And then if you want to buy any content on it, you need to hook up a VPN to make it look like you're coming from the US since the store the Fire's connected to doesn't work in most of the rest of the world (like say, Canada). Which for the overwhelming majority is far too much of a PITA to be worth the hassle.
If you're outside the US I haven't seen much of anything that would say the Fire's better then the Kobo Vox (or other cheaper Android tablets).
Because if you're in Canada the Kindle Fire isn't available and even if you get one anyway has no content available? Amazon in Canada is a pretty pathetic shadow of it's US version.
The Kobo on the other hand has a pretty strong seller in Indigo books and has content. It's all right there in the summary about the Kobo stuff being targetted more internationally. Just because someone in the US wouldn't want one doesn't mean anything on the rest of the planet.
WoW already jumped the shark in Cataclysm. This is just confirmation really. Nothing they've announced is all that interesting as a player from vanilla to 4.1 when I finally got bored.
They've been out of ideas for a while and focusing on how to better monetize their existing players. Now they're trying to get people to keep paying by throwing in Diablo 3 (and its auctions for cash shop). Pandarens as a race don't fit the world, they were originally put in as a joke...
Then again, at this point the lore has been so completely butchered that it really doesn't matter if it fits or not.
It was fun while it was in its prime, but that time has passed. Hopefully Activision hasn't screwed up Diablo 3 too much, because I still love Blizzard.
You can with a high amount of reliability turn the cash in your wallet into a value used for personal cheques at a 1:1 ratio, and back again. It's just two different means of transferring the same currency.
Their whole beta proceess was a mess. I mean they had an "open beta" where it was impossible to provide feedback. They actively didn't want it! I know open betas are usually used as a demo, but there's always some people with feedback. Why would you refuse it?
The UI was something out of 2003. It was so abysmally awful that it was clear nobody at Square-Enix has played a MMO since before WoW came out, because that level of fail just doesn't fly anymore.
Honestly I think they had a lot of insular echo-chamber going on. They thought it was good internally, and since FFXI did alright they figured something somewhat like it would be alright while being blissfully unaware that the market had moved rather dramatically forward due to WoW and the improvements other companies made in order to compete with it.
Then they got slaughtered in the market, and THAT was the wake up call.
I'm not sure anybody has ever successfully resurrected a MMO after a launch as bad as this one. I'll be interested to see if they can actually keep many players or recruit new ones once the subscription fee returns, particularly with competition like The Old Republic showing up. Word of mouth as bad as this game got (deservedly so) is really hard to overcome even when you do make improvements.
I am glad to see they're going to do something about the UI, though. Man that was terrible. It was unacceptably bad for a modern MMO.
Luckily for them the PS3 MMO competition is far weaker then the PC competition, so it'll probably do better there.
We call the corporate security group at my work the "Department of No You Can't" for a reason, and it's not because they're responsive to minor details like actually getting work done or serving customers.
Given the rate at which WoW is losing subscribers (nearly a million in 2 quarters this year), you'd think they'd refocus on things that are actually good for the game.
Alas, nope. Instead they're focused on milking the cow as much as possible. This is just another example, the last one was trying to charge people to group with their friends. Blizzard eventually backed off on that, but the push has been growing from them for a while. It seems subscriptions aren't good enough for them anymore despite an incredible lack of content being added to the game these days.
Oh well. It was fun while it lasted, but all things must come to an end.
I've seen the same data from Mcafee, and it was really something. For every computer exploited using a Windows flaw, 100 are exploited using Flash. Acrobat Reader and Java are the other major culprits.
In a lot of ways, browser security itself has never been better. There's several highly capable ones out there in this area. The weak link is some truly terrible plugins.
Pfft. Stability? Easy deployability? Who needs that stuff? Mozilla's target audience isn't the enterprise or the home. It's a magical land of make believe.
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Allow me to correct you - this is what Economics actually is.
I see. Why get the diet coke of evil when you can go full evil, right?
And then if you want to buy any content on it, you need to hook up a VPN to make it look like you're coming from the US since the store the Fire's connected to doesn't work in most of the rest of the world (like say, Canada). Which for the overwhelming majority is far too much of a PITA to be worth the hassle.
If you're outside the US I haven't seen much of anything that would say the Fire's better then the Kobo Vox (or other cheaper Android tablets).
Indigo's got it: http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/kobo-vox/
Not sure about the non-book content, but my wife has one of the ebook reader Kobo's and has been pretty happy with what's available.
Because if you're in Canada the Kindle Fire isn't available and even if you get one anyway has no content available? Amazon in Canada is a pretty pathetic shadow of it's US version.
The Kobo on the other hand has a pretty strong seller in Indigo books and has content. It's all right there in the summary about the Kobo stuff being targetted more internationally. Just because someone in the US wouldn't want one doesn't mean anything on the rest of the planet.
WoW already jumped the shark in Cataclysm. This is just confirmation really. Nothing they've announced is all that interesting as a player from vanilla to 4.1 when I finally got bored.
They've been out of ideas for a while and focusing on how to better monetize their existing players. Now they're trying to get people to keep paying by throwing in Diablo 3 (and its auctions for cash shop). Pandarens as a race don't fit the world, they were originally put in as a joke...
Then again, at this point the lore has been so completely butchered that it really doesn't matter if it fits or not.
It was fun while it was in its prime, but that time has passed. Hopefully Activision hasn't screwed up Diablo 3 too much, because I still love Blizzard.
That's what happens when you let politicians near money.
sssh, minor details like facts aren't welcome when the Apple fanboys are upset.
You can with a high amount of reliability turn the cash in your wallet into a value used for personal cheques at a 1:1 ratio, and back again. It's just two different means of transferring the same currency.
Their whole beta proceess was a mess. I mean they had an "open beta" where it was impossible to provide feedback. They actively didn't want it! I know open betas are usually used as a demo, but there's always some people with feedback. Why would you refuse it?
The UI was something out of 2003. It was so abysmally awful that it was clear nobody at Square-Enix has played a MMO since before WoW came out, because that level of fail just doesn't fly anymore.
Honestly I think they had a lot of insular echo-chamber going on. They thought it was good internally, and since FFXI did alright they figured something somewhat like it would be alright while being blissfully unaware that the market had moved rather dramatically forward due to WoW and the improvements other companies made in order to compete with it.
Then they got slaughtered in the market, and THAT was the wake up call.
I'm not sure anybody has ever successfully resurrected a MMO after a launch as bad as this one. I'll be interested to see if they can actually keep many players or recruit new ones once the subscription fee returns, particularly with competition like The Old Republic showing up. Word of mouth as bad as this game got (deservedly so) is really hard to overcome even when you do make improvements.
I am glad to see they're going to do something about the UI, though. Man that was terrible. It was unacceptably bad for a modern MMO.
Luckily for them the PS3 MMO competition is far weaker then the PC competition, so it'll probably do better there.
We call the corporate security group at my work the "Department of No You Can't" for a reason, and it's not because they're responsive to minor details like actually getting work done or serving customers.
This is definitely a very insightful line.
Keep reading, your question is already explained in the text.
The universe never fails to invent a better idiot.
Given the rate at which WoW is losing subscribers (nearly a million in 2 quarters this year), you'd think they'd refocus on things that are actually good for the game.
Alas, nope. Instead they're focused on milking the cow as much as possible. This is just another example, the last one was trying to charge people to group with their friends. Blizzard eventually backed off on that, but the push has been growing from them for a while. It seems subscriptions aren't good enough for them anymore despite an incredible lack of content being added to the game these days.
Oh well. It was fun while it lasted, but all things must come to an end.
I've seen the same data from Mcafee, and it was really something. For every computer exploited using a Windows flaw, 100 are exploited using Flash. Acrobat Reader and Java are the other major culprits.
In a lot of ways, browser security itself has never been better. There's several highly capable ones out there in this area. The weak link is some truly terrible plugins.
If he doesn't use it, why would he care about fixing it? He's busy working on the kernel.
That's how it's always worked.
This is America, lawyers don't bother with minor details like the law before filing lawsuits. There's lawyer fees to be made!
Well, Bioware has still never made a "bad" game. Dragon Age 2 is more in the "steaming turd" category.
Star Wars: The Old Republic. A MMO being made by Bioware.
At the very least they should link the acronym to a wikipedia entry or something.
I believe this is a perfect visual aid to the point you're making. :)
"Some people" do. Are some people enough to sustain a profitable business?
Considering the Zune never did that well against the iPod and that it's now a declining market? Probably not.
That drivel got modded "insightful"? Guys, the proper order of things is to moderate, THEN light up the joint!
Pfft. Stability? Easy deployability? Who needs that stuff? Mozilla's target audience isn't the enterprise or the home. It's a magical land of make believe.
Or it proves that you're offtopic? The Google bashing thread is over there ---->
This is the Oracle bashing thread.