Yeah, I think we can all agree that was an undesirable move. Considering that D2 had LAN play, and most blizzard games do, obviously the reason for the removal isn't technical difficulty.
But I don't really see what else it is for, except maybe that they think battle-net is really cool, and that we should all be forced to give it a try, so we realize just how cool it is.
I'm sorry, but I love LAN play, I throw LAN parties at my apartment with 10+ people on a monthly basis, and D2 is one of our all time favorites. If we all have to share my slow-as-molasses internet line, we're gonna be lagging like there's no tomorrow, this is just plain unacceptable behavior from a company like Blizzard which has such a dazzling track record of perfection/near-perfection in their titles.
I really hope the large quantity of comments about the removal of LAN is enough to make Blizzard stop and possibly rethink that decision.
The problem is, for most people this won't be a deal-breaker, so they'll buy it anyways (what's better, Diablo 3 with no LAN, or nothing?) and so Blizzard won't be effected at all and will be fine with it. At least with things like DRM issues alot of people are boycotting the game (or getting it from bittorrent) to send a message, but I don't see that happening with this, and it makes me sad.
Common Sense says that they would not be referencing MaNGOS, which is in violation of their own Terms of Service for WoW.
I'm guessing that inside Blizzard, they run WoW on Linux (cuz its awesome) and potentially have a linux client or tools for if they need to check something and the closest machine is linux, or if they wanted to check something from within the server, or whatever. If they do have a full, working client, I don't see why they don't release it though, but I guess it might be less polished or have more bugs than the normal windows/mac clients.
One thing I've always loved Blizzard for is their continued Mac support, and I think it benefits them as well, as most mac gamers are dying to find more titles that will run natively. Linux seems like the natural next step, but for some reason they've never gone there.
This reminds me of the Sony CEO talking about how "most of our customers don't even know what a rootkit is" so much.
Come-on guys, stop being evil and treat your customers like the have brains.
What, they couldn't just take pictures of Earth from the moon, resize them, and then photoshop the moon on top? I mean I'm all for NASA, but this seems pretty useless.
"Seeing the earth will help us understand aliens!"
I'm not buying it.
Alice, Bob, Chris...
those sound an awful lot like the demographic names we used to use when I worked at a Best Buy... you arn't an employee, are you? ^^
There's not much left aside from IT and help-desk jobs.
And what is wrong w/ IT and Hemp Desk type jobs? Ok, personally, I avoid Help desk work, but I consciously chose IT over programming because I didn't want to work in a cube interacting w/ a computer all day any more than I wanted to be an actuary working in a cube interacting w/ a computer all day (Double major, Math & Comp Sci). And since he's already held jobs in tech support, it should be easy to get hired.
Of course, I leverage my programming skills a LOT writing scripts, etc. and could probably out program a lot of the developers I work with, but thats not a strict job requirement. Figure out what you are good at, and what you enjoy doing, then go after that job. Nothing wrong w/ a CS major selling insurance.
I agree, it is an original work that merely happens to capitalize on a name. Since Norris himself didn't write these quotes (unless he did, lol that would be nice) this is just a character in the public domain.
I hear that Google Earth will be allowing users to control the spy satellites directly in version 4.4.
Imagine getting a live feed of when your boss leaves his house, and then tracking him all the way to work. I'll never be late again! they already have that. Only, they don't include it in the free version, you have to get the special, super-expensive "federal" edition.
that seems really low on the priority list to me. Seeing exactly what contours the Marianas Trench has isn't going to help me with squat other than a quick "neat-o", wheras highly detailed and functional maps and images of landmass, buildings, and roads are constantly useful.
What if we all just really like the retro feel of green text on a black background, like old school terminals? Or the Matrix?
Honestly, I think its all just style choice. Yes, clearly black on white reads easier than red on yellow, but for the most part its just preferences of color, not science.
The point is not that engineers are amazing people and they could do everyone else' jobs too.
The point is that the schoolwork and grading for engineering courses tends to be more difficult and less interesting then the same for other courses.
I for one know that last weekend I was busy working through a page of probability problems with absolutely no interest that all felt the same and boring.
meanwhile a friend of mine was having a great time laughing it up writing a paper about Children of Men and V for Vendetta for an english course.
One Supercomputer ring to rule them all,
One Token-Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all, and in the LAN bind them.
In the Land of Ethernet where the switches lie.
I'll admit right now I'm not a parent, but I disagree with this whole parental ideal. The world is there and they're gonna run into it sooner or later whether you like it or not and whether the computer is the way they do or not. I dunno what it is, but it seems to me that most adults have forgotten how public school works; that or it was different in their day. They'll hear dirty words on a per-minute basis, get gruesome details of sex and violence from other kids, and hear all about the latest R-rated movies.
For instance: my parents wouldn't let me watch SouthPark when I was a kid. I watched it at friends houses anyways. I couldn't see rated PG13 movies till I was 13, and R until I was 17; but we saw them anyways. And I wasn't a "bad child", nor was I by any means an exception. Those who's parents let them see such things would tell the rest of us, and we'd have to go find out for ourselves. By age 13 I knew more about computers than any adult in my family did, and could circumvent the security software. I was banned from playing Doom and Wolfenstein, but found ways to play it on my machine, and played it on a friend's machine at his house who was allowed to.
Instead, I'd just do my best to teach the child about the dangers of the interwebs, and explain whatever he/she might have questions about.
Cybernanny works on the machine at home. Teaching them works on any machine, anywhere.
Course, I'm also part of the group who believes in telling kids the truth when they ask questions about tough subjects like sex, rather than coming up with ridiculous lies about storks, etc.
See, thats something I kinda wish the first edition had. I ended up retyping out all the source files by hand.
It did ensure that I'd seen every line of code and understood it all intimately, however.
I actually picked up the first edition of this from a bargain bin on a whim, and I was amazed at the quality of the book. Many of the points in the review of the second apply to the first; each section seems to start a little slow for those of us who know our way around code, but then explodes into well detailed examples and explanations of techniques. I'm almost done with the first one, and after reading several other tomes on the subjects of security and hacking, I can say that this is by far my favorite for the way it is written and the content it covers. I was worried when I got it that it would be either lacking in serious knowledge or focused completely on the ideas and ethics of hacking rather than the actual process due to its small size compared to many security books which are larger than my college textbooks; but this was completely untrue. It also focuses on the why instead of the what; so you're looking at source code and discussing how it was written rather than just being handed an executable and told to run it with this or that perameters to receive certain results. I'd recommend it completely to anyone looking to get into hacking.
Now I'm trying to determine if its worth getting the second to see the changes / updates.
It shouldn't be, and in the past people trying to write white-hat worms have been prosecuted the same as black-hats.
However, knowing M$' legal team, they can pretty much do what they want.
There's probabally a clause in the EULA for Windows that says Microsoft can rape your box all they want and you'll be happy to have them do it.
A friend of mine had a similar situation with Best Buy. He bought a computer from them, with warranty, and something (I can't recall what) went wrong, so he brought it in. He waited some two months and it never came back, with the geek squad continually telling him "this weekend we'll have it!" and each time he drove down there they'd go "nope, not yet, try next weekend."
Finally, I went with him (knowing a thing or two about retail) and pulled aside the manager, and made it clear to him that we were extremely unhappy, and explaining that this simple maintainance had taken over two months.
Finally, after hearing at least 10 different stories and being asked to call 5 different numbers for other people who were supposed to know where it was, we finally found out that it had been lost into the void. One would then think the problem would be resolved; but no! Apparently Best Buy and whoever shipped the laptop off to be fixed were arguing over who's fault it was and who should buy my friend a new laptop.
Thats why when my stuff breaks, I fix it. Then I know where it is and how long it'll take, exactly.
Are.
You.
Serious?
Holy crap, LG. I have no words.
Oh wait, now I do;
I can't wait for the day when I can hack into someone's LAN and change all their temperatures, ever so slightly. They'll never see it coming!
When they say "men" who have this mutation are slower to react, do they mean men as in humans or men as in males?
If they mean the latter, what makes women immune to this mutation?
I definately do NOT need another supposed scientific reason to make all women think that they are correct when in fact they are very wrong, and make them all convinced they are masters of multi-tasking and males are simple minded.
All stereotypes have their exceptions! All of you women need to learn this!
Well, the easy out there is that Animals are not entirely sentient. But if you can genetically create a creature with a gigantic mind and give it the biology, maybe have some preprogrammed memory, but you could theoretically build an artificial and sentient creature, capable of speaking language. At that point, its pretty rough to say it doesn't have a soul. Or at that point, what is a soul?
I dunno how much you've played, but I've got two 70s (though I don't play any more, thank goodness) and I never really put much money into the fix'd NPC shops. They're set way too high.
Now, a good amount of gold does go into repair, which actually increases based on how powerful your gear is, so that would indeed be counter to getting more gold at higher levels,
but all in all I think most of the game's gold goes into the free market, and since gold is generated and thus rarely lost I think there would actually be a ton of inflation.
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Yeah, I think we can all agree that was an undesirable move. Considering that D2 had LAN play, and most blizzard games do, obviously the reason for the removal isn't technical difficulty. But I don't really see what else it is for, except maybe that they think battle-net is really cool, and that we should all be forced to give it a try, so we realize just how cool it is.
I'm sorry, but I love LAN play, I throw LAN parties at my apartment with 10+ people on a monthly basis, and D2 is one of our all time favorites. If we all have to share my slow-as-molasses internet line, we're gonna be lagging like there's no tomorrow, this is just plain unacceptable behavior from a company like Blizzard which has such a dazzling track record of perfection/near-perfection in their titles.
I really hope the large quantity of comments about the removal of LAN is enough to make Blizzard stop and possibly rethink that decision.
The problem is, for most people this won't be a deal-breaker, so they'll buy it anyways (what's better, Diablo 3 with no LAN, or nothing?) and so Blizzard won't be effected at all and will be fine with it. At least with things like DRM issues alot of people are boycotting the game (or getting it from bittorrent) to send a message, but I don't see that happening with this, and it makes me sad.
Common Sense says that they would not be referencing MaNGOS, which is in violation of their own Terms of Service for WoW. I'm guessing that inside Blizzard, they run WoW on Linux (cuz its awesome) and potentially have a linux client or tools for if they need to check something and the closest machine is linux, or if they wanted to check something from within the server, or whatever. If they do have a full, working client, I don't see why they don't release it though, but I guess it might be less polished or have more bugs than the normal windows/mac clients. One thing I've always loved Blizzard for is their continued Mac support, and I think it benefits them as well, as most mac gamers are dying to find more titles that will run natively. Linux seems like the natural next step, but for some reason they've never gone there.
This reminds me of the Sony CEO talking about how "most of our customers don't even know what a rootkit is" so much. Come-on guys, stop being evil and treat your customers like the have brains.
What, they couldn't just take pictures of Earth from the moon, resize them, and then photoshop the moon on top? I mean I'm all for NASA, but this seems pretty useless. "Seeing the earth will help us understand aliens!" I'm not buying it.
Alice, Bob, Chris... those sound an awful lot like the demographic names we used to use when I worked at a Best Buy... you arn't an employee, are you? ^^
There's not much left aside from IT and help-desk jobs.
And what is wrong w/ IT and Hemp Desk type jobs? Ok, personally, I avoid Help desk work, but I consciously chose IT over programming because I didn't want to work in a cube interacting w/ a computer all day any more than I wanted to be an actuary working in a cube interacting w/ a computer all day (Double major, Math & Comp Sci). And since he's already held jobs in tech support, it should be easy to get hired.
Of course, I leverage my programming skills a LOT writing scripts, etc. and could probably out program a lot of the developers I work with, but thats not a strict job requirement. Figure out what you are good at, and what you enjoy doing, then go after that job. Nothing wrong w/ a CS major selling insurance.
Freudian Slip!
I agree, it is an original work that merely happens to capitalize on a name. Since Norris himself didn't write these quotes (unless he did, lol that would be nice) this is just a character in the public domain.
that seems really low on the priority list to me. Seeing exactly what contours the Marianas Trench has isn't going to help me with squat other than a quick "neat-o", wheras highly detailed and functional maps and images of landmass, buildings, and roads are constantly useful.
What if we all just really like the retro feel of green text on a black background, like old school terminals? Or the Matrix? Honestly, I think its all just style choice. Yes, clearly black on white reads easier than red on yellow, but for the most part its just preferences of color, not science.
The point is not that engineers are amazing people and they could do everyone else' jobs too. The point is that the schoolwork and grading for engineering courses tends to be more difficult and less interesting then the same for other courses. I for one know that last weekend I was busy working through a page of probability problems with absolutely no interest that all felt the same and boring. meanwhile a friend of mine was having a great time laughing it up writing a paper about Children of Men and V for Vendetta for an english course.
And the award for worst idea of the year goes to...
thats so sad...
One Supercomputer ring to rule them all, One Token-Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the LAN bind them. In the Land of Ethernet where the switches lie.
I'll admit right now I'm not a parent, but I disagree with this whole parental ideal. The world is there and they're gonna run into it sooner or later whether you like it or not and whether the computer is the way they do or not. I dunno what it is, but it seems to me that most adults have forgotten how public school works; that or it was different in their day. They'll hear dirty words on a per-minute basis, get gruesome details of sex and violence from other kids, and hear all about the latest R-rated movies.
For instance: my parents wouldn't let me watch SouthPark when I was a kid. I watched it at friends houses anyways. I couldn't see rated PG13 movies till I was 13, and R until I was 17; but we saw them anyways. And I wasn't a "bad child", nor was I by any means an exception. Those who's parents let them see such things would tell the rest of us, and we'd have to go find out for ourselves. By age 13 I knew more about computers than any adult in my family did, and could circumvent the security software. I was banned from playing Doom and Wolfenstein, but found ways to play it on my machine, and played it on a friend's machine at his house who was allowed to.
Instead, I'd just do my best to teach the child about the dangers of the interwebs, and explain whatever he/she might have questions about. Cybernanny works on the machine at home. Teaching them works on any machine, anywhere.
Course, I'm also part of the group who believes in telling kids the truth when they ask questions about tough subjects like sex, rather than coming up with ridiculous lies about storks, etc.
See, thats something I kinda wish the first edition had. I ended up retyping out all the source files by hand. It did ensure that I'd seen every line of code and understood it all intimately, however.
I actually picked up the first edition of this from a bargain bin on a whim, and I was amazed at the quality of the book. Many of the points in the review of the second apply to the first; each section seems to start a little slow for those of us who know our way around code, but then explodes into well detailed examples and explanations of techniques. I'm almost done with the first one, and after reading several other tomes on the subjects of security and hacking, I can say that this is by far my favorite for the way it is written and the content it covers. I was worried when I got it that it would be either lacking in serious knowledge or focused completely on the ideas and ethics of hacking rather than the actual process due to its small size compared to many security books which are larger than my college textbooks; but this was completely untrue. It also focuses on the why instead of the what; so you're looking at source code and discussing how it was written rather than just being handed an executable and told to run it with this or that perameters to receive certain results. I'd recommend it completely to anyone looking to get into hacking. Now I'm trying to determine if its worth getting the second to see the changes / updates.
It shouldn't be, and in the past people trying to write white-hat worms have been prosecuted the same as black-hats. However, knowing M$' legal team, they can pretty much do what they want. There's probabally a clause in the EULA for Windows that says Microsoft can rape your box all they want and you'll be happy to have them do it.
A friend of mine had a similar situation with Best Buy. He bought a computer from them, with warranty, and something (I can't recall what) went wrong, so he brought it in. He waited some two months and it never came back, with the geek squad continually telling him "this weekend we'll have it!" and each time he drove down there they'd go "nope, not yet, try next weekend." Finally, I went with him (knowing a thing or two about retail) and pulled aside the manager, and made it clear to him that we were extremely unhappy, and explaining that this simple maintainance had taken over two months. Finally, after hearing at least 10 different stories and being asked to call 5 different numbers for other people who were supposed to know where it was, we finally found out that it had been lost into the void. One would then think the problem would be resolved; but no! Apparently Best Buy and whoever shipped the laptop off to be fixed were arguing over who's fault it was and who should buy my friend a new laptop. Thats why when my stuff breaks, I fix it. Then I know where it is and how long it'll take, exactly.
Gaming on OSX... oh, so you mean Warcraft3?
Are. You. Serious? Holy crap, LG. I have no words. Oh wait, now I do; I can't wait for the day when I can hack into someone's LAN and change all their temperatures, ever so slightly. They'll never see it coming!
This is all Al Gore's doing, I just know it. Go make the internet again, and this time do it right!
When they say "men" who have this mutation are slower to react, do they mean men as in humans or men as in males? If they mean the latter, what makes women immune to this mutation? I definately do NOT need another supposed scientific reason to make all women think that they are correct when in fact they are very wrong, and make them all convinced they are masters of multi-tasking and males are simple minded. All stereotypes have their exceptions! All of you women need to learn this!
Well, the easy out there is that Animals are not entirely sentient. But if you can genetically create a creature with a gigantic mind and give it the biology, maybe have some preprogrammed memory, but you could theoretically build an artificial and sentient creature, capable of speaking language. At that point, its pretty rough to say it doesn't have a soul. Or at that point, what is a soul?
I dunno how much you've played, but I've got two 70s (though I don't play any more, thank goodness) and I never really put much money into the fix'd NPC shops. They're set way too high. Now, a good amount of gold does go into repair, which actually increases based on how powerful your gear is, so that would indeed be counter to getting more gold at higher levels, but all in all I think most of the game's gold goes into the free market, and since gold is generated and thus rarely lost I think there would actually be a ton of inflation.