As always, they're arguing that using another program or set of programs to circumvent the code that Blizz uses to try and stop people from using bots and other hacks violates the DMCA...And it's hard to see how they're wrong in that. The anti-virus argument is an over broad generalization; I don't know of any case where a virus actually modifies WoW binaries.
Agree with the DMCA or not, this is a "valid" use of it.
I think we should tear it down so future generations can imagine it to have been an amazing place, instead of just another chunk of disposable cinder block.
Seriously. While I'm all for preserving historic architecture this place is a fricking dump...It was a dump even when it was new, just the kind of place that you would expect to house a startup that was run by a crackpot who only hired kids straight outta college (because his former colleagues refused to work with him).
Tells you something about the place that during the 50s a bunch of kids right out of school were so fed up that they quit in a group after one year. Think how likely that would be today, and imagine what it would have been like back then, when you expected to stay with a company much longer.
I think there is an issue of scale...I mean, standing in George Washington's home, or standing on the Pyramids, contrasted with a dinky fruit stand that was really more like the building that housed the first failed startup (complete with hellish boss) that contained a group that moved on to do great things.
No one is superhuman, and I don't choose to walk around armed to the teeth against possible contingencies, so it's not impossible I could end up in a situation with my kid where there would be a definite "failure to protect"...That's the way it goes, and it could happen to anyone.
In that situation, I would hope that I would have taught my kid enough to get the hell out of the way while I did whatever I could, and not just stand there unable to comprehend that the world isn't the fluffy land that they've always been taught it was.
That's just reality, and while I'm not going to teach my kid reality by making them play violent video games (don't think it would work, among other issues), I'm going to make damn sure that they know that the world can be scary.
I used to browse at -1, but I got so fricking tired of the GNAA. Then I used to browse at 0, but the stupid ass ACs made my teeth hurt.
Now I browse at 0, with all ACs taking an automatic 3 point penalty...I switch to -1 when I'm modding, but for the rest of the time? If no one liked it well enough to get it up to 0, or if the damn AC isn't saying something pretty damn interesting, I don't want to hear it...I've got better things to do with my time than read through a bunch of uninteresting crap...though if you're a big fan of Digg, I understand why that's your thing.
Yes, but the don't go and fight in the real world.
I don't know about you, but I've never seen a nature show with baby animals where at least one of them didn't get eaten by something.
What you don't understand is, it's all the real world. We try and make things safe for our kids, but the real world can intrude at any time and there isn't much that we can do about it.
So don't feed 'em a line of crap. The best time to learn that the world is dangerous, is before you have to find out the hard way.
I agree with that kind of thing...It's more important to be able to work your way into the subject on a deep level, and understand the root of the method than to pick up a bunch of facts that'll vanish in a few years if you don't use 'em.
On some of the standard term paper questions, there is no way to treat it uniquely, and no point in exerting yourself to produce some masterpiece. The professor doesn't care. The student doesn't care. The TA who's going to be grading it doesn't care. Just bang out the same piece of tripe that has been banged out by generations before you.
Those things need to be rolled into written exams, and papers topics need to include less rote recitation of the "standard" argument, and more analysis.
Well, partly I think we need to shift our methods. It's less important these days to be able to generate an unimportant piece on a topic of little interest, than it is to be able to do some of the research...Test the students ability to find information, rather than make them generate relatively pointless information. Research skills are always important, and moreso these days because of how difficult it is becoming to separate good info from bad info.
Then follow up by increasing the number of tests in a class up from 2 a semester for most liberal arts classes in my experience, to 4 or 5. You won't see so much of an improvement in writing ability, unfortunately, but you should be able to accurately measure the students understanding and "motivate" them to learn the material, and if they're not writing the papers anyway, it's no loss.
So you're saying it won't be any different than it is now?
Heh. I think, once the system isn't controlled by the US, if ICANN gets up to it's usual tricks, there is the possibility of a competing system, and I think that competition will sort out the best one in that situation.
More on the line of, "These guys are being jerked around by their political masters, let's see what they do when they're off the leash." They may surprise us. They may underwhelm us...When they're not in the US, they'll have to take things brought up by the whole "rest of world" more seriously.
Yea, well some of us old farts don't like non-pvp servers either, go figure...Maybe it's because when the annoying 13 year old on the other side does something annoying, you can kill him.
Anyway, this is talking about Arena combat...That's available on all servers, not just pvp. Since people in non-pvp servers tend to have better gear, I would think that the non-pvp arena's would be more competitive in terms of equipment, though obviously less so in terms of skill.
I'd love to play me some pvp vs. pve arenas...show 'em how we do things downtown.
I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to political pressure, at this point. Hopefully becoming independent will straighten them out.
Otherwise, having them move once will already remove some of their current "whip hand" regarding policy...They'll be easier to replace when they're not being supported by the US.
Frankly, for one country to "control" ICANN, with what ICANN "controls" is foolish. Especially the States, with people who seem to think that the free exchange of ideas is their personal property, and that since we're the "good guys" we can screw with the free exchange of ideas, and it's okay.
Mind you, I wouldn't trust any other country more. Independence from national issues is pretty much the only solution.
I worked at place that tried to make me sign a non-compete, but the wording was so vague that it would have prevented me from doing an unrelated sideline that I was already doing, so they took it back to re-word it, and it conveniently vanished into the shuffle of paperwork.
Years later, when I left the company after a falling out with the management, and set up shop in the same town, they tried to sue me without making sure they had the paperwork.
Sure, I agree...I'm not saying that spec is completely unimportant (or if I did, it wasn't what I meant)...I'm just saying that the specs will be chosen for their roles...The holy priest grouped with the fury warrior, the subtlety rogue grouped with the prot warrior...They all have roles defined by their team setup, so in that sense, it doesn't matter, as long as it works with their team.
It does matter, that they don't do something stupid like spread their points evenly across all trees.
Obviously it's going to be about gear...I doubt spec will matter much at all...but there is an element of skill and strategery...A crappy player with top notch gear will have an advantage, but that can be overcome by a more skilled player with inferior gear. And frankly, at the top levels, all the people who are going to be competing are going to have top notch gear, so I don't forsee any disparities worse than what you already get sometimes...Anyone who's ever run up against a semi-pro WSG group knows what I'm talking about.
Not real sure about Arena teams though...I guess it's the only place where there is a codified rank system already in place.
Troll much? Companies only sponsor activities for one reason: to bring more attention to themselves.
This kind of thing is hugely popular in Asia, so if you sponsored an Arena team, you'd get decent publicity out of it, same as if you sponsored anything else that people give a damn about.
My thought would be, those damn Arena matches are so fricking short about 85% of the time, even if both sides are good...I mean chances are you've got rogue/lock v. rogue/lock, so it's just whoever's fear goes off first is going to win. Don't go get a soda because it's only going to last 30 seconds.
It's not so much that...One of the one's I found most interesting in the series was a kind of belt device that vibrated constantly on the side that faced magnetic north...Like having a dozen cellphones strapped to your belt, where whichever one is on the north side of your body vibrates.
A guy wore it for a year, iirc, and his body adapted to the new "sense" to such a degree that he had a little freak out break down when he removed it, and now walks around with a handheld gps all the time, to try and make up for the "sense" of direction he lost. He says he developed a kind of spacial sense, which gave him a firm sense of spacial orientation...he stopped getting lost...and just sort of knew little directional tidbits like "my house is in that direction" etc.
One of the most interesting things about the articles, is the thread that all our senses are capable of processing more data than we give them credit for...Another article talked about a limited visual sense that interfaced through the tongue, and worked almost without any training at all.
It's some cool stuff, and it definitely opens up some possibility for some interesting sensory "prosthesis" to give information that isn't processed by our natural senses.
He's from New Jersey...I don't know of a better way to explain it. Anyone who works as a prosecutor in that state is bound to be such a hardass, just to deal with the locals...You don't get it unless you live there, but there are a lot of verbally aggressive people in that state, and that sort of language isn't viewed the same way it is in the rest of the US, or the world for that matter.
Meh, it was always that way underneath...I mean, I lived there for years, long enough to actually see why it was called "The Garden State" which never made any sense to me when I didn't live there...But there was always this undercurrent of "You gotta f**kin problem?"
To be fair, that's mostly North Jersey, but, unfortunately, that's the face Jersey shows to the world, so it's not surprising that they think all the state is like that.
Here we can look at that and say, "Psssh, effing New Jersey" but in a lot of places in Europe they absolutely believe that we would fry this joker for a non-violent crime.
Just fricking typical of what passes for "diplomacy" out of the states these days. They should just make him do a stint hacking for the government to pay for some of the (grossly overinflated) damage bills.
I think Lucas is systematically alienating his fan base, and shouldn't be surprised when things like this happen. I'd have voted for Serenity over Star Wars, just as a matter of principle.
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As always, they're arguing that using another program or set of programs to circumvent the code that Blizz uses to try and stop people from using bots and other hacks violates the DMCA...And it's hard to see how they're wrong in that. The anti-virus argument is an over broad generalization; I don't know of any case where a virus actually modifies WoW binaries.
Agree with the DMCA or not, this is a "valid" use of it.
I think we should tear it down so future generations can imagine it to have been an amazing place, instead of just another chunk of disposable cinder block.
Seriously. While I'm all for preserving historic architecture this place is a fricking dump...It was a dump even when it was new, just the kind of place that you would expect to house a startup that was run by a crackpot who only hired kids straight outta college (because his former colleagues refused to work with him).
Tells you something about the place that during the 50s a bunch of kids right out of school were so fed up that they quit in a group after one year. Think how likely that would be today, and imagine what it would have been like back then, when you expected to stay with a company much longer.
I think there is an issue of scale...I mean, standing in George Washington's home, or standing on the Pyramids, contrasted with a dinky fruit stand that was really more like the building that housed the first failed startup (complete with hellish boss) that contained a group that moved on to do great things.
It's pretty slim.
No one is superhuman, and I don't choose to walk around armed to the teeth against possible contingencies, so it's not impossible I could end up in a situation with my kid where there would be a definite "failure to protect"...That's the way it goes, and it could happen to anyone.
In that situation, I would hope that I would have taught my kid enough to get the hell out of the way while I did whatever I could, and not just stand there unable to comprehend that the world isn't the fluffy land that they've always been taught it was.
That's just reality, and while I'm not going to teach my kid reality by making them play violent video games (don't think it would work, among other issues), I'm going to make damn sure that they know that the world can be scary.
I used to browse at -1, but I got so fricking tired of the GNAA. Then I used to browse at 0, but the stupid ass ACs made my teeth hurt.
Now I browse at 0, with all ACs taking an automatic 3 point penalty...I switch to -1 when I'm modding, but for the rest of the time? If no one liked it well enough to get it up to 0, or if the damn AC isn't saying something pretty damn interesting, I don't want to hear it...I've got better things to do with my time than read through a bunch of uninteresting crap...though if you're a big fan of Digg, I understand why that's your thing.
Yes, but the don't go and fight in the real world.
I don't know about you, but I've never seen a nature show with baby animals where at least one of them didn't get eaten by something.
What you don't understand is, it's all the real world. We try and make things safe for our kids, but the real world can intrude at any time and there isn't much that we can do about it.
So don't feed 'em a line of crap. The best time to learn that the world is dangerous, is before you have to find out the hard way.
Master of Orion 3 is unplayable period, and not because of any "unplayable windows bugs" but because the game design is grade A crap.
I agree with that kind of thing...It's more important to be able to work your way into the subject on a deep level, and understand the root of the method than to pick up a bunch of facts that'll vanish in a few years if you don't use 'em.
On some of the standard term paper questions, there is no way to treat it uniquely, and no point in exerting yourself to produce some masterpiece. The professor doesn't care. The student doesn't care. The TA who's going to be grading it doesn't care. Just bang out the same piece of tripe that has been banged out by generations before you.
Those things need to be rolled into written exams, and papers topics need to include less rote recitation of the "standard" argument, and more analysis.
Well, partly I think we need to shift our methods. It's less important these days to be able to generate an unimportant piece on a topic of little interest, than it is to be able to do some of the research...Test the students ability to find information, rather than make them generate relatively pointless information. Research skills are always important, and moreso these days because of how difficult it is becoming to separate good info from bad info.
Then follow up by increasing the number of tests in a class up from 2 a semester for most liberal arts classes in my experience, to 4 or 5. You won't see so much of an improvement in writing ability, unfortunately, but you should be able to accurately measure the students understanding and "motivate" them to learn the material, and if they're not writing the papers anyway, it's no loss.
So you're saying it won't be any different than it is now?
Heh. I think, once the system isn't controlled by the US, if ICANN gets up to it's usual tricks, there is the possibility of a competing system, and I think that competition will sort out the best one in that situation.
More on the line of, "These guys are being jerked around by their political masters, let's see what they do when they're off the leash." They may surprise us. They may underwhelm us...When they're not in the US, they'll have to take things brought up by the whole "rest of world" more seriously.
Yea, well some of us old farts don't like non-pvp servers either, go figure...Maybe it's because when the annoying 13 year old on the other side does something annoying, you can kill him.
Anyway, this is talking about Arena combat...That's available on all servers, not just pvp. Since people in non-pvp servers tend to have better gear, I would think that the non-pvp arena's would be more competitive in terms of equipment, though obviously less so in terms of skill.
I'd love to play me some pvp vs. pve arenas...show 'em how we do things downtown.
I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to political pressure, at this point. Hopefully becoming independent will straighten them out.
Otherwise, having them move once will already remove some of their current "whip hand" regarding policy...They'll be easier to replace when they're not being supported by the US.
Frankly, for one country to "control" ICANN, with what ICANN "controls" is foolish. Especially the States, with people who seem to think that the free exchange of ideas is their personal property, and that since we're the "good guys" we can screw with the free exchange of ideas, and it's okay.
Mind you, I wouldn't trust any other country more. Independence from national issues is pretty much the only solution.
I worked at place that tried to make me sign a non-compete, but the wording was so vague that it would have prevented me from doing an unrelated sideline that I was already doing, so they took it back to re-word it, and it conveniently vanished into the shuffle of paperwork.
Years later, when I left the company after a falling out with the management, and set up shop in the same town, they tried to sue me without making sure they had the paperwork.
It was sweet.
Sure, I agree...I'm not saying that spec is completely unimportant (or if I did, it wasn't what I meant)...I'm just saying that the specs will be chosen for their roles...The holy priest grouped with the fury warrior, the subtlety rogue grouped with the prot warrior...They all have roles defined by their team setup, so in that sense, it doesn't matter, as long as it works with their team.
It does matter, that they don't do something stupid like spread their points evenly across all trees.
Obviously it's going to be about gear...I doubt spec will matter much at all...but there is an element of skill and strategery...A crappy player with top notch gear will have an advantage, but that can be overcome by a more skilled player with inferior gear. And frankly, at the top levels, all the people who are going to be competing are going to have top notch gear, so I don't forsee any disparities worse than what you already get sometimes...Anyone who's ever run up against a semi-pro WSG group knows what I'm talking about.
Not real sure about Arena teams though...I guess it's the only place where there is a codified rank system already in place.
Troll much? Companies only sponsor activities for one reason: to bring more attention to themselves.
This kind of thing is hugely popular in Asia, so if you sponsored an Arena team, you'd get decent publicity out of it, same as if you sponsored anything else that people give a damn about.
My thought would be, those damn Arena matches are so fricking short about 85% of the time, even if both sides are good...I mean chances are you've got rogue/lock v. rogue/lock, so it's just whoever's fear goes off first is going to win. Don't go get a soda because it's only going to last 30 seconds.
Anyway.
Sadly no, that's North Jersey. South Jersey is full of all the rich commuters who commute to philly.
It's not so much that...One of the one's I found most interesting in the series was a kind of belt device that vibrated constantly on the side that faced magnetic north...Like having a dozen cellphones strapped to your belt, where whichever one is on the north side of your body vibrates.
A guy wore it for a year, iirc, and his body adapted to the new "sense" to such a degree that he had a little freak out break down when he removed it, and now walks around with a handheld gps all the time, to try and make up for the "sense" of direction he lost. He says he developed a kind of spacial sense, which gave him a firm sense of spacial orientation...he stopped getting lost...and just sort of knew little directional tidbits like "my house is in that direction" etc.
One of the most interesting things about the articles, is the thread that all our senses are capable of processing more data than we give them credit for...Another article talked about a limited visual sense that interfaced through the tongue, and worked almost without any training at all.
It's some cool stuff, and it definitely opens up some possibility for some interesting sensory "prosthesis" to give information that isn't processed by our natural senses.
He's from New Jersey...I don't know of a better way to explain it. Anyone who works as a prosecutor in that state is bound to be such a hardass, just to deal with the locals...You don't get it unless you live there, but there are a lot of verbally aggressive people in that state, and that sort of language isn't viewed the same way it is in the rest of the US, or the world for that matter.
Meh, it was always that way underneath...I mean, I lived there for years, long enough to actually see why it was called "The Garden State" which never made any sense to me when I didn't live there...But there was always this undercurrent of "You gotta f**kin problem?"
To be fair, that's mostly North Jersey, but, unfortunately, that's the face Jersey shows to the world, so it's not surprising that they think all the state is like that.
Here we can look at that and say, "Psssh, effing New Jersey" but in a lot of places in Europe they absolutely believe that we would fry this joker for a non-violent crime.
Just fricking typical of what passes for "diplomacy" out of the states these days. They should just make him do a stint hacking for the government to pay for some of the (grossly overinflated) damage bills.
I think Lucas is systematically alienating his fan base, and shouldn't be surprised when things like this happen. I'd have voted for Serenity over Star Wars, just as a matter of principle.