One of the SandyBridge selling points was "our integrated graphics no longer suck, and are now semi-decent". And calling the Llano a CPU/GPU combo while not doing the same for Intel is kind of pointless; both have integrated graphics, and both have it as a selling point. Since the prices are comparable, "one gives me good graphics and the other sucks" isnt a hard choice to make.
yeah let's go from motion control to using a tablet with buttons, that's really what we wanted I think nintendo will really fuck up this time with the wii u
Just want to point out that this was exactly the attitude of most of the media and forum pundits when details on the Wii came out (even fun was had at the expense of the name), and the Wii then went on to slaughter the other 2 consoles in sales for several years afterwards. For quite some time the Wii had more sales than the Xbox360 and PS3 combined.
(hoping you werent being facetious) PS2 backwards compatibility wasnt an unheard of feature and neither are the USB ports. The original version of the PS3 had both of those things. Later versions trimmed both down.
When in the last 10 years has nintendo HAD the hardcore gamers? First it was PS2, then Xbox, then Xbox360/PS3....
What Nintendo does and has been doing is to aim at the larger crowds, and all their sales figures over the last several years indicate they do that really really well.
On newegg that core i3-2100 is retailing for $124; how do the graphics in the llano stack up against the i3's graphics? Might not be such a bad deal at all.
Article (or at least the material they got from AMD) indicates that graphics is precisely where it shines, so an i3-class CPU with nearly-discrete-class graphics, at an i3 pricetag, sounds quite compelling.
Er, presumably if there were such a National Security Letter, housing it yourself wouldnt give you much choice in the matter either; you would be forced to turn over the data regardless.
This article is basically an excuse to rail at the cloud and at the US government, but it really doesnt reveal any new information.
What an awful comparison. The people with infected computers are responsible for their computers, and it is their computers that are doing damage via spam etc. Disabling their accounts and requesting followup is in no way similar to: *throwing someone in prison *interrogating them *implementing a police state *freezing bank accounts
Its perfectly reasonable, if a PC is causing damage to a network, to remove that PC from the network. Schools do it, business offices do it, and Im sure government offices do it. That ISP has no obligation to cooperate with a botnet.
It is likely at this point that WoW has seen its peak in terms of subscriber base and relevance in the gaming world.
You could be right.
However, this has been stated over and over for the past 5 years, and each year WoW continues to grow. Currently they STILL have over 10million subscribers, and though one chart indicates that theyve lost some over last september (11.4 million vs 12mil), it is absurd to claim they have lost relevance when they are still by far and away the biggest MMO out there.
The first player from 60 to 70 in BC was 27 hours non-stop, with an entire guild carrying the guy. I think it was similar for WotLK, and I imagine it would be from 80 to 85 now; that ignores the few days it would take to get up to 60 (at least 1-2 hours to get to level 15). Looking online, I see that a number of folk's fastest times hover in the 4-6 day time span; I havent seen any under 4 days.
Basically, sounds like BS if he means "1 day without recruit-a-friend and solo".
To be fair with the second point, theres a really good reason to prevent public chat: 1) Spammers would absolutely love this. No way to trace them (no credit card), and unlimited accounts to spam trade chat with 2) You REALLY dont want scores of trial newbies spamming in cities. Generally they dont have much to say anyways, as they will be able to buy precisely no gear that is advertised (too low level), contribute to no raids, and join no guilds; their contribution would end up being to conversations on the virtues of Murlocks and Chuck Norris. 3) Generally if you are on a trial, youre in with a friend, and will still be able to talk to them.
If you think its "practically turn based", youve never done progression encounters or played in the arenas. There is a global cooldown (and Im not sure it would be feasible to make a game that didnt have some kind of GCD), but against good players it is nothing like a turn-based rpg. There are several "instant" moves which you have to be ready to react to at any time.
Not sure how different it is from Guild Wars, but the games tend to have mechanics that differentiate them; Warhammer had some interesting mechanics like the auto-balancing of under-leveled characters in battlegrounds, the ability to join a battleground with a brand new character and compete, several of the guild mechanics (which WoW promptly stole), etc. In fact, a lot of the cooler ideas that Warhammer had were promptly copied by WoW-- experience in BGs, Guild leveling, achievements everywhere (Warhammer gave you achievements and experience for things like "died 10 times to a bright wizard"), and probably several others I missed.
That might be the biggest thing that sets WoW apart-- each time a competitor fails to unseat it, WoW takes its uniqueness and adds it to itself. Its kind of the Borg of MMOs; each failed assault simply makes it harder to unseat them as reigning MMO.
A good response to a mistake is a heck of a lot better than no response; this is why Im willing to cut Google some slack after the WiFi foul-up, and cut Microsoft some slack when they make a really decent product. One mistake does not mean the end of any consideration of merit.
My goodness, I hope you never make any mistakes, if you mean to say (as your statement implies) that there is no return from a screwup.
According to www.html5test.com, the other preview is no better than IE 9.
Possibly the test is incomplete; this page says theyve improved a number of HTML5 aspects. And this isnt exactly a beta, so one would surmise that theres work yet to be done.
With the latest fallout from Firefox 5,
What fallout would that be? The 5 people on slashdot who think Firefox devs are pegging version numbers for numbers sake (rather than to signify a new development model)? Yea, the average user REALLY cares about that.
Either way I would like to see HTML 5 forms,
According to the page I linked, they are adding that to IE10, as well as other CSS3 tags and a number of other features. I recommend you check that link; not being a web dev, I can only sort of understand what each of those things are, but the page is nicely laid out and quite concise (they have a bulleted list...).
By your logic, every response is the same-- i mean, if they screwed up, who CARES whether they respond quickly and acknowledge the problem? We cant give them an ounce of credit, so they might as well go all out and release the password database too, right?
Not to minimize the extent of their fail, but seriously, attitudes like yours hardly encourage vendors to respond to breaches and vulnerability reporting responsibly.
the first/primary user is not running as root by default.
This is the exact same situation in Vista / 7. The admin account is disabled (just like root in ubuntu), the user has restricted privileges (just like Ubuntu), and if admin rights are needed a prompt appears (just like Ubuntu-- gksudo IS UAC). If the current user is NOT part of the admin group, a user / password prompt also appears (again, just like Ubuntu). Where exactly are you seeing a difference?
The user has to actually type a passsord each session
Thats a minor, trifling difference that does very little for security. Best case, youre attempting to get the user to think about what theyre doing-- yet even having to click "continue" in Vista infuriated many so that they simply disabled UAC.
and most important: keyed repositories with near everything in it. If your user isn't randomly grabbing excecutable files off the internet, and instead from a trusted/verified repo, it's more secure than not.
This is true. Repos are a HUGE 1up for Linux. On the flip side, many users DO grab random.debs off the internet (myself included:\ ), and install third party repos (again, guilty), and tools like Automatix dont help things.
t also requires fewer reboots, meaning for the most part it can run automatically and not bug the user to reboot afterwards.
Windows updates generally run at shutdown anyways; this is a valid but minor quibble.
Even if you were correct, the discussion here is not whether people can buy and horribly maim pets, but whether they are allowed to buy them and care for them as the vast majority of owners do. Quite a different discussion with the fetus; LWATCDR makes a valid point.
What a terrible argument; the abortion discussion is about whether or not the thing being aborted is properly understood to be human, and therefore an act of murder to abort it. I think that falls squarely under "things that should be legislated"; I doubt youd raise a fuss if people wanted an explicit law outlawing the killing of just-born infants.
The incredible irony here is that I bet if you polled these folks, they would be pro-choice on abortion, despite thinking that pet ownership is NOT a choice people deserve. How, exactly, is one a choice that is sacred (when it could potentially mean "killing a human") and the other not (when pets are generally treated well)?
Not that its the end of the world, but that seems like the kind of thing that falls under the category of "essential polish". Ubuntu isnt exactly some obscure form of linux, either.
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One of the SandyBridge selling points was "our integrated graphics no longer suck, and are now semi-decent". And calling the Llano a CPU/GPU combo while not doing the same for Intel is kind of pointless; both have integrated graphics, and both have it as a selling point. Since the prices are comparable, "one gives me good graphics and the other sucks" isnt a hard choice to make.
Hardcore gamers werent the Gamecubes demographic either, nor the Wii's. Nintendo seems to not really care what a niche of gamers think.
yeah let's go from motion control to using a tablet with buttons, that's really what we wanted
I think nintendo will really fuck up this time with the wii u
Just want to point out that this was exactly the attitude of most of the media and forum pundits when details on the Wii came out (even fun was had at the expense of the name), and the Wii then went on to slaughter the other 2 consoles in sales for several years afterwards. For quite some time the Wii had more sales than the Xbox360 and PS3 combined.
(hoping you werent being facetious) PS2 backwards compatibility wasnt an unheard of feature and neither are the USB ports. The original version of the PS3 had both of those things. Later versions trimmed both down.
When in the last 10 years has nintendo HAD the hardcore gamers? First it was PS2, then Xbox, then Xbox360/PS3....
What Nintendo does and has been doing is to aim at the larger crowds, and all their sales figures over the last several years indicate they do that really really well.
On newegg that core i3-2100 is retailing for $124; how do the graphics in the llano stack up against the i3's graphics? Might not be such a bad deal at all.
Article (or at least the material they got from AMD) indicates that graphics is precisely where it shines, so an i3-class CPU with nearly-discrete-class graphics, at an i3 pricetag, sounds quite compelling.
Er, presumably if there were such a National Security Letter, housing it yourself wouldnt give you much choice in the matter either; you would be forced to turn over the data regardless.
This article is basically an excuse to rail at the cloud and at the US government, but it really doesnt reveal any new information.
Im pretty sure PLUGINS dont break between firefox versions. You are perhaps thinking of extensions, which are utterly different.
What an awful comparison. The people with infected computers are responsible for their computers, and it is their computers that are doing damage via spam etc. Disabling their accounts and requesting followup is in no way similar to:
*throwing someone in prison
*interrogating them
*implementing a police state
*freezing bank accounts
Its perfectly reasonable, if a PC is causing damage to a network, to remove that PC from the network. Schools do it, business offices do it, and Im sure government offices do it. That ISP has no obligation to cooperate with a botnet.
Windows Vista / 7 performs just as much of an autorun as Linux does when presented with a repository disk. USB autorun is a relic of XP.
It is likely at this point that WoW has seen its peak in terms of subscriber base and relevance in the gaming world.
You could be right.
However, this has been stated over and over for the past 5 years, and each year WoW continues to grow. Currently they STILL have over 10million subscribers, and though one chart indicates that theyve lost some over last september (11.4 million vs 12mil), it is absurd to claim they have lost relevance when they are still by far and away the biggest MMO out there.
The first player from 60 to 70 in BC was 27 hours non-stop, with an entire guild carrying the guy. I think it was similar for WotLK, and I imagine it would be from 80 to 85 now; that ignores the few days it would take to get up to 60 (at least 1-2 hours to get to level 15). Looking online, I see that a number of folk's fastest times hover in the 4-6 day time span; I havent seen any under 4 days.
Basically, sounds like BS if he means "1 day without recruit-a-friend and solo".
They do. To quote what several others have quoted...
In-game access to public chat channels unavailable. Players are limited to communicating using only say, party, or whisper.
In other words, they simply cant spam the global world chats. Oh the horror.
To be fair with the second point, theres a really good reason to prevent public chat:
1) Spammers would absolutely love this. No way to trace them (no credit card), and unlimited accounts to spam trade chat with
2) You REALLY dont want scores of trial newbies spamming in cities. Generally they dont have much to say anyways, as they will be able to buy precisely no gear that is advertised (too low level), contribute to no raids, and join no guilds; their contribution would end up being to conversations on the virtues of Murlocks and Chuck Norris.
3) Generally if you are on a trial, youre in with a friend, and will still be able to talk to them.
If you think its "practically turn based", youve never done progression encounters or played in the arenas. There is a global cooldown (and Im not sure it would be feasible to make a game that didnt have some kind of GCD), but against good players it is nothing like a turn-based rpg. There are several "instant" moves which you have to be ready to react to at any time.
Not sure how different it is from Guild Wars, but the games tend to have mechanics that differentiate them; Warhammer had some interesting mechanics like the auto-balancing of under-leveled characters in battlegrounds, the ability to join a battleground with a brand new character and compete, several of the guild mechanics (which WoW promptly stole), etc. In fact, a lot of the cooler ideas that Warhammer had were promptly copied by WoW-- experience in BGs, Guild leveling, achievements everywhere (Warhammer gave you achievements and experience for things like "died 10 times to a bright wizard"), and probably several others I missed.
That might be the biggest thing that sets WoW apart-- each time a competitor fails to unseat it, WoW takes its uniqueness and adds it to itself. Its kind of the Borg of MMOs; each failed assault simply makes it harder to unseat them as reigning MMO.
Id be interested to see how a level 20 could farm gold. If you prevented EITHER buying OR selling, they would not be able to launder gold either.
A good response to a mistake is a heck of a lot better than no response; this is why Im willing to cut Google some slack after the WiFi foul-up, and cut Microsoft some slack when they make a really decent product. One mistake does not mean the end of any consideration of merit.
My goodness, I hope you never make any mistakes, if you mean to say (as your statement implies) that there is no return from a screwup.
According to www.html5test.com, the other preview is no better than IE 9.
Possibly the test is incomplete; this page says theyve improved a number of HTML5 aspects. And this isnt exactly a beta, so one would surmise that theres work yet to be done.
With the latest fallout from Firefox 5,
What fallout would that be? The 5 people on slashdot who think Firefox devs are pegging version numbers for numbers sake (rather than to signify a new development model)? Yea, the average user REALLY cares about that.
Either way I would like to see HTML 5 forms,
According to the page I linked, they are adding that to IE10, as well as other CSS3 tags and a number of other features. I recommend you check that link; not being a web dev, I can only sort of understand what each of those things are, but the page is nicely laid out and quite concise (they have a bulleted list...).
By your logic, every response is the same-- i mean, if they screwed up, who CARES whether they respond quickly and acknowledge the problem? We cant give them an ounce of credit, so they might as well go all out and release the password database too, right?
Not to minimize the extent of their fail, but seriously, attitudes like yours hardly encourage vendors to respond to breaches and vulnerability reporting responsibly.
the first/primary user is not running as root by default.
This is the exact same situation in Vista / 7. The admin account is disabled (just like root in ubuntu), the user has restricted privileges (just like Ubuntu), and if admin rights are needed a prompt appears (just like Ubuntu-- gksudo IS UAC). If the current user is NOT part of the admin group, a user / password prompt also appears (again, just like Ubuntu). Where exactly are you seeing a difference?
The user has to actually type a passsord each session
Thats a minor, trifling difference that does very little for security. Best case, youre attempting to get the user to think about what theyre doing-- yet even having to click "continue" in Vista infuriated many so that they simply disabled UAC.
and most important: keyed repositories with near everything in it. If your user isn't randomly grabbing excecutable files off the internet, and instead from a trusted/verified repo, it's more secure than not.
This is true. Repos are a HUGE 1up for Linux. On the flip side, many users DO grab random .debs off the internet (myself included :\ ), and install third party repos (again, guilty), and tools like Automatix dont help things.
t also requires fewer reboots, meaning for the most part it can run automatically and not bug the user to reboot afterwards.
Windows updates generally run at shutdown anyways; this is a valid but minor quibble.
Even if you were correct, the discussion here is not whether people can buy and horribly maim pets, but whether they are allowed to buy them and care for them as the vast majority of owners do. Quite a different discussion with the fetus; LWATCDR makes a valid point.
for example - outlaw abortion?
What a terrible argument; the abortion discussion is about whether or not the thing being aborted is properly understood to be human, and therefore an act of murder to abort it. I think that falls squarely under "things that should be legislated"; I doubt youd raise a fuss if people wanted an explicit law outlawing the killing of just-born infants.
The incredible irony here is that I bet if you polled these folks, they would be pro-choice on abortion, despite thinking that pet ownership is NOT a choice people deserve. How, exactly, is one a choice that is sacred (when it could potentially mean "killing a human") and the other not (when pets are generally treated well)?
Aren't most things a PITA on Linux?
Chrome and firefox figure it out, I think its fair to take some marks off when such a huge bit of polish is missing.
Not that its the end of the world, but that seems like the kind of thing that falls under the category of "essential polish". Ubuntu isnt exactly some obscure form of linux, either.
Exchange2010's web UI is actually quite good-- regardless of what browser you use (it is finally uniform).