... and Google can't translate texts properly!... and spell checkers have incomplete dictionaries!... and in all cases including this one, they're only meant as guides!
Maybe not, but the Erich Schaefer was a Design Lead and Project Lead on Diablo I and Diablo II, and both of the Schaefer brothers are employed by FS as well. Dave Brevik was another Design Lead on Diablo II, and he's also in. I think it's fair to say a lot of key designers behind Diablo II are there.
That's content, not programs. Completely different.
What do you mean with "content"? Files acquired from BitTorrent can be like any other program installer acquired via a floppy disk. It can be executables (and often is), script files, whatever. What's the difference?
Mass-mailed worms have reached a peak, so we're now just dealing with tons of the junk, and not increasing tons of the junk! Hmpf... I still wish there was some miracle cure for this that didn't negatively impact your own mail usage too much.:-/
Electric shocks for people double clicking on attachements to blacklisted messages?:-)
I'm sorry but why are people and business who have for the last 10 years been using Explorer to manage files on pc's and networks suddenly going to embrace a completely different method that is unfamiliar and will reduce productivity at all levels until the user becomes savvy enough to use it.
For the same reason they did 10 years ago?;-)
Coincidentally, in 2005 it's 10 years since Microsoft started their Windows 95 era, and a introduced a very different way of working with Windows, compared to Windows 3.1. And it was embraced, oh yes!
No screenshot of this "New OS" has yet to impress me.
All screenshots seen so far are either not screenshots, but Longhorn concept graphics, or alpha screenshots that doesn't represent the final product. I thought that went without saying on a forum like Slashdot. I'd say the same if Apple had released screenshots of an alpha for an upcoming OS.
If you're looking for a new OS you may be better off with OS X on a PPC, or Linux on x86.
Yeah yeah, and that comment of yours was redundant.;-)
This could be the end of the low ratio of torrents deleted vs. the law suits...
Not really; just because a guy might go in prison for spreading files, doesn't mean operators of a site suddenly get responsible for taking away locations (.torrent's) of copyrighted material. Copyrighted material could always be spread in illegal ways even in Sweden, but the part about The Pirate Bay is another topic of sysop responsibilities in the current BBS law in Sweden. At least that's the law TPB has been supporting themselves on so far. Currently it's believed the responsibility lies on the individuals, not the operators.
No, it's not the same thing, as a life time sentence has far greater implications because as for the person it's indefinite and depending on the prison status can essentially not be much better than death sentence, or even worse.
I'd wait before making that statement until these things are sorted out. This year will be interesting for Sweden's part, since the July 1st, the new law making downloading of copyrighted files illegal will become effective. How much they're going to harrass individuals will probably show in the end of 2005 or so.
So far, the swedish police have said they're having resources to investigate copyright crimes of individuals ("Joe User"), although that doesn't really mean anything special, as lobby organizations are normally trying to bypass the police.
The swedish Minister for Justice Thomas Bodström has however said that these new laws aren't there to simplify going after minor crimes, but to prosecute larger cases of copyright crimes. The question is how much the lobby organizations will care for that.
Since the man was reported APB has found itself in hot water, with an Internet company accusing the organization itself of illegally downloading films and games.
More exactly: for paying a person to infiltrate an ISP to download and spread copyrighted files there, and later sue that ISP. I don't think the infiltrator was actually employed by the anti-piracy bureau; he just got some money to do the job. Also, it's not known anyone else at APB has in any case done this themselves. It's still of course quite dirty tactics to sue an ISP, and I hope they're not getting away with it.
The XP's teletubby user interface is much more sluggish than 2000Pro's.
There's more to XP than a teletubby interface, and it can even be disabled and XP will actually shut down the memory consuming resources to run it. Switching to the 2000 look in XP doesn't mean XP's theme engine just starts simulating the 2000 look, but that it's actually removed from memory altogether.
It's very simple to do as well:
Control Panel, System, Advanced, Performance Settings, and pick "Adjust for best performance".
So the direct readers of AFP won't notice any difference at all, and the users of Google News will stop visiting AFP. Hmm, maybe that makes sense to them because they wish to have it removed, but it certainly don't make much sense to me.
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... and Google can't translate texts properly! ... and spell checkers have incomplete dictionaries! ... and in all cases including this one, they're only meant as guides!
In this hackaday experiment, robots were created that could mate
So, in 2005, geeks finally created AI that had abilities surpassing the abilities of the geeks themselves.
I would say that the modern definition of an RPG is a game with stats and levelling.
He also put emphasis on there going to be questing going on, and character customization, other important RPG elements, which I agree with.
Maybe not, but the Erich Schaefer was a Design Lead and Project Lead on Diablo I and Diablo II, and both of the Schaefer brothers are employed by FS as well. Dave Brevik was another Design Lead on Diablo II, and he's also in. I think it's fair to say a lot of key designers behind Diablo II are there.
That's content, not programs. Completely different.
What do you mean with "content"? Files acquired from BitTorrent can be like any other program installer acquired via a floppy disk. It can be executables (and often is), script files, whatever. What's the difference?
We do not trade 5.25" floppy disks with BASIC games on them
Uh, no, but ISO images for both CD's and DVD's with C++ applications and movies on them. And people get sued for it a lot.
Mass-mailed worms have reached a peak, so we're now just dealing with tons of the junk, and not increasing tons of the junk! Hmpf... I still wish there was some miracle cure for this that didn't negatively impact your own mail usage too much. :-/
:-)
Electric shocks for people double clicking on attachements to blacklisted messages?
Europe has so many hate speech laws and other crap you're no freeer.
Europe isn't a country; pick one to discuss.
I'm not going "the american continent has so many hate speech laws and other crap..."
www.eeggs.com seems to be a good site for more easter eggs, not only computer related ones.
:-p
In case you're into that sort of thing.
They even have RSS feeds for daily updates.
rofl, who subscribes to those?
I'm sorry but why are people and business who have for the last 10 years been using Explorer to manage files on pc's and networks suddenly going to embrace a completely different method that is unfamiliar and will reduce productivity at all levels until the user becomes savvy enough to use it.
;-)
;-)
For the same reason they did 10 years ago?
Coincidentally, in 2005 it's 10 years since Microsoft started their Windows 95 era, and a introduced a very different way of working with Windows, compared to Windows 3.1. And it was embraced, oh yes!
No screenshot of this "New OS" has yet to impress me.
All screenshots seen so far are either not screenshots, but Longhorn concept graphics, or alpha screenshots that doesn't represent the final product. I thought that went without saying on a forum like Slashdot. I'd say the same if Apple had released screenshots of an alpha for an upcoming OS.
If you're looking for a new OS you may be better off with OS X on a PPC, or Linux on x86.
Yeah yeah, and that comment of yours was redundant.
And don't say AllOfMp3.com (who have changed CC processor to someone else)..
(which I, like all other online shopping places on the Internet, generate temporary VISA numbers limited both by time and credit)
This could be the end of the low ratio of torrents deleted vs. the law suits...
Not really; just because a guy might go in prison for spreading files, doesn't mean operators of a site suddenly get responsible for taking away locations (.torrent's) of copyrighted material. Copyrighted material could always be spread in illegal ways even in Sweden, but the part about The Pirate Bay is another topic of sysop responsibilities in the current BBS law in Sweden. At least that's the law TPB has been supporting themselves on so far. Currently it's believed the responsibility lies on the individuals, not the operators.
Maybe rather a Microsoft rip off?
Sorry... I mean... "innovation".
Swedish pronounciation, letter by letter
:-)
Scroll down for å, ä, ö and read/listen.
Right, änd yöü ässume giving införmätiön = nöt getting jökes. ;-)
Each of which probably represents about 2,000 man-years of work.
Yes, there's where the sense in it is. Some part of your income is more important to preseve than a life.
No, it's not the same thing, as a life time sentence has far greater implications because as for the person it's indefinite and depending on the prison status can essentially not be much better than death sentence, or even worse.
Grr!
Correction:
So far, the swedish police have said they're not having resources to investigate copyright crimes of individuals
I'd wait before making that statement until these things are sorted out. This year will be interesting for Sweden's part, since the July 1st, the new law making downloading of copyrighted files illegal will become effective. How much they're going to harrass individuals will probably show in the end of 2005 or so.
So far, the swedish police have said they're having resources to investigate copyright crimes of individuals ("Joe User"), although that doesn't really mean anything special, as lobby organizations are normally trying to bypass the police.
The swedish Minister for Justice Thomas Bodström has however said that these new laws aren't there to simplify going after minor crimes, but to prosecute larger cases of copyright crimes. The question is how much the lobby organizations will care for that.
My file døwnløåding sister wås bitten by an antipiratbyrån once...
FYI...
Norway and Denmark:
å : aa, æ : ae, ø : oe
Sweden:
å : aa, ä : ae, ö : oe
Since the man was reported APB has found itself in hot water, with an Internet company accusing the organization itself of illegally downloading films and games.
More exactly: for paying a person to infiltrate an ISP to download and spread copyrighted files there, and later sue that ISP. I don't think the infiltrator was actually employed by the anti-piracy bureau; he just got some money to do the job. Also, it's not known anyone else at APB has in any case done this themselves. It's still of course quite dirty tactics to sue an ISP, and I hope they're not getting away with it.
Could you kinda like, um, stop sucking? I'll wave a flag or whatever, maybe even say something nice about the President, but please, stop sucking.
Monica Lewinsky, is that you??
but the system still trudges along when I try encoding Vorbis, for instance.
You should start by lowering the process priority of Vorbis encoding to lowest in the task manager.
The XP's teletubby user interface is much more sluggish than 2000Pro's.
There's more to XP than a teletubby interface, and it can even be disabled and XP will actually shut down the memory consuming resources to run it. Switching to the 2000 look in XP doesn't mean XP's theme engine just starts simulating the 2000 look, but that it's actually removed from memory altogether.
It's very simple to do as well:
Control Panel, System, Advanced, Performance Settings, and pick "Adjust for best performance".
So the direct readers of AFP won't notice any difference at all, and the users of Google News will stop visiting AFP. Hmm, maybe that makes sense to them because they wish to have it removed, but it certainly don't make much sense to me.