In the *nix world, everything is pretty self contained within its own directory.
You must be talking about some crazy, bizarro *nix world, as the one in this world tends to split directories up by what the files are for, not by application.
For example,/etc has configuration files,/usr/bin and/usr/local/bin tend to have executables,/var/log has log files... I could go on.
Very infrequently, apps will install their entire directory structure into something like/opt, but that's very, VERY rare.
As I recall, "somewhere safe" is %APPDATA%\VirtualStore\Program Files\ etc or something that looks a lot like that. I can't check here because I'm at work and we use XP here.
I could spend two years killing boards in the forest too to get to a certain level, but I at least want to be challenged doing it and not worrying about some kids running around ganking my ass when I least expected it.
Just because that's the way it works in South Park's version of World of Warcraft doesn't mean you can do that in the real game. Enemies outside of your level range won't give you experience any more. At low levels, that range is 5 levels in a downward direction.
why no mention of EQ? EQ2? SWG?
Because WoW has 10 times more subscribers than the three of them combined. I've played EQ2 and SWG and they don't hold up a candle to WoW.
I watched five seconds, in which all the characters had to run naked across a highway for some reason. In that five seconds, I saw twenty things which conflicted with established continuity from the movies.
Those character had just traveled through time. Them being naked after traveling through time is established continuity.
That episode was supposed to establish that Cameron searched history for terminators to see if there were any in present times that needed to be taken out while the other characters were sleeping.
Or at least that's what I understand about it. Sarah commented on it later in the season.
Debian and Ubuntu are not going to upgrade to 5.2. They will take the security fix, backport it to 4.7, and release that as an update. If you check the version you'll get 4.7, even with the fix applied.
I can understand why Ubuntu would do that since it's an LTS, but Debian stable (which is what Ubuntu would call an LTS) is already on 5.1p1.
Eclipse VE??? Nothing like it. Java + Eclipse is a marriage made in heaven.
The Eclipse Visual Editor hasn't been updated since January 2007 and doesn't work with Eclipse 3.3 or newer. With 3.5's release about a month away, that's unacceptable.
So while Swing and SWT may have too much 'bloat', the idea is to create a movement around JavaFX that has a smaller footprint so that they'll try to sell JavaFX applications that run identically on a desktop and a phone.
I thought the entire idea of SWT was to avoid bloat by using the system's native widgets for rendering, as opposed to Swing which creates its own.
because it was on Fox. nothing good can survive on fox. just look at Firefly. Joss Wheaton needs to get Dollhouse on another network, or it will not last the year.
Fox has already renewed Dollhouse for another season.
Darrel Ward pulled a slight-of-hand here. Here's what he said: "If there's one thing that may influence adoption, make things slower or cause customers to pause, it's that generally the ASPs (average selling price) of the operating systems are higher than they were for Vista and XP," and "I can tell you that the licensing tiers at retail are more expensive than they were for Vista."
That Average Selling Price he mentioned... how is that calculated? Without knowing that, and knowing that retail prices will be higher... there's no indication that OEM prices are going up. Which is what Dell pays.
(BTW if anybody knows where to get an XP X64 driver for an Easy TV FM capture card let me know). But that is NOT how Joe Bob and Velma are. To them the PC is an appliance, like a TV or a toaster.
Incidentally, this is why we 64-bit Windows hasn't caught on yet: Not all manufacturers makes drivers for it.
This should get better now, at least for Vista and Windows 7, as manufacturers can no longer get their drivers Microsoft-signed unless they have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
I think there is no more enjoyable way to spend a rainy afternoon that building a nice dual core PC.
Dual core? Dual core?! Son, you need to start thinking about the future! Think quad core!
From what I've read it's more of a major overhaul, but yeah, it's the same OS under the hood. I'd be shocked if Vista drivers didn't work in Win7.
Yes, but you should update your graphics drivers regardless... Microsoft has updated the Windows Device Driver Model to fix a major problem (bug?) with the memory consumed by graphics drivers for various Windows GUI processes.
There's a graph showing memory usage of the older driver model versus the newer one.
Getting back to the case that started this, the ex-boyfriend posted name and address.
I know you're going in the broader sense, but while a name alone isn't a unique identifier, it can be combined with other things to create one... address, phone numbers, or photographs as examples.
Star Wars Galaxies was missing its entire player city system at launch.
Granted, the only thing I can think of that WoW was missing was its Battleground system. It's mentioned on page 133 of the manual shipped with the original shipment of the game, but wasn't added to the game until Patch 1.5 on 7 June 2005... 6 and a half months after WoW's 23 November 2004 launch.
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes would have been a better example. I've never played it, but I've been told it was very... incomplete at launch.
Seems like several companies could learn from this guy's example. The most notable games that needed to learn from this example being Star Wars Galaxies and... World of Warcraft, neither of which were even remotely playable during the first several days they were up. Both were also missing documented "features" for at least a good six months.
Beats me. I'm part of the core group of gamers... the people who play just to have fun.
You never mentioned anything about competitive play earlier, you say the "core gamers..." which I took to mean the main player-base, which are non-competitive gamers.
What, you want proof? The proof is in which classes are used in competitive play. As I recall, the normal 6-man competitive team consists of two Scouts, two Soldiers, a Medic, and a Demoman. Which class is the most played in the game? Engineer, according to Valve's stats.
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Why "Woooooooohoooooooo!?" He could just as easily run around shouting "Developers, developers, developers, developers!"
You must be talking about some crazy, bizarro *nix world, as the one in this world tends to split directories up by what the files are for, not by application.
For example, /etc has configuration files, /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin tend to have executables, /var/log has log files... I could go on.
Very infrequently, apps will install their entire directory structure into something like /opt, but that's very, VERY rare.
As I recall, "somewhere safe" is %APPDATA%\VirtualStore\Program Files\ etc or something that looks a lot like that. I can't check here because I'm at work and we use XP here.
Just because that's the way it works in South Park's version of World of Warcraft doesn't mean you can do that in the real game. Enemies outside of your level range won't give you experience any more. At low levels, that range is 5 levels in a downward direction.
Because WoW has 10 times more subscribers than the three of them combined. I've played EQ2 and SWG and they don't hold up a candle to WoW.
The website TV By The Numbers tends to give a good idea of how well US television shows are doing in US markets.
Terminator was consistently FOX's worst prime-time show after its move to Fridays.
Unfortunately, the site just started throwing 500 Internal Server Errors or I'd link you to the page that showed that.
Those character had just traveled through time. Them being naked after traveling through time is established continuity.
Mmm, you didn't think the T-1000 in Season Two was good?
Granted, the T-1000 wasn't shown doing Terminator-like things in every episode...
Also, Cromartie and Cameron were T-888s... the upgraded version of the kind Arnold is in the movies.
That episode was supposed to establish that Cameron searched history for terminators to see if there were any in present times that needed to be taken out while the other characters were sleeping.
Or at least that's what I understand about it. Sarah commented on it later in the season.
I can understand why Ubuntu would do that since it's an LTS, but Debian stable (which is what Ubuntu would call an LTS) is already on 5.1p1.
The Eclipse Visual Editor hasn't been updated since January 2007 and doesn't work with Eclipse 3.3 or newer. With 3.5's release about a month away, that's unacceptable.
I thought the entire idea of SWT was to avoid bloat by using the system's native widgets for rendering, as opposed to Swing which creates its own.
javax.store.NullApplicationException:
Application does not exist.
There are several "app stores" already for PCs, they've just concentrated on games in the past.
Steam is a really good example of this, including automatic updates.
Fox has already renewed Dollhouse for another season.
Notice that Ward never said the OEM price changed, only the retail price.
Darrel Ward pulled a slight-of-hand here. Here's what he said:
"If there's one thing that may influence adoption, make things slower or cause customers to pause, it's that generally the ASPs (average selling price) of the operating systems are higher than they were for Vista and XP,"
and
"I can tell you that the licensing tiers at retail are more expensive than they were for Vista."
That Average Selling Price he mentioned... how is that calculated? Without knowing that, and knowing that retail prices will be higher... there's no indication that OEM prices are going up. Which is what Dell pays.
Incidentally, this is why we 64-bit Windows hasn't caught on yet: Not all manufacturers makes drivers for it.
This should get better now, at least for Vista and Windows 7, as manufacturers can no longer get their drivers Microsoft-signed unless they have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Dual core? Dual core?! Son, you need to start thinking about the future! Think quad core!
Yes, but you should update your graphics drivers regardless... Microsoft has updated the Windows Device Driver Model to fix a major problem (bug?) with the memory consumed by graphics drivers for various Windows GUI processes.
There's a graph showing memory usage of the older driver model versus the newer one.
Source: Engineering Windows 7 for Graphics Performance, Windows Engineering Blog
Getting back to the case that started this, the ex-boyfriend posted name and address.
I know you're going in the broader sense, but while a name alone isn't a unique identifier, it can be combined with other things to create one... address, phone numbers, or photographs as examples.
That was partly because a certain major operating system didn't support USB very well until 98.
Yes, revisions b and c of 95 supported USB, but only in a half-assed way.
I know that the only time I have more than 3 or 4 tabs open is when I opened a tab to a page I want to look at after I'm done with the current page.
This happens a lot when I'm browing TVTropes...
Star Wars Galaxies was missing its entire player city system at launch.
Granted, the only thing I can think of that WoW was missing was its Battleground system. It's mentioned on page 133 of the manual shipped with the original shipment of the game, but wasn't added to the game until Patch 1.5 on 7 June 2005... 6 and a half months after WoW's 23 November 2004 launch.
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes would have been a better example. I've never played it, but I've been told it was very... incomplete at launch.
Seems like several companies could learn from this guy's example. The most notable games that needed to learn from this example being Star Wars Galaxies and... World of Warcraft, neither of which were even remotely playable during the first several days they were up. Both were also missing documented "features" for at least a good six months.
Beats me. I'm part of the core group of gamers... the people who play just to have fun.
You never mentioned anything about competitive play earlier, you say the "core gamers..." which I took to mean the main player-base, which are non-competitive gamers.
What, you want proof? The proof is in which classes are used in competitive play. As I recall, the normal 6-man competitive team consists of two Scouts, two Soldiers, a Medic, and a Demoman. Which class is the most played in the game? Engineer, according to Valve's stats.
I'm assuming he meant taking the Windows 2000 core, updating the GUI a bit, and releasing it in 2001 as Windows XP.
Seriously, ME was on the market for all of a year before it got dumped.