I remember looking at their back catalog when I was considering whether to go work for them. Nothing. Everything they had were either franchises squeezed out of their originality by having over ten installments in each, or one-off cashcows based on popular movies at the given time. No originality whatsoever. Ubisoft have gone the way of EA.
Let's hope that's the beginning of a trend rather than an isolated case. Not that $40 matter much to me on a $1000 machine, but I'd never ever want to give them to Microsoft. If I ever get a Windows discount, I will donate it to the FSF or some other free software project.
But if they cannot do caps, at least they won't be able to advertise more than they deliver. Right now they advertise lightning speeds, but only until you hit the cap.
Until they decide to actually support Linux as they should, they must at least offer the ridiculously simple option of no fucking OS whatsoever, with a nice warning for the general population that this option is only for people who know what they're doing. How hard is that?
Some people use tabs for keep related pages into one window, while another set of related pages (but not related to the ones in the first set) sits in another window. There is probably some other UI concept that covers this case, although only time will tell if it works better than tabs.
I, on the other hand, mostly use tabs as a task list. If there are N links on a page that need processing (i.e. search results), I will quicly go over them with a ctrl-click, and get N tabs. Then I will start prcessing each, pressing ctrl-W when I'm done. This way I do not have to click back and forward, and I do not have to remember were I were if I decide to pause.
I can't see anything replacing tabs for the latter, short of some convoluted craziness that will only exist to "have something different". Anyone want to prove me wrong?
Just because Linux allows for customization, it does not mean customization is necessary. And while technical users will customize, most people will not.
Besides, cstomization takes time and effort. And while I've customized the hell out of my Gentoo desktop, I could not be bothered to do something like that again on a netbook. On anything other than said Gentoo desktop, the default Ubuntu experience is all I've ever wanted.
It uses the SAME kernel and lower-level internals as Vista, and the same technology for the higher levels - user interface Aero stuff, APIs, etc.
What they did in order to make it seem faster was remove some of the fat that waas running on Vista by default. It's 99% the same OS, but running less crap on top of the OS, so of course it seems faster.
If you do a few easy tweaks (disabling the right services etc.) to Vista it will run just like 7. Conversely, if you enable much of the crap that was disabled or missing in the BETA, and may or may not be enabled by default in the final release, you get Vista.
Seriously, they are the same thing, only with different things running by default.
This is typical Microsoft - selling the old technology as dramatically better than itself. Great marketing, no doubt. They got the mainstream to believe 7 was fundamentally faster, which it never was.
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Is THAT what it meant? And I thought they were already shipping the game! Damn.
Yes, yes, and yes. Flawless argument. It's just that when you're there and taken by surprise, the adrenalime won't let the logic kick in, much less leave it alone for its 10 seconds of observation.
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What the fuck is a ScrumMaster? What the fuck is this person asking? Seriously, how did this get in my RSS reader?
In Soviet Russia, Soviet Russia observes YOU!!!
Don't tell me you didn't see that coming.
Which is why you would not make a good mathematician.
Google TrueCrypt.
Here is my patent-pending Karma Burning Algorithm (TM):
if( GetOperatingSystem() == "Windows" ) return true;
else return false;
Simple!
I remember looking at their back catalog when I was considering whether to go work for them. Nothing. Everything they had were either franchises squeezed out of their originality by having over ten installments in each, or one-off cashcows based on popular movies at the given time. No originality whatsoever. Ubisoft have gone the way of EA.
Let's hope that's the beginning of a trend rather than an isolated case. Not that $40 matter much to me on a $1000 machine, but I'd never ever want to give them to Microsoft. If I ever get a Windows discount, I will donate it to the FSF or some other free software project.
Examples?
Let's do the math. Windows with IE, $200. Windows without IE, $400.
Therefore, cost of IE alone: -$200.
So that's how much IE is really worth!
I don't understand how it is legal to enact a law whose text is not public. Somebody please explain!
But if they cannot do caps, at least they won't be able to advertise more than they deliver. Right now they advertise lightning speeds, but only until you hit the cap.
So are these coming to Europe any time soon or will they be for the Asian market only?
Eight hours on a battery at a 200$ price point? Windows is dead.
Heh, the US has it easy. Try finding anything preinstalled with Linux in Bulgaria.
I long for the day when Microsoft's greed will not be able to set the direction of anything.
Microsoft did it: they managed to make ODF scary - it may or may not work. It was a brilliant FUD move.
Until they decide to actually support Linux as they should, they must at least offer the ridiculously simple option of no fucking OS whatsoever, with a nice warning for the general population that this option is only for people who know what they're doing. How hard is that?
he gets a big glass of water, takes everything off
I stopped reading right there.
Some people use tabs for keep related pages into one window, while another set of related pages (but not related to the ones in the first set) sits in another window. There is probably some other UI concept that covers this case, although only time will tell if it works better than tabs.
I, on the other hand, mostly use tabs as a task list. If there are N links on a page that need processing (i.e. search results), I will quicly go over them with a ctrl-click, and get N tabs. Then I will start prcessing each, pressing ctrl-W when I'm done. This way I do not have to click back and forward, and I do not have to remember were I were if I decide to pause.
I can't see anything replacing tabs for the latter, short of some convoluted craziness that will only exist to "have something different". Anyone want to prove me wrong?
It took my about 750 ms to get this one. Beautiful!
What's your point?
Just because Linux allows for customization, it does not mean customization is necessary. And while technical users will customize, most people will not.
Besides, cstomization takes time and effort. And while I've customized the hell out of my Gentoo desktop, I could not be bothered to do something like that again on a netbook. On anything other than said Gentoo desktop, the default Ubuntu experience is all I've ever wanted.
Is anyone surprised?
It uses the SAME kernel and lower-level internals as Vista, and the same technology for the higher levels - user interface Aero stuff, APIs, etc.
What they did in order to make it seem faster was remove some of the fat that waas running on Vista by default. It's 99% the same OS, but running less crap on top of the OS, so of course it seems faster.
If you do a few easy tweaks (disabling the right services etc.) to Vista it will run just like 7. Conversely, if you enable much of the crap that was disabled or missing in the BETA, and may or may not be enabled by default in the final release, you get Vista.
Seriously, they are the same thing, only with different things running by default.
This is typical Microsoft - selling the old technology as dramatically better than itself. Great marketing, no doubt. They got the mainstream to believe 7 was fundamentally faster, which it never was.
Is THAT what it meant? And I thought they were already shipping the game! Damn.
Such as?
blame yourself
You expect far too much from the average person.
Yes, yes, and yes. Flawless argument. It's just that when you're there and taken by surprise, the adrenalime won't let the logic kick in, much less leave it alone for its 10 seconds of observation.