If you don't have a Windows computer, it IS insight - that you won't be supported at this time. At least they address the Mac client in the FAQ, Linux doesn't even get mentioned, so that suggests they have no intention to go there.
One of the reasons I still play WOW and D3 is they have cross platform support on day of release. They actively support he Mac client on their tech support forums, as opposed to plenty of other MacOS games which are poorly supported ports that come out months or years after the PC version has been released and everyone has already finished them and gotten bored and deleted them from their computer. That's really a killer when it come to multi-player games.
While you may consider the non-Windows market to small to worry about, it exists, and there are plenty of Mac users that hang out on/., I'm letting them know this game - while it looks really neat - won't be taking up space on their HDA any time soon.
I used to donate many years ago, then they changed the gauge needle they use and it started leaving a scar. After the second time it happened, I stopped donating blood. I work in professional environments, I really don't need 'track marks'.
As to Australia and there firestorms and fires? So what? I mean it is Australia and everything in the country is trying to kill you anyway. You know that even the imported bunny rabbits will eventually evolve into a venomous animal. Just kidding but yes you guys have some real problems with fires.
Anecdotally, during the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria (Australia), roughly 1/3 of the state burned. That's with fire crews actively trying to put the fire out and prevent it from taking over highly populated areas.
It is not inconceivable that left unattended significantly more area would have been consumed, and that it would have reached population areas such as Geelong or Bendigo, which could not easily have been evacuated.
To give you an idea of the speed it was traveling, at the point we were evacuated, we were told the fire was at Airey's Inlet and we had less than 5 minutes to get to the beach at Road Knight before it was due to hit. It takes roughly 10 minutes to drive to Airey's from where we lived at the speed limit (100kmp).
Bushfires spring up out of nowhere, are largely unpredictable as they can make their own winds and change direction in a moment. While you can predict high risk days, you don't know where they will start - unlike a hurricane which takes time to form and you can see it coming usually days in advance.
Assumption #1; fires started by lightning would presumably have some form of cloud cover (lightning point of origin), would this obscure the view of a 10mx10m fire until after it has become large enough to be dangerous?
Is it common to have lightning without clouds? I'm trying to think if I recall ever seeing lightning out of a clear sky.
I live in Victoria (Australia) and remember the Ash Wednesday bushfires from a first hand - sitting on the beach watching it come down the hill because we were cut off before the evacuation call went out - point of view. As such, I have an interest in anything that gives an early warning.
I've found plain flour to generally be fine quite a long time after it's recommended use by date, Self Raising flour on the other hand can fail to behave quite as you expect and result in flat cakes.
OK, so if public transit is free, how do we encourage people to swipe on and swipe off? What, why would we want them to I hear you say - it's about collecting system usage metrics for better planning.
I suspect in most cases it would probably be cheaper not to collect fares and simply manage it via a levy/tax, if the usage patterns were never going to change. However if you need to capture the number of unique users of a system and which lines and stops they use and what times - some kind of networked token system is going to be by far your most efficient method of doing so.
Most users are too self interested to wipe unless they were risking a fine if they didn't. Fare evasion is expensive to pursue - it requires ticket inspectors, infringement management frameworks, interfaces to the courts system.
Maybe at some point we'll all have RFID chips embedded and it will simply track everyone who gets on and off a PT vehicle - maybe it will even anonomise the data, though probably not. At which point some government will make a big deal about doing away with the ticketing system and people will think it's a good thing. From a service provision point of view it might be. From a privacy point of view - not so much.
I set up an AppleID for my mum a few months back with no creditcard attached. I used a giftcard to download a few bits of software for her and it all worked fine.
If only there was a way to tell Google to stop asking for a mobile number. I don't want to give it to them, and my parents don't have one at all (at it bugs my dad who then complains to me about it).
Sadly a majority of the population seems to have drunk the 'illegal immigrant' kool aide from the current (and former) Government. Maybe if the refugees called it 'defecting' it would be sexier.
I recently managed to create a new account and download software for my mother without giving it a credit card, but by using a gift card only. I think I googled creating a AppleID with no credit card for the details on how to do it, it wasn't terribly hard.
There are decent external drive enclosures with good power and heat management and excellent access to hot swap drives as required. For example, check out Synology.
Nissus Writer was a nice product, it was far more popular in Europe as it handled using a variety of languages within the same document extremely well, it also coped quite elegantly with specialty dictionaries such as medical and legal with no complaints.
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If you don't have a Windows computer, it IS insight - that you won't be supported at this time. At least they address the Mac client in the FAQ, Linux doesn't even get mentioned, so that suggests they have no intention to go there.
One of the reasons I still play WOW and D3 is they have cross platform support on day of release. They actively support he Mac client on their tech support forums, as opposed to plenty of other MacOS games which are poorly supported ports that come out months or years after the PC version has been released and everyone has already finished them and gotten bored and deleted them from their computer. That's really a killer when it come to multi-player games.
While you may consider the non-Windows market to small to worry about, it exists, and there are plenty of Mac users that hang out on /., I'm letting them know this game - while it looks really neat - won't be taking up space on their HDA any time soon.
Windows only, so not going to happen in my house. Pity, it looked kinda cool.
I used to donate many years ago, then they changed the gauge needle they use and it started leaving a scar. After the second time it happened, I stopped donating blood. I work in professional environments, I really don't need 'track marks'.
As to Australia and there firestorms and fires? So what? I mean it is Australia and everything in the country is trying to kill you anyway. You know that even the imported bunny rabbits will eventually evolve into a venomous animal. Just kidding but yes you guys have some real problems with fires.
Why would a rabbit need to be venomous when it can have big, sharp, pointy teeth?
Anecdotally, during the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria (Australia), roughly 1/3 of the state burned. That's with fire crews actively trying to put the fire out and prevent it from taking over highly populated areas.
It is not inconceivable that left unattended significantly more area would have been consumed, and that it would have reached population areas such as Geelong or Bendigo, which could not easily have been evacuated.
To give you an idea of the speed it was traveling, at the point we were evacuated, we were told the fire was at Airey's Inlet and we had less than 5 minutes to get to the beach at Road Knight before it was due to hit. It takes roughly 10 minutes to drive to Airey's from where we lived at the speed limit (100kmp).
Bushfires spring up out of nowhere, are largely unpredictable as they can make their own winds and change direction in a moment. While you can predict high risk days, you don't know where they will start - unlike a hurricane which takes time to form and you can see it coming usually days in advance.
Assumption #1; fires started by lightning would presumably have some form of cloud cover (lightning point of origin), would this obscure the view of a 10mx10m fire until after it has become large enough to be dangerous?
Is it common to have lightning without clouds? I'm trying to think if I recall ever seeing lightning out of a clear sky.
I live in Victoria (Australia) and remember the Ash Wednesday bushfires from a first hand - sitting on the beach watching it come down the hill because we were cut off before the evacuation call went out - point of view. As such, I have an interest in anything that gives an early warning.
I've found plain flour to generally be fine quite a long time after it's recommended use by date, Self Raising flour on the other hand can fail to behave quite as you expect and result in flat cakes.
I have noticed my cats tracking movement on the new (LCD) TV more than they used to on the old CRT unit.
OK, so if public transit is free, how do we encourage people to swipe on and swipe off? What, why would we want them to I hear you say - it's about collecting system usage metrics for better planning.
I suspect in most cases it would probably be cheaper not to collect fares and simply manage it via a levy/tax, if the usage patterns were never going to change. However if you need to capture the number of unique users of a system and which lines and stops they use and what times - some kind of networked token system is going to be by far your most efficient method of doing so.
Most users are too self interested to wipe unless they were risking a fine if they didn't. Fare evasion is expensive to pursue - it requires ticket inspectors, infringement management frameworks, interfaces to the courts system.
Maybe at some point we'll all have RFID chips embedded and it will simply track everyone who gets on and off a PT vehicle - maybe it will even anonomise the data, though probably not. At which point some government will make a big deal about doing away with the ticketing system and people will think it's a good thing. From a service provision point of view it might be. From a privacy point of view - not so much.
I set up an AppleID for my mum a few months back with no creditcard attached. I used a giftcard to download a few bits of software for her and it all worked fine.
If only there was a way to tell Google to stop asking for a mobile number. I don't want to give it to them, and my parents don't have one at all (at it bugs my dad who then complains to me about it).
Friends of mine used to have a start up called Netizen back in the late '90s. It did UNIXy/Web development and training.
Sadly a majority of the population seems to have drunk the 'illegal immigrant' kool aide from the current (and former) Government. Maybe if the refugees called it 'defecting' it would be sexier.
Magnets, how do they work?
That's OK, the Aussie dollar is slipping again against the US$ so the prices can be justifiably lifted again. :(
Christchurch had a 6.3 magnitude earthquake a few years back...
That was a missed opportunity, OS8 was positively stable when compared with the abortion which was OS7.5.
I recently managed to create a new account and download software for my mother without giving it a credit card, but by using a gift card only. I think I googled creating a AppleID with no credit card for the details on how to do it, it wasn't terribly hard.
There are decent external drive enclosures with good power and heat management and excellent access to hot swap drives as required. For example, check out Synology.
Investigate an Air Stash for unlimited storage on your iPad. My husband has one and they rock.
Nissus Writer was a nice product, it was far more popular in Europe as it handled using a variety of languages within the same document extremely well, it also coped quite elegantly with specialty dictionaries such as medical and legal with no complaints.
PowerPoint should have a bag put over it's head, be dragged out into the back yard and beaten to death with an axe handle. With extreme prejudice.
MacOS 8.x wasn't too bad, MacOS 7.5.x however sucked donkey's balls. MacOS 7.6.x was ok.
They don't need to swim, they just walk there slowly, mind you carnivorous fish are a bit of a problem.
Sweetie!
Oh for some mod points today.