No, people will not drop photoshop and paintshop pro for the gimp, but you have to realise that new people are coming into all this computer malarky every day. All it takes is enough people finding the gimp before they find a cracked copy of photoshop (Believe me, if i'd known about the gimp before i'd learnt how to use photoshop i'd never even consider pirating it) and it will become the dominant app (Though i realise photoshop will be very difficult to dislodge from corporate use)
The point is, once people only use apps that run on any platform, which is pretty likely to happen with successes like firefox and OO.o then the vendors trying to push that $12 pc out the door will start looking at that MS tax very hard indeed, so you won't need to uninstall windows or word or whatever, it won't even be on there by default.
Actually, i THINK yo may simply be able to edit one text file which determines where the realm list is downloaded from. This may, ofc, not work as with warcraft 3 the server list was checked by the exe and if it was changed you couldn't play. Why they'd allow the server list to be changed in the registry/ini file then lock it in the exe is beyond me, however, Why not just hard-code the servers into the exe?
I couldn't disagree with you more, All i want is a brief description of the problem and estimated downtime, so i can have an idea of what's going on for my own curiosity and an idea of when i should try again. The sort of information you are asking for can be pretty much deduced by logging on to a server. Is it down? yes, so they're most likely aware of it and working on a fix. Additionally, they posted no warning or reasoning why the queues were re-implimented yesterday, which kind of goes against your statement that they at least keep us even mildly well informed. The Customer Service Rep in charge of the forums had to get on the phone several times on her day off over a period of hours to even find out what was going on, before she could inform the public! Honestly, this kind of crap is inexcusable!
Priests get easier if you spec shadow at the start then re-spec later on, with shadow form and the armor spell almost always on my priest has the equivilent of about 1800 armor
.NET isn't being hyped any more cause they're doing a whole new programming framework in longhorn (Avalon?), which would kind of screw over anyone who spent too much time converting to.NET. Mebee MONO annoyed them enough to pull the pin? who can tell.
Heh, there is a LOT of work here, being able to move an object around in 3d space is bloody easy compared to, say, rendering a quake2 map file. If you think doing that much is the "Majority" of the work then you're on crack. If you can't even manage that, mebee you should not be looking for a programming language, just wait till someone makes a point and click tool to do this stuff in another 10 years
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Erm, If not for this unproven idea, there would be zero reason for anybody to even try to reduce pollution and waste. I mean seriously, i would assume the majority of people (This is personal experience, in Australia I have yet to meet anyone who doesn't think this way, America may be different) would believe that global warming is human caused, and how much has pollution been reduced?
There's a lot of networking stuff in there but i have no idea how efficient it is, it's not truly cross-platform(yet) supports "good graphics" without making you do all the grunt-work (You'll still need a good grasp of 3d maths, but i shouldn't have to tell you that) it's pretty powerful and i'm not sure to what extent it's oo, in older versions the answer was "Not very"
I only use javascript to add functionality, un-clutter interfaces and do client-side validations. Why should I have to put up with having to NEEDLESSLY remove functionality because of BUGGY IMPLIMENTATIONS.
Good point, but i think my origional argument remains valid, how many lusers will figure that out? Out of them how many could be bothered doing it? Myself i'm still running win2k so it's a moot point anyway.
EULA's have been enforced before, by blizzard against a company that was making 3rd party add-ons to starcraft (against the world editor EULA). Kinda sucks, but what you gonna do.
EULAs do have their uses, however, since you can slap them on software you release for free with a warning saying it my asplode your computer, use at your own risk and recieve some kind of legal buffer if some company decides that you broke their computers and need to be taken to task.
If you aren't willing to pay for something, then you should just live without it!
Good point, but i just don't want to.
Also, this new tech does actually have legitimate uses, stuff like allowing low bandwidth sites to host extremely popular torrent files, and i'm sure many others. I would suggest that there is no reason to be ignorant of things simply because they deal with things you disagree with.
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heh, when it's:
1. Pointless, because it doesn't work
2. Hassling legitimate customers more than pirates
So, i think it's fine to have online registration for multiplayer as in ut2k4 or WoW, cause it works and is hassle free (aside from the careful typing required, but that's being finicky). It's not fine to have CD checks or Online reg for single player games, since a pirate will have downloaded a cracked copy of the whole game and can install it and play hassle free, while I still have to get online to register (not a big hassle for me, i admit) or find the CDs (this i like a LOT less).
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Acclaim blew up because their games sucked ass. If everyone had to pay for their copy of BMX XXX i think they'd still pretty much be screwed.
There are a lot of jobs that can be done "too" well, Police Force
Exterminators
Telemarketing (hopefully)
Just off the top of my head. Seems unlikely that any of these are going out of business soon though, So i doubt IT positions are in any immidiate danger
How is that a troll? He's expressing his opinion, and as far as i can see he's not just going for a reaction. While I would say that once i get to do some PvP in this game I will *probably* disagree with him, it doesn't mean his post is a troll.
There was an example of a company who produced unlicensed add-ons to starcraft and possibly other games, Blizzard got em shut down via them violating the EULA for the world editor to sell the levels
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No, people will not drop photoshop and paintshop pro for the gimp, but you have to realise that new people are coming into all this computer malarky every day. All it takes is enough people finding the gimp before they find a cracked copy of photoshop (Believe me, if i'd known about the gimp before i'd learnt how to use photoshop i'd never even consider pirating it) and it will become the dominant app (Though i realise photoshop will be very difficult to dislodge from corporate use) The point is, once people only use apps that run on any platform, which is pretty likely to happen with successes like firefox and OO.o then the vendors trying to push that $12 pc out the door will start looking at that MS tax very hard indeed, so you won't need to uninstall windows or word or whatever, it won't even be on there by default.
Actually, i THINK yo may simply be able to edit one text file which determines where the realm list is downloaded from. This may, ofc, not work as with warcraft 3 the server list was checked by the exe and if it was changed you couldn't play. Why they'd allow the server list to be changed in the registry/ini file then lock it in the exe is beyond me, however, Why not just hard-code the servers into the exe?
I couldn't disagree with you more, All i want is a brief description of the problem and estimated downtime, so i can have an idea of what's going on for my own curiosity and an idea of when i should try again. The sort of information you are asking for can be pretty much deduced by logging on to a server. Is it down? yes, so they're most likely aware of it and working on a fix. Additionally, they posted no warning or reasoning why the queues were re-implimented yesterday, which kind of goes against your statement that they at least keep us even mildly well informed. The Customer Service Rep in charge of the forums had to get on the phone several times on her day off over a period of hours to even find out what was going on, before she could inform the public! Honestly, this kind of crap is inexcusable!
That code example is enough to put anyone off even considering it.
This is a By-The-Book troll people. Move along, nothing to see here
This is why open source projects succeed actually, if a great enough need arises, someone will do the port. Oh, it did. Oh, someone has.
Priests get easier if you spec shadow at the start then re-spec later on, with shadow form and the armor spell almost always on my priest has the equivilent of about 1800 armor
For anybody who misses bnetd, search around for pvpgn. Open Source software is seldom easy to kill.
.NET isn't being hyped any more cause they're doing a whole new programming framework in longhorn (Avalon?), which would kind of screw over anyone who spent too much time converting to .NET. Mebee MONO annoyed them enough to pull the pin? who can tell.
Jesus H. Christ. I can't believe you want that trilogy to be even LONGER. I wanted to shoot myself half way through the first movie.
Heh, there is a LOT of work here, being able to move an object around in 3d space is bloody easy compared to, say, rendering a quake2 map file. If you think doing that much is the "Majority" of the work then you're on crack. If you can't even manage that, mebee you should not be looking for a programming language, just wait till someone makes a point and click tool to do this stuff in another 10 years
Erm, If not for this unproven idea, there would be zero reason for anybody to even try to reduce pollution and waste. I mean seriously, i would assume the majority of people (This is personal experience, in Australia I have yet to meet anyone who doesn't think this way, America may be different) would believe that global warming is human caused, and how much has pollution been reduced?
There's a lot of networking stuff in there but i have no idea how efficient it is, it's not truly cross-platform(yet) supports "good graphics" without making you do all the grunt-work (You'll still need a good grasp of 3d maths, but i shouldn't have to tell you that) it's pretty powerful and i'm not sure to what extent it's oo, in older versions the answer was "Not very"
I only use javascript to add functionality, un-clutter interfaces and do client-side validations. Why should I have to put up with having to NEEDLESSLY remove functionality because of BUGGY IMPLIMENTATIONS.
Good point, but i think my origional argument remains valid, how many lusers will figure that out? Out of them how many could be bothered doing it? Myself i'm still running win2k so it's a moot point anyway.
it's very difficult to run a lot of programs (Mostly games) unless you are an admin, hence the admin user account.
Probably just there so they can lawyer you if you sniff it and write a popular article about how bad the software is, privacy wise.
EULA's have been enforced before, by blizzard against a company that was making 3rd party add-ons to starcraft (against the world editor EULA). Kinda sucks, but what you gonna do.
EULAs do have their uses, however, since you can slap them on software you release for free with a warning saying it my asplode your computer, use at your own risk and recieve some kind of legal buffer if some company decides that you broke their computers and need to be taken to task.
If you aren't willing to pay for something, then you should just live without it!
Good point, but i just don't want to.
Also, this new tech does actually have legitimate uses, stuff like allowing low bandwidth sites to host extremely popular torrent files, and i'm sure many others. I would suggest that there is no reason to be ignorant of things simply because they deal with things you disagree with.
heh, when it's:
1. Pointless, because it doesn't work
2. Hassling legitimate customers more than pirates
So, i think it's fine to have online registration for multiplayer as in ut2k4 or WoW, cause it works and is hassle free (aside from the careful typing required, but that's being finicky). It's not fine to have CD checks or Online reg for single player games, since a pirate will have downloaded a cracked copy of the whole game and can install it and play hassle free, while I still have to get online to register (not a big hassle for me, i admit) or find the CDs (this i like a LOT less).
Acclaim blew up because their games sucked ass. If everyone had to pay for their copy of BMX XXX i think they'd still pretty much be screwed.
There are a lot of jobs that can be done "too" well,
Police Force
Exterminators
Telemarketing (hopefully)
Just off the top of my head. Seems unlikely that any of these are going out of business soon though, So i doubt IT positions are in any immidiate danger
How is that a troll? He's expressing his opinion, and as far as i can see he's not just going for a reaction. While I would say that once i get to do some PvP in this game I will *probably* disagree with him, it doesn't mean his post is a troll.
There was an example of a company who produced unlicensed add-ons to starcraft and possibly other games, Blizzard got em shut down via them violating the EULA for the world editor to sell the levels