Since Jacobs has stated this is nothing to do with EA, its most likely an internal decision based on lack of development time and a desire to make a November release date that is key to getting Christmas sales for the game.
It's not just xmas sales but also timing with Wrath of the Lich King. WotLK should be out around the same time and if they wait, they lose potential customers to Blizzard, who will most likely pick up the expansion in WAR's absence and want to take their time leveling to 80, playing out the end game, etc.
So you either launch this xmas or have to probably push back a good year out. Really the best time for WAR to launch is right now. People are waiting for WotLK, the end game of Burning Crusade is basically played out, and people are chomping at the bit for new content. They're pretty much between a rock and a hard place right now in regards to timing.
ATT used to do this, before they became Cingular, back when they were still ATT (confused yet?). I used to have a website set up for people to type into to text me whenever they wanted. Obviously, I took that down a long time ago, as that would cost me a small fortune today.
No, the purpose of a door is to allow access. I'd like to see you access your own house without any doors on it, much like I'd like to see you access a wireless signal without a wireless router. The very concept of a door is to allow that access in the first place. To deny access you add a lock to the door, similar to adding a secure login to a router.
As someone who grew up 10 miles from 3 nuclear reactors, I'm with you, and it was in my back yard. The amount of FUD spread about nuclear is really depressing, especially for those of us who have actually lived near reactors, and understand it's no big deal. Actually, I wouldn't have felt this way had those 3 plants been coal burning plants. And yet, people seem to be ok with coal and not nuclear, go figure.
Mootools sort of does this, but on the developer end. When you download Mootools you get to choose which components you want as part of your JS libs. Just need AJAX and not the fancy effects, CSS selectors, etc? Then you can just include the AJAX libs into Mootools and forget the rest. It's not load on demand, but at least it's better than having to download a 130k file when you're only using 10k of it.
There are plenty of parallels between Firefly and B7.
I had never actually heard of Firefly until I saw an interview with Paul Darrow (who played Avon on B7) on the B7 DVDs. He mentioned the similarities of Firefly and B7, so of course I had to check out Firefly after that (B7 being one of my favorite series ever). Indeed there are many parallels between the two, though I would say B7 is a bit darker overall. It certainly made me an immediate Firefly fan though and very sad the series run was so short.
I can't believe the Democrats will be stupid enough to run Hillary. She's the one candidate that the Republicans will pull together to keep out of the White House.
It's not just keeping her out of the White House. It's also using her as a tool to strike up support for Republican congressional candidates. I expect if she gets the nomination (and even if she wins the GE), there will be a huge swing in the house and senate to the right.
I just have to wonder if Limbaugh's advice is counterproductive.
It's not counterproductive for Rush. He's salivating for a Clinton presidency, as it means ratings for his show go through the roof for the next 4 years.
Why should I have to put a custom tag into a standards compliant document? Furthermore why shouldn't this custom tag not be put into the non-standard IE6/7 pages to keep the bugs in tact if they want them?
When MS updates it's OS, it will often change the API which breaks a few things for some programs. It then gives devs ample time to make fixes so that their old programs work in the new OS. I'm not sure why a browser should be much different.
Nobody is saying that people who wrote a site for IE6 need to rewrite their entire site to be standards compliant. But if they want to use old and buggy crap, then make them add in the meta tags. Leave the crud in the past, don't pollute future sites with custom IE only tags just for the sake of standards compliance when something better already exists and is used by every other browser already.
The 2600n is even better once you disable the printing limit on the toner cartridges. HP of course limits the amount of pages you can print by default (2400 for black, 2000 for color). If any one reaches the max it won't print. Thankfully HP did two things with the 2600n, gave you 100% full cartridges right off the bat, and gave you a way to override these limits (it's in the prefs on the printer). I got a good 800 extra pages out of my black cartridge by overriding the defaults (~30% more).
Nice... you assume automatically that I meant the entire industry fully does it. No... just most of them.
It looks as though you've already made up your mind, which is unfortunate, because you have no idea what you're talking about. But I realize it's easier to jump to conclusions than think about it critically.
As someone who was a game journalist for 5 years and knows many who still are in the field (working for most of the big game sites and magazines), I can say without a doubt this is not a rampant problem.
From TFA:
when any publication gets to a certain size and generates a certain amount of money in advertising revenue, the question of journalistic integrity becomes an issue. And let me be the first to come out and say that what happened to Jeff Gerstmann happens all the time.
This is patently false. These things do not happen "all the time". Of course there are pressures from advertisers when they do not like a review or a score, no doubt, but this does not affect the review or score of the game. Most publications have a strict separation between advertising and editorial and this is intentional. In fact, I would say the larger the publication, the less likely this is to happen. Most smaller publications are more apt to take any advertising they can get, because they get so little.
I keep seeing people say "they know" editors are paid off for positive press, but nobody ever backs it up with proof. And there's a reason for this, it so rarely happens there usually is no proof to be had. Just read the article for example, it takes one horrible event (which should have never happened), and extrapolates it across the entire industry with nothing to back it up other than conjecture. One bad decision by the management at CNet/Gamespot does not mean the entire industry is corrupt, because it's not. Take off the tin foil hat.
As an expert at abusive management during the failing days at Krispy Kreme, this sounds like they want the employees to quit. I've seen this happen too many times.
The people who quit in situations like this are your best employees. The ones who aren't afraid to lose their jobs because they're good enough to work just about anywhere. The ones you're left with are the people who are afraid they have no other options and will take it up the ass just to keep a job. It's not a smart way to run a company, unless you want to run it into the ground.
and why does safari have the Open "safe" files on by default, again? I don't get that.
Actually it used to be worse. Safari used to have a hidden pref that allowed you to open any file you downloaded, not just "safe" ones. All it took was editing some XML prefs to add file types you wanted to auto open when downloaded. I used this to write a file browser that let me open various files after I downloaded them (like PSD's in Photoshop, basically stuff I actually found useful). A few years ago Apple cut that part out and restricted it to only files they deem as safe, which is a pretty small subset of file types.
That said, I don't mind the option (rather like it actually) but it should be turned off by default.
The problem here is it's a slippery slope. People pay a lot of money for their software libraries and even in this throw away society many people still want to play their old games some time down the road. Say what you want about Sony but they have always been the leaders in BC on consoles. It's always been part of their plan, until now.
People say "just get a PS2 if you want to play old games", but this misses the point. In 10 years when the PS5 is out, how will we play PS3 games? Will I need to have my PS2/3/4/5 all hooked up to enjoy my old games? That's a bit much don't ya think?
The old cartridge based systems mostly didn't have BC because the physical shape of the carts were always different. Today, a CD/DVD/Bluray disc are the same size, and are all readable by the next gen consoles. The only reason not to have BC is laziness. Even software emulation would only be a one time project. Develop a kick ass emulator and then port it to each new system that comes out. Surely Sony has the technical ability to do this.
But in the end it's a poor long term decision on their part. Some may find it no big deal now, but as the generations wear on, it will become pretty annoying for those wanting to revisit our old game library.
Ever play a PSP? While you can connect it to the net to download firmware updates, most people do it by just playing whatever new game they get. Most PSP games come with the current firmware on them, which auto installs when you play the game.
Same thing can be done here. Buy a BluRay disc, if it has new firmware on it, it just installs it before the movie starts.
(*) Not that early. I started reading when Netscape announced their plans to free their web browser.
Early enough, most people don't have a 4 digit user ID. I believe when Mozilla was first thought up is about when I started reading too. But I was too afraid to post to even register at the time.
"However, what really does it for Microsoft is Fallout 3, Halo 3, Mass Effect and BioShock. If one of those doesn't sell you a buggy, overheating, now-under-warranty Xbox 360, nothing will."
This is really MS's problem right here. I'm sure those games will be great and sell well, but they certain cater to a specific taste. The 360 really needs to branch out in it's library to be more diverse if it's going to sell beyond just the normal hardcore gamer. Right now it has the same stigma as the Xbox 1 did. I don't think that's going to help them down the road.
I'm sure the *term* blog is probably 10 years old, but the idea goes back further than 10 years for sure. I know myself and others who had dated "posts" on topics dating back to '95. They were mostly links and items and opinions about a specific topic. Back then they were just generally called "news", "notes" or "thoughts" but it was not much different from any tech blog you would see today. I'm quite sure there were others who go back even further than this. The idea isn't inherently new or creative, it's just the term that was given to them that was.
Then again it all depends on what you really consider a "blog". Some people consider web logs and blogs to be different things (which may also be different from a journal, or a news site, etc). So the entire idea of pinpointing a "start" to it is sort of silly, given how similar they all tend to be.
So you can just set it to "linksys" and you won't even need EDGE.
You were modded funny, but this is pretty much all I would need out of the iPhone. If they had a version that dropped the cellphone/ATT part, and added Skype or something similar for calls over WiFi, it's all I'd really need. 90% of the places I go have free wifi now. Good enough for me. I don't need cell reception *all* the time.
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If it's one of those old C-Band sat dishes, you can use it for radio astronomy. Probably one of the cheaper ways to get into it actually.
Since Jacobs has stated this is nothing to do with EA, its most likely an internal decision based on lack of development time and a desire to make a November release date that is key to getting Christmas sales for the game.
It's not just xmas sales but also timing with Wrath of the Lich King. WotLK should be out around the same time and if they wait, they lose potential customers to Blizzard, who will most likely pick up the expansion in WAR's absence and want to take their time leveling to 80, playing out the end game, etc.
So you either launch this xmas or have to probably push back a good year out. Really the best time for WAR to launch is right now. People are waiting for WotLK, the end game of Burning Crusade is basically played out, and people are chomping at the bit for new content. They're pretty much between a rock and a hard place right now in regards to timing.
The performance of the stock markets isn't very good right now, but all that means is that they are trading at ~2006 levels:
Which means it's trading at 1999 levels. We still haven't made much headway in the market since 2000 when the thing started to collapse.
ATT used to do this, before they became Cingular, back when they were still ATT (confused yet?). I used to have a website set up for people to type into to text me whenever they wanted. Obviously, I took that down a long time ago, as that would cost me a small fortune today.
No, the purpose of a door is to allow access. I'd like to see you access your own house without any doors on it, much like I'd like to see you access a wireless signal without a wireless router. The very concept of a door is to allow that access in the first place. To deny access you add a lock to the door, similar to adding a secure login to a router.
As someone who grew up 10 miles from 3 nuclear reactors, I'm with you, and it was in my back yard. The amount of FUD spread about nuclear is really depressing, especially for those of us who have actually lived near reactors, and understand it's no big deal. Actually, I wouldn't have felt this way had those 3 plants been coal burning plants. And yet, people seem to be ok with coal and not nuclear, go figure.
Mootools sort of does this, but on the developer end. When you download Mootools you get to choose which components you want as part of your JS libs. Just need AJAX and not the fancy effects, CSS selectors, etc? Then you can just include the AJAX libs into Mootools and forget the rest. It's not load on demand, but at least it's better than having to download a 130k file when you're only using 10k of it.
There are plenty of parallels between Firefly and B7.
I had never actually heard of Firefly until I saw an interview with Paul Darrow (who played Avon on B7) on the B7 DVDs. He mentioned the similarities of Firefly and B7, so of course I had to check out Firefly after that (B7 being one of my favorite series ever). Indeed there are many parallels between the two, though I would say B7 is a bit darker overall. It certainly made me an immediate Firefly fan though and very sad the series run was so short.
I can't believe the Democrats will be stupid enough to run Hillary. She's the one candidate that the Republicans will pull together to keep out of the White House.
It's not just keeping her out of the White House. It's also using her as a tool to strike up support for Republican congressional candidates. I expect if she gets the nomination (and even if she wins the GE), there will be a huge swing in the house and senate to the right.
I just have to wonder if Limbaugh's advice is counterproductive.
It's not counterproductive for Rush. He's salivating for a Clinton presidency, as it means ratings for his show go through the roof for the next 4 years.
In case you're curious of how the respective candidates for president voted on the amendment to block retroactive immunity:
McCain: No
Obama: Yes
Clinton: Did not vote
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/2/votes/15/
Why should I have to put a custom tag into a standards compliant document? Furthermore why shouldn't this custom tag not be put into the non-standard IE6/7 pages to keep the bugs in tact if they want them?
When MS updates it's OS, it will often change the API which breaks a few things for some programs. It then gives devs ample time to make fixes so that their old programs work in the new OS. I'm not sure why a browser should be much different.
Nobody is saying that people who wrote a site for IE6 need to rewrite their entire site to be standards compliant. But if they want to use old and buggy crap, then make them add in the meta tags. Leave the crud in the past, don't pollute future sites with custom IE only tags just for the sake of standards compliance when something better already exists and is used by every other browser already.
The 2600n is even better once you disable the printing limit on the toner cartridges. HP of course limits the amount of pages you can print by default (2400 for black, 2000 for color). If any one reaches the max it won't print. Thankfully HP did two things with the 2600n, gave you 100% full cartridges right off the bat, and gave you a way to override these limits (it's in the prefs on the printer). I got a good 800 extra pages out of my black cartridge by overriding the defaults (~30% more).
Nice... you assume automatically that I meant the entire industry fully does it. No... just most of them.
It looks as though you've already made up your mind, which is unfortunate, because you have no idea what you're talking about. But I realize it's easier to jump to conclusions than think about it critically.
From TFA:
This is patently false. These things do not happen "all the time". Of course there are pressures from advertisers when they do not like a review or a score, no doubt, but this does not affect the review or score of the game. Most publications have a strict separation between advertising and editorial and this is intentional. In fact, I would say the larger the publication, the less likely this is to happen. Most smaller publications are more apt to take any advertising they can get, because they get so little.
I keep seeing people say "they know" editors are paid off for positive press, but nobody ever backs it up with proof. And there's a reason for this, it so rarely happens there usually is no proof to be had. Just read the article for example, it takes one horrible event (which should have never happened), and extrapolates it across the entire industry with nothing to back it up other than conjecture. One bad decision by the management at CNet/Gamespot does not mean the entire industry is corrupt, because it's not. Take off the tin foil hat.
As an expert at abusive management during the failing days at Krispy Kreme, this sounds like they want the employees to quit. I've seen this happen too many times.
The people who quit in situations like this are your best employees. The ones who aren't afraid to lose their jobs because they're good enough to work just about anywhere. The ones you're left with are the people who are afraid they have no other options and will take it up the ass just to keep a job. It's not a smart way to run a company, unless you want to run it into the ground.
and why does safari have the Open "safe" files on by default, again? I don't get that.
Actually it used to be worse. Safari used to have a hidden pref that allowed you to open any file you downloaded, not just "safe" ones. All it took was editing some XML prefs to add file types you wanted to auto open when downloaded. I used this to write a file browser that let me open various files after I downloaded them (like PSD's in Photoshop, basically stuff I actually found useful). A few years ago Apple cut that part out and restricted it to only files they deem as safe, which is a pretty small subset of file types.
That said, I don't mind the option (rather like it actually) but it should be turned off by default.
Shows up on mine. Given I was a very early adopter of gmail, I wonder if they aren't doling it out to the old timers first.
The problem here is it's a slippery slope. People pay a lot of money for their software libraries and even in this throw away society many people still want to play their old games some time down the road. Say what you want about Sony but they have always been the leaders in BC on consoles. It's always been part of their plan, until now.
People say "just get a PS2 if you want to play old games", but this misses the point. In 10 years when the PS5 is out, how will we play PS3 games? Will I need to have my PS2/3/4/5 all hooked up to enjoy my old games? That's a bit much don't ya think?
The old cartridge based systems mostly didn't have BC because the physical shape of the carts were always different. Today, a CD/DVD/Bluray disc are the same size, and are all readable by the next gen consoles. The only reason not to have BC is laziness. Even software emulation would only be a one time project. Develop a kick ass emulator and then port it to each new system that comes out. Surely Sony has the technical ability to do this.
But in the end it's a poor long term decision on their part. Some may find it no big deal now, but as the generations wear on, it will become pretty annoying for those wanting to revisit our old game library.
Ever play a PSP? While you can connect it to the net to download firmware updates, most people do it by just playing whatever new game they get. Most PSP games come with the current firmware on them, which auto installs when you play the game.
Same thing can be done here. Buy a BluRay disc, if it has new firmware on it, it just installs it before the movie starts.
(*) Not that early. I started reading when Netscape announced their plans to free their web browser.
Early enough, most people don't have a 4 digit user ID. I believe when Mozilla was first thought up is about when I started reading too. But I was too afraid to post to even register at the time.
When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song.
Say it all you want, it doesn't make it true.
"However, what really does it for Microsoft is Fallout 3, Halo 3, Mass Effect and BioShock. If one of those doesn't sell you a buggy, overheating, now-under-warranty Xbox 360, nothing will."
This is really MS's problem right here. I'm sure those games will be great and sell well, but they certain cater to a specific taste. The 360 really needs to branch out in it's library to be more diverse if it's going to sell beyond just the normal hardcore gamer. Right now it has the same stigma as the Xbox 1 did. I don't think that's going to help them down the road.
I'm sure the *term* blog is probably 10 years old, but the idea goes back further than 10 years for sure. I know myself and others who had dated "posts" on topics dating back to '95. They were mostly links and items and opinions about a specific topic. Back then they were just generally called "news", "notes" or "thoughts" but it was not much different from any tech blog you would see today. I'm quite sure there were others who go back even further than this. The idea isn't inherently new or creative, it's just the term that was given to them that was.
Then again it all depends on what you really consider a "blog". Some people consider web logs and blogs to be different things (which may also be different from a journal, or a news site, etc). So the entire idea of pinpointing a "start" to it is sort of silly, given how similar they all tend to be.
So you can just set it to "linksys" and you won't even need EDGE.
You were modded funny, but this is pretty much all I would need out of the iPhone. If they had a version that dropped the cellphone/ATT part, and added Skype or something similar for calls over WiFi, it's all I'd really need. 90% of the places I go have free wifi now. Good enough for me. I don't need cell reception *all* the time.