Every single Bethesda game has had exactly the same problems, on every platform too.
I can't speak directly for Arena, but its true of Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout off the top of my head.
They either don't do proper quality control or they don't engineer their code properly. Pick one.
I've never had consistently bad crashing/slowdown issues with any other developer. Unfortunately, they make great content. Its the code that seems to suck.
Killer new features on phones that don't infringe on Apple's patents in question (while disallowing prior art as this jury did) would be nearly impossible, considering the actual areas Apple was complaining about.
And as worker action proved in the strikes that lead to unions, when everyone grows a pair and stands up for what's right, there's nobody left to order around.
If the American people didn't bother to rise up for Iran Contra or the various incidents in South America, then the American people won't care about anything Assange digs up either.
Turns out the average American is a navel-gazing jerk and just doesn't care about what his or her country does elsewhere in the world to other people.
When you end up on the wrong end of the law staring down jurors and you know you're innocent but you're dependant on them deciding to agree with you, I'll let you answer your own question on who should be an arbiter of justice.
No, not every Tom Dick and Harry should be a juror on a murder case. Not just anyone should determine guilt and innocence. Most people aren't trained in issues of bias. Most people aren't educated about worldview and perspectives. Most people just see things the way they see them, and believing that's fair to the person on trial is hilarious.
The basic thought puzzle goes like this (numbers are random, and hardly relevant):
You need to make a situation fair and reasonable. When you begin discussing it, 80% of the people in the room leave because they don't care. As you get into smaller technicalities, another 75% leave because they don't think its worth it. (repeat) What you're left with are lawyers and politicians writing the final version down into law.
We hate them, but we have these lawyers because most people just don't want to be bothered with figuring out the issues, not because the law is complicated. The law becomes complicated precisely because life is complicated and western civilization believes having specific rules makes life more fair.
The alternative is to have vague laws, and not think its bad to get arrested randomly for doing something that may be determined to be completely innocent over half the time at trial. With specific laws, this happens much less often, but complicates the law itself.
Gold standards don't eliminate inflation. The value of goods and cost of living vis-a-vis precious metals fluctuates over time, as does the value of each compared to the other of course as you pointed out.
In fact recently I was shocked to see the value of gold had overtaken platinum by some nominal amount.
Um no, the loss of capital is due to the shareholders watching what the outcome was, whether they agree or not.
Even if I think a company is in the right, when an investor sees them lose a court case, they know their value will plummet, so they sell. That's how most investors think.
Except its complete BS. I use Google News all the time -- and I click through on the articles that are interesting to me. What it means is that I may not read all my morning's news on any one news site, which is annoying to them, but too bad.
Also, it means all those news stories they pay for from AP and other news aggregators are worthless because I'm not going to read the exact same story from two different newspapers, but I might read the same story multiple times if they have different writers and angles.
Because publishing something to the Internet makes it public by default.
If you don't want your information to be public, you hide it behind passwords and login forms. Once its public, there's no reason to stop people from indexing.
BS -- the ad revenue is a result of publishing news good enough to entice users to read the articles. If they're failing that, they don't deserve it any more than a TV viewer who changes channels because a show is boring. Boring content, no ad revenue. That's pretty much guaranteed in publishing.
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I don't mind bugs. I mind games that are unfinishable after I've put 50 hours into them.
Not the answer to your question, but Neverwinter Nights had fully customizable questing and items and never had bugs like this.
Every single Bethesda game has had exactly the same problems, on every platform too.
I can't speak directly for Arena, but its true of Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim and Fallout off the top of my head.
They either don't do proper quality control or they don't engineer their code properly. Pick one.
I've never had consistently bad crashing/slowdown issues with any other developer. Unfortunately, they make great content. Its the code that seems to suck.
Considering how unstable Skyrim is on the PS3 in the first place, I suspect terrible underlying software engineering to be at fault.
Other large RPGs on the PS3 don't suffer like Skyrim does.
The game crashes and locks up and gets terribly slow -- standard Bethesda crap programming issues, just like Morrowind on the PC used to do.
I spent 3 months waiting for a new patch to come out for stability issues, then loaded my game and played until it locked up 5 minutes later.
Its playable for hours sometimes, sometimes its not. Its almost completely random.
That would have to have been the first release ... or the twenty seventh perhaps.
Killer new features on phones that don't infringe on Apple's patents in question (while disallowing prior art as this jury did) would be nearly impossible, considering the actual areas Apple was complaining about.
Icon shape and dispersion? Jeez.
And as worker action proved in the strikes that lead to unions, when everyone grows a pair and stands up for what's right, there's nobody left to order around.
If the American people didn't bother to rise up for Iran Contra or the various incidents in South America, then the American people won't care about anything Assange digs up either.
Turns out the average American is a navel-gazing jerk and just doesn't care about what his or her country does elsewhere in the world to other people.
You haven't heard of drones I suppose.
... until voters become so lazy that when the opposite side turns out to vote it completely upsets the balance for a term.
When you end up on the wrong end of the law staring down jurors and you know you're innocent but you're dependant on them deciding to agree with you, I'll let you answer your own question on who should be an arbiter of justice.
No, not every Tom Dick and Harry should be a juror on a murder case. Not just anyone should determine guilt and innocence. Most people aren't trained in issues of bias. Most people aren't educated about worldview and perspectives. Most people just see things the way they see them, and believing that's fair to the person on trial is hilarious.
The basic thought puzzle goes like this (numbers are random, and hardly relevant):
You need to make a situation fair and reasonable. When you begin discussing it, 80% of the people in the room leave because they don't care.
As you get into smaller technicalities, another 75% leave because they don't think its worth it.
(repeat)
What you're left with are lawyers and politicians writing the final version down into law.
We hate them, but we have these lawyers because most people just don't want to be bothered with figuring out the issues, not because the law is complicated. The law becomes complicated precisely because life is complicated and western civilization believes having specific rules makes life more fair.
The alternative is to have vague laws, and not think its bad to get arrested randomly for doing something that may be determined to be completely innocent over half the time at trial. With specific laws, this happens much less often, but complicates the law itself.
The thought that a jury could decide a net neutrality case, or an rbl spam blocking case just scares me. Sigh.
Gold standards don't eliminate inflation. The value of goods and cost of living vis-a-vis precious metals fluctuates over time, as does the value of each compared to the other of course as you pointed out.
In fact recently I was shocked to see the value of gold had overtaken platinum by some nominal amount.
You didn't actually read the verdict, did you?
Um no, the loss of capital is due to the shareholders watching what the outcome was, whether they agree or not.
Even if I think a company is in the right, when an investor sees them lose a court case, they know their value will plummet, so they sell. That's how most investors think.
If you include a requirement to license, that's not so wrong. What irks me is companies who won't license their patents at a reasonable cost.
Most of the patent issues at stake were customizations Samsung does that aren't in stock Android -- so no, Schmidt isn't the problem.
Except its complete BS. I use Google News all the time -- and I click through on the articles that are interesting to me. What it means is that I may not read all my morning's news on any one news site, which is annoying to them, but too bad.
Also, it means all those news stories they pay for from AP and other news aggregators are worthless because I'm not going to read the exact same story from two different newspapers, but I might read the same story multiple times if they have different writers and angles.
Because publishing something to the Internet makes it public by default.
If you don't want your information to be public, you hide it behind passwords and login forms. Once its public, there's no reason to stop people from indexing.
Someone has to be listed at the top, someone else has to be listed at the bottom.
Forcing a top result to the bottom might be unfair, but they are complaining that they don't want their results shown for free.
BS -- the ad revenue is a result of publishing news good enough to entice users to read the articles. If they're failing that, they don't deserve it any more than a TV viewer who changes channels because a show is boring. Boring content, no ad revenue. That's pretty much guaranteed in publishing.
Stop that, you're going to make me spill my morning coffee.
So you've never seen what iptables can really do I take it...