Really dude that is incredibly stupid to post the IP address. What if it is dynamic? what if it is an edge router or a proxy for a school something? what if it is someone stealing someone else unprotected WiFi or free wifi (after all this person doesn't have a lot of ethics to begin with) You have just painted a big fat target on them for a load of semi unstable idiots that think they would be doing the world a favour by attacking that address. I hope your right and it is the thiefs address! otherwise you just commited a rather large prick act on someone.
Personally, while I respect your opinion, I think your looking at it the wrong way. On console you just throw the game in and it will look EXACTLY as the developers intended for it to look. While on a PC with older hardware I have to tweak the settings, read forums to work out the best settings and in game command line options to adjust the game. The older your hardware gets the less likely the game was tested with your machine specs in mind and the harder and harder it gets to eek out that performance. I have been gaming for 20+ years now and while tweaking has gotten infinitely easier it is still a pain and is essentially time wasted, I spend all my working life working on servers in a datacenter, the last thing I want to do when I get a new game is spend time trying to tune it. I play FPS's and RTS's on the PC and some of them even with modern machines can cause me to spend hours tuning, MW2 for example took me weeks to get working right due a multitude of activision bugs, video driver bugs and several other incompatible programs I had making it all but unplayable in multiplayer, all the while I cursed my friends who decided to get it on the 360 or PS3. The Nirvana that Activision perceives doesn't exist, besides which their only reason for wanting this is greed, they have no desire to make gaming better for you or me, simply a desire to find a bigger and more sustainable pig trough to eat at.
So even with an only 2 year old graphics card you have to reduce performance, 2 years is a way to frequent upgrade. This is the whole damn problem, if you want to keep up with games in the PC world you have to upgrade or have the game operating at less than the designed intent. I can afford to keep up with that, I actually upgrade at least once a year but I have friends that can't afford to upgrade there 3,4,5 year old machines and find it almost impossible to play newer games. the 360 came out in 2005, the PS3 came out in 2006. Even games purchased in 2011 or 2012 will work the same on a 2005 model as it will on a 2012 model. get a gaming machine from 2007 or 2008 even and you will find you have to turn down the graphics on modern games.
From all reports I have seen of late I would have to agree with the OP, They seem to be pretty well out of ideas as the user base has been rapidly shrinking. The upcoming XPac looks completely uninspiring and is unlikely to stem the hemoraging for any significant time. I say this as someone who still plays the game and is even on the beta, though the week on the beta has made me seriously question why I bother anymore.
What you have here is serious jealously of Xbox Live and soon PSN as they look to monetise it. They are seeing the huge profit MS is starting to turn on XBL (while at the same time forgetting the years of investment ie losses it took to get there) and just like a petulant child they are trying to figure out some easy way they can claim a slice of this pie (while at the same time not actually do anything to earn it).
And the various levels of hardware in PC land hold back development even more. Very few games can afford to shoot for the leading edge of hardware as it simply restricts their gaming audience too much. An X-box will set a gamer back $300-$500 (depending on accessories), a modern gaming machine while relatively cheap nowadays is going to cost you at least as much and is a constantly shifting target that forces gamers to upgrade regularly (I am one of them), with a console I can spend more on games with slightly less capable hardware, with a PC I spend more on hardware which reduces what I can spend on games, but get prettier games.
So you like other people not being anonymous, but you want yourself to still be anonymous? That kind of reminds me of this.
I personally think internet anonymity is a good thing. It forces people to attack each other's arguments rather than resorting to ad hominems, and ensures an even playing field, since newbies' arguments are heard on the same level as those of our celebrities (at least in theory).
Really? I must say I have found the exact opposite is nearly universially true on the internet, the more anonymous people are the more of a douche bag they feel free to be, ad hominem attacks seem to escalate the more anonymous people feel themselves to be. The few places on the internet where I participate in a non anonymous fashion are the only places I have seen where cordial well thought out discussions and arguments occur.
yep, and actions that "could" result in such a result should be prosectuted with that end possibility in mind, ie not a damn misdemeanor. if you endanger the lives of others you should not expect a right to keep your 2nd amendment rights.
From my actual reading of the article it doesn't say everyone is going to be charged with a felony. It says willfull violations may be charged with a class D felony, that really just narrows it down to people that they can prove are intentionally encroaching despite the known restrictions. Personally I don't see a problem in this, looking at it from the point of view of someone doing the mucky job of cleaning this disaster up I would damn well want anyone placing my safety at further risk to receive some pretty harsh punishment and no a misdeamor for willfully endangering my life would not be sufficient. Safety first, peoples right to get up close second, even if that is in the interests of the filthy BP execs it is the way it should be.
That all depends, if the 65' boundary really is to protect the workers safety then intentionally breaching that boundary may constitute endangering the lives of those workers, consider the example of a boat decides to come in to a close, a wave then pushes them into a collision with the equipment which kills 5 workers, you reckon that should only have a consequence of a misdemeanor when they have knowingly violated safety requirements and endangered others?
Reckless Endangerment maybe? (don't know not really any sort of law expert) but putting the lives of the cleanup crew at risk, I believe that can be prosecuted as a felony and would seem to fit nicely with the breaching of imposed safety regulations.
like it or not, safety is a reasonable thing to expect for workers, or to infact DEMAND for workers. 65 feet is close enough to not impose any harsh restriction while allowing workers to do there job.
secondly why the hell should workers be being interviewed, they are supposed to be cleaning up the mess not standing around yapping to the press.
how exactly is this a ban? 65 feet seems a more than reasonable safety barrier and what photographer is going to say "shit, 65 feet, better leave as can't take photos at that range".
They are not even remotely similar. Especially in a sport with limited to no second chances and where bad luck or bad decisions can easily allow the better team to lose or the team may just have an off day. Look at the brazil netherlands game for instance, Brazil completely and utterly dominated and out played them in the first half and did well the second half too, they could have easily been up 3-0 by half time, but they weren't and 2 mistakes in the second half were there downfall.
It all depends on the volume your shipping, hardware and drive space are relatively cheap nowadays, but the people that run them are damn expensive and do not get cheaper over time.
Profile and search has 3 subcategories that can be expanded.
Basic information
Contact Information
Interests, favourites, things and notes
if you click on basic information it will expand out giving you the option to adjust who can see your friends list. At this point I am finding it a little hard to believe that someone that claims to have written books on windows and office could not read through that web page and work it out, I am probably being trolled. yes it is more complex than it should be, but then how many people honestly want to hide their friends list from their friends, I had not even thought to look for this option till this article and it took me all of about 1 minute to find.
One puzzle game proves that it's worth it to port to Linux?
If it took two months to port a puzzle game, imagine how much time and expenses it would take to port a big-name game with much higher technical demands and support requirements.
The article actually stated it was not worth it unless you were doing it for the passion, if there time had been at industry standard rates (which they state as $10,000 a man month, personally I would say that is on the low side) then the project would have made a loss. So I guess this is worth it as long as your time is worth nothing or you are doing it for the love of it.
I could not think of a more boring and uninteresting set of things to be reading about lol. As I said earlier, it seems you just have a much lower standard when it comes to interesting/funny compared to what others consider an incredible waste of time.
The recession we had to have
home loan interest rates of 18%
massive national debt
these were all legacy's of the keating era, don't get me wrong the howard government botched a heap of stuff too, but for there first term all they could do was try and repay the massive debts that had built up. The interest rate rises of the late howard era were an RBA mistake, even acknowledged by them as them not correctly assessing the state of the economy. private sector debt is in many cases a far healthier scenario, most private sector debt is borrowings made to increase investment and is "usually" a sign of a very healthy economy, when that debt massively goes down it is because investers are fleeing.
as for the current GFC and the rudd fiasco. Did they help shield Australia. Sure I guess you could say that, they did the equivalent of burning wads of hundred dollar bills to keep a homeless man warm, sure that will work but I'll be buggered if I will say it is smart or efficent use of funds.
how about because other countries do EXACTLY the same thing, this is only news because it is google. countries all over the world (including the US) have restrictions on everything from foreign investment, foreign ownership and foreign imports and many even with the exact same laws requiring local partners in many sectors.
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Really dude that is incredibly stupid to post the IP address. What if it is dynamic? what if it is an edge router or a proxy for a school something? what if it is someone stealing someone else unprotected WiFi or free wifi (after all this person doesn't have a lot of ethics to begin with) You have just painted a big fat target on them for a load of semi unstable idiots that think they would be doing the world a favour by attacking that address. I hope your right and it is the thiefs address! otherwise you just commited a rather large prick act on someone.
Personally, while I respect your opinion, I think your looking at it the wrong way. On console you just throw the game in and it will look EXACTLY as the developers intended for it to look. While on a PC with older hardware I have to tweak the settings, read forums to work out the best settings and in game command line options to adjust the game. The older your hardware gets the less likely the game was tested with your machine specs in mind and the harder and harder it gets to eek out that performance. I have been gaming for 20+ years now and while tweaking has gotten infinitely easier it is still a pain and is essentially time wasted, I spend all my working life working on servers in a datacenter, the last thing I want to do when I get a new game is spend time trying to tune it. I play FPS's and RTS's on the PC and some of them even with modern machines can cause me to spend hours tuning, MW2 for example took me weeks to get working right due a multitude of activision bugs, video driver bugs and several other incompatible programs I had making it all but unplayable in multiplayer, all the while I cursed my friends who decided to get it on the 360 or PS3. The Nirvana that Activision perceives doesn't exist, besides which their only reason for wanting this is greed, they have no desire to make gaming better for you or me, simply a desire to find a bigger and more sustainable pig trough to eat at.
So even with an only 2 year old graphics card you have to reduce performance, 2 years is a way to frequent upgrade. This is the whole damn problem, if you want to keep up with games in the PC world you have to upgrade or have the game operating at less than the designed intent. I can afford to keep up with that, I actually upgrade at least once a year but I have friends that can't afford to upgrade there 3,4,5 year old machines and find it almost impossible to play newer games. the 360 came out in 2005, the PS3 came out in 2006. Even games purchased in 2011 or 2012 will work the same on a 2005 model as it will on a 2012 model. get a gaming machine from 2007 or 2008 even and you will find you have to turn down the graphics on modern games.
From all reports I have seen of late I would have to agree with the OP, They seem to be pretty well out of ideas as the user base has been rapidly shrinking. The upcoming XPac looks completely uninspiring and is unlikely to stem the hemoraging for any significant time. I say this as someone who still plays the game and is even on the beta, though the week on the beta has made me seriously question why I bother anymore.
What you have here is serious jealously of Xbox Live and soon PSN as they look to monetise it. They are seeing the huge profit MS is starting to turn on XBL (while at the same time forgetting the years of investment ie losses it took to get there) and just like a petulant child they are trying to figure out some easy way they can claim a slice of this pie (while at the same time not actually do anything to earn it).
And the various levels of hardware in PC land hold back development even more. Very few games can afford to shoot for the leading edge of hardware as it simply restricts their gaming audience too much. An X-box will set a gamer back $300-$500 (depending on accessories), a modern gaming machine while relatively cheap nowadays is going to cost you at least as much and is a constantly shifting target that forces gamers to upgrade regularly (I am one of them), with a console I can spend more on games with slightly less capable hardware, with a PC I spend more on hardware which reduces what I can spend on games, but get prettier games.
So you like other people not being anonymous, but you want yourself to still be anonymous? That kind of reminds me of this.
I personally think internet anonymity is a good thing. It forces people to attack each other's arguments rather than resorting to ad hominems, and ensures an even playing field, since newbies' arguments are heard on the same level as those of our celebrities (at least in theory).
Really? I must say I have found the exact opposite is nearly universially true on the internet, the more anonymous people are the more of a douche bag they feel free to be, ad hominem attacks seem to escalate the more anonymous people feel themselves to be. The few places on the internet where I participate in a non anonymous fashion are the only places I have seen where cordial well thought out discussions and arguments occur.
yep, and actions that "could" result in such a result should be prosectuted with that end possibility in mind, ie not a damn misdemeanor. if you endanger the lives of others you should not expect a right to keep your 2nd amendment rights.
From my actual reading of the article it doesn't say everyone is going to be charged with a felony. It says willfull violations may be charged with a class D felony, that really just narrows it down to people that they can prove are intentionally encroaching despite the known restrictions. Personally I don't see a problem in this, looking at it from the point of view of someone doing the mucky job of cleaning this disaster up I would damn well want anyone placing my safety at further risk to receive some pretty harsh punishment and no a misdeamor for willfully endangering my life would not be sufficient. Safety first, peoples right to get up close second, even if that is in the interests of the filthy BP execs it is the way it should be.
That all depends, if the 65' boundary really is to protect the workers safety then intentionally breaching that boundary may constitute endangering the lives of those workers, consider the example of a boat decides to come in to a close, a wave then pushes them into a collision with the equipment which kills 5 workers, you reckon that should only have a consequence of a misdemeanor when they have knowingly violated safety requirements and endangered others?
Reckless Endangerment maybe? (don't know not really any sort of law expert) but putting the lives of the cleanup crew at risk, I believe that can be prosecuted as a felony and would seem to fit nicely with the breaching of imposed safety regulations.
like it or not, safety is a reasonable thing to expect for workers, or to infact DEMAND for workers. 65 feet is close enough to not impose any harsh restriction while allowing workers to do there job.
secondly why the hell should workers be being interviewed, they are supposed to be cleaning up the mess not standing around yapping to the press.
how exactly is this a ban? 65 feet seems a more than reasonable safety barrier and what photographer is going to say "shit, 65 feet, better leave as can't take photos at that range".
They are not even remotely similar. Especially in a sport with limited to no second chances and where bad luck or bad decisions can easily allow the better team to lose or the team may just have an off day. Look at the brazil netherlands game for instance, Brazil completely and utterly dominated and out played them in the first half and did well the second half too, they could have easily been up 3-0 by half time, but they weren't and 2 mistakes in the second half were there downfall.
It all depends on the volume your shipping, hardware and drive space are relatively cheap nowadays, but the people that run them are damn expensive and do not get cheaper over time.
Profile and search has 3 subcategories that can be expanded.
Basic information
Contact Information
Interests, favourites, things and notes
if you click on basic information it will expand out giving you the option to adjust who can see your friends list. At this point I am finding it a little hard to believe that someone that claims to have written books on windows and office could not read through that web page and work it out, I am probably being trolled. yes it is more complex than it should be, but then how many people honestly want to hide their friends list from their friends, I had not even thought to look for this option till this article and it took me all of about 1 minute to find.
If you mean private as in the 3 default options, then no it doesn't, you have to explicitly go into privacy and then advanced and edit the settings.
PRivate is defined as : allowing friends to still have some access.
go into privacy settings->advanced->Basic Information->friends list and set who can see your friends list to "JUST ME"
PS: make sure you click advanced so you can individually control all your settings rather than rely on default templates.
login to live.
go to your profile.
select privacy
change the level at which users can see your friends.
yes you can, but lets not confuse a MS bashing with facts.
Where is the option to mod the whole story as overrated/troll. Sigh
One puzzle game proves that it's worth it to port to Linux?
If it took two months to port a puzzle game, imagine how much time and expenses it would take to port a big-name game with much higher technical demands and support requirements.
The article actually stated it was not worth it unless you were doing it for the passion, if there time had been at industry standard rates (which they state as $10,000 a man month, personally I would say that is on the low side) then the project would have made a loss. So I guess this is worth it as long as your time is worth nothing or you are doing it for the love of it.
I could not think of a more boring and uninteresting set of things to be reading about lol. As I said earlier, it seems you just have a much lower standard when it comes to interesting/funny compared to what others consider an incredible waste of time.
all I can say is.
The recession we had to have
home loan interest rates of 18%
massive national debt
these were all legacy's of the keating era, don't get me wrong the howard government botched a heap of stuff too, but for there first term all they could do was try and repay the massive debts that had built up. The interest rate rises of the late howard era were an RBA mistake, even acknowledged by them as them not correctly assessing the state of the economy. private sector debt is in many cases a far healthier scenario, most private sector debt is borrowings made to increase investment and is "usually" a sign of a very healthy economy, when that debt massively goes down it is because investers are fleeing.
as for the current GFC and the rudd fiasco. Did they help shield Australia. Sure I guess you could say that, they did the equivalent of burning wads of hundred dollar bills to keep a homeless man warm, sure that will work but I'll be buggered if I will say it is smart or efficent use of funds.
how about because other countries do EXACTLY the same thing, this is only news because it is google. countries all over the world (including the US) have restrictions on everything from foreign investment, foreign ownership and foreign imports and many even with the exact same laws requiring local partners in many sectors.