And yet you don't think about the guilds that came from other games that *hate* running instances for items. This patch, these items, and whatever seems to be Blizz trying to cater to the Shadowbane guilds that came over together. The EQ guilds seem to be content running the upper instances, but the 10-20 member tight knit pvp guilds have nothing to do... they have thier blue set pieces and no motivation or need (or the numbers) for the MC drops. They want the added conflict...
So yes, this is definetly them trying to cater to a different crowd. There will always be those people that like to pvp and there will be those that don't: I'm actually surprised that there haven't been too many "Blizzard is ignoring the PvE content to concentrate on Pvp! Noone likes Pvp!" posts. Then again, I don't read the official forums.:x
From his post, he is distributing the source... but only to those clients/customers that are buying it, not to the general public.
It was my impression that you could sell modified GPL made binaries to customers (with the source) without distributing the source or binary to the general public, or even contributing your modified source back to the original GPL'ed project that you started your project from.
So, from how I understand it, I don;t think that he is violating the GPL.
And at e3 there is so much "behind hte scenes business" that half the booths aren't demonstrating anything, they just look like secretaries sitting at a hijacked office front room setting up meetings for thier backroom people to beg for money from the suits that show up.
If the technology is not supported by the Apache Foundation, then I wouldn't worry about it. And since 'XmlHttpRequest' is nowhere to be found on search.apache.org then I wouldn't worry about it, no matter what Google is doing.
Color me a blizzard fan boy or whatever, but they those complaints are so hypocritical.
"People play MMO so they can play with a LOTS of other people, moving to a server which are "empty" defeats the whole point of why people bought this whole game in the first place."
And then...
"Lag is real, que's are real, problems which were talked about in BETA. There are no surprises, so what is going on is bad programming."
Lots of people on a server are going to produce lag/queue issues. People want lots of people on a server.
plus, some of the best games available for it are not 'n-gage' games, they're series60 games.
Actually, Palladium Games Rifts was set to come out only on the N-Gage. It was the only phone title that I've ever looked forward to, and the only reason that I visited the N-Gage booth at e3 (but I also checked to see if they had bomberman in a pvp setup, which they didn't). I've since stopped following the development of that game after playing it at e3. No matter what K Siembieda says, it does not hold true to the original intent of the p&p game.
I dropped out of my first PhD program when I was 24. It was in Physics, something I really didn't want to do. I worked for 3 years as a developer and now I'm working part time and going to school part time and will be done with my master's degree in Computer Science in a year.
So yeah, I'm just saying that you are correct sir.
Some people (*cough* ahem) pay upwards of $150 for jeans, just for a little design on thier back pockets.
I kind of aliken it to Research and Development, but when modern fashion designers are trying to push the envelope, >85% of the new ideas are crap, but that 15% of "cool" stuff defines a generation.
I don't think that they are "free" per se. More like thats what the hell we pay the $12.95/month for. It funnels back into the developers who try to maintain and expand the content of the game.
This whole concept is why (other) people still play Asheron's Call 1. Every month there is still new dungeons, new items and new quests to go out and explore and find so people and thier macros keep paying that monthly fee.
I think its more for Guild Websites than "news"
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Dark Age of Camelot had something similiar to this RSS feed two years ago. They kept track of guild and member pvp statistics (in the form of things called "Realm Points" and kill/death ratio and stuff) for each server and published the results to an XML file. Every DAoC "Pvp Guild" (I use the term loosely), had a php extension that showed real-time statistics of thier members and thier top-status on thier web page. So you could tell how good or bad a DAoC guild was by just browsing thier webpage!
I assume things will be done similar to this. Real time published statistics to guild web pages, showing those viewing them how active they are, how "good" they are, and which members are the better players in the guild. And since they will be updated in real-time, it should be obvious if the information they are publishing is valid (cause a witty programmer could just change all thier published statistics to "win", but then that wouldnt match up with the central server).
The reason people are labeled "pirates" in this case is that they are not paying the commercial patent fees that are due to the various patent groups that own the media compression algorithms.
Whats crazy is that how the MPEG4 standards work is open and understood, yet implementations are patent encumbered. Thats the reason you won't find FOSS software players: they can't implement the decoding process since it involves using the decompression algorithms.
So I don't think that "pirate" is the correct term, since no copyright is being violated. The developers that write and distribte the software should be labeled "non-patent royalty paying software writer" while those that use it should be labeled "bad people" (or whatever, but not pirates) since they are buying software from a developer that implemented patents without paying for them.
I would say this is more analagous to a band covering a song and distributing the cover rather than someone copying the original band's song and distributing that.
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Most of the "younger generation of hackers" did not start p2p sharing/downloading with Kazaa, we all got started using Napster. *Everyone* was using it, and it was so new and easy that even some other older guys at my work used it to get rare live classical tracks! Being introduced to Napster, when it was just a killer application that everyone used and only Metallica hated, gave users a very different introdction to peer to peer networks than the post-RIAA closed Napster and RIAA Kazaa file sharing lawsuits.
I didnt think it was immoral, none of my friends in the same age category (now late 20's) thought it was immoral, it was just radical how cool and easy (and free!) it was to check out a new track or download some Skynard and rock out in your bedroom. I remember no one really had a CD burner, so all people did was listen to the mp3s on winamp and never in thier car or discman.
I guess the point of this post is that I would don't see Kazaa as the start of the younger generation p2p sharing, everything started with Napster.
If you have an open WAN for anonymous people to connect to the internet over, can the owner of the router (and ISP connection) be held responsible for sharing files over said connection?
The only problem with that is I have had real bad problems lately with false-positives being delivered into my yahoo inbox. I'm talking 80+ messages a day to my bulk folder and 20ish messages a day delivered into my inbox. Yahoo's spam filter has been cracked by someone because there are quite a few messages that are getting around it easily. And from the looks of it, there is no fix in sight.
There was some "Linux Professional" link posted here like 3 months ago to the Novell page where you could give them your name and address and they would send you a SuSE CD install package (3 CDs) for free. No need for downloading the ISOs.
Of course, I didn't save the link nor am I able to find it.:-(
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Having worked with Java, I'd say a powerful IDE like Eclipse is a requirement.
Lots of people were writing Java code long before Eclipse was released. A random text editor (Textpad) interfacing with Java1.1 was sufficient to write and compile a lot of early java code. I think that the JRE was setup so nicely that its integration into IDE's is/was so easy that everyone writing Java is now using an interactive IDE. Its not that the language requires one, its just that thats how programming is done nowadays.
Isn't that the same thing with all programs in any programming language? If you have an esoteric line with no comment around it to back up the twelve operations that its doing, then it is going to be confusing no matter what its written in.
I think the thing with perl is that it can be almost too powerful for the amount of time that you have to put into writing a script, therefore if you only spend 5 minutes writing it and it would take you 10 minutes to write it with proper commenting, then most people won't bother commenting thier code. Just like anything, the comment/documentation problem resides when a 5 minute script becomes a two month project. In any language.
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And yet you don't think about the guilds that came from other games that *hate* running instances for items. This patch, these items, and whatever seems to be Blizz trying to cater to the Shadowbane guilds that came over together. The EQ guilds seem to be content running the upper instances, but the 10-20 member tight knit pvp guilds have nothing to do... they have thier blue set pieces and no motivation or need (or the numbers) for the MC drops. They want the added conflict...
:x
So yes, this is definetly them trying to cater to a different crowd. There will always be those people that like to pvp and there will be those that don't: I'm actually surprised that there haven't been too many "Blizzard is ignoring the PvE content to concentrate on Pvp! Noone likes Pvp!" posts. Then again, I don't read the official forums.
From his post, he is distributing the source... but only to those clients/customers that are buying it, not to the general public.
It was my impression that you could sell modified GPL made binaries to customers (with the source) without distributing the source or binary to the general public, or even contributing your modified source back to the original GPL'ed project that you started your project from.
So, from how I understand it, I don;t think that he is violating the GPL.
And at e3 there is so much "behind hte scenes business" that half the booths aren't demonstrating anything, they just look like secretaries sitting at a hijacked office front room setting up meetings for thier backroom people to beg for money from the suits that show up.
If the technology is not supported by the Apache Foundation, then I wouldn't worry about it. And since 'XmlHttpRequest' is nowhere to be found on search.apache.org then I wouldn't worry about it, no matter what Google is doing.
they are cheaper than sending manned missions up to repair old things.
the problem is that with the war, there is no money to do either. and that is the politicians.
That article's comments has more references to "M$" than any I've ever seen.
Color me a blizzard fan boy or whatever, but they those complaints are so hypocritical.
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"People play MMO so they can play with a LOTS of other people, moving to a server which are "empty" defeats the whole point of why people bought this whole game in the first place."
And then
"Lag is real, que's are real, problems which were talked about in BETA. There are no surprises, so what is going on is bad programming."
Lots of people on a server are going to produce lag/queue issues. People want lots of people on a server.
People want lag/queue issues.
"Can you see me now?"
I should have stated "watching the game play demo reels at e3". You're right that there was no working playable demo there. :/
plus, some of the best games available for it are not 'n-gage' games, they're series60 games.
Actually, Palladium Games Rifts was set to come out only on the N-Gage. It was the only phone title that I've ever looked forward to, and the only reason that I visited the N-Gage booth at e3 (but I also checked to see if they had bomberman in a pvp setup, which they didn't). I've since stopped following the development of that game after playing it at e3. No matter what K Siembieda says, it does not hold true to the original intent of the p&p game.
I dropped out of my first PhD program when I was 24. It was in Physics, something I really didn't want to do. I worked for 3 years as a developer and now I'm working part time and going to school part time and will be done with my master's degree in Computer Science in a year.
So yeah, I'm just saying that you are correct sir.
Some people (*cough* ahem) pay upwards of $150 for jeans, just for a little design on thier back pockets.
I kind of aliken it to Research and Development, but when modern fashion designers are trying to push the envelope, >85% of the new ideas are crap, but that 15% of "cool" stuff defines a generation.
I don't think that they are "free" per se. More like thats what the hell we pay the $12.95/month for. It funnels back into the developers who try to maintain and expand the content of the game.
This whole concept is why (other) people still play Asheron's Call 1. Every month there is still new dungeons, new items and new quests to go out and explore and find so people and thier macros keep paying that monthly fee.
Dark Age of Camelot had something similiar to this RSS feed two years ago. They kept track of guild and member pvp statistics (in the form of things called "Realm Points" and kill/death ratio and stuff) for each server and published the results to an XML file. Every DAoC "Pvp Guild" (I use the term loosely), had a php extension that showed real-time statistics of thier members and thier top-status on thier web page. So you could tell how good or bad a DAoC guild was by just browsing thier webpage!
I assume things will be done similar to this. Real time published statistics to guild web pages, showing those viewing them how active they are, how "good" they are, and which members are the better players in the guild. And since they will be updated in real-time, it should be obvious if the information they are publishing is valid (cause a witty programmer could just change all thier published statistics to "win", but then that wouldnt match up with the central server).
The reason people are labeled "pirates" in this case is that they are not paying the commercial patent fees that are due to the various patent groups that own the media compression algorithms.
Whats crazy is that how the MPEG4 standards work is open and understood, yet implementations are patent encumbered. Thats the reason you won't find FOSS software players: they can't implement the decoding process since it involves using the decompression algorithms.
So I don't think that "pirate" is the correct term, since no copyright is being violated. The developers that write and distribte the software should be labeled "non-patent royalty paying software writer" while those that use it should be labeled "bad people" (or whatever, but not pirates) since they are buying software from a developer that implemented patents without paying for them.
I would say this is more analagous to a band covering a song and distributing the cover rather than someone copying the original band's song and distributing that.
Oregon Trail was none of those things.
Most of the "younger generation of hackers" did not start p2p sharing/downloading with Kazaa, we all got started using Napster. *Everyone* was using it, and it was so new and easy that even some other older guys at my work used it to get rare live classical tracks! Being introduced to Napster, when it was just a killer application that everyone used and only Metallica hated, gave users a very different introdction to peer to peer networks than the post-RIAA closed Napster and RIAA Kazaa file sharing lawsuits.
I didnt think it was immoral, none of my friends in the same age category (now late 20's) thought it was immoral, it was just radical how cool and easy (and free!) it was to check out a new track or download some Skynard and rock out in your bedroom. I remember no one really had a CD burner, so all people did was listen to the mp3s on winamp and never in thier car or discman.
I guess the point of this post is that I would don't see Kazaa as the start of the younger generation p2p sharing, everything started with Napster.
If you have an open WAN for anonymous people to connect to the internet over, can the owner of the router (and ISP connection) be held responsible for sharing files over said connection?
its the hair.
I always pronounced it "Soose". But then again, I don't talk to any of my linux friends IRL either.
On a related note, since I had only seen it in print, I used to pronounce "melee" as ME-LEE instead of using the more common/correct may-lay.
The only problem with that is I have had real bad problems lately with false-positives being delivered into my yahoo inbox. I'm talking 80+ messages a day to my bulk folder and 20ish messages a day delivered into my inbox. Yahoo's spam filter has been cracked by someone because there are quite a few messages that are getting around it easily. And from the looks of it, there is no fix in sight.
There was some "Linux Professional" link posted here like 3 months ago to the Novell page where you could give them your name and address and they would send you a SuSE CD install package (3 CDs) for free. No need for downloading the ISOs.
:-(
Of course, I didn't save the link nor am I able to find it.
Having worked with Java, I'd say a powerful IDE like Eclipse is a requirement.
Lots of people were writing Java code long before Eclipse was released. A random text editor (Textpad) interfacing with Java1.1 was sufficient to write and compile a lot of early java code. I think that the JRE was setup so nicely that its integration into IDE's is/was so easy that everyone writing Java is now using an interactive IDE. Its not that the language requires one, its just that thats how programming is done nowadays.
I'm waiting for an implant in my ear that will read me (in my own voice) my email. Then I can just speak aloud and click my tounge to send one off.
or something very well defined and documented
Isn't that the same thing with all programs in any programming language? If you have an esoteric line with no comment around it to back up the twelve operations that its doing, then it is going to be confusing no matter what its written in.
I think the thing with perl is that it can be almost too powerful for the amount of time that you have to put into writing a script, therefore if you only spend 5 minutes writing it and it would take you 10 minutes to write it with proper commenting, then most people won't bother commenting thier code. Just like anything, the comment/documentation problem resides when a 5 minute script becomes a two month project. In any language.