I like Firefox, but all the constant short freezes are really aggravating. Despite what the trolls say, Firefox doesn't use that much RAM on a typical desktop and is reasonably quick, but those regular freezes are really annoying and ought to be something that they can be fixed, those weren't a problem before Mozilla switched to this asinine release schedule.
I honestly have no idea whether it's just a coincidence or there's a causal relationship, but it is really annoying.
Well, what other options are there? Seriously, the lack of native support for 32bit software pretty much killed off Intel's first stab at 64bits at the start, it just took a while for those initial contracts to run down. It was a good idea in some ways as it dealt with the legacy infrastructure that had cropped up, but greatly underestimated the time it would take for the ecosystem to make it reasonable to go 64bit only. Apple had something in place both times that it switched architectures to deal with that problem.
Not really, what happened was that MS started leaning hard on ASUS and the other manufacturers to knock it off. Those devices were perfectly fine for what they were and what they cost, but almost immediately they were replaced by XP versions that were half as functional and another hundred dollars more expensive.
I'm upset because they're engaging in fraudulent advertising and most people aren't smart enough to realize it. I just want what they promised when I was looking for an ISP, no more no less. If they can't provide what it is that they're advertising then they sure as hell shouldn't be advertising it.
And as for your quip about price, my ISP offers much faster connections for about what I'm paying in other parts of the country, I don't think bitching about the price is really unreasonable.
Then again, you're either a troll or a Republican, in either case I doubt you have the brain cells to comprehend the situation.
Honestly, wrap something like this up in a cheap case and sell it like they sell Rokus and you should be able to do something about that. For the things that people actually do like surf the web and do email this would probably be sufficient.
Not quite, data caps are there so that ISPs don't have to have the bandwidth that they promise in their ads. There's something really wrong when a company can advertise something and then modify it to be something completely different via fine print that might not even be legible in the ad.
We don't need the CO2 to be permanently gone, we just need for it to be leaving the atmosphere quickly enough that it doesn't build up to undesirable levels. Trying to do anything more than that would lead to unpredictable consequences.
Rose colored glasses don't explain why SC2 was so ho hum and generally meh. Considering how much time Blizzard took in creating the game, the least they could have done was spend some time to make the single player campaign worth playing. Well that and implement proper LAN play and head to head modes.
At this point, probably not, but if they choose not to they could end up receiving a congressional subpoena. And even in the absence of that ignoring congress critters that have taken an eye to ones business practices isn't necessarily a wise idea.
I disagree, this is the correct course of action. Ultimately it could lead to subcommittee hearings and changes to the law. Of course that probably won't happen as politicians in the US care less about privacy than the millions of idiots that willingly give FB their private details, but it is hypothetically possible.
Plus, if you don't talk with the execs running FB you can't scare them into reforming or get information that they haven't made public. I'm guessing that they've already read that page and found it to be insufficient.
I'll probably try the demo at some point and I'll probably play the free to play option if Blizzard provides one, but I doubt it will stay installed for more than a few hours. At least SC2 didn't, and I took the unusual step of deleting the files. I don't normally do that with large install files as I often times reinstall later, but SC2 went straight in the trash upon uninstall.
Yes, and you get basically no benefit from doing it. Part of the point of LAN parties is that you get to game with little to no latency and put people on a level playing field. Which you can still somewhat do with the current system, but you add extra lag so that Blizzard can be sure that you're not pirating the game.
As for buying it, what was so brilliant about spawning was that you could actually spend time playing competitively with friends before having to commit to the purchase. The spawned copies were really just demos and you would be left with that when your friends went home.
Not that it really affects me as I'll just crack the games I've bought from them if they force it retroactively on me, but I definitely won't be giving them more information than they currently have and I definitely won't be buying any more games from them if they're going to insist upon this sort of silliness.
I thought that they had given up on REALID, sounds unfortunate that I was wrong. This is just like that article from yesterday where Moglen took a reporter to task for using social networking sites. Everybody that buys into Blizzards rather extreme system is just fucking things up for the rest of us.
I think they dropped the REALID registration, or at least when I signed up for b.net they didn't make me give it up. At least I don't think they did, they didn't require me to use my REALID in any publicly viewable place.
It will almost certainly be free to play, but not as free to play as their previous games were. There will be no spawing copies for LAN play. I'm guessing that the money they need to maintain the servers will in large part come from the auction house and people buying new copies in the future.
I would except that Blizzard has pretty much admitted to fucking things up, i haven't been interested in Diablo 3 in quite a while because of all the "features" they've put in to prevent people from playing in unapproved ways. Any hope of me buying it evaporated the moment that I found out that there would be no singleplayer game and that there would be no LAN play either.
Don't forget the in game auction house, the lack of a real singleplayer game and that like SC2 there will be no LAN play option. I remember them rationalizing taking away the offline play as not requiring people to start over if they began a character offline.
Personally, I'm glad that they didn't have anything better to do like making sure that the game is actually better than its predecessor so that they could tell players how to play. Personally, I'm glad I didn't waste my money on SC2, I'm guessing that I'll feel the same way about Diablo 3.
Blizzard, what happened to you? You used to make such good games, but ever since WoW you can't seem to create a game that's worth paying for. Last good game you made was WC3 and that was nearly a decade ago.
Yeah, really, I was under the impression that Ribbon like Unity was the child of designers' need to pretty up the interface rather than make for a more usable interface. Few programmers I've ever met would be willing to chunk an interface that works in the garbage because it's not as pretty as it could be.
Mutliple intelligences is bunk, the reason why most artists don't program and most programmers don't create art is purely one of interest and effort, if they would put effort into crossing that gap I doubt very much that it would be unusual to see people doing both.
AFAICT it's the graphic designers that have been fucking up the UI in recent times. Programmers typically want an efficient tool that gets things done, it probably isn't pretty, but the interface probably doesn't trick the user by hiding elements that might lead to an ugly UI.
MS is pretty much the worst in that regards if you ignore Ubuntu. I'm not really sure why Ubuntu does it as MS at least has the excuse of trying to sell copies of their latest version of Windows and most people just download Ubuntu for free. Scratch that, most people have given up on Ubuntu because it's run by poorly trained circus monkeys.
You can't use hearsay evidence in court, so that 3rd or 4th party information that they troll FB for is completely worthless in any legal proceedings they want to have.
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I like Firefox, but all the constant short freezes are really aggravating. Despite what the trolls say, Firefox doesn't use that much RAM on a typical desktop and is reasonably quick, but those regular freezes are really annoying and ought to be something that they can be fixed, those weren't a problem before Mozilla switched to this asinine release schedule.
I honestly have no idea whether it's just a coincidence or there's a causal relationship, but it is really annoying.
Well, what other options are there? Seriously, the lack of native support for 32bit software pretty much killed off Intel's first stab at 64bits at the start, it just took a while for those initial contracts to run down. It was a good idea in some ways as it dealt with the legacy infrastructure that had cropped up, but greatly underestimated the time it would take for the ecosystem to make it reasonable to go 64bit only. Apple had something in place both times that it switched architectures to deal with that problem.
Not really, what happened was that MS started leaning hard on ASUS and the other manufacturers to knock it off. Those devices were perfectly fine for what they were and what they cost, but almost immediately they were replaced by XP versions that were half as functional and another hundred dollars more expensive.
I'm upset because they're engaging in fraudulent advertising and most people aren't smart enough to realize it. I just want what they promised when I was looking for an ISP, no more no less. If they can't provide what it is that they're advertising then they sure as hell shouldn't be advertising it.
And as for your quip about price, my ISP offers much faster connections for about what I'm paying in other parts of the country, I don't think bitching about the price is really unreasonable.
Then again, you're either a troll or a Republican, in either case I doubt you have the brain cells to comprehend the situation.
Honestly, wrap something like this up in a cheap case and sell it like they sell Rokus and you should be able to do something about that. For the things that people actually do like surf the web and do email this would probably be sufficient.
Perhaps it's not the same people every day which would suggest that it would be between 1k and 2k people.
Not quite, data caps are there so that ISPs don't have to have the bandwidth that they promise in their ads. There's something really wrong when a company can advertise something and then modify it to be something completely different via fine print that might not even be legible in the ad.
Except that caps are typically up and down. Personally, I've used nearly 300gb in a single month just on crashplan.
We don't need the CO2 to be permanently gone, we just need for it to be leaving the atmosphere quickly enough that it doesn't build up to undesirable levels. Trying to do anything more than that would lead to unpredictable consequences.
Rose colored glasses don't explain why SC2 was so ho hum and generally meh. Considering how much time Blizzard took in creating the game, the least they could have done was spend some time to make the single player campaign worth playing. Well that and implement proper LAN play and head to head modes.
None of the ISPs around here give good latency to the connections. I'm glad that I'm not personally into online games that require good latency.
At this point, probably not, but if they choose not to they could end up receiving a congressional subpoena. And even in the absence of that ignoring congress critters that have taken an eye to ones business practices isn't necessarily a wise idea.
Well that is one of the definitions of fixed. As in fixed to the wall.
I disagree, this is the correct course of action. Ultimately it could lead to subcommittee hearings and changes to the law. Of course that probably won't happen as politicians in the US care less about privacy than the millions of idiots that willingly give FB their private details, but it is hypothetically possible.
Plus, if you don't talk with the execs running FB you can't scare them into reforming or get information that they haven't made public. I'm guessing that they've already read that page and found it to be insufficient.
I'll probably try the demo at some point and I'll probably play the free to play option if Blizzard provides one, but I doubt it will stay installed for more than a few hours. At least SC2 didn't, and I took the unusual step of deleting the files. I don't normally do that with large install files as I often times reinstall later, but SC2 went straight in the trash upon uninstall.
Yes, and you get basically no benefit from doing it. Part of the point of LAN parties is that you get to game with little to no latency and put people on a level playing field. Which you can still somewhat do with the current system, but you add extra lag so that Blizzard can be sure that you're not pirating the game.
As for buying it, what was so brilliant about spawning was that you could actually spend time playing competitively with friends before having to commit to the purchase. The spawned copies were really just demos and you would be left with that when your friends went home.
Not that it really affects me as I'll just crack the games I've bought from them if they force it retroactively on me, but I definitely won't be giving them more information than they currently have and I definitely won't be buying any more games from them if they're going to insist upon this sort of silliness.
I thought that they had given up on REALID, sounds unfortunate that I was wrong. This is just like that article from yesterday where Moglen took a reporter to task for using social networking sites. Everybody that buys into Blizzards rather extreme system is just fucking things up for the rest of us.
I think they dropped the REALID registration, or at least when I signed up for b.net they didn't make me give it up. At least I don't think they did, they didn't require me to use my REALID in any publicly viewable place.
It will almost certainly be free to play, but not as free to play as their previous games were. There will be no spawing copies for LAN play. I'm guessing that the money they need to maintain the servers will in large part come from the auction house and people buying new copies in the future.
I would except that Blizzard has pretty much admitted to fucking things up, i haven't been interested in Diablo 3 in quite a while because of all the "features" they've put in to prevent people from playing in unapproved ways. Any hope of me buying it evaporated the moment that I found out that there would be no singleplayer game and that there would be no LAN play either.
Don't forget the in game auction house, the lack of a real singleplayer game and that like SC2 there will be no LAN play option. I remember them rationalizing taking away the offline play as not requiring people to start over if they began a character offline.
Personally, I'm glad that they didn't have anything better to do like making sure that the game is actually better than its predecessor so that they could tell players how to play. Personally, I'm glad I didn't waste my money on SC2, I'm guessing that I'll feel the same way about Diablo 3.
Blizzard, what happened to you? You used to make such good games, but ever since WoW you can't seem to create a game that's worth paying for. Last good game you made was WC3 and that was nearly a decade ago.
Yeah, really, I was under the impression that Ribbon like Unity was the child of designers' need to pretty up the interface rather than make for a more usable interface. Few programmers I've ever met would be willing to chunk an interface that works in the garbage because it's not as pretty as it could be.
Mutliple intelligences is bunk, the reason why most artists don't program and most programmers don't create art is purely one of interest and effort, if they would put effort into crossing that gap I doubt very much that it would be unusual to see people doing both.
AFAICT it's the graphic designers that have been fucking up the UI in recent times. Programmers typically want an efficient tool that gets things done, it probably isn't pretty, but the interface probably doesn't trick the user by hiding elements that might lead to an ugly UI.
MS is pretty much the worst in that regards if you ignore Ubuntu. I'm not really sure why Ubuntu does it as MS at least has the excuse of trying to sell copies of their latest version of Windows and most people just download Ubuntu for free. Scratch that, most people have given up on Ubuntu because it's run by poorly trained circus monkeys.
You can't use hearsay evidence in court, so that 3rd or 4th party information that they troll FB for is completely worthless in any legal proceedings they want to have.