The Mac version of Dragon Age: Origins hasn't gotten a patch, can't get the DLC (although you can install it via a 3rd party app) and hasn't gotten the expansion.
Until a week or two ago when it went on sale for 40% off, it was full-price abandonware.:-(
Yeah, I'm disappointed and a bit bitter about this. I was pretty excited when the Mac version was announced, and I pre-ordered the "deluxe" version.
1) Watch for new videos of/interviews with Steve Ballmer. 2) Note what products he dismisses and/or laughs at. 3) Purchase stock in the makers of those products. 4) PROFIT!!!
iPhones aren't locked to a specific carrier in Canada, you can get them on Rogers, Bell or Telus.
And yet, amazingly, all three offer identical plans at identical rates.
Purely coincidental, of course, there's no collusion in telecommunications, just like there's no collusion at the gas pumps.
When iPad and iPhone are available on other US carriers, you have exactly the same situation to look forward to. You'll be able to get exactly the same plan at exactly the same price from any of 2-3 different "competitors".
There's also the issue of how something like Hulu (or a service like the on-demand movie watching from NetFlicks) would show just how sad their speeds are. The "Up to" speed they advertise might look decent, but what you actually get is crap.
Rogers has been "upgrading" their network in my neighourhood (part of Pickering; 20 minutes East of Toronto, my area was built up in the 80s) by running cables from people's houses, out to trees, and down to their box by the side of the road. There are cables taped to trees and strung maybe 8' in the air. Very impressive.
Bell claims their "Up to" 20Mbit/sec Fibe (note, not fiber) service is available at my house. Oddly, I only get about 3Mbit/sec of the "up to" 5Mbit/sec I'm paying for... so if I upgraded and paid a lot more, would I still get 3Mbit/sec, or would I get 3/5 of 20Mbit? Would it matter at all, since I'd be stuck with their caps and throttling?
The state of home broadband and cellular service in Ontario really ticks me off.
The exciting thing is that you're not missing anything; DSL in Canada hasn't changed since 1999. Sure they advertise higher "up to" speeds for both DSL and Cable, but they're both so ridiculously oversubscribed and filtered that you'll still be getting about 3M bits/sec down on good days.
Bell's got a service called "Fibe" (http://bell.ca/fibe) now, which suggests fiber, but is just ADSL2, IIRC. There's basically no fiber to the home in Canada at this time. But at least we pay a lot!
I'm assuming your web people have other things to do since, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_explorer#Internet_Explorer_7):
Internet Explorer 7 was released on October 18, 2006.
That sort of seems like ample time to test all of your apps with it... IE8 has only been out for about a year now so maybe they can get some slack there.
Quite often "enterprise" software is bought with a service level agreement and/or support agreement; if there are problems, or it goes down, the company you bought it from is on the hook for fixing it ASAP and sometimes has to pay penalties.
I'm too lazy to read this guy's claims, but if I spend XBox points on something, I can re-download it later, can't I? It says right on the screen that there are no returns, but I've never had a problem actually getting the download.
Frankly, I'm more annoyed by MS's refusal to open up the hard drive on the 360 so we can install whatever drive we want (you know, like you can on the PS3). I'd love to drop a bigger drive in mine, but there's no way I'm paying for their 120GB drive... I can get a 320GB 7200 rpm drive for less.
The Kung Fu Panda game was pretty decent (a 75 on Metacritic), actually. I had really low expectations (it's a game tie-in, and and free pack-in on the XBox 360 I got), but we ended up finishing it in a week or so. We had no interest in watching the movie (which was also not bad; 89% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) until we'd played through the game.
It's just a platformer/brawler, but the design was surprisingly good... none of the parts were insanely hard or filled with instant-death points every few seconds.
I would (OmniPlan works better than Project, at least for me), but it was quite a bit cheaper to get a Parallels license and just use one of our MS Project licenses.
"Me too." but I always went one step further and switched to using my Mac laptop all the time (except when I'm at work; we do.NET and Silverlight software).
I've still got a (shrinking) cache of games that I need to BootCamp to finish, but I've sworn off buying PC games. Dragon Age is tempting me, but I imagine we'll get a Mac port in a year or so.:-\
Whenever I boot into XP to play one of these older games (all circa 2006 or earlier, I think), I get to waste some of my rare gaming time installing updates. This reminds me why I stopped buying PC games... it was much worse when I was "current" with PC gaming... each gaming session (usually) required OS updates, driver updates, and then game updates, leaving me with so little time to play I'd give up and fool with my DS...
You guys missed the redefinition of "unlimited" Internet... now "unlimited" means you can use it whenever you want and be connected all the time (unlimited connection!), for whatever low-bandwidth tasks the ISP approves of. To reserve bandwidth for their VOIP or IPTV or whatever products/services.
.NET 3.5 is pretty much.NET 2.0 with some additional assemblies... depending on the app, Mono might be able to run it.
The installer download app for that isn't.NET, and the character builder assemblies crash MoMA (Mono's "will it run on Mono" tool)...
Aaaand you're out of luck, Character Builder uses the Presentation Framework (WPF?) which doesn't seem to exist in the version of Mono (2.4.2.3) on my laptop.
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At least you got the 1.3 patch.
The Mac version of Dragon Age: Origins hasn't gotten a patch, can't get the DLC (although you can install it via a 3rd party app) and hasn't gotten the expansion.
Until a week or two ago when it went on sale for 40% off, it was full-price abandonware. :-(
Yeah, I'm disappointed and a bit bitter about this. I was pretty excited when the Mac version was announced, and I pre-ordered the "deluxe" version.
Mac Steam has been treating us much better.
Hush, noob.
1) Watch for new videos of/interviews with Steve Ballmer.
2) Note what products he dismisses and/or laughs at.
3) Purchase stock in the makers of those products.
4) PROFIT!!!
I think we've finally nailed down step 3...
I bet the CxOs and managers who orchestrated this farce got some massive, massive bonuses.
Before bailing to do it to another company.
iPhones aren't locked to a specific carrier in Canada, you can get them on Rogers, Bell or Telus.
And yet, amazingly, all three offer identical plans at identical rates.
Purely coincidental, of course, there's no collusion in telecommunications, just like there's no collusion at the gas pumps.
When iPad and iPhone are available on other US carriers, you have exactly the same situation to look forward to. You'll be able to get exactly the same plan at exactly the same price from any of 2-3 different "competitors".
No joke, I was once laid off for posting a link to that article in my blog. *sigh*
At least, that was the reason I was given at the time.
Or VPN past your ISP's traffic shaping.
Rogers in Canada was (is?) apparently throttling all encrypted traffic. This has been filling telecommuters with rage.
There's also the issue of how something like Hulu (or a service like the on-demand movie watching from NetFlicks) would show just how sad their speeds are. The "Up to" speed they advertise might look decent, but what you actually get is crap.
Rogers has been "upgrading" their network in my neighourhood (part of Pickering; 20 minutes East of Toronto, my area was built up in the 80s) by running cables from people's houses, out to trees, and down to their box by the side of the road. There are cables taped to trees and strung maybe 8' in the air. Very impressive.
Bell claims their "Up to" 20Mbit/sec Fibe (note, not fiber) service is available at my house. Oddly, I only get about 3Mbit/sec of the "up to" 5Mbit/sec I'm paying for... so if I upgraded and paid a lot more, would I still get 3Mbit/sec, or would I get 3/5 of 20Mbit? Would it matter at all, since I'd be stuck with their caps and throttling?
The state of home broadband and cellular service in Ontario really ticks me off.
The exciting thing is that you're not missing anything; DSL in Canada hasn't changed since 1999. Sure they advertise higher "up to" speeds for both DSL and Cable, but they're both so ridiculously oversubscribed and filtered that you'll still be getting about 3M bits/sec down on good days.
Bell's got a service called "Fibe" (http://bell.ca/fibe) now, which suggests fiber, but is just ADSL2, IIRC. There's basically no fiber to the home in Canada at this time. But at least we pay a lot!
*shakes fist impotently at ILECs*
I'm assuming your web people have other things to do since, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_explorer#Internet_Explorer_7):
That sort of seems like ample time to test all of your apps with it... IE8 has only been out for about a year now so maybe they can get some slack there.
Will they start testing with Firefox 2 soon?
Quite often "enterprise" software is bought with a service level agreement and/or support agreement; if there are problems, or it goes down, the company you bought it from is on the hook for fixing it ASAP and sometimes has to pay penalties.
I'm too lazy to read this guy's claims, but if I spend XBox points on something, I can re-download it later, can't I? It says right on the screen that there are no returns, but I've never had a problem actually getting the download.
Frankly, I'm more annoyed by MS's refusal to open up the hard drive on the 360 so we can install whatever drive we want (you know, like you can on the PS3). I'd love to drop a bigger drive in mine, but there's no way I'm paying for their 120GB drive... I can get a 320GB 7200 rpm drive for less.
The Kung Fu Panda game was pretty decent (a 75 on Metacritic), actually. I had really low expectations (it's a game tie-in, and and free pack-in on the XBox 360 I got), but we ended up finishing it in a week or so. We had no interest in watching the movie (which was also not bad; 89% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) until we'd played through the game.
It's just a platformer/brawler, but the design was surprisingly good... none of the parts were insanely hard or filled with instant-death points every few seconds.
"You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought."
I would (OmniPlan works better than Project, at least for me), but it was quite a bit cheaper to get a Parallels license and just use one of our MS Project licenses.
Couldn't live without OmniFocus though.
Hey mods, how the hell is this trolling? I'm recounting a person anecdote about why I gave up on something I used to do regularly.
Sheesh.
"Me too." but I always went one step further and switched to using my Mac laptop all the time (except when I'm at work; we do .NET and Silverlight software).
I've still got a (shrinking) cache of games that I need to BootCamp to finish, but I've sworn off buying PC games. Dragon Age is tempting me, but I imagine we'll get a Mac port in a year or so. :-\
Whenever I boot into XP to play one of these older games (all circa 2006 or earlier, I think), I get to waste some of my rare gaming time installing updates. This reminds me why I stopped buying PC games... it was much worse when I was "current" with PC gaming... each gaming session (usually) required OS updates, driver updates, and then game updates, leaving me with so little time to play I'd give up and fool with my DS...
You guys missed the redefinition of "unlimited" Internet... now "unlimited" means you can use it whenever you want and be connected all the time (unlimited connection!), for whatever low-bandwidth tasks the ISP approves of. To reserve bandwidth for their VOIP or IPTV or whatever products/services.
Rumour has it that other text editors run on Windows.
I generally use Programmer's Notepad 2, but there's also EMACS and various other things.
MonoDevelop, SharpDevelop or VisualStudio Express would probably be better choices for free (as-in-price) C# hacking on Windows though.
.NET 3.5 is pretty much .NET 2.0 with some additional assemblies... depending on the app, Mono might be able to run it.
The installer download app for that isn't .NET, and the character builder assemblies crash MoMA (Mono's "will it run on Mono" tool)...
Aaaand you're out of luck, Character Builder uses the Presentation Framework (WPF?) which doesn't seem to exist in the version of Mono (2.4.2.3) on my laptop.
Unity (http://unity3d.com/) can import a bunch of the formats that Sketchup Pro can export... native support would be easier, of course.
Out of the box development on Mac or Windows, and deployment to Mac or Windows, as well as on the web.
Still working through the massive (120 pages!) platformer tutorial and piles o' docs.
No, WHO's preoccupied with H1N1 these days.
Can't it be both?
Doesn't the EULA also forbid you from distributing executables made with Visual Studio Express editions?
It's all CD-Rs, on the assumption that they're all for pirating music.
I can buy a spindle of 50 blank DVDs for $19; a spindle of 50 blank CDs is $34 (both Verbatim-branded). That's ridiculous.
Requesting links to $20-30 2-bay enclosures, please. Can't seem to find any in Canada that are under about $50...