If bnetd did not exist, then the hacked copies of WC3b would not be playable - bottom line.
Blizzard is not pissing all over the bnetd authors either. Blizzard is protecting their interests in the best way their lawyers see fit. They could have been quite nasty with the bnetd authors, but I feel a mild C&D letter (even if it doesn't legally hold water, gets the point across) is well within reason.
And, if you send an email (big difference between email and a letter, as well) to a support email address of course you will get a canned response. If you want real feedback, talk to their department that doesn't handle the bulk of their email.
I'm a consultant, which after you get a few years of experience under your belt I would recommend doing if you want to have a life outside of work.
You make the same amount as your salaried equivalents.
You make more if you go over 40 hours.
You get stuck with no sick time/medical (usually, my company is different)
The reason why I stick with being a consultant is because it gives me enough time outside of the office to.. work.:) I put in probably another 6-8 hours after work writing code for either the company I'm trying to start or for a project I volunteer on. And, I still get out. It's quite nice to code outdoors, sit on a laptop at a pub or coffee shop (some up here even have 802.11 access)
The industry average goes from 40-60 hours a week though, more in crunch time. Most I have ever pulled in one week was 117 hours, and that is actually what got me into consulting. Best advice I can give you, tell them to stick stock up their ass you'll take a bigger paycheck and never sleep at work.
The difference is Bernstein supplies the math. By that logic, Einstein should have never released the theory of relativity, because he couldn't prove it at the time.. Good idea!
In a nutshell, you are screwed. I'll give you the details about what was wrong with our phone system though.
They routed all phone lines in through a switch, so they could patch in the secure-access line. What happened, is their switch had a filter to reduce noise. Side effect: kill DSL signal.
Short of wiring a straight line in from the outside no DSL signal was coming through there. Worst part about it, the 5 people that paid to get the DSL installed before realizing why the signal would drop every 30s and never really sync up. It would have been cheaper for me to run a t1 into my apartment than to get DSL.
I used mine with linux exclusively, and had no issues with it whatsoever. I run FreeBSD on my non-mobile box, and linux on my laptop which it was always connected to. Were you using the modem or the card?
A friend told me they had access up here, so when I moved I assumed it would work. I moved up here a few months before they died and was stuck with no wireless. Good thing they have pioneer place.:)
The only drawback is that their network does not support a moving connection. If you are in a car, the modem loses sync at about 30mph. That's probably good since you do not want to be fiddling with your computer while operating a vehicle.
Real life experience told me otherwise. I had a friend drive me around while looking at houses, and I was looking at maps while we drove (and IRC'ing) and did not experience any problems with it.
Simple, over a billion dollars in infastructure and R&D that Metricom had to pay for.
Downloading at home was still well over 10KBs, but considering I have an affinity for shepards pie the pub was the best place to go. It was about 2 miles from work, not out of my way, and was a great place to hang out.
Working outside of the office in a place where when you want a break can provide a lot of fun and interested distractions is wonderful. If we had ricochet up here I would try to work remote more often, but I figure there is no difference between my house and the office, except the drive.
It is one of the best internet deals around. When I used to live in the bay area, there was a great little pub (Scruffy's in Sunnyvale) that had a pole pretty close.
You could sit in the back of the pub, and download at around 25KBs-35KBs. I would gladly pay $100 to get that service again, and I just hope they migrate it up to Portland soon.
I used this as a substitute for DSL because of where I was living down there (apartment complex screwed the phone trunk) and it really worked beautifully. I had a few system outages that never went more than an hour, and it was reliable and fast. Latency was much less than I expected.
It's a fabulous device when you are out on the go, I remember one time looking at real estate in the bay area having a friend drive me around while I surfed the net to find directions and maps, and new houses in the area. It really is great technology.
America -- all too willing to tell other countries how to run themselves *EXCEPT* when the atrocities work in the US's favour.
Uh, or when those other countries criticize america. I really could care less what other countries do. I think most people should do the same. America is fucked enough without having americans point fingers at other countries for being fucked.
America has a lot more harmful things polluting watersupply and the land than old computers..
Americans problem is the world-police thought pattern so prevelent.
You don't cheat, you just suck ass at starcraft. Big difference. You may want to actually learn to play and join some newbie games so you can actually enjoy the game. The problem with people like you is that you don't actually take the time to learn the game but you just play with cheap tactics that really screw the game up and don't make it any fun. Any 2 bit chimp can build cannons up in someones base -- it's no fun. Most people should be able to stop it, but it offsets the game... you are the same type of people who rush in with SCVs right in the beginning.
This is actually covered in the article somewhat, which is making the game fun and balanced. You need to make it so it has an easy learning curve, but something that doesn't allow "bitch tactics" but still will allow other rush tactics. Same thing with War2 and the lumber mill in front of the gold mine...
Forget about Super Smash Bros - my cell phone ringer is the Super Mario Brother tune, surprising enough I have actually met some pretty good looking girls because of that - it's a rare novelty and *everyone* loves SMB. And I do in fact still play the original NES. And SNES.
Nothing beats Tetris, Zelda, and Super Mario Kart.
I don't see the issue. Most people dislike Americans because we think we can stick our nose into everyone elses business. His whole stance is it's China's business.
What's the problem with that? For the most part, Americans shouldn't care what other countries do, in all honesty (Excluding genocide, and general human rights things) -- dumping computers in a river bed is a far cry from something we should get worked up about. Hell, just look at the Iraq sanctions if you want to get pissed at the US for actively destroying people.
Absolutely! I live over in West and I take the Max in. It's a great method for getting into downtown. I own a car and don't really care to have to drive in, spend at least $5 to park, then fight the traffic on the way back home.
The max in Portland is probably the best american mass transit system I have seen. It still has a long way to go, but it really works well.
Here's a translation: Marvel Comic book characters are modelled after real world social interactions. Such as Person A has Friend B who has a Friend C, at a 3rd degree of seperation. Person A is more likely to know Friend C, because of social clustering.
All it is doing is showing a web of each characters connections and affiliations, similar to a six-degrees setup. Like Kevin Bacon.
As someone who spends about 90% of my waking hours at home on battle.net (which really only equates to about a half hour a day on average) you just have to know the system to get it to work for you.
If you really know how to play on battle.net, it's actually a great system. Yeah, it has it's glitches. Any system does. The only issue I have is the actual connection sometimes puked citing failed UDP processing.
Best way to avoid spam in games: Don't hang out in public channels.
I'd also be willing to bet you haven't tried any of the later version (1.09) - as it's failed game joining and latency issues (caused from bnet, not the 56k aol weenie downloading porn at the same time he's playing) have been drastically improved.
I don't support Blizzard citing the DMCA for this case, I think it's absolute BS. This isn't covered by the DMCA. I wish that they actually had the money to fight. Donate your dollar to the EFF and maybe we can see it happen.
Having said that, I'm still going to buy War3. I think Blizzard is following the advice of their lawyers, and doesn't have the resources (or wants to spend the time finding out/talking with the right people) to do the "right thing." They do have sound reasoning for not wanting Bnetd around. Hobbysists are getting screwed because of pirates.. bottom line. So, hate the people that make blizzard do something we don't like, not Blizzard for responding.
Exactly - Slashdot as we "knew" it is gone. I suppose I can't blame Rob, I'd be going nuts working on the same project for as long as he has. It doesn't matter if you post AC or not, they do log your IP. My previous post already has 5 mods done to it, I don't really care anymore.. I'm at my karma cap, let them kill it and nuke me. I don't care. I've been reading slashdot since before there were user accounts, and I've made mostly helpful contributions to the signal. I post when something I want to talk about comes up.
The issue is moot at this point, but it's interested to see the feelings that still persist. I've found FortKnox has a great journal - and he's setup his own site but I can't remember the URL and I'm too lazy/tired to look it up. Oops.. there goes more kkarma:)
As another person who lost mod privledges, it was just a massivly moderated by the editors thread. link already posted, but the loss of mod capability is in fact real.
I'll get modded down for this as well, just like you have. If you care about your karma don't respond.. it'll just go downhill.
Here is a link to the original post. It had about 700 mods done to it I think, not sure of the exact number. It doesn't matter that I was blacklisted from moderating, because I wont anymore on slashdot even if I get it back or I'll abuse the system and mod trolls up. I tried to help out a discussion that I felt raised some very good and informative points, and it got me this. They can keep their moderation, and moderate everything themselves as far as I care.
I'm glad we can always see the benefit of open source work. I'm actually quite surprised we haven't seen more KDE-based devices with the creation of QT embedded. At least microsoft is giving us an option to make ourselves feel at home (for those of us who use KDE, which I'm not one of them.. but oh well)
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Wrong.
If bnetd did not exist, then the hacked copies of WC3b would not be playable - bottom line.
Blizzard is not pissing all over the bnetd authors either. Blizzard is protecting their interests in the best way their lawyers see fit. They could have been quite nasty with the bnetd authors, but I feel a mild C&D letter (even if it doesn't legally hold water, gets the point across) is well within reason.
And, if you send an email (big difference between email and a letter, as well) to a support email address of course you will get a canned response. If you want real feedback, talk to their department that doesn't handle the bulk of their email.
I'm a consultant, which after you get a few years of experience under your belt I would recommend doing if you want to have a life outside of work.
:) I put in probably another 6-8 hours after work writing code for either the company I'm trying to start or for a project I volunteer on. And, I still get out. It's quite nice to code outdoors, sit on a laptop at a pub or coffee shop (some up here even have 802.11 access)
You make the same amount as your salaried equivalents.
You make more if you go over 40 hours.
You get stuck with no sick time/medical (usually, my company is different)
The reason why I stick with being a consultant is because it gives me enough time outside of the office to.. work.
The industry average goes from 40-60 hours a week though, more in crunch time. Most I have ever pulled in one week was 117 hours, and that is actually what got me into consulting. Best advice I can give you, tell them to stick stock up their ass you'll take a bigger paycheck and never sleep at work.
The difference is Bernstein supplies the math. By that logic, Einstein should have never released the theory of relativity, because he couldn't prove it at the time.. Good idea!
Thank goodness for alcoholic geeks.
In a nutshell, you are screwed. I'll give you the details about what was wrong with our phone system though.
They routed all phone lines in through a switch, so they could patch in the secure-access line. What happened, is their switch had a filter to reduce noise. Side effect: kill DSL signal.
Short of wiring a straight line in from the outside no DSL signal was coming through there. Worst part about it, the 5 people that paid to get the DSL installed before realizing why the signal would drop every 30s and never really sync up. It would have been cheaper for me to run a t1 into my apartment than to get DSL.
I used mine with linux exclusively, and had no issues with it whatsoever. I run FreeBSD on my non-mobile box, and linux on my laptop which it was always connected to. Were you using the modem or the card?
A friend told me they had access up here, so when I moved I assumed it would work. I moved up here a few months before they died and was stuck with no wireless. Good thing they have pioneer place. :)
The only drawback is that their network does not support a moving connection. If you are in a car, the modem loses sync at about 30mph. That's probably good since you do not want to be fiddling with your computer while operating a vehicle.
Real life experience told me otherwise. I had a friend drive me around while looking at houses, and I was looking at maps while we drove (and IRC'ing) and did not experience any problems with it.
Yeah, well my laptop can beat up your laptop!
Simple, over a billion dollars in infastructure and R&D that Metricom had to pay for.
Downloading at home was still well over 10KBs, but considering I have an affinity for shepards pie the pub was the best place to go. It was about 2 miles from work, not out of my way, and was a great place to hang out.
Working outside of the office in a place where when you want a break can provide a lot of fun and interested distractions is wonderful. If we had ricochet up here I would try to work remote more often, but I figure there is no difference between my house and the office, except the drive.
When they turn it back on, go down to Sunnyvale.
Expect 25KBs+ downloads while in downtown.
It is one of the best internet deals around. When I used to live in the bay area, there was a great little pub (Scruffy's in Sunnyvale) that had a pole pretty close.
You could sit in the back of the pub, and download at around 25KBs-35KBs. I would gladly pay $100 to get that service again, and I just hope they migrate it up to Portland soon.
I used this as a substitute for DSL because of where I was living down there (apartment complex screwed the phone trunk) and it really worked beautifully. I had a few system outages that never went more than an hour, and it was reliable and fast. Latency was much less than I expected.
It's a fabulous device when you are out on the go, I remember one time looking at real estate in the bay area having a friend drive me around while I surfed the net to find directions and maps, and new houses in the area. It really is great technology.
K, I'll stop being metricoms whore.
Here's some more:
If Americans opened their eyes and actually discovered the other 270 countries the world would be a better place.
America -- all too willing to tell other countries how to run themselves *EXCEPT* when the atrocities work in the US's favour.
Uh, or when those other countries criticize america. I really could care less what other countries do. I think most people should do the same. America is fucked enough without having americans point fingers at other countries for being fucked.
America has a lot more harmful things polluting watersupply and the land than old computers..
Americans problem is the world-police thought pattern so prevelent.
Please learn to spell, your post actually hurt my brain.
You don't cheat, you just suck ass at starcraft. Big difference. You may want to actually learn to play and join some newbie games so you can actually enjoy the game. The problem with people like you is that you don't actually take the time to learn the game but you just play with cheap tactics that really screw the game up and don't make it any fun. Any 2 bit chimp can build cannons up in someones base -- it's no fun. Most people should be able to stop it, but it offsets the game... you are the same type of people who rush in with SCVs right in the beginning.
This is actually covered in the article somewhat, which is making the game fun and balanced. You need to make it so it has an easy learning curve, but something that doesn't allow "bitch tactics" but still will allow other rush tactics. Same thing with War2 and the lumber mill in front of the gold mine...
Forget about Super Smash Bros - my cell phone ringer is the Super Mario Brother tune, surprising enough I have actually met some pretty good looking girls because of that - it's a rare novelty and *everyone* loves SMB. And I do in fact still play the original NES. And SNES.
Nothing beats Tetris, Zelda, and Super Mario Kart.
I don't see the issue. Most people dislike Americans because we think we can stick our nose into everyone elses business. His whole stance is it's China's business.
What's the problem with that? For the most part, Americans shouldn't care what other countries do, in all honesty (Excluding genocide, and general human rights things) -- dumping computers in a river bed is a far cry from something we should get worked up about. Hell, just look at the Iraq sanctions if you want to get pissed at the US for actively destroying people.
Anything over a P5-200Mhz I will pay to have shipped to me. I have found that old hardware is extremely useful in distributed networks.
And you can have the piece of mind that your computers will actually be used.
Absolutely! I live over in West and I take the Max in. It's a great method for getting into downtown. I own a car and don't really care to have to drive in, spend at least $5 to park, then fight the traffic on the way back home.
The max in Portland is probably the best american mass transit system I have seen. It still has a long way to go, but it really works well.
That is accurately described as short-hero syndrome.
Here's a translation:
Marvel Comic book characters are modelled after real world social interactions. Such as Person A has Friend B who has a Friend C, at a 3rd degree of seperation. Person A is more likely to know Friend C, because of social clustering.
All it is doing is showing a web of each characters connections and affiliations, similar to a six-degrees setup. Like Kevin Bacon.
As someone who spends about 90% of my waking hours at home on battle.net (which really only equates to about a half hour a day on average) you just have to know the system to get it to work for you.
If you really know how to play on battle.net, it's actually a great system. Yeah, it has it's glitches. Any system does. The only issue I have is the actual connection sometimes puked citing failed UDP processing.
Best way to avoid spam in games: Don't hang out in public channels.
I'd also be willing to bet you haven't tried any of the later version (1.09) - as it's failed game joining and latency issues (caused from bnet, not the 56k aol weenie downloading porn at the same time he's playing) have been drastically improved.
I don't support Blizzard citing the DMCA for this case, I think it's absolute BS. This isn't covered by the DMCA. I wish that they actually had the money to fight. Donate your dollar to the EFF and maybe we can see it happen.
Having said that, I'm still going to buy War3. I think Blizzard is following the advice of their lawyers, and doesn't have the resources (or wants to spend the time finding out/talking with the right people) to do the "right thing." They do have sound reasoning for not wanting Bnetd around. Hobbysists are getting screwed because of pirates.. bottom line. So, hate the people that make blizzard do something we don't like, not Blizzard for responding.
Exactly - Slashdot as we "knew" it is gone. I suppose I can't blame Rob, I'd be going nuts working on the same project for as long as he has. It doesn't matter if you post AC or not, they do log your IP. My previous post already has 5 mods done to it, I don't really care anymore.. I'm at my karma cap, let them kill it and nuke me. I don't care. I've been reading slashdot since before there were user accounts, and I've made mostly helpful contributions to the signal. I post when something I want to talk about comes up.
:)
The issue is moot at this point, but it's interested to see the feelings that still persist.
I've found FortKnox has a great journal - and he's setup his own site but I can't remember the URL and I'm too lazy/tired to look it up. Oops.. there goes more kkarma
As another person who lost mod privledges, it was just a massivly moderated by the editors thread. link already posted, but the loss of mod capability is in fact real.
I'll get modded down for this as well, just like you have. If you care about your karma don't respond.. it'll just go downhill.
Here is a link to the original post.
It had about 700 mods done to it I think, not sure of the exact number. It doesn't matter that I was blacklisted from moderating, because I wont anymore on slashdot even if I get it back or I'll abuse the system and mod trolls up. I tried to help out a discussion that I felt raised some very good and informative points, and it got me this. They can keep their moderation, and moderate everything themselves as far as I care.
I'm glad we can always see the benefit of open source work. I'm actually quite surprised we haven't seen more KDE-based devices with the creation of QT embedded. At least microsoft is giving us an option to make ourselves feel at home (for those of us who use KDE, which I'm not one of them.. but oh well)