"Surprise, surprise. A/.er blaming evil corporations because they've cracked down on piracy, instead of blaming the software pirates who caused the mess in the 1st place. This has nothing to do with competition. They offer online game play for free."
First of all, DMCA was written by the big corps and second of all. It is all done in there own intrest, everyone else doesn't matter to them.
Don't belive me, just look at the way the DMCA is used and how it did come to be.
Piracy is not the problem they claim it to be.
Also, Blizzard just flat out refuses to give out Linux Native versions. Here is an email answer that i got from them when i was asking about Linux support for Starcraft.
Here is there answers, note how the excuse there lack of Linux support by referring to brower statics. They also use the excuse, there are too many distro out there. When in reality it doesn't matter.
"Thank you for taking the time to write this letter. Though we may decide to add Linux to our list of supported operating systems in the future, currently we do not. Though I am not on the development team, I can guess that part of the problem may be the number of available distros that are both commercially and freely available and how do you choose which to develop and design for as well as support. Additionally, if you click on this link ("http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats .asp") and scroll down "OS Platform Statistics" you will see that Linux is still only about 3% of the total market. Though I am not on the development team, I can guess that part of the problem may be the number of available distros that are both commercially and freely available and how do you choose which to develop and design for as well as support. Alone either of these issues may be resolved, but together they become a development and support issue. I know that many people are running our games, including World of Warcraft, using various programs such as WINE ("http://www.winehq.com/") and CEDEGA ("http://www.transgaming.com/"). Obviously, since I cannot support either of those programs, I cannot recommend them but they are out there and available for use.
Good luck!"
Here is the final and most stupid thing they put in there emails. I did replay to this, but i did not get an replay.
"Customer satisfaction is a top priority here at Blizzard Entertainment, and we would like your feedback on the level of service you have received. Please feel free to provide such feedback at the following web address:"
Yea right, you don't even want to support Linux and you sue pepole how try to help them self.
Here is also a email from 2003 that i did send them regarding Linux support.
"Blizzard currently does not develop for the Linux platform - we are keeping an eye on the progress of Linux and may change in the future. Currently we only support our games on the platforms listed on the box/website. There are some issues with Linux that may interfere with a Battle.net connection as well. Overall, we do not support the use of our games on Linux."
Here is blizzard second answer from the year 2003.
"Sorry, I cannot. I am not a programmer. I wish that I could offer you a technical explanation of the limitations of the APIs we use in Linux, but that is beyond me. I also wish that we had programmers available to answer questions, but they are hard at work programming."
This is just plain stupid answers i got, since Blizzard already supports Starcraft on MacOS X and that is Unix based system. Easy to port over and not an techincal issue.
I guess Linux is going trugh an "Mac games" like period now. I hate it./rant over
Microsoft has great money in it Windows OS. Since that is among the few product it actually makes money from. The other product is Office.
Linux is a threat to that exact proft for Microsoft so it does matter to them. They act as all monopolyes, they try to destory the other product. In this case it is Linux. But Microsoft allows Apple to remain on the market for "legal reasions".
Also, i think that the internet will be alot better place to be on when the Windows dies out. No viruses or worms. Spam is a diffrent matter.
DRM is the source of evil, that is why DVD will win. According to the news, Blue-Ray or HD-DVD is ment to have uncrackable copyright protection and that means it won't work in Linux and that means that i won't buy it.
RIAA did also claim, about the time when the orginal cassette did come on the market that "home taping was killing the industry". But in reality RIAA did only make more profit, after all. All the big companyes in the RIAA that sell music, also make cassettes, cd-roms, cd-rw and so on. In my opinion this is nothing more then an FUD campagin starting on half of RIAA, along with the FUD campagin on the P2P networks. The music "industry" makes billion each year, yet they still want more profit. RIAA is just about greed and the companyes and not the artist. As it was ment to be.
All that work and some 15 year old teenager comes along and makes an scrapmetal out of your network by using some bug that has been fixed four days ago.
Why don't virus writers actually do there work properly and makes virus before there is an patch from Microsoft, only then we will see problems.
It is an surprice to me that nobody actually consider this climat change to be natrual. But i must also note that there is an other research out there that says that if it was not for human industry, the planet where already in the phase of new ice age. I am sure that the pepole of the future will be complaning about global cooling. There is also kown that volcano eruptions, big one that is cool down the plant, often by many degress. So there is always an option that global warming get cancelled out by an super eruption one day.
This Blue-Ray Disc stuff is going to be a textbook case of an failure. Nobody with a right mind will buy this type of hardware with this type of lock in, however the non-computer type of pepole will buy into this for the first six months then they will demand a refund for this pieace of crap hardware that won't allow them do play whatever disc they want.
I am not sure about how you did this, but that same page wants my Windows WGA code, but i don't have those becose i run linux. I send Microsoft a message and told them that they where stupid.
Do we know evil aliens ? If the answer is no, then problay we don't need trillon dollar worth of space wepons. If the answer is yes, then have a good escape plan, becose who are we kidding. Those wepons are pretty useless agenst anything but tincans.
Indeed they are, and what the most intresting part is that even for all the "securty" mesures and that fact that goverment is removing pepole freedom the terrorist are still able to strike.
One might think that the goverment where allowing this to happen, so they have an reasion to remove pepole freedom in the name of the securty. I am not willing to buy that excuse of the goverment.
More then 40 years from now, pepole will release what stupid thing was happening here, but nobody ask them self at what price, i have asked my self that question and i don't like the answer. I just hope that i survie the next 40 years.
The U.K did go trugh more then 20 years of IRA bombings and other mess. So have many other countryes. This terrorist noncence is getting tierd, this looks like propaganda and nothing else. The goverment screams "terrorist, terrorst, the terrorist are after you and they want to kill you (insert reasion of chose)...." and so on. What has happen in past 4 year since this nonsence did start regarding that terrorist are propagading more then dangerus cancer, nothing. Execpt that goverment are becoming more powerhungry and want to cut pepole rights to protect them from the "terrorist threat". It's nonsence i say, lead by the U.S and has been leading.
The newest fud, "the terrorist are on the internet (insert evil deed here)...".
There is worth to note that the lawmaker has an solution to that problem, they just pass laws that forbids the ISP to delete there logs until after 1 year, or whatever timeframe they want.
It has happen in Europe already, and few pepole did notice.Laws here in Iceland already request that ISP here keep the logs about there consumers for 6 months, the sad part about that is that pepole didn't know about this law being passed, becose the press did not bring that subject alot up in the news, just minor news.
But no real covarage on the issue. The reasion why this laws where put forward to start with, the cops did want it for some not explained reasion, and the goverment seems to have accepted whatever explaination the cops did say to them.
The goverment spys on pepole, but nobody notice it becose nobody ask the questions that needs to be asked.
Sure, Microsoft will fix some holes on the way to the final product. But given there past history, there are going to be new viruses for Windows Vista the day it comes out, along with new type of spyware . The same old story.
#1: Viruses, Windows has only ~150.000 virues that run on it.
#2: Spyware and so on. Nothing like those ads, showing you penis enlargement or silicon boobs.
#3: There is nothing like an system crash for no reasion. That also demands re-install becose the file was not found and system restore didn't work, it also wipes out your old setup for free.
#4: There is nothing like Microsoft demanding that you authcent your Windows install before you can get those securty updates.
#5: The glory of DRM, in the next version Windows will scale down your DRM rented HD-DVD Movie becose your monitor was the wrong type.
#6: There is nothing more fun the faceing total lock in with closed source programs and file format, so that Microsoft is sure to get your money in next upgrade. After all, you can't go something else becose Microsoft has made it impossible for other software to read and work with there formats.
#7: Microsoft spyes on you, for free.
Microsoft has not given pepole anything, they are in the busness of taking there options away. MacOS X is many decates a head of Microsoft Windows and has been for long time. Linux (choose your distro) is also many decates a head of Microsoft Windows and it's getting better by the year. Both MacOS X and Linux are easy to control and run, unlike the hostile Microsoft Windows user evroment where everything is hard to use and features are hidden from the user.
The author of that artical can have is own opioion , but he is wrong about this claims about linux and Mac OS X.
Since when did the E.U start lisening to the U.S ? Also, is this madness never gonna end ? This is also clear sample about the fact that the big corps don't care about the pepole, they just don't want more, more, more profit! But as most pepole know, pure profit only comes with monopoly.
It's unfortunate that the President of a developed country who is in direct charge of some of the most powerful and awesome technologies created by scientists continues to push an agenda that is anti-science.
It won't be developed country with this progress, since the progress in the U.S seems to be going backward, not forward. Before we know it, the U.S will be back on stone age while the rest of world plans an trip to Mars.
Creatonism is nothing more the false science and has nothing in common with the real science. The pepole how are propagateing this bullshit do anything to force there relegion up on other pepole, and the best way to do that now is to start on the kids with this bullshit. Not only do they make this up, but they also create false evidence to support there "claims" and use there own "scientist" to give there claim credit, but when better looked at there claims the truth is that there is nothing to support them.
I have had argument with an creatonist for some time now and i have learned that they aren't onest and they aren't truthful in any way. They cut there quotes so it fits there own arguement, when they are pointed out on that error. The creatonist usally tryes to go around that subject and tries to argue that he is right and they evolution is just an theory that has not been proven.
Creatonist also claim that the fossil record is false and the fossil that exist all come to existance becose of the noas flood, but when they are pointed out that cannot be the case, becose how the fossils are spred around the layers of rock, the creatonist useally find an new excuse why that is.
Creatonist view is relegion based, not science one, and it has all to do with far right Christans that want to outlaw science and enforce relegion and claim that is the only right "science". If they want to teach an creation, they have to teach it as an story, not as an science. Becose creation has nothing to do with science, and never has.
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"Surprise, surprise. A /.er blaming evil corporations because they've cracked down on piracy, instead of blaming the software pirates who caused the mess in the 1st place. This has nothing to do with competition. They offer online game play for free."
s .asp") and scroll down "OS Platform Statistics" you will see that Linux is still only about 3% of the total market. Though I am not on the development team, I can guess that part of the problem may be the number of available distros that are both commercially and freely available and how do you choose which to develop and design for as well as support. Alone either of these issues may be resolved, but together they become a development and support issue. I know that many people are running our games, including World of Warcraft, using various programs such as WINE ("http://www.winehq.com/") and CEDEGA ("http://www.transgaming.com/"). Obviously, since I cannot support either of those programs, I cannot recommend them but they are out there and available for use.
/rant over
First of all, DMCA was written by the big corps and second of all. It is all done in there own intrest, everyone else doesn't matter to them.
Don't belive me, just look at the way the DMCA is used and how it did come to be.
Piracy is not the problem they claim it to be.
Also, Blizzard just flat out refuses to give out Linux Native versions. Here is an email answer that i got from them when i was asking about Linux support for Starcraft.
Here is there answers, note how the excuse there lack of Linux support by referring to brower statics. They also use the excuse, there are too many distro out there. When in reality it doesn't matter.
"Thank you for taking the time to write this letter. Though we may decide to add Linux to our list of supported operating systems in the future, currently we do not. Though I am not on the development team, I can guess that part of the problem may be the number of available distros that are both commercially and freely available and how do you choose which to develop and design for as well as support. Additionally, if you click on this link ("http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stat
Good luck!"
Here is the final and most stupid thing they put in there emails. I did replay to this, but i did not get an replay.
"Customer satisfaction is a top priority here at Blizzard Entertainment, and we would like your feedback on the level of service you have received. Please feel free to provide such feedback at the following web address:"
Yea right, you don't even want to support Linux and you sue pepole how try to help them self.
Here is also a email from 2003 that i did send them regarding Linux support.
"Blizzard currently does not develop for the Linux platform - we are keeping an eye on the progress of Linux and may change in the future. Currently we only support our games on the platforms listed on the box/website. There are some issues with Linux that may interfere with a Battle.net connection as well. Overall, we do not support the use of our games on Linux."
Here is blizzard second answer from the year 2003.
"Sorry, I cannot. I am not a programmer. I wish that I could offer you a technical explanation of the limitations of the APIs we use in Linux, but that is beyond me. I also wish that we had programmers available to answer questions, but they are hard at work programming."
This is just plain stupid answers i got, since Blizzard already supports Starcraft on MacOS X and that is Unix based system. Easy to port over and not an techincal issue.
I guess Linux is going trugh an "Mac games" like period now. I hate it.
Microsoft has great money in it Windows OS. Since that is among the few product it actually makes money from. The other product is Office.
Linux is a threat to that exact proft for Microsoft so it does matter to them. They act as all monopolyes, they try to destory the other product. In this case it is Linux. But Microsoft allows Apple to remain on the market for "legal reasions".
Also, i think that the internet will be alot better place to be on when the Windows dies out. No viruses or worms. Spam is a diffrent matter.
Maybe they need a better robot.
DRM is the source of evil, that is why DVD will win. According to the news, Blue-Ray or HD-DVD is ment to have uncrackable copyright protection and that means it won't work in Linux and that means that i won't buy it.
How can free or really cheap be more expensive then an Os that costs alot of money ? Training costs aside.
RIAA did also claim, about the time when the orginal cassette did come on the market that "home taping was killing the industry". But in reality RIAA did only make more profit, after all. All the big companyes in the RIAA that sell music, also make cassettes, cd-roms, cd-rw and so on. In my opinion this is nothing more then an FUD campagin starting on half of RIAA, along with the FUD campagin on the P2P networks. The music "industry" makes billion each year, yet they still want more profit. RIAA is just about greed and the companyes and not the artist. As it was ment to be.
Why don't virus writers actually do there work properly and makes virus before there is an patch from Microsoft, only then we will see problems.
I was not born in the 70s, so i did miss them. But based on what i have seen, i was not missing anything specal.
It is an surprice to me that nobody actually consider this climat change to be natrual. But i must also note that there is an other research out there that says that if it was not for human industry, the planet where already in the phase of new ice age. I am sure that the pepole of the future will be complaning about global cooling. There is also kown that volcano eruptions, big one that is cool down the plant, often by many degress. So there is always an option that global warming get cancelled out by an super eruption one day.
I find this to be really intresting feature in MacOS X.
This is typical Microsoft style lock in, soon pepole will see this in Windows too. Oh, wait. They already have.
I won't buy this stuff, i am happy with DVD.
The sun goes down at the same time, even the clock is changed back and forth.
I am not sure about how you did this, but that same page wants my Windows WGA code, but i don't have those becose i run linux. I send Microsoft a message and told them that they where stupid.
That might be the case, i wonder what happens if Wine is told to act like winxp.
Do we know evil aliens ? If the answer is no, then problay we don't need trillon dollar worth of space wepons. If the answer is yes, then have a good escape plan, becose who are we kidding. Those wepons are pretty useless agenst anything but tincans.
One might think that the goverment where allowing this to happen, so they have an reasion to remove pepole freedom in the name of the securty. I am not willing to buy that excuse of the goverment.
More then 40 years from now, pepole will release what stupid thing was happening here, but nobody ask them self at what price, i have asked my self that question and i don't like the answer. I just hope that i survie the next 40 years.
The newest fud, "the terrorist are on the internet (insert evil deed here)...".
This nonsence has to stop.
Get over it, your oil stock is going down.
But no real covarage on the issue. The reasion why this laws where put forward to start with, the cops did want it for some not explained reasion, and the goverment seems to have accepted whatever explaination the cops did say to them.
The goverment spys on pepole, but nobody notice it becose nobody ask the questions that needs to be asked.
Sure, Microsoft will fix some holes on the way to the final product. But given there past history, there are going to be new viruses for Windows Vista the day it comes out, along with new type of spyware . The same old story.
#1: Viruses, Windows has only ~150.000 virues that run on it.
#2: Spyware and so on. Nothing like those ads, showing you penis enlargement or silicon boobs.
#3: There is nothing like an system crash for no reasion. That also demands re-install becose the file was not found and system restore didn't work, it also wipes out your old setup for free.
#4: There is nothing like Microsoft demanding that you authcent your Windows install before you can get those securty updates.
#5: The glory of DRM, in the next version Windows will scale down your DRM rented HD-DVD Movie becose your monitor was the wrong type.
#6: There is nothing more fun the faceing total lock in with closed source programs and file format, so that Microsoft is sure to get your money in next upgrade. After all, you can't go something else becose Microsoft has made it impossible for other software to read and work with there formats.
#7: Microsoft spyes on you, for free.
Microsoft has not given pepole anything, they are in the busness of taking there options away. MacOS X is many decates a head of Microsoft Windows and has been for long time. Linux (choose your distro) is also many decates a head of Microsoft Windows and it's getting better by the year. Both MacOS X and Linux are easy to control and run, unlike the hostile Microsoft Windows user evroment where everything is hard to use and features are hidden from the user.
The author of that artical can have is own opioion , but he is wrong about this claims about linux and Mac OS X.
Since when did the E.U start lisening to the U.S ? Also, is this madness never gonna end ? This is also clear sample about the fact that the big corps don't care about the pepole, they just don't want more, more, more profit! But as most pepole know, pure profit only comes with monopoly.
It won't be developed country with this progress, since the progress in the U.S seems to be going backward, not forward. Before we know it, the U.S will be back on stone age while the rest of world plans an trip to Mars.
I have had argument with an creatonist for some time now and i have learned that they aren't onest and they aren't truthful in any way. They cut there quotes so it fits there own arguement, when they are pointed out on that error. The creatonist usally tryes to go around that subject and tries to argue that he is right and they evolution is just an theory that has not been proven.
Creatonist also claim that the fossil record is false and the fossil that exist all come to existance becose of the noas flood, but when they are pointed out that cannot be the case, becose how the fossils are spred around the layers of rock, the creatonist useally find an new excuse why that is.
Creatonist view is relegion based, not science one, and it has all to do with far right Christans that want to outlaw science and enforce relegion and claim that is the only right "science". If they want to teach an creation, they have to teach it as an story, not as an science. Becose creation has nothing to do with science, and never has.