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Many a sci-fi author has made money writing a book — which later becomes a movie — that scares people with the proposition that machines will some day take over the world.
Given that most machines, like your dryer, can't do simple jobs (like drying clothes) without problems (eating your socks, tying your sweater in knots, shredding tissue paper into three million bits), I really don't understand this fear. Even the most intelligent computers need to be booted (both in the computer sense and in the physical sense) several times a week to make them work properly.
My incomprehension aside, I just read something that should allay those fears. Machines will not take over the world. We will not be replaced by machines. We're taking over *their* turf.
NTT, a Japanese communications company, has worked on a technology they call RedTacton which allows the human body to transmit data. Relax — this does not involve Matrix style jacks in the back of the head. You won't even have to learn the secret of navigating voice mail systems without going insane.
The technology makes use of your skin's naturally occurring minute electrical field, modulates it very slightly and voila! You become your own broadband network, transmitting at speeds of up to 2Mbps.
This means you could have a RedTacton enabled digital camera in your pocket, and you could upload the photos just by touching a spot on a similarly enabled computer. You could trade music files with someone just by shaking their hand. You could swap phone numbers with some hottie you meet in a bar with a quick smooch. Or if you're Paris Hilton, you could swap all your friends phone numbers and raunchy videos as well.
The possibilities this technology would allow are endless. I'm ecstatic. For one thing it means that never again will my computer be able to tell me it can't print because it can't find the printer. I can just march over to the printer and fwap the data directly into it.
It will give students a whole new way to pass notes in class. It will also give them a whole new way to cheat on exams, but it will also give teachers a method for fighting back. Just walk up and lay a casual hand on the student's shoulder, smile, and upload the DELETE CHEAT SHEET program.
It will drive music industry executives mad, because they'll now have to sue grandmothers, young children, *and* anyone they see holding hands in a suspicious way, on the grounds they might have been file swapping.
Meanwhile, teenagers will have a new reason to roll their eyes at their parents. I can just see my sons now. "Jeeze, Mum, you actually used *wires* to send data? Or *radio waves?* Didn't the dinosaurs get in the way of the signal?"
On the downside, approximately two minutes after the technology hits the mass market, spammers will find a way to use it. This will probably involve paying people to ride the subway and jostle other riders, thereby transmitting several thousand adverts for cheap Rolexes, sex drugs, and banned CDs into their iPods.
Virus writers will also surely try to use the technology as well, writing programs especially designed to spread quickly via human to human contact. This will lead to confusion and embarrassment at your yearly physical. "Yes doc, everything is fine. Well, apart from that worm I had last month. No wait! I mean computer worm! What are you doing prepping for surgery?!"
However even human transmitted computer viruses have their upside. Research scientists could program a 'fake' virus designed to spread from person to person and report back to a main computer as to where it is, allowing us to better understand how real viruses spread.
Finally, it will totally revolutionize Hollywood. In future spy movies, I can just see James Bond visiting Q now, asking for the technology. "Strictly for Queen and country of course, old chap. Must personally check out all of Goldfinger's henchwomen, to make sure, they're not, you know, carrying secret hench codes and so forth."
And in vampire movies, the villains won't be out for blood, they'll be out for data.
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According to Goodreads, this is one of the best sci-fi books of 2014, and that's why I bought it. Spoiler alert: it's not.
Synopsis: Rory, a beautiful and unique girl, is in college trying to get her life back together after the horrible torture, rape and murder of her parents, her best friend and herself. (Yes, "murder" of herself. She's very adamant about the fact that she was killed that day.) She meets Benji and Cy, two incredibly handsome and muscular men who are immediately attracted to her. She works with Dr. Zorba, a friend of her father's, in his research of a very special rock. This research culminates on an alien invasion and the almost complete destruction of the town she lives in. Oh, yes, and she finds true love in the middle of it.
Overall enjoyment: I had to force myself to keep reading, and it was a very uncomfortable experience, with the way my eyes kept rolling almost impulsively after every sentence.
Plot: It's exactly as I described on the synopsis. The entire first half of the book is just about Rory meeting Benji and Cy, and the infantile love triangle; suddenly, there's aliens shooting up the place out of nowhere. There's very little thought dedicated to the actual sci-fi part, it seems like an afterthought. There are so many overused tropes, very badly applied, it feels like you've already read the book a thousand times.
Characters: Inconsistent at best, downright unlikable most of the time. Calling them two-dimensional is an exaggeration: they're one-dimensional, at most.
World/setting: Nothing special.
Writing style: A bunch of overused tropes and clichés put together. There were a lot of inconsistencies with that, too: sometimes everyone sounds very formal and uptight, right after that they curse constantly, and then they become intimate and colloquial enough to seem sleazy. There are cringe-worthy attempts at humor, exaggerated attempts at drama, a completely unnecessary sex scene and such desperate attempts to make Rory relateable that she ends up not being a character at all. There are also many narrative inconsistencies; for instance the thing about Rory being killed. At first I thought it was symbolism for her old personality being killed by her trauma, but then she makes it very clear that she actually died and then came back. I was expecting it to be used later in the story, and it just isn't, it's almost like she forgot about it. And the plot twists are absurd to the point of comical.
Representation: Inexistent for all minorities (unless you count unconscious children being tortured representation). There is an insinuation that Rory might be bisexual, but the context in which it is presented is very negative. She is describing all the degradation Rory put herself through right after her trauma, and she makes it seem like that is not something anyone sane and healthy would do. There is also a staggering lack of female characters; besides Rory, there are two aliens who barely talk and have no actual personality to speak of and one who is an evil bitch.
Political correctness: There was so much misogyny in this book it was painful to read. Starting with the completely unnecessary sexual trauma Rory went through (which is badly characterized), going on with constant slut-shaming and bitch-shaming (women who complain are worthless) and topping it off with Rory being surrounded and defined by the male characters. Both Benji and Cy are emotionally abusive and display stalker behavior, and that is presented as being the most romantic thing that could happen. There is an enormous warped sense of priorities: Rory is being chased by soldiers into a space ship that was incinerating the city and the foremost thought in her head is annoyance that the alien girl is so pretty. Even the sex scene is incredibly misogynistic: she describes Rory going down on Benji in detail, but he makes no attempt at foreplay on her at all and assumes she's excited enough and ready to be fucked just because he allowed her to suck his dick.
I know I'm being very mean in this particular review, but I'm getting really tired of this kind of book. Maybe that's a consequence of the challenge already, in the most other books I've read women being treated as people is a basis. I probably would have given up on this book if it weren't for the challenge, though. I'm honestly just pissed off that what little free time I have right now was taken up by reading this.
Up next: Dreams of Gods & Monsters, by Laini Taylor

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"But oil prices, the IEA said, will continue to rise, hitting $125 per barrel in inflation-adjusted terms — more than $215 per barrel in nominal terms — by 2035. U.S. consumers, the agency makes clear, won't be shielded from those price increases, even if the country doesn't import a drop of foreign oil."The report goes on to say:
"Oil is a global commodity. What matters for prices is total supply and total demand — not where the oil is produced or consumed. That means that even if the U.S. relied only on domestically produced oil, prices would still be dictated by global market forces."Oil prices are based on global supply and demand and oil is very easily exported. As soon as there is a big enough price differential where traders can make money in arbitrage they will export the oil. The graph below shows the predictions by the IEA:
So, the conclusion is clear... The US will be a large oil producer AND you will still be paying $3.00 - $4.00 in adjusted dollars per gallon.


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A year after AUTONOM SHUTTLE at CES 2017, NAVYA presented at this edition, its two autonomous vehicles: AUTONOM SHUTTLE and AUTONOM CAB, circulating in the streets of the historic center of Las Vegas: Fremont. KEOLIS, NAVYA's long-time partner, is the first to operate AUTONOM CAB on this territory since 2018.
Look back at CES 2018: More than 2500 people transported in AUTONOM
Visitors were able to test AUTONOM CAB, which operates without a steering wheel or pedal, in an autonomous way thanks to the most sophisticated sensors architecture on the market. They were able to order it, open its doors and start the ride in one click thanks to the dedicated smartphone application. The participants to the exhibition were also able to experience the many services available on board developed with Ingenico: share the payment, reserve its theatre or museum ticket and even order a coffee, thanks to the interactive screen.
For the duration of CES 2018, AUTONOM CAB has transported more than 600 people in the Las Vegas Fremont district and more than 300 people at the Gold Lot on the Valeo track, within the CES itself. Regarding AUTONOM SHUTTLE, more than 1,500 people used it in the historic center of Las Vegas Fremont. Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval rode aboard AUTONOM SHUTTLE on the occasion of the National Governors Association conference.
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As part of the experiment started in November 2017, AUTONOM SHUTTLE continues to transport passengers in Las Vegas until November 2018 and AUTONOM CAB will be deployed in the United States during the second half of 2018.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345806147365425073.post8838941421074296933..comments2020-05-18T07:24:28.399+02:00Comments on Peekaboo: MNIST for ever....Andreas Muellerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345806147365425073.post-87442638674678354632013-11-25T23:39:12.805+01:002013-11-25T23:39:12.805+01:00Sort of old thread here sorry, came across it whil...Sort of old thread here sorry, came across it while googling...

I actually got worse results with whitening. I think it sort of introduced grey regions where there were prieviously none. As you noted, the dataset has very little variance - which is what whitening tried to maximize.

I really don't get why this dataset is such a benchmark. Just because its small grey-scale images.. easy to use. *frown*.Tim Dobsonhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345806147365425073.post-82970652018207286272012-05-04T13:59:13.450+02:002012-05-04T13:59:13.450+02:00Oh and about whitening: I doubt that would help wi...Oh and about whitening: I doubt that would help with mnist. Though you can try with scikit-learn with PCA(whiten=True).Andreas Muellerhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345806147365425073.post-8760848840261719352012-05-04T13:57:34.535+02:002012-05-04T13:57:34.535+02:00By now I would do it with python and scikit-learn....By now I would do it with python and scikit-learn.
I might write a new version of this post some time soon.
With scikit-learn, the complete code looks something like this:
https://gist.github.com/2594372
Be aware, though, this might take a while and will use all available CPUs.Andreas Muellerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345806147365425073.post-51322674044570454332012-05-04T09:22:39.198+02:002012-05-04T09:22:39.198+02:00Thanks a lot for this post! but as I'm new to ...Thanks a lot for this post! but as I'm new to Matlab, Libsvm and MNIST, I have a couple of questions: first, could you please show me a code that uses cross-validation to find the optimal value for parameter 'c'? and second, I have heard about an algorithm called 'whitening' the images. Do you know how it could be applied to email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345806147365425073.post-49900947477042211622011-12-29T16:50:44.867+01:002011-12-29T16:50:44.867+01:00You're very welcome :)You're very welcome :)Andreas Muellerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345806147365425073.post-81812678965605532162011-12-29T16:45:59.330+01:002011-12-29T16:45:59.330+01:00Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! I was ...Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!
I was straggling to reproduce the 98.6 accuracy or at least something close, and now thanks to you I did it.
Thank you, you're awesome!!!Bouchrahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345806147365425073.post-13974514216340304082010-12-17T10:41:07.003+01:002010-12-17T10:41:07.003+01:00Hi Frerek. Actually I am not so sure what LibSVM ...Hi Frerek.

Actually I am not so sure what LibSVM does there. It definitely trains 10 one-vs-rest SVMs. But I think it does this somehow in a smart way... but maybe this is "just" some smart way of doing the optimizations. I guess you would have to look into the original paper on the LibSVM website.
It definitely uses the same parameters for all 10 SVMs so you could probably get better by searching parameters for each SVM separately... But I was happy to reproduce something close to the result reported on the MNIST website.

Cheers,
AndyAndreas Muellerhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345806147365425073.post-32647916261961502092010-12-16T20:41:32.739+01:002010-12-16T20:41:32.739+01:00Dear Andy, i am realy happy that you did all this...Dear Andy,

i am realy happy that you did all this work. But how did you seperate all ten classes? Did you use a multiclass svm? Or did you train ten different SVMs? Maybe you wrote it (implicit), but I'm not familiar with LIBSVM.

Thanks in advance.
Frerk SaxenFrerk Saxenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345806147365425073.post-92172005627812805412010-10-01T13:18:26.431+02:002010-10-01T13:18:26.431+02:00Oh, my bad.Oh, my bad.Andreas Muellerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345806147365425073.post-29528193171849375162010-09-23T23:00:49.558+02:002010-09-23T23:00:49.558+02:00IIRC, I got 3.09% for 3NN, not 3.5%IIRC, I got 3.09% for 3NN, not firstname.lastname@example.com


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China: Politics as Warfare
Mao's Invisible Hand: The Political Foundations of Adaptive Governance in China
Mao's Invisible Hand is one of those books that make one feel good about scholarship. It describes inner workings of Chinese Communist society about which few nonexperts know anything—it may even surprise the experts—and it will interest anyone professionally interested in China. Its central purpose is to explain how China has escaped the disintegration of other Communist states; but the contributors to the book do not cram their research into a template that promises more coherence than Chinese realities can provide.
The big idea advanced by Sebastian Heilmann of the University of Trier and Harvard's Elizabeth J. Perry, both well- established scholars of Chinese politics, concerns the ability of the Chinese Communist regime to adapt. Many China-watchers, they recall, predicted that the People's Republic would collapse after Tiananmen in 1989; nowadays some maintain that the spread of the market will inevitably lead to a civil society and even some form of democracy. From the regime's point of view, such predictions may recall the warnings of Lenin, quoted by one of the contributors to this volume, who in 1902 urged that the Party must "struggle against spontaneity" because the spontaneous impulses of the masses can result "in the ideological enslavement of the workers by the bourgeoisie."
In their first chapter, however, Perry and Heilmann contend that the post-Mao regime has "become increasingly adept at managing difficult challenges ranging from leadership succession and popular unrest to administrative reorganization, legal institutionalization, and even global economic integration." Yet there is no implication anywhere in this book that the editors and their colleagues approve of the regime's strategies; they are concerned to show how they evolved and actually work.
They state that the regime's "staying power" is observable "up to this point" and has very dark sides: official corruption, the ruin of the environment, and no civil liberties. "Up to this point," as is usual with volumes based on conferences, can mean some years ago. Right now is an even worse time for Chinese civil liberties, with the Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo behind bars, many of his supporters and human rights lawyers detained, and the arrest in 2011 and release eighty-one days later of the now largely silenced artist Ai Weiwei—to name only two of the nonviolent dissidents who have been subject to repression. Chen Guangcheng has made it to NYU but his wife and associates have been treated brutally.
The editors and contributors agree that Mao's successors have retained, although in often-changed form,
a signature Maoist stamp that conceives of policy-making as a process of ceaseless change, tension management, continual experimentation, and ad-hoc adjustment.
The editors insist this has been a relatively recent development in governance that is understood neither by political science nor theories of modernization.…
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"I could not understand why nobody was going past me," said Bosse, who only advanced to the final as a non-automatic qualifier.
"Even when I crossed the line, I could not believe it. The others killed themselves and they were already dead in the last 100 metres."
Nineteen-year-old Bett had led the race from the gun and was rewarded for his efforts by holding on for bronze in 1:45.21. Meanwhile, European champion Adam Kszczot came through strongly for silver in a season's best of 1:44.95, repeating his position from two years ago in Beijing.
Roared on by the home crowd, Great Britain and Northern Ireland's 2015 European U20 champion Kyle Langford stormed through from seventh to fourth in the final 100 metres, missing out on bronze by 0.04 in a lifetime best of 1:45.21.
It was business as usual for defending 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk, who completed part one of his 400m/200m double attempt, with a comfortable victory in 43.98.
"It is amazing to win the world title. It is a blessing," he said.
"I hope the fans enjoyed that. I'm used to the lactic (acid in legs) but I need a few minutes to recover from that effort and I'll be fine. I've got a good team who will help me recover well for the 200m and I'm looking forward to that.
Having set a national record of 43.89 when qualifying fastest from the semifinals on Sunday, Steven Gardiner of The Bahamas took silver in 44.46 for his first global championship medal, while Qatar's world indoor silver medallist Abdalelah Haroun came through strongly on the home straight to snatch bronze in a season's best of 44.48 from a fading Babaloki Thebe of Botswana (44.66). Haroun became the first Asian medallist in the men's 400m at an IAAF World Championships.
In 2012 the London Stadium played host to Barbora Spotakova's second Olympic title. Tonight it was the setting for her second world title.
Following silver medals in 2009 and 2011, the javelin world record-holder won another gold medal – some 10 years after her first from Osaka in 2007 – with a throw of 66.76m
The 36-year-old, who earned Olympic bronze in Rio last year, took her major championships medal tally to 10, having also collected a gold, silver and a bronze from the European Championships.
However, the decorated Czech thrower was pushed all the way by 2008 world U20 silver medallist Li Lingwei, who threw a lifetime best of 66.25m for silver in the third round. Fresh from her Asian record in qualification, 2015 world silver medallist Lyu Huihui threw 65.26m in round five to snatch bronze from Olympic champion Sara Kolak of Croatia (64.95m) and ensure two Chinese athletes would be on the podium.
Olympic silver medallist Sam Kendricks has been the dominant force in the pole vault in 2017 with 10 straight victories. Here at the IAAF World Championships London 2017 he backed up his form by taking his first global title with a third-time clearance at 5.95m.
"My goodness, I have never been in a competition like it," he said.
"The crowd gave everything in their hearts to support me. It is all part of a mission for me. I make a goal and chop it down to make it attainable. I've finally got that world title and I could not be happier.
Poland's European indoor champion Piotr Lisek took silver with a first-time clearance of 5.89m, ahead of world record-holder Renaud Lavillenie of France who cleared the same height but on his second attempt.
The two-time world indoor champion and 2012 Olympic champion had missed months of training earlier this year due to a back injury, but he went all out to win his first outdoor world title, passing his final attempt at 5.95m and raising the bar to 6.01m in an attempt to dislodge Kendricks from the top spot. However, he knocked the bar down, adding fourth world outdoor bronze to those he collected in 2009, 2011 and 2015.
Conseslus Kipruto gestured to the crowd in the closing stages of the steeplechase as the Kenyan added the world title to the Olympic gold medal he won in Rio last year.
His 8:14.12 victory ensured another title for Kenya in this event, winning from Morocco's Soufiane Elbakkali (8:14.49) and USA's Olympic silver medallist Evan Jager (8:15.53).
"I used my plans well and last night for morale I told myself: 'I am Olympic champion and that others must break me'," said Kipruto, who has battled injury throughout this season.
"There are others who are strong, but I knew if the race was around 8:10 that I was going to win.
In contrast to Kenya's medal sweep in Beijing two years ago, it was the first World Championships men's 3000m steeplechase since 2003 when three countries have been represented on the podium.
After placing fourth at the Olympic Games last year, 21-year-old Elbakkali earned his first global medal, while third-placed Jager became the first US man to earn a World Championships medal in the steeplechase.
In the women's 400m hurdles semifinals, defending champion Zuzana Hejnova will be bidding to win her third consecutive world title, qualifying fastest for Thursday's final in 54.59.
Olympic champion and world leader Dalilah Muhammad ran 55.00 to win heat three from Canada's NCAA champion Sage Watson (55.05). Jamaica's Ristananna Tracey – fifth at the Olympic Games last year – also looked in control when taking heat two in 54.79.
In the women's 200m heats, the three fastest qualifiers are all athletes doing multiple events at the IAAF World Championships London 2017.
Defending champion Dafne Schippers made a strong statement as the fastest qualifier, clocking an easy 22.63 for victory in heat two.
Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo showed a good turn of speed over the shorter distance ahead of her one-lap final tomorrow evening, clocking 22.69 for victory in heat four.
Recently crowned 100m silver medallist Marie-Josée Ta Lou was the winner of the sixth heat, almost 0.40 ahead of her nearest rival in 22.70.
World silver medallist Gong Lijiao from China made light work of qualification in the women's shot put, recording the longest mark of the evening with 18.97m in the first round.
Olympic champion Michelle Carter of the USA and Hungary's Anita Marton qualified next with 18.92m and 18.76m respectively.
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Lack of motivation to lose weight is responsible for more diet failures than anything else. You start your weight loss effort full of enthusiasm and excitement – but quickly run out of interest and inspiration.
That's when you need a dose of motivation to lose weight to hang in there and stick with the program.
Many others have faced the same challenges as you. The rigors of weight loss and fitness or muscle gain are harsh indeed. motivation to lose weight can help tide over these mini-crises along the path to better eating and a fitter figure.
1. Fix Your Mind, Then Your Body
Thin folks think thin. They make staying slim and fit a mindset that they live every day. No crash diets or fast diets for them, thank you. By guarding what they eat and the things they do, thinner people remain that way – while the rest of us struggle with fat loss.
Here's an example. When you see a bar of chocolate, you probably imagine how it'll taste in your mouth. The thinner folks imagine how it'll look around their waste, as fat piles on in tires!
2. Surround Yourself With The Right Company
Unless your friends and family support you in your dietary habits, chances are you'll fall off the wagon and indulge in excessive eating. You don't have to obsessively measure all that you eat using a weight loss calculator or worry about too much fat or oil in your food if you have everyone on board watching out for you.
That doesn't mean you should choose thin friends, but it does mean you must get their involvement in your changed habits to lose weight. Fit and active friends will get you off the couch and climbing stairs, going on walks and becoming more physically active. Health conscious friends will limit your visits to fast food joints and get you eating organic and fat burning foods. They'll also give you much-needed motivation to lose weight.
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So tonight the club meets to decide on what painting will be used for the club calendar that will be for sale later in the summer… now what we pick you will have to wait and see but let the judging begin…and it's a hard judging panel as it's the members will vote for it….!!
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Jade Belt Buckle, China, late 19th/early 20th century, traditional form, hand carved with a sinuous chilong, stone of black nephrite jade with several small pyrite inclusions and a pale opaque white inclusion near the left nostril of the dragon head. A second figure appears to be riding the chilong. We are not sure what the second figure depicts.
In excellent condition with a dusty interior to the carving typical of objects of this vintage. We have not attempted to clean the piece.
This is an estate find and was in the hands of one family who used it as a paperweight since the 1930s. .
Back nephrite is said to be a protective stone and may help protection from negativity of others, anger, aggression, and some believe that Black Jade will also not only protect on a physical level but that on a spiritual level too.
It is also considered to help inward looking and to maybe dispel negative energy that one themselves may give out, may help with honest self-evaluation.
Black Nephrite, also rare, carries all nephrite qualitites but is also grounding. It helps one keep one's head and protects against false friends.


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On Tuesday 20th March 2018 all the children at St Andrew's Church School in Taunton came to school dressed in the colours of the flag of the USA to raise money for CFC – Cyclists Fighting Cancer. The reason we chose this worthy cause is that our Head Teacher's wife, Carol Sheehan is part of a team of 4 cancer survivors who are taking on the RACE ACROSS AMERICA – a 3100 mile-long time trial from Oceanside, California on the West coast of America Annapolis, Maryland, just below Washington DC on the East coast. As a result of everyone's participation and generosity, we raised a fantastic £350 towards CFC.


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Propably every one has to do with spam today, sometimes you receive more spam then normal mail. There are a few anti-spam solutions which try to prevent spam mails in the users inbox, for example the Fortimail from Fortinet or the IMSS from Trend Micro.
Exchange 2007 includes a few anti-spam agent to prevent spam. This filters are active by default on the Edge Transport server but also can be activated on the Hub Transport server by executing the following command in Powershell:
This command needs to be executed from the scripts directory, you will find it in the Exchange install directory.
When the command is executed you need to restart the Transport Services, this can be done by executing the following command:
Restart-Service MSExchangeTransport
After restarting the Transport Services you can open the Exchange Management Console, when it is opened click on the Organizational Configuration and then choose HUB Transport. You will see there's an extra tab added named Anti-Spam, click on it
You will see the anti-spam agents that are installed:
- content filtering
- IP Allow list
- IP Allow list providers
- IP Block list
- IP Block list providers
- Recipient filtering
- Sender filtering
- Sender ID
- Sender reputation
Below the agents are described per agent:
Content Filtering
With this agent you can filter on keywords. For example you can filter on the words Make Money Fast, this can be seen below. But when you have a company that does sell Hovercrafts you don't want mail with that word ends up in the junk mail. This word can be added to the top of the screen in the section named Messages with these words or phrases will not be blocked.
Besides the last called option there is a possibility to exclude mail-adresses from filtering. This can be done on the tab Exceptions.
The final step is deciding which action needs to be executed, this can be: delete, reject or quarantaine. Per action you can define when it needs to be executed. Which action is executed depends on the SCL (Spam Confidence Level), this is determined by the IMF (Intelligent Message Filter) i.c.w. de words we setup earlier. When you are gone experimentate with the filter, for example put the SCL values lower. Then I would suggest to first choose the action to quarantaine it before choosing delete/reject as the action. This will safe you a lot of angry end-users that don't receive their normal mail anymore.
Powershell commands:
Set-ContentFilterConfig -SclQuarantineEnabled:$true -SclRejectEnabled:$true -SclDeleteEnabled:$true -SclQuarantineThreshold 5 -SclRejectThreshold 6 -SclDeleteThreshold 8 -QuarantineMailbox email@example.com -RejectionResponse "Message rejected due to content restrictions" -AuthenticatedMessageBypassEnabled:$true -PuzzleValidationEnabled:$true -BypassedRecipients email@example.com, email@example.com
The content filter will be activated with the following options:
- Quarantaine will be activated for all mails with a SCL of 5 words will be placed in it, the quarantaine box has the following address firstname.lastname@example.com
- Reject will be activated for all mails met a SCL if 6 this mails will be bounced, senders of the mail will get a mail back that their mail is bounced with the following text in it "Message rejected due to content restrictions".
- Delete will be activated for all mails with a SCL of 8 will be deleted
- When mail is sent to email@example.com the filter will not be applied.
- It turns on Autenticated Message Bypass
- It turns on Puzzle Validation
Get-ContentFilterConfig returns the current settings for the Content filter agent
Add-ContentFilterPhrase-Phrase:"This is an e-mail that you don't want to receive" -Influence:BadWord
This command will add "This is an e-mail that you don't want to receive" to the list of forbidden words or sentences.
Get-ContentFilterPhrase returns the current settings for the Content filter phrase agent
Remove-ContentFilterPhrase -Identity "This is an e-mail that you don't want to receive"
This command will delete "This is an e-mail that you don't want to receive" from the list of of forbidden words or sentences.
IP Allow List
As the name already tells you this agent lets you create IP-address white-lists. This can be used for business-relations that are on a black-list but you still want to receive mail from them. When clicking on Addyou can add an ip-address of ip-range.
Powershell commando's:
Set-IPAllowListConfig -InternalMailEnabled:$true -DomainController ad-server.test.nl
With this command you will setup the DC on which the IP allow list needs to be saved/
Get-IPAllowListConfig returns the current settings for the IP Allow list agent
Add-IPAllowListEntry -IPRange:192.168.0.1/24
Adds the IP-range 192.168.0.1/24 to the IP Allow list
Get-IPAllowListEntry returns the current settings for the specific IP Allow list entry
Remove-IPAllowListEntry -Identity <Integer> removes IP-address/the IP-range from the IP Allow list where the integer is the id from the specific rule.
IP Allow List Providers
Besides RBL providers there are white-list providers. This are providers who provide lists with safe IP-addresses. On the following site you will find an overview of Whitelist providers: SpamLinks .
Powershell commando's:
Add-IPAllowListProvider -Name:Example -LookupDomain:Example.com
The command above will add an Allow List Provider to the list with the name Example and domain/address example.com
Get-IPAllowListProvider returns the current settings of the IP allow list provider
Set-IPAllowListProvider -Identity Example.com -AnyMatch:$true
This command will tell Exchange that is has to check every e-mail with the Allow List provider example.com and will be threated the same despite the code that will be replied by the Allow List Provider.
Remove-IPAllowListProvider -Identity Example.com
Removes the provider example.com from the allow list provider.
Test-IPAllowListProvider-IPAddress 192.168.0.1 -Provider ExampleProviderName
With this command you can do a lookup of the IP-address 192.168.0.1 with the White-list provider ExampleProviderName
IP Block List
This agent contains IP-addresses who will be blocked by Exchange. It can happen that you don't want to accept mails from specific IP-addresses or IP-ranges because you receive a lot of viruses or spam from them. In most cases it is easier to use a RBL provider then using an list with manual entries.
Powershell commando's:
Set-IPBlockListConfig -InternalMailEnabled:$true -DomainController ad-server.test.nl
This command will tell to which DC the configuration needs to be saved.
Get-IPBlockListConfig returns the current settings of the IP Blocklist agent.
Add-IPBlockListEntry -IPRange:192.168.0.1/24
Adds the IP-range 192.168.0.1/24 to the IP Block list
Get-IPBlockListEntry returns the current settings of the IP Block list entry
Remove-IPAllowListEntry -Identity <Integer> deletes the entry of the IP-address/IP-range of the IP Block list with the id of the rule as the integer.
IP Block List providers
In this agent we can add RBL providers. This are organizations who provide lists with IP-addresses that are sending a lot of spam or servers which are configured as open-relay. On this page you can find an overview of them.
Within this agent there is an extra tab added exceptions, here you can exclude IP-addresses from this agent.
Powershell commando's:
Add-IPBlockListProvider -Name:Example -LookupDomain:Example.com -RejectionResponse "Originating IP addressed matched to Example.com's IP Block List provider service"
This command will add a Block List Provider with the name Example and domain/address example.com. When an IP is found on list the sender will receive the following message: "Originating IP addressed matched to Example.com's IP Block List provider service"
Get-IPBlockListProvider returns the current settings of the IP Block List Provider agent
Set-IPBlockListProvider-Identity Example.com -AnyMatch:$true
This command will tell Exchange to check every mail with the Block List Provider example.com. Despite the code that is being returned from the provider each mail will be threated the same.
Remove-IPBlockListProvider -Identity Example.com
Deletes the block list provider example.com from the IP Allow Block Provider agent.
Test-IPBlockListProvider-IPAddress 192.168.0.1 -Provider ExampleProviderName
This command will do a lookup of the IP-address 192.168.0.1 with the provider ExampleProviderName
Recipient Filtering
With recipient filtering you can filter messages on existing/non-existing recipients on the HUB transport without reaching a mailbox. This will prevent space being used by mails to non existing recipient such as email@example.com.
This agent can use the GAL as source, the GAL will be automatically updated when a user is added to Exchange. Besides that there is a possibility to manually add addresses that you want to block, when you use the previous mentioned option this is not necessary.
Powershell commando's:
Enables using the GAL as the source for recipient filtering.
Set-RecipientFilterConfig-BlockListEnabled:$true -BlockedRecipients firstname.lastname@example.com,firstname.lastname@example.com
Checks if the mail is send to firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com if this is the cases then the mail will be blocked.
Get-RecipientFilterConfig returns the current settings of the Recipient Filtering agent
Sender Filtering
You may wish to block e-mails from specific senders because you receive a lot of spam from this address. Then you can use the sender filtering agent. Here you can specify addresses from which you don't want to receive mail. Besides that possibility you can enable the option to block e-mails which contain no sender address. Depending on which action is activate on the tab action mail will be bounced or marked as spam.
Powershell commando's:
Set-SenderFilterConfig-BlankSenderBlockingEnabled:$true -BlockedDomainsAndSubdomains *example.com -BlockedSenders firstname.lastname@example.com,firstname.lastname@example.com
When a mail is send from the domain or subdomain example.com mail will be blocked. When mail is send from email@example.com of email@example.com mail also will be blocked.
Get-SenderFilterConfig returns the current settings of the Sender Filtering agent
Sender ID
With sender ID you can prevent spoofing mails being delivered. When a mail arrives at the Hub Transport Server the SMTP header will be checked and according to the results a query will be done via DNS. The agent will search for a SPF record; in this record all IP-addresses are listed which are used by the domain to send mail.
When the IP-address is not found in the SMTP-header, then the mail will be rejected, deleted or marked as spam.
Powershell commando's:
Set-SenderIdConfig -SpoofedDomainAction Delete -BypassedRecipients firstname.lastname@example.com,email@example.com
When mail is send from a spoofed address is will be deleted except when it is send to email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
Get-SenderIdConfig returns the current settings of the Sender ID agent
Test-SenderID -IPAddress 126.96.36.199 -PurportedResponsibleDomain example.com
This command let's you manually check if the IP-addresses may be used to send mail from for a specific domain.
Sender Reputation
This agent will check the sender reputation. The sender reputation is determined by the following parameters:
- helo/ehlo analyse
- reverse dns lookup
- analysis by the content filter to determine the SCL level
- open proxy test
On the tab action you can specify how the filter will work, besides that you can specify how long the sender will be blocked. All e-mails that will be blocked by this agent will be blocked for 24 hours by default. Besides that you can define the following actions:
Powershell commando's:
Set-SenderReputationConfig -SrlBlockThreshold 8 -SenderBlockingEnabled:$true -SenderBlockingPeriod 24
This command will block all e-mails that don't pass the open proxy test and the SRL (Spam Reputation Level) is 8 or higher. The sender address will be blocked for 24 hours.
Get-SenderReputationConfig returns the correct settings of the Sender Reputation agent
This is a very long tutorial but I think we talked about all the points. When you like to have more commands, all Powershell commando's are linked to pages on Technet which contain more info.


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It's an opportunity to both liven and switch things up.
If the drab and dull tones of winter had you down, the bright, cheery shades of spring will turn your mood around, very quickly. There have been multiple studies that have linked colors to moods - indicating that the airy pastels of spring not only induce happy feelings, but also mellowness. Let that warm creamy yellow sun shine in, and let the good vibes roll.
It's a new beginning – full of possibilities and the chance to start fresh.
Close your eyes and picture in your head a blank sheet of paper, an empty chalkboard, or an empty box – just waiting to be filled with thoughts and ideas. That clean slate is exactly what you're left with when you've finished your tasks - and those possibilities feel pretty good, indeed.
It increases productivity, which in turn increases feelings of accomplishment.
Think of how much more you will get done in a neater, tidier space. You can streamline virtually anything and everything to your needs - and watch as you get more done, quicker. You may even find a lost item, or two!
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We all know that exercise releases all those feel-good endorphins, right? Getting up and getting things done is exercise, without the intense feeling. In fact, you'd be surprised by the amount of calories you burn doing even the most unexciting chores. For example, you can burn up to 90 calories doing 30 minutes of vacuuming.
You will feel so satisfied after a job well-done.
There is nothing more gratifying than completing a goal you set for yourself – and spring cleaning most certainly falls into that category. Not only will you be put in a better mood with the completed task, but you'll have a neat and tidy space to show for it – too.
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SAN FRANCISCO - It all felt so familiar - the standing ovations, deafening roars and cameras flashing with his every at-bat.
Yet, Barry Bonds' final game as a San Francisco Giant on Wednesday night at AT&T Park was decidedly different.
The emotional pitch that has accompanied so many of his storied moments in this jewel of a park by the Bay was gone, replaced with a subdued, if heartfelt, farewell to the left-fielder who was told last week the Giants would not bring him back.
Fans turned out 42,926 strong, armed with "Thank-you Barry" signs.
When he committed an error in the fifth inning, then came up short diving for another shot to left, fans in the left-field bleachers chanted, "Barry, Barry, Barry."
Oddly, Bonds' stroll to the plate in the sixth for what clearly would be his final at-bat drew more muted cheers than any other moment.
He changed that, of course, with his final swing as a Giant, a warning-track shot to center off Jake Peavy that held the momentary potential of sailing over the wall.
Instead, it was out No. 3.
Bonds hugged Peavy as the inning ended, waved goodbye to the fans as he left the field, took one last curtain call and made his way up the tunnel to the empty clubhouse.
By 9 o'clock, Bonds' contributions as a Giant were completed. His sprained toe will prevent him from playing in the final three games in Los Angeles beginning Friday.
The last image Giants fans will have of Bonds is the projection of him on the big screen walking away from the Giants.
The rest of the team took the field after their 11-3 loss and tossed baseballs into the stands, a thank-you to the fans for their season of support.
Bonds was a no-show. His absence drew boos.
As fans filtered out of the stands, one fan said, "That's Bonds for you."
He was long gone by the time the game ended. His locker, down to his nameplate, was stripped bare.
All his so-called "love" for the fans, his family as he called them, couldn't induce him to stick around another 90 minutes to say goodbye to the fans.
It was almost fitting that the relationship ended as it did, on Bonds' terms.
The send-off for Bonds was the kind you'd expect for the best player of his generation, one who led the Giants to four postseason appearances, including the 2002 World Series, won five of his seven MVP awards in San Francisco and rewrote the book on home runs.
There was not, though, a great sense of sadness as this era of San Francisco Giants history came to an end, not by Bonds and not by the fans.
Bonds treated it mostly as another day at the office, declining to comment to the media before the game, so we're left to guess what he thought news that his record-breaking, No. 756 home run ball will be sent to the National Baseball Hall of Fame with an asterisk on it, the result of fan voting conducted by its owner.
He didn't stretch with his team - why start now, after all - but he made his way onto the field during batting practice, which he never did before.
He addressed his teammates in the clubhouse before the game, offering them encouragement and best wishes. It was, reports rookie pitcher Tim Lincecum, low key.
When he took the field, Bonds smiled and waved to the fans. He even waved back to a woman who jumped the fence to get near him in the fifth inning as she was ushered off the field by security.
His manager and teammates said all the right things, lauding Bonds' phenomenal talents as a player, noting they were happy to have been witness to his historic feats.
They could not be as sentimental about him as a teammate.
One of them likened Wednesday to the house falling on the wicked witch.
The Giants didn't break out in high-pitched song, but neither did they seem at all saddened by his impending departure.
They're ready to move on.
And Giants fans? His final snub ought to just about have them comfortable with his departure, too.
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The team at Festool, the Suffolk-based power tool manufacturer, has embraced the festive season by building a special sleigh for Santa, and delivering it to Ipswich.
The sleigh made its way to The Treehouse children's hospice in Ipswich, run by East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH), on Tuesday – just in time for its annual Santa's Grotto event.
Having built the Santa sleigh using a selection of Festool tools, the sleigh departed from Festool's new office building in the Suffolk Business Park on Tuesday, making the 38 mile journey to The Treehouse.
The sleigh will take pride of place at The Treehouse's Santa's Grotto on Saturday.
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Philipp Glaser marketing manager at Festool said: "Here at Festool, we are delighted to have been able to give back to the local community this Christmas and get involved with EACH, by providing them with a Festool-built sleigh for the Santa's Grotto event. "EACH is a fantastic charity, which really makes a difference to the children in its care and their families. We hope that everyone at The Treehouse will have a fantastic time at the Santa's Grotto, and a very merry Christmas."
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|View Poll Results: How do you feel about some of the recent pricing for Amiga games?
|PHYSICAL - €34.95 - YES, this price is justified and I'm ok with it.
|PHYSICAL - €34.95 - NO, I believe this price is too much.
|DIGITAL - €29.95 - YES, this price is justified and I'm ok with it.
|DIGITAL - €29.95 - NO, I believe this price is too much.
|Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 5. You may not vote on this poll
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|18 January 2020, 19:25
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Discussion about the cost and value of new Amiga games and whether they are overcharged or not!
Now available to pre-order from Binary Zone
Pre-Ordered mine, have YOU?
|18 January 2020, 19:40
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...not at £39.99 £35.99; that's absolutely mental
We're not talking new PC / PS4 / Xbox One quality games here... and it's really just a slightly more polished version of the unreleased 1992 game.
I hope the digital download will not be as extortionate; otherwise I'll definitely not bother.
|18 January 2020, 21:43
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I know, pre-orders used to be £29.99, but now they're £35.99. I think this maybe my last physical order from them due to the prices, I know I like collecting boxes but I can't see them lowering the prices unless they just sell the box with disk/tape/cart and manual!
|18 January 2020, 21:57
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I felt exactly the same way when I saw the news related to this game a month or so ago: Matchic.
I mean; it's a poor man's Puzznic or any of these... and you want to charge how much exactly? I wouldn't pay more than a fiver
You know me, I'm all for supporting Amiga developers / authors etc... but it seems that some of them over the past year or so are absolutely taking the biscuit when it comes to ludicrous pricing for mediocre games
Another thing that really annoys me, and is definitely taking the mickey; is when the digital download price is virtually the same price as the physical copy... Reshoot R anyone
I'm sure the same thing will occur with Reshoot Proxima III as it's been gotten away with / somehow accepted before; mark my words!!!
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|18 January 2020, 23:13
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Pity they don't do an Amiga version of the Premium+ (£13.99) or Budget (£6.99) release like the do for the C64!
|18 January 2020, 23:23
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I have to agree, these prices are ludicrous, but good luck..
Sorry I'd rather pay for a indi title off steam for a fraction of the price.. In fact I'll go buy qwak for a fiver!
|18 January 2020, 23:35
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Agree, with these prices I'm not really motivated to buy these games anymore.
|18 January 2020, 23:50
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Exactly guys.
Best way to discourage this type of behaviour from greedy devs massively overvaluing their products, is to not purchase at all; be it physical or digital release!!!
Eventually they'll realise that they need to be realistic about pricing on a hobby / 30 year old computer; otherwise...
It just stinks; especially when there are so many free games way above the level of these so called "commercial" games... to name a few, but there are many others; Rygar, Trap Runner, Celtic Heart, River Raid Reloaded and the up coming Scourge of the Underkind.
Again, I'd like to reiterate that charging money for a game that you've worked hard on is totally fine
It's the dreaming up of stupid / unjustified prices which are in parallel with new "PC / PS4 / Xbox One" quality games which is immoral... this is what the Amiga community doesn't need, or want to have set as "the norm" (which is how I feel it's been going due to the rise in everything "Retro")
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|19 January 2020, 02:38
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I notice a certain smell in this thread, one which poisons several other threads in this great forum already. The smell of trolls poison.
@timeslip1974: Don´t be put off by comments of some guys who have never learned to filter their thoughts before putting them online, and so are destroying the community. They are loud and noisy, but they still are the crying minority. Glad you guys are so determined and finally release your game.
|19 January 2020, 09:43
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The law of supply and demand is one thing.
However, selling a physical version (box + manual + data carrier (floppy/CD/etc.) + other...) and a dematerialized version at a similar price sends a strange message to potential customers.
Nobody likes to be taken for a "cash cow".
Some people would do well to think about it...
The frankness that emanates here regarding the price is a subject that has been discussed many times in other threads in the past (on EAB and elsewhere). Not wanting to take it into account seems strange to me, especially since everybody agree to pay a price for a new production.
My two cents.
|19 January 2020, 11:25
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This is very common practice within the whole media industry (games, magazines, audio,movies) and for a good reason: The costs for selling digitally rather than physically are kind of comparable. The human factors (development time etc.) are exactly the same, and digital distribution is not free either. Digistore24 for example gets about 20 - 45 percent of the asking price for providing servers, handling of files and money transaction, handling invoices, customer servicer etc.
|19 January 2020, 11:25
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I was really looking forward to Rotator, but I am afraid I can not afford it.
|19 January 2020, 11:51
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As for "destroying the community"; I suggest you take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror, your pricing and your "marketing practices" across forums.
You're not creating games for the love of the Amiga or the community as many others are... you are totally in it for the money; it's so blatantly obvious!!!
I mean, you seem to think it's ok to tell people that we really need to read your text / explanation to accompany a 15 second video, but knowing full well that the only way to do so is by subscribing to your Patreon
Here's some recent examples of Amiga games for sale in regards to physical versus digital price:
Black Dawn Rebirth:
Oh wow, look at that... for all 9 of the above games listed; the digital download price is usually less than half the price of the physical, and sometimes only a quarter or even free.
I have no issue with the physical or digital pricing of any games listed above. These are fair prices
Now let's have a closer look at your pricing for Reshoot R shall we?
Physical: https://www.amigashop.org/product_in...roducts_id=293 €34.95
...or even Reshoot?
Physical: https://www.amigashop.org/product_in...roducts_id=273 €23.95
I don't know about you guys, but something here sticks out like a sore thumb...
You can try to pull the wool over peoples' eyes in order to suit your own agenda Richard, but the figures don't lie... you also can't scrub out people's opinions / feelings on this, no matter what BS justification you try to conjure up
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|19 January 2020, 13:19
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It would be interesting to see the cost breakdown for the development of these games, the marketing/publishing/packaging costs and how the final physical/digital selling price is determined to justify the pricing. But, that all depends *IF* devs/pubs want to share that information and how transparent/honest they want to be if they do!
Maybe this would be a good project for some of the Amiga/Retro news/game sites, to investigate the costs involved to make these games, excluding 'crowd funding' like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Patreon etc?
|19 January 2020, 14:35
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I give a shit about your attitude towards anyone who questions you, anyone who doesn't agree with you. Nobody can say anything about your products unless it is glowing with praise. Let's face some home truths here.
If you post on this forum, which is a public forum then you leave yourself open to people having an opinion. I suggest if you don't like it, you know where the door is.
I don't see you contribute anything to this community unless it is for your own financial gain!
Now i really don't care about your feelings on this matter.. Accept that people will havr an opinion on everything. Accept that crying will do you no good and craxk on.. Do your game, make it great and accept we all have our opinions!
|19 January 2020, 15:29
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Thread now moved out of the News section... we don't need this type of discussion broadcast across all of the http://abime.net/ network...
|19 January 2020, 16:30
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You seem to be implying that I'm a troll and a destroyer of the Amiga community... nothing could be further from the truth
Ok yes, I'm opinionated and won't just sit back and say nothing when something is wrong... but you really need to do your research before you make such allegations towards me.
Everything I do is in order to progress the Amiga community and absolutely free; not for personal, financial gain; unlike yourself...
Let's see, here's a quick list, but by no means exhaustive:
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|19 January 2020, 16:31
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The first thing you have to take into account is Inflation, in 1992 £14 is the equivalent to £25 in today's prices, and £25 in 1992 is £45.
Here's the forecasts I did for the Rygar boxes:
Product (inc. VAT) £5.21 50 £260.50
Shipping and CIF £101.59 1 £101.59
Total £362.09
Duty @11% £46.00
Foam £1.00 £50.00
Envelopes £0.36 £18.00
Total Delivered Cost £476.09
Price per box £9.52
Now that doesn't include a manual, the floppy disks or the labels. So you can safely add about £4.00 to the price per game box.
£13.50 to produce a Frontier 2 sized box which if I'm honest, anything else just won't do as there's no point.
Now what is the real kicker is the delivery and distribution costs, unless you use a distributor who'll take a hefty cut, delivering into Europe is about £6 un-tracked, £10 tracked, outside of Europe costs more... like £13.
So before you even start you're looking at £15-£20 just to get the box delivered to the customer based on small numbers (50).
Now to code a game takes a long time, it took me a year to do Rygar and it's well documented, 6 months to do Bomb Jack, but did I do for the money? ... if I did I would be completely skint.
So what do I think is fair...? If a game is good people will buy it/support the devs/community, if it's bad people won't buy it (Iron Gate/Amiten shite)...or at least they won't buy it in decent numbers (At least 100+)
For me I would be well happy if I made £1,000 a year from making Amiga games, any money I made from Rygar I fed back into the Amiga and the community.
So I think for a well made game that took 6-9 months to create then on digital download people should be paying around £5 to £10, if they want a shiny box delivered around the World then it should be circa £30.
Don't forget - games is not just about the coder...the entire team should be paid depending on the circumstances.
|19 January 2020, 16:44
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Let's be clear here, 45% is nearly HALF of the selling price.
You could do all the hosting and selling yourself, there are plenty of budget alternatives than literally giving away half of your efforts to someone else.
Steam PROVES that not all digital sales are the same. That the likes of Sony think they can get away with charging the same on Playstation Network for a digital download as they could for the physical version is one reason why I will NEVER pay for a Sony digital download.
Steam however shows what is possible, and shows that the cost isn't always the same, no box, no artwork charge, no instruction manual, no disks, no badge etc, etc, these items all come at a cost the digital one doesn't.
I'm not going to jump on any angry bandwagons here, but you have CUSTOMERS telling you you're charging too much and you appear to be dismissing them.
You could do that when the Amiga was king and selling software in the hundreds of the thousands, but those days are long gone.
I appreciate the efforts of ANYONE, no matter whether its a tour de force in programming, or its a simple effort, but you have something called history that isn't on your side.
I can probably count on one hand the amount of Amiga titles back in its golden years that attracted a pricepoint of £35.
Shadow of the Beast is one, the edition with the Roger Dean T-Shirt.
But it wasn't the norm.
If anyone is under the illusion that they are going to get rewarded handsomely for their Amiga game efforts today in 2020, they are in it for the wrong reasons.
Frankly no amount of money is going to adequately compensate ANYONE for anything done on the Amiga in the past 20 years, because the Amiga is no longer financially viable where you could quit your job and just do Amiga games, so if your price point of £35 is to try and rectify that, I can assure you, it NEVER will.
You are most welcome to charge whatever you like for the games you make, but coincidentally, customers are also welcome to pass up on your games and buy something else, because the market seems to have settled on prices most people are happy to pay, yours seem to be quite a bit higher.
Me personally? I'd rather have hundreds of happy customers waiting eagerly with their money for my next release, rather than maybe 40 people.
You'll make the choice thats right for you
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