible "upgrade" 3. EA gets bought out by another company 4. EA smartens up and realizes DRM was just a bad idea that only punishes the legal users (and if this happens too late, nobody will be create an EA patch to the game)
What if I wanted to still play Spore in 2026, that's not as unrealistic as it sounds because as you read this I'm playing many 15yr old PC games still. There are many DOS games I still enjoy (legally) to this day in DOSBOX.
What EA needs to realize is pirates aren't their demographics, some people will just steal the game, protection won't change them either way. Meanwhile, intelligent consumers like myself, who actually had an interest in the game, will not either boycott or get the game using more nefarious means. Mind you I am an active consumer, I've purchase two new PC games in the last 6 weeks.
Finally keep in mind there's another reason behind this kind of DRM: to prevent the sale of used copies, Half Life 2 did the same thing when they tied the game to Steam. I'll bet the shirt on my back if you were to call EA and say you bought the game used and want a 4th authorization, they'll turn you down. It's both a moral and a technological abuse.
Just say no to rent-ware masquerading as a product!
So they've basically removed tabs, and simply map separate IEs into one UI and they all pretend to be tabs.
If that's all they're going to do, there is far too much waste to make this a good idea. Think of the unwashed masses who bought their OEM PC with 256mb or 512mb of RAM, IE7 is already a beast to them, I can't imagine how they're going to surf the net.
I can already see the flood of people saying how IE8 slowed down their computer, and sadly, it's true.
Having a separate thread for each tab would be a good feature in any browser, especially when you're developing a webpage and during the dev cycle a loop goes awry or your output is all gunked up. And with Intel's upcoming cpu being 4 core only with hyper-threading, giving you 8 real threads, this form of multi-threading could give an interesting boost as long as the overhead doesn't kill you.
I will admit that it's suspicious that IE8 is performing this poorly by beta 2 but I'm still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and hope for some great optimizations by the time we hit RC.
But to be honest, separate threads per tab isn't important enough to make me want to switch away from Firefox. Perhaps Microsoft hasn't learned the biggest appeal to Firefox are the great Add-Ons, something MS hasn't fully implemented yet, and probably won't out of FUD and/or "not invented here" syndrome.
No, what's stupid is thinking you can merely "throw money at a problem". Trust me, if you dislike your job, giving you a $5k or $10k raise may sound great at first, but it won't make you're job any less distasteful, stressful, meaningless, dysfunctional, etc. Not to mention after you get use to the new salary, it will be a non-issue, that takes all of 2 months at most.
Not that silly HR morale tricks are any better, but they're cheaper, and that saves the bottom line, which is actually a good thing. You do want them to be able to still have money to pay you next week, right?
Usually the real solution would take an understanding that they don't have. Often the people who would need to approve of changes, or the ones who need to be changed (see: canned). Nobody is going to sign their own pink slip, generally trouble makes have no idea they are the trouble, they just see you as the problem.
They should have just hired TicketMaster, as absurd as it sounds, they're already experts in the field. Although you'd have to pay an extra $8 to get your ticket printed right then at the train station.
It's child pornography! We don't have time for investigation or a trial, how about we skip that silly little burden of proof process in order to keep the budget down and move on to the next victum... err criminal.
Your forgetting the part that companies want you to choose debit, which is why they often push that on you first. A debit allows them to charge you $1 for the money transaction, a credit card transaction costs them a flat rate and possible a tiny percentage.
Well at least the iPhone will have an optional iReachAround that makes the plug more versatile.
As for as the Zune is concerned, you have to buy a 3rd party plug component and download the DoesntCallBack system update, and that's not really as fun.
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Umm, you do know with sub prime mortgages, it's about the rich people/companies GIVING out their money to keep a lean on an asset (ex: a home) and with the housing market vastly undervalued, the value of the asset is less than the cash given to the previous owner.
I'm not pro bail-out, this the matter is way more complicated than simply "giving money to rich people".
You do know they did have this pet project called x86, it wasn't very popular, unless you happen to run Windows, OSX or Linux.
Great list but you forgot another key one:
* They give you interest on money you leave in your account.
Your post was a glimmer of sensibility until you got to the "Vista sucks, so give it away for free" part.
That's like saying if Microsoft gave away all the unfixable Xbox 360s that RRoD, people would not care about the red ring problem anymore.
Wouldn't the fastest route to fix the Vista image is to polish up Windows 7 as quickly as possible, get it on the shelf and sweet Vista under a rug?
Not appearing on the servers I'm seeing, but somebody the size of Amazon will have multiple hosting locations, mirrors, caching etc. It might take an hour or more for everybody to see any changes to the site.
Mark me down as one of those "been a computer gamer for the past 25yrs but lately all I play is console games". And mind you, my computer is cutting edge but if I have the choice between a PC version or the Xbox 360 version, I'll pick the 360 every time.
Although having a large HDTV is requirement of this mindset.
I've written a pretty extensive list of what worked for me in treating and preventing carpal tunnel, perhaps you should give it a read, you can get beyond 70%.
http://thespoke.net/blogs/travisowens/archive/2006/05/09/956654.aspx
It both surprised and made me proud of my fellow consumers that so many people do care about the unacceptable DRM being used in this game.
EA marketing can spin it all they want, but they will kill their DRM servers the moment:
1. The game no longer makes money
2. The server gets a non compatible "upgrade"
3. EA gets bought out by another company
4. EA smartens up and realizes DRM was just a bad idea that only punishes the legal users (and if this happens too late, nobody will be create an EA patch to the game)
What if I wanted to still play Spore in 2026, that's not as unrealistic as it sounds because as you read this I'm playing many 15yr old PC games still. There are many DOS games I still enjoy (legally) to this day in DOSBOX.
What EA needs to realize is pirates aren't their demographics, some people will just steal the game, protection won't change them either way. Meanwhile, intelligent consumers like myself, who actually had an interest in the game, will not either boycott or get the game using more nefarious means. Mind you I am an active consumer, I've purchase two new PC games in the last 6 weeks.
Finally keep in mind there's another reason behind this kind of DRM: to prevent the sale of used copies, Half Life 2 did the same thing when they tied the game to Steam. I'll bet the shirt on my back if you were to call EA and say you bought the game used and want a 4th authorization, they'll turn you down. It's both a moral and a technological abuse.
Just say no to rent-ware masquerading as a product!
I see you're a true internet traditionalist, taking down your entire site to "rebuild" it, good for you.
After watching the video, listening to those guy's questions to the lady were more annoying that any Rick Rolling I have ever fell victim to.
I want to say he's just not translating his questions well, but if you ignore the wording and listen to what he's asking, he sounds like an idiot.
"Does it come with the keyboard, and the mousepad?"
and the pile of missing 2004 US election votes
Restriction, bah humbug, I can still go to
http://maps.google.se/
Maybe we'll have higher res access there, oh wait nevermind.
If you RTFA you would see Germany is already trying...
"The German Cash Registers Project Group has proposed legislation to make cash registers tamperproof."
We all know this is impossible, all they can do is make it harder.
So they've basically removed tabs, and simply map separate IEs into one UI and they all pretend to be tabs.
If that's all they're going to do, there is far too much waste to make this a good idea. Think of the unwashed masses who bought their OEM PC with 256mb or 512mb of RAM, IE7 is already a beast to them, I can't imagine how they're going to surf the net.
I can already see the flood of people saying how IE8 slowed down their computer, and sadly, it's true.
Having a separate thread for each tab would be a good feature in any browser, especially when you're developing a webpage and during the dev cycle a loop goes awry or your output is all gunked up. And with Intel's upcoming cpu being 4 core only with hyper-threading, giving you 8 real threads, this form of multi-threading could give an interesting boost as long as the overhead doesn't kill you.
I will admit that it's suspicious that IE8 is performing this poorly by beta 2 but I'm still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and hope for some great optimizations by the time we hit RC.
But to be honest, separate threads per tab isn't important enough to make me want to switch away from Firefox. Perhaps Microsoft hasn't learned the biggest appeal to Firefox are the great Add-Ons, something MS hasn't fully implemented yet, and probably won't out of FUD and/or "not invented here" syndrome.
Intel's GPU performance is abysmal, a SLI'd Intel still won't compare to just one Nvidia card.
No, what's stupid is thinking you can merely "throw money at a problem". Trust me, if you dislike your job, giving you a $5k or $10k raise may sound great at first, but it won't make you're job any less distasteful, stressful, meaningless, dysfunctional, etc. Not to mention after you get use to the new salary, it will be a non-issue, that takes all of 2 months at most.
Not that silly HR morale tricks are any better, but they're cheaper, and that saves the bottom line, which is actually a good thing. You do want them to be able to still have money to pay you next week, right?
Usually the real solution would take an understanding that they don't have. Often the people who would need to approve of changes, or the ones who need to be changed (see: canned). Nobody is going to sign their own pink slip, generally trouble makes have no idea they are the trouble, they just see you as the problem.
A proxy? How do I do that, I'm getting sick of the gunky marks the duct tape across my screen is leaving.
They should have just hired TicketMaster, as absurd as it sounds, they're already experts in the field. Although you'd have to pay an extra $8 to get your ticket printed right then at the train station.
So I'm guessing their Access database just looks like this:
ID | First | Last
I guess they just took KISS way too far.
It's child pornography! We don't have time for investigation or a trial, how about we skip that silly little burden of proof process in order to keep the budget down and move on to the next victum... err criminal.
Ok? Thanks!
Your forgetting the part that companies want you to choose debit, which is why they often push that on you first. A debit allows them to charge you $1 for the money transaction, a credit card transaction costs them a flat rate and possible a tiny percentage.
I know some lawyer thugs from Amazon that would like to talk to you.
What, no tomato?
Well at least the iPhone will have an optional iReachAround that makes the plug more versatile.
As for as the Zune is concerned, you have to buy a 3rd party plug component and download the DoesntCallBack system update, and that's not really as fun.