I have maybe an hour to play each day at most. And Blizzard has specifically designed this game to be played by people who don't have that much time to devote to it. For example, the more time your character spends logged out and resting at an inn, the longer the amount of time that character will receive 200% of the normal XP given by quests, discoveries, and monsters. So I'm going to have to disagree with your argument.
Because of how they've balanced the game, I've managed to get to my 24th level already with as little as I've been playing. Sure, there are people that are already at level 40, but it's not a grind, and it's fun.
Besides, I feel my opinion is just as legitimate as yours given that i'm no "kid" either at my age.
And before you use the old fart argument, my guild leader is 55 years old. I'm only level 24, and he's level 41 even though we've both been playing since day one.
I am so wonderfully happy to hear this. Like any game, people should have to earn their rank and position.
I don't have any problem with someone using the in-game auction houses to get items, and I think this will help foster a much better sense of community.
b) That's an OEM copy without any support, and it must be purchased with hardware which means you're not including the additional cost of hardware that has to be purchased
Probably because of Theo's purist License attitudes that have caused them to decide to do things like stop distributing/supporting newer versions of Apache because of the 1.1 License changes...
For me personally, it's because it's very user un-friendly.
While there is a ton of documentation, I shouldn't have to read a ton of documentation to setup a basic working desktop system.
But on OpenBSD, I have to do just that...
I've done my own Linux from Scratch system, used Gentoo, used RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 WS, Mandrake, Fedora, SuSE, Slackware and more, but I usually end up going back to my RHEL3 desktop, because for the most part everything works, and it takes less than a half hour to tweak everything exactly like I want it.
I think the article summary is somewhat misleading, the front page of the project claims that OpenCVS is a result of the ongoing security vulnerabilities in the existing CVS project, which has grown stagnant:
The OpenCVS project was started after discussions regarding the latest GNU CVS vulnerabilities that came out. Although CVS is widely used, its development has been mostly stagnant in the last years and many security issues have popped up, both in the implementation and in the mechanisms.
Of course, I'm not going to be stupid enough to deny that there is a great probablity that another unwritten motivating factor was to use a non-GPL licensed piece of software. But, I think time has proven that while OpenBSD may not be a very useable distribution from a common desktop end-user standpoint, a lot of very good portable, secure code has come out of the project. Since I have to continue to run CVS servers for some of the projects I host I look forward to a secure portable CVS server that I can be more confident in.
In other news, geeks who installed folding at home on school computers without authorisation also get sent to prison...
Seriously, not everyone in prison necessarily should be there.
And additionally, some people have committed crimes that I hardly consider worth incarceration.
My biggest problems with prison is that it's supposed to be a place where people are rehabilitated and prepared to rejoin society. But, anymore it's treated as a place to isolate and lockaway people, which only increases the chances of them never being able to return to be successful members of society.
Now before you go flaming me saying there's a lot of nasty people out there...
Yes, more than likely most of that people in prison are ones that should be.
But, I think making anything that's supposed to be a rehabilitation center into a living hell would only make people worse when they leave.
Balance is the key, what that balance is the people need to decide...
I'm not terribly impressed with all the "poor victims" so far that have posted on the forums.
Most of them are people that tried to use an illegtimate CD key or cracks, then bought the game when they couldn't get that to work, or felt guilty enough and bought it, and then got shut out of the game.
Gee, screw someone over, then try to play nice and they don't react nicely to you? Never saw that coming...
About the only legitimate post (obviously IMO) I've read there so far covers some of the interesting legal entanglements that come from Valve's EULA for Steam. Personally, I hope EULAs are abolished, or if not, that they would come back in a much simpler form.
I think it's absolutely ridiculous to expect anyone but a lawyer to have to read through and understand the pages and pages of legal drek that come with each new game. How can anyone in their right minds expect a person who isn't an expert in contract law to fully understand and comprehend all their rights with a EULA. Nevermind the questionable legality of EULAs to begin with. Of course one might argue that an expert in contract law already knows that EULAs can't be legally binding since they don't fulfill many of the basic qualifications of a legal contract, but since IANAL I digress...
The dusk thing is kinda funny. Apparently the developers did that because they wanted to make sure that people got to see the environment in something other than daylight (which apparently only lasts about 8 hours) according to an interview...
so that I could start with RPM, delete it and install Apt, and keep going (or vice versa)
The myth of APT continues...
Repeat after me:
APT IS NOT A LOW LEVEL PACKAGE MANAGER.
*dpkg*, and *rpm* are low level package management programs.
*apt* is merely a program (much like yum) that uses the underlying low level package management program to perform it's high level package management magic.
Why do you think apt on redhat isn't just apt? It's apt4rpm!
Why do you think Debian boxes ship with *dpkg*, because apt uses it!
Of course, the very idea of "terms and conditions of usage" violates the doctrine of First Sale.
Ah, but you see the wonderful thing about this is the fact that thanks to recent court decisions the doctrine of First Sale soon won't apply to Software at all. Then your argument means squat. Of course, with recent decisions that appears to be the case anyway...sadly.
Until, of course, NVidia goes out of business or just chooses to stop supporting your card. Then you can throw it out at the next kernel revision.
Same with the Radeon 9700 and above. So you're not winning any Brownie points with that attitude.
Some of us would rather use a somewhat "slower" card from a manufacturer that embraces the linux open source community and doesn't abuse the kernel's licensing.
Somewhat slower? It's not only slower, it's incapable of doing half the things the newest cards are! If you're a game developer, or a professional workstation user, those new features are necessary and right now only NVidia has the right drivers for that.
I'm a Radeon 9800 Pro owner myself, and I'm pretty ticked that they keep spouting that their support is equal to the proportion of the Linux market. Well, guess what, NVidia has been supporting the Linux folk a lot longer and when there was barely a market to begin with in comparison to now.
There's no code difference between these drivers and "the real thing". These are just drivers that have had registry tweaks and DLL mix and matching done.
Read/Search the forums on http://www.driverheaven.net/ or http://www.rage3d.com/ and you'll find people that do comparison benchmarks with those drivers and the Omega drivers http://www.omegacorner.com/.
The unlocking time has nothing to do with the Steam servers from what I can tell, and everything to do with your PC. The hard drive on my system and the CPU were both doing non stop 100% usage practically for the 25 minutes I had to wait. So, I wouldn't be so quick to blame it on Steam's "overloadedness" (probably not even a real word).
Their commercial offerings are a pain in the butt, the kernel they use is patched all over the place and they don't even offer support for normal Linux kernels.
That "patched" up kernel that incoveniences so much gives my servers rock-solid stability, better performance, and increased hardware support that "stock" kernels don't have. I have no need to use a stock kernel.
Waaah mommy, I'm a l33t gentoo user who needs to use 2.6.8.not-even-out-yet.1. This distribution is not for you, it is for people who want *support*. Their kernels are tested and approved so that the play well with a long line of independent software and hardware vendors. It is necessary that is 'so patched up'.
For all intents and purposes they are *not* a Linux distribution but a clever new way to achieve another vendor lock-in scenario.
Vendor "lock-in scenario"? Are you smoking crack? At last check the entire GPL'd source code was included. Doesn't sound like "vendor lock-in" to me.
Your post sounds like a "clever new way to" troll.
My *proffessional* experience with their products have been nothing short of disappointing,
And my company has nothing but glowing things to say about them. Every since we switched to RHEL (from a stock kernel and Slackware), our servers have stopped kernel panicing, our Apache processes no longer spin out of control for no apparent reason, and our SCSI RAID performance is way better. Additionally, Oracle actually supports RHEL as a certified platform.
all the advantages that Linux has, like flexibility and standardisation, RH has eliminated them one by one with their stringent support policies
This is FUD. Plain and simple. Where is the proof to backup your foundless claims?
and nothing less then time consuming and awkward ways of keeping machines updated.
Oh yes, logging into a website and hitting an update button to have it automatically update my servers is *so* painful.
Or for that matter just setting them up to automatically update themselves.
Seriously, lay down the crack pipe! All I have to do get the servers to update is register them with up2date, set them to automatically update in their profile and every once in a while when there's a kernel upgrade reboot them. Otherwise, I don't have to do jack to them!
They don't even guarantee API compatibility within major releases so I can't even update machines without testing the updates first.
Oh dear ! Someone call the news stations!
At last check *very* few companies, distributions, etc. claim any type of compatability between major releases. And honestly, since each release is supported five years, and your systems work you have no reason to upgrade. Besides, how can RHEL guarantee compatability between major versions when all of the 'standardised Linux components' you're so fond of spouting off about don't guarantee major compatability between their major revisions.
Come back when you actually have some real facts to backup your valueless claims.
Congratulations, we're much faster and if you read what I posted we started 5 years ago, well before Class::DBI existed (in the form we needed). Additionally, our framework provides hundreds of features and pieces of functionality I didn't list that Class::DBI doesn't provide.
And it's good for Students who run their own servers too, since you can get one of the various RHEL editions for $25 or $50 a year. Pretty good for an ultra stable codebase with prompt security updates and backports of necessary features for most hardware, etc.
So that explains why Red Hat libraries are old crap, and we can't compile anything unless we almost rebuild the entire OS from scratch.
I have yet to find anything I couldn't compile on RHEL 3 WS. Then again, I'm not some l33t gentoo dude who says 'OMG! 1.2.4.a.b.x.y.z of X application just came out! I gotta upgrade!'. I actually use my system for work (and useless slashdot posting:)). I don't need l33t library versions, I need something that I know will work even after I hit the big red update button.
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I have maybe an hour to play each day at most. And Blizzard has specifically designed this game to be played by people who don't have that much time to devote to it. For example, the more time your character spends logged out and resting at an inn, the longer the amount of time that character will receive 200% of the normal XP given by quests, discoveries, and monsters. So I'm going to have to disagree with your argument.
Because of how they've balanced the game, I've managed to get to my 24th level already with as little as I've been playing. Sure, there are people that are already at level 40, but it's not a grind, and it's fun.
Besides, I feel my opinion is just as legitimate as yours given that i'm no "kid" either at my age.
And before you use the old fart argument, my guild leader is 55 years old. I'm only level 24, and he's level 41 even though we've both been playing since day one.
I am so wonderfully happy to hear this. Like any game, people should have to earn their rank and position.
I don't have any problem with someone using the in-game auction houses to get items, and I think this will help foster a much better sense of community.
Oh, the horrible acting...
But, it had John Rhys Davies, that makes it good right?
Oh, and Mark Hamil too!
But, the worst line from an actor in this game:
"Disintegrate me, so I may join my comrades..."
*dies laughing*
Another great tutorial is the book called:
g
http://www.nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=pl
One of the few programming books I've purchased that I didn't feel like I got ripped off in purchasing.
Written by an Ex-Loki associated person John R. Hall
That's not really a valid comparison since:
a) It's the stripped down Home version
b) That's an OEM copy without any support, and it must be purchased with hardware which means you're not including the additional cost of hardware that has to be purchased
What happened? What do you mean? It's still with us:
http://www.kali.net/
Probably because of Theo's purist License attitudes that have caused them to decide to do things like stop distributing/supporting newer versions of Apache because of the 1.1 License changes...
For me personally, it's because it's very user un-friendly.
While there is a ton of documentation, I shouldn't have to read a ton of documentation to setup a basic working desktop system.
But on OpenBSD, I have to do just that...
I've done my own Linux from Scratch system, used Gentoo, used RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 WS, Mandrake, Fedora, SuSE, Slackware and more, but I usually end up going back to my RHEL3 desktop, because for the most part everything works, and it takes less than a half hour to tweak everything exactly like I want it.
I think the article summary is somewhat misleading, the front page of the project claims that OpenCVS is a result of the ongoing security vulnerabilities in the existing CVS project, which has grown stagnant:
The OpenCVS project was started after discussions regarding the latest GNU CVS vulnerabilities that came out. Although CVS is widely used, its development has been mostly stagnant in the last years and many security issues have popped up, both in the implementation and in the mechanisms.
Of course, I'm not going to be stupid enough to deny that there is a great probablity that another unwritten motivating factor was to use a non-GPL licensed piece of software. But, I think time has proven that while OpenBSD may not be a very useable distribution from a common desktop end-user standpoint, a lot of very good portable, secure code has come out of the project. Since I have to continue to run CVS servers for some of the projects I host I look forward to a secure portable CVS server that I can be more confident in.
In other news, geeks who installed folding at home on school computers without authorisation also get sent to prison...
Seriously, not everyone in prison necessarily should be there.
And additionally, some people have committed crimes that I hardly consider worth incarceration.
My biggest problems with prison is that it's supposed to be a place where people are rehabilitated and prepared to rejoin society. But, anymore it's treated as a place to isolate and lockaway people, which only increases the chances of them never being able to return to be successful members of society.
Now before you go flaming me saying there's a lot of nasty people out there...
Yes, more than likely most of that people in prison are ones that should be.
But, I think making anything that's supposed to be a rehabilitation center into a living hell would only make people worse when they leave.
Balance is the key, what that balance is the people need to decide...
I'm not terribly impressed with all the "poor victims" so far that have posted on the forums.
Most of them are people that tried to use an illegtimate CD key or cracks, then bought the game when they couldn't get that to work, or felt guilty enough and bought it, and then got shut out of the game.
Gee, screw someone over, then try to play nice and they don't react nicely to you? Never saw that coming...
About the only legitimate post (obviously IMO) I've read there so far covers some of the interesting legal entanglements that come from Valve's EULA for Steam. Personally, I hope EULAs are abolished, or if not, that they would come back in a much simpler form.
I think it's absolutely ridiculous to expect anyone but a lawyer to have to read through and understand the pages and pages of legal drek that come with each new game. How can anyone in their right minds expect a person who isn't an expert in contract law to fully understand and comprehend all their rights with a EULA. Nevermind the questionable legality of EULAs to begin with. Of course one might argue that an expert in contract law already knows that EULAs can't be legally binding since they don't fulfill many of the basic qualifications of a legal contract, but since IANAL I digress...
The dusk thing is kinda funny. Apparently the developers did that because they wanted to make sure that people got to see the environment in something other than daylight (which apparently only lasts about 8 hours) according to an interview...
ebuilds are scripts, not packages. Next.
so that I could start with RPM, delete it and install Apt, and keep going (or vice versa)
The myth of APT continues...
Repeat after me:
APT IS NOT A LOW LEVEL PACKAGE MANAGER.
*dpkg*, and *rpm* are low level package management programs.
*apt* is merely a program (much like yum) that uses the underlying low level package management program to perform it's high level package management magic.
Why do you think apt on redhat isn't just apt? It's apt4rpm!
Why do you think Debian boxes ship with *dpkg*, because apt uses it!
Of course, the very idea of "terms and conditions of usage" violates the doctrine of First Sale.
Ah, but you see the wonderful thing about this is the fact that thanks to recent court decisions the doctrine of First Sale soon won't apply to Software at all. Then your argument means squat. Of course, with recent decisions that appears to be the case anyway...sadly.
I don't think telekenetically really sounds right. Hrm, how about Portable Quantum Singularity Generator intstead?
Until, of course, NVidia goes out of business or just chooses to stop supporting your card. Then you can throw it out at the next kernel revision.
Same with the Radeon 9700 and above. So you're not winning any Brownie points with that attitude.
Some of us would rather use a somewhat "slower" card from a manufacturer that embraces the linux open source community and doesn't abuse the kernel's licensing.
Somewhat slower? It's not only slower, it's incapable of doing half the things the newest cards are! If you're a game developer, or a professional workstation user, those new features are necessary and right now only NVidia has the right drivers for that.
I'm a Radeon 9800 Pro owner myself, and I'm pretty ticked that they keep spouting that their support is equal to the proportion of the Linux market. Well, guess what, NVidia has been supporting the Linux folk a lot longer and when there was barely a market to begin with in comparison to now.
There's no code difference between these drivers and "the real thing". These are just drivers that have had registry tweaks and DLL mix and matching done.
Read/Search the forums on http://www.driverheaven.net/ or http://www.rage3d.com/ and you'll find people that do comparison benchmarks with those drivers and the Omega drivers http://www.omegacorner.com/.
The unlocking time has nothing to do with the Steam servers from what I can tell, and everything to do with your PC. The hard drive on my system and the CPU were both doing non stop 100% usage practically for the 25 minutes I had to wait. So, I wouldn't be so quick to blame it on Steam's "overloadedness" (probably not even a real word).
Their commercial offerings are a pain in the butt, the kernel they use is patched all over the place and they don't even offer support for normal Linux kernels.
That "patched" up kernel that incoveniences so much gives my servers rock-solid stability, better performance, and increased hardware support that "stock" kernels don't have. I have no need to use a stock kernel.
Waaah mommy, I'm a l33t gentoo user who needs to use 2.6.8.not-even-out-yet.1. This distribution is not for you, it is for people who want *support*. Their kernels are tested and approved so that the play well with a long line of independent software and hardware vendors. It is necessary that is 'so patched up'.
For all intents and purposes they are *not* a Linux distribution but a clever new way to achieve another vendor lock-in scenario.
Vendor "lock-in scenario"? Are you smoking crack? At last check the entire GPL'd source code was included. Doesn't sound like "vendor lock-in" to me.
Your post sounds like a "clever new way to" troll.
My *proffessional* experience with their products have been nothing short of disappointing,
And my company has nothing but glowing things to say about them. Every since we switched to RHEL (from a stock kernel and Slackware), our servers have stopped kernel panicing, our Apache processes no longer spin out of control for no apparent reason, and our SCSI RAID performance is way better. Additionally, Oracle actually supports RHEL as a certified platform.
all the advantages that Linux has, like flexibility and standardisation, RH has eliminated them one by one with their stringent support policies
This is FUD. Plain and simple. Where is the proof to backup your foundless claims?
and nothing less then time consuming and awkward ways of keeping machines updated.
Oh yes, logging into a website and hitting an update button to have it automatically update my servers is *so* painful.
Or for that matter just setting them up to automatically update themselves.
Seriously, lay down the crack pipe! All I have to do get the servers to update is register them with up2date, set them to automatically update in their profile and every once in a while when there's a kernel upgrade reboot them. Otherwise, I don't have to do jack to them!
They don't even guarantee API compatibility within major releases so I can't even update machines without testing the updates first.
Oh dear ! Someone call the news stations!
At last check *very* few companies, distributions, etc. claim any type of compatability between major releases. And honestly, since each release is supported five years, and your systems work you have no reason to upgrade. Besides, how can RHEL guarantee compatability between major versions when all of the 'standardised Linux components' you're so fond of spouting off about don't guarantee major compatability between their major revisions.
Come back when you actually have some real facts to backup your valueless claims.
Then Novell/SuSE must be just as clueless, because they're doing the same thing.
Listen up idiot publishers, give me original games or give me nothing at all!
I am sick of sequels!
I demand better and I will vote accordingly with my wallet.
Congratulations, we're much faster and if you read what I posted we started 5 years ago, well before Class::DBI existed (in the form we needed). Additionally, our framework provides hundreds of features and pieces of functionality I didn't list that Class::DBI doesn't provide.
And it's good for Students who run their own servers too, since you can get one of the various RHEL editions for $25 or $50 a year. Pretty good for an ultra stable codebase with prompt security updates and backports of necessary features for most hardware, etc.
So that explains why Red Hat libraries are old crap, and we can't compile anything unless we almost rebuild the entire OS from scratch.
:)). I don't need l33t library versions, I need something that I know will work even after I hit the big red update button.
I have yet to find anything I couldn't compile on RHEL 3 WS. Then again, I'm not some l33t gentoo dude who says 'OMG! 1.2.4.a.b.x.y.z of X application just came out! I gotta upgrade!'. I actually use my system for work (and useless slashdot posting
I should note before some people have a heart attack that the 300,000+ lines of code are split up over hundreds of Perl Module files... :)
The biggest number of lines any one file usually has is 5,000 or so. Most are around 2,000.