Ruining It For Everyone Else Since 2004
They’ve partnered together to create a game streaming service called Xfinity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MdJxO3_fA0
Of course these games will easily eat through your shitty Comcast data cap. :v
Now maybe if they partnered with Time Warner Cable and Ubisoft we could have the four corporations of the apocalypse screwing everyone over under one roof.
I had to laugh when I heard about this the other day. Google/YouTube wanted to buy Twitch, and it didn’t go through. So they basically just said screw it, lets make our own. Who saw that coming? Pretty much everyone…
YouTube is preparing to relaunch its livestreaming platform with a renewed focus on live gaming and esports specifically, according to sources within the streaming industry.
I don’t know if I’ll use it. I have a Twitch account but haven’t gotten around to streaming. The only streaming I’ve done so far is through Steam. Where my friends got to watch me kill guards with Big Boss’s ass.
***Edited to change have to haven’t. One word can make a big difference. 😛 ***
So apparently Comcast has been changing peoples names for quite some time. More have come out on the subject.
If you read through the whole article it’s even more of a nightmare. Especially for one person who made several attempts to get her account name changed back with no luck, at least until she spoke with them in person.
“They changed my name to ‘dummy’ in my online account, so that the greeting was ‘Hello, dummy,’” she tells Elliott. “I had to call several times but they said they didn’t see it until I went in person to Comcast and they removed it.”
She claims that no one offered an apology or explanation for how the name change occurred.
Stay classy Comcast…
Imagine getting your cable bill and finding that some “clever” employee decided to change your name to this:
The customer could only surmise that the name change had something to do with her request to bring down her monthly expenses by removing the pay-TV portion of her Comcast package, even though it cost her a $60 fee to cancel. As usually happens in such calls, her cancellation request was escalated to a retention specialist.
I would hate to use comcast. Most ISP’s in the US suck these days but comcast has to be right up there with Time Warner and a few other choice “assholes”.
Hollywood seems to think that Google Fiber will lead to more piracy of their movies.
It’s not a secret that Hollywood and Google are constantly fighting over piracy issues. While most of the public comments are made on search, there’s another Google product that terrifies the movie studios. Leaked research reveals that Hollywood fears a huge piracy surge due to Google fiber, predicting a billion dollar in piracy losses in the U.S. alone.
Perhaps if everyone were forced to use dialup Hollywood wouldn’t feel so uneasy. 😛
I read that there were a ton of WordPress sites that got hit with Russian Malware. Over 100,000 to be exact. It’s so awful that Google has even had to block 11,000 domains. What a clusterfuck.
Google has already blocked 11,000 domains to try to curb the damage. According to security firm Sucuri, the malware uses a vulnerability in a slideshow plug-in called Slider Revolution. The Slider Revolution team have fixed it with updates. The problem is that the old,vulnerable version of the plug-in is still bundled with WordPress themes, so lots of sites are still using the wrong version.
Good thing I haven’t used a slider here. Although I’ve contemplated it but I’m not sure if it would even fit how I (barely) run this place.
Woke up to a bunch of people on my friends list talking about the new Steam Broadcasting feature that allows you to stream your gameplay. So I spent a good portion of the evening streaming various games. It seems to work with Direct X and OpenGL, but sadly no MSDOS.
This is currently in the steam client beta if anyone wants to check it out. To my knowledge it works on Windows 7 and 8. If you’re on Windows Vista it’s not available, and I’m not sure about Linux and Mac but they’re probably not supported either for this beta.
So, looks like I might have to look into doing some streaming for myself. 🙂 Then you can see how horrible I am. 😛
I heard about this last night and decided to sign up. It’s called Gorilla Gong, a site hosted by Machinima peoples for Machinima peoples who make machinima and sometimes lets plays. They have a comment system that makes more sense than the current youtube one, and forums where you can discuss videos and stuff. It looked like fun so I decided to check it out. I might even put some of my videos up there if I’m feeling up to it. 😀
Microsoft really knows how to push people to their product:
Microsoft has confirmed that DirectX 11.2, the next-generation version of its application programming interface (API) and hardware abstraction layer (HAL) for multimedia devices will be exclusive to Windows 8.1 and its Xbox One console.
All I have to say to this is C’Mon OpenGL!!! 😀
“Honey, I’m going googling! Errr I mean shopping!”
The mission of the stores is to get new Google Nexus, Chrome, and especially upcoming products into the hands of prospective customers. Google feels right now that many potential customers need to get hands-on experience with its products before they are willing to purchase.