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Comment Optimistic or stupid? (Score 3, Interesting) 43

by jdoss on Thursday December 11, 2025 @10:54AM (#65850821) Attached to: Opera Wants You To Pay $20 a Month For Its AI Browser

Are they just optimistic that their product provides enough value that they can justify charging almost $250/year? Or have they simply not learned a single damn thing from the last 30 years of their existence? Chrome has Gemini integrated whether you like it or not, and for free. Pin a ChatGPT tab and boom, saved you $20/month.

Comment Remember when it was written as "CowboyNeal"? (Score 1) 128

by jdoss on Monday May 14, 2018 @12:50PM (#56609160) Attached to: Fortnite or PUBG?

n/t

Comment Quest Communications (Score 1) 95

by jdoss on Thursday June 15, 2017 @09:23AM (#54624939) Attached to: US Internet Company Refused To Participate In NSA Surveillance, Documents Reveal

I remember Quest Communications being touted as not complicit with NSA surveillance directly after September 11. The CEO subsequently got investigated for income tax evasion by the IRS and was sent to jail. Quest went belly up a few years later.

Comment Why should we care? (Score 1) 432

by jdoss on Friday February 01, 2013 @11:15AM (#42761043) Attached to: Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering?

Let a "brogramming"-managed team release product into the marketplace and see what happens. When it fails, we will yawn and continue doing what we've been doing.

Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 2) 140

by jdoss on Saturday January 29, 2011 @02:01PM (#35043520) Attached to: Ruby Dropped In Netbeans 7

My hatred was already maxed out for the null/empty-string screwup.

It has been so long since I've been bitten by that particular "feature", I forgot about it entirely. Now that I remember: DAMN THEM. GOD DAMN THEM.

Gears of War 2 Patched To Fix Matchmaking Issues, Problems Persist 34

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 08, 2008 @04:22AM from the if-at-first-you-don't-succeed-you're-dead-rook dept.

When Gears of War 2 was released, one of the biggest complaints about the game was that its matchmaking system didn't work properly for multi-player games, leading to unreasonably long wait times. After trying to placate players with mostly useless suggestions, Epic finally released a patch to address the matchmaking issues. Unfortunately, now that players have had a chance to try it out, it seems a large segment of the Gears 2 population is still having problems.

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