It has at least a minor effect on sales. I didn't pre-order Mario Galaxy until the news came out about co-op. I don't have much time for single player games - generally I'd rather have people over to visit than sit by myself with the Wii and a single player game (I bought Twilight Princess at launch and I'm still less than halfway through). Co-op and multiplayer games, however, I play all the time with my friends. I didn't buy Metroid Prime 3 because it didn't have co-op or multi-player. I would have done the same with Mario Galaxy.
The fine folks at the Tech Report did a report on this months ago and found the difference between Aero and non-Aero was only about a watt. They don't disprove that Vista uses more power than XP, but I'd say they prove Aero isn't the culprit if that's the case. Oh and I at least trust the Tech Report guys - ZD Net hasn't inspired a lot of confidence lately.
http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/10945
Additionally, and confusingly, only the first player is allowed to move the camera. This makes it exceedingly hard to tell what's going on, and has a lot of potential for abuse. You know this is a setting you can change right? It's pretty clearly labeled. You can set it to a particular person or have it rotate randomly every X seconds.
The IIS metabase is already an XML configuration file. It has been since IIS 6.0 which ships with Windows Server 2003. It sounds like they are just making some changes to it. Located at systemroot\System32\Inetsrv\Metabase.xml They also provide a schema file for it: MBSchema.xml
Start.com was well under way before Google's personalized home page was released. Google's Personalized Page was released in May, but Start.com was up in March. See this post from March 20th by one of the developers.
They are self-validating because all of the information required to ensure that the file is valid, is contained in the file itself (or at least linked from the file). Both content and expected structure are specified.
Of course you only see "minor visual updates". How many changes did you really expect to see in: 1. A screenshot of the Boot Screen. 2. A screenshot of Desktop 3. A screenshot of the Start Menu 4. Another screenshot of the Start Menu 5. A screenshot of the My Documents Folder 6. A screenshot of the Control Panel
Was anyone really expecting a revolutionary new Boot Screen, Desktop, Start Menu, My Documents Folder or Control Panel??
Their brand of in-depth, hard-hitting coverage is probably why Intel conveniently passed them over for the first round of Dual Core reviews; can't have any bad press at release time.
Hopefully with the new SDK they'll be able to do all of that without having to shoehorn it into an interface designed only to display images. Perhaps then I won't have to "rotate image 90 degrees" three times to pick the space I want to put my X in Tic-Tac-Toe.
That's a relic from back when Netscape had all of the market share. IE copied Netscape's UserAgent to make sure people wouldn't use browser detection to exclude IE users from browsing certain pages.
I'd really like to switch to Thunderbird...but I just can't give up the instantaneous searching capabilities that the LookOut add-in gives Outlook. I've gotten so used to being able to search my entire Gigabyte-sized Outlook archive in less than a second that I just can't bring myself to give it up, despite the cool features I'm seeing added to Thunderbird.
Anyone know of speedier search capabilities coming to Thunderbird anytime soon?
How about: they won't bring Office to Linux because there aren't enough potential customers to justify the cost of the port?
There may be more Linux users than Mac users now, but I believe and I'm sure their market research must show, that a much smaller percentage of Linux users would actually purchase and use Office.
It is an easy fix, but it isn't a file that Microsoft can just overwrite because it can be filled with custom code. Many smaller application don't have a speck of code in global.asax, but many more complicated applications have all sorts of code in there to respond to global events (Session Start, Session End, Application Start, etc.)
The lines above are adding a check to the Application_BeginRequest event handler that checks for certain bad characters and throws a 404 "not found" http error back if the requested url does contain those characters.
Sounds an awful lot like Microsoft's new free version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, currently in Beta. Almost exactly like full-blown SQL Server, but only supports 1 CPU, 1GB of RAM and 4GB DB size.
Can you really call it "going for almost $400" if nobody has actually bid on the item? Sounds more like "profiteers are trying get ridiculous prices like $400"
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It has at least a minor effect on sales. I didn't pre-order Mario Galaxy until the news came out about co-op. I don't have much time for single player games - generally I'd rather have people over to visit than sit by myself with the Wii and a single player game (I bought Twilight Princess at launch and I'm still less than halfway through). Co-op and multiplayer games, however, I play all the time with my friends. I didn't buy Metroid Prime 3 because it didn't have co-op or multi-player. I would have done the same with Mario Galaxy.
Well he's got a 7 episode commitment from FOX so I'm going to go with "7 or over". :)
There's already a petition to keep Fox from canceling it.
http://www.petitiononline.com/DOLLHAUS/petition.html
The fine folks at the Tech Report did a report on this months ago and found the difference between Aero and non-Aero was only about a watt. They don't disprove that Vista uses more power than XP, but I'd say they prove Aero isn't the culprit if that's the case. Oh and I at least trust the Tech Report guys - ZD Net hasn't inspired a lot of confidence lately. http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/10945
There are some more technical details on the big map of windows and the quality gates in this blog post:
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http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2005/
The IIS metabase is already an XML configuration file. It has been since IIS 6.0 which ships with Windows Server 2003. It sounds like they are just making some changes to it. Located at systemroot\System32\Inetsrv\Metabase.xml They also provide a schema file for it: MBSchema.xml
See this article for technical details.
And don't forget the other army of guys you'd need there 24x7 to collate.
SQL Server 2005 adds the ROW_NUMBER() function which makes it easy to do paging.
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Example:
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() as RowNumber, Name
FROM Person
WHERE RowNumber BETWEEN 10 and 20
More information:
http://sqljunkies.com/weblog/amachanic/archive/20
The Tech-Report has a similar chart, but theirs is sortable and each card is linked to a review of the card if they did one.
Start.com was well under way before Google's personalized home page was released. Google's Personalized Page was released in May, but Start.com was up in March. See this post from March 20th by one of the developers.
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http://spaces.msn.com/members/steverider/Blog/cns
Also, Bloglines Citations of Start.com dating back to March 9th or so
http://www.bloglines.com/citations?url=http://www
And technorati of course:
http://www.technorati.com/search/start.com/1/?sta
I looked so you don't have to:
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http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there
They are self-validating because all of the information required to ensure that the file is valid, is contained in the file itself (or at least linked from the file). Both content and expected structure are specified.
Of course you only see "minor visual updates". How many changes did you really expect to see in:
1. A screenshot of the Boot Screen.
2. A screenshot of Desktop
3. A screenshot of the Start Menu
4. Another screenshot of the Start Menu
5. A screenshot of the My Documents Folder
6. A screenshot of the Control Panel
Was anyone really expecting a revolutionary new Boot Screen, Desktop, Start Menu, My Documents Folder or Control Panel??
Their brand of in-depth, hard-hitting coverage is probably why Intel conveniently passed them over for the first round of Dual Core reviews; can't have any bad press at release time.
Oh yes, braindead Outlook which by default blocks 71 different types of attachments. Stop living in the 90s.
Hopefully with the new SDK they'll be able to do all of that without having to shoehorn it into an interface designed only to display images. Perhaps then I won't have to "rotate image 90 degrees" three times to pick the space I want to put my X in Tic-Tac-Toe.
Yep, I swear by them. The M2 build is significantly snappier on my Athlon XP at home and the M3 build is significanlty snappier on my P4 at work.
That's a relic from back when Netscape had all of the market share. IE copied Netscape's UserAgent to make sure people wouldn't use browser detection to exclude IE users from browsing certain pages.
I'd really like to switch to Thunderbird...but I just can't give up the instantaneous searching capabilities that the LookOut add-in gives Outlook. I've gotten so used to being able to search my entire Gigabyte-sized Outlook archive in less than a second that I just can't bring myself to give it up, despite the cool features I'm seeing added to Thunderbird.
Anyone know of speedier search capabilities coming to Thunderbird anytime soon?
How about: they won't bring Office to Linux because there aren't enough potential customers to justify the cost of the port?
There may be more Linux users than Mac users now, but I believe and I'm sure their market research must show, that a much smaller percentage of Linux users would actually purchase and use Office.
It is an easy fix, but it isn't a file that Microsoft can just overwrite because it can be filled with custom code. Many smaller application don't have a speck of code in global.asax, but many more complicated applications have all sorts of code in there to respond to global events (Session Start, Session End, Application Start, etc.)
The lines above are adding a check to the Application_BeginRequest event handler that checks for certain bad characters and throws a 404 "not found" http error back if the requested url does contain those characters.
They have Gwar AND Dropkick Murphy's. Those were the two bands I missed the most from the iTunes Music Store.
Sounds an awful lot like Microsoft's new free version of SQL Server, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, currently in Beta. Almost exactly like full-blown SQL Server, but only supports 1 CPU, 1GB of RAM and 4GB DB size.
Can you really call it "going for almost $400" if nobody has actually bid on the item? Sounds more like "profiteers are trying get ridiculous prices like $400"