I just tried it for about 5 minutes (seems to me that this should be long enough for beasic learning), but the bots (with Quad colours) just seem to run around and do not react at all, no mather how many slugs I shoot at them.
I tried it with various settings of difficulty:( Am I mssing some README?
I don't think the 'easier to compare prices' argument is particularly strong
This statement is obviously made with someone with no experience in the matter whatsoever. I live from 5 different countries in a radius of 150 km, so popping over a border to shop somewhere is not that exceptional. It is _very_ handy to be able to pay with the same currency and see that e.g. a spindel of CDs is much more expensive in shop A in country X than in shop B in country Y. I assume that most frequent visitors on/. have on average a good eduction, so converting currencies is not that particularly difficult (times 6, divided in 20), but I can imagine it will serve as an integrating factor. Sure, there is the language barrier to some extend, but I would estimate that almost everybody has at least a rudimentary knowledge of a second language or third (French or English). At least everybody got at least 4 years of it in elementary and secondary school here.
I would love to see the economic criteria that's suppossed to say when it's ok for the UK to join the Euro be applied to the Dollar - I wonder which one we're closer to
Then you should check larger companies. Sure labour costs are more important, but rest assured that keeping all other alternatives equal, large companies will choose for the Euro zone. Why? Basically because they have to keep provisions and pay exchange rates for currencies, which can be a significant drain.
I just hope you at least have the insight to see that the future of the UK is in Europe (and not in the States). Some might regret it on both sides of the channel, but it's a geographical fact.
But it's not like we've ever been made to feel like part of the team.
This goes both ways. For as far as I can remember, the UK seemed to oppose or hinder the European integration. With the new Labour government, things started to improve, but I would guess that Blair just lost any goodwill he had over the last year.
France and Germany blatently ignore European orders without any appernt repercussions
Excuse me? They currently have problems keeping their budgets in balance that's true, but you should not try to reverse the situation, they are still the largest integrators of the EU and compared to the UK, you cannot reproach them being bad team players.
I think there are a lot of people in the UK who don't see any real benefits to being in the Euro, let alone the EU itself.
Over the years, a lot of voices said that the UK is holding back the EU, and to many perspectives that's true. I should try to give a better reference, but more than once, all countries agreed on some particular issue, while the UK did not. Of course integration is not that easy and for all countries, it will goe accompanied with loss of souvereignty. The UK seems to have some dillusion of grandure that passed half a century ago. At least France and Germany understood that the only way to go is cooperation, and as far as I read it, the UK is now wondering how it is possible that these contries influence EU politics and the agenda to such a degree. For a half decent observer, this should be obvious by now, how can you expect to trust a player which seems to have, over and over again, a larger affinity with another continent. Unfortunately this doesn't bring money in, so they bet on two horses.
I for one, would like to see the UK to have closer ties with the European continent, but any trust they gain with the ppl on the continent, the UK seems bent to destroy it.
I would like to conclude with a statement I read some years ago in a news paper: "The future of the EU, with the Great Brittain if possible, without them if needed". Unfortunately, this is happening in many fields. I just hope that all European countries realise that together they stand much stronger than divided, we can all miss those *cough* idiot *cough* rogue players we had over the last year, and pulling the European continent in the spiral of downfall and violence that another continent's government is initiating.
This is a rare 'carrot' for UK residents, more used the threat of monetory union and other unpleasent symptoms of a united Europe.
I think you should get off your Island more often, monetory union is hardly an unpleasent symptom as we experience it. Most Europeans in the Euro zone, that are not confined to their 20 square kilometers around their homes, would not want to go back to the pre-Euro aera.
Most of the ppl I know, just shop around in different contries (e.g. for electronics), because prices are easily compared...
Next to the fact that the UK is never considered as an integral part of the EU by most other member countries, you can hardly call the UK a team player... As it turns out, they'll most likely back NASA when Washington orders them to do so.
not really, we are dealing with fruit not recognising a quote of James T. Kirk.
[marc@scorpius marc]$ cat/usr/share/games/fortunes/startrek |grep -A 2 Genius Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, "Today I will be brilliant."
-- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3
I guess you have been playing so many games and seen so many Holywood movies, they have clouded your judgement.
OK, probably no cat will read this anymore, but this kind of post begs for a reply.
I guess that the oil in Iraq, combined with the enormous energy spending nature of the US (on average 2x or 3x more than any other western country for households) has nothing to do with it.
The US attacked a country of which it was not proven it had weapons of mass destruction and there were serious doubts about this (and now, even your politicians are admitting this), while they leave another country alone of which it is proven that they are actively developing and have weapons of mass destruction.
Talk about hypocrisy. But with a predicted oil shortage, I am only afraid that this is the first of many wars over fossil fuels (face it, if you believe it was about anything else, you must be very naive).
And to get back on the topic, do you really expect other countries to trust the US without any reserve? I applaud the initiative to launch an alternative to GPS.
This is typical of a teenager responding. If you're not a teenager, you still didn't grow up. You have to remember that the ties between the US and the 'old' continent were much stronger than they are now.
Back then, a large percentage of the ppl in North America had (close) relatives living in Europe, so what happened in Europe affected lots of people personally. By now, I guess most family ties have been broken (I have uncles, aunts and cousins in MN, but time seems to dissolve family contact).
I think that the 'we saved them at the cost of our lot of American blood' is therefore a bit too simple a statement to correctly reflect the US situation, immigration and the (past) interdependency and ballances on poor taste, and probably aimed at the 'internal' public that only understands simple retorics. In Europe, it creates even more resistance to the US whose politics seem to many Europeans illogical and ununderstandable how the domestic public swallows it (e.g. Iraq is a threath).
Let me guess, you're one of those point-and-click OS users.
If this is your single reason to reject BT, both arguments are wrong (except different p2p).
Btw, it's called sharing, I think it's a good thing that uploading is enabled, it's one of the things that feeds the success of a distributed file system (Ok, I'm stretching here). Imagine downloading a debian iso when your neighbour in your LAN has the file,...
reassociate with mplayer.exe (that you download from http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-be ta/) and you should be released from all the codec problems you experience (most of all, you windows users will stop bugging us *n*x users about this).
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Seems to be a cunning ploy of the US Army to indoctrinate todays youth in the fun and games of killing people for your country. How wonderful technology is.
Baldric^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hoghran, you wouldn't recognize a cunning ploy^H^H^H^Hplan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing 'Cunning plans are here again'.
I just know this Blackadder quote would come in handy some day:)
Finally, this provides us with the long awaited answer to the following situations:
Reed: Captain, direct hit on the power supply! Archer: That'll teach those cyborgs for flooding our inbox with p0rn! T'Pol: Captain, their server is mysteriously repairing itself, we're still being flooded.
for any other series: TOS: %s/Reed/Checkov/g %s/Archer/Kirk/g %s/T'Pol/Spock/g TNG: %s/Reed/Worf/g %s/Arche r/Picard/g %s/T'Pol/Data/g DS9: %s/Reed/Kira/g %s/Archer/Sisko/g %s/T'Pol/Dax/g VGR: %s/Reed/ Tuvok/g %s/Archer/Janeway/g %s/T'Pol/Kim/g
Since the B&B messed up the timelines anyway, they'll probably pour it into an episode, they seem to be out of inspiration anyhow...
The only times things do work is when they are centrally controlled, but that defeats the ideals of Open Source (Like Microsoft and Windows XP, well integrated).
I completely agree, this is the only way things can go right, a (one) company that creates its own standards will always be compatible with itself.
Obviously the different prints and formatting you have while opening files on different machines are features you do not have when all the machines run the latest patch version of the latest full install (except sub-option X in window Y, otherwise you're in trouble).
Yes, Microsoft _is_ the standard, so they must always be right.
/me gets struck by a bolt of electricity from my power supply
well, next to the fact that a lot of ppl will go to France, Holland or Germany and the ever interesting Luxembourg for CDRs, a lot of ppl (including myself) will have no moral objections agains copying anymore. I guess I have bought my last CD spindle in Belgium (good move again from the government).
Heck, I hardly burn _any_ music CD (I'm not a music fan), and as a result I will have paid any music CD I would ever copy several times on taxes.
If they tax it, they should compensate, in this case, it's just like any other tax in this poorly gouverned country and another excuse to get money from the (already) overtaxed population.
I really hope this one backfires on the SABAM lobby.
I am just wondering of these kinds of student jokes are news for slashdot. News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters, yeah, that applies for this news item, yes it does, it has changed my life!
Or could it be that if anything happens at MIT, this gets posted?
This kind of petty (it's just a name), inmature (flooding people's e-mail), public arguing is one of the reasons Linux isn't getting the acceptance it should.
Perhaps you are referring to the buy off and other techniques some companies use for manipulating the world to their will.
I'm not saying they have not right to do this, but your argument here is flawed.
this is actually getting pretty boring to reply to this, but this definition explains it nicely:
On USENET, calling someone a "cracker" is an unambiguous statement that some person persistently gets his/her kicks from breaking from into other peoples computer systems, for a variety of reasons. S/He may pose some weak justification for doing this, usually along the lines of "because it's possible", but most probably does it for the "buzz" of doing something which is illicit/illegal, and to gain status amongst a peer group.
Particularly antisocial crackers have a vandalistic streak, and delete filestores, crash machines, and trash running processes in pursuit of their "kicks".
The term is also widely used to describe a person who breaks copy protection software in microcomputer applications software in order to keep or distribute free copies.
On USENET, calling someone a "hacker" is usually a statement that said person holds a great deal of knowledge and expertise in the field of computing, and is someone who is capable of exercising this expertise with great finesse. For a more detailed definition, readers are referred to the Jargon File [Raymond].
In the "real world", various media people have taken the word "hacker" and coerced it into meaning the same as "cracker" - this usage occasionally appears on USENET, with disastrous and confusing results.
Posters to the security newsgroups should note that they currently risk a great deal of flamage if they use the word "hacker" in place of "cracker" in their articles.
NB: nowhere in the above do I say that crackers cannot be true hackers. It's just that I don't say that they are...
Just google for getting more results and descriptions on the subject.
will not work, since the *.dll files are contained in a directory in qt6dlls.tar.bz2. You should extract the archive and copy the files in the qt6dlls/ directory to/usr/lib/win32/
mplayer, memcoder and transcode crash all on files where the audio video sync is terrible. I am not talking about 100 frames/samples, but about a 1,000 or more.
I had a number of such (nuppel) files, and wouldn't care if the quality of the audio was bad, as long as I had the files trancoded (the problem occurred in the first 1/5 of the file, the rest was perfect).
mplayer, mencoder, transcode all segfaulted (I assume some buffer which never should be filled, got filled anyway).
It has been a couple of months since I checked it, but I can reproduce the problem...
Next to this obvious cheering, it is a fact that mplayer is the most versatile player around that I can think of. I've seen lots of cases that mplayer is capable of player files with odd framerates (audio and video, mainly produced by a bad configured digital camera) while other (includeing M$ mplayer) players choked on it.
Since the license change, I've seen that (that allowed binary packaging) it is gradualy pushing other players to the background, exaclty due to it's versatility (aviplayer, xine, vlc,...)
The documentation seems to be somewhat lacking and for some things I (still) use IMHO better tools:
video recording: nvrec, AFAIK mplayer does not support V4L2 encoding: transcode, mainly because transcode seems to have a much better doc and logical buildup of the options to transcode and large modularity (for filters). I use mencoder sometimes when transcode has problems with particular file (or used to)
One thing which no player seems to pull of correctly, is to play files with awfully synced audio, video...
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Yeah, I figured that one out already after reading the sites.
/. material if you ask me.
I was a bit more enthousiastic, but now I think it's basically a first try, lacking an implementation, not really
Sigh, again one of those decent ideas, but once again ideas do not implemented by themselves.
Move along, nothing to see.
It is getting better, I just discovered an magic weapon, think shotgun and machine gun mixed :) combined with god mode :P
:)
the shots are on
, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Check out the waited shotgun shells
I just tried it for about 5 minutes (seems to me that this should be long enough for beasic learning), but the bots (with Quad colours) just seem to run around and do not react at all, no mather how many slugs I shoot at them.
:( Am I mssing some README?
I tried it with various settings of difficulty
I don't think the 'easier to compare prices' argument is particularly strong
This statement is obviously made with someone with no experience in the matter whatsoever. I live from 5 different countries in a radius of 150 km, so popping over a border to shop somewhere is not that exceptional. It is _very_ handy to be able to pay with the same currency and see that e.g. a spindel of CDs is much more expensive in shop A in country X than in shop B in country Y. I assume that most frequent visitors on
I would love to see the economic criteria that's suppossed to say when it's ok for the UK to join the Euro be applied to the Dollar - I wonder which one we're closer to
Then you should check larger companies. Sure labour costs are more important, but rest assured that keeping all other alternatives equal, large companies will choose for the Euro zone. Why? Basically because they have to keep provisions and pay exchange rates for currencies, which can be a significant drain.
I just hope you at least have the insight to see that the future of the UK is in Europe (and not in the States). Some might regret it on both sides of the channel, but it's a geographical fact.
But it's not like we've ever been made to feel like part of the team.
This goes both ways. For as far as I can remember, the UK seemed to oppose or hinder the European integration. With the new Labour government, things started to improve, but I would guess that Blair just lost any goodwill he had over the last year.
France and Germany blatently ignore European orders without any appernt repercussions
Excuse me? They currently have problems keeping their budgets in balance that's true, but you should not try to reverse the situation, they are still the largest integrators of the EU and compared to the UK, you cannot reproach them being bad team players.
I think there are a lot of people in the UK who don't see any real benefits to being in the Euro, let alone the EU itself.
Over the years, a lot of voices said that the UK is holding back the EU, and to many perspectives that's true. I should try to give a better reference, but more than once, all countries agreed on some particular issue, while the UK did not. Of course integration is not that easy and for all countries, it will goe accompanied with loss of souvereignty. The UK seems to have some dillusion of grandure that passed half a century ago. At least France and Germany understood that the only way to go is cooperation, and as far as I read it, the UK is now wondering how it is possible that these contries influence EU politics and the agenda to such a degree. For a half decent observer, this should be obvious by now, how can you expect to trust a player which seems to have, over and over again, a larger affinity with another continent. Unfortunately this doesn't bring money in, so they bet on two horses.
I for one, would like to see the UK to have closer ties with the European continent, but any trust they gain with the ppl on the continent, the UK seems bent to destroy it.
I would like to conclude with a statement I read some years ago in a news paper: "The future of the EU, with the Great Brittain if possible, without them if needed". Unfortunately, this is happening in many fields. I just hope that all European countries realise that together they stand much stronger than divided, we can all miss those *cough* idiot *cough* rogue players we had over the last year, and pulling the European continent in the spiral of downfall and violence that another continent's government is initiating.
I think you should get off your Island more often, monetory union is hardly an unpleasent symptom as we experience it. Most Europeans in the Euro zone, that are not confined to their 20 square kilometers around their homes, would not want to go back to the pre-Euro aera.
Most of the ppl I know, just shop around in different contries (e.g. for electronics), because prices are easily compared...
Next to the fact that the UK is never considered as an integral part of the EU by most other member countries, you can hardly call the UK a team player... As it turns out, they'll most likely back NASA when Washington orders them to do so.
The second of your suggestions is more than enough, let the OS/FS community take it from there and improve on it.
I guess you have been playing so many games and seen so many Holywood movies, they have clouded your judgement.
OK, probably no cat will read this anymore, but this kind of post begs for a reply.
I guess that the oil in Iraq, combined with the enormous energy spending nature of the US (on average 2x or 3x more than any other western country for households) has nothing to do with it.
The US attacked a country of which it was not proven it had weapons of mass destruction and there were serious doubts about this (and now, even your politicians are admitting this), while they leave another country alone of which it is proven that they are actively developing and have weapons of mass destruction.
Talk about hypocrisy. But with a predicted oil shortage, I am only afraid that this is the first of many wars over fossil fuels (face it, if you believe it was about anything else, you must be very naive).
And to get back on the topic, do you really expect other countries to trust the US without any reserve? I applaud the initiative to launch an alternative to GPS.
This is typical of a teenager responding. If you're not a teenager, you still didn't grow up. You have to remember that the ties between the US and the 'old' continent were much stronger than they are now.
Back then, a large percentage of the ppl in North America had (close) relatives living in Europe, so what happened in Europe affected lots of people personally. By now, I guess most family ties have been broken (I have uncles, aunts and cousins in MN, but time seems to dissolve family contact).
I think that the 'we saved them at the cost of our lot of American blood' is therefore a bit too simple a statement to correctly reflect the US situation, immigration and the (past) interdependency and ballances on poor taste, and probably aimed at the 'internal' public that only understands simple retorics. In Europe, it creates even more resistance to the US whose politics seem to many Europeans illogical and ununderstandable how the domestic public swallows it (e.g. Iraq is a threath).
simon@siCOBOLmonzone.com minus language
:)
....
Is cobol actually a language
ah, memories of embedding SQL in cobol syntax in a past life...
k. must not remember, must not remember, must not remember,
They seem to have their own license. I don't see any legal objection to use the lib.
Let me guess, you're one of those point-and-click OS users.
...
If this is your single reason to reject BT, both arguments are wrong (except different p2p).
Btw, it's called sharing, I think it's a good thing that uploading is enabled, it's one of the things that feeds the success of a distributed file system (Ok, I'm stretching here). Imagine downloading a debian iso when your neighbour in your LAN has the file,
actually,
e ta/) and you should be released from all the codec problems you experience (most of all, you windows users will stop bugging us *n*x users about this).
reassociate with mplayer.exe (that you download from http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-b
I just know this Blackadder quote would come in handy some day
Self-Repairing Computers
g e r/Picard/g / Tuvok/g
Finally, this provides us with the long awaited answer to the following situations:
Reed: Captain, direct hit on the power supply!
Archer: That'll teach those cyborgs for flooding our inbox with p0rn!
T'Pol: Captain, their server is mysteriously repairing itself, we're still being flooded.
for any other series:
TOS:
%s/Reed/Checkov/g
%s/Archer/Kirk/
%s/T'Pol/Spock/g
TNG:
%s/Reed/Worf/g
%s/Arch
%s/T'Pol/Data/g
DS9:
%s/Reed/Kira/g
%s/Archer/Sisko/g
%s/T'Pol/Dax/g
VGR:
%s/Reed
%s/Archer/Janeway/g
%s/T'Pol/Kim/g
Since the B&B messed up the timelines anyway, they'll probably pour it into an episode, they seem to be out of inspiration anyhow...
The only times things do work is when they are centrally controlled, but that defeats the ideals of Open Source (Like Microsoft and Windows XP, well integrated).
/me gets struck by a bolt of electricity from my power supply
I completely agree, this is the only way things can go right, a (one) company that creates its own standards will always be compatible with itself.
Obviously the different prints and formatting you have while opening files on different machines are features you do not have when all the machines run the latest patch version of the latest full install (except sub-option X in window Y, otherwise you're in trouble).
Yes, Microsoft _is_ the standard, so they must always be right.
Heck, no wonder the CDs are expensive in Auchan!
o =6697
A bit out of date but:
http://www.vnunet.fr/actu/article.htm?numer
Heck, it'll be Luxembourg then.
8,5 per 50 CDr or 85 Euro for 500, I mean, for a number of ppl it gets pretty interesting to drive 160 km if you're around Brussels.
One of the advantages of combining the power of the internet and living in a small country.
Long Live Luxembourg!
well, next to the fact that a lot of ppl will go to France, Holland or Germany and the ever interesting Luxembourg for CDRs, a lot of ppl (including myself) will have no moral objections agains copying anymore. I guess I have bought my last CD spindle in Belgium (good move again from the government).
Heck, I hardly burn _any_ music CD (I'm not a music fan), and as a result I will have paid any music CD I would ever copy several times on taxes.
If they tax it, they should compensate, in this case, it's just like any other tax in this poorly gouverned country and another excuse to get money from the (already) overtaxed population.
I really hope this one backfires on the SABAM lobby.
I am just wondering of these kinds of student jokes are news for slashdot. News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters, yeah, that applies for this news item, yes it does, it has changed my life!
Or could it be that if anything happens at MIT, this gets posted?
ah, the benefits of peer review...
This kind of petty (it's just a name), inmature (flooding people's e-mail), public arguing is one of the reasons Linux isn't getting the acceptance it should.
Perhaps you are referring to the buy off and other techniques some companies use for manipulating the world to their will.
I'm not saying they have not right to do this, but your argument here is flawed.
Just google for getting more results and descriptions on the subject.
will not work, since the *.dll files are contained in a directory in qt6dlls.tar.bz2. You should extract the archive and copy the files in the qt6dlls/ directory to
$ wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/~alex/codecs/qt6dlls.tar.b z2
/usr/lib/win32/
$ sudo tar xvfj qt6dlls.tar.bz2 -C
$ mencoder -sws 2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=600:vhq -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=192:cbr trailer_final_1000_dl.mov -o trailer_matrix.avi
mplayer, memcoder and transcode crash all on files where the audio video sync is terrible. I am not talking about 100 frames/samples, but about a 1,000 or more.
I had a number of such (nuppel) files, and wouldn't care if the quality of the audio was bad, as long as I had the files trancoded (the problem occurred in the first 1/5 of the file, the rest was perfect).
mplayer, mencoder, transcode all segfaulted (I assume some buffer which never should be filled, got filled anyway).
It has been a couple of months since I checked it, but I can reproduce the problem...
Next to this obvious cheering, it is a fact that mplayer is the most versatile player around that I can think of. I've seen lots of cases that mplayer is capable of player files with odd framerates (audio and video, mainly produced by a bad configured digital camera) while other (includeing M$ mplayer) players choked on it.
...)
Since the license change, I've seen that (that allowed binary packaging) it is gradualy pushing other players to the background, exaclty due to it's versatility (aviplayer, xine, vlc,
The documentation seems to be somewhat lacking and for some things I (still) use IMHO better tools:
video recording: nvrec, AFAIK mplayer does not support V4L2
encoding: transcode, mainly because transcode seems to have a much better doc and logical buildup of the options to transcode and large modularity (for filters). I use mencoder sometimes when transcode has problems with particular file (or used to)
One thing which no player seems to pull of correctly, is to play files with awfully synced audio, video...