He was talking about a blatant in-game popup soliciting money to give you access to extra content. The Warden's Keep thing is pretty much exactly that. It'll probably only get worse in Dragon Effect 2.
What I would Not be okay with is if I was playing Final Fantasy 12 or Zelda Twilight Princess and suddenly a popup says, "If you want to enter the final dungeon, please type in your credit card number. It will be charged $10." That would piss me off.
Buy a copy of Dragon Age: Origins (regular edition) and you can have just that! Today!
But with 10.6, the OS itself will support Exchange
Sure about that? I thought it was just in Mail.app (and friends). You're saying that Thunderbird under 10.6 could potentially be made to support Exchange?
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Dead Space. It isn't particularly original, but it's highly polished and what I'd consider quality.
Instead of a fancy apartment we see industrial manufacturing
The funny thing is that the apartment probably isn't even there. The scenes look like they were shot against a green screen (and badly at that). Look at the woman's pixelated hair. Pretty mediocre craftsmanship, I'd say.
There's a ton of usability work behind Office 2007. I don't know if anything's actually published, but Jensen Harris, a Program Manager from Microsoft, has been blogging a lot about the UI and the thoughts behind the ribbon.
The story isn't wrong per se. Here's what Microsoft has to say (from the PDF I linked elsewhere):
Through Windows Update, the download size varies, but it is typically 70 megabytes (MB), depending on the computer's configuration. Through the Download Center, the download size is approximately 580 MB.
Converting to H.264 might result in smaller files and maybe if you do a really good job you can't tell that the quality has dropped, but the video certainly won't be better.
Apple doesn't charge for service packs. They just don't rebrand their OS everytime they release a new version.
Windows 2000 was version 5.0 and Windows XP was version 5.1. Compare that to, say, OSX 10.4 to OSX 10.5. Unless you want to call that Windows upgrade a service pack, I don't really see how you can call what Apple is doing a service pack.
As for your other points:
I think Windows XP became a nice OS (however that's defined) after SP2 and its security improvements. I don't remember anyone crying about raw sockets. The discussions here were mocking Steve Gibson (of GRC.com fame) who was the one crying about said XP feature.
Not counting the Italian premiere in early September, Children of Men premiered in the UK and Ireland on September 22nd 2006. I have no idea what the pirate group's source was, but by the time of the release it had already premiered in plenty countries around the world:
I mean, GoDaddy has enough money to buy Super Bowl ads. The 40 guys on Slashdot who act according to their convictions are going to be a drop in the bucket compared to the thousands upon thousands of mainstream GoDaddy customers who'll never hear about this story.
The slight problem with that is that the WRT54G is a gigantic turd for the most part.
Apple's products are expensive, but they don't require luck and 3rd party firmware hacks from random internet people named BrainSlayer (rhymes with trustworthy). An AirPort works out of the box and works well. Paying bargain bin prices gets you bargain bin products.
This new media license is just a rejiggering of the regular old TV/radio license that most of us pay anyway. If you're already paying the TV/radio license, you will not have to pay a single cent (krone, actually) extra.
It's also worth mentioning that a PC without a TV-tuner and, say, an ISDN connection is exempt from the new media license.
I'm happy to pay for quality programming, but then again I'm weird like that.
Give givemebackmygoogle.com a try. The site itself is nothing revolutionary since it uses existing Google search options, but it does give you a nice list of spamwords to filter out and include in your Firefox keyword search.
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I feel the same way. The default mode isn't very good.
He was talking about a blatant in-game popup soliciting money to give you access to extra content. The Warden's Keep thing is pretty much exactly that. It'll probably only get worse in Dragon Effect 2.
What I would Not be okay with is if I was playing Final Fantasy 12 or Zelda Twilight Princess and suddenly a popup says, "If you want to enter the final dungeon, please type in your credit card number. It will be charged $10." That would piss me off.
Buy a copy of Dragon Age: Origins (regular edition) and you can have just that! Today!
Ignore the screwed up formatting. I think I forgot to close a tag.
But with 10.6, the OS itself will support Exchange
Sure about that? I thought it was just in Mail.app (and friends). You're saying that Thunderbird under 10.6 could potentially be made to support Exchange?
Dead Space. It isn't particularly original, but it's highly polished and what I'd consider quality.
Instead of a fancy apartment we see industrial manufacturing
The funny thing is that the apartment probably isn't even there. The scenes look like they were shot against a green screen (and badly at that). Look at the woman's pixelated hair. Pretty mediocre craftsmanship, I'd say.
There's a ton of usability work behind Office 2007. I don't know if anything's actually published, but Jensen Harris, a Program Manager from Microsoft, has been blogging a lot about the UI and the thoughts behind the ribbon.
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/11/10/the-office-2007-ui-bible.aspx
Thanks. I hadn't thought about outright blocking it.
Speaking of which, why won't Slashdot let me turn the tags off?
Speaking of (useless and pointless) tags; does anyone know why it's impossible to turn them off now?
Yeah, it looks like it's mostly a rehash of Microsoft's own Windows XP Service Pack 3 Overview document. Nothing's leaked here.
I'm curious. What are they using instead of PDF?
How does jQuery fare in this case? Does its system attach itself the proper, scalable way?
Read the rest of the sentence, Captain ADD:
Apple doesn't charge for service packs. They just don't rebrand their OS everytime they release a new version.
Windows 2000 was version 5.0 and Windows XP was version 5.1. Compare that to, say, OSX 10.4 to OSX 10.5. Unless you want to call that Windows upgrade a service pack, I don't really see how you can call what Apple is doing a service pack.
As for your other points:
I think Windows XP became a nice OS (however that's defined) after SP2 and its security improvements. I don't remember anyone crying about raw sockets. The discussions here were mocking Steve Gibson (of GRC.com fame) who was the one crying about said XP feature.
Not counting the Italian premiere in early September, Children of Men premiered in the UK and Ireland on September 22nd 2006. I have no idea what the pirate group's source was, but by the time of the release it had already premiered in plenty countries around the world:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/releaseinfo
A giant drop? Hardly.
I mean, GoDaddy has enough money to buy Super Bowl ads. The 40 guys on Slashdot who act according to their convictions are going to be a drop in the bucket compared to the thousands upon thousands of mainstream GoDaddy customers who'll never hear about this story.
The AirPort is the only Apple product I own. You can take your cliche AOL ad hominem and bugger off.
The slight problem with that is that the WRT54G is a gigantic turd for the most part.
Apple's products are expensive, but they don't require luck and 3rd party firmware hacks from random internet people named BrainSlayer (rhymes with trustworthy). An AirPort works out of the box and works well. Paying bargain bin prices gets you bargain bin products.
This is somewhat misleading.
This new media license is just a rejiggering of the regular old TV/radio license that most of us pay anyway. If you're already paying the TV/radio license, you will not have to pay a single cent (krone, actually) extra.
It's also worth mentioning that a PC without a TV-tuner and, say, an ISDN connection is exempt from the new media license.
I'm happy to pay for quality programming, but then again I'm weird like that.
Does that count for all media that contains ads? Do you regularly steal newspapers and magazines?
You're right; Google has been flooded with crap.
Give givemebackmygoogle.com a try. The site itself is nothing revolutionary since it uses existing Google search options, but it does give you a nice list of spamwords to filter out and include in your Firefox keyword search.