I've been a huge BF3 player of the past year, but the hacking and bugginess have been ridiculous. In the past, EA has been shrewd enough to patch everything right before a new release. I was hoping they'd at least try to do that for BF4, but we haven't even gotten that yet.
Just too aggravating really. They don't do anything to punish to block trolls, spammers, or in-game asshattery, which turns every round into 60%-fun, 40%-frustration.
I live in KC, but I want to watch Pittsburgh Steelers games. There is NO economically reasonable way to do this through a whole NFL season besides paying for a DirectTV contract (maybe $75-95/month) on TOP of their NFL package which is about $350 or so. So, to watch one team play the 10 or so games that won't be nationally televised, I'm expected to pay about $1000, or $100 each!
If I could just get day passes for just the televised game days, that looks like it's only $1.
I wish I had a few hundred million to push NASA out to Encelaedus or Europa. I bet we could just take samples of water spewed up from below to find evidence of life it it exists on either moon.
Ridiculous analogy because people aren't leaving their networks open. Some of these exploits take a sophisticated understanding of protocols to figure out even if the exploit itself is a simple piece of code or series of interactions.
And, this is my problem with the glorifying of hackers we get on Slashdot. Those of us with jobs in the industry have to waste our time dealing with these monkeys, while a certain subset here thinks it's the admin's fault that you found an exploit by trawling torrent sites all night.
The article made it sound like this more about the patent office being faster at responding to applications (even when rejecting them). And, faster rejections mean there's less likelihood of the filer abandoning their project. There was some dispute, but the counterargument in the article didn't wash w/ me.
They've had products with glaring bugs that exist for years, yet never seem to shame them into fixing. Their multiplayer games are hopelessly hacked and they only release rare patches. I was a big fan of BF2142 and while the game play was excellent, the 1st release was so bad you could only play 1 or two rounds in a row before the game crashed. The update system is so bugged, I couldn't even play it now if I wanted to.
EA is like a guy who beats the crap out of his wife, but doesn't think it's a big deal because she hasn't left him...yet.
I don't have the words a literary professor might have to express it, but there's been a kind of death of excellence in American entertainment. There doesn't seem to be even the illusion that excellence is a goal. The goal is money, even if what's being churned out is absolute crap. Reality TV shows went from being voyeurism to staged clown acts. So, why worship any great works of art or literature when Honey Boo Boo draws more viewers than the State of the Union address?
Something of a lost art in every genre, from restaurants to sports radio. The critics have become hyperbolic bomb-throwers because vitriol sells more papers and attracts more eyeballs. Second, he was a film connoisseur and enjoyed the art AND the craft of film making. I remember one review where he slammed the director for being lazy with fake snow and just dropping it in front of the lens!
I worked my way through the AFI greatest list a few years back and I've gained a whole new appreciation for film and Ebert was one of the exemplars of how to watch and enjoy film. I believe this was his quote (paraphrased). You judge a movie by what it's trying to do and not against some universal standard.
You'd think a guy moving his accounts offshore for the tax break had just been awarded the Medal of Honor! It's a badge of honor to a lot of people that you avoid paying taxes by any means necessary.
Don't trust a word of what we're told, only what we can see. Like their scanners, we were first told they couldn't record images, then that turned to "well, they can but only in testing mode", then that turned to "well, they can on production machines, but they can't be pulled off them", then that turned into stories of TSA agents emailing around pictures of passengers to their friends.
You're missing my point. When you get onto a plane, you don't get stacked on top of other passengers like luggage and shifted around to keep the plane balanced. You're assigned a seat regardless of your individual weight. I'm sure the airlines keep track of total passenger weight to know how much fuel to carry.
I'd rather have a law informing me of who is receiving my information. I'm getting nagged by Google all the time to turn my pseudo-anonymous accounts into explicit links to the real me via phone numbers and nagging for my real name. I want to know where all that information is going.
I just got an iPhone with the "Find My Phone" app. It seems to work by posting my phone's location to iCloud. Who has access to that info?
You're buying a seat. I can see if you can't fit into it (been next to people like that). It's not like the airlines are packing customers in like freight. You're paying for a SEAT and considering all the other factors in an aircraft, the weight of a passenger is hardly a game changer. The maximum take-off weight of an Airbus 319 is 140,000 lbs. Assuming a generous 200lbs per person, that works out to less than1/5 of the weight being passengers.
Nowhere do I see the love for nuclear power that I see here. I am no expert, but on the handful of occasions I've gone out to research the claims I read here, the sentiment that "it's so obvious and safe to do" doesn't hold true.
I am not a scientist, but I don't get the wank fest with Mars. We can go there and hope to find fossils, or we can go to Europa or Encelaedus [sic] and *maybe* find a live specimen.
I don't know what the current numbers are, but at one point we were spending almost on defense as the rest of the world...COMBINED! I think we accounted for 47% of world defense/intel spending.
Patents are covered by the WTO and software patents are explicitly treated just like any other. That's the problem. The international community has to come behind a new set of laws that can get passed. You can be sure that China will have issues with vigorous enforcement of dedicated software patent laws.
You're obviously not from a rural town. Whenever an older woman who never appeared pregnant magically shows up with a baby, that means her 16 year-old daughter who went to "California" for a year got knocked up. "Krypton" ain't nothing but the back seat of Jed's Camaro; coincidentally on his "hey y'all watch this" night down at that abandoned nuclear silo.
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I've been a huge BF3 player of the past year, but the hacking and bugginess have been ridiculous. In the past, EA has been shrewd enough to patch everything right before a new release. I was hoping they'd at least try to do that for BF4, but we haven't even gotten that yet.
Just too aggravating really. They don't do anything to punish to block trolls, spammers, or in-game asshattery, which turns every round into 60%-fun, 40%-frustration.
I live in KC, but I want to watch Pittsburgh Steelers games. There is NO economically reasonable way to do this through a whole NFL season besides paying for a DirectTV contract (maybe $75-95/month) on TOP of their NFL package which is about $350 or so. So, to watch one team play the 10 or so games that won't be nationally televised, I'm expected to pay about $1000, or $100 each!
If I could just get day passes for just the televised game days, that looks like it's only $1.
I wish I had a few hundred million to push NASA out to Encelaedus or Europa. I bet we could just take samples of water spewed up from below to find evidence of life it it exists on either moon.
Ridiculous analogy because people aren't leaving their networks open. Some of these exploits take a sophisticated understanding of protocols to figure out even if the exploit itself is a simple piece of code or series of interactions.
And, this is my problem with the glorifying of hackers we get on Slashdot. Those of us with jobs in the industry have to waste our time dealing with these monkeys, while a certain subset here thinks it's the admin's fault that you found an exploit by trawling torrent sites all night.
The article made it sound like this more about the patent office being faster at responding to applications (even when rejecting them). And, faster rejections mean there's less likelihood of the filer abandoning their project. There was some dispute, but the counterargument in the article didn't wash w/ me.
I'm going to restore the balance to the for...I mean carbon table by hitting up Joe's Crab Shack.
They've had products with glaring bugs that exist for years, yet never seem to shame them into fixing. Their multiplayer games are hopelessly hacked and they only release rare patches. I was a big fan of BF2142 and while the game play was excellent, the 1st release was so bad you could only play 1 or two rounds in a row before the game crashed. The update system is so bugged, I couldn't even play it now if I wanted to.
EA is like a guy who beats the crap out of his wife, but doesn't think it's a big deal because she hasn't left him...yet.
I don't have the words a literary professor might have to express it, but there's been a kind of death of excellence in American entertainment. There doesn't seem to be even the illusion that excellence is a goal. The goal is money, even if what's being churned out is absolute crap. Reality TV shows went from being voyeurism to staged clown acts. So, why worship any great works of art or literature when Honey Boo Boo draws more viewers than the State of the Union address?
Hopefully, he used vaseline on you, jerk.
Something of a lost art in every genre, from restaurants to sports radio. The critics have become hyperbolic bomb-throwers because vitriol sells more papers and attracts more eyeballs. Second, he was a film connoisseur and enjoyed the art AND the craft of film making. I remember one review where he slammed the director for being lazy with fake snow and just dropping it in front of the lens!
I worked my way through the AFI greatest list a few years back and I've gained a whole new appreciation for film and Ebert was one of the exemplars of how to watch and enjoy film. I believe this was his quote (paraphrased). You judge a movie by what it's trying to do and not against some universal standard.
You'd think a guy moving his accounts offshore for the tax break had just been awarded the Medal of Honor! It's a badge of honor to a lot of people that you avoid paying taxes by any means necessary.
Don't trust a word of what we're told, only what we can see. Like their scanners, we were first told they couldn't record images, then that turned to "well, they can but only in testing mode", then that turned to "well, they can on production machines, but they can't be pulled off them", then that turned into stories of TSA agents emailing around pictures of passengers to their friends.
You ever seen a charging station before? It should be obvious that they're FAR cheaper.
You're missing my point. When you get onto a plane, you don't get stacked on top of other passengers like luggage and shifted around to keep the plane balanced. You're assigned a seat regardless of your individual weight. I'm sure the airlines keep track of total passenger weight to know how much fuel to carry.
I'd rather have a law informing me of who is receiving my information. I'm getting nagged by Google all the time to turn my pseudo-anonymous accounts into explicit links to the real me via phone numbers and nagging for my real name. I want to know where all that information is going.
I just got an iPhone with the "Find My Phone" app. It seems to work by posting my phone's location to iCloud. Who has access to that info?
You're buying a seat. I can see if you can't fit into it (been next to people like that). It's not like the airlines are packing customers in like freight. You're paying for a SEAT and considering all the other factors in an aircraft, the weight of a passenger is hardly a game changer. The maximum take-off weight of an Airbus 319 is 140,000 lbs. Assuming a generous 200lbs per person, that works out to less than1/5 of the weight being passengers.
Nowhere do I see the love for nuclear power that I see here. I am no expert, but on the handful of occasions I've gone out to research the claims I read here, the sentiment that "it's so obvious and safe to do" doesn't hold true.
I am not a scientist, but I don't get the wank fest with Mars. We can go there and hope to find fossils, or we can go to Europa or Encelaedus [sic] and *maybe* find a live specimen.
I don't know what the current numbers are, but at one point we were spending almost on defense as the rest of the world...COMBINED! I think we accounted for 47% of world defense/intel spending.
That last one went over my head.
Albuquerque?
lol, I know I'm getting older when...
Patents are covered by the WTO and software patents are explicitly treated just like any other. That's the problem. The international community has to come behind a new set of laws that can get passed. You can be sure that China will have issues with vigorous enforcement of dedicated software patent laws.
Won't be easy since it's wrapped up in international law and how all international patents are honored.
I got mine tomorrow!
Kid, it's called a B-17. All you've got to do is be ready to shoot back at Messerschmitts if you want to fly in one.
You're obviously not from a rural town. Whenever an older woman who never appeared pregnant magically shows up with a baby, that means her 16 year-old daughter who went to "California" for a year got knocked up. "Krypton" ain't nothing but the back seat of Jed's Camaro; coincidentally on his "hey y'all watch this" night down at that abandoned nuclear silo.