Comment Re:Oh goody (Score 2) 790
Amen. The US tax payer paid for and built the infrastructure, the corps should have to abide by their rules if they don't want to then let them build their own infrastructure.
New Call of Duty Titles Announced, Fired Devs Sue For Name 134
eldavojohn writes "Activision has announced new Call of Duty titles while fired Infinity Ward Developer leads Jason West and Vince Zampella sue them for the rights to the name. According to Activision, 'The company intends to expand the Call of Duty brand with the same focus seen in its Blizzard Entertainment business unit. This will include a focus on high-margin digital online content and further[ing] the brand as the leading action entertainment franchise in new geographies, new genres and with new digital business models.' Ars opines that Activision is set to over-saturate the market with tons of CoD titles similar to how it expertly brought down Guitar Hero."
Comment Re:That would be all well and good (Score 5, Insightful) 461
"Market Forces" you mean let the ISPs charge whatever they want for poor service and very poor speed and uptime? Market forces only work when there is competition, in my area I got once choice. Besides how long does one have to live in this "Market Economy" to realize that big corps will do whatever they can to make a dollar. It is in their best interest to not upgrade their networks and charge out the nose. Change on this magnitude will only come to the masses if the government mandates it, its always been like that it always will.
Blizzard Previews Revamped Battle.net 188
Blizzard updated the official StarCraft II site today with a preview of how the revamped Battle.net will function. They emphasize the social features, competitive matchmaking system, and the ease of sharing mods and maps. Quoting:
"When the legacy Battle.net service introduced support for user-created mods such as DotA, Tower Defense, and many others, these user-created game types became immensely popular. But while Battle.net supported mods at a basic level, integration with tools and the mod community wasn't where it needed to be for a game releasing in 2010. The new Battle.net service will see some major improvements in this area. StarCraft II will include a full-featured content-creation toolkit — the same tools used by the StarCraft II design team to create the single-player campaign. To fully harness the community's mapmaking prowess, Battle.net will introduce a feature called Map Publishing. Map Publishing will let users upload their maps to the service and share them with the rest of the community immediately on the service. This also ties in with the goal of making Battle.net an always-connected experience — you can publish, browse, and download maps directly via the Battle.net client. Finding games based on specific mods will also be much easier with our all-new custom game system, placing the full breadth of the modding community's efforts at your fingertips."
Is Internet Explorer 6/7 Support Required Now? 512
k33l0r writes "Following Google's announcement ending support for Internet Explorer 6, I find myself wondering whether we (Web developers) really need to continue providing support for IE6 and IE7. Especially when creating Web sites intended for technical audiences, wouldn't it be best to end support for obsoleted browsers? Would this not provide additional incentives to upgrade? Recently I and my colleagues had to decide whether it was worth our time to try to support anything before IE8, and in the end we decided to redirect any IE6/7 user-agent to a separate page explaining that the site is not accessible with IE 6 or 7. This was easy once we saw from our analytics that fewer than 5% of visitors to the site were using IE at all. Have you had to make a choice like this? If so, what was your decision and what was the reasoning behind it?"
Comment Re:Yea right (Score 2, Insightful) 219
Come to Tennessee, I have neighbors who think the world is 6000 years old and made in 6, 24 hour days. Concepts like science are too complicated for people that closed minded.
kjb
Comment Dont' take the money (Score 1) 395
I do not do company work on a personal computer. Thank your boss for offering to pay for the laptop but tell him if he wishes for you to continue working at home either let you remote in to your work PC or use that 1200 to buy you a work laptop, that way if you do happen to do something great its on your laptop not theirs and they will have no claim. Many of my employers have forbidden employees to do company work on personal computers, for just this reason.
Regards,
KJB
Comment Getting Help. (Score 1) 556
There are a couple things I've learned in my short time on earth about getting help when those who should help don't/won't.
1) Call the media. The power of some investigative journalist shoving a microphone in the face of the big guys at the phone company will do wonders.
2) Call your Congressman and find out why the Authorities will not do their job. Congressmen have lackeys who do nothing but call people and exert pressure on those who need to be pressured.
3) If all else fails, Go in person and raise all holy hell. I will guarantee if you sit outside of the phone company headquarters throwing a shit fit, that will get someone's attention in upper management.
I have personally done 2 and 3 and They worked rather well, my situations were resolved in less than a day.
--kjb
1) Call the media. The power of some investigative journalist shoving a microphone in the face of the big guys at the phone company will do wonders.
2) Call your Congressman and find out why the Authorities will not do their job. Congressmen have lackeys who do nothing but call people and exert pressure on those who need to be pressured.
3) If all else fails, Go in person and raise all holy hell. I will guarantee if you sit outside of the phone company headquarters throwing a shit fit, that will get someone's attention in upper management.
I have personally done 2 and 3 and They worked rather well, my situations were resolved in less than a day.
--kjb
