> If you turn off hostile, they can attack you (they are still hostile with you)
> you just can't attack them (since you are now neutral).
I never really tested it, but one time I went back to town and made the connection neutral, then I went back to a dungeon and the person actually went back to town to turn hostile back on...:)
> Guy, it's called STRESS TEST. > DOWNTIME AND LAG are a REQUIREMENT for STRESS TESTING.
I fully understand beta and expected downtime, but there were 4 days where neither server was up for more than an hour as far as I could tell... That is a bit excessive even for a beta (IMHO of course!)
> Did you play lately? NO LAG and NO DOWNTIME.
I played two nights ago, both servers were up, but I got 3 consecutive "connection lost" in the middle of the game. (I did get to level up to the same level 3 times in a row...:)
I think the lag is still really bad (but I didn't play diablo I to see if it's better now) It's not uncommon for me to click on something to kill, there is a pause and the gold/item appears in a different spot. I actually walked over killed something, and walked back (since I was holding onto the mouse) before I got another frame...:)
Yes I only have 64 megs of ram, but I hear the disk swapping only after I've been playing a while and it doesn't usually page very much.
Besides I didn't say the game was bad or that it was unplayable with the lag (and I did play it quite a bit) I was just saying the game is ok, nothing more nothing less...:) (It does suck up time, it would seem like I only played 20 minutes or so and an hour would have passed by)
If they put out a linux port and added the feature I mentioned in my post I would consider buying it, but as is I'll wait for something else...
While I thought it was cool to get to be a tester, the game didn't impress me much. The servers were down a bunch and even now it's not uncommon to get booted off a game.
The lag is terrible (even with dual-channel isdn), although funny to watch. The thing that might change my mind is if they make it so "going hostile" has to be done by both parties. Once you hit level 9, you can go out in a group only to have some level 14 person come in and go hostile and you have to decide whether you want to back to town and turn off hostile or hope they don't find you:)
(And lag really hurts here, I once got killed and never even saw the guy who killed me, he was off the screen one second, and I was dead the next, never saw a single swing...:(
> they stole the logo and napster name without > asking napster, which is pretty stupid if > you ask me
That is pretty stupid they should have found a way to make money of making it easier for other people to steal the napster logo and name, that's the napster way!:)
Or better yet, they should have gotten 10,000 bands to do the same thing, then laugh at napster and tell them they'll have to sue every band individually!
It is somewhat amazing to me that many things in your books became internet household words. Did you have any idea when you were writing your books that you would be setting the naming standard used by millions of people?
This sounds alot like starcraft without the resources. You click on a bunch of icons, right click where you want them to go, then the gps system alerts each individual soldier where they are supposed to be...
the patent only covers compressing, so uncompressing (ie displaying) is ok...
(this is also why gzip will uncompress a unix compressed file, but won't compress a file using lzw)
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unix compress uses lzw, but tiff does not (in fact.tiff files don't use any compression which is why they are so huge!:)
Way before unisys started suing over.gif, the gnu folks refused to write.Z files with gzip because of the patent. They were obviously correct to do so + great fortune tellers...
It's interesting to see a similar argument seen in various Linux forums go against M$.
I've seen tons of people try to get a rise out of Linux folks by posting a, "I'm trying to use Linux, but on a Windows machine I can do XXX, certainly Linux has this feature?" style of message. So it was kinda funny to see a bunch of, "well if M$ is going to do this I'll just have to start looking into Linux and Novell, they have feature XXX anyway" messages....:)
There was a similar question already, but I've seen the answer on your newsgroup. Loki won't talk about sales numbers, at least not in public. To me that means that sales aren't that great, unless there's another reason?
I'm not even that interested in dollar amounts, number of units sold, heck the number of digits in the number of units sold would be of interest!
It's fun to play Tekken 3 with my brother-in-law. He always picks the biggest toughest characters. I choose one of the petite females, whipe the floor with his ass and laugh at his whining...:)
Sony has had those region codes on their playstations since day 1, and created a huge market for chips to get around it! Considering how popular the playstation has been for so long, I wonder what would have happened if the region codes would have worked and US gamers would have had to wait for the US versions of games. Would the playstation have been as popular as it is today?
Also makes you wonder how may hard-core gamers buy the Japanese version as soon as it's released, then buy the US version so they can understand what is going on, ok maybe that's pusing it...:)
> Anyonw know how good the JFS is? Should we use it?
I'm not 100% sure where the jfs stops and lvm starts, but you can do some really incredible things with aix boxes.
For example I once moved actively paging paging space from a drive that was logging errors to a new drive without shutting down, having other people log off, or anything, it just worked.
> Well I didn't say I wanted a plastic POS box. I want a good investment, > and I just had not heard enough about VA to trust them yet.
I didn't think you wanted a POS, the PB remark was simply to play devil's advocate and say that even though most people talk about price, there is a certain amount of quality we've all come to expect, even in the computer hardware market...:)
I have one of the StartX MPs (but with only one processor) I was a little worried about having a third box in my small office, because it was already getting a little warm. I was quite suprised when after a couple days I checked and there was actually cold air coming out of the machine...:) (So I would tend to believe the overengineering remark)
As for whether it's worth it or not, it is worth it to me to support companies who I believe "are doing the right thing". Things like rewarding Open Source developers, hosting sourceforge, etc. If that's not as important to you, you'd probably be better off saving some money.
One thing I did think about when I originally saw the question was mac people. For 10 years now, mac folks have paid more for identical hardware/software, I'm not a mac fan by any means, but at the same time I do respect people who are willing to pay more for something they believe in.
Finally, if price were really the only consideration, wouldn't Packerd Bell still be the #1 pc maker? So quality does fit in there somewhere:)
A long time ago I went from using an internet account at school to checking out Prodigy. I was amazed at the following thread in a "Linux Help" group:
Question:"I accidentally created a file called '-p' but I'm having problems deleting it"
Answer#1:"That's a huge problem, you need to back up all the data you have, recreate the partition, and restore your backup"
Answer#2:"That would work, but you should also just be able to rm -rf the directory it's in and just restore that one directory"
Answer#3:"Those are both great ideas, I ended up moving all the other files to another directory, did a rm -rf of the original directory and renamed my temporary directory to the original name"
At the time I remember thinking, "When is someone going to give the correct answer and flame all the people giving bad advice so they don't give uneducated answers." It never happened! I actually did post a nicer solution, but have never been too good at flaming...:(
>2) Register several domains that include the same > trademark in different ways, as the owner of > msdwonline.com did recently. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter > is going after him in court as a result, and I > wouldn't want to be him.
But isn't this exactly what happened? Someone registered a bunch of domains with Linux in the name and put them up for auction. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the link...
It's probably more like the y2k movie thread here on/. the FBI knows it has no legal means to stop things, so instead they are relying on intimidation.
You might want to implement something similar to PGP, where it uses a fast block cipher to do the actual encryption, but the session key used to do the block encryption is encrypted using public key encryption.
Using this method you could use any stream cipher available, and just use public key to move the stream cipher keys around.
I used one of the beta's of VA and it was ok, but I just can't get over not being able to see all my code at once.
I've been using CodeWarror java for Solaris at work, and it works fine (I still use emacs for editing though...:) It lets me look at all the source code I want, is extremeley easy to dump a ton of java code into and just start using it, and the debugger actually works. (I'm not sure how well the debugger works in VA, as never got to do any serious testing with it)
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> If you turn off hostile, they can attack you (they are still hostile with you)
:)
> you just can't attack them (since you are now neutral).
I never really tested it, but one time I went back to town and made the connection neutral, then I went back to a dungeon and the person actually went back to town to turn hostile back on...
> Guy, it's called STRESS TEST.
:)
:)
:) (It does suck up time, it would seem like I only played 20 minutes or so and an hour would have passed by)
> DOWNTIME AND LAG are a REQUIREMENT for STRESS TESTING.
I fully understand beta and expected downtime, but there were 4 days where neither server was up for more than an hour as far as I could tell... That is a bit excessive even for a beta (IMHO of course!)
> Did you play lately? NO LAG and NO DOWNTIME.
I played two nights ago, both servers were up, but I got 3 consecutive "connection lost" in the middle of the game. (I did get to level up to the same level 3 times in a row...
I think the lag is still really bad (but I didn't play diablo I to see if it's better now) It's not uncommon for me to click on something to kill, there is a pause and the gold/item appears in a different spot. I actually walked over killed something, and walked back (since I was holding onto the mouse) before I got another frame...
Yes I only have 64 megs of ram, but I hear the disk swapping only after I've been playing a while and it doesn't usually page very much.
Besides I didn't say the game was bad or that it was unplayable with the lag (and I did play it quite a bit) I was just saying the game is ok, nothing more nothing less...
If they put out a linux port and added the feature I mentioned in my post I would consider buying it, but as is I'll wait for something else...
While I thought it was cool to get to be a tester, the game didn't impress me much. The servers were down a bunch and even now it's not uncommon to get booted off a game.
:)
:(
The lag is terrible (even with dual-channel isdn), although funny to watch. The thing that might change my mind is if they make it so "going hostile" has to be done by both parties. Once you hit level 9, you can go out in a group only to have some level 14 person come in and go hostile and you have to decide whether you want to back to town and turn off hostile or hope they don't find you
(And lag really hurts here, I once got killed and never even saw the guy who killed me, he was off the screen one second, and I was dead the next, never saw a single swing...
> they stole the logo and napster name without
:)
> asking napster, which is pretty stupid if
> you ask me
That is pretty stupid they should have found a way to make money of making it easier for other people to steal the napster logo and name, that's the napster way!
Or better yet, they should have gotten 10,000 bands to do the same thing, then laugh at napster and tell them they'll have to sue every band individually!
It is somewhat amazing to me that many things in your books became internet household words. Did you have any idea when you were writing your books that you would be setting the naming standard used by millions of people?
This sounds alot like starcraft without the resources. You click on a bunch of icons, right click where you want them to go, then the gps system alerts each individual soldier where they are supposed to be...
the patent only covers compressing, so uncompressing (ie displaying) is ok...
(this is also why gzip will uncompress a unix compressed file, but won't compress a file using lzw)
unix compress uses lzw, but tiff does not (in fact .tiff files don't use any compression which is why they are so huge! :)
.gif, the gnu folks refused to write .Z files with gzip because of the patent. They were obviously correct to do so + great fortune tellers...
Way before unisys started suing over
It's interesting to see a similar argument seen in various Linux forums go against M$.
:)
I've seen tons of people try to get a rise out of Linux folks by posting a, "I'm trying to use Linux, but on a Windows machine I can do XXX, certainly Linux has this feature?" style of message. So it was kinda funny to see a bunch of, "well if M$ is going to do this I'll just have to start looking into Linux and Novell, they have feature XXX anyway" messages....
I wonder if they'll turn on tunneling X-Windows over ssh? or if this is mainly just for compiling, not necessarily testing/debugging...
There was a similar question already, but I've seen the answer on your newsgroup. Loki won't talk about sales numbers, at least not in public. To me that means that sales aren't that great, unless there's another reason?
I'm not even that interested in dollar amounts, number of units sold, heck the number of digits in the number of units sold would be of interest!
It's fun to play Tekken 3 with my brother-in-law. He always picks the biggest toughest characters. I choose one of the petite females, whipe the floor with his ass and laugh at his whining... :)
Sony has had those region codes on their playstations since day 1, and created a huge market for chips to get around it! Considering how popular the playstation has been for so long, I wonder what would have happened if the region codes would have worked and US gamers would have had to wait for the US versions of games. Would the playstation have been as popular as it is today?
:)
Also makes you wonder how may hard-core gamers buy the Japanese version as soon as it's released, then buy the US version so they can understand what is going on, ok maybe that's pusing it...
> I'm sorry, but since when has Linux been about Market Share?
I have to say I agree 100%, as far as I'm concerned, Linux won the war back in 1992 when I brought up X on my 386 40 with an ET4000 video card.
The only advantage I see in more people using Linux is if it makes the game developers release their games on Linux natively.
> Anyonw know how good the JFS is? Should we use it?
I'm not 100% sure where the jfs stops and lvm starts, but you can do some really incredible things with aix boxes.
For example I once moved actively paging paging space from a drive that was logging errors to a new drive without shutting down, having other people log off, or anything, it just worked.
> Well I didn't say I wanted a plastic POS box. I want a good investment,
:)
> and I just had not heard enough about VA to trust them yet.
I didn't think you wanted a POS, the PB remark was simply to play devil's advocate and say that even though most people talk about price, there is a certain amount of quality we've all come to expect, even in the computer hardware market...
I have one of the StartX MPs (but with only one processor) I was a little worried about having a third box in my small office, because it was already getting a little warm. I was quite suprised when after a couple days I checked and there was actually cold air coming out of the machine... :) (So I would tend to believe the overengineering remark)
:)
As for whether it's worth it or not, it is worth it to me to support companies who I believe "are doing the right thing". Things like rewarding Open Source developers, hosting sourceforge, etc. If that's not as important to you, you'd probably be better off saving some money.
One thing I did think about when I originally saw the question was mac people. For 10 years now, mac folks have paid more for identical hardware/software, I'm not a mac fan by any means, but at the same time I do respect people who are willing to pay more for something they believe in.
Finally, if price were really the only consideration, wouldn't Packerd Bell still be the #1 pc maker? So quality does fit in there somewhere
A long time ago I went from using an internet account at school to checking out Prodigy. I was amazed at the following thread in a "Linux Help" group:
:(
Question:"I accidentally created a file called '-p' but I'm having problems deleting it"
Answer#1:"That's a huge problem, you need to back up all the data you have, recreate the partition, and restore your backup"
Answer#2:"That would work, but you should also just be able to rm -rf the directory it's in and just restore that one directory"
Answer#3:"Those are both great ideas, I ended up moving all the other files to another directory, did a rm -rf of the original directory and renamed my temporary directory to the original name"
At the time I remember thinking, "When is someone going to give the correct answer and flame all the people giving bad advice so they don't give uneducated answers." It never happened! I actually did post a nicer solution, but have never been too good at flaming...
>2) Register several domains that include the same
> trademark in different ways, as the owner of
> msdwonline.com did recently. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
> is going after him in court as a result, and I
> wouldn't want to be him.
But isn't this exactly what happened? Someone registered a bunch of domains with Linux in the name and put them up for auction. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the link...
The Oracle is actually just a perl script that the super computer couldn't get rid of.
It's probably more like the y2k movie thread here on /. the FBI knows it has no legal means to stop things, so instead they are relying on intimidation.
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You might want to implement something similar to PGP, where it uses a fast block cipher to do the actual encryption, but the session key used to do the block encryption is encrypted using public key encryption.
Using this method you could use any stream cipher available, and just use public key to move the stream cipher keys around.
I used one of the beta's of VA and it was ok, but I just can't get over not being able to see all my code at once.
:) It lets me look at all the source code I want, is extremeley easy to dump a ton of java code into and just start using it, and the debugger actually works. (I'm not sure how well the debugger works in VA, as never got to do any serious testing with it)
I've been using CodeWarror java for Solaris at work, and it works fine (I still use emacs for editing though...