So, somebody decides to use a free alternative that fulfills all of their needs instead of paying you for your product, and you call that "kicking Americans out?"
Sounds to me like they decided to start using their noggins to think. Maybe we here in America should do that too, and stop paying for nothing.
I don't see how this makes "free trade" a failure, though. OSS is a free alternative to overpriced proprietary code. "Free trade" is what enables them to decide to choose the better product; "free trade" doesn't mean that people have to pay you for your overpriced junk. It means they're free to make a choice.
Please don't support protectionist candidates. You'll make the outsourcing problem worse than it already is by voting for total boobs who want to jack up minimum wage and drive business out of the country with pseudo-communist anti-competitive policies.
Protectionism is not free trade, it's control. The EU deciding to use the better, cheaper product is not a free trade violation. It is an example of free trade doing what it is supposed to do -- improve the consumer's real income.
I tend to download my drivers from the mfg's website. Then I keep all of them in my data partition, so if I ever have to reinstall they're all in one place and I don't have to go hunting for them again. The only driver I really end up having to spend a long time reinstalling is my ATI Catalyst install.
Agreed. However, you're talking to someone who also builds their own computers and installs their own OS. Personally, I don't think the Windows install process is arduous. Long, maybe, but not arduous.
That's true. Those boot-from-disk copies of Ubuntu are criminally easy. People who just use their computers to browse websites and check e-mails ought to stop paying for Windows.
The only downside to using Windows is the cost. It takes a reasonably competent user to install a Linux distro, drivers, use WINE to make Crysis work, and so forth. A reasonably competent user can also operate Windows without losing the system to malware and repair any infections that do occur. So a reasonably competent user should be indifferent between Windows and Linux.
I would never purchase Windows for a business enterprise, just because of the cost, and because at work you don't need to run Crysis. It fulfills all of my needs at home, though.
I wish they would sell Direct X as a separate product, though. Using it to try and force Windows upgrades on gamers is a dirty move.
At least then you can just go to another server with another admin. All of these admins are players as well... not MS employees. MS needs to allow players to create and moderate their own servers. Perfect competition breeds the best results.
Don't sell yourself short. You can be intellectual while also maintaining a social life and bagging hella broads. Social ineptness has nothing to with the desire to learn, experiment, and play Civilization 4.
I don't find it to be that much work. I don't have to reinstall my OS more than once a year, and my anti-virus software passively prevents most infections.
Isn't this an issue with all operating systems? Keeping security software running, browsing the internet safely, and knowing how to recover a computer that is totally lost to a malware infection?
I can't imagine Linux being that much more or less work (besides the installation, which is assuredly more complicated).
I never have issues with Vista. Of course, I'm also smart & knowledgeable enough not to open suspicious files or file attachments, run Avast! Antivirus, Spybot S&D, and Spybot's add-on program Teatimer (a handy thing that allows you to approve or deny any registry changes that occur at any time, during either installations or accidental visits to malicious websites that do things like change your registry entries to modify your "home page" to direct you to their site).
I also usually have at least 2 computers on hand, so if a virus makes the thing totally FUBAR, I can recover the files by using the non-FUBAR'ed computer to access the other's hard drive, then format the drive and reinstall windows/drivers/etc. from scratch. You KNOW the virus is gone then. This is also a good way to diagnose a computer and see if a malfunction is related to software or hardware.
Needless to say, I don't have problems with any operating system regarding it's security. And with 8gb's of RAM, Vista works great! So does Crysis, incidentally.
I guess it would run Linux too. Never bothered with it honestly. Though those boot-from-disk copies of Ubuntu are pretty rad. Like a petty hacker's wet dream.
When I applied for this job, I don't think it hurt me at all that they could quickly see that several of the staff knew me already.
People hiring their friends for positions could lead to cronyism. That's one reason it could hurt you, depending on the company's selection procedures.
You could use the moth as a spy device. Of course that presumes that you can manage to attach audio and/or video bugs to the moth without weighting him down.
Except that, in the end, when you close your WoW account (assuming you ever put away the needle kit) all of you have is a lot of wasted time and money, while I spend my time double-majoring in Economics and Psychology on a scholarship, and getting laid by various attractive young ladies.
playing World of Warcraft is like becoming a member of an everchanging, persistent world.
I thought we were already members of an everchanging, persistent world. One much more engaging than World of Warcraft, which also happens to be free (or at the very least, all that food and lodging you pay for keeping your body alive is already a sunk cost). With Warcraft you are paying someone to distract you from the everchanging, persistent world that you already a part of. You're not joining one, you're withdrawing from the greatest one known to man.
So you'll have to excuse me if I find that ironic.
Well, after you pay your $60, you can play indefinitely. If you ever stop paying $180 a year, you can't play World of Warcraft anymore, even if you've already paid $40 or $60 for the boxed software AND poured hundreds or thousands of dollars into monthly fees.
Many games are good for way more than a month as well, especially if you spend a healthy amount of time on games instead of making them your life. Games like Fallout 1 & 2 (even 3 to some extent), Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, GTA 3 & 4, the Total War series, and so on, have each individually entertained me for many months. And that's not even getting into multiplayer games like Team Fortress 2, Company of Heroes, or Civilization 4, games which you can play for as long and as often as you like, without feeling bored or that you've already "beat it." It's like owning a chessboard, or a deck of cards for poker. Chess and poker never get boring.
Would you rather own 3 new games for the rest of your life, or play World of Warcraft for a year?
Well, Google does have a monopoly position. This comes down to a debate over whether or not monopolies are fundamentally bad. Nobody is accusing Google of doing anything except dominating the marketplace. So I wouldn't call it libel. The fact that he is making a point of discussing this does seem kind of impartial, though.
IANAL.
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You confuse microsoft with your country: What a shame.
Well put. What an idiot.
So, somebody decides to use a free alternative that fulfills all of their needs instead of paying you for your product, and you call that "kicking Americans out?"
Sounds to me like they decided to start using their noggins to think. Maybe we here in America should do that too, and stop paying for nothing.
I don't see how this makes "free trade" a failure, though. OSS is a free alternative to overpriced proprietary code. "Free trade" is what enables them to decide to choose the better product; "free trade" doesn't mean that people have to pay you for your overpriced junk. It means they're free to make a choice.
Please don't support protectionist candidates. You'll make the outsourcing problem worse than it already is by voting for total boobs who want to jack up minimum wage and drive business out of the country with pseudo-communist anti-competitive policies.
Protectionism is not free trade, it's control. The EU deciding to use the better, cheaper product is not a free trade violation. It is an example of free trade doing what it is supposed to do -- improve the consumer's real income.
I tend to download my drivers from the mfg's website. Then I keep all of them in my data partition, so if I ever have to reinstall they're all in one place and I don't have to go hunting for them again. The only driver I really end up having to spend a long time reinstalling is my ATI Catalyst install.
the only reason for Windows is games
Agreed. However, you're talking to someone who also builds their own computers and installs their own OS. Personally, I don't think the Windows install process is arduous. Long, maybe, but not arduous.
That's true. Those boot-from-disk copies of Ubuntu are criminally easy. People who just use their computers to browse websites and check e-mails ought to stop paying for Windows.
The only downside to using Windows is the cost. It takes a reasonably competent user to install a Linux distro, drivers, use WINE to make Crysis work, and so forth. A reasonably competent user can also operate Windows without losing the system to malware and repair any infections that do occur. So a reasonably competent user should be indifferent between Windows and Linux.
I would never purchase Windows for a business enterprise, just because of the cost, and because at work you don't need to run Crysis. It fulfills all of my needs at home, though.
I wish they would sell Direct X as a separate product, though. Using it to try and force Windows upgrades on gamers is a dirty move.
At least then you can just go to another server with another admin. All of these admins are players as well ... not MS employees. MS needs to allow players to create and moderate their own servers. Perfect competition breeds the best results.
*to do
Bloody hell.
Don't sell yourself short. You can be intellectual while also maintaining a social life and bagging hella broads. Social ineptness has nothing to with the desire to learn, experiment, and play Civilization 4.
I don't find it to be that much work. I don't have to reinstall my OS more than once a year, and my anti-virus software passively prevents most infections.
Isn't this an issue with all operating systems? Keeping security software running, browsing the internet safely, and knowing how to recover a computer that is totally lost to a malware infection?
I can't imagine Linux being that much more or less work (besides the installation, which is assuredly more complicated).
I miss Ants. I wish there was a place you could play it, if even just for the nostalgia.
I never have issues with Vista. Of course, I'm also smart & knowledgeable enough not to open suspicious files or file attachments, run Avast! Antivirus, Spybot S&D, and Spybot's add-on program Teatimer (a handy thing that allows you to approve or deny any registry changes that occur at any time, during either installations or accidental visits to malicious websites that do things like change your registry entries to modify your "home page" to direct you to their site).
I also usually have at least 2 computers on hand, so if a virus makes the thing totally FUBAR, I can recover the files by using the non-FUBAR'ed computer to access the other's hard drive, then format the drive and reinstall windows/drivers/etc. from scratch. You KNOW the virus is gone then. This is also a good way to diagnose a computer and see if a malfunction is related to software or hardware.
Needless to say, I don't have problems with any operating system regarding it's security. And with 8gb's of RAM, Vista works great! So does Crysis, incidentally.
I guess it would run Linux too. Never bothered with it honestly. Though those boot-from-disk copies of Ubuntu are pretty rad. Like a petty hacker's wet dream.
When I applied for this job, I don't think it hurt me at all that they could quickly see that several of the staff knew me already.
People hiring their friends for positions could lead to cronyism. That's one reason it could hurt you, depending on the company's selection procedures.
You could use the moth as a spy device. Of course that presumes that you can manage to attach audio and/or video bugs to the moth without weighting him down.
Except then I won't be around to care anymore.
Stainless Steel 6.1 for Medieval 2 Kingdoms has been installed on my computer for quite some time now. I love it.
Except that, in the end, when you close your WoW account (assuming you ever put away the needle kit) all of you have is a lot of wasted time and money, while I spend my time double-majoring in Economics and Psychology on a scholarship, and getting laid by various attractive young ladies.
Who lives in their Mom's basement again?
playing World of Warcraft is like becoming a member of an everchanging, persistent world.
I thought we were already members of an everchanging, persistent world. One much more engaging than World of Warcraft, which also happens to be free (or at the very least, all that food and lodging you pay for keeping your body alive is already a sunk cost). With Warcraft you are paying someone to distract you from the everchanging, persistent world that you already a part of. You're not joining one, you're withdrawing from the greatest one known to man.
So you'll have to excuse me if I find that ironic.
Wouldn't it be more economical for you to stop playing World of Warcraft, and spend 30 hours/week studying instead?
Well, after you pay your $60, you can play indefinitely. If you ever stop paying $180 a year, you can't play World of Warcraft anymore, even if you've already paid $40 or $60 for the boxed software AND poured hundreds or thousands of dollars into monthly fees.
Many games are good for way more than a month as well, especially if you spend a healthy amount of time on games instead of making them your life. Games like Fallout 1 & 2 (even 3 to some extent), Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, GTA 3 & 4, the Total War series, and so on, have each individually entertained me for many months. And that's not even getting into multiplayer games like Team Fortress 2, Company of Heroes, or Civilization 4, games which you can play for as long and as often as you like, without feeling bored or that you've already "beat it." It's like owning a chessboard, or a deck of cards for poker. Chess and poker never get boring.
Would you rather own 3 new games for the rest of your life, or play World of Warcraft for a year?
Choose wisely.
Well, Google does have a monopoly position. This comes down to a debate over whether or not monopolies are fundamentally bad. Nobody is accusing Google of doing anything except dominating the marketplace. So I wouldn't call it libel. The fact that he is making a point of discussing this does seem kind of impartial, though. IANAL.
Boxee drops Hulu? Judging from the summary it sounds more like Hulu dropped Boxee ...
That's not entirely true. I was born in 1987 as an American citizen, and all of my high school science classes used the metric system.
Why? Because they have been engaging in monopolistic price-setting or somehow taking advantage of you with their market position, right? Oh, wait ...
We are not "most people," you insensitive clod!