It does mean that, yes. I should have been clearer in my post. (And it will be available for the other regional servers in the future as you can see in the rest of the thread)
The following games are supported at this time: StarCraft, StarCraft Battle Chest, StarCraft + Extension, Warcraft III, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Warcraft III + Extension, Diablo II, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, Diablo II + Extension
And World of Warcraft, though only for American accounts for now.
It probably looks at your hardware configuration, since they'll want a good varied mixture of testing hardware, so it would not be a good idea to run it on your work machine anyway.
It should be noted that in order to sign up for the beta, you apparently need to have at least one Blizzard game CD-key signed up with your battle.net account. Otherwise you get this message:
You need to have at least one Blizzard Entertainment game attached to your account in order to set up your beta profile.
I hear the gaming argument all the time, but I don't understand it. I have a Logitech RF mouse and it seems just as instantly responsive as any corded mouse. I also play FPSes and I don't see a difference there. Granted, I'm not the type that scores a headshot the moment 1 pixel of the opponent is visible on the opposite side of the map, but I really don't see what corded mice have over wireless ones for gaming, they seem identical to me.
As for the battery thing - I can see how that could be an issue, though my Logitech LX5 uses 2 AAs which last for at least 4 months, and it has a warning light that lights up about a week before the mouse actually starts showing symptoms of low batteries so you have plenty of time to replace them.
I should also add that kconf_update doesn't do updating (in the sense of downloading software from the Internet), it just cleans up/modifies configuration files.
Well, to be fair, the KDE on Windows page does say, in bold,
KDE on Windows is not in the final state, so applications can be unsuitable for day to day use yet.
The installer is far from suitable for end-users as well. I'm not sure why the website would link to the KDE installer without any instructions (there is no installer specific to Okular, or any specific KDE program, yet).
No, UT3 was only free for a couple of weekends, only through Steam. You can't continue to play it for free after the weekends have passed; you have to buy it (though it is quite discounted at the moment).
Well, I currently have 141 tabs open, and Firefox has been running for days (not sure how many exactly, but at least 5). The tabs contain a rather diverse collection of websites, including many with flash. It's currently using 780 MB memory (3.0.6 on XP SP3).
I think that's a pretty acceptable amount of memory for this many tabs. In fact, if it scaled perfectly linearly (which it doesn't, of course) that would mean only 78 MB taken when you have 14 tabs open (which is probably much higher than the average number of tabs a non-power user would have open).
I didn't even know the two modes worked differently until now. In my eyes the problems are:
That the mode is switched from a menu called "View", implying that there is only a visual, not a functional difference.
A scientific calculator shows you the expression so far, while this one doesn't, despite having way more screen estate than a desktop calculator. So it functions differently from what it displays to the user (it remembers the whole expression, but only shows you the last thing entered).
Both are pretty major issues for such a simple app, IMO.
They've already answered the fourth race question. Can't give you a link (but Google should help, and the story I read it in was featured on/.), but there will not be a fourth fully playable race (though there might be a few extra units in the campaign) in SCII, but it might be considered for an expansion.
I think your other question was also somewhat covered in the same interview. It's partially for story reasons and partially because they're making a new game - they need new content, not just SC1 with fancy graphics. They also have a rough "limit" of units per race, so they can't just add new units without removing old ones.
Would be kind of difficult to make a map like DotA without being able to test it.
On the other hand, don't underestimate the map makers. If there's anyone willing to do a Starcraft version of DotA, I bet they could make it work in a week or two.
The story is parallel to the story of Crysis. There will be an actual Crysis 2 later on that continues the story, hence why Warhead isn't called a sequel. (Depending on your definition of a sequel, of course, even Warhead could be considered one)
On the other hand, Chrome doesn't seem to allow me to switch to another window by hovering the mouse over that window's taskbar button while dragging a tab - which makes the feature nearly useless if you use maximized windows. Especially since pressing alt-tab stops the dragging immediately. Hopefully they'll fix it by the release version.
I wonder what would happen if you downloaded a random application in a language you don't understand (say, you're not a native english speaker and don't know english) and just click random buttons until you get it installed. You'd have agreed to the EULA, but not only would you have no idea what you just agreed to, you wouldn't even know you agreed to anything. Anyone know how that works legally?
And I can certainly imagine some of my non-English speaking friends/relatives doing that - hell, they've probably done so many times. They just click next until it's installed.
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I think the US means WOW US Servers.
It does mean that, yes. I should have been clearer in my post. (And it will be available for the other regional servers in the future as you can see in the rest of the thread)
Sorry, it won't work.
The following games are supported at this time: StarCraft, StarCraft Battle Chest, StarCraft + Extension, Warcraft III, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Warcraft III + Extension, Diablo II, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, Diablo II + Extension
And World of Warcraft, though only for American accounts for now.
It probably looks at your hardware configuration, since they'll want a good varied mixture of testing hardware, so it would not be a good idea to run it on your work machine anyway.
Thanks for the tip. But alas, no; I'm in Europe.
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The World of Warcraft account merge process is not yet available in your region.
I have, but it says WoW account merging is US only.
It should be noted that in order to sign up for the beta, you apparently need to have at least one Blizzard game CD-key signed up with your battle.net account. Otherwise you get this message:
You need to have at least one Blizzard Entertainment game attached to your account in order to set up your beta profile.
Oh I see, didn't think of places with lots if wireless mice before. Thanks for the explanation.
I hear the gaming argument all the time, but I don't understand it. I have a Logitech RF mouse and it seems just as instantly responsive as any corded mouse. I also play FPSes and I don't see a difference there. Granted, I'm not the type that scores a headshot the moment 1 pixel of the opponent is visible on the opposite side of the map, but I really don't see what corded mice have over wireless ones for gaming, they seem identical to me.
As for the battery thing - I can see how that could be an issue, though my Logitech LX5 uses 2 AAs which last for at least 4 months, and it has a warning light that lights up about a week before the mouse actually starts showing symptoms of low batteries so you have plenty of time to replace them.
At some point you could put this at the end of your HTML file: <xml><noembed> . It would get rid of the ads completely (at least on IE).
I should also add that kconf_update doesn't do updating (in the sense of downloading software from the Internet), it just cleans up/modifies configuration files.
Well, to be fair, the KDE on Windows page does say, in bold,
KDE on Windows is not in the final state, so applications can be unsuitable for day to day use yet.
The installer is far from suitable for end-users as well. I'm not sure why the website would link to the KDE installer without any instructions (there is no installer specific to Okular, or any specific KDE program, yet).
...archived. They asked for it!
I just tested the things you mentioned with JRE support disabled and they worked. (OOo 3.0.1 on XP)
No, UT3 was only free for a couple of weekends, only through Steam. You can't continue to play it for free after the weekends have passed; you have to buy it (though it is quite discounted at the moment).
That will free up a slot, someone will join, and they'll be down 15 points with no guarantee of getting 45 points out of the new person.
Also no one will play on that server.
Well, I currently have 141 tabs open, and Firefox has been running for days (not sure how many exactly, but at least 5). The tabs contain a rather diverse collection of websites, including many with flash. It's currently using 780 MB memory (3.0.6 on XP SP3).
I think that's a pretty acceptable amount of memory for this many tabs. In fact, if it scaled perfectly linearly (which it doesn't, of course) that would mean only 78 MB taken when you have 14 tabs open (which is probably much higher than the average number of tabs a non-power user would have open).
I didn't even know the two modes worked differently until now. In my eyes the problems are:
Both are pretty major issues for such a simple app, IMO.
They've already answered the fourth race question. Can't give you a link (but Google should help, and the story I read it in was featured on /.), but there will not be a fourth fully playable race (though there might be a few extra units in the campaign) in SCII, but it might be considered for an expansion.
I think your other question was also somewhat covered in the same interview. It's partially for story reasons and partially because they're making a new game - they need new content, not just SC1 with fancy graphics. They also have a rough "limit" of units per race, so they can't just add new units without removing old ones.
Would be kind of difficult to make a map like DotA without being able to test it.
On the other hand, don't underestimate the map makers. If there's anyone willing to do a Starcraft version of DotA, I bet they could make it work in a week or two.
The story is parallel to the story of Crysis. There will be an actual Crysis 2 later on that continues the story, hence why Warhead isn't called a sequel. (Depending on your definition of a sequel, of course, even Warhead could be considered one)
On the other hand, Chrome doesn't seem to allow me to switch to another window by hovering the mouse over that window's taskbar button while dragging a tab - which makes the feature nearly useless if you use maximized windows. Especially since pressing alt-tab stops the dragging immediately. Hopefully they'll fix it by the release version.
I wonder what would happen if you downloaded a random application in a language you don't understand (say, you're not a native english speaker and don't know english) and just click random buttons until you get it installed. You'd have agreed to the EULA, but not only would you have no idea what you just agreed to, you wouldn't even know you agreed to anything. Anyone know how that works legally?
And I can certainly imagine some of my non-English speaking friends/relatives doing that - hell, they've probably done so many times. They just click next until it's installed.
Could be isometric or something of the kind. No reason you can't represent 3 dimensions in a 2D game.
Oh, I misunderstood you. My apologies.
If you're referring to the Mozilla Suite, then no, that uses Gecko of course.