Why doesn't Microsoft focus on creating a better product and fight it out in the market place? They seem to be afraid to compete; they have to have full certainty of winning, no matter how they achieve it.
I'd like them to compete instead, so all the companies have to keep trying to improve their products and people get to choose.
Really, thank you. You have now given me the final reason NOT to upgrade.
Ironically, it's my first reason to upgrade.
While everyone's desperately trying to do disable the eye candy and resource hogs only to have them enabled again with each update, my Vista Pirate Edition (tm) will keep them disabled for me 3.
Isn't that what Google already does, with their personal project time and whatnot? That's how GMail got started, and Picasa, and probably a few other things.
Although I think it is a good move for increasing security in IE7 from Microsoft and deserves kudos, I also believe it's great news for FireFox and Opera.
Microsoft will no longer be able to claim that the browser is inseperable from the system, so anti trust laws can be used to force MS to supply Windows without IE, or with FireFox and Opera.
I don't think some girl with a fist down each hole and two guys down her throat can be called making love. What they're making, and how they're making it, I can't tell you.
Porn is bad for children because it gives them a very unhealthy look on what sex is and on what constitutes a healthy sexual relationship. Exposing a child to porn may lead monogamy to become a foreign concept. Porn, in its raw form, is essentially sex with fetishes and thereby gives a very distorted view of sex.
I do believe sexual education is important, but porn isn't it. A child needs to be able to grow up and learn its own sexuality, through age and experience, not through lust.
I beta'd this game, and it's not very different from other major MMORPGS (EQ2, WoW). The realtime fighting is the same as it is in EQ2, except you have the choice to manually swing your axe or have it done automatically; there are no advantages to swinging it manually. The game itself is the same as any other with just minor differences setting it out from the rest.
The D&D ruleset doesn't cater for the old tabletop players. It will give you some familiarity, but there's no depth like you would find in MUDs. It isn't very solo friendly, either:(. The only good thing is the quests, they spend more attention to the individual quests and it shows in that you'll find genuine puzzles involving moving walls and floor panels, levers and interesting NPCs.
But unfortunately, it bores quickly and didn't manage to captivate me as much as MUDs or even EQ2 did.
To me, it seems Mr Taco is still peeved that Blizzard made him change his invalid nickname, and is using this story and abusing slashdot to try and shed some more negative light on WoW.
Unfortunately, none of the major MMORPGS offer any form of reasonable communication to their users, and if you decide to disregard the ToS (by installing macros and playing the game unattended or using bad nicknames), you're likely to get stung sooner or later.
Which is why I don't play MMORPGS anymore, because they can undo all your hundreds of man hours without warning or compensation for reasons that are just or not and there'll be nothing you can do about it, until someone starts an MMORPG player's union.
Actually, gays aren't sent back to Iran. There was talk that gay refugees might be sent back to Iran after they finished all the refugee procedures and didn't get asylum, but now it is decided that they can stay for longer. Nobody gets refused or sent back immediately (at least, not here in the Netherlands).
Whistleblowers would flee to Europe as genuine political refugees, requesting asylum with political refugees from countries such as Iran and Iraq alike.
Someday we will have DRM for nature, too...because we are idiots.
I thought that was funny at first, but after a minute I could really imagine genetically engineered crops that grow a lot faster only if secret ingredient X is in the soil.
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All the keywords are in a comment inside the html page. Either this is an amazingly dumb oversight, or planned. I'm going with dumb.
30 KB/s is still ten times faster than dial up, plus you're online all day and don't have to wait for the modem to connect.
I have 8 mbit at the moment, but I hardly use a quarter of it, so I'm probably going to downgrade my connection. I download tv shows, but otherwise I don't really need it either.
is that once you try it, you can not go back to dialup.
If you haven't had broadband yet and only dialup, upgrading doesn't seem necessary. But once you've experienced the speed of broadband and the convenience of not having to dial up and log in, you'll never want to go back.
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Why doesn't Microsoft focus on creating a better product and fight it out in the market place? They seem to be afraid to compete; they have to have full certainty of winning, no matter how they achieve it.
I'd like them to compete instead, so all the companies have to keep trying to improve their products and people get to choose.
Didn't she have a guest appearance in Total Recall?
Me too.
They don't weigh anything..
For what it's worth, there's also a PC version of the game.
Really, thank you. You have now given me the final reason NOT to upgrade.
Ironically, it's my first reason to upgrade.
While everyone's desperately trying to do disable the eye candy and resource hogs only to have them enabled again with each update, my Vista Pirate Edition (tm) will keep them disabled for me 3.
FTS:
.eu becoming the second biggest domain after .com look like they may become true,"
.eu will become the second biggest.
"Predictions of
They didn't say it was the second biggest, they said it is predicted that
For colleagues we offer the optional iHammer, which offers a revolutionary batteryless alarm disabling system.
"__DllRegisterExpiryCacheDelayTwelveSeven()"
Is that the function that shows a bomb in minesweeper?
Isn't that what Google already does, with their personal project time and whatnot? That's how GMail got started, and Picasa, and probably a few other things.
Although I think it is a good move for increasing security in IE7 from Microsoft and deserves kudos, I also believe it's great news for FireFox and Opera.
Microsoft will no longer be able to claim that the browser is inseperable from the system, so anti trust laws can be used to force MS to supply Windows without IE, or with FireFox and Opera.
When God hates all the same people you do, its a sign you've created Him in your own image.
That's a pretty good quote; is it yours?
I don't think some girl with a fist down each hole and two guys down her throat can be called making love. What they're making, and how they're making it, I can't tell you.
Porn is bad for children because it gives them a very unhealthy look on what sex is and on what constitutes a healthy sexual relationship. Exposing a child to porn may lead monogamy to become a foreign concept. Porn, in its raw form, is essentially sex with fetishes and thereby gives a very distorted view of sex.
I do believe sexual education is important, but porn isn't it. A child needs to be able to grow up and learn its own sexuality, through age and experience, not through lust.
I beta'd this game, and it's not very different from other major MMORPGS (EQ2, WoW). The realtime fighting is the same as it is in EQ2, except you have the choice to manually swing your axe or have it done automatically; there are no advantages to swinging it manually. The game itself is the same as any other with just minor differences setting it out from the rest.
:(. The only good thing is the quests, they spend more attention to the individual quests and it shows in that you'll find genuine puzzles involving moving walls and floor panels, levers and interesting NPCs.
The D&D ruleset doesn't cater for the old tabletop players. It will give you some familiarity, but there's no depth like you would find in MUDs. It isn't very solo friendly, either
But unfortunately, it bores quickly and didn't manage to captivate me as much as MUDs or even EQ2 did.
To me, it seems Mr Taco is still peeved that Blizzard made him change his invalid nickname, and is using this story and abusing slashdot to try and shed some more negative light on WoW.
Unfortunately, none of the major MMORPGS offer any form of reasonable communication to their users, and if you decide to disregard the ToS (by installing macros and playing the game unattended or using bad nicknames), you're likely to get stung sooner or later.
Which is why I don't play MMORPGS anymore, because they can undo all your hundreds of man hours without warning or compensation for reasons that are just or not and there'll be nothing you can do about it, until someone starts an MMORPG player's union.
If anything, the game promotes Intelligent Design. Depending on who's playing, though.
Actually, gays aren't sent back to Iran. There was talk that gay refugees might be sent back to Iran after they finished all the refugee procedures and didn't get asylum, but now it is decided that they can stay for longer. Nobody gets refused or sent back immediately (at least, not here in the Netherlands).
Whistleblowers would flee to Europe as genuine political refugees, requesting asylum with political refugees from countries such as Iran and Iraq alike.
You're either kidding or an idiot; Europe is richer than America, a company like Microsoft can't do very much to affect either GNP.
I thought that was funny at first, but after a minute I could really imagine genetically engineered crops that grow a lot faster only if secret ingredient X is in the soil.
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All the keywords are in a comment inside the html page. Either this is an amazingly dumb oversight, or planned. I'm going with dumb.
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30 KB/s is still ten times faster than dial up, plus you're online all day and don't have to wait for the modem to connect.
I have 8 mbit at the moment, but I hardly use a quarter of it, so I'm probably going to downgrade my connection. I download tv shows, but otherwise I don't really need it either.
is that once you try it, you can not go back to dialup.
If you haven't had broadband yet and only dialup, upgrading doesn't seem necessary. But once you've experienced the speed of broadband and the convenience of not having to dial up and log in, you'll never want to go back.
1,351,079,888,211,149 bytes
1/74th of Data's full storage capacity on Star Trek
1/45th of all the files shared on Kazaa
1/3rd of Google's total storage capacity
Half a Vista installation
938,249,922 Floppy disks
208 KB of storage for each person on this planet.