Indeed! The graphs and interactive content is some of the best of any online newspaper. Recently they had one explaining the "Game Show Dilemma", and it was actually easy to understand, and also educational.
"And I am really not asking to be flamed here, but can someone tell me why I might want to move from Windows to Ubuntu? Either for home (World of Warcraft has to run on it) or from work?"
If you're fine with Windows, don't bother.
If the time comes when you think 400 dollars for Windows Vista is too much, try Ubuntu.
"Seriously, someone in the marketing department needs a swift kick in the ass."
Ha ha, are you kidding? They most likely have got a raise.
I upgraded my machine for the first time in about 5 years, and I had to ask a LOT of questions before I found out that the Q6600 had the best price/performance ratio at the time. In the end, Toms Hardware charts of CPU comparisons was the simplest way to figure it out.
Any normal person who walks into a store will have absolutely no idea whether a Core 2 Duo E6850 is better than a Core 2 Quad Q6600. Thus they'll have to believe whatever the salesman says, or just buy the best they can afford, without regard to whether it is the better value.
Intel made a masterful marketing stroke when they removed GHz as the best indicator of a processor. Confusing their customer to the point they have no choice but to believe whatever the sales guy says is probably the best thing they have ever done.
Do you even know anything about eMule? It's at least arguably more secure than uTorrent, among many other improvements.
I personally used Azureus, which was a rather good client, but it went to shit after they forcefully integrated it with "Vuze", a content network. Now, it fucking sucks, it is slow, and bloated.
First they make him the mastermind of the whole Civil War saga, for sending Hulk into space(which admittedly was a cool series, but it made Iron Man the bad guy), and responsible for Captain America's death, and now this?
Iron Man was my fave character (A smooth but smart dude), but he's gone to shit in the past few years.
because you're already paid for the client AND for a monthly subscription?
Ugh, so what? If it doesn't bother you, just turn the ads on, and you might be helping COH. You don't lose anything because you saw an extra billboard advertising soda in a virtual reality.
"On the one hand, I it is a Good Thing that robots can be used to fight instead of people, because, if a robot warrior gets destroyed, I won't feel nearly as bad as when a human soldier gets killed."
We should just follow this to the logical conclusion and have the warring factions fight it out in Call of Duty 4, or Team Fortress 2.
"Microsoft bellyaches how "hard" software is to make, and constantly delays (and they don't make computers or phones and sell them) Apple makes it look very easy and investors are starting to see Microsoft isn't really that good at their CORE job."
Hell, they're not very good at their secondary jobs either. Look at the Xbox, the Zune, their search engines, and so on and so forth... What exactly is Microsoft good at? =/
Hell, I got a new PC with Vista included (couldn't buy it without) and I got rid of it as soon as I could (well, I tried it for a weekend and decided it was crap).
So I guess my sale still counts, but I ain't buying any software for Vista.
I think this is actually negative for Microsoft, announcing Windows 7 so early?
Because most people are unhappy with Vista (or don't care about it enough to upgrade), announcing that the next version is coming maybe next year surely will stop sales of the current OS du Jour?
Ha ha, wow, are they really marketing it as a home recording solution?
Because I have one (X-Fi, got it included in my PC) and while it's an acceptable sound card(How hard is that, really), it would be absolutely useless for recording.
I used Guitar Rig just for giggles on it, and the latency is so bad (even with the rather good Asio4all drivers) that it's useless for serious use.
I think it would be criminal if they advertised it as something serious for recording.
" I am sure that Comedy Central will do a worse job than the pirates did. It will be just like when they got Colbert off of YouTube and replaced it with something worse."
Did you even bother to check the South Park site? It's really good, actually.
Full episodes, 3 segments per episode and usually one ad per segment. You can fast forward or back if you want and you don't get another advert.
All seasons from the beginning at pretty good quality (not DVD but very good for online), except for the most recent season which apparently needs 1 month to be shown.
"Quite frankly, that any country spends a nickel sending a pack of drug-abusing ninnies off to compete against other countries' drug-abusing ninnies is the shame in and of itself."
I am a close relative of a certain competitor in one of the Olympic sports (not the popular ones, but certainly a difficult art) and I can assure you and vouch that he does not and has never taken drugs of any sort, unless creatine counts.
You come off as very ignorant, insulting, and petty, sir.
How would you deal with China if you had control of Google?
Seems pretty sensible of GOOG to say "Sorry, can't help you in that country of yours".
But what are you asking Google to do? Subterfuge? Organize (another) revolution? Break China's laws? You may not like them, but they are a sovereign country.
You are making the same mistake the US made with Irak. Thinking you should save them, guided by a different moral compass.
The Chinese have existed rather well on their own without our judgment. They had a shot at a revolution, and this is what they came up with.
It's worrying, and it sucks, and I love freedom, but let's be realistic here.
If anything, the most an average person can do is spread this information and hope someone in China listens and evaluates if it is a good thing to have such censorship.
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Just cancel your preorder and send them an email telling them why you did so.
contact@bioware.com
I'm a fan of their games but I disagree with this DRM scheme and I won't pay money for it.
Ugh, are you serious? There's been a ton of reviews since day 0 and they are overwhelmingly positive.
I saw it and it does deserve the current 94%+ rating on rottentomatoes.
It's not a "Turkey", it's pretty entertaining. I'd even call it "good".
But yeah, keep on hatin' from your basement.
Indeed! The graphs and interactive content is some of the best of any online newspaper. Recently they had one explaining the "Game Show Dilemma", and it was actually easy to understand, and also educational.
Much respect to their designers.
Ah, yes, the US keeps making jokes while everyone else races ahead of them in the tech field...
"And I am really not asking to be flamed here, but can someone tell me why I might want to move from Windows to Ubuntu? Either for home (World of Warcraft has to run on it) or from work?"
If you're fine with Windows, don't bother.
If the time comes when you think 400 dollars for Windows Vista is too much, try Ubuntu.
"Seriously, someone in the marketing department needs a swift kick in the ass."
Ha ha, are you kidding? They most likely have got a raise.
I upgraded my machine for the first time in about 5 years, and I had to ask a LOT of questions before I found out that the Q6600 had the best price/performance ratio at the time. In the end, Toms Hardware charts of CPU comparisons was the simplest way to figure it out.
Any normal person who walks into a store will have absolutely no idea whether a Core 2 Duo E6850 is better than a Core 2 Quad Q6600. Thus they'll have to believe whatever the salesman says, or just buy the best they can afford, without regard to whether it is the better value.
Intel made a masterful marketing stroke when they removed GHz as the best indicator of a processor. Confusing their customer to the point they have no choice but to believe whatever the sales guy says is probably the best thing they have ever done.
"In any case, all the more reason to use the TOR network."
For P2p file transfers? That's not cool, dude.
Wow, those are some awesome tips. Thanks!
Do you even know anything about eMule? It's at least arguably more secure than uTorrent, among many other improvements.
I personally used Azureus, which was a rather good client, but it went to shit after they forcefully integrated it with "Vuze", a content network. Now, it fucking sucks, it is slow, and bloated.
First they make him the mastermind of the whole Civil War saga, for sending Hulk into space(which admittedly was a cool series, but it made Iron Man the bad guy), and responsible for Captain America's death, and now this?
Iron Man was my fave character (A smooth but smart dude), but he's gone to shit in the past few years.
Thanks, Marvel.
And you also had to take the time to post all that and complain about it... Not your day, is it?
Please read the article before making comments like this.
because you're already paid for the client AND for a monthly subscription?
Ugh, so what? If it doesn't bother you, just turn the ads on, and you might be helping COH. You don't lose anything because you saw an extra billboard advertising soda in a virtual reality.
"On the one hand, I it is a Good Thing that robots can be used to fight instead of people, because, if a robot warrior gets destroyed, I won't feel nearly as bad as when a human soldier gets killed."
We should just follow this to the logical conclusion and have the warring factions fight it out in Call of Duty 4, or Team Fortress 2.
"Microsoft bellyaches how "hard" software is to make, and constantly delays (and they don't make computers or phones and sell them) Apple makes it look very easy and investors are starting to see Microsoft isn't really that good at their CORE job."
Hell, they're not very good at their secondary jobs either. Look at the Xbox, the Zune, their search engines, and so on and so forth... What exactly is Microsoft good at? =/
Hell, I got a new PC with Vista included (couldn't buy it without) and I got rid of it as soon as I could (well, I tried it for a weekend and decided it was crap).
So I guess my sale still counts, but I ain't buying any software for Vista.
I think this is actually negative for Microsoft, announcing Windows 7 so early?
Because most people are unhappy with Vista (or don't care about it enough to upgrade), announcing that the next version is coming maybe next year surely will stop sales of the current OS du Jour?
Eh, Vista is this decade's Windows ME.
Ha ha, wow, are they really marketing it as a home recording solution?
Because I have one (X-Fi, got it included in my PC) and while it's an acceptable sound card(How hard is that, really), it would be absolutely useless for recording.
I used Guitar Rig just for giggles on it, and the latency is so bad (even with the rather good Asio4all drivers) that it's useless for serious use.
I think it would be criminal if they advertised it as something serious for recording.
That is not the only component of "coolness". Did people stop buying iPods when it became very mainstream? Have they stopped being cool?
That is interesting - I tried it on Ubuntu and XP with Firefox on both, and it was very smooth, no quirks at all.
I would be first to complain if it was half assed, but I honestly think they did a good job.
Obviously they are not downloadable, jeez, give something for free and people complain.
" I am sure that Comedy Central will do a worse job than the pirates did. It will be just like when they got Colbert off of YouTube and replaced it with something worse."
Did you even bother to check the South Park site? It's really good, actually.
Full episodes, 3 segments per episode and usually one ad per segment. You can fast forward or back if you want and you don't get another advert.
All seasons from the beginning at pretty good quality (not DVD but very good for online), except for the most recent season which apparently needs 1 month to be shown.
Look, in THIS particular case I can vouch for the fact, because I fucking live and train with this person.
Just because a percentage of athletes do it doesn't mean everyone does.
It's just as bad as "all slashdotters live in their basement" and other insults of the geek persuasion.
"Quite frankly, that any country spends a nickel sending a pack of drug-abusing ninnies off to compete against other countries' drug-abusing ninnies is the shame in and of itself."
I am a close relative of a certain competitor in one of the Olympic sports (not the popular ones, but certainly a difficult art) and I can assure you and vouch that he does not and has never taken drugs of any sort, unless creatine counts.
You come off as very ignorant, insulting, and petty, sir.
Most likely it's some dude that got into it for the money, and is seeing all his friends in the other colleges have fun.
Not that science/engineering should be a hoot and all fun and games, but at your core, you should enjoy what you are doing, no?
How would you deal with China if you had control of Google?
Seems pretty sensible of GOOG to say "Sorry, can't help you in that country of yours".
But what are you asking Google to do? Subterfuge? Organize (another) revolution? Break China's laws? You may not like them, but they are a sovereign country.
You are making the same mistake the US made with Irak. Thinking you should save them, guided by a different moral compass.
The Chinese have existed rather well on their own without our judgment. They had a shot at a revolution, and this is what they came up with.
It's worrying, and it sucks, and I love freedom, but let's be realistic here.
If anything, the most an average person can do is spread this information and hope someone in China listens and evaluates if it is a good thing to have such censorship.