Exactly. He's the American Molyneux. He was hotter than hot during the pre-x86 era, but as time's gone on his sense for the industry has steadily dwindled. I mean, even besides Tabula Rasa (and the less said about that sorry mess, the better), this is a man who went from figureheading Ultima Online to championing the original Lineage as the Next Big Thing in MMOs. The guy may be richer than Croesus, but that doesn't make him a particularly good tech forecaster.
I've used Norton. I've used Kapersky. I've used McAfee. I've used NOD32. I've used Avast!. I've used other antivirus 'suites' that I can't even remember the names of, and all of them are crap in one aspect or another. Christ, I had to uninstall Avast because it randomly started to filter every goddamn thing that came across port 80. The less said about Norton, the better.
Still, I wanted antivirus. I run filters on my client and my e-mail, and I'm careful with my surfing habits, and people I trust suggested that I use Microsoft Security Essentials. God help me, it works and it works well. It doesn't have every last bell and/or whistle that some of the other outfits do, but hell. Shrieking 'antitrust!' in this situation is just as stupid as it would have been if the idiots behind Nero or Roxio CD Creator sued because Windows 7 has basic CD/DVD authoring capabilities built in. At this point, it's not an add-on, it's an expectation.
I need software that works. I need a platform that is stable. I need documentation that wasn't written and maintained by territorial howler monkeys. I'm not saying that the entire Linux community, or the wide variety of applications that people have come up with for the platform are like that, but a frustrating percentage of developers and maintainers are still stuck in the 'STFU RTFM NOOB' mindset.
I pop over to Mozillazine for advice on an odd situation with Firefox, and see someone else with the same problem getting abuse. My roommate, a trained technical writer, tries to get involved with Openoffice documentation and is frozen out at every turn. People express concerns about any number of designs or UIs, and they're told to fork it (and themselves) if they have a problem. It's unprofessional, unacceptable, and does nothing but reinforce the old saw trotted out by closed source and commercial software twits that goes, 'you get what you pay for'.
This is going to be no different from any other EULA. They'll give you the choice to opt-in and continue using the service, or make your account go dormant because your refusal to play ball jeopardizes Facebook security and keeping multiple versions of the site live is too great an expense to keep you. Then they'll just sit back and wait for you to decide it's not worth it to try and move everyone you know to G+, or Diaspora, and that whatever changes they've made aren't really that bad.
Probably because trespassing and breaking and entering are involved, and because the restaurants are still on the hook if some chucklefuck spills fifty gallons of the stuff on the road during their getaway.
Seriously, if a company is going to shrug and blame something like this on a lack of beta tester vigilance, don't bother with them because you can be sure they'll pass the buck on anything that happens to your data too.
If this is a bigger slashvertisement for Tom's Hardware, or Battlefield 3. Meanwhile, there are much broader testing services such as Can You Run It? that will give you data on one page instead of thirty and on a much wider variety of games than Battlefield $$$.
I'll go you one further: I stopped reading when I saw that Kevin J. Anderson was the one masturminding the whole silly thing. The dude's claim to fame consists of terrible Star Wars novels and double-teaming Frank Herbert's corpse with the help of Herbert's son.
Nobody gets hurt, unless they're asthmatic, or have an allergy to oleoresin or capsaicin, in which case you're probably fucked because the stuff causes airway constriction by default and allergic reactions can cause anaphylactic shock. It's not like giving your cat a spritz of water for trying to eat the houseplants.
Want to have some real fun? Find a recording of Apple's 1984 Olympic ad and compare Big Brother's selling points to Apple's mode of operation over the last ten years or so.
God is trolling us with this stuff. We work up industrial batches, integrate it into a thousand and one applications, and BAM! It suddenly becomes electrically inert.
WoW-Killer is the single stupidest term I've seen thrown around in MMO circles since that game launched. The only thing that is going to 'kill' that game is itself-- it is a gigantic statistical anomaly in a realm where a few hundred thousand subscribers is still considered acceptable, and two or three million is healthy to excellent. There is no way that SWTOR could have pulled ten million subscribers or drawn off five or six from WoW (many MMO players will subscribe to multiple games, so it's not a zero-sum calculation) even under ideal circumstances.
Weep, because someone reported this article to EA and you've both lost tester privileges and received a dire nastygram (+5 vs armchair lawyers) from EA's legal department.
He's pretty much retired from showbiz as well. Over the last few years he's played an important, though rarely seen, character on Fringe... but in two cases they resorted to CG animations (one of which was turned into an amusing, most-of-episode gimmick) and in one case another actor channeled him in a much more literal way than the Hollywood norm.
Godspeed to him, I say. He's had a hell of a career, and if he wants to finally retire and relax then good on him. He wouldn't be the first high-grossing actor to retire before other obligations and interests drew him away from the soundstage.
Really. Game tie-ins are traditionally awful fare, only made worse when they're developed by an unknown coding house. When there's virtually no news released, save for a cinematic trailer, you can pretty much rest assured that it's going to be an absolute stinker.
There are two problems that I've encountered with the compatibility reporter: First, that it's virtually unadvertised; second, it's clearly marked 'recommended for alpha and beta testers only'. I know that they're covering their butts with that, but the vast majority of addons work perfectly well between versions.
I'd love to see them make the Reporter a standard part of an install, and expand its functionality so that it not only allows you to report incompatibilities, but lets it check against Mozilla's report database and alert users as well as the developers of addons that have actually broken.
The US government has kept a list of 'undesirables' for decades, going far back beyond the current abusive relationship with terrorism accusations. They just used to call it the Red List, because it was originally intended to keep commies out.
My Discovery of America is probably my favourite story of this persistent debacle-- and its events occurred in 1985, not 2011!
I hate to break it to you, but games companies like SOE, Square-Enix, Activision, and EA have made colossal asses of themselves in public like this, and people still buy or buy into their games hand over fist.
Many of those extensions stop working because the writers packaged them with a string that basically means 'good for... Version X through Version Y'. Go in, tweak that string, and unless it's something really potent like Tab Mix Plus, it'll probably work until they completely rebuild the way Firefox handles addons.
Or grab the addon compatibility reporter and ignore the bit about alpha and beta testers, and keep on trucking. It vaguely annoys me that they haven't really publicized that addon yet, because it's saved me a fair lot of annoyance since they accelerated the release process.
Now there's a chilling thought. People selling IMVU and Second Life skins through the storefront. Forget intellectual property, see how fast your virtual property values drop when multifunction genitals are in the DLC section with CoD maps.
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Exactly. He's the American Molyneux. He was hotter than hot during the pre-x86 era, but as time's gone on his sense for the industry has steadily dwindled. I mean, even besides Tabula Rasa (and the less said about that sorry mess, the better), this is a man who went from figureheading Ultima Online to championing the original Lineage as the Next Big Thing in MMOs. The guy may be richer than Croesus, but that doesn't make him a particularly good tech forecaster.
Wow. For a second there, I thought I was on CNN or Youtube and my comment blocks had failed to load.
Having seen movies like Demon Seed and Electric Dreams, I'm personally relieved.
Still, I wanted antivirus. I run filters on my client and my e-mail, and I'm careful with my surfing habits, and people I trust suggested that I use Microsoft Security Essentials. God help me, it works and it works well. It doesn't have every last bell and/or whistle that some of the other outfits do, but hell. Shrieking 'antitrust!' in this situation is just as stupid as it would have been if the idiots behind Nero or Roxio CD Creator sued because Windows 7 has basic CD/DVD authoring capabilities built in. At this point, it's not an add-on, it's an expectation.
I pop over to Mozillazine for advice on an odd situation with Firefox, and see someone else with the same problem getting abuse. My roommate, a trained technical writer, tries to get involved with Openoffice documentation and is frozen out at every turn. People express concerns about any number of designs or UIs, and they're told to fork it (and themselves) if they have a problem. It's unprofessional, unacceptable, and does nothing but reinforce the old saw trotted out by closed source and commercial software twits that goes, 'you get what you pay for'.
This is going to be no different from any other EULA. They'll give you the choice to opt-in and continue using the service, or make your account go dormant because your refusal to play ball jeopardizes Facebook security and keeping multiple versions of the site live is too great an expense to keep you. Then they'll just sit back and wait for you to decide it's not worth it to try and move everyone you know to G+, or Diaspora, and that whatever changes they've made aren't really that bad.
Probably because trespassing and breaking and entering are involved, and because the restaurants are still on the hook if some chucklefuck spills fifty gallons of the stuff on the road during their getaway.
Hell, don't deal with this particular outfit, period. I mean, how could people forget them basically turning passwords off for four hours in June?!
If this is a bigger slashvertisement for Tom's Hardware, or Battlefield 3. Meanwhile, there are much broader testing services such as Can You Run It? that will give you data on one page instead of thirty and on a much wider variety of games than Battlefield $$$.
I'll go you one further: I stopped reading when I saw that Kevin J. Anderson was the one masturminding the whole silly thing. The dude's claim to fame consists of terrible Star Wars novels and double-teaming Frank Herbert's corpse with the help of Herbert's son.
Nobody gets hurt, unless they're asthmatic, or have an allergy to oleoresin or capsaicin, in which case you're probably fucked because the stuff causes airway constriction by default and allergic reactions can cause anaphylactic shock. It's not like giving your cat a spritz of water for trying to eat the houseplants.
Want to have some real fun? Find a recording of Apple's 1984 Olympic ad and compare Big Brother's selling points to Apple's mode of operation over the last ten years or so.
God is trolling us with this stuff. We work up industrial batches, integrate it into a thousand and one applications, and BAM! It suddenly becomes electrically inert.
WoW-Killer is the single stupidest term I've seen thrown around in MMO circles since that game launched. The only thing that is going to 'kill' that game is itself-- it is a gigantic statistical anomaly in a realm where a few hundred thousand subscribers is still considered acceptable, and two or three million is healthy to excellent. There is no way that SWTOR could have pulled ten million subscribers or drawn off five or six from WoW (many MMO players will subscribe to multiple games, so it's not a zero-sum calculation) even under ideal circumstances.
Weep, because someone reported this article to EA and you've both lost tester privileges and received a dire nastygram (+5 vs armchair lawyers) from EA's legal department.
Godspeed to him, I say. He's had a hell of a career, and if he wants to finally retire and relax then good on him. He wouldn't be the first high-grossing actor to retire before other obligations and interests drew him away from the soundstage.
Really. Game tie-ins are traditionally awful fare, only made worse when they're developed by an unknown coding house. When there's virtually no news released, save for a cinematic trailer, you can pretty much rest assured that it's going to be an absolute stinker.
I'd love to see them make the Reporter a standard part of an install, and expand its functionality so that it not only allows you to report incompatibilities, but lets it check against Mozilla's report database and alert users as well as the developers of addons that have actually broken.
My Discovery of America is probably my favourite story of this persistent debacle-- and its events occurred in 1985, not 2011!
I hate to break it to you, but games companies like SOE, Square-Enix, Activision, and EA have made colossal asses of themselves in public like this, and people still buy or buy into their games hand over fist.
At this point it's hard to tell if they're earnestly trying to polish a turd, or if they simply don't know shit from Shinola.
Seriously. This isn't news, it's a repost of someone else's slow news day.
Or grab the addon compatibility reporter and ignore the bit about alpha and beta testers, and keep on trucking. It vaguely annoys me that they haven't really publicized that addon yet, because it's saved me a fair lot of annoyance since they accelerated the release process.
Now there's a chilling thought. People selling IMVU and Second Life skins through the storefront. Forget intellectual property, see how fast your virtual property values drop when multifunction genitals are in the DLC section with CoD maps.
The main gist of this guy's problem is that he's moved in with an asshole with no concern for his roommates.