Recently, I was asked for my opinion of what the best available Android devices currently offered on Verizon were. Verizon offers somewhere in the neighborhood of 15-16 different Android devices (last I checked), and finding a good one can be somewhat of a struggle if you don’t know specifically what you’re looking for, what Android is capable of, or what you want out of Android and your new smartphone.
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As the title says, Im testing out the WordPress application from my Droid. So far, I like it. Has all the features of the admin pages from WordPress. Pretty slick.
After waiting a few months for Supreme Commander 2 to be released, I happily ran down to my local Gamestop and purchased my copy yesterday. Normally, I would have just bought the game off of Steam, as it ends up being a touch cheaper what with very little tax involved. But, as I have a rather slow internet connection (I live out in the boondocks, no high speed cable lines or DSL to be found), I decided that if I wanted to play it sometime this week, I should just suck it up and purchase a hard copy of the game.
This actually turned out to be a mistake, as once I popped the disk to install, Steam pops up, saying that game will be installed through its SteamWorks service. No big deal, Empire: Total War did something similar, and it worked just fine. So, the game installs, and immediately after its finished, Steam begins “updating” the game. Still no problem, maybe there was a patch rushed out on release day to fix some bugs. But, then I looked at the download size of the patch, and its close to 4 gigs…
Turns out, the install disc only installs a portion of the game, the rest of which still needs to be downloaded. Not cool Steam, not cool at all. Whats the point of buying a hard copy? Are you trying to force us to use Steam? In the future, it would be really nice if there was some sort of warning about this type of underhanded activity on the box…and in the meantime, Ill be waiting a loooong time to play my game…
