This isn't an expansion, this is just a side quest that has been ripped out of the game and is now sold separately.
I have mod points but I'd rather correct some misinformation instead.
To sum up what BioWare devs have said is that the PC version was originally going to be released back in spring IIRC, so development on features was frozen to allow that. The DLC wasn't in the game's featureset at that point, it was being developed separately by a completely different dev team for later release. The console versions were going to be released around now (there seems to be a longer release process for consoles to allow for higher certification requirements).
At some point it was instead decided to delay release the PC version to the same time as the console versions. But the featureset couldn't be unfrozen to allow the DLC, as that would have messed up the console release process. So we get the situation we have now, where the game is being released at the same time as the DLC.
In other words, while in theory a game company could do what you're saying, in this case the DLC isn't something that was "ripped out" of the game, it's something that we would have had to have waited for anyway.
Someone's made a flash blocker for Opera using just user stylesheets and javascript. I've used it for Opera 9 and works well for me--haven't tried 10 yet.
Odd, mine worked flawlessly, and I passed it on to a friend when I got my G5 tower a few years ago. I told him to call me if he needed help with it... haven't gotten a call yet.
Of course, anecdotes != data. Surveying online discussions did point to some issues, but not what I'd call evidence of "selling Beta units to people".
There were a number of Cubes where the power "button" didn't work properly (mostly early models) which caused random shutdowns/startups; IIRC this could be fixed simply by slipping a piece of paper between the touch sensor and the LED.
They did not have a tendency to develop cracks, though this is a common myth. People reported "cracks", which turned out to be plastic flow lines from the moulding process. Mine had some, though I didn't even notice them until I saw discussion online about it and went looking for them.
I don't recall seeing more reports of it crashing than other first-generation Macs I've seen.
So I don't think it's fair to call the Cube terrible. It was a very powerful machine for its form factor (IIRC, unmatched at the time of its released), but almost certainly priced too high. I think that combined with the lack of upgradability is what killed it.
The Mini can be seen as Apple having learned that lesson: if you offer something that can't be upgraded, it better be inexpensive.
Ugh. I use one of those at home. I'm glad now that I set a default NTP server when I first set it up, but I doubt this is something most users would do. Here are the instructions for doing this. I don't know if this applies to the other models listed above.
Wouldn't evolution have constructed lifeforms of this kind long ago if they were stable and competetive in a natural environment?
Funny you should write this. As I was reading the review, I couldn't help being reminded of Stanislaw Lem's excellent novel Invincible, which in fact asks this very question (about 40 years ago).
Like most of Lem's books, it is multifaceted, exploring themes of self-other confrontation, mind-body relationship, and human loneliness and arrogance; all in a juicy hard-SF story. While the tech in the story is dated, the novel's relevance as science fiction remains fresh today. (In passing, I would have thought that Invicible would have been much more obvious movie material than Solaris (also a great novel, for different reasons).)
Chrichton's The Andromeda Strain, by contrast, struck me as being a fine thriller with high-tech elements, but not particularly exciting as science fiction. If this new novel is similar, I suspect that my impression will be the same.
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I have mod points but I'd rather correct some misinformation instead.
To sum up what BioWare devs have said is that the PC version was originally going to be released back in spring IIRC, so development on features was frozen to allow that. The DLC wasn't in the game's featureset at that point, it was being developed separately by a completely different dev team for later release. The console versions were going to be released around now (there seems to be a longer release process for consoles to allow for higher certification requirements).
At some point it was instead decided to delay release the PC version to the same time as the console versions. But the featureset couldn't be unfrozen to allow the DLC, as that would have messed up the console release process. So we get the situation we have now, where the game is being released at the same time as the DLC.
In other words, while in theory a game company could do what you're saying, in this case the DLC isn't something that was "ripped out" of the game, it's something that we would have had to have waited for anyway.
Someone's made a flash blocker for Opera using just user stylesheets and javascript. I've used it for Opera 9 and works well for me--haven't tried 10 yet.
What is this 'remake' of which you speak?
Hopefully this will pave the way to future advances enabling us to detect traces of civilization on Earth!
Odd, mine worked flawlessly, and I passed it on to a friend when I got my G5 tower a few years ago. I told him to call me if he needed help with it... haven't gotten a call yet.
Of course, anecdotes != data. Surveying online discussions did point to some issues, but not what I'd call evidence of "selling Beta units to people".
There were a number of Cubes where the power "button" didn't work properly (mostly early models) which caused random shutdowns/startups; IIRC this could be fixed simply by slipping a piece of paper between the touch sensor and the LED.
They did not have a tendency to develop cracks, though this is a common myth. People reported "cracks", which turned out to be plastic flow lines from the moulding process. Mine had some, though I didn't even notice them until I saw discussion online about it and went looking for them.
I don't recall seeing more reports of it crashing than other first-generation Macs I've seen.
So I don't think it's fair to call the Cube terrible. It was a very powerful machine for its form factor (IIRC, unmatched at the time of its released), but almost certainly priced too high. I think that combined with the lack of upgradability is what killed it.
The Mini can be seen as Apple having learned that lesson: if you offer something that can't be upgraded, it better be inexpensive.
Ugh. I use one of those at home. I'm glad now that I set a default NTP server when I first set it up, but I doubt this is something most users would do. Here are the instructions for doing this. I don't know if this applies to the other models listed above.
This might also be useful: List of NTP Pool Servers
I was just about to ask the same thing. And what does "gay" have to do with the pink theme and ponies anyway?
Funny you should write this. As I was reading the review, I couldn't help being reminded of Stanislaw Lem's excellent novel Invincible, which in fact asks this very question (about 40 years ago).
Like most of Lem's books, it is multifaceted, exploring themes of self-other confrontation, mind-body relationship, and human loneliness and arrogance; all in a juicy hard-SF story. While the tech in the story is dated, the novel's relevance as science fiction remains fresh today. (In passing, I would have thought that Invicible would have been much more obvious movie material than Solaris (also a great novel, for different reasons).)
Chrichton's The Andromeda Strain, by contrast, struck me as being a fine thriller with high-tech elements, but not particularly exciting as science fiction. If this new novel is similar, I suspect that my impression will be the same.
Go read Invincible, you may like it.