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Reply to Fair & Balanced Reporting : David Brooks Considers Sarah Palin Fatal Cancer of the Republican Party in Internet WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="8" id="1901687"] which was itself a sign of fracturing and schism within the ranks of Republicans; this is the kind of story that is always highlighted. When Liebernman defects, that is news. He is a politician. When I defect, that is not. I am joe schmoe. The only reason you think it is news and they are making it news (or attempting to) is that they have lost their idea of what their job is. And think it is now time to make

Reply to Fair & Balanced Reporting : David Brooks Considers Sarah Palin Fatal Cancer of the Republican Party in Internet WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I think you and Xiandi are missing a key point. Brooks is a columnist; that means he is paid to express his opinions in written form. This is very different from a reporter or regular newspaperman (or -woman), whose job is to write articles about the news that should have a neutral tone. You miss the point. Why is the media reporting on itself? Kind of like a corporation doing its own auditing.[/quote] Really? The media are a single entity now? Shoul

Reply to Angus1949 turns another one... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="10" id="1901383"]1949? ....better make that cake a sponge.... Happy birthday....[/quote] What's wrong with my sea cucumber cake? [e digicons]8C[/e] Happy birthday, Angus!

Reply to Fair & Balanced Reporting : David Brooks Considers Sarah Palin Fatal Cancer of the Republican Party in Internet WinCustomize Forums

[quote] I also find it amusing that CNN calls this "Fair & Balanced", you don't get the nickname Communist News Network for being fair and balanced.[/quote] Actually, CNN didn't characterize this piece on their "political ticker" that way. Ironically, Fox News literally has that phrase trademarked.

Reply to Fair & Balanced Reporting : David Brooks Considers Sarah Palin Fatal Cancer of the Republican Party in Internet WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="12" id="1901167"]Some in the media begin, after awhile, to imagine they are more qualified than anyone for everything (since they know/have seen it 'all') and therefore qualified to pass judgment on those in a position to do something they cannot. I do appreciate their efforts at sparing me the trouble of having to think for myself, very kind & generous of them, but I choose to continue to shoulder that burden rather than outsource it to a columnist. <

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Pixeleo said: [quote]Everybody grab OD+ and run, or that guy in the turtleneck will come and get you [/quote] I'm not scared of Jobs. I clicked on your link and he looks pale and skinny. I think I could take him. Ausvet said: [quote]This is crazy, almost as crazy as McDonalds Inc tried to close down family run take-away in Scotland called McDonalds Burgers a few years ago. Judge told McDonalds where to go though on the grounds of the family name was McDonald and they were mor

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Reply to Here comes the next OS from Microsoft in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Pixeleo" reply="9" id="1892339"] Quoting mad_axeman, reply 6 Windows Millenium: bad Actually, it's supposed to be "worst" [/quote] Hm. I reserve that honor for 98, the buggiest piece of crap I ever ran. I had way fewer problems with 95.

Reply to Should people have the right to resell games as grey or secondary market material? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

JMiddleton said: [quote]Digital disrtibution is a double edge sword for developers. On the one hand, consumers can easily make exact copies of your product for re-distribution. On the other hand, you have direct access to 1.5 billion potential customers (probably more by now) through the Internet - no mddlemen who want a cut of the action, no cost of goods sold, negligible distribution cost, as close to 100% margin as we're ever likely to get! I don't know what the winning business mo

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Guess I missed it too; happy birtday Jafo! [quote who="Jafo" reply="13" id="1889460"] and I hope you've a nice bottle of red to crack the top off, later... I have a '75 Grange...one of those 'classy reds'...that's gonna be opened once I finish thisa darn extension....maybe in a month or two. At something like $750 a bottle I'm hoping it's better than cats' piss...or paint stripper....[/quote] Well, at least if it tastes terrible, you can pr

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Congrats on the spotlight, Kitty! :CONGRAT:

Reply to Should people have the right to resell games as grey or secondary market material? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Perhaps the solution for software companies is to support the second-hand sale of physical version of its games but not to support patches and downloads for the second-hand user. I repeat, the anology is not perfect, but I still do believe it is valid. EDIT: I should also point out that patches being offered for free is a courtesy of software companies... they don't have to do it. For example, Apple charged users $20 to update iPod Touches to the 2.0 software.[/qu

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Yay, themes and suites living together in harmony like ebony and ivory, side by side on my piano keyboard!! [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e]

Reply to Should people have the right to resell games as grey or secondary market material? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="tristangoodes" reply="16" id="1888535"]You guys are all missing the point, the reason we buy games is for an experience, you're not paying for a CD (which is physical. Must like any other experience, say a vacation or a season pass to a ski mountain, you shouldn't be able to experience all it has to offer, then give it to someone else to experience the same things. The person who is missing out on money and incurring the fact they're basically giving somebody free

Reply to Should people have the right to resell games as grey or secondary market material? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="mrakomo" reply="12" id="1888477"] Quoting horneraa, reply 11I am in the camp of people that believe software should be just like books. I can let my friend borrow my book and read it, but I can't copy it and give it away or sell it, but I can sell the original to somebody else if I no longer want it. Why shouldn't software be the same way? The reason has already been told: transfering the game does not bring any profit to the company. There may be this possibility, but i

Reply to Should people have the right to resell games as grey or secondary market material? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Charles, This is why I'm very careful about software purchases. It's been a very long time since most retailers quit accepting returns on opened software (for rather obvious reasons), and I actually buy most of my games at retail. So I tend to make sure by researching products thoroughly that either 1) I'm not spending an amount of money I'll regret later or 2) I'm pretty sure that what I'm buying is something I will enjoy (and preferably both). I've run across the occa

Should people have the right to resell games as grey or secondary market material? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

Coelacanth said on September 23: [quote] Quoting warreni, reply 18 . This is just being melodramatic; of course you can give it to a friend. He won't be able to get updates, but so what? It's a perfectly functional piece of software. Unlike many games rushed to market today, patches are not required to mak

Reply to What would be viable copy protection? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Well, this topic has been covered in at least a few other threads on the Stardock sites, but. . . Personally, I have Spore. I installed it without a hitch, and so far, with maybe an hour-and-a-half of play under my belt, I can say that I like it a lot. Whether you like the game or not, I strongly suspect, depends on your expectations, but that's not really relevant to the topic. I have read on Spore's website that the activation limit only affects different computers, not

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Reply to SPORE in PC Gaming PolMach Forums

[quote who="TheDarkKnight2008" reply="10" id="1879180"]Reduced 66%Original 904 x 644[/quote] Um, you do know that this low rating is because of the mass of "protest-reviewers" logging on at Amazon and giving Spore a low score solely on the basis of the DRM? See this link at wired: http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/09/drm-opponents-a.html

wonky video in TPM Express in TPM Support PolMach Forums

CodeCritter suggested I post this info here to see whether y'all can tease this out. Looking over the file myself, it almost looks like it wasn't installed properly. Here's the debug.err: Debug Message: Version 1.50 last updated on: Wed Sep 17 11:56:23 2008 Debug Message: *********DXDiag info follows.********* System Info Time: 9/18/2008, 12:33:50 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Machine Name: DHH-C9367B5BB40 Opera

Reply to The Political Machine Express - Free Strategy Game in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote]warreni, Please locate your debug.err file. This is usually in /my documents/my games/TPM2008Express. Open the file in a text editor like Notepad. [/quote] Okay, I'll give it a go. I found the file with no trouble. Thanks!

Reply to The Political Machine Express - Free Strategy Game in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Zubaz" reply="2" id="1881138"]What error did you get? Memory? Video? Anything?[/quote] Zu, Well, I couldn't get the game screen to come up because the display was all wonky (to use a technical term) when it loaded. I could see the main menu and I could view options but not change them. I could log in to the server but after that I couldn't start a game (I'm guessing there was a button or something similar that wo

Reply to The Political Machine Express - Free Strategy Game in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Looks like a good opportunity to take a taste test of PM08; I'll check it out on my lunch break today! :) EDIT: X-( doesn't work properly on my crummy work machine - oh well, have to try at home sometime