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Saboteur Launch Plagued By Problems With ATI Cards 230

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @01:58AM from the more-or-less-finished dept.

An anonymous reader writes "So far, there are over 35 pages of people posting about why EA released Pandemic Studios' final game, Saboteur, to first the EU on December 4th and then, after knowing full well it did not work properly, to the Americas on December 8th. They have been promising to work on a patch that is apparently now in the QA stage of testing. It is not a small bug; rather, if you have an ATI video card and either Windows 7 or Windows Vista, the majority (90%) of users have the game crash after the title screen. Since the marketshare for ATI is nearly equal to that of Nvidia, and the ATI logo is adorning the front page of the Saboteur website, it seems like quite a large mistake to release the game in its current state."

Comment You can't teach people who don't want to learn (Score 5, Insightful) 932

by celest on Thursday November 12, 2009 @01:19PM (#30074816) Attached to: Easing the Job of Family Tech Support?

In my experience, it is not an issue of easy-to-digest material, and explanations that they understand. It's a hard mental block. I've been in the same cycle for 10+ years, and my parents have said, flat out, they they "just can't learn". I've tried written, step-by-step instructions; I've tried demonstrating; I've tried tutorials. It's not the information or how it is presented. It's a mental block about learning new things.

"Why can't it just work?", and the fact that it doesn't is put on my shoulders as the "tech" generation. And that's that.

What really gets me angry is that they are helpless to do anything in their daily lives without their computer, and blame me for that fact (Cause *I* created all malware and put it on their computer, clearly), while simultaneously ridiculing my choice of career as worthless, because "technology is not important". The irony is lost on them. Completely.

The war you are facing is a cultural one, not a technical, or information/communication one. It's one better asked to a psychologist than Slashdot. Best of luck.

Comment How about a link with info on HOW to sign up? (Score 1) 232

by celest on Friday January 09, 2009 @10:17AM (#26385779) Attached to: More Brains Needed

Seriously.

Jokes are great, but I'm looking for information on HOW TO SIGN UP!

I WANT to donate my brain to science after I die, but I have no idea what paper work I have to fill out to do this in my province/country. (Ontario, Canada)

Anyone have the necessary information? Please post.

Submission + - Open sourcing: How do average users respond?

Submitted by

Mekki MacAulay

on Saturday June 23, 2007 @10:44PM

Mekki MacAulay writes: "Developers get excited when closed source software gets released as open source. We see an opportunity to add new features, poke around in the code to figure out how it ticks, fix that annoying bug, or set it free. We have our own views on the open source debate. We've considered the trade offs. We've picked our sides.

But, how does the average user respond to open sourcing of software they use? How does it affect the their perception of the product? How they feel about the company? How they feel about the product's security? How more or less likely they are to recommend the product to a friend? Their performance expectations?

Think of the average user of Skype, MSN, Second Life, World of Warcraft, MS Office, Photoshop, Acrobat, Quicken, and so on. How do you think average users would respond to an announcement that their product was being open sourced? How would these views differ from the responses of developers?

If a business with a closed source product was considering open sourcing it, what would you tell them to expect the average user response to be?"

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