Actually, they are making a large portion of Diablo 2 server-side at the Battle.net servers instead of being peer-to-peer and just using B.net servers for user 'match making'. I suspect this will give them added expenses since that will use a WHOLE lot more bandwidth if during the game all players are actively communicating with the servers, and I suspect they needed more time to get the added bandwidth capacity delivered or something (just a guess).
Actually, I can relate to that. Last year at my school there were three or four kids who were completely convinced they were hackers. They were quite convinced they could send eachother viruses on e-mail which would "make their computer crash" and also use such cool things as "pinter punters" (that was the terminology used) which kicked other people off of AOL. What the hell is this? And of course they thought I was a complete dumbass because all I did was code a multiplayer online RPG (you can follow the URL if you wish, the page sucks but the game is pretty good) and thought I didn't know anything about computers because I wasn't about to go get AOL so I could harass some innocent people in chat rooms. And yet for some reason people convince these kids that they are "hackers" and as such it gives them some kind of greater-than-thou mentality. A really sad state for our culture I must say.
Somehow I don't think you're using NT 4. I have a Pentium Pro 180, and it takes three and a half minutes to boot, I can only see my windows redrawing when I am trying to use MSIE5 whilst watching an anime in Vivo Power Player. Aside from Vivo there's nothing on my system that can slow it to that much of a crawl. I have to reboot about once every four to five days. And I run a game server on it too serving about 30 clients simultaneously on average (that uses about 15% cpu...). Back to the topic of Moore's Law, hitting a limit on processing power really shouldn't be too much of an issue. You know that given another two or three years, with no faster computers, *somebody* is going to figure out a new way to do everything. In the meantime, programmers don't seem to care about performance anymore -- well a few do, most in the games industry, but even there signs of incompetence have been popping up. I personally believe that once all software has degraded to being complete and utter crap, a faster system will come along. I really do wish optimization would be in the minds of coders, but since the P300 or so it appears to have ceased to matter to them. It takes extra time too, so they can't shove it out the door five or six months early like many publishers love to force their developers to do.
Who on earth puts out a PRESS RELEASE when someone dies? A news article maybe, but a press release would make it seem like a happy thing, which it isn't. Goodbye PKUNZIP:(
Didn't he invent ZIP file compression or something
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He will be missed, I liked PKUNZIP, it didn't have a stupid shareware message like Winzip.
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I thought this was common knowledge. Heard about it on a Google Tech Talk. They store your data append-only.
That's absolutely incredible!
Actually, they are making a large portion of Diablo 2 server-side at the Battle.net servers instead of being peer-to-peer and just using B.net servers for user 'match making'. I suspect this will give them added expenses since that will use a WHOLE lot more bandwidth if during the game all players are actively communicating with the servers, and I suspect they needed more time to get the added bandwidth capacity delivered or something (just a guess).
I would. Compared to the shitty Win9x kernel anyway. It's definately five or six steps higher from the pits of hell.
Actually, I can relate to that. Last year at my school there were three or four kids who were completely convinced they were hackers. They were quite convinced they could send eachother viruses on e-mail which would "make their computer crash" and also use such cool things as "pinter punters" (that was the terminology used) which kicked other people off of AOL. What the hell is this? And of course they thought I was a complete dumbass because all I did was code a multiplayer online RPG (you can follow the URL if you wish, the page sucks but the game is pretty good) and thought I didn't know anything about computers because I wasn't about to go get AOL so I could harass some innocent people in chat rooms. And yet for some reason people convince these kids that they are "hackers" and as such it gives them some kind of greater-than-thou mentality. A really sad state for our culture I must say.
Somehow I don't think you're using NT 4. I have a Pentium Pro 180, and it takes three and a half minutes to boot, I can only see my windows redrawing when I am trying to use MSIE5 whilst watching an anime in Vivo Power Player. Aside from Vivo there's nothing on my system that can slow it to that much of a crawl. I have to reboot about once every four to five days. And I run a game server on it too serving about 30 clients simultaneously on average (that uses about 15% cpu...). Back to the topic of Moore's Law, hitting a limit on processing power really shouldn't be too much of an issue. You know that given another two or three years, with no faster computers, *somebody* is going to figure out a new way to do everything. In the meantime, programmers don't seem to care about performance anymore -- well a few do, most in the games industry, but even there signs of incompetence have been popping up. I personally believe that once all software has degraded to being complete and utter crap, a faster system will come along. I really do wish optimization would be in the minds of coders, but since the P300 or so it appears to have ceased to matter to them. It takes extra time too, so they can't shove it out the door five or six months early like many publishers love to force their developers to do.
Who on earth puts out a PRESS RELEASE when someone dies? A news article maybe, but a press release would make it seem like a happy thing, which it isn't. Goodbye PKUNZIP :(
He will be missed, I liked PKUNZIP, it didn't have a stupid shareware message like Winzip.
And ESR bored me to death. How did that man get anywhere in the first place?