or the NSA, or whoever... Obiously, in these critical times of terrorist threats, anyone who opts out MUST have something to hide... What a great way to get a list of potential wiretap suspects ! /end sarcasm
I don't think i should have to pay 1 penny to replace disks that are damaged BY my 360.. They charge $20 for MS game replacement disks, and don't offer any links to other publishers for replacements of non-MS 360 games.
My 360 has been horizontal and stationary since the day i bought it, and my disks have never been anywhere but their boxes and the dvd drive in the 360 - yet both Tiger Woods and Halo 2 have been damaged by the 360 drive.. i bought and used a disk repair machine, and had success "refinishing" the surface - but the manufacturer says to use it no more than 5 times on a dvd - and Tiger's about to undergo its fourth repair, This lawsuit was the first i'd heard of anyone else experiencing this issue (as i had little hope of convincing MS that the drive was faulty), but now, i'm interested in seeing how many others have been bitten by this "feature".. maybe enough to make it a "class action" ?
Let's not forget this is only a rev 1.0.... After a public shakedown cruise, i'd bet that Apple will consider releasing an SDK, once newly discovered issues are ironed out.
... that Apple's clout is sufficient to a) hold the price line on the renegotiaed contracts with the other 3
and b)that those 3 will jump on the non-DRM bandwagon. BUT - i fear they may pull their contracts to greedily make more money elsewhere, and to try to spur lagging CD sales.. Although, even if they did that, seems to me Job's prediction of 50% non-DRM music on iTunes is all but guaranteed.
If one installs Vista (why? lol) in Boot Camp.. How is one stopped from using that as a launch image in Parallels ? I am happily running my (licensed) image of XP in Parallels, by using the Boot Camp image to launch.. I seem to recall having to enter my license number the first time i launched the VM image, but never after that (and it was because the "hardware" had changed (memory allocated was different)). After that initial request both boot camp and parallels launches proceed without interruption. I also read that Vista won't disable itself for a minor system change.. Has Redmond determined that each "hardware" change will make Vista "phone home" ? And thereby trigger the lawyers to send me a "nice" letter (or worse) were i to put a licenced copy of Vista on my Mac and try to launch the boot camp installed image from parallels ?
Not that i would, just wondering:)
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or the NSA, or whoever... Obiously, in these critical times of terrorist threats, anyone who opts out MUST have something to hide... What a great way to get a list of potential wiretap suspects !
/end sarcasm
Oh ! You mean Nancy ! :))
I don't think i should have to pay 1 penny to replace disks that are damaged BY my 360.. They charge $20 for MS game replacement disks, and don't offer any links to other publishers for replacements of non-MS 360 games.
My 360 has been horizontal and stationary since the day i bought it, and my disks have never been anywhere but their boxes and the dvd drive in the 360 - yet both Tiger Woods and Halo 2 have been damaged by the 360 drive.. i bought and used a disk repair machine, and had success "refinishing" the surface - but the manufacturer says to use it no more than 5 times on a dvd - and Tiger's about to undergo its fourth repair, This lawsuit was the first i'd heard of anyone else experiencing this issue (as i had little hope of convincing MS that the drive was faulty), but now, i'm interested in seeing how many others have been bitten by this "feature".. maybe enough to make it a "class action" ?
as boot camp is just a boot loader, why wouldn't this bug also affect mac computers running windows (presumably only when running windows) ?
Let's not forget this is only a rev 1.0.... After a public shakedown cruise, i'd bet that Apple will consider releasing an SDK, once newly discovered issues are ironed out.
... that Apple's clout is sufficient to a) hold the price line on the renegotiaed contracts with the other 3 and b)that those 3 will jump on the non-DRM bandwagon. BUT - i fear they may pull their contracts to greedily make more money elsewhere, and to try to spur lagging CD sales.. Although, even if they did that, seems to me Job's prediction of 50% non-DRM music on iTunes is all but guaranteed.
If one installs Vista (why? lol) in Boot Camp.. How is one stopped from using that as a launch image in Parallels ? I am happily running my (licensed) image of XP in Parallels, by using the Boot Camp image to launch.. I seem to recall having to enter my license number the first time i launched the VM image, but never after that (and it was because the "hardware" had changed (memory allocated was different)). After that initial request both boot camp and parallels launches proceed without interruption. I also read that Vista won't disable itself for a minor system change.. Has Redmond determined that each "hardware" change will make Vista "phone home" ? And thereby trigger the lawyers to send me a "nice" letter (or worse) were i to put a licenced copy of Vista on my Mac and try to launch the boot camp installed image from parallels ? Not that i would, just wondering :)
imho - any business to which internet access is mission critical needs redundant providers.