Blizzard have just announced their system, it is purely cosmetic changes to your character's appearance - gender, face, hair and skin color, hairstyle - combined with the paid name change service already available. No items, not even fluff. Certainly nothing that has any in-game effect on your character's abilities.
I quit WoW when it started making the following statements...
Given that all of those problems were problems with you, rather than problems with the game, it's hardly surprising that the new expansion pack wasn't able to fix them.
AmigaOS multitasked, and didn't use memory mapping like that... It had a flat memory model, and ran on processors which lacked the necessary memory management hardware.
And paid the price, in the form of one program being able to trample another's memory, or crash the whole system (hence the famous Guru Meditation).
The Amiga was actually the first thing I thought of when I read this Ask Slashdot - you may recall the immense prejudice against virtual memory from a lot of Amiga users, who thought that virtual memory simply meant swapping to disk. They didn't realise that releasing a range of Amigas which all had MMUs (i.e. non-crippled 030+ CPUs) and a version of the OS with virtual memory would cure a number of ills completely unrelated to swapping, such as memory fragmentation and the aforementioned ability of one rogue program to bring down the system.
Yesterday I wanted to play Halflife during my lunch break on my laptop. Mind that this is my private laptop and therefore I've no internet connection at work. Ofcourse Steam decided that I can't play until I've reconnected to internet first.
Steam screwed me the same way. I had a prolonged internet outage at home, and deprived of World of Warcraft I went looking for a single-player game to amuse me. Decided to replay Half-life 2. But no. No internet = no single-player HL2 thanks to Steam's DRM. You can be sure that I will never be purchasing another game via Steam, and also that I laughed derisively at Newell's comment that "The goal should be to create greater value for customers through service value (make it easy for me to play my games whenever and wherever I want to), not by decreasing the value of a product (maybe I'll be able to play my game and maybe I won't)."
The Slashdot crowd so often claims to be so enlightened on the religion issue, and claims to have such valuable insights on religion over and over, and then accuses spiritual people of holding ignorant and biased beliefs. Well guess what, my spirituality comes under fire all the time and I have to defend it at work, to my friends and to my family.
You know, you wouldn't have to defend your beliefs nearly so often if they weren't so ignorant and biased.
I mean, seriously, Quantum of Solace sucked hard and it was pretty obvious that chucking every damned effect and action scene they could think of at it was not what the movie needed.
Actually there are 450 million reasons so far why that was exactly what the movie needed.
Look, the fact is, if The Man wants to get you, The Man will get you. It doesn't matter what the laws are, exactly - they'll find something to hit you with.
That was true before the Lori Drew trial, and it's true now. The precedents set by this case in no way make being on the internet one bit more "risky". If you don't do anything to bring down the wrath of The Man, you'll be fine. And if you do, you're screwed, online or off.
I'm not the fat guy at the buffet. I'm the skinny guy who eats a normal amount.
Given that the median monthly data usage of a Comcast customer is 2 - 3 GB, and given that you're crying that a 250 GB cap is going to impinge on your internet TV, porn, Xbox demos, Linux ISOs and Steam purchases, I'm sorry, all evidence points to the fact that you ARE the fat guy at the buffet. 100x as much data as the median is not enough for you. I can only assume that the initial "C" in "DragonTHC" stands for "Creosote".
A bunch of my WoW guildmates were making plans to jump ship to WAR, but the preview weekend basically derailed any momentum they had. The reaction was pretty much unanimous disappointment, we were all very unimpressed with the "feel" of WAR, and it's really way too buggy at the moment to have any confidence that it will be in good shape come release. I expect some of us will still check it out, but any thoughts of it replacing WoW as "the game to play" have evaporated.
It won't be another Age of Conan debacle, but it won't steal significant market share from WoW.
I suspect far more people cut travel plans short because of the TSA.
I travelled to the USA for work in 2005, and the experience was unpleasant enough that I can tell you with absolutely certainty that I will never return by choice until I hear that things have changed for the better. But everything I've heard in the three years since has made it sound like things are getting worse and worse.
He goes head-to-head against the world champion of Kung-fu Go.
Interesting you should mention Go. Did you know that because a Go board is so large, and there is such a vast number of variations in individual games, it is much much harder to program a computer to play Go than Chess? Indeed the best Go programs are only on the level of intermediate amateur human players. I would have thought this would be of interest to Slashdotters (the "news for nerds" site), but for some reason I have never seen this mentioned here before.
More than even the speed most of the time what I most appreciate about broadband is its always on nature
Exactly. My elderly parents switched from dial-up to ADSL (a low-end plan) a couple of years back. Did they care about "high speed internet"? Hell no. They wanted a connection that was always on, didn't tie up the phone line, didn't mean waiting a minute for a connection every time they wanted to send an email, didn't mean another 20c on the bill every time they connected (local calls ain't free in Australia), etc. etc. It's the always on nature that's the selling point for most "casual" internet users, not the speed.
Yes, by finish the game, I meant finish Hell difficulty too. You need an effective build (uses synergies for heavy damage, and is also capable of dealing a second type of damage for mobs immune to your primary) but you're not limited to "one of a few uber-builds" by any means.
I will concede that 1.10 changed enough skills from 1.09 that if you already had a high level character when 1.10 landed, it's very possible that you could find yourself now incurably gimp and unable to beat the game unless you started a new character with 1.10-appropriate skill choices.
The 1.10 patch made the game no longer possible to finish by yourself.
What the hell? That's completely untrue. While multiplayer was easier (difficulty scaled with number of players, but really, not proportional to the power of multiple players), it was perfectly possible to finish the game solo.
Unfortunately, when you choose an argument such as this "he never existed," you're disregarding your beloved wikipedia which you'd normally jump to for a link instantly when it fit your needs.
wtf, did you actually READ the article you linked? Or just glance at it, go "oh it's really long", and assume that there was mountains of historical record regarding Jesus.
Go READ it. You'll find a lot of records concerning the Christian faith, dating back to roughly fifty years after the time that Jesus was allegedly crucified. But nothing before that. It's quite clear that Srothroc's comment "a lot of people claim that Jesus was an actual person, but in an era that had an extensive bureaucratic system and census, no record was ever made of him," is an accurate summary of the situation.
There's a popular Christian saying "there is more evidence for Jesus than for Julius Caesar." But it's an absolute bare-faced lie.
That is the reason I do not use any email alert/notification. I do not want to be disturbed by any emails. I check my email when I have time.
Nice idea in theory. But what happens when you spend a few hours focusing on a task, undisturbed by email alerts - and then at the end, you go back, check your emails, and find one from just after you started work telling you that the task wasn't needed anymore? Or that the requirements had changed significantly?
You know, you can play your games in offline mode, where STEAM doesn't snoop on you all the time.
Some games maybe, but you can't play Half-Life 2 single-player in offline mode. Steam just doesn't allow it. So when I suffered a week long internet outage, tried to cure my WoW withdrawals with some HL2, and couldn't, I swore never ever to spend another cent on a game sold via Steam.
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You might like to try creating a fraudulent IMDb profile sometime, I think you'd find the experience educational.
Here's an example: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1885979/
No it isn't, it's a line of bullshit used for liberating the contents of gullible peoples' wallets.
Blizzard have just announced their system, it is purely cosmetic changes to your character's appearance - gender, face, hair and skin color, hairstyle - combined with the paid name change service already available. No items, not even fluff. Certainly nothing that has any in-game effect on your character's abilities.
http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?tag=CRCFAQ
Given that all of those problems were problems with you, rather than problems with the game, it's hardly surprising that the new expansion pack wasn't able to fix them.
I think the taggers in this story need to learn how to spell "Scheiße"
And paid the price, in the form of one program being able to trample another's memory, or crash the whole system (hence the famous Guru Meditation).
The Amiga was actually the first thing I thought of when I read this Ask Slashdot - you may recall the immense prejudice against virtual memory from a lot of Amiga users, who thought that virtual memory simply meant swapping to disk. They didn't realise that releasing a range of Amigas which all had MMUs (i.e. non-crippled 030+ CPUs) and a version of the OS with virtual memory would cure a number of ills completely unrelated to swapping, such as memory fragmentation and the aforementioned ability of one rogue program to bring down the system.
Steam screwed me the same way. I had a prolonged internet outage at home, and deprived of World of Warcraft I went looking for a single-player game to amuse me. Decided to replay Half-life 2. But no. No internet = no single-player HL2 thanks to Steam's DRM. You can be sure that I will never be purchasing another game via Steam, and also that I laughed derisively at Newell's comment that "The goal should be to create greater value for customers through service value (make it easy for me to play my games whenever and wherever I want to), not by decreasing the value of a product (maybe I'll be able to play my game and maybe I won't)."
You know, you wouldn't have to defend your beliefs nearly so often if they weren't so ignorant and biased.
Actually there are 450 million reasons so far why that was exactly what the movie needed.
Look, the fact is, if The Man wants to get you, The Man will get you. It doesn't matter what the laws are, exactly - they'll find something to hit you with.
That was true before the Lori Drew trial, and it's true now. The precedents set by this case in no way make being on the internet one bit more "risky". If you don't do anything to bring down the wrath of The Man, you'll be fine. And if you do, you're screwed, online or off.
I'd be wary about accepting a position at a company with such lax standards that a 5 digit Slashdot ID was considered acceptable.
Given that the median monthly data usage of a Comcast customer is 2 - 3 GB, and given that you're crying that a 250 GB cap is going to impinge on your internet TV, porn, Xbox demos, Linux ISOs and Steam purchases, I'm sorry, all evidence points to the fact that you ARE the fat guy at the buffet. 100x as much data as the median is not enough for you. I can only assume that the initial "C" in "DragonTHC" stands for "Creosote".
A bunch of my WoW guildmates were making plans to jump ship to WAR, but the preview weekend basically derailed any momentum they had. The reaction was pretty much unanimous disappointment, we were all very unimpressed with the "feel" of WAR, and it's really way too buggy at the moment to have any confidence that it will be in good shape come release. I expect some of us will still check it out, but any thoughts of it replacing WoW as "the game to play" have evaporated.
It won't be another Age of Conan debacle, but it won't steal significant market share from WoW.
..try "Lloyds ist toten hosen"
They probably won't change that one.
FRY: Man, I thought Ultimate Robot Fighting was real, like pro wrestling, but it turns out it's fixed, like boxing.
Trust me, linking to Eric S. Raymond's tiresome ramblings should never be necessary.
I travelled to the USA for work in 2005, and the experience was unpleasant enough that I can tell you with absolutely certainty that I will never return by choice until I hear that things have changed for the better. But everything I've heard in the three years since has made it sound like things are getting worse and worse.
Interesting you should mention Go. Did you know that because a Go board is so large, and there is such a vast number of variations in individual games, it is much much harder to program a computer to play Go than Chess? Indeed the best Go programs are only on the level of intermediate amateur human players. I would have thought this would be of interest to Slashdotters (the "news for nerds" site), but for some reason I have never seen this mentioned here before.
Exactly. My elderly parents switched from dial-up to ADSL (a low-end plan) a couple of years back. Did they care about "high speed internet"? Hell no. They wanted a connection that was always on, didn't tie up the phone line, didn't mean waiting a minute for a connection every time they wanted to send an email, didn't mean another 20c on the bill every time they connected (local calls ain't free in Australia), etc. etc. It's the always on nature that's the selling point for most "casual" internet users, not the speed.
Yes, by finish the game, I meant finish Hell difficulty too. You need an effective build (uses synergies for heavy damage, and is also capable of dealing a second type of damage for mobs immune to your primary) but you're not limited to "one of a few uber-builds" by any means.
I will concede that 1.10 changed enough skills from 1.09 that if you already had a high level character when 1.10 landed, it's very possible that you could find yourself now incurably gimp and unable to beat the game unless you started a new character with 1.10-appropriate skill choices.
What the hell? That's completely untrue. While multiplayer was easier (difficulty scaled with number of players, but really, not proportional to the power of multiple players), it was perfectly possible to finish the game solo.
wtf, did you actually READ the article you linked? Or just glance at it, go "oh it's really long", and assume that there was mountains of historical record regarding Jesus.
Go READ it. You'll find a lot of records concerning the Christian faith, dating back to roughly fifty years after the time that Jesus was allegedly crucified. But nothing before that. It's quite clear that Srothroc's comment "a lot of people claim that Jesus was an actual person, but in an era that had an extensive bureaucratic system and census, no record was ever made of him," is an accurate summary of the situation.
There's a popular Christian saying "there is more evidence for Jesus than for Julius Caesar." But it's an absolute bare-faced lie.
Nice idea in theory. But what happens when you spend a few hours focusing on a task, undisturbed by email alerts - and then at the end, you go back, check your emails, and find one from just after you started work telling you that the task wasn't needed anymore? Or that the requirements had changed significantly?