I was a subscriber to a popular forum. I payed for the service so I could post links to the products my family made. I didn't have flashy banner ads, instead I just posted topics and answered questions. I was not allowed to spam. I was not allowed to 'advertise' in threads that didn't have anything to do with the product. I was allowed to post links to my website. The site didn't have annoying banner ads. It didn't beg its users for money. The site did monitor its paying users and kicked the ones that didn't follow the rules. Customers loved it, vendors loved it (well the ones that weren't scam artists).
It worked very well.
Only reason I'm not doing it today was a sickness in the family didn't allow us to continue sales and manufacture of the products.
Not necessary. With Flash and Java all the virus writer needs is a 0-day in the plug-in and you still get pwned, even if you only visit 'trusted' sites. Also some of the jackass flash ads that are small for a moment then explode to half the screen size if you get close to them make accidental clicks common.
In the early '90s the U.S. murder rate dropped significantly. One would think if video games made people violent that the opposite effect would have occurred.
"The database is a joint project of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which provided most of the funding, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and school officials from several states. Amplify Education, a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, built the infrastructure over the past 18 months. When it was ready, the Gates Foundation turned the database over to a newly created nonprofit, inBloom Inc, which will run it."
Ah, another California troll. It's funny when the seemly large number of people from your state move here they are simply amazed how much cheaper the cost of living is. But for my sake please stay where you are and do not move here.
No, the feds could pretty much tell the big carriers they want to wiretap you, and that you need to route your traffic outside of Texas for them to capture. I don't think any major cell phone company is based solely in the state of Texas.
Problem is all your good ideas aren't going to happen. Try to get media time saying you are a moderate in U.S. politics. Heh, won't happen. You will have BOTH the right and left discrediting you with their millions of dollars of financing.
The problem with American media, is there is no air time for moderate opinions.
Media only pushes: It's RIGHT, no it's LEFT, something must be done NOW NOW NOW! Stop thinking and do it NOW or the conservative liberal gay homophobic nazis will adulterate the minds of your CHILDREN!!!!11eleventy11!.
It's hard to get a design failure working this late in the stage.
Most likely this isn't a problem with the 'game' servers themselves, but the message passing/application routing logic that's amplified by bad client design.
>and I suspect that's why they felt overconfident in their system and didn't think they would need that many servers.
My guess is the servers handling players is fine, the code splitting up users to servers has failed, the application router. Routing traffic to the least used server is hard to get right with edge cases, it only take a small percentage of edge cases to bring the entire system down (the application router spends 99% of its time dealing with 1% of the clients).
When I first bought my internet only service from my cable provider cable was only $5 or so dollars more. Since that time cable increased by $4 ($9 more total). For the same amount of channels.
In the meantime for the same price my internet service speed was raised %50.
Only problem I have now is the constant calls from the cable co trying to sell me a bundle package.
Pointing at porn in equal rights for all genders is laughable at best, it's easy because it's a taboo subject.
Children are taught to interact different from the day they are born, mostly thru the toy and teaching choices their parents make. "Here Sally, here is a doll and a dress, your life is about how you look and interact with others", "Here Timmy, here's a toy hammer and some legos, your life is about how strong you are and what you can build/do".
Have you actually read the proposal? It is not a law, it is just more political BS. There is no actual ban in the proposal, just "calls for". The last sentence in the linked article points this out.
"Falkvinge added that the EU proposal is not legislation at this stage. Instead, it is a request for draft legislation. It's a first step in the process for measures to become EU law."
So calm down. This is just more hot air from politicians that have perfected the generation of hot air.
It's easier to have an abortion before a baby is born then to get away with killing a child.
Kill political BS with the nuclear option the moment it is formed in the womb.
Manufactures. Mid-range laptops/desktops with a Hybrid will perform much better then similar laptop with a regular disk. It will also be far cheaper then a high end laptop with an SSD.
HP has shipped mid-range laptops with XTs in them since some time last year. My users have no complaints about their disk performance compared to the machines with pure SSDs.
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don't use advertising as a business model?
Use better advertising as the business model.
I was a subscriber to a popular forum. I payed for the service so I could post links to the products my family made. I didn't have flashy banner ads, instead I just posted topics and answered questions. I was not allowed to spam. I was not allowed to 'advertise' in threads that didn't have anything to do with the product. I was allowed to post links to my website. The site didn't have annoying banner ads. It didn't beg its users for money. The site did monitor its paying users and kicked the ones that didn't follow the rules. Customers loved it, vendors loved it (well the ones that weren't scam artists).
It worked very well.
Only reason I'm not doing it today was a sickness in the family didn't allow us to continue sales and manufacture of the products.
Until google and others just use heavily obfuscated and self modifying javascript specifically to defeat such features.
Then they just get totally blocked. Mutually Assured Destruction is not a game you want to play if you want to make money on the internet.
... like limiting Formula One teams to 30 hp engines
Very odd analogy to pick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_car#Recent_FIA_performance_restrictions
> and click on the ads?
Not necessary. With Flash and Java all the virus writer needs is a 0-day in the plug-in and you still get pwned, even if you only visit 'trusted' sites. Also some of the jackass flash ads that are small for a moment then explode to half the screen size if you get close to them make accidental clicks common.
I'll turn the clock back a little farther for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum#Use
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/images/murderrate.png
In the early '90s the U.S. murder rate dropped significantly. One would think if video games made people violent that the opposite effect would have occurred.
Because I'm pretty sure we can't outlaw 'addiction' but I'm pretty sure we can outlaw drugs.
LOL, WTF. You have no idea what Microsoft is up to here.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/03/us-education-database-idUSBRE92204W20130303
Linked from
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/03/04/135248/100-million-student-database-worries-parents
"The database is a joint project of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which provided most of the funding, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and school officials from several states. Amplify Education, a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, built the infrastructure over the past 18 months. When it was ready, the Gates Foundation turned the database over to a newly created nonprofit, inBloom Inc, which will run it."
Luckily the low income people in Texas will get much farther with the few dollars they have.
http://www.bestplaces.net/cost_of_living/state/texas
http://www.bestplaces.net/cost_of_living/state/california
If a mother from Mexico has a child here, the child is not an illegal immigrant and IS counted.
http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Austin-Texas/
"Average price per square foot for Austin TX was $80"
http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/San_Antonio-Texas/
"Average price per square foot for San Antonio TX was $54"
http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/San_Francisco-California/
" Average price per square foot for San Francisco CA was $596"
Based on the idea that selling cost is 6x in SF as Austin, and 10x SA, the rent in SF is significant.
The average difference in price of fuel per gallon is $.75 (lower for Austin). The grocery index (err whatever that means, is about $20 higher for SF.
Ah, another California troll. It's funny when the seemly large number of people from your state move here they are simply amazed how much cheaper the cost of living is. But for my sake please stay where you are and do not move here.
No, the feds could pretty much tell the big carriers they want to wiretap you, and that you need to route your traffic outside of Texas for them to capture. I don't think any major cell phone company is based solely in the state of Texas.
Problem is all your good ideas aren't going to happen. Try to get media time saying you are a moderate in U.S. politics. Heh, won't happen. You will have BOTH the right and left discrediting you with their millions of dollars of financing.
Anyway, I'm fairly moderate
The problem with American media, is there is no air time for moderate opinions.
Media only pushes: It's RIGHT, no it's LEFT, something must be done NOW NOW NOW! Stop thinking and do it NOW or the conservative liberal gay homophobic nazis will adulterate the minds of your CHILDREN!!!!11eleventy11!.
It's hard to get a design failure working this late in the stage.
Most likely this isn't a problem with the 'game' servers themselves, but the message passing/application routing logic that's amplified by bad client design.
>simulation effects that cause change across the region like pollution or crime
I'd never get the game, but it sounds fun to troll your neighbors by building a huge industrial city with no police stations. Kinda like Detroit.
>So if the sales are lackluster then blaming it on piracy looks not merely hollow scapegoating, but full on ridiculous.
Someone in middle management will secretly release the server code, blame another division for letting hackers in, and scapegoat the pirates.
>and I suspect that's why they felt overconfident in their system and didn't think they would need that many servers.
My guess is the servers handling players is fine, the code splitting up users to servers has failed, the application router. Routing traffic to the least used server is hard to get right with edge cases, it only take a small percentage of edge cases to bring the entire system down (the application router spends 99% of its time dealing with 1% of the clients).
http://www.anutterwasteoftime.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/FBI-Warning.jpg
Read picture and tell me what it says.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink
When I first bought my internet only service from my cable provider cable was only $5 or so dollars more. Since that time cable increased by $4 ($9 more total). For the same amount of channels.
In the meantime for the same price my internet service speed was raised %50.
Only problem I have now is the constant calls from the cable co trying to sell me a bundle package.
Pointing at porn in equal rights for all genders is laughable at best, it's easy because it's a taboo subject.
Children are taught to interact different from the day they are born, mostly thru the toy and teaching choices their parents make. "Here Sally, here is a doll and a dress, your life is about how you look and interact with others", "Here Timmy, here's a toy hammer and some legos, your life is about how strong you are and what you can build/do".
It's very backwards indeed, since apparently women in porn make far more then men. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornographic_film_actor#Pay_rates
Have you actually read the proposal? It is not a law, it is just more political BS. There is no actual ban in the proposal, just "calls for". The last sentence in the linked article points this out.
"Falkvinge added that the EU proposal is not legislation at this stage. Instead, it is a request for draft legislation. It's a first step in the process for measures to become EU law."
So calm down. This is just more hot air from politicians that have perfected the generation of hot air.
It's easier to have an abortion before a baby is born then to get away with killing a child.
Kill political BS with the nuclear option the moment it is formed in the womb.
Manufactures. Mid-range laptops/desktops with a Hybrid will perform much better then similar laptop with a regular disk. It will also be far cheaper then a high end laptop with an SSD.
HP has shipped mid-range laptops with XTs in them since some time last year. My users have no complaints about their disk performance compared to the machines with pure SSDs.