Beyond and legal or moral arguments, it might be worth commenting on whether he really wants his company's name to be both listed alongside Penis engagement pills, porn ads and bank scams, and disregarded as such after a moments notice.
While it's quite possible to play solo, the pve/mission running side of the game is really a bolt on and indeed the least exciting. The more interesting parts of the game is the team play seen in PVP, be it fleet engagements or traders seeking to undermine their competitors.
Out of all the mmorpgs Ive played, Eve-online is the most involved and interesting. Ive been playing for under a year and there is still a lot to learn and experience. There are lots of different things to do in the game, but its the principally the pvp that is core and the wars and relationships that evolve between the entities that live out in deep space beyond the stable "safe" core empire systems that is intriguing.
One concern new players have is that with the skill system is that they will be never able to catch up with those that have been playing from the start. While its true you'll never have the versatility of a veteran there are only so many skillpoints that are relevant to piloting a certain ship so as long as you focus you can be just as effective as some vet and any conflict comes down to player skill. Moreover its quite feasible for an organised gang of newbies to gank a solo vet or uncoordinated gang.
It still appears to be doing it.
Compare MSN rendered with IE and Opera alongside:
Under IE there are four central zones arranged in two collums and two rows. "MSN Top Headlines" alongside "CNBC on MSN Money", and beneath "MSN Shopping" alongside "MSN Entertainment". A nice concise layout.
Under Opera these four are rendered in just one collum with four rows, still using the same overall width. Thus leaving a lot of blank space, much less asthetically pleasing.
Though a professional tool costing several thousand dollars AliasWavefront offer a free version of Maya, which is a stalwart of the CG animation industry. You can either download it for free or buy a cheap cd with Maya Personal Learning Edition on it.
This recommendation comes with a proviso, the PL edition brands everything with an obvious watermark and isnt as fast in rendering images as the full product. But its more than sufficient to play about with.
Another item which may be of interest is Learning Maya | Beginner's Guide, A DVD tutorial with a copy of Maya PL edition upon it, $20 or so. Looks a rather handy introduction, however the plain Maya PL edition comes with good tutorials and a pdf version of a book introducing CG animation.
Sitting currently before Opera 6.05 on win2k:
Preferences>Network>Server Name Completion>Uncheck 'Try name completion using'
Problem solved, though perhaps not as elegant as getting your current browsers to behave.
A timely article for me, this might explain the problems manyothers have been having with Gainward cards, claimed by an apparent Gainward rep to be due to a capacitor. Cards which under the "Golden Sample" label, tout their "quality" and thus potential for overclocking.
Yes, in European currencies. Cashing a cheque for x euro's will add to the total cost of the exercise. I seem to recall an international money order (essentially a cheque in the currency of choice) costing in the region of 50 UK pounds sterling / ~ $75. Moving cash via a Western Union? i.e. 'wiring' it might be an option, but as he pointed out the issue is really about getting support honouring of the warranty etc. But as someone else pointed out, that may not be a problem in the eyes of the customer support division, given the nature of the use of laptops and the need for people to get support when on international business trips etc.
Ah, well good luck getting the hardware you're after then. And I can sympathise about how irritating it is to try to get a hold of hardware, when local divisions seem content to drip feed the market.
Give the money to someone you know in the US, they purchase the item and send it privately as a gift onto you after testing that its not dead on arrival. The fun begins should a hardware fault later develop, if you want to use the warranty then you'll have to stump up the cash to send it back to your friend so they can initiate the support stuff.
Over a few weeks The Guardian covered, in a series of supplements, the current state of privacy in the UK: Big Brother, it may answer some of the questions you have.
...Xvoice enables continuous speech dictation and speech control of most X applications. To convert users' speech into text it uses the IBM ViaVoice speech recognition engine, which is distributed separately...
How though could such carry enough reaction mass to actually slow something down enough? Info on its propulsion system is here (pdf). Could you just do it via its flywheel? Or use such to cluster together junk for collection by something bigger?I could certainly see a role as a beacon to actively tag stuff (on the net even!)rather than relying upon constant ground based monitoring.
The reporting of this advance seems to be spun in two different directions by those reporting it:
The dangers of the net, open reseach genetic databases: a modern terrorist's cookbook.
A scientific advance, potential medical breakthrough with the posibility for radical vaccine developement etc.
Perhaps its from different viewpoints within the institution/research group responsible. Id suggest going to the horses mouth should you have realplayer and listen to an interview by one of the researchers by the BBC radio4 program Leading Edge (Real Audio unfortunately)
ISO images are copywrite to Theo de Raadt and are not distributed beyond actual cds. OpenBSD has a different support/developement model, funded through cd sales and donations.
The non US distribution points seem to be solely in Europe and can be found here
Im rather pleased with SuSE, though I did manage to cause a hiccup in an otherwise smooth install: I wanted to keep my / partition small, thus I did a minimal install and symlinked/opt to/usr/opt then did an update from my minimal install to a default. The installer didnt smoothly configure my graphics card and such, which I had to resort to sax2 to configure. Not much of a hardship at all. Perhaps I should just read up on LVM and just fiddle with the sizes of the volumes after the install.
Anyway, my point: The SuSE DVD, part of the SuSE proffesional pack doesnt work with certain Pioneer drives (along with a few others): http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_pioneerdvd. html. Apparently its a vibration problem. The DVD starts to spin up, then sticks? with a low clicking sound. Firmware updates solve this problem for a few of the Pioneer models. My own, a DVD-115 will happily read the CD's.
Beyond that Ive hand no significant problems )beyond some rushed editing of the manuals) and am happy to attest to SuSE 8 being rather slick indeed.
According to this manual section it appears to offer very basic table support.
"This will allow you to create simple tables. More sophisticated table support is the major feature planned for AbiWord 1.2. The developers already know that it is needed, and are already working on it."
The parent deserves to be modded up significantly IMOHO.
Asymetric warfare may be a new buzzword, but its concept certainly isnt. If you dont have the resources of your enemy to line up ranks of musketmen at each other in nice set piece battles, dont rely on mobile units and intelligence. If you dont have sheer might of firepower to fight an enemy with helicopter gunships, close air support, defoliants, rely on being invisible using tunnels and local knowledge. If you cant launch a conventional strike on your enemies assets and symbols, seek to exploit laxes in the security his own transportation system turning them into the weapons you cannot get.
i.e. If you cant fight an enemy on his terms, fight him on your own. High tech toys and vast armies are of little use against an unconventional enemy/terrorist.
Yes its a shame that this business folded; for the acceptance of linux as a viable gaming market and such potential growth across desktops etc; for those talented programmers who worked for the company; and those - myself included - whom have enjoyed their games.
However Draeker (an ex Apple lawyer) apparently had some rather novel business practices, which (at least when things began to get awkward) allegedly seemed to involve manipulating a rather gullible employee into bankrolling the company. Before any more moderators get too slap happy on the parent post please consider this:
Transporting large sums with relative ease was one of the concerns with the high denominations (500, 200). Hoever in some parts of Europe (Austria, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands), people have been using such for a long time and they make up a significant amount of the currency moving about, thus they're in.
Thankyou for the clarification, and Im sorry about the inaccuracies, it wasnt intentional.
If I may pester you further, what kind of hardware would you recommend for using with voice recognition software? Ive not been very impressed with the clarity of computer microphone headsets, while messing about with voice over ip stuff, would it be worth investing in a low end muscians mike with a preamp?
And thankyou for the work on Xvoice, as soon as I can figure out a way to download it from the imb server with wget (isp connection cuts every two hours) I want to play with it.
Thankyou for the info, makes for rather depressing reading. I was hoping to find something usable for linux, perhaps that was a bit optimistic for something that is still rather primitive and on a developing system. It would be a bit irksome to have to use a dedicated computer for windows/voice recognition and a ssh connection to a linux box, but perhaps that may be a more viable alternative. Hmm perhaps Ive found something to tinker with as I do this degree.
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Beyond and legal or moral arguments, it might be worth commenting on whether he really wants his company's name to be both listed alongside Penis engagement pills, porn ads and bank scams, and disregarded as such after a moments notice.
While it's quite possible to play solo, the pve/mission running side of the game is really a bolt on and indeed the least exciting. The more interesting parts of the game is the team play seen in PVP, be it fleet engagements or traders seeking to undermine their competitors.
Out of all the mmorpgs Ive played, Eve-online is the most involved and interesting. Ive been playing for under a year and there is still a lot to learn and experience. There are lots of different things to do in the game, but its the principally the pvp that is core and the wars and relationships that evolve between the entities that live out in deep space beyond the stable "safe" core empire systems that is intriguing.
One concern new players have is that with the skill system is that they will be never able to catch up with those that have been playing from the start. While its true you'll never have the versatility of a veteran there are only so many skillpoints that are relevant to piloting a certain ship so as long as you focus you can be just as effective as some vet and any conflict comes down to player skill. Moreover its quite feasible for an organised gang of newbies to gank a solo vet or uncoordinated gang.
Troodon / Irrilian of Eve University.
Compare MSN rendered with IE and Opera alongside:
Under IE there are four central zones arranged in two collums and two rows. "MSN Top Headlines" alongside "CNBC on MSN Money", and beneath "MSN Shopping" alongside "MSN Entertainment". A nice concise layout.
Under Opera these four are rendered in just one collum with four rows, still using the same overall width. Thus leaving a lot of blank space, much less asthetically pleasing.
This recommendation comes with a proviso, the PL edition brands everything with an obvious watermark and isnt as fast in rendering images as the full product. But its more than sufficient to play about with.
Another item which may be of interest is Learning Maya | Beginner's Guide, A DVD tutorial with a copy of Maya PL edition upon it, $20 or so. Looks a rather handy introduction, however the plain Maya PL edition comes with good tutorials and a pdf version of a book introducing CG animation.
Sitting currently before Opera 6.05 on win2k:
Preferences>Network>Server Name Completion>Uncheck 'Try name completion using'
Problem solved, though perhaps not as elegant as getting your current browsers to behave.
A timely article for me, this might explain the problems many others have been having with Gainward cards, claimed by an apparent Gainward rep to be due to a capacitor. Cards which under the "Golden Sample" label, tout their "quality" and thus potential for overclocking.
Yes, in European currencies. Cashing a cheque for x euro's will add to the total cost of the exercise. I seem to recall an international money order (essentially a cheque in the currency of choice) costing in the region of 50 UK pounds sterling / ~ $75. Moving cash via a Western Union? i.e. 'wiring' it might be an option, but as he pointed out the issue is really about getting support honouring of the warranty etc. But as someone else pointed out, that may not be a problem in the eyes of the customer support division, given the nature of the use of laptops and the need for people to get support when on international business trips etc.
Ah, well good luck getting the hardware you're after then. And I can sympathise about how irritating it is to try to get a hold of hardware, when local divisions seem content to drip feed the market.
Astroturf from Fujitsu US.
Give the money to someone you know in the US, they purchase the item and send it privately as a gift onto you after testing that its not dead on arrival. The fun begins should a hardware fault later develop, if you want to use the warranty then you'll have to stump up the cash to send it back to your friend so they can initiate the support stuff.
Over a few weeks The Guardian covered, in a series of supplements, the current state of privacy in the UK: Big Brother, it may answer some of the questions you have.
Acting as the front end you will need to stump up $40 for IBms IBM ViaVoice Dictation for Linux.
BBCnews reported some time ago on such a posible role for Surrey Satellite Technology's nanosatellite SNAP program. A swarm of cheap (at about 100,000 UK sterling) manuverable tiny satellites that can latch onto and gradually deorbit junk.
How though could such carry enough reaction mass to actually slow something down enough? Info on its propulsion system is here (pdf). Could you just do it via its flywheel? Or use such to cluster together junk for collection by something bigger?I could certainly see a role as a beacon to actively tag stuff (on the net even!)rather than relying upon constant ground based monitoring.
The reporting of this advance seems to be spun in two different directions by those reporting it:
The dangers of the net, open reseach genetic databases: a modern terrorist's cookbook.
A scientific advance, potential medical breakthrough with the posibility for radical vaccine developement etc.
Perhaps its from different viewpoints within the institution/research group responsible. Id suggest going to the horses mouth should you have realplayer and listen to an interview by one of the researchers by the BBC radio4 program Leading Edge (Real Audio unfortunately)
These might be also helpful:
OpenBSD Packet Filter
Re: pf and statesfull filtering on a bridge
The OpenBSD Packet Filter HOWTO
Theres a good guide to setting up openbsd IPF firewalls here
ISO images are copywrite to Theo de Raadt and are not distributed beyond actual cds. OpenBSD has a different support/developement model, funded through cd sales and donations.
The non US distribution points seem to be solely in Europe and can be found here
Im rather pleased with SuSE, though I did manage to cause a hiccup in an otherwise smooth install: I wanted to keep my / partition small, thus I did a minimal install and symlinked /opt to /usr/opt then did an update from my minimal install to a default. The installer didnt smoothly configure my graphics card and such, which I had to resort to sax2 to configure. Not much of a hardship at all. Perhaps I should just read up on LVM and just fiddle with the sizes of the volumes after the install.
Anyway, my point: The SuSE DVD, part of the SuSE proffesional pack doesnt work with certain Pioneer drives (along with a few others): http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_pioneerdvd. html. Apparently its a vibration problem. The DVD starts to spin up, then sticks? with a low clicking sound. Firmware updates solve this problem for a few of the Pioneer models. My own, a DVD-115 will happily read the CD's.
Beyond that Ive hand no significant problems )beyond some rushed editing of the manuals) and am happy to attest to SuSE 8 being rather slick indeed.
"This will allow you to create simple tables. More sophisticated table support is the major feature planned for AbiWord 1.2. The developers already know that it is needed, and are already working on it."
The parent deserves to be modded up significantly IMOHO.
Asymetric warfare may be a new buzzword, but its concept certainly isnt. If you dont have the resources of your enemy to line up ranks of musketmen at each other in nice set piece battles, dont rely on mobile units and intelligence. If you dont have sheer might of firepower to fight an enemy with helicopter gunships, close air support, defoliants, rely on being invisible using tunnels and local knowledge. If you cant launch a conventional strike on your enemies assets and symbols, seek to exploit laxes in the security his own transportation system turning them into the weapons you cannot get.
i.e. If you cant fight an enemy on his terms, fight him on your own. High tech toys and vast armies are of little use against an unconventional enemy/terrorist.
Yes its a shame that this business folded; for the acceptance of linux as a viable gaming market and such potential growth across desktops etc; for those talented programmers who worked for the company; and those - myself included - whom have enjoyed their games.
However Draeker (an ex Apple lawyer) apparently had some rather novel business practices, which (at least when things began to get awkward) allegedly seemed to involve manipulating a rather gullible employee into bankrolling the company. Before any more moderators get too slap happy on the parent post please consider this:
Loki Speaks up on Chapter 11
Specifically this and related threads: More informative media on Loki
Which highlights this:
Founder, Creditors Differ as to Loki's Future Course
Transporting large sums with relative ease was one of the concerns with the high denominations (500, 200). Hoever in some parts of Europe (Austria, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands), people have been using such for a long time and they make up a significant amount of the currency moving about, thus they're in.
If I may pester you further, what kind of hardware would you recommend for using with voice recognition software? Ive not been very impressed with the clarity of computer microphone headsets, while messing about with voice over ip stuff, would it be worth investing in a low end muscians mike with a preamp?
And thankyou for the work on Xvoice, as soon as I can figure out a way to download it from the imb server with wget (isp connection cuts every two hours) I want to play with it.
Thankyou for the info, makes for rather depressing reading. I was hoping to find something usable for linux, perhaps that was a bit optimistic for something that is still rather primitive and on a developing system. It would be a bit irksome to have to use a dedicated computer for windows/voice recognition and a ssh connection to a linux box, but perhaps that may be a more viable alternative. Hmm perhaps Ive found something to tinker with as I do this degree.