Installing win7 from a usb stick on a medium computer took me 20mins or so maybe a little less. What is the point of bringing this up.
Installing Win7 is fast. Upgrading, specifically transferring the migration files, takes forever, even HDD -> SSD. It took over an hour to transfer about 80G or so stuff from a 10k RPM drive to a SSD on my machine. The article is about the time it takes to upgrade, not a clean install.
The developers went to the PS2 and XBox because the Dreamcast was stupidly easy to pirate games for. If the developers weren't making money, why support the system?
Yes, but the problem with sats is that everyone knows when they go by. A fast plane is not predictable. Mach five with stealth, even minimal stealth, will be in and out before the enemy can do anything.
And miss most things of any tactical value in that time. There is a place for fast places, in strategic recon, which happens to be a lot harder to hide from satellites. We are going toward slower (I prefer the term lumbering) platforms with awesome endurance for tactical recon, staring is better than glimpsing in that case.
You have to be joking. Chrome is open-source. You can go and look through the source and VERIFY that it's not sending anything about you home.
Seriously, go look. We'll await your admission of being wrong.
According to the Chrome Wikipedia article, there are several tracking methods in Chrome, one is not optional, several are optional. The scary one is the RLZ Identifier.
The RLZ Identifier is non-optional, it can send back anything it wants in an encoded string, and it sends stuff back to Google 1) every 24 hours, 2) or on every Google search query, or 3) when a 'significant event' (no definition except 'such as a successful installation') occurs. Some of the stuff Google admits to being in there is the installion date, when the first time you used certain features and where you downloaded the install files from. The RLZ parameter is stored in the system registry (yay) and can be updated at any time Google wants. Another fun fact:
The code that makes this work is not included in the open source project (http://www.chromium.org) because it only applies to the version of the browser that Google distributes, Google Chrome.
This doesn't make me think more highly of Sony, it tarnishes Google in my view.
Because a company that lives off data mining everything you do through them (sifting email for target advertising, web searches for the same) is as pure as freshly driven snow, right? The fact that anybody would use a browser from them so they can see *EVERYTHING* you browse is mind boggling.
Depends on if EA is dumb enough to let ANY of the devs involved in the epic failure that was Warhammer touch it. If they keep the Mythic devs completely segregated and not even allowed to look at the BioWare staff, there is hope. If the Mythic people have anything to do with it, expect another train wreck.
Even repairing Hubble never made any sense : it would have been a lot cheaper to build a brand new telescope every time than to pay for each repair mission.
Uhhh, the original telescope was suppose to cost $400M, but the actual cost was about $2.5B (about $300M was for storage, so say $2B to be conservative). Do you really think launching a new one every time it had to be repaired (we had five repair missions so far) would be cheaper than just repairing it? Figure about $100M per launch on top of the telescope cost.
The entire program has cost about $5B. Your proposal would mean we would've spent about $12B in telescopes alone. Even cutting the price of a new telescope in half, we wouldn't be breaking even compared to repairing the HST.
I know, I have been trolled, but this made me rage.
Why? Driving to work is routine. Yet people die every day doing it. Routine doesn't make it risk-free. It has happened enough that there is a lack of interest. That's what the statement means, and based on people's reaction, it was a correct statement. So the question becomes, why do you rage at someone making such a statement? Why are you so personally offended that others don't share your priorities?
I'd guess it has less to do with sharing priorities than it does with some pretentious ass stating that virtual communities built around silly-assed devices is in any way newsworthy.
The PVP available at level 25+ is quite fun, but your performance is primarily determined by your level and equipment. If I could start a PVP character at a reasonably high level with half decent gear I'd probably buy it. Unfortunately, to get to the fun part of the game, you have to spend hundreds of hours doing tedious PVE quests and/or grinding mobs.
It took me less than 20 hours played to go from installation, reconfiguration, learning the world and the quest system to level 20. Not quite sure how it could take hundreds of hours to get to 25.
It failed before it even started. You can't have skill based systems in PVP games, it doesn't work. The players who want to do PVP are shoehorned into a few builds to even have a chance in PVP which then completely ruins the game for anybody not in those builds. See SWG CM/R or the Fencer/Dodge build for references.
I find it tedious and frustrating to play in a PvP realm, where every snot-nosed 12 year old is hiding behind a tree, waiting to gank my level 2 warrior.
Congrats on just letting everybody know how little you know about the game.
They're already having to clone servers to cut population and remove queue times (that's YESTERDAY, before the game even released). Which btw, is IMO a much better solution than free server transfers.
They had queues on most servers on Sunday when just the CE pre-orders hit. I think Mark (maybe somebody else) said they had over 21,000 people log in in the first hour. Again, that was just the CE pre-orders.
The load is causing some problems. I'm getting worse lag and more CTDs now than I have the entire time I was in Beta (Dec I think?).
So, on some computers which (A) have been there for years, and (B) have no network connection over which to download virus signature updates, somehow miraculously that AV software would be up to date and able to recognize the newest trojans. I don't know what AV software that is, but I want it too;)
Not sure about the majority of AV software, but we apply the updates to our non-networked machines regularly by burning them to CDs and using that to update them.
But, with no Internet connection, the AV software doesn't really need to be kept up to date.
Not exactly true. We are mandated to keep AV software updated (I think weekly) on our machines that aren't hooked to any network at all - internal or external. This isn't mandated by the IT department or Security or anything, but the DoD. Of course, these are the same rules that require three (or was it six?) feet of space between machines (even air conditioning units) from every other.
They should just toss a CD with the latest definition updates for AV software of choice in with the regular supplies. Problem semi-solved.
The War Herald had a notice about the NDA being lifted. That is for the Beta participants only. Elders and what happened/happens on Deathsword is still under an NDA and will be forever.
It amazes me how much people hate WoW on this site. Why the heck would this be modded up? If you disagree, actually counter his points. How is he ignorant? He plays WoW and enjoys it. That just means he has different taste from you not that there is ignorance.
He based his entire argument that WAR has too many classes from another game. The other game isn't even CLOSE to how WAR is set up. That makes him a fucking moron trying to transfer the argument. Much like a ton of other posters on this site, he is talking out of his ass about something he has no clue about. That makes him ignorant.
To see more examples of ignorant posts, find my response to the dumbshit that tried to claim armor doesn't stop bullets based on the fact that primitive firearms did away with full plate armor sets.
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The only thing severely affected in this hypothetical situation would be microsoft's and other propriety software developers coffers and employees.
And the company doing the switching as they experience a period of lower productivity as they have to retrain the employees on using the new software.
Installing win7 from a usb stick on a medium computer took me 20mins or so maybe a little less. What is the point of bringing this up.
Installing Win7 is fast. Upgrading, specifically transferring the migration files, takes forever, even HDD -> SSD. It took over an hour to transfer about 80G or so stuff from a 10k RPM drive to a SSD on my machine. The article is about the time it takes to upgrade, not a clean install.
There is a difference between 'possible' and 'stupidly easy'.
The developers went to the PS2 and XBox because the Dreamcast was stupidly easy to pirate games for. If the developers weren't making money, why support the system?
Yes, but the problem with sats is that everyone knows when they go by. A fast plane is not predictable. Mach five with stealth, even minimal stealth, will be in and out before the enemy can do anything.
And miss most things of any tactical value in that time. There is a place for fast places, in strategic recon, which happens to be a lot harder to hide from satellites. We are going toward slower (I prefer the term lumbering) platforms with awesome endurance for tactical recon, staring is better than glimpsing in that case.
You have to be joking. Chrome is open-source. You can go and look through the source and VERIFY that it's not sending anything about you home.
Seriously, go look. We'll await your admission of being wrong.
According to the Chrome Wikipedia article, there are several tracking methods in Chrome, one is not optional, several are optional. The scary one is the RLZ Identifier.
The RLZ Identifier is non-optional, it can send back anything it wants in an encoded string, and it sends stuff back to Google 1) every 24 hours, 2) or on every Google search query, or 3) when a 'significant event' (no definition except 'such as a successful installation') occurs. Some of the stuff Google admits to being in there is the installion date, when the first time you used certain features and where you downloaded the install files from. The RLZ parameter is stored in the system registry (yay) and can be updated at any time Google wants. Another fun fact:
The code that makes this work is not included in the open source project (http://www.chromium.org) because it only applies to the version of the browser that Google distributes, Google Chrome.
From Google itself on the RLZ Parameter.
So tell me again how it isn't tracking you?
Somebody else gets it.
This doesn't make me think more highly of Sony, it tarnishes Google in my view.
Because a company that lives off data mining everything you do through them (sifting email for target advertising, web searches for the same) is as pure as freshly driven snow, right? The fact that anybody would use a browser from them so they can see *EVERYTHING* you browse is mind boggling.
The hypocrisy is incredible.
Depends on if EA is dumb enough to let ANY of the devs involved in the epic failure that was Warhammer touch it. If they keep the Mythic devs completely segregated and not even allowed to look at the BioWare staff, there is hope. If the Mythic people have anything to do with it, expect another train wreck.
Looks like you'll have to stand in line with the other 5 people wanting the Mac download.
If this is just calculated, then it may proove Aion is too young and not complete at launch time.
You are aware that Aion has been released for almost a year in Asian markets and that the West version is starting at 1.5, right?
You think a penalty that is removed by spending a few coins at the healer is a real death penalty?
Wow.
Even repairing Hubble never made any sense : it would have been a lot cheaper to build a brand new telescope every time than to pay for each repair mission.
Uhhh, the original telescope was suppose to cost $400M, but the actual cost was about $2.5B (about $300M was for storage, so say $2B to be conservative). Do you really think launching a new one every time it had to be repaired (we had five repair missions so far) would be cheaper than just repairing it? Figure about $100M per launch on top of the telescope cost.
The entire program has cost about $5B. Your proposal would mean we would've spent about $12B in telescopes alone. Even cutting the price of a new telescope in half, we wouldn't be breaking even compared to repairing the HST.
I know, I have been trolled, but this made me rage.
Why? Driving to work is routine. Yet people die every day doing it. Routine doesn't make it risk-free. It has happened enough that there is a lack of interest. That's what the statement means, and based on people's reaction, it was a correct statement. So the question becomes, why do you rage at someone making such a statement? Why are you so personally offended that others don't share your priorities?
I'd guess it has less to do with sharing priorities than it does with some pretentious ass stating that virtual communities built around silly-assed devices is in any way newsworthy.
The PVP available at level 25+ is quite fun, but your performance is primarily determined by your level and equipment. If I could start a PVP character at a reasonably high level with half decent gear I'd probably buy it. Unfortunately, to get to the fun part of the game, you have to spend hundreds of hours doing tedious PVE quests and/or grinding mobs.
It took me less than 20 hours played to go from installation, reconfiguration, learning the world and the quest system to level 20. Not quite sure how it could take hundreds of hours to get to 25.
No levels, skill-based.
It failed before it even started. You can't have skill based systems in PVP games, it doesn't work. The players who want to do PVP are shoehorned into a few builds to even have a chance in PVP which then completely ruins the game for anybody not in those builds. See SWG CM/R or the Fencer/Dodge build for references.
I find it tedious and frustrating to play in a PvP realm, where every snot-nosed 12 year old is hiding behind a tree, waiting to gank my level 2 warrior.
Congrats on just letting everybody know how little you know about the game.
They're already having to clone servers to cut population and remove queue times (that's YESTERDAY, before the game even released). Which btw, is IMO a much better solution than free server transfers.
They had queues on most servers on Sunday when just the CE pre-orders hit. I think Mark (maybe somebody else) said they had over 21,000 people log in in the first hour. Again, that was just the CE pre-orders.
The load is causing some problems. I'm getting worse lag and more CTDs now than I have the entire time I was in Beta (Dec I think?).
During quiet moments in cut scenes and movies, my PS3 is only slightly less loud than the 360.
So, on some computers which (A) have been there for years, and (B) have no network connection over which to download virus signature updates, somehow miraculously that AV software would be up to date and able to recognize the newest trojans. I don't know what AV software that is, but I want it too ;)
Not sure about the majority of AV software, but we apply the updates to our non-networked machines regularly by burning them to CDs and using that to update them.
But, with no Internet connection, the AV software doesn't really need to be kept up to date.
Not exactly true. We are mandated to keep AV software updated (I think weekly) on our machines that aren't hooked to any network at all - internal or external. This isn't mandated by the IT department or Security or anything, but the DoD. Of course, these are the same rules that require three (or was it six?) feet of space between machines (even air conditioning units) from every other.
They should just toss a CD with the latest definition updates for AV software of choice in with the regular supplies. Problem semi-solved.
If you were in closed beta, you got an email stating that you are now an Elder. If you were an Elder, you would've known ;)
But the real Elders get to keep their forum tag of Elder, not the whippersnappers who are now Elders!
The War Herald had a notice about the NDA being lifted. That is for the Beta participants only. Elders and what happened/happens on Deathsword is still under an NDA and will be forever.
It amazes me how much people hate WoW on this site. Why the heck would this be modded up? If you disagree, actually counter his points. How is he ignorant? He plays WoW and enjoys it. That just means he has different taste from you not that there is ignorance.
He based his entire argument that WAR has too many classes from another game. The other game isn't even CLOSE to how WAR is set up. That makes him a fucking moron trying to transfer the argument. Much like a ton of other posters on this site, he is talking out of his ass about something he has no clue about. That makes him ignorant.
To see more examples of ignorant posts, find my response to the dumbshit that tried to claim armor doesn't stop bullets based on the fact that primitive firearms did away with full plate armor sets.
If ignorance was bliss, the majority of posters would be orgasmic. You fit right in with that crowd.