I quit when pandas started roaming Azeroth. What was Bliz even thinking?
But after that I went to a private server to try older expansions and it was a lot of fun at first but the experience became altogether corrosive.
These days I really enjoy Path of Exile, but it would have no use for Curse apart from the wiki for reading content about the game.
Having a company thrive from curating game information frees up game developers to put their time in the game itself and leave the understanding of mechanics to a third party.
This is a double edged sword I think. It would be better for games companies to do it themselves, however the promotion of the game then also gets spearheaded by the third parties to drive their interests further.
If you use a game that has a lot of mods like World of Warcraft, Curse updates your mods when they release new patches and it's a pretty big hassle. However, if you run backdated mods then you can't necessarily configure Curse not to overwrite your old folders. It would have been pretty easy to write an ignore folder feature but Curse refused to bother when I was using it a long time ago.
Other than that, you pay a premium to have a nice forum avatar from what I can tell.
We have a lot of rabbits living around our neighborhood that have destroyed many trees and gardens.
They would probably chew this robot and attack the garden daily unless..... I wonder if the company will create a defensive mode for this? Strobe lights and water or air gun could blast animals breaking the perimeter?
Garibaldi was awesomely acted by Doyle and he will be missed. RIP. Too young to die at age 60.
Time to binge B5 for my respects. I would love to see a prequel called "B4", mostly because I like puns. Any remake would be able to examine closely the tropes of POV and "anyone can die" as they reimagine the series as a space epic. Game of Thrones in space is something that could potentially get a huge audience and would definitely be welcomed by all.
The companies in question have all failed to pay their taxes according to EU standards. EU won't allow American multinationals to operate tax free. Sorry, there are no free rides.
The US works with bribes. European countries are more likely to hold bribes against you. They will then triple the amount owed to make it hurt. (remember the number $1.5bn -- it will come up again)
Google is soon going to realize how giving them money will result in them wanting more money. They should just pay their taxes and leave it at that. Europe isn't going to ease off on Google. They are a cash cow and Europe is hungry for cash.
Tesla's coverage of these incidents is a smear campaign.
GM, Ford and Chrysler experienced hundreds of vehicle accidents in the same time span.
In 2014, there were 32,675 deaths by vehicle incident. Not one of those is getting the same attention as these Tesla reports. Why?
Because the media is in the pockets of Big Auto. Every day in 2014, there were almost 90 deaths in all the other car manufacturers vehicles. I'm counting only two accidents in Tesla vehicles. That's actually quite good!
"Autopilot is an assist feature that requires you to keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times," Tesla said. Advocates of the technology are stuck between praising its capabilities and its potential while also warning that it's not a substitute for being awake, alert, and watching the road.
I won't go too much further into this except to beg you to reconsider your argument. It's bad for video games overall because if what you argue is upheld, then all the gaming companies will code their games without any security at all. Why should they?
I mean, they can make more money later on suing, and keep a large portion of the community happy at one point or another, while generating all kinds of free press in the process.
Because the way Bliz does security these days is not anywhere near as strong as it should be.
To follow your analogy, it was as if Bliz had the front door wide open with a giant neon sign saying, "NO SECURITY, NO DOG, VALUABLE CHEDDAR INSIDE." And then they blame the mice for dashing in and dining out on it...
No I think there is a happy medium and Bliz simply isn't living up to the requirements of a gaming company.
They don't sue people who get caught duping items in wow. Why are they really suing this company? Something else is going on.
I don't think Germany would enforce a court decision from a foreign power that couldn't at least meet critical thinking requirements.
Germany will, like any sane country, see that this is nothing more than Blizzard trying to shift its responsibility for cheat prevention in its own games to a third party and by this logic every kid cheating could also be sued, which nobody would think is a good idea, right? Of course California won't see it that way because Bliz is their sweetheart, but Germany should really tell USA they do not meet the required legal standards for a suit against a German company.
Blizzard still doesn't have a right to sue. They have to pony up the cash to fix the exploit holes and they don't want to pay for it but it is a cost of doing business if you're a game developer.
I wouldn't buy a Blizzard game because they are cunts. They have a cheating problem because they refuse to design better anticheat systems. Blizzard shouldn't sue they should reverse eng the cheat programs and patch. Blizzard is a garbage company. Id Software should sue them for copying Quake 3... but they won't.
And this game has plenty of bugs that appear to be like cheats, giving players huge advantages, but are simply bugs and QC inadequacies.
tl;dr: Blizzard suing to draw attention away from how bad their game is... going to learn first hand about the Barbra Streisand Effect.
They have a right to police their servers. They have a right to prevent cheats from functioning. They have a right to ban players for using cheat systems.
They do NOT have a right to sue because it's their own responsibility to build software checks and balances that would prevent cheating but THEY ARE TOO TIGHTFISTED to do so. That would cost money. That would require hiring enough competent coders and paying beta testers a living wage.
Blizzard "Entertainment" lost my faith completely, long ago, since the Wrath of the Lich King WOW expansion. They are morons who are managed by people who hate gamers and want to break gamers down rather than offer something fun and enjoyable. The rule at Blizzard is that if something is fun, they must find a way to remove or break the fun. Fuck those guys.
I hope this company gets the court venue switch to somewhere neutral, because California will try and convict with prejudice, regardless of the law or moral inadequacy.
Driverless cars will be able to apply maneuvers to prevent incidents. Eventually these vehicles could go faster than 300mph in the city and avoid obstacles perfectly due to high speed reaction. The scenario postulated though is not possible once the tech advances because the car would be able to navigate through the potential of collision and with advanced anti-grav modules for passengers inside, they won't even spill their coffee or be anywhere near aware of what may have just happened.
Computers can drive exponentially better than flesh.
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I quit when pandas started roaming Azeroth. What was Bliz even thinking?
But after that I went to a private server to try older expansions and it was a lot of fun at first but the experience became altogether corrosive.
These days I really enjoy Path of Exile, but it would have no use for Curse apart from the wiki for reading content about the game.
Having a company thrive from curating game information frees up game developers to put their time in the game itself and leave the understanding of mechanics to a third party.
This is a double edged sword I think. It would be better for games companies to do it themselves, however the promotion of the game then also gets spearheaded by the third parties to drive their interests further.
If you use a game that has a lot of mods like World of Warcraft, Curse updates your mods when they release new patches and it's a pretty big hassle. However, if you run backdated mods then you can't necessarily configure Curse not to overwrite your old folders. It would have been pretty easy to write an ignore folder feature but Curse refused to bother when I was using it a long time ago.
Other than that, you pay a premium to have a nice forum avatar from what I can tell.
Cover your body with tinfoil so they can't find you!
We have a lot of rabbits living around our neighborhood that have destroyed many trees and gardens.
They would probably chew this robot and attack the garden daily unless..... I wonder if the company will create a defensive mode for this? Strobe lights and water or air gun could blast animals breaking the perimeter?
FarOutBot... 420-blaze-it (Coming Soon to Colorado and other legal-ish places)
Garibaldi was awesomely acted by Doyle and he will be missed. RIP. Too young to die at age 60.
Time to binge B5 for my respects. I would love to see a prequel called "B4", mostly because I like puns. Any remake would be able to examine closely the tropes of POV and "anyone can die" as they reimagine the series as a space epic. Game of Thrones in space is something that could potentially get a huge audience and would definitely be welcomed by all.
Finally truth in an ad revenue site valuation. The code ain't the value.
inb4 "he bought it on ebay" ;)
But this is awesome.
Prolific, savior of humanity.
The companies in question have all failed to pay their taxes according to EU standards. EU won't allow American multinationals to operate tax free. Sorry, there are no free rides.
The US works with bribes. European countries are more likely to hold bribes against you. They will then triple the amount owed to make it hurt. (remember the number $1.5bn -- it will come up again)
Google is soon going to realize how giving them money will result in them wanting more money. They should just pay their taxes and leave it at that. Europe isn't going to ease off on Google. They are a cash cow and Europe is hungry for cash.
Heh.
AC posting astroturf won't win you any prizes here.
I blame CmdrTaco for going AWOL.
Tesla's coverage of these incidents is a smear campaign.
GM, Ford and Chrysler experienced hundreds of vehicle accidents in the same time span.
In 2014, there were 32,675 deaths by vehicle incident. Not one of those is getting the same attention as these Tesla reports. Why?
Because the media is in the pockets of Big Auto. Every day in 2014, there were almost 90 deaths in all the other car manufacturers vehicles. I'm counting only two accidents in Tesla vehicles. That's actually quite good!
Next time you reply to someone, don't use a phrase like "troll blather". It makes you look like a frothy fanboy or a Blizzard intern.
I won't go too much further into this except to beg you to reconsider your argument. It's bad for video games overall because if what you argue is upheld, then all the gaming companies will code their games without any security at all. Why should they?
I mean, they can make more money later on suing, and keep a large portion of the community happy at one point or another, while generating all kinds of free press in the process.
Because the way Bliz does security these days is not anywhere near as strong as it should be.
To follow your analogy, it was as if Bliz had the front door wide open with a giant neon sign saying, "NO SECURITY, NO DOG, VALUABLE CHEDDAR INSIDE." And then they blame the mice for dashing in and dining out on it...
No I think there is a happy medium and Bliz simply isn't living up to the requirements of a gaming company.
They don't sue people who get caught duping items in wow. Why are they really suing this company? Something else is going on.
>Anyone can sue pretty much anyone.
This is true for American courts, but other countries won't allow bogus suits. This is a bogus suit.
I don't think Germany would enforce a court decision from a foreign power that couldn't at least meet critical thinking requirements.
Germany will, like any sane country, see that this is nothing more than Blizzard trying to shift its responsibility for cheat prevention in its own games to a third party and by this logic every kid cheating could also be sued, which nobody would think is a good idea, right? Of course California won't see it that way because Bliz is their sweetheart, but Germany should really tell USA they do not meet the required legal standards for a suit against a German company.
This is why the TPP is pretty scary though.
Blizzard still doesn't have a right to sue. They have to pony up the cash to fix the exploit holes and they don't want to pay for it but it is a cost of doing business if you're a game developer.
I wouldn't buy a Blizzard game because they are cunts. They have a cheating problem because they refuse to design better anticheat systems. Blizzard shouldn't sue they should reverse eng the cheat programs and patch. Blizzard is a garbage company. Id Software should sue them for copying Quake 3... but they won't.
And this game has plenty of bugs that appear to be like cheats, giving players huge advantages, but are simply bugs and QC inadequacies.
tl;dr: Blizzard suing to draw attention away from how bad their game is... going to learn first hand about the Barbra Streisand Effect.
They have a right to police their servers. They have a right to prevent cheats from functioning. They have a right to ban players for using cheat systems.
They do NOT have a right to sue because it's their own responsibility to build software checks and balances that would prevent cheating but THEY ARE TOO TIGHTFISTED to do so. That would cost money. That would require hiring enough competent coders and paying beta testers a living wage.
Blizzard "Entertainment" lost my faith completely, long ago, since the Wrath of the Lich King WOW expansion. They are morons who are managed by people who hate gamers and want to break gamers down rather than offer something fun and enjoyable. The rule at Blizzard is that if something is fun, they must find a way to remove or break the fun. Fuck those guys.
I hope this company gets the court venue switch to somewhere neutral, because California will try and convict with prejudice, regardless of the law or moral inadequacy.
Driverless cars will be able to apply maneuvers to prevent incidents. Eventually these vehicles could go faster than 300mph in the city and avoid obstacles perfectly due to high speed reaction. The scenario postulated though is not possible once the tech advances because the car would be able to navigate through the potential of collision and with advanced anti-grav modules for passengers inside, they won't even spill their coffee or be anywhere near aware of what may have just happened.
Computers can drive exponentially better than flesh.
At least with Linux you can wipe/reload without any expense or licensing hassle. Backup your data and you're good to go.
With Windows? Expect to have to buy a new computer for every new major update because that's the carrot or the stick policy engineered to fail.