I thought the whole point was that when books are in demand, prices increase, and as things fall out of favour, price decreases? Why should a book that few people want cost as much next week as it did this week? Compete, make a book people want to read, people will pay for it.
Funny, there are millions of other folks using the Zune's, both the old Zune 1st Gen and the 2nd Gen devices without these so called issues you are running into.
There is a full forum, free, online for the Zune at Zune.net and I don't see people complaining like you...
While the DRM part is accurate (and why is it Microsoft's fault the company that provided the music originally pulled its license? Clue: it isn't its the fault of the folks that OWN the licenses to the music, not Microsoft, but its easier to throw rocks at Microsoft than it is some record company right?), the rest of the Facebook (now Slashdot is trolling Facebook to find AntiMicrosoft and DRM rhetoric?), is simply put, bunk, or this fellows crappy computer. I too use a Zune and have NONE of the issues he is having. While the Zune software can take a few seconds to start, mostly due to the login to the Zune Music Store, it does NOT lock up your computer at ALL. And plugging the Zune in works just fine. Closing the Zune software is instant and painless. Pesonally I think its PEBKAC, but again its easier just to blame Microsoft than it is the end user...
Which more or less means the game will be a retail failure. Even the mighty MGS4 has show exclusives on the PS3 simply do not fare well. One week of great sales, and then into the toilet.
MGS4 was on the books for one month before it slid under the top 20 in both the US and Japan. I hope Sony is paying well.
You do understand that IE 7 was pushed via Windows Update at the END OF OCTOBER 2006 right? Moving your goal posts around just makes you keep looking like the anti-Microsoft frothing fool.
You see some of us are in touch with the real world and know that IE 7 was pushed out more than a year ago via Windows Update to Joe Consumer. Also most of us are very well aware that WSUS is intelligent and understand when you are connected as a telecommuter.
Its kinda cool how thinking PROPERLY works and doing more than two or three attempts at googling an answer.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled poor attempts at FUD and anti-Microsoft propaganda based in nothing but.
Did you even bother to read the OP? What part of, and I quote The IE7 upgrade scheduled to roll out via WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) on Feb. 12 was announced last October didn't you understand. I don't know very many home users with a WSUS box up and running.
The whole ARTICLE IS ABOUT WSUS, not home users, WSUS.
Thanks for proving my point about Linux fanboi's seeing only what they want to see.
IT still needs to approve the update via WSUS for IE 7 to get deployed. If its not an approved update you don't get it.
Of course this is Slashdot, you are allowed to spout all the innacurate crap you want, as long as its crap slung at Microsoft.
If people had bothered to read they would have noticed this in the "warning" from Microsoft:
you have configured WSUS to "auto-approve" Update Rollup packages (this is not the default configuration), Windows Internet Explorer 7 will be automatically approved for installation after February 12, 2008 and consequently, you may want to take the actions below to manage how and when this update is installed
Thanks again Slashdot for proving the Linux camp really are full of a bunch of anti-Microsoft loonies who read only what they want to read.
The iPod doesn't play ANY WMA files. Personally I find WMA files sound better than MP3 files (your milage may vary), thus I use a Zune. Plus I like to Think Different.
What they don't tell you about that lawsuit is that McDonalds ended up suing the town or state (not sure which one) that required the coffee to be at 140 degrees which was hotter than the McDonalds standard temperatures for serving coffee. McDonalds ended up getting 80% of the money back they lost to the woman in the suit.
Break the law, go to jail. You don't have to like the laws, but breaking them ain't going to do you a bit of good. And then to go as far as start messing with the cops? Good going there Dan! Enjoy your time in prison!
OpenGL does NOT have the same feature set of DirectX.
yes, OpenGL contains some of the same functionality of a subset of DirectX (namely DirectX Graphics, and its Direct3D API), but DirectX is a lot more than just 3D. It contains a LOT more... In fact in order to reach the functionality of DirectX, you need to include such goodies as SDL, OpenAL, OpenGL and more than likely a bunch of others.
We won't even get into the functionality that XNA gives the developers.
Care to remember all the issues the space program had with its first rockets? This is still far from an exact science, as thanks to NASA, most of the civilian rocket crews for the large stuff is still playing guessing games.
They will get it... and when they do its going to be a whole new world. Literally.
They say in the press release "revealed a problem with the network allocation algorithm resulting in a couple days of downtime"...
And then blame it on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday? Um, Microsoft has been doing Patch Tuesdays for quite a while now. Why didn't the same issue occur a few months ago when Microsoft relased almost double the number of patches as this month?
In other words, Skype has no one to blame but themselves and need to shift it off elsewhere.
Since it's not installed out of the box on XP, Win2k3 or Vista, its then someone installing it because they want to.
Someone installing IIS on their home computer is more than likely aware of Apache and didn't install it for whatever reason.
Maybe the decline in Apache is due to the leaps IIS has taken in both reliablity (4 of the top 10 hosts with the best reliablity are running W2k3), supportability, expandiblity and security. Not to mention OOTB it can do a lot more than Apache does OOTB.
1.) You can get full installs of Vista for less than full versions of MacOS X.
2.) You can run Vista (without Aero) just fine on older hardware.
3.) There are quite a few FREE AV's out there that work fine.
4.) Build the computer, run Windows update. No different than any other OS with patches for the OS and applications.
Maybe if you stopped trolling you would see for most people, it is worth it...
of course just for saying the truth about Vista, I'll be modded down because some Slashdot people just can't handle little things like the truth...
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I thought the whole point was that when books are in demand, prices increase, and as things fall out of favour, price decreases? Why should a book that few people want cost as much next week as it did this week? Compete, make a book people want to read, people will pay for it.
Price/Performance of the i7's is actually quite decent.
Funny, there are millions of other folks using the Zune's, both the old Zune 1st Gen and the 2nd Gen devices without these so called issues you are running into.
There is a full forum, free, online for the Zune at Zune.net and I don't see people complaining like you...
While the DRM part is accurate (and why is it Microsoft's fault the company that provided the music originally pulled its license? Clue: it isn't its the fault of the folks that OWN the licenses to the music, not Microsoft, but its easier to throw rocks at Microsoft than it is some record company right?), the rest of the Facebook (now Slashdot is trolling Facebook to find AntiMicrosoft and DRM rhetoric?), is simply put, bunk, or this fellows crappy computer. I too use a Zune and have NONE of the issues he is having. While the Zune software can take a few seconds to start, mostly due to the login to the Zune Music Store, it does NOT lock up your computer at ALL. And plugging the Zune in works just fine. Closing the Zune software is instant and painless. Pesonally I think its PEBKAC, but again its easier just to blame Microsoft than it is the end user...
Um, just when was the US Antitrust trial?
How many versions of Windows have been released since then?
This isn't 1998 anymore..
Like Slashdot doesn't grind an axe against anything Microsoft or Windows related.
None the less, I speak the truth. Numbers are easily found.
Which more or less means the game will be a retail failure. Even the mighty MGS4 has show exclusives on the PS3 simply do not fare well. One week of great sales, and then into the toilet.
MGS4 was on the books for one month before it slid under the top 20 in both the US and Japan. I hope Sony is paying well.
1.) IE 8 is still in Beta. I'm sure most folks remember what that means. As in not quite feature complete yet?
2.) If people bothered to take a few minutes to read, you would see that it only impacts INTRANET sites, people do understand what that means correct?
I know a good portion of Slashdot just wants to flamethrower all that Microsoft does, but at least take the time to read.
PS: This post coming to you from IE 8 Beta2.
Yes folks, only on Slashdots are anti-Microsoft trolls given "interesting" ratings...
Yeah never mind the fact that Vista has only sold 100 million copies to the end of December and that Microsoft had it's best quarter in history.
Watch as the Linux fanboi's slowly reduce the OP down further and further. Seems to me the truth hurts too much for them.
You do understand that IE 7 was pushed via Windows Update at the END OF OCTOBER 2006 right? Moving your goal posts around just makes you keep looking like the anti-Microsoft frothing fool.
You see some of us are in touch with the real world and know that IE 7 was pushed out more than a year ago via Windows Update to Joe Consumer. Also most of us are very well aware that WSUS is intelligent and understand when you are connected as a telecommuter.
Its kinda cool how thinking PROPERLY works and doing more than two or three attempts at googling an answer.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled poor attempts at FUD and anti-Microsoft propaganda based in nothing but.
Did you even bother to read the OP? What part of, and I quote The IE7 upgrade scheduled to roll out via WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) on Feb. 12 was announced last October didn't you understand. I don't know very many home users with a WSUS box up and running.
The whole ARTICLE IS ABOUT WSUS, not home users, WSUS.
Thanks for proving my point about Linux fanboi's seeing only what they want to see.
IT still needs to approve the update via WSUS for IE 7 to get deployed. If its not an approved update you don't get it.
Of course this is Slashdot, you are allowed to spout all the innacurate crap you want, as long as its crap slung at Microsoft.
If people had bothered to read they would have noticed this in the "warning" from Microsoft: you have configured WSUS to "auto-approve" Update Rollup packages (this is not the default configuration), Windows Internet Explorer 7 will be automatically approved for installation after February 12, 2008 and consequently, you may want to take the actions below to manage how and when this update is installed
Thanks again Slashdot for proving the Linux camp really are full of a bunch of anti-Microsoft loonies who read only what they want to read.
But the Zune DOES play AAC files.
The iPod doesn't play ANY WMA files. Personally I find WMA files sound better than MP3 files (your milage may vary), thus I use a Zune. Plus I like to Think Different.
If Google and the other boys wanna sue Microsoft for everything, its only fair that Microsoft be able to do the same. You can't have it both ways.
What they don't tell you about that lawsuit is that McDonalds ended up suing the town or state (not sure which one) that required the coffee to be at 140 degrees which was hotter than the McDonalds standard temperatures for serving coffee. McDonalds ended up getting 80% of the money back they lost to the woman in the suit.
Break the law, go to jail. You don't have to like the laws, but breaking them ain't going to do you a bit of good. And then to go as far as start messing with the cops? Good going there Dan! Enjoy your time in prison!
How many times does it need to be said...
OpenGL does NOT have the same feature set of DirectX.
yes, OpenGL contains some of the same functionality of a subset of DirectX (namely DirectX Graphics, and its Direct3D API), but DirectX is a lot more than just 3D. It contains a LOT more... In fact in order to reach the functionality of DirectX, you need to include such goodies as SDL, OpenAL, OpenGL and more than likely a bunch of others.
We won't even get into the functionality that XNA gives the developers.
Funny, it works just fine under Vista x64...
Um, ever since apple started using Intel CPU's, all Apple computer have been are Apple branded PC's. Motherboards, memory, CPU, all PC...
Care to remember all the issues the space program had with its first rockets? This is still far from an exact science, as thanks to NASA, most of the civilian rocket crews for the large stuff is still playing guessing games.
They will get it... and when they do its going to be a whole new world. Literally.
They say in the press release "revealed a problem with the network allocation algorithm resulting in a couple days of downtime"...
And then blame it on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday? Um, Microsoft has been doing Patch Tuesdays for quite a while now. Why didn't the same issue occur a few months ago when Microsoft relased almost double the number of patches as this month?
In other words, Skype has no one to blame but themselves and need to shift it off elsewhere.
Since it's not installed out of the box on XP, Win2k3 or Vista, its then someone installing it because they want to.
Someone installing IIS on their home computer is more than likely aware of Apache and didn't install it for whatever reason.
Maybe the decline in Apache is due to the leaps IIS has taken in both reliablity (4 of the top 10 hosts with the best reliablity are running W2k3), supportability, expandiblity and security. Not to mention OOTB it can do a lot more than Apache does OOTB.
Stop being a freaking troll.
1.) You can get full installs of Vista for less than full versions of MacOS X.
2.) You can run Vista (without Aero) just fine on older hardware.
3.) There are quite a few FREE AV's out there that work fine.
4.) Build the computer, run Windows update. No different than any other OS with patches for the OS and applications.
Maybe if you stopped trolling you would see for most people, it is worth it...
of course just for saying the truth about Vista, I'll be modded down because some Slashdot people just can't handle little things like the truth...