Oh, but it's Apple/Google/Whatever, so it must be good! I mean who needs one updater talking to one central location for updates when you can have 50 updaters talking to 50 locations for updates instead?
Nevermind that WU installed this patch on my machine last night, because that's not the point.
NCSoft was publically adamant that Tabula Rasa development would continue too, right up until they weren't. MMO companies are always like that, they need to maintain the illusion that everything is fine even while the ship sinks.
Funcom botched this in spectacular fashion. I can't wait for the day when they get DX10 in and can finally say "Age of Conan: now all the features listed on the box actually exist!" Only seven months later too!
Bottom line is that games that release in this poor a state deserve to fail. It's a good lesson for other game companies. Release crap every beta tester tells you isn't ready, and pay for it.
For some reason its hard to accept that a lot of women simply aren't interested in studying CS, engineering, or hard science.
Its a similar problem to something like Nursing, in the other direction. At my graduation, the CS group sat right behind the nursing group. There's lots of comments at how the CS group was 80% male. There were no comments at how the nursing group was 97% female.
At some point, the reality has to set in that women on average simply aren't interested, and all the incentives in the world won't change that.
I haven't used their enterprise stuff. But the home stuff is awful. Every time someone asks me to troubleshoot a weird computer problem for them, my first question is "do you have Norton?"
If they say yes, my first answer is "uninstall it and try again." Thus far, that has never failed to fix the problem.
It doesn't matter what the problem is. Windows not going into standby? Uninstalling Norton fixed it. Onboard RAID not working? Somehow, Norton was buggering it up. World of Warcraft not running properly? You guessed it.
In my experience, it causes far more problems then it solves, given how backwards AV protection really is and how poorly it works.
I work for a provincial government in Canada. Pretty much every province (including mine) deals with US states on a regular basis, so we have employees going back and forth.
The policy we have now is that if you don't have to bring electronics across the border, don't. If you do have to bring a laptop, don't bring any data. We just purge everything off of it except a VPN client. Once you're across the border, you can VPN in and work on a virtual machine using remote desktop.
Its sad that its come down to this, but the US government is so rampantly paranoid that at this point its crossed the line into insanity.
That had more to do with arenas no longer having any reward for lower ranked players then it did Warhammer. There was simply no point in playing anymore, so they stopped.
Fearful of the power of Slashdot, Microsoft also announced the release of.net® auto-dupe(TM) support to Visual Studio. From now on anything you publish will have a random chance to be published again a few days later.
This feature is expected to solve the widespread problem of users not wanting to use a first release for fear of bugs. Now they'll see a second release and plunge in! An ASP.net(TM) version will be forthcoming with the next service pack, allowing your website to fill its content needs by duplicating random articles.
More like enforcing existing laws against tortious interference. Deliberately interfering in a contract is illegal, it doesn't magically become okay because computers are involved. Its not about freedom. Its about a person making money by helping people break another companies terms of service. It has no legitimate use.
Did you actually read the court order before flipping out?
No, this program actually does everything. I've watched people using it out in an area farming everything. It runs around, kills everything in sight, skins it, etc.
Besides, the only people pissed off are cheaters and a few people here on Slashdot trying to proclaim that this is a bad legal decision despite their total lack of understanding of the legal issues.
Blizzard's customers are overwhelmingly against Glider, and suing people doesn't piss off the people who pay the bills at Blizzard HQ - it makes them happy.
Actually, it does constitute a civil offense. Thats how Blizzard won the case.
Look up here for the details on what damages Blizzard suffered. They get a lot of complaints about bots. They have a lot of customers who have problems because of bots. They incur a lot of expense paying GMs to deal with bots. These are all quantifiable losses due to Glider.
The bottom line is that Glider's only purpose is to allow people to break Blizzard's terms of service. The courts got this case right.
Read the comment directly above yours about tortious interference. Here, I'll quote it:
"Read up on tortious interference.
Willfully helping someone to violate a contract is often illegal. And that is where the fact that the functionality sold that people use to violate the contract doesn't have any secondary legal functionality, making the intention clear."
Hardly any content here, really. Far as I can tell, his scoring system isn't based on the platforms themselves at all, but simply how many games there are. Nothing got less then 3.5.
In particular he's got no problem with D2D games requiring special patches and usually being unmoddable, unlike the other services.
Its honestly baffling sitting up here in Canada, looking down there and trying to understand how this keeps getting screwed up year after year.
Up here, federal elections are handled by a federal body (Elections Canada), and are done the same way everywhere in the country. Its all standardized. We use a pencil. The whole thing is over pretty fast, and all these problems just don't come up.
Considering how much more often Americans vote, and how many more things there are to vote for, its hard to figure out why the process hasn't been perfected down there yet. If anything it seems to be getting worse.
Everything on RA 3 is exactly the same as Spore, except with a 5 instead of a 3. Nothing has changed. Its clear that EA doesn't get it, and they'll need a few games to completely bomb before they do.
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Yeah, this. Nobody who wants a PC for gaming would ever think about HP. Their machines are crap for the purpose.
Oh, but it's Apple/Google/Whatever, so it must be good! I mean who needs one updater talking to one central location for updates when you can have 50 updaters talking to 50 locations for updates instead?
Nevermind that WU installed this patch on my machine last night, because that's not the point.
NCSoft was publically adamant that Tabula Rasa development would continue too, right up until they weren't. MMO companies are always like that, they need to maintain the illusion that everything is fine even while the ship sinks.
Funcom botched this in spectacular fashion. I can't wait for the day when they get DX10 in and can finally say "Age of Conan: now all the features listed on the box actually exist!" Only seven months later too!
Bottom line is that games that release in this poor a state deserve to fail. It's a good lesson for other game companies. Release crap every beta tester tells you isn't ready, and pay for it.
Yeah, what the hell. We do this all the time at lunch. Splitting a bill is remarkably easy.
For some reason its hard to accept that a lot of women simply aren't interested in studying CS, engineering, or hard science.
Its a similar problem to something like Nursing, in the other direction. At my graduation, the CS group sat right behind the nursing group. There's lots of comments at how the CS group was 80% male. There were no comments at how the nursing group was 97% female.
At some point, the reality has to set in that women on average simply aren't interested, and all the incentives in the world won't change that.
The one time I installed AVG, it broke my network connection completely. I guess they've improved their technology since then. :P
It shows just how pointless tags here are. They're used as a faster comments section.
Anonymous Cowards are just as entitled to fling his own argument back in his face as logged in users.
Obligatory.
I haven't used their enterprise stuff. But the home stuff is awful. Every time someone asks me to troubleshoot a weird computer problem for them, my first question is "do you have Norton?"
If they say yes, my first answer is "uninstall it and try again." Thus far, that has never failed to fix the problem.
It doesn't matter what the problem is. Windows not going into standby? Uninstalling Norton fixed it. Onboard RAID not working? Somehow, Norton was buggering it up. World of Warcraft not running properly? You guessed it.
In my experience, it causes far more problems then it solves, given how backwards AV protection really is and how poorly it works.
The articles only mention three. Whats this about a fourth one?
I used to wonder if a comment could be both flamebait, and 100% correct at the same time.
Now I know.
I work for a provincial government in Canada. Pretty much every province (including mine) deals with US states on a regular basis, so we have employees going back and forth.
The policy we have now is that if you don't have to bring electronics across the border, don't. If you do have to bring a laptop, don't bring any data. We just purge everything off of it except a VPN client. Once you're across the border, you can VPN in and work on a virtual machine using remote desktop.
Its sad that its come down to this, but the US government is so rampantly paranoid that at this point its crossed the line into insanity.
That had more to do with arenas no longer having any reward for lower ranked players then it did Warhammer. There was simply no point in playing anymore, so they stopped.
Fearful of the power of Slashdot, Microsoft also announced the release of .net® auto-dupe(TM) support to Visual Studio. From now on anything you publish will have a random chance to be published again a few days later.
This feature is expected to solve the widespread problem of users not wanting to use a first release for fear of bugs. Now they'll see a second release and plunge in! An ASP.net(TM) version will be forthcoming with the next service pack, allowing your website to fill its content needs by duplicating random articles.
More like enforcing existing laws against tortious interference. Deliberately interfering in a contract is illegal, it doesn't magically become okay because computers are involved. Its not about freedom. Its about a person making money by helping people break another companies terms of service. It has no legitimate use.
Did you actually read the court order before flipping out?
No, this program actually does everything. I've watched people using it out in an area farming everything. It runs around, kills everything in sight, skins it, etc.
Besides, the only people pissed off are cheaters and a few people here on Slashdot trying to proclaim that this is a bad legal decision despite their total lack of understanding of the legal issues.
Blizzard's customers are overwhelmingly against Glider, and suing people doesn't piss off the people who pay the bills at Blizzard HQ - it makes them happy.
Sure, if you want to annoy five million players into quitting.
Going after the source of the problem is more effective then inflicting stupid and ultimately unsuccessful nonsense on everybody else.
Actually, it does constitute a civil offense. Thats how Blizzard won the case.
Look up here for the details on what damages Blizzard suffered. They get a lot of complaints about bots. They have a lot of customers who have problems because of bots. They incur a lot of expense paying GMs to deal with bots. These are all quantifiable losses due to Glider.
The bottom line is that Glider's only purpose is to allow people to break Blizzard's terms of service. The courts got this case right.
Read the comment directly above yours about tortious interference. Here, I'll quote it:
"Read up on tortious interference.
Willfully helping someone to violate a contract is often illegal. And that is where the fact that the functionality sold that people use to violate the contract doesn't have any secondary legal functionality, making the intention clear."
Its in there, #8.
Hardly any content here, really. Far as I can tell, his scoring system isn't based on the platforms themselves at all, but simply how many games there are. Nothing got less then 3.5.
In particular he's got no problem with D2D games requiring special patches and usually being unmoddable, unlike the other services.
So why is this on Slashdot?
Its honestly baffling sitting up here in Canada, looking down there and trying to understand how this keeps getting screwed up year after year.
Up here, federal elections are handled by a federal body (Elections Canada), and are done the same way everywhere in the country. Its all standardized. We use a pencil. The whole thing is over pretty fast, and all these problems just don't come up.
Considering how much more often Americans vote, and how many more things there are to vote for, its hard to figure out why the process hasn't been perfected down there yet. If anything it seems to be getting worse.
Everything on RA 3 is exactly the same as Spore, except with a 5 instead of a 3. Nothing has changed. Its clear that EA doesn't get it, and they'll need a few games to completely bomb before they do.
Somebody at SecuROM convinced a suit at EA that their software somehow stops piracy, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Thats really about it. EA management is clueless when it comes to PC games.