Worst actual gameplay ever. It was just a big money waster until you figured out the moves.
I did very much enjoy watching people who had learned all the moves go to the end but I personally thought the gameplay was crap. I was much happier to step across the isle and play Tron. Man would I love to own that cabinet today.
First of all your pricing is completely wrong. Second assuming that for some odd reason your numbers ARE right then what is MS going to do when th Wii comes out and is only $199?
"What does it mean when I see a warning message that tells me "you logged in on a different machine"? Currently, Google Browser Sync only allows you to be logged in to one browser at a time"
The people would mostly likely use this proably have Firefox on 2 to 3 machines and it is certainly not uncommon to A) leave your computer running with a browser window open and then get on another machine running firefox B) be on firefox on say a laptop while your wife/girlfriend etc is on your main machine(and no they shouldn't all have to have seperate accounts).
I see they are "working" on having multiple accounts but personally this simply won't work for me and many others until then. On the positive side it's nice to have Google developing for Firefox and if the encryption is sound this sounds like a nice feature that maybe one day will become standard on Firefox.
"Application gobbleygook.exe is attempting to access suckit.dll. Do you want to want to allow this? (This is considered a minor threat.)"
This is the same problem with software firewalls. Unless your an expert user you have jack shit of an idea whether or not to allow xxxxx.exe to connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port xx.
I just don't see the constant prompting as a better alternative, I honestly hope I'm wrong though. It would be nice if MS finally was able to deliver security to the masses. Personally I am partially looking forward to Vista as new tehcnology to play around with. It is coming afterall no matter how good or bad it turns out to be. Let's hope MS turns things around over the next several months and addresses some very valid complaints with the Vista Beta.
Not a single respectable source or group is high on everyone moving to Vista. For now it is a solution in search of a problem. XP is "good enough", runs very well on 5 year old hardware, and is also pretty affordable.
Vista has high hardware requirements and even needs a GPU upgrade for DX10. It just isn't looking very compelling right now. I've been around the block a few times with MS and OS upgrades starting with Win 3.1. There are always people saying "what does X offer over what we are already running?". That just happens no matter what, but even with that being said MS better pull a rabbit out its ass in order to get Vista where is needs to be. It's just not not there yet and they are running out of time to fix the bugs and get it polished. I'd rather they wait till next summer instead of coming out with another Windows ME.
While it's great and all that a bunch of money was dumped into Ubuntu to get it started long term they need a business plan. The way to do that is to sell support. Supporting Linux Desktop users will never be a viable support model. But on the other hand Enterprises tend to like to buy support contracts. If you don't have a stable OS that has support for years then you certainly are not going to attract businesses.
"I thought the whole point of ubuntu was to get a fairly package-stable version of debian that was up-to-date so funky new desktop apps would have a nice home to live in."
That was never the point of Ubuntu. The point of it like everything else was to eventually make money. Anyone who tells you otherwise has blinders on.
Let me say, who gives a crap? Halo for the PC basically sucked and was never popular among FPS fans.
This whole DX10 being Vista only is BS. They are royally screwing over XP users and especially anyone who has bought a new GPU recently. Developers can't be happy with MS for pulling a stunt like this. Must be nice to always have that monopoly to fall back on when you need to force unwanted changes down people's throats.
"Outlook works and 'collaborates' quite well with ANY Mail server,"
Uh, no it doesn't. That's like saying Pine can collaborates quite well with any mail client.
"if your Mail server supports POP3 or IMAP, you are quite set with Outlook."
If by set you mean using only half of what Outlook offers I guess we agree. If everyone was quite "set" by using ANY mail server with Outlook why the heck do you think the OSS community has been going nuts for over 6 years trying to make a real exchange alternative?
The grandparent is right. Bottom line is Outlook leads to Exchange, Windows 2003, AD, and a lot of other stuff. Your flat out lying if you say otherwise. It may not "require" it out of the box but that is where installs ends up going many times. Anyone whose been in IT for a few years and works with Microsoft products will back me up. Mind you I'm not even saying this is a bad thing, its just the way it is.
Without stating what I currently use now, I'll stand up and say I've used AVG for years. I also of course read a lot of anti-virus test scores, most of which are complete crap btw. The bottom line is what I found was AVG while average in known virus detection is terrible in Heuristic detection. Example http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/chart_test_report/0 ,chid,6214,prodid,27567,00.asp
So I'm starting to move myself and everyone I know to a new product which by all most reviews does a fanatastic job. For advanced users AVG still might work ok, especially when you consider its low impact on system resources. But for average users I simply can't recommend it anymore.
10 years ago this would have been something. Now, Meh.
Last night I saw this and tried out Skype for the first time. I called my wife and said "Isn't this cool, free phone calls from my computer to any landline!". Her response? "We already have unlimited local and long distance with our landline, why would we use that?". I think we also have Free calling to anyone with a Verizon cell phone.
So I guess this is a cool way to maybe not have your kid tie up your phone but beyond that it doesn't seem very useful. Personally I think the whole thing is technically cool but again not so useful for most.
IMHO symbols are much easier to remember than letters. I don't own a PS2 and yet I will forever remember that Triangle is Up etc. Its much easier to remember symbols than letters and systems which just use A,B,C,D are IMHO making it harder on their users.
Right now I'm on a PIII 600 Laptop and it opens in less than 3 seconds on XP. As always YMMV but IMHO WMP has always been fairly lightweight especially compared to Itunes. After that initial 3 second launch it then reopens songs/movies etc in less than 1 second. Have you unchecked "start player in media guide" under options?
"I started to wonder how widespread this flaw was so I downloaded TightVNC, and UltraVNC. They are immune. Both of them reject my connection right away"
"So it looks like a flaw is in the current RealVNC 4.1.1 authentication process. I am not going to give any clues as to what it is until I can figure it out totally, and promptly let the RealVNC team know so they can resolve the issue."
So there you go. This is apparantly not a system-wide VNC issue and is a RealVNC 4.1.1 issue only. Submitter you suck.
Then you don't have to worry, because the assholes at Verizon disabled 99% of Bluetooth functionality in every phone they sell. Thank God for leaked firmware.
Wow, what a great comparison of 70s-80s vs now
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Only through great skillfullness could someone possibly lose to that idiot. Kerry must truely be a genius. The election was handed to him on a silver platter and he still somehow managed to fumble it. I'll never forgive him.
Look for Dems to squander the fall as well. They couldn't find their a-holes with a map and a flashlight. Boo!
I PROMISE I'm not doing anything bad, really I do.
How naive are you?
"Torrent remains closed-source to prevent clones and modifications such as DHT hacks, not to conceal anti-P2P code. Torrent will not become open-source as a result of the controversy over the agreement."
To block commercial software from phoning home. Any other type of outbound filtering is a fucking waste of time because users have no idea what to do when "svchost.exe is trying to connect to 12.55.60.2 port 300" "Is that okay?".
Btw this whole Vista thing of making user have to hit "okay" whenever something 'fishy' is happening will backfire bigtime. It will annoy users who know what they are doing, ie is it okay to delete this file, and it will confuse users who don't, blank needs permissoin to blank is that okay?
We are all basically screwed because when it comes to software you cannot honestly trust anyone with anything at anytime. Especially when it comes to closed source.
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Worst actual gameplay ever. It was just a big money waster until you figured out the moves.
I did very much enjoy watching people who had learned all the moves go to the end but I personally thought the gameplay was crap. I was much happier to step across the isle and play Tron. Man would I love to own that cabinet today.
First of all your pricing is completely wrong. Second assuming that for some odd reason your numbers ARE right then what is MS going to do when th Wii comes out and is only $199?
"What does it mean when I see a warning message that tells me "you logged in on a different machine"?
Currently, Google Browser Sync only allows you to be logged in to one browser at a time"
The people would mostly likely use this proably have Firefox on 2 to 3 machines and it is certainly not uncommon to A) leave your computer running with a browser window open and then get on another machine running firefox B) be on firefox on say a laptop while your wife/girlfriend etc is on your main machine(and no they shouldn't all have to have seperate accounts).
I see they are "working" on having multiple accounts but personally this simply won't work for me and many others until then. On the positive side it's nice to have Google developing for Firefox and if the encryption is sound this sounds like a nice feature that maybe one day will become standard on Firefox.
"Application gobbleygook.exe is attempting to access suckit.dll. Do you want to want to allow this? (This is considered a minor threat.)"
This is the same problem with software firewalls. Unless your an expert user you have jack shit of an idea whether or not to allow xxxxx.exe to connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port xx.
I just don't see the constant prompting as a better alternative, I honestly hope I'm wrong though. It would be nice if MS finally was able to deliver security to the masses. Personally I am partially looking forward to Vista as new tehcnology to play around with. It is coming afterall no matter how good or bad it turns out to be. Let's hope MS turns things around over the next several months and addresses some very valid complaints with the Vista Beta.
Not a single respectable source or group is high on everyone moving to Vista. For now it is a solution in search of a problem. XP is "good enough", runs very well on 5 year old hardware, and is also pretty affordable.
Vista has high hardware requirements and even needs a GPU upgrade for DX10. It just isn't looking very compelling right now. I've been around the block a few times with MS and OS upgrades starting with Win 3.1. There are always people saying "what does X offer over what we are already running?". That just happens no matter what, but even with that being said MS better pull a rabbit out its ass in order to get Vista where is needs to be. It's just not not there yet and they are running out of time to fix the bugs and get it polished. I'd rather they wait till next summer instead of coming out with another Windows ME.
While it's great and all that a bunch of money was dumped into Ubuntu to get it started long term they need a business plan. The way to do that is to sell support. Supporting Linux Desktop users will never be a viable support model. But on the other hand Enterprises tend to like to buy support contracts. If you don't have a stable OS that has support for years then you certainly are not going to attract businesses.
"I thought the whole point of ubuntu was to get a fairly package-stable version of debian that was up-to-date so funky new desktop apps would have a nice home to live in."
That was never the point of Ubuntu. The point of it like everything else was to eventually make money. Anyone who tells you otherwise has blinders on.
Let me say, who gives a crap? Halo for the PC basically sucked and was never popular among FPS fans.
This whole DX10 being Vista only is BS. They are royally screwing over XP users and especially anyone who has bought a new GPU recently. Developers can't be happy with MS for pulling a stunt like this. Must be nice to always have that monopoly to fall back on when you need to force unwanted changes down people's throats.
"Outlook works and 'collaborates' quite well with ANY Mail server,"
Uh, no it doesn't. That's like saying Pine can collaborates quite well with any mail client.
"if your Mail server supports POP3 or IMAP, you are quite set with Outlook."
If by set you mean using only half of what Outlook offers I guess we agree. If everyone was quite "set" by using ANY mail server with Outlook why the heck do you think the OSS community has been going nuts for over 6 years trying to make a real exchange alternative?
The grandparent is right. Bottom line is Outlook leads to Exchange, Windows 2003, AD, and a lot of other stuff. Your flat out lying if you say otherwise. It may not "require" it out of the box but that is where installs ends up going many times. Anyone whose been in IT for a few years and works with Microsoft products will back me up. Mind you I'm not even saying this is a bad thing, its just the way it is.
Hardware sites sure know how to make me feel good about my purchase.
"NVIDIA's nForce4 chipset family was introduced more than a year and a half ago, so it's long overdue for a replacement".
Dam you Techreport!
Btw a Passively cooled 7600GS from Newegg for $99 AR is a dam fine "budget" GPU choice.
Without stating what I currently use now, I'll stand up and say I've used AVG for years. I also of course read a lot of anti-virus test scores, most of which are complete crap btw. The bottom line is what I found was AVG while average in known virus detection is terrible in Heuristic detection. Example http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/chart_test_report/0 ,chid,6214,prodid,27567,00.asp
So I'm starting to move myself and everyone I know to a new product which by all most reviews does a fanatastic job. For advanced users AVG still might work ok, especially when you consider its low impact on system resources. But for average users I simply can't recommend it anymore.
"if by 'long' you mean 'the past few years' then yeah."
AMD has been producing cheaper/superior cpu's since the K7 in 1999. Seven years counts as more than a few in my book.
About the only thing AMD screwed on in recent history was not having an integrated heatspreader for a while there.
"This mean AMD helps keep the price of the good chips^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Intel chips down"
I don't know many people would agree with that but to each his own.
10 years ago this would have been something. Now, Meh.
Last night I saw this and tried out Skype for the first time. I called my wife and said "Isn't this cool, free phone calls from my computer to any landline!". Her response? "We already have unlimited local and long distance with our landline, why would we use that?". I think we also have Free calling to anyone with a Verizon cell phone.
So I guess this is a cool way to maybe not have your kid tie up your phone but beyond that it doesn't seem very useful. Personally I think the whole thing is technically cool but again not so useful for most.
IMHO symbols are much easier to remember than letters. I don't own a PS2 and yet I will forever remember that Triangle is Up etc. Its much easier to remember symbols than letters and systems which just use A,B,C,D are IMHO making it harder on their users.
Right now I'm on a PIII 600 Laptop and it opens in less than 3 seconds on XP. As always YMMV but IMHO WMP has always been fairly lightweight especially compared to Itunes. After that initial 3 second launch it then reopens songs/movies etc in less than 1 second. Have you unchecked "start player in media guide" under options?
I gotta fire my broker. Should I still be holding on to my Pets.com stock?
"I started to wonder how widespread this flaw was so I downloaded TightVNC, and UltraVNC. They are immune. Both of them reject my connection right away"
"So it looks like a flaw is in the current RealVNC 4.1.1 authentication process. I am not going to give any clues as to what it is until I can figure it out totally, and promptly let the RealVNC team know so they can resolve the issue."
So there you go. This is apparantly not a system-wide VNC issue and is a RealVNC 4.1.1 issue only. Submitter you suck.
Dam you Eazel! Dam you to Hell!
Then you don't have to worry, because the assholes at Verizon disabled 99% of Bluetooth functionality in every phone they sell. Thank God for leaked firmware.
A whole six items. *cough*
Here ya go.
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/index.htm
I guess a shitload of mac users are brainless then because plenty of them have been proclaiming that for years.
"And he did a much better job than Kerry."
Only through great skillfullness could someone possibly lose to that idiot. Kerry must truely be a genius. The election was handed to him on a silver platter and he still somehow managed to fumble it. I'll never forgive him.
Look for Dems to squander the fall as well. They couldn't find their a-holes with a map and a flashlight. Boo!
I PROMISE I'm not doing anything bad, really I do.
How naive are you?
"Torrent remains closed-source to prevent clones and modifications such as DHT hacks, not to conceal anti-P2P code. Torrent will not become open-source as a result of the controversy over the agreement."
Umm yea, those are great reasons.
To block commercial software from phoning home. Any other type of outbound filtering is a fucking waste of time because users have no idea what to do when "svchost.exe is trying to connect to 12.55.60.2 port 300" "Is that okay?".
Btw this whole Vista thing of making user have to hit "okay" whenever something 'fishy' is happening will backfire bigtime. It will annoy users who know what they are doing, ie is it okay to delete this file, and it will confuse users who don't, blank needs permissoin to blank is that okay?
We are all basically screwed because when it comes to software you cannot honestly trust anyone with anything at anytime. Especially when it comes to closed source.
Sorry but your statistics are complete bunk.