Comment: Re:That's supposed to be a good idea? (Score 1) 468
That makes you wonder whether the books do any good at all.
Comment: Only totals (Score 1) 87
The article said that total time spent on the sites increased but said nothing about per-user changes.
Comment: They should change the name to "Death Note" (Score 1) 68
A crude virtual Death Note exists, but it would be cooler to have a Facebook application for it.
Electronic Arts' Notorious for Bugs?
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Renraku writes "After spending several hours straight trying to get Battlefield 2142 to work again to no avail, I have to wonder if everyone else has the same problems with EA Games as I have. I have purchased and played Battlefield 1942, 2, and 2142, as well as Need for Speed Most Wanted, Battle for Middle Earth 2, as well as a few Command and Conquer games.
Most of the time their technical support boards are close to useless. Games stop working or start working seemingly at random. For example, last week my Battlefield 2142 stopped working for no obvious reason. I didn't change settings, change anything about my current version of Windows, and I didn't click on any email attachments. Battlefield 1942 and 2 were similar, and it took days to get Battle for Middle Earth 2 to work properly. And those were on several different system setups and Windows versions.
So I ask, does anyone else have a similar amount of problems with EA Games? And if so, what can the community at large do about it? Voting with your wallet isn't working, as there are plenty of people saying they and their friends have boycotted EA because of their terrible bugs and work ethics. Is it right to expect some kind of compensation if your new game suddenly and completely stops working after two months?"
Most of the time their technical support boards are close to useless. Games stop working or start working seemingly at random. For example, last week my Battlefield 2142 stopped working for no obvious reason. I didn't change settings, change anything about my current version of Windows, and I didn't click on any email attachments. Battlefield 1942 and 2 were similar, and it took days to get Battle for Middle Earth 2 to work properly. And those were on several different system setups and Windows versions.
So I ask, does anyone else have a similar amount of problems with EA Games? And if so, what can the community at large do about it? Voting with your wallet isn't working, as there are plenty of people saying they and their friends have boycotted EA because of their terrible bugs and work ethics. Is it right to expect some kind of compensation if your new game suddenly and completely stops working after two months?"
Brit social services try to censor Youtube
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Kedyn's Crow
Kedyn's Crow writes "Britain's social services, citeng the Data Protection Act, are trying to remove a audio recording from youtube. The recording posted by expectant parents Vanessa and Martin Brookes , shows social services attepting to force the adoption of her unborn child in spite of their own belief that there was "no immediate risk to your child from yourselves""
Seagate to Drop IDE Drives by Year End 566
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from the you-are-finished dept.
from the you-are-finished dept.
ianare writes "Seagate plans to cease manufacturing IDE hard drives by the end of the year and will focus exclusively on SATA-based products. Seagate is the first major hard drive manufacturer to announce such plans, though others will likely follow suit. That's not to say support for the 21-year-old PATA standard is going to vanish overnight; similar to how ISA slots were available long after most of us had ditched our old ISA peripherals."
Harry Potter and a Goblin's Take on Copyright->
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DevanJedi writes "Here's a passage from page 517 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : (Ron's brother Bill is warning Harry against trusting a goblin Griphook.) "You don't understand, Harry, nobody could understand unless they have lived with goblins. To a goblin, the rightful and true master of any object is the maker, not the purchaser. All goblin-made objects are, in goblin eyes, rightfully theirs. [...] They have, however, great difficulty with the idea of goblin-made objects passing from wizard to wizard. [...] They consider our habit of keeping goblin-made objects, passing them from wizard to wizard without further payment, little more than theft."
These goblins sound like our friendly neighborhood MPAA/RIAA lawyers!"
Link to Original Source
Link to Original Source
Dell admits preloaded Trailware is annoying
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Very Anonymous Coward writes "Dell released a new desktop product line 'Vostro'.
The first bullet point emphasized on this product line is "No Trialware. ". A mouse-over description states "Vostro Systems come without annoying trialware, so you get only the software you want"
Though only Windows is available as the OS, so I guess the above is only half true.
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/o dg/hip_msn?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd"
The first bullet point emphasized on this product line is "No Trialware. ". A mouse-over description states "Vostro Systems come without annoying trialware, so you get only the software you want"
Though only Windows is available as the OS, so I guess the above is only half true.
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/
Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering 628
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samzenpus
from the welcome-to-your-new-child-friendly-web dept.
from the welcome-to-your-new-child-friendly-web dept.
An Anonymous Coward writes "US senators today made a bipartisan call for the universal implementation of filtering and monitoring technologies on the Internet in order to protect children. Their statement came at the end of a Senate hearing in which civil liberties groups were not invited."