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What I'd really like is if the companies would release the source to the old games so that I could finally fix the blasted bugs in some of my old favorites. I have a legal copy of Heroes of Might and Magic 4, and can play it whenever I want, but I currently only play that game multi-player because the AI sucks so absurdly much that it makes single-player mode pointless. I think that with a few weeks of work I could make the AI strong enough to pose a challenge, at least on the hardest level, and then I would have a whole lot of fun playing it again. Oh, and I'd change how potions of immortality work, but that's another topic. I don't expect this to happen though, it seems that the current owners of the Heroes of Might and Magic source are coming out with Heroes 5, with even fancier graphics, which will probably suck compared to what Heroes 4 would be like with a decent AI and a little fine-tuning, so they won't want the competition.
I think that the innovation that the patent is really about is removeing the first/last paragraph from an email before you apply the usual spam detection methods. Since many spams have a final paragraph that consists of random words, this makes sense, although it seems rather too obvious to get a patent on.
Good point there, and a funny way of making it. You certainly did hinder my access to what you had typed, since it took about 10 seconds for me to realize that it was an actual comment and not just gibberish, and another 15 seconds or so to remember what the decoder for that encryption format is called and run it. Given that laws are rarely written by techies, it is quite possible that your post was illegal in some localities because you hindered my access to its contents.
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What I'd really like is if the companies would release the source to the old
games so that I could finally fix the blasted bugs in some of my old favorites.
I have a legal copy of Heroes of Might and Magic 4, and can play it whenever
I want, but I currently only play that game multi-player because the AI sucks
so absurdly much that it makes single-player mode pointless. I think that
with a few weeks of work I could make the AI strong enough to pose a challenge,
at least on the hardest level, and then I would have a whole lot of fun playing
it again. Oh, and I'd change how potions of immortality work, but that's another
topic.
I don't expect this to happen though, it seems that the current owners of the
Heroes of Might and Magic source are coming out with Heroes 5, with even fancier
graphics, which will probably suck compared to what Heroes 4 would be like with
a decent AI and a little fine-tuning, so they won't want the competition.
I think that the innovation that the patent is really about is removeing the first/last paragraph from an email before you apply the usual spam detection methods. Since many spams have a final paragraph that consists of random words, this makes sense, although it seems rather too obvious to get a patent on.
Good point there, and a funny way of making it. You certainly did hinder my access to what you had typed, since it took about 10 seconds for me to realize that it was an actual comment and not just gibberish, and another 15 seconds or so to remember what the decoder for that encryption format is called and run it.
Given that laws are rarely written by techies, it is quite possible that your post was illegal in some localities because you hindered my access to its contents.