i'm willing to be 99% of the people who "stole" it used windows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bill Gates is responsible for Lucas dropping below the 300# mark. he must suffer for this!!!!!!
I'd be willing to blame things like, say, episodes I and II before blaming anything else.
This is not to say the movie wasn't pirated, I'm sure it was, but rather that for once the filmmaker may be entirely to blame for an unexpectedly-low box office return.
I bet it does well on video, I'm planning to at least rent it at that point. I am otherwise unwilling to even spend the time-and-bandwidth to download it, much less pay a theatre for the privilege to suffer through another one of these; despite the people who are saying "this one doesn't suck, honest."
But does underrated also boosts the karma of the poster?
I sure hope so! That's what I use on good posts that are already classified (imho) properly. Likewise, the trolls/flamebait get overrated from me.
Back to the asteroid topic (oh. Yeah, that thing), is there any indication that the various space programs are looking at deterrant options? Something along the lines of blowing it up, or bonking it towards old Sol?
I'll go along and apologize for / retract the "entirely avoidable" because when I think of "server issues" I'm not thinking about total loss of connectivity. The closest thing to unplayable that I'd noticed, and perhaps I've been lucky, was nothing worse than very bad lag in a few popular territories.
Out of curiosity, are the dropped connections heralded by latency? That would be an indication, to me, that I should move to the other continent. If not, however, I'll fully agree that this sounds like more of a pain in the ass than I gave it credit for.
I wonder why I haven't seen this yet. Does it happen often?
My car's radio has an antitheft code. If the radio loses power, the code must be re-entered in order for it to function.
If my radio goes missing, and someone calls to tell me that they've just bought it "used," then I'm going to suggest that they have absolutely no right to the code and that they should be quite pissed off that someone has sold them an unusable radio.
While it's true this guy hasn't purchased a stolen good, he has purchased something that doesn't work. Blizzard isn't the (only?) reason that his purchase is faulty.
Final Fantasy XXXVIII worked this way and people seemed to hate it (search penny-arcade for "world pass").
No-one I personally know would've purchased this game with that feature in place.
Further, the "server issues" are entirely avoidable. There are at least 4 areas that are appropriate for players of every level greater than five. I hear ("read") people complaining about "This stormrage server" or "this frostwolf server" and I laugh. Why? Because each of those named realms is a cluster of servers.
I've seen zero documentation, but at a guess I would say there is at least one server for:
General authentication and login (prior to seeing your current realm's character list).
Each realm's mail system, as the mail can be lagged when the gameplay is not.
Each realm's auction system, for the same reason as the above.
Each "territory" in the realm, i.e. "the barrens" or "hillsbrad foothills".
I believe that last to be true because I have been in voice-communication with guildmates and found that I have experienced very low latency and a very responsive game while fighting in, say, thousand needles, while my friends are lagged to shit-and-back at Tarren Mill. I would even go so far as to theorize that the
contested" areas are generally going to be much more prone to lag and general latency.
To summarize: when lagged, move to another territory (in the same realm) that is appropriate for your level.
Another heads up: if you parttook in the beta (or know someone who has kept the download from any of the late betas), that was enough to run the retail game. I picked up my retail box, entered the key, and never once touched the physical media.
All I had to do was allow the beta to automatically patch itself and I'm still running it fine.
A little bit more on topic: why on earth are people still paying for used boxes of this? I was reading reports about this exact complaint in early december when guys had tried the game for a day and hated the opening-day lag.
Blizzard isn't ripping you (OP) off, the guy that willingly sold you an unusable product key has; you're totally letting him get away with it by ignoring his role in the act!
When was the last time they released anything truly innovative? Word 5 for Mac?
Tablet PC.
Apple Newton? Am I missing a feature, other than age, that makes these different?
X-box.
Heck no! X-Box Live might be a better example, perhaps, but fucking console game systems were around a long time before the X-Box.
Wheel scroll mice.
Totally agree. Why has everyone forgotten this?
Side-scrolling wheel mice.
Disagree. This functionality exists in the original wheelmouse. This is marketing, not innovation.
Microsoft Natural Keyboard.
Disagree. Google groups finds users discussing ergonomic keyboards prior to the 1996 (also found in google groups) discussions about the first Microsoft split keyboard.
The "windows" keys.
I'm not certain that this is innovation, but I sure as hell use the default bindings a lot. If any of you don't know, try WIN+R, WIN+E, or WIN+L on any semi-recent windows desktop. Additionally, WIN+M is a lot faster than clicking the "show desktop" icon when your boss stops by. I started seeing this in Windows 95. Further, I actually love the "rightclick" key if I'm browsing folders in a hurry.
Clippy. (You said "innovative", not "good.")
Crap, I might have to agree. I can't find any actual sources to cite an earlier example of an animated help personality that wasn't also offered by microsoft.
Task Pane from Office XP.
Disagree. Adobe offered this feature in the early 90's and I hated it then, too;)
Smart Tags.
These are an innovation only in that they apply an older technology, which we once called code-completion, to word processing. I've seen guys argue back and forth on/. as to whether that type of idea-expansion is true innovation or not, and I have no strong opinion on the issue, but the feature was a pretty good idea if you like typing documents with your mouse.
Oh, and let's not forget their IE extensions.
True! Without Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and early activex vulnerabilities, there would've been a lot less to complain about on slashdot all those years ago!:D
"if they have several million years of battery power..."
...And if we haven't just contaminated the breeding ground or, y'know, chosen (as huygens' LZ) to smash a probe vehicle into the one spot where the microbes were really partying.
First replier to your post explained the solution, but not so much why. Your bandwidth looks much like mine (Verizon DSL) and it is because of the "a" in aDSL that we would suffer that horrific downstream problem when uploading and downloading at the same time.
In short, the downstream and upstream share a buffer; if the buffer becomes full (i.e. maxxed out your upload capacity) then both streams will suffer. As the guy pointed out, Azureus (and other clients) will allow you to throttle your upstream.
In addition to this, you should also throttle your downstream just a bit (in case you are able to max it out, I believe the same problem could arise). I had mine throttled around 90% of each maximum (so about 175KB/12KB) and it worked like a charm.
As to the memory requirements, you might want to look into how often the client commits its memory cache to disk in order to alleviate this.
I had read (on slashdot, I thought) that the "live" email address is worth much more than the "unconfirmed" address' value.
What a lot of slashdot readers seem to miss (or so it appears) is that the objective of spam is not just sales.
I've read articles --again, here on slashdot-- that contained commentary such as "I can't believe people are actually buying this v14gr4," and "how are spammers making money?"
The answer, which I think we all know, is to sell the improved list. The business appears to be not only sales of the v14gr4, but advertising (page impressions), as well as verified email addresses. If those addresses were confirmed to have opened spam and been shown an advertisement, a list of such addresses is worth a shitload more than a stack of "cold" leads. Even if no one buys the "v14gr4" the website can still sell advertising to someone else, such as a pr0n site, and that entity is a lot more likely to get joe-just-been-spammed's business.
...provided that Joe can still jerk one off without this "h3rb41 v14gr4."
I believe this would be called "Mutually Assured Deletion," and it would give us hope that someone will finally remember that the only winning move is not to play.
There is a firefox setting (or an extension) for this. Something about one-window or one-true-window? I don't recall what the extension's name is, but I promise it used to work.
I'm horrified to agree, but I really believe you're correct in this last statement. I think this is precisely the ONLY type of campaign that can ever hope to "win" (not end, win) any war on terrorism. Not just in fallujah, or any part of one specific country, but throughout the region.
I don't think a candidate for re-election would've stood a chance in committing what are, I'm starting to think, necessary atrocities. I'm thinking the war we've seen in iraq (thus far) has been nothing more than groundwork for a larger and startlingly brilliant campaign.
For a moment, let's say that's all wrong and this isn't "the plan." Things get worse rather than better, and there will be no arguments in 2008 of "Well if he'd had 4 more years."
Let's say someone else had won, kerry or not, and now has the job of cleaning up. Let's say the guy needs more than 4 years to perform all the repair to our international credibility, relationships, etc. How does that person get re-elected?
This decision may end up causing more damage to america and the nations in the middle-east, but I wonder if it's not better to allow the process to finish before trying to roll it back (or, in the case of a real victory over terrorism) building fresh in new places.
Maybe I'm feeding a troll, maybe I should've posted anonymously, but I don't think it's worth the loss of political currency, right now, to be blamed for what will be a failed cleanup after W's presidency.
One last note. George W. Bush didn't outwit anyone. His campaign manager did, perhaps, or Kerry has defeated himself.
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I'd be willing to blame things like, say, episodes I and II before blaming anything else.
This is not to say the movie wasn't pirated, I'm sure it was, but rather that for once the filmmaker may be entirely to blame for an unexpectedly-low box office return.
I bet it does well on video, I'm planning to at least rent it at that point. I am otherwise unwilling to even spend the time-and-bandwidth to download it, much less pay a theatre for the privilege to suffer through another one of these; despite the people who are saying "this one doesn't suck, honest."
Yes, nightmare. You may recall that this is the difficulty following "Hurt me plenty."
I sure hope so! That's what I use on good posts that are already classified (imho) properly. Likewise, the trolls/flamebait get overrated from me.
Back to the asteroid topic (oh. Yeah, that thing), is there any indication that the various space programs are looking at deterrant options? Something along the lines of blowing it up, or bonking it towards old Sol?
Should we change it to "Tommy six-pack" instead of "Joe six-pack" now?
Thank you, Simone.
If I fail to provide the anti-theft code, would you place your complaint call to Volvo or would you call me?
Out of curiosity, are the dropped connections heralded by latency? That would be an indication, to me, that I should move to the other continent. If not, however, I'll fully agree that this sounds like more of a pain in the ass than I gave it credit for.
I wonder why I haven't seen this yet. Does it happen often?
If my radio goes missing, and someone calls to tell me that they've just bought it "used," then I'm going to suggest that they have absolutely no right to the code and that they should be quite pissed off that someone has sold them an unusable radio.
While it's true this guy hasn't purchased a stolen good, he has purchased something that doesn't work. Blizzard isn't the (only?) reason that his purchase is faulty.
No-one I personally know would've purchased this game with that feature in place.
Further, the "server issues" are entirely avoidable. There are at least 4 areas that are appropriate for players of every level greater than five. I hear ("read") people complaining about "This stormrage server" or "this frostwolf server" and I laugh. Why? Because each of those named realms is a cluster of servers.
I've seen zero documentation, but at a guess I would say there is at least one server for:
- General authentication and login (prior to seeing your current realm's character list).
- Each realm's mail system, as the mail can be lagged when the gameplay is not.
- Each realm's auction system, for the same reason as the above.
- Each "territory" in the realm, i.e. "the barrens" or "hillsbrad foothills".
I believe that last to be true because I have been in voice-communication with guildmates and found that I have experienced very low latency and a very responsive game while fighting in, say, thousand needles, while my friends are lagged to shit-and-back at Tarren Mill. I would even go so far as to theorize that the contested" areas are generally going to be much more prone to lag and general latency.To summarize: when lagged, move to another territory (in the same realm) that is appropriate for your level.
All I had to do was allow the beta to automatically patch itself and I'm still running it fine.
A little bit more on topic: why on earth are people still paying for used boxes of this? I was reading reports about this exact complaint in early december when guys had tried the game for a day and hated the opening-day lag.
Blizzard isn't ripping you (OP) off, the guy that willingly sold you an unusable product key has; you're totally letting him get away with it by ignoring his role in the act!
I have to agree here. Does this even serve a purpose?
Tablet PC.
Apple Newton? Am I missing a feature, other than age, that makes these different?
X-box.
Heck no! X-Box Live might be a better example, perhaps, but fucking console game systems were around a long time before the X-Box.
Wheel scroll mice.
Totally agree. Why has everyone forgotten this?
Side-scrolling wheel mice.
Disagree. This functionality exists in the original wheelmouse. This is marketing, not innovation.
Microsoft Natural Keyboard.
Disagree. Google groups finds users discussing ergonomic keyboards prior to the 1996 (also found in google groups) discussions about the first Microsoft split keyboard.The "windows" keys.
I'm not certain that this is innovation, but I sure as hell use the default bindings a lot. If any of you don't know, try WIN+R, WIN+E, or WIN+L on any semi-recent windows desktop. Additionally, WIN+M is a lot faster than clicking the "show desktop" icon when your boss stops by. I started seeing this in Windows 95. Further, I actually love the "rightclick" key if I'm browsing folders in a hurry.
Clippy. (You said "innovative", not "good.")
Crap, I might have to agree. I can't find any actual sources to cite an earlier example of an animated help personality that wasn't also offered by microsoft.
Task Pane from Office XP.
Disagree. Adobe offered this feature in the early 90's and I hated it then, too ;)
Smart Tags.
These are an innovation only in that they apply an older technology, which we once called code-completion, to word processing. I've seen guys argue back and forth on /. as to whether that type of idea-expansion is true innovation or not, and I have no strong opinion on the issue, but the feature was a pretty good idea if you like typing documents with your mouse.
Oh, and let's not forget their IE extensions.
True! Without Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and early activex vulnerabilities, there would've been a lot less to complain about on slashdot all those years ago! :D
"You can believe that when we have fully tactile 3d VR, we'll have it because the porn industry paid for it"
In short, the downstream and upstream share a buffer; if the buffer becomes full (i.e. maxxed out your upload capacity) then both streams will suffer. As the guy pointed out, Azureus (and other clients) will allow you to throttle your upstream.
In addition to this, you should also throttle your downstream just a bit (in case you are able to max it out, I believe the same problem could arise). I had mine throttled around 90% of each maximum (so about 175KB/12KB) and it worked like a charm.
As to the memory requirements, you might want to look into how often the client commits its memory cache to disk in order to alleviate this.
What a lot of slashdot readers seem to miss (or so it appears) is that the objective of spam is not just sales.
I've read articles --again, here on slashdot-- that contained commentary such as "I can't believe people are actually buying this v14gr4," and "how are spammers making money?"
The answer, which I think we all know, is to sell the improved list. The business appears to be not only sales of the v14gr4, but advertising (page impressions), as well as verified email addresses. If those addresses were confirmed to have opened spam and been shown an advertisement, a list of such addresses is worth a shitload more than a stack of "cold" leads. Even if no one buys the "v14gr4" the website can still sell advertising to someone else, such as a pr0n site, and that entity is a lot more likely to get joe-just-been-spammed's business.
Excellent troll/flamebait/funny; I wish I hadn't spent all my mod points yesterday.
Further, if I'm wrong, doesn't this announcement generate (or risk generating) more momentum in the "malware conglomerate" that's being reported?
I believe this would be called "Mutually Assured Deletion," and it would give us hope that someone will finally remember that the only winning move is not to play.
There is a firefox setting (or an extension) for this. Something about one-window or one-true-window? I don't recall what the extension's name is, but I promise it used to work.
I don't think a candidate for re-election would've stood a chance in committing what are, I'm starting to think, necessary atrocities. I'm thinking the war we've seen in iraq (thus far) has been nothing more than groundwork for a larger and startlingly brilliant campaign.
For a moment, let's say that's all wrong and this isn't "the plan." Things get worse rather than better, and there will be no arguments in 2008 of "Well if he'd had 4 more years."
Let's say someone else had won, kerry or not, and now has the job of cleaning up. Let's say the guy needs more than 4 years to perform all the repair to our international credibility, relationships, etc. How does that person get re-elected?
This decision may end up causing more damage to america and the nations in the middle-east, but I wonder if it's not better to allow the process to finish before trying to roll it back (or, in the case of a real victory over terrorism) building fresh in new places.
Maybe I'm feeding a troll, maybe I should've posted anonymously, but I don't think it's worth the loss of political currency, right now, to be blamed for what will be a failed cleanup after W's presidency.
One last note. George W. Bush didn't outwit anyone. His campaign manager did, perhaps, or Kerry has defeated himself.