More than one month after release, many players still can't launch Dragon Age II because of a bug in the EA DRM software. Since the first few days, BioWare has ignored the problem entirely and provided us with no fixes or updates.
More information: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/300/index/6442590
To be fair, we only have four types of coins in common circulation. Some areas of the country still use the 50-cent pieces and the $1 coins (very large cities such as NYC and Boston love the $1 coins as change for subway passes!), but the majority of places that I've visited in the States use only 1c, 5c, 10c, and 25c coins.
The situation is worse in Canada, in the UK, and in countries that use the Euro. They've got 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, $1, and $2 coins (replace c with p and $ with Pound or Euro, as necessary). The situation with bank notes is also quite worse.
Office 2007 has a free plugin available from Microsoft that exports to PDF just fine. If I recall, Adobe sued Microsoft to prevent them from bundling this functionality with Office because they didn't want the competition with Acrobat.
I don't know if Office 2010 has a similar plugin, but I bet it does.
This is a positive change, folks. We can finally opt out of ReadID! If you want to keep it enabled for whatever reason, then at least you can opt out of the Facebook integration and the "friends of friends" feature. Why is everyone complaining about more privacy?
Just about every DVD in my collection here in the States has the warning in both English and French. I've always thought that it's because those are the two "international" languages. So, I doubt that you're seeing the French warning just because you're Canadian.
I tried the linked demo in Firefox 3.5.3 on Windows 7 and it ran great. CPU usage capped at 13% and mostly stayed at about 2-4%. Fantastic!
However, I noticed a strange bug. If I close the tab where the "video" is running, the audio continues to play until the end. That's incredibly obnoxious.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9.aspx
The Express Edition lacks a 64-bit compiler, OpenMP, profiling, and remote debugging. It also lacks a bunch of other stuff that I've never needed to use, but which others probably use regularly.
Compared to the tools available on Linux, BSD, and MacOS X, VS EE is quite lacking.
Actually, I know of at least one school that DOES block everything but HTTP. Well, sort of. They actually block every port except for port 80. Even then, some protocols are blocked (like AIM). I've had quite the adventure these past eight weeks trying to get around the limitations. Fortunately, some awesome people started up http://www.meebo.com/ for my IM needs, and Gentoo includes emerge-webrsync as an alternative to emerge --sync.
Still, it's terribly annoying. If my home university did the same, I'd seriously consider moving off-campus. Students pay a large sum of money to live in the dorms and apartments provided by the University (~$6k/year). Part of that money goes toward funding the Internet connection. At the moment, the only type of traffic that they throttle is streaming video. That's enough. I don't need my games throttled, too.
According to WotC_DM on the Gleemax forums (he's a staff member): "The D&D game table and the character builder are windows applications driven by a 3D-engine (DirectX based). The character sheet, dungeon builder and encounter builder will be standard windows application."
Source: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?p=13615178#post13615178
Also, when confronted with the possibility that WotC's data about Macs is wrong, "We are aware of the trends in this area, and as I mentioned earlier we are looking if some of our D&DI applications can be used with the more recent intel based mac systems, while keeping in mind our delivery goals and timeline. We also have made our decisions regarding serving the PC platform first based on factual market research data, not estimated data. A lot of our future steps will depend on the success of the first steps."
Source: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?p=13615386#post13615386
Maybe they'll work in WINE?:(
It's not only feasible, it happens. As a sophomore at my university, I enrolled in a junior-level Operating Systems course. Our first project was to modify the scheduler in the 2.2 Linux kernel. Another project involved creating support for user-defined file attributes for the ext2 file system.
I can't imagine learning much without a kernel to play with.
I'd say it's more of an issue than you seem to believe. This winter, the leader of a mosque was arrested for preaching that all Muslims serving in the British military should be killed because they were traitors. It's not a non-issue, though it probably isn't anything worth getting worried over either.
To be fair, both countries are under British rule and abide by the English Parliament's decisions. It's true that each country has its own "Parliament" of sorts, but it's a very recent thing and they're still sort of "sub-Parliaments."
Anyway, those awesome guys in Edinburgh had no problem with my English pounds. Try using a Sottish pound in London, though, and people get all kinds of mad! Even the post office didn't want to change it for me!
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More than one month after release, many players still can't launch Dragon Age II because of a bug in the EA DRM software. Since the first few days, BioWare has ignored the problem entirely and provided us with no fixes or updates. More information: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/300/index/6442590
To be fair, we only have four types of coins in common circulation. Some areas of the country still use the 50-cent pieces and the $1 coins (very large cities such as NYC and Boston love the $1 coins as change for subway passes!), but the majority of places that I've visited in the States use only 1c, 5c, 10c, and 25c coins. The situation is worse in Canada, in the UK, and in countries that use the Euro. They've got 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, $1, and $2 coins (replace c with p and $ with Pound or Euro, as necessary). The situation with bank notes is also quite worse.
Office 2007 has a free plugin available from Microsoft that exports to PDF just fine. If I recall, Adobe sued Microsoft to prevent them from bundling this functionality with Office because they didn't want the competition with Acrobat. I don't know if Office 2010 has a similar plugin, but I bet it does.
This is a positive change, folks. We can finally opt out of ReadID! If you want to keep it enabled for whatever reason, then at least you can opt out of the Facebook integration and the "friends of friends" feature. Why is everyone complaining about more privacy?
Just about every DVD in my collection here in the States has the warning in both English and French. I've always thought that it's because those are the two "international" languages. So, I doubt that you're seeing the French warning just because you're Canadian.
I tried the linked demo in Firefox 3.5.3 on Windows 7 and it ran great. CPU usage capped at 13% and mostly stayed at about 2-4%. Fantastic! However, I noticed a strange bug. If I close the tab where the "video" is running, the audio continues to play until the end. That's incredibly obnoxious.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9.aspx The Express Edition lacks a 64-bit compiler, OpenMP, profiling, and remote debugging. It also lacks a bunch of other stuff that I've never needed to use, but which others probably use regularly. Compared to the tools available on Linux, BSD, and MacOS X, VS EE is quite lacking.
Unless you want to compile native 64-bit binaries. In that case, Visual Studio Express Edition won't be sufficient.
Actually, I know of at least one school that DOES block everything but HTTP. Well, sort of. They actually block every port except for port 80. Even then, some protocols are blocked (like AIM). I've had quite the adventure these past eight weeks trying to get around the limitations. Fortunately, some awesome people started up http://www.meebo.com/ for my IM needs, and Gentoo includes emerge-webrsync as an alternative to emerge --sync. Still, it's terribly annoying. If my home university did the same, I'd seriously consider moving off-campus. Students pay a large sum of money to live in the dorms and apartments provided by the University (~$6k/year). Part of that money goes toward funding the Internet connection. At the moment, the only type of traffic that they throttle is streaming video. That's enough. I don't need my games throttled, too.
According to WotC_DM on the Gleemax forums (he's a staff member): "The D&D game table and the character builder are windows applications driven by a 3D-engine (DirectX based). The character sheet, dungeon builder and encounter builder will be standard windows application." Source: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?p=13615178#post13615178 Also, when confronted with the possibility that WotC's data about Macs is wrong, "We are aware of the trends in this area, and as I mentioned earlier we are looking if some of our D&DI applications can be used with the more recent intel based mac systems, while keeping in mind our delivery goals and timeline. We also have made our decisions regarding serving the PC platform first based on factual market research data, not estimated data. A lot of our future steps will depend on the success of the first steps." Source: http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?p=13615386#post13615386 Maybe they'll work in WINE? :(
It's not only feasible, it happens. As a sophomore at my university, I enrolled in a junior-level Operating Systems course. Our first project was to modify the scheduler in the 2.2 Linux kernel. Another project involved creating support for user-defined file attributes for the ext2 file system. I can't imagine learning much without a kernel to play with.
I'd say it's more of an issue than you seem to believe. This winter, the leader of a mosque was arrested for preaching that all Muslims serving in the British military should be killed because they were traitors. It's not a non-issue, though it probably isn't anything worth getting worried over either.
To be fair, both countries are under British rule and abide by the English Parliament's decisions. It's true that each country has its own "Parliament" of sorts, but it's a very recent thing and they're still sort of "sub-Parliaments."
Anyway, those awesome guys in Edinburgh had no problem with my English pounds. Try using a Sottish pound in London, though, and people get all kinds of mad! Even the post office didn't want to change it for me!