Complete the game and the addiction goes. That is, kill Nefarion. The amount of time spent having to do this is a lot, but once done you realise that you've pretty much done everything the game offers. AQ40 is just the same thing, slightly different scripted AI, recycled monsters, drops only marginally better. Infact I'm pretty sure the WoW subscription figures will start to drop quite significantly in the 2nd half of this year.
The scripted AI in WoW really is so simplistic I don't know how you can't get bored of it. PvP isn't much better either. Give WoW castle seiges/guild land ownership seems to be the only way forward in my view.
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You'll see Expression comes in 3 flavours and is geared at a kind of Flash alternative (working with XAML). Only one of the 3 versions is geared for photoshop type useage. It's more geared towards vector graphics from what I can see.
It was funny? I got a chuck norris email and thought the person obviously had never endured a chuck norris film. He's about as ironic as william shatner
Sorry but http://vtcalendar.sourceforge.net/ is not even close to what Outlook has. This is the main selling point of Office - you schedule a meeting with other people, all of which come from Active Directory. You can see who is free and who is busy at the time, doing recurring meeting, yadda.
Someone needs to write a decent Exchange clone (can't be hard - it's a large bucket of sh** powered by an access database). Once Open Office has this ability to integrate and share docs people might start considering it as an alternative. Also developer support too.
the FPS genre is looking very tired, the sales of WoW demonstrate this. Combine the graphics of Doom 3/Half Life 2 with MMPORGs and you're onto a winner. Blizzard have half managed this but their graphics engine is still quite simplistic, bar the spell effects.
Why do all slashdot headlines seem to assume that every person who uses a computer out there is a techie?
90% of people browsing the web just want to view a website or two, maybe order something online. They couldn't give two shits about seeing their "online buddies", downloading illegal stuff via p2p.
Doesn't yahoo, or msn use Norton AV as its scanning engine? I imagine the same flaw exists unless the enterprise av engine is vastly different from the person av engine.
How do you think national ID cards differ from a passport, debit card, credit card, driving license, nhs card etc.?
Unless you have a dog on a rope and beg for change for a living, I can't see how ID cards differ from what the banks (and therefore the British Secret Service) have access to anyway.
Flash can't be bookmarked either, probably the most annoying feature behind pure flash websites that puts me off.
The main problem is people want to be able to serve miniature applications via the web, whilst even with new standards it's still about providing glorified word documents with a smarter navigation.
I use to use PHP a lot day to day for several years (lamp), and found it kicked the ass of ASP for doing really fast web apps. Bigger web applications however, is where its mechanics started to erode - specically includes and the old module level variables issue.
PHP 5 brought more OO features but it's still loosely typed and not compiled, meaning its OO features pale in comparison to JSP and ASP.NET. Until these two features are added by default (yes I know there are compilers), I can't really see how people will want to make use of its OO features in a business scenario. It handles strings (atleast in 4) about 50x slower than.net and seems to be stuck between a scripting language and a fully fledged OO language.
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That's what MVPs do - share their knowledge in the community for free, in exchange for being able to demand large consulting fees from companies.
Complete the game and the addiction goes. That is, kill Nefarion. The amount of time spent having to do this is a lot, but once done you realise that you've pretty much done everything the game offers. AQ40 is just the same thing, slightly different scripted AI, recycled monsters, drops only marginally better. Infact I'm pretty sure the WoW subscription figures will start to drop quite significantly in the 2nd half of this year.
The scripted AI in WoW really is so simplistic I don't know how you can't get bored of it. PvP isn't much better either. Give WoW castle seiges/guild land ownership seems to be the only way forward in my view.
how is that funny
Meanwhile, back in the Capitalist world..
Can You Build Secure Solutions Built on Microsoft Core Technologies? The shortest of the Blue Hat seminars
(I(dont't)be(l(ieve))that for a (second))
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You'll see Expression comes in 3 flavours and is geared at a kind of Flash alternative (working with XAML). Only one of the 3 versions is geared for photoshop type useage. It's more geared towards vector graphics from what I can see.
It was funny? I got a chuck norris email and thought the person obviously had never endured a chuck norris film. He's about as ironic as william shatner
You know you need to re-evaluate your coding-to-social life ratio when you start making jokes in code
Sorry but http://vtcalendar.sourceforge.net/ is not even close to what Outlook has. This is the main selling point of Office - you schedule a meeting with other people, all of which come from Active Directory. You can see who is free and who is busy at the time, doing recurring meeting, yadda. Someone needs to write a decent Exchange clone (can't be hard - it's a large bucket of sh** powered by an access database). Once Open Office has this ability to integrate and share docs people might start considering it as an alternative. Also developer support too.
Or from what some people like to call "excercising their wrists"
Sadly for you, the people making that praise are also the same people rating your comments
Nobody from Microsoft has actually been quoted with saying Halo2 is for Vista only, not even on the BBC website.
Java TM is the Chevrolet HHR of the UI world
IE 7 also breaks your local MSDN helper documentation, rendering all documentation in giant Times Roman 12 point with all layout broken.
Of course if you're a Java (doc) user this will probably make you feel at home.
the FPS genre is looking very tired, the sales of WoW demonstrate this. Combine the graphics of Doom 3/Half Life 2 with MMPORGs and you're onto a winner. Blizzard have half managed this but their graphics engine is still quite simplistic, bar the spell effects.
Why do all slashdot headlines seem to assume that every person who uses a computer out there is a techie?
90% of people browsing the web just want to view a website or two, maybe order something online. They couldn't give two shits about seeing their "online buddies", downloading illegal stuff via p2p.
Doesn't yahoo, or msn use Norton AV as its scanning engine? I imagine the same flaw exists unless the enterprise av engine is vastly different from the person av engine.
How do you think national ID cards differ from a passport, debit card, credit card, driving license, nhs card etc.?
Unless you have a dog on a rope and beg for change for a living, I can't see how ID cards differ from what the banks (and therefore the British Secret Service) have access to anyway.
...or the fine art of pegging ??!
Flash can't be bookmarked either, probably the most annoying feature behind pure flash websites that puts me off.
The main problem is people want to be able to serve miniature applications via the web, whilst even with new standards it's still about providing glorified word documents with a smarter navigation.
The moment this article was posted, 50,000 sweaty bearded zealots broke out in a sweat and became enranged.
Nobody shall criticise the religion of the Open Source. No one I tell you! Hail to the saviour, Linus, the pickled-egg headed one! Hail!
I use to use PHP a lot day to day for several years (lamp), and found it kicked the ass of ASP for doing really fast web apps. Bigger web applications however, is where its mechanics started to erode - specically includes and the old module level variables issue.
.net and seems to be stuck between a scripting language and a fully fledged OO language.
PHP 5 brought more OO features but it's still loosely typed and not compiled, meaning its OO features pale in comparison to JSP and ASP.NET. Until these two features are added by default (yes I know there are compilers), I can't really see how people will want to make use of its OO features in a business scenario. It handles strings (atleast in 4) about 50x slower than
Sooo lots of pictures of google doodle, a few lounges and a plaque showing that they share their offices with Rentokill.
I suppose if you appreciate artwork of 10 year olds it's an interesting scoop.
UK, we invented it