SoE has a history of completely fucking up games going back at least to Planetside.

But where did the cats go? I've got a great bag right here...

But if things don't work right for them, they have the power to force them to. Thereby forcing standards to the lowest common denominator, ie Safari, just like happened with IE6.

What do you mean? Every single web view on iOS uses Safari's renderer. It's against the App Store rules to have your own renderer. The problem is that sure, if you design a website around Safari it'll work everywhere else, but it's a pain in the ass to design it to a 5 year old standard when all the other major browsers support other upgrades, extensions and capabilities that can make code easier/faster/better. It's most apparent when an open standard has replaced an Apple designed one that's inferior, and Apple refuses to change, such as WebSQL/IndexedDB.

It's almost like treating the lines in the ground as a public resource that ISPs can compete to offer service on...

Sadly, the speed of light makes latency a problem, wireless communication can be tough in some environments, and... have you seen the security protocols used in day-to-day military applications?

Yes, we're going to drone it, but drones aren't a perfect answer. Now, carrier airships with drone fleets deployed in flight?

StarCraft, baby. Let's do it.

And that basically sums up our current military strategy in a nutshell. We don't want to just beat the other side, we want to make sure there was never even a contest in the first place.

The problem is when you rely entirely on toys to do that you're also simultaneously accepting the huge risk of someone else not playing the same game as you. Just look at Iraq/Afghanistan. We've got something like a 12:1 kill ratio, body armor that routinely saves soldiers' lives outright, weapons that can kill insurgents from far beyond their weapons effective range, and their way of dealing with this is to just keep leaving bombs everywhere for us to stumble into.

When is slashdot going to fix character vomit... "ââ¦â¦â(TM)"

Or their own commitments? Charter's going to do whatever the fuck it wants to do.

Having been on the GPG forums I don't know if I trust them any more than the original developers to put out balance patches. They're as obsessed as TFC and Tribes 2 players were with their arbitrary "gentleman's rules" about how the game ought to be played.

And since they know they can get a bailout from the government they don't care.

That's like saying that slavery is the market wage because of truck systems and the like.

Exactly what I was thinking as well. They want to give away windows 10 to as many people as possible so they can eventually hijack all those people and lock them into a subscription to "Windows".

that is currently actively waging war against the US and its allies. Hmm... where have I heard that before...

And don't forgot the modern obsession with blur shaders like bloom and motion blur... despite the fact the human eye blurs anything fast moving anyway.