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We'd also be remiss if we didn't note that there are some mild spoilers in the second portion of the interview, which we're going to be sure to note so you can skip that particular response. For now, join us past the break for the second part of our very candid interview with Cao!
Chris Cao: Yes, definitely, with the first update. We're actually working on it right now. We had some issues in beta with making sure that fonts were readable and the UI was working well. We've worked hard to fix those things, and [it is] basically the very next thing on the docket to get out to all of you. You have stuff in your bags, and you need a way to trade it -- we understand that.
We've seen some complaints about social interaction, especially on the PS3 side. What kinds of things are you putting in to address that?
There are some improvements for chat and social interactions that we're planning on. Basically, as we're playing and continuing to react to feedback, we see that it's not lightning-fast like we had before, so we're looking at improving usability and the UI.
We actually have, in the next update coming out, a resting mode. In some games it's called "sit," but in superhero games, they look far different than that. For example, on the Serious type characters, it's very much like the Batman-styled crouch-on-a-gargoyle kind of look. For the comical, it's a fall-down-with-legs-splayed kind of thing. We're adding a few more of those to buff up the social side overall. Where it's coming from is less the PS3 and more those on controllers, as we have quite a few people on PCs using controller as well.
Overall, there are some usability issues for chat and social things that need more polish than anything else, things like making sure you can set your default chat channel instead of having /g to talk to group, being able to more easily control which channels you're in, improving push-to-talk on the controller. Basically there are some little things that we need to do to make it easier for you, in that sense of things. Audience-wise it's interesting because there's actually quite a bit of shout-casting going on for the PS3 right now, as MMO players who have been on the PC come over and teach social conventions to the PS3 guys. They need to know that since they're not used to [a game in which] everyone in a city can actually hear, they can shout out and hopefully get some people to help, or ask a question. I think half of that is not just the UI, but also people getting accommodated to this kind of game.
Now that the game is live and you have more users, are you finding any issues in pushing patches to the PS3 players?
We're obviously a part of Sony and part of SCEA and SCE, so we work through them through the processes. They have their guidelines and the way that they work things to make sure they go through. We're obviously the first game of this kind to work there, so there's a lot of shared pathfinding going on. We do some things that other games just don't do, and so we're working with them (and they've been really open with working with us to get this out) as part of the Sony company and the Sony family. It's really making it a lot easier to figure out these problems together and to make sure that game experience is kept up-to-date on both platforms.
Right now, no one has beaten phase 1 of the Bat Cave, let alone any of the other phases that we beta tested and will be releasing to you guys. Essentially, Brainiac has taken over the Bat Cave; he's taken over Brother Eye and the O.M.A.C.s and is dominating technology. He's using all the technology on Earth. He's even attacked the Watchtower and the Hall of Doom, so he continues to be a huge presence. I mean, Batman can't even use the Bat Cave -- he's got to operate out of the Watchtower right now, so it's up to players to go in there and take [Brainiac] out, to stop him. It's up to villains to do it too, to smash him, because Brainiac isn't good for anybody.
So, that's the setting of the game -- and it's day three. I'm going to let players get a chance to play a little, raid a little, and get some gear and the like before we push them back a little and take the next step. Because while it is three days, nobody's had a chance to beat him yet or even gotten to the first phase of Brainiac. The Avatar of Technology, which some people may have seen in the end of beta event, is the end-boss of that first raid-cycle in the game.
There's some ways to go, really. DCUO has a full gear progression, raid progression. You start off with the first set of gear; the [next set of] gear, you work towards that, and then you get a com badge for the Batcave 1, which is the first section of that raid content. We did a lot of betaing on them and are actually changing them a lot, continuing to up the quality on them as we go. We're also making it more and more challenging. [In] any other MMO, there's a lot of things to do with your friends to make sure you can accomplish things, and of course you can show it off with the gear you get. The difference here is that wearing a Bat symbol in your tier 2 Dark Spectre Batsuit is pretty cool since no one is going to have that for quite a bit.
There are a lot of comments from players who feel that there isn't enough story in the game as it stands. We wondered if you'd be willing to speak to that claim?
There are two major storylines in the game -- hero and villain -- and then there are six origin storylines that thread through the story. They are not completely different storylines, and I would like to make sure that everyone is clear on that. Hero and villain are very, very different from each other. The mentor lines weave their way through that.
To me, I think it comes down to an interesting perspective. As a player, you only ever have other games to compare anything to. That's where you start. When a new game comes out [and you have] a game that starts to redefine what it means to be an MMO like DCUO does, you compare it and say, "Cool, OK, compare it to that." But I have to ask the question: In a lot of other games, what is that content you're doing? In DCUO, you have episodic progression that always ends in a boss fight and has a cool comic cut scene. Almost every level, you're in a boss fight that has a very action game (almost a raid) feel to it, and it's fun the whole time. We've taken as much of the grind out as we can.
A good example is that we don't make you run back for quests. Just think, in a normal MMO, how much of your time isn't actually spent playing [but] spent traveling. Sure, that gives you a great sense of the expanse of the world, but let's be frank about what that content is and where those hours come from. For some reason we've accepted that for many, many years (and I've even built games where) travel is more than half of the time of what you're doing. Just going from point A to point B. Now I like that in an exploration-based MMO. Don't get me wrong. If this is a game where I'm trying to find new frontiers, it totally makes sense. But in a superhero game, you're in a known place, and you're doing something very different. As a superhero, [you don't have] the classic rags-to-riches heroic journey. In this case, it's you understanding your powers and coming to control them and apply them for good or for evil.
Our travel is fun. You're climbing a building like a jungle gym or you're flying through the skies. At level 10, you can get your travel power boost, which is essentially the equivalent of a mount so you can get places faster. Superheroes don't run across a barren landscape to go kill rats. That's not what they do. Plus, we have an endgame like no other MMO has launched with. Starting from challenge-mode stuff that you can do as a solo player, you can redo some of the stories or do some of the new Toyman content that's out there, which gives you something to do if you're waiting in the queues for something else to pop. Then you can go duo [and] start to learn group tactics with another person. From there, there are seven four-man Alerts that you can do (six per side, with one for heroes and villains) and then there are two raids you can do. That is equivalent to many MMOs that have been out for years as far as endgame wise, but honestly where do you want to have your fun?
The concept for us wasn't that more is better -- it's that better is better. We've tried to make the best superhero game possible and put that into an MMO setting, rather than putting in hundreds of hours because we need you to take hundreds of hours before the first month is up so we can charge you a subscription fee. Instead, we want to make this game as rockin' fun as possible then give you all sorts of cool stuff to do at the end and then continue adding more stuff into it so you pay the subscription fee because you're having fun in our games. Not just because you couldn't make it to the mountains since you didn't have enough playtime to walk there.
That's what we've had in MMOs, and I don't necessarily think that it's fair to gamers, especially gamers who have growing families or ones who want to play other games. In DCUO, I want to entertain you. We've designed the entire thing for 5-7 hours a week. You'll get a piece of raid gear every single week if you raid for a few hours. It's meant to be fun while you're playing it, and at the same time it frees you up to do other things. It gives me something that I know is going to be fun as opposed to feeling like another job for me. I will put it toe-to-toe with any other MMO out there and say it's more fun to do it in DCUO.
I think the Feat system was actually a missed gem in all of beta; it actually gives you an awful lot of player power if you go and get all the feats because you get more skillpoints and you get more weapons and more passive abilities. The reason I bring it up is because you can collect, you can explore, you can fight, you can redo content -- it's an achievement system that means something. It's actually a way for you to continue to broaden your character. Now I understand it shouldn't be the main form of entertainment, but it is a supplementary thing to give you that sort of break when you don't want to go frenetic-paced and maybe just relax while your friends are online. There are hundreds of them around, and many of them offer up unique loot.
My favorite is the cowboy hat, and the only way to get it is through Area 51's blue collections. You can't get a cowboy hat anywhere else. While it might seem like a small thing, I know from playing other MMOs with achievement systems that it feels good to get even that little, incremental stuff now and then.
Everything we've done has been about making an MMO that is more fun for more people. If your readers are asking if this game is going to dominate their playlives for years and years and they're going to sink all their time into it? I'm going to say no, because I built it not to do that. I built it to be fun every time you come back and to give you lots of reasons to come back. An example is the vaults. Every day you can go in to the vault and try to score some cool loot. It equalizes it, it democratizes loot -- you can get the Toyman illusion in there, which is one of the coolest illusions in the game. It's just a reason to come back, to enjoy, to play the game a little bit, to do whatever you want to do daily like advancing a character or raiding. But we've designed it to be fun every time you come back and not take an enormous amount of time. I think that's the biggest difference. When I look at an entertainment product, I want a really great movie as opposed to a really long one.
With people setting up their own leagues, are there any plans for players to be able to get a spot in the Justice League Watchtower or the Hall of Doom for their League?
Superheroes and lairs are a good thing, but I want to make certain that our combat and everything else makes sense and is fun to do. That way [systems like housing don't] become an extra thing that's kind of cool, and maybe some people take part in it. It should be important and rewarding. There are some MMOs where housing is a huge part of it; there are other popular MMOs where there still isn't even housing. You've got to ask: Is it housing I want, or a cooler feature and a better thing to do raiding, PvP-wise, or general gameplay-wise? We ultimately only have the resources we have to make a fun game. There are a lot of things we want to do for players right now [other] than to implement housing. If we do implement housing, it will be something much more dynamic than that, more reactive than that, because we don't just want to give you a closet to put your stuff in. We want to make it an important part of what's happening in the game.
Thanks so much for your time, Chris! We really appreciate it!
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- Online features Multiplayer, Voice chat, Video chat, Store, Browser
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City Collegeof San Francisco will shut out thousands of students from summer school this year by delaying its start two weeks and accepting less than half the usual enrollment, all to save $500,000.
The biggest losers will be California State University students, who often take summer classes at community college to graduate on time from CSU. With City College enrolling just 40 percent of the usual summer crowd, CSU students will be last on the priority list and may not get into any class at all.
"This will be a big financial problem for a lot of CSU students," said Mayette Delos Santos, a marketing major at San Francisco State University who needs to re-take an accounting class this summer to graduate by 2013.
She lives in the East Bay and will take the course in Oakland or Alameda. But she is among many students who depend on community college to keep from having to spend an extra year at CSU, where tuition and fees will cost $7,017 next fall.

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The 2015 series of Wetpixel Whale sharks trips are starting tomorrow, with folks gathering from around the world to snorkel with and film or photograph the large numbers of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) that gather off Isla Mujeres, Mexico. We will be reporting "live" from Isla Mujeres over the next three weeks, hopefully bringing a flavor of this amazing trip to those of you that can't be here. Please keep checking back for updates each day.
Outdoor Photographer of the Year is now open for entries
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- Honor current commitments, but reform for future recipients
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"I had no idea you deal with depression. You seem like you have it all together. You seem so … normal."
That is essentially what I hear when I confide in someone that I deal with depression. They're always so surprised. Because on the outside, I look like a regular, suburban, 30-something mom of little kids. I generally look put together. In a decent mood. You know … normal.
When I'm depressed, I don't look sad, angry, anxious. Like I feel like I'm falling apart. Like I'm ready to scream at my kids for every little thing they do. Like I'm worrying I will blurt something that will make their little faces crumple in sadness or worse – fear.
I also don't look dirty, frantic, or bizarre. I don't act erratic or crazy. I look and act like me. Just maybe a little quieter, a little sadder, a little less of myself.
When I am struggling with depression, I look normal on the outside. Because I AM normal. I just have depression, too.
If there is one thing I want people to understand about depression, it's this: Depression often – usually – looks "normal." Because "normal" people struggle with depression.
Some people will bristle at a comparison I am about to make – and honestly, I'm not sure why – but I think my depression isn't different from many other chronic diseases. I have friends, acquaintances, and relatives who deal with lupus, fibromyalgia, Crohn's, and other awful diseases that flare up and seemingly go away – just as my depression does.
I am not always depressed, nor do I always have to be on medication. My depression comes and goes. When it's here, I take meds for it. When it's gone, I don't.
And yes, I know that many, many people have constant depression and have to take meds and go to therapy all the time. And you know what? I think their depression isn't any different from any other disease that needs to be constantly monitored and cared for and medicated so the person who has the disease can feel normal.
(There's that word again.)
It bothers me that there is such a stigma about depression. I can understand it – anything that messes with our brains is scary – but it still makes me mad that I'm afraid to talk about it much. But I'm writing about it, at least. And I'm glad that I am.
Because if I can help some of you out there feel less alone, and if I can help some more of you understand that regular people deal with depression – well, that makes me so happy.
Right now I am in a very good place. I don't want to jinx it, but I think I am coming out of this 3+ year bout of depression – the longest one ever. I have been slowly coming off my antidepressants and it's going really well. I'm exercising, taking time for myself, and doing a host of other things that make me feel good.
I hope this bout of depression is ending like it seems it is. If it's not? That's okay. I'll be disappointed. But I'll be grateful there are medications I can take that can help me feel like regular old me.
So if you have a friend or family member who confides in you that they struggle with depression, just remember: They're just as normal as your friend with diabetes or your cousin with lupus. And they're still the person you know and love.
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A Subway sandwich shop employee who had an argument with a co-worker was sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting him behind the fast food restaurant in Portage.
Jordan Scott, 20, will have his first chance at supervised released in 47 years, according to the sentenced imposed Thursday evening by Columbia County Circuit Court Judge Brian Pfitzinger.
Scott pleaded guilty to first-degree intentional homicide in March for the death of David Johnson, 22, of rural Pardeeville. The two worked together at the Subway sandwich shop. Johnson was fatally shot Sept. 5.
The fact that Scott was angry with Johnson over work issues and mad about the way Johnson had treated Scott's girlfriend wrongly escalated to a homicide, Pfitzinger said.
"The response doesn't match the situation," Pfitzinger said. "I can't even make any sense of it."
Scott wiped away tears as he sat next to his attorney during the sentencing hearing in a packed courtroom. He apologized to Johnson's family, his co-workers and the community for the suffering he caused, according to the Portage Daily Register (http://bit.ly/1yU302e ).
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WHO Sculpture Unveiling
When: Wednesday February 27, 2013, 6:30pm, FREE
Where: Mint Plaza
Reception: 8 Mint Plaza
Intersection for the Arts presents the unveiling of a public art installation and a sculptural component of the 5Ws Project. The WHO sculpture–a 10 foot long, 300lb steel bench–is a physical question offering an opportunity for inquiry, learning, change and growth. Artist Ana Teresa Fernandez and designer & architect Johanna Grawunder, have created five illuminated sculptures that will be installed around the 5M campus and in key adjacent public spaces.
The 5Ws Project is an exploration of place with a specific focus on the 5M Project and surrounding neighborhoods. This inquiry unfolds as a public art and community partnership project utilizing the questions Who? What? When? Where? and Why? to provoke conversation and exchange. We are working in collaboration with youth development and after-school programs, neighborhood community based organizations, artists and tenants and collaborators at the 5M Project to explore and reveal memories, traditions, cultures and histories of the neighborhood.
The 5Ws Project includes community chalkboards, community partnerships (including: CHALK, United Playaz, SRO Collaborative/Sisters Rize!, Bindlestiff Studio, Hospitality House, West Bay, and First Exposures), a series of arts-based workshops, a re-purposed newspaper kiosk hosting exhibitions, an online interactive map, and lighting, sculpture and street furniture.The 5Ws is a project of 5MPlaceWorks, a new program led by Intersection for the Arts in collaboration with the 5M Project. It is a pioneering new entity that fuses creative placemaking and economic development practice with the goal of a new model for inclusive urban development. 5MPlaceWorks puts artists at the center of inclusive and positive community change.You too can share your questions, stories, photos, and thoughts.
You too can share your questions, stories, photos, and thoughts. Interact with the map at http://placeworks.crowdmap.com, text (415) 756-1555, email firstname.lastname@example.com or tweet with the hashtag #5W, to add your voice.
Established in 1965, Intersection is a pioneering arts and community development organization that brings people together across boundaries to instigate break-through change. Intersection's programs emphasize relationships, collaboration, and process. We work with hundreds of artists through residencies, commissions, fellowships, fiscal sponsorship and incubation, performances, exhibitions, workshops and public art projects. Annually, we work with more than 50 community partners across sector and field.
Intersection is currently a lead collaborator on The 5M Project, a 4-acre multi-phase, mixed-use development project located in downtown San Francisco. With The 5M Project, we are helping to prototype the next generation of urban development that embraces diversity of thought, life experience, and culture as essential to positive economic and social change in our neighborhoods. We have brought together artists, makers, entrepreneurs, social change agents, and technology innovators to collaboratively develop a new kind of place that unlocks > resources, connection, and creativity across silos and disciplines.
ANA TERESA FERNANDEZ (www.anateresafernandez.com) is a visual artist, sculptor, and performance artist based in San Francisco, CA. Originally from Tampico, Mexico, Fernandez explores the territories that encompass different boundaries and stereotypes: physical, emotional, and psychological. She subverts the typical folkloric representations of Mexican women by changing the protagonist's uniform to the quintessential little black dress, a symbol of American prosperity and femininity and of the Mexican tradition of wearing black for a year after a death. Her paintings portray actual performances where Fernandez takes on the Sisyphean task of cleaning the environment – sweeping sand on a beach, vacuuming a dirt road – to accentuate the idea of disposable labor resources. She received her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006 and was the Tournasol Awardee at the Headlands Center for the Arts for 2007-2008. She has also completed residencies in Jakmel, Haiti at the Foundation d'arte Jakmel, and in Juarez Mexico through the LEF Foundation. She received the National Association of Latino Art and Culture Award, San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant, and the Murphy Cadogan Award. She has shown her work locally at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Electric Works, Galeria de la Raza, Luggage Store Gallery, Queen's Nails Annex, and Headlands Center for the Arts, and internationally, including Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico; Fondation d'Art Jacmel, Haiti; Sun Valley Arts Center, Sun Valley, Idaho; and Galeria Nacional Museo San Jose, Costa Rica.
JOHANNA GRAWUNDER (http://grawunder.com/) is a designer and architect based in Milan, Italy and San Francisco. Her work spans a broad range of projects and scales, from large-scale public installations, architecture and interiors, to limited edition furniture and lights and custom commissions. She also designs products for select companies including Flos, Boffi, and GlasItalia among others. Recent work includes private commissions for lights, furniture and interiors, as well as large-scale lighting installations. For the Freeport Singapore, she designed a permanent installation of "light ceilings" through out the building, as well as a unique light façade. And for Robert, in the Museum of Art and Design, NYC, she designed a total light ceiling covering the entire space. Her work is has been shown and is included in many Museum permanent collections, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), CNAP, San Francisco MOMA, Art Institute Chicago and the High Museum Atlanta. She worked with Sottsass Associati from 1985-2001, becoming a partner in 1989. At the Sottsass Studio she was involved primarily with architecture and interiors, co-designing with Ettore Sottsass, many of the firm's most prestigious projects. In 2001 she left Sottsass Associati and opened her own studio in San Francisco and Milan. Graduating in 1984 from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Architecture degree, she completed her final year of studies in Florence, Italy and in 1985 moved to Milan. She was born in 1961 in San Diego, California.


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Title text: RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.
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The comic specifies a function (in a C-like syntax), which judging by its name should be designed to return a random number. Most functions of this form are random number generators, meaning that on subsequent calls they return different random numbers. But the programmer has instead implemented a function that just returns always the same random number; which, while it could indeed have been truly randomly chosen by rolling a die as the comment documented, is essentially worthless were it ever to be called more than once (with the expectation of different, i.e., random, results). In other words, the results over time would not be random at all, but completely predictable and deterministic.
The IEEE is the organization responsible for maintaining a number of computer standards. An RFC, or Request for Comments, is a formal document put out to computing experts by IETF in the hopes of becoming a future standard. However, RFC 1149 was an April Fools' joke, defining how carrier pigeons can be used to transmit Internet packets. "RFC 1149.5", meanwhile, simply does not exist.
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int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. // guaranteed to be random. }
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The syntax looks like perfectly valid java to me.188.8.131.52 22:00, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Looks like Java to me too. 18.104.22.168 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Java code for this would be something like "public static int fin(){}" or just "public int fin(){}". I think the code would still compile though without the public/private part. 220.127.116.11 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- How can Java come to mind when it is pure C syntax, which predates Java by several years and is arguably better known. A feature of most languages is that they have a "C-like syntax". See, a whole page on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C-based_programming_languages 18.104.22.168 19:53, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
- "C-like syntax" is the best explain, this covers all. Even when I disagree that it's better known than Java these days.--Dgbrt (talk) 21:04, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
- Just to be particularly pedantic, the double slash for the comment (which is generally utilised in object oriented C-style languages) should be avoided in C to retain backwards compatibility with C89, although it's a valid construct in C99. I'd offer, too, that the lack of library inclusion suggests this isn't necessarily Java, though it's been a couple years since I've had the opportunity to code in it. Thokling (talk) 15:35, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
- "C-like syntax" is the best explain, this covers all. Even when I disagree that it's better known than Java these days.--Dgbrt (talk) 21:04, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
As a proof of good joke, RFC 1149 was successfully implemented several times. -- Hkmaly (talk) 08:55, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
Actually, a poor "random" function like "return 4;" would be quickly determined by statistical test tools (Diehard, Dieharder, etc.) to generate very poor random number. Samiam (talk) 19:55, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
- The number is random, I'm sure Randall really did this "fair dice roll". And even the name of the function is correct, it just returns a random number. A programmer would expect a random number generator, but Randall can't roll the dice all the time.--Dgbrt (talk) 21:37, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
- <<sound of crickets chirping>> 18.104.22.168 02:24, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
- Playstation 3 jailbreak reference?
Isn't this a reference to Sony Playstation 3's random number generator function that allowed to discover the private key to 3.55 firmware? 22.214.171.124 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- The comic is from February 9, 2007. The 3.55 firmware was released December 7, 2010. 184.108.40.206 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)


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Our effort to stop this sick hoax.
Facebook is exploited by all sorts of spammers but it is perhaps the photos that circulate of sick children claiming to offer donations for liking or sharing the photo that are amongst the worst.
If you're a regular user of the world's number one social networking website then you've probably seen these photos that depict injured, disadvantaged or disabled children along with a message that asserts sharing or liking the photo results in either prayers or donations for the child.
Many Facebook users believe the claims are true. Others comply "just in case" they're true.
These photos are never genuine. No entity including Facebook condition donations of any kind on the number of Likes or Shares a photo gets, at least not in this manner.
But it is important to scratch past the surface of this hoax and then ask if they're not real then why do they exist? And the widely unknown answer to that question shows exactly how these unscrupulous scams work and highlights the extent as to how depraved scammers will go to make money.
It also shows why you should never share or like these photos, even if it's "just in case they're true".
It is first important to realise that the vast majority of these scams exploit photos that have been taken elsewhere from the Internet and used without the permission of anyone related to the photo including the families of the children depicted. Such photos are taken from news websites, stolen from public Facebook photo albums and some have been known to be taken from medical journal websites.
This in itself is deplorable since it causes much anguish for the families involved to see photos of their loved ones circulating Facebook under false pretences. In most cases the photos are old and outdated, and in at least one example the photo shows a child that had since passed away.
However it gets worse when you realise that these photos are often used to make scammers money. We explain the method of how scammers user "Likewhore pages" to make money in detail in this blog post, but essentially it involves scammers creating Facebook pages and posting consistent streams of content imploring users to like and share in order to accumulate followers. When the number of followers reaches a certain number then the Facebook Page can either be sold for financial gain or any number of other scams can be employed on the followers, such as survey scams or malware attacks.
It is also worth noting that these scams promote "slacktivism" – the illusion you are helping a cause merely by pressing Like or Share when in reality this has no real world significance or benefits towards helping with an issue.
ThatsNonsense.com has teamed up with several other hoax-busting websites in an attempt to educate Facebook users into how these scams works and how they exploit the children in the photos for profit. In this case education is key and the more people who are aware of how these scammers operate the less people will be willing to spread the scams, for whatever reason.
If you see such photos then we recommend doing the following -
1. Never Share or Like these photos. If you do you are playing right into the hoaxers hands and potentially causing great distress to the families involved, and of course you're passing false information to all of your Facebook friends.
2. Avoid commenting on the photos. Even if you know the photo is a hoax a comment can make the post appear on the tickers of your Facebook friends and can help spread the photo.
3. Instead of a comment you can send a private message to the person who uploaded the photo and explain it is a sick hoax and ask them to remove it.
4. Report the photo. Many people who upload these photos will never take then down voluntarily, so Facebook will do it for you. Make Facebook aware of the photo by clicking the Report option
5. Report the photo to the Stop Sick Children Hoaxes Facebook group run by one of the admins of the Bulldog Estate here.
Since these hoaxes begun we have managed to educated many , many thousands of Facebook users and that number is still rising. Every time one of these hoaxes is uploaded it is removed faster than ever and more and more Facebook users are aware of the true nature of these hoaxes. We're winning the battle, one user at a time. Help us and spread the word!
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1/2 cup
packed light brown sugar
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1 tablespoon
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Very sweet, very rich, VERY delicious - made even richer and more delicious by the dollops of double cream we served it with. If you want a festive pie (for example if you really hated the person who's died), replacing a bit of the water with a slug of booze (I used rum) kicks it up several notches. Although, granted, it might not be a very Amish thing to do! I can thoroughly recommend Grandma's Secret Pie Crust from this site to make it.
"Funeral pie" is a recipe that mainstream American cookbooks have featured for years (I have several 1930s cookbooks that feature it). Its reputation as a pie for mourners is well-established, but as for its Amish origin, I've never heard such a claim made. Even if this recipe can't be appreciated as Amish, it's an old American classic -- and I think everyone can appreciate THAT! :)
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This was very good. Made for my mother who loves raisins. I don't care for them in quite such abundance (don't care for mincemeat, either). I made this twice. Once as-is (I think every recipe deserves that), and once modifying it so that it appealed to other family members who wanted something less "mince meat like." I stirred in 1/2 cup of pecans in place of 1/2 cup of raisins, and, I stirred in 1/2 cup of chocolate chips. The end result was something like a "Chunky Raisin Pecan Candy Bar." The menfolk much preferred this version.
This pie was absolutely delicious! And everyone got a big kick out of the name!
I substituted dried fruit medaly (Australian) with dried apple apricot peaches sultanas etc. Definately a keeper. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
This is a lovely pie: an excellent taste, and so easy to make. My family loved it, I'll be sure to make it again!
This was delicious, like a sweeter, subtler version of mincemeat pie. Everyone in the family liked it, but we did change the name to "Amish Raisin Pie" because "Funeral Pie" was a little morbid.
This was the greatest Thanks for the recipe I'll use this alot
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Wikimedia Germany is a non-profit organization committed to promoting open knowledge. We support projects for the creation, promotion and distribution of free content. One of the most important projects is Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. Wikimedia Germany has a rapidly growing office in Berlin, with currently 19 employees.
Early 2012, Wikimedia Germany e.V. will start the development of WikiData, an ambitious project that we hope will change the Web once again. We are currently looking for a number of people to help us with realizing this goal. The team will be based in Berlin, Germany, and the project aims to be implemented in one year. After completion of the project, we expect many more interesting software projects inspired by this one, so follow-up projects might be possible. In all positions it is a plus to understand Wikipedia and collaborative community processes and communities in general, to speak English and further languages, and to appreciate the scale of a project like Wikipedia.
The project director has to represent and embody the vision of the project, ensure that the final goals of the project are met, be able to motivate the team, express it clearly in communications with the community and external parties, take the responsibility for communicating with the donors, ensure the necessary visibility of the project, and be able to help anyone in the team with anything required. The director has to be fluent in spoken and written form in both English and German, further languages are useful, be able to demonstrate their deep understanding of community-driven projects, feel strong about open data, open source, and their processes, have a thorough and critical understanding of semantic technologies, and have a record of succesfully lead projects. The director is responsible for recruting the development team.
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the MS06-061 security update for Windows 2000 SP4 has been revised. see here:
wonder if this security patch will make it into the next release of the unofficial Win2k SP5.02 pack
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Frieze New York opens its doors to the public today, but already during yesterday's press and VIP preview the aisles were crowded, the common areas and restaurants filled with worn-out fairgoers, and it seemed as if the only empty seats were sculptures.Continue Reading →
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Is an exhibition ever too beautiful for its own good? Jenny Holzer's new show at Cheim & Read, Dust Paintings, is ravishing. But the sensuality of these text-based abstractions, done in oil on linen in mostly muted colors, runs counter to their content, which is derived from declassified government reports of brutalization and death during the Afghan War.Continue Reading →
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Thirty-two years after being labeled the "first radical art show of the '80s," the Times Square Show, a raucous and revolutionary DIY art exhibition held in an abandoned massage parlor on 41st Street and Seventh Avenue in the old dirty and devastated Times Square, has been revived by the Hunter College Art Galleries in the exhibition Times Square Show Revisited.Continue Reading →
There are many an artist who dedicate themselves to subverting the commodification of their own work and the current exhibition at Nurture Art, Is This Free?, addresses the topic with a three-part summer exhibition.Continue Reading →
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"X-Men" sequel an emotional roller-coaster
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"X-Men: Days of Future Past," directed by Bryan Singer, brings in stars from the old and newer X-Men films for a battle of time-linear proportions. The film is picturesque of an apocalypse that takes place in the present day. The future looks bleak, and it is up to present-day Professor X, played by Patrick Stewart, and his rag-tag team of mutant cohorts to resolve the problems of the past.
The older version of Professor X explained to Wolverine how he's going to have Kitty, played by Ellen Page, send Wolverine's consciousness back to the past and into his younger body and that time will continue to pass normally in the present day, even as Wolverine changes past events. Nevertheless, those changes will take effect only when Wolverine wakes up again in present day.
This film is a roller-coaster of emotions from beginning to end as the past and present versions of our favorite mutant collide. If you enjoyed the previous film, "X-Men: First Class," you surely will not be disappointed. There is a smidge of skeptic opinion when it comes to sequels, but saying that this film is an exception would be an understatement.
Fans of the comics will be pleased along with the naïve Marvel fans who are just looking for a little escapism along with the eye candy of the fairly attractive actors. The "Days of Future Past's" plot is mildly explosive and can be compared to the previous films when it comes to conflict between the mutants and society's prejudice against them. What this film offers that the previous films don't is some genuine resolution whereas the previous films practically left viewers hanging by a limb.
Each character holds his own in this film and equally provides a sense of power and excitement to the roles. Characters from the first three X-Men films have a slightly smaller part to play, although the majority of the film takes place in the 1970s, thus creating a plausible reason for their absences.
This film also introduces new mutants, such as Quicksilver, played by Evan Peters; Warpath, played by Booboo Stewart; and Sunspot, played by Adam Canto. Evan Peters' Quicksilver steals every moment of his screen time. There are also a number of nice cameos and fun nods to both comic book and historical figures.
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" is successful at being a thrilling superhero movie by balancing dramatic weight with comedic moments and closure from problems that came from the previous films.


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What Does Skeet Ulrich Look Like Now, 16 Years After Scream?
Remember Skeet Ulrich, the Johnny Depp look-alike who played teen killer Billy Loomis to psychotic perfection in the very first Scream movie?
After his breakthrough in 1996 — in Boys (opposite Winona Ryder), The Craft (opposite Neve Campbell), and Scream — Skeet went on to star in the movies As Good As It Gets (1997), Touch (1997), The Newton Boys (1998), Chill Factor (1999), Ride With the Devil (1999), and Takedown (2000). He then appeared on the short-lived series Miracles in 2003, and he stayed on the small screen as Jake Green on the CBS drama Jericho from 2006 to 2008. Most recently, Skeet played ill-fated Detective Rex Winters on the equally ill-fated series Law & Order: Los Angeles.
Skeet married British actress Georgina Cates in 1997, and they welcomed twins Jakob Dylan and Naiia Rose in 2001. Unfortunately, he and Georgina did the Hollywood thing and got divorced four years later. He's now in a relationship with actress Amelia Jackson-Gray.
Now 42, Skeet may no longer a dead ringer for Johnny Depp, but Billy will always be the Scream franchise's sexiest slasher.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
A longtime Georgetown County volunteer firefighter and coach is being remembered by those who knew him as a man who cared for his community.
Darry Goss, a fire volunteer in the Pee Dee Community since 1997, was driving with his wife on Choppee Road Saturday evening when he passed out and the car ran off the road.
His wife escaped serious injury but Goss died at the hospital from heart-related natural causes, according to County Deputy Coroner Paulette Radcliffe.
County Assistant Fire Chief Tony Hucks said Goss was a good volunteer who was always eager to help out in any way he could.
Goss was also a volunteer coach with the County Parks and Recreation Department and headed childrens sports in the Pee Dee and Pleasant Hill areas.
Read more about Goss in Wednesdays Georgetown Times.
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Newcomers from Cuba, Japan making an All-Star pitchBy MIKE FITZPATRICK
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | July 04,2014NEW YORK All-Stars from all over the world are ticketed for the Twin Cities, where hometown favorite Joe Mauer will be conspicuously absent from the lineup.
Still new to the majors, Masahiro Tanaka, Jose Abreu and Yasiel Puig are just a few of the foreign-born players almost certain to get selected for the July 15 showcase in Minnesota. All-Star rosters will be announced Sunday night, and this years game at Target Field figures to have a distinctive international flavor.
I think it tells you something about how hard theyve worked outside of our game to get to this point, New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
I think it tells you the level of baseball around the world and how good it is and the competition and how hungry they are, in a sense, to be one of the best. Not just being happy with maybe signing a big deal and saying, thats enough. They want to continue to play and make a name for themselves. So its pretty special what these guys have done.
Yu Darvish (Japan), Koji Uehara (Japan), Yoenis Cespedes (Cuba) and Julio Teheran (Colombia) also have impressive stats, putting them in position to join familiar stars such as Miguel Cabrera (Venezuela) and Robinson Cano (Dominican Republic) from more common talent pools outside the United States.
And some of these players, such as Tanaka (Japan) and Abreu (Cuba), have only been here for a matter of months.
Its not surprising that some of these guys are able to play at such a high level right when they come over here, because theyre just that good, said Tampa Bays Ben Zobrist, a two-time All-Star.
You think of a rookie generally as a young kid that is getting his first experience on a very tough stage, and these guys have already played on high international stages even if it wasnt the major leagues. And theyre very polished players.
Derek Jeter is on track for one last trip in his final season; the Yankees captain led American League shortstops in fan balloting when the latest update was released this week.
But one big name now sure to be missing is Mauer, the three-time batting champion from St. Paul, Minnesota.
Tabbed as an All-Star ambassador to help Major League Baseball promote the game, Mauer was placed on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday with a strained muscle on his right side. And while its an unfortunate injury for the Twins, it does save MLB and American League manager John Farrell from the Boston Red Sox the trouble of dealing with a delicate situation.
Despite a recent hitting streak, Mauer is having his worst season at the plate. And since he moved from catcher to first base this year to protect his health, he now plays the same position as several of the ALs best hitters.
To put him on the roster only because the game is in Minneapolis would have been awkward and it would have cost some other deserving player a spot.
However, it also would have felt strange for the $184 million face of the Twins to be left out of the festivities. Especially for Minnesota fans.
Mauers injury eliminates all that. The six-time All-Star and 2009 AL MVP can play some sort of role in the pregame ceremonies and soak in a well-earned ovation without it feeling forced.
Its tough to describe, Mauer said. I definitely wanted to be a part of this as a player, but I guess thats out of the question now.
Other choices remain difficult, even for fans and players who vote.
Cabrera or Abreu at first base for the American League? Adam Wainwright or Clayton Kershaw on the mound for the NL? And all five members of the Dodgers rotation have their own worthy credentials.
Im looking forward to being a part of the game, but Im not necessarily looking forward to the fact theres going to be some guys left out that have had All-Star-caliber seasons, said St. Louis Cardinals skipper Mike Matheny, who will manage the NL team and help choose his reserves. You just look especially at the starting pitching, its just one guy right after another with very similar numbers.
There are 34 spots on each roster, and at least 13 go to pitchers.
Plus, every club must be represented. So it certainly gets complicated.
I dont anticipate making everyone happy, Farrell said.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Kurdish militants in jails across Turkey ended a 68-day-old hunger strike on Sunday in response to a call from their jailed leader, an association representing the inmates' families said in a statement.
The move will fuel hopes of a fresh push to end a decades-old conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) - designated a terrorist group by Ankara, the United States and the European Union - in which more than 40,000 people have been killed.
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan's call for the end of the hunger strike, which was staged to demand an end to his isolation in an island prison south of Istanbul, was announced by his brother on Saturday.
"On the basis of our leader's call ... we end our protest as of November 18, 2012," Deniz Kaya, a spokesman for the jailed PKK militants, was quoted as saying in the association statement.
Ocalan's announcement suggested a deal had been struck to end a protest that was becoming a thorn in the side of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government.
A newspaper said on Sunday talks between Ocalan and Turkish intelligence officials over the last two months had paved the way for his call to end the hunger strike.
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This latest expansion pack, A Shantotto Ascension, comes bundled with the November version update, as is customary for the past few updates to the title. So, in addition to being able to pay 10 bucks to attempt to foil Professor Shantotto's aspirations of having her own empire, the game has been updated with a brand new crafting system called synergy, the new ability to add "slots" onto your items and upgrade them with evolith modifications, more job updates, and an improvement to the existing wedding system!
As you can see, it's a busy time in Vana'diel, and we got to jaunt around the world and find out more. So come along, follow in our adventurous footsteps, and find out what all the fuss is about!
The Legend Torn, Her Empire Born
The tour opened up with a long journey (and by long, I mean a magical teleport that took two whole seconds) to the bustling town of Windurst, where I was introduced to a cutscene featuring the magical experiments of the great Professor Shantotto.
For those of you not in the know, Shantotto is one of the game's foremost black mages and makes appearances in many of the Windust questlines and even the world event questlines. She's a curious little woman as she speaks entirely in rhyme, usually showing up as some sort of powerful figure or weasling her way into adventures. In short (but not shorter than her), she's a little full of herself. Then again, if you could bend space and time, you'd be full of yourself too.
In any case, the opening trailer showcases a rare accident in the Professor's experiments, creating a large warp rift that pulls her in and triggers a gigantic explosion (shown above.) The Professor disappears from Windurst from some time, only to later reappear with an army of odd, Tarutaru-like solders. However, the Shantotto that reappears is nothing like the old Shantotto -- this one is fixated on creating her own empire and conquering all of Vana'diel to showcase her might.
The adventure pack is sure to take twists and turns while it showcases Shantotto's inner-mind and explores one of Final Fantasy XI's title characters in the depth she's deserved for years. While it comes with the update, the Shantotto Ascension adventure pack is an additional 10 dollars to actually unlock the content. Complete all of the quests, and be rewarded with some awesome new leg armor to complete the set you've been building with the first two adventure packs.
The Hunt is On
After previewing the expansion pack and the cutscene, off we went to try our hand at the combat portion of the game's new crafting system -- the hunt.
Hunts are very much like the game's Fields of Valor system, where players accept quests to kill specific notorious monsters throughout the world. Now, these are the same notorious monsters that have been in the game since launch, so expect to see some people camping Leaping Lizzy all over again. These hunts can literally be hunts as you try to track down the game's tricky rare spawns, plus some brand new ones added just for the system.
Once you successfully take down the monster you've been after and return to a Hunt Registry book to confirm your kill, you'll be rewarded with an evolith unique to the monster and the hunt currency of scylds. Scylds are marks given by hunts once you complete them. While the lower level hunts require no scylds to start, the higher level ones do. So, if you're looking for those powerful evoliths and difficult hunts, you have go jump through some hoops and do lower level ones first before taking on big game.
Speaking of evoliths... that leads me right into the next segment...


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Gluten-Free Valentine's Chocolates
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Do you love someone (yourself included!) who can't eat gluten? Yes, flowers are nice and gluten-free, but sometimes a box of chocolates is just, well, delicious!
I have some good news and some bad news regarding the most popular brands of Valentine's Day chocolates. Do you have any more to add to this list?
Good News — Gluten-Free!
See's Candies' new allergen list, as of January 1, 2014 states that "All See's products do not contain gluten." This is a change from the past, when some of their candies did contain gluten. I also confirmed this via phone. The allergen list also states which candies are nut-free, dairy-free, egg-free and soy-free. You can see their Valentine's Day products on their website and in stores.
Pretty Good News — Gluten-Free Ingredients
Ghiradelli Chocolate also has an allergen list on their website. The good news is that according to the list, all of their chocolates are gluten-free except for the ones that contain "Crisp." However, they are all listed as Shared Equipment with gluten, so that is a decision you need to make depending on your sensitivity. (I eat Ghirardelli chocolate with no problem.) You can see their Valentine's Day offerings on their website and in stores.
Russell Stover states on their website that "Most of our products do not contain gluten from added ingredients. Those that do contain wheat gluten, such as S'Mores and the Cookies and Cream Rabbit, clearly show the presence of wheat in the ingredient listings. However, please be aware that products containing wheat are produced on equipment that's also used to make our other products. So, we can't rule out the possibility of cross-contact, despite efforts to prevent it. Because of that possibility,
we do not declare any of our products to be gluten-free."
Bad News — NOT Gluten-Free!
Godiva states: "ALL of our products including solid chocolate pieces may contain gluten. Any person with a gluten allergy should NOT consume ANY of our products." The same goes for nuts and dairy.
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Not much to say about this product. Don't notice a difference when I take it. But, I understand it's a great antioxident.
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got for my mom
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DiRT 3, among other games, requires GFWL to play. I've tried many solutions, but nothing has solved this installerror and until it is fixed I can't play any games. I have all critical, important and optional windows updates. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. The weird part is that these games used to work. I rebuilt my computer recently with an ssd boot drive, but the os is the same and so is all the other hardware. So really it should be the same computer, I really don't understand how to solve this problem. I've tried some hotfixes recommended for this error but it seems that this error code is very generic so it's hard to find advice that actually relates. The only forums that discuss my specific issue recommend installing this update: Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB938759)(here is the forum http://forums.xbox.com/gfw/games_discussion/pc_games_a-d/f/292/t/80426.aspxthat update is for xp and doesn't want to work on my computer. running it once says i need to be admin. ofcourse, i am. so I run as admin and it says not enough space on the drive or something like that. there are gb's of space on the boot drive and my storage drive, so that doesn't seem to want to work. another forum says that this error code is only for xp and that windows vista should not experience this issue (found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960554) I've tried downloading the installer from various locations, but the same thing happens every time.my buddy has GFWL working just fine, i'm wondering if it's specific to windows 7 ultimate. either way, i am totally out of ideas. any ideas you could offer would be a great help.thanks a lot,kyle
Found another small detail. So I try to run the installer. It looks like it's downloading, then it fails and gives me the error code: 0x800b0003. Try the support button, and you get a dead link on microsoft's website. Very nice. Open the log files and here's what I find. Setupexe.txt says that the installer downloaded correctly, but as soon as the install was initialized it failed. xliveinstall.txt tells a similar story. Checks the disk space, then downloads the installer. The download finishes, but then it says that the xliveredist.msi was not signed correctly, which means it failed to validate and hence i get an error code. But the xliveredist.msi is the installer file that IT downloaded. So it's failing to validate it's own files? I've tried redownloading the installer and I get the same thing. Very very strange. I'm starting to wonder if it's a registry thing. It was a fluke that happened once, but now it's destined to happen every time because its sitting on my computer somewhere. I really hope someone else has something to contribute.
follow the instructions here.
As always, Play Safe!
I did follow those instructions. I actually said I did in the original post. And I said the results. Those instructions are for Windows XP. I said I had Windows 7. If you read the instructions you sent you'll see it actually specifically states that it is NOT for Windows Vista: "Note You receive this error message only in Windows XP. Windows Vista already includes this update and should not experience this error." I am the OP by the way, it signed me in as some guest account and I'm too lazy to change it.
Hotchilli doesn't read posts.
It's definitely not an issue with Ultimate, or we would encounter this error constantly, so we can rule that out. Don't worry about the hotfix, that corrects a very specifc eccentricity within XP.
Your SSD isn't split into multiple partitions, is it?
Inside of GFWL, try changing your download directory (it is the first option under the settings tab) to your storage drive instead of your SSD. Then close GFWL, click on start, search for command and open your command prompt. Then type bitsadmin /reset in the command prompt and hit enter. Try to start the download again. If you can, try to simplify the network connection by direct connecting to your modem with an ethernet cable. What happens?
If you still have issues, take a look at your list of installed programs. Do you have all of following--GFWL (client and redistributable), Microsoft .net framework 4.0, Microsoft Silverlight, and the Windows Live ID sign in assistant?
Please reply with your results and any new info that emerges. You can also contact us at 877-274-4349.
My SSD is split between the C drive and the system reserve, which happened when I installed my OS. I have been unable to install GFWL at all, so I cannot access any directory specifications. I have, however, tried a bitsadmin reset and that didn't change anything. I have the latest .net framework and I believe I have Windows Live ID Sign In Assistant. I do not have Silverlight or anything GFWL related. I never thought that the SSD would be the root of the problem, but that might actually explain it, considering that before I upgraded to that separate boot drive I had GFWL fully operational with no problems. What should I do? I can't exactly delete the system reserve.
I have same problem as ObservedDrip4 (Same error, SSD disk, win7 x64 Ultimate). Is here any solution ?
UP. Can't play any more :(
Did you image your HDD to transfer your OS, or was it a fresh install. SSD drives have been known to cause issues, so up to you where to go with that. You can try searching for a resolution, but I know that people have issues with these drives. I have a hybrid drive and I did a fresh install and have no issues at all.
I did fresh install.
Try creating a partition, and install the GFWL Client and games into the other partition.
Partition on SSD or normal disk ? I´ve tried to instal on SSD and normal disk and error still persist. But I think GFWL dont ask me where to install. It chose automaticaly a directory.
Ok, lets look at this from a different angle. Try to make sure you have .Net Framework 4.0 installed and if not install it.
Uninstall everything including .Net Framework 4.0
Microsoft Silverlight
Windows Live ID Signin assistant
Windows Live Essentials 2011(you don't have to re install the Live ID signin assistant as it is part of Windows Live Essentials 2011.)
I did it already a many times.
The system reserve space will not have any effect and is required so that is definitely not our issue. Do programs install to the SSD by default (meaning the settings/registry of windows has not modified)?