Gamespy was competition for nobody anymore. On the PC side of things, Steamworks dominates the market so completely at this point that removing Gamespy doesn't do anything. It's not like anybody was using it in current games anyway.
On the console side, the consoles themselves are getting progressively better about offering this stuff to games on their platform. There simply wasn't a lot of reason to use Gamespy for any game development in 2013 or 2014, which is probably why the list of games affected doesn't include a whole lot of even remotely current stuff.
I sometimes wonder how idiotic ideas like changing the clocks ever find the light of day. Fortunately, we have researchers to provide factual evidence for what a bloody stupid idea that is.
Not that our so-called "leaders" are bothered by minor details like facts.
It's nice to see politicians from other countries trying to set a new standard of idiocy, and making ours in North America look okay by comparison.
This serves no sane purpose whatsoever. Books are good. We *want* people reading more. Yes, even prisoners. What do you want them doing with their time if they're not reading? Nothing better will be done instead.
This is the hair-brained scheme of some morons who got into power and don't have the slightest idea of what they're doing. It will accomplish absolutely nothing useful in dealing with crime.
Actually, he's blaming the leadership that decided to devote so many resources to graphic artists and so little to "is this game actually fun, and does the UI work?"
I mean, strictly speaking it's entirely doable. But it's another UI to build, test, and support. That stuff isn't free, and Mozilla doesn't have infinite resources. Considering the general lack of interest in Metro and the fact that the current version works just fine on Windows 8 as a desktop application, they decided it wasn't worth the cost.
It's an entirely sensible thing to do. Metro is hardly setting the world on fire.
Not to mention trying to change the channel after Metro was met with an abysmal reaction. They didn't want another situation like Vista, where the name itself is toxic.
Not knowing the difference between two similar looking words isn't that uncommon. Average people don't have to pay attention to astronomy or astrology on a daily basis, and stuff is going to get forgotten.
It doesn't mean anything except that people got the meaning of the word confused with another word. That happens pretty much everywhere on the planet, and says nothing about Americans.
Contractors also cost a lot more, doubly so when you factor in that you have to keep paying them well past the end of the contract to fix all the screwups.
The government needs enough people that it isn't going to need to increase or decreasing staffing by large amounts regularly, and if it does it can fill those gaps with contractor developers.
Hiring contracting companies to do things is just a recipe for failure.
Make donations to some key people in Congress, and bid on a government contract. Defense ones are the best, you can totally fail at that for years and they'll just throw more money at it.
People who aren't into computer security know his name, which means he can get in to talk to Congress. When you're dealing with politicians, being famous certainly helps you.
The commercial company that built this website was let go from their contract, and without that contract there will likely be firings.
But yes, feel free to tell us about all the firings from the major corporate breaches that happened in the last year. Because if you think this doesn't happen all the time, you're living in a fantasy world.
Congress is currently among the most incompetent and ineffective governining bodies on the planet. It's filled with people in safe seats (no particular effort required to win) and corporate shills who are open about it. The place needs a total purging, but that would require voters to do something other than vote for the same party every single time.
And if you expect anything out of voters these days, good luck with that.
I'm pretty sure that "it shouldn't work and should be easily hackable" were not in the spec. This is just another example of the quality of work you get when governments contract out to private companies.
CGI botched up the long gun registry in Canada in the same way many years ago.
Making their desktop/laptop users hate Metro is not advancing their phone/tablet cause. It's the opposite. Nobody who has a bad experience with Metro on their PC is going to go looking for it in another environment.
They needed to make using Metro painless on PC for that strategy to work, and they failed in spectacular fashion. It's time to give PC users what they want and make Metro a secondary thing in that environment, because it simply works badly on PC and forcing it hurts their other product lines.
Its amazing how nobody at Microsoft seemed to realize that if they forced Metro on people and people didn't like it, that would harm their phone/tablet sales rather than help them.
If I hate it on my desktop PC (where it sucks), why would I want it on a tablet?
Nice try, but do it again starting at Firefox 4. That was released in March of 2011, and now we're up to 26. That's 22 versions in 2 years and 9 months, or 8 a year.
It used to be that a house with multiple PCs wasn't that uncommon. With phones & tablets there are now many households that can get by with zero PCs, and many more that can do everything they need with just one.
Real world user performance has stagnated, with hardware gains not translating into doing a given task faster anymore. A PC from three years ago isn't that much slower at what most users are doing than a brand new one, so there's no particular need to upgrade.
This is what a mature market looks like. The product is going to continue to sell for a long time, but it's not the hot item it used to be.
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Gamespy was competition for nobody anymore. On the PC side of things, Steamworks dominates the market so completely at this point that removing Gamespy doesn't do anything. It's not like anybody was using it in current games anyway.
On the console side, the consoles themselves are getting progressively better about offering this stuff to games on their platform. There simply wasn't a lot of reason to use Gamespy for any game development in 2013 or 2014, which is probably why the list of games affected doesn't include a whole lot of even remotely current stuff.
Hackers controlling my lights is a feature I can live without.
I sometimes wonder how idiotic ideas like changing the clocks ever find the light of day. Fortunately, we have researchers to provide factual evidence for what a bloody stupid idea that is.
Not that our so-called "leaders" are bothered by minor details like facts.
It's nice to see politicians from other countries trying to set a new standard of idiocy, and making ours in North America look okay by comparison.
This serves no sane purpose whatsoever. Books are good. We *want* people reading more. Yes, even prisoners. What do you want them doing with their time if they're not reading? Nothing better will be done instead.
This is the hair-brained scheme of some morons who got into power and don't have the slightest idea of what they're doing. It will accomplish absolutely nothing useful in dealing with crime.
Actually, he's blaming the leadership that decided to devote so many resources to graphic artists and so little to "is this game actually fun, and does the UI work?"
Yes.
I mean, strictly speaking it's entirely doable. But it's another UI to build, test, and support. That stuff isn't free, and Mozilla doesn't have infinite resources. Considering the general lack of interest in Metro and the fact that the current version works just fine on Windows 8 as a desktop application, they decided it wasn't worth the cost.
It's an entirely sensible thing to do. Metro is hardly setting the world on fire.
Unless you're using Windows RT as your OS, virtually everything that runs in Windows 7 also runs in Windows 8's desktop mode.
Unless ARM based Windows tablets really take off, there really won't be a whole lot lost from this decision.
Not to mention trying to change the channel after Metro was met with an abysmal reaction. They didn't want another situation like Vista, where the name itself is toxic.
Not knowing the difference between two similar looking words isn't that uncommon. Average people don't have to pay attention to astronomy or astrology on a daily basis, and stuff is going to get forgotten.
It doesn't mean anything except that people got the meaning of the word confused with another word. That happens pretty much everywhere on the planet, and says nothing about Americans.
Contractors also cost a lot more, doubly so when you factor in that you have to keep paying them well past the end of the contract to fix all the screwups.
The government needs enough people that it isn't going to need to increase or decreasing staffing by large amounts regularly, and if it does it can fill those gaps with contractor developers.
Hiring contracting companies to do things is just a recipe for failure.
The years of lying it takes to get that many people to vote for you is pretty hard work.
Make donations to some key people in Congress, and bid on a government contract. Defense ones are the best, you can totally fail at that for years and they'll just throw more money at it.
People who aren't into computer security know his name, which means he can get in to talk to Congress. When you're dealing with politicians, being famous certainly helps you.
The commercial company that built this website was let go from their contract, and without that contract there will likely be firings.
But yes, feel free to tell us about all the firings from the major corporate breaches that happened in the last year. Because if you think this doesn't happen all the time, you're living in a fantasy world.
Congress is currently among the most incompetent and ineffective governining bodies on the planet. It's filled with people in safe seats (no particular effort required to win) and corporate shills who are open about it. The place needs a total purging, but that would require voters to do something other than vote for the same party every single time.
And if you expect anything out of voters these days, good luck with that.
I'm pretty sure that "it shouldn't work and should be easily hackable" were not in the spec. This is just another example of the quality of work you get when governments contract out to private companies.
CGI botched up the long gun registry in Canada in the same way many years ago.
Great answer. If you can show up with fifteen homes willing to sign up, they are a lot more inclined to take you seriously.
I'm pretty sure drugs and hiring Russian botnet operators are already Bitcoin's killer apps.
Making their desktop/laptop users hate Metro is not advancing their phone/tablet cause. It's the opposite. Nobody who has a bad experience with Metro on their PC is going to go looking for it in another environment.
They needed to make using Metro painless on PC for that strategy to work, and they failed in spectacular fashion. It's time to give PC users what they want and make Metro a secondary thing in that environment, because it simply works badly on PC and forcing it hurts their other product lines.
Its amazing how nobody at Microsoft seemed to realize that if they forced Metro on people and people didn't like it, that would harm their phone/tablet sales rather than help them.
If I hate it on my desktop PC (where it sucks), why would I want it on a tablet?
Is there a good PC version of any of these? It seems odd that they're phone-only, messaging on the computer is still very much a thing.
Beat me to it. That one was just hilarious.
Nice try, but do it again starting at Firefox 4. That was released in March of 2011, and now we're up to 26. That's 22 versions in 2 years and 9 months, or 8 a year.
It used to be that a house with multiple PCs wasn't that uncommon. With phones & tablets there are now many households that can get by with zero PCs, and many more that can do everything they need with just one.
Real world user performance has stagnated, with hardware gains not translating into doing a given task faster anymore. A PC from three years ago isn't that much slower at what most users are doing than a brand new one, so there's no particular need to upgrade.
This is what a mature market looks like. The product is going to continue to sell for a long time, but it's not the hot item it used to be.
If Oil is doing so great, why does it need subsidies?
Oddly, the GOP doesn't have a problem with this subsidy. I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.