Freenet appears to be quite a bold project. However it already faces competition from the most common distributed file sharing services:
Napster
Gnutella
I think the major difference is in the organisation of information. Napster & Gnutella have a precise approach in that you are looking for something specific, whereas with Freenet you can browse by generic categories. Napster has some element of organisation where you can browse by genre then pick and choose a user to see what they have, but it's imprecise. A user in a Techno room could have Nirvana tracks, and it escapes the categorisation, however, if you search for Nirvana, you will find it easily. Now imagine if you were to think of a band you used to like, musically similar to Foo Fighters. You could browse Freenet looking in Media/Music/Alternative/Rock then finding a few songs by Nirvana and realizing that was the band you were looking for. OK, perhaps that isn't the best analogy to draw, but I think with Freenet you will be able to find a lot of information on a general category, as opposed to finding a specific piece of information.
The PS2 however, now that thing blew me away. I spent a good majority of the convention playing all the PS2 games. It's quite impressive.
You must have been at E3 in the mirror universe. From what I saw the Dreamcast had the best games on show, the most impressive thing about the PS2 was the Metal Gear Solid 2 video.
Sony could have won the next gen race by having good software, but they didn't and Sega the underdog blew everything away. Jet Set Radio is the best game I have played in a long, long time. Forget PS2, it's a dead duck. Buy a DC, play some of the best games on consoles for a long time and wait for XBox or Dolphin. Sony will suffer by using 3rd parties almost exclusively. OK they might have Psygnosis in their pocket now, but that isn't enough. It's like Nintendo's relationship with Rare, but the big N also do their own stuff(Zelda, Mario). Both Psygnosis and Rare were formed from the ashes of Spectrum/C64 developers(Imagine/Denton Designs & Ultimate respectively), but neither produces the same amount of Software as the myriad Sega companies.
There are a few Sony games that are interesting(The Bouncer, MGS2, Wipeout:Fusion), but just not enough to justify the console.
which is here.
(Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!)
It would help if I wrapped the link around something that wasn't a space.
Actually, Marijuana has become legalized for "medicinal" use in several states. And though it's a work in progress...it is happening.
I'm sure you could argue that Pac-Man and Space Invaders could have their medicinal uses. Post-traumatic incident hand eye co-ordination perhaps? Nice idea as it is, I can only foresee problems here, if the RIAA are being dumb about this issue, do you really think Nintendo and Sega are going to embrace it? Sega already have their sharing solution in the form of Dream Library where you can play old Genesis games on your Dreamcast by paying a nominal fee. Somehow I doubt free distribution of their games/IP will make them happy.
I don't. There is no need for pointers in most coding, and generally the parts where pointers are used are the most bug prone. Java, Delphi, Python, Smalltalk - all proper OO languages and none have pointers. (Not sure about operator overloading)
Operator overloading is in VisualStudio.Net, see here.
So I can add it to my exclusion list? I don't care for it, and 'Japanese company to make another cartoon' isn't very newsworthy, even on a slow news day. How about Cartoon Network to make Powerpuff Girls movie? Don't remember that one passing by.
Would you buy a wrench that said "Works only on Ford"?
If 86% of the cars I repaired were Ford, and the wrench works better on them, then yes, I would. A cheap wrench would suffice for the remaining 14% of open source cars and mopeds.
Microsoft was worried that Netscape might do -- make the browser a platform.
Like it or not, MS are positioning IE5.5 as central to the Whistler/NGWS strategy, and some of the statements in this article at The Register sound rather ominous.
only now people seeing it are older and don't like the comedy relief characters as much.
Who were the comedy relief characters in A New Hope? Tusken Raiders, Jawas, Grand Moff Tarkin, the Stormtrooper that bumped his head? Hmm, not really. OK, perhaps the droids did provide some comic relief, but Ep1 had them and a special bonus JarJar. When I saw Star Wars for the first time, Han shot first, nowadays Greedo shoots first. That ruined it all for me.
I have. I still have a number of 5.25 disks which I'll get round to looking at one of these days, including the Windows 2.0 Dev kit on 2 disks. This is why companies such as Apple 'pickle' hardware so if there is a need to read old software, or thwart and alien invasion with a Powerbook, they will be able to do it.
More recently, the BBC deleted a vast number of its tapes because they wanted the storage space.
Do you think the restoration method mentioned will help restore the Doctor Who episodes that were erased? OTOH, I can understand it if the BBC don't want to keep Cheggers Plays Pop or Noel's Public Humiliation & Execution show.
Arcade, Return Of Arcade & Revenge of Arcade emulate about 12 titles between them, which would have been licensed from Namco. Of course compared to MAME, the implementation sucks, but it has been done.
Given the availability of tools for the DC out there, and the fact that bleemcast is almost ready to roll, what's to stop anyone developing mamecast or similar for that box? If not mamecast, the next version of the sega browser will supposedly have java support built in to it, and that would be able to run this version of Pacman. I wouldn't think that XBox will be very open to develop for, but the DC might be.
Because the XBox games will not run on a PC, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are exclusive games appearing on it. Bungie, Lionhead & ID seem taken with it. Those are some big hitters, who else is going to jump on board?
which is the engine that powers wonko.com, similar to/. but running on NT. If nothing else it should give you pointers as to what to do, as it has an interesting license for usage.
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Now imagine if you were to think of a band you used to like, musically similar to Foo Fighters. You could browse Freenet looking in Media/Music/Alternative/Rock then finding a few songs by Nirvana and realizing that was the band you were looking for.
OK, perhaps that isn't the best analogy to draw, but I think with Freenet you will be able to find a lot of information on a general category, as opposed to finding a specific piece of information.
OS2 & Netware?
Why don't you just download MAME?
which is here. (Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs! Don't forget the http://!) It would help if I wrapped the link around something that wasn't a space.
An interesting tale over at 2600 about how Verizon have been aware of their suckiness for some time now.
Nice idea as it is, I can only foresee problems here, if the RIAA are being dumb about this issue, do you really think Nintendo and Sega are going to embrace it? Sega already have their sharing solution in the form of Dream Library where you can play old Genesis games on your Dreamcast by paying a nominal fee. Somehow I doubt free distribution of their games/IP will make them happy.
It's # as in musical notation, ergo C Sharp. If it was the US, wouldn't it be C Pound, not C Hash?
I think you're confusing Phil Zimmerman of PGP fame with this guy of PKZip fame.
So I can add it to my exclusion list? I don't care for it, and 'Japanese company to make another cartoon' isn't very newsworthy, even on a slow news day. How about Cartoon Network to make Powerpuff Girls movie? Don't remember that one passing by.
I have them in my FC Portfolio...
Tusken Raiders, Jawas, Grand Moff Tarkin, the Stormtrooper that bumped his head? Hmm, not really.
OK, perhaps the droids did provide some comic relief, but Ep1 had them and a special bonus JarJar. When I saw Star Wars for the first time, Han shot first, nowadays Greedo shoots first. That ruined it all for me.
Since no-one else seems to have thought of it...
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Arcade, Return Of Arcade & Revenge of Arcade emulate about 12 titles between them, which would have been licensed from Namco. Of course compared to MAME, the implementation sucks, but it has been done.
Given the availability of tools for the DC out there, and the fact that bleemcast is almost ready to roll, what's to stop anyone developing mamecast or similar for that box? If not mamecast, the next version of the sega browser will supposedly have java support built in to it, and that would be able to run this version of Pacman. I wouldn't think that XBox will be very open to develop for, but the DC might be.
which is the engine that powers wonko.com, similar to /. but running on NT. If nothing else it should give you pointers as to what to do, as it has an interesting license for usage.