You're missing out on the main uses. I've actually never used it to look at other people's equipment - I don't give a shit about this use. However, after doing all the damn acts so many times, I'm not interested in blindly finding my way around the act having to kill every one of the pesky little buggers in every corner. I happen to hate doing the Arcane Sanctuary in A2, it's my least favourite map. With maphack, good news, I don't have to anymore - I can find the right tomb without it.
Maphack basically means that I don't have to explore levels so thoroughly anymore, I can just go straight to where I want to go, because I've got the map. That to me is the primary use.
The secondary use, one of the 'nice features' they should really have in the normal map anyway, is showing monsters on the map. When I'm doing cow runs with my javazon, it helps tremendously. When I'm wandering around a level looking for xp, it helps tremendously. The fact that it shows what bonuses minor bosses have is also extremely useful. Like everyone else, I hate LEB's, and this way I can avoid some of them.
Finally, possibly one of the most useful (but the one Blizzard is least likely to like) is speeding (by several hours, probably) rushing. Can you imagine how long rushing someone through A2 would take without having the maps?
Nobody's forcing you to use maphack if you don't want it. Some people simply can't be arsed to go through the tedium of finding their way around levels anymore. Some people simply like the comfort of seeing monsters on the map. Some people like to power-play and do rushes and such to go levelling in the cow level instead of normally through the acts. Does that hurt anyone? Not really.
Frankly, I've played for a long time, and there's some things I've simply done so many times that they're just not fun anymore. If I'm forced to do them because some people just can't take that others don't find fun anymore things they still find fun, then screw Diablo. I've talked with people in games and everyone who uses it loves maphack, and it is a central aspect of the way they play. If maphack goes, so will they.
They're being a bit silly there. From playing occasionally, I can vouch that about 1/2 of the people who still play Diablo 2 (so much time after it was first released) use maphack as a convenience. And I think that most of these will simply stop playing if maphack is disabled. So one of two things. Either:
1) They're trying to scare people, cause they can't really do shit to detect maphack actually, or
2) They don't want to support D2 anymore and are trying to chase away all those people who still play to decrease the load on their servers (and hence how much it costs to maintain them)
But if 2) is correct, then why are they bothering to release so many new features in 1.10? Which leaves possibility 1), or even possibility 3) (they're just stupid).
You're assuming a 1-1 mapping between accounts and people. Many people have a lot of accounts - especially if they use cheats or tradehacks and such. So divide that by at least 10, probably more. Still a large number, but not so huge.
You made a typo and a mistake. First of all, we're not talking about weapons of mass destruction, but about weapons of mass distraction (even Paul Wolfowicz has admitted that). Second, the weapon was not in the series but it was the series itself! While we were all watching it, the aliens (who actually look like chimpanzees underneath) took over - Bush is their chief leader.
I remember watching this when I was a kid, I loved it. I hope the new series will be as good, or even better - that would be one series I would watch:-)
Well, when they say they've shipped a billion, they really mean they've shipped a billion plus or minus a few hundred thousand, so that's a pretty hard-to-anwer question, heh:-P.
The article said it: From the 8086 to today's Intel Pentium 4 processor, Intel Xeon and Intel Centrino mobile technology...
They're lumping together all the CPU chips they've ever shipped, from the 8086 to the latest. I imagine they must have shipped a lot more of other types of chips, though.
Ok, fair enough. I guess I used it (and heard it used) enough in day-to-day conversation not to deduce that it's incorrect to say degrees Kelvin in writing... I guess you could be right. It doesn't seem like a very big deal, though.
I did a physics masters and I never heard anyone declare that you can't say "degrees Kelvin". In fact, I must have said it myself quite a few times. Both ways of saying it are acceptable as far as I'm aware.
The high temperature is what allows them to have fewer particles bumping around real fast inside the EM field and preventing other particles from getting through from the outside. If you're going to have lots of cold particles, you might as well make a glass or plastic window - it'll be cheaper and cost a lot less energy to maintain in place.
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The parent is absolutely correct (at least in the content:-P). It's a volume of very hot gas enclosed in an electromagnetic field. Nothing spectacular about this, and still requires an enclosing apparatus (rather than, say, generating a forcefield around the apparatus).
This is an advance in technology, for sure - it's a very fast valve. But there's no physics breakthrough involved. It's just an application of an old theory to an old problem, made possible by advances in technological expertise and practice. It's a clever hack but it's not a force field.
If you consider all those high-energy particles trapped in the earth's magnetic field, you can look at their speeds statistically and find out what their speed distribution is. From that, you could probably derive a measure like temperature (assuming they actually follow a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution). However, I agree that that is a pretty useless way to look at things. Temperature is a man-made concept to make a lot of common place things (involving large numbers of particles in thermal equilibrium) easier to understand. It was never designed be applied to exotic things like high-energy particles trapped in magnetic fields. It can be applied to them nevertheless, but won't tell you much.
Of course not, but then we get into cosmological considerations which aren't really relevant to keeping the air we breathe clean:-P By the time the sun runs out I would hope we'll have evolved beyond many of the needs we have today, hehe.
You're right, I didn't think of that. Importing vast quantities of hydrogen from other planets would deplete our oxygen. Hrm... kinda sucks. I guess fusion is the way forward then.
From our very restricted temporal point of view, the fact that all this energy in fact comes from the Strong force (one of the four fundamental forces) is pretty irrelevant.
Oh, and by the way, not all elements above hydrogen come from supernovae. After the big bang, the universe's mass was composed of about 80% hydrogen, 20% helium, and trace amounts of other stuff. It's still pretty close to that. The supernovae produce heavy elements faster than stars, but those also produce them (and for a long time). The supernovae only help because instead of keeping all this new material in a cooling white dwarf they blast a portion of it out into space to become part of other forming solar systems.
Not quite. Until we develop a good method for doing it. Science is far from having discovered everything yet...
A while ago there was an article on/. mentioning some japanese project trying to use a sattellite sun-powered laser to heat up seawater in a large tank on an artificial island (with a catalyst added into the water) to use that energy to make hydrogen in large quantities. Haven't heard more of it since, but there will definitely be ways eventually... There's no physical impossibility, just a technological one.
Have you considered building yourself a controller like Jakarta Struts, in PHP? I haven't heard of one, but that might clean up your problems. With that, you can place a lot of "use this function in this page" logic in XML files so that it keeps your code clean. That would be some work, I guess, converting Struts to PHP, but not altogether undoable. You will probably need to make use of mod_rewrite.
At the moment, hydrogen is very hard to extract from sea water. Basically you need to put in all the energy (more in fact) that you want to get out. The problem is that hydrogen is a great storage form for energy (like oil, batteries, gas, nuclear materials, flywheels) but not a source of energy (like sunshine, wind, waves...). We can use nuclear materials and oil as if they were a source of energy because we have access to vast amounts of them, but they are not really sources, and will run out.
Until we get either some revolutionary new method of extracting the hydrogen (wasn't there a story here about some method involving a laser heating up a large tank of water on an artificial island and breaking up the water molecules?), or we get access to the atmospheres of planets like Jupiter which have many earth masses' worth of hydrogen, hydrogen remains a storage form, unusable as a source.
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They're bloody great wastes of time. If I could get ten bucks for every hour I've wasted on MUDs, I could buy myself a Jaguar.
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They didn't ban the keys, they just deleted the accounts. They're just threatening to ban keys of repeat offenders.
Daniel
You're missing out on the main uses. I've actually never used it to look at other people's equipment - I don't give a shit about this use. However, after doing all the damn acts so many times, I'm not interested in blindly finding my way around the act having to kill every one of the pesky little buggers in every corner. I happen to hate doing the Arcane Sanctuary in A2, it's my least favourite map. With maphack, good news, I don't have to anymore - I can find the right tomb without it.
Maphack basically means that I don't have to explore levels so thoroughly anymore, I can just go straight to where I want to go, because I've got the map. That to me is the primary use.
The secondary use, one of the 'nice features' they should really have in the normal map anyway, is showing monsters on the map. When I'm doing cow runs with my javazon, it helps tremendously. When I'm wandering around a level looking for xp, it helps tremendously. The fact that it shows what bonuses minor bosses have is also extremely useful. Like everyone else, I hate LEB's, and this way I can avoid some of them.
Finally, possibly one of the most useful (but the one Blizzard is least likely to like) is speeding (by several hours, probably) rushing. Can you imagine how long rushing someone through A2 would take without having the maps?
Nobody's forcing you to use maphack if you don't want it. Some people simply can't be arsed to go through the tedium of finding their way around levels anymore. Some people simply like the comfort of seeing monsters on the map. Some people like to power-play and do rushes and such to go levelling in the cow level instead of normally through the acts. Does that hurt anyone? Not really.
Frankly, I've played for a long time, and there's some things I've simply done so many times that they're just not fun anymore. If I'm forced to do them because some people just can't take that others don't find fun anymore things they still find fun, then screw Diablo. I've talked with people in games and everyone who uses it loves maphack, and it is a central aspect of the way they play. If maphack goes, so will they.
Daniel
They're being a bit silly there. From playing occasionally, I can vouch that about 1/2 of the people who still play Diablo 2 (so much time after it was first released) use maphack as a convenience. And I think that most of these will simply stop playing if maphack is disabled. So one of two things. Either:
1) They're trying to scare people, cause they can't really do shit to detect maphack actually, or
2) They don't want to support D2 anymore and are trying to chase away all those people who still play to decrease the load on their servers (and hence how much it costs to maintain them)
But if 2) is correct, then why are they bothering to release so many new features in 1.10? Which leaves possibility 1), or even possibility 3) (they're just stupid).
Daniel
You're assuming a 1-1 mapping between accounts and people. Many people have a lot of accounts - especially if they use cheats or tradehacks and such. So divide that by at least 10, probably more. Still a large number, but not so huge.
Daniel
You made a typo and a mistake. First of all, we're not talking about weapons of mass destruction, but about weapons of mass distraction (even Paul Wolfowicz has admitted that). Second, the weapon was not in the series but it was the series itself! While we were all watching it, the aliens (who actually look like chimpanzees underneath) took over - Bush is their chief leader.
Daniel
I remember watching this when I was a kid, I loved it. I hope the new series will be as good, or even better - that would be one series I would watch :-)
Daniel
Well, when they say they've shipped a billion, they really mean they've shipped a billion plus or minus a few hundred thousand, so that's a pretty hard-to-anwer question, heh :-P.
Daniel
The article said it: ...
From the 8086 to today's Intel Pentium 4 processor, Intel Xeon and Intel Centrino mobile technology
They're lumping together all the CPU chips they've ever shipped, from the 8086 to the latest. I imagine they must have shipped a lot more of other types of chips, though.
Daniel
Ok, fair enough. I guess I used it (and heard it used) enough in day-to-day conversation not to deduce that it's incorrect to say degrees Kelvin in writing... I guess you could be right. It doesn't seem like a very big deal, though.
Daniel
I did a physics masters and I never heard anyone declare that you can't say "degrees Kelvin". In fact, I must have said it myself quite a few times. Both ways of saying it are acceptable as far as I'm aware.
Daniel
You are scum.
And you're a gullible idiot.
Daniel
I didn't hear it the first time...
Daniel
All they need to do is to cool it down
The high temperature is what allows them to have fewer particles bumping around real fast inside the EM field and preventing other particles from getting through from the outside. If you're going to have lots of cold particles, you might as well make a glass or plastic window - it'll be cheaper and cost a lot less energy to maintain in place.
Daniel
The parent is absolutely correct (at least in the content :-P). It's a volume of very hot gas enclosed in an electromagnetic field. Nothing spectacular about this, and still requires an enclosing apparatus (rather than, say, generating a forcefield around the apparatus).
This is an advance in technology, for sure - it's a very fast valve. But there's no physics breakthrough involved. It's just an application of an old theory to an old problem, made possible by advances in technological expertise and practice. It's a clever hack but it's not a force field.
Daniel
If you consider all those high-energy particles trapped in the earth's magnetic field, you can look at their speeds statistically and find out what their speed distribution is. From that, you could probably derive a measure like temperature (assuming they actually follow a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution). However, I agree that that is a pretty useless way to look at things. Temperature is a man-made concept to make a lot of common place things (involving large numbers of particles in thermal equilibrium) easier to understand. It was never designed be applied to exotic things like high-energy particles trapped in magnetic fields. It can be applied to them nevertheless, but won't tell you much.
Daniel
Sweet+++ :-) Thanks
Daniel
It's not even an english-speaking community.
Daniel
Of course not, but then we get into cosmological considerations which aren't really relevant to keeping the air we breathe clean :-P By the time the sun runs out I would hope we'll have evolved beyond many of the needs we have today, hehe.
Daniel
You're right, I didn't think of that. Importing vast quantities of hydrogen from other planets would deplete our oxygen. Hrm... kinda sucks. I guess fusion is the way forward then.
Daniel
From our very restricted temporal point of view, the fact that all this energy in fact comes from the Strong force (one of the four fundamental forces) is pretty irrelevant.
Oh, and by the way, not all elements above hydrogen come from supernovae. After the big bang, the universe's mass was composed of about 80% hydrogen, 20% helium, and trace amounts of other stuff. It's still pretty close to that. The supernovae produce heavy elements faster than stars, but those also produce them (and for a long time). The supernovae only help because instead of keeping all this new material in a cooling white dwarf they blast a portion of it out into space to become part of other forming solar systems.
Daniel
Not quite. Until we develop a good method for doing it. Science is far from having discovered everything yet...
/. mentioning some japanese project trying to use a sattellite sun-powered laser to heat up seawater in a large tank on an artificial island (with a catalyst added into the water) to use that energy to make hydrogen in large quantities. Haven't heard more of it since, but there will definitely be ways eventually... There's no physical impossibility, just a technological one.
A while ago there was an article on
Daniel
Have you considered building yourself a controller like Jakarta Struts, in PHP? I haven't heard of one, but that might clean up your problems. With that, you can place a lot of "use this function in this page" logic in XML files so that it keeps your code clean. That would be some work, I guess, converting Struts to PHP, but not altogether undoable. You will probably need to make use of mod_rewrite.
Daniel
Yeah, you could write that in C++... Have fun! :-)
Daniel
At the moment, hydrogen is very hard to extract from sea water. Basically you need to put in all the energy (more in fact) that you want to get out. The problem is that hydrogen is a great storage form for energy (like oil, batteries, gas, nuclear materials, flywheels) but not a source of energy (like sunshine, wind, waves...). We can use nuclear materials and oil as if they were a source of energy because we have access to vast amounts of them, but they are not really sources, and will run out.
Until we get either some revolutionary new method of extracting the hydrogen (wasn't there a story here about some method involving a laser heating up a large tank of water on an artificial island and breaking up the water molecules?), or we get access to the atmospheres of planets like Jupiter which have many earth masses' worth of hydrogen, hydrogen remains a storage form, unusable as a source.
Daniel
They're bloody great wastes of time. If I could get ten bucks for every hour I've wasted on MUDs, I could buy myself a Jaguar.
Daniel