"Unity forces a cell phone UI on the desktop, and people hate it."
I'm probably a weirdo (actually I know I am), but I actually don't mind this release of Unity, and find that this version is significantly improved over the last one that shipped with Ubuntu Netbook Maverick Meerkat (10.10). The sidebar launcher automatically gets out of your way when you full-screen an app or drag a window to the side. It comes back when you mouse over the left side of your screen as needed. It's pretty easy to remove or add new icons (similar to how Windows 7 handles icons). It takes up a bit more space than I think it needs to, but for people who like big icons that's a plus. If you know the name of the app you want to launch, you can click the Ubuntu logo and type it into the search box, press enter, and it will launch (again similar to Windows 7).
I think the real problem people have with Unity is that they don't like change. What everyone needs to remember is that Ubuntu does not forbid you from downloading and installing your preferred window manager and customizing it to your taste. You can also download one of several flavors already configured with alternative popular window managers, and as pointed out elsewhere the default Gnome window manager can be selected during login and will remain the default until it is changed again. So think of Unity more as a default option. If you don't like it, you still have your power of choice, and there's still a lot of customization potential out there. At some point when I have free time to tinker I will likely set up FVWM with a neat custom retro layout. Until then I will be happy to continue using Unity.
Ubuntu is still LINUX. Anyone can set up their own distro, provided they have the time, resources and stamina to do so. That's what makes it so great.
I'm not against sharing. I'm against sharing with complete strangers that I know nothing about and who may have no problem with taking advantage of me and my family.
Darth Vader was far more frightening until they showed us Anakin hitting on a girl twice his age and shouting, "Now this is Pod Racing" while attacking the Trade Federation control ship. Anakin became even more pathetic after we watched him turning into a creepy stalker teenager who used the Jedi mind trick to get Padme to like him. And the final insult - Anakin becomes a Dark Lord of the Sith so he won't get in trouble for cutting Mace Windu's hand off? Lame. Really, if Lucas had avoided giving us Vader backstory entirely, our own imaginations would have been more than sufficient at keeping Vader a truly frightening Dark Lord of the Sith, even after the helmet removal in Return of the Jedi.
I've been shopping laptops for a while and Samsung keeps popping onto my list because I really like their monitors. I cannot give this company another penny, now that I know they do this.
Even though I would have erased the hard drive, destroyed the partitions and probably installed LINUX on it after the sale...the moral implications are there. If they thought installing a keylogger was a good idea, what else have they done with their products? I'd rather not have to be the person to find out.
It makes me feel safe and secure knowing that our government is hard at work ensuring the various media corporations can sue the pants off anyone and everyone who infringes upon their copyrighted works in any way shape or form imagined, unimagined or otherwise potentially imagined in the future; all the while a potentially devastating nuclear catastrophe in the Pacific with possibly far-reaching effects grows more likely by the hour.
I hear those fallout proof bunkers are rather expensive, so maybe that's their motivation.
Look, everyone has a preferred method of doing things when it comes to IT, and everyone has an opinion on best practice that is based on a number of different things. No one opinion is the best, and every problem shouldn't be resolved the same way.
I was introduced to UNIX while in college from a user's perspective. I played with LINUX as a desktop platform for the first time, also while in college. I also was exposed to the Mac OS of the 90s because that was the computer of choice at SU while I attended and was the typical system found in every computer lab, with the occasional IBM running Windows 3.11 found here and there. I acquired a 286 running DOS which I used to access BBS and MUDs via telnet. I later upgraded to a Windows 95 box, and after college followed a career path of personal computer repair for the next decade, which means I've had my hands in ever Windows OS at some point or another, including 2000 server and 2003 server.
On the side I've been maintaining a LINUX server for the past 5 years, running Ubuntu. For the duration that I've owned the server, I've only "reimaged" it once, because I switched from a Pentium 3 class system to a Pentium 4. Any issues that it has had during that time I've been able to resolve with research, patience and a little trial and error. I restart it whenever security updates prompt me to, which is typically after a kernel upgrade. When a new LTS distro is released, I do a distribution upgrade, and there's usually stuff that needs changed/fixed afterward for everything to continue working as expected. It can be a total pain in the neck at times, and it drives my wife nuts on occasion, but I've learned more about computer systems this way, in my spare time, that in the long haul will be more useful to me in my career than I managed to pick up in a decade of PC repair.
I understand that this environment is completely different than a live environment that a business depends upon, and I fully sympathize with the gentleman who pointed out that when management is jumping down your throat to make something work, you tend to pick the fastest solution available to you. The only problem with this is that you have not figured out the cause of the problem, which means it could return.
There are a fair number of weird, unexplainable problems that have nothing to do with software, configuration error or hardware failure that can crop up from time to time. These are rare. They only happen once, maybe twice, and cannot be duplicated. A reboot will resolve these. But most of the time the source of the problem is human error of some kind, which means a reboot is a temporary fix.
So it ultimately becomes a longevity issue. If you're wiping out and redoing a server once a month, you probably ought to spend some time tracking down the source of the problem because the downtime during re-imaging over the course of a year will match or exceed the time spent finding the source of the trouble and correcting it. If you are running several servers this problem could affect some, many or all of them, so fixing one will allow you to fix all and the time will be negligible on the remaining servers, which then more than justifies the time invested in researching the problem. Furthermore, if you are experiencing trouble due to hardware beginning to fail, finding and replacing the defective part before it fails under scheduled maintenance is a much better solution than waiting until it fails under load when your company needs that server the most.
If, however, the issues only crop up maybe once a year, spending 72 hours finding a fix is probably not a good investment of time, because the equipment will be replaced/upgraded before the issue is likely to become a serious problem. In these cases I would recommend re-imaging. In the case of Windows operating systems I would be inclined to re-image anyway because lengthy support calls to Microsoft or the server vendor would potentially be required to resolve the problem, and sitting on hold is generally not a system administrator's best use of time.
Please bear in mind I am not a professional system administrator, but I've had the chance to observe them and dabble on both sides of the fence.
We are discussing a video game console manufacturer violating basic human civil liberties; this article should have more presence on Slashdot. Granted, in the wake of earthquakes and revolutions and the like it is not as big of an issue, but once you give a major corporation like Sony an inch, they'll take it as far as they possibly can.
But seeing as how I can't discern any significant difference between 1080p on bluray vs. standard DVD quality on my HD television, I couldn't give a rats arse about this. I still only buy DVD, and even though my PS3 has a bluray player, I have no interested in buying or renting bluray discs.
Dear Hollywood, if you want me to adopt your anti-piracy gimmicks, make it worth having. The only new entertainment technology I'll be interested in adopting will be true 3D animated holograms.
The amount of money poured into hyping the film was so ridiculous that it made me assume there was absolutely no way the film would live up to my expectations, and therefore I decided to go see whatever else was out at the theaters at the time. Once I finally watched the film on DVD, however, I will say that it did manage to live up to my expectations, which is very unusual for a comic book adaptation.
If it's not available in any of those standards, then the eBook is as worthless as DRM-hampered MP3s purchased digitally. If you can't purchase your eBook in one of the aforementioned formats, do yourself a huge favor and go to your local bookstore, and purchase it in paperback. That way you can keep it indefinitely, sell it, trade it, lend it to friends, and so forth.
It's about time for companies to stop proactively treating their customers like criminals and thieves. Vote with your wallet.
Wasn't there something posted on Slashdot a while back about the manufacturer claiming a system's warranty was voided by the installation of a LINUX OS?
If I had an iPhone I would change the Phillips screws to the Nintendo portable Y type screws before turning it in to Apple for repair. Two can play at this game.
My ISP is already starting to buckle under the strain - I get serious latency issues each night from 8pm - 11pm and this has been an ongoing issue for the past three weeks. They are a local-owned company that is operating on CenturyLink's lines, and claim the source of the problem an overloaded switch that needs to be replaced with something that can handle the demand.
There is absolutely no just cause for a lawsuit under these circumstances. If people can circumvent their current system, they need to add restrictions to prevent it. If someone is able to develop a hack that circumvents their achievement system lock down, then they need to offer that person a job, not set out to ruin their life over it.
"If my donations to Goodwill were destined only to line someone's pockets,"
If you look up Goodwill Industries on Wikipedia, you'll find this little nugget.
"In 2005, Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette (GICW), Goodwill's Portland, Oregon branch, came under scrutiny due to executive compensation that the Oregon attorney general's office concluded was 'unreasonable'. President Michael Miller received $838,508 in pay and benefits for fiscal year 2004, which was reportedly out of line in comparison to other charity executives and placed him in the top one percent of American wage earners. After being confronted with the state's findings, Miller agreed to a 24% reduction in pay, and GICW formed a new committee and policy for handling matters of employee compensation."
I would call that lining someone's pockets, right there. I will also go out on a limb and assume the 24% reduction was used to fund the new committee.
More often than not the books for sale at the thrift store were donated, which means when they sell the store makes 100% profit (minus overhead). In my experience, however, some thrift store owners like to look at themselves as better than others because they are operating a "charitable" organization, more often than not with a religious organization backing (and providing tax shelter) the thrift store. These institutions claim to be helping the poor and the needy, when in fact they charge the "poor and needy" customers the same price as anyone else who shops there.
If they determine the customer is shopping with the intention to resell, they typically react negatively. I have been banned from shopping from a local thrift store for no other reason than the owner had learned that I had resold items on eBay. From the owner's point of view I had taken away opportunities for less fortunate people to purchase these same items. Here are some additional details, however.
I had already learned from employees at this thrift store that they frequently received more items than the building could contain. Each week, they gathered up items in the store that had not sold (I believe the items had about a four week period before they were gathered up). If they were glass, they were smashed. If they were clothing items they were bagged and prepped to be shipped off to a company that shreds unwanted fabric and packs it into insulation used in the manufacture of automobiles. I presume the glass was sent out for recycling. From what I gather, the company that made insulation paid the thrift store for the fabric and covered all shipping costs.
My point is - if we were denying the poor the benefit of obtaining these items, they were being replaced each week in such volume that would result in a significant amount of the items being destroyed/recycled/sold to a third party. So the reality was that there was more than enough to go around.
Another point of view is that we were taking advantage of the thrift store by reselling their product for a higher price than what we paid. I fail to see how this is a problem. What anyone who does this is doing is work. It takes time to sort through items in any resale environment and determine which are valuable and which are not. Any thrift store owner or employee knows this. It also takes time to take those items into a different forum. For example - to list an item on eBay it is typically necessary to provide detailed photographs of the item in question, create a listing and respond to questions about the item. Upon the completion of the sale it takes time to properly package and ship the item. So in effect, it is not that the item itself is being sold for a higher price, it is that the resellers are being compensated for their time, which is, in effect, a service.
My final point is that when the owner of a thrift store, yard/garage sale, or library gets offended that someone is reselling their items, it is hypocrisy. These individuals who are offended are already engaging in resale. Of the three, the thrift store owner is the most guilty because in most cases he or she is reselling product that was given to them freely as a donation. Unless the thrift store is being operated as not-for-profit and all proceeds are being donated to charity, they are usually making excellent money from a small business owner's perspective. In our current economy, thrift stores are one of the few business models that are doing rather well. Therefore when these individuals become upset with or feel threatened by resellers who purchase their product, it is ultimately a problem of greed - they do not like the idea that someone else will sell an item for more than they (the thrift store owner) was able to sell it. I have a simple answer for these people - try reselling these items on eBay or Amazon. Hire the staff to do it if you do not have the time to do it yourself. I predict, however, that the profit margin will not be as large when compared to the overhead of hiring people to do this and the amount of time necessary to invest in order for it to be successful.
If the above offends, perhaps capitalism is not your bag, baby.
I have only purchased one Intel processor for a system build: the PGA370 Celeron 400MHz with a motherboard that was originally "supposed" to support the PGA370 Pentium III processor. Intel then screwed everyone by introducing the "flip chip", changed the electrical configuration on the Pentium III processors (FC-PGA370), requiring anyone who wanted to upgrade their CPU to replace their motherboard. I've never purchased an Intel processor for a system build ever since. This "Intel Upgrade Service" con is only one more grain of sand on the pile.
I do agree the software will be pirated shortly after the CPU is released, however there will still be many people foolish enough to fork over the $$.
True. Dell and HP never made it to the top of the PC manufacturer/vendor chain by distributing proprietary additions to the Windows operating system such as recovery tools, preloaded malware protection, various other "support" applications, etc, etc, etc...
Played this a few times in a Florida video arcade during a summer vacation as a teenager - Cadash is a side scrolling D&D-themed adventure with the option to choose mage, priest, warrior or ninja at the beginning and play coop with a 2nd player. Spells were interesting, with the priest/mage you held down the attack button until a bubble appeared over your character's head and rotated through your available spells, letting go would cast it and take away from your available magic points. The arcade version was a quarter eater because you would steadily lose hitpoints in the same fashion as Gauntlet.
About a decade later one of my roomates happened to have a working Turbo Graphx 16 and a copy of Cadash so I finally had the opportunity to beat the game. Oddly I prefer the arcade version even though the graphics are about equal.
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"Unity forces a cell phone UI on the desktop, and people hate it."
I'm probably a weirdo (actually I know I am), but I actually don't mind this release of Unity, and find that this version is significantly improved over the last one that shipped with Ubuntu Netbook Maverick Meerkat (10.10). The sidebar launcher automatically gets out of your way when you full-screen an app or drag a window to the side. It comes back when you mouse over the left side of your screen as needed. It's pretty easy to remove or add new icons (similar to how Windows 7 handles icons). It takes up a bit more space than I think it needs to, but for people who like big icons that's a plus. If you know the name of the app you want to launch, you can click the Ubuntu logo and type it into the search box, press enter, and it will launch (again similar to Windows 7).
I think the real problem people have with Unity is that they don't like change. What everyone needs to remember is that Ubuntu does not forbid you from downloading and installing your preferred window manager and customizing it to your taste. You can also download one of several flavors already configured with alternative popular window managers, and as pointed out elsewhere the default Gnome window manager can be selected during login and will remain the default until it is changed again. So think of Unity more as a default option. If you don't like it, you still have your power of choice, and there's still a lot of customization potential out there. At some point when I have free time to tinker I will likely set up FVWM with a neat custom retro layout. Until then I will be happy to continue using Unity.
Ubuntu is still LINUX. Anyone can set up their own distro, provided they have the time, resources and stamina to do so. That's what makes it so great.
I'm not against sharing. I'm against sharing with complete strangers that I know nothing about and who may have no problem with taking advantage of me and my family.
Maybe if Communism actually worked I'd consider doing something like this.
Darth Vader was far more frightening until they showed us Anakin hitting on a girl twice his age and shouting, "Now this is Pod Racing" while attacking the Trade Federation control ship. Anakin became even more pathetic after we watched him turning into a creepy stalker teenager who used the Jedi mind trick to get Padme to like him. And the final insult - Anakin becomes a Dark Lord of the Sith so he won't get in trouble for cutting Mace Windu's hand off? Lame. Really, if Lucas had avoided giving us Vader backstory entirely, our own imaginations would have been more than sufficient at keeping Vader a truly frightening Dark Lord of the Sith, even after the helmet removal in Return of the Jedi.
I've been shopping laptops for a while and Samsung keeps popping onto my list because I really like their monitors. I cannot give this company another penny, now that I know they do this.
Even though I would have erased the hard drive, destroyed the partitions and probably installed LINUX on it after the sale...the moral implications are there. If they thought installing a keylogger was a good idea, what else have they done with their products? I'd rather not have to be the person to find out.
It makes me feel safe and secure knowing that our government is hard at work ensuring the various media corporations can sue the pants off anyone and everyone who infringes upon their copyrighted works in any way shape or form imagined, unimagined or otherwise potentially imagined in the future; all the while a potentially devastating nuclear catastrophe in the Pacific with possibly far-reaching effects grows more likely by the hour.
I hear those fallout proof bunkers are rather expensive, so maybe that's their motivation.
Look, everyone has a preferred method of doing things when it comes to IT, and everyone has an opinion on best practice that is based on a number of different things. No one opinion is the best, and every problem shouldn't be resolved the same way.
I was introduced to UNIX while in college from a user's perspective. I played with LINUX as a desktop platform for the first time, also while in college. I also was exposed to the Mac OS of the 90s because that was the computer of choice at SU while I attended and was the typical system found in every computer lab, with the occasional IBM running Windows 3.11 found here and there. I acquired a 286 running DOS which I used to access BBS and MUDs via telnet. I later upgraded to a Windows 95 box, and after college followed a career path of personal computer repair for the next decade, which means I've had my hands in ever Windows OS at some point or another, including 2000 server and 2003 server.
On the side I've been maintaining a LINUX server for the past 5 years, running Ubuntu. For the duration that I've owned the server, I've only "reimaged" it once, because I switched from a Pentium 3 class system to a Pentium 4. Any issues that it has had during that time I've been able to resolve with research, patience and a little trial and error. I restart it whenever security updates prompt me to, which is typically after a kernel upgrade. When a new LTS distro is released, I do a distribution upgrade, and there's usually stuff that needs changed/fixed afterward for everything to continue working as expected. It can be a total pain in the neck at times, and it drives my wife nuts on occasion, but I've learned more about computer systems this way, in my spare time, that in the long haul will be more useful to me in my career than I managed to pick up in a decade of PC repair.
I understand that this environment is completely different than a live environment that a business depends upon, and I fully sympathize with the gentleman who pointed out that when management is jumping down your throat to make something work, you tend to pick the fastest solution available to you. The only problem with this is that you have not figured out the cause of the problem, which means it could return.
There are a fair number of weird, unexplainable problems that have nothing to do with software, configuration error or hardware failure that can crop up from time to time. These are rare. They only happen once, maybe twice, and cannot be duplicated. A reboot will resolve these. But most of the time the source of the problem is human error of some kind, which means a reboot is a temporary fix.
So it ultimately becomes a longevity issue. If you're wiping out and redoing a server once a month, you probably ought to spend some time tracking down the source of the problem because the downtime during re-imaging over the course of a year will match or exceed the time spent finding the source of the trouble and correcting it. If you are running several servers this problem could affect some, many or all of them, so fixing one will allow you to fix all and the time will be negligible on the remaining servers, which then more than justifies the time invested in researching the problem. Furthermore, if you are experiencing trouble due to hardware beginning to fail, finding and replacing the defective part before it fails under scheduled maintenance is a much better solution than waiting until it fails under load when your company needs that server the most.
If, however, the issues only crop up maybe once a year, spending 72 hours finding a fix is probably not a good investment of time, because the equipment will be replaced/upgraded before the issue is likely to become a serious problem. In these cases I would recommend re-imaging. In the case of Windows operating systems I would be inclined to re-image anyway because lengthy support calls to Microsoft or the server vendor would potentially be required to resolve the problem, and sitting on hold is generally not a system administrator's best use of time.
Please bear in mind I am not a professional system administrator, but I've had the chance to observe them and dabble on both sides of the fence.
While today modern medicine will (hopefully) prevent a bladder infection from becoming fatal, it's still nothing to play around with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
We are discussing a video game console manufacturer violating basic human civil liberties; this article should have more presence on Slashdot. Granted, in the wake of earthquakes and revolutions and the like it is not as big of an issue, but once you give a major corporation like Sony an inch, they'll take it as far as they possibly can.
But seeing as how I can't discern any significant difference between 1080p on bluray vs. standard DVD quality on my HD television, I couldn't give a rats arse about this. I still only buy DVD, and even though my PS3 has a bluray player, I have no interested in buying or renting bluray discs.
Dear Hollywood, if you want me to adopt your anti-piracy gimmicks, make it worth having. The only new entertainment technology I'll be interested in adopting will be true 3D animated holograms.
The amount of money poured into hyping the film was so ridiculous that it made me assume there was absolutely no way the film would live up to my expectations, and therefore I decided to go see whatever else was out at the theaters at the time. Once I finally watched the film on DVD, however, I will say that it did manage to live up to my expectations, which is very unusual for a comic book adaptation.
If it's not available in any of those standards, then the eBook is as worthless as DRM-hampered MP3s purchased digitally. If you can't purchase your eBook in one of the aforementioned formats, do yourself a huge favor and go to your local bookstore, and purchase it in paperback. That way you can keep it indefinitely, sell it, trade it, lend it to friends, and so forth. It's about time for companies to stop proactively treating their customers like criminals and thieves. Vote with your wallet.
Wasn't there something posted on Slashdot a while back about the manufacturer claiming a system's warranty was voided by the installation of a LINUX OS?
If I had an iPhone I would change the Phillips screws to the Nintendo portable Y type screws before turning it in to Apple for repair. Two can play at this game.
My ISP is already starting to buckle under the strain - I get serious latency issues each night from 8pm - 11pm and this has been an ongoing issue for the past three weeks. They are a local-owned company that is operating on CenturyLink's lines, and claim the source of the problem an overloaded switch that needs to be replaced with something that can handle the demand.
They don't NEED to be a statistical analysis expert if they already know what the results are going to be ... in advance.
Very painful, do not recommend.
There is absolutely no just cause for a lawsuit under these circumstances. If people can circumvent their current system, they need to add restrictions to prevent it. If someone is able to develop a hack that circumvents their achievement system lock down, then they need to offer that person a job, not set out to ruin their life over it.
"If my donations to Goodwill were destined only to line someone's pockets,"
If you look up Goodwill Industries on Wikipedia, you'll find this little nugget.
"In 2005, Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette (GICW), Goodwill's Portland, Oregon branch, came under scrutiny due to executive compensation that the Oregon attorney general's office concluded was 'unreasonable'. President Michael Miller received $838,508 in pay and benefits for fiscal year 2004, which was reportedly out of line in comparison to other charity executives and placed him in the top one percent of American wage earners. After being confronted with the state's findings, Miller agreed to a 24% reduction in pay, and GICW formed a new committee and policy for handling matters of employee compensation."
I would call that lining someone's pockets, right there. I will also go out on a limb and assume the 24% reduction was used to fund the new committee.
More often than not the books for sale at the thrift store were donated, which means when they sell the store makes 100% profit (minus overhead). In my experience, however, some thrift store owners like to look at themselves as better than others because they are operating a "charitable" organization, more often than not with a religious organization backing (and providing tax shelter) the thrift store. These institutions claim to be helping the poor and the needy, when in fact they charge the "poor and needy" customers the same price as anyone else who shops there.
If they determine the customer is shopping with the intention to resell, they typically react negatively. I have been banned from shopping from a local thrift store for no other reason than the owner had learned that I had resold items on eBay. From the owner's point of view I had taken away opportunities for less fortunate people to purchase these same items. Here are some additional details, however.
I had already learned from employees at this thrift store that they frequently received more items than the building could contain. Each week, they gathered up items in the store that had not sold (I believe the items had about a four week period before they were gathered up). If they were glass, they were smashed. If they were clothing items they were bagged and prepped to be shipped off to a company that shreds unwanted fabric and packs it into insulation used in the manufacture of automobiles. I presume the glass was sent out for recycling. From what I gather, the company that made insulation paid the thrift store for the fabric and covered all shipping costs.
My point is - if we were denying the poor the benefit of obtaining these items, they were being replaced each week in such volume that would result in a significant amount of the items being destroyed/recycled/sold to a third party. So the reality was that there was more than enough to go around.
Another point of view is that we were taking advantage of the thrift store by reselling their product for a higher price than what we paid. I fail to see how this is a problem. What anyone who does this is doing is work. It takes time to sort through items in any resale environment and determine which are valuable and which are not. Any thrift store owner or employee knows this. It also takes time to take those items into a different forum. For example - to list an item on eBay it is typically necessary to provide detailed photographs of the item in question, create a listing and respond to questions about the item. Upon the completion of the sale it takes time to properly package and ship the item. So in effect, it is not that the item itself is being sold for a higher price, it is that the resellers are being compensated for their time, which is, in effect, a service.
My final point is that when the owner of a thrift store, yard/garage sale, or library gets offended that someone is reselling their items, it is hypocrisy. These individuals who are offended are already engaging in resale. Of the three, the thrift store owner is the most guilty because in most cases he or she is reselling product that was given to them freely as a donation. Unless the thrift store is being operated as not-for-profit and all proceeds are being donated to charity, they are usually making excellent money from a small business owner's perspective. In our current economy, thrift stores are one of the few business models that are doing rather well. Therefore when these individuals become upset with or feel threatened by resellers who purchase their product, it is ultimately a problem of greed - they do not like the idea that someone else will sell an item for more than they (the thrift store owner) was able to sell it. I have a simple answer for these people - try reselling these items on eBay or Amazon. Hire the staff to do it if you do not have the time to do it yourself. I predict, however, that the profit margin will not be as large when compared to the overhead of hiring people to do this and the amount of time necessary to invest in order for it to be successful.
If the above offends, perhaps capitalism is not your bag, baby.
The first weapon chosen was the paperclip at 7:11:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKzd5N50eKc
Someone has to take up the vacuum left by SCO, I suppose
I have only purchased one Intel processor for a system build: the PGA370 Celeron 400MHz with a motherboard that was originally "supposed" to support the PGA370 Pentium III processor. Intel then screwed everyone by introducing the "flip chip", changed the electrical configuration on the Pentium III processors (FC-PGA370), requiring anyone who wanted to upgrade their CPU to replace their motherboard. I've never purchased an Intel processor for a system build ever since. This "Intel Upgrade Service" con is only one more grain of sand on the pile.
I do agree the software will be pirated shortly after the CPU is released, however there will still be many people foolish enough to fork over the $$.
Because Microsoft has never confused us with a dozen different varieties of the same operating system. http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/217488538_MN88A-L-2.jpg
True. Dell and HP never made it to the top of the PC manufacturer/vendor chain by distributing proprietary additions to the Windows operating system such as recovery tools, preloaded malware protection, various other "support" applications, etc, etc, etc...
Played this a few times in a Florida video arcade during a summer vacation as a teenager - Cadash is a side scrolling D&D-themed adventure with the option to choose mage, priest, warrior or ninja at the beginning and play coop with a 2nd player. Spells were interesting, with the priest/mage you held down the attack button until a bubble appeared over your character's head and rotated through your available spells, letting go would cast it and take away from your available magic points. The arcade version was a quarter eater because you would steadily lose hitpoints in the same fashion as Gauntlet.
About a decade later one of my roomates happened to have a working Turbo Graphx 16 and a copy of Cadash so I finally had the opportunity to beat the game. Oddly I prefer the arcade version even though the graphics are about equal.