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Shadows of the Empire
Why no Shadows of the Empire, if only for being able to play the Battle of Hoth in a snowspeeder...
Posts by Chad H.
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Huh?
"EE even got in touch with El Reg this afternoon"
Published 9:06am 24 May
Is the time machine El Reg's or Ee's? Is OFTIME aware of this time machine monopoly?
Re: Unaware
The statement to me seemed like classic Applebyism - Schmitt isn't aware of anything they're doing wrong because he hadn't asked if they were doing something wrong, and those that know purposely haven't told him.
Re: so few republicans
So many seemingly inteligent and rational people seem to advocate spending millions to decide how to appoint someone else to do the job of a figurehead, and then spend millions more every few years appointing a new person to do it.
Waste, Waste, Waste, waste, waste. How about we spend those millions we'd spend deciding how to elect a president on something that will actually result in a greater impact to the unemployment figures? Maybe a nice new railroad? A new school? A Hospital? A National Broadband Network?
Security by Obscurity??
IOS isn't security by obscurity - its Security by Gatekeeper. Want your code on the phone, you have to go through the gatekeeper - Apple.
Ergo, Scareware is right,.
Happened in Fallout: New Vegas
Mediacrtitic score: 84; required for Bonus 85.
Re: Aero vs a pig wearing lipstick
But Paul, they've spent all of this money reserecting the Windows 1 look - and its features too!
Well
Given that the cost of tickets does not cover the entirety of TFL's budget, I'm wondering who exactly is getting "Ripped off" here, becuase it doesnt seem to be the Ticket holder.
Re: Why pay to downscale?
Ultiamtely the regular consumer isn't an audiophile, they dont require "Great" or perhaps even "good" quality. They want "Acceptable" "affordable" and "portable".
Posted in UK mobile broadband carriers compared
Re: Some surprising omissions
Also 3 share with T-Mobile as well as a part of Mobile Broadband Networks Limited.
Format shifiting levies
Ultimately these levies are unfair to - to the artists themselves. How do they determine who gets what share of the cash - My understanding its based on Radio Airplay, so if you have exotic tastes and hate current popular trash, you can't help but subsidise it whilst your prefered artist goes wanting.
Posted in Does Britain really need a space port?
Everyone knows about Britain's soaraway space sector.
Apparently not. As far as I was aware this began and ended at the goodies episode "Invasion of the Moon Creatures http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4JsNetyS6M
This is good we're talking about
Next week it will probably known by different things depending on who wins the adwords auction.
Re: But it was Persia historically.
Wrong meme AC. Madness is Sparta, not Persia.
Persia is for time travelling princes.
Re: Indeed...
Similarly buying a pig in a poke was buyinga pig in a bag without looking at the pig
Re: Napoleon and his metric system conquered Europe,
Err, no it didnt. Metric Time and the Metric Calendar didnt conquer anywhere.
Maths
Wordstream agrees with a Webtrends report that puts the Facebook click-through-rate (ad clicks versus impressions) at just 0.05 per cent, half the average for banner ads and ten times less than Google Display, which has a 0.4 per cent CTR.
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Last I checked, 0.05*10 is 0.5, whereas 0.05*8 is 0.4....
Imperial to Metric and back again
When I first came to the UK from Australia (which joined the modern world in weights and measures decades ago) I was shocked by the usage of Miles for distance, although I had a vauge idea 60 Miles is roughly 100 K's.... I found myself at one point converting miles in kilometers, and dividing by 100 to work out rough long distance journey times, forgetting that the sole advantage miles can claim to have is that at 60 miles per hour, you can basically read the distance left as time.
Of course, it doesnt help that a mile isn't a mile depending on if you're in a car, boat or plane
@ Obviously
Yes, Applites need someone to show them the way, thats why there's a huge trend of 'Doze users hooking up their PC to their TV... Oh wait there isn't.
Sounds like you're suffering from the same disease MS is with Metro, a single given interface isn't ideal in every situation. The TV does need a different interface to a PC to be at its most effective; whether or not Steve Jobs had "Cracked it" we'll see.
Re: Deja vu ?
Well No Jimmy, cos I still could install Netscape on a Win95/98/NT box. I can't on an ARM device.
The problem with Sony
Is Sony.
For years they've been dominant in so many fields, but each of the seperate divisions have refused to play as a team - okay, maybe we're starting to see a few changes in what was Sony Erricson playing with the PS Team, but there needs to be more teamwork between divisions... There's no point in being a monolithic corporation if you're not going to use the greatest strengths such a organisation has - Intergration and Synnergy.
Re: Mute problem still is a problem..
I had that... In addition to always muting it kept saying this accessory isn't compatible.
Caused by corrosion in the port. Swapped at a genius bar on the spot no questions asked.
Had it have been any other phone you probably would have to mail it off, wait 4-6 weeks whilst constantly making phone calls to chase them, only for them to try and weasel out of it with a claim of water damage.
Posted in iOS Rock Band gets back together
When reporters asked him for Comment, Trip Hawkins added to the company's statement by adding "Unfortunately the previous statements didn't quite cover it all, it actually turns out that Electronic Arts itself was a mistake, for which I am truly sorry".
Posted in O2 drops Joggler family tablet
EA could learn something from this
This is the way to do a service shutdown... A final push that allows you to retain as much functionality as possible after the servers are turned off.
@ AC Re: disappointing pay alternatives
The situation you describe there is completely different. The Original poster in this chain didn't want something that is unreasonable, nor did he wish to deprive his neighbor of anything.
We're talking about a move that is easy enought to offer as a stream or download... Sunday Couriers are like hens teeth. Its not as if Dixons et al offered to deliver anything else in their catalogue on a sunday.
At the end of the day, the only people responsible for the OP not paying for the content are the content providers.
Is...
Worldpay a part of RBS, or am I thinking of someone else?
Im delighted with the ruling
The luddites who claim to work in the music industry (remember as free music on the radio killed the music industry decades ago there can be no workers in the music Industry) have spent millions achieving nothing.
Shame they aren't bright enough to realise it, then they might be able to afford higher royalties to those poor starving artists than money put legal decisions.
Can we expect?
The Way to San Jose: The musical theatre sensation based on the life and times of Steve Jobs?
Wrong Market
You gotta remember Apple doesnt look at the market as a whole. They look at simply the top end, people who want quality and believe that Apple deliver it (whether or not they do is irrelevant, even if I believe they do).
Rolls Royce could build a cheap car to combat Hyundai, Tata, etc but they wont - it might grow their share, but would hurt the core brand. Like Apple, they don't do "Cheap".
Re: God forbid Apple should just fade away like Disney
But Fats, in the process they lost their soul.... Their movie division fell into a pit until briefly reignited by Eisner (Which he then proceeded to mess up again) , and then by Pixar/Iger.
Would walt have wanted the ABC/ESPN stuff? Not sure but I can say for sure he wouldnt have wanted the Euro/Tokyo/HongKong/Shanghai Disneylands as he hated sequels and only built Magic Kingdom at Disneyworld under protest.
I have a solution
Defict of 30 mil, yet spending 90 mil on vanity programmes like sports...
Re: You bought defective games on Steam ?
Yet the list of purchased defective games still has no entries AC, so I'd say his lOgic is sound when you read the whole post, not take careful chunck to make a Staw man.
Re: OSX
Strange, my experiences with osx are the reverse. Faster to boot, faster to wake, has all my last opened windows ready.
Re: About bloody time
Geez, the EU really are becoming like the Romans in life of Brian... Besides cheaper imports, visa free European holidays, lower mobile phone costs, putting fundamental human rights like free speech and freedom of thought/religion into UK law and squash ACTA what has the European Union ever done for us?
Its time to ban Second Hand Housing
Forget this nickel-and-dime nonsense. its time to go after the big ticket items: Second Hand houses and second hand cars. Imagine the effect on unemployment if all houses had to be purchased new!
Time to change the slogan?
EA Sports: Its not in the game.
EA Sports: its in the game (but only if it doesnt cost too much to license)
EA Sports: A reasonable facsimilie is in the game
Re: Are you listening Balmer?
Indeed. Couldnt have put it better myself, in either full screen or half screen.
In mouse based computing world
Arent finger drags on a touchscreen obvious (and thus unpatentable?)
Re: Meh
Thats hardly a smoking gun John; Technicolour (nee Thompson/Alcatel) are very common routers to find as ISP supplied kit.
Re: The agency model..
Well the agency model is a bit more open in that we know from basic Maths how much the publisher gets and how much the store gets; in the retail model we don't... We dont know which stores are being greedy through higher markups or which publishers are being greedy with different wholesale rates.
This contributes to those who don't know better getting upset that Apple et al "steal" 30% of the purchase price whilst remaining ignorant of how much of the retail price others in the regular retail model "steal".
Posted in Punters want BBC iPlayer in TVs, not 3D
So its becoming clear...
I was right all along and that 3D will be back to being a "theme park only" technology in the next 6-12 months.
Posted in Wasteland sequel given $3m green light
Now all we need is two more
In Shadowrun and Leasure Suit Larry.
Re: 4G, not not on your iPad
Err, not if Ofcom has its way and makes us buy all new TV equipment so they can shuffle around the TV channels again...
Re: Convenient...
Indeed. I thin you need someone of "gold command" status to request that; there are similar provisions in the BT phone network too.
The odd episode is still funny
They still have the odd pearl... They've just got to stop trying to be Family Guy or South Park (their 6 months to make an episode vs 2 weeks for SP) and just go back to being a simple animated family sitcom, and it will be fine. The more it tries to be "relevant" and "now", the more the weakness in its production system hurt it.
Re: DDoS attack?
And of course to unblock it you usually set another password when you block it.
The only people who lose here are fences and thieves.
Re: Convenient...
Errr, no.
If the government wanted to stop protests being arranged, they'd cut off your account or disable your sim - heck, these things are already impossible and more efficient as they don't follow the handset, they follow the account.
So talk about this being used to squash civil liberties is just silly fearmongery.
Posted in CSIRO patent-trolls ALL OF AMERICA!
Re: Ned Kelly
I think Kelly also saw himself as a liberator... didn't he write a declaration of independence?
At the end of the day the CSIRO invents useful stuff. The author of that article on the other hand hasn't even created toilet paper thanks to his article being online.
Re: Win95
Oddly, Tim Cain reported the other day that Fallout failed its initial win95 compatibility testing because it worked on NT.... They sure were funny about the enterprise/home line back then.
Just thinking
Maybe there's public interest in hacking Rupe's personal email to see what he knew.
This is El Reg, surely someone knows a guy that knows a guy...
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