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Ah, the usual updates and patches. How many license-agreements did you have to click trough?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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Just two so far...i just can't get over the size of this monstrosity! Only 11 GB to go. My ISP is gonna love this!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Wow takes up almost 27gig on my machine.
Pretty much all that happens in WoW happens at the client end - Blizzard downloads everything to your machine so that when you decide to buy all the game licences you are ready to play the patched expansions immediately.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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I remember from playing that thing for 5 years, the patches can be huge, and come every couple of weeks sometimes. The really big patches could come easily once a month. If it hasn't been online in a while 12 gig does not surprise me the least little bit.
Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!
Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.
You can't scare me, I have children.
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gavindon wrote: the patches can be huge, and come every couple of weeks sometimes.
So in your opinion, it the WoW update process better or worse than the Adobe Flash Updater? 
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well, the WoW updates were usually to actually FIX something rather than bs little updates....
Also there were always game tweaks going on, changing class capabilities etc.. so I would say better because it directly affected game-play most of the time, usually for the better.
It was well known that Tuesday (not sure if it still is been two years since I played) was patch day. They would shut all servers down and do maintenance etc, then once they were all back up and you logged in, the first thing would be the patch. So in that respect it WAS better than Adobe because you knew it was coming and not a "holy crap everything just quit working for no reason and now I need to update again" that Adobe hands out.
Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!
Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.
You can't scare me, I have children.
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I seriously hope they update less frequently; when i start my computer in the morning and i don't see the flash update waiting i know i have to check the internet connection
Cogito ergo sum
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Perhaps they have gone the way of iTunes and download the entire OS with each 2KB update.
Somebody in an online forum wrote: INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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While that reeks of wtfery, it isn't really a problem is it? Surely you're not using dial-up.
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Being a developer, and not a gamer, I guess I am just apalled at the size of the download...what's that, about 3 DVDs? And this is just patches? I have DSL which is usually pretty fast, but this thing has been downloading for several hours now and is a little over halfway done...probably slow for everybody right now. I have a feeling that the problems my friend is having with this game is hardware. The box is using a single core 2 GHz amd with just 1 GB of ram. The video is ati radeon hd 3600. The game works now, and may work better after the download is done, but the video quality is not that great.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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The video quality of WoW is from the stone age anyway, so that should be fine.. for WoW.
That's some seriously prehistoric hardware though. Surely he's not a serious gamer?
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He is, but this is the kids' computer...the hand-me-down. He just wants it to work for them to keep them off of his rig.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Alright that makes more sense
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Same size as SW:TOR. I left mine to DL overnight, only to see it crashed during the night. No there were no resume option, so 12gb again for a total of ... Luckily I'm not on a limited connection.
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A politician, a banker, a public sector worker and a private sector sit round a table.
There are 10 biscuits on a plate in the center.
The politician takes the plate and gives the banker 9 biscuits, then turns to the private sector worker and says: "The public sector worker is after your biscuit"
Ger
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But it fails because the public sector is over priced and requires far too many people to perform the same function in the private sector, also you've other mouths to feed in the public sector, trade unions, quangos, and the levels of bureaucracy.
In fact why on earth do you we high rates of tax when we could privatise the public sector at a far lower cost..........
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Having worked for many companies/authorities in both the private and public sectors, I could respond. But I think The Soapbox would be a more appropriate place for this thread.
If people made the effort to read something three times before commenting, blogs would be much more useful places. - Anon.
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I'd love go there, but alas after the last fight I vowed never to go back.
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Norm .net wrote: after the last fight I vowed never to go back
Well, I consider myself more tedious than dangerous.
If people made the effort to read something three times before commenting, blogs would be much more useful places. - Anon.
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Can I borrow a dime?
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute
"...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave
"Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon
It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
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A thought came to me today about random seed generation. I googlied a bit but found nothing (using image data)...still could be there.
You have a series of images. you count the pixels and use that as your random seed. Delete the image. The images are constantly being replenished by new images of all shapes and sizes and formats from the internet or scanned in or whatever.
I would "think", that if the images were gathered...at random...with no care at all, the seed value would be random and not predictable.
I am not a crypto guru so you can laugh all you want. 
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
modified 7-Dec-11 12:38pm.
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What about grabbing a random image and then use a hash of the byte sequence as a salt value for the hash of a second randomly chosen image byte sequence, then just give up and go for a beer.
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Why not start with the beer and forget the whole thing.
Just along for the ride.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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Excellent idea 
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