Our fiberchannel SAN only has drivers for RHEL. We have tested it; the drivers are binary compatablie plug-and-go with CentOS; but, you're absolutely right, the systems attached to the SAN use RHEL because of support issues. Without RHEL, we get no support.
CentOS is Red Hat Enterprise, with a:s/RedHat/CentOS/g on the code. They download the RHEL Source RPMs and compile and release it. FYI.
Not so obvious:
They also recompile for additional arches, most notably Alpha (I have a couple of faculty members who don't want to be rid of their Digital machines; this makes a great alternative to paying $1000+/year for a True64 license to HP who hasn't looked at the code for 4.x since they bought it).
Get it here:
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.ph p?id=13 There are a LOT of mirrors, and being on the listserv, I see more and more being added all the time. Including lots of tier 1 mirrors at Universities, if you're on Internet2. There are also lots of local mirrors around the world, so if you're not a USAian, check for one in your locale; you may get better speeds than a general mirror. Best mirror? http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/ =)
Especially since right now (in firefox 1.0.7, which is what i'm running, stfu) you can middle click on the tabs and close them anyway. Adding an x on the tabs accomplishes nothing.
Why do people not use the middle click in firefox? Middleclick link = open in new tab, middle click tab = close. I go through a page like fark, and middle click on the links I want to read, then they're all there waiting for me in tabbed glory when I'm done and ready to digest.
If you go to their site, and you watch the video clips, you think "Wow, what have I been missing". But, what's happened in reality is this:
if (physx card) then explosion(do_extra_shit) else explo sion(normal_boring) end
That's all. Proprietary API and exclusive deals with game manufacturers mean that people who have the card see extra shit, even if their normal graphics card setup could have handled it without. I'd like to see the exact same code run on a $300 graphics card and this $300 technological wonder, and then on two $300 graphics cards in SLI. I bet it wouldn't look any different. You ask the hardware to do something; if it's got the horsepower it does it. When you start assuming, you're just fucking the consumers.
Watching that video, it does look cool. But the first thing that comes to mind is "tech demo". That's what that game looks like. I can't think of any reason that's cool other than showing off a bunch of physics; and I also can't imagine that the commercially standard hardware that will be available at the release of that game won't be sufficient to run it just fine.
It does look cool. But, c'mon. Essentially, they're trying to sell you a $350 game. And that blood? I haven't seen blood that fake since Rise of the Triad.
Not to mention, you point out that a good graphics card will cost you $300... and for another $300, I'd rather have another identical card and rock some SLI.
Granted the sum-total of my exposure to Japanese is Iron Chef, but... Roksaburao Michiba? MoRimoto Masuharu? Is that the half-"L", half-"R" sound? Cause Kaga and Fukui-san both seem to pronounce the "R" pretty well (granted, I know Kaga is actually a classically trained vocallist, and he's probably had years of diction training.... but, wha'eva).
Until artists wise up and stop signing contracts that allow the record companies to screw them any time they please, artists are going to keep getting screwed.
Somehow, I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through.
Where do they go to sign a record contract, then?
Now, granted, I'm a fan of independant labels and diy stuff. I think that the internet and the decreasing cost of superior technology has obsoleted the record label. But the public has yet to catch up.
Sony will be losing money maybe for a few months on the ps3, then like its' ancestors, they'll break even and be rolling in cash.
Flash forward to May 1995. The E3 Expo was having it's first go, and everyone showed up. Nintendo was telling us to wait for the Ultra 64 as it could do "real-time ray tracing" and was just so damn pretty they couldn't show it to us as we weren't ready to handle it. For if we saw it, we would go insane!
At the show, Sega and Sony announced their launch plans.
Sega: "The Saturn will be $399US.... and it's out now! We launched it today! Remember Pearl Harbor? That's right! Strike when don't expect it! Take that Sony! We are going to kill you and dance about on your grave! You can't handle us! We're Sega!"
Immediately following that press conference down the hall was the Sony press conference. There was a big lead up to what the price point would be, and when it would be launched. Finally, the president of Sony walked out slowly on stage and a silence fell upon the room. We all awaited his words, and finally he spoke.
"Two hundred ninety-nine dollars."
Then he turned and walked away.
Back at the Sega conference room....
"Oh no! This can't be happening!"
Everyone was in awe. Sony was bringing the super console known as the PlayStation to America for almost half the price it was selling for in Japan.
This brought force claims of dumping by Atari. Atari swore that they would have the PlayStation stopped before it came out at that price "because it was being sold below cost and that's dumping!"
The myth was born.
By the time the PlayStation came out in North America 4 months later, a lot had changed during the year. RAM had gone from $50US a megabyte to $20. The Yen had gone from 80 yen per US dollar to 110. And Sega had dropped the price of the Saturn to $299. At this point the PlayStation was indeed profitable, and the Saturn was a minor money pit for Sega.
Sega was not only losing money on the Saturn, but asked retailers to expect the same. A "modest $15 per console" loss to help Sega. Well, you can imagine what many retailers said...
The Saturn was the first console that was actively being marketed and the company was losing money. While Sony was building the PlayStation from parts they made themselves, Sega was paying a higher price and buying parts from others.
The Nintendo 64 came out the next year at $199 US. Nintendo claims that they were not losing money on units sold, which I have no doubt not to believe. Nintendo has better things to do than sell a console at a loss.
The Dreamcast was a money losing venture for Sega. Sega went for broke in building the best console they could buy with the Dreamcast, and sold them at less than cost. A lot less than cost. The theory being that scale of economics would catch up to let them rebuild their once glorious market share and, that the margins on their own games would be good enough to justify a loss.
$800 million lost later, Sega cancelled the Dreamcast.
Xbox. MS has decided to follow the Sega model. Buy off the shelf parts, have someone else build it, and take a loss in order to push units out the door. The Xbox was to have been a super console that could do 200 million polygons a second... and then 300 million! Then 125 million.... then... well, tech demo's have it running at 60 million.
Anyway, Microsoft is losing money per console sold, not including what they are spending advertising and support. Reports have it fall between $50 to $105 lost per console. MS has only said that they are losing money, and won't comment on how much.
Notice what isn't on that list? The PS2.
Unlike Sega and MS, Sony is an R&D hardware company. They make a lot of things. In designing up the PS2, they spent a lot of cash. Then they spent a hell of a lot more cash to build th
Oh, that brings to mind another point about the game. When you get most new characters, their level is based on the level of your existing characters, plus or minus a modifier that's static.
So, when you get Sabin, if edgar, locke, and terra are lvl 6 (reasonable), Sabin will be lvl 7 or 8. If your characters are lvl 30 (you used frameskip to level them up), sabin will also be around lvl 30.
So, if you spend the time at the begining of the game, then everything from then on our is cake.
Does anyone know if Blitz: The League is any good? It's the only non-EA football game out there that looks to have any sort of interesting gameplay / plot / whatever.
The problem you mention in FF3/6 is simply that the game will level you up too quickly; or, more accurately, there are a number of sidequests in the World of Ruin that people won't pass up on. Think: If you were playing it for the first time, would you sit there and hammer away at Intangir on Gogo's island in the World of Balance before the floating continent? I wouldn't. Or, in the world of ruin... would you try to get every character + Umaro and Gogo? Nope, I would have stopped once I had a good compliment of Celes, Sabin, Edgar, Terra, Shadow, Mog, and maybe Gau.
People get overpowered in FF3, and then wonder why the game gets lame. You're not supposed to be able to do 9999 damage 8 times per round with Genji Glove + Offering! You're not supposed to be able to cast 3 ultima spells per round for 4 MP (magic box / economizer, Ult. Haste Ult. Ult.). You (and I) are overpowered by the end of the game BECAUSE we love it so much that we explore every nook and cranny. We do the phoenix cave. We beat all 8 dragons. We get Tritoch and beat doom gaze. We upgrade Odin to Raiden. We de-curse the cursed shield. We do Elbot's rock. We get the Water Rondo.
If you were speed running the game, it would be much harder.
The damn card game in FF9 is WAY too random. I mean, a 6m15 card should occasionally be able to beat a 6m27 card, but should never be able to beat a Dx7A card.
Not to mention the plot holes that you can drive a semi-truck through.
Most of the people that like that game like it due to nostalgia - they never had an SNES, it was the first console RPG they played, etc etc. But, I agree. The game is just awful. I was happy when Aris died. The characters are cookie cutter. The story DRAGS ON FOREVER. The end guy is too easy. The sidequests are stupid. In the end, everybody dies anyway, even though she "saved the world".
In 200 million years, the statue of liberty and the GGB will not be around. What you meant was "in two thousand years". The Venus de Milo (Aphroditie of Milos, more accurately, but that's a different story) is about 2000 years old. The oldest representative man-made things we have are tools and whatnot made maybe 80,000 years ago.
In 200,000,000 years, there may be nuclear waste left deep underground in new mexico, and the occasional something-or-other made of plastic, but that's about it. And I think even the plastic is a stretch.
It's a little more complicated than that, but, yeah.
I work for the Technical Staff of the CS department at Virginia Tech. Our department is not responsible for the university infrastructure (that's these guys). However, we are closely tied in with them. Way "back in the day", there was no CNS, and the Computer Science department did run the campus infrastructure (when there were something on the order of 20 terminals on campus). One of the people that works with me helped to run the first network here at VT - it was thicknet of some sort, the big fat orange stuff you hit with a vampire tap and a $15,000 box from DEC. We ran DECnet for a while before we switched to TCP/IP and moved away from Vax/VMS to DEC/Ultrix, I think.
Granted, that has been quite a while ago, and the folks that were here long ago gave control to CNS. But, many CNS employees were once CS employees of one sort or another, and they value our opinion.
We also have all of our own infrastructure, partly because our faculty at one point complained (so I'm told, this was before I was hired) about the campus email server going up and down like a [write your own joke here and submit to reader's digest]. So, we have insulated ourselves from occurances like university brain fart and switch to MS Live Email Super XXP or whatever. We have our own web services, email with pop3/imap-ssl/webmail, our own backup system with 2 6TB disk arrays and a tape autoloader, our own SAN, etc. In some ways, I envy the infrastructure that CNS can provide. In others, we're ahead of them, because the economics of scale work against them.
And on that note, I doubt that this MS Live thing will be rolled out at (as a grandparent said) Div-1A schools. When you're the size of VT, or Penn State, or UT, or Umich, your email is an order of magnitude more vast than Oral Roberts God Fearing U, or whatever the GP said. We have half a million university PIDs, including one for each of the 33,000 students currently enrolled, one for each staff and faculty member, and one for every alumnus in the past 10 years, and at last I heard, we were attempting to work out something at the university level where people could (don't quote me) keep their @vt.edu email address forever, and maybe at some point it would become a forward only, but it would be the same address forever. Anyway, however you look at it, that's a crapload of email addresses, which we currently provide pop3, imap, and webmail, and in some cases exchange functionality, with. Without pop3, the disk space requirements would become so vast so quickly it would be hard to keep up. From what CNS says, the university receives and sends something like 2-3 million emails an hour on average, and 10 mil on peak times. I know they use this live thing for hotmail, but I just don't see it working out on this scale - at least not if people want the same level of functionality.
1.) After owning Dragon Quest 8 for months, I finally played the FF XII demo. Holy carp. Usually I'm not one to gawk, and I like gameplay and plot over graphics... but. Holy Carp. FF XII looks so amazing even I did a doubletake, and the battle system seems like it's an amazing combination of all the battle systems from square / squeenix games. Whatever you say about X-2, plot and vapidity aside, the battle system was good. It takes elements from that, from traditional FF (read FF3US), and from ChronoTrigger and ChronoCross. It's just... wow. That game is going to crush expectations.
2.) Is that a remake of FF3 US/FF6 Jap or FF3 Jap? And is it a "remake" like the playstation one was a "remake", or is it actually redone?
I'm a USian, I know there are going to be a number of other rants in this thread about political power and how you don't undertand politics and how they're trying, but I can do nothing, and it's depressing and demoralizing. People who have been paying attention for the past 3 years can verify.
We live alternatingly in fear, releif, and anger. Fear that someone will harm us. Relief that it doesn't happen. Anger when we realize that 14 (at last count) people you went to highschool with never came home from the desert alive. Fear that they're taking more rights away. Relief that they didn't. Anger when we realize that the laws already on the books are pretty restrictive.
I don't know what to do, and it is depressing. People I had been friends with for years I can no longer talk to because of this divided political climate. Groups of friends, brought together by a non-related common interest are divided down the left-right voting spectrum. It's hard to describe if you're not experiencing it.
When you add that together with the fact that the 51% in power seem to care less than nothing about what the other 49% of us have to say, and that we are looked down upon as unpatriotic, it's very scary. Most police officers and military personel are republicans. The military because the republicans fund their actions, the Police because... I dunno. Authoritarianism seems to be the republican line lately. Whatever. But, you're more likely to get pulled over if you have a John Kerry bumper sticker left on your car, I do know that. If you've got one of those yellow "support our troops", it's like the unwritten sign that you're also a republican and your own kind won't mess with you.
What do you do when the people in power and the people in positions of authority above you think you're an unpatriotic, drug-addicted, welfare loving cretin?
You say we always let stuff like this happen. I say... what can we do? I've almost given up. My voice doesn't matter.
At the time that thread was posted, there was no place to express these concerns. Taco has recently started attempting to have meta-slashdot stories, and there are always.sigs and journals. But, those didn't exist at the time of the $rbtl bitch-slap thread.
Besides - it was off topic to the story, but obviously it bore discussing since sooo many people modded it up. That's the point of a user-moderated comment system - the users get to decide what they want to discuss.
unless Blizzard can get their act together and see that computer gaming is on its way out.
Stop.
Just... Stop.
When you can play F.E.A.R., counterstrike:source, C&C Generals:zero hour, Eve Online, and Civ IV without a mouse and a high-def monitor 18 inches from your nose, let me know.
Slashdot Mirror
Our fiberchannel SAN only has drivers for RHEL. We have tested it; the drivers are binary compatablie plug-and-go with CentOS; but, you're absolutely right, the systems attached to the SAN use RHEL because of support issues. Without RHEL, we get no support.
~Will
Obvious:
CentOS is Red Hat Enterprise, with a
Not so obvious:
They also recompile for additional arches, most notably Alpha (I have a couple of faculty members who don't want to be rid of their Digital machines; this makes a great alternative to paying $1000+/year for a True64 license to HP who hasn't looked at the code for 4.x since they bought it).
Get it here:
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.p
There are a LOT of mirrors, and being on the listserv, I see more and more being added all the time. Including lots of tier 1 mirrors at Universities, if you're on Internet2. There are also lots of local mirrors around the world, so if you're not a USAian, check for one in your locale; you may get better speeds than a general mirror.
Best mirror? http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/ =)
~Will
Especially since right now (in firefox 1.0.7, which is what i'm running, stfu) you can middle click on the tabs and close them anyway. Adding an x on the tabs accomplishes nothing.
Why do people not use the middle click in firefox? Middleclick link = open in new tab, middle click tab = close. I go through a page like fark, and middle click on the links I want to read, then they're all there waiting for me in tabbed glory when I'm done and ready to digest.
~W
And this is exactly what's wrong.
If you go to their site, and you watch the video clips, you think "Wow, what have I been missing". But, what's happened in reality is this:
That's all. Proprietary API and exclusive deals with game manufacturers mean that people who have the card see extra shit, even if their normal graphics card setup could have handled it without. I'd like to see the exact same code run on a $300 graphics card and this $300 technological wonder, and then on two $300 graphics cards in SLI. I bet it wouldn't look any different. You ask the hardware to do something; if it's got the horsepower it does it. When you start assuming, you're just fucking the consumers.
I'm tired.
~Will
Watching that video, it does look cool. But the first thing that comes to mind is "tech demo". That's what that game looks like. I can't think of any reason that's cool other than showing off a bunch of physics; and I also can't imagine that the commercially standard hardware that will be available at the release of that game won't be sufficient to run it just fine.
It does look cool. But, c'mon. Essentially, they're trying to sell you a $350 game. And that blood? I haven't seen blood that fake since Rise of the Triad.
~w
Not to mention, you point out that a good graphics card will cost you $300... and for another $300, I'd rather have another identical card and rock some SLI.
~Will
Can't pronounce "R"?
Granted the sum-total of my exposure to Japanese is Iron Chef, but
~Will
Until artists wise up and stop signing contracts that allow the record companies to screw them any time they please, artists are going to keep getting screwed.
Somehow, I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through.
Where do they go to sign a record contract, then?
Now, granted, I'm a fan of independant labels and diy stuff. I think that the internet and the decreasing cost of superior technology has obsoleted the record label. But the public has yet to catch up.
Where have I heard this before?
Sony will be losing money maybe for a few months on the ps3, then like its' ancestors, they'll break even and be rolling in cash.
Oh, that brings to mind another point about the game. When you get most new characters, their level is based on the level of your existing characters, plus or minus a modifier that's static.
So, when you get Sabin, if edgar, locke, and terra are lvl 6 (reasonable), Sabin will be lvl 7 or 8. If your characters are lvl 30 (you used frameskip to level them up), sabin will also be around lvl 30.
So, if you spend the time at the begining of the game, then everything from then on our is cake.
Yeah, either that, or you could tell your boss you need a Pix, buy the same thing, with the same innards, by the same company, and buy yourself a nice 24" LCD with the leftover $700.
30 concurrant VPN connections. Dual internet ports that can function as failover or load balancing. Built in 4-pt switch. $180. That's small business.
~Will
negative.
Does anyone know if Blitz: The League is any good? It's the only non-EA football game out there that looks to have any sort of interesting gameplay / plot / whatever.
The problem you mention in FF3/6 is simply that the game will level you up too quickly; or, more accurately, there are a number of sidequests in the World of Ruin that people won't pass up on. Think: If you were playing it for the first time, would you sit there and hammer away at Intangir on Gogo's island in the World of Balance before the floating continent? I wouldn't. Or, in the world of ruin... would you try to get every character + Umaro and Gogo? Nope, I would have stopped once I had a good compliment of Celes, Sabin, Edgar, Terra, Shadow, Mog, and maybe Gau.
People get overpowered in FF3, and then wonder why the game gets lame. You're not supposed to be able to do 9999 damage 8 times per round with Genji Glove + Offering! You're not supposed to be able to cast 3 ultima spells per round for 4 MP (magic box / economizer, Ult. Haste Ult. Ult.). You (and I) are overpowered by the end of the game BECAUSE we love it so much that we explore every nook and cranny. We do the phoenix cave. We beat all 8 dragons. We get Tritoch and beat doom gaze. We upgrade Odin to Raiden. We de-curse the cursed shield. We do Elbot's rock. We get the Water Rondo.
If you were speed running the game, it would be much harder.
~Will
Final Fantasy 8 had one thing: the card game.
The damn card game in FF9 is WAY too random. I mean, a 6m15 card should occasionally be able to beat a 6m27 card, but should never be able to beat a Dx7A card.
Other than that, yeah. Give me FF3/6 and FF9.
Not to mention the plot holes that you can drive a semi-truck through.
Most of the people that like that game like it due to nostalgia - they never had an SNES, it was the first console RPG they played, etc etc. But, I agree. The game is just awful. I was happy when Aris died. The characters are cookie cutter. The story DRAGS ON FOREVER. The end guy is too easy. The sidequests are stupid. In the end, everybody dies anyway, even though she "saved the world".
~W
In 200 million years, the statue of liberty and the GGB will not be around. What you meant was "in two thousand years". The Venus de Milo (Aphroditie of Milos, more accurately, but that's a different story) is about 2000 years old. The oldest representative man-made things we have are tools and whatnot made maybe 80,000 years ago.
In 200,000,000 years, there may be nuclear waste left deep underground in new mexico, and the occasional something-or-other made of plastic, but that's about it. And I think even the plastic is a stretch.
~W
You're leaving off the 2nd half:
"If they return, set them on fire".
~W
It's a little more complicated than that, but, yeah.
I work for the Technical Staff of the CS department at Virginia Tech. Our department is not responsible for the university infrastructure (that's these guys). However, we are closely tied in with them. Way "back in the day", there was no CNS, and the Computer Science department did run the campus infrastructure (when there were something on the order of 20 terminals on campus). One of the people that works with me helped to run the first network here at VT - it was thicknet of some sort, the big fat orange stuff you hit with a vampire tap and a $15,000 box from DEC. We ran DECnet for a while before we switched to TCP/IP and moved away from Vax/VMS to DEC/Ultrix, I think.
Granted, that has been quite a while ago, and the folks that were here long ago gave control to CNS. But, many CNS employees were once CS employees of one sort or another, and they value our opinion.
We also have all of our own infrastructure, partly because our faculty at one point complained (so I'm told, this was before I was hired) about the campus email server going up and down like a [write your own joke here and submit to reader's digest]. So, we have insulated ourselves from occurances like university brain fart and switch to MS Live Email Super XXP or whatever. We have our own web services, email with pop3/imap-ssl/webmail, our own backup system with 2 6TB disk arrays and a tape autoloader, our own SAN, etc. In some ways, I envy the infrastructure that CNS can provide. In others, we're ahead of them, because the economics of scale work against them.
And on that note, I doubt that this MS Live thing will be rolled out at (as a grandparent said) Div-1A schools. When you're the size of VT, or Penn State, or UT, or Umich, your email is an order of magnitude more vast than Oral Roberts God Fearing U, or whatever the GP said. We have half a million university PIDs, including one for each of the 33,000 students currently enrolled, one for each staff and faculty member, and one for every alumnus in the past 10 years, and at last I heard, we were attempting to work out something at the university level where people could (don't quote me) keep their @vt.edu email address forever, and maybe at some point it would become a forward only, but it would be the same address forever. Anyway, however you look at it, that's a crapload of email addresses, which we currently provide pop3, imap, and webmail, and in some cases exchange functionality, with. Without pop3, the disk space requirements would become so vast so quickly it would be hard to keep up. From what CNS says, the university receives and sends something like 2-3 million emails an hour on average, and 10 mil on peak times. I know they use this live thing for hotmail, but I just don't see it working out on this scale - at least not if people want the same level of functionality.
~Will
1.) After owning Dragon Quest 8 for months, I finally played the FF XII demo. Holy carp. Usually I'm not one to gawk, and I like gameplay and plot over graphics... but. Holy Carp. FF XII looks so amazing even I did a doubletake, and the battle system seems like it's an amazing combination of all the battle systems from square / squeenix games. Whatever you say about X-2, plot and vapidity aside, the battle system was good. It takes elements from that, from traditional FF (read FF3US), and from ChronoTrigger and ChronoCross. It's just... wow. That game is going to crush expectations.
2.) Is that a remake of FF3 US/FF6 Jap or FF3 Jap? And is it a "remake" like the playstation one was a "remake", or is it actually redone?
~Will
I feel powerless.
I'm a USian, I know there are going to be a number of other rants in this thread about political power and how you don't undertand politics and how they're trying, but I can do nothing, and it's depressing and demoralizing. People who have been paying attention for the past 3 years can verify.
We live alternatingly in fear, releif, and anger.
Fear that someone will harm us. Relief that it doesn't happen. Anger when we realize that 14 (at last count) people you went to highschool with never came home from the desert alive.
Fear that they're taking more rights away. Relief that they didn't. Anger when we realize that the laws already on the books are pretty restrictive.
I don't know what to do, and it is depressing. People I had been friends with for years I can no longer talk to because of this divided political climate. Groups of friends, brought together by a non-related common interest are divided down the left-right voting spectrum. It's hard to describe if you're not experiencing it.
When you add that together with the fact that the 51% in power seem to care less than nothing about what the other 49% of us have to say, and that we are looked down upon as unpatriotic, it's very scary. Most police officers and military personel are republicans. The military because the republicans fund their actions, the Police because... I dunno. Authoritarianism seems to be the republican line lately. Whatever. But, you're more likely to get pulled over if you have a John Kerry bumper sticker left on your car, I do know that. If you've got one of those yellow "support our troops", it's like the unwritten sign that you're also a republican and your own kind won't mess with you.
What do you do when the people in power and the people in positions of authority above you think you're an unpatriotic, drug-addicted, welfare loving cretin?
You say we always let stuff like this happen. I say... what can we do? I've almost given up. My voice doesn't matter.
~W
I heard they weren't going to conquer the intrnet.
I head they WERE GOING TO FUCKING KILL THE INTERNET! *THROWS CHAIR*
Gas prices higher today because of
*rolls d-20*
Peer to Peer file sharing!
At the time that thread was posted, there was no place to express these concerns. Taco has recently started attempting to have meta-slashdot stories, and there are always
Besides - it was off topic to the story, but obviously it bore discussing since sooo many people modded it up. That's the point of a user-moderated comment system - the users get to decide what they want to discuss.
~W
unless Blizzard can get their act together and see that computer gaming is on its way out.
Stop.
Just... Stop.
When you can play F.E.A.R., counterstrike:source, C&C Generals:zero hour, Eve Online, and Civ IV without a mouse and a high-def monitor 18 inches from your nose, let me know.