Re: [WoW] How I got World of Warcraft to run on Win32

From: Cyde Weys (cyde_at_umd.edu)
Date: 03/23/05

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    Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:04:54 GMT

    "Grackle" <nowhere@lalaland.ca> wrote in
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    > "Cyde Weys" <cyde@umd.edu> wrote in message
    > news:Xns9621D328B55AD2galopagosterrapincy@199.45.49.11...
    >> "Grackle" <nowhere@lalaland.ca> wrote in
    >> news:6b30e.16744$nK.783998@news20.bellglobal.com:
    >>
    >>> [WoW] How I got World of Warcraft to run on Win32
    >>>
    >>> I went to the store, bought WoW, and installed it on my home machine
    >>> while I ate a bag of Doritos.
    >>
    >> So what? Any idiot can install WoW on Win32. Installing it on Linux
    >> is an
    >> accomplishment. You can't brag about installing WoW on Win32.
    >>
    >
    > Riding a pogo-stick to work on the highway is also an accomplishment.
    > But you don't impress anyone but other pogo-commuters.

    I am not a pogo-commuter and it would still impress the hell outta me.

    > The rest of us
    > take the car, get to work on time, and do more productive things with
    > the time we saved. Just because you have a narrow and specialized
    > knowledge about a particular OS doesn't actually make you smarter.

    Nobody claimed that it made you smarter. All I'm saying is I recognize
    the difficulty in getting something to run on a system which it wasn't
    made to run on. While putting a rover on Mars has no immediate benefit
    to me right now, I still appreciate the genius of the people who did it.

    Linux is good for many things. Because it doesn't have a large desktop
    share, gaming is not one of those. The OP stated that his iBook is in
    the shop and the only computer he has left in the house is a Linux
    machine, so he installed WoW on it. 

    -- 
~ Cyde Weys ~
So say we all.
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