Guess you forget that the very electrical current carrying your digital data down the copper wire is an ANALOG WAVEFORM?
Analog is not, has never been, and never will be obsolete, as it's what makes digital even possible in the first place. Without that analog wave making a crest or trough to signify a 1 or 0 for digital information, there would be no digital.
As the poster modded funny mentioned, gotta love that multiplayer solitaire. Seems like the patent filer in question needs to get away from the keyboard and go back to some basic English classes. Or he needs a labotomy.
Except that won't stop the companies. Eventually they'll crumble, and have the government bail them out, just like the government bailed out the airline industry. Or do you forget who's controlling and buying whom, here?
Your first concept would be nice except we still have issues of shit like companies patenting things in games, like camera controls, and other inane shit. Good luck on your first point until that crap gets cleared.
Agreed with second point. I miss good single-player games, like STALKER. That was hella fun. And online RPGs suck. You're supposed to be in someone else's world, not a world filled with other annoying asshole 13 year olds that yell nothign but "gay" "fag" and other things.
I don't know about the third point, as I've never played the game.
Good luck with #4. EA's gonna choke that as much as a wanker in a porn shop.
THANK YOU. Fucking DRM. Eventually the discs get scratched from insertion and removal. But hey, that's why I pirate games now instead of paying for them - the game companies can't allow you any control, so I go with cracked copies, and until the industry realizes this, I will continue to pirate games. Their greed ends at my front door and wallet.
As for console-only games, I dunno. I tend to think of the computer as something more sacred than a console, and the less morons on the computer/internet the better. Oh, and don't forget, we have emulators. Not totally perfect, but we are indeed making progress!
With *CURRENT* solar cells, not including what Nanosolar will be rolling out soon, we only need about 15% of our US desert to meet all of our energy needs and have a surplus. Do you even pay attention to how fast we're advancing in this field?
I call that removing. If I can't access it in the GUI like I did with UT 3.7 it's a feature that has been removed.
Hell, the bots give more challenge than half the human opponents I play, and since I'm on a REALLY crappy connection since I moved out to California (Fuck you very much, Transedge!) I can't get other human players to join.
All three of your points have been addressed by papajohns.com for the past few years now. Apple is attempting to patent something that's been done before, even Buffalo Wild Wings has been doing this. It's too blatantly obvious, and also, this has been done with touchscreen menus in restaurants.
And this is why we're moving away from NAND, so get that damned term out of your head already! OUM/OVM is coming, uses a nearly identical manufacturing process (It's the same thing found in RW optical media, except you use electricity instead of a laser to change it's state) as CMOS does, and it has FAR more read/write cycles than anything NAND could have ever hoped to achieve, in the range of 10^8 as opposed to NAND 10^5-10^6
Too bad you didn't read that he was saying Warcraft 3, not WOW. Given the fact that WarCraft 3 required hardly ANYTHING to really run, there was OBVIOUSLY something wrong with the system, and I doubt it was the hardware he removed. I'll bet $$$ it lies in the other running processes that were not required. As noted by the system requirements:
* 400 MHz Pentium II or equivalent, or a 400 MHz G3 processor or better.
* Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP. Warcraft III requires Mac OS® 9.0 or higher, or Mac OS X® 10.1.3 or higher
* Warcraft III requires 128 MB of RAM. Virtual Memory should be enabled on computers running pre-Mac OS X versions of the Mac OS®.
* A keyboard and mouse are required.
* A hard drive with at least 550 MB of free space
* 8MB 3D video card (TNT, i810, Voodoo 3, Rage 128 equivalent or better) with DirectX 8.1 support. For Mac OS® systems, a video card consisting of an ATI Technologies or nVidia chipset with at least 16 MB of memory is required.
* A DirectX-compatible 16-bit sound card is recommended. Warcraft III will work with the built-in sound features of the Mac OS®.
Recommended System Requirements:
* 600 MHz processor or better
* 256 MB of RAM
* 32 MB 3D Video card
512 megs of RAM should have been perfectly fine. Anyone saying the OP was wasting time going thru the system in such a thorough fashion is likely just talking out of their ass.
No SSH session for transmission of personal data, and reliable logout for protection? Insane security practice from a now UNIX-certified OS vendor, especially when it comes to something so private as the transfer of one's hard disk contents to an internet backup? Ah well, it was bound to happen, and it has probably happened in the past, and will likely happen again in the future. Anyone can slip up.
Hate to say it, but security thru proprietary technology is nice in this case, IMHO. The less the technology controlling our network is exposed, the better, in some cases. Sadly, vice-versa is true. It's a trade-off, but it is still better than everyone being able to look at it and go "Oh, THAT'S how we shut down and infiltrate major networks!"
Actually, the NIC is having issues, and only works in 10 mbit. But yes, I'm cheap, as I'm disabled and have no income. Oh, and I'm moving to California soon.
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Point Taken. ;)
However, funnily enough. Windows 97 had none of the issues Windows 98 had. That's really strange.
Analog, obsolete?
Guess you forget that the very electrical current carrying your digital data down the copper wire is an ANALOG WAVEFORM?
Analog is not, has never been, and never will be obsolete, as it's what makes digital even possible in the first place. Without that analog wave making a crest or trough to signify a 1 or 0 for digital information, there would be no digital.
I forgive you, your UID tells all.
while the Optimus Maximus is a bit expensive, Apple could certainly mass-produce something similar for less money
This is APPLE we're talking about. Mass produce for LESS money? Now I know who's been dipping too far into my stash!
As the poster modded funny mentioned, gotta love that multiplayer solitaire. Seems like the patent filer in question needs to get away from the keyboard and go back to some basic English classes. Or he needs a labotomy.
"You're better off using Windows 97" (No, it's not a mistake, Europe had Windows 97.)
Except that won't stop the companies. Eventually they'll crumble, and have the government bail them out, just like the government bailed out the airline industry. Or do you forget who's controlling and buying whom, here?
Your first concept would be nice except we still have issues of shit like companies patenting things in games, like camera controls, and other inane shit. Good luck on your first point until that crap gets cleared.
Agreed with second point. I miss good single-player games, like STALKER. That was hella fun. And online RPGs suck. You're supposed to be in someone else's world, not a world filled with other annoying asshole 13 year olds that yell nothign but "gay" "fag" and other things.
I don't know about the third point, as I've never played the game.
Good luck with #4. EA's gonna choke that as much as a wanker in a porn shop.
THANK YOU. Fucking DRM. Eventually the discs get scratched from insertion and removal. But hey, that's why I pirate games now instead of paying for them - the game companies can't allow you any control, so I go with cracked copies, and until the industry realizes this, I will continue to pirate games. Their greed ends at my front door and wallet.
As for console-only games, I dunno. I tend to think of the computer as something more sacred than a console, and the less morons on the computer/internet the better. Oh, and don't forget, we have emulators. Not totally perfect, but we are indeed making progress!
Not one of you has mentioned "DROP DRM" yet (Yes, I RTFA)
Seriously. I hate having to insert a CD every time I want to play a game that has ALL of it's data installed on my hard drive.
An airplane is found with meteorite holes in the Arctic Circle. No signs of survivors, but a strange blob was found attached to the aircraft.
With *CURRENT* solar cells, not including what Nanosolar will be rolling out soon, we only need about 15% of our US desert to meet all of our energy needs and have a surplus. Do you even pay attention to how fast we're advancing in this field?
I call that removing. If I can't access it in the GUI like I did with UT 3.7 it's a feature that has been removed.
Hell, the bots give more challenge than half the human opponents I play, and since I'm on a REALLY crappy connection since I moved out to California (Fuck you very much, Transedge!) I can't get other human players to join.
Yea, except the new version of Urban Terror removed bots. Lame. I'll stick with 3.7, TYVM.
Not to mention airplanes don't carry a class-D extinguisher to handle metal fires.
All three of your points have been addressed by papajohns.com for the past few years now. Apple is attempting to patent something that's been done before, even Buffalo Wild Wings has been doing this. It's too blatantly obvious, and also, this has been done with touchscreen menus in restaurants.
Oh, about a century or so in potential lifetime.
And this is why we're moving away from NAND, so get that damned term out of your head already! OUM/OVM is coming, uses a nearly identical manufacturing process (It's the same thing found in RW optical media, except you use electricity instead of a laser to change it's state) as CMOS does, and it has FAR more read/write cycles than anything NAND could have ever hoped to achieve, in the range of 10^8 as opposed to NAND 10^5-10^6
http://trewtungsten.com/
Damn right real men use Tungsten.
Too bad you didn't read that he was saying Warcraft 3, not WOW. Given the fact that WarCraft 3 required hardly ANYTHING to really run, there was OBVIOUSLY something wrong with the system, and I doubt it was the hardware he removed. I'll bet $$$ it lies in the other running processes that were not required. As noted by the system requirements:
* 400 MHz Pentium II or equivalent, or a 400 MHz G3 processor or better.
* Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP. Warcraft III requires Mac OS® 9.0 or higher, or Mac OS X® 10.1.3 or higher
* Warcraft III requires 128 MB of RAM. Virtual Memory should be enabled on computers running pre-Mac OS X versions of the Mac OS®.
* A keyboard and mouse are required.
* A hard drive with at least 550 MB of free space
* 8MB 3D video card (TNT, i810, Voodoo 3, Rage 128 equivalent or better) with DirectX 8.1 support. For Mac OS® systems, a video card consisting of an ATI Technologies or nVidia chipset with at least 16 MB of memory is required.
* A DirectX-compatible 16-bit sound card is recommended. Warcraft III will work with the built-in sound features of the Mac OS®.
Recommended System Requirements:
* 600 MHz processor or better
* 256 MB of RAM
* 32 MB 3D Video card
512 megs of RAM should have been perfectly fine. Anyone saying the OP was wasting time going thru the system in such a thorough fashion is likely just talking out of their ass.
No SSH session for transmission of personal data, and reliable logout for protection? Insane security practice from a now UNIX-certified OS vendor, especially when it comes to something so private as the transfer of one's hard disk contents to an internet backup? Ah well, it was bound to happen, and it has probably happened in the past, and will likely happen again in the future. Anyone can slip up.
Hate to say it, but security thru proprietary technology is nice in this case, IMHO. The less the technology controlling our network is exposed, the better, in some cases. Sadly, vice-versa is true. It's a trade-off, but it is still better than everyone being able to look at it and go "Oh, THAT'S how we shut down and infiltrate major networks!"
Last I recalled Corporate Edition for XP only came in the VLK flavor.
WGA is still required, yes. At least so far it hasn't seem to caused anything to break.
Windows XP Professional, Corporate Edition does not require activation.
Actually, the NIC is having issues, and only works in 10 mbit. But yes, I'm cheap, as I'm disabled and have no income. Oh, and I'm moving to California soon.
http://students.sae.org/competitions/supermileage/ (PDF warning, in case you try to download the results)
Screw you, Detroit. High school students can get better gas mileage than big business. That's sad.