Simple fact - Mann is not a cyborg. Mann has merely chosen to alter his reality and make himself dependent on a crutch he doesn't need.
The fact that the rest of the world doesn't make it easy for him is no cause for complaint. It should be a wakeup call for him to take a long hard look at the "benefits" of tying yourself to so much equipment.
If he likes it so much he should get both kidneys removed so he quakifies for dialysis. Next on the web: Professor Mann's blood toxicity, updated in real time!
Adding graphics loses the point of the whole game. It's like when people started adding pictures to text adventures - they just didn't get it. As Infocom used to say, your imagination is the best graphics available.
I can imagine spending hours of my time every day trying to convince people that the sky is some other color than blue because I KNOW it to be so, but it's a scary thought. This is the situation RMS finds himself in. His reality is so far removed from most people's that he can never succeed but he is so passionate that he can never give up. Genius, and I acknowledge him to be a genius, is often accompanied by such detachment. Insanity (or delusions, or whatever you want to call it) is always tragic - but he IS boring as dirt.
Gee, it would be terrible if people angry about this turn of events decided to punish those responsible for the demise of ORBZ. It would be awful if IT administrators were forced to get off their fat asses and upgrade to the fixed version of Domino. It would be a sad state of affairs indeed if issues like this forced said IT administrators to abandon expensive, buggy solutions like Domino in favor of free alternatives for enterprise email.
This would seem like a good thing except that the 15K they might need to get rid of are not the ones who would leave volutarily - they're the people with other options who see the whole mess for what it is and don't want to get dragged down with the ship.
Fiorina has a bachelor's degree in medieval history and philosophy + a MBA. How the fuck can she run a company like HP? No wonder the stock continues to dive.
A useful safeguard would be a filter of a material that becomes opaque when heated just the right amount. If the laser stops, the filter material absorbs energy and becomes opaque.
What that material is I don't know, but it must exist.
Elite lives on - if you have a PDA there are three or four clones, a couple of them GREAT, right down to the 3D combat. When I did my knee on a snowboard trip a year ago, the Visor Prism with an elite-clone helped me forget about the snow.
Yes, but Charles must be congratulated. Although he had to resort to stating the fucking obvious, he did get his name on the front page of slashdot along with a link to his website.
Now what do you think this "article" was really about?
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The equivalent question involves a situation where a Samba server queries license keys but only windows exists - there are legitimate copies of windows and there are those that are copied. The copied ones won't work on the real Samba server - so yes, an alternative server allowing use of the copied CDs would be a tool to facilitate piracy. It's a circumvention device.
If you look at it the other way you would have a situation where bnetd decided to reverse engineer the protocol and ALSO write their own game. There would be no Blizzard involvement in the process at all other than having written the protocol - and they could probably still shut down bnetd if they wanted to, not having published or licensed it.
You're not going to argue that copy protection is a good thing are you?
Can you prove that the people who connect to bnetd servers have pirated copies, and can't play without bnetd?
Easy - count the number of legitmate WC3 beta CDs issued and the number of WC3 users - this is why Blizzard went after bnetd. It was tolerated up until the beta started being passed around on peer-peer networks. I took a look and found four or five sites hosting the.iso.
bnetd might have survived if they had just banned WC3 users.
No they are not. Microwaves can be dangerous to pacemakers. X-ray wavelength is shorter than the visible spectrum, while Microwaves are longer wavelength.
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bnetd won't be killed because it is Blizzard's product, it will be killed because it facilitates piracy of Blizzard's product. Blizzard could work with them to make authentication work but why should they? No advantage in it for Blizzard - and _that_ is how capitalism works. Blizzard don't have a monopoly, they just happen to be the most popular publisher in this genre. If they want to protect a monopoly why no suit over Icewind Dale, surely a Diablo-like game? The recent Command and Conquer: Generals preview stated that Westwood had considered a battle.net type arena for C&C at one stage. Anyone is free to do it, as long as they do it all.
Last year EA beta tested a Battletech RPG which used a very similar client/server setup - it didn't launch, but while it was up I played it. Not a squeak from anyone about monopolies or lawsuits then. The difference is that EA created a game and a server rather than being a parasite. The definition of parasite is something like "An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host". The shaky argument that bnetd is somehow helpful to Blizzard because it attracts new players is about the only reason not to call bnetd a parasite, pure and simple. They create nothing and offer no value - the idea that battle.net is never up and gamers are crying out for something that works is just wrong, I know I was able to waste way too many hours on Diablo II. bnetd is a tool for piracy, and all the high-minded arguments in this discussion can confuse the issue but not change that.
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Blizzard has a monopoly on online gaming? 'scuse me while I laugh...
Blizzard has a monopoly on their own products? Well, by definition...
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Blizzard deliberately withheld the information needed by the bnetd designers to do the authentication
BECAUSE they didn't want their encryption/authentication methods documented in the OPEN SOURCE bnetd project. Don't you realize that supplying even a binary auth module makes it trivial to reverse engineer, code and distribute the authentication mechanism? Hell, CSS was supposed to hard and looked what happened to that.
You stop working there and demand money the second time it happens to you. The first time I kept working, and wasn't paid for a couple of months. Luckily it was only salary and I didn't incur any expenses. In the end I was only out about $10,000. The lesson was worth at least that much.
Loyalty is all very well but you have to look out for yourself and your family.
Yes! Disney, RIAA and MPAA are all iredeemably wicked.
They are symbols of corporate abuse of power and show complete contempt for us as consumers. They regularly use their lobbyists in Washington to try to influence lawmakers to further restrict our rights to what we pay for. They wish "fair use" would just go away.
But they do make shiny things that CmdrTaco likes to buy.
"Sneaking", exactly. Which is what condemns it to remain an anonymous OS for embedded devices. It will never replace Windows on the desktop with that approach.
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RMS is a dictator - there is simply no room for disagreement.
He might be a benevolent one right now, but there is no such thing as a good dictator.
I'm right, but that won't matter here - what the hell, I didn't need that karma.
Simple fact - Mann is not a cyborg. Mann has merely chosen to alter his reality and make himself dependent on a crutch he doesn't need.
The fact that the rest of the world doesn't make it easy for him is no cause for complaint. It should be a wakeup call for him to take a long hard look at the "benefits" of tying yourself to so much equipment.
If he likes it so much he should get both kidneys removed so he quakifies for dialysis. Next on the web: Professor Mann's blood toxicity, updated in real time!
You've obviously never had wedding cake with almond icing :-(
Scroll of Recall? I think you were playing Angband. There is no Wishing Ring in unpatched Nethack.
Adding graphics loses the point of the whole game. It's like when people started adding pictures to text adventures - they just didn't get it. As Infocom used to say, your imagination is the best graphics available.
Or the best portable Nethack there is:
Nethack for Windows CE
If you currently have a Palm or a Psion and you're really a Nethack fan, this might be enough to make you switch. It's that good.
I can imagine spending hours of my time every day trying to convince people that the sky is some other color than blue because I KNOW it to be so, but it's a scary thought. This is the situation RMS finds himself in. His reality is so far removed from most people's that he can never succeed but he is so passionate that he can never give up. Genius, and I acknowledge him to be a genius, is often accompanied by such detachment. Insanity (or delusions, or whatever you want to call it) is always tragic - but he IS boring as dirt.
Who's going to be brave and buy one to see if it works with the DVIator and a GeForce card for x86?
Perhaps the medieval history part is useful when dealing with the serfs who are about to be laid off :-)
Gee, it would be terrible if people angry about this turn of events decided to punish those responsible for the demise of ORBZ. It would be awful if IT administrators were forced to get off their fat asses and upgrade to the fixed version of Domino. It would be a sad state of affairs indeed if issues like this forced said IT administrators to abandon expensive, buggy solutions like Domino in favor of free alternatives for enterprise email.
Just tragic!
This would seem like a good thing except that the 15K they might need to get rid of are not the ones who would leave volutarily - they're the people with other options who see the whole mess for what it is and don't want to get dragged down with the ship.
Fiorina has a bachelor's degree in medieval history and philosophy + a MBA. How the fuck can she run a company like HP? No wonder the stock continues to dive.
A useful safeguard would be a filter of a material that becomes opaque when heated just the right amount. If the laser stops, the filter material absorbs energy and becomes opaque.
What that material is I don't know, but it must exist.
Elite lives on - if you have a PDA there are three or four clones, a couple of them GREAT, right down to the 3D combat. When I did my knee on a snowboard trip a year ago, the Visor Prism with an elite-clone helped me forget about the snow.
Yes, but Charles must be congratulated. Although he had to resort to stating the fucking obvious, he did get his name on the front page of slashdot along with a link to his website.
Now what do you think this "article" was really about?
The equivalent question involves a situation where a Samba server queries license keys but only windows exists - there are legitimate copies of windows and there are those that are copied. The copied ones won't work on the real Samba server - so yes, an alternative server allowing use of the copied CDs would be a tool to facilitate piracy. It's a circumvention device.
.iso.
If you look at it the other way you would have a situation where bnetd decided to reverse engineer the protocol and ALSO write their own game. There would be no Blizzard involvement in the process at all other than having written the protocol - and they could probably still shut down bnetd if they wanted to, not having published or licensed it.
You're not going to argue that copy protection is a good thing are you?
Can you prove that the people who connect to bnetd servers have pirated copies, and can't play without bnetd?
Easy - count the number of legitmate WC3 beta CDs issued and the number of WC3 users - this is why Blizzard went after bnetd. It was tolerated up until the beta started being passed around on peer-peer networks. I took a look and found four or five sites hosting the
bnetd might have survived if they had just banned WC3 users.
No they are not. Microwaves can be dangerous to pacemakers. X-ray wavelength is shorter than the visible spectrum, while Microwaves are longer wavelength.
See here.
bnetd won't be killed because it is Blizzard's product, it will be killed because it facilitates piracy of Blizzard's product. Blizzard could work with them to make authentication work but why should they? No advantage in it for Blizzard - and _that_ is how capitalism works. Blizzard don't have a monopoly, they just happen to be the most popular publisher in this genre. If they want to protect a monopoly why no suit over Icewind Dale, surely a Diablo-like game? The recent Command and Conquer: Generals preview stated that Westwood had considered a battle.net type arena for C&C at one stage. Anyone is free to do it, as long as they do it all.
Last year EA beta tested a Battletech RPG which used a very similar client/server setup - it didn't launch, but while it was up I played it. Not a squeak from anyone about monopolies or lawsuits then. The difference is that EA created a game and a server rather than being a parasite. The definition of parasite is something like "An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host". The shaky argument that bnetd is somehow helpful to Blizzard because it attracts new players is about the only reason not to call bnetd a parasite, pure and simple. They create nothing and offer no value - the idea that battle.net is never up and gamers are crying out for something that works is just wrong, I know I was able to waste way too many hours on Diablo II. bnetd is a tool for piracy, and all the high-minded arguments in this discussion can confuse the issue but not change that.
Blizzard has a monopoly on online gaming? 'scuse me while I laugh...
Blizzard has a monopoly on their own products? Well, by definition...
Blizzard deliberately withheld the information needed by the bnetd designers to do the authentication
BECAUSE they didn't want their encryption/authentication methods documented in the OPEN SOURCE bnetd project. Don't you realize that supplying even a binary auth module makes it trivial to reverse engineer, code and distribute the authentication mechanism? Hell, CSS was supposed to hard and looked what happened to that.
Just think Village People:
D-M-C-A!
Cease and desist it's the
D-M-C-A-a!
You could wind up in jail
Never get out on bail
Have to steal just to pay the lawyer...
Geeks talking about recursion is a little bit like teenagers talking about sex.
The ones who don't get it seem to talk about it most.
That's a bit harsh, but in some circles this kind of attitude is known as "drinking the kool-aid".
You stop working there and demand money the second time it happens to you. The first time I kept working, and wasn't paid for a couple of months. Luckily it was only salary and I didn't incur any expenses. In the end I was only out about $10,000. The lesson was worth at least that much.
Loyalty is all very well but you have to look out for yourself and your family.
Yes! Disney, RIAA and MPAA are all iredeemably wicked.
They are symbols of corporate abuse of power and show complete contempt for us as consumers. They regularly use their lobbyists in Washington to try to influence lawmakers to further restrict our rights to what we pay for. They wish "fair use" would just go away.
But they do make shiny things that CmdrTaco likes to buy.
"Sneaking", exactly. Which is what condemns it to remain an anonymous OS for embedded devices. It will never replace Windows on the desktop with that approach.