Oh really? I haven't been able to play twice so far in the last week. First time was the whole of Sunday afternoon, and then the whole of Wednesday evening after getting home from work. And that's the single player game only. God knows what's going to happen when I catch up with my friends who are currently playing on 'Hell' difficulty online.
I've only got good things to say about the Super Micro kit we've bought - and we've bought a lot of it. Our entire render farm consists of 1 and 2U twin nodes (an invention of theirs), and it's reliable, fast and was cheaper than anything of comparible quality. It goes without saying that all our workstation motherboards are Super Micro too. Well, except for our edit suite, which is powered by an HP workstation that's (to my surprise) proved to be very flakey indeed - every time you restart it it's a lottery how much RAM the board will see.
As brilliant as Manic Miner was - and I lost many hours of my youth to it - I would have included Jet Set Willy, which for me was the first platformer of almost unfathomly massive scope, perfected gameplay, and the first game I played that made exploration a real adventure. With JSW there was no longer a single path to follow, which was pretty ground breaking.
Frankly I'm amazed at this outbreak of common sense by Microsoft, I was bracing myself for at least 15 SKUs, including the Windows 8 for Poor People that comes without mouse and keyboard support (but can be purchased as DLC if you can get to the app store).
The original article also notes there will be a 4th SKU, Win8 Enterprise, but they only mention it in passing. What do enterprise customers get that you can't find in Win8 Pro?
The young lad should be applauded for his demonstration on the creative use of language. To expel him is beyond insane.
I remember an English lesson at school when I was about 15, where the teacher impressed upon us the flexibility of the word 'fuck' by reminiscing of the time he overheard a frustrated motorist, whilst kicking a flat tyre, shout "the fucking fucker's fucking fucked"
I must say I'm surprised that a company under the ownership of the highly repected and scrupulously moral Richard 'Dirty' Desmond should be involved in dodgy practices.
A step in the right direction. There should be a desktop and server version. As for 32 v.s 64 bit it should be an option upon first installation that defaults to the capabilities of whatever architecture you are running. Being asked to buy a specific version is silly.
In other words it should be similar to how things used to be in the 1990s
I know this totally goes against the grain of modern thinking, but personally, my favourite Bond film is 'The Spy Who Loved Me'.
It's got the best opening stunt, an awesome title song, a brilliant soundtrack, Rodge at the peak of his powers, classic exotic locations such as Egypt, a fantastic bad guy in Jaws, some unforgettable set pieces such as a supertanker that swallows a submarine and an underwater villan's lair, and lastly but most importantly, the most unfeasably hot Bond girl of all time in Barbara Bach.
Having just started playing it here are my thoughts on the game so far:
It plays almost exactly like WoW, but in a different setting, thus anyone who has played WoW will instantly find it very familiar. This is a good or bad thing depending on your perspective.
The art direction is horrendous. The use of colour harmonies is about as far away from what the textbooks suggest as you can get. It's very distracting.
The character models are also pretty bad, which is a shame as you spend a lot of time staring at them in many, many cut scenes.
Speaking of which, cut scenes in an MMO? Personally, I'm not a fan.
So far I'm not massively impressed, but I'll give it until the end of the month.
You can count me in for contributing to number one. Having had my fingers burned recently with a few terrible game purchases, I decided to download a torrent of Crysis 2 to see if it was worth buying. An hour into it I quit and uninstalled. Far from being a a purchase lost, they lost a purchase gained (if you see what I mean)
I would pay good money to see the expression on the faces of James and Rupert Murdoch should they lose the footy rights. I don't care who buys them, anyone but Sky
How is WP7 doing in the UK? Everybody I know or have even met in the last 12 months has either had an iPhone or Android phone. So far I am yet to see a single WP7 phone. Any figures?
I would agree that Android is just not very pretty to look at, and gives the impression many different people designed the look of many different parts without any unifying vision.
Personally the main reason I don't like the look of Android is that it's just all so black. Cheer up Google!
So your company has it's most profitable quarter ever and makes an absolutely mind-bogglingly massive amount of cash, and the market responds by knocking 5% off the value of the company? No wonder the world is so completely buggered at the moment.
Just when you thought it was ok to like Microsoft again, they cannot help but remind us what absolute douche-bags they can be when the mood takes them.
The quality of politicians in this country is just so utterly, depressingly low. Just when you thought it wasn't possible to be any worse than the last shower of shit, along comes this new bunch. How the hell is this country going to get anywhere in the foreseeable future?
"It's the most uninformed and unimaginative idea I've heard in a long time."
Is one of the best put-downs I've ever heard. It's the perfect combination of being short but with high impact, beautifully eloquent, and utterly correct. Berners-Lee is, once again, one of my heroes.
How is it possible that one third-party vendor can be responsible for nearly half of all attacks on an entire software platform? Are they really that bloody useless at coding decent software? That really is incompetence on a staggering, global, level.
Should any rioters be passing by the Reg comments section, could I point you in the direction of the nearest PC World? Preferably the Customer Service department, in particular.
Once upon a time I only bought Nokia phones, and would recommend nothing else to my friends and family. Now I would only recommend Nokia to my worst enemy.
As far as corporate turn-arounds go, they're up there with the very worst.
Took 35 minutes to download when I got home from work yesterday, and installed in 10-15 minutes. So far I've been pleasantly surprised, everything looks a bit nicer and the full screen mode is great. For £21 it's hard to complain.
There are many reasons not to like Adobe Reader, but for me top of the pile has to be that sometimes after running the update it makes me restart my PC.
I always enjoy any pain brought upon Murdoch and his bottom-feeding minions, and I'm going to thoroughly enjoy seeing how this plays out. It's also interesting to note that Rebekah (porn star spelling) Brooks is a close personal friend of David Cameron's, as is Andy Coulsdon. Some classy friends our Dave keeps.
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Eh?
"a few niggling problems"
Oh really? I haven't been able to play twice so far in the last week. First time was the whole of Sunday afternoon, and then the whole of Wednesday evening after getting home from work. And that's the single player game only. God knows what's going to happen when I catch up with my friends who are currently playing on 'Hell' difficulty online.
Thank the Lord
"Why are some websites not available through Virgin Media?"
"Working with the IWF helps protect children around the world"
As long as it's done in the name of THE CHILDREN then it must be ok. I will sleep just that little bit better tonight.
Good stuff
I've only got good things to say about the Super Micro kit we've bought - and we've bought a lot of it. Our entire render farm consists of 1 and 2U twin nodes (an invention of theirs), and it's reliable, fast and was cheaper than anything of comparible quality. It goes without saying that all our workstation motherboards are Super Micro too. Well, except for our edit suite, which is powered by an HP workstation that's (to my surprise) proved to be very flakey indeed - every time you restart it it's a lottery how much RAM the board will see.
Keep up the good work Super Micro.
JSW
As brilliant as Manic Miner was - and I lost many hours of my youth to it - I would have included Jet Set Willy, which for me was the first platformer of almost unfathomly massive scope, perfected gameplay, and the first game I played that made exploration a real adventure. With JSW there was no longer a single path to follow, which was pretty ground breaking.
Say What?
Wait - you mean Rapidshare can be used for stuff other than downloading pirate software? The wonders never cease
About Time
Frankly I'm amazed at this outbreak of common sense by Microsoft, I was bracing myself for at least 15 SKUs, including the Windows 8 for Poor People that comes without mouse and keyboard support (but can be purchased as DLC if you can get to the app store).
The original article also notes there will be a 4th SKU, Win8 Enterprise, but they only mention it in passing. What do enterprise customers get that you can't find in Win8 Pro?
I understand Java and Javascript are totally different, but...
I don't want to beat up on Java, but I can't remember the last time I used it in OSX. Or do I actually use it a lot unknowingly?
Re: Now, that's strange
How the hell did that cretin end up at the reg? I'm blaming severe typing failure
It's actually spelt d-a-i-l-y-m-a-i-l-dot-c-o-dot-u-k
Seriously?
"the world’s richest shiny toymaker"
Please, this isn't the Inquirer
Good Grief
The young lad should be applauded for his demonstration on the creative use of language. To expel him is beyond insane.
I remember an English lesson at school when I was about 15, where the teacher impressed upon us the flexibility of the word 'fuck' by reminiscing of the time he overheard a frustrated motorist, whilst kicking a flat tyre, shout "the fucking fucker's fucking fucked"
How many words can you say that about?
I must say I'm surprised that a company under the ownership of the highly repected and scrupulously moral Richard 'Dirty' Desmond should be involved in dodgy practices.
I don't care how good it is (and I'm sure it's awesome), £230 is far too much money for a hand-held games console.
A step in the right direction. There should be a desktop and server version. As for 32 v.s 64 bit it should be an option upon first installation that defaults to the capabilities of whatever architecture you are running. Being asked to buy a specific version is silly.
In other words it should be similar to how things used to be in the 1990s
Opinion alert
I know this totally goes against the grain of modern thinking, but personally, my favourite Bond film is 'The Spy Who Loved Me'.
It's got the best opening stunt, an awesome title song, a brilliant soundtrack, Rodge at the peak of his powers, classic exotic locations such as Egypt, a fantastic bad guy in Jaws, some unforgettable set pieces such as a supertanker that swallows a submarine and an underwater villan's lair, and lastly but most importantly, the most unfeasably hot Bond girl of all time in Barbara Bach.
Hmmm
"...have taken to the stage to tell the world about Microsoft's next great innovations."
There's something not quite right about this sentence.
Nothing new so far
Having just started playing it here are my thoughts on the game so far:
It plays almost exactly like WoW, but in a different setting, thus anyone who has played WoW will instantly find it very familiar. This is a good or bad thing depending on your perspective.
The art direction is horrendous. The use of colour harmonies is about as far away from what the textbooks suggest as you can get. It's very distracting.
The character models are also pretty bad, which is a shame as you spend a lot of time staring at them in many, many cut scenes.
Speaking of which, cut scenes in an MMO? Personally, I'm not a fan.
So far I'm not massively impressed, but I'll give it until the end of the month.
So stop making shit overpriced games
You can count me in for contributing to number one. Having had my fingers burned recently with a few terrible game purchases, I decided to download a torrent of Crysis 2 to see if it was worth buying. An hour into it I quit and uninstalled. Far from being a a purchase lost, they lost a purchase gained (if you see what I mean)
Please let this happen
I would pay good money to see the expression on the faces of James and Rupert Murdoch should they lose the footy rights. I don't care who buys them, anyone but Sky
Er,
Because he's still young and hasn't yet had a job?
Yuck
The art direction in this game looks exceedingly ropey. Skyrim, it isn't.
And in the UK?
How is WP7 doing in the UK? Everybody I know or have even met in the last 12 months has either had an iPhone or Android phone. So far I am yet to see a single WP7 phone. Any figures?
Agree
I would agree that Android is just not very pretty to look at, and gives the impression many different people designed the look of many different parts without any unifying vision.
Personally the main reason I don't like the look of Android is that it's just all so black. Cheer up Google!
Sigh
Religious people don't half speak some shite
They deserve it
If you're too tight fisted to spend 35 Euros on this quite excellent program then you deserve everything you get.
Actually...
@Dazed and Confused: There is actually one expression that's even worse than 'my bad'
Just saying
It's the changing of the guard
I remember back in the good ol' days (the 80s) it was all about being big in Japan. Just ask Alphaville, Spinal Tap, Mr. Big etc. etc.
This is why the world is screwed
So your company has it's most profitable quarter ever and makes an absolutely mind-bogglingly massive amount of cash, and the market responds by knocking 5% off the value of the company? No wonder the world is so completely buggered at the moment.
A leopard can never change it's spots
Just when you thought it was ok to like Microsoft again, they cannot help but remind us what absolute douche-bags they can be when the mood takes them.
Depressing
The quality of politicians in this country is just so utterly, depressingly low. Just when you thought it wasn't possible to be any worse than the last shower of shit, along comes this new bunch. How the hell is this country going to get anywhere in the foreseeable future?
But more importantly
"It's the most uninformed and unimaginative idea I've heard in a long time."
Is one of the best put-downs I've ever heard. It's the perfect combination of being short but with high impact, beautifully eloquent, and utterly correct. Berners-Lee is, once again, one of my heroes.
RIP
A genuinely sad day for the information age
My complication had a little complication
Somehow I'm reminded of Terry Gilliam's incredible nightmare 'Brazil'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyHilwSRo28
Adobe must be proud
How is it possible that one third-party vendor can be responsible for nearly half of all attacks on an entire software platform? Are they really that bloody useless at coding decent software? That really is incompetence on a staggering, global, level.
The bulge on the top of the SX40 looks very odd indeed, almost like an alien is about to burst out from inside, John Hurt style.
Er...
"Steven Sinofsky has touted Windows 8 as one Microsoft's most significant redesigns since the arrival of Windows 95 more than 15 years ago."
Don't they say that for every Windows release?
Huh?
Why does this company still exist? It's like they wrote the book on how to piss off customers.
Use Steam.
o/
Good luck and all the best
What would I know
And there I was thinking it was 30 years of shitty government mismanagement, endless public sector cuts and racist police that cause riots.
Lets make the most of a bad situation
Should any rioters be passing by the Reg comments section, could I point you in the direction of the nearest PC World? Preferably the Customer Service department, in particular.
Fame Whore
Unfortunately I expect traffic has been up 10-fold at Mr Fawke's piss-poor blog since this story broke.
...ah, surely all along it wasn't about self-publicity?
Sigh
Here's a quote from a Sky PR drone on this wonderful news: "We will give F1 the full Sky Sports treatment"
So that would mean masses of adverts, an overload of tasteless graphics and sound effects, and second rate sexist commentators?
Nothing to see here
Next it will be "MACBOOK IS SUSCEPTIBLE TO ATTACK FROM NAKED LUNATIC WITH AXE"
I'm willing to bet a new Macbook Air that this 'vulnerability' will never be exploited, this being barrel-scraping at it's finest.
What a turn-around
Once upon a time I only bought Nokia phones, and would recommend nothing else to my friends and family. Now I would only recommend Nokia to my worst enemy.
As far as corporate turn-arounds go, they're up there with the very worst.
Worked fine for me
Took 35 minutes to download when I got home from work yesterday, and installed in 10-15 minutes. So far I've been pleasantly surprised, everything looks a bit nicer and the full screen mode is great. For £21 it's hard to complain.
Kill it with fire
There are many reasons not to like Adobe Reader, but for me top of the pile has to be that sometimes after running the update it makes me restart my PC.
That alone should be punishable by death
In an ideal world
Here's hoping he ends up as some 20 stone thug's prison bitch
The gene pool was saved
Goodbye and fuck off
...It all becomes clear
Bit of a coincidence that the biggest story of the year breaks at exactly the time the UK Huff launches, eh?
To be more serious for a moment, they probably can't believe their luck at the timing of it all.
Scum
I always enjoy any pain brought upon Murdoch and his bottom-feeding minions, and I'm going to thoroughly enjoy seeing how this plays out. It's also interesting to note that Rebekah (porn star spelling) Brooks is a close personal friend of David Cameron's, as is Andy Coulsdon. Some classy friends our Dave keeps.
Galactically shite
"A loss of any of the quartet can be enough to invalidate the data from the others"
Awesome system they designed there
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