And when you turn around and sell that car, you can sell the leather seats, fancy paint job, cruise control, etc. as well. Not so with most forms of DLC; those are usually tied into an account in some way making them impossible to resell.
Or they could have made the default option for Personalized Menus 'off' for Office XP/2003. None of this 'word processor trying to be smarter than you' stuff-- I prefer my menu layouts to be deterministic, thank you.
Why? He's not saying anything nasty about his publishers.
Darwinia and Multiwinia (and 'that hacking game' Uplink) were done by Introversion Software, not Ambrosia; Ambrosia just does Introversion's Mac ports.
EV:Nova was all Ambrosia though.
Leopard added a lot more over Tiger than SP2 did over XP.
That happens on Windows, too. Why can't Firefox keep Windows 98 support? Why can't Halo 2 support XP?
So you're contrasting OS upgrade fees for OS X... versus not upgrading Windows.
Guess what? There are upgrade fees to go from XP to Vista to 7, too.
Skyhook's reliance on wireless APs doesn't work so well when the APs move. I took my APs with me when I moved to a new place, but my iPhone (which uses Skyhook's assisted-GPS) thought I was always at my old place for months until I realized what was going on and that I should submit my AP MAC addresses to correct their location.
It's possible that it sees an AP near you that's recently been moved.
Yep. joe + GNU make is the way I do it too.
Though using joe is kind of unpleasant on Windows (I have a hunch I am one of a small handful of people who actually do use it on Windows via cygwin). Using Console helps to make it bearable (at least then you can resize it to larger than 80chars).
How about making it so all telemarketers have to register a certain caller ID that say would be (C)*insert name of company here*, then it would be trivial to block all corporate calls. Thus making it easy to have a caller ID filter to purchase to block all telemarketer calls. This would be a lot easier than the do not call list, more effective and wouldn't censor anyone.
These people are already blatantly ignoring the Do Not Call list. Why would they bother to give a legitimate caller ID string?
Isn't this somewhat akin to what the much-hyped KillerNIC was all about-- a separate device to offload network activity (for example, BitTorrent downloads)?
Happiness is a hard disk.