I uninstalled this terrible money grabbing game as soon as I got to the store and found all the 'money' I'd collected in game was worth next to nothing, but I could get credits for weapons and other useful things if I just went and completed things on some websites, or I could just pay real money to get in game credits.
A horrible system, and nothing to do with piracy, all to do with a game designed PURELY to pull money out of people to progress.
Make a good game, charge up front and BE DONE WITH IT.
Well, actually the game seemed ok from what I played of it. And then it got to the store, and the way to buy things was to complete various things out of the game, like visiting websites or completing offers... OR you could pay to advance.
So yes, it was the lowest of crap types of apps, the Freemium. I HATE these apps with a passion and wish the whole concept would die.
Provide a free 'trial' version of a game so you can see how it plays on your device, then charge a fee for the full game.
THE END. I've bought plenty of games on my Android phones, PLENTY. But this crap game got uninstalled after about 10 minutes of play.
Why the hell does it matter? Seriously, are you that anti MS that you can't handle them funding some cool research. Things are allowed to exist without being OS you know.
There have been plenty, plenty, plenty of fantastic benefits to mankind done with the help of private industry. Using Open Source or not does not equate to good vs evil
That is really stunning. It is amazing that you can point at something like Kile, which I just looked at the screenshots of, and somehow think that it's AT ALL a sensible option for the average Word user.
That is... it's amazing that someone can live in a self-created world where that makes sense.
LOOK at Kile Starting a new Document Holy crap that's a confusing mess of ugly. THIS is what it looks like for general usage... are you mad? Have you ANY concept of how a 'normal' day to day user of Office thinks?
Amazing. If there are many others like you in the OS community who are actually contributing and thinking they're making software for day to day usage by 'normal' people... it's doomed
Exactly, it's how it works in many places in Melbourne Australia... check the number of your spot as you get out of your car, press that number on the machine and pay... done.
Saves paper.
Saves time.
Even so, the writer of the summary likes to make up ridiculous steps to make the process sound more complex than it is. What next "Step 1. Turn wheel of car. Step 2. Move forward. Step 3. Turn wheel of car other way. Step 4. Breathe. Step 5.... "
Come on, you make it sound like using these machines is torture.
Yeah, heaven forbid that the developer is doing a whole lot of coding, and actually knows about keyboard shortcuts, but you know, might actually want to use a mouse to... um: * Test the interface they may be programming (yeah, shock horror, sometimes you code things that get used with a mouse) * Might want to surf the web and forums etc. * Might want to do ANYTHING bloody useful on a pc other than command line based activities.
Really, get off you friggen 'ooh, you use a mouse, how amateur' shit, it's tiresome.
My god, what else do you think is acceptable then?
SWAT team brought in for a schoolyard fight? Anti Terrorist squad for a stink bomb in the corridors? Solitary detainment and waterboarding for not spilling the beans on who wrote in chalk on a school wall?
I'm disgusted that you think this is ok.
She sounds like a little shit, but that's what detention and suspension is for NOT the bloody police.
Firstly: * Really, the deadly animal thing, REALLY not that much of an issue unless you actually live in the bush. We have antivenoms for all the spiders and snakes and the number who are killed by any of them is sweet bugger all
* In regards to you thinking that somehow Obama is not being democratic in his current problems with the republican party, I would instead perhaps put this forward:
He has debated with, consulted, talked to and had great dealings with all sides, listened to all of their concerns, and yet really, the only thing that the Republicans want to do is... give tax cuts... that's it, that's their sole solution for ANYTHING, which makes no sense as then you have a government that has less money to DO anything with. You think somehow giving back little amounts to everyone will suddenly make the US become a power again? HOW?
Spending money on developing sustainable industries and education and things that might actually lift the US in its world standing are GOOD things to do for long term economic health. Giving a bit of money back to everyone so they can spend it on a larger tv or a few more take away dinners helps no-one.
The Republicans are blocking for blocking's sake. Obama was voted in with a landslide, which should suggest that the majority of the country believes in his ideas, so perhaps they shouldn't be so grandstanding as to block things for blocking's sake. If the populous want these things through, and have rejected the piss poor financial management of the Republicans for the past 8 years, then MAYBE they should let it through.
That was interesting except: 1) Read like a giant ad for the software he wrote (process Explorer) & 2) He's a windows zealot... WHO uses Windows Live Search to look up things? Any sane person goes and googles something, he window-live-searches.
Yes, and when I was living there I found that so laughable... this bit of electronic veneer in front of a still paper cheque background... really funny.
Sure, nice for you, but you still have the huge lead times associated with preparing, printing, posting, banking etc. a paper cheque, and it's just so wasteful.
That was my thought too... it's a 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' thing.
Firstly, as an Australian I am CONSTANTLY amazed at the US's continued reliance on cheques (yes, that's how the rest of the world spells it). When I lived there for a while in 2001 I was amazed that I couldn't pay the majority of my bills online at all, even if I wanted to. The time consuming, paper wasting, overly complex and error prone thing of handling all those cheques is just insane.
I pay all my bills electronically via the BPay system in Australia, there's virtually nothing you can't pay this way.
I DO have automatic payments for some things, but only those that are a constant amount each month (internet for example)... everything else is manually handled, but jumping onto internet banking and putting in the figures is a WHOLE lot faster and less resource intensive than making out X cheques, putting them in envelopes and mailing them all.
I don't see why a purely opt in system would rub your nose so far out of joint.
Why are the private sector better for doing this than the government? You're telling me private enterprises wouldn't have vested interests in blocking certain sites... just slipping in things they want blocked? If it really were a purely opt in service, I would have no issue with the government handling it, as long as the lists were managed transparently.
Now... having said that, I still think it's a stupid and unworkable thing to be spending time on, I just don't see why you think that private sector would do this so much better?
That link doesn't actually clarify anything they merely state 'It could be any number of things' and then go on to mention things that might be banned.
It's all conjecture.
Which is part of the problem, it should be completely transparent. Actually, it just shouldn't exist in the first place, but if it did it should be transparent.
No, there will be mandatory filtering on ILLEGAL material only. Child pornography, bestiality etc. And while, yes, X rated material is only available in the ACT and NT by law... that law is in NO way enforced. I can almost guarantee this mandatory blacklist will NOT block all hardcore sex.
They haven't actually stated what's in the list, but I would say it'll be:
Child Pornography Rape (Or any non-consensual sexual stuff I would imagine) Bestiality
I'm basing this on past Australian government things, and just the line they have taken in the past.
There will be lobby groups who will try and get all and sundry included in the mandatory list, and it will be fascinating to see how it plays out.
I'm fine with them having blacklists... but I want it to be OPT IN.
This making it mandatory, and the default starting point is TERRIBLE.
Allow households to opt in to blocking sites and at a number of different levels [ ] Pornography [ ] Hate literature [ ] whatever...
That would be fine.
But making it the default, and you having to OPT OUT means that the vast majority will let this slide, the apathy will allow it to become the norm.
AND then the government is going to have to wear the shitstorm that will occur when parents have their kids accessing 'objectionable' material even though it was supposed to be blocked.
I used to work for FreeOnline, the largest free internet provider that ever was in Australia. We had a 'freezone' that had sites that didn't eat into your free time each month, and then everything else did.
The WORK to keep that thing maintained was horrendous... the government just doesn't understand how unworkable this is.
or this in regards to their ties to the ALF and ELF and comments made by PETA employees.
or watch the Bullshit episode on PETA and then try and rebut all they say in that. (And yes, I know the Bullshit shows are horrendously one sided, and when they come down on the other side of a topic I believe in it shits me to tears... but they make some fine points in this episode)
If all PETA did was raise awareness of animal rights, lobby for their fair treatment etc. then I would support them, but they DO put animals above people in far too many cases, and somehow forget that treating humans worse than they wish animals to be treated sends the wrong message.
I'm sure most of this is good advice, but I also like the way that people post lists like this with nothing to back them up (other than the physical exercise).
I mean, things like the get off drugs portion... you say that, and yet there are studies that suggest that coffee has a positive effect at fighting Alzheimers. There are other studies suggesting that red wine does your body good (although I've also seen others that debunk these). Now, I pick on those because I like my coffee (one to two cups a day), and I enjoy a red wine (only a glass or two ever couple of weeks). Now, on things like the herbal supplements, you're incredibly vague there... and it comes down to the 'some claim' problem, and all their packaging will say 'may aid in' or other such vague wording as there's nothing to back them up at all.
I do agree with all ideas about using your brain more to keep it nimble, I've seen enough proof of that in the types of people who still have good brains at later ages. (but then, is that just because they started out that way and are so inclined to keep using them anyway? Again a problem with research looking at the wrong correlation).
This may be your list, but I just lament at the number of people who read things like this on the web and take them as gospel because they're said with an air of authority.
I've found the purely LED lighting to be reasonably priced, it's the SOLAR led fairy lights that are the killer.
I have a pretty darn large garden with many large trees, I'd love to have them all twinkling, but don't want power cables running all over the place. Solar fairy lights would be the answer if they weren't $70AUD or so for a couple of hundred globes.
Still, they are dropping, so, hopefully next year will be the year of a garden enveloped in light for no electrical cost.
The article you link to states that people are offering to go into companies and write drivers for them.
This doesn't really solve the problem: * They have to want to let someone in to their company and have access to things they'd rather only let full time employees access to. * They may get a working driver, but then the next time the API is changed again, that's all ruined. * It just doesn't address the problem the poster is talking about.
To get companies to want to support a platform you have to have some real stability in how it's interacted with. Any changes to the API better be add ons that don't break existing drivers OR if there is a real need for a complete redesign it better be very few and far between and have a good long think about everything you want to change as it should stay that way for a LONG time.
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Exactly, exactly, exactly.
I uninstalled this terrible money grabbing game as soon as I got to the store and found all the 'money' I'd collected in game was worth next to nothing, but I could get credits for weapons and other useful things if I just went and completed things on some websites, or I could just pay real money to get in game credits.
A horrible system, and nothing to do with piracy, all to do with a game designed PURELY to pull money out of people to progress.
Make a good game, charge up front and BE DONE WITH IT.
Exactly, it's a terrible, terrible game.
Well, actually the game seemed ok from what I played of it. And then it got to the store, and the way to buy things was to complete various things out of the game, like visiting websites or completing offers... OR you could pay to advance.
So yes, it was the lowest of crap types of apps, the Freemium. I HATE these apps with a passion and wish the whole concept would die.
Provide a free 'trial' version of a game so you can see how it plays on your device, then charge a fee for the full game.
THE END. I've bought plenty of games on my Android phones, PLENTY. But this crap game got uninstalled after about 10 minutes of play.
What rubbish are you talking about? Huge headache if you install any paid app????
Huh?
I've bought quite a lot of games and apps on my Android phone. When I got a new phone they all downloaded to that one no problems.
I have never come up against and form of annoying DRM. What ARE you talking about?
Or you just making excuses for not paying for things?
Why the hell does it matter? Seriously, are you that anti MS that you can't handle them funding some cool research. Things are allowed to exist without being OS you know.
There have been plenty, plenty, plenty of fantastic benefits to mankind done with the help of private industry. Using Open Source or not does not equate to good vs evil
That is really stunning. It is amazing that you can point at something like Kile, which I just looked at the screenshots of, and somehow think that it's AT ALL a sensible option for the average Word user.
That is... it's amazing that someone can live in a self-created world where that makes sense.
LOOK at Kile Starting a new Document Holy crap that's a confusing mess of ugly.
THIS is what it looks like for general usage... are you mad? Have you ANY concept of how a 'normal' day to day user of Office thinks?
Amazing. If there are many others like you in the OS community who are actually contributing and thinking they're making software for day to day usage by 'normal' people... it's doomed
Exactly, it's how it works in many places in Melbourne Australia... check the number of your spot as you get out of your car, press that number on the machine and pay... done.
Saves paper.
Saves time.
Even so, the writer of the summary likes to make up ridiculous steps to make the process sound more complex than it is. What next "Step 1. Turn wheel of car. Step 2. Move forward. Step 3. Turn wheel of car other way. Step 4. Breathe. Step 5. ... "
Come on, you make it sound like using these machines is torture.
Yeah, heaven forbid that the developer is doing a whole lot of coding, and actually knows about keyboard shortcuts, but you know, might actually want to use a mouse to... um:
* Test the interface they may be programming (yeah, shock horror, sometimes you code things that get used with a mouse)
* Might want to surf the web and forums etc.
* Might want to do ANYTHING bloody useful on a pc other than command line based activities.
Really, get off you friggen 'ooh, you use a mouse, how amateur' shit, it's tiresome.
What a god awful method... pay for service to a service person who is already paid to do the job they are asking you to do.
Great work.
Sorry, but you sound very much like a BOFH
This whole thing is a horrible indictment on the state of society as a whole in America at the moment.
Here in Australia this acceptance of police officers at schools and metal detectors is so... so foreign.
It absolutely comes down to creating at least some sort of respect in the classroom to begin with, and part of that is SOOOO to do with the parents.
It's a breakdown from the home onwards.
Sad
My god, what else do you think is acceptable then?
SWAT team brought in for a schoolyard fight?
Anti Terrorist squad for a stink bomb in the corridors?
Solitary detainment and waterboarding for not spilling the beans on who wrote in chalk on a school wall?
I'm disgusted that you think this is ok.
She sounds like a little shit, but that's what detention and suspension is for NOT the bloody police.
Please.
Firstly:
* Really, the deadly animal thing, REALLY not that much of an issue unless you actually live in the bush. We have antivenoms for all the spiders and snakes and the number who are killed by any of them is sweet bugger all
* In regards to you thinking that somehow Obama is not being democratic in his current problems with the republican party, I would instead perhaps put this forward:
He has debated with, consulted, talked to and had great dealings with all sides, listened to all of their concerns, and yet really, the only thing that the Republicans want to do is... give tax cuts... that's it, that's their sole solution for ANYTHING, which makes no sense as then you have a government that has less money to DO anything with. You think somehow giving back little amounts to everyone will suddenly make the US become a power again? HOW?
Spending money on developing sustainable industries and education and things that might actually lift the US in its world standing are GOOD things to do for long term economic health. Giving a bit of money back to everyone so they can spend it on a larger tv or a few more take away dinners helps no-one.
The Republicans are blocking for blocking's sake. Obama was voted in with a landslide, which should suggest that the majority of the country believes in his ideas, so perhaps they shouldn't be so grandstanding as to block things for blocking's sake. If the populous want these things through, and have rejected the piss poor financial management of the Republicans for the past 8 years, then MAYBE they should let it through.
And Windows never had a TASKBAR with BUTTONS for APPLICATIONS before Mac even had a dock.
Noooo.
For god's sake, grow up, OSX is not some holy friggen grail of OSes that everyone copies you know.
That was interesting except:
1) Read like a giant ad for the software he wrote (process Explorer)
&
2) He's a windows zealot... WHO uses Windows Live Search to look up things? Any sane person goes and googles something, he window-live-searches.
Madness
Seriously? That's a bit backwards.
In Australia you give someone your BSB (bank identifier) and your account number, and all they can do with that is put money INTO your account.
Therefor the worst someone can do with a whole host of these is to go on a mass donation binge.
Yes, and when I was living there I found that so laughable... this bit of electronic veneer in front of a still paper cheque background... really funny.
Sure, nice for you, but you still have the huge lead times associated with preparing, printing, posting, banking etc. a paper cheque, and it's just so wasteful.
Amazingly backwards
That was my thought too... it's a 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' thing.
Firstly, as an Australian I am CONSTANTLY amazed at the US's continued reliance on cheques (yes, that's how the rest of the world spells it). When I lived there for a while in 2001 I was amazed that I couldn't pay the majority of my bills online at all, even if I wanted to. The time consuming, paper wasting, overly complex and error prone thing of handling all those cheques is just insane.
I pay all my bills electronically via the BPay system in Australia, there's virtually nothing you can't pay this way.
I DO have automatic payments for some things, but only those that are a constant amount each month (internet for example)... everything else is manually handled, but jumping onto internet banking and putting in the figures is a WHOLE lot faster and less resource intensive than making out X cheques, putting them in envelopes and mailing them all.
Pure madness.
I don't see why a purely opt in system would rub your nose so far out of joint.
Why are the private sector better for doing this than the government? You're telling me private enterprises wouldn't have vested interests in blocking certain sites... just slipping in things they want blocked? If it really were a purely opt in service, I would have no issue with the government handling it, as long as the lists were managed transparently.
Now... having said that, I still think it's a stupid and unworkable thing to be spending time on, I just don't see why you think that private sector would do this so much better?
That link doesn't actually clarify anything they merely state 'It could be any number of things' and then go on to mention things that might be banned.
It's all conjecture.
Which is part of the problem, it should be completely transparent. Actually, it just shouldn't exist in the first place, but if it did it should be transparent.
No, there will be mandatory filtering on ILLEGAL material only. Child pornography, bestiality etc. And while, yes, X rated material is only available in the ACT and NT by law... that law is in NO way enforced. I can almost guarantee this mandatory blacklist will NOT block all hardcore sex.
They haven't actually stated what's in the list, but I would say it'll be:
Child Pornography
Rape (Or any non-consensual sexual stuff I would imagine)
Bestiality
I'm basing this on past Australian government things, and just the line they have taken in the past.
There will be lobby groups who will try and get all and sundry included in the mandatory list, and it will be fascinating to see how it plays out.
And scary.
And crap.
But still fascinating.
I'm fine with them having blacklists... but I want it to be OPT IN.
This making it mandatory, and the default starting point is TERRIBLE.
Allow households to opt in to blocking sites and at a number of different levels
[ ] Pornography
[ ] Hate literature
[ ] whatever...
That would be fine.
But making it the default, and you having to OPT OUT means that the vast majority will let this slide, the apathy will allow it to become the norm.
AND then the government is going to have to wear the shitstorm that will occur when parents have their kids accessing 'objectionable' material even though it was supposed to be blocked.
I used to work for FreeOnline, the largest free internet provider that ever was in Australia. We had a 'freezone' that had sites that didn't eat into your free time each month, and then everything else did.
The WORK to keep that thing maintained was horrendous... the government just doesn't understand how unworkable this is.
Let's look at this in regards to one of their lecturers
or this in regards to their ties to the ALF and ELF and comments made by PETA employees.
or watch the Bullshit episode on PETA and then try and rebut all they say in that. (And yes, I know the Bullshit shows are horrendously one sided, and when they come down on the other side of a topic I believe in it shits me to tears... but they make some fine points in this episode)
If all PETA did was raise awareness of animal rights, lobby for their fair treatment etc. then I would support them, but they DO put animals above people in far too many cases, and somehow forget that treating humans worse than they wish animals to be treated sends the wrong message.
I'm sure most of this is good advice, but I also like the way that people post lists like this with nothing to back them up (other than the physical exercise).
I mean, things like the get off drugs portion... you say that, and yet there are studies that suggest that coffee has a positive effect at fighting Alzheimers. There are other studies suggesting that red wine does your body good (although I've also seen others that debunk these). Now, I pick on those because I like my coffee (one to two cups a day), and I enjoy a red wine (only a glass or two ever couple of weeks). Now, on things like the herbal supplements, you're incredibly vague there... and it comes down to the 'some claim' problem, and all their packaging will say 'may aid in' or other such vague wording as there's nothing to back them up at all.
I do agree with all ideas about using your brain more to keep it nimble, I've seen enough proof of that in the types of people who still have good brains at later ages. (but then, is that just because they started out that way and are so inclined to keep using them anyway? Again a problem with research looking at the wrong correlation).
This may be your list, but I just lament at the number of people who read things like this on the web and take them as gospel because they're said with an air of authority.
I've found the purely LED lighting to be reasonably priced, it's the SOLAR led fairy lights that are the killer.
I have a pretty darn large garden with many large trees, I'd love to have them all twinkling, but don't want power cables running all over the place. Solar fairy lights would be the answer if they weren't $70AUD or so for a couple of hundred globes.
Still, they are dropping, so, hopefully next year will be the year of a garden enveloped in light for no electrical cost.
No, what they state still isn't wrong.
The article you link to states that people are offering to go into companies and write drivers for them.
This doesn't really solve the problem:
* They have to want to let someone in to their company and have access to things they'd rather only let full time employees access to.
* They may get a working driver, but then the next time the API is changed again, that's all ruined.
* It just doesn't address the problem the poster is talking about.
To get companies to want to support a platform you have to have some real stability in how it's interacted with. Any changes to the API better be add ons that don't break existing drivers OR if there is a real need for a complete redesign it better be very few and far between and have a good long think about everything you want to change as it should stay that way for a LONG time.
I knew people didn't read the article, but at least the summary... come on!