Might as well make a few bucks telling your own story than make nothing letting someone else tell their version of your story.
It's just too bad he's not a cute female. As a male, half the country wants to accuse him of "treason" (ignoring his citizenship, of course) and have him executed. Meanwhile, the actual real Soviet spy that was actually really caught was sent safely back to Russia, where she is apparently the figurehead for some new political movement, a consultant for a major bank, has done a spread in Maxim, and is reportedly going to be featured in Playboy.
No, a valid opt-out *isn't* a good enough solution. If I haven't "opted-in", don't send me your shit. My life contains a limited number of hours and days in it before it ends and I don't care to spend it opting out of each and every campaign. If 10,000 spam campaigns email me with an option to opt-out and never be spammed by that campaign again, I have still had to go through 10,000 pieces of spam and 10,000 opt-out processes.
On the other hand, I don't know who these people are who are getting an abundance of spam. They're like people who complain about "all the ads on the internet". It takes a very minimal amount of effort to avoid spam. If you don't have a clue what you're doing, you can just sign up for gmail and get about one spam every couple of months. Or your ISP likely provides quality filtering. Or if you are savvy, you can use any number of options to filter your spam on your own (greylisting, whitelisting, blacklisting, SBLs, SpamAssassin, etc).
In 2010, hearing people complain about spam or web ads is a lot like hearing a comedienne start off his set with "What's the deal with airline food?!"
Does this mean the end of Google Checkout? I mean, how can you use your Google Checkout account when Google has been banned from Mastercard processing, due to all the links to copyright infringing content and copyright infringing websites they visit? I can't wait until credit card processing is denied on the basis of things like sending contributions to a certain political party.
The problem is that it seems like everyone is trying to stuff more internet in my television, when what I really want is more television in my internet. There is a difference.
Try reading more than just the fucking subject of my post, sport. The obvious point that I made is that when you are a grown up, you have less inclination and opportunity to have this kind of gaming experience and since the majority of gamers are adults and the average gamer is middle aged, this helps define the limitations for potential use of such features and functionality. If the desire and use of that functionality is a small enough percent, it no longer remains a viable thing to invest development time on.
Or, you know, just read the subject line and wank off some ignorant gut-response.
I think your situation is an edge case and they're developing for the masses -- not the five percent that might benefit from some particular functionality. The average gamer is something like 35 years old and I'm pretty sure most 35 year old males don't live with three or four roommates and have a lot of occasions or desire to have this kind of gaming experience.
I'm not suggesting it's an invalid request, but I think it's one of those things where 95% of people bitch about a feature being removed that only 5% of them actually ever used. It's like when the PS3 Slim removed the ability to run Linux. How many people bitched about that? How many of those who bitched actually ever installed Linux on their PS3 or even intended to?
You have the dynamics of the influence backwards. While I'm sure all game developers are eager to sell more copies of the games, I doubt anyone but the in-house platform guys give a damn about influence the sames of more controllers and battery packs.
People have difference lives and expectations than ten and fifteen years ago. The average gamer is no longer kicking it in a college dorm room or wasting an after school evening with their buddies in their bedroom. There is more distance between gamers, more hectic lives, less interest in dealing with sharing screens (why would you spend money on a nice huge screen just so you can split it by two or four, again?). It's the same way a lot of people don't do LANs anymore (though, of course, some do).
The thing that is actually disappointing, to me, is the lack of community server experiences. Especially where consoles are concerned. I'm used to years of playing one or two specific games on the PC at a small handful of servers (more than one of which I've owned and operated, myself at some point). You may not know everyone on the server. You may not befriend them. But you kind of have an idea of the atmosphere of the server and you do get to know certain personalities and have an enjoyable gaming experience.
On the console, you just randomly connect with twelve random people selected out of the hundreds of thousands who are playing that game online right now and then you're connected with another twelve random people that you'll probably never *ever* see again, fifteen minutes later. And because it's not a community server, you don't have the community vibe. You don't have the "server for laid back adults" or "the server for hardcore loudmouths". You just have twelve random people every few minutes. And, of course, 90% of those people are someone's annoying fucking brat child screaming racist and homophobic comments into a mic or singing some god awful song into the mic like it's the fucking Apollo.
I don't see much interest or any benefit for the majority of gamers in retaining "local split screen" type experiences, but I see a desperate need to find a way to handle this whole decentralized, vast, meaningless ocean of multi-player gaming that consoles keep ushering in with every passing year.
Why, when I was a kid, young people socialized around burgers and malts at the local grease pit. And the burgers were a nickel. And we respected our elders.
When you grow up, you find that you have less time for gaming. You find that some of your friends and colleagues stop gaming, because of life. Of those who still game, you have fragmentation among their preferred platforms and then fragmentation among the games they invest their time in. If you've managed to find one or two like-minded folk who happen to want to play the same game on the same platform, you have to deal with aligning everyone's schedules so that they can get together. Then, you get to lug some hardware around and rearrange furniture.
It's far easier to just have a seat on the couch or office chair and make use of that thing called the "Internet".
Why is it up to "the military leaders" to decide whether or not to treat people with the rights they're granted under the constitution? Here's what happens. We tell our leaders that we want people's rights supported, whether it's race or sex or religion or whatever else. They tell the military to obey those, as per the entire foundation of the country they keep bragging about fighting to protect. THEY tell the troops to obey this. The troops shut the fuck up and do as they're told, like they're trained from day one through boot camp.
Yeah, this story smells bogus to me. That is, the rational for the existence of the feature. If my laptop is stolen, how the hell is disabling it remotely going to help me? How about a feature that automatically blasts out a beacon over 3G so the cops can go find the guy and get my machine back, instead?
You'll notice that the US Government didn't really do *too* much to Assange after his prior leaks. Hell, he already leaked before and they didn't "shut 'em down". On the other hand, they shut the hell out of dozens of domains that pirates trademarked purses and stuff last month. If they can do that, why can't they do the same for something that supposedly "puts national security and lives at risk"? Right, because it doesn't and it didn't.
However, THIS time, he warns that he has pretty dire information about financial institutions and THEN shit suddenly hits the fan. The clear point here being that it's the FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS that are putting the screws to him.
They've been my bank for most of the past decade and have been great to me, but this (on top of other things not related to customer service in the past few years) makes me want to shift to another bank. The problem is, I know that every other bank is the same. It's not like there's just one evil bank and the others have halos over their heads.
If *YOU* RTFA, you would see that the article itself explains that the article isn't the honeypot, but the press release is:
But would the media turn a correlation-only finding into a causation-based health scare? To find out, I have released my mobile masts and births results as a press release. We'll see if anyone jumps to the conclusion that mobile phone radiation really can give conception a helping hand.
Pretty half-assed troll. Facebook doesn't offer a bookmarking service and who the hell cares about *sharing* bookmarks? We want to store and access them.
I researched alternatives. Went with pinboard.in, because they tout themselves as an "anti...social bookmarking service" and are very similar to Delicious. They even use the Delicious API. They charge a one time fee (fine with me, hopefully keeps out spammers and is at least a business model that makes sense). I even decided to pay a little extra for an "archive" account (stores a copy of the page I've bookmarked). Then I deleted my Delicious account. I don't see any reason to keep it, even if they "recover" from this "fumble".
Frankly, I like the idea of being back at another little developer-run small service instead of "in the hands of Yahoo!". Until these guys sell out to some giant company that can't get rich with the service and drops it, too.
It seems to me that someone needs to develop a decent P2P services "infrastructure" that has no centralized hub that any one group can own or control and anyone can use general APIs to build services (like a Delicious type bookmarking service) on top of it. No worries about it going down or changing control, etc.
I'm a huge fan of Delicious and hate to see it "go", but this is too late. They needed to clarify this IMMEDIATELY. I already researched alternatives yesterday and eventually signed up and paid for (including an "archive account" extra fee) service at pinboard.in and I don't see any reason why I would pay for that service and go back to Delicious in any form. They needed to respond to this in the same day, to catch people in the same cycle of news.
In a couple years, this will be used as an example of how not to handle things.
Same here. I left Delicious for awhile for a competing service. I forget what it was called. I also forget exactly why I left the other service, but after a couple months I decided I just didn't like it and ran right back to Delicious and have remained there ever since. Only Yahoo! service I find useful. I'd even pay for it. I bet a lot of people would kick out $5/yr for an account.
Man, that's totally opposite of me. I absolutely do NOT want an entire database of thousands of bookmarks and tags associated with the rest of my google account.
It's already bad enough that I was playing around with Chrome for a few weeks and now I have an entire hierarchy of fucking Chrome bookmarks in my Google Docs that it won't let me delete. I guess maybe if I install Chrome again, tie it to my account, then delete the bookmarks through the browser it might remove them from my account, but it'd sure be nicer if I could just select the folders in Docs and hit "DELETE".
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Might as well make a few bucks telling your own story than make nothing letting someone else tell their version of your story.
It's just too bad he's not a cute female. As a male, half the country wants to accuse him of "treason" (ignoring his citizenship, of course) and have him executed. Meanwhile, the actual real Soviet spy that was actually really caught was sent safely back to Russia, where she is apparently the figurehead for some new political movement, a consultant for a major bank, has done a spread in Maxim, and is reportedly going to be featured in Playboy.
No, a valid opt-out *isn't* a good enough solution. If I haven't "opted-in", don't send me your shit. My life contains a limited number of hours and days in it before it ends and I don't care to spend it opting out of each and every campaign. If 10,000 spam campaigns email me with an option to opt-out and never be spammed by that campaign again, I have still had to go through 10,000 pieces of spam and 10,000 opt-out processes.
On the other hand, I don't know who these people are who are getting an abundance of spam. They're like people who complain about "all the ads on the internet". It takes a very minimal amount of effort to avoid spam. If you don't have a clue what you're doing, you can just sign up for gmail and get about one spam every couple of months. Or your ISP likely provides quality filtering. Or if you are savvy, you can use any number of options to filter your spam on your own (greylisting, whitelisting, blacklisting, SBLs, SpamAssassin, etc).
In 2010, hearing people complain about spam or web ads is a lot like hearing a comedienne start off his set with "What's the deal with airline food?!"
It seems that if you want to be taken seriously about such a claim, you would issue your response elsewhere than Zeropaid.
Does this mean the end of Google Checkout? I mean, how can you use your Google Checkout account when Google has been banned from Mastercard processing, due to all the links to copyright infringing content and copyright infringing websites they visit? I can't wait until credit card processing is denied on the basis of things like sending contributions to a certain political party.
The problem is that it seems like everyone is trying to stuff more internet in my television, when what I really want is more television in my internet. There is a difference.
I thought your sig said "GirlGirlPHP" until I clicked on it. Damn it.
Try reading more than just the fucking subject of my post, sport. The obvious point that I made is that when you are a grown up, you have less inclination and opportunity to have this kind of gaming experience and since the majority of gamers are adults and the average gamer is middle aged, this helps define the limitations for potential use of such features and functionality. If the desire and use of that functionality is a small enough percent, it no longer remains a viable thing to invest development time on.
Or, you know, just read the subject line and wank off some ignorant gut-response.
I think your situation is an edge case and they're developing for the masses -- not the five percent that might benefit from some particular functionality. The average gamer is something like 35 years old and I'm pretty sure most 35 year old males don't live with three or four roommates and have a lot of occasions or desire to have this kind of gaming experience.
I'm not suggesting it's an invalid request, but I think it's one of those things where 95% of people bitch about a feature being removed that only 5% of them actually ever used. It's like when the PS3 Slim removed the ability to run Linux. How many people bitched about that? How many of those who bitched actually ever installed Linux on their PS3 or even intended to?
You have the dynamics of the influence backwards. While I'm sure all game developers are eager to sell more copies of the games, I doubt anyone but the in-house platform guys give a damn about influence the sames of more controllers and battery packs.
People have difference lives and expectations than ten and fifteen years ago. The average gamer is no longer kicking it in a college dorm room or wasting an after school evening with their buddies in their bedroom. There is more distance between gamers, more hectic lives, less interest in dealing with sharing screens (why would you spend money on a nice huge screen just so you can split it by two or four, again?). It's the same way a lot of people don't do LANs anymore (though, of course, some do).
The thing that is actually disappointing, to me, is the lack of community server experiences. Especially where consoles are concerned. I'm used to years of playing one or two specific games on the PC at a small handful of servers (more than one of which I've owned and operated, myself at some point). You may not know everyone on the server. You may not befriend them. But you kind of have an idea of the atmosphere of the server and you do get to know certain personalities and have an enjoyable gaming experience.
On the console, you just randomly connect with twelve random people selected out of the hundreds of thousands who are playing that game online right now and then you're connected with another twelve random people that you'll probably never *ever* see again, fifteen minutes later. And because it's not a community server, you don't have the community vibe. You don't have the "server for laid back adults" or "the server for hardcore loudmouths". You just have twelve random people every few minutes. And, of course, 90% of those people are someone's annoying fucking brat child screaming racist and homophobic comments into a mic or singing some god awful song into the mic like it's the fucking Apollo.
I don't see much interest or any benefit for the majority of gamers in retaining "local split screen" type experiences, but I see a desperate need to find a way to handle this whole decentralized, vast, meaningless ocean of multi-player gaming that consoles keep ushering in with every passing year.
That's what LAN parties were for, except you didn't have to share your screen with anyone.
Why, when I was a kid, young people socialized around burgers and malts at the local grease pit. And the burgers were a nickel. And we respected our elders.
When you grow up, you find that you have less time for gaming. You find that some of your friends and colleagues stop gaming, because of life. Of those who still game, you have fragmentation among their preferred platforms and then fragmentation among the games they invest their time in. If you've managed to find one or two like-minded folk who happen to want to play the same game on the same platform, you have to deal with aligning everyone's schedules so that they can get together. Then, you get to lug some hardware around and rearrange furniture.
It's far easier to just have a seat on the couch or office chair and make use of that thing called the "Internet".
Why is it up to "the military leaders" to decide whether or not to treat people with the rights they're granted under the constitution? Here's what happens. We tell our leaders that we want people's rights supported, whether it's race or sex or religion or whatever else. They tell the military to obey those, as per the entire foundation of the country they keep bragging about fighting to protect. THEY tell the troops to obey this. The troops shut the fuck up and do as they're told, like they're trained from day one through boot camp.
Great, now all I have to do is . . . only ever use Opera on every device and from every location I ever surf.
Yeah, this story smells bogus to me. That is, the rational for the existence of the feature. If my laptop is stolen, how the hell is disabling it remotely going to help me? How about a feature that automatically blasts out a beacon over 3G so the cops can go find the guy and get my machine back, instead?
There are no ads on Delicious and the only information they have about you is a username and email address.
You'll notice that the US Government didn't really do *too* much to Assange after his prior leaks. Hell, he already leaked before and they didn't "shut 'em down". On the other hand, they shut the hell out of dozens of domains that pirates trademarked purses and stuff last month. If they can do that, why can't they do the same for something that supposedly "puts national security and lives at risk"? Right, because it doesn't and it didn't.
However, THIS time, he warns that he has pretty dire information about financial institutions and THEN shit suddenly hits the fan. The clear point here being that it's the FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS that are putting the screws to him.
They've been my bank for most of the past decade and have been great to me, but this (on top of other things not related to customer service in the past few years) makes me want to shift to another bank. The problem is, I know that every other bank is the same. It's not like there's just one evil bank and the others have halos over their heads.
If *YOU* RTFA, you would see that the article itself explains that the article isn't the honeypot, but the press release is:
But would the media turn a correlation-only finding into a causation-based health scare? To find out, I have released my mobile masts and births results as a press release. We'll see if anyone jumps to the conclusion that mobile phone radiation really can give conception a helping hand.
Google's bookmark service is miserable and lacking in major features. I've been really disappointed by it.
Pretty half-assed troll. Facebook doesn't offer a bookmarking service and who the hell cares about *sharing* bookmarks? We want to store and access them.
I researched alternatives. Went with pinboard.in, because they tout themselves as an "anti...social bookmarking service" and are very similar to Delicious. They even use the Delicious API. They charge a one time fee (fine with me, hopefully keeps out spammers and is at least a business model that makes sense). I even decided to pay a little extra for an "archive" account (stores a copy of the page I've bookmarked). Then I deleted my Delicious account. I don't see any reason to keep it, even if they "recover" from this "fumble".
Frankly, I like the idea of being back at another little developer-run small service instead of "in the hands of Yahoo!". Until these guys sell out to some giant company that can't get rich with the service and drops it, too.
It seems to me that someone needs to develop a decent P2P services "infrastructure" that has no centralized hub that any one group can own or control and anyone can use general APIs to build services (like a Delicious type bookmarking service) on top of it. No worries about it going down or changing control, etc.
I'm a huge fan of Delicious and hate to see it "go", but this is too late. They needed to clarify this IMMEDIATELY. I already researched alternatives yesterday and eventually signed up and paid for (including an "archive account" extra fee) service at pinboard.in and I don't see any reason why I would pay for that service and go back to Delicious in any form. They needed to respond to this in the same day, to catch people in the same cycle of news.
In a couple years, this will be used as an example of how not to handle things.
Same here. I left Delicious for awhile for a competing service. I forget what it was called. I also forget exactly why I left the other service, but after a couple months I decided I just didn't like it and ran right back to Delicious and have remained there ever since. Only Yahoo! service I find useful. I'd even pay for it. I bet a lot of people would kick out $5/yr for an account.
Man, that's totally opposite of me. I absolutely do NOT want an entire database of thousands of bookmarks and tags associated with the rest of my google account.
It's already bad enough that I was playing around with Chrome for a few weeks and now I have an entire hierarchy of fucking Chrome bookmarks in my Google Docs that it won't let me delete. I guess maybe if I install Chrome again, tie it to my account, then delete the bookmarks through the browser it might remove them from my account, but it'd sure be nicer if I could just select the folders in Docs and hit "DELETE".