Don't be coy. You pay for water and electricity because those are finite resources. Bandwidth is not a resource. You aren't "using it up" because you don't have a limit to how much can be used. People can overload the pipes but they can't use all the bandwidth up and force the ISP to generate more. It's the equivalent of your water system simply being the pipes (A SERIES OF TUBES) and not actually having to send any water.
What he's describing is something that works with their POS without allowing the computer to actually process the transaction or see card data. We have that product at my company as well. I don't do that stuff anymore, but I did help with that project originally and it was a cool idea. ECRi was where the thing plugging into the register is the entire credit card machine and it simply passes back an approval to the POS without any actual card data making it there. It's a hell of a lot more secure than using a PIN pad.
If you think about it, there's basically no reason at all they need to process the actual card with their computers. The POS exists to ring up totals and keep track of things. It does not need to take any part in the actual authorization of the card...that's how shit like THIS happens.
If you do this, NO ONE will want to post there. Just saying. I wouldn't want to post reviews if it required me to reveal my actual identity to the public. Fuck that. There's a reason I don't use my real name as my screen name.
If they can deliver to a majority of their customers in big cities, do you really think they care about people living in the middle of nowhere? I mean, I'm in Phoenix right now and a 10 mile radius around the warehouse they have here would cover a fairly significant portion of city. If they built one on the opposite side of the valley, they would really have something...or if they just had longer range copters eventually. My main point here though is that this service isn't for people that live way the hell away from this stuff. It's for big cities where lots of people live in a smaller area.
The only reason anyone uses Windows is to run Windows apps. If I want tablet stuff, Android does it better. They've taken a Windows OS, removed the ability to run Windows programs, and tried to force everyone to get stuff from their store so that they can get a cut and so that they can control what is allowed to be in said store. Why on Earth would I want to encourage that? If they let me side load, that would be one thing and I could simply opt out of the store, but you can't. On top of that, they barely have shit in that store anyway. So now I'm getting a "Windows" tablet that can't do shit because no one develops for RT. Everyone develops for Android and iOS. If they TRULY wanted to move the platform forward, they would allow side loading and they would continue compatibility with Win32.
If I can't install programs the way I always have (without any input from Microsoft), then they can take their OS and shove it up their asses.
Just as a side note (I'm a PC gamer mainly), there is no game you can buy on PS4 that doesn't also have DRM all over it on PC except maybe some of those indie titles. They're either Steamworks, Origin, or U-Play. The big guys rarely put out a game that is DRM free. Now if you're talking about only buying DRM free games, rock on, PC is the place for that for sure.
Not to be a Sony cheerleader or anything but you realize that game is NOT made by Sony? So maybe the firmware update was leveraging a feature that wasn't available on older versions? I mean I could be wrong but why else would a 3rd party put PS3 firmware updates on disc?
And for the guy that had his PS3 updated by a Bluray...all bluray players require updates to continue functioning with newer movies don't they (I have no idea why)? Sony should have been nicer about it and made the bluray updates separate though.
I always see people here complain about Steam always running and I wonder what the hell kind of machines they're running. If you have a gaming rig at this point you have at the VERY least, 4gb of memory. Most of us have 8gb of more. That piddly little Personally I like as much Steam integration as I can get. Using Steam as a backend for multiplayer is awesome. Steam achievements too. It's like its own little console that allows me to still run mods and shit. They have outrageous sales constantly and if I really need to, I can use offline mode. It's not perfect but I generally don't HAVE to use it if I don't want to. Steam is something I WANT to use because it adds value for me.
Thank you. Hit the nail on the head. Just because I've "voted with my dollars" doesn't mean I'm going to sit here silently while you continue doing this shit even after I've tried to show you with money.
I'm going to complain and I'll keep doing it and I'll be especially pissed when you do shit like what they did with Mass Effect 3 and pulled a character out of the game, claimed it was DLC that they worked on later (despite there being references to him all throughout the game's code), and then proceeded to tell us that potentially one of the most important characters in the game wasn't really important and you could just play without him. This is called shitting on your fanbase. I was not happy about that and I'm still not. Yeah, I could have done without it, but after I'd invested over 100 bucks in the 3 Mass Effect games, I think they could give me a fucking $5 character for free. That was a pretty dickish thing to do, in my opinion and it's a pretty good example of doing shitty things with DLC.
Oh and apparently the 90s didn't exist? At some point quarter munchers stopped and we just had games and then expansions. No $100 in DLC that looks like they ripped it from the finished product and launched it on day 1 (or in Capcom's case IT WAS ON THE DISC WHEN THEY SHIPPED IT).
I can't fathom what his issue WOULD be with it since you can simply not turn that on. It is off by default. I use the feature though and I fucking love it. None of the 3rd party replacements were quite as good as the real thing.
Except that, again, you have to specifically opt into it. So you're not a user...good for you? No one is forced to use the service at all. I don't understand what the point of these comments are.
I'm not a user either, but I don't care that the feature EXISTS. I just don't use it. Why would anyone care about that thing if they have to turn it on to use it?
THIS! Dear god this. I cannot tell you how much it enrages me the way they treat Netflix. I am more than happy to watch TV/movies there and would be glad to pay $20 a month if it meant ALL the TV and movies I could watch.
The tracking I can understand, but a few ads? Do you feel as if you are entitled to browse their site without accepting a few ads? I mean if it's obnoxious, sure, but they aren't all obnoxious. The clear benefit to you is that the website owner can afford to keep the website running.:p
The only money I've ever wanted from my websites was enough money to pay for running them and a little extra to spend on improving them. I've never looked to make a profit. To that end, I usually just slap up a few Google text ads and call it a day because I don't want obnoxious shit all over my site. I also find the tracking stuff repellent.
Touche. This is a well reasoned argument and I can see your point of view. I still think it's not a huge deal to deal with those settings when need be and I'm sure you can find ways if you're clever to do it with Microsoft's tools.
My work does it and they never want to do shit with our computers (biiig company). I'm actually amazed that we have Firefox...I think they just deployed it with some.ini files that set things the way they want (proxy settings, disable updates, disable addons, etc). I guess we'll see how that works with the silent updates.:)
Steam is working on that. Big Picture mode. Also a lot of games let you configure settings with a controller if they support a controller. It's just a matter of time, really.
You wrote so much and yet not a word of it dealt with any of the facts in the article. Who gives a shit who the writer is? We're dealing with facts here...not opinions...unless you have something that proves those numbers wrong?
I mean I'm not exactly Obama's number one fan, but your post has completely avoided addressing anything in the article itself.
If it worked for "everyone else" then there wouldn't still be people complaining would there? I don't have problems of the same magnitude the GP had, but Firefox has run like shit in comparison to Chrome for me for quite some time. I don't know what it is and I'm not going to sit here and agonize over a memory watching app or something to try to figure it out myself. You know why? I switched to Chrome. I try Firefox out every once in a while to see what's up. This version, actually, is the first one that hasn't run like shit for me. I'm actually pretty happy.
Maybe it's the addons. Maybe not. I tested out a completely add-on free Firefox on one of my computers and it ran like complete dogshit. Not to mention the fact that what is the point of the browser if I can't use Addons? And before the argument that "it's shitty addons" comes up, Chrome has addons too and they aren't screwing up my browser like the Firefox ones apparently do.
It doesn't really matter who is to blame because when it comes down to it, I can do the same things I do in Firefox in Chrome now and Chrome doesn't run like shit. That's pretty much all there is to it.
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Don't be coy. You pay for water and electricity because those are finite resources. Bandwidth is not a resource. You aren't "using it up" because you don't have a limit to how much can be used. People can overload the pipes but they can't use all the bandwidth up and force the ISP to generate more. It's the equivalent of your water system simply being the pipes (A SERIES OF TUBES) and not actually having to send any water.
You realize SteamOS is Debian and that you can install anything you want, right?
It isn't rumored. It has been proven many times. Hell, I've seen lights that are unusually quick plenty of times.
What he's describing is something that works with their POS without allowing the computer to actually process the transaction or see card data. We have that product at my company as well. I don't do that stuff anymore, but I did help with that project originally and it was a cool idea. ECRi was where the thing plugging into the register is the entire credit card machine and it simply passes back an approval to the POS without any actual card data making it there. It's a hell of a lot more secure than using a PIN pad.
If you think about it, there's basically no reason at all they need to process the actual card with their computers. The POS exists to ring up totals and keep track of things. It does not need to take any part in the actual authorization of the card...that's how shit like THIS happens.
If you do this, NO ONE will want to post there. Just saying. I wouldn't want to post reviews if it required me to reveal my actual identity to the public. Fuck that. There's a reason I don't use my real name as my screen name.
If they can deliver to a majority of their customers in big cities, do you really think they care about people living in the middle of nowhere? I mean, I'm in Phoenix right now and a 10 mile radius around the warehouse they have here would cover a fairly significant portion of city. If they built one on the opposite side of the valley, they would really have something...or if they just had longer range copters eventually. My main point here though is that this service isn't for people that live way the hell away from this stuff. It's for big cities where lots of people live in a smaller area.
The only reason anyone uses Windows is to run Windows apps. If I want tablet stuff, Android does it better. They've taken a Windows OS, removed the ability to run Windows programs, and tried to force everyone to get stuff from their store so that they can get a cut and so that they can control what is allowed to be in said store. Why on Earth would I want to encourage that? If they let me side load, that would be one thing and I could simply opt out of the store, but you can't. On top of that, they barely have shit in that store anyway. So now I'm getting a "Windows" tablet that can't do shit because no one develops for RT. Everyone develops for Android and iOS. If they TRULY wanted to move the platform forward, they would allow side loading and they would continue compatibility with Win32.
If I can't install programs the way I always have (without any input from Microsoft), then they can take their OS and shove it up their asses.
Just as a side note (I'm a PC gamer mainly), there is no game you can buy on PS4 that doesn't also have DRM all over it on PC except maybe some of those indie titles. They're either Steamworks, Origin, or U-Play. The big guys rarely put out a game that is DRM free. Now if you're talking about only buying DRM free games, rock on, PC is the place for that for sure.
Not to be a Sony cheerleader or anything but you realize that game is NOT made by Sony? So maybe the firmware update was leveraging a feature that wasn't available on older versions? I mean I could be wrong but why else would a 3rd party put PS3 firmware updates on disc?
And for the guy that had his PS3 updated by a Bluray...all bluray players require updates to continue functioning with newer movies don't they (I have no idea why)? Sony should have been nicer about it and made the bluray updates separate though.
Kill switch is still good if you're worried about someone getting in to all the shit on your phone.
I always see people here complain about Steam always running and I wonder what the hell kind of machines they're running. If you have a gaming rig at this point you have at the VERY least, 4gb of memory. Most of us have 8gb of more. That piddly little
Personally I like as much Steam integration as I can get. Using Steam as a backend for multiplayer is awesome. Steam achievements too. It's like its own little console that allows me to still run mods and shit. They have outrageous sales constantly and if I really need to, I can use offline mode. It's not perfect but I generally don't HAVE to use it if I don't want to. Steam is something I WANT to use because it adds value for me.
Thank you. Hit the nail on the head. Just because I've "voted with my dollars" doesn't mean I'm going to sit here silently while you continue doing this shit even after I've tried to show you with money.
I'm going to complain and I'll keep doing it and I'll be especially pissed when you do shit like what they did with Mass Effect 3 and pulled a character out of the game, claimed it was DLC that they worked on later (despite there being references to him all throughout the game's code), and then proceeded to tell us that potentially one of the most important characters in the game wasn't really important and you could just play without him. This is called shitting on your fanbase. I was not happy about that and I'm still not. Yeah, I could have done without it, but after I'd invested over 100 bucks in the 3 Mass Effect games, I think they could give me a fucking $5 character for free. That was a pretty dickish thing to do, in my opinion and it's a pretty good example of doing shitty things with DLC.
Oh and apparently the 90s didn't exist? At some point quarter munchers stopped and we just had games and then expansions. No $100 in DLC that looks like they ripped it from the finished product and launched it on day 1 (or in Capcom's case IT WAS ON THE DISC WHEN THEY SHIPPED IT).
I can't fathom what his issue WOULD be with it since you can simply not turn that on. It is off by default. I use the feature though and I fucking love it. None of the 3rd party replacements were quite as good as the real thing.
Except that, again, you have to specifically opt into it. So you're not a user...good for you? No one is forced to use the service at all. I don't understand what the point of these comments are.
I'm not a user either, but I don't care that the feature EXISTS. I just don't use it. Why would anyone care about that thing if they have to turn it on to use it?
THIS! Dear god this. I cannot tell you how much it enrages me the way they treat Netflix. I am more than happy to watch TV/movies there and would be glad to pay $20 a month if it meant ALL the TV and movies I could watch.
The tracking I can understand, but a few ads? Do you feel as if you are entitled to browse their site without accepting a few ads? I mean if it's obnoxious, sure, but they aren't all obnoxious. The clear benefit to you is that the website owner can afford to keep the website running. :p
The only money I've ever wanted from my websites was enough money to pay for running them and a little extra to spend on improving them. I've never looked to make a profit. To that end, I usually just slap up a few Google text ads and call it a day because I don't want obnoxious shit all over my site. I also find the tracking stuff repellent.
Yeah, just like when they asked me if I wanted to install WGA, right?
Touche. This is a well reasoned argument and I can see your point of view. I still think it's not a huge deal to deal with those settings when need be and I'm sure you can find ways if you're clever to do it with Microsoft's tools.
.ini files that set things the way they want (proxy settings, disable updates, disable addons, etc). I guess we'll see how that works with the silent updates. :)
My work does it and they never want to do shit with our computers (biiig company). I'm actually amazed that we have Firefox...I think they just deployed it with some
Back to Reddit with you! :p
Steam is working on that. Big Picture mode. Also a lot of games let you configure settings with a controller if they support a controller. It's just a matter of time, really.
I at least try not to be a complete asshole about that stuff. xD
Whoops...guess I missed that. Probably below my threshold or something. :p
You wrote so much and yet not a word of it dealt with any of the facts in the article. Who gives a shit who the writer is? We're dealing with facts here...not opinions...unless you have something that proves those numbers wrong?
I mean I'm not exactly Obama's number one fan, but your post has completely avoided addressing anything in the article itself.
If it worked for "everyone else" then there wouldn't still be people complaining would there? I don't have problems of the same magnitude the GP had, but Firefox has run like shit in comparison to Chrome for me for quite some time. I don't know what it is and I'm not going to sit here and agonize over a memory watching app or something to try to figure it out myself. You know why? I switched to Chrome. I try Firefox out every once in a while to see what's up. This version, actually, is the first one that hasn't run like shit for me. I'm actually pretty happy.
Maybe it's the addons. Maybe not. I tested out a completely add-on free Firefox on one of my computers and it ran like complete dogshit. Not to mention the fact that what is the point of the browser if I can't use Addons? And before the argument that "it's shitty addons" comes up, Chrome has addons too and they aren't screwing up my browser like the Firefox ones apparently do.
It doesn't really matter who is to blame because when it comes down to it, I can do the same things I do in Firefox in Chrome now and Chrome doesn't run like shit. That's pretty much all there is to it.