...that Blizzard's WoW is done on purpose not to have a defined end.
Indeed doesn't end at all, and it's always a vicious cycle.
While with games as StarCraft II you can decide to play multiple games but you always know that when a match is over is over, with WoW there's no such thing.
This is why BBC's Panorama isn't that bad talking about WoW.

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Ps. I've played WoW for 4.5 years. Stopped when I realized the game wouldn't have anything to offer more.

...so it would run better on wine.
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...Now!

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The only way to buy once play forever is to have the un-DRMed version...
Why is the industry run by such morons? Don't they know that the free for all copies are available no matter the DRM?

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Hi, I definitely agree with what you say.
Even if in my comp science student life, and/or professional worklife I have found no equivalents of C++.
With shared_ptr, auto_ptr and STL containers memory management is for newbies and you get all benefits of a properly compiled/optimized language.
The only thing that made me consider Java as a language son of a lesser god is the fact you can't actually manage memory as you wish. You can call the garbage collector, do tricks, but is not the same as telling the OS "look mate free/delete that chunk of memory, restrict my data segment (brk/sbrk)". Or is it possible in Java?
I'm saying this because just the other day a 32 bit (Java run-time process) has reached the limit of 4 GiB and...bye bye.
This is the event that makes me think "hey, why is difficult to use C++ with smart pointers?".
Still I consider Java a good language better than many others, for the reasons you stated before.

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Hi guys, I've use this software qpsnr to measure PSNR/SSIM of different encodings.
I thought this could be good to share!
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I've always bought nVidia HW for Linux because I was playing (WoW/Quake4/DooM3) and wanted good 3D drivers.
When SC2 will be out probably I'll play through wine, but this time I'll document myself and prolly buy AMD.
My 2 cents,
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As per subject.
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and it took me only 5 hrs to complete. If HMV gives me 40% or more of the mkt price I'll be more than happy to bring it back to them.
Sorry SONY but I don't give a cr*p when in first instance your games cost 50 GBP!!!! If I can have a little return/buy them at lower price, as in a real market scr*w you!
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Please don't confuse a fashion game like WoW, where you have to be dressed (errmm equipped) with latest gear to be able to be defined WoW player, with a RTS game like SCII/Wc3 where your skill is what makes you a better player.
I think this is a bit OffTopic.
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Honestly I just hope it will work in WINE.
If it does I might give it a shot. Will DRM not make work it in WINE?
Well one less customer.
Have fun!

Sorry mate, you're totally far from the truth.
I agreed with you except when MPEG-LA extended their free content scheme till 2016.
This simply means that they are f**king scared to lose the format war because of stupid fees. Plus decoding Theora at SD or less (i.e. 640x480 or less) doesn't require a lot of CPU power. Sure, on a small device like the iPhone (aka battery hogger) this could be problematic, but is Apple's issue.
And btw, both Theora and H.264 are form the same family, the core algorithm of coding/decoding is DCT/iDCT. It shouldn't take long before someone implements it. As nVidia and AMD have now accelerated support for H.264, it should be pretty straightforward for them to implement Theora support.
Now, to clarify, I honestly believe that for HD video content (720/1080p) at the same bitrate H.264 is better than current Theora encoder.
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The point is imho they will keep on using STUN (see my post above), using our own bandwidth/resources (eg. running servers on your own PS3 rather than dedicated servers) to make money.
Look, with Battle.NET, since 2002, Blizzard is hosting all the ranked (ladder) games of War3 (prolly StarCraft as well).
And they have anti-cheating teams as well.
Did they ever ask you for a penny for this?
And this was in 2002 where setting up/paying for T1 et similia was more expensive. Nowdays all fast line/cable infrastructure costs a lot less. Computational power required to run a dedicated server is more or less the same.
Why does SONY should make pay people for the kind of service you would expect for free?
Btw, do you know how easy is to burn your bandwidth with PS3 acting as server?
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Here is the discussion and some tests.
Actually is true, on HD content between 4mbps and 2mbps H.264 is way better than Theora.
But at YouTube quality (eg SD if you're lucky) the difference is not that much.
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