We may not have it, but we have the European Court of Human Rights, which can be seized by any citizen (EU or not) and have his/her rights enforced. This court just sticks to the Declaration of Human Rights, which include free speech and plenty of other goodies absent from the US constitution. Even nazi sh*ts are granted rights their countries denied them on behalf of "hate speech" laws and such.
I also believe we, Europeans, enjoy a pretty nice form of freedom, perhaps even more than the citizens of the USofA. At least I don't risk much being shot by a gun-toting neighbour who thinks I'm a terrorist because I speak a foreign language of have friends from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
It's about time you Americans stop thinking Europe is some sort of communist dictatorship... Because from here, the USA sure don't look like the place to be if one wants to be free!
Just my 0.02
-max
Re:whats the deal with NWN for linux?
on
AGP4X vs. AGP8X
·
· Score: 2
The Linux dedicated server will be distributed freely online, as close to the game being available in stores as possible. The Linux client will follow shortly thereafter. Linux users will need to own a Windows copy of Neverwinter Nights, as the Linux executables must import certain resources from those Windows CDs. All users will need to register their CD Keys (Linux users register the Windows CD Keys) at the Neverwinter Nights community site (www.neverwinternights.com). The Macintosh version will be available later in the fall (BioWare is completing the Macintosh Neverwinter Nights client and server programs, MacSoft is completing the Toolset).
Let's not forget Brazil is also, and mostly, an adaptation of Orwell's "1984". One of the best movies I've ever seen, and one of my all-time favourite books.
If Gilliam gets his budget, I have confidence he'll do a great job with Pratchett's Good Omens. It's a perfect mix.
It's only a few Swiss states (Schwytz being the top one) that have little to no income tax. If you live in Geneva, you'll pay hefty tax, especially if you're single.
Monaco (Monte Carlo) is a principality administered and protected by France so French aristocrats (and terrorists, politics and superstars) can evade their respective tax systems. Monaco doesn't cooperate with justice, whereas Switzerland does.
Monaco is a safe haven for the scum of the planet, nothing more. It's a bank safe. At least, Switzerland is a real country with elected officials, while Monaco is run by the Grimaldi family.
The cDc and Peek-A-Booty A commonly-perpetuated misconception about this project is that it is run by CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc). This is a myth that has been propagating since the projects inception. The Peekabooty project has its own open- source group, entirely separate from the cDc.
I can foresee a bright future for this technology in the pr0n industry... Combine it with a VR helmet, and you're on the way to re-enact some cool scenes from Strange Days!
I remember seeing Tron in a theater, when it originally came out. I was a little kid then, and it *really* impressed me to the point I *knew* I wanted to do stuff with computers later. I think it had a bigger influence on me than WarGames or any other movies of the kind.
Yeah, Tron turned me into a geek when computers were still a curiosity where I lived back then... People gave me eerie looks, really. After all, I suppose I'd be equally (well, not quite) puzzled if an 8-year old kid came to me and started talking about pretty much unknown technology...
It'll be a pleasure watching it again! Sure beats Starfighter...
Very true. Here in Switzerland, where everything must be voted, we have a saying that goes "if it's not compulsary, it's forbidden". It's amazing to see how every little detail of one's daily life has some law attached to it.
Yet, we have probably more freedom than many other "democratic" countries in which I've lived/been. Many things that are banned in the USA or in some European countries are perfectly legal here, especially in regards to personal freedom. OK, pot being legal is only one of the many aforementioned freedoms...
Back in '97 in Stockholm, Sweden, I remember seeing and using net booths in town from which I could send e-mails. I've seen net booths in a lot of European airports for already quite some time... What else is new?
The deployment of GPRS and later 3G mobile webpads it will perhaps render these booths as obsolete as mobile phones have managed to eliminate most public phone booths in European towns.
Administing servers and systems is hard, no GUI will take that part away.
Exactly! Each time some admin tool gets a GUI, it's a reason for your boss to downgrade you since for him GUI=easy, hence putting your salary upgrade in jeopardy since basically anyone can use a freakin' GUI.
Hards things must look tough, for else they lose all credibility:)
Actually I think you may be right on that one. It is forbidden to sell for a loss (dumping) in Europe.
Believe it or not, I went looking around in town today after posting my initial reply, and found out various shops were taking pre-orders for the xbox at the totally hallucinating price of $700!!! Next to them were 1.2GHZ Athlon boxes (with a 17" monitor) for the same price... I guess the 480 pricetag will only be effective in a few months, when it's available in quantity or if the sales don't take-off (which could very well be the case).
The way I see it, the average video-game buyer will look more for the availability of good titles (PS2) than for the all the whizbang of the xbox which actually costs the same price as a full-blown PC. My friends at the store told me people were indeed interested (read: curious), but when faced with the price just went "HOLY_SHIT!(TM)" and eventually went for a PC.
The Nintendo GameCube still isn't available in Europe, so their only competitors here, for the moment, are the PS2 and the PC.
Should I want to buy a gaming system today, I'd go for the PS2, for it has numerous games and is reasonably priced. Should the Panasonic GameCube with DVD drive be competitively priced, I'd consider it. For what I play games, my PC is widely enough for now.
The way I see it, I don't see the interest in buying a console that's more expensive than the best graphics card of the moment.
That's a lame excuse, as almost everything else is almsot the same price here than in the USA (give or take 15%). Since the introduction of the Euro, electronics prices seem to have gone down in the EU (which is only 2 miles up the road for me). Furthermore, MS has an even wider hegemony on european markets than on the US one and obviously is trying to cover its US losses with an outrageous pricing policy in Europe. It will only encourage parallel imports of both the consoles and the games, the way it happened with the ps2 until the price went down and/or was available in quantity.
For your point of view to be valid, everything should be overpriced consistently, which is not the case.
"...the announced european price of 480 is way too much. Microsoft has a strange way of computing the exchange rate between dollars and euros... Games with a maximum price of $50, or 65 in Europe, are expensive, but those prices are the same ones PS2 uses, at least in the United States. In Europe, PS2 games are cheaper and Microsoft should bring its prices into alignment."
Indeed, condidering $1 = 1.15 at today's rate, that's $417. In the USA, the Xbox is $300, which is 345. This is a complete ripoff! The days electronics were over-overpriced compared to the US are gone, this is pure extorsion(sp?)! How do they justify the extra $117? Shipping fees? Let me laugh...
For this price I can build a complete PC with a Duron 1GHz and a good graphics card (GF2 ultra or so), so COME_ON! Who's gonna pay that price for just a game console? PC prices have crashed to a point the PS2 itself is now a mere $235 where I live (Switzerland, outside the EU, I know:) so it can be sold, but the XBox will be twice the price with a hundred times less games to start with... The PS2 is hugely popular whereas Microsoft is still unknown on that market... No doubt the Xbox is a lot more powerful than the ps2, has a HD, etc... But when for the same price you could get a real PC that'll play games even better, and with which you can do whatever you want, I think M$ is trying hard to rip-off markets on which it can (still) freely impose its monopolistic dirty hands.
AFAIK, Sony *is* a CD/DVD etc. manufacturer, last time I checked. Shouldn't be too hard for the PS2 division to get whatever media they want... Sony makes its $$$ by selling the software (games), not the hardware, they got bigass CD production facilities. Actually, they basically produce any media that's supported by their hardware, from the old cassette up to the pro stuff.
Wired Magazine had a pretty good article here describing what happens in areas densely intellectual (Silicon Valley). When 2 nerds (hackers, scientists, etc.) who already have autistic tendencies (they wouldn't be nerds otherwise) get together and reproduce, their offspring has big chances of being autistic to a higher degree. IMHO, not a good evolutionary trend.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, and after that it's the same UNIX guys who sptit on the Linux community on the claims it's immature and childish.
Bleh.
-max
Probably because the EU has no "First Amendment"
We may not have it, but we have the European Court of Human Rights, which can be seized by any citizen (EU or not) and have his/her rights enforced. This court just sticks to the Declaration of Human Rights, which include free speech and plenty of other goodies absent from the US constitution. Even nazi sh*ts are granted rights their countries denied them on behalf of "hate speech" laws and such.
I also believe we, Europeans, enjoy a pretty nice form of freedom, perhaps even more than the citizens of the USofA. At least I don't risk much being shot by a gun-toting neighbour who thinks I'm a terrorist because I speak a foreign language of have friends from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
It's about time you Americans stop thinking Europe is some sort of communist dictatorship... Because from here, the USA sure don't look like the place to be if one wants to be free!
Just my 0.02
-max
from the bioware FAQ :
The Linux dedicated server will be distributed freely online, as close to the game being available in stores as possible. The Linux client will follow shortly thereafter. Linux users will need to own a Windows copy of Neverwinter Nights, as the Linux executables must import certain resources from those Windows CDs. All users will need to register their CD Keys (Linux users register the Windows CD Keys) at the Neverwinter Nights community site (www.neverwinternights.com). The Macintosh version will be available later in the fall (BioWare is completing the Macintosh Neverwinter Nights client and server programs, MacSoft is completing the Toolset).
Wasn't KDE 3.1 supposed to bring SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) icons / wigets? That'd be so shweeeet...
Let's not forget Brazil is also, and mostly, an adaptation of Orwell's "1984". One of the best movies I've ever seen, and one of my all-time favourite books.
If Gilliam gets his budget, I have confidence he'll do a great job with Pratchett's Good Omens. It's a perfect mix.
Cheers,
max
It's only a few Swiss states (Schwytz being the top one) that have little to no income tax. If you live in Geneva, you'll pay hefty tax, especially if you're single.
Monaco (Monte Carlo) is a principality administered and protected by France so French aristocrats (and terrorists, politics and superstars) can evade their respective tax systems. Monaco doesn't cooperate with justice, whereas Switzerland does.
Monaco is a safe haven for the scum of the planet, nothing more. It's a bank safe. At least, Switzerland is a real country with elected officials, while Monaco is run by the Grimaldi family.
Cheers,
Not a performer, but let's not forget Beethoven... He was deaf and was one of the most fabulous composers of all times.
From their site:
The cDc and Peek-A-Booty
A commonly-perpetuated misconception about this project is that it is run by CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc). This is a myth that has been propagating since the projects inception. The Peekabooty project has its own open- source group, entirely separate from the cDc.
I'm at a loss here...
I can foresee a bright future for this technology in the pr0n industry... Combine it with a VR helmet, and you're on the way to re-enact some cool scenes from Strange Days!
You should have checked the actual exchange rate before posting FUD. 100 is about $90.
/max
I remember seeing Tron in a theater, when it originally came out. I was a little kid then, and it *really* impressed me to the point I *knew* I wanted to do stuff with computers later. I think it had a bigger influence on me than WarGames or any other movies of the kind.
Yeah, Tron turned me into a geek when computers were still a curiosity where I lived back then... People gave me eerie looks, really. After all, I suppose I'd be equally (well, not quite) puzzled if an 8-year old kid came to me and started talking about pretty much unknown technology...
It'll be a pleasure watching it again! Sure beats Starfighter...
/max
Very true. Here in Switzerland, where everything must be voted, we have a saying that goes "if it's not compulsary, it's forbidden". It's amazing to see how every little detail of one's daily life has some law attached to it.
Yet, we have probably more freedom than many other "democratic" countries in which I've lived/been. Many things that are banned in the USA or in some European countries are perfectly legal here, especially in regards to personal freedom. OK, pot being legal is only one of the many aforementioned freedoms...
Just a thought.
/max
Back in '97 in Stockholm, Sweden, I remember seeing and using net booths in town from which I could send e-mails. I've seen net booths in a lot of European airports for already quite some time... What else is new?
The deployment of GPRS and later 3G mobile webpads it will perhaps render these booths as obsolete as mobile phones have managed to eliminate most public phone booths in European towns.
/max
This links will tell you. Hopefully.
/max
Exactly! Each time some admin tool gets a GUI, it's a reason for your boss to downgrade you since for him GUI=easy, hence putting your salary upgrade in jeopardy since basically anyone can use a freakin' GUI.
Hards things must look tough, for else they lose all credibility
Just my twisted thoughts.
/max
Actually I think you may be right on that one. It is forbidden to sell for a loss (dumping) in Europe.
Believe it or not, I went looking around in town today after posting my initial reply, and found out various shops were taking pre-orders for the xbox at the totally hallucinating price of $700!!! Next to them were 1.2GHZ Athlon boxes (with a 17" monitor) for the same price... I guess the 480 pricetag will only be effective in a few months, when it's available in quantity or if the sales don't take-off (which could very well be the case).
The way I see it, the average video-game buyer will look more for the availability of good titles (PS2) than for the all the whizbang of the xbox which actually costs the same price as a full-blown PC. My friends at the store told me people were indeed interested (read: curious), but when faced with the price just went "HOLY_SHIT!(TM)" and eventually went for a PC.
/max
The Nintendo GameCube still isn't available in Europe, so their only competitors here, for the moment, are the PS2 and the PC.
Should I want to buy a gaming system today, I'd go for the PS2, for it has numerous games and is reasonably priced. Should the Panasonic GameCube with DVD drive be competitively priced, I'd consider it. For what I play games, my PC is widely enough for now.
The way I see it, I don't see the interest in buying a console that's more expensive than the best graphics card of the moment.
/max
That's a lame excuse, as almost everything else is almsot the same price here than in the USA (give or take 15%). Since the introduction of the Euro, electronics prices seem to have gone down in the EU (which is only 2 miles up the road for me). Furthermore, MS has an even wider hegemony on european markets than on the US one and obviously is trying to cover its US losses with an outrageous pricing policy in Europe. It will only encourage parallel imports of both the consoles and the games, the way it happened with the ps2 until the price went down and/or was available in quantity.
For your point of view to be valid, everything should be overpriced consistently, which is not the case.
/max
Indeed, condidering $1 = 1.15 at today's rate, that's $417. In the USA, the Xbox is $300, which is 345. This is a complete ripoff! The days electronics were over-overpriced compared to the US are gone, this is pure extorsion(sp?)! How do they justify the extra $117? Shipping fees? Let me laugh...
For this price I can build a complete PC with a Duron 1GHz and a good graphics card (GF2 ultra or so), so COME_ON! Who's gonna pay that price for just a game console? PC prices have crashed to a point the PS2 itself is now a mere $235 where I live (Switzerland, outside the EU, I know :) so it can be sold, but the XBox will be twice the price with a hundred times less games to start with... The PS2 is hugely popular whereas Microsoft is still unknown on that market... No doubt the Xbox is a lot more powerful than the ps2, has a HD, etc... But when for the same price you could get a real PC that'll play games even better, and with which you can do whatever you want, I think M$ is trying hard to rip-off markets on which it can (still) freely impose its monopolistic dirty hands.
/jabba
AFAIK, Sony *is* a CD/DVD etc. manufacturer, last time I checked. Shouldn't be too hard for the PS2 division to get whatever media they want... Sony makes its $$$ by selling the software (games), not the hardware, they got bigass CD production facilities. Actually, they basically produce any media that's supported by their hardware, from the old cassette up to the pro stuff.
/max
Wired Magazine had a pretty good article here describing what happens in areas densely intellectual (Silicon Valley). When 2 nerds (hackers, scientists, etc.) who already have autistic tendencies (they wouldn't be nerds otherwise) get together and reproduce, their offspring has big chances of being autistic to a higher degree. IMHO, not a good evolutionary trend.
/max
You also need a "survival of the fittest" rule
I'd say they got it wrong due to poor spelling, since it's more like "survival of the fattest" from what I've seen in certain areas of the USA...
/max
An Iowa ISP is existing copper phone lines to provide digital cable and DSL access.
/. wants credibility, its editors should at least consider proofreading their stories. Yeah, I know, you need a brain for that ;)
C'mon. If this sentence makes any sense, please tell me 'cause I've missed something.
If
/RANT
/max
Do OS X, Apple or Mac ring a bell?
/max
Reminds me of the small print of an insurance contract I got some years ago that said they wouldn't help me in case of nuclear war.
Pffff, I hate dandy insurance restrictions.
/max