They are only saying that Linux is 25% of their business sales. Which I could see Microsoft twisting to say that 25% of people that buy servers from Dell are pirating Windows Server 2003 to run on the machines.
(side note: Thanks for moving the Read More link and the Post Scores back to where they used to be)
Uhg, we killed Chromaggus on Thursday with crazy crazy lag (like, the game would completely freeze up for 6 seconds, then pick up where it left off). Well, after killing him and raising the 5 dead people; 10 seconds later everyone in Blackwing Lair got disconnected. The BWL instance server crashed. Well, we didn't get a chance to loot the body or even see what he dropped. I still have a ticket open over the matter... as our Guild Master still has a ticket open over Onyxia when the same thing happened 4 days earlier.
The servers are having issues, and Blizzard knows about it. They are the largest MMO ever out there.. and I don't think they exptect this. I've called up their tech support and talked with the guy on there for a while. He basicly said as much as a level 1 tech support would know... basicly said to just read the WoW forums, as all information that he has is already posted on there. He said he was in a raiding guild and has been having the same problems... it's just something we have to put up with. If you don't want to put up with the lag, do what he suggested.. roll an alt on a low pop server (or a new one). Those servers are quiet and not all lagged up.
Well, I believe it is too late already, but when domains started costing $7 each, instead of the previous $50-$100 they were back in the 90s, the number of domains jumped way up. With that, you have tons of junk domains out there that aren't being used, or are bought up because it is so cheap to do. I don't see how raising the price at this point would do anything but put more money in VeriSign's pockets... *shrug*
Fly mounts will only be usable inside of one of the new instances being added. It seems that the instance will be very expansive, and moving around it by walking would take a very long time.
The Outland is one of the new areas being added with the expansion. If you did some crafty exploring on the test server when they were up for the 1.8 test, some/all of the area was added. There are no monsters yet in these areas, but they are there. A few of my guild members took screenshots of the area, and it looks pretty cool. When he took a screenshot of where he was on the world map, he was south east of the western continent. And this was back on October 8th or so.
Watching this movie I just payed $4 to rent, power goes out (brown/blackout, or whatever). When the power comes back on... I can't play the movie anymore!
Or I'm part way through the movie that I just rented, and I have to leave the house for whatever reason, come back later to find out someone took the dvd I was watching out of the player because they wanted to watch something else. Now it won't play again.
I just see this being another headache for customers and customer support.
Agreed, but the world (at least the US) is all about PR. Would you want NASA putting together a really cool looking matrix style video about a space shuttle blowing up? It may be cool to watch, but it would upset a lot of people out there.
But non-official people get a hold of the video and make it all interesting to watch. Hence all the shows on TV that shows off video about horrifying events. "Worlds most [*] Videos", "Maximum Exposure", and many others.
There is entertainment value in the videos for people that aren't connected to the content in the videos. But when you have something like a Space Shuttle blowing up, it really hurts the entire country. There may be only 7 people within the vehicle, but the shuttle represents our (the US) country. Many Americans won't want to be entertained by a disaster that occurs with one of our show ponies. The video is ok to be watched, but not for pure entertainment value. It should be watched for education value.
This is like watching the Discovery Channel or the History Channel. They will show video from the 9/11 attacks, but it will be in an educational format instead of an entertainment format. I think most people's jaws would drop if they saw some matrix style video of someone's body hitting the ground after they jumped out of an 80th story window.
I already have it starting off at 256 and going up to 700 something. The projects I work on are too large to fit withing 128 megs. People in my group get out of memory errors sometimes with the max VM size at 512 megs.
I blame criminals in general for making have: * Locks on my house doors and windows * Locks on my car doors * The fun of car alarms * Having to put a key into a car to start it, instead of just having a "start" button * Lock on my laptop at work (my company is big enough where people will steal a laptop off your desk. * Not letting me keep piles of cash on my front lawn.
I'm trying to make the point that criminals exist in this world, and you have to deal with it. If you don't protect yourself, you will be prayed upon by the ones that want to do harm to you or others. We are in a world where you have to put up a defensive barrier around yourself, as being an aggressor (attacker) is against the law (being a vigilantly).
Having one "Monolithic" application for email/calendar is rather nice to have. While I'm at work, I have a minimum of 5 programs running in my Taskbar at any given time while I'm programming. Having a single application to do Email/Calendar is nice at this point, because it is one less window I have to keep track of while coding.
This is the same reason I use Firefox at work over IE. Tabbed browsing keeps down the number of windows I have opened at any given time (especially with the TabbedBrowing plugin).
Also, my company is completely Office/Exchange based, and Outlook is really the only good program at communicating with an Exchange server. I know there are all those optional programs out there (like Evolution Connector and Groupcal for iCal). But nothing is as good as Outlook is. And getting my company to buy it for me is pretty hard to do since they already bought Office.
It seems like most major universities have some kind of deal with Microsoft to let students buy Office for cheap. Most of the time you can check with your schools IT department to see if your school is part of the program. And sometimes the school isn't part of the program, but individual colleges within the university are enrolled in the program. (The Computer Science dept I went through had the Microsoft agreement before the entire school did).
And for people that graduated from College and are in the real world (and the people that didn't go to college), some larger companies have a deal with Microsoft to let you get MS Office for cheap. You'll again have to talk with your IT department or whoever, to see if your company is enrolled in the "Home Use Program". https://hup.microsoft.com/
I just ordered Office 2004 from the Home Use Program... and it is showing as "Backordered" on my order status now. >
So what if you buy a Powerbook or any other Apple hardware right now? There will be a new release in a year (maybe longer if problems turn up during the transition). That is the normal lifecycle of any computer hardware you buy. There being a processor change for the Apple systems won't matter much to the end user when it comes down to it.
I could see right now being a good time to buy a Apple product. With a change this big coming soon, Apple has the chance of not releasing any new PowerPC based systems for a while (if ever again). And Apple has already said they will be supporting the PowerPC architecture for a long time to come. They won't ditch all the users the are currently using the PowerPC based systems. Especially in the server market (all the xServer g5 systems). And if Apple is like most other computer companies out there, they will continuing supporting current products for a long time to come (3-5 years).
Total Annihilation was an awesome RTS type game. It was great because there were so many different units you could use and build. Plus there were tons more available units and buildings to download off the company's website and fan sites.
I just remember downloading an addon building that was a gatling gun version of a gun called "Big Bertha". It was really long range with huge destruction power. It was a great time.
It's all about marketing. Lots of people have the GoogleBar installed for IE because they saw a link for it on the Google website.
If Google was to support the use of the 3rd party extension, which would have the same effect as if Google was to develop and market the Toolbar themselves.
Slashdot Mirror
As no one seems to link to the true source:w ow-general&t=8703206&p=1&tmp=1#post8703206
s px?ForumName=wow-general&Author=EnoYls&Cluster=Wow
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=
And if you want to see Rob's post on it:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread-search.a
I was trying to be funny, as the "argument" I posed is so common a thing for people to say. Guess it wasn't seen as that.
They are only saying that Linux is 25% of their business sales. Which I could see Microsoft twisting to say that 25% of people that buy servers from Dell are pirating Windows Server 2003 to run on the machines.
(side note: Thanks for moving the Read More link and the Post Scores back to where they used to be)
Those are some sweet details and video...
Someone fall asleep at work again?
Uhg, we killed Chromaggus on Thursday with crazy crazy lag (like, the game would completely freeze up for 6 seconds, then pick up where it left off). Well, after killing him and raising the 5 dead people; 10 seconds later everyone in Blackwing Lair got disconnected. The BWL instance server crashed. Well, we didn't get a chance to loot the body or even see what he dropped. I still have a ticket open over the matter... as our Guild Master still has a ticket open over Onyxia when the same thing happened 4 days earlier.
The servers are having issues, and Blizzard knows about it. They are the largest MMO ever out there.. and I don't think they exptect this. I've called up their tech support and talked with the guy on there for a while. He basicly said as much as a level 1 tech support would know... basicly said to just read the WoW forums, as all information that he has is already posted on there. He said he was in a raiding guild and has been having the same problems... it's just something we have to put up with. If you don't want to put up with the lag, do what he suggested.. roll an alt on a low pop server (or a new one). Those servers are quiet and not all lagged up.
Well, I believe it is too late already, but when domains started costing $7 each, instead of the previous $50-$100 they were back in the 90s, the number of domains jumped way up. With that, you have tons of junk domains out there that aren't being used, or are bought up because it is so cheap to do. I don't see how raising the price at this point would do anything but put more money in VeriSign's pockets... *shrug*
Fly mounts will only be usable inside of one of the new instances being added. It seems that the instance will be very expansive, and moving around it by walking would take a very long time.
I have found the best source of information about the expansion to be at:
http://www.wowguru.com/the-burning-crusade.php
They have some pretty good information that seems fairly plausable. The page seems to be updated regularly with the latest rumors/information.
The Outland is one of the new areas being added with the expansion. If you did some crafty exploring on the test server when they were up for the 1.8 test, some/all of the area was added. There are no monsters yet in these areas, but they are there. A few of my guild members took screenshots of the area, and it looks pretty cool. When he took a screenshot of where he was on the world map, he was south east of the western continent. And this was back on October 8th or so.
Watching this movie I just payed $4 to rent, power goes out (brown/blackout, or whatever). When the power comes back on... I can't play the movie anymore!
Or I'm part way through the movie that I just rented, and I have to leave the house for whatever reason, come back later to find out someone took the dvd I was watching out of the player because they wanted to watch something else. Now it won't play again.
I just see this being another headache for customers and customer support.
I bet you're pretty good at one handed typing too. :)
Is it me, or does the AtomChip Logo look a lot like the LSI Logic Logo?
Safari is based on Konqorer (KHTML). Maybe you are thinking about Camino, which uses a Gecko based render engine.
I wish I had mod points to rate the parent as overrated or troll. Google's version has drag and drop of sections, and you can add your own with it.
ALSO, Google's version works with Safari, while the MS version doesn't.
Agreed, but the world (at least the US) is all about PR. Would you want NASA putting together a really cool looking matrix style video about a space shuttle blowing up? It may be cool to watch, but it would upset a lot of people out there.
But non-official people get a hold of the video and make it all interesting to watch. Hence all the shows on TV that shows off video about horrifying events. "Worlds most [*] Videos", "Maximum Exposure", and many others.
There is entertainment value in the videos for people that aren't connected to the content in the videos. But when you have something like a Space Shuttle blowing up, it really hurts the entire country. There may be only 7 people within the vehicle, but the shuttle represents our (the US) country. Many Americans won't want to be entertained by a disaster that occurs with one of our show ponies. The video is ok to be watched, but not for pure entertainment value. It should be watched for education value.
This is like watching the Discovery Channel or the History Channel. They will show video from the 9/11 attacks, but it will be in an educational format instead of an entertainment format. I think most people's jaws would drop if they saw some matrix style video of someone's body hitting the ground after they jumped out of an 80th story window.
I only wish I could mod this as "-1: Bad Taste".
I already have it starting off at 256 and going up to 700 something. The projects I work on are too large to fit withing 128 megs. People in my group get out of memory errors sometimes with the max VM size at 512 megs.
Eclipse eats a crazy amount of ram. With a project at work, I sit around 330 megs of memory used.
I blame criminals in general for making have:
* Locks on my house doors and windows
* Locks on my car doors
* The fun of car alarms
* Having to put a key into a car to start it, instead of just having a "start" button
* Lock on my laptop at work (my company is big enough where people will steal a laptop off your desk.
* Not letting me keep piles of cash on my front lawn.
I'm trying to make the point that criminals exist in this world, and you have to deal with it. If you don't protect yourself, you will be prayed upon by the ones that want to do harm to you or others. We are in a world where you have to put up a defensive barrier around yourself, as being an aggressor (attacker) is against the law (being a vigilantly).
Having one "Monolithic" application for email/calendar is rather nice to have. While I'm at work, I have a minimum of 5 programs running in my Taskbar at any given time while I'm programming. Having a single application to do Email/Calendar is nice at this point, because it is one less window I have to keep track of while coding.
This is the same reason I use Firefox at work over IE. Tabbed browsing keeps down the number of windows I have opened at any given time (especially with the TabbedBrowing plugin).
Also, my company is completely Office/Exchange based, and Outlook is really the only good program at communicating with an Exchange server. I know there are all those optional programs out there (like Evolution Connector and Groupcal for iCal). But nothing is as good as Outlook is. And getting my company to buy it for me is pretty hard to do since they already bought Office.
It seems like most major universities have some kind of deal with Microsoft to let students buy Office for cheap. Most of the time you can check with your schools IT department to see if your school is part of the program. And sometimes the school isn't part of the program, but individual colleges within the university are enrolled in the program. (The Computer Science dept I went through had the Microsoft agreement before the entire school did).
And for people that graduated from College and are in the real world (and the people that didn't go to college), some larger companies have a deal with Microsoft to let you get MS Office for cheap. You'll again have to talk with your IT department or whoever, to see if your company is enrolled in the "Home Use Program". https://hup.microsoft.com/
I just ordered Office 2004 from the Home Use Program... and it is showing as "Backordered" on my order status now. >
So what if you buy a Powerbook or any other Apple hardware right now? There will be a new release in a year (maybe longer if problems turn up during the transition). That is the normal lifecycle of any computer hardware you buy. There being a processor change for the Apple systems won't matter much to the end user when it comes down to it.
I could see right now being a good time to buy a Apple product. With a change this big coming soon, Apple has the chance of not releasing any new PowerPC based systems for a while (if ever again). And Apple has already said they will be supporting the PowerPC architecture for a long time to come. They won't ditch all the users the are currently using the PowerPC based systems. Especially in the server market (all the xServer g5 systems). And if Apple is like most other computer companies out there, they will continuing supporting current products for a long time to come (3-5 years).
Total Annihilation was an awesome RTS type game. It was great because there were so many different units you could use and build. Plus there were tons more available units and buildings to download off the company's website and fan sites.
I just remember downloading an addon building that was a gatling gun version of a gun called "Big Bertha". It was really long range with huge destruction power. It was a great time.
Ya, cause the $10 or $15 that HL costs now is just way too expensive, and we have to pirate it...
It's all about marketing. Lots of people have the GoogleBar installed for IE because they saw a link for it on the Google website.
If Google was to support the use of the 3rd party extension, which would have the same effect as if Google was to develop and market the Toolbar themselves.