Funny thing is that I, having the game four hours after it hit suprnova, never noticed this until I heard it from other people who actually bought the game! Nice going, guys!
Creating one of the most amusing blogs ever is a much better way to get this person's attention than just posting a few pictures. Honestly, without all the fuss the chance of the person finding this is nil. Now, it's still low, but at least it's a possibility.
It seems to me that when this person has done is, in fact, the best way to get this person's property back to them. Will it work? Probably not. Is it better than just about anything else? You bet it is.
First of all, I've never had a problem with such things. I've had an unpatched XP system with no firewall running for two days, to see what would happen. Absolutely nothing. No unaccounted for bandwidth usage, no virus infetion attempts. And this is a computer that was actively being used for email, web browsing, etc. In fact, this goes for all my other patched-up usage as well, ever since I started using XP (when it came out). No firewall running, ever, and I'm not afraid to say so. Not a single security problem.
Still, to address your point, you can always call up MS and ask them to mail you an update CD.
Actually, XP works perfectly fine with just a clean install and automatically-installing patches. Just those two steps will even install the latest drivers for almost all of your devices. That's a pretty nice level of service from the software, all other things aside.
What your typical Windows user puts so much effort into is making it stop working.
A blue screen in XP isn't even the same screen. The only time it ever comes up is for a hardware problem -- the kind of thing that will be unrecoverable in any modern operating system.
There is nothing that says one must use the default XP shell, or even have explorer.exe running. Most people running custom shells do not, in fact. A Linux zealot might say that that isn't fair, that's not using the default configuration, so has no bearing on the stability of XP. But how much time does the average Linux user spend configuring and customizing and tweaking?
Particularly the Thrawn Trilogy. God, would I love that...Hey, Thrawn and Palleon are confirmed to exist by Lucas, anybody remember the opening movie in TIE Fighter?
And for a time it was rumored to be in the works, too.
Well, in a sense that's no different than other MMO's. There are the greats, the power gamers, and then there are the casual players, the grunts. Not many improvements in MMO's would apply to both groups equally, or even at all, so that shouldn't be expected.
Even for the grunts, though, they get to experience a universe that changes in fundamental ways.
Of course, none of this will be in the game and it will suck. Probably.
My computer joyfully and gleefully outpaces the XBox, and it's current parts cost me only about $575.
Trust me, you don't need to spend as much as Alienware charges, and I've never known an intelligent person to actually own one. They may be nice, but that doesn't mean they're worth the price.
The point is that the news posted on Slashdot is not representative, moreso in the case of SP2 than in any other. The vast majority are quite happy with SP2. I've installed it on nearly 15 machines no, and I've had no troubles. I've read a great many articles about other, similar successes. I've read articles about demonstrable security increases. Has a single one of those been posted to Slashdot? No. All that gets shown here is the minority of people who have issues.
In fact, SP2 is probably the first thing from MS that I see a lot of people praising. The only thing that got nearly this much praise was the original XP/2000. Maybe you should check other sources to see what people's opinions are -- like I said, Slashdot is not representative.
You don't get the iApps with the Dell. Nor OS-X. Nor quality support.
My tech support experiences with Dell have been far better than with Apple. It's not great, but I get people trying to help me fix my problem, which is nicer than having somebody sell me incredibly expensive repairs and replacement parts, or, once, telling me to just buy a new one.
Gah, I remember that. Nintendo was releasing their estimated polycounts with all the effects on and everything, Sony was releasing theoretical numbers with no meaning. Heh, sure, the system can draw that many, as long as it has something else doing everything besides simply drawing. That is when Sony really, really started to annoy me. Especially since it was the final nail in the Dreamcast's already-well-built coffin.
And they clamed two hours of battery life with the screen on. That translates to what, 20 minutes?
How do you get four times as much life playing games than watching movies? Explain how that's possible.
Anyway, this thing does a little more than that old PDA does. The disc drive takes a significant amount of power, for one thing. As does extra memory. It's got not one processor, but two. And that thing has one hell of a screen, which I suspect draws more power than any of the above. Possibly combined. Remember, the goal here isn't to beat the Gamegear in battery life (though I do honestly question whether it can do so) but whether it can even come close to the competition from Nintendo. Comparing the systems, I don't think that's possible.
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I understand. I don't mean to say they shouldn't be making TES4. I just wish they didn't have to.
Also, point and laugh at Troika.
Anybody else wish they were focusing on their shiny new Fallout rights instead of this? I do...sigh.
Seconding this. I used Alcohol though. Whatever.
Funny thing is that I, having the game four hours after it hit suprnova, never noticed this until I heard it from other people who actually bought the game! Nice going, guys!
You mean like Firefox?
Creating one of the most amusing blogs ever is a much better way to get this person's attention than just posting a few pictures. Honestly, without all the fuss the chance of the person finding this is nil. Now, it's still low, but at least it's a possibility.
It seems to me that when this person has done is, in fact, the best way to get this person's property back to them. Will it work? Probably not. Is it better than just about anything else? You bet it is.
First of all, I've never had a problem with such things. I've had an unpatched XP system with no firewall running for two days, to see what would happen. Absolutely nothing. No unaccounted for bandwidth usage, no virus infetion attempts. And this is a computer that was actively being used for email, web browsing, etc. In fact, this goes for all my other patched-up usage as well, ever since I started using XP (when it came out). No firewall running, ever, and I'm not afraid to say so. Not a single security problem.
Still, to address your point, you can always call up MS and ask them to mail you an update CD.
Actually, XP works perfectly fine with just a clean install and automatically-installing patches. Just those two steps will even install the latest drivers for almost all of your devices. That's a pretty nice level of service from the software, all other things aside.
What your typical Windows user puts so much effort into is making it stop working.
A blue screen in XP isn't even the same screen. The only time it ever comes up is for a hardware problem -- the kind of thing that will be unrecoverable in any modern operating system.
In addition to what you say about recovery:
There is nothing that says one must use the default XP shell, or even have explorer.exe running. Most people running custom shells do not, in fact. A Linux zealot might say that that isn't fair, that's not using the default configuration, so has no bearing on the stability of XP. But how much time does the average Linux user spend configuring and customizing and tweaking?
Ender's Game is far better.
A book, but soon to be a movie.
Except the similar MS bug is already patched. And yet people were still quite pissed about it a few hours ago.
If you go by what Lucas says, then almost all of the EU is canon. If you go by what he does, he is absolutely insane.
Particularly the Thrawn Trilogy. God, would I love that...Hey, Thrawn and Palleon are confirmed to exist by Lucas, anybody remember the opening movie in TIE Fighter?
And for a time it was rumored to be in the works, too.
Well, in a sense that's no different than other MMO's. There are the greats, the power gamers, and then there are the casual players, the grunts. Not many improvements in MMO's would apply to both groups equally, or even at all, so that shouldn't be expected.
Even for the grunts, though, they get to experience a universe that changes in fundamental ways.
Of course, none of this will be in the game and it will suck. Probably.
Maybe they figure that the software provides enough instability so that the harware instability doesn't matter? Or vice-versa?
Actually...good plan! Good plan!
I worked out that if you bought *THE BEST* PC components there are currently, you'd spend about £1000 (= $1500) in total.
While I consider even a $1500 system to be a real luxury, I have to disagree about it being the best.
$14609.43
Seriously, except the "coolness" I fail to see the sense in this system.
It's Alienware. The coolness is the product. What, you think a computer is worth over a couple grand?
My computer joyfully and gleefully outpaces the XBox, and it's current parts cost me only about $575.
Trust me, you don't need to spend as much as Alienware charges, and I've never known an intelligent person to actually own one. They may be nice, but that doesn't mean they're worth the price.
The point is that the news posted on Slashdot is not representative, moreso in the case of SP2 than in any other. The vast majority are quite happy with SP2. I've installed it on nearly 15 machines no, and I've had no troubles. I've read a great many articles about other, similar successes. I've read articles about demonstrable security increases. Has a single one of those been posted to Slashdot? No. All that gets shown here is the minority of people who have issues.
In fact, SP2 is probably the first thing from MS that I see a lot of people praising. The only thing that got nearly this much praise was the original XP/2000. Maybe you should check other sources to see what people's opinions are -- like I said, Slashdot is not representative.
You don't get the iApps with the Dell. Nor OS-X. Nor quality support.
My tech support experiences with Dell have been far better than with Apple. It's not great, but I get people trying to help me fix my problem, which is nicer than having somebody sell me incredibly expensive repairs and replacement parts, or, once, telling me to just buy a new one.
FPS games work well.
Actually, the screen is damned good, and 'huge' for a handheld.
My dick is pretty massive for a toothpick, but that doen't mean the ladies love it.
Gah, I remember that. Nintendo was releasing their estimated polycounts with all the effects on and everything, Sony was releasing theoretical numbers with no meaning. Heh, sure, the system can draw that many, as long as it has something else doing everything besides simply drawing. That is when Sony really, really started to annoy me. Especially since it was the final nail in the Dreamcast's already-well-built coffin.
And they clamed two hours of battery life with the screen on. That translates to what, 20 minutes?
How do you get four times as much life playing games than watching movies? Explain how that's possible.
Anyway, this thing does a little more than that old PDA does. The disc drive takes a significant amount of power, for one thing. As does extra memory. It's got not one processor, but two. And that thing has one hell of a screen, which I suspect draws more power than any of the above. Possibly combined. Remember, the goal here isn't to beat the Gamegear in battery life (though I do honestly question whether it can do so) but whether it can even come close to the competition from Nintendo. Comparing the systems, I don't think that's possible.