Guild Wars is no more "massive" than Quake 1. There is a centralized server which you use to join smaller actual games, which have a limit of 8 players per team. As the only part of the game that has more than a fairly small number of people is basically a pretty chatroom, GW is no more an MMORPG than any other game which has a matchmaking service.
That isn't to say it isn't a fun game, though.
WoW launched with multiple 40 person raid instances, and regardless of if you think that was a mistake, at this point in time they have many customers who have already organized enough people to run through all of the raid content every week, and so want more.
Considering that it is dialog, it is almost exactly the same as watching a movie muted with subtitles on. While more voiceovers would be nice (there are a few), I shudder to think what would happen to the size of the game, and most players would still skip past it.
I'll admit that the story is not one of WoW's strong points, but to claim that there is none would require not actually caring about it.
It falls back to a 5KB/s http download. However, it's far easier just to use one of the many mirrors that is inevitably posted on the forums, even for people who can use the updater.
My buddy Bob got cought in a few roll backs in a row cuz of there server problems.
Significant rollbacks (over 5 minutes) is about the only problem that WoW has not had server related. There have been a few, but well under one per server.
You can buy a pre burned CD for a small fee or you can download the ISO free and burn it yerself.
I'd sure Blizzard would have loved to do that, but Valve barely managed to even sell thier game online. Do you think Vivendi would ever allow Blizz to give a game away free, completly cutting them out of the money?
Actually, you can. Hold down shift while clicking the form button and it opens in a new page. Ctrl-Shift for new page in background. The fact that this works for nearly everything in Opera is one of the unfortunatly poorly documented features.
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/
http://www.w3.org/TR/css-print/
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/
Saying CSS3 is a WIP isn't entirely accurate -- all of the above are CSS3 modules that have made it to Candidate Recommendation, and are recommended for implementation. There's certainly plenty of things for them to do without worrying about breaking things in the future.
Opera can run off a CD with no write access anywhere on the HD. It doesn't run particularly well without any cache space, but if you have at least 512 megs of ram it'll still outperform IE.
http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml? index=114
They use huge piles of static files for performance, but that doesn't mean that each one is created by hand. Considering how trivial it is to create a simple templated CMS to generate the page, anyone who even attempted to do that by hand is an idiot.
In fact, I'd say that any site that has over 10 pages with similar styling that might ever have to be updated should always use some form of a CMS, even if the CMS is only a short perl script that reads in a template, reads the file to be added, applies the template, and writes the html (perhaps 10 lines of code). To change the styling, update the template and rebuild the site. Not all that different from Dreamweaver's handling, except you don't have to reupload the entire site again, and its easier to add dynamic elements.
The real problem is that none of the current php-devs are interested in resolving the issues, as they are happy with apache 1.3. Until someone who cares about the problem actually contributes the code, it'll stay how it is.
I'm running Opera off my USB disk right now. It took 5 minutes to set up (install in single user mode on disk, delete drive letters from opera.ini, customize)
Have you even looked at a remotely recent version of Opera? I count 17 buttons and 8 menus on the default settings for Opera 7.54, and 7.6 removes a menu from that.
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Does your site happen to not work in Opera?
Considering that the problem we have is that the stupid people are having too many babies, not too few, that doesn't really work.
Guild Wars is no more "massive" than Quake 1. There is a centralized server which you use to join smaller actual games, which have a limit of 8 players per team. As the only part of the game that has more than a fairly small number of people is basically a pretty chatroom, GW is no more an MMORPG than any other game which has a matchmaking service. That isn't to say it isn't a fun game, though.
WoW launched with multiple 40 person raid instances, and regardless of if you think that was a mistake, at this point in time they have many customers who have already organized enough people to run through all of the raid content every week, and so want more.
Guild Wars is not an MMORPG, which does indeed make posts about it in a thread about MMORPGs offtopic.
Unless UCSB is short for UniverSity of California at Berkeley and the rearranged the letters for the acronym, I'm not sure how UCSB == Cal.
That's coming (finally) in php 5.1 with PDO.
Absolutly. They've made a lot of changes in two years of work. Even upgrading from 7.54 the changes are immediatly noticable.
Although its data isn't perfect, http://www.wowecon.com/ provides a mod for ingame average auction prices.
It's a bit of a strech to call Fluxbox "something graphical". That's why I use bb4win, so I get the crappiness of windows with the bad UI of linux!
Considering that it is dialog, it is almost exactly the same as watching a movie muted with subtitles on. While more voiceovers would be nice (there are a few), I shudder to think what would happen to the size of the game, and most players would still skip past it. I'll admit that the story is not one of WoW's strong points, but to claim that there is none would require not actually caring about it.
There's no story if you just click past it, as most players do. There's plenty of stuff if you actually read it.
It falls back to a 5KB/s http download. However, it's far easier just to use one of the many mirrors that is inevitably posted on the forums, even for people who can use the updater.
Actually, you can. Hold down shift while clicking the form button and it opens in a new page. Ctrl-Shift for new page in background. The fact that this works for nearly everything in Opera is one of the unfortunatly poorly documented features.
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css-print/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/ Saying CSS3 is a WIP isn't entirely accurate -- all of the above are CSS3 modules that have made it to Candidate Recommendation, and are recommended for implementation. There's certainly plenty of things for them to do without worrying about breaking things in the future.
Opera can run off a CD with no write access anywhere on the HD. It doesn't run particularly well without any cache space, but if you have at least 512 megs of ram it'll still outperform IE. http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml? index=114
They use huge piles of static files for performance, but that doesn't mean that each one is created by hand. Considering how trivial it is to create a simple templated CMS to generate the page, anyone who even attempted to do that by hand is an idiot. In fact, I'd say that any site that has over 10 pages with similar styling that might ever have to be updated should always use some form of a CMS, even if the CMS is only a short perl script that reads in a template, reads the file to be added, applies the template, and writes the html (perhaps 10 lines of code). To change the styling, update the template and rebuild the site. Not all that different from Dreamweaver's handling, except you don't have to reupload the entire site again, and its easier to add dynamic elements.
That's C++. The shortest C version is two lines, as is the shortest C++ version.
C:
#include
void main() { while(printf("This is the infinite sig...")); }
C++:
#include
int main() { while(cout"This is the infinite sig..."); return 0; }
The real problem is that none of the current php-devs are interested in resolving the issues, as they are happy with apache 1.3. Until someone who cares about the problem actually contributes the code, it'll stay how it is.
I'm running Opera off my USB disk right now. It took 5 minutes to set up (install in single user mode on disk, delete drive letters from opera.ini, customize)
During the time he wasn't allowed to use a computer the companies he worked for provided a dedicated typer/reader.
He wasn't a convicted felon at the time. In fact, he wasn't even put on trial for an extended period of time (8 months iirc).
Have you even looked at a remotely recent version of Opera? I count 17 buttons and 8 menus on the default settings for Opera 7.54, and 7.6 removes a menu from that.