The UK courts tend to award reasonable costs. If a complaint is sufficiently legitimate that it's seen as a sensible use of court time then it's quite likely that the judge just wouldn't award costs in that instance, or might award costs proportionate to the loser's own legal costs.
I also tend to pick out reviews across the scoring range to get a more detailed assessment.
I do that too. Focussing on the raw headline average score is a crude way of using Metacritic and people shouldn't be surprised that it leads to crude results.
It's also interesting when you're looking at 1-2 year old games how many games have a lowish score because of release day issues. Buying the game fully patched for half the price means you can get a game that were it released in today's form back then would've got 10-20 points higher on the average, and is in fact an excellent game.
There are some games that Metacritic isn't so helpful on. Mount & Blade is a nice example where the basic game was more of an engine, but add in an expansion pack and a few mods and it's a top quality game. On the flipside, the average user score for it is still very high.
I send a friend with a similar taste in films a guide to films I've seen: - must buy - must see - worth seeing - ok - crap - holy shit it was bad
Some of the 'must see' films aren't necessarily great films, but how can you love cinema and not watch something like Breaking the Waves.
Metacritic on the other hand is an excellent way of finding professional and individual reviews, and I use those as much as the score to choose which games to buy.
Do what I do - dance with men. The ladies _love_ that.
(Although on Tuesday, it was two other men that were most interested. One of them even started videoing. I think that might be for the benefit of his girlfriend, who wasn't there, but likes dancing with me. She's a bit good)
Argh, you mean Samsung have installed Touchwiz on it? That's enough to scare me right off.
I got a free Galaxy Tab 2 and it's fucking horrendous. Screen resolution is worse than my Galaxy Nexus, UI has been crippled by Samsung's shite and the applications I want to install on it "aren't available for this version" - even though they're available for the Galaxy Nexus running the same Android 4.03.
The Galaxy Nexus is a lovely phone but the Tab 2 has really made me chary of buying any other Samsung mobile devices, even if the hardware is good (and the S3 does have nice hardware).
I swear, every guy who is speeding like a maniac doing like 90 on the interstate, also happens to be in one of those DAMNED euro imports like a BMW or a Mercedes.
Wait, sorry - 90 is "speeding like a maniac"? In a car designed in a country where 150mph is legal on a similar road?
Exactly- if rich people didn't like to go slow, there would be no market for Bentleys either.
I'm curious, which car do you drive?
It's just that the slowest Bentley on the market at the moment has a 0-60 of 5.3s and a top speed of 184mph. Or they sell a cheaper model that does 0-60 in 3.9s and gets you over 200mph.
If that's a car for people that like to go slowly, which car would you recommend for speed freaks?
People that buy automatics - may have a second car that's manual - may have a medical issue making manual cars undesirable - may be lazy - may be using the semi-automatic features of the car - may be taking advantage of the 4ms gear changes the automatic gearbox can manage, giving them power for a higher percentage of their journey
They are buying high end cars to be seen in them. That is all.
Oh, ok. I thought it was a combination of comfort, performance, build quality and keeping the partner happy. Guess I was wrong on that front.
I think the reduced accident rate that would happen would sell it quickly.
Really? I value getting home from work quickly far above reducing the chances of accidents on that journey.
Partly because the only accident I've had on that 110 mile commute is someone hitting me from behind at 4mph. Sure, automating his car would've helped tremendously on that specific occasion but the inconvenience of that one incident in nearly five years is trivial compared to the half hour or more I'm saving on every journey right now.
Saving 30 seconds at each of the 8 sets of traffic lights I pass through would be nice, but is that four minutes really worth the time lost by driving at a fuel efficient (and lorry friendly) 56mph? Not even close.
Yes, I'd be able to do other stuff. Except, the stuff I'd like to do involves being able to move, access the internet at high speed, converse with people face to face at home.. none of which my car supports.
In the UK a pedestrian has right of way (highway code rule 108 I think)
erm. Only if they're at a zebra crossing or already on the road. If a pedestrian is waiting to cross a street, any cars ready to drive down that street (at a junction or otherwise) have right of way.
Anyway, it's definitely not rule 108:
108
Highways Agency Traffic Officers have powers to stop vehicles on most motorways and some âAâ(TM) class roads, in England only. If HA traffic officers in uniform want to stop your vehicle on safety grounds (e.g. an insecure load) they will, where possible, attract your attention by
flashing amber lights, usually from behind
directing you to pull over to the side by pointing and/or using the left indicator
You MUST then pull over and stop as soon as it is safe to do so. Then switch off your engine. It is an offence not to comply with their directions (see 'Signals by authorised persons').
Maybe luis_e_espinal actually is a little girl. Or wants to sleep with men that arrange on Facebook to meet with them for sex. Or just wants to be a little girl.
I'd like to be a little girl. I was thinking around 5 or 6, you get away with murder because you're so cute and innocent.
Been there, done that. One of my MEPs, Bill Newton Dunn wrote to his constituents,
ACTA (the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)
MEPs experienced a prolonged deluge of emails from geeks around the world - but less than forty came from the East Midlands - using identical wording arguing that the ACTA treaty should be destroyed because of dangers to their personal freedom.
Western industries, on the other hand, argued strongly that they need protection from counterfeiting and from free downloading from the internet. But they were too logical and they failed to deluge MEPs in a similar way.
The result was an overwhelming defeat for the treaty. I was one of the few who defied the torrent and voted in favour because I believe that if you have to pay for something in a shop you should also pay for it on the internet, but geeks say everything should be free on the internet. The Commissioner says the treaty is not dead and will be brought back.
Afterwards, triumphant geeks emailed from around the world. Two geeks unwisely gave their game away, by warning about their next targets, the EU-Canadian free trade agreement and also "INDECT" which is a research project in the area of intelligent security systems performed by several European universities since 2009 and funded by the EU.
Amongst the rebuttals, references and insights my reply contained, I did query whether he was corrupt or merely ignorant. Sadly his reply suggested he had no intention of learning about the underlying issues, and actually stated that ACTA opponents "prefer to buy for free".
I've now queried whether he's a cunt or not, but haven't had a response.
So only turn it on when going past the local university. Ah, students.
Of course, eventually it'll be hacked and distributed as malware that only switches on when you're walking past the local kindergarten. Good luck explaining that one..
I think that same issue could apply in the UK, with added nastiness: Not only could you be prosecuted for having on your system, and/or producing/disseminating it, but you could also be thrown in prison for failing to decrypt any parts of it that are encrypted.
Oddly that latter part is the more serious concern, as it's quite hard to prove that an encrypted blob is of whatever form, so it would be tough for the prosecution to demonstrate that you did indeed have nastiness on your system.
Anyway, wouldn't there be a 'common carrier' type defence available?
Teaching someone to control a car safely with poor traction means they'll learn how to control a car.
You can then turn on the traction control to show them how bloody useless it is in very low traction conditions.
That's better than teaching them how to drive a mostly automated vehicle in bright sunshine then letting them loose on the open road in snow, fog and with raindrop dodging headlights.
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The UK courts tend to award reasonable costs. If a complaint is sufficiently legitimate that it's seen as a sensible use of court time then it's quite likely that the judge just wouldn't award costs in that instance, or might award costs proportionate to the loser's own legal costs.
Have a read of this:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rules/part44#IDADEICC
I recall one instance where the winner has been told to pay the costs of the loser, but my Google Fu needs levelling up before I can find that.
I also tend to pick out reviews across the scoring range to get a more detailed assessment.
I do that too. Focussing on the raw headline average score is a crude way of using Metacritic and people shouldn't be surprised that it leads to crude results.
It's also interesting when you're looking at 1-2 year old games how many games have a lowish score because of release day issues. Buying the game fully patched for half the price means you can get a game that were it released in today's form back then would've got 10-20 points higher on the average, and is in fact an excellent game.
There are some games that Metacritic isn't so helpful on. Mount & Blade is a nice example where the basic game was more of an engine, but add in an expansion pack and a few mods and it's a top quality game. On the flipside, the average user score for it is still very high.
I send a friend with a similar taste in films a guide to films I've seen:
- must buy
- must see
- worth seeing
- ok
- crap
- holy shit it was bad
Some of the 'must see' films aren't necessarily great films, but how can you love cinema and not watch something like Breaking the Waves.
Metacritic on the other hand is an excellent way of finding professional and individual reviews, and I use those as much as the score to choose which games to buy.
No, by outsourcing the blowing of a whistle to wikileaks you allow them to determine whether to blow it.
The quote's point was that you should blow it yourself.
Problem is, Samsung's shite sucks up resources unless I root the device. And then it wont run the software that I want on it.
I can't even fucking uninstall some Yahoo shit that nobody on the planet would want, without rooting the device. That's just fucking obnoxious.
Being able to do things and not needing to do them in the first place are very different.
Do what I do - dance with men. The ladies _love_ that.
(Although on Tuesday, it was two other men that were most interested. One of them even started videoing. I think that might be for the benefit of his girlfriend, who wasn't there, but likes dancing with me. She's a bit good)
Argh, you mean Samsung have installed Touchwiz on it? That's enough to scare me right off.
I got a free Galaxy Tab 2 and it's fucking horrendous. Screen resolution is worse than my Galaxy Nexus, UI has been crippled by Samsung's shite and the applications I want to install on it "aren't available for this version" - even though they're available for the Galaxy Nexus running the same Android 4.03.
The Galaxy Nexus is a lovely phone but the Tab 2 has really made me chary of buying any other Samsung mobile devices, even if the hardware is good (and the S3 does have nice hardware).
I swear, every guy who is speeding like a maniac doing like 90 on the interstate, also happens to be in one of those DAMNED euro imports like a BMW or a Mercedes.
Wait, sorry - 90 is "speeding like a maniac"? In a car designed in a country where 150mph is legal on a similar road?
Exactly- if rich people didn't like to go slow, there would be no market for Bentleys either.
I'm curious, which car do you drive?
It's just that the slowest Bentley on the market at the moment has a 0-60 of 5.3s and a top speed of 184mph. Or they sell a cheaper model that does 0-60 in 3.9s and gets you over 200mph.
If that's a car for people that like to go slowly, which car would you recommend for speed freaks?
It's legal in the UK but you'd get so wet you may as well just buy a motorbike and avoid the traffic jams.
People that buy automatics can't drive.
Ah, trolling.
People that buy automatics
- may have a second car that's manual
- may have a medical issue making manual cars undesirable
- may be lazy
- may be using the semi-automatic features of the car
- may be taking advantage of the 4ms gear changes the automatic gearbox can manage, giving them power for a higher percentage of their journey
They are buying high end cars to be seen in them. That is all.
Oh, ok. I thought it was a combination of comfort, performance, build quality and keeping the partner happy. Guess I was wrong on that front.
I think the reduced accident rate that would happen would sell it quickly.
Really? I value getting home from work quickly far above reducing the chances of accidents on that journey.
Partly because the only accident I've had on that 110 mile commute is someone hitting me from behind at 4mph. Sure, automating his car would've helped tremendously on that specific occasion but the inconvenience of that one incident in nearly five years is trivial compared to the half hour or more I'm saving on every journey right now.
Saving 30 seconds at each of the 8 sets of traffic lights I pass through would be nice, but is that four minutes really worth the time lost by driving at a fuel efficient (and lorry friendly) 56mph? Not even close.
Yes, I'd be able to do other stuff. Except, the stuff I'd like to do involves being able to move, access the internet at high speed, converse with people face to face at home.. none of which my car supports.
In the UK a pedestrian has right of way (highway code rule 108 I think)
erm. Only if they're at a zebra crossing or already on the road. If a pedestrian is waiting to cross a street, any cars ready to drive down that street (at a junction or otherwise) have right of way.
Anyway, it's definitely not rule 108:
108
Highways Agency Traffic Officers have powers to stop vehicles on most motorways and some âAâ(TM) class roads, in England only. If HA traffic officers in uniform want to stop your vehicle on safety grounds (e.g. an insecure load) they will, where possible, attract your attention by
flashing amber lights, usually from behind
directing you to pull over to the side by pointing and/or using the left indicator
You MUST then pull over and stop as soon as it is safe to do so. Then switch off your engine. It is an offence not to comply with their directions (see 'Signals by authorised persons').
Maybe luis_e_espinal actually is a little girl. Or wants to sleep with men that arrange on Facebook to meet with them for sex. Or just wants to be a little girl.
I'd like to be a little girl. I was thinking around 5 or 6, you get away with murder because you're so cute and innocent.
Been there, done that. One of my MEPs, Bill Newton Dunn wrote to his constituents,
ACTA (the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)
MEPs experienced a prolonged deluge of emails from geeks around the world - but less than forty came from the East Midlands - using identical wording arguing that the ACTA treaty should be destroyed because of dangers to their personal freedom.
Western industries, on the other hand, argued strongly that they need protection from counterfeiting and from free downloading from the internet. But they were too logical and they failed to deluge MEPs in a similar way.
The result was an overwhelming defeat for the treaty. I was one of the few who defied the torrent and voted in favour because I believe that if you have to pay for something in a shop you should also pay for it on the internet, but geeks say everything should be free on the internet.
The Commissioner says the treaty is not dead and will be brought back.
Afterwards, triumphant geeks emailed from around the world. Two geeks unwisely gave their game away, by warning about their next targets, the EU-Canadian free trade agreement and also "INDECT" which is a research project in the area of intelligent security systems performed by several European universities since 2009 and funded by the EU.
Amongst the rebuttals, references and insights my reply contained, I did query whether he was corrupt or merely ignorant. Sadly his reply suggested he had no intention of learning about the underlying issues, and actually stated that ACTA opponents "prefer to buy for free".
I've now queried whether he's a cunt or not, but haven't had a response.
So only turn it on when going past the local university. Ah, students.
Of course, eventually it'll be hacked and distributed as malware that only switches on when you're walking past the local kindergarten. Good luck explaining that one..
No, that's about issues with child abuse and forced marriage. It's perfectly possible to marriage several people without force or abuse.
(Just not legally, where I live)
I concur. Of course, marriage should have no legal standing of any kind, at which point it's merely a civil contract between consenting adults.
If that's what people want, crack on with it - it's already legal to live together without being married, so why not attach that arbitrary label too.
I think that same issue could apply in the UK, with added nastiness: Not only could you be prosecuted for having on your system, and/or producing/disseminating it, but you could also be thrown in prison for failing to decrypt any parts of it that are encrypted.
Oddly that latter part is the more serious concern, as it's quite hard to prove that an encrypted blob is of whatever form, so it would be tough for the prosecution to demonstrate that you did indeed have nastiness on your system.
Anyway, wouldn't there be a 'common carrier' type defence available?
Only if you're driving a large lorry with the powerplant in it.
Teaching someone to control a car safely with poor traction means they'll learn how to control a car.
You can then turn on the traction control to show them how bloody useless it is in very low traction conditions.
That's better than teaching them how to drive a mostly automated vehicle in bright sunshine then letting them loose on the open road in snow, fog and with raindrop dodging headlights.
Rather than drive in heavy rain at 100Km/h with full beam, as I do now while cursing the glare?
Life's too short, I'd rather risk shortening it than waste it driving slowly.
Why not use snowflake size to set the appropriate laser strength to vaporise it but no more.
Of course, steam dissipation still needs addressing..
The original post was claiming that everybody wanted to copy Apple's GUI.
The GUI wasn't Apples. The fact that Apple licenced it is both irrelevant and also proves the fucking point.
Yes that's contradictory. This is me, strolling downstairs to find some lunch, generally giving no hoots whatsoever.
I don't give a flying fuck whether Apple is a patent troll or not.
Apple is using a broken system to prevent competition. Frankly so are Samsung, Motorola, Nokia and other portable device manufacturers.
The patent system is broken. It needs fixing. It's inhibiting innovation, constraining consumer choice and damaging the economy.
Apple are merely the poster childs for everything that's bad with it.