Sorry to disagree here, but the Pixar films are exactly that: Pixar's. The writing and production were not done by Disney, but Lassiter, Stanton, etc. Disney's part was mostly marketing and distribution. This was a major reason for the former fallout as Disney(i.e. Eisner) wanted way too big a cut given that they weren't really making the movie.
While I am in complete agreement that I don't want MS screwing around with _my_ windows boxes, I'm not sure I agree with the premise that people need to "have a working knowledge of their computer/operating system" or have their computer regularly maintained by someone else.
It seems to me that the ideal for the naive home user would be to have Windows be as effortless as a gaming console. Yes, I know that hardware variety makes this difficult, but imagine if the only problems you are likely to have are hardware failures (linux, anyone?:)) and the box is easy to use. This is what MS should be striving for, and the automagic updates seems to me to be a way to accomplish this.
It's a guilty pleasure, but I do like the diablos. As has been noted before, it is rogue on steroids, and about 20 (19?18? yes, that many) I used to love playing rogue on the vax running BSD.
At any rate, I played the expansion pack through all three difficulty levels, and on the very last monster I got a truly uber sword. Sold it yesterday for $185. It is so absurd, I just had to do it.
Oh yeah, back to the point. If you look, you'll see that the prices for items are going down, down, down. That is, with the exception of the v1.08 items that were nerfed with the 1.09 patch; some of those actually went up.
I think the D2 market for the higher priced items is pretty much saturated. The expansion pack has been out long enough that given the literally millions of games that have been played, there are only more and more of these uber items being traded around. At this point, almost everything is down to a few dollars, with a few hitting $15-20. A little bit further, and it will revert to the former currency of SOJs (Stones of Jordan,
which became the medium of exchange.)
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Sorry to disagree here, but the Pixar films are exactly that: Pixar's. The writing and production were not done by Disney, but Lassiter, Stanton, etc. Disney's part was mostly marketing and distribution. This was a major reason for the former fallout as Disney(i.e. Eisner) wanted way too big a cut given that they weren't really making the movie.
While I am in complete agreement that I don't want MS screwing around with _my_ windows boxes, I'm not sure I agree with the premise that people need to "have a working knowledge of their computer/operating system" or have their computer regularly maintained by someone else.
:)) and the box is easy to use. This is what MS should be striving for, and the automagic updates seems to me to be a way to accomplish this.
It seems to me that the ideal for the naive home user would be to have Windows be as effortless as a gaming console. Yes, I know that hardware variety makes this difficult, but imagine if the only problems you are likely to have are hardware failures (linux, anyone?
I know they sound wierd, but some of those things are actually fairly tasty.
As for my contribution: I have a can of smoked rattlesnake.
It's a guilty pleasure, but I do like the diablos. As has been noted before, it is rogue on steroids, and about 20 (19?18? yes, that many) I used to love playing rogue on the vax running BSD.
At any rate, I played the expansion pack through all three difficulty levels, and on the very last monster I got a truly uber sword. Sold it yesterday for $185. It is so absurd, I just had to do it.
Oh yeah, back to the point. If you look, you'll see that the prices for items are going down, down, down. That is, with the exception of the v1.08 items that were nerfed with the 1.09 patch; some of those actually went up.
I think the D2 market for the higher priced items is pretty much saturated. The expansion pack has been out long enough that given the literally millions of games that have been played, there are only more and more of these uber items being traded around. At this point, almost everything is down to a few dollars, with a few hitting $15-20. A little bit further, and it will revert to the former currency of SOJs (Stones of Jordan,
which became the medium of exchange.)
Didn't I read more than one place that big customers and OEM copies would be free of WPA?