No I'm just saying Valve didn't say "Ok you guess it, you're right, now we don't have to spend a million dollars on a marketing campaign." Because, well, that would be a tad anti-climatic.
way too much work dealing with torrents. I have over the last couple of years setup a fairly good automated system for nightly builds on all platforms. I just let it do its thing then test them to make sure they work and then type in a build# and a stupid comment and the site does all the work for me. As far as bandwidth is has pretty much topped out at about 1.5TB per month so its not so bad. I have an unlimited account [which is actually limited to about 3TB per month] so I am not hurting:) And people like being able to download the bins without having to deal with a bunch of crap. It also allows me to open some API's up that let other projects use my builds so it benefits all:)
I normally keep the last 100 builds online. TeamXBMC does the stables:P. It REALLY depends on the day as to whether they are stable enough for production use. Right now? Not so much. Well it depends on the platform. Xbox is not getting any of the crazy stuff that is going into the other branches for obvious reasons. And right now Arnova is pretty much chillin on updates [usually about once a week] so even though it gets built nightly, it doesn't get changed nearly as much as the other branches, so yeah. It is pretty much always stable enough for every day usage. phew
Eventually he and I will merge our builds but for now My builds now are totally vanilla. no changes from svn at all. t3ch updater should be able to pull my builds as well now so its all good there. Most updater scripts now have options to pull from my builds. After r28000 everything went to hell though and as of r30621 scrapers are still an issue. Actually all addons are an issue. No scripts/addons/skins writen for post 28000 will work on these new builds. I'm doing my best to fix/mod most of the skins I have onsite and adding scripts as they come through to allow people to fully utilize the newer svn builds and for the last few months it has been really touch and go. Last few builds are shaping up well though and at least TvDB scraper is working again:) It's something at least:)
grrr. i should not type after being up for 37 hours. The total download count is also from Nov.7.2009 so that is nearly a million downloads in 6 months. No wonder my host had a cow.
Still drives me crazy. XBMC means XBox Media Center. XBMC Media Center is like Windows NT Built on New Technology just way too much redundancy. They had to pretty much change the name to start distancing themselves [the devs] from the grey area that is XDK. I have personally built almost 800 builds now over the last 2 years on my binaries site [google XBMC nightly SVN. And whilst not a 10 ten site by any means I am freaked out every day on just how many people download XBMC 4 Xbox. In the last 14 months almost 950,000 downloads [all branches] of that XBMC 4 Xbox has been downloaded almost 90,000 times since 11/7/09[US] which is amazing considering this poor little old box has been around now for about 9 years now. It refuses to die:)
We have been working on taking over the xbox branch for the last couple of months. http://www.xbmc4xbox.org/ so if you feel you can help head on over. We still have tons of work to do but it's getting really close to being back on track with continued development.
This is bad news for one reason. Competition. There are only 2 major players in discreet graphics right now and that is horrible for the consumer. Now the good. Intel SUCKS at making gpus. I mean seriously. So either way Intel has no hope of making a 120 core GPU based off of x86 being cheap or fast enough to compete. Go big or stay at home. Intel stay at home.
Except you can now download Visual Studio Express that pretty much compiles anything writtin in the full version of VS and its free. http://www.microsoft.com/express/downloads/ so even that is a mute argument.
Asking for cites is trolling now? No wonder there is so much bullshit here and so little truth.
So slashdot is now to become slashwiki? You can't post here unless you cite your sources? Wow. I don't know why you even come here if that is what you think.
Agreed. The new browser probably won't run on XP such that people will be forced to buy Windows 7 to run MS's newer browser.
And you think this is a BAD thing? So Mr. Linux what version of the kernel are you running? 1.0? Which dist, Ubuntu 1.0? I bet your Linux install isn't a 10 year old operating system, nor would you even consider running or supporting one that is that old. So why should Microsoft? XP was written a very long time ago before any of this intertubes stuff ever was even popular. The sooner MS can kill it off, the better the entire planet will be. The only thing that MS should kill off sooner is IE6.
I might have actually enjoyed school. Ok maybe not. But I sure would have enjoyed sleeping in an addition hour. The only problem with this here in the US is when you take into account that you have to get up 2 or 3 hours before school starts to wake up, showered, eat, and go to the bus stop and wait forever for the bus to show up then the hour plus ON the bus you still are having to get up WAY too early. And does that mean instead of getting out of school at 3:15 you don't get out until 4:15 now? So you are getting back on the bus and riding it back home for another hour and not getting home until 5:15 or later? That part would kind of suck.
I'm so going to get flamed for this, but, Godaddy.com I have used them for years and have had no issues with them at all. Price is awesome [I do asp/MsSQL but they have Linux/MySQL too]. For a normal site, 75 bucks a year, and gets you a lot of nice perks. 150 GBSpace | 1,500 GB Transfer is not bad for this price either. I did run afoul recently with my latest site though. Found out more people still like "XBMC" for "Xbox" from "nightly" svn builds then I had anticipated. I had a little idea to slather the site in Google ads. Split the money made from those Google ads giving 1/2 back to the users of the site. 40% goes to a charity they elect and vote on, the other 60% goes out to a person or persons as a free gift that is sent to them for nada. I'm not done with the site yet and I already went over that nice 1.5TB of bandwidth and was forced to up my plan to an unlimited one [more on this in a sec] which is slightly more than the 75 bucks for the premium plan. Double to be precise:(. Even still in the 1st 3weeks I have had this site up it has generated enough to pay for the year of hosting and allow me to give away a Crystal HD card and give a little somethin somethin to a good cause. Now the part about "Unlimited" well it isn't. I was told that I am fine as long as I keep it under about 3-4TB per month. That is a far cry from Unlimited but still a BOAT load of bandwidth:) Support wait times are typically 3-5 minutes. The few times I had to call they were able to show me that it was really my fault each time and not make me feel like a total ass while doing it. So yah. Godaddy
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Just great, another awesome piece of tech I so desire in my machine that I can't afford. CURSES YOU!
I don't know, to know all the crap the fellow in office is going to jail for ahead of time quite refreshing really. Saves a lot of drama later.
No I'm just saying Valve didn't say "Ok you guess it, you're right, now we don't have to spend a million dollars on a marketing campaign." Because, well, that would be a tad anti-climatic.
If they admitted that it was either of them there wouldn't be much point of a surprise then.
Part of me feels sorry for all the people who this might affect. The other part of me is like it could not have happened to a better duo.
way too much work dealing with torrents. I have over the last couple of years setup a fairly good automated system for nightly builds on all platforms. I just let it do its thing then test them to make sure they work and then type in a build# and a stupid comment and the site does all the work for me. As far as bandwidth is has pretty much topped out at about 1.5TB per month so its not so bad. I have an unlimited account [which is actually limited to about 3TB per month] so I am not hurting :) And people like being able to download the bins without having to deal with a bunch of crap. It also allows me to open some API's up that let other projects use my builds so it benefits all :)
I normally keep the last 100 builds online. TeamXBMC does the stables :P. It REALLY depends on the day as to whether they are stable enough for production use. Right now? Not so much. Well it depends on the platform. Xbox is not getting any of the crazy stuff that is going into the other branches for obvious reasons. And right now Arnova is pretty much chillin on updates [usually about once a week] so even though it gets built nightly, it doesn't get changed nearly as much as the other branches, so yeah. It is pretty much always stable enough for every day usage. phew
Eventually he and I will merge our builds but for now My builds now are totally vanilla. no changes from svn at all. t3ch updater should be able to pull my builds as well now so its all good there. Most updater scripts now have options to pull from my builds. After r28000 everything went to hell though and as of r30621 scrapers are still an issue. Actually all addons are an issue. No scripts/addons/skins writen for post 28000 will work on these new builds. I'm doing my best to fix/mod most of the skins I have onsite and adding scripts as they come through to allow people to fully utilize the newer svn builds and for the last few months it has been really touch and go. Last few builds are shaping up well though and at least TvDB scraper is working again :) It's something at least :)
grrr. i should not type after being up for 37 hours. The total download count is also from Nov.7.2009 so that is nearly a million downloads in 6 months. No wonder my host had a cow.
Still drives me crazy. XBMC means XBox Media Center. XBMC Media Center is like Windows NT Built on New Technology just way too much redundancy. They had to pretty much change the name to start distancing themselves [the devs] from the grey area that is XDK. I have personally built almost 800 builds now over the last 2 years on my binaries site [google XBMC nightly SVN. And whilst not a 10 ten site by any means I am freaked out every day on just how many people download XBMC 4 Xbox. In the last 14 months almost 950,000 downloads [all branches] of that XBMC 4 Xbox has been downloaded almost 90,000 times since 11/7/09[US] which is amazing considering this poor little old box has been around now for about 9 years now. It refuses to die :)
I thought TSR was Terminate and Stay Resident. Yah I'm that old :(
We have been working on taking over the xbox branch for the last couple of months. http://www.xbmc4xbox.org/ so if you feel you can help head on over. We still have tons of work to do but it's getting really close to being back on track with continued development.
This is bad news for one reason. Competition. There are only 2 major players in discreet graphics right now and that is horrible for the consumer. Now the good. Intel SUCKS at making gpus. I mean seriously. So either way Intel has no hope of making a 120 core GPU based off of x86 being cheap or fast enough to compete. Go big or stay at home. Intel stay at home.
Except you can now download Visual Studio Express that pretty much compiles anything writtin in the full version of VS and its free. http://www.microsoft.com/express/downloads/ so even that is a mute argument.
Asking for cites is trolling now? No wonder there is so much bullshit here and so little truth.
So slashdot is now to become slashwiki? You can't post here unless you cite your sources? Wow. I don't know why you even come here if that is what you think.
Wow must be REALLY slow news day when they post the same news twice in the same 24 hour period.
Thank you for showing me just one more place that I swear to god I wish I had never seen. WOW
Doesn't believe one single story on any website starting about noon March 31st to April 2nd? Just sayin'
Agreed. The new browser probably won't run on XP such that people will be forced to buy Windows 7 to run MS's newer browser.
And you think this is a BAD thing? So Mr. Linux what version of the kernel are you running? 1.0? Which dist, Ubuntu 1.0? I bet your Linux install isn't a 10 year old operating system, nor would you even consider running or supporting one that is that old. So why should Microsoft? XP was written a very long time ago before any of this intertubes stuff ever was even popular. The sooner MS can kill it off, the better the entire planet will be. The only thing that MS should kill off sooner is IE6.
so you mean it's kind of like China's version of /. ?
I might have actually enjoyed school. Ok maybe not. But I sure would have enjoyed sleeping in an addition hour. The only problem with this here in the US is when you take into account that you have to get up 2 or 3 hours before school starts to wake up, showered, eat, and go to the bus stop and wait forever for the bus to show up then the hour plus ON the bus you still are having to get up WAY too early. And does that mean instead of getting out of school at 3:15 you don't get out until 4:15 now? So you are getting back on the bus and riding it back home for another hour and not getting home until 5:15 or later? That part would kind of suck.
And in other news, the tooth fairy gave me a blowjob last night....
And in other news, the tooth fairy gave me a gummer last night.... There I fixed that for you.
I'm so going to get flamed for this, but, Godaddy.com I have used them for years and have had no issues with them at all. Price is awesome [I do asp/MsSQL but they have Linux/MySQL too]. For a normal site, 75 bucks a year, and gets you a lot of nice perks. 150 GBSpace | 1,500 GB Transfer is not bad for this price either. I did run afoul recently with my latest site though. Found out more people still like "XBMC" for "Xbox" from "nightly" svn builds then I had anticipated. I had a little idea to slather the site in Google ads. Split the money made from those Google ads giving 1/2 back to the users of the site. 40% goes to a charity they elect and vote on, the other 60% goes out to a person or persons as a free gift that is sent to them for nada. I'm not done with the site yet and I already went over that nice 1.5TB of bandwidth and was forced to up my plan to an unlimited one [more on this in a sec] which is slightly more than the 75 bucks for the premium plan. Double to be precise :(. Even still in the 1st 3weeks I have had this site up it has generated enough to pay for the year of hosting and allow me to give away a Crystal HD card and give a little somethin somethin to a good cause. Now the part about "Unlimited" well it isn't. I was told that I am fine as long as I keep it under about 3-4TB per month. That is a far cry from Unlimited but still a BOAT load of bandwidth :) Support wait times are typically 3-5 minutes. The few times I had to call they were able to show me that it was really my fault each time and not make me feel like a total ass while doing it. So yah. Godaddy