Is cloud only for Business Entities?

It is an ambiguous issue, because, take an example of Windows SkyDrive, it is on a cloud platform, it offer 25GB of free space even to clients who use its services for free, YouSendIt.Com offer 2Gb for free, in both the cases there is a service for the client and also for the enterprises. However, the use of these are very customer psychically customized, like you cannot upload any file above 50MB into Yousendit, and you need to pay them for it, you cannot download it more than 100 times, the limitations are growing or in other words control strategies are increasing. Hence, we cannot say now itself if cloud is for individual people on internet or is it for entities looking for futurist benefits. However there is a growth in that area too likes TeamViewer services that are completely free with professional options.

Stronghold 3

I played stronghold crusader 1 and its extreme version also, hence I know some of the goods and bad of the gameplay.  Also, I have good experience playing the pharaoh and Caesar series, i.e. I love playing the city building and strategy games 

About this version: Stronghold 3, I have to say that FIREFLY STUDIOS have done a great job, it is really worth while version to purchase.  I saw a lot of comments in gamers sites like Gamespot and IGN that the game is not as expected and is somewhat bad.  let me tell you, the issue was the game is a bit more tough than its stronghold extreme version, the difficulty does not like in army firstly, but it is challenging to satisfy the population/villagers, in older version, I can take the pop count to a 100 in few mins, but in this game this is lot lot lot hard.  I am writing this blog after playing the game for more than 4 hrs and I only reached a pop of 36 at max, it is that difficult .

Talking of the graphics and sound effects, the game is awesome, apart from few mouse related glitches.

Since I have experience with earlier versions of this game, I can play it easily, however for new ones, the game is very tough as the Learning Curve is 0 or less than 1 on a scale of 10, imagine playing the game of strategy without know how to use the buildings, options that interlink the pop growth etc.  If the company release a tutorial patch it would be excellent series to play on with.

Also, in earlier version a ring of red or green color would be on fire camp building, it would tell graphically the speed at which the villagers are leaving, however this option is not given in 3, I think the company must keep this in next versions at least.

Above is pic from Stronghold 1.  Below is pic from Stronghold 3

Expecting a stronghold version 4 to cover the above.  Final verdict, stronghold 3 is tough but a good game to play.

 

However, there are some funny stuff too like the WOLFs are able to climb the wooden towers using ladders and killing archers .

XBAP Use full or Not

Lets start this topic in a traditional way of taking on both side of parties positive and negative:

Positive:

XBAP or WPF web application is a great enhancement and is no way comparable to Silverlight. XBAP is lot more bigger and opportunistic than Silverlight.  XBAP is like building any other desktop application in WPF except that the app is published on web or even on a system by setup.  It is quite simple and easy to use.  Programmer can go for Full trust mode to access all the local client resources (with clients permission) else for with partial trust so that only certain basic functions like reading a file from client but not writing a file to client.  A lot of security options are given by default under Dot Net.

Negative:

XBAP is good in many ways, the main issue is with Microsoft on how it is promoting the technology.  The main drawback when compared to flash etc. is that XBAP applications are blocked in IE9 under default settings.

XBAP is best choice to serve the clients under the given conditions that if they enable the option to run XBAP in IE by changing the settings.  Following is the method for changing to desired settings in IE:

Open IE and go to Internet Options as illustrated:

 

Then, go to security tab and go for custom settings:

Then go for changing to desired setting to enable the XBAP to be available in IE as follow, the default option is disable, now it should be changed to enable as follows:

 

Thank you.