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Comment Re:Morons (Score 1) 328

by romland on Tuesday May 20, 2008 @05:12PM (#23482584) Attached to: The Changing Face of World of Warcraft

I get a chuckle out of the removal of attunements to tell you the truth.

Your standard recruitment thread on some forum:

<Two Orcs One Cup> recruiting! [5/6 SSC, 3/4 TK, 1/5 MH, 1/9 BT]

I thought it was hell to have two weekly wipe encounters back in the day (C'thun and Patchwerk), I dare not imagine how it must feel to have four!

Submission + - Flickr Censors A Photographer's Plea

Submitted by Bananatree3 on Tuesday May 15, 2007 @10:02PM

Bananatree3 writes: Popular Iclandic photographer and art-student Rebekka Guoleifsdottir has been targeted by Flickr for posting a plea for help in a theft case involving an online retailer selling copycat art. She requested that people send the retailer letters concerning the issue, and in response her original post was promptly deleted. It is still ironically available on Yahoo cache. In the end it appears that the retailer had been duped by a rogue art dealer under the title "Wild Aspects and Panoramics LTD". However, Flickr seems to have overstepped its bounds in deleting this post.

Microsoft set to Announce Zune 360 and 180 66

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 01, 2007 @06:30PM from the moving-up-in-the-world dept.

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Blueberry Bob writes "Just in time for the iPhone June launch, Microsoft is planning to launch the Zune 360 and 180. The 360 will be a widescreen video and music player available in 40 and 80 GB models, whereas the 180 will be a smaller device similar in size to the iPod nano. Oddly enough, only the 180 model will feature a cellphone — Microsoft believes that the combined cellphone/music player market is better served in compact players. 'Although the default behavior will be to connect the Zune 360 and 180 to a Windows machine and use the default Zune software (which is also undergoing a revamp) it will be possible to put the Zune 360 in to disk mode and the device will be treated like any ordinary USB storage device and will therefore be accessible from Mac and Linux machines too. The built in indexing in the 360 will allow you to easily search for songs, however out of the box it's not possible to create playlists on the 360 itself, they still need to be managed by the Zune software.'"

Changing Climates for Microsoft and Google 393

Posted by Hemos on Monday December 04, 2006 @12:04PM from the a-path-to-the-future dept.

ReadWriteWeb writes "Weather metaphors abound as this article looks at the evolving software environment — and in particular the competition between Microsoft and Google. Milan says that while Google enjoys relative dominance on the Web platform today, two fissures exist that will force them to move. The first is Microsoft's ability to use the exact same HTML based strategy as Google (like Microsoft's current Live initiative); and secondly Microsoft leapfrogging the current environment by solving rich application installation/un installation and enforcing an acceptable contract regarding what rich apps can do on a user's machine. Unfortunately for Google, Microsoft is a lot closer to solving these two issues than people think. Microsoft has the best virtual machine with .NET, the best development tool with Visual Studio and the best access to developers with their MSDN programs. And they have a notion. Steve Ballmer himself has started touting the exact strategy they need — Click Once and Run."

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