Just buy a Dell and pay an extra $350 for Complete Care warranty. You can do anything you want to it and get a new/refurbished one in it's place. That's way better then, say, dropping it and then having to hope it works right. It's good as long as the damage wasn't intentional (fibber) and you can recover all of the pieces.
I would pay up to $1 to watch a TV episode of my choosing without commercials. Hell they could sell year long subscriptions to the shows for half price. Sounds like a money maker. Everyone is so into using their credit card over the internet anyway.
I would have to say I'd rather download it than watch it streaming though. Streaming has too many complications.
The obvious reason Bliz is going after bnetd is because Warcraft 3 beta support. The interesting fact is that bnetd staff did not even add it themselves. The version of bnetd that works with Warcraft 3 beta was released by preople that modified the open source code.
Bliz did not help their own situation by releasing a beta cd that you can copy simply by zipping the contents and copying across a network. You don't even need a cd in the drive to run the thing.
At this point it doesn't even really matter because it is all so widely distributed that nothing will extinguish the beta hacking.
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Just buy a Dell and pay an extra $350 for Complete Care warranty. You can do anything you want to it and get a new/refurbished one in it's place. That's way better then, say, dropping it and then having to hope it works right. It's good as long as the damage wasn't intentional (fibber) and you can recover all of the pieces.
I would have to say I'd rather download it than watch it streaming though. Streaming has too many complications.
Bliz did not help their own situation by releasing a beta cd that you can copy simply by zipping the contents and copying across a network. You don't even need a cd in the drive to run the thing.
At this point it doesn't even really matter because it is all so widely distributed that nothing will extinguish the beta hacking.
http://www.clan519.com/creed/war3