While I don't agree with Apple's practices in this case, the NDA notice on the email is just from one of the individuals working in App Store Review. It's also the same signature that comes out with a lot of stock apple mails (eg bug report responses)
http://daringfireball.net/2008/09/app_store_rejections has a good summary of events.
It's true that there's only usually one seed (unless you leave it on and don't install the patch) but it's not true that you're the only downloading from one source. You download from your peers as you go, not only the seed. That's one of the main advantages of bit torrent..
Yup, you're correct. WoW does use it for patches and updates. Given that the patches are at least 100megs in size and there are 9.5million subscribers I'd say it's one of the better examples of a problem for which BitTorrent is the ideal solution.
'Hacking' save games is just one of the possible uses for this.
The most worrying one for Nintendo is that it allows people to write their own code, sign that, fool the console into thinking it's a save game and then look for some program on the Wii which is happy to execute a block of code within a saved game. This can then be used to modify some properties of the console, usually nothing particularly drastic but I'm sure Nintendo don't want to take the risk.
The version of Eclipse I run, Eclipse WTP 3.3, does spell checking on comments as standard. Not for variable, function names and the like though. It's a decent first attempt though.
In truth, I turned it off within the first few hours. It underlines any mistakes in red which I find really annoying when scanning code as I keep thinking I've seen syntax errors. More often than not my eyes are drawn to a spelling mistake, which in many cases isn't even really a mistake, which distracts me from what I'm actually trying to look at.
Gary Fleming actually wrote an interesting post related to this last year.
I'm one of these people that very rarely uses the address bar now. I'll search for everything using the search field in Firefox. If I wanted to go to the Apple site I'll type in Apple to the search field rather than Apple.com. I agree with gary's suggestions that the search box and address field should be integrated.
To be honest, what bothers me more than the lag itself is the distinct lack of interest their support staff give. Tickets submitted to the in-game helpers, Game Masters, result in them telling you to go post on the tech support forum. The tech support forum tell you first of all to uninstall all the addons and to phone your ISP, despite the fact that the problem is occuring to everyone on the server, and then they tell you to contact a Game Master on your server...
An in-game friend of mine recently called Blizzard directly to speak to the tech support staff there. After informing him that we were currently in the middle of an Ahn'Qiraj raid where all forty of us were experiencing lag of over 800ms the friendly staff member told him that "Well it may be your ISP". Why yes, we have members located from Britain to Hungary to Russia but we are all having ISP problems at once.
If they'd just admit that the servers are over-populated, open more servers and allow migration then this would help alleviate the problems. I'm on the EU-Arathor server which has 12k players, the highest in the EU, but has yet to be offered a migration option. It's a poor show.
I always (well, actually once while sitting in the pub) wondered why noone just used the force to flick the on/off switch to "off" when typing their opponent..
Eclipse is, at the very base, a platform. All but the most basic functionality (including the Java Development Environment which most people associate with Eclipse) is supplied by plug-ins. Users can create plug-ins to associate with the Eclipse work bench or any other Eclipse plug-in.
Basically to realease something "onto" Eclipse means that it is released as a plug-in for Eclipse. JBuilder provides functionality into the Eclipse platform which users can utilise.
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I've had this problem too. Those I've spoken to about it attribute it to either the GPS chip or the WiFi chip not powering down properly.
Won't that just result in a massive bill for roaming?
While I don't agree with Apple's practices in this case, the NDA notice on the email is just from one of the individuals working in App Store Review. It's also the same signature that comes out with a lot of stock apple mails (eg bug report responses) http://daringfireball.net/2008/09/app_store_rejections has a good summary of events.
It's true that there's only usually one seed (unless you leave it on and don't install the patch) but it's not true that you're the only downloading from one source. You download from your peers as you go, not only the seed. That's one of the main advantages of bit torrent..
Yup, you're correct. WoW does use it for patches and updates. Given that the patches are at least 100megs in size and there are 9.5million subscribers I'd say it's one of the better examples of a problem for which BitTorrent is the ideal solution.
'Hacking' save games is just one of the possible uses for this. The most worrying one for Nintendo is that it allows people to write their own code, sign that, fool the console into thinking it's a save game and then look for some program on the Wii which is happy to execute a block of code within a saved game. This can then be used to modify some properties of the console, usually nothing particularly drastic but I'm sure Nintendo don't want to take the risk.
That's very much the point. Apple are notorious for pricing products at a level where they make you say "but if I just spent x hundred more...".
The version of Eclipse I run, Eclipse WTP 3.3, does spell checking on comments as standard. Not for variable, function names and the like though. It's a decent first attempt though. In truth, I turned it off within the first few hours. It underlines any mistakes in red which I find really annoying when scanning code as I keep thinking I've seen syntax errors. More often than not my eyes are drawn to a spelling mistake, which in many cases isn't even really a mistake, which distracts me from what I'm actually trying to look at.
Uh Brits AND Scots? Scotland IS part of Britain!
They actually originally filed in 2004 but it was dismissed. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503336 has details
Gary Fleming actually wrote an interesting post related to this last year. I'm one of these people that very rarely uses the address bar now. I'll search for everything using the search field in Firefox. If I wanted to go to the Apple site I'll type in Apple to the search field rather than Apple.com. I agree with gary's suggestions that the search box and address field should be integrated.
To be honest, what bothers me more than the lag itself is the distinct lack of interest their support staff give. Tickets submitted to the in-game helpers, Game Masters, result in them telling you to go post on the tech support forum. The tech support forum tell you first of all to uninstall all the addons and to phone your ISP, despite the fact that the problem is occuring to everyone on the server, and then they tell you to contact a Game Master on your server... An in-game friend of mine recently called Blizzard directly to speak to the tech support staff there. After informing him that we were currently in the middle of an Ahn'Qiraj raid where all forty of us were experiencing lag of over 800ms the friendly staff member told him that "Well it may be your ISP". Why yes, we have members located from Britain to Hungary to Russia but we are all having ISP problems at once. If they'd just admit that the servers are over-populated, open more servers and allow migration then this would help alleviate the problems. I'm on the EU-Arathor server which has 12k players, the highest in the EU, but has yet to be offered a migration option. It's a poor show.
I always (well, actually once while sitting in the pub) wondered why noone just used the force to flick the on/off switch to "off" when typing their opponent..
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That article didn't explain it.. any ideas?
Eclipse is, at the very base, a platform. All but the most basic functionality (including the Java Development Environment which most people associate with Eclipse) is supplied by plug-ins. Users can create plug-ins to associate with the Eclipse work bench or any other Eclipse plug-in.
Basically to realease something "onto" Eclipse means that it is released as a plug-in for Eclipse. JBuilder provides functionality into the Eclipse platform which users can utilise.
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