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Comment Re:Hosting customers are running away to europe (Score 2) 115

by Pteraspidomorphi (#34614616) Attached to: FBI Defend Raids On Texas Datacenter

I'm european. I used to buy my dedicated hosting in the U.S. for several reasons - Low latency to my lots of american users, good location for international routing, prices, etc. Then after a series of setbacks caused by companies with bad business practices (read extortion), increasing prices and, yes, scary laws, I finally relented and moved to europe. Never looked back! And I'm sorry to say I also regularly convince others to move from the U.S. to europe.
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Are Games Getting Easier? 854

Posted by CmdrTaco from the kids-these-days dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I can't help feeling that this generation of games for both consoles and PCs are getting increasingly dumbed down and easier to complete. There's no challenge in today's games, most of which can be completed on the day of purchase. Triple A titles such as Halo, Modern Warfare 2 are the worst of the lot. The whole reason for this article is Medal of Honor, this can be completed within hours of purchase. Where's the fun in that?"
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MS Gives Free Licenses To Oppressed Nonprofits 151

Posted by samzenpus from the here-you-got-enough-trouble dept.
victorl19 writes "Microsoft is vastly expanding its efforts to prevent governments from using software piracy inquiries as a pretext to suppress dissent. It plans to provide free software licenses to more than 500,000 advocacy groups, independent media outlets and other nonprofit organizations in 12 countries with tightly controlled governments, including Russia and China."

Comment Re:It's too late, and the game is too far behind (Score 1) 215

by Pteraspidomorphi (#33918090) Attached to: Square Enix Attempting <em>Final Fantasy XIV</em> Damage Control

- They're adding a way to "search retainers in a ward for specific items." aka: Functionality like an auction house. It's good that they're adding this. It's not good that they launched the game with a system that was so completely and fundamentally broken at the design level that it never should have been let out of alpha. Seriously, someone thought it was a good idea to make players wander around from retainer to retainer in the hope of finding item that they need, in a game where crafting is heavily dependent on player made inputs? Have these people ever played a MMO?

- They're also adding a shortcut to reply to whisper messages directly. Which is good, since you can't right now. Again, who ever heard of a MMO where you can't reply to messages? This isn't rocket science, it's the most basic chat functionality on the planet. (While they're at it they should make message size limits something slightly larger then a twitter message.)

I never played FFXIV, but it sounds like they hired the developers of most korean MMORPGs to design and code their interfaces...

Comment Re:How are they going to fix the sausage fest? (Score 2, Interesting) 261

by Pteraspidomorphi (#33916520) Attached to: <em>Hobbit</em> Film Finally Gets Green Light, To Be Shot in 3-D

http://www.movies.spoilertv.com/2010/01/hobbit-casting-call.html

[ITARIL] FEMALE, A WOODLAND ELF, this character is one the Silvan Elves. The Silvan Elves are seen as more earthy and practical. Shorter than other elves, she is still quick and lithe and physically adept, being able to fight with both sword and bow. Showing promise as a fighter at a young age, ITARIL was chosen to train to become part of the Woodland King’s Guard. This is the only life she has ever expected to live, until she meets and secretly falls in love with a young ELF LORD. This role will require a wig and contact lenses to be worn. Some prosthetic make-up may also be required. LEAD. AGE: 17-27. ACCENT – STANDARD R.P.

Comment Re:There is a battle for the future of... (Score 1) 297

by Pteraspidomorphi (#33914264) Attached to: Facebook, Microsoft Team Up Against Google

I think the point you're all missing is that while in a small town everyone knows everyone else and there's a certain degree of awareness of what everyone else is up to (I live in a small town myself), you, being a part of that 'everyone', should have that awareness too. You know who the people in your community are and a few things about them, even if you aren't into gossip. If Aunt Mae thinks you're gay, you can try to sort it out with those people - this small amount of people which are people you yourself know - or you can move elsewhere, or you can even let it be known that Aunt Mae is a lesbian and then sit back and have a quiet chuckle.

This can't possibly be compared with the degree to which facebook and other such services erode your privacy. They do so on a global scale. Faster than wildfire, everything about you is sold or transmitted to complete strangers everywhere in the world and stored in databanks, public and private, for a long, long time. In this situation, if you're screwed, you truly are screwed forever.

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