The problem is that liberation only works when people want to be liberated, and are willing to work for it. It worked in France because of two reasons:
1) The French people wanted the Germans out, pretty much to a man. There weren't a whole lot of Nazi supporters there, relative to the total population.
2) They were willing to work together. When the Nazis were kicked out, the worked as a country to untie and rebuild. They understood that freedom meant sacrifices.
This is a very important point, one of Sun Tzu's keys to victory and the most important was what was translated as "the moral law". The moral law was a populations willingness to follow a leader, in WWII most of Europe was willing to follow the Allies or Stalin rather then Hitler. Same with the Pacific, the Filipinos, Indonesians and Thais happily threw off Japanese rule in favour of the Americans at their first opportunity.
It wasn't the US Army who shot Nazi collaborators when they liberated Holland, the Dutch did.
Here's a novel concept for you - sometimes people just like to perform a task at hand without having to endlessly tweak the tools they want to use.
Here's a novel concept for you, sometimes people dont understand the products they are criticism.
Android will work out of the box for almost anyone, but there are options if you dont like the default profile. Features != complex and simple != easy. Removing features will not make the product any easier to use, adding features does not automatically make a product harder to use.
Now if you'd please go back under your bridge, that'd be great.
Google could insist that "Android"-branded phones meet specific requirements,
Or they could have a program that vendors could join in on that dictates how the interface will work, what programs are installed by default and so forth. They could even call it "Google Experience" and brand "Google Experience" devices as "with Google".
He doesn't say it's a better product overall. Just that it's a better products for him.
Try reading at least the part of the post you quote.
Have you tried following your own advice.
The GP asked how it was a better product, even for him. How can we reliably trust the GGP's judgements if they cannot quantify or explain them.
It's like saying Rocko Cola(TM) is the best cola because it's way better. In the end I've told you nothing and you'll can either take my assertion at face value or assume I'm talking out of my arse. Have a nice Rocko Cola(TM) whilst you think about that.
but where are these Android users going to go? I highly fucking doubt it's to the iPhone, since People seem to never want to break their plans or contract with an existing devil-service.
Correct me if I'm wrong (and someone will, this is/.) but...
Isn't which devil you can be serviced by highly dependent on where you live. I've just had a friend who moved to SFO and has told me he has to go with Verizon, which for him is a complete pain in the arse as he travels overseas quiet a bit and everyone else uses GSM 2100 (Verizon is CDMA).
I'm a Christian, and am not embarrassed to admit it. I'm embarrassed by these assholes, though. (Atheists often think that Christian == fundamentalist, which simply isn't true.)
Christians are atheists about most gods that we have dreamed up.
Atheists are just one god ahead of them.
We tend to think that getting up early to go to church every Sunday just to apologise for being human as ridiculous as worshipping Set.
You're kidding right? They have some BS pushed by the ACL and failed twice in parliment for Christ's sake. What do we have:warrant-less wiretapping and seizures at the airport for just looking funny. I'd say we got the better deal.
There, Fixed that for you.
The internet filter in Australia exists only in your mind, parliament smacked down the idea twice.
OTOH, how are those free speech zones and TSA searches going.
I've had a huge payoff on a job criterion that I got from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Be useful to somebody; be a burden to no one."
In other words, "happy to serve but not to be a servant". It describes quite a few professions.
The problem with game development is two fold. On one etreme there are the predatory game distributors that get people in young, work them close to death and threaten them if they ever try to leave (you'll never work in this town/industry again, I'll see to it). On the other extreme there are the rock star developers like Wright, Molyneux and Bleszinski (no I will not mention Lord British) who are able to push any kind of crap because people will buy the brand (Fable and Gears of War are crap, just admit it). A middle ground needs to be found for developers, but as long as it's OK for the likes of EA and Ubisoft to continue to exploit developers then we wont find it.
Ultimately we, as gamers want the developers to feel appreciated and compensated for their work but at the same time we dont want them growing into a deluded godhood and making terrible games on their names alone (*cough* Will Wright). I dont know about pay and conditions at Stardock but there is a lot of interaction between the dev team and the community and this IMHO results in a better end product.
If you only look for sex statistics in brothels you'll only find prostitutes and from that information you can be sure that 99.7% of all human sex is paid for.
Terrible methodology.
If you ask someone who pays for sex they'll say "I never paid to have sex with her, I only paid her to leave".
If you ask someone who has been divorced they'll say "sex you pay for will be the cheapest sex you'll have".
The correct methodology would be determining how much someone spends in order to get sex, including but not limited to what is actually given to the lady but also, drinks, dinner, taxi fares, airfares/car, hotel/house and so on until you've accounted for every cent used to impress girl. Count the failures as well as the successes and you'll quickly find which really is the cheaper option.
Put a PC gamer on the PS3 with me and let's try some Killzone 2 deathmatch. I win. Put me on a PC for some Quake 3, I get pwned.
You win, for all of 10 minutes. Then I figure out how far I can push the auto aim and start to pwn.
This is why PC FPS players like myself hate console FPS's with a passion. It removes all skill and reduces the player to a button pusher. Point in the general direction of the enemy, push button and the CPU does the rest. Back in the day I used to turn off auto-aim on Goldeneye (N64) in multi-player for the fun of it, very few people could cope with it, I'd end up winning the match with slappers because they were the only weapon that didn't require a manual aim at that point.
The reason you get pwned in Quake 3 is because you are reliant on the CPU doing things for you.
No, they obsolete faster. A 5 year old PC is not going to run all the new games. A 5 year old console does.
But my 1 yr old PC can play 10 yr old games. In fact I just started replaying Starcraft this weekend.
Also gaming PC's dont deteriorate that fast, depending on the kind of games you play. My housemates 5 yr old PC will play Starcraft 2 (AMD 64 X2, 2 GB RAM, Geforce 7300).
>2. A keyboard & mouse > controller
There are other games besides FPS (for which a controller is better). Racing games, for example.
Both inferior to the steering wheel controller. Also for flight sims, mouse is crap but I have a $30 joystick to play a few flying games (X3, ARMA) which is far superior to both the mouse and control pad and I've once used a HOTAS setup but cant justify the outlay for a few games.
Quite the opposite of your conclusions, but then I used real numbers instead of those stored up my arse.
Such large numbers, did it hurt when you pulled them out.
Joking aside, you didn't compare like to like.
Comparing Mario Kart Wii (22 odd million) to Starcraft (11 odd million) is not an equal comparison. 1, Starcraft has been out way longer and 2. they are completely different games with completely different audiences.
The Wii is kicking arse because the wii is a casual console and being casual is what consoles excel at. Obviously Mario Kart Wii is not a hardcore game and Starcraft is not a casual game. Now comparing like to like, lets compare Halo 2 (8 million) and Halo 3 (8.1 million) to Starcraft (11 million) and Half life (9.3 million) and these numbers do not include Steam sales. The thing is that only a few console games have sold over 5 million, in fact only 3 on the Xbox 360 have sold over 5 million whilst 9 PC games have sold over 9 million.
Casual games are a much larger audience then hardcore games which is why they sell much better. The Wii can sell 10 million units of Mario Game x but on the PC, how many people have loaded up a flash game to waste time, that's really the only casual market on the PC (well apart from the Sims). Numbers pulled from Wikipedia.
The web filters are mandated by Australian law IIRC
As an Australian sysadmin, you couldn't be more wrong.
The proposed filter has been smacked down in parliament twice. It is not in any way shape or form mandated by law, this lie really really needs to die. Check these things before posting stupid comments in future.
Also, mod's, check these things before modding up or down comments in the future.
BTW, I do not use any form of content filtering, the kind of content you're not allowed to access is laid out in the AUP and you get fired for violating it.
I've been making plans to get a job in another country.
Good riddance, kindly fuck off. Australia will be much better off without your knee jerk fear mongering.
This is about commercial web filters like Websense. Filters that cover the internet connection that the corporation pays for, why shouldn't they be able to do what they like with it?
This is about a PRIVATE corporation deciding what can be accessed on their PRIVATE network. I may not agree with hard line Christians that want to block anything they disagree with but I can not nor will not stop them from doing so on their own bloody networks.
This is about corporate web filters, things like Websense. What happened to the/. mantra of it's their (the corporations) internet connection and they can do what the hell they please on it.
Hell, I know corporations which block any kind of political site under the category of "non productive" and they block a hell of a lot more then just political sites with that category.
"Gun Happy" USA, most children today are brought up in a world where everyone from the media to politicians to schools all universally say "Guns are bad, m'kay?"
Any parent letting a politician or political organisation control their child's perception of the world should be sterilised at gunpoint.
I say that one as a person who likes Australia's gun control methods (Read: gun license required, dear gun nuts).
They grow up to be game designers that not only have never fired a real gun, but have never even SEEN one firsthand.
In many parts of the world people are bough up to not treat guns as toys in the same way they are taught not to treat carving knives as toys. Many Australian's have shot a gun, it's not hard to go down the range and fork over $30 (half of that is just paying the staff) but only 5% of Australians feel the desire to have a firearms license and as part of that 5% I can tell you it's not hard. Some places in Europe require young men to learn how to operate and care for a firearm. Greece and Sweden have national service and I've yet to meet a Swede that couldn't shoot (yes, one day that chef on the Muppets will crack and the frog will get it). Israel makes sure all it's citizens can shoot, male and female.
The media likes to, for example, portray Columbine as an example of guns run amok. Schools expel kids for drawing a PICTURE of a gun.
Please dont display US propaganda as being real. Most anti-gun ban activists do not actually know the gun laws of other nations they protest against such as the only thing preventing an Australian from getting a gun license is a violent criminal record or psychiatric episode (institutionalisation) which leaves oh, 99% of the Australian population eligible, the damn things are easier to get then a drivers license these days. More often then not they drag up laws that were repealed years ago, for example how many times have you heard that the Nazi's instituted gun control when in fact the Nazi's relaxed it (by 1938, any Nazi party member could buy, use and carry firearms without question, most German citizens received no grief about guns, the only real ban was against Jews having guns (shock horror)). The referenced gun control laws were implemented by the Weirmar republic as a requirement of the Treaty of Versailles (the on the US and French made them sign and Winston Churchill was against) before Hitler even joined the Nazi party and relaxed in 1933 then virtually eliminated in 1938.
"Ganstas" and drug traffickers have a lot of guns and use them regularly, and there's nothing professional about that.
Drug trafficking is not a profession?
You have a point with "Gangsta's" but drug traffickers take their chosen vocation very seriously, I suspect you'll be receiving an angry letter from the desk Mr Juan Alvarez very shortly regarding your disparaging comments on his professionalism.
Regarding the reload issue, one of my peeves in "realistic shooters" is when you reload your gun, you don't loose the ammo in the magazine. It's just added to your current ammo. There is a FEW games out there that handles this differently,
ARMA/Op Flashpoint as well as Mafia treated magazines as separate entities. ARMA/Op Flash added the half empty mag back to your inventory so if you run out of full mag's you'd start to use the ones with 6 bullets left. Not good for players with rapid reload syndrome. Mafia would just drop the remaining bullets from your Ammo count.
I find this annoying at times but it does change the way you think about reloading. But really it's the difference between an FPS and a shooting simulator. Counter Strike is an FPS, ARMA is a sim.
However, the multiplayer design of Crysis was absolute shit. Anyone should've picked up from the DX9-clients-can't-mix-with-DX10-clients that Crytek violated one of the first rules of multiplayer game architecture - DO NOT TRUST THE CLIENT. In Crysis' case, apparently they offloaded world physics calculations to the client, and also trusted the client WAY too much.
Crysis' multiplayer was actually quite well designed, apart from the glaring flaw you just mentioned. You could spend hours of fun playing Power Struggle at a LAN parties because you could get up and physically slap cheaters, internet multiplayer on Crysis was bad because you just couldn't do this.
I don't "get" the hate for Crysis. I've played the original Crysis through three times and Warhead twice, and have always found it highly enjoyable.
I think it's a case of not living up to the hype.
Far Cry (made by the same people as Crysis, not Far Cry 2) was a hidden gem that practically came out of nowhere with ruthless game play and eye (and GPU) melting graphics.
Crysis was a well published game that had the hype machine turned up to 11 with some slightly more forgiving game play and eye (and GPU) melting graphics.
And when I say "slightly more forgiving" I mean not as harsh as Far Cry's was. Compared to the likes of COD where you have to try very hard _to_ get killed Crysis is extremely unforgiving. Personally I think Crytek took a step in the right direction as Far Cry was brutal. Back to the point at hand...
Crytek talked up a game that was supposed to be the bees knees but in the end they had cut about 1/3 of the content to get it out on time, which isn't too bad as the game they delivered was mostly complete with a few plot holes. But it wasn't the cure for at least 1 type of cancer we were promised. Dont get me wrong, I enjoy Crysis on it's own merits but cant buy Warhead because of mandatory activations. Crysis is, in the age of Modern Warfare a good First Person Shooter, I'd go as far as saying it's a very good FPS but it's not a great FPS and not the FPS that Crytek and EA talked up. Crysis had two downfalls, the small one was extreme system requirements (no problem for my gaming rig, but this post will not run Crysis) and the big one, game play fell into a giant heap at the end of the game, it stopped being about stealth _OR_ flanking _OR_ brute force and just became all brute force. I believe this is because Crytek was forced to cut content to meet a deadline and I dont hate them for that, I hate EA for placing the god damned deadline.
If EA doesn't have activation limits on Crysis 2, I'll buy it because Crysis was a game I enjoyed, I could live with the flaws and still enjoy it because it was a good game. Not having the glaring flaws would have made Crysis into a great game.
Driving around Edinburgh, it kept trying to tell me to turn off the North Bridge onto Market Street. Great, except they're separated by about 20 metres vertically.
So, when a driver finally does go head first off the North Bridge onto Market Street, do you blame the software or the driver who didn't notice the 20 metre drop.
SatNav software is good as a guide but FFS you still need common sense. I have taken off on this whole "Sat Nav" thing as I'm from the old school and can read a map, create my own list of directions and generally remember them. Although I've updated from the old dead tree format to Google Maps on my Android phone I still use it in exactly the same way and survive perfectly well without something telling me when there's a 20 metre drop right in front of me.
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Apple press statements lie about competition.
I'm shocked I tell you, absolutely shocked. Who would have thought.
This is a very important point, one of Sun Tzu's keys to victory and the most important was what was translated as "the moral law". The moral law was a populations willingness to follow a leader, in WWII most of Europe was willing to follow the Allies or Stalin rather then Hitler. Same with the Pacific, the Filipinos, Indonesians and Thais happily threw off Japanese rule in favour of the Americans at their first opportunity.
It wasn't the US Army who shot Nazi collaborators when they liberated Holland, the Dutch did.
And a metric shitload of Lithium, Copper and other precious metals.
Here's a novel concept for you, sometimes people dont understand the products they are criticism.
Android will work out of the box for almost anyone, but there are options if you dont like the default profile. Features != complex and simple != easy. Removing features will not make the product any easier to use, adding features does not automatically make a product harder to use.
Now if you'd please go back under your bridge, that'd be great.
Or they could have a program that vendors could join in on that dictates how the interface will work, what programs are installed by default and so forth. They could even call it "Google Experience" and brand "Google Experience" devices as "with Google".
Have you tried following your own advice.
The GP asked how it was a better product, even for him. How can we reliably trust the GGP's judgements if they cannot quantify or explain them.
It's like saying Rocko Cola(TM) is the best cola because it's way better. In the end I've told you nothing and you'll can either take my assertion at face value or assume I'm talking out of my arse. Have a nice Rocko Cola(TM) whilst you think about that.
Correct me if I'm wrong (and someone will, this is /.) but...
Isn't which devil you can be serviced by highly dependent on where you live. I've just had a friend who moved to SFO and has told me he has to go with Verizon, which for him is a complete pain in the arse as he travels overseas quiet a bit and everyone else uses GSM 2100 (Verizon is CDMA).
Christians are atheists about most gods that we have dreamed up.
Atheists are just one god ahead of them.
We tend to think that getting up early to go to church every Sunday just to apologise for being human as ridiculous as worshipping Set.
There, Fixed that for you.
The internet filter in Australia exists only in your mind, parliament smacked down the idea twice.
OTOH, how are those free speech zones and TSA searches going.
In other words, "happy to serve but not to be a servant". It describes quite a few professions.
The problem with game development is two fold. On one etreme there are the predatory game distributors that get people in young, work them close to death and threaten them if they ever try to leave (you'll never work in this town/industry again, I'll see to it). On the other extreme there are the rock star developers like Wright, Molyneux and Bleszinski (no I will not mention Lord British) who are able to push any kind of crap because people will buy the brand (Fable and Gears of War are crap, just admit it). A middle ground needs to be found for developers, but as long as it's OK for the likes of EA and Ubisoft to continue to exploit developers then we wont find it.
Ultimately we, as gamers want the developers to feel appreciated and compensated for their work but at the same time we dont want them growing into a deluded godhood and making terrible games on their names alone (*cough* Will Wright). I dont know about pay and conditions at Stardock but there is a lot of interaction between the dev team and the community and this IMHO results in a better end product.
Terrible methodology. If you ask someone who pays for sex they'll say "I never paid to have sex with her, I only paid her to leave".
If you ask someone who has been divorced they'll say "sex you pay for will be the cheapest sex you'll have".
The correct methodology would be determining how much someone spends in order to get sex, including but not limited to what is actually given to the lady but also, drinks, dinner, taxi fares, airfares/car, hotel/house and so on until you've accounted for every cent used to impress girl. Count the failures as well as the successes and you'll quickly find which really is the cheaper option.
You win, for all of 10 minutes. Then I figure out how far I can push the auto aim and start to pwn.
This is why PC FPS players like myself hate console FPS's with a passion. It removes all skill and reduces the player to a button pusher. Point in the general direction of the enemy, push button and the CPU does the rest. Back in the day I used to turn off auto-aim on Goldeneye (N64) in multi-player for the fun of it, very few people could cope with it, I'd end up winning the match with slappers because they were the only weapon that didn't require a manual aim at that point.
The reason you get pwned in Quake 3 is because you are reliant on the CPU doing things for you.
But my 1 yr old PC can play 10 yr old games. In fact I just started replaying Starcraft this weekend.
Also gaming PC's dont deteriorate that fast, depending on the kind of games you play. My housemates 5 yr old PC will play Starcraft 2 (AMD 64 X2, 2 GB RAM, Geforce 7300).
Both inferior to the steering wheel controller. Also for flight sims, mouse is crap but I have a $30 joystick to play a few flying games (X3, ARMA) which is far superior to both the mouse and control pad and I've once used a HOTAS setup but cant justify the outlay for a few games.
Such large numbers, did it hurt when you pulled them out.
Joking aside, you didn't compare like to like.
Comparing Mario Kart Wii (22 odd million) to Starcraft (11 odd million) is not an equal comparison. 1, Starcraft has been out way longer and 2. they are completely different games with completely different audiences.
The Wii is kicking arse because the wii is a casual console and being casual is what consoles excel at. Obviously Mario Kart Wii is not a hardcore game and Starcraft is not a casual game. Now comparing like to like, lets compare Halo 2 (8 million) and Halo 3 (8.1 million) to Starcraft (11 million) and Half life (9.3 million) and these numbers do not include Steam sales. The thing is that only a few console games have sold over 5 million, in fact only 3 on the Xbox 360 have sold over 5 million whilst 9 PC games have sold over 9 million.
Casual games are a much larger audience then hardcore games which is why they sell much better. The Wii can sell 10 million units of Mario Game x but on the PC, how many people have loaded up a flash game to waste time, that's really the only casual market on the PC (well apart from the Sims). Numbers pulled from Wikipedia.
As an Australian sysadmin, you couldn't be more wrong.
The proposed filter has been smacked down in parliament twice. It is not in any way shape or form mandated by law, this lie really really needs to die. Check these things before posting stupid comments in future.
Also, mod's, check these things before modding up or down comments in the future. BTW, I do not use any form of content filtering, the kind of content you're not allowed to access is laid out in the AUP and you get fired for violating it.
Good riddance, kindly fuck off. Australia will be much better off without your knee jerk fear mongering.
This is about commercial web filters like Websense. Filters that cover the internet connection that the corporation pays for, why shouldn't they be able to do what they like with it?
This is about a PRIVATE corporation deciding what can be accessed on their PRIVATE network. I may not agree with hard line Christians that want to block anything they disagree with but I can not nor will not stop them from doing so on their own bloody networks.
This is about corporate web filters, things like Websense. What happened to the /. mantra of it's their (the corporations) internet connection and they can do what the hell they please on it.
Hell, I know corporations which block any kind of political site under the category of "non productive" and they block a hell of a lot more then just political sites with that category.
Death Star plans not found in main computer.
Any parent letting a politician or political organisation control their child's perception of the world should be sterilised at gunpoint.
I say that one as a person who likes Australia's gun control methods (Read: gun license required, dear gun nuts).
In many parts of the world people are bough up to not treat guns as toys in the same way they are taught not to treat carving knives as toys. Many Australian's have shot a gun, it's not hard to go down the range and fork over $30 (half of that is just paying the staff) but only 5% of Australians feel the desire to have a firearms license and as part of that 5% I can tell you it's not hard. Some places in Europe require young men to learn how to operate and care for a firearm. Greece and Sweden have national service and I've yet to meet a Swede that couldn't shoot (yes, one day that chef on the Muppets will crack and the frog will get it). Israel makes sure all it's citizens can shoot, male and female.
Please dont display US propaganda as being real. Most anti-gun ban activists do not actually know the gun laws of other nations they protest against such as the only thing preventing an Australian from getting a gun license is a violent criminal record or psychiatric episode (institutionalisation) which leaves oh, 99% of the Australian population eligible, the damn things are easier to get then a drivers license these days. More often then not they drag up laws that were repealed years ago, for example how many times have you heard that the Nazi's instituted gun control when in fact the Nazi's relaxed it (by 1938, any Nazi party member could buy, use and carry firearms without question, most German citizens received no grief about guns, the only real ban was against Jews having guns (shock horror)). The referenced gun control laws were implemented by the Weirmar republic as a requirement of the Treaty of Versailles (the on the US and French made them sign and Winston Churchill was against) before Hitler even joined the Nazi party and relaxed in 1933 then virtually eliminated in 1938.
Drug trafficking is not a profession?
You have a point with "Gangsta's" but drug traffickers take their chosen vocation very seriously, I suspect you'll be receiving an angry letter from the desk Mr Juan Alvarez very shortly regarding your disparaging comments on his professionalism.
ARMA/Op Flashpoint as well as Mafia treated magazines as separate entities. ARMA/Op Flash added the half empty mag back to your inventory so if you run out of full mag's you'd start to use the ones with 6 bullets left. Not good for players with rapid reload syndrome. Mafia would just drop the remaining bullets from your Ammo count.
I find this annoying at times but it does change the way you think about reloading. But really it's the difference between an FPS and a shooting simulator. Counter Strike is an FPS, ARMA is a sim.
Crysis' multiplayer was actually quite well designed, apart from the glaring flaw you just mentioned. You could spend hours of fun playing Power Struggle at a LAN parties because you could get up and physically slap cheaters, internet multiplayer on Crysis was bad because you just couldn't do this.
I think it's a case of not living up to the hype.
Far Cry (made by the same people as Crysis, not Far Cry 2) was a hidden gem that practically came out of nowhere with ruthless game play and eye (and GPU) melting graphics.
Crysis was a well published game that had the hype machine turned up to 11 with some slightly more forgiving game play and eye (and GPU) melting graphics.
And when I say "slightly more forgiving" I mean not as harsh as Far Cry's was. Compared to the likes of COD where you have to try very hard _to_ get killed Crysis is extremely unforgiving. Personally I think Crytek took a step in the right direction as Far Cry was brutal. Back to the point at hand...
Crytek talked up a game that was supposed to be the bees knees but in the end they had cut about 1/3 of the content to get it out on time, which isn't too bad as the game they delivered was mostly complete with a few plot holes. But it wasn't the cure for at least 1 type of cancer we were promised. Dont get me wrong, I enjoy Crysis on it's own merits but cant buy Warhead because of mandatory activations. Crysis is, in the age of Modern Warfare a good First Person Shooter, I'd go as far as saying it's a very good FPS but it's not a great FPS and not the FPS that Crytek and EA talked up. Crysis had two downfalls, the small one was extreme system requirements (no problem for my gaming rig, but this post will not run Crysis) and the big one, game play fell into a giant heap at the end of the game, it stopped being about stealth _OR_ flanking _OR_ brute force and just became all brute force. I believe this is because Crytek was forced to cut content to meet a deadline and I dont hate them for that, I hate EA for placing the god damned deadline.
If EA doesn't have activation limits on Crysis 2, I'll buy it because Crysis was a game I enjoyed, I could live with the flaws and still enjoy it because it was a good game. Not having the glaring flaws would have made Crysis into a great game.
So, when a driver finally does go head first off the North Bridge onto Market Street, do you blame the software or the driver who didn't notice the 20 metre drop.
SatNav software is good as a guide but FFS you still need common sense. I have taken off on this whole "Sat Nav" thing as I'm from the old school and can read a map, create my own list of directions and generally remember them. Although I've updated from the old dead tree format to Google Maps on my Android phone I still use it in exactly the same way and survive perfectly well without something telling me when there's a 20 metre drop right in front of me.
So...
Which administration got in again?