Diablo3 is actually a really fun game for the first 500 hours. It gets tedious, but that's the point of a treasure grinding game.
Or are you still butthurt over the initial user experience the first month after launch last year? Shit takes time to get figured out and some things, like server capacity, can only be figured out after launch.
There would have been no need to figure out lots of that stuf it they hadn't stuff D3 with that crappy DRM.
For most people Diablo3 only sucked because someone told them it sucked. And that person that told them it sucked? He got his opinion the same way. Everyone that bitched about Diablo3 did so only because they didn't understand what they bought.
Diablo3 is not a game that you will want to play forever, it is maybe a 30 hour game from start to finish and a complete grind fest after that, exactly the same as Diablo2. If you get bored of repetition then the game sucks pretty quick, but no more so than Diablo2. After grinding a few hundred hours, in my case over 700, the game gets old and genuinely better games like Skyrim, Fallout, or Starcraft2 reclaim their appeal.
Continuing to hate Diablo3 because the first month sucked and a bunch of bloggers called it crap is about the most pathetic excuse to avoid a game that I've ever heard. Go play it some time, it's actually a lot of fun if you give it a chance instead of prejudicially taking the word of others.
Diablo 3 is a "click to level up" game, no challenge or anything alike. The only difficult part is getting the really hard-to-get items, which is really a matter of time, unlike D2, where you actually had to know what you were doing.
Why don't you try "--link-dest". It's pseudo-incremental, that is: unchanged files are hardlinked to the previous backup, meaning that there's no space or bandwidth consumption for unchanged files, but each day's replica is a full backup.
What? I haven't seen a facebook ad in... well... months. And even then, it was because I was using a PC that wasn't mine and didn't have adblock (yet).
There's two really critical (IMO) things that the LO devs keep missing:
- Loading time: Libreoffice is the only application which takes time noticable time to load - anything else just pops up instantly. There's even a progress bar. That's too 1999. Only games take that long (or more) to load. - OS integration: Why is the look and feel so slightly alien on my desktop. I've set it to look gtkish, but it still looks alien, the icons have are different from the ones in my.gtkrc-2.0, and most text can barely fit the controls (since they don't seem to resize along with the text, which does respect DPI settings). All this makes me feel like I'm using something totally alien to my desktop, and I feel the need to get done with it and close it ASAP.
WRONG! Their job isn't to make the foundation's funding grow, but rather to complete the foundation's mission. The foundation in a non-profit, you're thinking like some capitalist for-profit company.
This is slashdot. We're geeks. Sex and STDs are but a myth to use (unless you assume STD refers to the C++ namespace). New, better reactors will make us like Gates.
I'm pretty sure that if self-hosting stuff [on a residential conneciton] in the US were allowed as elsewhere, then there'd surely be way, WAY more user-friendly server software out there. I'm pretty sure Windows XP would have had a "host your website" tool, or something like that.
Regardless of how good MS gets, "Windows Phone" already makes people turn their backs on their phone as soon as you name it. Plenty relate it to desktop windows, which is awful, others remember older, really horrible versions, while dev know the platform keeps changing and is somewhat untargetable.
Nokia on their end, killed all they had going, Meego, their others OS and software, they sold Qt, etc. They had lots of stuff, and threw it away to ally themselves with a company that, regardless of product quality, has a really bad name in the eyes of the end user.
Isn't Mint a bit too much for those PCs? Sure, Mint is lightweight, but I think you're pushing it. Something like xubuntu o lubuntu might fit the bill a bit better.
Anyone wanting to print more than one would just use a VM, or "print-to-pdf". Where the hell did you find such "cupon-printing" software? I've never even heard of such a thing!
I found that suggesting "Mint" prevents this. People think about black screens and green text when you say Linux. They have no concept of Mint (or Ubuntu), so naming that doesn't fire a fear of terminals.
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I too am honestly curious.
What is the value in slagging what appears to be a completely Free/Libre OS?
And what other "ecosystem" did you have in mind, other than that of Apple/iOS or Microsoft/WinWhatever?
Meego, and it's fully open source successors? They're also true GNU/Linux, so I'm surprised why the FSF would NOT choose them first.
Diablo3 is actually a really fun game for the first 500 hours. It gets tedious, but that's the point of a treasure grinding game.
Or are you still butthurt over the initial user experience the first month after launch last year? Shit takes time to get figured out and some things, like server capacity, can only be figured out after launch.
There would have been no need to figure out lots of that stuf it they hadn't stuff D3 with that crappy DRM.
For most people Diablo3 only sucked because someone told them it sucked. And that person that told them it sucked? He got his opinion the same way. Everyone that bitched about Diablo3 did so only because they didn't understand what they bought.
Diablo3 is not a game that you will want to play forever, it is maybe a 30 hour game from start to finish and a complete grind fest after that, exactly the same as Diablo2. If you get bored of repetition then the game sucks pretty quick, but no more so than Diablo2. After grinding a few hundred hours, in my case over 700, the game gets old and genuinely better games like Skyrim, Fallout, or Starcraft2 reclaim their appeal.
Continuing to hate Diablo3 because the first month sucked and a bunch of bloggers called it crap is about the most pathetic excuse to avoid a game that I've ever heard. Go play it some time, it's actually a lot of fun if you give it a chance instead of prejudicially taking the word of others.
Diablo 3 is a "click to level up" game, no challenge or anything alike. The only difficult part is getting the really hard-to-get items, which is really a matter of time, unlike D2, where you actually had to know what you were doing.
Also, I can't LAN D3.
Why don't you try "--link-dest". It's pseudo-incremental, that is: unchanged files are hardlinked to the previous backup, meaning that there's no space or bandwidth consumption for unchanged files, but each day's replica is a full backup.
What?
I haven't seen a facebook ad in... well... months. And even then, it was because I was using a PC that wasn't mine and didn't have adblock (yet).
There's two really critical (IMO) things that the LO devs keep missing:
- Loading time: Libreoffice is the only application which takes time noticable time to load - anything else just pops up instantly. There's even a progress bar. That's too 1999. Only games take that long (or more) to load. .gtkrc-2.0, and most text can barely fit the controls (since they don't seem to resize along with the text, which does respect DPI settings). All this makes me feel like I'm using something totally alien to my desktop, and I feel the need to get done with it and close it ASAP.
- OS integration: Why is the look and feel so slightly alien on my desktop. I've set it to look gtkish, but it still looks alien, the icons have are different from the ones in my
WRONG!
Their job isn't to make the foundation's funding grow, but rather to complete the foundation's mission. The foundation in a non-profit, you're thinking like some capitalist for-profit company.
This is slashdot. We're geeks. Sex and STDs are but a myth to use (unless you assume STD refers to the C++ namespace).
New, better reactors will make us like Gates.
Kickstarter has HTML5 videos, indiegogo requires flash. That'll loose them plenty of visitors amogst the geek crowds - who are they targeting!?
I'm pretty sure that if self-hosting stuff [on a residential conneciton] in the US were allowed as elsewhere, then there'd surely be way, WAY more user-friendly server software out there.
I'm pretty sure Windows XP would have had a "host your website" tool, or something like that.
I hate to feed a troll, but if I'm really wrong, what kept you from actually pointing out what was unfeasable about my proposal.
Regardless of how good MS gets, "Windows Phone" already makes people turn their backs on their phone as soon as you name it. Plenty relate it to desktop windows, which is awful, others remember older, really horrible versions, while dev know the platform keeps changing and is somewhat untargetable.
Nokia on their end, killed all they had going, Meego, their others OS and software, they sold Qt, etc. They had lots of stuff, and threw it away to ally themselves with a company that, regardless of product quality, has a really bad name in the eyes of the end user.
Ignorance? I've just given your proof of how their "proteciton" can easily be broken.
Isn't Mint a bit too much for those PCs? Sure, Mint is lightweight, but I think you're pushing it. Something like xubuntu o lubuntu might fit the bill a bit better.
adsuck is a nice DNS server that does that for you, and you can run it at a network level. :)
Maybe he lives somewhere where amazon does not ship? Maybe it's 10x computers (120USD sure is a lot more!).
I find that /bin/true returns too many false positives while detecting viruses. I've moved over to /bin/false which is just as lightweight.
Out of curiosity, what distro do you usually install?
Anyone wanting to print more than one would just use a VM, or "print-to-pdf". Where the hell did you find such "cupon-printing" software? I've never even heard of such a thing!
I found that suggesting "Mint" prevents this. People think about black screens and green text when you say Linux. They have no concept of Mint (or Ubuntu), so naming that doesn't fire a fear of terminals.
The need for adding "-no-dwrite" to wine has existed for months, it's nothing new.
Why don't you run native wine?
Why not? It sounds like he knew what counts, and amount-of-lines-of-code really doesn't count.
I think this pretty much covers the entire subject:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt
They changed the indentation from tabulations to spaces on 10k files.
I think since Bootcamp, everyone just assumed that Mac users were just dual booting to play games. Not always true, though (and a real inconvenience).
Why would mac users dual boot (and consider that "conventient), and Linux users run wine? Most Linux users run LInux on windows-compatible computers.
You can build FLOSS windows apps and run them on wine on your ARM Linux machine. :)
Oh, because it's too hard to implement a 1997 protocol? (IMAP IDLE)