I suspect your opinion is formed on the basis of opinions of some people that simply do not have any understanding of the actual legal facts on the ground in either country. Your mentioning of Texas for example suggests that you have an opinion that Texas has a legal right to secede from US - a fairly common misconception about that particular state held in certain strata of society. It does not in fact have such a right, as it would be unconstitutional, as states do not have a legal right to secede from USA, unlike member countries of United Kingdom. In fact the only way it could possibly do that, is to have a pan-US vote on the issue, which would be very difficult to organise, and would almost certainly result in a rejection.
As a point of comparison, Scotland is setting a referendum in a few years, and all it needs for approval is majority of the residents of Scotland - rest of the Union has no say.
There are similar differences in legal, financial, linguistic, cultural and other aspects of society.
Crown dependencies are on the other hand not members of the Union, so they obviously don't count in the first place. Not certain why you chose to drag them into this.
SSD do much better when mated to a highly optimized controller that does a lot of background work tailored specifically to flash memory. OS has no idea about any of that - it just has some basic cache management and TRIM. It probably wouldn't either - this stuff is typically trade secret and the reason why SSD controllers are so important for performance of the drive.
Do you even understand what United Kingdom is? It's a union of four nations. There is no "federation" in there. It's a union of nations of England, Scotland, Wales and North Ireland.
These nations have far, FAR more independence than any state area in a federation would dream of.
And in perfect world a non-profit, probably government-financed organisation would build those and then lease them to private companies. That way no one has the stranglehold on competition and private business can actually flourish instead of being strangled by private monopolies with power to bully everyone, including law makers into doing what they want to be done.
As has been pointed out, that's likely because the new players that are needed to clog the servers never came.
There are two ways of doing a smooth launch. You can prepare enough servers and test them severely before hand, or you can mess your game so badly that people don't come back to play expansions.
That's probably because there weren't that many new players coming to play it, unlike launch of D3, where everyone was expecting an awesome game and it sold millions in a very short time frame.
If you're a fan of D2, consider trying path of exile. It's always online but it's free to play because of it, and they only sell cosmetics and nothing else to finance the game.
Of course they aren't. Most Turks are rural people. Their main concerns are purity of Islam in Turkey and next crop season.
Euronews just aired a clip on pro-Erdogan demo, people were shown as saying to camera that Ergodan hasn't gone far enough, and that he should ban the entire internet in the country if "they continue to insult our prime minister".
When you control law enforcement, it's pretty easy to terminate any domestic sources. And as China has shown, it's not difficult at all to "erase a service from internet". The tiny minority that knows how to circumvent the measures is irrelevant, as your target is the masses.
Pointing a phone at faces is considered rude in many cultures specifically because it implies you're taking pictures. Vast majority of people who use phones point the camera at a downward angle, so all it could take pictures of is people's feet.
I'd go even further. Because of this focus on amount of pixels rather than quality, we're not getting quality content. Modern mobile GPUs could probably push PS3/XB360 quality graphics at 480-720p. We could have had a controller-like phone holder and play previous gen console games on the phones if not for this fetish.
Instead all you get is crap like angry birds, flappy bird and so on. Deus Ex game mobile game was so terrible, it wasn't even funny, and it really, REALLY tried to push the envelope as much as possible with the format - it looked worse than most PS2 games. It's essentially impossible to make a good looking game on mobile today, because if you're going to support the native resolution, you have to make graphics quality awful to make mobile GPU able to play it.
It would be awesome if 480p or 720p would the most popular resolution, GPUs would continue to grow in power and we would have xb360/PS3 games ported to phones because there would actually be enough power to run them without massive changes.
That is false. You are thinking old people, who with time lose ability to hear higher frequency sounds. Average adults can often hear higher frequencies, and young people can hear even higher ones.
I still remember a case of walking around a certain field in the countryside with an old relative and he was complaining about the fact that there used to be a lot of grasshoppers in this place and now the environmental pollution killed them all since it's all quiet. At the same time, grasshopper noises where everywhere. I didn't have the heart to tell him that it's just his age and his reduced ability to hear higher frequency sounds.
Yet all of the major Western powers are guilty of this. Are we all insane? And when you live in the world full of insane murderers, what good is it to be the only sane person?
As for your strange quip, "subject" is a legal term used to describe those citizens who are subject to laws of the land in certain languages. Russians tend to use very formal language on governmental level. The english term is used in the same way in UK. Essentially you're bitching about a cultural difference, but misattribute it to Putin himself.
Bad news. Putin is not insane. That is the dumb propaganda line meant for the ignorant or those who like to believe that world is simple, and that anyone who has an opposing point of view can only be "insane".
He's logical leader who believes first and foremost in his national interest. We have a lot of same kind of leaders, through they are generally much weaker and less capable of strategic calculations that Putin. As a result, there's absolutely nothing against someone like Bush starting a world war three because he thinks Russia won't reciprocate in kind.
Most phones nowadays use it because it became obvious that EU would mandate it if everyone didn't play ball a few years ago. Before it, manufacturers were making a mint off chargers.
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I suspect your opinion is formed on the basis of opinions of some people that simply do not have any understanding of the actual legal facts on the ground in either country. Your mentioning of Texas for example suggests that you have an opinion that Texas has a legal right to secede from US - a fairly common misconception about that particular state held in certain strata of society. It does not in fact have such a right, as it would be unconstitutional, as states do not have a legal right to secede from USA, unlike member countries of United Kingdom. In fact the only way it could possibly do that, is to have a pan-US vote on the issue, which would be very difficult to organise, and would almost certainly result in a rejection.
As a point of comparison, Scotland is setting a referendum in a few years, and all it needs for approval is majority of the residents of Scotland - rest of the Union has no say.
There are similar differences in legal, financial, linguistic, cultural and other aspects of society.
Crown dependencies are on the other hand not members of the Union, so they obviously don't count in the first place. Not certain why you chose to drag them into this.
SSD do much better when mated to a highly optimized controller that does a lot of background work tailored specifically to flash memory. OS has no idea about any of that - it just has some basic cache management and TRIM. It probably wouldn't either - this stuff is typically trade secret and the reason why SSD controllers are so important for performance of the drive.
Federal in United Kingdom?
What?
Do you even understand what United Kingdom is? It's a union of four nations. There is no "federation" in there. It's a union of nations of England, Scotland, Wales and North Ireland.
These nations have far, FAR more independence than any state area in a federation would dream of.
Correct. They should. At the fair price.
And in perfect world a non-profit, probably government-financed organisation would build those and then lease them to private companies. That way no one has the stranglehold on competition and private business can actually flourish instead of being strangled by private monopolies with power to bully everyone, including law makers into doing what they want to be done.
Most likely they interrogated Snowden on the issue and got all his source materials.
As has been pointed out, that's likely because the new players that are needed to clog the servers never came.
There are two ways of doing a smooth launch. You can prepare enough servers and test them severely before hand, or you can mess your game so badly that people don't come back to play expansions.
That's probably because there weren't that many new players coming to play it, unlike launch of D3, where everyone was expecting an awesome game and it sold millions in a very short time frame.
If you're a fan of D2, consider trying path of exile. It's always online but it's free to play because of it, and they only sell cosmetics and nothing else to finance the game.
So costs you nothing to try it.
Because PoE is free, and requiring online connection is their business model to keep it free.
Diablo is pay to buy, and until recently also pay to win on top of that. All while requiring online connection specifically to facilitate pay to win.
And yet, they sold out to facebook. Right after Sony demo.
Which suggests that's situation isn't nearly as rosy.
Except that Sony has working demo units, exactly the same thing as Oculus VR.
Of course they aren't. Most Turks are rural people. Their main concerns are purity of Islam in Turkey and next crop season.
Euronews just aired a clip on pro-Erdogan demo, people were shown as saying to camera that Ergodan hasn't gone far enough, and that he should ban the entire internet in the country if "they continue to insult our prime minister".
Developing IT infrastructure is and extensive process.
Cloning it after it's been developed is cheap and fast.
When you control law enforcement, it's pretty easy to terminate any domestic sources. And as China has shown, it's not difficult at all to "erase a service from internet". The tiny minority that knows how to circumvent the measures is irrelevant, as your target is the masses.
You appear to be under a naive misunderstanding that ignorant masses are something that elite does not want.
This opinion is in a direct conflict with all known human history.
Pointing a phone at faces is considered rude in many cultures specifically because it implies you're taking pictures. Vast majority of people who use phones point the camera at a downward angle, so all it could take pictures of is people's feet.
But I have to cut it first sir!
I'd go even further. Because of this focus on amount of pixels rather than quality, we're not getting quality content. Modern mobile GPUs could probably push PS3/XB360 quality graphics at 480-720p. We could have had a controller-like phone holder and play previous gen console games on the phones if not for this fetish.
Instead all you get is crap like angry birds, flappy bird and so on. Deus Ex game mobile game was so terrible, it wasn't even funny, and it really, REALLY tried to push the envelope as much as possible with the format - it looked worse than most PS2 games. It's essentially impossible to make a good looking game on mobile today, because if you're going to support the native resolution, you have to make graphics quality awful to make mobile GPU able to play it.
It would be awesome if 480p or 720p would the most popular resolution, GPUs would continue to grow in power and we would have xb360/PS3 games ported to phones because there would actually be enough power to run them without massive changes.
Unfortunately, not for a phone with this kind of a screen.
That is false. You are thinking old people, who with time lose ability to hear higher frequency sounds. Average adults can often hear higher frequencies, and young people can hear even higher ones.
I still remember a case of walking around a certain field in the countryside with an old relative and he was complaining about the fact that there used to be a lot of grasshoppers in this place and now the environmental pollution killed them all since it's all quiet. At the same time, grasshopper noises where everywhere. I didn't have the heart to tell him that it's just his age and his reduced ability to hear higher frequency sounds.
Yet all of the major Western powers are guilty of this. Are we all insane? And when you live in the world full of insane murderers, what good is it to be the only sane person?
As for your strange quip, "subject" is a legal term used to describe those citizens who are subject to laws of the land in certain languages. Russians tend to use very formal language on governmental level. The english term is used in the same way in UK. Essentially you're bitching about a cultural difference, but misattribute it to Putin himself.
Here is an example of the usage of the term:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Doesn't matter. They are our stooges. We will stand by them.
Bad news. Putin is not insane. That is the dumb propaganda line meant for the ignorant or those who like to believe that world is simple, and that anyone who has an opposing point of view can only be "insane".
He's logical leader who believes first and foremost in his national interest. We have a lot of same kind of leaders, through they are generally much weaker and less capable of strategic calculations that Putin. As a result, there's absolutely nothing against someone like Bush starting a world war three because he thinks Russia won't reciprocate in kind.
Would you like a picture of my nice nokia 5230 I still use to date?
Most phones nowadays use it because it became obvious that EU would mandate it if everyone didn't play ball a few years ago. Before it, manufacturers were making a mint off chargers.