From the article:
1. A spiritual side of the branding experience. A short, brief, positive confirmation that your machine is now concious and ready to react. You can turn on your Vista machine, go eat some cereal, while your machine is cold booting and then this gentle sound will come out telling you that you can log in. You won't need to wait for your machine to startup, he says.
Does it really take that long for Vista to boot up?
Can we have less features and just bug-fixes? I mean, the reason I used Firefox in the first place was because it was tiny. Don't go making it into Netscape again..
Everyone knows paper fits in the tubes! Sure, sometimes you need a horse running through to clean them out, but if paper didn't fit, how would it get all the way to my monitor??
I mean, I know a lot of people who just recently stopped playing WoW and we all know why. It's boring as hell. You don't realize it at first, but then one day you'll be out in the middle of nowhere killing spiders for 3 hours when it dawns on you, "Whoa! I could be doing something fun instead of trying to get to level 60 to impress people on the internet!"
Really, good graphics + non-repetitive + a good chat system = profit.
And yes, I know making a non-repetitive MMO isn't as easy as making a repetitive one, but if someone wants to beat WoW, that's what they have to do.
I only read the title (too lazy to even read the summary), but really.. who cares if a home user loses all of their precious mp3s and 10,000 pictures of themself. I mean, there are things that you want to keep safe, but what home user has so many documents and priceless pictures that they can't fit them on a single DVD?
To make backups easy, just stop backing up every useless piece of crap on your computer. I mean, if I backed up my entire computer, I'd have an entire DVD of World of Warcraft, another DVD filled with other programs I could redownload or install from CDs, another DVD filled with system files that you need to reinstall over every couples months anyway..
(For anyone who's still worried about their amazing mp3 collection, if you downloaded them from iTunes, you can just redownload for free, and if you ripped them from CDs, you're a moron if you threw the CDs away)
This isn't exactly on topic, but what I noticed from those screen shots (in the parent's link) was that M$ actually bothers to make their programs sexy. I mean really, don't you wish OpenOffice looked a little more like your shiny new OS instead of looking like Office 97?
(Don't mod me troll.. I use OO)
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I doubt anyone who is looking it at because it was linked from a news article saying "Check out this spam" is actually going to buy it..
I mean, it would suck if this became just another of those midnight posts that no one notices..
Irony: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs Sounds about right..
It's nice for small movements, but it's a pain in the ass for large movements.
Seriously.. I bet it would. Wine is pretty impressive these days..
From the article: 1. A spiritual side of the branding experience. A short, brief, positive confirmation that your machine is now concious and ready to react. You can turn on your Vista machine, go eat some cereal, while your machine is cold booting and then this gentle sound will come out telling you that you can log in. You won't need to wait for your machine to startup, he says. Does it really take that long for Vista to boot up?
I'm curious if you could tell that it's a penguin..
Can we have less features and just bug-fixes? I mean, the reason I used Firefox in the first place was because it was tiny. Don't go making it into Netscape again..
Everyone knows paper fits in the tubes! Sure, sometimes you need a horse running through to clean them out, but if paper didn't fit, how would it get all the way to my monitor??
It's not like it's much of a spoiler, that happened like last season..
I mean, I know a lot of people who just recently stopped playing WoW and we all know why. It's boring as hell. You don't realize it at first, but then one day you'll be out in the middle of nowhere killing spiders for 3 hours when it dawns on you, "Whoa! I could be doing something fun instead of trying to get to level 60 to impress people on the internet!" Really, good graphics + non-repetitive + a good chat system = profit. And yes, I know making a non-repetitive MMO isn't as easy as making a repetitive one, but if someone wants to beat WoW, that's what they have to do.
Good thing we've got the government to do things that the private sector could never afford to do!
I only read the title (too lazy to even read the summary), but really.. who cares if a home user loses all of their precious mp3s and 10,000 pictures of themself. I mean, there are things that you want to keep safe, but what home user has so many documents and priceless pictures that they can't fit them on a single DVD? To make backups easy, just stop backing up every useless piece of crap on your computer. I mean, if I backed up my entire computer, I'd have an entire DVD of World of Warcraft, another DVD filled with other programs I could redownload or install from CDs, another DVD filled with system files that you need to reinstall over every couples months anyway.. (For anyone who's still worried about their amazing mp3 collection, if you downloaded them from iTunes, you can just redownload for free, and if you ripped them from CDs, you're a moron if you threw the CDs away)
I can't decide if that's completely heartless or hilarious..
Wouldn't that come out to around 4 or 5 lightbulbs?
If you read closely, it only has a bug for people who haven't updated to SP2 or something.
Why? - Seriously, how many people transfer multi-gigabyte files often enough for this to be worthwhile?
Easier != Better The "automorphing" OS may be decent at guessing what you want, but when you code it yourself, you get exactly what you want.
Remember, not ALL of Slashdot plays WoW (just 90%..)
The memory could be more expensive than you're used to because it's faster/higher quality memory. Good memory can cost a lot more than cheap memory.
Seems odd that they'd give out iPods out for something related to Linux. I was under the impression they didn't play well together..
This isn't exactly on topic, but what I noticed from those screen shots (in the parent's link) was that M$ actually bothers to make their programs sexy. I mean really, don't you wish OpenOffice looked a little more like your shiny new OS instead of looking like Office 97? (Don't mod me troll.. I use OO)
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't eating meat entirely natural?
Hey now! Windows won't stand up well against being hit with a stick either!
I'm just going to go out on a limb and assume that Sony wouldn't spend millions on a website that's losing money.