Sorry, that's not even close - estimates put the total number of people who have ever lived at around 110 billion, far beyond the 6.5 billion alive today.
I've installed SP3 on about 15 desktop machines that needed RDP 6.1 (Long story) and not only are they running without any issues, but they were upgraded from SP2 to SP3 RC2 and then to SP3 without any issues.
It's similar to what Relic did with their Company of Heroes expansion.
You have to register your CD-Key with their servers and it's associated with your account. When you go to play it checks with their servers - if their servers are down then it falls back to the old CD-in-drive check.
And while you're creating this community, your network is busily being infested with malware, unlicensed software and pirated music.
As much as we love to believe that everyone would be an ideal user with just a little education, most people simply do not care about computers outside of the fact that they have to use them for checking their emails and inputting data into "Application X". I admit that I work in the NHS, so there's an abnormally high percentage of IT illiterate users, but I see very few users with an actual interest in learning.
The old adage that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing applies here. Yes, there are people who know what they're doing and will behave responsibly with a free run of your infrastructure, but the majority are people who just want to install Bonzai Buddy or that cool Bittorrent thing that lets you download movies.
Even more dangerous are those who "know better" than the IT department and decide to set up their own services because yours haven't been configured correctly according to some guy they know on IRC. Next thing you know you've got rogue DHCP servers and all your desktop machines are PXE booting Gentoo.
No; it's one thing to give a little administrative leeway to knowledgeable users who need it, but letting people run their own pet projects on company hardware is a disaster waiting to happen.
If only it were that simple. Actually, NTL & Telewest/Blueyonder merged with NTL taking over, which is when things started going badly downhill. Then, for some reason, NTL Telewest decided to pay Mr Branson for the right to use the Virgin brand, but they're not actually part of the Virgin group.
Which is fine as long as you don't end up with users who have 5Gb of music dumped on the file server and then complain that they can't save any of their vitally important documents because they're over their quota.
City of Heroes / City of Villains meets some of those requirements. It does have NPC mission givers and the inevitable levelling, but the combat is pretty chaotic (especially on pick-up teams - or very good teams), you definitely don't need the WoW-esque Tank/Healer/Damage triumvirate and the costume designer is truly epic compared to all the other MMOs I've come across.
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I'll bet you large amounts of cash they'll still claim the (new) Top 5% of users are using all their bandwidth so they have to throttle everyone.
Sorry, that's not even close - estimates put the total number of people who have ever lived at around 110 billion, far beyond the 6.5 billion alive today.
I've installed SP3 on about 15 desktop machines that needed RDP 6.1 (Long story) and not only are they running without any issues, but they were upgraded from SP2 to SP3 RC2 and then to SP3 without any issues.
It's similar to what Relic did with their Company of Heroes expansion.
You have to register your CD-Key with their servers and it's associated with your account. When you go to play it checks with their servers - if their servers are down then it falls back to the old CD-in-drive check.
It's not ideal, but it's better than this.
They *abused* their monopolistic position and so are being *punished* by being made to open up and document their APIs.
It's not like the EU just decided on a whim that MS should open up all their protocols.
Hit F8 on Windows boot and select VGA mode - it loads up at 800x600@60Hz.
Mod parent up - it's more interesting than the article.
Because if they were Opt-In then nobody would ever do so.
British Telecom; formerly government owned provider of telecoms services and owner of the majority of the telecoms infrastructure in the UK.
It's not actually Branson's company, he just (foolishly) licensed the brand to NTL Telewest so they could use it.
This being the UK, you've got a choice of tens, if not hundreds of different ADSL providers available to you, some using BT, some with LLU setups.
Though to make use of them you would have to cancel all of your Virgin Media services (Internet, TV, Phone) and get a BT line instead.
I'll be impressed if they manage Windows drivers that don't crash on a regular basis.
And while you're creating this community, your network is busily being infested with malware, unlicensed software and pirated music.
As much as we love to believe that everyone would be an ideal user with just a little education, most people simply do not care about computers outside of the fact that they have to use them for checking their emails and inputting data into "Application X". I admit that I work in the NHS, so there's an abnormally high percentage of IT illiterate users, but I see very few users with an actual interest in learning.
The old adage that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing applies here. Yes, there are people who know what they're doing and will behave responsibly with a free run of your infrastructure, but the majority are people who just want to install Bonzai Buddy or that cool Bittorrent thing that lets you download movies.
Even more dangerous are those who "know better" than the IT department and decide to set up their own services because yours haven't been configured correctly according to some guy they know on IRC. Next thing you know you've got rogue DHCP servers and all your desktop machines are PXE booting Gentoo.
No; it's one thing to give a little administrative leeway to knowledgeable users who need it, but letting people run their own pet projects on company hardware is a disaster waiting to happen.
If only it were that simple. Actually, NTL & Telewest/Blueyonder merged with NTL taking over, which is when things started going badly downhill. Then, for some reason, NTL Telewest decided to pay Mr Branson for the right to use the Virgin brand, but they're not actually part of the Virgin group.
Yeah, I hear the chicks go wild for Slashdot trolls.
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Which is fine as long as you don't end up with users who have 5Gb of music dumped on the file server and then complain that they can't save any of their vitally important documents because they're over their quota.
Just Zip everything, it'll be fine.
Most businesses don't cease to function when they suffer a toilet outage, however.
The US spends more than twice as much per capita on healthcare than the UK.
I would presume that they are http://www.wiggin.co.uk/
To be fair, only if you were "making it available"
City of Heroes / City of Villains meets some of those requirements. It does have NPC mission givers and the inevitable levelling, but the combat is pretty chaotic (especially on pick-up teams - or very good teams), you definitely don't need the WoW-esque Tank/Healer/Damage triumvirate and the costume designer is truly epic compared to all the other MMOs I've come across.
This is a much prettier depiction