'If another civilization has electricity, they surely have an internet' is entirely plausible. It may appear as random data to us and viceversa, but it would be very logical.
However, saying 'if another civilization has electricity, they surely have networking compatible with our TCP/IP stack', then THAT would be BS.
The fact that there are so many MMORPG is to me a significant market difference with the 98/ME -> XP upgrade.
I would add a much greater group of gamers that play multiplayer online games, like Unreal, rFactor, good old Starcraft or even opensource games like OpenArena.
Their individual groups are smaller, but remember: this is the Long tail.
Comodo Firewall is free, and it is to me the best software firewall for windows XP. Explorer Breadcrumbs is also free. Stardock is unnecesary eye-candy (I used it before but the only thing it really does is impress friends, and that only once).
It seems you have drank the MS Vista Koolaid.
What about software incompatibilities in Vista? Slower games performance in Vista? That XP is adecuate enough and much better supported by all vendors? That if I want to buy brand new hardware with a brand new OS I would prefer a Mac (and put XP, and only XP, if I need some windows software in it)?
Those are much better reasons for not to upgrade to Vista U_U
They couldn't replace it with MSN. All unpatched MS systems directly connected to the Web get infected in minutes. Web apps are making some desktop apps obsolete.
I believe lots of people click in HTTP links in the now called Windows Live Messenger. And GTalk too.
More than you can imagine.
I do it, in fact, at least 5 times a day. All of them open in the default system browser.
May be this is an age issue. Old people just read mail. Young people live in the messengers more than in the browser (it makes them think in homework and email forwards.)
Do you know you don't have to write classes or use templates in C++?
Just because they are there doesn't mean you have to use them.
There are some advantages of C++ over C like inline functions (that's a way C++ is faster than C) and a boolean type. My favorite advantage is that you don't have to declare variables at the beginning of a block but just before you need them.
And if you only use GCC as you post seems to imply, then C++ is as compatible as C (mmm not so sure about this one).
However, the fact that the rest of the code is already written in C is a huge reason to keep using only C.
With a good mouse you will not have carpal tunnel, I can say that because my own experience: ugly mouse= low clicks + pain; good mouse= many clicks + no pain.
I also believe that the click-fest issue is totally backwards as you see it.
Starcraft is and old game, it's a click-fest because that's what games of that time were. We just kept jumping from game to game year after year the way other companies wanted us to do. Most of my friends jumped from SC to the ugly abomination that was AoE1, and then to AoE2, and then just forgot the genre. Americans don't like click-fests and they don't play SC anymore. They want easy wins, and to be 'entertained' and that's OK. Games now are trying to be as far away from a click-fest as they can be, so americans will buy them. There are tons of games that are not click-fests that you can play, and in fact you probably do.
However one country totally embraced Starcraft while most others forgot about it: Korea. That SC2 will be a click-fest is because Koreans like it that way, not because Blizzard or anyone else in the gaming industry feel like it had to be that way. And they embraced it because the competitiveness and the awesome things that some people can do while others only can watch. The fact that it takes some effort to be the best, and that being the best really pays off. They had made SC the RTS of choice for tournaments for many years.
In fact a lot of people have recently started playing SC again, thinking "Wow, after that many years and people still play it, so it should be good." And the competitive aspect of SC is unparallelled in the world. I know because I run a private SC server.
SC was a click-fest because Blizzard didn't knew better. SC2 will be a click-fest because a lot of people like it that way. That's a huge difference.
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Mmmm no.
'If another civilization has electricity, they surely have an internet' is entirely plausible. It may appear as random data to us and viceversa, but it would be very logical.
However, saying 'if another civilization has electricity, they surely have networking compatible with our TCP/IP stack', then THAT would be BS.
Anyway, good points.
The fact that there are so many MMORPG is to me a significant market difference with the 98/ME -> XP upgrade.
I would add a much greater group of gamers that play multiplayer online games, like Unreal, rFactor, good old Starcraft or even opensource games like OpenArena.
Their individual groups are smaller, but remember: this is the Long tail.
And how that works?
I did not found adds in the page you linked. So how revver makes any money at all?
Comodo Firewall is free, and it is to me the best software firewall for windows XP.
Explorer Breadcrumbs is also free.
Stardock is unnecesary eye-candy (I used it before but the only thing it really does is impress friends, and that only once).
It seems you have drank the MS Vista Koolaid.
What about software incompatibilities in Vista?
Slower games performance in Vista?
That XP is adecuate enough and much better supported by all vendors?
That if I want to buy brand new hardware with a brand new OS I would prefer a Mac (and put XP, and only XP, if I need some windows software in it)?
Those are much better reasons for not to upgrade to Vista U_U
This is probably the best coment I have read this year in /.
I can only add: People don't change. Old people die and they're replaced by other people with different values. That's the only way to evolve.
Your post makes me think that the best possible country is not a pure capitalist or socialist state, but in fact a well-fare state.
Long life for the well-fare state !!!!!
That's not because Symbian is awesome compared to Windows CE or whatever is called now.
It's because everyone knows that being parter to MS is the most direct way to be absorbed, destroyed or similar.
If MS had a monopoly on cellphones OS, the hardware companys would be screwed, and they know it.
Well, the network is evil to MS interests.
They couldn't replace it with MSN.
All unpatched MS systems directly connected to the Web get infected in minutes.
Web apps are making some desktop apps obsolete.
They are afraid... very afraid.
Then again, I'm using Opera.
*Shrugs.
I believe lots of people click in HTTP links in the now called Windows Live Messenger. And GTalk too.
More than you can imagine.
I do it, in fact, at least 5 times a day. All of them open in the default system browser.
May be this is an age issue. Old people just read mail. Young people live in the messengers more than in the browser (it makes them think in homework and email forwards.)
A virus in your mind... well, that's called religion. You could be already immune to it, hopefully.
Tested: Opera 9.20 in Windows XP SP2 is safe against IFRAME hijacking.
The google groups IFRAME was replaced in FF and not in Opera.
Once again I'm proud of my choice of browser.
There should be a way to make two computers with the same IP play in a 2vs2 over the Internet, with no lag.
Games like Quake2 have no problem with this.
So this is the main thing they need to fix in SC.
Hey, I'm interested ^^
Besides that white paper do you have more info about it ?
Do you know you don't have to write classes or use templates in C++?
Just because they are there doesn't mean you have to use them.
There are some advantages of C++ over C like inline functions (that's a way C++ is faster than C) and a boolean type.
My favorite advantage is that you don't have to declare variables at the beginning of a block but just before you need them.
And if you only use GCC as you post seems to imply, then C++ is as compatible as C (mmm not so sure about this one).
However, the fact that the rest of the code is already written in C is a huge reason to keep using only C.
With a good mouse you will not have carpal tunnel, I can say that because my own experience: ugly mouse= low clicks + pain; good mouse= many clicks + no pain.
I also believe that the click-fest issue is totally backwards as you see it.
Starcraft is and old game, it's a click-fest because that's what games of that time were.
We just kept jumping from game to game year after year the way other companies wanted us to do. Most of my friends jumped from SC to the ugly abomination that was AoE1, and then to AoE2, and then just forgot the genre. Americans don't like click-fests and they don't play SC anymore. They want easy wins, and to be 'entertained' and that's OK. Games now are trying to be as far away from a click-fest as they can be, so americans will buy them. There are tons of games that are not click-fests that you can play, and in fact you probably do.
However one country totally embraced Starcraft while most others forgot about it: Korea.
That SC2 will be a click-fest is because Koreans like it that way, not because Blizzard or anyone else in the gaming industry feel like it had to be that way.
And they embraced it because the competitiveness and the awesome things that some people can do while others only can watch. The fact that it takes some effort to be the best, and that being the best really pays off. They had made SC the RTS of choice for tournaments for many years.
In fact a lot of people have recently started playing SC again, thinking "Wow, after that many years and people still play it, so it should be good." And the competitive aspect of SC is unparallelled in the world. I know because I run a private SC server.
SC was a click-fest because Blizzard didn't knew better. SC2 will be a click-fest because a lot of people like it that way. That's a huge difference.
I bet you're one of those guys that sell botnets to spammers.
I mean, how anybody can say that it is good that users don't care about security unless he/she benefits from it?
You sir, are part of the scum of the Internet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJB-Z54R61s
Ask me... I want to live for 500 years !!!!
I'm not tired of Royale Noir yet.
Or whatever name the black theme is called.
Yeah because you need to be in the PC while the download happens.
It is absolutely impossible with current technology to start downloading something and go away and do something else. Sure.
Shitty argument.
If I have to buy a new computer and leave XP then I will probably buy a Mac.
No need for Vista at all.
It says Phoenix was first released in September 2002.
I use Opera since 2000 and it had tabs then. In fact the ads said: "Opera, the tabbed browser".
So what's your point?