At Wheatley Laboratories, CPU *is* potato!

Flash must live on! If Flash dies out then that means highly annoying and CPU-hogging advertisements will be converted into HTML5 and get around my simple flashblock. I don't like Flash as much as the next guy but when you can currently carte blanche disable flash and easily remove the most heinous of web content, I fully support its continued use.

SmartScreen is awesome because it blocks things like jquery being loaded from CDN sites such as google because it sees multiple pages reference that so therefore it must be out to get you, right? /sarcasm

Nothing like having a web app that slowly stops working across the enterprise as browsers start blocking the javascript includes. That's what you get for hosting your app in the cloud!

It is an upgrade because in the Win32 world the API for GPU video decompression acceleration is called DXVA. Note the DX at the beginning. It doesn't stand for OpenGL.

(Other than adding an additional HD decoder board)

Looking at the online catalog on my iPhone's Stanza e-reader, I see O'Reilly E-Books download-able directly to the app. As it says on the O'Reilly Getting Started page:

When you buy O'Reilly Ebooks through Stanza you can start reading them right away. You also get full access to the complete "Ebook bundle" at any time, which includes EPUB, PDF, and Mobipocket formats, to work across a variety of devices. You also get free liftime updates.

You just need to look around a little more. What you're looking for is being provided from the publisher who know the techie best.

If you're armed with deck guns, though, you have a whole host of other problems, like not being able to enter most civilian ports without special permission.

Sorry, but paying to be playing competitively is something I'd expect in a F2P game with an ingame store, but not in a game that I buy at full price.

That's exactly what Battlefield Heroes is - it's free to play. Apparently, the revenue wasn't enough so they are adjusting aspect of the game to get more money.

I agree. It is a game model I don't like, so I stay away from those kind of games.

When I started playing BFH, this was the main selling point for me. It was a very bold claim, but they said it everywhere. It is on the official trailer. It is on the official FAQ (now updated). They said it in several interviews. Now, I feel cheated.

yeah i was going to say, bf heroes is more of an attempt to build on the success of tf2, using the name and ip of bf to raise it's profile amongst users. bf heroes is "free to play, $$$ to be competitive" while tf2 is $20 ($2.50-9.99 on steam sale, usually 2-3 times a year) once, with new content every 2-3 months... pick your poison. tf2 isnt nearly as popular as counter-strike source, but it's close enough, and seems to have "long term support" from valve. i can see a lot of bf heroes players jumping ship for bf2, mw2 or simply tf2.

However, even the most jaded, cynical atheist cannot deny that organized religions have also done some amazing things for the societies in which they existed.

Yeh, I'm sure Scientology has done some good. So what? Are you suggesting we try and keep some kind of score card, we can put "imprison children and malke them slaves" on one side and "feed homeless" on the other? Not sure what we do when they "convert" a follower with those "selfless acts" though.

Of course Atheists never do any charitable works on their own, so as long as the nutjobs "help" roughly as many as they screw over, it's all good.

is every bit as ignorant and superficial as claiming that someone cannot drive because their plumbing is different than mine ...

That's right, I forgot that most "organised" religions fought so hard for equal rights and civil rights, oh wait...

While on a smaller scale, isn't this just like the Imperator cancellation?

A game shop so good that it can not produce a game good enough to be made by them! This should come as no surprise to players who would read the "Grab Bag" posts where weekly Mythic would correct themselves on how various aspects of DAOC worked. They didn't even know how their own tremendously successful MMOG worked under the hood, how could they design a new one?

Imperator was a miserable failure despite being hyped by Jacobs as a ground up rewrite designed to be ground breaking and compelling title. The concept of a game which was fun PvE and PvP turned out to be too hard to write, so they fell back to PvE only and still couldn't do it...

So now they landed a juicy development deal with a preexisting ruleset and a decent budget backed by a large set of resources (albeit the overworked and inexperienced resources of EA) and they are going back to re-do things?

Sounds to me like Mythic again has produced content which wasn't good enough to be produced by Mythic.

(All quotes from Mark Jacobs)