This disclaimer is meaningless. A valid one might be: Disclaimer: I am not paid directly or indirectly by MS.
Can you back up that comment? Can you actually prove, with data, that there are posters on Slashdot that are paid by Microsoft to write postings like that? Or are you just shoveling bullshit?
If you can't prove the accusation, don't make it. Of course, the very fact that I'm skeptical means I'm probably paid by Microsoft, right?
It appeared on Slickdeals.net, Fark.com, etc. Microsoft got a huge amount of traffic really really fast for a program they probably didn't expect it on. Give them a break.
I understand all about the difference between content and layout, but I'd still say "DIV layout" when opposed to "table layout" because that's the term everybody else understands and uses. Suggesting that I need to say things like, "a proper website would put that content in a div to lay it out-- or maybe a span if it's inline, and also that span or div (or maybe a paragraph) should have a class describing what kind of thing it is, or maybe it actually is a table." If the original poster had replied with that, would you assume they know how all about HTML?
If I say "diesel locomotive" does that mean that I don't understand that the locomotive actually uses the diesel engine to drive a dynamo which then drives the wheels through an electric motor? No, of course not, it's just the commonly-used term to describe that object. (Given, there's a more technically correct "diesel-electric locomotive", but when you say "diesel locomotive" people know what you mean!.)
In short, you're being condescending because you're assuming that the poster doesn't understand the topic just because they're using different terminology than you are.
Sorry, I vote for pedantic. Also, kind of condescending. You know what he meant, stop being a jerk to prove how much smarter you are and start being nice.
I say, if it was the game that brought you the most fun this year, stood out the most as excellent, inspired you the most - that's your GOTY.
I guess I can respect his choice, although I do hope that he didn't choose Desktop Tower Defense because he was simply ignorant of the super-popular Starcraft MOD that's been around since 1999 or so.
Regardless, by your argument, [long paragraph clipped] Care for me to go on?
Hell, I didn't even ask for you to reply in the first place.;)
Apple just sucks it up and pays it. Although it does suck that they have to.
If you order a $0.99 track on iTunes, they'll not bill you for a few days in the hopes that you order more tracks before they get around to billing and can save a bit on the transaction fee. If you go about 48-72 hours without buying anymore more, though, they just suck it up and pay it. I wonder what percentage Apple's throwing away in credit card transaction fees compared to, say, Amazon. Or Xbox Live for that matter.
You've just communicated why I buy Xbox games and not PC games (whenever possible.) Sure, Xbox has all kinds of DRM, but it doesn't screw with me just putting in the game disk and pressing "Start" on the controller whenever I like.
Yeah, but Desktop Tower Defense was a tapped-out concept when it was a Starcraft MOD. All this guy's done is taken the Starcraft map, adapted it to Flash with some cute hand-drawn graphics, and that's game of the year?
I'm not saying game of the year has to be a huge budget hit, but it at least should be somewhat original.
Now, get a big player like Microsoft or Adobe to introduce a serious "fluid page description language" that could cope with the nature of web browsing and supported easy, powerful layout constructs and things like animation, multimedia and basics like vector graphics and fonts reasonably, and I think you'd have a winner. But realistically, if it doesn't have the commercial backing of a big player like that (and I'm sorry, but if your software isn't on the majority of browsing desktops you don't count), it's hard to see something like this catching on any time soon.
I hate these databases because a man is either safe to be in society, or he's not. This halfway crap is simply dangerous and unnecessary.
If you were in the slammer because of child molestation and you're still dangerous, you shouldn't be released. Period. However, if you were in the slammer because of child molestation, and you were released because a competent psychiatrist or official declares you cured and therefore not dangerous, you should be as free as anybody else in the street.
This is probably just a gag. Stop being so serious. Fark's been trying to name stadiums and other landmarks "UFIA" for ages. (You can Google what UFIA stands for.)
(Although it looks like all of those models are discontinued. I have an older 256 MB one I use to keep critical backups close to my ass, where they belong.)
Microsoft wasn't late to this party; Windows NT 4 worked just fine when logged in as a non-admin. Microsoft's army of software developers, however, never got the hint. Now that Vista basically forces them to follow the user-separation rules, they're actually starting to fix all the bugs their software had all along. Anybody who tried to run Windows 2000 or Windows XP as a regular user can vouch for that-- all (or almost all) Microsoft software worked fine, but very little third party software did.
I hate to say it, but I agree with the grandparent. It's probably trying to write into Program Files or into the computer's Registry (as opposed to the user's home folder or the user's registry) when it prompts you. Have you called up the company to ask about Vista compatibility?
I have Vista Ultimate, and UAC for me is simply not an issue. I get it sometimes when I want to change settings, but only settings where it makes sense to get it. (Like going into the Services administrator tool, or the GUI for my anti-virus.) I do have some gripes; for instance, it would be nice to see what services are running without needing a prompt, and then just getting prompted when I try to stop or restart one, but that's a relatively minor gripe.
I think most people's bad experiences with UAC are simply from badly-designed software. No, EA, Battlefield: 2142 doesn't need a UAC prompt; the fact that a video game is doing anything to trigger that means that it's doing something very wrong.
No, but it's below my comment threshold. But I think mostly you're upset that someone with a moderation bonus pointed out your stupid posting, instead of an anonymous coward who'll be filtered out. Poor baby.
Yeah, but the problem is that you need to build thousands and thousands of wind turbines to match a single nuclear plant, and even when you do that they're not nearly as good. This article is actually talking about base power, which wind simply can not provide, or at least not guarantee.
and finally you don't have to figure out which group of NIMBYs to send off your spent nuclear waste to, how to settle the resulting lawsuits
Unfortunately, the magical elf wind farms are also subject to NIMBY idiots. Many of them environmentalists who claim that the turbines "kill birds." They don't kill more birds than the average freeway or office block, and we already have millions of those, but that argument doesn't phase the environmentalist idiots.
Calculate in the costs of building a nuke plant, and then the (open-ended) costs of getting its fuel, of managing its waste, of securing the entire lifecycle, and the costs of occasional leaks (no engineering is perfect)...
Reported nuke costs don't reflect reality.
And wind turbines are built and maintained for free by magical elves!
Oh yeah, let's just go back to when everyone burned wood and entire continents became de-forested because there was no central government to protect forests. Oh, and since there's no police, you have to carry a gun everywhere to handle that segment of society that decides it's easier to take someone else's food than to grow their own. And even on a well-run farm, there's a very real possibility of starvation during winter months. Things were so much better then!
Of course, without any heavy industry or technology, we'd have to kill off something like 2/3rds of the current human population to get to your desired level of inefficiency, so you're basically promoting the largest genocide mankind has ever known.
Oh, and to put the icing on the cake, the fact that you're posting this sentiment on Slashdot of all sites makes you pretty much the biggest hypocrite I've ever seen in my life.
Other than some funny flash cartoons and some cool flash based games it has been a massive wart on the face of the WWW.
There was a huge need and Macromedia filled it with Flash. It's popular because people (other than snobby Slashdot posters) like it. Sure, we all hate those all-Flash sites that you can't link to because they're all one giant.swf file, but that's nothing against Flash-- any technology can be abused.
Now, finally, we have Microsoft competing with Silverlight. Silverlight's Flash plus, all the animation tools of Flash with full DOM access so Javascript can interact with it. Sounds like a win-win to me, if you're not a snobby Slashdot poster at least. (In fact, I'm kind of surprised that Microsoft's the first one to really throw down the glove and attempt to compete with Flash.)
The simple fact that the PS3 and X360 have some form of backward compatibility means the architechture ISNT completely new.
Both PS3 and Xbox 360 do backwards-compatibility via software emulation. The architecture is "completely new," at least as much completely new as any console is over the last generation.
Early versions of the PS3 had backwards-compatibility via hardware, but they ditched that feature when they realized: 1) it made their console even more expensive to make, 2) the software emulator was covering 90%+ of games. The PS2 hardware components inside the PS3 were completely useless to the rest of the console when used on PS3 games, unlike the PS2's re-using of the PS1 CPU. (Note: I don't own a PS3, so I'm not really qualified to speak to this, but that's my impression given the articles I've read.)
The Xbox 360 has been software emulation from day one, and their emulator isn't nearly as good as Sony's. (You can't really blame them since Xbox games are so much more sophisticated than PS2 games, and Sony's console has more CPU power.)
Yeah, the wii has backward compatibility too, but they don't aim their marketing campaign at tech-savvy people who care about hardware as much as you do.
The Wii has backwards-compatibility because it's an overclocked Gamecube. I'm not passing a value judgement on that, it's just a pretty accurate summary of what the Wii is. Note, to read Gamecube disks, they needed to install a DVD player that was capable of spinning backwards to read the goofy small Gamecube disks.
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This disclaimer is meaningless. A valid one might be: Disclaimer: I am not paid directly or indirectly by MS.
Can you back up that comment? Can you actually prove, with data, that there are posters on Slashdot that are paid by Microsoft to write postings like that? Or are you just shoveling bullshit?
If you can't prove the accusation, don't make it. Of course, the very fact that I'm skeptical means I'm probably paid by Microsoft, right?
It appeared on Slickdeals.net, Fark.com, etc. Microsoft got a huge amount of traffic really really fast for a program they probably didn't expect it on. Give them a break.
I understand all about the difference between content and layout, but I'd still say "DIV layout" when opposed to "table layout" because that's the term everybody else understands and uses. Suggesting that I need to say things like, "a proper website would put that content in a div to lay it out-- or maybe a span if it's inline, and also that span or div (or maybe a paragraph) should have a class describing what kind of thing it is, or maybe it actually is a table." If the original poster had replied with that, would you assume they know how all about HTML?
If I say "diesel locomotive" does that mean that I don't understand that the locomotive actually uses the diesel engine to drive a dynamo which then drives the wheels through an electric motor? No, of course not, it's just the commonly-used term to describe that object. (Given, there's a more technically correct "diesel-electric locomotive", but when you say "diesel locomotive" people know what you mean!.)
In short, you're being condescending because you're assuming that the poster doesn't understand the topic just because they're using different terminology than you are.
Sorry, I vote for pedantic. Also, kind of condescending. You know what he meant, stop being a jerk to prove how much smarter you are and start being nice.
I say, if it was the game that brought you the most fun this year, stood out the most as excellent, inspired you the most - that's your GOTY.
;)
I guess I can respect his choice, although I do hope that he didn't choose Desktop Tower Defense because he was simply ignorant of the super-popular Starcraft MOD that's been around since 1999 or so.
Regardless, by your argument, [long paragraph clipped] Care for me to go on?
Hell, I didn't even ask for you to reply in the first place.
Apple just sucks it up and pays it. Although it does suck that they have to.
If you order a $0.99 track on iTunes, they'll not bill you for a few days in the hopes that you order more tracks before they get around to billing and can save a bit on the transaction fee. If you go about 48-72 hours without buying anymore more, though, they just suck it up and pay it. I wonder what percentage Apple's throwing away in credit card transaction fees compared to, say, Amazon. Or Xbox Live for that matter.
The award acceptance they interrupted was the LAST one we would've wanted to interrupt
Then why did you? Assholes.
You've just communicated why I buy Xbox games and not PC games (whenever possible.) Sure, Xbox has all kinds of DRM, but it doesn't screw with me just putting in the game disk and pressing "Start" on the controller whenever I like.
Yeah, but Desktop Tower Defense was a tapped-out concept when it was a Starcraft MOD. All this guy's done is taken the Starcraft map, adapted it to Flash with some cute hand-drawn graphics, and that's game of the year?
I'm not saying game of the year has to be a huge budget hit, but it at least should be somewhat original.
Make sure you know of what you speak:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/11/26/6523907.aspx
The registry is better than text files in many ways, all of which are outlined in that post.
Now, get a big player like Microsoft or Adobe to introduce a serious "fluid page description language" that could cope with the nature of web browsing and supported easy, powerful layout constructs and things like animation, multimedia and basics like vector graphics and fonts reasonably, and I think you'd have a winner. But realistically, if it doesn't have the commercial backing of a big player like that (and I'm sorry, but if your software isn't on the majority of browsing desktops you don't count), it's hard to see something like this catching on any time soon.
I think you just described Silverlight.
I hate these databases because a man is either safe to be in society, or he's not. This halfway crap is simply dangerous and unnecessary.
If you were in the slammer because of child molestation and you're still dangerous, you shouldn't be released. Period. However, if you were in the slammer because of child molestation, and you were released because a competent psychiatrist or official declares you cured and therefore not dangerous, you should be as free as anybody else in the street.
This is probably just a gag. Stop being so serious. Fark's been trying to name stadiums and other landmarks "UFIA" for ages. (You can Google what UFIA stands for.)
Just FYI, they do make wallet-sized USB keys:
http://www.flashmemorystore.com/pqi-usb-flash-pen-drives.html
(Although it looks like all of those models are discontinued. I have an older 256 MB one I use to keep critical backups close to my ass, where they belong.)
Microsoft wasn't late to this party; Windows NT 4 worked just fine when logged in as a non-admin. Microsoft's army of software developers, however, never got the hint. Now that Vista basically forces them to follow the user-separation rules, they're actually starting to fix all the bugs their software had all along. Anybody who tried to run Windows 2000 or Windows XP as a regular user can vouch for that-- all (or almost all) Microsoft software worked fine, but very little third party software did.
I hate to say it, but I agree with the grandparent. It's probably trying to write into Program Files or into the computer's Registry (as opposed to the user's home folder or the user's registry) when it prompts you. Have you called up the company to ask about Vista compatibility?
I have Vista Ultimate, and UAC for me is simply not an issue. I get it sometimes when I want to change settings, but only settings where it makes sense to get it. (Like going into the Services administrator tool, or the GUI for my anti-virus.) I do have some gripes; for instance, it would be nice to see what services are running without needing a prompt, and then just getting prompted when I try to stop or restart one, but that's a relatively minor gripe.
I think most people's bad experiences with UAC are simply from badly-designed software. No, EA, Battlefield: 2142 doesn't need a UAC prompt; the fact that a video game is doing anything to trigger that means that it's doing something very wrong.
No, but it's below my comment threshold. But I think mostly you're upset that someone with a moderation bonus pointed out your stupid posting, instead of an anonymous coward who'll be filtered out. Poor baby.
Yeah, but the problem is that you need to build thousands and thousands of wind turbines to match a single nuclear plant, and even when you do that they're not nearly as good. This article is actually talking about base power, which wind simply can not provide, or at least not guarantee.
and finally you don't have to figure out which group of NIMBYs to send off your spent nuclear waste to, how to settle the resulting lawsuits
Unfortunately, the magical elf wind farms are also subject to NIMBY idiots. Many of them environmentalists who claim that the turbines "kill birds." They don't kill more birds than the average freeway or office block, and we already have millions of those, but that argument doesn't phase the environmentalist idiots.
Calculate in the costs of building a nuke plant, and then the (open-ended) costs of getting its fuel, of managing its waste, of securing the entire lifecycle, and the costs of occasional leaks (no engineering is perfect)...
Reported nuke costs don't reflect reality.
And wind turbines are built and maintained for free by magical elves!
Oh yeah, let's just go back to when everyone burned wood and entire continents became de-forested because there was no central government to protect forests. Oh, and since there's no police, you have to carry a gun everywhere to handle that segment of society that decides it's easier to take someone else's food than to grow their own. And even on a well-run farm, there's a very real possibility of starvation during winter months. Things were so much better then!
Of course, without any heavy industry or technology, we'd have to kill off something like 2/3rds of the current human population to get to your desired level of inefficiency, so you're basically promoting the largest genocide mankind has ever known.
Oh, and to put the icing on the cake, the fact that you're posting this sentiment on Slashdot of all sites makes you pretty much the biggest hypocrite I've ever seen in my life.
Congratulations.
I consider myself green and am looking into installing Solar when the price drops a bit more.
Problem is that solar has been just around the bend for 20 years now. At this point, it's just crying wolf. Plus I live in Western Washington.
Dude, Godzilla kicks ass. I'm gonna smog the hell out of this earth as soon as I can!
Other than some funny flash cartoons and some cool flash based games it has been a massive wart on the face of the WWW.
.swf file, but that's nothing against Flash-- any technology can be abused.
There was a huge need and Macromedia filled it with Flash. It's popular because people (other than snobby Slashdot posters) like it. Sure, we all hate those all-Flash sites that you can't link to because they're all one giant
Now, finally, we have Microsoft competing with Silverlight. Silverlight's Flash plus, all the animation tools of Flash with full DOM access so Javascript can interact with it. Sounds like a win-win to me, if you're not a snobby Slashdot poster at least. (In fact, I'm kind of surprised that Microsoft's the first one to really throw down the glove and attempt to compete with Flash.)
They're also not "budget." A 4GB Cowon MP3 player costs $130.
The simple fact that the PS3 and X360 have some form of backward compatibility means the architechture ISNT completely new.
Both PS3 and Xbox 360 do backwards-compatibility via software emulation. The architecture is "completely new," at least as much completely new as any console is over the last generation.
Early versions of the PS3 had backwards-compatibility via hardware, but they ditched that feature when they realized: 1) it made their console even more expensive to make, 2) the software emulator was covering 90%+ of games. The PS2 hardware components inside the PS3 were completely useless to the rest of the console when used on PS3 games, unlike the PS2's re-using of the PS1 CPU. (Note: I don't own a PS3, so I'm not really qualified to speak to this, but that's my impression given the articles I've read.)
The Xbox 360 has been software emulation from day one, and their emulator isn't nearly as good as Sony's. (You can't really blame them since Xbox games are so much more sophisticated than PS2 games, and Sony's console has more CPU power.)
Yeah, the wii has backward compatibility too, but they don't aim their marketing campaign at tech-savvy people who care about hardware as much as you do.
The Wii has backwards-compatibility because it's an overclocked Gamecube. I'm not passing a value judgement on that, it's just a pretty accurate summary of what the Wii is. Note, to read Gamecube disks, they needed to install a DVD player that was capable of spinning backwards to read the goofy small Gamecube disks.