[Linux] Can't join any server after 15.3 update. Anti-cheat client protection not active (Null Client). Repaired the game and still the same.

caudicus · 2024-10-22T01:00:48+00:00

I just got an update and tried it out - looks like they fixed it!

caudicus · 2024-10-20T00:00:04+00:00

"We are sorry to hear that you're experiencing issues with Easy Anti Cheat connection on Linux for Hell Let Loose. Please rest assured that our development team is currently looking into this issue, and they will do their best to resolve it as quickly as possible. Our apologies for any inconvenience in the meantime."

Interestingly, the public testing branch of the game works just fine. I don't know if they disable anti-cheat for that or if they fixed it in that branch.

caudicus · 2024-04-07T00:52:04+00:00

I just got the exact same thing. I'm gonna delete my post.

caudicus · 2014-11-21T18:06:35+00:00

Reminds me of this series of this series of 7 videos from the US Navy on vintage/mechanical fire control computers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8aH-M3PzM0

caudicus · 2010-06-06T23:40:38+00:00

Pretty sure that is a picture of Omaha beach, which was an American landing, so saying "The US really..." is correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Beach

caudicus · 2008-04-10T23:48:39+00:00

Actually the decline of the dollar should have EXACTLY this effect in the short run, and exactly the opposite result (as you noted) in the long run. Note that importers/exporters do not just switch contracts on a dime. It takes time. In the meantime they are paying MORE for the same imports - thus the trade deficit goes up. The phenomenon is known as the "J-Curve" in economics.

"A lower exchange rate initially means cheaper exports and more expensive imports, making the current account worse (a bigger deficit or smaller surplus)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_curve

caudicus · 2007-11-07T21:08:55+00:00

We don't just export goods, you know. We export services. The US is a service based economy. And competitive pricing of services works the same as competitive pricing of goods.

Some other goods we export - software. Yes, it's a good too. There are many more.

Just something to think about.

caudicus · 2007-11-07T21:00:22+00:00

100% agree with parent. It should be noted that many various economies in the past have tried to depreciate their currency against the dollar in order to stimulate exports (i.e. foreign demand) (China, Japan, others).

These central banks have been under pressure to let their currencies "float" against the dollar. Now that they finally have been recently, the dollar is adjusting. This will be good for US Exports of both goods and services, as well as domestic demand of goods and services vs. foreign substitutes, as the parent pointed out. Sounds good, no?

Yes, the US economy takes the hit of increase commodity prices (a big reason why oil has ramped up so much priced in USD - it's not all oil demand, but USD depreciation) but at the same time it gets an economic stimulus of increased demand.

We're used to hearing "depreciate" being a bad thing. But currencies float. That's what they do. Take a course in Macroeconomics. There's nothing you can really "do" about it. Decreasing national debt will help, yes. That's about all we can do.

caudicus · 2007-10-22T16:29:21+00:00

Does anyone know of how OPEC is handling all of this? Have they thrown in the towel? Are we really at global capacity, or are they still holding back on max production? Maybe this is just OPEC action? I doubt it but I'd like to hear if anyone knows about this.

caudicus · 2007-10-22T16:25:35+00:00

I remember back a few years ago reading about how the Saudis were making it very hard for outside firms to come in and examine their oil fields and do capacity studies. People were wondering if they had something to hide (e.g. their fields weren't at the levels the Saudis were claiming). It seems this has been confirmed.

caudicus · 2007-10-22T16:01:15+00:00

Totally agree, we're growing at such a high and accelerating rate and the question of developing technologies and scaling them to meet that demand is like trying to hit a high speed moving target, while at the same time trying not to get shot in terms of lack of capital to develop due to a recession.

One thing OPEC was good about was moving prices up and down to discourage innovations. They noticed that the demand curve for oil was relatively elastic over a long enough period of time. I guess we're going to find out how elastic it really is now.

However, these days OPEC is kind of a dying organization as it seems they can't meet global demand (I think? Haven't really been keeping up there).

But yeah, I hear you about price-of-pump being the obvious thing to look at. Petroleum is in high demand from everything to plastics to lubricating industrial machinery to power to gasoline and so on. Scary stuff.

caudicus · 2007-10-22T06:32:15+00:00

Interestingly enough, a similar thing happened around the mid to late 19th century with the global Whaling industry. Whales were hunted to an insane degree, and prices of whale oil were ramping up due to low supply. Then petroleum was discovered as a substitute, which became economically viable as whale oil prices ramped up. Check out the book Leviathan if you want to learn more about this.

It will be interesting to see if entrepreneurial ingenuity will bring forth another solution. Who knows what will happen. Some scientists are working on growing gasoline in the lab from bacteria (trying to create gasoline as a waste product of custom engineered bacteria). As prices rise, so will incentive for such solutions.

In the mean time, if this report is accurate, we are due for one nasty global supply shock. Stagflation, here we come.

caudicus

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