The angle aspect might be quite hard to compensate in software, but wind and elevation-drop should be quite easy to fix in the client software. In this demo they only use some flash-version of halflife2, but with custom software one could quite possibly compensate for those parameters so that a hit direct on the visual target doesn't count as a kill, but a hit a bit on the side and above the target registers as a kill.
Wiktionary gives asomewhat better answer: 1. A vessel used for churning.
a butter churn 2. (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider. 3. (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula Customer Quits/Customer base.
The 'not so secret' secret is that they already have. Do a nslookup on tracker.thepiratebay.org and on tracker.openbittorent.com
They are selling the domainname for a big bunch of cash while keeping the tracker open as always. Have faith in the TPB-crew. I think they know what they are doing.
All who are worried about the TPB-sale should really read this!
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Some related news: Peter Sunde, one of the convicted(and appealing) men behind The Pirate Bay is right now at 'Fórum Internacional Software Livre' in Brazil where he among other things got to meet the brazilian president Lula. Here is a picture of the meeting. Peter Sunde himself talks a bit about it in his blog.
So what now Joe Biden? Time to invade Brazil for fraternizing with the enemy?
Ok. I know I'm stupid but this is a good thread to ask anyway. HOW do I do this on slashdot? When ever I post a comment on slashdot the little helper-window below talks about how to auto-link URLs but it doesn't say how to auto-link it with text. . When I use the format mentioned in the help i get this: http://slashdot.org/ where the url appears in the text itself. If I want to link a word or phrase like "Click here!" to the site then I have no clue.
I've even mailed the slashdot-admins about it but havn't got an answer. . . I'd REAAALLY liked the helper-window below to add some instructions about this.:-(
Erhm..? Huh? They didn't even KEEP the.torrent files you talk about as evidence. The defendants asked for a copy of the.torrent files and the prosecution said that they didn't keep the copies!
They defendants also made a whole lot of fuss about how they prosecution could say that the IP-adresses were swedish. The answer can be digested down to "It resolves to *.telia.com damn it!" which totally don't prove that the IP-adresses were in sweden at all.
ok, internets! Time to start working some for those downloads. We want you to copy and translate our op-editorial to your language and send it to your papers. It was published earlier today in one of Swedens main tabloids.
This is how: Copy the text below. Get together with a friend or two and bring some nice coffee. Transform our text to your language. Choose your most important newspaper. Call and or email them and tell them you have an op-ed from The Pirate Bay and The Bureau for Piracy that you want published.
It should be signed with "The Pirate Bay and The Bureau for Piracy via the internets". If they dont believe that you are in fact representing us, refer them to this post. When you succeed please tell us at trial@piratbyran.org
Read more for the op-ed. Here goes text, necessary changes [in brackets]:
The trial against The Pirate Bay that [starts today] in Stockholm, Sweden are one of the most important issues of our time. Our adversaries basically wants to close down internets and remodel it into something similar of a sodamachine serving entertainment. During the trial, the prosecutor together with a coterie of representatives for a disabled business model will put up a tacky theater by telling stories designed to convince the court that The Pirate Bay infact is a menace to society.
What differs this trial from most earlier trials is that everything in and surrounding it will whirl round and round in diverse channels of communication; to be discussed, reinterpreted, copied and critizised. Every crack in their appeal will be penetrated by the gaze of thousands upon thousands of eyes on the internets, in all the channels covering the trial. Old cliches from the antipiracy lobby wont stick. You won't be able to say stuff like, "you can't compete with free" or "filesharing is theft" without a thousand voices making fun of you.
We will create numerous scenes where quite different plays will take place. In local channels like spectrial.bloggy.se where the immediate physical surroundings of the court are being discussed. "Which cafés nearby will give us connection?" "How can we get electricity to the bus?" But also in international channels like Twitter, where right now the torrent of information is being translated into fifteen different languages. Translations and coverage being made by ordinary users of internets. Volunteers sign up to make trial-tourist guides to the surroundings, drive the bus or hook up audio. People fly in from far away countries to cover the trial and tell the world their video story of the Sweden they see.
Here all participants are potential actors in the Spectrial. Our channels form a meltingpot of reporting and engagement.
Our communication around the spectacle aims in no way towards an objective report on an external chain of events. Rather, the trial is a hub around which a whole new network of actors is instigated. Neither is the spectacle a question of old media against digital, social medias. Our social medias include a paper fanzine and a 32 year old bus, connecting us and others physically.
It's not about the protocols nor the technology. It's about using these to create new congregations, where anyone is invited and anyone can find their role, build new scenes and make their own performances.
The future is built by us. Us who participate in conversations. The future is built by us who explore how information and performativity is coming together. To refuse a debate and still expect to be able to charge consumers is since long a closed door. To also try and outlaw certain types of conversations is downright disgraceful.
Today a new teaser was released for Duke Nukem Forver was released. Since it's been 6 whopping years since the last one I think this could qualify as one of the 50 biggest Gaming Events this year.
You can find links to it at http://www.3drealms.com/ but beware, there is some servermelting going on right now (and a slashdotting wont help either).
Old people don't buy music. Most of it is bought by people between...15 and 25? It's the kids that are the main market for the RIAA and they're the main target for the copyright enforcement PR effort. I don't think this is still the case. The TV adverts (at least here in Sweden) are more directed to the 'I'm to old to understand ripping and downloading' crowd and the 'I'm to young to have money and therefore rely on the for mentioned crowd (that is 'My Parents') to get the music I want'.
It's FAR more common to see TV-adverts directed to 'old people' with stuff like Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath and 'kid/early teen people' with stuff like Paris Hilton, Pink, Avril Lavigne and boybands than adverts directed towards the '15-25 people with stuff like Shout Out Louds, Hives, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Him, My Chemical Romance, Tool, Queens Of The Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails.
According to the charts that is also the right thing to do. The charts have turned around towards atleast the older crowd with a real '15-25' kind of band maybe hitting the chart for 1-2 weeks around a new records release while the 'Best of "insert famous 60s-80s band here"' compilations are hanging on the 'top 20 best sold albums-chart' forever.
However, the "pick people up and drop them off" thing happened before that in Crazy Taxi, and probably before that in some 8-bit or 16-bit game. Yep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Taxi
Apples, pears, cherries, plums. . . That's some of the fruit one can grow in Sweden. It's not cold all the time here. This summer has been very very hot actually!
And, I'm pretty sure the Piracy Party is not supposed to be a 100% serious organization.
Huh? What do you base this assumption on? The swedish Piratpartiet, which The Pirate Party is based on, is DEAD SERIOUS in what they are trying to do. I see no reason that their US counterpart would be any less serious.
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RE4 isn't a FPS. It's a Third Person Shooter (TPS?). Mouse control should still be an option even if it's a TPS I think.
Wtf. Fire the girl for breaking security instead. That was a quite good password. (Numbers, Alphas and separators)
And now we all want to know what the password was. As a precaution not to get fired ourselves of course A-hrmm.
And there is no case ever ever EVER that a big company has won against a single person even though the single person was right! /Signed: Bagdad-Bob
The angle aspect might be quite hard to compensate in software, but wind and elevation-drop should be quite easy to fix in the client software.
In this demo they only use some flash-version of halflife2, but with custom software one could quite possibly compensate for those parameters so that a hit direct on the visual target doesn't count as a kill, but a hit a bit on the side and above the target registers as a kill.
Wiktionary gives asomewhat better answer:
1. A vessel used for churning.
a butter churn
2. (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
3. (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula Customer Quits/Customer base.
I wonder how the etymology on that is explained.
The 'not so secret' secret is that they already have.
Do a nslookup on tracker.thepiratebay.org and on tracker.openbittorent.com
They are selling the domainname for a big bunch of cash while keeping the tracker open as always.
Have faith in the TPB-crew. I think they know what they are doing.
All who are worried about the TPB-sale should really read this!
Some related news:
Peter Sunde, one of the convicted(and appealing) men behind The Pirate Bay is right now at 'Fórum Internacional Software Livre' in Brazil where he among other things got to meet the brazilian president Lula. Here is a picture of the meeting.
Peter Sunde himself talks a bit about it in his blog.
So what now Joe Biden? Time to invade Brazil for fraternizing with the enemy?
I give approx 10usd to both EFF and the swedish Pirateparty every month. I can afford both. And both matters a great deal!
Thanks! So it seems one uses html-code and not some pseudo-code like the URL-stuff that slashdot suggests.
Ok. I know I'm stupid but this is a good thread to ask anyway.
HOW do I do this on slashdot?
When ever I post a comment on slashdot the little helper-window below talks about how to auto-link URLs but it doesn't say how to auto-link it with text. . When I use the format mentioned in the help i get this:
http://slashdot.org/ where the url appears in the text itself. If I want to link a word or phrase like "Click here!" to the site then I have no clue.
I've even mailed the slashdot-admins about it but havn't got an answer. . . I'd REAAALLY liked the helper-window below to add some instructions about this. :-(
No, I mean't on slashdot. Since all the other days have been covered. But thanks for the links!
Why was there no reporting on what happened on Day 4 of the trial? Or was there a break of some kind?
Erhm. .? Huh? .torrent files you talk about as evidence. The defendants asked for a copy of the .torrent files and the prosecution said that they didn't keep the copies!
They didn't even KEEP the
They defendants also made a whole lot of fuss about how they prosecution could say that the IP-adresses were swedish. The answer can be digested down to "It resolves to *.telia.com damn it!" which totally don't prove that the IP-adresses were in sweden at all.
If twitter is used for more of this: http://twitter.com/brokep/status/1218354272 then it will make all our lives better!
On http://trial.thepiratebay.org/2009/02/16/publish-as-us-in-your-country/ the pirate bay crew asks for our (the peoples) help. So get to work! I'm just gonna copy+paste the whole thing since the server is under heavy load:
The trial against The Pirate Bay that [starts today] in Stockholm, Sweden are one of the most important issues of our time. Our adversaries basically wants to close down internets and remodel it into something similar of a sodamachine serving entertainment. During the trial, the prosecutor together with a coterie of representatives for a disabled business model will put up a tacky theater by telling stories designed to convince the court that The Pirate Bay infact is a menace to society.
What differs this trial from most earlier trials is that everything in and surrounding it will whirl round and round in diverse channels of communication; to be discussed, reinterpreted, copied and critizised. Every crack in their appeal will be penetrated by the gaze of thousands upon thousands of eyes on the internets, in all the channels covering the trial. Old cliches from the antipiracy lobby wont stick. You won't be able to say stuff like, "you can't compete with free" or "filesharing is theft" without a thousand voices making fun of you.
We will create numerous scenes where quite different plays will take place. In local channels like spectrial.bloggy.se where the immediate physical surroundings of the court are being discussed. "Which cafés nearby will give us connection?" "How can we get electricity to the bus?" But also in international channels like Twitter, where right now the torrent of information is being translated into fifteen different languages. Translations and coverage being made by ordinary users of internets. Volunteers sign up to make trial-tourist guides to the surroundings, drive the bus or hook up audio. People fly in from far away countries to cover the trial and tell the world their video story of the Sweden they see.
Here all participants are potential actors in the Spectrial. Our channels form a meltingpot of reporting and engagement.
Our communication around the spectacle aims in no way towards an objective report on an external chain of events. Rather, the trial is a hub around which a whole new network of actors is instigated. Neither is the spectacle a question of old media against digital, social medias. Our social medias include a paper fanzine and a 32 year old bus, connecting us and others physically.
It's not about the protocols nor the technology. It's about using these to create new congregations, where anyone is invited and anyone can find their role, build new scenes and make their own performances.
The future is built by us. Us who participate in conversations. The future is built by us who explore how information and performativity is coming together. To refuse a debate and still expect to be able to charge consumers is since long a closed door. To also try and outlaw certain types of conversations is downright disgraceful.
The coverage of the trial is not un
Today a new teaser was released for Duke Nukem Forver was released.
Since it's been 6 whopping years since the last one I think this could qualify as one of the 50 biggest Gaming Events this year.
You can find links to it at http://www.3drealms.com/ but beware, there is some servermelting going on right now (and a slashdotting wont help either).
This is already mentioned and discussed in the article.
The TV adverts (at least here in Sweden) are more directed to the 'I'm to old to understand ripping and downloading' crowd and the 'I'm to young to have money and therefore rely on the for mentioned crowd (that is 'My Parents') to get the music I want'.
It's FAR more common to see TV-adverts directed to 'old people' with stuff like Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath
and 'kid/early teen people' with stuff like Paris Hilton, Pink, Avril Lavigne and boybands than adverts directed towards the '15-25 people with stuff like Shout Out Louds, Hives, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Him, My Chemical Romance, Tool, Queens Of The Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails.
According to the charts that is also the right thing to do. The charts have turned around towards atleast the older crowd with a real '15-25' kind of band maybe hitting the chart for 1-2 weeks around a new records release while the 'Best of "insert famous 60s-80s band here"' compilations are hanging on the 'top 20 best sold albums-chart' forever.
Ooops!
The link is mildly "Not Suitable For Work" . . Just so you other people know.
argh! Spoiler-alert! I know it's an old series but I still havn't seen it!
Apples, pears, cherries, plums. . . That's some of the fruit one can grow in Sweden. It's not cold all the time here. This summer has been very very hot actually!
Huh? What do you base this assumption on?
The swedish Piratpartiet, which The Pirate Party is based on, is DEAD SERIOUS in what they are trying to do.
I see no reason that their US counterpart would be any less serious.
Mvh: Ezel
Ok. I've been reading the comments and tried searching on google. . I don't get it.
What's the reference?