It's all about getting punished. I'm sure this will be swept under the rug in no time, by the French RIAA to boot. You know, don't bite the hand that feeds you...
Considering that the next computing revolution is happening in the mobile market, I'm actually surprised there aren't MORE mobile OSs. I mean, who desn't want to be the next Microsoft???
I never read NYT Online when it was paid-only, I never read WSJ online, I don't subscribe to any printed media.
Why should I?? All the news I need/want I get for free elsewhere.
There's no value added in news stories to warrant my paying for them, as everyone is reporting the same news (most getting it from AP and Reuters). If I have to pay for news, I'd rather pay AP and Reuters directly than some middleman.
> It's another glasses-based technology with "active shutter" being employed.
Great, but I wonder if these companies ever think about people with eyesight problems (yes, talking about myself) who can't properly eperience glass-based 3D movies.
Really, I was really excited about Aion, but all that excitement vanished once I learnt from the official web site the game cost $50 PLUS monthly fees. Sorry, nowadays I just don't spend that much time gaming to justify paying monthly fees, no matter how awesome the game is (otherwise I'd be another WoW addict).
The sad part is that NCSoft will likely abandon the incredible F2P Atlantica Online in favor of Aion.
Back to Perfect World, I guess, the best MMORPG I've ever played, period.
For several years, Enron fooled investors, market watchers, government, and even its employees, with shady accounting practices that were "audited." As it turned out, the auditing firm, Arthur Anderson, was part of the fraud.
It wouldn't surprise me that the same thing happens in IT auditing.
Slashdot Mirror
Link or it didn't happen!!
> That is simply not acceptable and thus WoW fails for me as a platform for interacting with my friends, which seems to be it's main purpose.
Fail. WoW's main purpose is to be an online RPG. If you want to interact with your friends, you use some crap like Facebook.
Civ is NOT real-time strategy. Why should I take the rest of your review seriously??
Much like any activity, this "deficiency" can be curbed through training/practice.
Until we're able to manipulate genes in humans, as opposed to just lab rats, all this "XYZ has been linked to gene ABC" is pretty irrelevant.
Not to mention exchange rates and associated taxes in foreign countries, which vary from country to country.
Slow news day, I guess.
It's all about getting punished. I'm sure this will be swept under the rug in no time, by the French RIAA to boot. You know, don't bite the hand that feeds you...
> Good, and now let me actually have a cellular phone that can actually be powered for 100s of years
Yeah, because you'll keep using the same phone for hundreds of years.
Considering that the next computing revolution is happening in the mobile market, I'm actually surprised there aren't MORE mobile OSs. I mean, who desn't want to be the next Microsoft???
Since the main selling point of the Pre was unauthorized iTunes sync.
Serves them right.
I'll just get my news fix at free sites.
>It IS interesting how one franchise, namely Star Wars, could generate so many playable games while another, Star Trek, produced only crap.
Easy. The creator of the former built its own game studio to make sure the games were made right; the latter whored out its IP to anyone who asked.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those... in my smartphone.
No, else David Copperfield would've done it already.
I never read NYT Online when it was paid-only, I never read WSJ online, I don't subscribe to any printed media.
Why should I?? All the news I need/want I get for free elsewhere.
There's no value added in news stories to warrant my paying for them, as everyone is reporting the same news (most getting it from AP and Reuters). If I have to pay for news, I'd rather pay AP and Reuters directly than some middleman.
How about the time and money spent deplying this piece of crap network??
Besides, I'm sure you can just buy a carrier pigeon nowadays... this is not the 15th century anymore you know...
> It's another glasses-based technology with "active shutter" being employed.
Great, but I wonder if these companies ever think about people with eyesight problems (yes, talking about myself) who can't properly eperience glass-based 3D movies.
Throttle their connection up their asses!!
Not exactly the prettiest or politically correct solution, but that's the most likely solution short term.
Apparently the original creators of Skype aren't really that smart if they don't know how to use proxy bidding. Too bad.
Really, I was really excited about Aion, but all that excitement vanished once I learnt from the official web site the game cost $50 PLUS monthly fees. Sorry, nowadays I just don't spend that much time gaming to justify paying monthly fees, no matter how awesome the game is (otherwise I'd be another WoW addict).
The sad part is that NCSoft will likely abandon the incredible F2P Atlantica Online in favor of Aion.
Back to Perfect World, I guess, the best MMORPG I've ever played, period.
For several years, Enron fooled investors, market watchers, government, and even its employees, with shady accounting practices that were "audited." As it turned out, the auditing firm, Arthur Anderson, was part of the fraud.
It wouldn't surprise me that the same thing happens in IT auditing.
Even if TPB gets the axe, there's a thousand other ways to get alternative music/videos/games...
TPB is NOT that important anymore.
The Ozzy concert and that 9-year-old guitarist????
That's easy.
So Blizzard can have their cake and eat it too. Make sure everyone buys a copy AND pay Battle.net monthly fees.
Because paper mags are the ultimate means of conmmunication and we should all be spending millions of dollars on this booming new media!!
Just wondering, will the mags also be equipped with AdBlock??
Does it run Linux?
Oh wait...