No. It is an inconvience which can cost them money and teach them a lesson (behavior modification.) It can totally disrupt an ISP (loose accounts.)
Tough shit. Fix it.
Bull. It's a freaking waste. Any way you slice it. when you have some 95% spam in a pop3 account that you *MUST* maintain the same address for, when it's GIGS of wasted F-ing space. It *IS* a problem, spam is a GLOBAL problem, not just in the US. Now with that said, if you ask me, the ICANN IANA folks are *THE* root of the problem. Is it because we all want to have whois spoofs like:
11/09/03 17:53:05 whois rx369.com.com is a domain of USA & International Commercial
Searches for.com can be run at http://www.crsnic.net/
whois -h whois.crsnic.net rx369.com...
Redirecting to COMPUTER SERVICES LANGENBACH GMBH DBA JOKER.COM
whois -h whois.joker.com rx369.com...
domain: rx369.com
status: production
organization: fcuk solution
owner: Tom Raj
email: sendhost2099@hotmail.com
title: owner
address: 234 monkeys street
city: canada
state: calagary
postal-code: s3m 3k3
country: CA
admin-c: sendhost2099@hotmail.com#0
tech-c: sendhost2099@hotmail.com#0
billing-c: sendhost2099@hotmail.com#0
nserver: ns1.i4k.net 61.131.62.61
nserver: ns2.i4k.net 202.102.245.51
registrar: JORE-1
created: 2003-10-17 06:32:43 UTC JORE-1
expires: 2004-10-17 02:32:25 UTC
source: joker.com
db-updated: 2003-11-10 02:43:56 UTC
Then you have a problem with the system itself. ICANN is completely a pile of dung. The FTC does nothing.
So *WHY* doesn't it get fixed?!
you are NEVER going to educate the public.
What you can do is go after the scumbag companies. (if they even are a real company)
Maybe the Terrorists like it this way, they have anonymous communications. CIA probably likes it too. (yeah that's a stab)
I HATE ICANN.
There's a fork called IPCop, no RM, no ego, and for those that wonder about noise, try using a flash card, or check out this little $283 dollar box called "The Hornet" at Monarch Computer They also have quieted boxes too. I was checking it out at Linux World last week, it seemed quiet enough (although there was quite a lot of noise (People) in general at LWE) So I *COULD* be mistaken. How can ya go wrong for 283 bucks though?
But I wonder, have there been any problems at linux world, I wonder because I see SCO, RedHat, and IBM are all there on the Exibits List.
Are folks walking by the SCO booth and giving nasty glares? Spitballs? Is SCO giving away any free stuff? Have they left? Has anyone challenged to meet em in the parking lot? j/k on the last one;o)
Seriously, magnetic readers are not going to be any better security. It may be a "practical" alternative but it will never come close to smart cards. (Ever check out all that Gold in them?) And the bad part about the smart cards is that if you loose that card you are 100% screwed if someone "finds" and abuses it. Perhaps at that point, you would be forced to trade in your smartcard on a rope for some soap on a rope. (if you catch my drift)
Also Kinkos, a great place to leave something stupid like a briefcase, or even a wallet laying around, your busy working on something and you simply forget.
better security is a smart card embeded in side of your head, but even then someone will figure out how to crack into it.;o)
"It is not a matter of WHO is right or wrong it is a matter of WHAT is right or wrong that counts."
Quoting Hanzosan: You know damn well voting Libertarian means you are voting for Bush.
A: No. Voting libertarian means that your voting for a principle, meaning you are voting for WHAT is right.
I mentally like to kind of think of this as common sense, which seems to be lacking by many these days. If you are trying to make the argument that the libertarian vote doesn't count, then you should perhaps consider not showing up to vote at all, and then let us see who's vote counted more. Your absent (non vote) or our actual real vote.
The libertarian party is a real party, we have real votes, and real people in office, folks that care about this country and the constitution.
Now regarding the actual vote I cast, for Bush, Yeah, I did vote for Bush and I will explain why. Brown did not have a Vice President, this country needs to have both President, and Vice President, I didn't vote for Brown because it would have been wrong. I didn't vote for Gore because that would have be Waaaaaay Wrong.
Isn't it interesting how you do not see libertarians proposing all these bills on these draconian laws which seem to be totally lacking in common sense?
Blizzard lost about 30 sales from that.
You showed them who's boss! I bet they couldn't sleep that night.
But the thing that isn't funny about that nuggetman , is that this could have easily been one of the 20 folks that told the 20 folks I was talking about earlier
If you hate the game so much, why didn't you take it back to the store,
Not an option with software. Try taking an Open Software box back to Costco.
give it to a friend, or sell it off on eBay instead of whining about how evil they are for making a game you didn't like and forcing you to give out optional personal info.
Selling it on eBay, COSTS me money. (Do they even allow software on eBay Still?) Besides, I already told you, come and get it. I am in Sacramento. I would be happy to give it to you, and I don't even consider you a friend.;o) (there be something subliminal in that statement eh?)
I see you've looped back and are now re-iterating what we've already discussed. The spin-a-topic-satanic-troll technique is quite effective usually, but I won't put up with it from you right now. So put down the "HOW-TO steal a mail list tutorial" and give the "HOW-TO win a flame war.doc" a rest.
The point is Blizzard has lost all future sales with me, They've lost word of mouth with me, I won't recommend them ever, and to the contrary, I will point out the little nasty details about how they do business. This kind of review, is never wrong, because it is honest, and that always has a powerful effect on folks decision to use a product or not. I simply state fact. You may lable that fact as, "whiny" all that you want. Considering, I do quite a bit of consulting, and I come in contact with quite a few people, when folks ask my personal opinion on the matter I will be the judge, jury, or executioner of a potential Blizzard sale. Normally I wouldn't judge anything, but the bad side is too HOT to ignore.
Surely you can see that this will have an effect. Say if 20 folks asked my opinion, and decided not to waste 50 bucks. that would be 20*50 = $1000.00 in lost sales right there. If they have 20 friends that have 20 friends..
So, If you don't see the humor in a 50 dollar box of ball bearings being more fun than a Blizzard game, then I can only assume you must somehow work either directly or as damage control PR for blizzard, maybe even vivendi, or *AA. Otherwise why else would you use such tactics to attack my character. (continously now I might add) Surely your not just a gamer, a gamer is not going to come from the same angle as you have. The only reason your attacking my character is to attempt to show your own point of view in a more positive light, so that you can persuade everyone who might be reading that yours is the just opinion. (e.g. My attitude is more positive than his, so I must be correct.) However, the thing you are missing is that although you may be showing a more positive attitude than I am, you are using your power of persuasion for negative ends, and direct manipulation (Social Engineering) and your going to find that even if you get away with it this time, it is eventually going to bite you in the ass, when you have become the master of spin, attack and you continually or constantly treat folks like crap.
Always remember to treat folks with respect, for one day you might need them. (even I have shown you respect, in that I have offered to GIVE you the whole WC3 box if you would like it.) In that respect, I would only look at RadioShack, have they turned themselves around from their, "We need to have a name and address to buy a battery or a fuse?" Yes, they have. Can People change? Yes, they can. Can Blizzard Change? Yes.
And if they change their ways to something more consumer friendly, would I be willing to change my opinion? Yes, of Course I would. But from what I currently see, that isn't going to happen. They have picked their path, and they are going down it. Damned be all.
Meanwhile, you need to remember, I basically got burned. (The Disk Sits in the Box, collecting dust) So of course my attitude is negative, and my feedback will be appropriate for the situation. After all, I worked to pay the original $50.00 bucks. I might add, that I am not the only one with several negative opi
Since you purchased your game and registered yourself with the BattleNet servers and because these servers are maintained by exclusively by Blizzard you should have been able to email them with your problem and get your account working again. Unless they caught you using a cheat on your games they would be able to re-instate your profile. That's the advantage to *you* of having registered, the advantage for them is to collect some useful profile information to help them determine what their market demographics look like. This helps them target future titles towards the demographic who are known to currently purchase their titles.
I'm the first person to opt-out of any profiling, *except* when it is by a company that I feel I can trust won't abuse my information by selling it on or direct marketing to me. Blizzard is one of those companies that I feel I can trust since they have consistently produced the best games in the genres (IMHO, yours may differ), have innovated, and have provided high quality, always on, high bandwidth BattleNet servers.
Although EVERYTHING you said is absolutely correct, I could have had more fun with a $50.00 box of steel ball bearings
So, it's easy (as duh) for you to sit there and tell us all how you lied in every single field when you went after your username / password. Others did not lie.
I can't say I've ever seen a profile where someone puts their full address in. If people want to put an email address, it's their perogative. You edit your profile on SC/WCII by double clicking on your name in the chat box. Seriously, how many people do you think accidentally wound up there and said "Gee... I'd better fill in all my real personal information".
Well, let me recall. IIRC, you have a serial number on your CD, and that is the one way you get onto the server. By using that number on the CD. To be honest I don't remember if email was a "requirement" to get a password, the handle you could choose as whatever you wanted. But then again, you said yourself, you haven't even played WC3 on Bnet. So you are talking apples and I am talking oranges.
By paying $50.00 they don't fscking need to know who I am.
Then don't fill out the OPTIONAL profile that isn't even made PREVALENT that it exists..
It's not the point. a.) Your comments are after the fact. b.) I can't remember if it was WAS optional or not, but at $50.00 bucks a pop to lie in all the fields is rather stupid. Especially if you've already had problems with the game working correctly. c.) you haven't gone through the process yourself, so how can you even comment.
Now regarding the username and password on Bnet, let me just be the first one to tell you that for no god damn reason, the username / password CAN just stop working. With there being no other servers other than Bnet, I took my fscking CD out, and it's been on the shelf ever since. You want the god damn disk?! I'll give you the fscking thing. It's worthless to me.
You aren't charged a single cent to use this free massive multiplayer network (EXCLUDING the cost of the disk), and you're gonna stop playing the game just because of a glitch occasionally on the server. Personally I've never lost an account unless I didn't use it for 90 days. I'll be glad to take the CD off your hands.
I was charged $50.00 (actually IIRC it was more after tax.) So, Bnet was NOT FREE to begin with.
I wasn't talking about stopping the use of the game because of glitch's in the software, I was DENIED ACCESS TO BATTLE NET! Can you comprehend that now? I paid $50, then I am denied fair use!
On another note... using "fsck" and "god damn" every other word in your post makes you look like an angry, angsty teenager.
I really do not care what you think I look like, the words were used to show "anger." They were not used on every other word. Or you would get a sentence that looked like this:
"fscking nuggetman god damn nuggetman is fscking is god damn fscking talking god damn talking fscking out god damn his fscking god damn ass god damn."
And yeah that looks childish. You are coming from a point of view which you truly believe in. I am coming from a rather point of view based in FACT. There is nothing wrong with expressing dis-pleasure and showing anger in your writing. Personally to me the term "God Damn" could never happen, since I do not believe in the christian god anyway, he (who says god is a he anyway?) can not touch me or damn me in any way, because if he did he would be limited and not a god. (in fact if it was a "he" it couldn't be a god either since god can not be described without limiting it, and if you limit it, it's no longer a god.) And finally fsck is just a nicer way of saying another word which is in the dictionary anyway, and so you don't tell me what to do. Would it have more impact if I just simply said fuck Blizzard. Blizzard does not fucking need to know who I am. And their who phillosophy is flawed, on gaming.
And finally for you. You no longer have anything else to productively argue with me about, so you sink down into the gutter like a troll, to take a stab at my character. That's exactly what you've done.
Sure I will give you the CD. Come to Sacramento, California and I will hand it to you face to face. And then perhaps you can see how much I resemble an "angsty teen."
Why do I have the sneaky feeling that this code reuse on a large scale would also result in about 2000 games that are all pretty much the same, each being just a slightly different version of the same game, going by the personal vision of each lead developer?
Now I'm not saying that the current commercial model is at all successful in making original games (practically everything is either an FPS, an RTS, or a graphical mud - though there's the odd exception), but it seems to me that code reuse would only result in games that all look and feel the same.
That's pretty much the same argument the Big name drug companies are making. If we start charging you less for drugs, then we will need to slash our R&D, and you won't get any new drugs. My response to that is, "Were not getting any new drugs now anyway." And so, we are not getting any really "NEW" games now either. So what difference will it make. Except that everyone can freely audit the code (especially if it's a network game.)
Yeah, you can lie on YOUR profile. The point is some folks don't. The point is they collect the information. A first time user wouldn't know not to give their email address. So, it's easy (as duh) for you to sit there and tell us all how you lied in every single field when you went after your username / password. Others did not lie.
By paying $50.00 they don't fscking need to know who I am. They didn't need to nuke the Bnet Server Clones either. That's like Radio Shack asking for your name and address when you come in to buy a fuse for your god damn CB radio. And look at RadioShack now... You might notice they DONT ASK anymore. There's a reason behind that.
Now regarding the username and password on Bnet, let me just be the first one to tell you that for no god damn reason, the username / password CAN just stop working. With there being no other servers other than Bnet, I took my fscking CD out, and it's been on the shelf ever since. You want the god damn disk?! I'll give you the fscking thing. It's worthless to me. Just like Blizzard is. The only thing they're good for is harassing folks, and screwing others and Bloated Buggy Anti-Pirate Software that does not work correctly.
Why, exactly, does the purpose of supporting a -game/company need to be to hurt and kill another?
Although, I sniped out what you were refering to, I think you need to look in the mirror and ask yourself, why does Blizzard need to "hurt" FreeCraft. And why did they wait so long!? FreeCraft didn't harm anyone. Blizzard did.
admit it- Blizzard makes kickass games that LOTS of people love.
But ask yourself, how much longer until they reach the point of diminishing return, by pissing off the very folks that buy their products. WC3 was a piece of bloated buggy crap. (wouldn't even install correctly on two different boxes) And that was $50.00 a pop at COSTCO! The support was crap, and then battle.net won't let you logon (even with the right password.) They have too god damn much personal information about those using Bnet. They Killed the Open Source Version of BNet Servers. That pissed more people off.
Now they killed FreeCraft, yet pissing even more folks off, what next? Who are their lawyers going to screw next? What products will they ruin next.
Seems like WitchCraft has been around a lot longer than any of Blizzard's "*Crap." I ain't got much more to say, cept that Blizzard is a very misguided company. I wonder if the Guitar Cord maker "SwitchCraft" could cause Blizzard some collateral damage? CrisCraft Boats? Too bad the Wiccan's aren't organized better.
I think your missing the point. If you go to the "cd" section of a store, and buy a "cd", it should play in a "cdplayer." If you decide you want to go to the "dvd" section of a store, and buy a "dvd" it should play in a "dvdplayer." But when you buy cd's or dvd's that don't play in their respective cdplayer and dvdplayer then you no longer are selling a "cd" or a "dvd", but you are selling something new. And can NOT be defined as either a cd or a dvd. Folks don't want "something new." They want what they paid for. You wouldn't go buy beta tapes to play in your vhs because they won't fit in the vhs player, and they won't work.
Try turning off java, cookies, not using IE, and search for the term "security" on www.microsoft.com look at the results! Got to ask yourself, what they meant by they were going to improve security.
I have it running on a generic (leftover pieces of junk) 486/66 with only 16MB ram. As a joke I decided to try to run X on it, guess what, it has X now. Now I have these "bad memory" chips, one that makes the box think it has 27MB ram, and yeah, when you try to mount the fs it dies a horrible death. Make sure the memory is good - my advice
Just as long as they keep it out of my linuxformat magazine, they have already infiltrated linux journal? or is that linux magazine? hmm, nevermind, I don't particularly want their crap in my inbox either, but actually anything from msn.com or mocrosoft.com or hotmail.com etc etc, never makes it to the inbox anyway.
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No. It is an inconvience which can cost them money and teach them a lesson (behavior modification.) It can totally disrupt an ISP (loose accounts.) Tough shit. Fix it.
Bull. It's a freaking waste. Any way you slice it. when you have some 95% spam in a pop3 account that you *MUST* maintain the same address for, when it's GIGS of wasted F-ing space. It *IS* a problem, spam is a GLOBAL problem, not just in the US. Now with that said, if you ask me, the ICANN IANA folks are *THE* root of the problem. Is it because we all want to have whois spoofs like: 11/09/03 17:53:05 whois rx369.com .com is a domain of USA & International Commercial
Searches for .com can be run at http://www.crsnic.net/
whois -h whois.crsnic.net rx369.com ...
Redirecting to COMPUTER SERVICES LANGENBACH GMBH DBA JOKER.COM
whois -h whois.joker.com rx369.com ...
domain: rx369.com
status: production
organization: fcuk solution
owner: Tom Raj
email: sendhost2099@hotmail.com
title: owner
address: 234 monkeys street
city: canada
state: calagary
postal-code: s3m 3k3
country: CA
admin-c: sendhost2099@hotmail.com#0
tech-c: sendhost2099@hotmail.com#0
billing-c: sendhost2099@hotmail.com#0
nserver: ns1.i4k.net 61.131.62.61
nserver: ns2.i4k.net 202.102.245.51
registrar: JORE-1
created: 2003-10-17 06:32:43 UTC JORE-1
expires: 2004-10-17 02:32:25 UTC
source: joker.com
db-updated: 2003-11-10 02:43:56 UTC
Then you have a problem with the system itself. ICANN is completely a pile of dung. The FTC does nothing.
So *WHY* doesn't it get fixed?!
you are NEVER going to educate the public.
What you can do is go after the scumbag companies. (if they even are a real company)
Maybe the Terrorists like it this way, they have anonymous communications. CIA probably likes it too. (yeah that's a stab)
I HATE ICANN.
There's a fork called IPCop, no RM, no ego, and for those that wonder about noise, try using a flash card, or check out this little $283 dollar box called "The Hornet" at Monarch Computer They also have quieted boxes too. I was checking it out at Linux World last week, it seemed quiet enough (although there was quite a lot of noise (People) in general at LWE) So I *COULD* be mistaken. How can ya go wrong for 283 bucks though?
But I wonder, have there been any problems at linux world, I wonder because I see SCO, RedHat, and IBM are all there on the Exibits List.
;o)
Are folks walking by the SCO booth and giving nasty glares? Spitballs? Is SCO giving away any free stuff? Have they left? Has anyone challenged to meet em in the parking lot? j/k on the last one
Have a look at this site they say, much about Mach 3 razorz and RFID,
they claim "Gillette shelf photographs unsuspecting shoppers!" and they have some pdf files here, and here to prove that Auto-ID Center is invading your privacy. There is also a (mirror) Video here which is currently on auto-id website here.
Seriously, magnetic readers are not going to be any better security. It may be a "practical" alternative but it will never come close to smart cards. (Ever check out all that Gold in them?) And the bad part about the smart cards is that if you loose that card you are 100% screwed if someone "finds" and abuses it. Perhaps at that point, you would be forced to trade in your smartcard on a rope for some soap on a rope. (if you catch my drift)
;o)
Also Kinkos, a great place to leave something stupid like a briefcase, or even a wallet laying around, your busy working on something and you simply forget.
better security is a smart card embeded in side of your head, but even then someone will figure out how to crack into it.
HanzoSan, You need to think in terms of . . . . .
"It is not a matter of WHO is right or wrong it is a matter of WHAT is right or wrong that counts."
Quoting Hanzosan: You know damn well voting Libertarian means you are voting for Bush.
A: No. Voting libertarian means that your voting for a principle, meaning you are voting for WHAT is right.
I mentally like to kind of think of this as common sense, which seems to be lacking by many these days. If you are trying to make the argument that the libertarian vote doesn't count, then you should perhaps consider not showing up to vote at all, and then let us see who's vote counted more. Your absent (non vote) or our actual real vote.
The libertarian party is a real party, we have real votes, and real people in office, folks that care about this country and the constitution.
Now regarding the actual vote I cast, for Bush, Yeah, I did vote for Bush and I will explain why. Brown did not have a Vice President, this country needs to have both President, and Vice President, I didn't vote for Brown because it would have been wrong. I didn't vote for Gore because that would have be Waaaaaay Wrong.
Isn't it interesting how you do not see libertarians proposing all these bills on these draconian laws which seem to be totally lacking in common sense?
Blizzard lost about 30 sales from that. You showed them who's boss! I bet they couldn't sleep that night.
But the thing that isn't funny about that nuggetman , is that this could have easily been one of the 20 folks that told the 20 folks I was talking about earlier
If you hate the game so much, why didn't you take it back to the store,
;o) (there be something subliminal in that statement eh?)
Not an option with software. Try taking an Open Software box back to Costco.
give it to a friend, or sell it off on eBay instead of whining about how evil they are for making a game you didn't like and forcing you to give out optional personal info.
Selling it on eBay, COSTS me money. (Do they even allow software on eBay Still?) Besides, I already told you, come and get it. I am in Sacramento. I would be happy to give it to you, and I don't even consider you a friend.
I see you've looped back and are now re-iterating what we've already discussed. The spin-a-topic-satanic-troll technique is quite effective usually, but I won't put up with it from you right now. So put down the "HOW-TO steal a mail list tutorial" and give the "HOW-TO win a flame war.doc" a rest.
The point is Blizzard has lost all future sales with me, They've lost word of mouth with me, I won't recommend them ever, and to the contrary, I will point out the little nasty details about how they do business. This kind of review, is never wrong, because it is honest, and that always has a powerful effect on folks decision to use a product or not. I simply state fact. You may lable that fact as, "whiny" all that you want.
Considering, I do quite a bit of consulting, and I come in contact with quite a few people, when folks ask my personal opinion on the matter I will be the judge, jury, or executioner of a potential Blizzard sale. Normally I wouldn't judge anything, but the bad side is too HOT to ignore.
Surely you can see that this will have an effect. Say if 20 folks asked my opinion, and decided not to waste 50 bucks. that would be 20*50 = $1000.00 in lost sales right there. If they have 20 friends that have 20 friends..
So, If you don't see the humor in a 50 dollar box of ball bearings being more fun than a Blizzard game, then I can only assume you must somehow work either directly or as damage control PR for blizzard, maybe even vivendi, or *AA. Otherwise why else would you use such tactics to attack my character. (continously now I might add) Surely your not just a gamer, a gamer is not going to come from the same angle as you have. The only reason your attacking my character is to attempt to show your own point of view in a more positive light, so that you can persuade everyone who might be reading that yours is the just opinion. (e.g. My attitude is more positive than his, so I must be correct.) However, the thing you are missing is that although you may be showing a more positive attitude than I am, you are using your power of persuasion for negative ends, and direct manipulation (Social Engineering) and your going to find that even if you get away with it this time, it is eventually going to bite you in the ass, when you have become the master of spin, attack and you continually or constantly treat folks like crap.
Always remember to treat folks with respect, for one day you might need them. (even I have shown you respect, in that I have offered to GIVE you the whole WC3 box if you would like it.) In that respect, I would only look at RadioShack, have they turned themselves around from their, "We need to have a name and address to buy a battery or a fuse?" Yes, they have. Can People change? Yes, they can. Can Blizzard Change? Yes.
And if they change their ways to something more consumer friendly, would I be willing to change my opinion? Yes, of Course I would. But from what I currently see, that isn't going to happen. They have picked their path, and they are going down it. Damned be all.
Meanwhile, you need to remember, I basically got burned. (The Disk Sits in the Box, collecting dust) So of course my attitude is negative, and my feedback will be appropriate for the situation. After all, I worked to pay the original $50.00 bucks. I might add, that I am not the only one with several negative opi
You got to absolutely love the last line on that link. "These scribblers..would have us..cease building war craft." Cease And Desist. Oh the irony.
Since you purchased your game and registered yourself with the BattleNet servers and because these servers are maintained by exclusively by Blizzard you should have been able to email them with your problem and get your account working again. Unless they caught you using a cheat on your games they would be able to re-instate your profile. That's the advantage to *you* of having registered, the advantage for them is to collect some useful profile information to help them determine what their market demographics look like. This helps them target future titles towards the demographic who are known to currently purchase their titles. I'm the first person to opt-out of any profiling, *except* when it is by a company that I feel I can trust won't abuse my information by selling it on or direct marketing to me. Blizzard is one of those companies that I feel I can trust since they have consistently produced the best games in the genres (IMHO, yours may differ), have innovated, and have provided high quality, always on, high bandwidth BattleNet servers.
Although EVERYTHING you said is absolutely correct, I could have had more fun with a $50.00 box of steel ball bearings
So, it's easy (as duh) for you to sit there and tell us all how you lied in every single field when you went after your username / password. Others did not lie.
I can't say I've ever seen a profile where someone puts their full address in. If people want to put an email address, it's their perogative. You edit your profile on SC/WCII by double clicking on your name in the chat box. Seriously, how many people do you think accidentally wound up there and said "Gee... I'd better fill in all my real personal information".
Well, let me recall. IIRC, you have a serial number on your CD, and that is the one way you get onto the server. By using that number on the CD. To be honest I don't remember if email was a "requirement" to get a password, the handle you could choose as whatever you wanted. But then again, you said yourself, you haven't even played WC3 on Bnet. So you are talking apples and I am talking oranges. By paying $50.00 they don't fscking need to know who I am.
Then don't fill out the OPTIONAL profile that isn't even made PREVALENT that it exists..
It's not the point. a.) Your comments are after the fact. b.) I can't remember if it was WAS optional or not, but at $50.00 bucks a pop to lie in all the fields is rather stupid. Especially if you've already had problems with the game working correctly. c.) you haven't gone through the process yourself, so how can you even comment. Now regarding the username and password on Bnet, let me just be the first one to tell you that for no god damn reason, the username / password CAN just stop working. With there being no other servers other than Bnet, I took my fscking CD out, and it's been on the shelf ever since. You want the god damn disk?! I'll give you the fscking thing. It's worthless to me.
You aren't charged a single cent to use this free massive multiplayer network (EXCLUDING the cost of the disk), and you're gonna stop playing the game just because of a glitch occasionally on the server. Personally I've never lost an account unless I didn't use it for 90 days. I'll be glad to take the CD off your hands.
I was charged $50.00 (actually IIRC it was more after tax.) So, Bnet was NOT FREE to begin with.
I wasn't talking about stopping the use of the game because of glitch's in the software, I was DENIED ACCESS TO BATTLE NET! Can you comprehend that now? I paid $50, then I am denied fair use! On another note... using "fsck" and "god damn" every other word in your post makes you look like an angry, angsty teenager.
I really do not care what you think I look like, the words were used to show "anger." They were not used on every other word. Or you would get a sentence that looked like this:
"fscking nuggetman god damn nuggetman is fscking is god damn fscking talking god damn talking fscking out god damn his fscking god damn ass god damn."
And yeah that looks childish. You are coming from a point of view which you truly believe in. I am coming from a rather point of view based in FACT. There is nothing wrong with expressing dis-pleasure and showing anger in your writing. Personally to me the term "God Damn" could never happen, since I do not believe in the christian god anyway, he (who says god is a he anyway?) can not touch me or damn me in any way, because if he did he would be limited and not a god. (in fact if it was a "he" it couldn't be a god either since god can not be described without limiting it, and if you limit it, it's no longer a god.) And finally fsck is just a nicer way of saying another word which is in the dictionary anyway, and so you don't tell me what to do. Would it have more impact if I just simply said fuck Blizzard. Blizzard does not fucking need to know who I am. And their who phillosophy is flawed, on gaming.
And finally for you. You no longer have anything else to productively argue with me about, so you sink down into the gutter like a troll, to take a stab at my character. That's exactly what you've done. Sure I will give you the CD. Come to Sacramento, California and I will hand it to you face to face. And then perhaps you can see how much I resemble an "angsty teen."
Why do I have the sneaky feeling that this code reuse on a large scale would also result in about 2000 games that are all pretty much the same, each being just a slightly different version of the same game, going by the personal vision of each lead developer? Now I'm not saying that the current commercial model is at all successful in making original games (practically everything is either an FPS, an RTS, or a graphical mud - though there's the odd exception), but it seems to me that code reuse would only result in games that all look and feel the same.
That's pretty much the same argument the Big name drug companies are making. If we start charging you less for drugs, then we will need to slash our R&D, and you won't get any new drugs. My response to that is, "Were not getting any new drugs now anyway." And so, we are not getting any really "NEW" games now either. So what difference will it make. Except that everyone can freely audit the code (especially if it's a network game.)
Yeah, you can lie on YOUR profile. The point is some folks don't. The point is they collect the information. A first time user wouldn't know not to give their email address. So, it's easy (as duh) for you to sit there and tell us all how you lied in every single field when you went after your username / password. Others did not lie.
By paying $50.00 they don't fscking need to know who I am. They didn't need to nuke the Bnet Server Clones either. That's like Radio Shack asking for your name and address when you come in to buy a fuse for your god damn CB radio. And look at RadioShack now... You might notice they DONT ASK anymore. There's a reason behind that.
Now regarding the username and password on Bnet, let me just be the first one to tell you that for no god damn reason, the username / password CAN just stop working. With there being no other servers other than Bnet, I took my fscking CD out, and it's been on the shelf ever since. You want the god damn disk?! I'll give you the fscking thing. It's worthless to me. Just like Blizzard is. The only thing they're good for is harassing folks, and screwing others and Bloated Buggy Anti-Pirate Software that does not work correctly.
Why, exactly, does the purpose of supporting a -game/company need to be to hurt and kill another?
Although, I sniped out what you were refering to, I think you need to look in the mirror and ask yourself, why does Blizzard need to "hurt" FreeCraft. And why did they wait so long!? FreeCraft didn't harm anyone. Blizzard did.
admit it- Blizzard makes kickass games that LOTS of people love.
But ask yourself, how much longer until they reach the point of diminishing return, by pissing off the very folks that buy their products. WC3 was a piece of bloated buggy crap. (wouldn't even install correctly on two different boxes) And that was $50.00 a pop at COSTCO! The support was crap, and then battle.net won't let you logon (even with the right password.) They have too god damn much personal information about those using Bnet. They Killed the Open Source Version of BNet Servers. That pissed more people off.
Now they killed FreeCraft, yet pissing even more folks off, what next? Who are their lawyers going to screw next? What products will they ruin next.
Seems like WitchCraft has been around a lot longer than any of Blizzard's "*Crap." I ain't got much more to say, cept that Blizzard is a very misguided company. I wonder if the Guitar Cord maker "SwitchCraft" could cause Blizzard some collateral damage? CrisCraft Boats? Too bad the Wiccan's aren't organized better.
I think your missing the point. If you go to the "cd" section of a store, and buy a "cd", it should play in a "cdplayer." If you decide you want to go to the "dvd" section of a store, and buy a "dvd" it should play in a "dvdplayer." But when you buy cd's or dvd's that don't play in their respective cdplayer and dvdplayer then you no longer are selling a "cd" or a "dvd", but you are selling something new. And can NOT be defined as either a cd or a dvd. Folks don't want "something new." They want what they paid for. You wouldn't go buy beta tapes to play in your vhs because they won't fit in the vhs player, and they won't work.
Try turning off java, cookies, not using IE, and search for the term "security" on www.microsoft.com look at the results! Got to ask yourself, what they meant by they were going to improve security.
if it's supposed to be secret, then why did they tell us? Makes you think don't it.
I have it running on a generic (leftover pieces of junk) 486/66 with only 16MB ram. As a joke I decided to try to run X on it, guess what, it has X now. Now I have these "bad memory" chips, one that makes the box think it has 27MB ram, and yeah, when you try to mount the fs it dies a horrible death. Make sure the memory is good - my advice
*3/13/2003, 12:55:53: FETCH - 103 messages in the mailbox, 4 new
Of those 4 only 1 was REAL!
Microsoft applies for spam patent.
Just as long as they keep it out of my linuxformat magazine, they have already infiltrated linux journal? or is that linux magazine? hmm, nevermind, I don't particularly want their crap in my inbox either, but actually anything from msn.com or mocrosoft.com or hotmail.com etc etc, never makes it to the inbox anyway.
Is your Penis MicroSoft?