He introduces bogus issues of "trust" and "conflict of interest" and you can't see the FUD, aka absurd claims? He can't cite ANY case where Steam and Valve have collaborated to screw a publisher. NOT ONE.
Then, while he's bemoaning the "lack of competition" in the industry, he notes that Microsoft has some digital distribution service. Which is it? Does Steam have competition or not?
(The answer is yes...but the competitors just can't measure up)
He's entitled to his opinion as you are to yours. Spreading FUD earns him no points in the industry and hopefully, costs him customers.
Pushing for more competition is good. When Amazon dove into MP3 space, a lot of things started changing with Apple's iTMS. Competition is good. Attacking Steam over absurd and bogus claims of trust and anti-competitiveness is just wrong.
I said infrastructure, not hardware. The hardware is cheap. Thank Dell for that. Paying for the multiple servers at multiple providers (for redundancy), paying for the multiple links to multiple providers (again for redundancy), and paying for the resulting Internet baggage is where the money adds up.
Sure, you can buy a colo server from some no-name provider in the US or EU. Good luck dealing with them when your server dies. Good luck when TAT-14 (cable between US and EU) takes a hit and suddenly a good portion of Internet users can't access your site.
News orgs and blogger sites are often rated on how long they take to break a story. Instead of focusing on the content, they are focused on getting the latest infonugget out to as many eyeballs as possible. That just seems wrong. The old adage about "it's easier to print a bogus story now and a correction later than wait for confirmation" applies more and more to the news media.
Yahoo, always a favorite punching bag, got roasted over the Iranian story and it turns out to be FALSE? Outrageous. What can they do? Sue some blog site? Go after people spreading the bogus story? They would end up throwing good money away chasing ghosts.
This isn't the first time either. There are bogus press releases announcing a new product or detrimental story about a company. The company's stock tanks...then someone does some basic research behind the PR to discover that it is 100% bogus.
If we can't trust the newsmedia to deliver facts, who can we trust? Joe Blogger?
Attacking Steam won't earn you points here...or in the gamer community. Steam is fact now.
To introduce these "trust" and "anti-competitive" perceptions regarding Steam then provide not a SINGLE, SOLITARY fact to support such absurd claims makes you a piece of FUD. Talking in vague terms like "perceptions" and "angles of industry". You should be ashamed of yourself. Your initial article and this half-baked follow-up are nothing but a third-rate attempt at passing off FUD as fact. Slashdot isn't fooled by it. Neither am I.
Competition is good. Others have tried game distribution. They have failed. Steam gets it right time and time again. Attacking them because you don't want to pay some percentage for distribution is both dishonest and sleazy.
Paying for the infrastructure to support that 3GB/customer download (with some downloading multiple times) is a heck of a lot more expensive than just shipping out some discs.
There is a "reasonable man" test here. The hosting company was approached by the manufacturer of said bags. The manufacturer, who can speak authoritatively about the bags, complained about a hosting company's customer selling fakes. The hosting company need only look at the website to confirm. Instead they ignored the problem. They got what they deserved.
Using your example, the bank would, or should ask you questions about the alleged fraud. When they find out you're a kook, they hang up on you.
7 times as much DRM! 7 times better than Vista! 7 dollars (US) cheaper than XP!... PROFIT... damnit, wrong meme.... In Soviet Russia, 7 owns you.... Ok, I'll put down the bottle.
The Kindle2 and Kindle DX have Internet access. In fact, I'm using mine to correct your inaccurate statements right now. Oh, and my Internet access over Kindle is free. How much did you pay for yours?:P
As for that "purposely limiting" BS, would you wipe your arse with your mobile phone? No? Then why would you want the Kindle to become a full-fledged computer? Most netbooks have battery lives measured in hours. Kindle's battery life is measured in weeks. Most netbooks have to sit on something. The Kindle fits in your hand and is light enough to be carried all day long without strain.
The Kindle is an e-book reader with some helpful Internet features. It does its job well. Trying to turn it into something just so you can "see the logic" is silly.
Where did this censorship policy originate? And where was it when people were being kidnapped on a daily basis in Iraq? Daniel Berg? The Christian Science Monitor lady? The media outlets were practically tripping over themselves to report every detail -- and feed airtime to the kidnappers -- yet one of their own gets nabbed and now the policy is "stfu so our guy doesn't get hurt" ?
Un-friggin-real.
Of course, now that the media outlets have revealed their little secret, you can bet the terrorists will take counter-measures. This trick only works once.
This is absurd. Tom Clancy had a "9/11" scenario in one of his books...in the early 90s. Only, in the book, the bad guy flew the plane into the Capital...during a major event.
I don't even read comics but I'm damn sure gonna buy this series now.
*raises hand*
Between the Martian pics, Hubble, and APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day), we have enough pictures to last a lifetime...or at least until Microsoft starts charges us to change wallpaper. Hohoho.
Such an amazing project, those little rovers are. With an planned life span of 90 days, they have now been running since...oh...2003? Wonderful work, NASA. Please keep the pictures and the science flowing. Can you imagine how long that data takes to get from Earth to Mars?
Or what about the communication path from the rovers to NASA? They use the Mars Odyssey or Mars Global Surveyor. Check this out. The rovers have a 250kbps link to those satellites. Unreal. Even with the satellite use, the data still takes TEN minutes to get to Earth.
If Google had read Google News, they would have known about MJs death. But Google didn't and thought they were being attacked...which led them to shutdown their news site...which would have told them about MJ.
Who hired them and how long do you think they will last at Microsoft? hohoho
Ok, being serious. It makes sense. With Time Warner slapping draconian download caps on those poor people in Texas, a USB flash drive for OS distribution in a growing netbook market shows some...slight...thinking ahead of the curve. Can you imagine the ire of not only having to download a 3.5GB OS onto a netbook but if you actually run over your cap and get charged EXTRA for it? Oh man. I would shoot my netbook.
Kudos to whomever pulled this rabbit out of the hat.
Quoted in its entirety for being so damned spot-on...
I'm not going to go into the story: it's convoluted, but frankly its really not the key to this movie: this is a roller coaster movie with new actors playing parts we love.
Can someone please explain to me how this is NOT a failure?
Star Trek was always known for its strong story telling. Sure, it was sometimes campy and over the top. But the series was built on story. The action was just the frosting.
That was something that Berman never realized. He kept playing down the story in exchange for more action, more outlandish events, more of that adrenaline squeeze. Except that he was bad at it. I mean, really, really bad. Stinking up the screen bad. (Hey look: MACOs! Amazing how those guys never got any screen time, isn't it? Or how about the time Riker used a joystick to save the day? I know, let's have Picard fight himself! Or put 7 of 9 in a fight pit with a WWE wrestler! Yeah, those were great times. *cough*)
Now you're telling me that JJ doesn't suck at it. Therefore it's okay to finish tearing apart the foundations of Star Trek because at least it was a fun ride. Right?
Star Trek stood on its own two feet for 40 years. It was challenged by the networks, challenged by the box office, and challenged by its own actors. Yet the concept survived and is cherished by its fans. The core idea of a better future painted on the rich tapestry of space travel is not something to be ignored. It's something to protect, grow, and find ways to adapt to the changing times. After all, is there any better time to shout out this message than when things seem the darkest?
Instead we have a summer blockbuster. And like all summer blockbusters, it will be forgotten by next summer. It is a sad day for Roddenberry's vision of the future.
Please save our franchise. Are you available to direct the next Star Trek movie???????????
"(If I recall correctly)"
"Of course that's just how I remember the whole thing. I never visit the AdBlock Plus page and I am deliberately blind to most ads anyway."
So, your entire post was based on a guess? You don't have any direct experience with AdBlock either? Are you kidding me? Why are you posting again?
Slashdot Mirror
Ask bitbucket about Amazon S3. Bitbucket got DoS'ed off the 'net for almost a day.
No, I'm not providing a link. Go google it.
He introduces bogus issues of "trust" and "conflict of interest" and you can't see the FUD, aka absurd claims? He can't cite ANY case where Steam and Valve have collaborated to screw a publisher. NOT ONE.
Then, while he's bemoaning the "lack of competition" in the industry, he notes that Microsoft has some digital distribution service. Which is it? Does Steam have competition or not?
(The answer is yes...but the competitors just can't measure up)
He's entitled to his opinion as you are to yours. Spreading FUD earns him no points in the industry and hopefully, costs him customers.
Pushing for more competition is good. When Amazon dove into MP3 space, a lot of things started changing with Apple's iTMS. Competition is good. Attacking Steam over absurd and bogus claims of trust and anti-competitiveness is just wrong.
Hope you enjoy the game.
I said infrastructure, not hardware. The hardware is cheap. Thank Dell for that. Paying for the multiple servers at multiple providers (for redundancy), paying for the multiple links to multiple providers (again for redundancy), and paying for the resulting Internet baggage is where the money adds up.
Sure, you can buy a colo server from some no-name provider in the US or EU. Good luck dealing with them when your server dies. Good luck when TAT-14 (cable between US and EU) takes a hit and suddenly a good portion of Internet users can't access your site.
News orgs and blogger sites are often rated on how long they take to break a story. Instead of focusing on the content, they are focused on getting the latest infonugget out to as many eyeballs as possible. That just seems wrong. The old adage about "it's easier to print a bogus story now and a correction later than wait for confirmation" applies more and more to the news media.
Yahoo, always a favorite punching bag, got roasted over the Iranian story and it turns out to be FALSE? Outrageous. What can they do? Sue some blog site? Go after people spreading the bogus story? They would end up throwing good money away chasing ghosts.
This isn't the first time either. There are bogus press releases announcing a new product or detrimental story about a company. The company's stock tanks...then someone does some basic research behind the PR to discover that it is 100% bogus.
If we can't trust the newsmedia to deliver facts, who can we trust? Joe Blogger?
What a crock.
Attacking Steam won't earn you points here...or in the gamer community. Steam is fact now.
To introduce these "trust" and "anti-competitive" perceptions regarding Steam then provide not a SINGLE, SOLITARY fact to support such absurd claims makes you a piece of FUD. Talking in vague terms like "perceptions" and "angles of industry". You should be ashamed of yourself. Your initial article and this half-baked follow-up are nothing but a third-rate attempt at passing off FUD as fact. Slashdot isn't fooled by it. Neither am I.
Competition is good. Others have tried game distribution. They have failed. Steam gets it right time and time again. Attacking them because you don't want to pay some percentage for distribution is both dishonest and sleazy.
In closing, I will not be purchasing your game.
I'll take your $17 and ship you not one, but TWO discs filled with amazing non-Vista software!
Paying for the infrastructure to support that 3GB/customer download (with some downloading multiple times) is a heck of a lot more expensive than just shipping out some discs.
Shipping discs is the cheaper option here.
So, Google Frame upgrades the engines...on the Titanic?
We don't need no stinkin Mr. Rogers running our servers. Go sell nice someplace else.
Doesn't even come close to being comparable. The OP is about a civil case. Different rules apply.
There is a "reasonable man" test here. The hosting company was approached by the manufacturer of said bags. The manufacturer, who can speak authoritatively about the bags, complained about a hosting company's customer selling fakes. The hosting company need only look at the website to confirm. Instead they ignored the problem. They got what they deserved.
Using your example, the bank would, or should ask you questions about the alleged fraud. When they find out you're a kook, they hang up on you.
So?
7 times as much DRM! ... ... ... ...
7 times better than Vista!
7 dollars (US) cheaper than XP!
PROFIT
damnit, wrong meme.
In Soviet Russia, 7 owns you.
Ok, I'll put down the bottle.
Clearly you haven't used a Kindle...
:P
The Kindle2 and Kindle DX have Internet access. In fact, I'm using mine to correct your inaccurate statements right now. Oh, and my Internet access over Kindle is free. How much did you pay for yours?
As for that "purposely limiting" BS, would you wipe your arse with your mobile phone? No? Then why would you want the Kindle to become a full-fledged computer? Most netbooks have battery lives measured in hours. Kindle's battery life is measured in weeks. Most netbooks have to sit on something. The Kindle fits in your hand and is light enough to be carried all day long without strain.
The Kindle is an e-book reader with some helpful Internet features. It does its job well. Trying to turn it into something just so you can "see the logic" is silly.
Where did this censorship policy originate? And where was it when people were being kidnapped on a daily basis in Iraq? Daniel Berg? The Christian Science Monitor lady? The media outlets were practically tripping over themselves to report every detail -- and feed airtime to the kidnappers -- yet one of their own gets nabbed and now the policy is "stfu so our guy doesn't get hurt" ?
Un-friggin-real.
Of course, now that the media outlets have revealed their little secret, you can bet the terrorists will take counter-measures. This trick only works once.
Thanks for the movie tip! Will give it a look. Alan Rickman is a brilliant actor...he even died brilliantly in Die Hard. lol
This is absurd. Tom Clancy had a "9/11" scenario in one of his books...in the early 90s. Only, in the book, the bad guy flew the plane into the Capital...during a major event.
I don't even read comics but I'm damn sure gonna buy this series now.
*raises hand*
Between the Martian pics, Hubble, and APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day), we have enough pictures to last a lifetime...or at least until Microsoft starts charges us to change wallpaper. Hohoho.
Good point. A 90 day guarantee...that has lasted 6+ years. Wish I could get the same for my next laptop.
Such an amazing project, those little rovers are. With an planned life span of 90 days, they have now been running since...oh...2003? Wonderful work, NASA. Please keep the pictures and the science flowing. Can you imagine how long that data takes to get from Earth to Mars?
Or what about the communication path from the rovers to NASA? They use the Mars Odyssey or Mars Global Surveyor. Check this out. The rovers have a 250kbps link to those satellites. Unreal. Even with the satellite use, the data still takes TEN minutes to get to Earth.
This stuff is awesome. Just awesome.
This is all so confusing!
If Google had read Google News, they would have known about MJs death. But Google didn't and thought they were being attacked...which led them to shutdown their news site...which would have told them about MJ.
What if this had happened in Soviet Russia?
Who hired them and how long do you think they will last at Microsoft? hohoho
Ok, being serious. It makes sense. With Time Warner slapping draconian download caps on those poor people in Texas, a USB flash drive for OS distribution in a growing netbook market shows some...slight...thinking ahead of the curve. Can you imagine the ire of not only having to download a 3.5GB OS onto a netbook but if you actually run over your cap and get charged EXTRA for it? Oh man. I would shoot my netbook.
Kudos to whomever pulled this rabbit out of the hat.
Can someone please explain to me how this is NOT a failure?
Star Trek was always known for its strong story telling. Sure, it was sometimes campy and over the top. But the series was built on story. The action was just the frosting.
That was something that Berman never realized. He kept playing down the story in exchange for more action, more outlandish events, more of that adrenaline squeeze. Except that he was bad at it. I mean, really, really bad. Stinking up the screen bad. (Hey look: MACOs! Amazing how those guys never got any screen time, isn't it? Or how about the time Riker used a joystick to save the day? I know, let's have Picard fight himself! Or put 7 of 9 in a fight pit with a WWE wrestler! Yeah, those were great times. *cough*)
Now you're telling me that JJ doesn't suck at it. Therefore it's okay to finish tearing apart the foundations of Star Trek because at least it was a fun ride. Right?
Star Trek stood on its own two feet for 40 years. It was challenged by the networks, challenged by the box office, and challenged by its own actors. Yet the concept survived and is cherished by its fans. The core idea of a better future painted on the rich tapestry of space travel is not something to be ignored. It's something to protect, grow, and find ways to adapt to the changing times. After all, is there any better time to shout out this message than when things seem the darkest?
Instead we have a summer blockbuster. And like all summer blockbusters, it will be forgotten by next summer. It is a sad day for Roddenberry's vision of the future.
Please save our franchise. Are you available to direct the next Star Trek movie???????????
"(If I recall correctly)"
"Of course that's just how I remember the whole thing. I never visit the AdBlock Plus page and I am deliberately blind to most ads anyway."
So, your entire post was based on a guess? You don't have any direct experience with AdBlock either? Are you kidding me? Why are you posting again?
"I must admit I don't have much expertise in this area. I've never used either Adblock or Noscript."
You should have stopped right there.