I was really disappointed that Blizzard might be involved in that, they have been the most progressive company lately, going so far as to offer unprotected freely down loadable versions of their old (previously protected) games on the internet.
They even let you download the Mac version of a game if you already have a PC serial number.
And LAN games don't pay attention to the serial number.
I eagerly await the new Diablo and Starcraft, and fully expect to buy full-price copies of both if they continue this policy. (Full price is something I haven't done for a while, I usually wait for the price to drop and the required hardware to get cheap...)
Not even a comparison. Windows swapping is medium, but Mac's is Horrific. It would completely shut down the computer when anything interesting happened, and you have no control over it. Try running a.5gig machine with less than a gig of disk space and to ANYTHING. At least on a PC you can fix your swap space.
Of course, the fix was $99 for 4gig ram--I haven't had a problem since!
Linux, by the way, is the other end of the spectrum. Smooth, clean swapping that allows you to do just about anything with very little memory. You'd expect the Mac to perform more like a Unix--maybe I could have it set up and use a swap partition--honestly I never even thought about that.
Note, according to the vote summary, 3/5 people have trouble with Windows suspend/resume (I know, only people with points can vote, but it should still lead to a fairly reasonable random sampling).
I'd say even 1/5 is too many (heck, any failures of major system functions are too many!)--imagine now if the OS was built to ALWAYS use it. 3/5 computers failing forever, and probably more because I bet even the 2 that voted saying their system worked have small glitches they "Forgive and Forget" every few months...
I wonder how many products could get away with a 3/5 failure rate of a major feature...
I'm surprised to find that there are people who have it work. My entire office has brand new dell laptops, and the combinations of shutting down, we get quite a few crashes.
Maybe it's just dell that can't do it right? Or vendors that overwrite Microsoft's handling and break it? Do you have any advice?
I've virtually NEVER had windows work reliably after a hibernate/resume. I acknowledge that there is probably a hardware/software combination out there that can do it, but I've never encountered one.
For me, things just get unstable, and after 2 or 3 hibernates without a full shutdown, the whole system fails (if it didn't fail on the first resume).
So although this may work on a pristine install, the thought of owning one of these after a few patches from Microsoft, installing an anti-virus and a few drivers would scare the living crap out of me.
Reliable suspend alone is the justification I used (to myself) to move to the Mac.
How about a vote? I'm willing to wager a little karma on it. If you have a similar experience, mod me up--if windows suspend/resume works perfectly for you, mod me down.
My general point of view is, if you REALLY think it will make a difference in the national election, vote for whichever side makes you feel warm and fuzzy, but in EVERY OTHER CATEGORY, unless you have a real desire to see one of the republicrats in there, vote independent.
It may be phrased poorly, the important part was:
Vote independent in every election BUT president..
Actually the new version of Azureus does live streaming bittorrent pretty well.
I think they just ensure that the first part is sent, calculate the bandwidth of the rest, start as soon as you've spooled enough to avoid interruptions.
There is no reason I can imagine that the bittorrent protocol HAS to be worse than any other one as long as the packet order is chosen correctly. You could even add a variable to the torrent to indicate when the last packet will be delivered to the cloud (so that a late-starter can more accurately calculate a start time).
I keep wanting to print a bumper sticker saying "the only wasted vote is one for a republican or democrat".
My general point of view is, if you REALLY think it will make a difference in the national election, vote for whichever side makes you feel warm and fuzzy, but in EVERY OTHER CATEGORY, unless you have a real desire to see one of the republicrats in there, vote independent.
One vote isn't going to do much, but if a few people started doing this, it may start showing our displeasure at both wings of the American Commercial Party.
It's just hard to counter all the innocent people who fall for that "Nader ruined everything" meme (one of the many tricks the Commercial Party uses to keep any competition at bay).
It takes a while to figure this out, a few dozen years perhaps, but responsibility is a thing that grows. As a young kid, you need to have as much leeway to make mistakes as you can so that you can learn to handler responsibility, while the truly dangerous things are kept from you.
Cars are the same way. You don't just wake up at 16 (or 18, or 25) fully ready to drive responsibly, you kinda grow into it somewhere between 22 and 50 (Perhaps later for some, probably not earlier for many).
You can't be kept off the road until you're 50, so maybe something like this can help. Actually I think a better idea might be a black box, the ability to review exactly where the car was and how fast it moved (I know there are already devices like this) and if your kid doesn't like it--he doesn't have to drive your car!
When my mom divorced my dad she had been the only one working for a long time, and had to take care of two kids while he pretty much drank.
He couldn't even stay home and take care of us--when she asked him to do that he locked us in our room by tying a rope from the doorknob to something across the hall and went to "play golf". The only egress, a window, was too high to get out of.
It wasn't like we were being tortured or anything, but we were a good deal better off without him.
Anyone who would play these things had better be doing it for fun or cheating, because there is no way to prevent cheating when that much money is at stake.
It's kinda so obvious that I'm shocked anyone plays. Guess there is one born every second.
I don't really see primaries as part of the legal process--as anything the government should be involved in.
The whole party system is a crappy add-on to democracy (that happens to break it pretty bad), and should not in any way be required by laws of any sort.
That said, the people in power (parties) have a vested interest in excluding others, so I can't guarantee it's not legislated somewhere.
It is supposed to be impossible for me to show someone how I voted. I can't be given a receipt or anything (it would be too easy to buy votes).
With that as a given, how does a paper trail help? If I as a voter can't be sure that my specific vote is the one on the paper, then it seems like there are still thousands of ways for someone to change it out.
The machine could print fake info first of all, so it would HAVE to be something I see and validate. Since it has to be a public record, it can't be tied to me by any kind of key though--so after it's printed it out for me to see, there is no saying that it doesn't print a second or third line for another candidate at some other time...
If the paper trail disagrees with the digital tally, do you just assume that the paper wasn't messed with or substituted?
I'm guessing people have thought about this more than I have, and I see the mention of "Paper Trail" a lot so I just thought I'd ask.
I kind of imagine some guy with all these different sized/shaped wires coming over the top of his nightstand cussing and trying to jam each one into his phone. "Nope, long Ipod connector doesn't fit. Nope that one is way too big. Hm, this one is close, let me push a little harder. bzzt"
Exactly what I thought. This day and age, virtually anything our government keeps from it's people is due to some sort of corruption.
Even military secrets aren't a very big deal any more because nobody can do much to counter them anyway.
There still is certainly time-sensitive information like specific troop tactics and attack locations, but nobody's going to question that (Yet whenever you question secrecy of some government project, that's the straw-man that is thrown up)
I felt there was absolutely no difference when GWB was elected the first time. I mean, how bad could he fuck it up? Figured that it would do good to have the GOP boys as disappointed with their choice as I had been with mine (Clinton).
Man did Bush prove me wrong. There definitely are some differences, even if they are all beholden to the same groups. (I'm arguing against my own post, aren't I?)
I'm sorry you were modded troll, your point is probably completely valid, and regardless is certainly not intended as a troll, but you left very little information to go on. Please elaborate.
As is, I heard him mentioning plug-in hybrids(something I've NEVER heard from anyone else NEAR government to date) and having Oil Companies pay a windfall profit tax, something neither dems nor republicans have ever mentioned to my knowledge.
So obviously he's not in the green camp, but he is way outside what I'd expect from any member of the commercial party--either branch.
I agree it's a bit dark. I've decided to compromise. If he makes it into office and stays there for a non-trivial amount of time, I'm going to re-evaluate my entire attitude.
If not, I'll consider it validated and "Dark" will be the new "Normal"
It'll make a lot more sense when you realize that we only have one party, and both wings of the Commercial party are pretty much the same when it comes to issues like NAFTA and DMCA and copyright.
I don't believe Obama is "in", so I'm fairly sure he'll be neutralized. It will either be strange voting machine results or something worse...
If these drivers are "Windows Certified", then 100% of the blame lies with the one doing the certification.
If not, I think microsoft better do something about it because any asshat with a USB lightwand can tell the user to install his software.
Once you've accepted that there were problems, why the HELL attempt to deflect blame like that (making yourself look worse to anyone who actually thinks).
This kind of reaction is way too common and really bugs me.
But now I'll wait. Maybe I'll torrent the fixed version instead, and buy it if and when it's worth the money.
I've been spoiled by Blizzard lately, all their offerings (at least all the ones I'm interested in) are now available on both PC and Mac without as much as a CD key as a download, and multiple downloads to different PCs are apparently encouraged.
Not only this, but my old PC cd keys will work to download the Mac versions. This is exactly how software (and music/video) should have always been delivered.
I'll buy Diablo3 from them the day it ships assuming they use the same system--Probably the new Starcraft as well.
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I was really disappointed that Blizzard might be involved in that, they have been the most progressive company lately, going so far as to offer unprotected freely down loadable versions of their old (previously protected) games on the internet.
They even let you download the Mac version of a game if you already have a PC serial number.
And LAN games don't pay attention to the serial number.
I eagerly await the new Diablo and Starcraft, and fully expect to buy full-price copies of both if they continue this policy. (Full price is something I haven't done for a while, I usually wait for the price to drop and the required hardware to get cheap...)
Not even a comparison. Windows swapping is medium, but Mac's is Horrific. It would completely shut down the computer when anything interesting happened, and you have no control over it. Try running a .5gig machine with less than a gig of disk space and to ANYTHING. At least on a PC you can fix your swap space.
Of course, the fix was $99 for 4gig ram--I haven't had a problem since!
Linux, by the way, is the other end of the spectrum. Smooth, clean swapping that allows you to do just about anything with very little memory. You'd expect the Mac to perform more like a Unix--maybe I could have it set up and use a swap partition--honestly I never even thought about that.
Note, according to the vote summary, 3/5 people have trouble with Windows suspend/resume (I know, only people with points can vote, but it should still lead to a fairly reasonable random sampling).
I'd say even 1/5 is too many (heck, any failures of major system functions are too many!)--imagine now if the OS was built to ALWAYS use it. 3/5 computers failing forever, and probably more because I bet even the 2 that voted saying their system worked have small glitches they "Forgive and Forget" every few months...
I wonder how many products could get away with a 3/5 failure rate of a major feature...
I'm surprised to find that there are people who have it work. My entire office has brand new dell laptops, and the combinations of shutting down, we get quite a few crashes.
Maybe it's just dell that can't do it right? Or vendors that overwrite Microsoft's handling and break it? Do you have any advice?
I've virtually NEVER had windows work reliably after a hibernate/resume. I acknowledge that there is probably a hardware/software combination out there that can do it, but I've never encountered one.
For me, things just get unstable, and after 2 or 3 hibernates without a full shutdown, the whole system fails (if it didn't fail on the first resume).
So although this may work on a pristine install, the thought of owning one of these after a few patches from Microsoft, installing an anti-virus and a few drivers would scare the living crap out of me.
Reliable suspend alone is the justification I used (to myself) to move to the Mac.
How about a vote? I'm willing to wager a little karma on it. If you have a similar experience, mod me up--if windows suspend/resume works perfectly for you, mod me down.
No, actually I said this:
My general point of view is, if you REALLY think it will make a difference in the national election, vote for whichever side makes you feel warm and fuzzy, but in EVERY OTHER CATEGORY, unless you have a real desire to see one of the republicrats in there, vote independent.
It may be phrased poorly, the important part was:
Vote independent in every election BUT president..
Actually the new version of Azureus does live streaming bittorrent pretty well.
I think they just ensure that the first part is sent, calculate the bandwidth of the rest, start as soon as you've spooled enough to avoid interruptions.
There is no reason I can imagine that the bittorrent protocol HAS to be worse than any other one as long as the packet order is chosen correctly. You could even add a variable to the torrent to indicate when the last packet will be delivered to the cloud (so that a late-starter can more accurately calculate a start time).
I keep wanting to print a bumper sticker saying "the only wasted vote is one for a republican or democrat".
My general point of view is, if you REALLY think it will make a difference in the national election, vote for whichever side makes you feel warm and fuzzy, but in EVERY OTHER CATEGORY, unless you have a real desire to see one of the republicrats in there, vote independent.
One vote isn't going to do much, but if a few people started doing this, it may start showing our displeasure at both wings of the American Commercial Party.
It's just hard to counter all the innocent people who fall for that "Nader ruined everything" meme (one of the many tricks the Commercial Party uses to keep any competition at bay).
It takes a while to figure this out, a few dozen years perhaps, but responsibility is a thing that grows. As a young kid, you need to have as much leeway to make mistakes as you can so that you can learn to handler responsibility, while the truly dangerous things are kept from you.
Cars are the same way. You don't just wake up at 16 (or 18, or 25) fully ready to drive responsibly, you kinda grow into it somewhere between 22 and 50 (Perhaps later for some, probably not earlier for many).
You can't be kept off the road until you're 50, so maybe something like this can help. Actually I think a better idea might be a black box, the ability to review exactly where the car was and how fast it moved (I know there are already devices like this) and if your kid doesn't like it--he doesn't have to drive your car!
When my mom divorced my dad she had been the only one working for a long time, and had to take care of two kids while he pretty much drank.
He couldn't even stay home and take care of us--when she asked him to do that he locked us in our room by tying a rope from the doorknob to something across the hall and went to "play golf". The only egress, a window, was too high to get out of.
It wasn't like we were being tortured or anything, but we were a good deal better off without him.
Yes, the kids care!
Anyone who would play these things had better be doing it for fun or cheating, because there is no way to prevent cheating when that much money is at stake.
It's kinda so obvious that I'm shocked anyone plays. Guess there is one born every second.
I don't really see primaries as part of the legal process--as anything the government should be involved in.
The whole party system is a crappy add-on to democracy (that happens to break it pretty bad), and should not in any way be required by laws of any sort.
That said, the people in power (parties) have a vested interest in excluding others, so I can't guarantee it's not legislated somewhere.
It is supposed to be impossible for me to show someone how I voted. I can't be given a receipt or anything (it would be too easy to buy votes).
With that as a given, how does a paper trail help? If I as a voter can't be sure that my specific vote is the one on the paper, then it seems like there are still thousands of ways for someone to change it out.
The machine could print fake info first of all, so it would HAVE to be something I see and validate. Since it has to be a public record, it can't be tied to me by any kind of key though--so after it's printed it out for me to see, there is no saying that it doesn't print a second or third line for another candidate at some other time...
If the paper trail disagrees with the digital tally, do you just assume that the paper wasn't messed with or substituted?
I'm guessing people have thought about this more than I have, and I see the mention of "Paper Trail" a lot so I just thought I'd ask.
My thought exactly, wtf?
I kind of imagine some guy with all these different sized/shaped wires coming over the top of his nightstand cussing and trying to jam each one into his phone. "Nope, long Ipod connector doesn't fit. Nope that one is way too big. Hm, this one is close, let me push a little harder. bzzt"
Exactly what I thought. This day and age, virtually anything our government keeps from it's people is due to some sort of corruption.
Even military secrets aren't a very big deal any more because nobody can do much to counter them anyway.
There still is certainly time-sensitive information like specific troop tactics and attack locations, but nobody's going to question that (Yet whenever you question secrecy of some government project, that's the straw-man that is thrown up)
Not to belittle his accomplishment, but the way I read the summary, he just designed it and is looking for someone to create a prototype.
> And we know the results are accurate, because they're working with a demographic famous for honest and forthright self-disclosure
Other research shows gamers as being somewhat more sarcastic and skeptical than their compatriots as well.
I felt there was absolutely no difference when GWB was elected the first time. I mean, how bad could he fuck it up? Figured that it would do good to have the GOP boys as disappointed with their choice as I had been with mine (Clinton).
Man did Bush prove me wrong. There definitely are some differences, even if they are all beholden to the same groups. (I'm arguing against my own post, aren't I?)
I'm sorry you were modded troll, your point is probably completely valid, and regardless is certainly not intended as a troll, but you left very little information to go on. Please elaborate.
As is, I heard him mentioning plug-in hybrids(something I've NEVER heard from anyone else NEAR government to date) and having Oil Companies pay a windfall profit tax, something neither dems nor republicans have ever mentioned to my knowledge.
So obviously he's not in the green camp, but he is way outside what I'd expect from any member of the commercial party--either branch.
I agree it's a bit dark. I've decided to compromise. If he makes it into office and stays there for a non-trivial amount of time, I'm going to re-evaluate my entire attitude.
If not, I'll consider it validated and "Dark" will be the new "Normal"
First line in TFA:
"That's projector, not protector. But geeks will rejoice nonetheless."
It'll make a lot more sense when you realize that we only have one party, and both wings of the Commercial party are pretty much the same when it comes to issues like NAFTA and DMCA and copyright.
I don't believe Obama is "in", so I'm fairly sure he'll be neutralized. It will either be strange voting machine results or something worse...
For the first time, we have had the slightest impact on a manufacturer by spreading the truth.
I bet you anything I know what the next step is.
Within a year, mentioning DRM problems in a review on Amazon will be cause for removing your comment.
In the meantime, they will just chalk up their drop in sales to pirating.
Bend over, it's on the way.
If these drivers are "Windows Certified", then 100% of the blame lies with the one doing the certification.
If not, I think microsoft better do something about it because any asshat with a USB lightwand can tell the user to install his software.
Once you've accepted that there were problems, why the HELL attempt to deflect blame like that (making yourself look worse to anyone who actually thinks).
This kind of reaction is way too common and really bugs me.
But now I'll wait. Maybe I'll torrent the fixed version instead, and buy it if and when it's worth the money.
I've been spoiled by Blizzard lately, all their offerings (at least all the ones I'm interested in) are now available on both PC and Mac without as much as a CD key as a download, and multiple downloads to different PCs are apparently encouraged.
Not only this, but my old PC cd keys will work to download the Mac versions. This is exactly how software (and music/video) should have always been delivered.
I'll buy Diablo3 from them the day it ships assuming they use the same system--Probably the new Starcraft as well.