I was just looking at the pricing for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition. As it turns out, there are two pricing options: – Full version ($299) – Upgrade version ($199) Alright. You see that and you realize “Ok, self, if I have a previous version of Visual Studio, they’ll give me a discount for… Read More »
I thought I’d mention a game I tried recently. Torchlight (standalone demo here, or Steam demo here) is an excellent Diablo-style game (made by some of the same people who made Diablo and Fate). Basically, they took Diablo II, ground it up into its essence, and then distilled that essence into pure dungeon-crawling ecstasy. And… Read More »
Ars Technica has an article with more information about the ACTA leak I mentioned a few days ago. What actually leaked was merely a set of notes on a verbal meeting about a draft of the ACTA. That doesn’t mean the notes are wrong, just that we need to keep them in perspective. Ars’ conclusion… Read More »
What can I say about V? The premise was decent – aliens arrive on Earth, proclaiming love and friendship and oh by the way we can heal all your diseases. And all they ask in return is water and some “common minerals”. Whatever that means. (An Anonymous Coward on Slashdot wrote an interesting post on… Read More »
This latest episode of SGU was… interesting. Maybe not in a good way. What I mean is, they did have me on the edge of my seat while they were trying to dial Earth, so at least they were doing something right. Then again, there was yet another gratuitous and entirely superfluous sex scene –… Read More »