Facebook exists for basically this sort of thing. Tracking devices or not, anything you post to it you should consider public knowledge. Sure you have privacy settings, which do not apply to the three letter agencies. At some point they may not apply to anyone.
I am not saying don't use it, but consider anything you say on facebook the same as printing it on a billboard.
Not one bit. I dispute the fact that only a limited set of companies are doing this or that they gain favors by doing it. Big companies like telcos have nice simple request for data forms pre made, so long as they get paid they are more than happy to share any and all data.
Oh please, all the big boys play this game. Any major firm is not going to do anything other than send a bill when any three letter agency asks for data. Nothing to do with favors, just typical amoral corporate behavior that we need to regulate against.
Yes my 2009 droid is overclocked to 1.2Ghz. I have in fact clocked it up to 1.25Ghz before.
The fact that the iPhone4S is more than a year behind in specs should not be held against the D1. Your examples do more to show how relatively outdated the iPhone 4S is than anything. Hopefully the 5 at least brings a 720p screen.
Also the Droid 4 should not be considered a successor since it has a locked bootloader and a low res screen. At the time the D1 was released it was a high res screen, higher than the 3GS by the way.
Yes, portal 2 and many other valve games are patched far more often than the PS3 ports. I know this because I only bought the PS3 version as it included a free PC copy.
I played the PC version of Fallout 3. There are game ending bugs there too. The community patches are about the only way to play it.
They have been putting out buggy garbage for at least a decade. The fact that you and other fanboys still buy it is what keeps them going. What they have been doing right is not investing in QA, not investing in patches and putting out half done projects. The margins on that sort of thing are pretty good compared to doing the development right.
You don't have to be able to better yourself to state facts about flaws.
Do you think Ebert makes better movies? Do you think you should not be able to sue GM when your new car burns up in your driveway because you could not make a better one?
The simple answer is they are incompetent. After all the issues I had with Fallout and New Vegas I will never buy another Bethesda game. The crashing, the stalling, the slowing down of the game as you get farther along.
Games are my time to relax, not be frustrated with the amateur hour programming Bethesda seems to employ.
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The fact that it is facebook?
Facebook exists for basically this sort of thing. Tracking devices or not, anything you post to it you should consider public knowledge. Sure you have privacy settings, which do not apply to the three letter agencies. At some point they may not apply to anyone.
I am not saying don't use it, but consider anything you say on facebook the same as printing it on a billboard.
Not one bit.
I dispute the fact that only a limited set of companies are doing this or that they gain favors by doing it. Big companies like telcos have nice simple request for data forms pre made, so long as they get paid they are more than happy to share any and all data.
Linus Torvalds used a macbook pro with linux last I checked. Is he not a geek?
Oh please, all the big boys play this game. Any major firm is not going to do anything other than send a bill when any three letter agency asks for data. Nothing to do with favors, just typical amoral corporate behavior that we need to regulate against.
Why is that more likely?
You think if the FBI asks Apple or AT&T won't cough up such a list?
Budweiser is terrible, piss water lager is piss lager no matter who makes it.
Pilsner is just that, piss water lager. Give me a real beer, an ale or at least a bock.
Yes my 2009 droid is overclocked to 1.2Ghz. I have in fact clocked it up to 1.25Ghz before.
The fact that the iPhone4S is more than a year behind in specs should not be held against the D1. Your examples do more to show how relatively outdated the iPhone 4S is than anything. Hopefully the 5 at least brings a 720p screen.
Also the Droid 4 should not be considered a successor since it has a locked bootloader and a low res screen. At the time the D1 was released it was a high res screen, higher than the 3GS by the way.
Even worse.
Still better than the 55 gallon drums of absolute tar like garbage we used to sell to the big syrup producers.
In the Czech Republic? So it is the global pee reserve?
It was probably all the bullshit Grade A Amber. Which they waste the first run maple syrup to make by mixing it with the garbage from the late runs.
I love the nearly clear first run stuff.
My droid 1 is clocked at 1.2Ghz.
The lack of ram is a far bigger issue for the D1 and the 3GS than the CPU.
My Droid 1 is running ICS and will soon run JB.
That is the advantage of an open source OS.
That is what I need.
Polluting the data is better than even avoiding it.
Yes, portal 2 and many other valve games are patched far more often than the PS3 ports. I know this because I only bought the PS3 version as it included a free PC copy.
I agree, which is why I am tying future sales to past actions.
If more people did that then more revenue would be attached.
A refund would be a fine fix.
No they would not. They could release a PC fix and say the console fixes were not financially viable.
The reality is they don't care about quality and until they do I am not buying their products.
Ones that you can't fix even after several years?
I can accept bugs at launch, happens to the best of them.
Fallout 3 came out October 28, 2008 and today Aug 31, 2012 nearly 4 years later still has major bugs on all three platforms.
I played the PC version of Fallout 3. There are game ending bugs there too. The community patches are about the only way to play it.
They have been putting out buggy garbage for at least a decade. The fact that you and other fanboys still buy it is what keeps them going. What they have been doing right is not investing in QA, not investing in patches and putting out half done projects. The margins on that sort of thing are pretty good compared to doing the development right.
Sorry, but I actually think the poster is both ignorant and a racist. As racists often are.
These articles about Africa bring them out of the wood work. Half the posts on this article might as well be quoting White Man's Burden.
You don't have to be able to better yourself to state facts about flaws.
Do you think Ebert makes better movies? Do you think you should not be able to sue GM when your new car burns up in your driveway because you could not make a better one?
We are not talking about a few bugs, we are talking about a great many bugs, and that two plus years later are still not fixed.
If they ever go back and fix Fallout 3 or New Vegas, just one I am not greedy, I will buy more Bethesda games.
Good programmers can make serious bugs, but good companies fix their products when they find them.
What unyielding deadline? These games have been out for years and they are still not fixed.
Oh noes, its hard, so we should be able to ripoff the customer with an unfinished product that we will not take a return on nor will we ever fix.
That only changes the procedure if two filings come it at similar times. It does not get rid of prior art. Read the damn wiki you linked too.
The simple answer is they are incompetent. After all the issues I had with Fallout and New Vegas I will never buy another Bethesda game. The crashing, the stalling, the slowing down of the game as you get farther along.
Games are my time to relax, not be frustrated with the amateur hour programming Bethesda seems to employ.