Starcraft, like Sailor Moon, is eternal. I'd organize a gang of Starcraft fans to come round and talk some sense into you but we're really rather busy having a tournament at the moment.
I tried to test this Celine Dion CD to see if it would get stuck in my iMac, but then I discovered to my horror that I couldn't get the Starcraft CD out of the drive. Must... Quit... Game... and press... Eject... Muscles... not... responding...
graspee
P.S. This may have legal implications if my Starcraft CD starts downloading mp3s without my permission. (ha ha. sorry).
Yeah, but if you rip to.flac then you don't lose anything, so you could pirate and still see the face. With people using 700MB for a divx movie, sometimes even 1.4Gig, using 250MB for a.flac album is not really very much space...
It's "really too easy to make jokes" about these kinds of articles because they're a load of suit-speak, marketroid,b2b, p2p, xml BULLSHIT!
At the risk, nay the certainty! of being modded down, I will point out that it's "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters", not "News for Suits, Stuff people pretend to be interested in".
The phrase "bulletproof security" is used too often in my opinion; I'd like to see a OpenBSD server take a full clip of AP rounds at point blank range.
Other people's germs are just as cool as yours! In fact it's like Pokemon- you touch something someone else has touched and then your germs meet and do battle.
Actually, Tiny Personal Firewall is not like your crappy ZoneAlarm, BlackICE and what have you. Not only is it completely free for personal use, but it is very very good.
You should have checked it out before you went all testosterone with your sweeping manly generalizations.
I imagine Blizzard will be really pissed-off at their employees who run p2p software, because it makes Blizzard look like a bunch of hypocrites-
Blizzard: Ooooh, ohooh, naughty people are creating a server that's compatible with battle.net and allows pirate copies. Ooooh, points my finger at them I do!
Sony: Oi, Blizzard! What's all that ILLEGAL music doing in your company, eh?
Blizzard: I hit you, Mr. Sony! I hit you with Dvareks Staff of Limitless Power, damage + 99 ! (Lie down, you're dead!)
What proof do we have that this is true? It would be really funny if some individual got fired from the company and just wanted to get even.
Some other post above questioned if this whole story was a troll, and I agree- be cautious. None of the patents on the web site seem to be in anyway as general as the story suggests (As someone already pointed out).
I am just saying- find out the truth before you go postal on their ass.
Well someone might want to write a flash program that allows you to upload pictures of yourself, or sound clips.
Honestly, if you're this paranoid you should be more concerned that your OS has control of your camera and microphone, since your OS was written by Microsoft!
When Defender came out, people complained that it had too many buttons. In fact, one good thing about today's games, especially if you grew up with video games, is that the days of needing ultra-fast reactions are gone.
Also, be careful not to confuse the complexity of the interface (like how many buttons there are and what they do) with the complexity of the game.
For example, DropShip (PS2) has a fairly complex interface but the game is simple, compared to the board game "Go" which has a very simple interface but which is notoriously difficult to master.
I would say that it's the other way round, tetris is like crack, just addictive, whereas a good FPS is like coke: not only addictive, but makes you feel like a God.
Ah but today is always a lot scarier than most people believe; most of the scariest facts come out years and years later, so you can take the stuff we know about today and multiple its scaryness factor by about 4...
Just a note that Starcraft + Brood War only costs 10 pounds here in the uk, which is really really cheap for such a classic game. Not only that, but you get a dual cd that contains the pc and mac versions of the game.
Even people on unemployment benefit can afford to play Starcraft, although 10 pounds will reprensent more to them than to the employed (1/5th of a week's money).
Your idea of cool is not my idea of cool. My idea of cool is writing a compiler. Everyone knows there are some really really stupid horrible people who get regular sex. Why should I be impressed by that?
Isn't our society now advanced enough that we can look beyond our genetic programming ?
Yes, I would like sex, but I don't think that the effort I'd have to put in (hanging out at social type places, pretending to be interested in inane crap etc) would be worth it, and I also don't have the time to devote to even the most casual of relationships, so it wouldn't be fair to my partner.
Therefore I remain "celibate" (in the modern sense), semi-by choice, and use masturbation to ease any sexual frustration I feel.
Any way, last time I tried to have sex with a woman I couldn't get it up.
Do you feel that this information is "JUST NOT COOL" ? Does it embarass you ? I don't even feel that this is an admission, because there's nothing wrong with it.
Maybe you're not comfortable with yourself, but I am. I may be awkward in certain social situations, but in my head all is tranquil and at peace. I am happy.
I could make more "admissions" but I feel they would embarass other slashdot readers, so I will spare them rather than me the experience.
You might want to rethink your attitude, Anonymous Coward. I am unemployed because my company went tits up. I wrote good code, and I took the job because a friend of mine was a Director at the company. I worked there for 2 years and then, through no fault of mine, the company went under and I became unemployed.
Other people are writing bad code for companies they should have known better than to join, yet they are still drawing a salary, while I struggle to get enough contracts to pay my bills.
I am not some yuppie html coder with no skill who joined a dot bomb, I am a skilled coder who writes interpreters and compilers amongst other things.
I could have come back with a much more ascerbic post than this, and I believe you would have deserved it, but there is too much hate on here anyway, so I tried to be rational. To be honest, I only replied to maybe make you think about your opinions a bit.
And of course the whole wanting the end result to be open-source but you getting paid your fee is so totally a "have your cake and eat it" situation, that words escape me...
Slashdot Mirror
"Yeah, except a building that fails to survive a 5.2 earthquake is likely a termite-infested tool shed that was held together with scotch tape."
I use duct tape on my termite-infested shed- no problems.
graspee
Some reputable people have said the same thing.
graspee
Starcraft, like Sailor Moon, is eternal. I'd organize a gang of Starcraft fans to come round and talk some sense into you but we're really rather busy having a tournament at the moment.
graspee
I tried to test this Celine Dion CD to see if it would get stuck in my iMac, but then I discovered to my horror that I couldn't get the Starcraft CD out of the drive. Must ... Quit ... Game ... and press ... Eject ... Muscles ... not ... responding...
graspee
P.S. This may have legal implications if my Starcraft CD starts downloading mp3s without my permission. (ha ha. sorry).
Yeah, but if you rip to .flac then you don't lose anything, so you could pirate and still see the face. With people using 700MB for a divx movie, sometimes even 1.4Gig, using 250MB for a .flac album is not really very much space...
graspee
It's "really too easy to make jokes" about these kinds of articles because they're a load of suit-speak, marketroid,b2b, p2p, xml BULLSHIT!
At the risk, nay the certainty! of being modded down, I will point out that it's "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters", not "News for Suits, Stuff people pretend to be interested in".
graspee
The phrase "bulletproof security" is used too often in my opinion; I'd like to see a OpenBSD server take a full clip of AP rounds at point blank range.
;)
But maybe that's because I prefer FreeBSD
graspee
Other people's germs are just as cool as yours! In fact it's like Pokemon- you touch something someone else has touched and then your germs meet and do battle.
"E.coli 0157, I choose you!"
"Coli! Coli!"
graspee
Heheh, I wonder if the people running the p2p inside Blizzard were sticking the nightly builds of Warcraft 3 on it ?
graspee
Actually, Tiny Personal Firewall is not like your crappy ZoneAlarm, BlackICE and what have you. Not only is it completely free for personal use, but it is very very good.
You should have checked it out before you went all testosterone with your sweeping manly generalizations.
graspee
I imagine Blizzard will be really pissed-off at their employees who run p2p software, because it makes Blizzard look like a bunch of hypocrites-
Blizzard: Ooooh, ohooh, naughty people are creating a server that's compatible with battle.net and allows pirate copies. Ooooh, points my finger at them I do!
Sony: Oi, Blizzard! What's all that ILLEGAL music doing in your company, eh?
Blizzard: I hit you, Mr. Sony! I hit you with Dvareks Staff of Limitless Power, damage + 99 ! (Lie down, you're dead!)
graspee
What proof do we have that this is true? It would be really funny if some individual got fired from the company and just wanted to get even.
Some other post above questioned if this whole story was a troll, and I agree- be cautious. None of the patents on the web site seem to be in anyway as general as the story suggests (As someone already pointed out).
I am just saying- find out the truth before you go postal on their ass.
graspee
Well someone might want to write a flash program that allows you to upload pictures of yourself, or sound clips.
Honestly, if you're this paranoid you should be more concerned that your OS has control of your camera and microphone, since your OS was written by Microsoft!
graspee
"What does the "FM" mean when applied to Internet radio?"
"Funded by money".
Or maybe "Funded by Mummy".
graspee
I remember seeing this at the cinema last year, and thinking: "It had better have a lot of either codebreaking or Kate Winslet Naked".
Unfortunately, while codebreaking and Miss Winslet are present, neither is revealed in enough depth to be interesting.
The only thing that saved the film for me was the period detail.
graspee
Indeed, T and N are right next to each other on the Dvorak layout.
graspee
When Defender came out, people complained that it had too many buttons. In fact, one good thing about today's games, especially if you grew up with video games, is that the days of needing ultra-fast reactions are gone.
Also, be careful not to confuse the complexity of the interface (like how many buttons there are and what they do) with the complexity of the game.
For example, DropShip (PS2) has a fairly complex interface but the game is simple, compared to the board game "Go" which has a very simple interface but which is notoriously difficult to master.
graspee
I would say that it's the other way round, tetris is like crack, just addictive, whereas a good FPS is like coke: not only addictive, but makes you feel like a God.
graspee
If light did travel around the earth 7 times in a second would it go back in time (Star Trek) or would we go back in time (Superman) ?
graspee
They can't make it illegal to take out or destroy the chip without seriously changing the way things are sold.
Right now, if I buy a book I can quite happily rip the cover off and even re-bind it with all the pages in the wrong order if I want, it's my book.
Are we heading for a future where nothing is ever owned ?
This computer game is yours, but you aren't allowed to reverse-engineer it.
This book is yours but you're not allowed to tamper with its chip.
This movie is yours but you're not allowed to watch it in company, or more than once a month.
This CD is yours but if you want to put it on your mp3 player you have to pay again.
This TV programme is being beamed at you, but if you watch it you have to watch all of it, including the adverts.
Do you see how close we are ?
graspee
Ah but today is always a lot scarier than most people believe; most of the scariest facts come out years and years later, so you can take the stuff we know about today and multiple its scaryness factor by about 4...
graspee
Just a note that Starcraft + Brood War only costs 10 pounds here in the uk, which is really really cheap for such a classic game. Not only that, but you get a dual cd that contains the pc and mac versions of the game.
Even people on unemployment benefit can afford to play Starcraft, although 10 pounds will reprensent more to them than to the employed (1/5th of a week's money).
graspee
Your idea of cool is not my idea of cool. My idea of cool is writing a compiler. Everyone knows there are some really really stupid horrible people who get regular sex. Why should I be impressed by that?
Isn't our society now advanced enough that we can look beyond our genetic programming ?
Yes, I would like sex, but I don't think that the effort I'd have to put in (hanging out at social type places, pretending to be interested in inane crap etc) would be worth it, and I also don't have the time to devote to even the most casual of relationships, so it wouldn't be fair to my partner.
Therefore I remain "celibate" (in the modern sense), semi-by choice, and use masturbation to ease any sexual frustration I feel.
Any way, last time I tried to have sex with a woman I couldn't get it up.
Do you feel that this information is "JUST NOT COOL" ? Does it embarass you ? I don't even feel that this is an admission, because there's nothing wrong with it.
Maybe you're not comfortable with yourself, but I am. I may be awkward in certain social situations, but in my head all is tranquil and at peace. I am happy.
I could make more "admissions" but I feel they would embarass other slashdot readers, so I will spare them rather than me the experience.
graspee
You might want to rethink your attitude, Anonymous Coward. I am unemployed because my company went tits up. I wrote good code, and I took the job because a friend of mine was a Director at the company. I worked there for 2 years and then, through no fault of mine, the company went under and I became unemployed.
Other people are writing bad code for companies they should have known better than to join, yet they are still drawing a salary, while I struggle to get enough contracts to pay my bills.
I am not some yuppie html coder with no skill who joined a dot bomb, I am a skilled coder who writes interpreters and compilers amongst other things.
I could have come back with a much more ascerbic post than this, and I believe you would have deserved it, but there is too much hate on here anyway, so I tried to be rational. To be honest, I only replied to maybe make you think about your opinions a bit.
graspee
And of course the whole wanting the end result to be open-source but you getting paid your fee is so totally a "have your cake and eat it" situation, that words escape me...
graspee