The goodbye thread

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Fearfactor

Actually, although the sim ride has been fun, I'm planning on starting up other new hobbies and really want to start flying again. But with fuel prices rising of late, I'm not so sure about that now.

Consider ultralights.

I am in the process at the moment of converting my GA time over to an aussie UL qualification. The big advantage aside from lower flight costs is no stupid expensive medicals.

In Australia you have a "light sports" category that lets you fly aircraft up to 600 kg. I am currently doing my conversion (5 hours solo required) on one of these:



Similar weight to a Cessna 152 but slightly more powerful so not a bad performer.

[Erkki]

Steam is the very last option to me. Not that I wouldn't like the ease of use, the ease of online shopping and playing... But I hate how you cannot turn off the automatic updates and how it doesnt even tell you its going to download, or downloading right now, something. If those DAILY apparently 20-30mb patches arent vital and why would they be, for Steam's functioning, why the heck cant they be downloaded whenever the user wants to?

This is especially annoying, as the bandwidth usage is not just random, but also happens when I'm playing a Steam game. I don't have an 8mb/s connection and I'm not going to get one any soon, so the way Steam currently works, its not an option.

[Novotny]

You can turn off the automatic updates for games. It does tell you when it's downloading, but doesn't announce it will begin to, as you've left the option for automatic updates checked. Thus, it happens automatically. If you want to do it as and when you choose, turn off automatic updates.

Steam doesn't announce its own updates, this is true. Nor does it allow them to be optional. Why? Because they're very often anti-exploitation patches. Makes perfect sense to me.

[Luftrofl]

Originally Posted by Erkki

Steam is the very last option to me. Not that I wouldn't like the ease of use, the ease of online shopping and playing... But I hate how you cannot turn off the automatic updates and how it doesnt even tell you its going to download, or downloading right now, something. If those DAILY apparently 20-30mb patches arent vital and why would they be, for Steam's functioning, why the heck cant they be downloaded whenever the user wants to?

This is especially annoying, as the bandwidth usage is not just random, but also happens when I'm playing a Steam game. I don't have an 8mb/s connection and I'm not going to get one any soon, so the way Steam currently works, its not an option.

Considering pretty much everything you said is wrong you've either never used steam or didn't bother to change your settings. Either way good job spreading false information about a program you're ignorant about. Not nearly enough of that happening around here

[Erkki]

Originally Posted by Luftrofl

Considering pretty much everything you said is wrong you've either never used steam or didn't bother to change your settings. Either way good job spreading false information about a program you're ignorant about. Not nearly enough of that happening around here

I use Steam to play Red Orchestra and its mods several times a week. Last Saturday I couldnt, because the Steam kept using 95% of available download bandwidth despite the game being open. There is no option to stop automatic updates.

EDIT: I know that you can stop automatic updates for GAMES, but not the Steam itself. My Steam Client wants to update itself about twice a week, of course not telling me when its doing that, how much it has to download or how much there is left. Half of it is probably spyware and commercials.

EDIT2: it actually doesnt even tell what its downloading. Game updates it is not, those are turned off.