And when methods aren't vetted by strong ethics, slimy methods often produce the "best" results. It reminds me of RealPlayer back in the nineties.

What really gets me is the wardrobe and fashion. Star-trek was pretty much out-of-era. There were lots of weird outfits, but the uniforms weren't really tied to any era (and they weren't weird spandex space-suits either). Hairstyles were also not quite so era based, except for a few characters. The old BSG also seem very... blonde.

Yes, my 64GB MicroSDHC turned out for be 3.5GB of actual memory followed by rewrites that corrupt over the existing data. Apparently this is very common.

Final Fantasy X-2 sold very poorly even with the fantastic reception FFX had, and X-2 wasn't a terrible game (thought it was a bit obnoxious at times).

If you've ever played X-2, you might see why. FFX wasn't the greatest of the name (but, for its faults, it was decent), but X-2 was like a Sailor Moon Dressup game with a pinch of fanboy-pandering. I reached a scene where the protagonists are essentially comparing each others' cup sizes and then threw it in the bin.

Yeah, my question would be: WHAT DID YOU F'ING TEST THEM ON

It's not like consoles differ in graphics hardware for a given model. Sure, a certain PS4 or XBone might have varying drive sizes, but the video hardware is standard, that's why they're consoles and not PC's. So any blaming it on the "graphics vendor" is moot, because they had the same f***ing hardware as the users who are experiencing issues.

To me, that screams one of two things (or both):
a) A really shyte QA process
or
b) They ignored a bunch of known issues and decided to ship the thing anyways. Because, money.

Sorry, Ubi, but you can't blame this on the graphics card. If it shows up now, it should have showed up during testing. It's your job to make sure that the game runs properly on the existing hardware, not the other way around.

Not, for the PC market, maybe that argument might hold water a bit, but we come back to the same issue. DX11 is a standard (I prefer GL myself by whatever), if the bottleneck is at the number of draws calls limited by the graphics API, then it is NOT a hardware issue. So, you didn't test the game on standard configurations with the two major graphics card vendors? Sorry, not their fault. AMD may be pitching in to help now but I doubt it's because their cards are the issue.

I didn't even know W3C did geolocation (like Maxmind). Is there any chance you're talking about a page that uses the W3C geolocation API? That is, you're talking about what result some Javascript gets when it asks your web browser "where am I?"

If I'm not mistaken and that's what you're talking about, then look up how your browser gets its location.

If I'm mistaken and W3C actually has a ip-to-geo thing, oops, never mind. No idea what you're going to do about their database being wrong.

Well, tell those people to abandon their plans to sue the US for that in a US court, because even if they win, they won't get the domains they wanted. (Whereas prior to this decision, it would have worked? ;)

I would get a VPS somewhere (e.g. linode) and install OpenVPN on it. Then VPN between there and your local machine, set up your incoming and outgoing connections to route through there, and update your DNS to point to the VPS. Net effect: you're still on Comcast, but the world sees you as being in some datacenter.

That correction would not seem to be in your interest. Wouldn't a more valuable car cost more to insure?

More mileage (per unit time) == more risk. And conversely, less mileage (per unit of time) == less risk.

If you drive your car less than 12000 miles per year, then seriously, talk to your insurance agent about a discount.

If you want good bosses, step up to the plate and make the sacrifice and do the job.

I am pretty sure this is how we will (if ever) get a good government, too. The government has to be "us" not "them" yet almost none of us are willing to let it be "me."

I can't figure out if that's stunningly brilliant (gets people to learn a shitload more, and in wider scope), or a cowardly copout to avoid the stigma of demotion ("we demote everybody"). Maybe it's both.

It's a shame if nothing were to happen to it (upgrades) for the next several years?

So who's "sponsoring" this group? My guess is one (or many) of MS, Apple, and/or perhaps Oracle.