I have installed Android on my TouchPad for one simple reason - application availability.
The OS may be nice, but I use my devices primarily for the applications, not the OS.
The fact is that Wikipedia has a super high resolution print quality and SVG image of the seal which could be used to manufacture fake credentials. This fact might explain why they are going after Wikipedia and not other places.
Maybe, but Britannica has a pretty high resolution version too...
Not quite, with the free support they didn't fix the issue - they took a year to tell him he'd broken the Terms of Service, and then no reply as to why. Even then, when trialling the paid-for support, they still managed to bill him when they shouldn't have.
As for not being news-worthy, how else can people highlight these kinds of issues?!
What bothers me is the possibility that content is cut from the game specifically to sell, rather than being developed in addition to the game. It's important to bear in mind though that extra content can still be developed before the game is totally finished, programmers don't create most of the game content.
The fact that its on the game disk is irrelevant though. For example, when I buy Windows 7 Home Premium, that disk also contains Windows 7 Ultimate. I'm not given a key to unlock Ultimate, but I can buy a key from Microsoft to upgrade to it if I want to.
That's quite a flawed conclusion to come to. Sure, each individual inaccuracy may be corrected in a reasonable time. But you're completely ignoring that other inaccuracies may be added during that same time period.
You say Wikipedia is "more reliable than an average printed manual or guidebook where any mistakes couldn't have been corrected since I bought it" - a printed manual or guidebook doesn't have any extra mistakes added to it either, but Wikipedia certainly might have.
If you like Vista, Windows 7 is less resource hungry, and you can try out the beta and then the Release Candidate at least until July, the RC will probably extend that limit until later in the year.
As an addition, even those who have serious issues with Microsoft would do best to ignore these 'stories' and even perhaps make a stand against them themselves.
Posting half-truths, exaggerations and downright untruths discredits Slashdot probably more than it does Microsoft. If Slashdot focused on legitimate problems and grievances, and actually verified the accuracy of what they post, it would give those legitimate grievances far more weight than Slashdot carries right now.
Recently the standard of Slashdot articles about Microsoft has taken a huge nosedive, any opportunity to bash them seems to be taken. It used to be mainly misleading summaries, but nowadays anything with an anti-Microsoft slant, even something basically made up or down to the incompetence of the submitter, seems to get posted.
If they removed DRM support, everyone with a Blu-Ray drive wouldn't be able to play back their films normally. You really think that would improve Microsoft's image?
And even if they did, what would be the possible benefit to people who don't use DRM? With or without it, your playback of non-DRM media won't be affected.
The biggest incentive I had to switch to 64bit was the fact that, if I didn't, only ~3Gb of my memory would be used. I had no hardware/driver problems when I switched though.
When 4Gb of memory becomes common, that's when I expect 64bit installs to also become common. Until then, computer builders will likely 'play it safe' and install 32bit.
Microsoft also points out that the technology could be useful for emulators and virtual environments that are attempting to display advanced 3D graphics.
It may only get 7fps in Crysis, but I suspect that would be certainly more than enough for a virtual machine running an OS and/or games from a while back.
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I have installed Android on my TouchPad for one simple reason - application availability. The OS may be nice, but I use my devices primarily for the applications, not the OS.
Or, better yet: France Bans Facebook and Twitter Promotion in Radio and TV News
France Bans Facebook and Twitter From Radio and TV News
Maybe, but Britannica has a pretty high resolution version too...
http://www.britannica.com/bps/image/203351/115892/Seal-of-the-Federal-Bureau-of-Investigation
Not quite, with the free support they didn't fix the issue - they took a year to tell him he'd broken the Terms of Service, and then no reply as to why. Even then, when trialling the paid-for support, they still managed to bill him when they shouldn't have.
As for not being news-worthy, how else can people highlight these kinds of issues?!
I'm just surprised how, after all his issues, the length of time with no response, and being billed in error, he still ends with:
It might not work especially well with a mouse - but it works very well with a remote control.
Connect a remote control, and a large monitor/HDTV, and it's one of the best media centre interfaces out there.
What bothers me is the possibility that content is cut from the game specifically to sell, rather than being developed in addition to the game. It's important to bear in mind though that extra content can still be developed before the game is totally finished, programmers don't create most of the game content.
The fact that its on the game disk is irrelevant though. For example, when I buy Windows 7 Home Premium, that disk also contains Windows 7 Ultimate. I'm not given a key to unlock Ultimate, but I can buy a key from Microsoft to upgrade to it if I want to.
That's quite a flawed conclusion to come to. Sure, each individual inaccuracy may be corrected in a reasonable time. But you're completely ignoring that other inaccuracies may be added during that same time period.
You say Wikipedia is "more reliable than an average printed manual or guidebook where any mistakes couldn't have been corrected since I bought it" - a printed manual or guidebook doesn't have any extra mistakes added to it either, but Wikipedia certainly might have.
The article says that Apple dominates over a certain price point. That's exactly what I said.
I didn't say that some Mac's shouldn't be considered premium, I was merely correcting the article title.
Apple dominates the premium priced market, not the premium PC market.
From the article you linked to:
"In Europe, the full version will be priced as if it were an upgrade version." - where's the increased price you mention?!
What's the matter? Just get out of sword fighting class?
If you're worried about losing work, I think your backup solution is what you need to improve instead.
If you run 'winver', the Windows 7 beta reports an expiry date of 1st July.
Not sure why this is modded offtopic.
If you like Vista, Windows 7 is less resource hungry, and you can try out the beta and then the Release Candidate at least until July, the RC will probably extend that limit until later in the year.
As an addition, even those who have serious issues with Microsoft would do best to ignore these 'stories' and even perhaps make a stand against them themselves.
Posting half-truths, exaggerations and downright untruths discredits Slashdot probably more than it does Microsoft. If Slashdot focused on legitimate problems and grievances, and actually verified the accuracy of what they post, it would give those legitimate grievances far more weight than Slashdot carries right now.
Recently the standard of Slashdot articles about Microsoft has taken a huge nosedive, any opportunity to bash them seems to be taken. It used to be mainly misleading summaries, but nowadays anything with an anti-Microsoft slant, even something basically made up or down to the incompetence of the submitter, seems to get posted.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/06/1544207 - bashing Microsoft for letting you download Microsoft software on another PC besides the one you intend to use it on.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/2259257 - the worst example I've seen - unfounded, unproven allegations with no substance whatsoever.
That would work up until somebody decided to add the same 'fact' a second time.
A 2009 release or 'RTM' date shouldn't be a surprise at all.
The beta expires in July, so the 'Release Candidate' build should be out before then, and the final version soon after.
If they removed DRM support, everyone with a Blu-Ray drive wouldn't be able to play back their films normally. You really think that would improve Microsoft's image?
And even if they did, what would be the possible benefit to people who don't use DRM? With or without it, your playback of non-DRM media won't be affected.
Slashdot's technology gives me the possibility to crush your will by modding you down!
Well I do.
The biggest incentive I had to switch to 64bit was the fact that, if I didn't, only ~3Gb of my memory would be used. I had no hardware/driver problems when I switched though.
When 4Gb of memory becomes common, that's when I expect 64bit installs to also become common. Until then, computer builders will likely 'play it safe' and install 32bit.
I think this is worth mentioning:
It may only get 7fps in Crysis, but I suspect that would be certainly more than enough for a virtual machine running an OS and/or games from a while back.