Experts Exchange is a scam operation that tries to trick people into paying for an answer that's already on the webpage in question (just buried below 19 pages of crap).
Besides, Stack Overflow does a far better job of getting quality answers these days. EE was shady before and is obsolete now.
If your referrer is from Google, they put the answer at the bottom of the page because Google's TOS would blacklist them if they didn't.
If you're coming at it virtually any other way, they don't put the answer there.
Wake me up when the ultimate edition shows up
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So I was one of the suckers who bought DA 1 on release day. Didn't buy any DLC, because Bioware DLC is always overpriced.
Eventually they come out with the 'ultimate edition', which is the game, expansion, and all DLC for the same price I paid originally. That part is normal, and alright.
Where it gets ridiculous is that for me to add the DLC to the game I already bought on the same day this new verison came out would have cost MORE then just buying the game again and getting everything thrown in.
The pricing model is sufficiently out to lunch that I'll wait this time.
Nobody at Slashdot reads these things. That's why the Dance with Dragons story from a few days ago had a summary that was proven completely wrong by the very first line of TFA.
People aren't buying your product because your product isn't music. It's noise. Lousy noise, at that.
When you learn how to master a CD without succumbing to the loudness wars, let me know.
Also, when you learn to hire people with musical talent instead of the hacks you hire for looks these days, let me know. Until then you don't have a product I want.
Speaking as a civil servant, I've seen this before. Politicians don't like cutting. They REALLY don't like cutting things that actually matter.
They're not serious about balancing the budget. They never are. Being serious about it means that you have to go after the big ticket items. Unfortunately the big ticket items are also popular, and that makes it hard to do politically. It doesn't help that your average voter is a moron who doesn't understand anything that takes longer then ten seconds to explain.
So, what we get is politicians who want to look like they care about balancing the budget and "shrinking government" nibbling around the edges while overseeing massive expansions in the government in the form of bullshit like TSA.
Thats the danger in this kind of pricing. Will someone pay $40 for a big game like Dragon Quest IX when they see ten thousand $2 games (9,995 of which are shallow crap)?
Making a big game with high production values is expensive. They're going to cost more then something really simplified.
Did anybody really expect a publishing arm of The Shiny Things Network to be able to accomplish anything that requires effort? I mean they couldn't even get Harmonix' stuff published in Europe, and that was when it was actually popular (that bubble is over now).
This whole venture was little more then some suit saying "hey games are popular, lets get into that!" Once they did it, they realized that it's actually a tough, cutthroat industry.
This is an issue people can understand. "Bell & Rogers are going to charge you more to watch youtube to fatten their profits" is easily understood by everybody. Bell & Rogers are two of the most loathed entities in the country, right up there with the CRTC. So, this one is easy to get people riled up about.
Toss in a minority government that really can't afford to ignore people, and you have swift action.
It doesn't work on everything. Their DRM bill has serious problems, but try explaining that to your mom? Good luck.
Speaking as someone who moderates a lot, your preemptive claim of moderator abuse doesn't help get the moderators to leave you alone.:P
As for the cap, the caps aren't like that. What actually happened is that your new cap is 25GB, and it costs $2/GB beyond that. Still think its a great idea to watch hulu or download a 10GB game off Steam? Those are the actual numbers the ISPs in Canada are pushing on people.
The other issue is that this came from the CRTC, which is notoriously stuffed with former telecom insiders and who ALWAYS rules in their favor (except when they clash with the big media companies, but Canadians never win in these things).
This decision was terrible and the government is doing the right thing by stepping in. What they actually need to do is purge the CRTC and fill it with true experts instead of former Bell employees, but I'll take any kind of forward progress at this point.
As a standards making body, the W3C was pretty much doomed as soon as they abandoned things that people actually use and decided to focus on XHTML 2 for so long (which almost nobody was interested in).
The result was WHAT-WG being created (with the major browser players) to do the work that needed to be done: adding features to HTML that people actually care about.
Of course we've got the major vendors making the standard, they're the only ones who have been actually focused on making a standard for years! If you don't like it, go ask the W3C to rejoin us here in reality.
Not saying that is what is happening here or that these guys are credible (because I have no idea), but the idea that you have to be able to explain something before you can observe it isn't true.
Definitely. I work in the bureaucracy of the government, and deal with stuff politicians come up with. While I know how many stupid decisions we get from people who don't know a bloody thing about anything being in charge, the last thing I want to do is be subjected to the assanine nonsense that is politics in this country. Between the crazies, loons, the conspiracy theorists, the media's distortion of everything, and the stupidity (and total inability to listen to any argument longer then 5 seconds) of the average voter?
I was in a school that was taught word recognition and completely ignored phonetics. While that made for decent spelling, it also caused most of the students to be completely incapable of pronouncing any word they hadn't heard someone else say.
I'm STILL trying to get past the damage that caused.
I'm not worried about originality, I'm worried about how much stuff they do that just isn't very good. Like Nier. That was alright, but aside from the excellent music it was pretty forgettable. Still beats FF XIV by a country mile, but that's not saying a lot.
A sequel to 2010's #1 Corridor Simulator? Can't wait!
What's next from Square? FF XIV-2, now with 97% more lag and still featuring the worst UI in modern MMO gaming?
This is one company I was glad to see suffer financial issues last year. They lost their way a long time ago and have just been putting out garbage and re-releases. It's long past time something wakes them up and reminds them that gameplay actually matters.
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DST is also known to significantly boost traffic accidents after the switch, as people are tired and make more mistakes while driving.
It's time to abandon this archaic switch.
Experts Exchange is a scam operation that tries to trick people into paying for an answer that's already on the webpage in question (just buried below 19 pages of crap).
Besides, Stack Overflow does a far better job of getting quality answers these days. EE was shady before and is obsolete now.
If your referrer is from Google, they put the answer at the bottom of the page because Google's TOS would blacklist them if they didn't.
If you're coming at it virtually any other way, they don't put the answer there.
So I was one of the suckers who bought DA 1 on release day. Didn't buy any DLC, because Bioware DLC is always overpriced.
Eventually they come out with the 'ultimate edition', which is the game, expansion, and all DLC for the same price I paid originally. That part is normal, and alright.
Where it gets ridiculous is that for me to add the DLC to the game I already bought on the same day this new verison came out would have cost MORE then just buying the game again and getting everything thrown in.
The pricing model is sufficiently out to lunch that I'll wait this time.
The Navy ship the test was run on lost navigation, backup navigation, and communication.
So it seems to work pretty well against millitay GPS.
Nobody at Slashdot reads these things. That's why the Dance with Dragons story from a few days ago had a summary that was proven completely wrong by the very first line of TFA.
Let it language 3-4 (or 6) years between books while working on other projects... gee that doesn't sound at all familiar, now does it?
Well there's another issue with the summary. If he's got stuff for two more books, this is hardly the end of the series.
This one is so bad it's comical. "The completed conlusion of the series" is actually the not-completed not-conclusion of the series.
The first LINE of TFA says " No. Sorry. Not done yet."
How the hell do you go from that to "hey it's done!"?
I mean come on. Even for Slashdot this is retarded.
Why? There's been a steady progression of increasing asshattery shown by the various articles.
If Christopher Tolkien wants to act like a giant douche while living off someone elses work, what's to stop us from talking about it?
It's *almost* as bad as trying to develop iOS apps as a Windows user?
People aren't buying your product because your product isn't music. It's noise. Lousy noise, at that.
When you learn how to master a CD without succumbing to the loudness wars, let me know.
Also, when you learn to hire people with musical talent instead of the hacks you hire for looks these days, let me know. Until then you don't have a product I want.
It's also driven new companies away from going public, because the requirements are less onerous on privately held companies.
I agree with you entirely. If this is what they're using as an example of what we're facing, this idea needs to die a swift death.
Speaking as a civil servant, I've seen this before. Politicians don't like cutting. They REALLY don't like cutting things that actually matter.
They're not serious about balancing the budget. They never are. Being serious about it means that you have to go after the big ticket items. Unfortunately the big ticket items are also popular, and that makes it hard to do politically. It doesn't help that your average voter is a moron who doesn't understand anything that takes longer then ten seconds to explain.
So, what we get is politicians who want to look like they care about balancing the budget and "shrinking government" nibbling around the edges while overseeing massive expansions in the government in the form of bullshit like TSA.
Just business as usual in politics.
This app doesn't do confession. It never did. That was some creation by an incredibly simplistic media headline which was always wrong.
The app helps you figure out what your sins are, and can keep track of what you've previously confessed.
So all they're saying now is that the app can't do something that it never did in the first place. Umm, goodie?
Thats the danger in this kind of pricing. Will someone pay $40 for a big game like Dragon Quest IX when they see ten thousand $2 games (9,995 of which are shallow crap)?
Making a big game with high production values is expensive. They're going to cost more then something really simplified.
Did anybody really expect a publishing arm of The Shiny Things Network to be able to accomplish anything that requires effort? I mean they couldn't even get Harmonix' stuff published in Europe, and that was when it was actually popular (that bubble is over now).
This whole venture was little more then some suit saying "hey games are popular, lets get into that!" Once they did it, they realized that it's actually a tough, cutthroat industry.
Good riddence.
This is an issue people can understand. "Bell & Rogers are going to charge you more to watch youtube to fatten their profits" is easily understood by everybody. Bell & Rogers are two of the most loathed entities in the country, right up there with the CRTC. So, this one is easy to get people riled up about.
Toss in a minority government that really can't afford to ignore people, and you have swift action.
It doesn't work on everything. Their DRM bill has serious problems, but try explaining that to your mom? Good luck.
Speaking as someone who moderates a lot, your preemptive claim of moderator abuse doesn't help get the moderators to leave you alone. :P
As for the cap, the caps aren't like that. What actually happened is that your new cap is 25GB, and it costs $2/GB beyond that. Still think its a great idea to watch hulu or download a 10GB game off Steam? Those are the actual numbers the ISPs in Canada are pushing on people.
The other issue is that this came from the CRTC, which is notoriously stuffed with former telecom insiders and who ALWAYS rules in their favor (except when they clash with the big media companies, but Canadians never win in these things).
This decision was terrible and the government is doing the right thing by stepping in. What they actually need to do is purge the CRTC and fill it with true experts instead of former Bell employees, but I'll take any kind of forward progress at this point.
As a standards making body, the W3C was pretty much doomed as soon as they abandoned things that people actually use and decided to focus on XHTML 2 for so long (which almost nobody was interested in).
The result was WHAT-WG being created (with the major browser players) to do the work that needed to be done: adding features to HTML that people actually care about.
Of course we've got the major vendors making the standard, they're the only ones who have been actually focused on making a standard for years! If you don't like it, go ask the W3C to rejoin us here in reality.
Ars Technica actually just did a great story on placeholders in scientific discovery, or why sometimes we wind up observing things that we can't yet explain: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/01/this-space-left-blank-the-role-of-placeholders-in-science.ars
Not saying that is what is happening here or that these guys are credible (because I have no idea), but the idea that you have to be able to explain something before you can observe it isn't true.
Definitely. I work in the bureaucracy of the government, and deal with stuff politicians come up with. While I know how many stupid decisions we get from people who don't know a bloody thing about anything being in charge, the last thing I want to do is be subjected to the assanine nonsense that is politics in this country. Between the crazies, loons, the conspiracy theorists, the media's distortion of everything, and the stupidity (and total inability to listen to any argument longer then 5 seconds) of the average voter?
No thanks. We get the government we deserve.
I was in a school that was taught word recognition and completely ignored phonetics. While that made for decent spelling, it also caused most of the students to be completely incapable of pronouncing any word they hadn't heard someone else say.
I'm STILL trying to get past the damage that caused.
I'm not worried about originality, I'm worried about how much stuff they do that just isn't very good. Like Nier. That was alright, but aside from the excellent music it was pretty forgettable. Still beats FF XIV by a country mile, but that's not saying a lot.
A sequel to 2010's #1 Corridor Simulator? Can't wait!
What's next from Square? FF XIV-2, now with 97% more lag and still featuring the worst UI in modern MMO gaming?
This is one company I was glad to see suffer financial issues last year. They lost their way a long time ago and have just been putting out garbage and re-releases. It's long past time something wakes them up and reminds them that gameplay actually matters.