Linux community: "Windows sucks. They don't even have a decent app repository. In Linux I can find any program from one place!"
Microsoft: "We're building an App Store"
Linux community: "Zoinks! Theives! Scoundrels! Copycats!"
Since when is it wrong for a company to see something it's competitor has done successfully, that was beneficial for both customers and developers, and then decide to do so for their own customers and developers?
Seriously, how is this a bad thing that they're doing it? They've even acknowledged that their competitors had a good idea and that they've taken the concept from them. Jeez.
They brought in new management (I believe it was the head of the Office 2007 team). They are focusing less on kernel changes (which caused the massive headaches with Vista upon release, especially with drivers) and are working on improving UI and performance (ie, more user-centric changes rather than lots of backend changes as was the case with Vista).
Erm, they also gave out disks, and some have installed it on lower hardware. See here where they install it on a Celeron lappy. Microsoft demonstrated it running on a netbook. I can't remember where, but I recall reading a review of Windows 7 where they installed it on a laptop with 1 gig of ram, and said it ran as smooth as XP on the machine.
Not to mention, giving out a laptop with known devices and hardware for a pre-beta built isn't exactly out of the ordinary. That way Microsoft can ensure that all the devices and drivers on that laptop are actually supported (remember: PRE-BETA). Not to mention the specs for those computers aren't exactly out of the ordinary now, and will be either standard or 'underpowered' two years from now when Windows 7 will be released.
But your point is moot anyway, since they've already given out installer discs, and people have installed it on a variety of hardware and still were impressed with the performance.
Ya, I really wish they get rid of their multiple editions. I see only need for Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server (and even if they want to stretch it, Windows 7 Home and Windows 7 Business/Pro like they did in XP), but 5 versions are ridiculous.
To be fair, I think Microsoft this time around have been really careful with what they promise for Windows 7. Seems like they learned from their mistakes with Vista, and now that they have a stable, solid kernel (whether you'd like to believe it or not), a lot of the headaches from Vista's development are simply not there.
Let me introduce you to my little friend goldeneye, FPS on a console and that was ~10 years ago
Between Goldeneye and Halo, how many succesful, good FPS were there on a console? Since Halo, how many good, successful FPS games are there?
I thought it was just delayed
Thanks for proving my point for me. Milking the franchise would have launched the game whether it's ready or not, since it's Halo it would have selled regardless. But no, Microsoft decided to delay it to do it right.
Let's see...Halo helped establish a new console manufacturer in the gaming industry, polished the FPS on consoles and had its design elements copied into subsequent FPS games that are now considered standard, yet it's not revolutionary?
If Microsoft was milking the Halo franchise, there would have been a Halo game at the launch of the 360, or a Halo game now (considering Halo 3 came out last year). We don't know what these 'more than three teams' are working on. Multiple teams could be working on the same game. Even if they aren't, these games may see release years apart.
In fact, one of these Halo games coming out is already a known entity, Halo Wars, and is an RTS game, not an FPS.
It tells you what it's pitching at the end. I hate commercials that outright tell you what they're advertising from the getgo (worse, when the commercial is meant to be vague to get you interested, yet has the company logo slapped on the screen at all times).
Great commercials can still be great without throwing the product in your face.
Sorry, I don't know your accent when I try to read something, nor should I to be able to comprehend it. Spelling is still important. For example, it took me a couple of reads to understand the line "A wrong word but attempted to by phonically correct" (that by was supposed to be 'be'). When you're reading a sentence and see a completely different word than what the word is supposed to be, it does throw people off the mark when trying to comprehend what you wrote, because they try to put the incorrect word in context and it fails to make sense.
The misspellings after you cleaned up the l33t speak were introduced by the l33t speak generator I used online; my brain would start hurting if I tried to type like that.
If you note, I didn't correct your spelling. I merely had an issue with you saying 'I have bad spelling. Deal with it.' Had you mentioned you're dyslexic then, I wouldn't have said anything.
Deal with it? Perhaps, after someone pointed out your mistake, you can in the future learn from it, instead of telling us to 'deal with it'.
That wasn't a bad spelling or a random typo: you used a completely different word...twice. It made it difficult to read your post.
I wasn't aware I should look at the source code everytime I want to make sure something occured in an application. When I hit 'send' in gmail, do I need to look at the source code to make sure the email was sent?
Did I say Halo invented checkpoints? I was just alluding to the fact that it's checkpoint system was well-implemented. I can see where you could have mistaken what I meant though, since I didn't make that clear.
The two-weapon system was in my opinion just a workaround for not having a lot of keyboard keys to easily select weapons, rather than a wicked strategic choice.
You not liking Halo is your choice, but you really can't believe that? Firstly, there's been lots of great systems for consoles to select more than two weapons easily (hold a button, get a circular menu popup which you navigate with the analogue stick, voila), so saying Halo limiting you to two weapons as a lack of work around to lack of keyboard is...well, naive. Secondly, how is it not a strategic choice? Everytime you come across a new weapon you have to decide whether you should stick with what you have or swap it for a new one.
Also, the fact that lots of other games copied Halo's two-gun system seems to contradict your statement that it isn't a revolution (which would indicate it didn't have an impact on other games). Let's not forget it's auto-healing system and checkpoints, so you were more focused on playing than hunting for medkits. Sure, you may not like those features, and that's your prerogative, but you can't see Halo wasn't a significant game.
I'll give you the repeating corridors and floors. Though they fixed that in Halo 2...
According to Ars Technica, sites with proper HTML information will display in standards mode, and sites without will not. There's a button at the bottom that allows you to switch between the two.
I have to say, I like IE8. It won't make me switch from Opera, but it's much speedier to use than IE7, and I'll probably find myself using it instead of Firefox whenever I come across a website that doesn't work in Opera. (Which is rare, and whenever that happens and I launch Firefox, it prompts me if I want to update, which gets annoying).
Microsoft's OS and applications are disproportional at a far greater risk of being compromised than any other platform. That is a fact!
Microsoft's OS and applications also have the highest percentage of market share, hence if anyone seeking to compromise operating systems, it would be far more lucrative for them to do so with MS operating systems. Do you really believe that if Linux or OS X had 90% market share, they wouldn't be compromised?
For anything else flash does, well, do you really need that crap?
Name me a ubiquitous, web-based platform that can do live web conferencing ala vyew, conceptshare and octopz, that works right off the bat with no installation for 90% of users?
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Damnit, I really wish Slashdot's 'html formatted' posting method will put in the br tags automatically.
Linux community: "Windows sucks. They don't even have a decent app repository. In Linux I can find any program from one place!" Microsoft: "We're building an App Store" Linux community: "Zoinks! Theives! Scoundrels! Copycats!" Since when is it wrong for a company to see something it's competitor has done successfully, that was beneficial for both customers and developers, and then decide to do so for their own customers and developers? Seriously, how is this a bad thing that they're doing it? They've even acknowledged that their competitors had a good idea and that they've taken the concept from them. Jeez.
They brought in new management (I believe it was the head of the Office 2007 team). They are focusing less on kernel changes (which caused the massive headaches with Vista upon release, especially with drivers) and are working on improving UI and performance (ie, more user-centric changes rather than lots of backend changes as was the case with Vista).
Erm, they also gave out disks, and some have installed it on lower hardware. See here where they install it on a Celeron lappy. Microsoft demonstrated it running on a netbook. I can't remember where, but I recall reading a review of Windows 7 where they installed it on a laptop with 1 gig of ram, and said it ran as smooth as XP on the machine.
Not to mention, giving out a laptop with known devices and hardware for a pre-beta built isn't exactly out of the ordinary. That way Microsoft can ensure that all the devices and drivers on that laptop are actually supported (remember: PRE-BETA). Not to mention the specs for those computers aren't exactly out of the ordinary now, and will be either standard or 'underpowered' two years from now when Windows 7 will be released.
But your point is moot anyway, since they've already given out installer discs, and people have installed it on a variety of hardware and still were impressed with the performance.
Ya, I really wish they get rid of their multiple editions. I see only need for Windows 7 and Windows 7 Server (and even if they want to stretch it, Windows 7 Home and Windows 7 Business/Pro like they did in XP), but 5 versions are ridiculous.
To be fair, I think Microsoft this time around have been really careful with what they promise for Windows 7. Seems like they learned from their mistakes with Vista, and now that they have a stable, solid kernel (whether you'd like to believe it or not), a lot of the headaches from Vista's development are simply not there.
Did you see the part where it says the answer to your question is currently unknown?
I do. Is it supposed to be rare or something?
Let me introduce you to my little friend goldeneye, FPS on a console and that was ~10 years ago
Between Goldeneye and Halo, how many succesful, good FPS were there on a console? Since Halo, how many good, successful FPS games are there?
I thought it was just delayed
Thanks for proving my point for me. Milking the franchise would have launched the game whether it's ready or not, since it's Halo it would have selled regardless. But no, Microsoft decided to delay it to do it right.
Let's see...Halo helped establish a new console manufacturer in the gaming industry, polished the FPS on consoles and had its design elements copied into subsequent FPS games that are now considered standard, yet it's not revolutionary? If Microsoft was milking the Halo franchise, there would have been a Halo game at the launch of the 360, or a Halo game now (considering Halo 3 came out last year). We don't know what these 'more than three teams' are working on. Multiple teams could be working on the same game. Even if they aren't, these games may see release years apart. In fact, one of these Halo games coming out is already a known entity, Halo Wars, and is an RTS game, not an FPS.
It tells you what it's pitching at the end. I hate commercials that outright tell you what they're advertising from the getgo (worse, when the commercial is meant to be vague to get you interested, yet has the company logo slapped on the screen at all times). Great commercials can still be great without throwing the product in your face.
There are no special drivers, just generic userspace software, and userspace programs SHOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO CAUSE A KERNEL PANIC!
Tell that to my coworker's iMac running Leopard, which has been crashing at least once a day for the last week while running video editing software.
Quicktime? Decent? It's slow as molasses
Sorry, I don't know your accent when I try to read something, nor should I to be able to comprehend it. Spelling is still important. For example, it took me a couple of reads to understand the line "A wrong word but attempted to by phonically correct" (that by was supposed to be 'be'). When you're reading a sentence and see a completely different word than what the word is supposed to be, it does throw people off the mark when trying to comprehend what you wrote, because they try to put the incorrect word in context and it fails to make sense. The misspellings after you cleaned up the l33t speak were introduced by the l33t speak generator I used online; my brain would start hurting if I tried to type like that. If you note, I didn't correct your spelling. I merely had an issue with you saying 'I have bad spelling. Deal with it.' Had you mentioned you're dyslexic then, I wouldn't have said anything.
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Deal with it? Perhaps, after someone pointed out your mistake, you can in the future learn from it, instead of telling us to 'deal with it'. That wasn't a bad spelling or a random typo: you used a completely different word...twice. It made it difficult to read your post.
13 year old boys of any age?
I wasn't aware I should look at the source code everytime I want to make sure something occured in an application. When I hit 'send' in gmail, do I need to look at the source code to make sure the email was sent?
I believe IE8 already does that (runs tabs as separate processes)
Did I say Halo invented checkpoints? I was just alluding to the fact that it's checkpoint system was well-implemented. I can see where you could have mistaken what I meant though, since I didn't make that clear.
The two-weapon system was in my opinion just a workaround for not having a lot of keyboard keys to easily select weapons, rather than a wicked strategic choice.
You not liking Halo is your choice, but you really can't believe that? Firstly, there's been lots of great systems for consoles to select more than two weapons easily (hold a button, get a circular menu popup which you navigate with the analogue stick, voila), so saying Halo limiting you to two weapons as a lack of work around to lack of keyboard is...well, naive. Secondly, how is it not a strategic choice? Everytime you come across a new weapon you have to decide whether you should stick with what you have or swap it for a new one. Also, the fact that lots of other games copied Halo's two-gun system seems to contradict your statement that it isn't a revolution (which would indicate it didn't have an impact on other games). Let's not forget it's auto-healing system and checkpoints, so you were more focused on playing than hunting for medkits. Sure, you may not like those features, and that's your prerogative, but you can't see Halo wasn't a significant game.
I'll give you the repeating corridors and floors. Though they fixed that in Halo 2...
According to Ars Technica, sites with proper HTML information will display in standards mode, and sites without will not. There's a button at the bottom that allows you to switch between the two. I have to say, I like IE8. It won't make me switch from Opera, but it's much speedier to use than IE7, and I'll probably find myself using it instead of Firefox whenever I come across a website that doesn't work in Opera. (Which is rare, and whenever that happens and I launch Firefox, it prompts me if I want to update, which gets annoying).
No no no. They'll release it this year in time to coincide with the release of Duke Nukem Forever.
Microsoft's OS and applications are disproportional at a far greater risk of being compromised than any other platform. That is a fact!
Microsoft's OS and applications also have the highest percentage of market share, hence if anyone seeking to compromise operating systems, it would be far more lucrative for them to do so with MS operating systems. Do you really believe that if Linux or OS X had 90% market share, they wouldn't be compromised?
For anything else flash does, well, do you really need that crap? Name me a ubiquitous, web-based platform that can do live web conferencing ala vyew, conceptshare and octopz, that works right off the bat with no installation for 90% of users?