200 Chinese serfs are going to starve because blizzard is taking their jobs away. Someone should call the WTO police on their asses....except that those jobs were never allowed in the first place.
You might as well complain when some shop selling pirated goods gets closed down. Or when the people selling very low price appliances out of a van gets busted.
From the EULA: Section 4 B. You agree that you shall not, under any circumstances, (ii)exploit the Game or any of its parts, including, but not limited to, the Game Client, for any commercial purpose, including, but not limited to, use at a cyber café, computer gaming center or any other location-based site without the express written consent of Blizzard;
It also states that if you fail to comply with section 4 then your license is revoked and it may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.
I don't think that the farmers have any hope here.
I'm a level 39 mage (one more level and I don't have to take the bus anymore) and I routinely solo. I'm already killed quite often by wandering players that just have too much time on thier hands.
I've been waiting for Blizz to implement their promised honor/dishonor system so that ?? people would leave me alone, now it seems that I will "be farmed like mobs" because of the bonuses that ganking me now gives to people.
I can even see the higher level players power-honoring some medium characters since there is absolutely no PvP dishonor system; only one that loosely prevents ganking of NPCs.
I've been playing WoW since a week after launch and chose a PvP server because friends were here and I like the concept of PvP. Unfortunately, since "Battlegrounds" will be implemented on PvE servers as well as PvP, they may just rename PvP servers to Ganking.
This change as written will make the game unplayable for the majority and could result in a serious number of account cancellations.
I know I'lll be gone once some 44 rogue waits in the shadows until I've pulled several elite mobs and then stunlocks me to death for an "honorable" kill.
Why should it really matter what platform he's using? Is everyone worried that there is going to be an end to the x86 version or something?
Linux is portable. It shouldn't matter if the main man behind it is running it on a PC, a Mac, an Amiga, a PS2, or a toaster. This should be seen as a good thing.
TiVo software is encumbered by the GPL? This has me scratching my head.
TiVo's main app that does all the recording, sceduling, playback, etc is called MyWorld and it is closed source. Even if it wasn't, I don't think that they would be encumbered by the GPL, they would just have to release the source. How is this encumbering?
The TiVo already runs a *nix kernel on a PPC core and uses HFS formatted drives. I could easily see MyWorld running on a Mac. The show-stopper would be the encoder/decoder hardware.
First off, how do you map the zoom function to the mouse button? That would be terribly useful!
My biggest complaint with Apple's insistance on keeping with the one button mouse is that there isn't a nice, elegant, ergonomic multi-button mouse from Apple. I don't care if they call it the Apple Technical Mouse or what, I just wish there was one.
I always stayed away from Apple in the past for several reasons; a major one was the mouse. Being a recent switcher (last year, and no it had nothing to do with iPods) I can say that an interface that assumes that the user will only have one button is very well designed.
Since using a Mac with and without a multi-button mouse, I've seen many people, including otherwise competent ones, click wrong buttons on the PC. It makes me think that maybe Apple is really thinking about things instead of just being stubborn.
Yes, but that studio is Swinging Ape Studios. (warning flash) They already have a superb multi platform game called Metal Arms which is one of the best party games ever.
There's a reason why Sony put Memory Sticks in their devices. It's so that they can *gasp* sell more memory sticks.
Proprietary formats are the way of big business. "You've bought our system, now let us sell you accessories." Anyone who owns a console game system should be well familiar with this. Why can't I use the same memory card on my Gamecube and my PS2? Because they don't want you too. Why are all of the controller ports different and not just simple USB? This is especially glaring as the Xbox is standard USB with a funky plug. Manufactures make the big money selling add-ons or licensing fees from third partys who make add-ons.
Proprietary formats are there to create another license revenue stream for the manufacturer. It's not that OGG isn't popular, it's just that they don't control it. Sony has demonstrated that they would dump MP3 if they could. DRM is there not so that you don't pirate the media contents, but so that the format licensor can legally force it's usage and force payment for said usage.
The Pentium M, which is one third of the Centrino (the other two being the 855 chipset and the wireless LAN) is based off of the Pentium III. Tom's Hardware has an interesting write-up here.
If you want an odd analogy, try this:
Apple (well, IBM) has two processor varients: the G4 and G5. Intel had two processor varients as well: the Pentium 4 and the Itanium. Its an over simplification, but bear with me as it's about to get a whole lot more weird.
Imagine if the Itanium was so popular that it was selling enough to where dell was starting to use it in their budget machines. The only systems that were still using the P4 were the laptops and other ultra-condensed systems because the Itanium put out too much heat.
Let's say that Intel put's out the Centrino (Pentium M/Banias/whatever) in this environment. The public that's been demanding an Itanium laptop would tear it apart. There would be cries of "This is a step backwards!" and "I ain't using no P3 laptop in this day and age". It would take a marketing miracle to get this to sell.
Apple and IBM know that when people want a G5 laptop, you don't try to sell them a G3, even if it is a very advanced G3 that's better in many ways than your G4.
Yes it does. It has: "ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of DDR SDRAM with AGP 4X support"...which is almost certainly built onto the main board. Since the specs seem so comparible to the iBook, I'm even wondering if that isn't a Radeon Mobility.
After reading TFA, I don't think that we will have G5 laptops anytime within the first half of this year.
It states that sources close to the Taiwan manufacturer claim they will ship. Aren't these the same sources that have been promising a Tablet Macintosh?
It also states that there are the known heat problems, Apple saying it won't happen, and has a link to a more likely higher speed 90nm G4 (MPC7448) to be used in the newer models. This doesn't even factor in the fact that a G5 PowerBook would likely have been mentioned at the conference. It even suggests that the quoted source has made a typo!
Is this hype that we should be reading on the front page? It's/. so of course!
You really should be using lzip to back up your information.
It uses lossy compression (just like the compression found in popular MPEG and JPEG files) to get much better that the 2:1 average compression found in "standard" methods.
Play around with the options and you'll be amazed at the speed and power. Use it for all your backup needs and you'll never worry about your data again.
Let me guess, you would hook up your 10 year-old 14" SVGA monitor to it ?
Don't do this!
I connected a 1992 NEC Multisync to my 2004 Powerbook and the monitor never displayed anything ever again. It could be coincidence but needless to say, I'm a little gun shy when it comes to which monitors I use on the Mac now.
I'll agree here with the software argument. When I buy a computer, I only factor in the price for bundled software that I would actually purchase. In the case of the Mac Mini, it's only Panther.
For solitaire on the Mac, I just used KPatience (kpat) which is available for a quick binary download through Fink Commander. It's a few more steps but I think it's one of the best solitaire programs out there.
There is a very functional MythTV frontend for OSX already.
Backend is another story but the frontend is working great. I think this would be great to sit underneath a Gamecube and just use a Bluetooth remote to operate it. Mmmmmm...
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It's a typo. It should read "Game list as long as your ARM."
The DS has two ARM processors; an ARM7 and an ARM9.
Since there are more than 9 launch games, the list is longer than either ARM.
200 Chinese serfs are going to starve because blizzard is taking their jobs away. Someone should call the WTO police on their asses. ...except that those jobs were never allowed in the first place.
You might as well complain when some shop selling pirated goods gets closed down. Or when the people selling very low price appliances out of a van gets busted.
From the EULA:
Section 4
B. You agree that you shall not, under any circumstances,
(ii)exploit the Game or any of its parts, including, but not limited to, the Game Client, for any commercial purpose, including, but not limited to, use at a cyber café, computer gaming center or any other location-based site without the express written consent of Blizzard;
It also states that if you fail to comply with section 4 then your license is revoked and it may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.
I don't think that the farmers have any hope here.
I'm a level 39 mage (one more level and I don't have to take the bus anymore) and I routinely solo. I'm already killed quite often by wandering players that just have too much time on thier hands.
I've been waiting for Blizz to implement their promised honor/dishonor system so that ?? people would leave me alone, now it seems that I will "be farmed like mobs" because of the bonuses that ganking me now gives to people.
I can even see the higher level players power-honoring some medium characters since there is absolutely no PvP dishonor system; only one that loosely prevents ganking of NPCs.
I've been playing WoW since a week after launch and chose a PvP server because friends were here and I like the concept of PvP. Unfortunately, since "Battlegrounds" will be implemented on PvE servers as well as PvP, they may just rename PvP servers to Ganking.
This change as written will make the game unplayable for the majority and could result in a serious number of account cancellations.
I know I'lll be gone once some 44 rogue waits in the shadows until I've pulled several elite mobs and then stunlocks me to death for an "honorable" kill.
Why should it really matter what platform he's using? Is everyone worried that there is going to be an end to the x86 version or something?
Linux is portable. It shouldn't matter if the main man behind it is running it on a PC, a Mac, an Amiga, a PS2, or a toaster. This should be seen as a good thing.
TiVo software is encumbered by the GPL? This has me scratching my head.
TiVo's main app that does all the recording, sceduling, playback, etc is called MyWorld and it is closed source. Even if it wasn't, I don't think that they would be encumbered by the GPL, they would just have to release the source. How is this encumbering?
The TiVo already runs a *nix kernel on a PPC core and uses HFS formatted drives. I could easily see MyWorld running on a Mac. The show-stopper would be the encoder/decoder hardware.
First off, how do you map the zoom function to the mouse button? That would be terribly useful!
My biggest complaint with Apple's insistance on keeping with the one button mouse is that there isn't a nice, elegant, ergonomic multi-button mouse from Apple. I don't care if they call it the Apple Technical Mouse or what, I just wish there was one.
I always stayed away from Apple in the past for several reasons; a major one was the mouse. Being a recent switcher (last year, and no it had nothing to do with iPods) I can say that an interface that assumes that the user will only have one button is very well designed.
Since using a Mac with and without a multi-button mouse, I've seen many people, including otherwise competent ones, click wrong buttons on the PC. It makes me think that maybe Apple is really thinking about things instead of just being stubborn.
I've always thought they should call it the Ybox.
But with miniturization technology growing, it won't be long before we can fit a whole human brain inside a mouse skull.
Now excuse me, I have to go install a service pack.
Are you sure about this?
I'm a relatively new switcher and have only had my Mac hard lock up once despite the numerous trials I put it through.
That one time was when I started copying a very large file over WiFi and then tried to plug in ethernet to see if it would speed things up.
If you could show me some proof that this should work, I'd be willing to try it again.
Hmm... January 24, 1984 to January 24, 2005.
That Macintosh is old enough to drink.
Xbox 2 software rumored to cost $55 per game. That doesn't seem to be a price decrease from $50, now does it?
Yes, but that studio is Swinging Ape Studios. (warning flash) They already have a superb multi platform game called Metal Arms which is one of the best party games ever.
It's a budget price right now. Go pick it up!
[Cell technology] is a revolutionary step forwards in technology and until now, the most serious threat to x86.
OK, untill now it was the most serious threat to the x86. What is the most serious threat now that we have more information on Cell?
There's a reason why Sony put Memory Sticks in their devices. It's so that they can *gasp* sell more memory sticks.
Proprietary formats are the way of big business. "You've bought our system, now let us sell you accessories." Anyone who owns a console game system should be well familiar with this. Why can't I use the same memory card on my Gamecube and my PS2? Because they don't want you too. Why are all of the controller ports different and not just simple USB? This is especially glaring as the Xbox is standard USB with a funky plug. Manufactures make the big money selling add-ons or licensing fees from third partys who make add-ons.
Proprietary formats are there to create another license revenue stream for the manufacturer. It's not that OGG isn't popular, it's just that they don't control it. Sony has demonstrated that they would dump MP3 if they could. DRM is there not so that you don't pirate the media contents, but so that the format licensor can legally force it's usage and force payment for said usage.
The Pentium M, which is one third of the Centrino (the other two being the 855 chipset and the wireless LAN) is based off of the Pentium III. Tom's Hardware has an interesting write-up here.
If you want an odd analogy, try this:
Apple (well, IBM) has two processor varients: the G4 and G5. Intel had two processor varients as well: the Pentium 4 and the Itanium. Its an over simplification, but bear with me as it's about to get a whole lot more weird.
Imagine if the Itanium was so popular that it was selling enough to where dell was starting to use it in their budget machines. The only systems that were still using the P4 were the laptops and other ultra-condensed systems because the Itanium put out too much heat.
Let's say that Intel put's out the Centrino (Pentium M/Banias/whatever) in this environment. The public that's been demanding an Itanium laptop would tear it apart. There would be cries of "This is a step backwards!" and "I ain't using no P3 laptop in this day and age". It would take a marketing miracle to get this to sell.
Apple and IBM know that when people want a G5 laptop, you don't try to sell them a G3, even if it is a very advanced G3 that's better in many ways than your G4.
I'll believe that there are G5 PowerBooks when I see a damn "Free G5 PowerBooks!" ad-scam link in someone's sig.
Yes it does. It has: "ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of DDR SDRAM with AGP 4X support" ...which is almost certainly built onto the main board. Since the specs seem so comparible to the iBook, I'm even wondering if that isn't a Radeon Mobility.
You're probably thinking of an onboard display.
After reading TFA, I don't think that we will have G5 laptops anytime within the first half of this year.
/. so of course!
It states that sources close to the Taiwan manufacturer claim they will ship. Aren't these the same sources that have been promising a Tablet Macintosh?
It also states that there are the known heat problems, Apple saying it won't happen, and has a link to a more likely higher speed 90nm G4 (MPC7448) to be used in the newer models. This doesn't even factor in the fact that a G5 PowerBook would likely have been mentioned at the conference. It even suggests that the quoted source has made a typo!
Is this hype that we should be reading on the front page? It's
Not having a Mac Mini or Tiger to test with, I can answer with an unsubstantiated yes!
I've played every Blizzard game since their S&S days and WoW is the first of their games I've played exclusively on the Mac.
I also have to say that I wouldn't be playing it right now if it wasn't a Mac/PC hybrid game.
Way to go Blizzard! I certainly think it's worth the slight extra effort to bring games to a decent sized audience.
You really should be using lzip to back up your information.
It uses lossy compression (just like the compression found in popular MPEG and JPEG files) to get much better that the 2:1 average compression found in "standard" methods.
Play around with the options and you'll be amazed at the speed and power. Use it for all your backup needs and you'll never worry about your data again.
Let me guess, you would hook up your 10 year-old 14" SVGA monitor to it ?
Don't do this!
I connected a 1992 NEC Multisync to my 2004 Powerbook and the monitor never displayed anything ever again. It could be coincidence but needless to say, I'm a little gun shy when it comes to which monitors I use on the Mac now.
PS/2 HID will work with a USB adapter though.
I'll agree here with the software argument. When I buy a computer, I only factor in the price for bundled software that I would actually purchase. In the case of the Mac Mini, it's only Panther.
For solitaire on the Mac, I just used KPatience (kpat) which is available for a quick binary download through Fink Commander. It's a few more steps but I think it's one of the best solitaire programs out there.
There is a very functional MythTV frontend for OSX already.
Backend is another story but the frontend is working great. I think this would be great to sit underneath a Gamecube and just use a Bluetooth remote to operate it. Mmmmmm...
I tried to go to the site to read about the first broken link but alas, the link was broken.