...in (for now) a few selected areas?????
Like this will ever pass through 99.999% of the planet's populated areas.
This is possibly the most useless Google creation yet. Fine for looking cool on selected US locales but anywhere else, forget it!
The hover-bike jumping Jedi scene looks like it was deliberately created to be part of a video game, not part of the cartoon - rather like the pod racers in Ep.1
I love Star Wars but hate seeing crud dropped in just because it'll make a nice level in a spin-off merchandising video game.
I hope there's sarcasm buried in there... these two can evangelise and hypothesise all they like at their own events but put on the stand all they'll do is spout the PR fluff about their respective corners - stuff we've all heard before.
Next week on Panorama - Laptops burn your legs.
Next week on Panorama - Smashing a monitor on someone's head will hurt them
Next week on Panorama - Nothing scary left to report
Next on BBC1 - A new sitcom about people complaining about the weather
Wrong, wrong, wrong... Let them eat Amigas, at least a Guru Meditation Error might provoke a more rational and measured response in their little minds than a BSoD.
We should also remember that most people buy their first PC or a new system from a vendor and see Mcafee Suite or something similar installed already and happily go 'yep - I'm protected' and sign up, never bothering to search for something else that might work better.
Kind of a sad state of affairs, I wonder how much of McAfee's money comes from Dell subs?
I'd like to think there's room to mix and match, just watch the shows you kinda like and buy the ones you love. Joost really needs content and the buy-in from CMS, Viacom, Hutch and others makes it an interesting proposition and the BBC's iPlayer will hopefully cause chaos to all those ratings muppets! See blog for thoughts on them...
It is very hard to find a good reason to buy, I found one though... There's a little reporting feature tells you how long a crocked program delayed your system shutting down, so now we all know!
Expression 50 seconds Radeon driver 6 seconds
Nearly a minute of my life wasted when I shut down.
To celebrate this momentous day, I will be selling cheap knock-off CK shirts saying 'Go Venezuela' with 'I'm a pirating b@st@ard!" tastefully embroidered on the back by menial slaves living in my LA sweatshop from the back of my fleet of limo's this weekend at several area markets!
Keep 'em peeled
But GTA is predominantly a console game and phenomenon... Now if it was Hellgate: London and five million Diablo worshippers up for grabs, I think it might be a different matter.
...then, maybe, people would buy it.
My increasing frustration that XP-era problems still crop up and haven't been fixed (see my blog for examples - simple disc burning being the latest!) makes me worry that no innovation is really going on at Microsoft, just a banzai approach to fixing and patching.
I wanted Vista to do lots of cool new things, all I really got was XP in a new jacket and I can't see the mass market moving onto Vista until XP really starts showing its age, a process MS will do anything to accelerate.
http://www.goffee-freelance.co.uk/
Ditto really, my crowning achievement in Spectrum land was writing an Atari ST GEM style interface that kinda-worked - no disk drives obviously, so it went straight to Load "" and used the joystick to move the cursor. I wouldn't even know where to start on a WinTel box...
So you are suggesting that in a moment of wild violence and terror, everyone is a perfect shot at medium range? All you see in the heat of the moment are mistakes and narrow-field judgement calls. If everyone is armed that is magnified massively.
Also, there is always a percentage of students in any campus who are depressed, bear grudges, are suicidal and anti-social - so you want to arm them too?
To support this poster.
Imagine a scene where someone who is armed walks around a corner and sees the gunman killing a victim, draws their weapon and starts firing, just as someone else comes round the corner and sees him/her firing. If this person pulls a gun and joins in - firing at either target, you have three shooters. At which point security/cops/swat burst in to the room - who do they kill?
Now explain to me why guns are good again and how they make you safe?
I'm vaguely surprised Microsoft didn't add their own version to the software. Then again, they hardly added any proper new features, imagine what Microsoft could have added to Vista to inspire people to use it....
Anything like this would have been welcome
Free flow - A multi-layer desktop. Featuring your personal choice of web, or your company's choice of essential intranet information, flowing in the background. We've got Glass - let's use for more than just fluff.
Cut, paste and flip - When you paste one selection of text over another, the removed text is copied back into the clipboard, ready to be dropped elsewhere. Assign it to Ctrl+Alt+C for ease and employ as a full part of the OS, not just a feature in one program.
PIMP - Passenger Information Mobile Protocol - One for the commuter/jet-set laptop and Smartphone crowd. When you are on plane, train or at the airport, terminal, anywhere in the civilised world - your PC can link FOR FREE into a PIMP (Just branded Wi-fi really) spot and you can grab the latest travel information, offers for hotels, places to eat.
I'm impressed some people have dug this deep into Vista, without losing their sanity. I was almost put off from my first 'calculating how long it'll take to detele a *very small* file' pop-up.
See what else makes me weep:
http://www.goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/
Don't get it, my iPod has been in and out of my Vista RTM for months with no problem, haven't seen any forum posts about Vista killing iPods, so this rates as Top-FUD (The Movie)
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...in (for now) a few selected areas????? Like this will ever pass through 99.999% of the planet's populated areas. This is possibly the most useless Google creation yet. Fine for looking cool on selected US locales but anywhere else, forget it!
The hover-bike jumping Jedi scene looks like it was deliberately created to be part of a video game, not part of the cartoon - rather like the pod racers in Ep.1 I love Star Wars but hate seeing crud dropped in just because it'll make a nice level in a spin-off merchandising video game.
I hope there's sarcasm buried in there... these two can evangelise and hypothesise all they like at their own events but put on the stand all they'll do is spout the PR fluff about their respective corners - stuff we've all heard before.
Next week on Panorama - Laptops burn your legs. Next week on Panorama - Smashing a monitor on someone's head will hurt them Next week on Panorama - Nothing scary left to report Next on BBC1 - A new sitcom about people complaining about the weather
Wrong, wrong, wrong... Let them eat Amigas, at least a Guru Meditation Error might provoke a more rational and measured response in their little minds than a BSoD.
Anyone taking bets on Microsoft launching a Joost competitor in the next few months, with those now-banned services signing up for the revenue?
Interesting, in Europe they all come Mcafee'd to the eyeballs.
We should also remember that most people buy their first PC or a new system from a vendor and see Mcafee Suite or something similar installed already and happily go 'yep - I'm protected' and sign up, never bothering to search for something else that might work better. Kind of a sad state of affairs, I wonder how much of McAfee's money comes from Dell subs?
I'd like to think there's room to mix and match, just watch the shows you kinda like and buy the ones you love. Joost really needs content and the buy-in from CMS, Viacom, Hutch and others makes it an interesting proposition and the BBC's iPlayer will hopefully cause chaos to all those ratings muppets! See blog for thoughts on them...
They would be:
Discs don't burn properly
Programs don't shut down properly
Drivers don't work properly
OS still isn't properly secure against common attacks
Never mind this obscure crap they keep fixing, starting with the basics would be nice - read blog for the litany of duffness that is Vista!
Surely this is just so Rupert can get cheap topless page three pics for the British tabloid Sun "newspaper" All-your-nipples-belong-to-him-now!
It is very hard to find a good reason to buy, I found one though... There's a little reporting feature tells you how long a crocked program delayed your system shutting down, so now we all know!
Expression 50 seconds
Radeon driver 6 seconds
Nearly a minute of my life wasted when I shut down.
To celebrate this momentous day, I will be selling cheap knock-off CK shirts saying 'Go Venezuela' with 'I'm a pirating b@st@ard!" tastefully embroidered on the back by menial slaves living in my LA sweatshop from the back of my fleet of limo's this weekend at several area markets! Keep 'em peeled
Incorrect, they were offering a free copy of Ultimate to anyone who was INVITED to join the beta program, not anyone who downloaded the RC versions.
If the system will let me pay in dollars rather than pounds sterling, I'd go for it, what with the 2/1 exchange rate at the moment!
But GTA is predominantly a console game and phenomenon... Now if it was Hellgate: London and five million Diablo worshippers up for grabs, I think it might be a different matter.
Someone who won't make fat or weight jokes, given their double gravity - they're just big boned okay!
...then, maybe, people would buy it. My increasing frustration that XP-era problems still crop up and haven't been fixed (see my blog for examples - simple disc burning being the latest!) makes me worry that no innovation is really going on at Microsoft, just a banzai approach to fixing and patching. I wanted Vista to do lots of cool new things, all I really got was XP in a new jacket and I can't see the mass market moving onto Vista until XP really starts showing its age, a process MS will do anything to accelerate. http://www.goffee-freelance.co.uk/
Ditto really, my crowning achievement in Spectrum land was writing an Atari ST GEM style interface that kinda-worked - no disk drives obviously, so it went straight to Load "" and used the joystick to move the cursor. I wouldn't even know where to start on a WinTel box...
Blackberry Jam.... leaves room head bowed in shame
So you are suggesting that in a moment of wild violence and terror, everyone is a perfect shot at medium range? All you see in the heat of the moment are mistakes and narrow-field judgement calls. If everyone is armed that is magnified massively. Also, there is always a percentage of students in any campus who are depressed, bear grudges, are suicidal and anti-social - so you want to arm them too?
To support this poster. Imagine a scene where someone who is armed walks around a corner and sees the gunman killing a victim, draws their weapon and starts firing, just as someone else comes round the corner and sees him/her firing. If this person pulls a gun and joins in - firing at either target, you have three shooters. At which point security/cops/swat burst in to the room - who do they kill? Now explain to me why guns are good again and how they make you safe?
I'm vaguely surprised Microsoft didn't add their own version to the software. Then again, they hardly added any proper new features, imagine what Microsoft could have added to Vista to inspire people to use it....
Anything like this would have been welcome
Free flow - A multi-layer desktop. Featuring your personal choice of web, or your company's choice of essential intranet information, flowing in the background. We've got Glass - let's use for more than just fluff.
Cut, paste and flip - When you paste one selection of text over another, the removed text is copied back into the clipboard, ready to be dropped elsewhere. Assign it to Ctrl+Alt+C for ease and employ as a full part of the OS, not just a feature in one program.
PIMP - Passenger Information Mobile Protocol - One for the commuter/jet-set laptop and Smartphone crowd. When you are on plane, train or at the airport, terminal, anywhere in the civilised world - your PC can link FOR FREE into a PIMP (Just branded Wi-fi really) spot and you can grab the latest travel information, offers for hotels, places to eat.
And a few others... http://www.goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/
I'm impressed some people have dug this deep into Vista, without losing their sanity. I was almost put off from my first 'calculating how long it'll take to detele a *very small* file' pop-up. See what else makes me weep: http://www.goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/
Don't get it, my iPod has been in and out of my Vista RTM for months with no problem, haven't seen any forum posts about Vista killing iPods, so this rates as Top-FUD (The Movie)