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Comment Re:Lessons learned: None (Score 1) 288

Because, with your average blockbuster release, they've been slowly drip-fed hype and marketing for months to the point that they must have it at all costs on release day. The publishers themselves measure the success or failure of a game on first day sales. There's a huge pre-order market just so that people can guarantee they will get their game on release day. Everything is geared towards getting your game on release day. And then you expect them to wait 3 days, when there are copies floating around on the internet?

Comment Re:aggrieved consumer (Score 1) 202

I updated mine to Froyo a few weeks ago, It was due out "any day", but Orange were a bit slow off the mark, so I did it via Odin.. Its a lot faster now, the battery life seems better and GPS works as intended.. My advice, don't wait for the official update, just do it yourself.. Google has links to many howto guides.

Comment Re:Failure (Score 1) 854

There's no expert. You mean Veteran. And the game is called Modern Warfare 2, not COD6.

To compound the error, compared to Modern Warfare (COD4) and W@W (COD5), MW2's (COD6) Veteran mode was considered less of a challenge..

Comment Re:What's more dangerous? (Score 1) 96

You don't need to hire a '{cr|h}acker' for this, as others have said, wolf -> hen house.. Firstly tho, don't let your CEO dictate your IT security policy. Seriously. That's your IT managers job, he should've pushed back on that one, so he should be getting flak for not doing that. If you want to improve security, I would hire a sysadmin with a decent background in security, and get him to manage that side of things (patching, hardening, etc) and also to spread the knowledge and a more security focused attitude around the rest of the IT department, which he will more than likely have an incentive to, purely so that he isn't constantly patching up holes left by the rest of the team.. In my experience contracting stuff out to a third party costs more and you end up with less..

Comment Re:No password may be a feature not a bug (Score 1) 161

Exactly this.. A large webservices company I used to contract for has open Wifi throughout their building in Central London, so that visitors can get Internet access, you can only get on the corp network if you have the correct MAC + other layers behind VMPS, otherwise it just redirects you to the 'guest' network.. A feature. Not a bug. No doubt our 'ethical hacker' added this to the 'bad' list..

Comment Cynic (Score 1) 43

The cynical amongst us might think this sort of thing just reinforces the idea that "Terrorists are among us!" and we should give lots of tax and civil liberties to the government to "protect" us.. But that's just cynicism, right?

Comment Younger Deschain in the second series? (Score 1) 238

So, if Im reading this right, there's a move, followed by a TV series, followed by a second movie and then a second TV series, which is about the younger Deschain, then a final movie.. So, that means the second TV series is Wizard & Glass (the middle book) . So, the three books before that are covered by a movie, a TV series and another movie, but the final three books (and IIRC probably the biggest of the series) are all covered by only one movie.. Seems like they've got some balancing issues here. Surely it would be better to make W&G the middle movie and have a movie and TV series either side to cover the other books?

Comment Re:err... (Score 1) 438

If you had created a table (or other physical item) instead of software, then you would only own it up until the point where you sold it, then it becomes the property of whoever bought it from you. I think the same should apply to software, if somebody buys a copy of your software, then they should own it to and be able to do what they like with it. The only real difference I can see with software is that you have sold only a copy of what you have created and can then go on to sell as many as you want without running out of your supply.. If a table maker wants to make a living he has to keep making more tables, surely if you want to make a living, you should keep writing more software?

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