At one point one of their servers glitched, only for a few mins, and it wouldn't auth me to play the game I had just bought
If that was the infamous "this game is currently unavailable" message that was most likely on your end. Having used steam for over 10 years, it's a rare enough message but one you do see occasionally because either: a GFC is corrupt, you're trying to run the game in two instances, the installer wasn't done and was/or autolaunching the game. Or in very rare cases your client info for steam became corrupt.
The Tea Party *wishes* that it were a terrorist org.
Congratulations on falling hook, line and sinker for the "one side is out making grandiose statements which aren't true and used for political disputes" as pointed out in the above post. While you're at it, you should really pay attention to exactly who's pushing that narrative.
How about their parents? They had them, they raised them or failed to raise them. They are responsible.
Not a chance, governments worldwide have spent the last 25 years or so doing their best to make people believe that they're not responsible for raising them. Hell even up here in Canada we have schoolboard trustees who believe they're actually the parents or co-parents. So, if that's the case, I say we blame those instead.
See the current Slashdot poll about laptops. The winning request is better battery life. How much extra juice does it take to spin those platters at 7200RPM? Perhaps Seagate's manufacturing decision to use 5400 is better informed than it appears.
Perhaps laptop companies should be switching to SSD's then, I nearly tripled the battery life on my 3yr old laptop which had a 5400rpm in it. Yes I know there are still reliability problems with them, but being realistic? The price for a 2.5" SSD at 120-240GB which is still semi-standard in a lot of common laptops, would seriously improve the battery life.
How about like the french. We reprocess what we can, and bury what we can't. Safe and Effective.
Why like the French? We do this in Canada, Japan does it and so does South Korea. It's not exactly "new and exciting" technology, the US is the odd-man-out like usual because of nimbys and environmentalists.
Indie games now are a rebirth of the games industry and really are no longer "indie" but rather small game development shops.
Welcome to 1980, this is exactly what happened when the PC started taking off. but other platforms like Commodore and Apple were popular. Used to be the small guys would release games for nothing or next to nothing in magazines, and provide you the basic or whatever else so you could copy, and run it right on your computer. I've still got cassettes for my old man's vic20. It was the indie shops of the day that came the big name shops in the late 80's and 90's.
People weren't decrying the "death of the indies then" they were congratulating the indies on becoming big players, and becoming successful. So it makes me wonder, is this people having a chip on their shoulder about indies becoming successful and possibly becoming the next and future developers? Possibly. But indies really didn't go anywhere in the last 20 years, there just wasn't as much of a demand for them.
Pirate if you want to pirate, pay if you want to pay, but spare us the bullshit about not having any legal means to get it when you very clearly do.
The new episode is showing on HBO Canada. Previous episodes are not available in Canada, not unless you're using a proxy to get around "region blocking". Please spare me of your self-righteous indignation when you have no idea of what you're talking about.
Or you could wait for DVD release, or buy it via Amazon Instant. I don't have HBO, but I can still easily access the show via legal means; I just have to wait longer than subscribers.
"Not available in Canada..." so...yeah a nice big fuck you on that one. For some parts of the world there are no "legal means" to get it.
...something society in general has trouble doing.
Really? Well I don't believe so, it just seems that a lot of people have found that it's easier to toss morals and ethics out the window when it suits their agenda. It's easy to go from "well I shouldn't, because it's wrong" to "I'm going to because I know I'm right away..." We see it with academics all the time, we see it in politics, and we see it in society in general. And people do it because it's, expedient, low risk, and no one is really going to call them out on it.
They could do, you know, what police used to do before they all became lazy. Back in the day we called it 'Walking a beat'.
Reality is, it's not the cops. It's the chiefs of police that caused that one, back in the 70's and 80's a lot of them got it in their head that it was better to have a "roving presence" then to have a guy on the ground walking and talking with people. Well, I was planning to go into policing until I broke my back, no such luck on that now can't complete the physical components to pass here in Canada. There are call codes for walking the beat still, but there's still a bloody stigma to it because of that.
Gets even worse because the politically correct nannies don't want you doing it either, unless "that's your job" because you "might not be trained for it..." uh right there guys, we all go to the same police college here in Ontario(or your individual province). It is changing, slowly, but it's probably going to take another 20 years. Doesn't help either that services go out of their way to not allowing officers to patrol areas where they live.
One does not "pull a boat" into Oalkand or LA without the US already knowing what is on it and where it came from. In exchange for fast customs clearance the US clears the vast majority of containers before the ship departs from foreign ports.
Hahaha...only 8-10% of containers are inspected before departing foreign ports, and roughly the same when they're coming into port in North America, there's just too much of it to search and look it up. The majority of shipping relies on documentation and belief that the shipper is "following the regs and laws."
Okay and? When I was a kid(20+ years ago), those winters were even colder then a few years ago. I easily remember the temperatures hitting -30C for weeks on end.
Yes, you were able to spend time learning those technical skills GGP pooh-poohed, then use them. Your point?
Well that's obvious kid, everyone starts somewhere. Then again, most people who become good at something seem to forget that "at the start" things were difficult. Oh right...you've got osmosis, so you just absorb information by sticking it to your forehead.
Most of all: The game is BORING! I couldn't have been more disappointed in the story. I've played for 8 hours or so and still don't know why I'm doing anything I am other than "someone hired me"... uhh ok... the world's story was going all religion then took a hard right into weird cult ville ala Resident Evil then took a U turn into racist land and now I just don't know.
Big prettyish world with crap all to do in it.
No it's not boring, I finished it about 40mins ago(total time played ~13hrs). I'd rate the story between good and excellent. It only gets "boring" if you're not listening to the voxophone which fills you in more on the story. Which of course could be a problem if you don't want to wait the 30-40 seconds for it to play.
Then again, if you don't know any basic theology at all you'll probably miss some of the references but that's not really any fault but your own.
Get's better when you realize that there are cross-border agreements between the US and Canada, and there have been incidents on both sides of cities and counties scamming up fake tickets.
Spoken like someone who has never had to actually prep G-code, fixture a part or debug mill routing. CNC machining is a technical discipline requiring real skill and experience. Experts are paid very good money for their time and talent.
Uh...when a rater largish company where I was going to highschool dropped off an old CNC machine and said "have fun" back in the 90's we were able to figure it out on our own, including how to debug our own milling routes. If kids in highschool who are bored can do it, anyone with a bit of patience and the help of the internet can, especially when us teenagers at the time didn't have easy access to this wealth of knowledge called the internet.
Trial and error is just as much a teaching tool as anything else, anyone who programs CNC machines, or operates them didn't get the experience implanted into their skulls.
Not really that hard to find, Toronto it isn't the housing projects it's the influx of immigrant gangs. Used to be that other gangs like Hells Angels would actually keep it under control, the unintended consequences of the government cracking down solely on biker gangs is that the immigrant gang problem has exploded. As for violent crime rates? It's coming more to a point of leveling off right now then dropping if you're paying attention to the trending.
I'd recommend that for people used to modern pop recordings too. I think many would be shocked to hear what they are missing in the horribly compressed and otherwise doctored up recordings that are sold today.
That's because over compression and doctoring are the norm, really I think it's more of a cause that a person knows that in life there is no crisp clearness, it's everything around you that makes music, or even talking warm and have depth. You remove that and you remove what makes it unique. I suppose someone should come up with an audio version of the uncanny valley, it's really the same thing.
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At one point one of their servers glitched, only for a few mins, and it wouldn't auth me to play the game I had just bought
If that was the infamous "this game is currently unavailable" message that was most likely on your end. Having used steam for over 10 years, it's a rare enough message but one you do see occasionally because either: a GFC is corrupt, you're trying to run the game in two instances, the installer wasn't done and was/or autolaunching the game. Or in very rare cases your client info for steam became corrupt.
Almost right.
The Tea Party *wishes* that it were a terrorist org.
Congratulations on falling hook, line and sinker for the "one side is out making grandiose statements which aren't true and used for political disputes" as pointed out in the above post. While you're at it, you should really pay attention to exactly who's pushing that narrative.
How about their parents? They had them, they raised them or failed to raise them. They are responsible.
Not a chance, governments worldwide have spent the last 25 years or so doing their best to make people believe that they're not responsible for raising them. Hell even up here in Canada we have schoolboard trustees who believe they're actually the parents or co-parents. So, if that's the case, I say we blame those instead.
Really now? My password only goes "1234" jeeze you youngsters....
See the current Slashdot poll about laptops. The winning request is better battery life. How much extra juice does it take to spin those platters at 7200RPM? Perhaps Seagate's manufacturing decision to use 5400 is better informed than it appears.
Perhaps laptop companies should be switching to SSD's then, I nearly tripled the battery life on my 3yr old laptop which had a 5400rpm in it. Yes I know there are still reliability problems with them, but being realistic? The price for a 2.5" SSD at 120-240GB which is still semi-standard in a lot of common laptops, would seriously improve the battery life.
This one can't be laid at the environmentalist's feet.
The last time they had deregulation hearings, Greenpeace and the Sierra Club were at the forefront arguing against it.
How about like the french. We reprocess what we can, and bury what we can't. Safe and Effective.
Why like the French? We do this in Canada, Japan does it and so does South Korea. It's not exactly "new and exciting" technology, the US is the odd-man-out like usual because of nimbys and environmentalists.
You're not missing out on anything, believe me.
Actually I think it might be improving the quality content of the site.
Indie games now are a rebirth of the games industry and really are no longer "indie" but rather small game development shops.
Welcome to 1980, this is exactly what happened when the PC started taking off. but other platforms like Commodore and Apple were popular. Used to be the small guys would release games for nothing or next to nothing in magazines, and provide you the basic or whatever else so you could copy, and run it right on your computer. I've still got cassettes for my old man's vic20. It was the indie shops of the day that came the big name shops in the late 80's and 90's.
People weren't decrying the "death of the indies then" they were congratulating the indies on becoming big players, and becoming successful. So it makes me wonder, is this people having a chip on their shoulder about indies becoming successful and possibly becoming the next and future developers? Possibly. But indies really didn't go anywhere in the last 20 years, there just wasn't as much of a demand for them.
It's showing on HBO Canada tonight.
Pirate if you want to pirate, pay if you want to pay, but spare us the bullshit about not having any legal means to get it when you very clearly do.
The new episode is showing on HBO Canada. Previous episodes are not available in Canada, not unless you're using a proxy to get around "region blocking". Please spare me of your self-righteous indignation when you have no idea of what you're talking about.
Should take you only 70 or 80 years to make a block or two at that rate.
Or you could wait for DVD release, or buy it via Amazon Instant. I don't have HBO, but I can still easily access the show via legal means; I just have to wait longer than subscribers.
"Not available in Canada..." so...yeah a nice big fuck you on that one. For some parts of the world there are no "legal means" to get it.
...something society in general has trouble doing.
Really? Well I don't believe so, it just seems that a lot of people have found that it's easier to toss morals and ethics out the window when it suits their agenda. It's easy to go from "well I shouldn't, because it's wrong" to "I'm going to because I know I'm right away..." We see it with academics all the time, we see it in politics, and we see it in society in general. And people do it because it's, expedient, low risk, and no one is really going to call them out on it.
They could do, you know, what police used to do before they all became lazy. Back in the day we called it 'Walking a beat'.
Reality is, it's not the cops. It's the chiefs of police that caused that one, back in the 70's and 80's a lot of them got it in their head that it was better to have a "roving presence" then to have a guy on the ground walking and talking with people. Well, I was planning to go into policing until I broke my back, no such luck on that now can't complete the physical components to pass here in Canada. There are call codes for walking the beat still, but there's still a bloody stigma to it because of that.
Gets even worse because the politically correct nannies don't want you doing it either, unless "that's your job" because you "might not be trained for it..." uh right there guys, we all go to the same police college here in Ontario(or your individual province). It is changing, slowly, but it's probably going to take another 20 years. Doesn't help either that services go out of their way to not allowing officers to patrol areas where they live.
There must be a pretty good chance that USSR and perhaps also China have smuggled nukes into the USA
Both the US and USSR developed "suitcase nukes" for just that purpose.
One does not "pull a boat" into Oalkand or LA without the US already knowing what is on it and where it came from.
In exchange for fast customs clearance the US clears the vast majority of containers before the ship departs from foreign ports.
Hahaha...only 8-10% of containers are inspected before departing foreign ports, and roughly the same when they're coming into port in North America, there's just too much of it to search and look it up. The majority of shipping relies on documentation and belief that the shipper is "following the regs and laws."
Okay and? When I was a kid(20+ years ago), those winters were even colder then a few years ago. I easily remember the temperatures hitting -30C for weeks on end.
after we had some extra-cold winters
Wait? What? If anything the winter was slightly less cool than the previous 5 years, compared to 3 years ago it was right down balmy.
Yes, you were able to spend time learning those technical skills GGP pooh-poohed, then use them. Your point?
Well that's obvious kid, everyone starts somewhere. Then again, most people who become good at something seem to forget that "at the start" things were difficult. Oh right...you've got osmosis, so you just absorb information by sticking it to your forehead.
Most of all: The game is BORING! I couldn't have been more disappointed in the story. I've played for 8 hours or so and still don't know why I'm doing anything I am other than "someone hired me"... uhh ok... the world's story was going all religion then took a hard right into weird cult ville ala Resident Evil then took a U turn into racist land and now I just don't know.
Big prettyish world with crap all to do in it.
No it's not boring, I finished it about 40mins ago(total time played ~13hrs). I'd rate the story between good and excellent. It only gets "boring" if you're not listening to the voxophone which fills you in more on the story. Which of course could be a problem if you don't want to wait the 30-40 seconds for it to play.
Then again, if you don't know any basic theology at all you'll probably miss some of the references but that's not really any fault but your own.
Get's better when you realize that there are cross-border agreements between the US and Canada, and there have been incidents on both sides of cities and counties scamming up fake tickets.
Spoken like someone who has never had to actually prep G-code, fixture a part or debug mill routing. CNC machining is a technical discipline requiring real skill and experience. Experts are paid very good money for their time and talent.
Uh...when a rater largish company where I was going to highschool dropped off an old CNC machine and said "have fun" back in the 90's we were able to figure it out on our own, including how to debug our own milling routes. If kids in highschool who are bored can do it, anyone with a bit of patience and the help of the internet can, especially when us teenagers at the time didn't have easy access to this wealth of knowledge called the internet.
Trial and error is just as much a teaching tool as anything else, anyone who programs CNC machines, or operates them didn't get the experience implanted into their skulls.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/12/04/homicides-statistics-canada-2011.html
Not really that hard to find, Toronto it isn't the housing projects it's the influx of immigrant gangs. Used to be that other gangs like Hells Angels would actually keep it under control, the unintended consequences of the government cracking down solely on biker gangs is that the immigrant gang problem has exploded. As for violent crime rates? It's coming more to a point of leveling off right now then dropping if you're paying attention to the trending.
Canada has the same culture, politics and racial issues as the USA?
The last 15 years or so? Yes, or have you never visited a city larger than 8k people here.
I'd recommend that for people used to modern pop recordings too. I think many would be shocked to hear what they are missing in the horribly compressed and otherwise doctored up recordings that are sold today.
That's because over compression and doctoring are the norm, really I think it's more of a cause that a person knows that in life there is no crisp clearness, it's everything around you that makes music, or even talking warm and have depth. You remove that and you remove what makes it unique. I suppose someone should come up with an audio version of the uncanny valley, it's really the same thing.