what killed the game was a terrible reputation due to delivering it while unfinished. Then came the patches which either broke gameplay or brought new problems. After a while, players quit playing it because they couldnt play it more than one hour before an error, because it was laggy and unplayable with a rtc modem or without a geforce and because gameplay was baaaad. I finally bought it after nearly one year of remote deception and at loki's full price. Well, stupid of me. Stupid that i did listen to all this internet crap since the game fps were ok on my tnt2, the latency was playable with rtc modem unlike a quake3 game, and the game is just the best piece of multiplayer that has been put together (except action quake 2, of course). As for the crash, they just didnt exist with the linux version. I reinstalled it today after a bit of deception by q3ut2 release, it still is the best game I can play right now. and you can find at least 10 full servers to play it.
And all this can also be said so: "errare humanum est". Like your html code which breaks the display on my browser: you must close the html tags in the same order you opened them: b u font "your title"/font/u/b Fix it so i can read it, please.
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1. What is trolling? trolling was the art of pissing of people in order to have them give you valuable informations in their answers. 5. What should I avoid doing? since you don't know 1/, you should avoid trolling because you'll never be subtle.
they probably will sell it to the US army wrapped in a comic magazine and tons of buzzwords. "The mega computing suit of the future complete with accessorized time shuffling device for long duty scheludes with heavy guards". a pillow and a tetris game..
The real problem in France is that there is no laws done for the internet. So basically, and IANAL, they use laws on publications. There are laws on what you can write in a publication, laws on what kind of foreigns publications you can distribute on the french territory, and so on. And they don't fit the internet. Instead of building from the ground up new better laws, they try to enforce those laws, a process which require brutal force and a lot of resistance to stand being ridiculous, since they don't fit the internet. Did I mention that they don't fit the internet? The real problem has nothing to do with speech freedom. A lowering in speech freedom is just a consequence, even if a bad one. The description of this problem is better explained in the famous text of John Perry barrow "The Economy of Ideas". Seing the origine of this text and famous US laws I read about in/., I believe this is not a european related problem. At least the US proved that "made for the internet" laws can be worse than old unfitting laws.:( Now on the anti nazi issue: 2 things. 1/ We did suffer a lot from our own behaviour during those years and do not trust us anymore on this subject. Good luck to you in being better. (sorry, I doubt it) 2/ This laws are actually a part of a vast protection scheme against real existing threats. The use of publications is at the core of the extreme right wing movements in Europe. This movements are extremly well organised, dedicated in seizing the power by all means necessary. They succeeded once and are not to be let loose again. Would the guard be lowered just a little on the publication issues that there would be massive propaganda denying the Jewish extermination soon followed by massive lies how the nazi regime was great and in fact prevented from doing a righteous governmentship by this terrible coallition. All this followed by flows of trials to prevent real journalists from doing their work. From this on, they would make their base grow. Yes, they would. 3/(yes, I know) Unfortunatly, since the political partis in place learned nothing from history, they continue to play the "security" card to use the "extreme right wing" movements against their opponents. Miterrand(left) used the national front to lower the votes for the righ wing and stay elected 7 years more. Chirac(right) just did the same recently. Unfortunaly those laws are still needed. Yet they do not fit the internet and result in highly ridiculous trials. (After the yahoo affair, some of the plaintiffs were disappointed because nothing that came out of the trial was about what they were complaining about. Of course since they used laws which were not about their problems. They recognised that, had they known that, they wouldnt have sued in the first place). Until the day when governments really adress issues of poverty (and people stop electing morronnic puppets), there will be ground for "political" movements based on hatred and laws to hold them.
Graphical installations are usually better since the people who take the pain to do them usually design them for the end users from the beginning. Which is not the case of the debian installer. I renounced to use it in favor of slackware a long time ago since i found myself after the installation with a qwerty keyboard. Yes, i know there was a command to type at that point.But it's the first thing i do with slack. It's probably much better now and it's really newbye friendly even in text mode?
Other country researchers are also suffering from this as some (public) groups who have other tests for the same disease (with even better results) have difficulties to use their test because of (un-)law pressures.
Just yesterday i was saying to my wife: "I'm so glad I could travel around the wrld when I was younger. It looks like 20 years old people won't be able o do it before long." On the other hand, my wife had to flee her country as a child because of another country politics deciding people like her parents(artists) needed to be persecuted. So she told me that she would have loved to stay at home to discover her own land. This I also did. Travel through my country by bike. It's so different from being a tourist. People get in touch with you because they see you take the time to actually meet them.
In my country, a law was passed to forbid movies to go into the vcr channel before one year, except for movies that were big flops and were out of the screens very fast (they had 6 months IIRC). Well the movie major pushed a lot to have it changed, and in order to do so they kinda bought all indepedant theaters. Now it's 6 and 3 months. So, now I hear this coming from people who are against regulations in their turfs! Jokers.
But I get a lot more enjoyment out of my toliet seat than I do out of most hollywood movies. more and more, what you find in one is coming from the other.
except that the movie is closer to the original story spirit than the comic itself. The author HAD to make the comics continue for ages because of its success but it was not his primary intention. All that comes after the disaster, the part where tsetsuo fight the american and the rest, are stretched to the max from the original events.It's not that it isnt good, it's just that it feels stretched: "what kind we put on top of all that now?" seems the motto after some time. In the light of this, the movie appears much closer to the first round of comics and much better since it is a condensed (yet long) pack of wild action AND an initiative travel. It's rounder.
nor suze posts because I've setup filters to trash them. Why ? Because many of those many posts come from users having difficulties with choices the heavy thinkers of those distros made. And I got fed up of reading the same problems all over again. And the same answers, to the point that some day those lists look like a big huge faq. "This a suze related problem. The solution to this problem can be found on suze forum "...etc...etc... Most of the times, the initiative was good and those people are quite eager to do the right thing, they just seem unable to do it THE RIGHT WAY. In the KDE case, it would have meant in order to do the right thing (desktop appearence unification): to talk with KDE people to warn them and have feedback from them, to show respect for their work and project (leave the small about kde box in the app they put aside anyway) and to show that they have heard their concerns about a supposed preference toward gnome and that they're not funded (because they are not, right?). But NO, they had to push it under the hat(!) and suddenly, flamewars everywhere, like we need them. And in order to do it the right way for end users (because they are target for desktop unification, right? I mean, who ELSE need it?), that would mean a little less twinked systems which will behave a little more like everyone else's. If you don't believe me, go and check last transgaming release and see what systems have kernel related issues with last winex release. If the real issue behind all this was to do the best desktop for end users, they certainly did it the wrong way.
1/ what did ximian do with the 15 millions $ ? 2/ gnome developper heard to dislike the color "black" (to use on an icon) - probably KKK member. 3/ usage of windowmaker linked with active trolling group - undercover anarcho-terrorrists? 4/ creator of enlightenment drop his project - probably to escape fbi. 5/ linux and main just bought by unknkown megacorp of redmond . soon to be renamed.
So, ultimately, unless you carry around a CD everywhere you go, you're probably relying on passwords in the end anyway. Why not? So many people already carry bags full of useless stuff, so why couldnt they add a cd or disk or minidisc or whatever small thing is needed?
It's well written and right on the matter: http://montecook.com/anrant.html
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there are some free downloads on their site: i downloaded the entire North atlas and a few scenarios over there, for good old time sakes, a godd reading and some inspiration. Of course they should do more in this area, like having the original temple elemental evil proposed as they sell now a return to toee. But they also shouldnt be laying off talented people, right? Yet, all and all, their site is lively with many fresh work appearing every day.
yes, and I would react sarcastically also if I hadnt read the links above: Beyond images, the traits of Radix' characters share strikingly similarities with MIT's proposal. Radix features characters who "scan" for life forms, wear invincible body armor, can become invisible, and display physical skills enhanced by machinery. MIT described its future solders as "seemingly invincible warriors protected by armor and endowed with superhuman capabilities such as the ability to leap over 20-foot walls." MIT also claimed its soldier could become invisible. I wasnt talking about the picture ONLY. Also that the mit AND the us army are capable of putting together a reasonnable project doesnt exclude the fact that one of them: 1/ could be giving a lot of money (maybe because it isnt so much money for the us army or because it isnt exactly its money or because they could need to give that kind of money fast in a nanotech project just in order to have more the next time) in a ridiculous project. 2/ could be really willing to receive money with a ridiculous description of a ridiculous suit.
what's the big deal? I can find one if you want... hmmm let's see.. what about: the us army is ready to invest 50 millions dollars in a project where ideas come from a comic book?
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what killed the game was a terrible reputation due to delivering it while unfinished. Then came the patches which either broke gameplay or brought new problems.
After a while, players quit playing it because they couldnt play it more than one hour before an error, because it was laggy and unplayable with a rtc modem or without a geforce and because gameplay was baaaad.
I finally bought it after nearly one year of remote deception and at loki's full price. Well, stupid of me. Stupid that i did listen to all this internet crap since the game fps were ok on my tnt2, the latency was playable with rtc modem unlike a quake3 game, and the game is just the best piece of multiplayer that has been put together (except action quake 2, of course). As for the crash, they just didnt exist with the linux version.
I reinstalled it today after a bit of deception by q3ut2 release, it still is the best game I can play right now. and you can find at least 10 full servers to play it.
And all this can also be said so: "errare humanum est". /font /u /b
Like your html code which breaks the display on my browser: you must close the html tags in the same order you opened them:
b u font "your title"
Fix it so i can read it, please.
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1. What is trolling?
trolling was the art of pissing of people in order to have them give you valuable informations in their answers.
5. What should I avoid doing?
since you don't know 1/, you should avoid trolling because you'll never be subtle.
they probably will sell it to the US army wrapped in a comic magazine and tons of buzzwords.
"The mega computing suit of the future complete with accessorized time shuffling device for long duty scheludes with heavy guards".
a pillow and a tetris game..
Yes, it's because communauty arent build. They are born. They live and grow.
people stick with services that suck
they can die too.
The real problem in France is that there is no laws done for the internet. So basically, and IANAL, they use laws on publications. /., I believe this is not a european related problem. At least the US proved that "made for the internet" laws can be worse than old unfitting laws. :(
There are laws on what you can write in a publication, laws on what kind of foreigns publications you can distribute on the french territory, and so on. And they don't fit the internet.
Instead of building from the ground up new better laws, they try to enforce those laws, a process which require brutal force and a lot of resistance to stand being ridiculous, since they don't fit the internet.
Did I mention that they don't fit the internet?
The real problem has nothing to do with speech freedom. A lowering in speech freedom is just a consequence, even if a bad one. The description of this problem is better explained in the famous text of John Perry barrow "The Economy of Ideas". Seing the origine of this text and famous US laws I read about in
Now on the anti nazi issue: 2 things.
1/ We did suffer a lot from our own behaviour during those years and do not trust us anymore on this subject. Good luck to you in being better. (sorry, I doubt it)
2/ This laws are actually a part of a vast protection scheme against real existing threats. The use of publications is at the core of the extreme right wing movements in Europe. This movements are extremly well organised, dedicated in seizing the power by all means necessary. They succeeded once and are not to be let loose again.
Would the guard be lowered just a little on the publication issues that there would be massive propaganda denying the Jewish extermination soon followed by massive lies how the nazi regime was great and in fact prevented from doing a righteous governmentship by this terrible coallition. All this followed by flows of trials to prevent real journalists from doing their work. From this on, they would make their base grow. Yes, they would.
3/(yes, I know) Unfortunatly, since the political partis in place learned nothing from history, they continue to play the "security" card to use the "extreme right wing" movements against their opponents. Miterrand(left) used the national front to lower the votes for the righ wing and stay elected 7 years more. Chirac(right) just did the same recently.
Unfortunaly those laws are still needed. Yet they do not fit the internet and result in highly ridiculous trials. (After the yahoo affair, some of the plaintiffs were disappointed because nothing that came out of the trial was about what they were complaining about. Of course since they used laws which were not about their problems. They recognised that, had they known that, they wouldnt have sued in the first place).
Until the day when governments really adress issues of poverty (and people stop electing morronnic puppets), there will be ground for "political" movements based on hatred and laws to hold them.
Graphical installations are usually better since the people who take the pain to do them usually design them for the end users from the beginning.
Which is not the case of the debian installer. I renounced to use it in favor of slackware a long time ago since i found myself after the installation with a qwerty keyboard. Yes, i know there was a command to type at that point.But it's the first thing i do with slack.
It's probably much better now and it's really newbye friendly even in text mode?
in related news:
the average human being still use only 10% of his brain while recent studies show the average slashdotter only influence them.
Other country researchers are also suffering from this as some (public) groups who have other tests for the same disease (with even better results) have difficulties to use their test because of (un-)law pressures.
Meanwhile in the Redmond secret bunker:
borg 123654-77854-OEM-88879: Number one! Number one! Number 2 has disapeared from the master shell! Right after some bloomberg article!
Bill of the Borg: Impossible! How could he have left ? We all are One!
borg 123-77854-OEM-88889: He just left a note.
Bill of the Borg: which says?
Bill of the Borg: "So long and thanks for the bananas."
Just yesterday i was saying to my wife:
"I'm so glad I could travel around the wrld when I was younger. It looks like 20 years old people won't be able o do it before long."
On the other hand, my wife had to flee her country as a child because of another country politics deciding people like her parents(artists) needed to be persecuted. So she told me that she would have loved to stay at home to discover her own land.
This I also did. Travel through my country by bike. It's so different from being a tourist. People get in touch with you because they see you take the time to actually meet them.
He would get lynched. You watch too much Bruce Willis movies.
In my country, a law was passed to forbid movies to go into the vcr channel before one year, except for movies that were big flops and were out of the screens very fast (they had 6 months IIRC).
Well the movie major pushed a lot to have it changed, and in order to do so they kinda bought all indepedant theaters. Now it's 6 and 3 months.
So, now I hear this coming from people who are against regulations in their turfs! Jokers.
But I get a lot more enjoyment out of my toliet seat than I do out of most hollywood movies.
more and more, what you find in one is coming from the other.
except that the movie is closer to the original story spirit than the comic itself.
The author HAD to make the comics continue for ages because of its success but it was not his primary intention.
All that comes after the disaster, the part where tsetsuo fight the american and the rest, are stretched to the max from the original events.It's not that it isnt good, it's just that it feels stretched: "what kind we put on top of all that now?" seems the motto after some time.
In the light of this, the movie appears much closer to the first round of comics and much better since it is a condensed (yet long) pack of wild action AND an initiative travel. It's rounder.
tweaked, yes. thx.
nor suze posts because I've setup filters to trash them. ...etc...
Why ?
Because many of those many posts come from users having difficulties with choices the heavy thinkers of those distros made. And I got fed up of reading the same problems all over again. And the same answers, to the point that some day those lists look like a big huge faq.
"This a suze related problem. The solution to this problem can be found on suze forum "...etc
Most of the times, the initiative was good and those people are quite eager to do the right thing, they just seem unable to do it THE RIGHT WAY.
In the KDE case, it would have meant in order to do the right thing (desktop appearence unification): to talk with KDE people to warn them and have feedback from them, to show respect for their work and project (leave the small about kde box in the app they put aside anyway) and to show that they have heard their concerns about a supposed preference toward gnome and that they're not funded (because they are not, right?).
But NO, they had to push it under the hat(!) and suddenly, flamewars everywhere, like we need them.
And in order to do it the right way for end users (because they are target for desktop unification, right? I mean, who ELSE need it?), that would mean a little less twinked systems which will behave a little more like everyone else's. If you don't believe me, go and check last transgaming release and see what systems have kernel related issues with last winex release.
If the real issue behind all this was to do the best desktop for end users, they certainly did it the wrong way.
1/ what did ximian do with the 15 millions $ ?
2/ gnome developper heard to dislike the color "black" (to use on an icon) - probably KKK member.
3/ usage of windowmaker linked with active trolling group - undercover anarcho-terrorrists?
4/ creator of enlightenment drop his project - probably to escape fbi.
5/ linux and main just bought by unknkown megacorp of redmond . soon to be renamed.
yes, politics seems more the problem than ease of use (wether the program ergonomy or the data carrying angle).
So, ultimately, unless you carry around a CD everywhere you go, you're probably relying on passwords in the end anyway.
Why not? So many people already carry bags full of useless stuff, so why couldnt they add a cd or disk or minidisc or whatever small thing is needed?
It's well written and right on the matter:
http://montecook.com/anrant.html
there are some free downloads on their site:
i downloaded the entire North atlas and a few scenarios over there, for good old time sakes, a godd reading and some inspiration.
Of course they should do more in this area, like having the original temple elemental evil proposed as they sell now a return to toee. But they also shouldnt be laying off talented people, right?
Yet, all and all, their site is lively with many fresh work appearing every day.
yes, and I would react sarcastically also if I hadnt read the links above:
Beyond images, the traits of Radix' characters share strikingly similarities with MIT's proposal. Radix features characters who "scan" for life forms, wear invincible body armor, can become invisible, and display physical skills enhanced by machinery. MIT described its future solders as "seemingly invincible warriors protected by armor and endowed with superhuman capabilities such as the ability to leap over 20-foot walls." MIT also claimed its soldier could become invisible.
I wasnt talking about the picture ONLY.
Also that the mit AND the us army are capable of putting together a reasonnable project doesnt exclude the fact that one of them:
1/ could be giving a lot of money (maybe because it isnt so much money for the us army or because it isnt exactly its money or because they could need to give that kind of money fast in a nanotech project just in order to have more the next time) in a ridiculous project.
2/ could be really willing to receive money with a ridiculous description of a ridiculous suit.
what's the big deal?
I can find one if you want... hmmm let's see..
what about:
the us army is ready to invest 50 millions dollars in a project where ideas come from a comic book?