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Google Flash Game.... You Guessed it FAIL! Game Down from Server Load "some things aren't quite working as we hoped" Typical Google!

gamegiants [S] -1 points0 points 2 months ago[-]

orkut, wave, checkout, lively (an extra special fail!),app engine (just try and make anything useful with it),google tv advertising,google print advertising,google answers,google Buzz,google friend connect,google health, google catalog search,dodgeball...... And soon to fail "Google Me"

Not Ready for Primetime... Google App Engine Goes Down Hard Today!

gamegiants -1 points0 points 1 year ago[-]

I guess you did not read the first bug. For over 8 months if you do a query and use ORDER BY the datastore will return a certain number of results for a given query if you drop the ORDER BY and run the same query you get a different number of results.

An eight month old Showstopper.

How about the last one. Google admits that the constant datastore timeouts are a major defect, but basically state that it is a problem that is inherent in the architecture. Acceptable?

The whole system is major Kludge. If you spent any time working with it you would realize that.

Not Ready for Primetime... Google App Engine Goes Down Hard Today!

gamegiants 0 points1 point 1 year ago[-]

Here are a few examples....

Not Ready for Primetime... Google App Engine Goes Down Hard Today!

gamegiants 1 point2 points 1 year ago[-]

Defect 12/03 2008 queries return different numbers of results in production server, due to indices out of sync

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=901

Not Ready for Primetime... Google App Engine Goes Down Hard Today!

gamegiants 1 point2 points 1 year ago[-]

Defect Sep 26, 2008 Google proxy should obey cache-control header

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=739

Not Ready for Primetime... Google App Engine Goes Down Hard Today!

gamegiants 1 point2 points 1 year ago[-]

Defect 06/29/2008 Slower response times for alias domains

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=531

Not Ready for Primetime... Google App Engine Goes Down Hard Today!

gamegiants 0 points1 point 1 year ago* [-]

Their response is far from "instantaneous". Have you looked at the issue tracker lately?

Not Ready for Primetime... Google App Engine Goes Down Hard Today!

gamegiants 7 points8 points 1 year ago[-]

It is NOT free

Not Ready for Primetime... Google App Engine Goes Down Hard Today!

gamegiants 2 points3 points 1 year ago[-]

Twitter!=User Support

Not Ready for Primetime... Google App Engine Goes Down Hard Today!

gamegiants 0 points1 point 1 year ago* [-]

Your using Google PR math try 6+ hours and this has not been the first issue. And for your "communication with users". Your joking right? Or would you like to post the phone number for the App Engine Support. Or how about the email address or a link for the ticketing system....

Not Ready for Primetime... Google App Engine Goes Down Hard Today!

gamegiants 2 points3 points 1 year ago[-]

How can you modify your code to catch an undocumented previously unknown exception or modify your app at all if the whole system is down as it was? Yeah some engineer at Google posted this suggestion.... It was useless.

Google App Engine: Grow your app beyond the free quotas!

gamegiants 0 points1 point 1 year ago* [-]

Guess you all missed that they are dropping the "free" bandwidth quota to 1GB and are limiting total downloads for free apps at 56 MByte/min and paid apps to 740 MByte/min

Here is more bad news stuffed at the very bottom of the announcement:

App Engine will always remain free to get started. However, along with many performance improvements, we have learned that we were overly conservative with our initial free quota estimates. Therefore, 90 days after February 24th, 2009, we will be reducing the free quota resources. We believe these new levels will continue to serve a reasonably efficient application around 5 million page views per month, completely free. The new quota levels, which will take effect on May 25th, 2009, are:

* CPU Time: 6.5 hours of CPU time per day
* Bandwidth: 1 Gigabyte of data transferred in and out of the application per day
* Stored Data & Email Recipients: these quotas will remain unchanged.

These changes may also affect the fixed quotas applied to applications without billing enabled.

Ebay Says Surprise Her with a Bigger Penis on Homepage WTF?

gamegiants [S] 0 points1 point 1 year ago[-]

I don't think that is the case ebay can't even return the correct items when you use the search box let alone return a targeted ad.

Here is the original thread in ebay's forum and there are a bunch of great comments:

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=520036364&start=0

Here are some more fun ads from ebay's homepage:

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k182/kittenkat22/porno.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k182/kittenkat22/pornoo.jpg

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb183/georgewdolt/ebay%20graphics/pornomanwithbig.jpg

AIG is at it again: AIG executives spend 86,000 on a hunting trip

gamegiants 0 points1 point 1 year ago[-]

They just don't get it yet! They are spending My Money! Our Money! There are a lot of people at AIG who need to be put in jail until they understand realize: IT IS NOT YOUR MONEY ANYMORE!

The Spore Review that Says it All!

gamegiants [S] 3 points4 points 2 years ago[-]

Nope I'm not JAKUB.... But I do run the casualgamer reddit : ) casualgamer.gamegiants.net

Download Chrome Now

gamegiants [S] 0 points1 point 2 years ago* [-]

Wow it is fast and I love the "Task Manager" it is really more a VM than a browser....

Anatomy of a Casual Game. Part I: Concept

gamegiants [S] 0 points1 point 2 years ago[-]

BTW I think they are very very wrong about casual gamers not wanting change......

Amazon: Pay $6, get "release-date" game delivery

gamegiants [S] 0 points1 point 2 years ago[-]

Or buy downloadable games : )