I'm starting to think it's the network the US use, as I do not have the same problems here in Australia. I suppose we'll all know in a few weeks if this software update is out.
Unfortunately linking a Gawker site ruins any credibility, funny, troll, or serious.
We all know it was Activision, after what Kotick did to Infinity Ward I wouldn't put anything past the fucktard.
He's destroying gaming brick by brick, and he knows it. All he cares about is how much money he makes, not any love of the games, industry or any altruistic reason. When someone comes out and says that a revenue stream for the company is it's lawyers, you have to think "do I really want to hand these guys my cash?". Worst thing is, that most don't think about that. The masses now game, so gaming companies care not for the culture, but for how many poor saps they can con into buying their products.
This story has done the rounds on many a gaming site and the general consensus is that it was Activision/Blizzard who stopped this massive tax break from happening.
I know I'm getting beyond TL;DR, but it's strange that a country trying to get out of recession would can a tax break that would have far reaching positive effects in the economy. I could only imagine how many development houses would gear up for major productions in the UK should this tax break go through. Then you see the trickle down effect give the economy a boost. It may not be as big as say opening a brand new copper mine, but it'll be a bigger shot in the arm than not allowing it to go through. The tax break would be offset no doubt by other taxes gathered from higher productivity.
The only reason to put a stop to this would be due to lobbying by a company (companies) that may be adversely effected by this. Maybe Activision are scared they may lose their top devs to new British start ups, maybe they'll lose them to already established British developers who can now afford more/better devs for bigger projects. It all makes sense. Then again, we'll never know. The new UK government is just as corrupt as the previous, and the next will be the same. As with all "developed" nations, the more money you have, the more you can corrupt the parliament.
They probably are, seeing as MS doesn't log conversations nor allow law enforcement to monitor conversations on MSN Messenger... Hotmail/MSN Mail is another story. Have a read of the instruction book for law enforcement that MS set up. It's freely available via Wikileaks.
Tell me about it. I've worked for so many companies that use some of the worst interfacing on their internally developed applications that it's embarrassing to know customers have to look at it. Mostly I put it down to developers being used for interface design, rather than using people talented with both design and development (these kind of employees are expensive, cheaper to get an Indian on a work visa).
Unfortunately it's not going to change in an hurry, mainly due to IT companies being run by accountants rather than by tech gurus.
The organisation is corrupt from the ground up, the only option is to remove patenting. Whenever you have companies with a lot of money trying to get an edge, you're going to get corruption. Whether is congress/parliament or a government agency that enforces the laws, this seems to be rife.
There's no way a sane person would allow patenting of 50 year old business practices.
I'm with iiNet myself, service quality, communication, and support are great. On naked DSL too, which is perfect for me.
Unfortunately with the copper to the cabinet services it's a bit of a lose lose situation, your line is longer and you're with Telstra technically. On street DSLAMs are much better as it's fibre to the cabinet and copper from there.
I live in inner city Melbourne, not quite as lucky as Brunswick (they get NBN coverage). You might want to take a look at the NBN site and see if your area is part of the trial. If it is, you can get NBN fibre by iiNet (not sure if Internode offers it too).
Telstra's speed and service are far from the best, maybe 10 years ago, but not now.
Technically, RIMs do NOT support ADSL, it's on street DSLAMs that support ADSL/ADSL2+. I might add that Telstra had their DSLAMs upgraded to ADSL2/2+ quite some time ago, long before it was offered by competitors. They refused to allow users access to the service until they saw fit, artificially limiting people's bandwidth claiming that they had no ADSL2+.
I think you've missed the point. Physical limitations are only temporary. What's to say a Peltier chip can't be created with high energy efficiencies within the next few years? One that, say, can run on a mobile battery?
I personally don't mind ads in things like sport or racing games, they are already there in real life so it's not like it's too intrusive. This is just double dipping.
Or now Global Agenda... they just ditched their sub model due to player comments.
Not for everyone, but it's a non-fee based MMO.
Personally, as someone who played during the "keys to the city" event, I think APB is going to fail miserably. It's so glitchy that I wouldn't even pay for it - I even paid for Age of Conan after being in Beta because it wasn't THIS glitchy.
Their payment system really stinks, and to add in advertisements is just adding insult to injury. Good luck surviving your first year APB, doubt you will, but good luck with that one anyway. I know you won't have my money.
I've had almost the same problem in the past with an old DDR2/AMD machine. Clocked to full speed, it'd fall over repeatedly, clocked down it was fine. I took one of the RAM sticks out, ran fine at full speed.
I'm not sure why you'd want ECC ram in a desktop, unless it's some sort business critical machine that you're willing to spend 5 or 6 times what a normal desktop costs. For day to day use, ECC is overkill. You can get warranty on most chips for 1 to 3 years depending on the manufacturer, and if it's out of warranty, either buy a new machine or buy new ram. All in all, it'll cost more to run ECC due to the board required to effectively utilise the ECC capabilities. I'm not even sure some consumer boards are capable of taking ECC (ASRock and the like that come in cheap desktops).
As someone who has worked in support for 15 years, the troubleshooting shouldn't be "interesting", it's basic diagnosis. The idea that it was "cosmic radiation" is just, well, bullshit. Chips die, have manufacturing faults, or just get old. Nothing new here.
Quick calculations, your average 1hr TV show would end up costing you around $500 000 if you didn't have a cap.
Why even research this technology? It's not like we weren't aware that SMS was capable of this, it is text after all. I see nothing of value in this research, I'm sure that someone with a bit of coding skills and access to a mobile could do this without much hassle.
I'm usually the first to say to people on slashdot that research is worthwhile, but this is really stupid. This won't do anything to relieve congestion at all, it will just shift it to SMSing. So your SMS to your loved one saying you'll be home 15 minutes late will arrive in a few hours.
Nah, $2-$5 is micropayments. Play any of the new EA games or D&D Online, you buy points then they deduct it. Even Xbox Live/PSN can be counted as micropayment systems.
Then you have iTunes, Amazon, etc with music, I've never seen anything for $0.05.
Actually, I don't think I've seen anything for sale for $0.05 in some time, on the net or in physical form. Even eBay sets a minimum at $0.99.
Well, that's total bullshit, because I have and can use everything without connecting to steam.
Thing is, your argument is based on nothing. Why would I use a digital download service if I have bad or no internet? Won't that mean I won't even be able to download anything? I mean, when games weigh in at 7-10GB each, a flaky connection isn't going to make it usable at all.
Your point is moot and just another ill informed troll comment.
He's not a US citizen. He's got damning information about their spying. He's about to release it.
His danger is not distant, I'd say it's sooner rather than later. Unfortunately he'll be targeted by some of the best equipped spies in the business... then again, they don't seem to be able to hold on to their data well enough to keep it out of Wikileaks, I think an assassination may be beyond them these days.
Same here. I've played FPS, MMOs, RTS pretty hardcore over the years, even been in competition teams, yet I still love my casual games. Anyone who suddenly changes their likes for a blog is a fairly shallow person indeed.
I'd say that the GP is the person who's blog they're trying to promote. This Sean person seems like someone who has never been good at games, but likes them. Nothing wrong with that, but you don't have to rag on the hardcore gaming market just to compensate.
Anyway, OT this should be so... 3DS seems like the best platform for 3D so far. Glasses free is how it always should be. There's no conspiracy there of Nintendo "actively seeking to destroy SCE", they don't like Sony, but it's not a destruction tack. Otherwise they wouldn't release bottom of the market gear, you know, opposite end of the spectrum to Sony.
I dislike Sony as much as the next person, but I know where their priorities and pricing is positioned. To dispute this would be to lie to yourself.
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You expect any less?
I'm starting to think it's the network the US use, as I do not have the same problems here in Australia. I suppose we'll all know in a few weeks if this software update is out.
Unfortunately linking a Gawker site ruins any credibility, funny, troll, or serious.
We all know it was Activision, after what Kotick did to Infinity Ward I wouldn't put anything past the fucktard.
He's destroying gaming brick by brick, and he knows it. All he cares about is how much money he makes, not any love of the games, industry or any altruistic reason. When someone comes out and says that a revenue stream for the company is it's lawyers, you have to think "do I really want to hand these guys my cash?". Worst thing is, that most don't think about that. The masses now game, so gaming companies care not for the culture, but for how many poor saps they can con into buying their products.
This story has done the rounds on many a gaming site and the general consensus is that it was Activision/Blizzard who stopped this massive tax break from happening.
I know I'm getting beyond TL;DR, but it's strange that a country trying to get out of recession would can a tax break that would have far reaching positive effects in the economy. I could only imagine how many development houses would gear up for major productions in the UK should this tax break go through. Then you see the trickle down effect give the economy a boost. It may not be as big as say opening a brand new copper mine, but it'll be a bigger shot in the arm than not allowing it to go through. The tax break would be offset no doubt by other taxes gathered from higher productivity.
The only reason to put a stop to this would be due to lobbying by a company (companies) that may be adversely effected by this. Maybe Activision are scared they may lose their top devs to new British start ups, maybe they'll lose them to already established British developers who can now afford more/better devs for bigger projects. It all makes sense. Then again, we'll never know. The new UK government is just as corrupt as the previous, and the next will be the same. As with all "developed" nations, the more money you have, the more you can corrupt the parliament.
They probably are, seeing as MS doesn't log conversations nor allow law enforcement to monitor conversations on MSN Messenger... Hotmail/MSN Mail is another story. Have a read of the instruction book for law enforcement that MS set up. It's freely available via Wikileaks.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Cryptome.org_takedown:_Microsoft_Global_Criminal_Compliance_Handbook,_24_Feb_2010
Tell me about it. I've worked for so many companies that use some of the worst interfacing on their internally developed applications that it's embarrassing to know customers have to look at it. Mostly I put it down to developers being used for interface design, rather than using people talented with both design and development (these kind of employees are expensive, cheaper to get an Indian on a work visa).
Unfortunately it's not going to change in an hurry, mainly due to IT companies being run by accountants rather than by tech gurus.
You shouldn't need a bonus to do your job.
The organisation is corrupt from the ground up, the only option is to remove patenting. Whenever you have companies with a lot of money trying to get an edge, you're going to get corruption. Whether is congress/parliament or a government agency that enforces the laws, this seems to be rife.
There's no way a sane person would allow patenting of 50 year old business practices.
I'm with iiNet myself, service quality, communication, and support are great. On naked DSL too, which is perfect for me.
Unfortunately with the copper to the cabinet services it's a bit of a lose lose situation, your line is longer and you're with Telstra technically. On street DSLAMs are much better as it's fibre to the cabinet and copper from there.
I live in inner city Melbourne, not quite as lucky as Brunswick (they get NBN coverage). You might want to take a look at the NBN site and see if your area is part of the trial. If it is, you can get NBN fibre by iiNet (not sure if Internode offers it too).
Uhh, best ISP in the country, not likely.
Telstra's speed and service are far from the best, maybe 10 years ago, but not now.
Technically, RIMs do NOT support ADSL, it's on street DSLAMs that support ADSL/ADSL2+. I might add that Telstra had their DSLAMs upgraded to ADSL2/2+ quite some time ago, long before it was offered by competitors. They refused to allow users access to the service until they saw fit, artificially limiting people's bandwidth claiming that they had no ADSL2+.
I say this as an ex-Telstra employee.
I assure you it's not that... it's 7pm here and I was expecting the same dammit.
i7 920, 6GB DDR3, HD 5750 on Windows 7.... yep, my computer.
I think you've missed the point. Physical limitations are only temporary. What's to say a Peltier chip can't be created with high energy efficiencies within the next few years? One that, say, can run on a mobile battery?
"The key to great robot cooking is to start with a good oil... and eat it" - Bender
That's what I was thinking myself. Why not just start again... it is, after all, a new game...
My thoughts too.
I personally don't mind ads in things like sport or racing games, they are already there in real life so it's not like it's too intrusive. This is just double dipping.
Or now Global Agenda... they just ditched their sub model due to player comments.
Not for everyone, but it's a non-fee based MMO.
Personally, as someone who played during the "keys to the city" event, I think APB is going to fail miserably. It's so glitchy that I wouldn't even pay for it - I even paid for Age of Conan after being in Beta because it wasn't THIS glitchy.
Their payment system really stinks, and to add in advertisements is just adding insult to injury. Good luck surviving your first year APB, doubt you will, but good luck with that one anyway. I know you won't have my money.
It all seems like a bit of a double up.
While I'm no fan of Telstra here in Australia, they have recently trialed LTE at 75km using Nokia Siemens Networks equipment.
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/215787,telstra-lte-trial-100-mbps-wireless-over-75km-cell.aspx
I know I'd prefer 100Mbps peak (88Mpbs average) over 2Mbps.
I've had almost the same problem in the past with an old DDR2/AMD machine. Clocked to full speed, it'd fall over repeatedly, clocked down it was fine. I took one of the RAM sticks out, ran fine at full speed.
I'm not sure why you'd want ECC ram in a desktop, unless it's some sort business critical machine that you're willing to spend 5 or 6 times what a normal desktop costs. For day to day use, ECC is overkill. You can get warranty on most chips for 1 to 3 years depending on the manufacturer, and if it's out of warranty, either buy a new machine or buy new ram. All in all, it'll cost more to run ECC due to the board required to effectively utilise the ECC capabilities. I'm not even sure some consumer boards are capable of taking ECC (ASRock and the like that come in cheap desktops).
As someone who has worked in support for 15 years, the troubleshooting shouldn't be "interesting", it's basic diagnosis. The idea that it was "cosmic radiation" is just, well, bullshit. Chips die, have manufacturing faults, or just get old. Nothing new here.
Yeh, I really don't get it myself.
Quick calculations, your average 1hr TV show would end up costing you around $500 000 if you didn't have a cap.
Why even research this technology? It's not like we weren't aware that SMS was capable of this, it is text after all. I see nothing of value in this research, I'm sure that someone with a bit of coding skills and access to a mobile could do this without much hassle.
I'm usually the first to say to people on slashdot that research is worthwhile, but this is really stupid. This won't do anything to relieve congestion at all, it will just shift it to SMSing. So your SMS to your loved one saying you'll be home 15 minutes late will arrive in a few hours.
Yeh, it seems like it will tank. It's so restricted that you'd not even consider it for your kids.
While paypal can be dickheads, at least they let you take cash out of your account.
Nah, $2-$5 is micropayments. Play any of the new EA games or D&D Online, you buy points then they deduct it. Even Xbox Live/PSN can be counted as micropayment systems.
Then you have iTunes, Amazon, etc with music, I've never seen anything for $0.05.
Actually, I don't think I've seen anything for sale for $0.05 in some time, on the net or in physical form. Even eBay sets a minimum at $0.99.
I have no idea where you got $0.05 from.
Tell that to my router... 20Mbps/1.3Mbps
Well, that's total bullshit, because I have and can use everything without connecting to steam.
Thing is, your argument is based on nothing. Why would I use a digital download service if I have bad or no internet? Won't that mean I won't even be able to download anything? I mean, when games weigh in at 7-10GB each, a flaky connection isn't going to make it usable at all.
Your point is moot and just another ill informed troll comment.
I'd say more his life is in danger.
He's not a US citizen.
He's got damning information about their spying.
He's about to release it.
His danger is not distant, I'd say it's sooner rather than later. Unfortunately he'll be targeted by some of the best equipped spies in the business... then again, they don't seem to be able to hold on to their data well enough to keep it out of Wikileaks, I think an assassination may be beyond them these days.
I don't think it's healthy to feed ducks cake...
Same here. I've played FPS, MMOs, RTS pretty hardcore over the years, even been in competition teams, yet I still love my casual games. Anyone who suddenly changes their likes for a blog is a fairly shallow person indeed.
I'd say that the GP is the person who's blog they're trying to promote. This Sean person seems like someone who has never been good at games, but likes them. Nothing wrong with that, but you don't have to rag on the hardcore gaming market just to compensate.
Anyway, OT this should be so... 3DS seems like the best platform for 3D so far. Glasses free is how it always should be. There's no conspiracy there of Nintendo "actively seeking to destroy SCE", they don't like Sony, but it's not a destruction tack. Otherwise they wouldn't release bottom of the market gear, you know, opposite end of the spectrum to Sony.
I dislike Sony as much as the next person, but I know where their priorities and pricing is positioned. To dispute this would be to lie to yourself.