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Comment Re:WoW was ruined (Score 5, Insightful) 238

I somewhat understand your problem. But you see my problem - I have a full time job and a life. I also want to play WoW. So should I just always suck - never able to actually complete an instance? I don't think so. Maybe Blizzard should create "I don't have a job and my parents pay my way realms" (for people like you) and "I can only spend a couple of hours a week on a computer game" servers for people like me.
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AT&T Changes TOS, Limits Streaming, Tethering 86

MojoKid writes "Just one day after announcing plans to subsidize netbooks, AT&T wised up to the fact that those netbooks and connections could be used to download movies and enjoy other bandwidth-intensive applications. Apparently trying to avoid bogging down their network, the company revised its data plan service terms to single out and prohibit 'downloading movies using P2P file-sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals via any technology from a fixed location to a mobile device, and web broadcasting...' The license agreement further prohibits tethering the device to PCs or other equipment. That's a pretty strict set of rules. After all, the new terms of service seems to limit applications such as SlingPlayer, Qik, Skype, and Jaikuspot, which many AT&T customers are currently using without issue." Update — April 4, 02:50 GMT by SS: Reader evn points out an Engadget report that AT&T quickly retracted the changes.

Comment Re:"Finished" software (Score 1) 676

You risk being quoted and mocked not a few years from now. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." You can argue that the spreadsheet was finished when VisiCalc v1 was done. But if you really use spreadsheets to do real work you will definitively realise that there is a lot more to be done. Why? Because you want to keep doing your work faster, more efficiently and more intuitively. And bash Microsoft all you want - their PivotTable add-on to Excel was a game changer in its day - it revolutionized spreadsheets. Freezing open office now and you might risk loosing out on inventions like this. You think OpenOffice is finished? Let me throw a few things your way: 1) More rows in Calc 2) Optimized Multithreaded Calculation ... leading to ... 3) Server Version of Calc 4) Publish Spreadsheet as Web Service button in Calc. So there are four new things that will add a lot of value to a lot of people (except people doing their home budget or their timesheets). From Write's perspective - do you know how much font and layout technology there still is to implement? Oh wait - monospace is all you'll ever need. Where is the rudimentary grammar checker? Software is never ever finished. Bloat is not features. Bloat is features getting in the way of productivity. I don't mind a Office Suite of 20GB as long as it is fast, gets done what I want to in the best way possible.

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