Plenty of information there, the Dave Probert videos cover the history pretty well if I remember right, including giving the real background of the use of NT instead of "NT stands for Nice Titties" theories and so on.
Who seriously still uses Windows 98? Especially the type of people using Firefox - they aren't the kind of people still using Windows 98. Win98 was/is a billious bag of poop and even Microsoft have admitted it (not in those exact words). It doesn't deserve support, spit spit spit
Last month? It's only been out for 2 weeks. That was a *beta* you were using, and sounds like Word not Office. I've not had any of the problems you've mentioned from using Word 2007 for the past 2 weeks solidly to write fascinating functional specifications.
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Try posting a link to this site on http://forums.wow-europe.com/ and http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com./ See how fast it gets deleted - I posted a link to it twice and both deleted within a flash. The story they want you to believe: The Warden caught the cheat. It looks the reality is a slightly less sophisticated piece of anti-cheat software.
Of course you could've just put a link to the usage stats and left it there, saving us your pompous teenage comeback aimed somebody you have never met or will never meet. Welcome to the internet, it's full of teenagers.
The problem as I see it is not just the person. The game is terrible for playing casually. I use to play UT, Quake 3, Counter strike, and I could have a quick 20-30 minute game there before going out. Now with World of Warcraft, I can't do anything productive in that time. Maybe 1 game of Arathi Basin or Warsong Gulch (however you need atleast 160 hours of each to get decent items of equipment from there). Any other raid instance takes 2 hours minimum, not including finding people to play the game.
Blizzard have invented a great game engine in terms of exploring the world, however they may have shot themselves in the foot with the gameplay. I know MMOs have always traditionally needed a lot of time, but we're talking about 6 million people playing this game. How many of those are going to pay their monthly subscription fee and see no progress of their character, with the expansion out in 2 weeks. Probably only the weaker minded college-age players which from the forums, looks to be the minority of players.
The defending lawyer described her client as 'isolated and living in a fantasy world, spending hours on his computer in his room where his persona could be as he made it, good or bad
Sounds like the average Slashdot reader, except they sit in their bedroom pretending they are laywers.
Not all books are fiction, which seems to be the main source that these comment posts have in them, albeit it seems from people who are just guessing rather than any experience in the publishing industry.
Factual books need research, researchers, the various editors, proof readers, legal advisors if necessary. Not anything close to a movie cost but these people still need paying, and are generally paid well.
It's open source and free and all that sugar that makes some people erect. However they are paying you $5000 to do it. Why not make the product semi-commercial and actually come up with a competitor for MS Office, instead of relying on hobbyists.
If a SATAII drive can only do 300 MB/s (assuming we're talking about bits for both speeds), surely the hard drive speeds will start hampering the speed of connection? In this case unless my maths is very wrong, it'll deliver faster than the hard disk can write.
I don't get it, Microsoft don't even provide a worthy competitor to Autonomy, Google etc. corporate searches? Unless he considers indexing services to provide that role, I think he's on his own there though.
I fail to see why legit users of xp should care.. pirates.. yea, sucks for you. But hey, you shouldn't have stolen xp in the first place. oh well, it bit you in the ass.
Because most Slashdot readers use non-legit copies of Windows I'd guess, or their work's volumne license copies.
I can't think of any other reason the comments are so violently against a multi-billion dollar company who being watched like eagles by the justice department reporting if the copy of windows being run is legitimate.
An XML file for data storage is slow. No business is going to trust google to store it documents and spreadsheets. This may have consumer appeal (for the less computer literate), but I'd say the main market for spreadsheets was businesses. The same with word documents.
What amuses me about World of Warcraft is guilds that are so proud of themselves being the "server first" or even haven just killed an endgame boss in WoW.
The AI in the game is so scripted and predictable, it really doesn't take a genius to work out what the boss does. Infact this is so true that CTRA (a mod for WoW) actually has a Boss Mod part that warns you when each part of the highly scripted fight comes.
Admittedly Blackwing Lair fairly successfully breaks this mould, but on the whole the game has inredibly simplistic scripted AI that is geared purely towards drops than anything challenging, like you might find in say Half Life 2.
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http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=14 &TagID=83
Plenty of information there, the Dave Probert videos cover the history pretty well if I remember right, including giving the real background of the use of NT instead of "NT stands for Nice Titties" theories and so on.
Who seriously still uses Windows 98? Especially the type of people using Firefox - they aren't the kind of people still using Windows 98. Win98 was/is a billious bag of poop and even Microsoft have admitted it (not in those exact words). It doesn't deserve support, spit spit spit
Amazing that the BBC owns to class As and the british MoD too. I suppose we did invent the damn thing though, so we deserve it.
Last month? It's only been out for 2 weeks. That was a *beta* you were using, and sounds like Word not Office. I've not had any of the problems you've mentioned from using Word 2007 for the past 2 weeks solidly to write fascinating functional specifications.
Baltis aren't Indian:
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/balti.bcc
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For posting a link to slashdot. Unbelievable.
Try posting a link to this site on http://forums.wow-europe.com/ and http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com./ See how fast it gets deleted - I posted a link to it twice and both deleted within a flash. The story they want you to believe: The Warden caught the cheat. It looks the reality is a slightly less sophisticated piece of anti-cheat software.
Why isn't the table archived?
Of course you could've just put a link to the usage stats and left it there, saving us your pompous teenage comeback aimed somebody you have never met or will never meet. Welcome to the internet, it's full of teenagers.
The problem as I see it is not just the person. The game is terrible for playing casually. I use to play UT, Quake 3, Counter strike, and I could have a quick 20-30 minute game there before going out. Now with World of Warcraft, I can't do anything productive in that time. Maybe 1 game of Arathi Basin or Warsong Gulch (however you need atleast 160 hours of each to get decent items of equipment from there). Any other raid instance takes 2 hours minimum, not including finding people to play the game.
Blizzard have invented a great game engine in terms of exploring the world, however they may have shot themselves in the foot with the gameplay. I know MMOs have always traditionally needed a lot of time, but we're talking about 6 million people playing this game. How many of those are going to pay their monthly subscription fee and see no progress of their character, with the expansion out in 2 weeks. Probably only the weaker minded college-age players which from the forums, looks to be the minority of players.
The defending lawyer described her client as 'isolated and living in a fantasy world, spending hours on his computer in his room where his persona could be as he made it, good or bad
Sounds like the average Slashdot reader, except they sit in their bedroom pretending they are laywers.
Look fake to me, computer generated in 3D studio max.
Not all books are fiction, which seems to be the main source that these comment posts have in them, albeit it seems from people who are just guessing rather than any experience in the publishing industry. Factual books need research, researchers, the various editors, proof readers, legal advisors if necessary. Not anything close to a movie cost but these people still need paying, and are generally paid well.
It's open source and free and all that sugar that makes some people erect. However they are paying you $5000 to do it. Why not make the product semi-commercial and actually come up with a competitor for MS Office, instead of relying on hobbyists.
Which Flickr user is it? I look forward to seeing macro shots of flowers or Photoshop'd photos of sunsets and arty depth-of-field shots.
Edit please! SATAII can do 300 megabytes/s
If a SATAII drive can only do 300 MB/s (assuming we're talking about bits for both speeds), surely the hard drive speeds will start hampering the speed of connection? In this case unless my maths is very wrong, it'll deliver faster than the hard disk can write.
Why not just download http://www.wingrep.com/ ?
Is he talking about indexing services?
I don't get it, Microsoft don't even provide a worthy competitor to Autonomy, Google etc. corporate searches? Unless he considers indexing services to provide that role, I think he's on his own there though.
It is also a handy outlet for their waste chemicals, and sewage
I fail to see why legit users of xp should care.. pirates.. yea, sucks for you. But hey, you shouldn't have stolen xp in the first place. oh well, it bit you in the ass.
Because most Slashdot readers use non-legit copies of Windows I'd guess, or their work's volumne license copies.
I can't think of any other reason the comments are so violently against a multi-billion dollar company who being watched like eagles by the justice department reporting if the copy of windows being run is legitimate.
An XML file for data storage is slow. No business is going to trust google to store it documents and spreadsheets. This may have consumer appeal (for the less computer literate), but I'd say the main market for spreadsheets was businesses. The same with word documents.
Export to XLS says it all...competitor Excel I'm not so sure about.
ninja pirates
What amuses me about World of Warcraft is guilds that are so proud of themselves being the "server first" or even haven just killed an endgame boss in WoW. The AI in the game is so scripted and predictable, it really doesn't take a genius to work out what the boss does. Infact this is so true that CTRA (a mod for WoW) actually has a Boss Mod part that warns you when each part of the highly scripted fight comes. Admittedly Blackwing Lair fairly successfully breaks this mould, but on the whole the game has inredibly simplistic scripted AI that is geared purely towards drops than anything challenging, like you might find in say Half Life 2.