I have no clue how their beta testing works, but I'm confident suggestions aren't a part of the process. Many of the EA games I've played have clunky UI elements that would've been exposed in seconds of observed interaction.
You realize we got there by propping up wth economy on refinancing, which blew up in our faces and ended up costing us 800K jobs a MONTH. But, this is Slashdot so I shouldn't need to explain the deceleration VS velocity analogy right?
Classic 4th amendment, but the 4th has been raped for about 30 years now in the name of the War on Drugs with no complaints. NYC allows stop-and-frisk which is by the letter a violation of the 4th as are most unwarranted searches by law enforcement. It's simple, you can't search me, my house, my car, or my records without a warrant. But, every time a big bad drug dealer gets away "on a technicality" people agree to turn the other way and allow laws to encroach just a bit further on our rights.
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So, will the new Pope take the name Vader, Maul, or Tyranus. I look forward to a safer, more secure Catholic...empire!
Anyone who's seen the movie Speed knows Neanderthal DNA is still with us. Google for pics of that bus driver. If he had a club instead of a steering wheel, he could get a job in a museum as a stand-in.
I haven't played for eons, but I started after it first came out and the Hunter class was so weak people would advertise quests and say "no hunters" like people said "no Irish" in the 19th century. Then a year or so later when I returned, the Hunter's specs were completely redone and they were boss. I think the tweaks are an attempt to fix bugs and balance the classes
Not that simple. There should be a right of expectation when purchasing certain products. You'd be pissed if Battlefield 4 installed a background service that streamed your browsing activities to EA. That might be perfectly legal, but it's also well outside the bounds of your expectation from game installation.
Morgan Fairchild could have made mad passionate love to me last night as my house supports an environment an actress could survive in. Geez, I thought that article on Panspermia was bad...
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Thanks for making me just a wee bit stupider, editors! You can probably crank up your hits by getting a comment from Kim Kardashian with a nice fake-boobs cleavage shot in the summary.
Correct but its sprawl when you have to run utilities 1/4 a mile past a farm to a new subdivision then 1/8 miles east to the next one. It's not the farmland, it's sporadic development throughout it.
And undeveloped land isn't the actual problem it's the reduced tax revenue per foot of utilities when you're leapfrogging over it.
Here in KC we have a runaway sprawl problem (I know to the south where I live and probably north as well). The city is insanely large area-wise for it's population. A guy with 50 acres of prime real estate in the middle of the city won't sell because he's waiting for a great price, not just a good price. But, a farmer further south without such delusions of grand profits agrees to sell his 50 acres to the next apartment complex builder. So, the city now has to build infrastructure and bigger roads further south. There are very large plots of privately-owned undeveloped land and even farm land mixed in with normal suburban development, not quite large enough to be scenic but big enough to make it clear that we're sprawling.
I don't see a real solution without either refusing to push utilities further south or enacting price controls on land deals which is unfair to the owner (and maybe illegal).
Yahoo is more corporate. Their profit is coming from advertisers and all the account management and business contact that comes with it. MySQL is a software company that has many of the same elements, but when you've got a product used internationally the folks translating documentation into Farsi somewhere in Asia don't need the same kind of close contact.
You're going to attract women like a shoe sale. There's a bar here in town where guys in med school and chiropractor's school hang out and women are all over it trying to land one. VERY HOT women I might ad. Females here Dr. and biology in the same sentence and you're going to think Brad Pitt is standing behind you.
Guy breaks the law then kills himself when he realizes he's going to prison for *MAYBE* 6 months. He could've ended up with 35 years if they were *really* trying to intimidate him. No sympathies here and I'm not sure why Slashdot keeps romanticizing these punks.
High highs and low lows. My all time favorite FPS game BF2142 started out so buggy you could only play 1-2 rounds before a crash, then EA abandoned support for it, then rubbed it in releases new maps a year or two after game was all but defunct. They turned BF3 into CoD with vehicles, and now I'm expected to leave their damned server running on my machine 24-7 just to play (yeah you CAN turn it off by see how long you can keep that routine up).
They're capable of creating great content, but they act like they don't give a shit after they've got your $50. I don't even play BF3 any more the cheating is so flagrant and I'm tired of the waiting for the anti-hack patch to come out (probably conveniently around the time they release a new expansion set from what I've seen).
That's the problem with bean-counter driven development. You might milk your customers in the short run, but you lose them in the long run.
Microsoft is great at churning out tons of information on their libraries and tools. But, so much of it is incohesive. I've had several projects working with their tools and it's like slogging through a swamp. Lots of content, but there's often no clear path through it; not a clear beginning or course to follow. Just page after page, sublink after sublink. It makes their bigger tools look like a handful of granules. Microsoft makes some amazing products like Visual Studio, I just wish they'd make them easier to work with for developers and extenders.
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I have no clue how their beta testing works, but I'm confident suggestions aren't a part of the process. Many of the EA games I've played have clunky UI elements that would've been exposed in seconds of observed interaction.
You realize we got there by propping up wth economy on refinancing, which blew up in our faces and ended up costing us 800K jobs a MONTH. But, this is Slashdot so I shouldn't need to explain the deceleration VS velocity analogy right?
That's been the "OMG it must be for drugz" cut-off since the War on Drugs started.
I won't say Obama isn't screwing up, but lets not forget what happened from 2001-2008.
Classic 4th amendment, but the 4th has been raped for about 30 years now in the name of the War on Drugs with no complaints. NYC allows stop-and-frisk which is by the letter a violation of the 4th as are most unwarranted searches by law enforcement. It's simple, you can't search me, my house, my car, or my records without a warrant. But, every time a big bad drug dealer gets away "on a technicality" people agree to turn the other way and allow laws to encroach just a bit further on our rights.
So, will the new Pope take the name Vader, Maul, or Tyranus. I look forward to a safer, more secure Catholic...empire!
Anyone who's seen the movie Speed knows Neanderthal DNA is still with us. Google for pics of that bus driver. If he had a club instead of a steering wheel, he could get a job in a museum as a stand-in.
I haven't played for eons, but I started after it first came out and the Hunter class was so weak people would advertise quests and say "no hunters" like people said "no Irish" in the 19th century. Then a year or so later when I returned, the Hunter's specs were completely redone and they were boss. I think the tweaks are an attempt to fix bugs and balance the classes
Not that simple. There should be a right of expectation when purchasing certain products. You'd be pissed if Battlefield 4 installed a background service that streamed your browsing activities to EA. That might be perfectly legal, but it's also well outside the bounds of your expectation from game installation.
I'm getting annoyed by these damned always on services that spam you for a game that has no business doing anything when I'm not playing it.
Morgan Fairchild could have made mad passionate love to me last night as my house supports an environment an actress could survive in. Geez, I thought that article on Panspermia was bad...
Bringing Discover Channel-quality science to geeks everywhere...
Thanks for making me just a wee bit stupider, editors! You can probably crank up your hits by getting a comment from Kim Kardashian with a nice fake-boobs cleavage shot in the summary.
Correct but its sprawl when you have to run utilities 1/4 a mile past a farm to a new subdivision then 1/8 miles east to the next one. It's not the farmland, it's sporadic development throughout it.
And undeveloped land isn't the actual problem it's the reduced tax revenue per foot of utilities when you're leapfrogging over it.
Here in KC we have a runaway sprawl problem (I know to the south where I live and probably north as well). The city is insanely large area-wise for it's population. A guy with 50 acres of prime real estate in the middle of the city won't sell because he's waiting for a great price, not just a good price. But, a farmer further south without such delusions of grand profits agrees to sell his 50 acres to the next apartment complex builder. So, the city now has to build infrastructure and bigger roads further south. There are very large plots of privately-owned undeveloped land and even farm land mixed in with normal suburban development, not quite large enough to be scenic but big enough to make it clear that we're sprawling.
I don't see a real solution without either refusing to push utilities further south or enacting price controls on land deals which is unfair to the owner (and maybe illegal).
Waaah, MM took away work-at-home so now she's the new evil IT emperor?
"imaginary gender card"? You need to build up the nerve for the first time in your life to talk to a woman in IT and see what she thinks about that.
Why not just delay a bit more and get it working properly?
Yahoo is more corporate. Their profit is coming from advertisers and all the account management and business contact that comes with it. MySQL is a software company that has many of the same elements, but when you've got a product used internationally the folks translating documentation into Farsi somewhere in Asia don't need the same kind of close contact.
Likewise, we're hearing from people close to Yahoo executives and employees that she made the right decision banning work from home.
"The employees at Yahoo are thrilled," says one source close to the company.
"There isn't massive uprising. The truth is, they've all been pissed off that people haven't been working."
If it works for the employees, then our opinions here don't mean much in the debate.
You're going to attract women like a shoe sale. There's a bar here in town where guys in med school and chiropractor's school hang out and women are all over it trying to land one. VERY HOT women I might ad. Females here Dr. and biology in the same sentence and you're going to think Brad Pitt is standing behind you.
Guy breaks the law then kills himself when he realizes he's going to prison for *MAYBE* 6 months. He could've ended up with 35 years if they were *really* trying to intimidate him. No sympathies here and I'm not sure why Slashdot keeps romanticizing these punks.
High highs and low lows. My all time favorite FPS game BF2142 started out so buggy you could only play 1-2 rounds before a crash, then EA abandoned support for it, then rubbed it in releases new maps a year or two after game was all but defunct. They turned BF3 into CoD with vehicles, and now I'm expected to leave their damned server running on my machine 24-7 just to play (yeah you CAN turn it off by see how long you can keep that routine up).
They're capable of creating great content, but they act like they don't give a shit after they've got your $50. I don't even play BF3 any more the cheating is so flagrant and I'm tired of the waiting for the anti-hack patch to come out (probably conveniently around the time they release a new expansion set from what I've seen).
That's the problem with bean-counter driven development. You might milk your customers in the short run, but you lose them in the long run.
Oh please, James Bond would just fuck the scanner then kill it in the morning when it tried to tase him in his sleep.
Can you guys elaborate for the history challenged?
Microsoft is great at churning out tons of information on their libraries and tools. But, so much of it is incohesive. I've had several projects working with their tools and it's like slogging through a swamp. Lots of content, but there's often no clear path through it; not a clear beginning or course to follow. Just page after page, sublink after sublink. It makes their bigger tools look like a handful of granules. Microsoft makes some amazing products like Visual Studio, I just wish they'd make them easier to work with for developers and extenders.