Pleng said:
I've given up on paying much attention to Crigstimates, too. ED and MW tend to be a lot more realistic, although quotes such as "Companies MIGHT speed a bit up, as most of them know christmas is a very important event for such devices" tend to make me worry that Craig's over-optimism is starting to rub off. Given the history of the project, I would be more concerned about further delays than keeping fingers crossed that things will speed up!
I'm trying to "play nice" and menion what I consider good, and not mention what I consider bad by comparison
But yeah, a time or two the other chaps seem to have caught a whiff of excessive optimism - like MWeston's 7 day countdown timer. Who didn't think "OMG, that is SO doomed!"??
may88 said:
Steady now! Almost every post is degenerating to this. What we need is a nice update from ED to steady out nerves.
Or just for the board members to man up. Maybe all say once "it COULD all go horribly wrong" and then carry on bickering about the kayboar... no, it's the silk screen layout at present, isn't it?
But more seriously, not EVERY post (or even thread) has to be all doom and gloom. There's room for Quake, and AvP, and BeebEm and and and...
Poem58 said:
That would be sweet, and just remember, no matter how much we may talk about the possibility of asking for a refund, we all would much rather have the Pandora. Which is why we are bitching I guess, better to bitch and get it out of our system then to give up and cancel. Let's just hope those of us contemplating it will have it before we get the nerve to cancel. It's the last thing we want to do.
Ah - I see I'm not the first here to suggest this then. Oh well!
And...it may be tomorrow today already, but on the Western side of the Atlantic it's still quite early... IIRC much of America and Canada is probably around 8 hours behind the UK, on average? Give MWeston a LITTLE time to work.
OK, is it ready NOW then?