Originally, the Internet was meant to be about sharing... information, files, whatever... but sharing.
Er, no, it was about communicating between computers and route the information in such a way that if a node was down an alternative route could be found. Very important for Defense, which paid for it. Then, much later, it grew into this commercial beast with little of the (expensive) redundancy required to have good reliability.
If you by Internet mean WWW, then the initial idea wasn't as altruistic either, but was simply to find a way for researchers at CERN to link information together.
Yeah, everyone use the same templates.:-) I've lately discovered the exp-machine called Deception, but if I suggested it to others, some optimizer would jump in and say it's a waste because everyone knows you should save up for Item instead, because without Arcane and Item you won't amount to squat at higher levels. According to them.
AO has way more customization options IMHO - but wasn't out two years ago.
The most stable, lag- and bug-free MMORPG on the market for over a year and a half.
Except in AC lag can get you killed. And the lag spikes aren't that infrequent, though fewer than AO currently. Of coursde, since each world only has up to about 2,500 players, it's unclear what would happen if the 20,000 players AO claims to support logged in to one of the eight AC worlds at the same time...
But AC still have "issues" introduced later. For instance, you can still attack through doors (melee), and the effect that the attacker sticks to the victim in lag has killed me many times. (No, silly shreth, I didn't want to move so close to that group of banderlings that they attack me!)
AO has quite a few lag issues (like not indicating lag very well), but it's only two weeks into release. The game as such is very playable when it works (for hours at a time minus the lag), and has far greater variety than AC. The only times I play AC now is whenever AO is down.
I pay $40+ bucks per month for my cable modem. I realize that my ISP is not a content provider but it feels like I'm already paying alot for the content now...
No, your ISP is making money off the content you want the cable modem for. They are in effect leecing off the content providers, since without the content you wouldn't have the cable modem. That, however, is an issue between the various ISPs and the content providers about compensation - and they seem to be moving towards a comp scheme in the 3G market, at least.
But there it's far easier to identify the user, and there already are micropayment schemes implemented for cell phones, where the telcos just add the amount you pay for e.g. a new logo for your Nokia to your bill. The same thing wouldn't necessarily work for "normal" ISPs, though.
People won't pay for content because they're already paying for access - why pay twice?
This has actually become a point in some discussion between telcos and 3G content providers at least here in Europe: Since the telcos are making money off usage, they should distribute some of that income to those that provide the reason the consumer generates that usage. In other words: If Joe User pays $99/mo to the ISP/whatever, and the primary reason Joe User needs the access is to read about digital cameras, then the ISP should pay some of that money to the site owner, without which the ISP wouldn't have had that customer.
Basically, the ISPs and 3G telcos are dependant on the content their customers crave: It's not important for a Japanese i-Mode owner that they have a service provided by DoCoMo. What is important to them is the content third parties provide - and apparently DoCoMo has realized this as well, and (unless I misremember things here) pay the content providers a little when one of their users connect to that service. Everybody wins.
He had that malicious Harkonnen arogance and blood thirsty viciousness down pat.
Except in the scene where the Baron pulls the heartplug of a slave; He shows revulsion while the Baron isn't looking at him, while Beast Rabban looks on with glee.
On a more serious note, it looks like this means a company like Symantec cannot operate there as they will not be able to store "virus code" for analysis.
Plus all the others. However, the further implication could be it would be illegal to use anti-virus software (esp. of the adaptive kind), since they have virus signatures and whatnot...
Who cares what architecture you choose? With SOAP, WSDL, UDDI etc., you should be able to access services served by both.NET and J2EE 1.3 application servers using the same protocols.
The only fly in the ointment would be any dependency on the Passport/Hailstorm authentication, but when people get frustrated with that and turn to J2EE, everyone-but-Microsoft wins.:-)
Adobe owns the Illustrator name. It's not "Adobe Illustrator", it's "Illustrator".
When did they buy the name, and from whom? Webster? I distinctly remember another program called Illustrator released aeons ago: You used it to make graphical illustrations to text adventures written in the Quill game-authoring software. This was back in 1984-85 or so - how old is Adobe's product? Can Gilsoft go after Adobe for infringement?
There is a manual of sorts for Illustrator here. Those screens are from the most popular version, for Sinclair Spectrum (recognizable from the font.)
they are using their skills to win a battle...sounds human enough to me.
No, they are breaking the game's rules laid out by the implementors/designers, effectively adding their own. It's like an athlete who takes performance-enhancing drugs: They gains an advantage over other contestants who don't, but instead follow the rules.
War doesn't enter into it: This is interactive entertainment, and - from Red Herring's perspective - a revenue stream for the manufacturer/server provider, one which can dry up if non-cheaters stop playing that game especially or multiplayer games generally.
The problem is that the users don't give a shit it's proprietary. They only want it to be available now, being able to buy it, and use as many services as possible.
Question: Do you have a PalmOS device? Or are you waiting for the Embedded Linux PDAs? Do you think everyone will want to pass on a Palm and instead wait for Zaurus to become available? Same thing for other technologies: First to market and all that.
Actually, region 2 consists of Europe, the Middle East and Japan ! Go figure. The Japanese have the added feature of using NTSC instead of the wholesome PAL, so that throws yet another wrench into the machinery.
Opera 5.11 identifying as anything (including MSIE 5.0) gets:
"Unsupported Browser
You cannot access the Government Gateway at the moment. This is because you are either using an
old version of a browser, or the browser you are using does not have the correct settings. Read this
page to find out which browsers are supported and which settings to use."
Just because it lets in Slashdot-favourite Mozilla doesn't mean everything is nice and dandy: Opera had 128-bit encryption (for European purposes) before Netscape and Microsoft got through the export restriction wall.
Perhaps they should change the name from "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" to "Microsoft Country "...
Re:Lately, I'm more aware of the highly fake score
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Agreed: In fact, the "emotive score" is so dominant that when it's absent from a Hollywood flick - like the excellent Falling Down - you take notice. Especially during the scene where Pendergast (Duvall) runs along the pier after spotting D-Fens (Douglas) - you just know it's supposed to have a dramatic score, but doesn't: Schumacher lets the scene speak for itself.
Why a port to Sega Dreamcast? Doesn't it have its own OS already, in ROM or something?
No, the machine as such only has a booter and some basic tools (memory pack management, play CD) - the "real" OS ships on the game/GD-ROM/whatever, most often this is Sega's OS, sometimes it's Windows CE - and smetimes it's apparently NetBSD or NewOS.:-)
Eh.. No. You need a parser to handle Schemas just as much as you need it for DTDs
A Schema is an XML document, thus an XML parser will parse a Schema. A DTD has a completely different syntax, hence requiring a different parser.
What you probably are thinking of is the semantic interpretation which follows that parsing. But that would hold for any XML document used, whether a Schema, an EJB deployment descriptor, an XSLT transformation etc.
...while the traditional economy is based on the principle of selling for more than you bought for.
I suddenly realized the reason for dot-com death!:-P
Anyway: The original seller still got their $10,000, so I guess it's irrelevant what the next chain does. And they can still sell the documentation (which the GPL for some reason neglects) for a further $10,000 - after all, having source doesn't mean you can understand it.
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Er, no, it was about communicating between computers and route the information in such a way that if a node was down an alternative route could be found. Very important for Defense, which paid for it. Then, much later, it grew into this commercial beast with little of the (expensive) redundancy required to have good reliability.
If you by Internet mean WWW, then the initial idea wasn't as altruistic either, but was simply to find a way for researchers at CERN to link information together.
Yeah, everyone use the same templates. :-) I've lately discovered the exp-machine called Deception, but if I suggested it to others, some optimizer would jump in and say it's a waste because everyone knows you should save up for Item instead, because without Arcane and Item you won't amount to squat at higher levels. According to them.
AO has way more customization options IMHO - but wasn't out two years ago.
The most stable, lag- and bug-free MMORPG on the market for over a year and a half.
Except in AC lag can get you killed. And the lag spikes aren't that infrequent, though fewer than AO currently. Of coursde, since each world only has up to about 2,500 players, it's unclear what would happen if the 20,000 players AO claims to support logged in to one of the eight AC worlds at the same time...
But AC still have "issues" introduced later. For instance, you can still attack through doors (melee), and the effect that the attacker sticks to the victim in lag has killed me many times. (No, silly shreth, I didn't want to move so close to that group of banderlings that they attack me!)
AO has quite a few lag issues (like not indicating lag very well), but it's only two weeks into release. The game as such is very playable when it works (for hours at a time minus the lag), and has far greater variety than AC. The only times I play AC now is whenever AO is down.
Ah, you're pining for the fnords!
No, your ISP is making money off the content you want the cable modem for. They are in effect leecing off the content providers, since without the content you wouldn't have the cable modem. That, however, is an issue between the various ISPs and the content providers about compensation - and they seem to be moving towards a comp scheme in the 3G market, at least.
But there it's far easier to identify the user, and there already are micropayment schemes implemented for cell phones, where the telcos just add the amount you pay for e.g. a new logo for your Nokia to your bill. The same thing wouldn't necessarily work for "normal" ISPs, though.
This has actually become a point in some discussion between telcos and 3G content providers at least here in Europe: Since the telcos are making money off usage, they should distribute some of that income to those that provide the reason the consumer generates that usage. In other words: If Joe User pays $99/mo to the ISP/whatever, and the primary reason Joe User needs the access is to read about digital cameras, then the ISP should pay some of that money to the site owner, without which the ISP wouldn't have had that customer.
Basically, the ISPs and 3G telcos are dependant on the content their customers crave: It's not important for a Japanese i-Mode owner that they have a service provided by DoCoMo. What is important to them is the content third parties provide - and apparently DoCoMo has realized this as well, and (unless I misremember things here) pay the content providers a little when one of their users connect to that service. Everybody wins.
Except in the scene where the Baron pulls the heartplug of a slave; He shows revulsion while the Baron isn't looking at him, while Beast Rabban looks on with glee.
And like any successful American company, it saves money by producing goods in low-cost countries: The Xbox apparently will be manufactured in Taiwan.
Plus all the others. However, the further implication could be it would be illegal to use anti-virus software (esp. of the adaptive kind), since they have virus signatures and whatnot...
The only fly in the ointment would be any dependency on the Passport/Hailstorm authentication, but when people get frustrated with that and turn to J2EE, everyone-but-Microsoft wins. :-)
When did they buy the name, and from whom? Webster? I distinctly remember another program called Illustrator released aeons ago: You used it to make graphical illustrations to text adventures written in the Quill game-authoring software. This was back in 1984-85 or so - how old is Adobe's product? Can Gilsoft go after Adobe for infringement?
There is a manual of sorts for Illustrator here. Those screens are from the most popular version, for Sinclair Spectrum (recognizable from the font.)
No, they are breaking the game's rules laid out by the implementors/designers, effectively adding their own. It's like an athlete who takes performance-enhancing drugs: They gains an advantage over other contestants who don't, but instead follow the rules.
War doesn't enter into it: This is interactive entertainment, and - from Red Herring's perspective - a revenue stream for the manufacturer/server provider, one which can dry up if non-cheaters stop playing that game especially or multiplayer games generally.
Excellent idea! Now, how do I tell this to the non-configurable installation program which will install it in %SysDir%?
The problem is that the users don't give a shit it's proprietary. They only want it to be available now, being able to buy it, and use as many services as possible.
Question: Do you have a PalmOS device? Or are you waiting for the Embedded Linux PDAs? Do you think everyone will want to pass on a Palm and instead wait for Zaurus to become available? Same thing for other technologies: First to market and all that.
Snatch? Try old movies like Casablanca, Spartacus, Ben Hur, the list goes on: It's a very petty excuse on their behalf.
Actually, region 2 consists of Europe, the Middle East and Japan ! Go figure. The Japanese have the added feature of using NTSC instead of the wholesome PAL, so that throws yet another wrench into the machinery.
"Unsupported Browser
You cannot access the Government Gateway at the moment. This is because you are either using an old version of a browser, or the browser you are using does not have the correct settings. Read this page to find out which browsers are supported and which settings to use."
Just because it lets in Slashdot-favourite Mozilla doesn't mean everything is nice and dandy: Opera had 128-bit encryption (for European purposes) before Netscape and Microsoft got through the export restriction wall.
Perhaps they should change the name from "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" to "Microsoft Country "...
Agreed: In fact, the "emotive score" is so dominant that when it's absent from a Hollywood flick - like the excellent Falling Down - you take notice. Especially during the scene where Pendergast (Duvall) runs along the pier after spotting D-Fens (Douglas) - you just know it's supposed to have a dramatic score, but doesn't: Schumacher lets the scene speak for itself.
No, the machine as such only has a booter and some basic tools (memory pack management, play CD) - the "real" OS ships on the game/GD-ROM/whatever, most often this is Sega's OS, sometimes it's Windows CE - and smetimes it's apparently NetBSD or NewOS. :-)
The Office 95 users will be likely to go that route, since they otherwise would have to pay the full price of XP.
A Schema is an XML document, thus an XML parser will parse a Schema. A DTD has a completely different syntax, hence requiring a different parser.
What you probably are thinking of is the semantic interpretation which follows that parsing. But that would hold for any XML document used, whether a Schema, an EJB deployment descriptor, an XSLT transformation etc.
Basically, the setup with XML + DTD + CSS means you need parsers for three different data formats.
With a new setup using XML + XML Schema + XSL you only need one. A major advantage.
...while the traditional economy is based on the principle of selling for more than you bought for.
I suddenly realized the reason for dot-com death!:-P
Anyway: The original seller still got their $10,000, so I guess it's irrelevant what the next chain does. And they can still sell the documentation (which the GPL for some reason neglects) for a further $10,000 - after all, having source doesn't mean you can understand it.
Weren't IBM mandated to publish their hardware specs because of an anti-trust case a few years earlier?