Note that the date of this patch was forseen and correctly predicted back in May as that is when Sony Online Entertainment announced that EQ2 : Rise of Kunark would be released on November 13th 2007. Does EQ2 pose any threat at all to Blizzard's 900 pound gorilla financial juggernaut? Not a chance. But that doesn't stop their marketing department from delaying content updates by a few months just to make sure that WoW has the biggest 'buzz' the week a competitor launches.
Poor attitude among IT folk is a much bigger threat than Web2.0 or indeed anything else. In order to guarantee job security our local IT have declared hegemony over all technology and introduced labor-intensive blockades that keep them busy...so busy that any concept of innovation completely passes them by!
When everyone walks around with a dangling ring of USB flashdrives because trying to get networked fileshare space is a major hassle and ridiculously expensive ($3k for a 1 gig partition charged to your overhead budget!) and technical leads start forwarding proprietary email to gmail because of 250 meg limits on Outlook then the overall opinion of IT folk is going to collapse.
There is a trailer for it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fAm7qOY7Vg it was aired on the American Film Institute's top 100 movies special last week (where Blade Runner was added to the list as well)
Apparently they are considering a re-release in theaters as a way to help recoup the costs of the reshooting they did earlier this year.
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Note that the date of this patch was forseen and correctly predicted back in May as that is when Sony Online Entertainment announced that EQ2 : Rise of Kunark would be released on November 13th 2007. Does EQ2 pose any threat at all to Blizzard's 900 pound gorilla financial juggernaut? Not a chance. But that doesn't stop their marketing department from delaying content updates by a few months just to make sure that WoW has the biggest 'buzz' the week a competitor launches.
Poor attitude among IT folk is a much bigger threat than Web2.0 or indeed anything else. In order to guarantee job security our local IT have declared hegemony over all technology and introduced labor-intensive blockades that keep them busy...so busy that any concept of innovation completely passes them by! When everyone walks around with a dangling ring of USB flashdrives because trying to get networked fileshare space is a major hassle and ridiculously expensive ($3k for a 1 gig partition charged to your overhead budget!) and technical leads start forwarding proprietary email to gmail because of 250 meg limits on Outlook then the overall opinion of IT folk is going to collapse.
A week ago a commercial satellite was launched that has half-meter (that's 50 cm folx) resolution from orbit, not from airplane altitude, and is set to collect 750,000 square km of high resolution imagery a day. http://www.geoconnexion.com/geo_news_article/DigitalGlobe-Successfully-Launches-Worldview-1-/2204
There is a trailer for it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fAm7qOY7Vg it was aired on the American Film Institute's top 100 movies special last week (where Blade Runner was added to the list as well) Apparently they are considering a re-release in theaters as a way to help recoup the costs of the reshooting they did earlier this year.