As a very long time Dark Age of Camelot player, i can say this:
Mark Jacobs loves nerfing classes, items, etc. and has a long history of pissing off players this way.
In his statement he briefly touches on his real objections to official sale of items.. he is afraid the players will sue Mythic...
Mythic's business model, is based on releasing a non-free addon every 12 months. Containing new super items, which makes the player with the addon 30-50% more powerfull than the players who havent purchased it. (Shrouded Isles, Trials of Atlantis)
This would mean 2 things for Mythic, each addon would bring the trading system to an almost standstill in the months leading up to the addon.
The people that have purchased items, will be pissed off to see them made almost worthless by new much better stuff.
And more people will be pissed off when Mr. Jacobs realises that the new Sword of Uberness is TOO disrubtive on gamebalance, and decides to nerf it. Pissing off all the players who just purchased it, and opening up for class action lawsuits.
Considering that 15.000.000 bytes is sort of a standard when it comes to pirated games/isos/movies etc.
Then you'd precompute a ton of hashed junk files stuff them on a HUGE fileserver (compressed file system). A big database to link hash sums with file names, and you got a possible junk seeder.
(remember much of the time you'd only have to spread one corrupt file of 50-60 files).
(ofcourse once the pirates catches onto this, we will start seeing releases with +1 byte incremental file sizes, or a stronger hash system)
I agree with you, but imagine you'd save $1 or $2 by downloading via bittorrent instead of http/ftp.. what would you choose then?
Anyway the studios will probably include their own bittorrent client in their DRM player. (Which might mean you are seeding as long as the program is running (downloading/watching/watching other movies and havent deleted the first one yet)
I personally know of atleast 2 black holes, the one in my wallet, and the one in my memory from saturday night.
Back on topic: I declare that light has mass, and as such is suceptible to gravity, that doesnt mean that black holes exist, but they certainly could! (and probably do)
it replaced the need for keys for your car
What happens if you need to loan somebody your vehicle?
People will stop asking to borrow his car, when they find out they have to get one of those implants.:)
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looks like its been fixed, connected to 76 seeds, and 4 peers now
same here.. odd
Now imagine if its overclocked (which someone is sure to do).. those 20 seconds will go by in 2 seconds ;)
This is one of the side effects of saving space by storing the 1's vertically. (its all the craze, Seagate is learning from this guy!)
pfSense is still very much in early beta development (with near daily updates).
So probably not something you would want to move into your server room without extensive testing.
You should check out m0n0wall
All you need is an old pc with 2 network cards, a cd-rom drive, and a floppy drive.
After initial ip assignment, you use the web interface to configure everything.
Microsoft garbagemen recive big bonuses
The requested exit interview seems to me like a perfect oppertunity, for you to let HR know whats been going on.
The manager might not lose his job over it, but he would surely look worse when it came time for promotions.
When private citizens can nolonger support political parties, in fear of retribution from the ones in power.
This is no better than what mr. Putin has done to Yukos. (ironically, for which the Bush administration recently scolded mr. Putin)
Wow, that has to be noisy as hell.
As a very long time Dark Age of Camelot player, i can say this:
Mark Jacobs loves nerfing classes, items, etc. and has a long history of pissing off players this way.
In his statement he briefly touches on his real objections to official sale of items.. he is afraid the players will sue Mythic...
Mythic's business model, is based on releasing a non-free addon every 12 months. Containing new super items, which makes the player with the addon 30-50% more powerfull than the players who havent purchased it. (Shrouded Isles, Trials of Atlantis)
This would mean 2 things for Mythic, each addon would bring the trading system to an almost standstill in the months leading up to the addon.
The people that have purchased items, will be pissed off to see them made almost worthless by new much better stuff.
And more people will be pissed off when Mr. Jacobs realises that the new Sword of Uberness is TOO disrubtive on gamebalance, and decides to nerf it. Pissing off all the players who just purchased it, and opening up for class action lawsuits.
Considering that 15.000.000 bytes is sort of a standard when it comes to pirated games/isos/movies etc. Then you'd precompute a ton of hashed junk files stuff them on a HUGE fileserver (compressed file system). A big database to link hash sums with file names, and you got a possible junk seeder. (remember much of the time you'd only have to spread one corrupt file of 50-60 files). (ofcourse once the pirates catches onto this, we will start seeing releases with +1 byte incremental file sizes, or a stronger hash system)
You should try out XFce X windows manager.
Its super light, and highly configurable trough a few XML files.
I agree with you, but imagine you'd save $1 or $2 by downloading via bittorrent instead of http/ftp.. what would you choose then?
Anyway the studios will probably include their own bittorrent client in their DRM player. (Which might mean you are seeding as long as the program is running (downloading/watching/watching other movies and havent deleted the first one yet)
... its a feature
i'll take a .bar.pro domain please :)
Microsoft could use it for improving their Starfield simulation screensaver.
Maybe have it continiously downloading new data from a central server, and doing distributed computation on it!
Longhorn's official name could be "Earth and Beyond".... thats ofcourse only if they act quickly, and beat Google to the idea.
Imagine the possible liabilities, if that little probe crashes into a high tech alien spacecraft, and damages it!
You'd be condemming your grandchildren to slavelabour on some remote planet salt mine.
I personally know of atleast 2 black holes, the one in my wallet, and the one in my memory from saturday night. Back on topic: I declare that light has mass, and as such is suceptible to gravity, that doesnt mean that black holes exist, but they certainly could! (and probably do)
In other news, Duke Nukem Forever ported to Mac.
The port was later retracted after the programmer found out the prize was $2.
it replaced the need for keys for your car What happens if you need to loan somebody your vehicle? People will stop asking to borrow his car, when they find out they have to get one of those implants. :)