No, I'm pretty sure you can do all of that today in their custom-written application (which may or may not be one of a kind). They did already publish a book using these methods afterall.
I'm not saying they should have had 1,000 servers up and running, rather, that they should have been prepared to add more servers quickly if the need arised.
That's exactly what they did. They had about 40 servers to start out with (which is how much EverQuest had a few years after release) and when they got swamped, they doubled it (two days after release, I believe).
The real problem right now is that people aren't spread out enough. Adding new servers does nothing to help the already crowded servers if people can't take their high level characters and guilds to the new servers.
What part of "There is a common perception that EULAs have not been tested in court. This is incorrect. They have been. In fact, very recently Blizzard's EULA was enforced in two separate cases and relief was granted based on the EULA's terms." don't you understand?
...any attorney that stated flat out that shrink-wrap licenses are per se enforceable (and I am not addressing their terms, just the device itself) would be risking malpractice.
And that's exactly why, in the article, the author says a reasonable lawyer will tell you that yes, they're enforceable, but with some caveats.
The fact of the matter seems to be that they're comparing what you can do today, with a little work, using XSL transforms, to what you may be able to do tomorrow with a proposed dedicated language.
Completely wrong. They're not talking about browsers at all. They're talking about what can be done with a program like prince (which one of the author's wrote). Current browser incompatibility is totally irrelevant.
I agree with you to an extent, and really I think Blizzard's best hope at this point would be to start allowing (or requiring perhaps) server transfers.
Nevertheless, a lot of big guilds did purposely decide to join the same servers.
Um, you realize, don't you, that 1/3 to 3/5 is still a minority of women? Women outnumber men as a whole (or at least used to) and so I wouldn't say that 1/3 to 3/5 of engineering students from abroad being women really counts as excelling. There's probably an inherent problem with the sample you're using anyway due to the nature of grad school and students studying abroad, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is.
Furthermore, I'm guessing you didn't read the article, because the Harvard President specifically talked about trying to raise his daughter in a gender-neutral environment, and didn't "try to push [his] views on women from a young age."
But those things happen sometimes. Sometimes projecters die. Sometimes cable goes down. This is the reality of the world. Furthermore, this type of thing happens with just about every new MMO, and should be expected.
And if you refuse to accept it because you're paying for it, the likelyhood that Blizzard will make up for that with free play time notwithstanding, then don't pay for it. That's how it works.
Actually, most of the servers are handling the load just fine. The problem is that a very large portion of the players are trying to play on a relatively small portion of the servers. There isn't much Blizzard can really do about this, though I'm sure they're trying their darndest. Opening new servers doesn't help, because there are already plenty of perfectly usable servers with low to medium populations.
Blizzard did stress test, and might have even used those products you mentioned. Nevertheless, servers can only handle so much, and when everyone piles on the same few, Blizzard's stuck.
It's not even that the stuff they set up couldn't handle the number of users; it's more that idiots have piled up on a relatively small number of servers, making those ones terrible to try to play on. The article says 20 servers were down, but that's out of over 80. A significant number, to be sure, but there are lots of servers with hardly any problems simply because they're not full to overflowing.
It likely wouldn't do anything to prices or service, as regardless of how much market share iTunes gets it will always be competing with free illegal downloads, as well as regular ol' CD's.
Seriously, are you an albino or something? Do you have some sort of eye problem that makes you extra sensitive to light? Because Apple's white products are positively NOT glaringly white. This has nothing to do with whether or not you like their style -- I could personally not care less. I have an iPod though, and the white color is really not glaring, specifically so, which I'm sure was intentional on Apple's part. Same thing with my friend's iBook.
They don't wear jackets at the Cinerama. Also, if you work at the Cinerama, you also work at the Pacific Place Theater a few blocks away, so there's a chance he'd be working at the other place on the opening day (though Pacific Place will probably be showing it too, the theaters there are nothing compared to the huge theater at Cinerama).
Furthermore, there's a good chance the theater will be sold out, and in that case someone would be the wiser -- probably the guy without a seat.
I have to further the "me too"-ness and agree with you there. It is definitely one of my all-time favorites. Great plot, style, and gameplay if you're into adventure games.
The thing is, if you make them interactive, they're not really cut-scenes anymore. The guy is basically just asking for games to get rid of cut-scenes.
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No, I'm pretty sure you can do all of that today in their custom-written application (which may or may not be one of a kind). They did already publish a book using these methods afterall.
I think what he meant was that the grandparent was exaggerating when he strongly implied that it was happening on all servers.
He wouldn't have gotten them if he hadn't specifically implied that it was affecting all servers.
I'm not saying they should have had 1,000 servers up and running, rather, that they should have been prepared to add more servers quickly if the need arised.
That's exactly what they did. They had about 40 servers to start out with (which is how much EverQuest had a few years after release) and when they got swamped, they doubled it (two days after release, I believe).
The real problem right now is that people aren't spread out enough. Adding new servers does nothing to help the already crowded servers if people can't take their high level characters and guilds to the new servers.
What part of "There is a common perception that EULAs have not been tested in court. This is incorrect. They have been. In fact, very recently Blizzard's EULA was enforced in two separate cases and relief was granted based on the EULA's terms." don't you understand?
...any attorney that stated flat out that shrink-wrap licenses are per se enforceable (and I am not addressing their terms, just the device itself) would be risking malpractice.
And that's exactly why, in the article, the author says a reasonable lawyer will tell you that yes, they're enforceable, but with some caveats.
The fact of the matter seems to be that they're comparing what you can do today, with a little work, using XSL transforms, to what you may be able to do tomorrow with a proposed dedicated language.
Completely wrong. They're not talking about browsers at all. They're talking about what can be done with a program like prince (which one of the author's wrote). Current browser incompatibility is totally irrelevant.
Or $0 per individual for a personal license. $2,000 per server for a business really isn't that much.
And THANK YOU to the grandparent! I was getting annoyed at all the long discussions about how IE does or doesn't support whatever. It's irrelevant!
I agree with you to an extent, and really I think Blizzard's best hope at this point would be to start allowing (or requiring perhaps) server transfers.
Nevertheless, a lot of big guilds did purposely decide to join the same servers.
Um, you realize, don't you, that 1/3 to 3/5 is still a minority of women? Women outnumber men as a whole (or at least used to) and so I wouldn't say that 1/3 to 3/5 of engineering students from abroad being women really counts as excelling. There's probably an inherent problem with the sample you're using anyway due to the nature of grad school and students studying abroad, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is.
Furthermore, I'm guessing you didn't read the article, because the Harvard President specifically talked about trying to raise his daughter in a gender-neutral environment, and didn't "try to push [his] views on women from a young age."
But those things happen sometimes. Sometimes projecters die. Sometimes cable goes down. This is the reality of the world. Furthermore, this type of thing happens with just about every new MMO, and should be expected.
And if you refuse to accept it because you're paying for it, the likelyhood that Blizzard will make up for that with free play time notwithstanding, then don't pay for it. That's how it works.
Actually, most of the servers are handling the load just fine. The problem is that a very large portion of the players are trying to play on a relatively small portion of the servers. There isn't much Blizzard can really do about this, though I'm sure they're trying their darndest. Opening new servers doesn't help, because there are already plenty of perfectly usable servers with low to medium populations.
Blizzard did stress test, and might have even used those products you mentioned. Nevertheless, servers can only handle so much, and when everyone piles on the same few, Blizzard's stuck.
It's not even that the stuff they set up couldn't handle the number of users; it's more that idiots have piled up on a relatively small number of servers, making those ones terrible to try to play on. The article says 20 servers were down, but that's out of over 80. A significant number, to be sure, but there are lots of servers with hardly any problems simply because they're not full to overflowing.
It likely wouldn't do anything to prices or service, as regardless of how much market share iTunes gets it will always be competing with free illegal downloads, as well as regular ol' CD's.
Seriously, are you an albino or something? Do you have some sort of eye problem that makes you extra sensitive to light? Because Apple's white products are positively NOT glaringly white. This has nothing to do with whether or not you like their style -- I could personally not care less. I have an iPod though, and the white color is really not glaring, specifically so, which I'm sure was intentional on Apple's part. Same thing with my friend's iBook.
As for pirated mp3's, who want's to bother with a copy ripped at unknown quality?
Quite a few people, actually.
They don't wear jackets at the Cinerama. Also, if you work at the Cinerama, you also work at the Pacific Place Theater a few blocks away, so there's a chance he'd be working at the other place on the opening day (though Pacific Place will probably be showing it too, the theaters there are nothing compared to the huge theater at Cinerama).
Furthermore, there's a good chance the theater will be sold out, and in that case someone would be the wiser -- probably the guy without a seat.
Not to shoot holes in your plan or anything...
But "I" is correct, so if he was being sarcastic, he was wrong.
I thought I knew what these articles were supposed to be talking about, but it turns out I had no clue.
Good Lord! It's like... "Houghfunce" is the best I can transcribe it.
Seriously, it was a totally worthless piece of journalism.
I have to further the "me too"-ness and agree with you there. It is definitely one of my all-time favorites. Great plot, style, and gameplay if you're into adventure games.
The thing is, if you make them interactive, they're not really cut-scenes anymore. The guy is basically just asking for games to get rid of cut-scenes.
You can be in denial all you want, but comic books (and some cartoons) ARE part of geek culture.
True enough, but similar things could be said about most of Dickens' novels which started out being serialized.