What I find interesting is that he says that it used a modified version of "winlogon.exe". To fix it though, he says he just changed the key - no mention made of fixing winlogin.exe.
Also, if he had bought it from an online retailer, wouldn't he and Microsoft want to investigate that? No mention of it though.
Is it really great? I'm pretty sure that people that need accessible websites would prefer website designers to spend their time on actually making the site more accessible, rather than making the code 'W3C compliant' for a better ranking.
I'd be more interested in their thoughts on Opera, but there's not a single mention of it. IE is certainly a "step or two behind" Firefox as they say, but the same cannot be said for Opera, which, in many ways, is significantly ahead of Firefox.
The European Union is not a country - it contains 25 member states, and has every authority to deal with businesses operating inside the EU. Do you really think that Microsoft is (or should be) exempt from EU laws?
I'd love Microsoft to "call their bluff" - if you really think it'd do more damage to the EU than Microsoft, you're kidding yourself.
It's not really accurate to say "slightly better picture quality". DVD resolution is 720x480. The highest HD resolution is 1920x1080 or, for less capable HDTVs, 1280x720.
That's not ad-blocking, that's popup-blocking. You may argue that's just semantics, but I can guarantee that a 'Block-All' setting on popup-blocking won't block all ads.
Anyway, Opera 9 does have what would be commonly known as an 'ad-blocker'. To get to it, right-click somewhere and select 'Block content'.
It works slightly different in Opera, a bit more user-friendly I believe.
In Opera, you can right-click any search-box to add it to the search engine dropdown box, as well as defining it as a 'search keyword' at the same time.
Firefox lets you define a search keyword in a similar manner (rightclick, 'Add a Keyword for this Search'). This doesn't add it to the search dropdown box though like Opera does - if you want to do this, you need to use the 'Add Engines' feature located in the search drop down box. This takes you here. You have to then browse this website to see if the parameters needed for that particular search box have been created by somebody already.
I've been using Opera weekly builds for ages now, and I haven't noticed any difference in resources from Opera 8.51 (and it certainly uses less than Firefox). Opera 9 does contain BitTorrent support, an IRC client, a mail client, widget support, etc, but I certainly wouldn't be able to tell that from running it.
Anyway, my favourite new feature in Opera 9 has to be the 'create search' function to easily create new search engines for Opera to use (and to use in the search dropdown). I'd explain how to use it (exceedingly simple), but a good overview is perhaps here
Personally, I think SW:KOTOR is the best PC (and Xbox) RPG in the last few years. Oblivion had such an open world, but just about everything was linear in it - dialog choice was pretty much fixed, and about the only player choice was whether to sneak or not for each quest. With KOTOR, there was multiple choices for practically every quest, with the 'light-side/dark-side' system. Sure, it wasn't perfect, but it certainly made it more entertaining and gave the game more replay value.
Indeed, and the article headline (and subsequently/.'s headline) doesn't fit in with the article text:
The reason is anybody's guess. 2K Games, the Take Two division that was publishing "Snow," confirmed the cancellation, but declined to give any sort of reason. It might have been because of the controversy the game was bound to kick up. It might have been because the game's developer, FrogCity Software (along with fellow studio PopTop Software) was recently folded into Firaxis, a Take Two-owned development studio run by industry legend Sid Meier. It may have simply been that the game wasn't turning out to be any fun.
Assuming around 12 hours of playtime this is a "single game" but the standard of many games available today, especially FPS.
In one way, this is true - but it's much more of an 'expansion pack' than an entire new game. The game engine, the enemies, the weapons, everything is pretty much the same as in HL2.
I can understand that people think it's well worth it - but I wouldn't consider it to be a 'new game'.
The difference here is that many of these games will be on at 2pm, when many people are at work with no television. The World Cup is hugely popular, and I am sure there will be a huge amount of demand for watching the BBC live streams.
Of course, the internet won't 'melt down', but this will surely be the biggest test for the BBC's live video streaming abilities so far.
No, because people searching for their brand would very likely only search for a single word, i.e. 'ServersCheck'. It's no surprise that a lot of the most popular 'two word' search queries are piracy-related though.
Even if I hadn't seen variations on this troll post before, the idea of a company consider going from FAT32 to Bitlocker technology is more than enough to show that it's pure trolling (they'd be using NTFS).
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It isn't finalised as RC1 yet though - pre-Beta 2 builds also displayed 'Beta 2'.
More importantly though, will it be ready in time? From the relevant part of the article, which of course is omitted from the Slashdot summary:
What I find interesting is that he says that it used a modified version of "winlogon.exe". To fix it though, he says he just changed the key - no mention made of fixing winlogin.exe.
Also, if he had bought it from an online retailer, wouldn't he and Microsoft want to investigate that? No mention of it though.
Most people that want to beta test Office 2007 would have already downloaded it - it's been downloadable for free for over two months now.
Is it really great? I'm pretty sure that people that need accessible websites would prefer website designers to spend their time on actually making the site more accessible, rather than making the code 'W3C compliant' for a better ranking.
I'd be more interested in their thoughts on Opera, but there's not a single mention of it. IE is certainly a "step or two behind" Firefox as they say, but the same cannot be said for Opera, which, in many ways, is significantly ahead of Firefox.
I'd love Microsoft to "call their bluff" - if you really think it'd do more damage to the EU than Microsoft, you're kidding yourself.
If it was, I would imagine they'd have started imposing these fines many months ago - the original ruling was made in March 2004.
It's not really accurate to say "slightly better picture quality". DVD resolution is 720x480. The highest HD resolution is 1920x1080 or, for less capable HDTVs, 1280x720.
From the version history on the website: v 0.1 [2002-07-11]
Anyway, Opera 9 does have what would be commonly known as an 'ad-blocker'. To get to it, right-click somewhere and select 'Block content'.
In Opera, you can right-click any search-box to add it to the search engine dropdown box, as well as defining it as a 'search keyword' at the same time.
Firefox lets you define a search keyword in a similar manner (rightclick, 'Add a Keyword for this Search'). This doesn't add it to the search dropdown box though like Opera does - if you want to do this, you need to use the 'Add Engines' feature located in the search drop down box. This takes you here. You have to then browse this website to see if the parameters needed for that particular search box have been created by somebody already.
Anyway, my favourite new feature in Opera 9 has to be the 'create search' function to easily create new search engines for Opera to use (and to use in the search dropdown). I'd explain how to use it (exceedingly simple), but a good overview is perhaps here
Personally, I think SW:KOTOR is the best PC (and Xbox) RPG in the last few years. Oblivion had such an open world, but just about everything was linear in it - dialog choice was pretty much fixed, and about the only player choice was whether to sneak or not for each quest. With KOTOR, there was multiple choices for practically every quest, with the 'light-side/dark-side' system. Sure, it wasn't perfect, but it certainly made it more entertaining and gave the game more replay value.
Doh - just seen that quote in the /. text - damn me for RTFA before the submission :)
The difference here is that many of these games will be on at 2pm, when many people are at work with no television. The World Cup is hugely popular, and I am sure there will be a huge amount of demand for watching the BBC live streams.
Of course, the internet won't 'melt down', but this will surely be the biggest test for the BBC's live video streaming abilities so far.
Another word... dupe! ;)
No, because people searching for their brand would very likely only search for a single word, i.e. 'ServersCheck'. It's no surprise that a lot of the most popular 'two word' search queries are piracy-related though.
Ah, but Opera 9 will be better!
1) Are visitors using IE switching to Firefox?
or
2) Are visitors using IE annoyed with your use of the banner and not coming back?
Both of these options will show a rise in Firefox (percentage wise) and a decrease in IE (percentage wise and absolute figures).
Even if I hadn't seen variations on this troll post before, the idea of a company consider going from FAT32 to Bitlocker technology is more than enough to show that it's pure trolling (they'd be using NTFS).