Posts by 1Rafayal

Interesting

Sony thinks that the total lifespan of the PS3 will be 10 years.

I find this quite interesting, the PS2 hung on for quite some time after the release of the PS3. Maybe this will herald a new way forward for Sony - I wonder if they will consider marketing the successor to the PS3 along side the previous iteration. Kind of the same thing Nintendo and Sega did between the 8bit and 16bit era. This would be especially good if Sony continues down the route of "no backwards compatibility" (I could be wrong about that...).

Doh!

Just bought a Samsung LTE wifi dongle for 200 notes, should have gone looking for a device like this - it would have been a lot more useful to me!!!

I have enjoyed all of the AC games immensely from the beginning. However, I feel a little jaded that they have gone to the US for this one.

Of course, it had to happen at some point, it just feels to me that there are so many other places and points in history that could have given a much more satisfying backdrop for anyone who isn't from the US. Take Scotland for instance, Edinburgh and the surrounding areas have a very deep rooting in the Templar mythology as well as the south of France and India etc.

However, I am sure this entry in the series will be just as riveting as the last four games, I will even give Liberation a go as well (was suitably impressed by Uncharted on the Vita).

Have I missed something, or is this guy saying Windows 8 is bad because he didnt like the Marketplace?

Surely he would have been able to say something a little more useful about the thing?

I remember reading a review for this in PC Gamer, one of the parting comments mentioned you should play this on hard the first time. So I did, took me ages to complete this game on that setting, but it was very rewarding to play.

I am not sure I have played an FPS game that has quite reached the same level as Half-Life since then.

I have been looking at a new Toshiba TV recently, mainly due to its ability to show 3D without glasses. As it happens, it is also a 4K TV.

For me, the definition of a set would be driven by whatever the latest video games console is. If the Wii U supported 4K, or either of the new consoles from Microsoft or Sony, then I would go get a 4K TV. But thats just me.

Wouldnt mind getting a 4K monitor though, that would be a nice replacement for my HD monitor.

does this have anything to do with the security fiasco and getting soldiers in to do the job properly?

Bringing in soldiers means that they would not have been doing their day job somewhere else, like in Afghanistan. I wonder how interested the Talibannies would be to read that sort of information...

I am intrigued. I am a PS+ customer and havent seen any of these problems at all.

I get my free games every month, the console updates itself when needed and a whole bunch of my save games are up on the PS+ cloud.

Would be interesting to see if this only affects certain models etc.

Agile is a great idea

but, a lot of organisations only pay it the barest of lip service in order to attract candidates as potential recruits.

I have worked in a number of places now who have attempted Agile in different ways. I think the best approach I encountered was where the organisation chose to adopt a best of breed method, taking the bits of Agile, Lean and XP that worked for them - and it did.

Recently, I have worked with an organisation where hiring managers were instructed by their peers to make a big play for Agile, but at the same time reinforced that software development would continue to be a bespoke waterfall methodology because "it works". We ended up with a lot of talented developers and analysts who had been working under Agile for a few years all of a sudden stuck in a prehistoric waterfall environment.

In my experience, when organisations want to use Agile purposefully, it works. When they just want to pretend they are doing it, then it doesnt. It amuses me that when organisations have their software being developed in a waterfall methodology complain that the brand new Agile tools they have just bought dont work the way they want them to.

I am a big fan of Agile and always try to introduce elements of it where ever possible.

As an aside, I used to consult for a startup whos director complained that unit testing was pointless. To quote him; "Why should I write a test, then write the code to fail the test before I start development?". Hmm, I wonder.

That company didnt progress from being a start up,

Why oh why can we not just have one sensible discussion regarding something like Linux or free software without it turning into some form of religious pogrom?

right up my street. Was looking at a similar device on android-sale the other day, but I think I will hang on for this to come out instead.

Reminds me of the GP2X, Caanoo etc

possibly the first Apple product that I really want to try out

Seriously, Windows Home Server is beyond crap. If I can bung a Mac Mini under the stairs with Server installed and have it do everything I want it to, then it is worth the price of the box alone.

Definitely something I will be investigating.

We really needed Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li in there, especially as this is all about Street Fighters 25th birthday.

That film was even worse than the first one.