Well I'm younger though the wii is the first console since the n64 that I've been even remotely interested in - plus it is within my price range when looking at TCO of more wii-motes, games, and console up front. Though this time that interest is very high and I'll be walking into EB the day it comes out with enough cash to buy the console and two games (there are two in the list that I really really want - and I haven't been interested any any games since gens zh even though I'm a gamer)... It will come down to the moment I pick up the wii-mote and if I like the first impression as to if I buy or not. I really do hope I like it.:)
Indeed. $110 for a boring game that is $30 cheaper for the PC... Why do all games cost the same? Blockbusters that aren't hype should be in the higher range and every day run of the mill games should be almost nothing price wise. (All prices in AUD.)
A minor correction. The sniper in the movie would have taken several more seconds to fire a kill shot excluding any flukes. I suggest at least two seconds to make sure the sights were lined up and breathing was correct and that shot probably would have missed over the distance simply because of the rush of having some one else aiming at you and not doing any of the usual checks which take longer. The book may differ.
Agreed. When ever I hear foot steps my first reaction is to look, a glance, at the radar to see if it is friendly and I really get annoyed with people who don't even do this simple task. Knowing a team mate is about and close to you can be great as you can jump up and you know some one has your six where if they have no idea they could fire their weapon at you which may kill you though more importantly gives away both of your positions.
How can it be anonymous when you have to give your name, address, where you work, and what you are currently doing as well as the IP address if you are doing it online and other random bits of information. This is the most invasive census I've ever been a part of.
That is what I'd like to know... Though now that Wines dx7/8 is semi decent and I own a Mac (ppc) as well as my usual Linux boxen I'm hopeful I can play this game 0 day. It's at the top of the list of games I'm paying for this year/next which is impressive as its knocked ut2k7 from that position. And note I'm not one for paying for games that aren't worth it, unlike the last uber hype period (d3, hl2) I cannot wait for this set of games coming up and I've already saved up the monies to buy them all! ^_^
AFAIK back when my local uni switched to WebCT (huge and expensive mistake that they are still failing to clean up) it was done so with sweeteners by Microsoft. This is, of course, hearsay which is the best you'll ever get from uni students and the odd IT department contact. So as far as I'm aware WebCT and Microsoft were in bed together or partly owned or similar at some point in the past.
Sorry, I'm from Australia...You know, the place that had a slight chance in the last world cup until Itally decided to use our game for diving practice? So it's more like:
"YOU TOOK A BLOODY DIVE!"...Funnily enough this is probably what Microsofts price per seat offer will do in the country in question.
A PHP script pulls back the doctype to one supported by IE when it is detected though all of the code is XHTML1.1 compliant. Or didn't you know that could be done? Are you inexperienced or some thing?
Microsoft is releasing betas! Save the bell! The problem is solved!...Okay on this point I am rather supportive of Microsoft because that was very nice of them though unfortunately I cannot run IE7 yet as I only have Linux and Mac computers. And before you scream fanboy IE6 runs nicely under wine so I've been able to test everything over the last few years since I moved away from Windows. Still that doesn't address the concerns I pointed out, reread the post.
I abbreviated as I had to type the post rather quickly, lunch hour was nearly up at work, and it's just a sarcastic noun so get over it.
I sold websites with the express details of all updates and content patches with what they'd cost and etc. Though for some unknown reason you assume small business would understand that this is a _required_ update that they are _required_ to pay if they want it to continue to work...So if I go to them with this they will assume I'm screwing them over and if I wait till they come to me I'll be swamped and they will assume I have screwed them over. I know not all of them will react this way though I know a majority will because they simply do not know the web at all - they paid me so they didn't have to. And yes I was a high school student when I did the majority of these, I am not professional in that it is my primary employment though at the time I was working for an interstate company doing enterprise websites, though in my defence the alternatives in this state are pitiful unless you are a huge fan of Frontpage templates for over four thousand dollars and I am not exaggerating.
As for keeping compliance I wrote the sites to be compliant and at that stage Microsoft said outright that IE was 'feature complete' and wouldn't be updated again, I didn't believe them and at most expected another service pack - this was a mistake but still. Though all of the sites I've done, one of which was tested against Firefox.6, still correctly work in all the browsers they were written for so if Opera and Firefox can pull this off without any glitches in several years it is sad that Microsoft can't (and yes I know why they can't...we have several proprietary apps at work that are broken by IE7s basic updates).
You are correct it will be a reasonably easy task assuming I have the time to go through and test all of the betas for their quirks and learn how to fix them. I use the if ie version 'hack' to deal with css specific things and other problems that need fixing so I'll only have to fix one part of the site in most cases. All of my sites work in Firefox, Opera, Safari and Links2 and I dislike ActiveX as much as the next guy.
Ask Slashdot!:D...And in this case I think this question really does come down to 'I need that guys personal opinion' even if I'm not going to tell him the rough size of the room.
Yes that is what I should have said... Bah stocks and investments are so fluid! Also thanks for the link, having only been watching for the last ten years or a touch more I'm still behind in many areas of the history (I don't have the capital for land investment anyway).
I made my points on why this is a problem and I'm more than sure that there are many more out there that will be in a far worse situation. The problem isn't that they are updating the browser, it's how they are planning to do it. As for maintaining sites that is all well and good and it's easy cheap money...Rewriting sites how ever is not, and even if there isn't a rewrite the fact that a stable site stops working/breaks in any regard is a bad reflection on us, to push it further Microsoft is playing with our reputations and putting us between a rock and a hard place when they don't have too. And that isn't even the hard part, if I was whiney about maintaining a site you'd have the right to put me down like the above (though grow some balls and don't be a coward or aren't you in high enough standing with the community that you can afford to stand up for your opinions with the karma to back you?), no the hard part is that we don't know the quirks that IE7 will throw up which will make the whole update so much harder - hacking for IE6 is long and painful and it's problems are well known about!
A slow roll out of IE7 is in every ones best interests, yes even Microsofts - see the rest of this thread for the reasons.
Excuse my French but I hope Microsoft fucking die for this one... This is just fucks up my xmas holidays completely.
I manage around twenty websites for businesses around my state for some spare pocket money each month and all of them are xhtml1.1/css2 compliant (w3c) with a large hacks section for each to get them to work in ie6 (and in the case of one ie5 through 6) and instead of a nice easy integration with Vista coming with ie7 out of the box and a steady stream to xp users I'm being told it will all come in one hit in less than six months? Fuck that. Maybe M$ (and the general web community) has forgotten why we, the web developers, pushed so hard for Firefox in the first place - it wasn't fancy tabs, it wasn't speed, it wasn't popup block...it was the fact that they gave a damn about web standards - and they expect us to learn all of the quirks for ie7 and hack up our sites for them while it's still in beta but that's just not going to happen for many of us.
Though that isn't what really scares me, what scares me is none of the company's I have done websites for and also maintain for will understand the implication of the sites needing recoded until customers start complaining. I can put that number, personally, to about thirty five businesses phoning up and complaining that their sites don't work which will a) not be their fault and b) be my fault for selling them a broken site which leads to two problems 1) they wont want to pay for the update and 2) I lose my god damn holiday or I lose my reputation if I tell them to stuff off. Worse still is that many of these are reasonably large sites so fixing and testing them all in that time frame is just going to hurt.
So I'm pissed. Vista, DRM, selling out free speech in china, what ever... Enforcing IE7 on the whole Windows population at once - outright mean. Die Microsoft Deployment and Marketing division, die like my karma is about too.
No. The stock market performs around 10% on a rolling average of several decades...In the short term your returns can be anything from 300% to losing all of your money. Even a diversified fund in low risks stocks can lose you money rather quickly. For example a close friend currently has several hundred thousand dollars in a spread fund and last month was upto 22% return but this month is all the way down to 6% return on his rolling average. This is not the sort of worry a uni student really needs...Secure low risk returns are always good and I do agree with you about real estate - well chosen investments there always return good rewards.
Really you are stuck as you wont make a lot of monies no matter what you do. I recommend against any high risk investments; they are 15-20% return for a reason and it's a simple one: you may not get your money back. Also compounding is out of the question as you need access to it. So out right I'd suggest finding a short term investment (with a bank is best) of six to twelve months and put 80% of what you have into that. In Australia, where all of my advise is customised too - I believe the UK should be almost the same though the US may differ (do you guys trust your banks?), at the moment you can get a very nice deal around the 5 to 20k deposit for six months to a year for 6 to 8.5% interest depending on who you go with and the term. Note that the penalties for withdrawing money within the time frame are huge which is why you keep 10 to 20% of your capital out of it for that Just In Case situation.
Hope the above helps and I can provide more accurate advice if you need. Also time for a new acronym...I Am A Investment Geek Though My Advice Has No Warranty So Don't Sue Me If You Fuck Up...IAAIGTMAHNWSDSMIYFU:)
Which is a good point... BT while awesome is also still rather slow and the quality of movies coming off it are low. So if you have the DVD there is only one reason you would download - you have restrictive DRM on your DVD that is causing you trouble (I have had this problem twice now...F$@#$ MPAA!) - which for him really wouldn't be a problem since he isn't in some stuffed up region with the spanish. So yeah burn MPAA burn.
I'm not a lazy slob and I fit in a part time job, full load uni, tv, several hours (2-4 min) of gaming a day, and I even manage about four hours sleep a night. So bah to your claims!
You have to remember in userland (not geekland) mac and linux do Just Work(tm) for every day users. The term outside of its Microsoft tomfoolery really should reference an environment where the computer and software running on it perform a verity of every day tasks with little to no hassle or complication. When I use the term and add (tm) a long with capitalising it I am adding a bit of common sarcasm to the term though I am still implying a case where it will work in almost all cases. This just works state is all but obtainable for a geek...We break things, it's what we do.
So seriously, grab a nice warm cup of java, sit down on a comfy couch, and join the club of people who are sick of FUD/spin doctors and just want a normal world with terms never make it into the realms of marketing departments.
Hello AC... So you are a zealot replying to a zealot who is in turn replying to a zealot? Maybe there are some definition issues here?
Either way to make it public knowledge in this thread I am a GNU/Linux (Debian) fanboy, and rather vocal about it, above all else who has a mac and avoids Windows every where except for my job. Draw what conclusions you wish.
Debian is relevant for the stability and completeness image of Linux among other things.
You Ubuntu (I say this typing on a Ubuntu box:/) users should remember that especially considering you're last few releases have been out right painful in some regards for example 5.10 released with gcc that didn't match active kernel and 6.06 releasing with an alpha graphical installer as default to name two huge ones off the top of my head.
Besides all desktop users don't want bleeding edge... personally I think they are mad (I use sid)... though they like the choice to do so and that is what Linux is all about. Also Debian has had x64 for awhile just not officially supported outside of testing which most Debian desktop users use as standard. (*If this post seems flamish I apologies, it's a bit hard to tell as my eyes are seeing red after a long fight with a BlackBerry server.)
Agreed. Apple is no angel. Personally I think Jobs is a prat.
Though on the other topic you raised - I don't see dual OS use lasting very long, the hype has been huge, the level of annoyance in the process has been only slightly removed, and the case for every day use hasn't been made. Virtualisation will probably only ever be used on servers that are doing many tasks and could really take advantage of sandboxing. When it all dies down we will be left with Vista which is a poorly implemented version of the OS X gui on the NT kernel, Linux which will have left Vista in the dirt (mmm no DRM, mac eye candy, legacy support for everything Vista breaks etc) but have no where to really go itself, and OS X which (while still having every day hassles) will still be pushing a head with new features and ideas having already surpassed Vista in feature set and usability (hell 95 beats Vista in usability - the fucking 'You are a newb and you are about to change a minor system setting, press okay to continue'x5 dialogues are enough to send any user mad).
So really I do believe Linux needs mac and its users at the end of the day, how ever evil and closed apple are, so it has some thing to catch up to and one up else it will just be sitting twiddling its thumbs making sure it can install GIMP without a problem until the next Windows version and even god doesn't know when that will be.
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Well I'm younger though the wii is the first console since the n64 that I've been even remotely interested in - plus it is within my price range when looking at TCO of more wii-motes, games, and console up front. Though this time that interest is very high and I'll be walking into EB the day it comes out with enough cash to buy the console and two games (there are two in the list that I really really want - and I haven't been interested any any games since gens zh even though I'm a gamer) ... It will come down to the moment I pick up the wii-mote and if I like the first impression as to if I buy or not. I really do hope I like it. :)
Indeed. $110 for a boring game that is $30 cheaper for the PC... Why do all games cost the same? Blockbusters that aren't hype should be in the higher range and every day run of the mill games should be almost nothing price wise. (All prices in AUD.)
A minor correction. The sniper in the movie would have taken several more seconds to fire a kill shot excluding any flukes. I suggest at least two seconds to make sure the sights were lined up and breathing was correct and that shot probably would have missed over the distance simply because of the rush of having some one else aiming at you and not doing any of the usual checks which take longer. The book may differ.
Agreed. When ever I hear foot steps my first reaction is to look, a glance, at the radar to see if it is friendly and I really get annoyed with people who don't even do this simple task. Knowing a team mate is about and close to you can be great as you can jump up and you know some one has your six where if they have no idea they could fire their weapon at you which may kill you though more importantly gives away both of your positions.
How can it be anonymous when you have to give your name, address, where you work, and what you are currently doing as well as the IP address if you are doing it online and other random bits of information. This is the most invasive census I've ever been a part of.
That's not being an insensitive clod...That is giving you an advantage and a specific role in any fps games - you'll be the uber camping whore!
That is what I'd like to know... Though now that Wines dx7/8 is semi decent and I own a Mac (ppc) as well as my usual Linux boxen I'm hopeful I can play this game 0 day. It's at the top of the list of games I'm paying for this year/next which is impressive as its knocked ut2k7 from that position. And note I'm not one for paying for games that aren't worth it, unlike the last uber hype period (d3, hl2) I cannot wait for this set of games coming up and I've already saved up the monies to buy them all! ^_^
AFAIK back when my local uni switched to WebCT (huge and expensive mistake that they are still failing to clean up) it was done so with sweeteners by Microsoft. This is, of course, hearsay which is the best you'll ever get from uni students and the odd IT department contact. So as far as I'm aware WebCT and Microsoft were in bed together or partly owned or similar at some point in the past.
Sorry, I'm from Australia...You know, the place that had a slight chance in the last world cup until Itally decided to use our game for diving practice? So it's more like:
...Funnily enough this is probably what Microsofts price per seat offer will do in the country in question.
"YOU TOOK A BLOODY DIVE!"
This is what Opensource should be using its power to do. Good work every one!
Seriously...How else do you think they paid Spielberg those many millions to fake those moon landings! By selling rockets of course!
A PHP script pulls back the doctype to one supported by IE when it is detected though all of the code is XHTML1.1 compliant. Or didn't you know that could be done? Are you inexperienced or some thing?
...Okay on this point I am rather supportive of Microsoft because that was very nice of them though unfortunately I cannot run IE7 yet as I only have Linux and Mac computers. And before you scream fanboy IE6 runs nicely under wine so I've been able to test everything over the last few years since I moved away from Windows. Still that doesn't address the concerns I pointed out, reread the post.
.6, still correctly work in all the browsers they were written for so if Opera and Firefox can pull this off without any glitches in several years it is sad that Microsoft can't (and yes I know why they can't...we have several proprietary apps at work that are broken by IE7s basic updates).
Microsoft is releasing betas! Save the bell! The problem is solved!
I abbreviated as I had to type the post rather quickly, lunch hour was nearly up at work, and it's just a sarcastic noun so get over it.
I sold websites with the express details of all updates and content patches with what they'd cost and etc. Though for some unknown reason you assume small business would understand that this is a _required_ update that they are _required_ to pay if they want it to continue to work...So if I go to them with this they will assume I'm screwing them over and if I wait till they come to me I'll be swamped and they will assume I have screwed them over. I know not all of them will react this way though I know a majority will because they simply do not know the web at all - they paid me so they didn't have to. And yes I was a high school student when I did the majority of these, I am not professional in that it is my primary employment though at the time I was working for an interstate company doing enterprise websites, though in my defence the alternatives in this state are pitiful unless you are a huge fan of Frontpage templates for over four thousand dollars and I am not exaggerating.
As for keeping compliance I wrote the sites to be compliant and at that stage Microsoft said outright that IE was 'feature complete' and wouldn't be updated again, I didn't believe them and at most expected another service pack - this was a mistake but still. Though all of the sites I've done, one of which was tested against Firefox
You are correct it will be a reasonably easy task assuming I have the time to go through and test all of the betas for their quirks and learn how to fix them. I use the if ie version 'hack' to deal with css specific things and other problems that need fixing so I'll only have to fix one part of the site in most cases. All of my sites work in Firefox, Opera, Safari and Links2 and I dislike ActiveX as much as the next guy.
Ask Slashdot! :D ...And in this case I think this question really does come down to 'I need that guys personal opinion' even if I'm not going to tell him the rough size of the room.
Yes that is what I should have said... Bah stocks and investments are so fluid! Also thanks for the link, having only been watching for the last ten years or a touch more I'm still behind in many areas of the history (I don't have the capital for land investment anyway).
I made my points on why this is a problem and I'm more than sure that there are many more out there that will be in a far worse situation. The problem isn't that they are updating the browser, it's how they are planning to do it. As for maintaining sites that is all well and good and it's easy cheap money...Rewriting sites how ever is not, and even if there isn't a rewrite the fact that a stable site stops working/breaks in any regard is a bad reflection on us, to push it further Microsoft is playing with our reputations and putting us between a rock and a hard place when they don't have too. And that isn't even the hard part, if I was whiney about maintaining a site you'd have the right to put me down like the above (though grow some balls and don't be a coward or aren't you in high enough standing with the community that you can afford to stand up for your opinions with the karma to back you?), no the hard part is that we don't know the quirks that IE7 will throw up which will make the whole update so much harder - hacking for IE6 is long and painful and it's problems are well known about!
A slow roll out of IE7 is in every ones best interests, yes even Microsofts - see the rest of this thread for the reasons.
Excuse my French but I hope Microsoft fucking die for this one... This is just fucks up my xmas holidays completely.
... Enforcing IE7 on the whole Windows population at once - outright mean. Die Microsoft Deployment and Marketing division, die like my karma is about too.
I manage around twenty websites for businesses around my state for some spare pocket money each month and all of them are xhtml1.1/css2 compliant (w3c) with a large hacks section for each to get them to work in ie6 (and in the case of one ie5 through 6) and instead of a nice easy integration with Vista coming with ie7 out of the box and a steady stream to xp users I'm being told it will all come in one hit in less than six months? Fuck that. Maybe M$ (and the general web community) has forgotten why we, the web developers, pushed so hard for Firefox in the first place - it wasn't fancy tabs, it wasn't speed, it wasn't popup block...it was the fact that they gave a damn about web standards - and they expect us to learn all of the quirks for ie7 and hack up our sites for them while it's still in beta but that's just not going to happen for many of us.
Though that isn't what really scares me, what scares me is none of the company's I have done websites for and also maintain for will understand the implication of the sites needing recoded until customers start complaining. I can put that number, personally, to about thirty five businesses phoning up and complaining that their sites don't work which will a) not be their fault and b) be my fault for selling them a broken site which leads to two problems 1) they wont want to pay for the update and 2) I lose my god damn holiday or I lose my reputation if I tell them to stuff off. Worse still is that many of these are reasonably large sites so fixing and testing them all in that time frame is just going to hurt.
So I'm pissed. Vista, DRM, selling out free speech in china, what ever
No. The stock market performs around 10% on a rolling average of several decades...In the short term your returns can be anything from 300% to losing all of your money. Even a diversified fund in low risks stocks can lose you money rather quickly. For example a close friend currently has several hundred thousand dollars in a spread fund and last month was upto 22% return but this month is all the way down to 6% return on his rolling average. This is not the sort of worry a uni student really needs...Secure low risk returns are always good and I do agree with you about real estate - well chosen investments there always return good rewards.
Really you are stuck as you wont make a lot of monies no matter what you do. I recommend against any high risk investments; they are 15-20% return for a reason and it's a simple one: you may not get your money back. Also compounding is out of the question as you need access to it. So out right I'd suggest finding a short term investment (with a bank is best) of six to twelve months and put 80% of what you have into that. In Australia, where all of my advise is customised too - I believe the UK should be almost the same though the US may differ (do you guys trust your banks?), at the moment you can get a very nice deal around the 5 to 20k deposit for six months to a year for 6 to 8.5% interest depending on who you go with and the term. Note that the penalties for withdrawing money within the time frame are huge which is why you keep 10 to 20% of your capital out of it for that Just In Case situation.
:)
Hope the above helps and I can provide more accurate advice if you need. Also time for a new acronym...I Am A Investment Geek Though My Advice Has No Warranty So Don't Sue Me If You Fuck Up...IAAIGTMAHNWSDSMIYFU
Which is a good point... BT while awesome is also still rather slow and the quality of movies coming off it are low. So if you have the DVD there is only one reason you would download - you have restrictive DRM on your DVD that is causing you trouble (I have had this problem twice now...F$@#$ MPAA!) - which for him really wouldn't be a problem since he isn't in some stuffed up region with the spanish. So yeah burn MPAA burn.
I'm not a lazy slob and I fit in a part time job, full load uni, tv, several hours (2-4 min) of gaming a day, and I even manage about four hours sleep a night. So bah to your claims!
You have to remember in userland (not geekland) mac and linux do Just Work(tm) for every day users. The term outside of its Microsoft tomfoolery really should reference an environment where the computer and software running on it perform a verity of every day tasks with little to no hassle or complication. When I use the term and add (tm) a long with capitalising it I am adding a bit of common sarcasm to the term though I am still implying a case where it will work in almost all cases. This just works state is all but obtainable for a geek...We break things, it's what we do.
So seriously, grab a nice warm cup of java, sit down on a comfy couch, and join the club of people who are sick of FUD/spin doctors and just want a normal world with terms never make it into the realms of marketing departments.
Hello AC... So you are a zealot replying to a zealot who is in turn replying to a zealot? Maybe there are some definition issues here?
Either way to make it public knowledge in this thread I am a GNU/Linux (Debian) fanboy, and rather vocal about it, above all else who has a mac and avoids Windows every where except for my job. Draw what conclusions you wish.
Debian is relevant for the stability and completeness image of Linux among other things.
:/) users should remember that especially considering you're last few releases have been out right painful in some regards for example 5.10 released with gcc that didn't match active kernel and 6.06 releasing with an alpha graphical installer as default to name two huge ones off the top of my head.
... personally I think they are mad (I use sid) ... though they like the choice to do so and that is what Linux is all about. Also Debian has had x64 for awhile just not officially supported outside of testing which most Debian desktop users use as standard. (*If this post seems flamish I apologies, it's a bit hard to tell as my eyes are seeing red after a long fight with a BlackBerry server.)
You Ubuntu (I say this typing on a Ubuntu box
Besides all desktop users don't want bleeding edge
Agreed. Apple is no angel. Personally I think Jobs is a prat.
Though on the other topic you raised - I don't see dual OS use lasting very long, the hype has been huge, the level of annoyance in the process has been only slightly removed, and the case for every day use hasn't been made. Virtualisation will probably only ever be used on servers that are doing many tasks and could really take advantage of sandboxing. When it all dies down we will be left with Vista which is a poorly implemented version of the OS X gui on the NT kernel, Linux which will have left Vista in the dirt (mmm no DRM, mac eye candy, legacy support for everything Vista breaks etc) but have no where to really go itself, and OS X which (while still having every day hassles) will still be pushing a head with new features and ideas having already surpassed Vista in feature set and usability (hell 95 beats Vista in usability - the fucking 'You are a newb and you are about to change a minor system setting, press okay to continue'x5 dialogues are enough to send any user mad).
So really I do believe Linux needs mac and its users at the end of the day, how ever evil and closed apple are, so it has some thing to catch up to and one up else it will just be sitting twiddling its thumbs making sure it can install GIMP without a problem until the next Windows version and even god doesn't know when that will be.