And that's only for the Beta/demo software.. (can be fully registered online though ) The game lists OVER 970,000 registered players, so I figure many of them started out with the downloaded software.
Actually, Steel Panthers: World at War is the third huge release in 12 months. Yes, last year there were 2 versions: v.4.0 and v.4.5. Now, they have released the v.5.01. And all of them have been of around 650MB.
Last year I had a 250Kbps connection. Today, I surf at 2500 Kpbs make it easier:)
BTW, did I mentioned that this a fully-functional FreeWare game? You can buy it, also, on CD with an extra set of scenarios (Called "DesertFox Megacampaign") for a cheap price. Check their web.
Anyway, those guys at Matrix rock. If they only would port it to Linux... or make it work under WINE..... Then, I would not have to bring home my work laptop, loaded with Windows...company requirements, but with a nifty vmware + Linux install:)
It's called "Steel Panthers: World at War", from Matrix Games. It's an übercool tactical, World War 2, combat game. You have different countries, scenarios, long campaigns, 1 tank is 1 tank... a virtual Saving Private Ryan.
It's just wonderful.
Even though it does not run neither with Linux nor WINE nor Win4Lin nor vmWare... believe me, I've tried:( I can install it OK under any of those, but it works in none, sofar. Not yet:)
If you make it work, under Linux, please contact me.
Knowing the kind of AA missiles (Alamos, Apex...) used by the Soviet Air Force at that time (Frontonava Avyatisha or something quite close), the pilot fired using a missile lauched from the "6 o-clock" position. That is, the soviet fighter got behind the airplane, saw the image of the 747 in the IFR viewer and launched the missile at 5 nm or less.
With IFR devices (thermal viewers) you can see the "bulged fusselage" of a 747 quite well. There's no other airplane like it.
Said that, I'm quite sure that the pilot really saw a 747, reported the 747 to the base and then he was ordered to fire. On a fighter, you are pretty much a puppet from ground control. Also, Soviet Rules and Tactics for missions were no flexible at all. So if the airpplane went there to launch a missile, it would launch the missile for sure. Whatever the airplane type was there. Even if there was no airplane at all.
Actually they were Spanish shipping vessels. They were fishing outside the 12 nm area. Technicaly they were out of Canadian waters. But their navy was bigger and more able than the Spanish Navy (who only sent a couple of coastal patrol vessels.... to the Northen Atlantic Ocean, in bad weather!)
Anyway, the outcome is that Canada succeed because they were able to impunely harass sovereign vessels in international waters. That is, Canadian Navy ships were bigger than the Spanish counterparts, outnumbered them and got that close to the shipping vesels that, inorder to not have costly accidents, were recalled by the fishing company.
It looks like, whatever SouthPark says, US is a powerful friend of Canada. They didn support Spanish claims on the matter.
Lesson learnt appyable to the EP-3 case: the 12 nm rule depends on who has the stronger fleet around.
Even if it is an entertaiment progrma, it must be advertised throguout the show. Something like:
Tonight: Humor at Fox:"How we never went to the Moon and why the peanut-butter has no butter". Featuring Bart Simpson, from a not-yet released comedy for MAD-TV.
But if you got to the show in the middle of it, after the 2-seconds disclaimer broadcast, well, you may well think that it was indeed serious.
Do you guys remember Orson Wells and "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast? If they had put commercials and had kept saying after them ("... and after this marvelous commercial of Chicken Soup Inc., let's now continue with the theatrical version of the book The War of The Worlds, by H.G. Wells...") nothing wrong could have happened.
Is there any law that prohibits broadcasting dubious information ( = Hoaxes) in a news-informational mode?
Sometimes I wish this was rome as I am sure they are christian....
Well, it looks like you know nothing about religions. At least, about christian religion.
A good christian must help the others. If he/she makes a lot of money, he/she must give a lot to charity. So your point is blattanly wrong.
She's no christian for sure. No real christian would ever, never, claim that $370,000 was little money, nor would act agains the goodwill of the people.
Her religion is clear: God Dollar.
And please, oh, please, do not mix religion with politics. Specially bad politics. Did you ever heard of separation of religion and state?
I happen to be married to a librarian (yes, no kidding).
We were discussing this a few weeks ago. She is planning on a proposal for a spacialized library, non-profit style, and all that.
She has discovered that libraries, for anything that they have available (from the local newspaper to a flashy CD-ROM), are already paying more than you and me will pay at Barns and Noble for the same item. Much more. They pay more because this information will be available to lots of people.
Now, if publishers want libraries to pay for every people reading the book, for any interlibrary loan... they should get first huge discounts for buying all the stuff that the publisher is carrying.
Silly lawyers, because this is a publisher's lawyers idea for sure, a publisher that is having disminished revenues and tries to make that missing money in the courts.
The technical librarian description of this is "it completely sucks".
It's lighter and I've seen it run on a K6/2-400 with 64MB of RAM. This is not a fancy machine, but it was able to boot Win98, start MS-Power Point and give a presentation at our LUG meeting point.
They use some kind of modules to give a protected-thread access to the CPU. This is way it runs so fast in slower machines. Also it's not as memory-hungry as vmware.
I was trully impressed.
If only it was easier to install, at least in my Mandrake...
Being an aeronautics fan myself, I have to say that this is really, really old toy turned real with a convincing budget.
The first ideas of a 747 with an ICBM lauch-detector telescope and laser mounts to shot-down those missiles have been around since the eighties.
I have in my hads (paper support: really old) a drawing of one of those military B-747 as an intergal part of the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative: a.k.a "Reagan's Star Wars).
Reagan years went away and SDI was dropped because the "enemy" collapsed (= the cold war was won by economics). But now, Dubyia thinks that some major contributors of his campaign must make some bucks building an eighties-idea with new-millenium technology and Daddy's advice.
As a member of the Strategic Studies Center of one of the EU countries I must disagree.
There are quite a few differences on how the law works in the United States of America and the European Union.
USA is a country with federal laws. It is composed of states that have state laws. The higest law appliable anywere in the USA is the federal law (am I 100% right? any USA law expert here?). The highest court is the USA supreme Court.
EU is an association, a legal organization, if you wish. All the members are countries. The higest law appliable anywere in the EU is the EU law made by the EU Parliament at Brussels. The highest court is the EU Highest Court.
This can sound ridiculous: a legal association taking precedence to the federal(US)/national(EU) law?
Since the Maastrich Treaty, all the EU members (not the associate members) gave up part of their national sovereignity inorder to provide it to the EU Parliament. All of them changed their constitutions to reflect this.
What does all this mean?
All the laws of the EU countries must be in compliace with the EU laws.
And, for this topic, the law on patents issued by the EU parliament takes priority over any national law from any EU country.
It's very clear. Now, with their comment, we can cheerfully understand their point of view: "We don't want it to run because... nobody is making a single dollar out of it!". They do not understand somene that does not make money out of music distribution.
Also, watching the live connection that the FoxNews made, their lawyer does not know everything on the matter. He argued that "...only with their [Napster] software,...users can exchange files...". Yes, dear friends, they do not know about Gnutella and similar projects!.
Let's rejoice alltogether, my friends, by their lack of knowledge and general blindness...
Hi,
Just check the clip N.7 on Stanford and decide for yourselves.
Quite amusing, isn't it? It looks like... mmm... something called... Internet?
Come on, you BT guys. If you want to be rich, work. A lot. But do not pretend to own something taht is not yours.
Being from Barcelona has its rewards... and one is having had Unix Fire Extinguishers at work.
I can assure y'all that they exists and they are in use.
We never used them, thanks God!, but they were handy, just in case. (Yes, most of the programers used to be heavy smokers in Barcelona. And, no, there's no such word as "sue" there)
God Bless Unix in all is variants.
Cheers,
Sinner
P.S.: Can someone create a daemon called "fired" so we can control the excessive heat on overclocked boxes?
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2. Can you show me GNU/GPL tool which is not included in debian distro?
btw. things not included in sid do not exist :-)
rpmdrake, urpmi, diskdrake,.... all are GPL'd
And they exist. :)
Regards.
Actually, you can.
You just have to define one ftp source as the ftp server where the MandrakeFreq distro is located and there, it is!
Easy, anyways.
My 2 cents-
Lineage: The Blood Pledge = 650 MB download
And that's only for the Beta/demo software.. (can be fully registered online though ) The game lists OVER 970,000 registered players, so I figure many of them started out with the downloaded software.
Actually, Steel Panthers: World at War is the third huge release in 12 months. Yes, last year there were 2 versions: v.4.0 and v.4.5. Now, they have released the v.5.01. And all of them have been of around 650MB.
Last year I had a 250Kbps connection. Today, I surf at 2500 Kpbs make it easier :)
BTW, did I mentioned that this a fully-functional FreeWare game? You can buy it, also, on CD with an extra set of scenarios (Called "DesertFox Megacampaign") for a cheap price. Check their web.
Anyway, those guys at Matrix rock. If they only would port it to Linux... or make it work under WINE..... Then, I would not have to bring home my work laptop, loaded with Windows...company requirements, but with a nifty vmware + Linux install :)
There's at least another big game, around 600MB.
It's called " Steel Panthers: World at War ", from Matrix Games. It's an übercool tactical, World War 2, combat game. You have different countries, scenarios, long campaigns, 1 tank is 1 tank... a virtual Saving Private Ryan.
It's just wonderful.
Even though it does not run neither with Linux nor WINE nor Win4Lin nor vmWare... believe me, I've tried :( I can install it OK under any of those, but it works in none, sofar. Not yet :)
If you make it work, under Linux, please contact me.
Knowing the kind of AA missiles (Alamos, Apex...) used by the Soviet Air Force at that time (Frontonava Avyatisha or something quite close), the pilot fired using a missile lauched from the "6 o-clock" position. That is, the soviet fighter got behind the airplane, saw the image of the 747 in the IFR viewer and launched the missile at 5 nm or less.
With IFR devices (thermal viewers) you can see the "bulged fusselage" of a 747 quite well. There's no other airplane like it.
Said that, I'm quite sure that the pilot really saw a 747, reported the 747 to the base and then he was ordered to fire. On a fighter, you are pretty much a puppet from ground control. Also, Soviet Rules and Tactics for missions were no flexible at all. So if the airpplane went there to launch a missile, it would launch the missile for sure. Whatever the airplane type was there. Even if there was no airplane at all.
Regards,
OpKool
Actually they were Spanish shipping vessels. They were fishing outside the 12 nm area. Technicaly they were out of Canadian waters. But their navy was bigger and more able than the Spanish Navy (who only sent a couple of coastal patrol vessels.... to the Northen Atlantic Ocean, in bad weather!)
Anyway, the outcome is that Canada succeed because they were able to impunely harass sovereign vessels in international waters. That is, Canadian Navy ships were bigger than the Spanish counterparts, outnumbered them and got that close to the shipping vesels that, inorder to not have costly accidents, were recalled by the fishing company.
It looks like, whatever SouthPark says, US is a powerful friend of Canada. They didn support Spanish claims on the matter.
Lesson learnt appyable to the EP-3 case: the 12 nm rule depends on who has the stronger fleet around.
BTW, kuy tebe hispania.
Regards
OpKool
Really? I always wanted to go to DisneyLand.
Can I get this Gates e-mail address? I'm readying my mail client in order to forward an e-mail 50 tines to him!
Final thought: Any e-mail is OK?
Regards,
OPkool
Tonight: Humor at Fox:"How we never went to the Moon and why the peanut-butter has no butter". Featuring Bart Simpson, from a not-yet released comedy for MAD-TV.
But if you got to the show in the middle of it, after the 2-seconds disclaimer broadcast, well, you may well think that it was indeed serious.
Do you guys remember Orson Wells and "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast? If they had put commercials and had kept saying after them ("... and after this marvelous commercial of Chicken Soup Inc., let's now continue with the theatrical version of the book The War of The Worlds, by H.G. Wells...") nothing wrong could have happened.
Is there any law that prohibits broadcasting dubious information ( = Hoaxes) in a news-informational mode?
Regards, opkool
Now that you're here, Please leave. Here's the door, get lost...
I can pay for her ticket to somewhere where any knowledge is controlled: China. Please contact me to agree on the departure day.
I guess she'll love it down there: censorship, controlled internet, controlled knowledge, all belongs to the government...
Regards,
opkool
well cry me a fucking river (...)
Sometimes I wish this was rome as I am sure they are christian....
Well, it looks like you know nothing about religions. At least, about christian religion.
A good christian must help the others. If he/she makes a lot of money, he/she must give a lot to charity. So your point is blattanly wrong.
She's no christian for sure. No real christian would ever, never, claim that $370,000 was little money, nor would act agains the goodwill of the people.
Her religion is clear: God Dollar.
And please, oh, please, do not mix religion with politics. Specially bad politics. Did you ever heard of separation of religion and state?
Regards,
opkool
I happen to be married to a librarian (yes, no kidding).
We were discussing this a few weeks ago. She is planning on a proposal for a spacialized library, non-profit style, and all that.
She has discovered that libraries, for anything that they have available (from the local newspaper to a flashy CD-ROM), are already paying more than you and me will pay at Barns and Noble for the same item. Much more. They pay more because this information will be available to lots of people.
Now, if publishers want libraries to pay for every people reading the book, for any interlibrary loan... they should get first huge discounts for buying all the stuff that the publisher is carrying.
Silly lawyers, because this is a publisher's lawyers idea for sure, a publisher that is having disminished revenues and tries to make that missing money in the courts.
The technical librarian description of this is "it completely sucks".
Regards,
opkool
Then, use Win4Lin, from Netraverse .
It's lighter and I've seen it run on a K6/2-400 with 64MB of RAM. This is not a fancy machine, but it was able to boot Win98, start MS-Power Point and give a presentation at our LUG meeting point.
They use some kind of modules to give a protected-thread access to the CPU. This is way it runs so fast in slower machines. Also it's not as memory-hungry as vmware.
I was trully impressed.
If only it was easier to install, at least in my Mandrake...
Regards,
opkool
Did you know IE comes standard on an Ipaq?
I guess the reason that they do not want to use IE on iPaq-Linux is because it has to be pretty hard to run WINE with it!
Well, if it can run, it will look like this.
Have a nice Week-end!
Attention!
The site ( http://www.comp-u-geek.net/ ) linked to by the top post of this thread My favourite site from AdminMan is a TROLL site!
It opens lots and lots of windows with not-my-kind-of-explicit-s-e-x-images.
Do not loose your time with it.
Why there's all this stuf going on at Slashdot comments?I do not understand.
Slashdot provides great hi-tech news. It's all about sharing information, being nice and learn a little bit more every day.
BTW, the iPaq hand-help small-computer (it's too cool to name it only "agenda") looks very good. I saw one using twm . It looked terrific!
Now, we need the Quake-for-iPaq, but running under iPaq-Linux this time. That will be something!
Have a nive Week-End!
Yes, they deserve it.
A brilliant hack that served their purposes. It's neat, glorious, intelligent... and its legal!
Lots of Brownie-Points for DirecTV engineers.
As a technology-afficionado, I love it!
Regards,
opkool
Being an aeronautics fan myself, I have to say that this is really, really old toy turned real with a convincing budget.
The first ideas of a 747 with an ICBM lauch-detector telescope and laser mounts to shot-down those missiles have been around since the eighties.
I have in my hads (paper support: really old) a drawing of one of those military B-747 as an intergal part of the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative: a.k.a "Reagan's Star Wars).
Reagan years went away and SDI was dropped because the "enemy" collapsed (= the cold war was won by economics). But now, Dubyia thinks that some major contributors of his campaign must make some bucks building an eighties-idea with new-millenium technology and Daddy's advice.
Anyway, nothing new under the sun.
Regards, opkool
As a member of the Strategic Studies Center of one of the EU countries I must disagree.
There are quite a few differences on how the law works in the United States of America and the European Union.
USA is a country with federal laws. It is composed of states that have state laws. The higest law appliable anywere in the USA is the federal law (am I 100% right? any USA law expert here?). The highest court is the USA supreme Court.
EU is an association, a legal organization, if you wish. All the members are countries. The higest law appliable anywere in the EU is the EU law made by the EU Parliament at Brussels. The highest court is the EU Highest Court.
This can sound ridiculous: a legal association taking precedence to the federal(US)/national(EU) law?
Since the Maastrich Treaty, all the EU members (not the associate members) gave up part of their national sovereignity inorder to provide it to the EU Parliament. All of them changed their constitutions to reflect this.
What does all this mean?
All the laws of the EU countries must be in compliace with the EU laws.
And, for this topic, the law on patents issued by the EU parliament takes priority over any national law from any EU country.
Not bad for the IT guys in Europe, isn't it?
Cheers
"We don't want it to run because... nobody is making a single dollar out of it!". They do not understand somene that does not make money out of music distribution.
Also, watching the live connection that the FoxNews made, their lawyer does not know everything on the matter. He argued that "...only with their [Napster] software,...users can exchange files...". Yes, dear friends, they do not know about Gnutella and similar projects!.
Let's rejoice alltogether, my friends, by their lack of knowledge and general blindness...
Hi,
Just check the clip N.7 on Stanford and decide for yourselves.
Quite amusing, isn't it? It looks like... mmm... something called... Internet?
Come on, you BT guys. If you want to be rich, work. A lot. But do not pretend to own something taht is not yours.
Being from Barcelona has its rewards... and one is having had Unix Fire Extinguishers at work.
I can assure y'all that they exists and they are in use.
We never used them, thanks God!, but they were handy, just in case. (Yes, most of the programers used to be heavy smokers in Barcelona. And, no, there's no such word as "sue" there) God Bless Unix in all is variants. Cheers, Sinner P.S.: Can someone create a daemon called "fired" so we can control the excessive heat on overclocked boxes?