Let me guess, the director of house of cards said “It needs more apple!”
I mean if you’re going to do something like this, have a little more variety.
Get ready to laugh. HBO is telling teh google to get rid of HBO from their search engine, well sorta.
The request was made on behalf of HBO by a company called DtectNet, which is the anti-piracy arm of MarkMonitor. It asked Google to remove links to the Eastbound and Down section of HBO’s online store, but it wasn’t just their own site they were after. HBO also demanded that links from MTV.com, IGN.com, and Pinterest be removed. None of the links to these sites had any content that violated copyright laws, and were just news stories and reviews of HBO content.
Fuel companies are still making good profit.
Of course I’ve cut down on fuel in my own way, not wasting my money on a car in a small town. Here’s a link to the article.
Even though Americans are cutting down on how often they hit up the gas pump, as a country we’re paying a higher percentage of our incomes on gasoline than we have in the last 30 years. The Energy Department said in a new report that U.S. households shelled out an average of $2,912 last year for gas, or about 4% of their pretax income.
This just continues to become more and more unreasonable. For example vacations, depending on your income you may end up spending more on gas than the actual vacation.
Microsoft doesn’t want you to know about this.
Gabe Newell was (and still is) right. Windows 8 is dead set on killing off gaming for PC.
In an email to XNA/DirectX Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) yesterday, Microsoft gave notice that MVP status was being phased out for program members. According to the missive, this is being done because “the XNA Game Studio is not in active development and DirectX is no longer evolving as a technology.”
Are there alternatives? Absolutely. But Microsoft’s developer support was a key factor in the Xbox 360′s early success over the PS3. There are other options for game development besides XNA, but there’s no data on what current XNA devs should plan to do if they want to develop games for the Xbox 720/Durango. Even if D3D is still in development, calling DirectX moribund isn’t exactly positive. It’s not like D3D itself couldn’t stand some major improvement; the API’s overhead in the PC space is a huge part of why consoles are able to effectively keep pace with PCs years after their internal hardware is thoroughly outdated.
Microsoft blames AMD and Nvidia for some of this. AMD and NV blame Microsoft. End users are stuck with bottlenecks and communication on resolving said issues has dwindled to nothing. At this point, it seems as though even Microsoft has no real idea how XNA users and cross-platform developers should think about the future of game development in Windows beyond “Let’s roll it all into one package.” It’s ludicrous to think the company would jeopardize its programming advantages ahead of its next-generation console launch, but absent better communication, that’s the way things look.
Microsoft is trying to push everyone into their walled garden. You want any newer games on your current Win 7 setup or below? Well tough shit. Win 8/XBox or GTFO.
I hope developers go the OpenGL route. If more people pay attention to linux as a gaming platform (among other things) think of all the good things that could be provided for it.
A war be abrewin’.
If you think higher education is too expensive, try ignorance. It’s much cheaper
A big part of studying these days goes beyond the libraries and textbooks. More kids are finding themselves studying in public places such as McDonalds since they can’t afford proper internetz.
Cheap smartphones and tablets have put Web-ready technology into more hands than ever. But the price of Internet connectivity hasn’t come down nearly as quickly. And in many rural areas, high-speed Internet through traditional phone lines simply isn’t available at any price. The result is a divide between families that have broadband constantly available on their home computers and phones, and those that have to plan their days around visits to free sources of Internet access.
I have this problem, only backwards. I have an internet connection, but can’t afford college. trolololol. :trollface:
This can’t be right.
I woke up rested and refreshed, went to work, nothing bad happened yet, had a good lunch and really good connection in the cafe.
Oh right! Everyone is at home watching the superbowl thingy. That means peace and quiet for me. 8)
Crysis 3 on PC :O
It has been pointed out to me that Crysis 3 is actually going to be multi platform and not just for the console. Might have to sign up for the open beta.
Well I still have a job.
Well, my day went a bit better today. Mr Dandydick wasn’t in today to bitch about my hair. I bought the black dye today to prepare for my next appointment. Since the problem with him seems to be in the front where my bangs are I will be replacing them entirely with black. My main boss who didn’t have the problem thinks that’s a cute idea… gag me with a fucking spoon. Anyways, I’ll be three colored by the time I’m done. We’ll be doing a test with a small patch of my hair to see if it gets ruined with the next treatment.
I was originally going to have it done tomorrow but someone at work came down with a case of the superbowl flu. So I’ll be working a full day tomorrow. Originally I told my boss no because I felt it was important to get the blue out of my hair ASAP, and she was cool about it. But then she came around an hour later and started begging again. Once again I told her I was intent on fixing my hair, but she said I didn’t have to do it right away. Probably just as well that I wait a little to lessen the chances of completely ruining it anyway. I’m still pissed though, so are other people at work. They think it’s fine the way it is but… poorly written rules is poorly written rules.
The rest of the day went alright. Played a bit of CS:GO and BFE during lunch. Helped get a bit of aggression out. Not that I didn’t do that last night at all. I did play a bit of TF2 with a friend and family before bed. But as far as online socializing went I didn’t get very far. I was too busy contemplating what I would have to do regarding my appearance, that and thinking about what a fucktard that douchesicle is.
All in all I think I did pretty good for only having 2 hours of sleep last night. Too busy mentally thinking things over.
There was an outage on the blog.
If anyone tried to access this blog (and the mumble server attached to it) it was down due to my webhost having a nasty power surge. Everything just came back online. Just in time for me to get home and raise total hell!
I’m fucking livid.
Remember awhile back when I showed off my hair? Apparently I have to remove it because the new asshole boss of the store thinks that it’s completely blue and not streaks.
How in the flying fuck are these not streaks?!?!?!?!?!? The entire reason why I have been doing this is because STREAKS ARE ALLOWED… well, I guess he gets to redefine what streaks are. It would have to be a bald fucking asshole complaining. So now I’m going to have to figure out how much I need to recolor, if all of it.
What scares me is that if I get it redone it could damage the hair, causing it to break or fall out. But if I don’t I could face losing my job over it. I bought a close matching dye to my natural color, but since I don’t have time to do it tonight I may just go back and exchange it for black… Make a fucking statement. Or maybe just cut it all off to prevent it from becoming weak. Not sure how well that will go over though.
Man, I haven’t been this pissed in awhile. I wanted to fucking club someone in the fucking shins. I can’t even see straight right now.