Attacking filesharing is nearly as bad as attacking drunken parties and springbreak. Trying to directly attack these things could help turn young people out to vote next election. All we really need is a core of people to stir the flames under those who are paying less attention to events.
Already, the Internet, open source, blogs, and file sharing carry a strong echo of the flower power generation. Their movement may have died down but some of their root concepts have sprung forward in time to shake the foundations of old school business, politics, and press. Technology is no longer just for geeks - trying to squash these technologies is the perfect way to anger and motivate young people for whom these technologies have become an essential part of life. Could a political movement based on personal freedoms take hold again among the young?
XHTML is still bettr than HTML in that it's a lot easier to parse. IMHO that is a good thing as it makes it easier for browsers to be smaller and bug free. The point that any device can also render HTML is moot because it still makes the devices work harder and the majority of websites still don't use XHTML because the majority of web designers are trapped in 1997. The majority of websites still just can't easily be tweaked to work on multiple types of devices to any decent level of usability - many don't even work on different browsers or screen sizes properly. Just because people still make really bad code we should take that as a reason to stop trying to make better code? Doh.
We shouldn't be adding a bunch of specialized tags - we need to make it easier to define roles for tags, using CSS and Javascript, that can change as needed. Why not just make tags as optional/flexible as setting the class of a tag. So I can use MyText instead of MyText when I want to. It'd just lead to code being easier to read. Tag attributes such as href, src, rel, etc would be easier if CSS was expanded so that they could be set in that way.
It looks like they still let Javascript ans styles be written inline so it can't be that good a proposal. It just leads to sloppy code and issues like XSS attacks. What we really need is a correct way to specify code that responds to specific browsers and browser versions, to specific disabilities, and to specific window sizes. Also we need a way to specify that scripting and style can't be specified in the body of a page.
Other than that my only real wish list is for better audio/video controls (which it looks like they addressed to some extent) and for some upgrades to Javascript (behaviors being native) and CSS (different layout types, more ways to manipulate text and images, actual workable downloadable fonts). More widgets being available is great but lets fix some of the fundamental issues first.
All of this comes as way less important than actually getting all browsers on the same page. IE7 continues to be a pain as it still has bad CSS and Javascript support.
What bugs me is when Opera doesn't work with the same code that renders fine in FireFox, Safari, and IE7. I wish they were better about responding to reports of sites not looking right because I'd love to make all my sites look perfect in Opera but without useful feedback I can't always spare the time to do so. It could be a bug in my code, it could be a bug in Opera's code - I just have no way of knowing without feedback from someone at Opera. In cases where it works in all other browsers I tend to think the problem lies with Opera.
I wish the W3 would make some sort of standard to load portions of the page, mostly CSS and Javascript, by the browser without having to figure it all out in Javascript. To be realistic, sometimes you just aren't going to make the exact same code work the same way in every browser. At least IE has it so you can apply IE fixes just to IE or specific versions of IE. I want every browser to do that.
Which site are you talking about? www.openlibrary.org is a horrible website with no real content or user interface. The demo.openlibrary.org looks quite a bit better but the color scheme makes it look washed out (hard on the eyes) and it still doesn't have the majority of UI elements users expect in the places users expect. It's been my experience that if you don't give users the UI they expect then usually they won't give your website a long enough look for them to discover any of the good stuff on it.
Actually browsing the books isn't bad but the rest of the sites look like they need some major work and user testing.
Don't kid yourself - the RIAA/MPAA don't care if the original owner of the media is or isn't using the media at the time someone else is using it. They just want money by any means they can get it.
Debian usually ends up on quiet little servers that don't really need support. Myself, I won't use SuSE on servers because in my experience all their little make-it-easy tools tend to interfere with the flexibility of the system. For client machines SuSE would be fine though.
At my current job we don't need Linux support so everything is running on Fedora (which has been stripped down to bare bones and custom compiled by myself), we have a FreeNAS server, and a couple of Windows 2003 Server systems. We'll be adding an AIX system soon that will replace one of the Windows servers (those are the only two platforms our vendor supports). Overall, it works very well.
The biggest issue is that nobody else has much experience with Unix/Linux but that is only a problem in the rare case something goes wrong when I'm not available. The majority of our downtime still comes from the Windows servers - a major part of the reason we're replacing the one with AIX. The other Windows machine primarily acts as a webserver for our business systems as our vendor only supports Windows/IIS. It's a major pain to configure and keep running smoothly. Even our expensive vendor support people that are supposed to be Windows/IIS experts have trouble keeping it running. I can't believe people actually think that it's easier to use IIS. What takes five minutes of clicking around in IIS to setup I can do in Apache in about 30 seconds of editing a text file. The only service I actually like on Windows is DNS - it's pretty easy to manage and I've yet to have an issue with it. Not sure I'd want to try anything fancy with it though.
Why not split off the humans from their supplies and land in two stages? Land the supplies using some mix of the before-mentioned possibilities (rockets, chutes, and airbags) and the humans on their own. The article made it sound as if small craft might land with chutes without to hard a landing. As for the supplies - well as long as they survive the landing they don't have to be let down near as carefully as the people.
I just find it hard to believe that among all the so called intelligent beings from Earth that together we can't figure out how to land a damn craft.:)
I think for business use you'd be talking RedHat, Novell, IBM, or possibly Debian. Myself, I only use RedHat/Fedora or Debian for anything serious. Anything else is just some damn upstart or old and crochtity.;)
My problem is that I want a phone carrier that doesn't suck. I've had Sprint, Nextel, Verizon, Cingular (now the new AT&T), Alltel, T-Mobile, and some little local companies and they've all pretty much sucked. I worked for Cingular long enough to learn that it wasn't my imagination that they sucked. And now Vonage won't let me re-subscribe, with my same $200 phone or other $100 phone, after unsubscribing for six months - meaning that Vonage is very close to going on my hate list now.
Is there such a thing as an honest carrier that doesn't try to unfairly lock you in, screw with your bills, give you the run-around, or over charge you? Sadly, I think not.:(
When they re-release FF VIII for PS3 or a modern PC I'll probably buy it. I loved 7, 8, and 9 but 8 was my favorite. I'd love to see any of those with PS3-quality, or better, graphics.
NAFTA and free trade in general is pretty damn stupid. All this whining about immigration as costing Americans jobs but the truth is that people that work legally in the US play by the same rules we do so standards can be kept. Illegal workers are mostly a problem caused by making it difficult for workers to work legally. I mean who is going to work illegally when they can work legally, make more money, and have better conditions? Immigrants enlarge the consumer base even as they take jobs. Foreign workers seldom are in a position to demand goods and services from the US. Buying cheap goods and services from other countries is doing us serious damage. They can use slave labor, destroy the environment, produce crappy quality, and will almost always be a lot cheaper than American companies.
Then American companies have to complain about the standards they're asked to meet in the US because obviously they can't compete against foreign companies that have no standards. It's almost always cheaper to have something made in China and shipped to the US than to build it in the US - how can that not destroy America? The Wal-Mart shopping ethic, and the free trade agreements that make it possible, is killing us like a snake eating it's own tail.
It's shitty that Indiana feels the need to do things like this to keep jobs in America and shitty that they really are right - if they don't destroy America then US companies can't compete. That's what happens when you let foreign companies sell here without being in a position to hold them to the same standards we hold our own companies to. I'm all for globalization but for it to work everyone has to be playing by the same rules.
What good are open API's if you want to add functionality to a program that the original creators didn't envision or just didn't want to give you access to? An open API, like an open file format, is great but inheritly very limited. Several years ago, maybe 15, I got sick of being told what I could and could not do with my computers and software and sick of being fscked with by my vendors so I switched to almost 100% open source and I've had no regrets. You get a lot more flexibility, save a lot of money, and the only price paid is that you have to take the time you spent trying, usually unsuccessfully, to get help with your commercial software and instead use the same time reading manuals and configuring stuff yourself. With opensource "can't" is removed from your life and replaced with having to use the hunk of grey crap between your ears.
Not that I mind if other people use proprietary software. It gives me the competitive edge.
Opening your source is a very cheap way to advertise. You don't lose anything and the work and cost involved is minimal usually (unless your code includes lots of licensed code from others). For IBM it probably doesn't matter but for small companies it can be significant to have such a cheap means of advertisement.
Even if I know about a proprietary program I could use I'll make every effort to avoid it unless it's open source. I experience major issues almost daily with proprietary software and I have no desire to add to my list of woes. The worst is that when you get into expensive business applications the vendors often won't tell you basic things about how to use and manage the software because they want to sell you expensive support services, training, and upgrades. At least with the source code it'd be possible to figure things out, fix bugs, and produce our own add-ons without extensive to reverse engineering.
If you want an easy-to-find job then market yourself as very specific to individual jobs. If you want a job where you can exercise a wide range of knowledge then be honest about your skills. Describe everything you know in a format that easy to understand. Include both a short list of highlights and another list that includes details. Include a portfolio with as much graphical proof of your skills as possible - code, snapshots, downloadable copies of your software, etc. Consider contributing to opensource projects, publishing articles, and starting your own business as ways to prove you have the skills you claim to have. Shop yourself around by joining the local chamber of commerce or a business club. Try to avoid HR, which are drone like and scrap resumes of anyone that doesn't exactly fit their mold, and put yourself in situations where you can meet the owners and upper management of companies.
If you find the right employer they'll be glad to find someone with a wide range of skills. You want to show why you'll fill the existing opening at an employer but you also want to dazzle them with possibilities they may not have considered or known how to do. Last, be honest if you don't know something or don't know it well - an admission that you don't know everything makes your list of skills more believable.
I've been using Linux as my main platform for over 10 years and I still think the desktop is perfectly usable but uncompelling. It's easy to use and does everything that is needed but it doesn't do anything exceptional. KDE and Gnome are nothing more than knock-offs of Windows and Mac OS with no real reason to choose them over Windows or Mac OS other than the fact that they are running on Linux.
Don't the developers with KDE or Gnome have any innovative ideas? They've never listened to any of my suggestions so I guess they must have something better planned or they're happy being the also-ran platforms. What happened to the spirit that it's okay to try something even if it fails? Try out new ideas and even if 90% of them suck you'll still end up with some good innovations. A Linux desktop is a great place to do this kind of experimenting because the average user is more experienced and intelligent and few people have a heavy investment in providing a stable desktop experience. Shake the boat for a while so that OSS desktops can leapfrog the proprietary competition.
Leopard skin would be about as lame as brushed chrome. I want the entire case made of OLED skin so that the entire thing can be one display. Of course I still want the clear plastic layer on top of the OLED because that really gives the iMac a nice look.
Of course I want a 40 inch monitor to because my 24 inch iMac is to small. Really - I want it big enough that I can have at least four 1024x768 virtual machines running at a time without overlapping or being to small to see. I'm really hoping for another size increase. I'd like a quad-core Xeon (or two?) in there too as my core 2 duo is way to slow. The damn thing just crawls half the time. I think that OS X has an issue with having to many files being worked with at a given time as massive file operations seem to be the main cause of a major slow down.:(
"When we first saw it, I was really delighted because it was new and alive," said Jan War, operations manager at NELHA. "I've never seen anything like that."
Reasons to hate Microsoft? I call it almost twenty years in the PC industry. I don't need to look very hard to find their mark of evil anymore. Not that Sony looks like it needs much help to cut it's own throat lately.
Still, if you can't see anything wrong with Microsoft's behavior here then you obviously haven't spent much time watching how they dig their claws in and destroy an industry. They'll slide a little bit at a time into a position of control and then abuse the hell out of everyone so long as they can make the bucks. Sure that's common practice in the game console industry but Microsoft is better at it and will eventually cause more damage.
The part I find saddest is that the schmuck had to do it all by hand. If I was going to raid drives I'd have a program already on my thumb drive set so that when the drive was inserted the program would invisibly copy all possible content of interest. Doing it by hand is to obvious, to prone to error, and takes more time.
On a more professional note though I hope anyone that is doing a wipe and restore approach of end-user systems is making sure they get everything of value backed up before wiping it. I don't know how many people who have had to hire me to restore important files after some retard at a big computer repair shop just wiped out their baby photos, term paper, etc without caring what they're doing. Restoration isn't always possible so please don't kill someones file system without a full backup.
So the 360 held the game back for ALL systems and then paid to get some extra goodies made available to 360 users so that the 360 appears to be the best system? That sucks.
That sounds like proof of why Microsoft shouldn't be allowed into the game industry. They already wrecked the PC industry with that kind of tactics. I don't really care if games are released for all available platforms but I'd hope that each variant could live up to their full potential. Otherwise you may as well just get the cheap and crappy console of each generation.
Quite a difference. It can't be that hard to unlock though. Or so I'd imagine. The unlock code is just a code sequence like serial numbers or credit card numbers. If those can be generated I'd think that unlock codes shouldn't be any harder.
I'd classify this the way I classify easy-weight-loss solutions such as stomach banding. It gives you a quick fix but doesn't solve the mental issues at the root of the problem. I healthy mind should be able to rid itself of such trauma just as a healthy mind should be enough to make a person lose weight.
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Attacking filesharing is nearly as bad as attacking drunken parties and springbreak. Trying to directly attack these things could help turn young people out to vote next election. All we really need is a core of people to stir the flames under those who are paying less attention to events.
Already, the Internet, open source, blogs, and file sharing carry a strong echo of the flower power generation. Their movement may have died down but some of their root concepts have sprung forward in time to shake the foundations of old school business, politics, and press. Technology is no longer just for geeks - trying to squash these technologies is the perfect way to anger and motivate young people for whom these technologies have become an essential part of life. Could a political movement based on personal freedoms take hold again among the young?
XHTML is still bettr than HTML in that it's a lot easier to parse. IMHO that is a good thing as it makes it easier for browsers to be smaller and bug free. The point that any device can also render HTML is moot because it still makes the devices work harder and the majority of websites still don't use XHTML because the majority of web designers are trapped in 1997. The majority of websites still just can't easily be tweaked to work on multiple types of devices to any decent level of usability - many don't even work on different browsers or screen sizes properly. Just because people still make really bad code we should take that as a reason to stop trying to make better code? Doh.
We shouldn't be adding a bunch of specialized tags - we need to make it easier to define roles for tags, using CSS and Javascript, that can change as needed. Why not just make tags as optional/flexible as setting the class of a tag. So I can use MyText instead of MyText when I want to. It'd just lead to code being easier to read. Tag attributes such as href, src, rel, etc would be easier if CSS was expanded so that they could be set in that way.
It looks like they still let Javascript ans styles be written inline so it can't be that good a proposal. It just leads to sloppy code and issues like XSS attacks. What we really need is a correct way to specify code that responds to specific browsers and browser versions, to specific disabilities, and to specific window sizes. Also we need a way to specify that scripting and style can't be specified in the body of a page.
Other than that my only real wish list is for better audio/video controls (which it looks like they addressed to some extent) and for some upgrades to Javascript (behaviors being native) and CSS (different layout types, more ways to manipulate text and images, actual workable downloadable fonts). More widgets being available is great but lets fix some of the fundamental issues first.
All of this comes as way less important than actually getting all browsers on the same page. IE7 continues to be a pain as it still has bad CSS and Javascript support.
What bugs me is when Opera doesn't work with the same code that renders fine in FireFox, Safari, and IE7. I wish they were better about responding to reports of sites not looking right because I'd love to make all my sites look perfect in Opera but without useful feedback I can't always spare the time to do so. It could be a bug in my code, it could be a bug in Opera's code - I just have no way of knowing without feedback from someone at Opera. In cases where it works in all other browsers I tend to think the problem lies with Opera.
I wish the W3 would make some sort of standard to load portions of the page, mostly CSS and Javascript, by the browser without having to figure it all out in Javascript. To be realistic, sometimes you just aren't going to make the exact same code work the same way in every browser. At least IE has it so you can apply IE fixes just to IE or specific versions of IE. I want every browser to do that.
Which site are you talking about? www.openlibrary.org is a horrible website with no real content or user interface. The demo.openlibrary.org looks quite a bit better but the color scheme makes it look washed out (hard on the eyes) and it still doesn't have the majority of UI elements users expect in the places users expect. It's been my experience that if you don't give users the UI they expect then usually they won't give your website a long enough look for them to discover any of the good stuff on it.
Actually browsing the books isn't bad but the rest of the sites look like they need some major work and user testing.
Don't kid yourself - the RIAA/MPAA don't care if the original owner of the media is or isn't using the media at the time someone else is using it. They just want money by any means they can get it.
Debian usually ends up on quiet little servers that don't really need support. Myself, I won't use SuSE on servers because in my experience all their little make-it-easy tools tend to interfere with the flexibility of the system. For client machines SuSE would be fine though.
At my current job we don't need Linux support so everything is running on Fedora (which has been stripped down to bare bones and custom compiled by myself), we have a FreeNAS server, and a couple of Windows 2003 Server systems. We'll be adding an AIX system soon that will replace one of the Windows servers (those are the only two platforms our vendor supports). Overall, it works very well.
The biggest issue is that nobody else has much experience with Unix/Linux but that is only a problem in the rare case something goes wrong when I'm not available. The majority of our downtime still comes from the Windows servers - a major part of the reason we're replacing the one with AIX. The other Windows machine primarily acts as a webserver for our business systems as our vendor only supports Windows/IIS. It's a major pain to configure and keep running smoothly. Even our expensive vendor support people that are supposed to be Windows/IIS experts have trouble keeping it running. I can't believe people actually think that it's easier to use IIS. What takes five minutes of clicking around in IIS to setup I can do in Apache in about 30 seconds of editing a text file. The only service I actually like on Windows is DNS - it's pretty easy to manage and I've yet to have an issue with it. Not sure I'd want to try anything fancy with it though.
Why not split off the humans from their supplies and land in two stages? Land the supplies using some mix of the before-mentioned possibilities (rockets, chutes, and airbags) and the humans on their own. The article made it sound as if small craft might land with chutes without to hard a landing. As for the supplies - well as long as they survive the landing they don't have to be let down near as carefully as the people.
:)
I just find it hard to believe that among all the so called intelligent beings from Earth that together we can't figure out how to land a damn craft.
I think for business use you'd be talking RedHat, Novell, IBM, or possibly Debian. Myself, I only use RedHat/Fedora or Debian for anything serious. Anything else is just some damn upstart or old and crochtity. ;)
My problem is that I want a phone carrier that doesn't suck. I've had Sprint, Nextel, Verizon, Cingular (now the new AT&T), Alltel, T-Mobile, and some little local companies and they've all pretty much sucked. I worked for Cingular long enough to learn that it wasn't my imagination that they sucked. And now Vonage won't let me re-subscribe, with my same $200 phone or other $100 phone, after unsubscribing for six months - meaning that Vonage is very close to going on my hate list now.
:(
Is there such a thing as an honest carrier that doesn't try to unfairly lock you in, screw with your bills, give you the run-around, or over charge you? Sadly, I think not.
When they re-release FF VIII for PS3 or a modern PC I'll probably buy it. I loved 7, 8, and 9 but 8 was my favorite. I'd love to see any of those with PS3-quality, or better, graphics.
NAFTA and free trade in general is pretty damn stupid. All this whining about immigration as costing Americans jobs but the truth is that people that work legally in the US play by the same rules we do so standards can be kept. Illegal workers are mostly a problem caused by making it difficult for workers to work legally. I mean who is going to work illegally when they can work legally, make more money, and have better conditions? Immigrants enlarge the consumer base even as they take jobs. Foreign workers seldom are in a position to demand goods and services from the US. Buying cheap goods and services from other countries is doing us serious damage. They can use slave labor, destroy the environment, produce crappy quality, and will almost always be a lot cheaper than American companies.
Then American companies have to complain about the standards they're asked to meet in the US because obviously they can't compete against foreign companies that have no standards. It's almost always cheaper to have something made in China and shipped to the US than to build it in the US - how can that not destroy America? The Wal-Mart shopping ethic, and the free trade agreements that make it possible, is killing us like a snake eating it's own tail.
It's shitty that Indiana feels the need to do things like this to keep jobs in America and shitty that they really are right - if they don't destroy America then US companies can't compete. That's what happens when you let foreign companies sell here without being in a position to hold them to the same standards we hold our own companies to. I'm all for globalization but for it to work everyone has to be playing by the same rules.
What good are open API's if you want to add functionality to a program that the original creators didn't envision or just didn't want to give you access to? An open API, like an open file format, is great but inheritly very limited. Several years ago, maybe 15, I got sick of being told what I could and could not do with my computers and software and sick of being fscked with by my vendors so I switched to almost 100% open source and I've had no regrets. You get a lot more flexibility, save a lot of money, and the only price paid is that you have to take the time you spent trying, usually unsuccessfully, to get help with your commercial software and instead use the same time reading manuals and configuring stuff yourself. With opensource "can't" is removed from your life and replaced with having to use the hunk of grey crap between your ears.
Not that I mind if other people use proprietary software. It gives me the competitive edge.
Opening your source is a very cheap way to advertise. You don't lose anything and the work and cost involved is minimal usually (unless your code includes lots of licensed code from others). For IBM it probably doesn't matter but for small companies it can be significant to have such a cheap means of advertisement.
Even if I know about a proprietary program I could use I'll make every effort to avoid it unless it's open source. I experience major issues almost daily with proprietary software and I have no desire to add to my list of woes. The worst is that when you get into expensive business applications the vendors often won't tell you basic things about how to use and manage the software because they want to sell you expensive support services, training, and upgrades. At least with the source code it'd be possible to figure things out, fix bugs, and produce our own add-ons without extensive to reverse engineering.
If you want an easy-to-find job then market yourself as very specific to individual jobs. If you want a job where you can exercise a wide range of knowledge then be honest about your skills. Describe everything you know in a format that easy to understand. Include both a short list of highlights and another list that includes details. Include a portfolio with as much graphical proof of your skills as possible - code, snapshots, downloadable copies of your software, etc. Consider contributing to opensource projects, publishing articles, and starting your own business as ways to prove you have the skills you claim to have. Shop yourself around by joining the local chamber of commerce or a business club. Try to avoid HR, which are drone like and scrap resumes of anyone that doesn't exactly fit their mold, and put yourself in situations where you can meet the owners and upper management of companies.
If you find the right employer they'll be glad to find someone with a wide range of skills. You want to show why you'll fill the existing opening at an employer but you also want to dazzle them with possibilities they may not have considered or known how to do. Last, be honest if you don't know something or don't know it well - an admission that you don't know everything makes your list of skills more believable.
I'm buying. I was waiting for this. Much cooler than the iPhone IMO. :)
I've been using Linux as my main platform for over 10 years and I still think the desktop is perfectly usable but uncompelling. It's easy to use and does everything that is needed but it doesn't do anything exceptional. KDE and Gnome are nothing more than knock-offs of Windows and Mac OS with no real reason to choose them over Windows or Mac OS other than the fact that they are running on Linux.
Don't the developers with KDE or Gnome have any innovative ideas? They've never listened to any of my suggestions so I guess they must have something better planned or they're happy being the also-ran platforms. What happened to the spirit that it's okay to try something even if it fails? Try out new ideas and even if 90% of them suck you'll still end up with some good innovations. A Linux desktop is a great place to do this kind of experimenting because the average user is more experienced and intelligent and few people have a heavy investment in providing a stable desktop experience. Shake the boat for a while so that OSS desktops can leapfrog the proprietary competition.
Leopard skin would be about as lame as brushed chrome. I want the entire case made of OLED skin so that the entire thing can be one display. Of course I still want the clear plastic layer on top of the OLED because that really gives the iMac a nice look.
:(
Of course I want a 40 inch monitor to because my 24 inch iMac is to small. Really - I want it big enough that I can have at least four 1024x768 virtual machines running at a time without overlapping or being to small to see. I'm really hoping for another size increase. I'd like a quad-core Xeon (or two?) in there too as my core 2 duo is way to slow. The damn thing just crawls half the time. I think that OS X has an issue with having to many files being worked with at a given time as massive file operations seem to be the main cause of a major slow down.
Reasons to hate Microsoft? I call it almost twenty years in the PC industry. I don't need to look very hard to find their mark of evil anymore. Not that Sony looks like it needs much help to cut it's own throat lately.
Still, if you can't see anything wrong with Microsoft's behavior here then you obviously haven't spent much time watching how they dig their claws in and destroy an industry. They'll slide a little bit at a time into a position of control and then abuse the hell out of everyone so long as they can make the bucks. Sure that's common practice in the game console industry but Microsoft is better at it and will eventually cause more damage.
The part I find saddest is that the schmuck had to do it all by hand. If I was going to raid drives I'd have a program already on my thumb drive set so that when the drive was inserted the program would invisibly copy all possible content of interest. Doing it by hand is to obvious, to prone to error, and takes more time.
On a more professional note though I hope anyone that is doing a wipe and restore approach of end-user systems is making sure they get everything of value backed up before wiping it. I don't know how many people who have had to hire me to restore important files after some retard at a big computer repair shop just wiped out their baby photos, term paper, etc without caring what they're doing. Restoration isn't always possible so please don't kill someones file system without a full backup.
So the 360 held the game back for ALL systems and then paid to get some extra goodies made available to 360 users so that the 360 appears to be the best system? That sucks.
That sounds like proof of why Microsoft shouldn't be allowed into the game industry. They already wrecked the PC industry with that kind of tactics. I don't really care if games are released for all available platforms but I'd hope that each variant could live up to their full potential. Otherwise you may as well just get the cheap and crappy console of each generation.
Sounds as if they decided to wuss out on the design. What a bummer. I was really looking forward to massive worlds to explore and terrorize. :)
Quite a difference. It can't be that hard to unlock though. Or so I'd imagine. The unlock code is just a code sequence like serial numbers or credit card numbers. If those can be generated I'd think that unlock codes shouldn't be any harder.
I'd classify this the way I classify easy-weight-loss solutions such as stomach banding. It gives you a quick fix but doesn't solve the mental issues at the root of the problem. I healthy mind should be able to rid itself of such trauma just as a healthy mind should be enough to make a person lose weight.
Talk about a re-release. Must be in response to the iPhone. I saw T-Mobile hocking this stuff like six months ago.