The 50% is not scientific by any means. It is more anecdotal. My 360 has never failed. Which is also anecdotal. The actual fail rate is still too high though. The least they could have done is offer a 1 year warranty on that. So they actually did step it up. The 360, in my opinion, has the best controller and the best games the gen. That's why I like it. The fail rate is disappointing, but it isn't 50%. Waving that around is just stupid fanboyism.
Not that I disagree with your major points about fair use, the whole "this is not theft" is garbage. Yeah, we all know it is copyright infringement. It is still breaking the law and theft is just easier to say. Yeah, you aren't depriving the company of something, WE ALL KNOW THIS. But you are using something you didn't pay for and it is just easy to call that stealing or theft. Even if it is different in your mind, to a lot of people it isn't. It is still illegal so who cares what it is called other than people who want to justify breaking the law. "I mean, it's not stealing! Get off my back! wah wah"
I never claimed that they used Blizzard's code. I claimed its purpose was to play pirated copies online. Its primary purpose was to do something that violates law. Just as if you were to write code that interfaced with a government server so that you could collect data off of it. It doesn't matter that you didn't use code stolen from the government. It matters that the code you wrote was designed specifically to break the law.
Actually, no. A part of my argument was that the primary purpose for bnetd was piracy. You really do fail at reading. Like I said, your "alleged" is bullshit. You aren't being honest if you are saying that it wasn't used for pirated copies to play online.
It would be like me standing on the corner and handing out keys to your house. You could argue that these keys can be used for anything, not necessarily entering your house. It would be a stupid argument though since the keys are designed specifically for your house. bnetd was specifically designed to play cracked Blizzard games. Blizzard had every right to shut them down.
I think you missed my point (and so did the mods). If something is exploding, then there is pressure on the inside trying to get out. If it was external forces, it would be imploding. The correct mod for my first post is +1 Funny and your post should be +0 Whoosh.
Ugh, I totally disagree. Games on the 360 are just fine for this gen. Graphics are good and I enjoy the box. If people have to put games on multiple discs, fine, that isn't a big deal. It doesn't look any worse than the PS3. The lifecycles of game consoles need to be longer both for the company's profits and because there isn't anything that is going to give the consumer a significant change. We aren't seeing the NES to super nintendo differences anymore. So let's give more time for the technology to improve.
And I am not sure what you are talking about as far as FPS and racing games. It has the best RPGs of all the consoles.
Umm, so what is a website? Stuff that only uses HTML? Sorry, that just isn't how it is used. You have a website for online training. Doesn't matter if it is flash, pdf, word, it is still a website. Just like if I write a program in C, Java, or C#, the output is still going to be called an executable or a binary.
Uhh, no offense, but I think some college student removing a picture from flickr is a bit different than labeling people "un-American" for opposing a war that turned out to be bullshit and killed tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people.
That being said, the image shouldn't be removed. Free speech and all that good stuff. But with that in mind, I still think the people who do this and the Hitler stuff are tools who have no idea what they are talking about.
Oh! I finally came up with an analogy! Criticizing Blizzard for making non-innovative games is like criticizing Britney Spears because she doesn't sing about how to solve differential equations. They are doing what works for them and lots of people still love them anyways. (Not a perfect analogy though, because Blizzard doesn't suck)
That's such a strange criticism. Blizzard also could have added a portal gun, made you make moral choices, and give you a dog that followed you around and dug up treasure. Maybe their lore didn't want to add in time travel. Maybe none of the developers thought of it.
This whole "games have to be innovative" crap needs to go away. Innovation doesn't make a good game. I'll be more than happy if SCII is as fun as the first SC with better graphics and more story. You don't need Blizzard to have time travel, because this game has it.
And even more than that, Blizzard is a legendary company because it doesn't innovate. It takes a genre and polishes it better than any other company to make some of the most popular games of all time. And you, random guy posting to Slashdot, think you know better. Give me a break.
If your "pyramid" is small enough it is easy-ish to read, not so much if it is a large chunk of code. I say easy-ish because it looks like awkward coding to me. If it spanned a page, it would be hard to keep track of which teardown call mapped to which if statement. It would be every easy to associate the wrong call with the wrong if statement. It would be less ambiguous and less prone for bugs with goto's.
Geo Defense. $1. Amazing value. And I say this as someone who doesn't even own an iPhone but got to play a friend's. The best dollar he ever spent and it actually made me want an iPhone. Though I won't get one until they go to Verizon. But oh how I want one. Pretty much just because of that game.
Simply because you want a game company to include a LAN option doesn't mean that the majority of their customers care. See, your stupid argument can be used against you.
Actually, I thought they did a good job. Most of the highly modded questions were people spazzing out about the LAN thing. I know it isn't going to have LAN, I don't care. I understand other people do, but Blizzard has already put out multiple statements about it. I'd rather find out other things that are going on with Blizzard. Quite frankly, if we used Slashdot submitted questions this time around, I'd be embarrassed for the Slashdot community.
I said this in another post, but I'll repeat it here. What company in its right mind would give up their cd key authentication scheme to a bunch of people who reversed their network code? And bnetd was doing that so they wouldn't be shut down, not so that they could stop piracy.
So you used it for a free beta? That's nice but completely irrelevant to the discussion. You could have still played the beta and not used bnetd and bought the game. Really, the whole I pirated the game and then bought it is a pretty lame justification for piracy. It makes you less of a jerk, for sure, but I don't think it justifies it.
I live in New Mexico and don't have the issues you are are talking about. I am sure there are some places where battle.net is less than optimal. The problem is, that doesn't give people the right to do what they want with Blizzard's product.
I don't really get it. People on here put up with far worse crap from apple yet I don't see everyone screaming about boycotting them.
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Go to kernel.org and look at how many Linux kernel versions there have been. Do you see how stupid your argument is now?
The 50% is not scientific by any means. It is more anecdotal. My 360 has never failed. Which is also anecdotal. The actual fail rate is still too high though. The least they could have done is offer a 1 year warranty on that. So they actually did step it up. The 360, in my opinion, has the best controller and the best games the gen. That's why I like it. The fail rate is disappointing, but it isn't 50%. Waving that around is just stupid fanboyism.
Not that I disagree with your major points about fair use, the whole "this is not theft" is garbage. Yeah, we all know it is copyright infringement. It is still breaking the law and theft is just easier to say. Yeah, you aren't depriving the company of something, WE ALL KNOW THIS. But you are using something you didn't pay for and it is just easy to call that stealing or theft. Even if it is different in your mind, to a lot of people it isn't. It is still illegal so who cares what it is called other than people who want to justify breaking the law. "I mean, it's not stealing! Get off my back! wah wah"
I never claimed that they used Blizzard's code. I claimed its purpose was to play pirated copies online. Its primary purpose was to do something that violates law. Just as if you were to write code that interfaced with a government server so that you could collect data off of it. It doesn't matter that you didn't use code stolen from the government. It matters that the code you wrote was designed specifically to break the law.
Actually, no. A part of my argument was that the primary purpose for bnetd was piracy. You really do fail at reading. Like I said, your "alleged" is bullshit. You aren't being honest if you are saying that it wasn't used for pirated copies to play online.
It would be like me standing on the corner and handing out keys to your house. You could argue that these keys can be used for anything, not necessarily entering your house. It would be a stupid argument though since the keys are designed specifically for your house. bnetd was specifically designed to play cracked Blizzard games. Blizzard had every right to shut them down.
I believe that would be really really hard to prove.
So you think the PS3 will trounce the 360 because everyone already bought a 360. Brilliant logic there!
I think you missed my point (and so did the mods). If something is exploding, then there is pressure on the inside trying to get out. If it was external forces, it would be imploding. The correct mod for my first post is +1 Funny and your post should be +0 Whoosh.
It's not dead...it's pining for the fjords.
Uh no, that's not quite how it works.
If it is exploding, it is obviously due to internal forces.
Ugh, I totally disagree. Games on the 360 are just fine for this gen. Graphics are good and I enjoy the box. If people have to put games on multiple discs, fine, that isn't a big deal. It doesn't look any worse than the PS3. The lifecycles of game consoles need to be longer both for the company's profits and because there isn't anything that is going to give the consumer a significant change. We aren't seeing the NES to super nintendo differences anymore. So let's give more time for the technology to improve.
And I am not sure what you are talking about as far as FPS and racing games. It has the best RPGs of all the consoles.
Umm, so what is a website? Stuff that only uses HTML? Sorry, that just isn't how it is used. You have a website for online training. Doesn't matter if it is flash, pdf, word, it is still a website. Just like if I write a program in C, Java, or C#, the output is still going to be called an executable or a binary.
Uhh, no offense, but I think some college student removing a picture from flickr is a bit different than labeling people "un-American" for opposing a war that turned out to be bullshit and killed tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people.
That being said, the image shouldn't be removed. Free speech and all that good stuff. But with that in mind, I still think the people who do this and the Hitler stuff are tools who have no idea what they are talking about.
Stanley Steamer...you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. *shudder*
Oh! I finally came up with an analogy! Criticizing Blizzard for making non-innovative games is like criticizing Britney Spears because she doesn't sing about how to solve differential equations. They are doing what works for them and lots of people still love them anyways. (Not a perfect analogy though, because Blizzard doesn't suck)
That's such a strange criticism. Blizzard also could have added a portal gun, made you make moral choices, and give you a dog that followed you around and dug up treasure. Maybe their lore didn't want to add in time travel. Maybe none of the developers thought of it.
This whole "games have to be innovative" crap needs to go away. Innovation doesn't make a good game. I'll be more than happy if SCII is as fun as the first SC with better graphics and more story. You don't need Blizzard to have time travel, because this game has it.
And even more than that, Blizzard is a legendary company because it doesn't innovate. It takes a genre and polishes it better than any other company to make some of the most popular games of all time. And you, random guy posting to Slashdot, think you know better. Give me a break.
If your "pyramid" is small enough it is easy-ish to read, not so much if it is a large chunk of code. I say easy-ish because it looks like awkward coding to me. If it spanned a page, it would be hard to keep track of which teardown call mapped to which if statement. It would be every easy to associate the wrong call with the wrong if statement. It would be less ambiguous and less prone for bugs with goto's.
Geo Defense. $1. Amazing value. And I say this as someone who doesn't even own an iPhone but got to play a friend's. The best dollar he ever spent and it actually made me want an iPhone. Though I won't get one until they go to Verizon. But oh how I want one. Pretty much just because of that game.
Wait, what??? You mean my Three Wolf Moon T-shirt really won't score me any dates? Should I cancel my Zubaz pants as well?
Simply because you want a game company to include a LAN option doesn't mean that the majority of their customers care. See, your stupid argument can be used against you.
Actually, I thought they did a good job. Most of the highly modded questions were people spazzing out about the LAN thing. I know it isn't going to have LAN, I don't care. I understand other people do, but Blizzard has already put out multiple statements about it. I'd rather find out other things that are going on with Blizzard. Quite frankly, if we used Slashdot submitted questions this time around, I'd be embarrassed for the Slashdot community.
I said this in another post, but I'll repeat it here. What company in its right mind would give up their cd key authentication scheme to a bunch of people who reversed their network code? And bnetd was doing that so they wouldn't be shut down, not so that they could stop piracy.
So you used it for a free beta? That's nice but completely irrelevant to the discussion. You could have still played the beta and not used bnetd and bought the game. Really, the whole I pirated the game and then bought it is a pretty lame justification for piracy. It makes you less of a jerk, for sure, but I don't think it justifies it.
I live in New Mexico and don't have the issues you are are talking about. I am sure there are some places where battle.net is less than optimal. The problem is, that doesn't give people the right to do what they want with Blizzard's product.
I don't really get it. People on here put up with far worse crap from apple yet I don't see everyone screaming about boycotting them.
Just as a note, I love Firefly. Eve is no Firefly. Eve is more like Voyager. Painful and usually awkward for everyone involved.
Umm, every LAN party I have ever been to has been connected to the Internet.