It blows me away that some people have that mentality about the included month. If I buy a house and the furnishings come "free", that is value I assess before purchasing the house and factors in to my decision. In these instances "free" means that it's already included the the price.
I don't know about EA Games BF1942 so I won't speculate what went right or wrong there. What you said suggests that it had a single player component that worked fine. This is not the case with WoW. I will tell you my experience with WoW.
Within 6 hours of gameplay, the client will crash 2-4 times. There are other times when the client itself does not crash, but get's "bugged" and forces you to log out and back in again. The Servers which were expected (even by blizzard) to be up 24/7 were crashing at least 3 times a day and now they have even lost their goal of 24/7 access. Now the game servers are only up for 22-23 hours a day and they concider that acceptable. "Scheduled Downtime."
I suppose the thing that really gets me though, is that I participated in the Open Beta and was aware of many issues before retail launch. As I mentioned, the issues were serious enough to make the game unplayable. I would expect any self respecting company not to release a critically flawed product. Of course all software has bugs, but these were stop the cd presses, everyone's hair should be on fire, kinds of bugs.
However, there is a bright side. Blizzard wants good PR and realizes their game has serious issues. They have given the people who bought it on the 23rd 4 extra days in compensation. In addition, they have made it so anyone can return WoW within the first 30 days for a refund. Both are admirable actions. And the last one should encourage people to take a chance on WoW. That's what I'll be doing. My experience to date has been horrible, but I will wait a while longer before claiming my refund to see if Blizzard can fix the major problems.
There's been lots of buggy-ness. Some of my friends and I are considering returning WoW to Blizzard. There were some rumors though that Blizzard is going to compensate customers for down time. I just know at $15/month and the bugs, I don't feel like I'm getting my money's worth.
Judge the company on some of their other products.
http://www.sigmaautomotive.com/IRD/superfuelmax. ph p
Last I knew, superconductors need to be really cold. How do you think they keep the "superconductors" in this snap on package so cold?
This company is obviously targeting gullible people. As someone else pointed out, their "system" mentions regenerative breaking but meantions no installation of a new braking system. In addition, their system runs on a measly 48 volts.
If BlueJay465 and micheal lived in my country, they'd both be flogged for posting this. (Totalitarianism sucks if you're not the totalitarian. =)
Maybe so, but the original claim they made is that people can or will confuse Apple the Record Label with Apple Computer. The only way to satisfy them back then was to say Apple Computer would stay clear of music.
However, Apple Computer has been around for so long now, that they have just as much claim to the "Apple" trademark as the Record Label. And I believe the courts will find that any "reasonable person" will not confuse the two.
Now if Apple Computer started a producing albums... Or if Apple Music was selling MP3 players and had an online music store before Apple Computer... They may have a claim.
In reference to the comparison I made to SCO, I felt that it was at least somewhat acurate because SCO is making it's claims based on old contracts and -morally- has no right to those claims. I feel the same way about Apple Corp, LTD.
I don't want to start a flame, but you cannot say you know with 100% certainty that SCO doesn't have "a valid, legal, and utterly legitimate claim," because either (a) you haven't seen the code in question, or (b) you've signed their NDA and can't comment on it.
It's the human brain's ablility to recognise patterns and small details in complex systems that seems to allow it to remember so much. It is only in fact, remembering a concept from a book or the outline of an object. Many test have been done to show that the human brain actually remembers very little of it's surroundings. Most of it is just filtered out as noise.
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It blows me away that some people have that mentality about the included month. If I buy a house and the furnishings come "free", that is value I assess before purchasing the house and factors in to my decision. In these instances "free" means that it's already included the the price.
I don't know about EA Games BF1942 so I won't speculate what went right or wrong there. What you said suggests that it had a single player component that worked fine. This is not the case with WoW. I will tell you my experience with WoW.
Within 6 hours of gameplay, the client will crash 2-4 times. There are other times when the client itself does not crash, but get's "bugged" and forces you to log out and back in again. The Servers which were expected (even by blizzard) to be up 24/7 were crashing at least 3 times a day and now they have even lost their goal of 24/7 access. Now the game servers are only up for 22-23 hours a day and they concider that acceptable. "Scheduled Downtime."
I suppose the thing that really gets me though, is that I participated in the Open Beta and was aware of many issues before retail launch. As I mentioned, the issues were serious enough to make the game unplayable. I would expect any self respecting company not to release a critically flawed product. Of course all software has bugs, but these were stop the cd presses, everyone's hair should be on fire, kinds of bugs.
However, there is a bright side. Blizzard wants good PR and realizes their game has serious issues. They have given the people who bought it on the 23rd 4 extra days in compensation. In addition, they have made it so anyone can return WoW within the first 30 days for a refund. Both are admirable actions. And the last one should encourage people to take a chance on WoW. That's what I'll be doing. My experience to date has been horrible, but I will wait a while longer before claiming my refund to see if Blizzard can fix the major problems.
There's been lots of buggy-ness. Some of my friends and I are considering returning WoW to Blizzard. There were some rumors though that Blizzard is going to compensate customers for down time. I just know at $15/month and the bugs, I don't feel like I'm getting my money's worth.
Like any linux user, I would only run Windows when I had to (i.e. games).
It would be interesting to see how many more games/apps would be ported to PPC if there were Windows PPC.
Judge the company on some of their other products.
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http://www.sigmaautomotive.com/IRD/superfuelmax
Last I knew, superconductors need to be really cold. How do you think they keep the "superconductors" in this snap on package so cold?
This company is obviously targeting gullible people. As someone else pointed out, their "system" mentions regenerative breaking but meantions no installation of a new braking system. In addition, their system runs on a measly 48 volts.
If BlueJay465 and micheal lived in my country, they'd both be flogged for posting this. (Totalitarianism sucks if you're not the totalitarian. =)
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Bunk!!! Bunk I say!!!
Maybe so, but the original claim they made is that people can or will confuse Apple the Record Label with Apple Computer. The only way to satisfy them back then was to say Apple Computer would stay clear of music.
However, Apple Computer has been around for so long now, that they have just as much claim to the "Apple" trademark as the Record Label. And I believe the courts will find that any "reasonable person" will not confuse the two.
Now if Apple Computer started a producing albums...
Or if Apple Music was selling MP3 players and had an online music store before Apple Computer...
They may have a claim.
In reference to the comparison I made to SCO, I felt that it was at least somewhat acurate because SCO is making it's claims based on old contracts and -morally- has no right to those claims. I feel the same way about Apple Corp, LTD.
I don't want to start a flame, but you cannot say you know with 100% certainty that SCO doesn't have "a valid, legal, and utterly legitimate claim," because either (a) you haven't seen the code in question, or (b) you've signed their NDA and can't comment on it.
A different kind of terrorism. First SCO, now Apple Corp LTD. Sheez.
A more interesting question is, using this experiment technic, can they develop a way to counter the affect pot has on STM and LTM.
It's the human brain's ablility to recognise patterns and small details in complex systems that seems to allow it to remember so much. It is only in fact, remembering a concept from a book or the outline of an object. Many test have been done to show that the human brain actually remembers very little of it's surroundings. Most of it is just filtered out as noise.
I would love to see HP make a graphing calculator out of one of these babies! Imagine the games one could play if they improved the LCD as well!
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By the same argument you use to defend QWERTY, everyone should stick with Microsoft because...
It works, everyone uses it, and it is a headache to learn a new system for a mere 4 LCPD (less crashes per day).
Conclusion: Just stick with Microsoft!
Thanks /. for keeping me informed on this. The lyrics server was something I was very sad to see go.
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-kf6nux