Actually, there's shitloads of big sites hosted on Amazon and other big platforms. On their last outage (which really doesn't happen often, compared to other solutions) they were named out. Look at the older stories here on slashdot regarding Amazon cloud.
I know it is the usual thing to hate on slashdot, but Solaris combined with cloud hosting works wonders for our company. It's generally much more easier to deploy than Linux based distros, and comes with extra performance. Our sites usually have a stable amount of traffic, but sometimes it peaks, and those are the times we really want the website to perform well. Solaris+Cloud hosting is perfect for that. As fallback, we have Azure, which also performs really good, but it requires extra work as it's different platform. But generally, scalable cloud hosting really is good for hosting big traffic sites.
I enjoy coding greatly. But even before I started working, I saw that coding for work will ruin the fun for me. So I got a job in related industry where I can greatly use my coding experience in my advantage, but isn't really about coding. It's like with game testers - if you test games for living, it will take the fun of playing any games from you. Now I work in other industry, but I'm a really handy guy around (both for others, and for myself) because of my extra ability to code, suggest things about computer security and everything else IT-related. This not only ensures I don't ruin the fun from coding, but makes me more valuable to any company (as per the extra stuff I can do) and I find work generally more interesting.
Yeah, that's exactly my experience about Silverlight DRM too. I looked up about it after wanting to take a few segments of video that was streamed via Silverlight, but it seemed impossible to do.
Well, Netflix isn't available in my country, but the television stations here use it. So if you want to watch their shows online, you have to install it. It probably comes from the fact it's much harder to download Silverlight streamed videos than Flash ones.
I don't think MS is paying any "bribe money" to Netflix. They only chose Silverlight because it supports better DRM methods than Flash, as of course required by content producers.
After playing for 20 minutes I was bored. Really, how does this compare to a truly great game? The fact that it is fun and caught on is about as important as Tetris. You aren't a world-minded guru because you do it better than someone else. And jealousy generated from my corner of the room is zilch.
It's not made to compete with traditional PC or console games. It's made for mobile phones, and for those it's an excellent game. You can launch it quickly, the levels don't really take that long to play (great for quickly playing with phone when you're waiting for something) and the physics make it fun. I can't really think of other mobile phone games which would be more fun and suiting. Maybe some tower defense games, but those aren't as quick to play as levels take a long time. You basically need to pause the game and later continue from where you left.
Maybe the problem is in your own closed mindset. I play all kinds of games, they're all great in their own ways. Only genre I don't find interesting is platforms, but I don't bash those who do. So loosen it up a bit and try different things (not just with games), you come out as really bitter and angry guy.
You math doesn't work because people don't play multiplayer for just a few hours. I don't play much and yet Steam shows me playing MW2 for something like 200 hours. Team Fortress 2, 500 hours. That's hell of a lot of game play you get for the price of a game. Eventually, I think, all games will move to be multiplayer or coop games because they just are much more fun.
I honestly don't think many people are buying MW3 or BF3 for purely single player experience. Those are games you get for multiplayer experience, and on top of that you get a nice single player campaign. Those campaigns are really well done and feel cinematic, even if they are so linear.
So "great gamer" or "great mind" is one of those things you need to have now to enjoy games? While I can agree that deathmatch is quite mindless action, the other game modes are less so. Good team work can gain incredible results in MW3 (and the previous MW's), if you play the objective based game modes like Sabotage or Search&Destroy. They are far from mindless action. The perks, class designing and killstreak choices also add another strategist layout to MW3, is delivered from RPG games and is something I absolutely love, as you can refine your classes as close to your wanted playing style as you want to.
I bet you would also say that Team Fortress 2 is "purely mindless action game" based on it's graphics and sometimes fast game play. Yet, it's one of those games where good team work is absolutely essential and the different classes (and players weapon choices along those classes) affect the game a lot. Especially spies add another highly strategist aspect to game and even that you can play in highly different ways, depending on choice of your loadout.
But yes, do take the elitist "I only play real simulation games, who do otherwise suck", while we others enjoy good games regardless if they simulate real world 1:1. And I can tell you that ArmA doesn't either, so it's a bit silly thing to take into comparison.
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Sorry, but if you read TFA it says it affected OSX too.
Actually, there's shitloads of big sites hosted on Amazon and other big platforms. On their last outage (which really doesn't happen often, compared to other solutions) they were named out. Look at the older stories here on slashdot regarding Amazon cloud.
I know it is the usual thing to hate on slashdot, but Solaris combined with cloud hosting works wonders for our company. It's generally much more easier to deploy than Linux based distros, and comes with extra performance. Our sites usually have a stable amount of traffic, but sometimes it peaks, and those are the times we really want the website to perform well. Solaris+Cloud hosting is perfect for that. As fallback, we have Azure, which also performs really good, but it requires extra work as it's different platform. But generally, scalable cloud hosting really is good for hosting big traffic sites.
Also NAT is not security at all at least in the PC world, as I can get you to make an outbound connection to me, lots of ways.
Go ahead and please demonstrate. How will you make create outbound connection to you?
I enjoy coding greatly. But even before I started working, I saw that coding for work will ruin the fun for me. So I got a job in related industry where I can greatly use my coding experience in my advantage, but isn't really about coding. It's like with game testers - if you test games for living, it will take the fun of playing any games from you. Now I work in other industry, but I'm a really handy guy around (both for others, and for myself) because of my extra ability to code, suggest things about computer security and everything else IT-related. This not only ensures I don't ruin the fun from coding, but makes me more valuable to any company (as per the extra stuff I can do) and I find work generally more interesting.
Yeah, that's exactly my experience about Silverlight DRM too. I looked up about it after wanting to take a few segments of video that was streamed via Silverlight, but it seemed impossible to do.
Well, Netflix isn't available in my country, but the television stations here use it. So if you want to watch their shows online, you have to install it. It probably comes from the fact it's much harder to download Silverlight streamed videos than Flash ones.
I don't think MS is paying any "bribe money" to Netflix. They only chose Silverlight because it supports better DRM methods than Flash, as of course required by content producers.
After playing for 20 minutes I was bored. Really, how does this compare to a truly great game? The fact that it is fun and caught on is about as important as Tetris. You aren't a world-minded guru because you do it better than someone else. And jealousy generated from my corner of the room is zilch.
It's not made to compete with traditional PC or console games. It's made for mobile phones, and for those it's an excellent game. You can launch it quickly, the levels don't really take that long to play (great for quickly playing with phone when you're waiting for something) and the physics make it fun. I can't really think of other mobile phone games which would be more fun and suiting. Maybe some tower defense games, but those aren't as quick to play as levels take a long time. You basically need to pause the game and later continue from where you left.
It's exactly for that reason. It's always funny when people try to find some deeper reason in simple things, over-analyzing things.
And do you honestly think that MW3 is only worth of 2/10 rating? This is exactly why user ratings there are shit.
What does NAT have to do with ISP? Just forward the ports you need to.
Personally I think not being directly connectable (ie., behind NAT) is good security wise. It acts as a nice and easy firewall.
Maybe the problem is in your own closed mindset. I play all kinds of games, they're all great in their own ways. Only genre I don't find interesting is platforms, but I don't bash those who do. So loosen it up a bit and try different things (not just with games), you come out as really bitter and angry guy.
Oh yes, because you obviously can't enjoy different kind of games. If someone plays MW3, there's just no way he could also play other games.
You math doesn't work because people don't play multiplayer for just a few hours. I don't play much and yet Steam shows me playing MW2 for something like 200 hours. Team Fortress 2, 500 hours. That's hell of a lot of game play you get for the price of a game. Eventually, I think, all games will move to be multiplayer or coop games because they just are much more fun.
I honestly don't think many people are buying MW3 or BF3 for purely single player experience. Those are games you get for multiplayer experience, and on top of that you get a nice single player campaign. Those campaigns are really well done and feel cinematic, even if they are so linear.
MW3 has dedicated servers now too, but you have to enable the server browser in options.
So "great gamer" or "great mind" is one of those things you need to have now to enjoy games? While I can agree that deathmatch is quite mindless action, the other game modes are less so. Good team work can gain incredible results in MW3 (and the previous MW's), if you play the objective based game modes like Sabotage or Search&Destroy. They are far from mindless action. The perks, class designing and killstreak choices also add another strategist layout to MW3, is delivered from RPG games and is something I absolutely love, as you can refine your classes as close to your wanted playing style as you want to.
I bet you would also say that Team Fortress 2 is "purely mindless action game" based on it's graphics and sometimes fast game play. Yet, it's one of those games where good team work is absolutely essential and the different classes (and players weapon choices along those classes) affect the game a lot. Especially spies add another highly strategist aspect to game and even that you can play in highly different ways, depending on choice of your loadout.
But yes, do take the elitist "I only play real simulation games, who do otherwise suck", while we others enjoy good games regardless if they simulate real world 1:1. And I can tell you that ArmA doesn't either, so it's a bit silly thing to take into comparison.
But action movies with violence, blood, heavy drug use and other such things are much more better than watching someone making love?
And what is so bad about adult entertainment? People like to watch hollywood movies during flights too. If some find porn more interesting, so what?
Around 30 women, a few guys and some shemales.
Wait what, you've only had 30 partners during 7 years? That seems a bit low. I think I did that in half an year while traveling the world.
Phone numbers and addresses aren't available if you don't want them to be. Europe in general values privacy a lot more than US.
Yeah, and while you're at it could you tell us all who owns the Anonymous name?