Part of what the US is trying to force in most if not all of the *FTA partners, is for them to agree to your disfunctional patent system and IP protection.
So, suddenly because someone send a researcher to the rain forest, to learn how indigenous people used some plants, they suddenly have exclusives right to the product of those plants, and you pretend that even them (i.e. the people that have used the plants forever) have to pay royalties? Its kind of odd, dont you think?
If anyone has any rights to the medicinal application of the plant species, is the ones that have been using them for a long time, not the US that puts them into a plastic bottle and pattents it in your country (mostly because people can patent even a Turd shape over there).
So, you (i.e. US) pretend to receive royalties payments and have exclusive rights on something which has been used by indigenous people by years (probably decades or even more)?
Its funny as the US pretends respect from everyone without reciprocating.
Dont forget that most of the worldwide infrastructure of the network was payed by the rest of the world, not by the US. And that's more than pocket change.
Yes, and probably format C: (where C: is where the datafiles are) might also trash the database. Same as your case, I woudn't consider that a "misshap" that can crash the whole engine as the OP implied. I was wondering what was he thinking about...
I've worked a bunch with Oracle, and never found something like he implies that woudn't happen in any database. In fact, the crash recovery features in Oracle are pretty good, and I doubt the mysql or postgress include something as advanced.
Ok, install CD. How long can that take to Microsoft? A couple of days at most?
There are oodles of third party install CDs made by a lot of people, that are not even on MS. If they say they must work a lot to do it its plain bullshit talking, an excuse in order to take over other markets by using their monopoly as leverage, like they do all the time. I saw one install CD that didn't even have media player, messenger, or the new luna look and feel (lookup barely naked windows). And that was third party.
Most of the bundled shit is only that, bundled external shit, and takes no effort to unbundle, until they make the effort to integrate stuff into the OS JUST to make it "harder" to unbundle (see: MSIE) in order to have an excuse.
Except that IE usually has holes that allows remote access, run arbitrary code or access arbitrary files on your computer, instead of just crashing a window.
Do you check the monthly explorer/windows patches? Its scary.
There's an proggy around (done by the same guy that coded equip manager, I'm not able to find the program atm) that was able to extract the.torrent fromt he.exe file...
But yes, the idea is smart, but it wasn't implemented right.
The "I download Linux distros" argument was always a bit shaky, but Blizzard is a commercial company using a new technology and proving it's effectiveness each and every patch (every 5-6 weeks or so).
Bad example.
Lol I've been playing Wow since release last year, and 90% of the patches I just waited for a kind soul to mirror them. The Blizzard downloader sucks, their bittorrent implementation is a piece of shit and totally useless. And its not a firewall problem or whatever, its just that people wont seed the patches.
I know I woudn't. Why should I? I wont hose up my connection so other people can download the patch.
I dont care about other players. I'm not getting paid.
Its not about effectiveness, its just them being some cheap assholes that dont want to properly host their own patches.
That was exactly what I was thinking about while reading the post. I didn't RTFA, but still, I wonder how many of those "unsuccessfull" projects with Linux comes from not getting a good Unix/Linux admin to set things up, unlike Windows NT that anyone can configure (unsecured and unstable, most likely).
Video games don't affect kids. If Pac Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms munching magic pills and listening to repetitive, electronic music.
He can always re-roll on a better server..
Well, I'm not a solo player, I have friends and a guild. I'm not interested in loosing that. The whole point of playing a MMORPG is the social part, otherwise I'd be playing another RPG solo.
Besides, reading the site, it's possibly they will re-enable the character moves (I had forgotten they turned it off weeks ago).
Try months. And only for some specific servers (2 or 3).And only for a week or two.
My point is, the guys had some serious planning problems with their infrastructure. They didn't plan for the initial rush. Then they didn't plan for faction balance. They cant support the kind of population that their own community creates.
It's not blizzard's fault that you missed the transfer window for your server.
Its blizzard's fault that there wasn't any on the server (Proudmoore).
And...1 hour queue??? WTF is that? 15 minutes is an eternity. If I load the game to play it, I dont want to wait 15 minutes, much less an hour, to be able to. And its worst when you are doing something, like an instance, and get dropped for some random reason (it happens). No comming back to the group.
I'm not saying this game is worse of AO, as I never played it. I was saying that its far from perfect.
The fact that there are/have been crappier games out there is no excuse to make a crappy game:).
Okay, I play on Arthas. High-pop, but one of the more balanced in numbers.
Is it PvP? Because those tend to be the better balanced ones.
Here, I don't know what you're talking about, honestly. I get mail in two or three seconds during primetime. I actually haven't seen AH lag for months.
Lucky for you. I see it a lot in Proudmoore.
Mid-high pop, you say? I don't think so. Last time I saw a queue was in November.
Well, Proudmoore might be one of the higher population ones.
That shows that you are a bit out of the loop, either because you are very low level or only play from time to time.
For instance:
Considering in games like EQ where you had to schedule end-game raid with "uber guilds" who basically controlled the high-end dungeons...
There are two world bosses that spawn once a week and usualy are owned by the uberguilds on each server. Molten Core and Onyxia requires Uber Guild tactics and dedication to get to and beat. All of this is the current end game (which in Wow comes fast as the leveling is so easy).
or farmers who ruin economies in Final Fantasy Online (and who are TRYING in WoW)...
Most "farmable" world zones are owned by the farmers atm. The prices in the Auction House are inflated by them. Doesn't that qualify as ruining the economy?
or totally UNPLAYABLE launches like Anarchy Online...
Every new patch the game becomes more and more laggy. I'm playing on a mid-high population server , and I just dont go to Ironforge to avoid the lag. The mail everywhere takes like 10 seconds to open, and like 10-20 seconds to detach an item. Trying to use the AH is almost pointless and require a lot of patience.
There are queues for everything. Battlegrounds have 6-8 hours queue for alliance (Blizzard said that all servers were balanced, bullshit). On weekends I have 10-15 minutes of queue to join the server. If I happen to disconnect for any reason, I have at least that wait. They dont give me the oportunity to move to a lower population server, and I'm not going to start a 3rd char to 60.
I agree the game's nice...but their infrastructure kinda sucks. And their customer service its a crap.
Well, I dont know if this post is actually joking (hell, it was moderated as Funny) but I dont agree with most of what you say (except the buttscratching part:). It comes down to the Usual Ganker vs Carebear approach (PvP vs PvE approach if you prefer). I'm a hardcore player (as in, I invest a shitload of time leveling my char and aquiring gear). Still, I'm not interested in:
1. Having to camp a spawn of a rare mob I need. Its retarded to have someone waste hours on end waiting for a spawn. I'm not interested in racing, and much less making a rotation to see who kill the mobs first and who doesn't. 2. Being killed by a higher level that's running around farming noobies (mandatory PvP, worse if he could loot my very-hard-earned gear). 3. Timesinks (as in running during 25 minutes seeing the same tree pass by 500 times). I agree that autoteleport everywhere kills immersion, but 15 minutes/20 minutes of load screens is no good either (Going to make myself some coffe also kills immersion). I think that WoW made the right approach making 2 rulesets on different servers: Mandatory PvP and Voluntary PvP. What they did do wrong, is adding EQ-style non-instanced raid bosses to please the old EQers, and some flight paths, even if they help the perception of a "big" world, sometimes is a bit excesive.
Except, I bet (not 100% sure) that OSx, KDE and Gnome are coded in a way that's easy to replace their current browser and its not dependant on a particular product, it only requires it to follow some standard.
Probably Windows does that too, except that the standard is secret and cannot be used by anyone else except them (and now perhaps Sun?).
I dont want to get into the Whiner vs. Fanboys war that the WoW forums became, but the game is far from smooth. They are having weekly crashes of at least a couple of hours (last night was like 6 or 8 hours), almost no feedback to the comunity (except for some "servers are down, we are working, no ETA"), some classes have bugs since beta(like vanish in rogues, blink on mages) and a long etc.
Sure, the game is still fun, but its far from perfect, and specially not well administered. Each routine projected downtime usually doubles or triples the estimated downtime, there's a lot of unplaned downtime, server crashes, login server crashes (everything goes down), etc.
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Part of what the US is trying to force in most if not all of the *FTA partners, is for them to agree to your disfunctional patent system and IP protection.
So, suddenly because someone send a researcher to the rain forest, to learn how indigenous people used some plants, they suddenly have exclusives right to the product of those plants, and you pretend that even them (i.e. the people that have used the plants forever) have to pay royalties? Its kind of odd, dont you think? If anyone has any rights to the medicinal application of the plant species, is the ones that have been using them for a long time, not the US that puts them into a plastic bottle and pattents it in your country (mostly because people can patent even a Turd shape over there).
So, you (i.e. US) pretend to receive royalties payments and have exclusive rights on something which has been used by indigenous people by years (probably decades or even more)?
Its funny as the US pretends respect from everyone without reciprocating.
Dont forget that most of the worldwide infrastructure of the network was payed by the rest of the world, not by the US. And that's more than pocket change.
Yes, and probably format C: (where C: is where the datafiles are) might also trash the database. Same as your case, I woudn't consider that a "misshap" that can crash the whole engine as the OP implied. I was wondering what was he thinking about...
I've worked a bunch with Oracle, and never found something like he implies that woudn't happen in any database. In fact, the crash recovery features in Oracle are pretty good, and I doubt the mysql or postgress include something as advanced.
Any misuse may halt entire db.
Lol Such as?
Ok, install CD. How long can that take to Microsoft? A couple of days at most? There are oodles of third party install CDs made by a lot of people, that are not even on MS. If they say they must work a lot to do it its plain bullshit talking, an excuse in order to take over other markets by using their monopoly as leverage, like they do all the time. I saw one install CD that didn't even have media player, messenger, or the new luna look and feel (lookup barely naked windows). And that was third party.
Most of the bundled shit is only that, bundled external shit, and takes no effort to unbundle, until they make the effort to integrate stuff into the OS JUST to make it "harder" to unbundle (see: MSIE) in order to have an excuse.
as all of us software developers know, they can't just snap their fingers and have a customized version ready.
[cough] Bullshit [cough]
As we all users know, disabling and removing Windows messenger takes like 5 minutes.
Except that IE usually has holes that allows remote access, run arbitrary code or access arbitrary files on your computer, instead of just crashing a window. Do you check the monthly explorer/windows patches? Its scary.
There's an proggy around (done by the same guy that coded equip manager, I'm not able to find the program atm) that was able to extract the .torrent fromt he .exe file...
But yes, the idea is smart, but it wasn't implemented right.
Does anyone else remember of an old program called Babble that did something like this? :)
Just got this:
(00:15:51) gmail.com: The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!
That was exactly what I was thinking about while reading the post. I didn't RTFA, but still, I wonder how many of those "unsuccessfull" projects with Linux comes from not getting a good Unix/Linux admin to set things up, unlike Windows NT that anyone can configure (unsecured and unstable, most likely).
Hmn...all commercial software has a bunch of disclaimers on their license...good luck trying to sue Microsoft, for instance.
Video games don't affect kids. If Pac Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms munching magic pills and listening to repetitive, electronic music.
Well, he had his chance
Nope, I didn't.
He can always re-roll on a better server..
Well, I'm not a solo player, I have friends and a guild. I'm not interested in loosing that. The whole point of playing a MMORPG is the social part, otherwise I'd be playing another RPG solo.
Besides, reading the site, it's possibly they will re-enable the character moves (I had forgotten they turned it off weeks ago). Try months. And only for some specific servers (2 or 3).And only for a week or two.
My point is, the guys had some serious planning problems with their infrastructure. They didn't plan for the initial rush. Then they didn't plan for faction balance. They cant support the kind of population that their own community creates.
It's not blizzard's fault that you missed the transfer window for your server.
Its blizzard's fault that there wasn't any on the server (Proudmoore).
And...1 hour queue??? WTF is that? 15 minutes is an eternity. If I load the game to play it, I dont want to wait 15 minutes, much less an hour, to be able to. And its worst when you are doing something, like an instance, and get dropped for some random reason (it happens). No comming back to the group.
I'm not saying this game is worse of AO, as I never played it. I was saying that its far from perfect. :).
The fact that there are/have been crappier games out there is no excuse to make a crappy game
Okay, I play on Arthas. High-pop, but one of the more balanced in numbers.
Is it PvP? Because those tend to be the better balanced ones.
Here, I don't know what you're talking about, honestly. I get mail in two or three seconds during primetime. I actually haven't seen AH lag for months.
Lucky for you. I see it a lot in Proudmoore.
Mid-high pop, you say? I don't think so. Last time I saw a queue was in November.
Well, Proudmoore might be one of the higher population ones.
That shows that you are a bit out of the loop, either because you are very low level or only play from time to time.
For instance:
Considering in games like EQ where you had to schedule end-game raid with "uber guilds" who basically controlled the high-end dungeons...
There are two world bosses that spawn once a week and usualy are owned by the uberguilds on each server. Molten Core and Onyxia requires Uber Guild tactics and dedication to get to and beat. All of this is the current end game (which in Wow comes fast as the leveling is so easy).
or farmers who ruin economies in Final Fantasy Online (and who are TRYING in WoW)...
Most "farmable" world zones are owned by the farmers atm. The prices in the Auction House are inflated by them. Doesn't that qualify as ruining the economy?
or totally UNPLAYABLE launches like Anarchy Online...
Every new patch the game becomes more and more laggy. I'm playing on a mid-high population server , and I just dont go to Ironforge to avoid the lag. The mail everywhere takes like 10 seconds to open, and like 10-20 seconds to detach an item. Trying to use the AH is almost pointless and require a lot of patience.
There are queues for everything. Battlegrounds have 6-8 hours queue for alliance (Blizzard said that all servers were balanced, bullshit). On weekends I have 10-15 minutes of queue to join the server. If I happen to disconnect for any reason, I have at least that wait. They dont give me the oportunity to move to a lower population server, and I'm not going to start a 3rd char to 60.
I agree the game's nice...but their infrastructure kinda sucks. And their customer service its a crap.
Well, I dont know if this post is actually joking (hell, it was moderated as Funny) but I dont agree with most of what you say (except the buttscratching part :).
It comes down to the Usual Ganker vs Carebear approach (PvP vs PvE approach if you prefer).
I'm a hardcore player (as in, I invest a shitload of time leveling my char and aquiring gear). Still, I'm not interested in:
1. Having to camp a spawn of a rare mob I need. Its retarded to have someone waste hours on end waiting for a spawn. I'm not interested in racing, and much less making a rotation to see who kill the mobs first and who doesn't.
2. Being killed by a higher level that's running around farming noobies (mandatory PvP, worse if he could loot my very-hard-earned gear).
3. Timesinks (as in running during 25 minutes seeing the same tree pass by 500 times). I agree that autoteleport everywhere kills immersion, but 15 minutes/20 minutes of load screens is no good either (Going to make myself some coffe also kills immersion).
I think that WoW made the right approach making 2 rulesets on different servers: Mandatory PvP and Voluntary PvP. What they did do wrong, is adding EQ-style non-instanced raid bosses to please the old EQers, and some flight paths, even if they help the perception of a "big" world, sometimes is a bit excesive.
About replacing MS with Gecko: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm
Except, I bet (not 100% sure) that OSx, KDE and Gnome are coded in a way that's easy to replace their current browser and its not dependant on a particular product, it only requires it to follow some standard. Probably Windows does that too, except that the standard is secret and cannot be used by anyone else except them (and now perhaps Sun?).
I dont want to get into the Whiner vs. Fanboys war that the WoW forums became, but the game is far from smooth. They are having weekly crashes of at least a couple of hours (last night was like 6 or 8 hours), almost no feedback to the comunity (except for some "servers are down, we are working, no ETA"), some classes have bugs since beta(like vanish in rogues, blink on mages) and a long etc. Sure, the game is still fun, but its far from perfect, and specially not well administered. Each routine projected downtime usually doubles or triples the estimated downtime, there's a lot of unplaned downtime, server crashes, login server crashes (everything goes down), etc.