Actually, every person I know changes their default search engine to Google. Therefore, all these mistyped URLs will be redirected to GOOGLE's search engine. Research before making baseless assumptions much?
It does need APIs only available in Vista. DirectX 10. DirectX 10 is virtually a rewrite of DirectX according to the material I've read. DirectPlay is replaced with Live, DirectSound is replaced with XACT (I think that's it), and so on. And DirectX requires the new Vista driver model, which is so insanely different from WDDM that virtually no drivers work on it at this time.
MICROSOFT contracted and funded an open source project. You'd be surprised to learn that Microsoft has several projects on Sourceforge (WiX being another example). Microsoft's open source solutions are NEVER hosted at microsoft.com. They're either at CodePlex for.NET projects, or SourceForge for everything else. (Shared Source is a different story).
I'm confused on a couple of points. Why did you re-buy your games over the internet again? I distinctly recall that when you enter a Galactic Civilisations CD-Key into Stardock Central that it binds it to your account, allowing you to download updates - or indeed, the entire game - anywhere on any computer at will? And Steam, when you enter a Half-Life, Blue Shift, or whatever key into it binds the game to your account as well, allowing you to download the entire game at will as well.
Correction, Microsoft ALREADY added ODF support. Go download the addon off Sourceforge (http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/). Microsoft provides technical and architectural guidance, and pays for that project. I'm all for bashing MS where it's due, but try not to bash them on topics where you're wrong.
I do have to add to that, dual booting multiple Windows installations is not necessarily all that hard. And from what I've seen of the Boot Loader, theoretically Windows boot loader could in fact boot up GRUB or LILO (for the six people that still use LILO). It used to be quite easy in NT Vista, because you could just add the new OS (or an existing one) into boot.ini and it would show up in the list to start it. Unfortunately in Vista they decided that this was too easy and the boot loader now uses a different form of storage - EFI if available, file on disk if not. Presumably this was so they could support the EFI.
[smugness level="high"]Really ridiculous, the situations you Americans are in. We Dutchies have it much better:-) We get IRS-developed software for Windows, Linux and Mac OS, built with wxWidgets.[/smugness] And we New Zealanders don't have to file everything - the Inland Revenue Department automatically calculates it, and fires off a debt letter or refund cheque. We win.
The XBOX360 does support a mouse and keyboard. The problem is that game developers are too lazy to support it (although Square Enix does include that support in FFXI Online, not sure about Sega with Phantasy Star Universe). Just plug in a USB keyboard and go. You'll also be interested to note that the Xbox 360 can use a USB Mass Storage device (such as a flash card reader, PSP, iPod, or USB Flash Drive) as storage in lieu of an Xbox Memory Card.
I don't necessarily believe that's the fault of the employers. That's the fault of the IT Recruitment Agencies. These agencies often do not know anything about IT at all, but are tasked with finding, say, a C# developer with 3 years experience. When dealing with the employer directly, you could likely say "I have worked in Java for 10 years, and C# for the last 1. I have found that my Java experience is very relevant to C# and believe that I have the experience you need" and they could well bend the requirements. A recruiter will NOT bend the requirements because they know nothing of the topic.
Ah, but Microsoft doesn't charge me, as a person helping THEM as a company reach a larger customer base, $10,000 per year to be a VAR for them. Google does.
Oh, and I can't wait til ad's start popping up as users start entering data using the Google office apps. I can just see an accountant working in the spreadsheet and an ad for "Bankruptcy Liquidators" suddenly pop up. Haha, that's pretty good. Except that in the Premier edition, ads are optional (optional? Who in their right mind will turn them on?!?)
I'm not certain what the arrangement is, but probably a lease plus maintenance and upgrade contract. Nah. You pay a flat fee to buy the hardware. Support is what you pay for on an annual basis (the buy cost includes 1 year free though). It's actually a pretty good deal compared to most vertical appliances.
Nope, wrong. Still hosted. Still by Google. Oh, and GMail for your domain *IS* Google Apps For Your Domain (the service you mentioned in your first paragraph). Google hosts the application and data, you pay an access fee.
Agreed. Our government practices work life balance. And "glide time" (not sure what it is, but I think it's a buzzword for "not actually doing anything when you get stressed out by heavy workloads"). And it pays way more than private industry, with comprehensive benefits. And it doesn't need to worry about profits. Yup. I like my government job. (Disclaimer: Not USA, New Zealand).
Oh god, Copiepresse. Biggest pack of fucktards EVER. "You are allowed to drive people towards our websites and increase our readership, but you must PAY us for the priviledge of increasing our profits by increasing our readership. And no, that whole robots.txt thing isn't good enough, we should not have to go to an effort to stop your automated crawlers from seeing our site. We require money. Per click. In fact, pay us if someone even breathes in the direction of our member agencies."
Copiepresse executives need to go fuck themselves.
Nor did I say there should be no protection - in fact there's protection even now (fancy that!). However, I don't think it's the industry's decision how much legislation should be applied to be considered protection. That's the local authority's job. Another problem is the roundabout way the industry attempts to strongarm other countries into doing their bidding. Sure, submit your proposals to the government of said country asking for what you want, but it's disgusting to use your local government to strongarm the foreign government into passing laws for you.
And then that same movie industry can stop filming those same movies in Canada (and New Zealand, Australia, Austria, Africa, and so on). And bear in mind, American anti-piracy laws (DMCA, et al.) remove all sorts of important rights - i.e. Fair Use. Under the DMCA I supposedly cannot backup a copy of my own DVDs that I buy. Well, f*ck that. The USA can keep its moronic laws.
Runs like utter shite on my P4-3.2GHz with 1GB of RAM too. Blizzard's web designers and developers are an example of what's wrong with development these days - misusing intensive platforms because someone decided it looks pretty. When you're refreshing virtually the entire page, DON'T reload it via AJAX, just reload the damn page!
You'd think that OSDN has less money to maintain stable servers than Blizzard Entertainment huh. But no. Apparently Slashdot's pipe is bigger than Blizzards. Oooh kay... that sounded bad.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, every person I know changes their default search engine to Google. Therefore, all these mistyped URLs will be redirected to GOOGLE's search engine. Research before making baseless assumptions much?
Considering they had every legal right to crush him into financial dust for that, I reckon the kid got a pretty good deal.
It does need APIs only available in Vista. DirectX 10. DirectX 10 is virtually a rewrite of DirectX according to the material I've read. DirectPlay is replaced with Live, DirectSound is replaced with XACT (I think that's it), and so on. And DirectX requires the new Vista driver model, which is so insanely different from WDDM that virtually no drivers work on it at this time.
You are correct, it can. So long as it's USB, you're away. I don't recall, but I believe the PS2 can as well.
MICROSOFT contracted and funded an open source project. You'd be surprised to learn that Microsoft has several projects on Sourceforge (WiX being another example). Microsoft's open source solutions are NEVER hosted at microsoft.com. They're either at CodePlex for .NET projects, or SourceForge for everything else. (Shared Source is a different story).
I particularly liked how she referred to New Zealand's opinions as "quaint".
Stupid cow. We may not be a world power, but we aren't bloody quaint.
I'm confused on a couple of points. Why did you re-buy your games over the internet again? I distinctly recall that when you enter a Galactic Civilisations CD-Key into Stardock Central that it binds it to your account, allowing you to download updates - or indeed, the entire game - anywhere on any computer at will? And Steam, when you enter a Half-Life, Blue Shift, or whatever key into it binds the game to your account as well, allowing you to download the entire game at will as well.
Correction, Microsoft ALREADY added ODF support. Go download the addon off Sourceforge (http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/). Microsoft provides technical and architectural guidance, and pays for that project. I'm all for bashing MS where it's due, but try not to bash them on topics where you're wrong.
I do have to add to that, dual booting multiple Windows installations is not necessarily all that hard. And from what I've seen of the Boot Loader, theoretically Windows boot loader could in fact boot up GRUB or LILO (for the six people that still use LILO). It used to be quite easy in NT Vista, because you could just add the new OS (or an existing one) into boot.ini and it would show up in the list to start it. Unfortunately in Vista they decided that this was too easy and the boot loader now uses a different form of storage - EFI if available, file on disk if not. Presumably this was so they could support the EFI.
That's correct, but thanks to human ingenuity, there is a way.
The XBOX360 does support a mouse and keyboard. The problem is that game developers are too lazy to support it (although Square Enix does include that support in FFXI Online, not sure about Sega with Phantasy Star Universe). Just plug in a USB keyboard and go. You'll also be interested to note that the Xbox 360 can use a USB Mass Storage device (such as a flash card reader, PSP, iPod, or USB Flash Drive) as storage in lieu of an Xbox Memory Card.
I don't necessarily believe that's the fault of the employers. That's the fault of the IT Recruitment Agencies. These agencies often do not know anything about IT at all, but are tasked with finding, say, a C# developer with 3 years experience. When dealing with the employer directly, you could likely say "I have worked in Java for 10 years, and C# for the last 1. I have found that my Java experience is very relevant to C# and believe that I have the experience you need" and they could well bend the requirements. A recruiter will NOT bend the requirements because they know nothing of the topic.
Wrong. Terminal Server is beyond easy. It's bloody expensive though.
Ah, but Microsoft doesn't charge me, as a person helping THEM as a company reach a larger customer base, $10,000 per year to be a VAR for them. Google does.
Nope, wrong. Still hosted. Still by Google. Oh, and GMail for your domain *IS* Google Apps For Your Domain (the service you mentioned in your first paragraph). Google hosts the application and data, you pay an access fee.
Agreed. Our government practices work life balance. And "glide time" (not sure what it is, but I think it's a buzzword for "not actually doing anything when you get stressed out by heavy workloads"). And it pays way more than private industry, with comprehensive benefits. And it doesn't need to worry about profits. Yup. I like my government job. (Disclaimer: Not USA, New Zealand).
Oh god, Copiepresse. Biggest pack of fucktards EVER. "You are allowed to drive people towards our websites and increase our readership, but you must PAY us for the priviledge of increasing our profits by increasing our readership. And no, that whole robots.txt thing isn't good enough, we should not have to go to an effort to stop your automated crawlers from seeing our site. We require money. Per click. In fact, pay us if someone even breathes in the direction of our member agencies."
Copiepresse executives need to go fuck themselves.
Nor did I say there should be no protection - in fact there's protection even now (fancy that!). However, I don't think it's the industry's decision how much legislation should be applied to be considered protection. That's the local authority's job. Another problem is the roundabout way the industry attempts to strongarm other countries into doing their bidding. Sure, submit your proposals to the government of said country asking for what you want, but it's disgusting to use your local government to strongarm the foreign government into passing laws for you.
And then that same movie industry can stop filming those same movies in Canada (and New Zealand, Australia, Austria, Africa, and so on). And bear in mind, American anti-piracy laws (DMCA, et al.) remove all sorts of important rights - i.e. Fair Use. Under the DMCA I supposedly cannot backup a copy of my own DVDs that I buy. Well, f*ck that. The USA can keep its moronic laws.
Hey idiot,
Jan 09, 2007 - vendor releases patch
The news is done when THAT happens, not when someone discloses the non-issue.
Runs like utter shite on my P4-3.2GHz with 1GB of RAM too. Blizzard's web designers and developers are an example of what's wrong with development these days - misusing intensive platforms because someone decided it looks pretty. When you're refreshing virtually the entire page, DON'T reload it via AJAX, just reload the damn page!
You'd think that OSDN has less money to maintain stable servers than Blizzard Entertainment huh. But no. Apparently Slashdot's pipe is bigger than Blizzards. Oooh kay... that sounded bad.