Perhaps we get better reception for 3 finally?
Well, we might. I can be optimistic right?
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I was actually at the launch in Dublin, were they gave us free copies of 7 Ultimate, and showed us a few little tricks of it interfacing with Windows Home server.
While I am a linux man, it was the ease of 7 I loved, and still continue to use. MS hit the nail on the head with this one.
And this is why anyone with a shred of sense always avoids those sorts of places, and looks to their local computer geek, or friends kids who have a clue. Since I was a kid I was the person people came to when they needed someone to check their computers.
However you'd expect places like this, that are a member of some "official" association would have more stringent checks, especially in this day and age of data theft.
All in all, not that surprising, but still a shock to those who just think a computer is something you get from dell to use the interweb.
It was actually one of the few decent shows out there at this time. What is it with Fox cancelling decent shows? Firefly, Terminator, and all they keep pumping out is more bloody simpsons (which is long in the tooth and terrible to be quite honest).
Let's just hope the new trilogy of Terminator movies (starting next month) are able to make up for it.
He broke into another countries military computer system. It's a crime. Now the fact that he is an absolute idiot (apparently he really didn't even "hack" per say) has nothing to do with it. The US military computer system may be a leaky ship, and I doubt he caused as much damage as they claim, but he did break the law.
Send him over, trial happens in US, and due to the treaty the UK has he can serve it in the UK.
I don't get what the big deal over all of it is really.
They've been doing it for years with Starcraft and a few other games, and it makes a fortune over there.
That being said basing anything of American football and concentrating on Counterstrike was bound to fail.
Now if they'd used Tribes 1 or 2....that could have been a lot more interesting.
...so this isn't surprising in the least. We had to fly with them two years ago, on their site it said in case of emergencies, such as bereavements they'd fly you back on the next flight, no extra charge. Well my wife's grandmother died suddenly, we went to fly back, as per their website. Nope, £400 to fly back from the UK to Ireland.
I hope Ryanair rot. They are horrible as an airline.
To have a single point failure like that and have no possible way to restore if it went down in any way, such as this, just shows cost cutting as usual and incompetence.
I don't support what he has done, but it just demonstrates how often that companies, and cities, are not ready for failures or recovery.
When I first read this article elsewhere I commented that no one thought of Introversion. It appears here, and once again no one mentions Introversion.
Look them up, English designers, made 3 games, currently making 2 more, very sucessful, small group that make good games.
Just a thought that perhaps The Register, and the creator of the original document, may want to check just a bit better in future before commenting as they are.
Still on dialup? Well that's unfortunate (some areas in the world cannot get anything but it still) but in all fairness to MS should they tailor their service packs to the minority on dialup, or the majority of us who are not?
Then again they may offer it as a CD as they did with SP2, which would be nice. I remember PC magazines including the CD in a few issues. Perhaps that'd be a good solution? Or get a friend to download the standalone one and burn it to a CD for you.