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There is a Euzebox for Europeans with a SCART connector.

No. Quake live is a poor excuse for a joke. It can't hold a candle to CPMA.

By the way: There is also High Quality Quake. With the Chili Quake 3 high-def graphics update, based on the EvolutionQ3 engine, with the impressive XreaL renderer, new high-res models and textures.

I use Mathematica for this problem. It cannot cover *all* the bases covered by {La}TeX, but it handles all of my technical document preparation needs (including equations, tables, et c.). Almost all charts/plots I generate directly (although sometimes in a separate notebook to separate implementation from result). Import of random graphics is also possible. In fact, there is TeX import/export, but since I have never used this feature I will not comment on its usefulness.

It's also kinda handy for some of that crazy computation stuff I do in preparation for document creation.

However, do not trust its PDF export. It does not embed relevant fonts in the PDF (thereby producing a potentially malformed document, depending on the font set on the recipient's/viewer's machine). Of course, I use PDFCreator for this purpose and just "print" it.

Why does nobody suggest the use of Quicktime Alternative? And while we're at it, Real Alternative? Also the SHOUTcast-supporting Winamp Alternative, allowing connections to SC without Winamp?

These guys are working on a fan-made follow-up to LOOM, which was one of the most interesting games of it's (or any) time. They haven't released anything on this, so who knows if it'll be any good, but I like the idea.

If Lucasarts wants to be a top developer, they should probably be taking the hint from these guys, and building up it's portfolio of francises. It's kind of weird that they didn't, because as many here have pointed out, they had several excellent games, and most of the Star Wars games have been crap, especially the old ones.

Yet another example of perfect marketing by Google:
1.make a more-than-average type of product, and establish it on the market.
2.Make everyone use it.
2.1Do that by quality
2.2 by offering the best possible solution for someone who just wants to USE it
2.3 by being the one who lets other people use it (by offering an API)
TADA
3. World Dominance
I don't hate Google, but isn't it a bit a strange thing that "fair use" methods like "letting others use your product for both's advantage" leads to some kind of strange quasi-monopolism?
is that something the Open-Source-Community has to worry about?


Don't let the facts bite you. Get bitten here instead.

In Germany, there is the so-called GEMA (Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte) [society for musicial performance and mechanical reproduction rights], which gets share of the prices on CDRs, music tapes... and the profit on Audio-CDs. The artists get their share of this money, no matter how often they've been copied or wheter it is still legal to copy a certain CD (Germany has made it illegal, not punishable, to circumvent technical copy restrictions...).
The problem is that this society is a) to expensive and b) far to complex for the small musician out on the streets to take advantage of. So, instead of getting money for being heard, he pays money for his own blank CDRs, while Sony etc keep getting the big shares.
On the other hand, that directive is really quite unsatisfacting, as it leaves holes for every big company to establish their own restrictioning system instead of making things easier and more reliable for both, listeners and creators.

---don't get bitten/r

That sounds interesting. At the moment, I'm dreaming of a "textual exchange service center" for pupils at my school or even schools in whole Hamburg/Germany. (in other words: a good, dialer-free, non advertising, trusted, backfeeded homework exchanger).
I've heard of Lucene through my fav. Computer magazine (http://www.heise.de/ct), but I was more interested in indexing algorithm at that time.
So how much weight does the book give into algorithms? Is there anyone out there who's as mathematically/scientific interested in that topic as me?
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You've been intentionally poked. Prepare to get an access violation ;)

Mots comments from /.ers I've read so far sound like:
If they HAD known, but 3.1 was worse, it was a pain in the ass
That made me eat my heart out: I'm still administrating several 95er machines of people who didn't make it to a machine which could run win2k or XP. I'm gathering win98 licences to stock those up. But for me at last, the 95 era isn't over.
(The first thing I've made after buying myself a new PC however was installing Debian. I wouldn't stand one more installation without internet access, German keyboard config and so. Ah and I couldn't stand windows98.)
so- this is not the past, it's not a nightmare. IT'S HELL ON EARTH.
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eat my heart out

That seems to be the point: using BitTorrent to distribute free(as in beer) content. BitTorrent is able to distribute identical files among many users fast (and scales well even with HUGE user bases).
But companies need to make money. And anime distributors need to sell videos. But BitTorrent is a rather open system. You can use a tracker with authentication, but that won't work with things like the dynamic tracker protocoll and so an developing. You'll have to secure the actual content. How can that be made? You'll have to encrypt it somehow. But because Bittorrent will only distribute identical files, you'll have to use one encrypted version for all- that means you'll need a server giving away "viewing keys"- better known as active DRM.
so this use of open software and protocolls will actually enforce DRM -- watch what you'Re doing.
---the tail will bite you

mambo is dead- let lambada live! or was it tchachaha? or are any developers now not only living under a line but also dancing below one (aka Limbo)
Conclusion: we may expect inspired names for the forks that propably descend of this
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there's only one thing worse than biting yourself in your arse. get bitten.

I've read my comment and came to the conclusion that there could be a crime. The selling of property, virtual or physically present, you have no right to possess could be judged as crime under certain circumstances - and judications. (I don't know how it is for example in the US or here in Germany)
So if there is a civil process in which it is decided that the botter actually took advantage of the lack of ability / knowledge to do something against his bot (however that trial could work), it'd be a case of fraud. mmh..
It's unethical anyways-
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Be fair. Don't bite the hand that does not feed you.

well, over a distance of about 140 miles, a antenna with a directional opening more than 4 wouldn't make any sense.
therefore, if you imagine the radiated field in 2d, if you open your spot 1, you'll radiate at tan(1) * 140 miles more space. so you'll lose a fourth of intensity- as you can see, theres a proportionality between intensity and opening anchor. so, with 360, you'd only get 1/90th of the power you could have. Not a good idea.
variable multi-antenna-sets are the way to go, anyways. A stack of different antennas combined with a logic to aggregate the right ones to get maximal antenna gain for a certain target- implemented in consumer wifi-devices since beginning 2005.
--iradiating the night. Get bitten!

AFAIK if you want (in Germany at least) to use one of the several freely available radio frequency bands,you'll have to stay in tight barriers when it comes to a)output power b) signal "precisity" (do not spread into other bands AND DO NOT INTERFERE with electronic equipment) and c) antenna gain.
so - 200dB antenna just would be illegal. There's nothing with license-free since you in fact would violate laws and void your permission to use the bands.
Maybe that's unimportant since all that record has in common with previous records in Wifi-distance are frequency.
--be smart today. emit a bit. and get bitten!.

I know honor is a bit a wrong argument to use when it comes to wars concerning the relation between personal rights and public interests.
But - I repair a lot of computers in my spare time (as well as at school - I need to them to work) and I have always handled the data of my "clients" as sensitive as possible. I wouldn't even throw away a failing hard drive without destroying as much data as possible and then gathering repair/tinker parts from the drive, destroying all data on the disc's surface using a strong electromagnet.
So if a service wasn't trustworthy, it might as well give up, since well-informed costumers tend to be VERY picky about that topic. A law, forcing technicians to inform executive institutions when they find "suspicious" content on the drive, would make many people stop using repair services.
That would lead to higher sales of computer manufactures (as well as to the bankrupt of a industry of small enterprises). Is this a law that was pushed by some PC-Lobby?
--- be critical. Just don't bite the bait. get bitten

Or is it just me experiencing this was announced oh-so-many times?
I mean- it might be what the market really needs - less power with bigger integration- but we've known that for at least um- 20 years?

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Well, I found the article and I WOULD have included it here, but the FUCKING LAME-ASS /. LAMENESS FILTER WON'T LET ME!

The stupid POS /. uses is telling me the CODE lines are too fucking SHORT!

Morons!

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So go here here to download the zine that had the article in it.

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I don't think they've changed it. Their tech support board is still full of people complaining that they can't download patches at more than a crawl. And unless you forward the 20 "standard" BitTorrent ports on your router, you're still going to get lower download speeds.

Since there are multiple PCs here, and no way to specify in the patcher what ports to use, I actually rip the .torrent out of the patcher, and download it with my existing, already-configured BT client. I benefit from and assist those using the patcher, while avoiding most of its downfalls. http://www.wowtorrents.de.vu/ hosts the .torrent files, so you don't have to rip them out yourself. http://forums.freddyshouse.com/showthread.php?t=34 931 explains the process if you'd rather do it yourself.

If www.rotk-see.de.vu one day suddenly does not work, try http://home.datacomm.ch/betaversion/index.html . If this site is can not be visited, try alternatively the following URL (this is an other server and can not be destroyed): http://www.hdr-see.de/ - Webmaster Indrid Cold E-Mail

http://www.maggusoft.de.vu/

If you want to know all the new stuff that will be on the DVD (Mouth of Sauron, Voice of Saruman, Witch King, Houses of Healing, Crossroads, etc., etc.), here's the most comprehensive site I've found, with photos, commentary, news, and some actual video:

Text may be obscure, but at least it can be followed if you paid attention to the game. Video can be considerably more obscure if you only see segments of what to do. The cautionary example.

The only way the video walkthrough can help is that if you cover the entire game, collecting everything and doing everything there's to do. If you can't fit that on a DVD, forget the whole thing.

Here's some good examples of video walkthroughs (some ed2k'ing required). Check out the Last Ninja 3 one, for example. (There's no audio commentary, though.) These are from the age when a well-edited 20-minute video could conceivably cover the whole game =)

It's worth registering at http://www.empornium.us/, or there's leech sites around like http://sextorrents.de.vu/ (click eingang at the bottom right)

http://www.spth.de.vu/

- bram

Run some of the code here and see if it's a hoax.

Hell, create one that does a deltree c:\ after emailing itself. Pretty easy with his programs. And solves all unpatched/unsecured computer mass remailings. Maybe you should do a little research before shooting your mouth off...

http://www.spth.de.vu/

Hilarious.

And no one is holding up China as a "bulwark against authoritarianism." That is your misreading, not my statement. China is an incredibly paranoid nation that is going so far as to develop its own national linux based OS because they are so certain the Bill Gates is working in cahoots with the CIA (and they may well be right). This means any "authoritarian" stuff they stick in their OS is almost guaranteed not to work with "authoritarian" stuff here - that's their entire reason for doing it in the first place. But do you really believe they won't design their stuff to be able to "crack" our stuff? Do you really think they will hesitate to provide services "in the name of freedom" simply to bolster their own rhetorical propoganda opportunities?

And China is only one example. In addition to logic, you've completely avoided the whole of eastern euroupe, and most of western euroupe as well. Here is just one example. Eva is a film star in euro who has been appearing nude since she was, like, ten (her mother is a photographer - you might think of her as the twisted, drunken French Sally Mann). Much of Eva's work was done in France (a country where another well known director is still living because he would be arrested in the US) and very little of her work (no matter the age) is even available in the US (despite the fact she was on the cover of "Photo" magazine AND featured in Playboy by the time she was fifteen). Click on the english side (if you dare! Ha!) then click on the russian side and compare - one server, one site, two languages and they really couldn't be more different and still be recognizable as one site. All those "copyrighted" works that you cannot get on the english language pages suddenly appear on the russian pages! It's magic!

You think they're going to firewall in the US? Again, so fucking what if they do? Isolationism is the road this country has been travelling for years now and it's not just because of the internet. Whoopeee. That just hastens the fall of the US as a superpower in the world, which might be good for bringing back those "well paying" factory jobs but is going to royally fuck America's chances to foister such foolhardy technology off onto the rest of the world.

No matter what happens, it balances - all you gotta do is be willing to vote with your feet. This "prison" you're imagining is constructed purely of you own egocentric nationalism.

No one tell Lessig...

Boy, are you wrong.