Because no steam content is hosted locally. Right... ok, keep insulting me, you're really on a roll there, and it makes you look so good. Never mind that my complete complaint is that even if what you alledge is the case, why can't apple put "pending local approval" or similar in the store, instead of dangling something in front of you and denying it on the location of not your accound, but your credit card. So if I wanted to buy the game with a sa card while physically located in the states I should be able too. I understand governments can be thick, but I can't see a way apple comes out of this looking good. You certainly don't.
I do believe him, yes. He seems like an honest fellow, and I have a record of the conversation. Apple, is however, exactly that, a faceless corporation. Who did not care enough to respond to either myself, or the author (again, I choose to trust the author over some beurocratic and notorious corporation, perhaps simply because he was polite enough to respond). You alledging I am a liar is nothing more than an ad homien attack. I did make a best effort attempt to contact both, and I think it is totally reasonable to find in favour of the one who showed up to defend themselves.
For whatever reason, Apple chose to ignore his selection and then did not communicate why. So, I am quite happy not to believe apple apologists in this case.
I actually can and will. There is something called customer service. Difficult in a large company like apple/google, I understand. I have never had the need to query google, but if I do and they don't answer, like any reasonable consumer, I shall presume their guilt and take my business elsewhere.
The author said it was Apple, and that they were notorious for being uncommunicative. Apple did not ban it, and later (about 1.5 years) released it here. I was not inclined to wait around for them to decide. To be clear, my communications from Apple amounts to adverts they sent me.
The author's last email to me was as follows:
I'm afraid I still have no idea what is going on there. And, alas, Apple is notoriously uncommunicative about these things. I'm not sure there'll be anything I can do about it. Many apologies!
Why are you now attacking my or the Author's integrity? I smell a shill.
Given that the author replied and took it up with Apple, while my queries to Apple were ignored, I am inclined to disagree. If Apple had responded that it was unavailable because of x, or y or the author, I would have some way to say you may be correct. But given their silence to me, their customer, I must assume their guilt.
I specifically asked Jeff Vogel about this, and he said, no, it was only Apple. Apple did not respond to my query, so I must presume their guilt in the matter.
Not quite, specifically this was the game Avernum in South Africa. Not DRM or nudity or anything like that, just bloody-mindedness on apple's part. I could have pirated it, but I prefer to pay Jeff for his work.
I once bought an iPad. I did a lot of research on it - it had had the best graphics processor and best processor at the time. Solid construction, very nice hardware. I may have even been willing to live with the OS restrictions. The geographical limitations of me buying an app from the iStore killed it for me. I even went as far as to contact the app author, who said his hands were tied. Willing buyer, willing seller, some fcuked up bastards in the middle. I will never go back.
The horror! Won't somebody think of the mosquitos being genocided by killer robots !?
A warm fuzzy feeling inside. Not only because of killer robots and dying mosquitos, but because some idiot at PETA will be annoyed. My day is now complete.:P
I think that is a rather limited view. It may not be a religious system of thought, but it is based on various philosophies and systems of thought. Empiricism, naturalism, and so forth are subjects of belief, like it or not. If you dig deep enough, belief is at the bottom of everything.
Take a look at GuitarBots (guitarbots.com). They seem to have no label deals though so the selection of music might not be so good..
That is the big issue with this sort of thing. If you want to play music made in the last 100 years or so, the guys need a deal with the labels which is probably stupidly expensive.
I bought Rocksmith without proper research. The Uplay crap sort of works, but my word is it annoying. And they make you use their "special cable" (glorified USB sound card with a 1/4" jack for a guitar, and a non standard connector). So basically I now have two shitty antipiracy measures to contend with. The game itself isn't too bad, but if you don't have some experience, it might push you into some bad habits.
A harmonic gearbox will reduce the backlash on a servo to zero, but then it all depends how much money you have to spend.
To be honest, I am quite surprised they weren't already using encoders and feedback control. That and a small PID loop and you can even minimize overshoot. Or just have acceleration/deceleration profiles...
I was actually responding to the comment, 'Anything "gas" is inherently unsafe.' If you read my comment in that light, you will see what I'm getting a - by comparison, safety is more closely negatively related to energy density and the ability to quickly extract that energy. It isn't so critical exactly what form you store the energy in, though lithium batteries are fairly scary. As is petrol. Diesel is pretty good though.
As far as I can tell, drafting trucks is pretty idiotic all by itself. You can't see where you're going, and in order for it to help (if you're too far back the turbulence may make things worse) you're so close that if he slams on breaks or hits something, you die.
The real problem is energy density. Almost anything with a reasonably high energy density is inherently unsafe, as most substances like that can (often by design) release that energy rapidly enough to be dangerous. Life is inherently unsafe. That new battery technology? That's going to be dangerous too.
There are no spitfires in that list, because the spitfire (and hurricane, and FW-190, Zero, etc) were all highly successful aircraft. However, they were not adaptable for general purpose aviation, hence they no longer fly outside of airshows/rich enthusiasts.
I just think it is a pity that eventually we may run out of merlins to power these things. I would love to see that restored mosquito fly. That was an amazing aircraft.
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Because no steam content is hosted locally. Right... ok, keep insulting me, you're really on a roll there, and it makes you look so good. Never mind that my complete complaint is that even if what you alledge is the case, why can't apple put "pending local approval" or similar in the store, instead of dangling something in front of you and denying it on the location of not your accound, but your credit card. So if I wanted to buy the game with a sa card while physically located in the states I should be able too. I understand governments can be thick, but I can't see a way apple comes out of this looking good. You certainly don't.
Oh, right. That would naturally explain why it was available on steam at the time. I stand corrected....
This incident happened over a year ago. The app was at the time unavailable.
I do believe him, yes. He seems like an honest fellow, and I have a record of the conversation. Apple, is however, exactly that, a faceless corporation. Who did not care enough to respond to either myself, or the author (again, I choose to trust the author over some beurocratic and notorious corporation, perhaps simply because he was polite enough to respond). You alledging I am a liar is nothing more than an ad homien attack. I did make a best effort attempt to contact both, and I think it is totally reasonable to find in favour of the one who showed up to defend themselves.
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For whatever reason, Apple chose to ignore his selection and then did not communicate why. So, I am quite happy not to believe apple apologists in this case.
And yet the author insisted he had selected all regions/countries. I am inclined to believe him, given my communications with him. Apple's guilt.
The author claims he did. Apple did not comment.
I actually can and will. There is something called customer service. Difficult in a large company like apple/google, I understand. I have never had the need to query google, but if I do and they don't answer, like any reasonable consumer, I shall presume their guilt and take my business elsewhere.
The author said it was Apple, and that they were notorious for being uncommunicative. Apple did not ban it, and later (about 1.5 years) released it here. I was not inclined to wait around for them to decide. To be clear, my communications from Apple amounts to adverts they sent me.
The author's last email to me was as follows:
I'm afraid I still have no idea what is going on there. And, alas, Apple is notoriously uncommunicative about these things. I'm not sure there'll be anything I can do about it. Many apologies!
Why are you now attacking my or the Author's integrity? I smell a shill.
Given that the author replied and took it up with Apple, while my queries to Apple were ignored, I am inclined to disagree. If Apple had responded that it was unavailable because of x, or y or the author, I would have some way to say you may be correct. But given their silence to me, their customer, I must assume their guilt.
I almost did, but I got an android and payed him through google play. I considered this, but I was simply pissed off at the time.
Pity my credit card was geolocated in South Africa.
I specifically asked Jeff Vogel about this, and he said, no, it was only Apple. Apple did not respond to my query, so I must presume their guilt in the matter.
Not quite, specifically this was the game Avernum in South Africa. Not DRM or nudity or anything like that, just bloody-mindedness on apple's part. I could have pirated it, but I prefer to pay Jeff for his work.
I once bought an iPad. I did a lot of research on it - it had had the best graphics processor and best processor at the time. Solid construction, very nice hardware. I may have even been willing to live with the OS restrictions. The geographical limitations of me buying an app from the iStore killed it for me. I even went as far as to contact the app author, who said his hands were tied. Willing buyer, willing seller, some fcuked up bastards in the middle. I will never go back.
Gave it to my dad. Works well for him though.
The horror! Won't somebody think of the mosquitos being genocided by killer robots !?
A warm fuzzy feeling inside. Not only because of killer robots and dying mosquitos, but because some idiot at PETA will be annoyed. My day is now complete. :P
I think that is a rather limited view. It may not be a religious system of thought, but it is based on various philosophies and systems of thought. Empiricism, naturalism, and so forth are subjects of belief, like it or not. If you dig deep enough, belief is at the bottom of everything.
A Project Euler kernel module would be an interesting way to solve some of those...
Take a look at GuitarBots (guitarbots.com). They seem to have no label deals though so the selection of music might not be so good..
That is the big issue with this sort of thing. If you want to play music made in the last 100 years or so, the guys need a deal with the labels which is probably stupidly expensive.
I bought Rocksmith without proper research. The Uplay crap sort of works, but my word is it annoying. And they make you use their "special cable" (glorified USB sound card with a 1/4" jack for a guitar, and a non standard connector). So basically I now have two shitty antipiracy measures to contend with. The game itself isn't too bad, but if you don't have some experience, it might push you into some bad habits.
I am not buying another ubisoft game. Ever.
A harmonic gearbox will reduce the backlash on a servo to zero, but then it all depends how much money you have to spend.
To be honest, I am quite surprised they weren't already using encoders and feedback control. That and a small PID loop and you can even minimize overshoot. Or just have acceleration/deceleration profiles...
I was actually responding to the comment, 'Anything "gas" is inherently unsafe.' If you read my comment in that light, you will see what I'm getting a - by comparison, safety is more closely negatively related to energy density and the ability to quickly extract that energy. It isn't so critical exactly what form you store the energy in, though lithium batteries are fairly scary. As is petrol. Diesel is pretty good though.
As far as I can tell, drafting trucks is pretty idiotic all by itself. You can't see where you're going, and in order for it to help (if you're too far back the turbulence may make things worse) you're so close that if he slams on breaks or hits something, you die.
The real problem is energy density. Almost anything with a reasonably high energy density is inherently unsafe, as most substances like that can (often by design) release that energy rapidly enough to be dangerous. Life is inherently unsafe. That new battery technology? That's going to be dangerous too.
There are no spitfires in that list, because the spitfire (and hurricane, and FW-190, Zero, etc) were all highly successful aircraft. However, they were not adaptable for general purpose aviation, hence they no longer fly outside of airshows/rich enthusiasts.
I just think it is a pity that eventually we may run out of merlins to power these things. I would love to see that restored mosquito fly. That was an amazing aircraft.