Do you expect every retail venue to beta-test every product it's thinking about selling? If you take something back to Best Buy, they're just going to turn around and take it back to their distributor anyway.
The problem is, Windows doesn't have well-controlled sandboxes.
If Blizzard could get WoW to run completely isolated, inaccessible by any other processes or memory hooks, they'd do it, and the whole Warden point would be moot.
Different entirely. You're agreeing to play the game, and even paying explicitly. Read the EULA/ToU and you'll see the Warden outlined plain as day. The Warden doesn't even report back to Blizzard what it sees unless a match is found.
Blizzard asks "Do you see or." and Warden answers either yes or no.
If you want to use a public service analogy, a better fit would be "Do you want the Police to search the bags of everyone boarding an airplane to make sure noone's brought any bombs (hacks) onboard?" I think the answer would be a resounding freaking yes, and if you don't like it, don't fly.
I have all the time in the world to let a torrent run, though. The shows they're complaining about air once a week and without poisoning, take your average broadband user overnight to download. So it takes two days, big deal... that's still letting me watch at least one a week, and I'm paying for HBO as it is, I just can't watch it when it's on and don't want to spend the money on a PVR or deal with the VCR.
You try flying over nothing but sand for miles and see how close you end up when you get there. Smart bombs and missiles worked with landmarks initially.
If the most you can ever be punished for theft is the cost of whatever you stole, everyone would be trying to steal everything, since the worst that could happen is they just pay for the crap like they would've in the first place.
A significantly higher fine or punitive charge, and I'd argue for everything above the legal fees going to the government instead of the company bringing suit, serves to show that if you steal and get caught you're going to pay more heavily than if you just went up to the register in the first place.
Let's not be petty now. If you have a game that's got all of the server-side code on the client (Diablo II, Warcraft III, Starcraft), of course it's going to be hackable like this. Every single player game in existence has trainers/hacks/whatever. MMOs are a completely different ballgame in that there's a expansive swath of code the players never get to process on their PC let alone attempt to disassemble.
I'd say they picked a stupid way to advertise then. Going after music sharers the way they have certainly gives them the jackbooted thug image in my eyes.
Actually, if you do have confederate currency, chances are a collector would be willing to pay some ridiculous amount of money for that. I'd advise against sending it to SCO.
In case you didn't get the joke, it's from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance.
Each battle has certain laws, like "no swords" or "no fire spells" or what have you, and there are anti-law cards you can play to nullify those laws. Hence, why it's so funny...
If actually believe that the United States wouldn't back out of that treaty without a second thought if there was a realistic chance of establishing a permanent base on either the Moon or Mars, then I have a hundred-acre plot of prime lunar real-estate to sell you.
Despite the lack of good programming on cable, we have cable simply because it's only slightly more expensive (read 15$ a month) to have the cable and cable internet service than to just get cable internet service.
Or like most people I know, have all of the numbers stored in a cellular phone and don't know any of the numbers that actually go to the people they call.
Yea, my University has one of those too. It's simple to set up, recognizes a lot of different traffic types by packet analysis, and prioritizes depending on the administrator's selections. We had the same situation. Out of 15Mbps of throughput, close to 10 of that was from P2P. After Packeteer, it's down to around 3Mbps of p2p.
Riiiight. Keep on believing that. We're going to pay for "R&D" costs from companies making these products whether the government developed it or not. Prices are going to be outrageous when this stuff starts to hit the market regardless of how it was developed.
Actually... I buy from the web because it's wholesale and significantly cheaper. A few dollars in sales tax isn't a big deal, as long as I can still pick up stuff wholesale.
Problem is, you can't message all of those services without having an account on each of those services. With this new AOL, you can message ICQ users without having to go register for an ICQ number.
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Do you expect every retail venue to beta-test every product it's thinking about selling? If you take something back to Best Buy, they're just going to turn around and take it back to their distributor anyway.
Do we really need either OS to pick a bunch of names off a ballot and do a sum() on the results? I doubt we even need it to be multithreaded.
I would mod this down if I had points. You're just as bad as Pat Robertson.
The problem is, Windows doesn't have well-controlled sandboxes. If Blizzard could get WoW to run completely isolated, inaccessible by any other processes or memory hooks, they'd do it, and the whole Warden point would be moot.
Different entirely. You're agreeing to play the game, and even paying explicitly. Read the EULA/ToU and you'll see the Warden outlined plain as day. The Warden doesn't even report back to Blizzard what it sees unless a match is found. Blizzard asks "Do you see or ." and Warden answers either yes or no.
If you want to use a public service analogy, a better fit would be "Do you want the Police to search the bags of everyone boarding an airplane to make sure noone's brought any bombs (hacks) onboard?" I think the answer would be a resounding freaking yes, and if you don't like it, don't fly.
I have all the time in the world to let a torrent run, though. The shows they're complaining about air once a week and without poisoning, take your average broadband user overnight to download. So it takes two days, big deal... that's still letting me watch at least one a week, and I'm paying for HBO as it is, I just can't watch it when it's on and don't want to spend the money on a PVR or deal with the VCR.
Even going 5mph over in the states is likely to cost you 100-150$.
You try flying over nothing but sand for miles and see how close you end up when you get there. Smart bombs and missiles worked with landmarks initially.
If the most you can ever be punished for theft is the cost of whatever you stole, everyone would be trying to steal everything, since the worst that could happen is they just pay for the crap like they would've in the first place. A significantly higher fine or punitive charge, and I'd argue for everything above the legal fees going to the government instead of the company bringing suit, serves to show that if you steal and get caught you're going to pay more heavily than if you just went up to the register in the first place.
Wouldn't it technically be an animate object?
Let's not be petty now. If you have a game that's got all of the server-side code on the client (Diablo II, Warcraft III, Starcraft), of course it's going to be hackable like this. Every single player game in existence has trainers/hacks/whatever. MMOs are a completely different ballgame in that there's a expansive swath of code the players never get to process on their PC let alone attempt to disassemble.
I'd say they picked a stupid way to advertise then. Going after music sharers the way they have certainly gives them the jackbooted thug image in my eyes.
Thanks for reminding me.... I just checked, but there's no new Strongbad this week.
Actually, if you do have confederate currency, chances are a collector would be willing to pay some ridiculous amount of money for that. I'd advise against sending it to SCO.
If there's an earthquake or hurricane, the power lines will probably not be conducting electricity, so amateur radio would still work.
In case you didn't get the joke, it's from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. Each battle has certain laws, like "no swords" or "no fire spells" or what have you, and there are anti-law cards you can play to nullify those laws. Hence, why it's so funny...
If actually believe that the United States wouldn't back out of that treaty without a second thought if there was a realistic chance of establishing a permanent base on either the Moon or Mars, then I have a hundred-acre plot of prime lunar real-estate to sell you.
Despite the lack of good programming on cable, we have cable simply because it's only slightly more expensive (read 15$ a month) to have the cable and cable internet service than to just get cable internet service.
Or like most people I know, have all of the numbers stored in a cellular phone and don't know any of the numbers that actually go to the people they call.
Yea, my University has one of those too. It's simple to set up, recognizes a lot of different traffic types by packet analysis, and prioritizes depending on the administrator's selections. We had the same situation. Out of 15Mbps of throughput, close to 10 of that was from P2P. After Packeteer, it's down to around 3Mbps of p2p.
Riiiight. Keep on believing that. We're going to pay for "R&D" costs from companies making these products whether the government developed it or not. Prices are going to be outrageous when this stuff starts to hit the market regardless of how it was developed.
Keep in mind, most Gametesters are expected to fix code when the bugs aren't caused by gigantic problems.
Actually... I buy from the web because it's wholesale and significantly cheaper. A few dollars in sales tax isn't a big deal, as long as I can still pick up stuff wholesale.
With the Xbox, that shouldn't even be an argument. They've got an 8(10) gig harddrive in it. They can patch it.
Problem is, you can't message all of those services without having an account on each of those services. With this new AOL, you can message ICQ users without having to go register for an ICQ number.