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Living Room / Re: free-2-play or pay-2-win? the micro-transaction business

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 21, 2011, 05:42 AM »

I wonder when consoles are going to move more towards this method of "Pay2Win"

Surely cant be long now...look at how much money these micro-payment games actually make...I, myself have been known to download a F2P game, only to purchase extras to make my character stronger, or look better, or just for the sheer hell of it...yet if they had put a price tag on the game to download and play...I would not have bothered spending more than 2 minutes on their website

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Living Room / Re: Linux game devs pirate their own game

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 21, 2011, 05:31 AM »

Ha, that is pure awesome!

I have found myself turning to torrents recently due to my DVD Drive exploding. Not sure on the legality of Buying a physical copy of a game, and then torrenting it so you don't need to use the DVD to install play...but I am beyond the point of caring...

Most of the time, I would think that people simply pirate for 2 reasons:

• 1. Sheer lack of money and the game they really want, they simply cannot afford
• 2. Because nobody can really get a feel for a game in a crappy little demo (Which generally contain unique content/missions NOT found in the actual game...

When the person is doing it for Reason #1, they are not likely to ever buy an official copy (But things can change)

People who do it for the second reason are far more likely to purchase a game they like.

DRM also drive the piracy market, so the "Anti-Piracy" methods used by big games companies are actually more like a "F##k you hackers", which Hackers then see as a bigger challenge...crack the game...and torrent it even quicker than they would have otherwise done.

(Just my 2 cents!)

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Living Room / Re: BBC - inspiration?

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 21, 2011, 05:24 AM »

Look an awful lot like the new 4od website (www.4od.com) <--- Might not work outside the UK

Maybe they got the same company to do it?

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 19, 2011, 11:09 AM »

Well, I actually felt kinda good about this until I saw Stephen's... Now I'm just jealous!!
-J-Mac (September 16, 2011, 02:06 PM)

Please don't be...

You get very spoiled with a 100meg connection, and when it isn't working at full speed, and you find yourself on anything below 50-70, you get VERY annoyed, and people just don't understand how, or why your frustrated with downloading at ONLY 6500kb/s via HTTP. $:-\$
-Stephen66515 (September 18, 2011, 01:46 PM)

Oh, thank you - I feel so much better now.

Jim
-J-Mac (September 18, 2011, 09:31 PM)

The way I have it worked out, is that if a company offers you a 20MB connection, this means, if you CONNECT at that 20mb speed, you will actually DOWNLOAD at 10% of that speed, and upload at 10% of your DOWNLOAD speed.

That seems to be pretty accurate. Well, maybe 5% of what's advertised... but potato hand grenade. Y'know...
-Renegade (September 18, 2011, 11:18 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Science is hot! or at least symphonic

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 19, 2011, 11:07 AM »

No idea, but they played it.

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 18, 2011, 01:46 PM »

The local look:

The more realistic view:

Rated for 10 to 20 Mbps *AS ADVERTISED*. However, everything in the advertising is misleading. Purposefully misleading. e.g.:

ADSL2+ Speeds:
Optimal ADSL2+ speeds require compatible ADSL2+ modem and filters. Around 70% of TPG ADSL2+ customers can achieve speeds greater than 10Mbps. Actual speeds will vary due to many factors including distance from the local telephone exchange, the quality of the customer's copper phone line, cabling and equipment.

While technically partially true, it's obvious that they're trying to mislead people. i.e. ADSL is asynchronous, and down/up differ, so stating a speed of 10 Mbps implies both up and down, however, the reality is very different. Conclusion: they're misleading intentionally because nobody in the industry is that stupid as to confuse ADSL for (synchronous) DSL. When you call them for support, they'll confess that the expected up speed is 1 Mbps. I really don't appreciate having to dig that far to get basic information.

It would be one thing to be upfront and honest, but that just ticks me off. Like just how hard is it to be honest?

Anyways, that's better than I was seeing before, so I'm much happier with that. And still very jealous of a few people in here~!

-Renegade (September 17, 2011, 08:57 PM)

The way I have it worked out, is that if a company offers you a 20MB connection, this means, if you CONNECT at that 20mb speed, you will actually DOWNLOAD at 10% of that speed, and upload at 10% of your DOWNLOAD speed.

Not sure if thats the exact, but certainly seems true for my line:

When it works properly, I get...

100mb/s connection
- 10MB/s Max DOWN Speed
- 1MB/s UP Speed

Again...this is depending on a few factors like where I am downloading/uploading from and if my internet is behaving in an optimal state, and how many times I have kicked the router that day.

Torrents will obviously download at a much much higher rate than HTTP downloads and I can't actually figure out the Down/Up ratio for them as its different for literally every single one.

Well, I actually felt kinda good about this until I saw Stephen's... Now I'm just jealous!!
-J-Mac (September 16, 2011, 02:06 PM)

Please don't be...

You get very spoiled with a 100meg connection, and when it isn't working at full speed, and you find yourself on anything below 50-70, you get VERY annoyed, and people just don't understand how, or why your frustrated with downloading at ONLY 6500kb/s via HTTP. $:-\$

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 16, 2011, 09:40 AM »

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 16, 2011, 09:36 AM »

...Might seem fast, but I pay for 2x that lol
-Stephen66515 (September 16, 2011, 09:24 AM)
I would pay double what I'm paying now for that! I think that I'd need to pay around $400 a month to get even remotely close to that. (From the last time I looked...)
-Renegade (September 16, 2011, 09:30 AM)

Works out here (For the 100meg fiber optic connection) + TV (Minus Sports and Movies) and Phoneline (With unlimited weekend calls to landlines, and free calls all day every day to mobiles on the same ISP network) at around £40/month (GBP) or something.

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 16, 2011, 09:24 AM »

...Might seem fast, but I pay for 2x that lol

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Living Room / Re: Google Translate: For Animals

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 16, 2011, 09:19 AM »

Uploaded by GoogleChannelUK on Mar 31, 2010
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I24bSteJpw&feature=player_embedded
That probably was last year's google UK april's fools
-jgpaiva (September 16, 2011, 08:13 AM)

At least that explains it lmao

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Living Room / Re: Google Translate: For Animals

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 16, 2011, 08:05 AM »

app downloaded installed now all i need is an animal (that talks)

btw one of the top voted comments
-tomos (September 16, 2011, 07:51 AM)

LMFAO

Haha, please let me know what the app does xD

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Living Room / Google Translate: For Animals

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 16, 2011, 07:38 AM »

OK...So there I was, being bored as hell on stumbleupon.com and wimp.com, when I fell across the following video...

Right...OK...I did actually miss the bit with the link right at the beginning...so the entire way through I was thinking "Heh...fun spoof"...Until I saw an actual GOOGLE link...

Hmmmm...Doubt it works...lets try it anyway......

Custom Quote

Introducing Translate for Animals (beta): Bridging the gap between animals and humans

Making the world’s information universally accessible is a key goal for Google. Language is one of our biggest challenges so we have targeted our efforts on removing language barriers between the species. We are excited to introduce Translate for Animals, an Android application which we hope will allow us to better understand our animal friends. We’ve always been a pet-friendly company at Google, and we hope that Translate for Animals encourages greater interaction and understanding between animal and human.

Translate for Animals is an application for Android phones that recognises and transcribes words and phrases that are common to a species, like cats for example. To develop Translate for Animals, we worked closely with many of the world’s top language synthesis teams, and with leaders in the field of animal cognitive linguistics, including senior fellows at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

Take a tour of Translate for Animals
Visit Android Market – more apps for your mobile

To remove Translate for Animals, go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Animal Translate and select “Uninstall”.

©2011 Google

Source: http://www.google.co...translateforanimals/

...Wtf...Did I fall asleep and miss an entire century...is this some type of Google Humor that I really am not getting?...wtf...

I don't have an android, so I cant actually download this and see if:

A> The App is actually a real App
B> WTF it thinks my dog's are saying.

Even if the App is real (IE, you can download it), and it does "Translate"...All its really going to be doing is collecting random sound bytes from a possibly massive list, at complete random...then giving you one to listen to...

Anybody care to explain this to me?!

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Living Room / Re: Science is hot! or at least symphonic

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 16, 2011, 01:19 AM »

This was just featured on BBC Radio 1

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge & Early Beta: Kyrathaba's Source Code Line Counter

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 15, 2011, 04:12 PM »

Just downloaded and ran this. Works VERY well indeed. Was actually shocked at how many lines of code my small utility actually has (Even with all the options like blank lines, and designer unchecked).

Out of curiosity...How many lines does your line counter have?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012: Promotional Videos (With Bonus Competition)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 15, 2011, 03:05 PM »

There are still a LOT more to come. I'm going to release a minimum of one per week, but that figure could go as high as 5! It all depends how bored I get lmao!

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012: Promotional Videos (With Bonus Competition)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 15, 2011, 01:52 PM »

Just added Video #3 to the Original Post

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Living Room / Re: Apple and users' privacy

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 14, 2011, 09:59 PM »

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... a bluetooth ear piece finder

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on September 14, 2011, 07:08 PM »

Baby Daughter (BD) bought a Jawbone - don't know which one - for her [shudder $:-\$ ] iPhone.

Now she cannot locate it .

Anyone know of a means to track/trace a bluetooth ear piece? Kinda like unto calling a lost cell phone? (Google's been no help.) She'd really like to locate it .
-barney (September 14, 2011, 07:03 PM)