It's just a bit of fun. Which, in a game, is not usually a bad thing.

This isn't the first non-Warcraft reference to enter the game. Mayor Quimby? Murloc Marine pet? Haris Pilton? etc...

It is up to the raid leader to decide the looting rules at the beginning of a raid.
A trusted Master Looter and "aware" raid leader will negate any of these problems.

Phil,

Obviously you're waiting for your omnipotent leader Steve Jobs to tell you what is good and bad, but, what is being demonstrated here is new Mouse technology, not Multi touch screen technology.

Microsoft managed multitouch with Surface, and again with Second Light. However, multi-touch is not the answer to everything. Can you imagine navigating a 1st person shooter with just a multi-touch screen? Or editing a spreadsheet?

The mouse isn't going to go away anytime soon, so companies like Microsoft may aswell start to think about the next thing.

Would you rather they demonstrated that on a laptop with a bigger trackpad? How does that change the demo at all?


The next time Apple demonstrate publicly their prototypes ... oh wait.

Barry, do you actually know anything about Windows CE?
Millions of devices out there run CE with or without you knowing about it.

What are the choices:
- Apple don't yet have an open embedded OS
- With Linux the tool support is expensive, Embeded Linux "can" be free most dev houses buy the professional distros that cost alot of $$$ (Embedded Linux doesn' have the professional library support that Win CE offers)
- Custom OS (unless you've spent years in house developing your own custom OS and tools, this really isn't an option)

Microsoft on the other hand provide an OS that you can easily customise
- Using Platform Builder you can play around with the features you need (with source code)
- Build a new OS completely from the ground up
- Run on multiple processor types (x86 / ARM / Mips)
- Connect Visual Studio to a debug device and deploy code (.NET Compact Framework or Native, your choice)
On its 6th edition now its going strong, is very reliable (despite what you may think), doesn't cost an arm and a leg ($3 per unit) and its very easy to get in touch with the developers that made certain features to get support.

Almost all chip manufacturers supply Windows CE BSPs to solve any early driver issues. In my experience creating a CE device (and i've worked on many) is really easy and pain free. I spend time writing the software I need rather than play around getting the OS image right.

Now, what were you saying?

Ambassador, Seeker, Loremaster, Explorer can all be done at the same time.

I managed Ambassador by doing the starting zone quests and just following through. Really simple, nice grind. I always had quests and things to do.

I did Northrend / Outland / EK / Kalim in that order. Got ambassador at the beginning of Kalimdor and Seeker half way through Kalimdor.

Explorer is something you can easily pick up on the way.

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-achievements.xml?r=Dragonblight&cn=Myaxe&gn=Just+A+Game

500k second, 1hr remaining.

Woop woop!

What about any other Mobile Phone OS that can interact with a cell tower?

By taking this on face value, every mobile phone out there is capable of doing this. Google seems to be going out of their way to encourage people to download Android and flashing it to their owns. Microsoft distributes SDKs to anybody that wants to. I can write whatever software I want for Symbian OSs.

By Apple's logic are these other companies accidentally also encouraging cell-based terrorism (CBT from this point onwards, 10 points to whoever gets the reference)?

Yes, it runs fine. I've been running WoW and Vent together on 7 since the RC was released to MSDN users a few weeks ago. Very smooth.

shadowwolf007:
Protected Mode requires UAC to be turned on as it uses a new low-rights process type (1 of 3 process types: low, standard, elevated). It is unlikely that a user would have UAC enabled yet have turned off Protected Mode.

RyTEK, according to the BBC's extract of the Microsoft warning, one of the ways to protect against this is to run Windows Vista with UAC turned on.

Therefore, i've no idea what went wrong with your PC but it wasn't this.

Also, to answer your Mac Book question. If you are a virus writer do you target 90% of users or 10% of users? Both operating systems have flaws but in order to cause more "damage" malicious software will target Microsoft based OS's.

However, using the default security settings on Vista will allow you to sail through this and many other "threats".