Now, if it ran in Windows too, it would truly crush VB for database applications.
Hrm.. Like the Windows flag is burnt? I wonder if it was really that necessary to be so childish, right on their front page.
It doesn't help their cause anyway, or defeat generalizations about "Linux being for childish basement geeks".
Oh well... To my question: Why would it crush VB.NET 2003 for database apps? Do you mean db apps in general? Or just a specific kind of db apps? What's so revolutionary about this package in that area? I couldn't find anything on their Gambas feature list even mentioning databases, except:
Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.... once said by someone involved in politics, however these days the same seem to only be said by those who aren't.:-(
The difference in player skills in GW comes mostly from how well they're tactically using their characters' skills. There are 6 professions that you make dual class characters from, so there's 30 combos right there, and then each profession has around 75 skills for a total of 450 skills. For each mission / duel / Guild-vs-Guild fight you pick a total of 8 of those from however many you've learnt.
Yes, invisible "dice rolling" indeed, but you're basically always going to lose if you don't know how to counter someone atacking you well, or take advantage of an opponent's weak spots. That's a core idea of the game, so they aren't looking on that part lightly.:-)
As always with leaked pics, no guarantees on accuracy.
No, because they're from a George Lucas production after all, and he'll probably break a new record as the first producer that messed things up so badly that he didn't even managed to stay true to his own universe.:-P
Don't miss the next Beta Weekend Event for a weekend of Guild Wars gaming. It's THIS weekend (starting January 7th) and you can get free beta keys at FilePlanet for an entire weekend of fun. Or not. Regardless, it's a good way to make up your mind, and I suppose the only "cost" is a disposable e-mail address for the sign-up!:-)
Personally, I have ordered the pre-order package for a key that will be good for all BWE's and it's a good tip if you end up liking the game, since it's not certain they'll give away keys for free next time.
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None other than Paul Allen. Yep, of Microsoft fame. Boo, hiss, where are the groups of objectors now?
Guess what... One may dislike what Microsoft does and whatever that guy is responsible for doing there, but still like what he's doing here. Why is that so hard to imagine?
So you think it's science fiction? Not at all. You'll see that some people are so convinced that this kind of human enhancements will happen that they predict than in a few decades, all sporting events 'will be split up to accommodate enhanced and unenhanced athletes.
The second sentence says it's not science fiction, while final does. Make up your mind...
Personally I'd rather see people donate to help out with the Tsunami relief
You do understand that people can do both, right? Or are you suggesting people should donate their entire fortune to Tsunami relief funds or else they're assholes or have too big ego's? That's ridiculous.
Yes, that's comparable to how it is in Sweden too. Thing is, you can't really compare an asynchronous line in price to a synchronous 10Mbps line. Just look at the upload speed.;-)
Rollout of broadband to new areas often entails laying down hundreds of km of fibre, as many areas have nothing but Cu wire prior to this. Add to this that the two most prevalent broadband solutions still use Cu for the "Last Mile", and you have huge bottlenecking problems. To their credit, Verizon is trying to fix the problem [verizon.com], but any infrastructure change on this scale is going to take aeons.
Would just like to say that we were in the same situation here in Sweden with an existing copper network infrastructure and little fiber for consumer use. And today, 56 kbps is really the "last horrible choice" (or for someone who's not interested much in Internet), 512 kbps via ADSL the "unfortunate man's choice" (living in the "wrong area", often a bit too long from a city) and 10 Mbps often the "citizen's choice".
Consequently, they get blisteringly fast internet connections, and are often puzzled or pitying when their US friends complain about slow downloads or quadruple-digit ping values. The US can have this kind of speed, and it will, but the time required to replace an existing network (or notwork, as may be the case ^_^) is several orders of magnitude greater than the requirement for installing an infrastructure into a virgin environment.
... so it doesn't only have to do with an effort of building new fiber infrastructure in a virgin environment as far as I can see. In that case, our broadband ISP's would be puzzled right now of how to overcome this problem instead of having digged down the fiber already. As long as they see a potential customer base and tries really hard to do it, it should take a while, but not aeons.:-) Yeah, lots and lots of digging, much more than in Sweden due to the size, but larger telephone companies in USA should hopefully have much more resources as well...:-)
The day after it had happened, I only heard news of 7 m (22 ft) waves. Sounds more reasonable, and better matching that video too. Also, I can imagine areas being hit differently, that video may not necessarily show a beach among the worst hit.
Yes, that's a possible explanation, although the martian atmosphere is so much thinner than earth, so even with pretty strong wind speeds, it will do significantly less than on Earth.
Yes and everyone who cannot afford a Ferrari should get one for free, right?
I wasn't saying that BSA should give away software at all, where did you get that from?
I'm just saying that BSA (or other antipiracy organizations) says copied software is lost revenue with the argument "piracy is theft", while this only hold true if a pirate would buy all software s/he pirates if they couldn't. Problem is: they wouldn't.
I just read your post title (LOL) and only have this to say: That's why suprnova.org shut down and will re-open with Exeem links. No, they didn't shut down because MPAA knocked on their door, but as a precautionary measure so they wouldn't get caught.
There's a blog with the news and screenshots of Exeem, but I forgot where it was and can't find the forum thread about the reopening on Neowin either.:-P
You'll just have to trust a random internet stranger on it.:-D
The users of the term "piracy is theft" usually defend themselves in saying that you're stealing revenue and then show you some graphs from BSA about their crappy apps/games selling less over time.:-P
That term is of course not true either, and only an assumption that you have unlimited money to spend on software and media so everything you've got by piracy, you'd otherwise have paid for if piracy wasn't possible. In other words a quite stupid assumption. Using their own defense, not all copying of copyrighted material is stealing, and I'd like to hear what they have to say about that.:-)
At some point someone has to be liable for the content published.
Yes, logic speaking, right?:-)
If you want to run a website where any jackass off the net [like me] can post shit then you have to accept some liability.
First, the "shit" isn't copyrighted material. That's like saying a fingerprint is a human. The copyrighted material always remains on the participants' hard drives. To simplify, all the posted "shit" contains is a "link" to the seeder's file and s/he then shout to all downloaders of that torrent "here I am, come get illegal material from me". No copyrighted material even pass the web site.
Yes, they do provide more convenient ways to find pirated (or not) material than, say, Google, but that's the only thing they do. Does that automatically make them liable? Where do we draw the line then? Is Google liable if someone post a message in their new Google Groups that contains.torrent links? They will then be easily searchable with Google.
One part support piracy by referencing material (a web site of some kind), the other support piracy with bandwidth (ISP), another does the actual download (leecher), and finally one does the sharing (seeder). To me it's not entirely clear who's liable. The leecher/seeder makes most sense to me, but so far none have been sued. Funny huh.
I think the reason they're this cocky is because we have a prejudicate here saying it's OK to tell where copyrighted material may be found since way back in the BBS days IIRC.
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Now, if it ran in Windows too, it would truly crush VB for database applications.
.NET 2003 for database apps? Do you mean db apps in general? Or just a specific kind of db apps? What's so revolutionary about this package in that area? I couldn't find anything on their Gambas feature list even mentioning databases, except:
Hrm.. Like the Windows flag is burnt?
I wonder if it was really that necessary to be so childish, right on their front page.
It doesn't help their cause anyway, or defeat generalizations about "Linux being for childish basement geeks".
Oh well... To my question: Why would it crush VB
"Finish and clean the database component."
Oh, the irony!
Do you have one in German? ;-P
:-)
I guess you need to play The Sims (english version) some more.
Not because it is easy, but because it is hard. ... once said by someone involved in politics, however these days the same seem to only be said by those who aren't. :-(
The difference in player skills in GW comes mostly from how well they're tactically using their characters' skills. There are 6 professions that you make dual class characters from, so there's 30 combos right there, and then each profession has around 75 skills for a total of 450 skills. For each mission / duel / Guild-vs-Guild fight you pick a total of 8 of those from however many you've learnt.
:-)
Yes, invisible "dice rolling" indeed, but you're basically always going to lose if you don't know how to counter someone atacking you well, or take advantage of an opponent's weak spots. That's a core idea of the game, so they aren't looking on that part lightly.
Like Knight Commander Bill Gates wasn't enough! (yes, it's true)
Microsoft said Mr Gates, 48, was "absolutely delighted".
Words chosen by a true fearless knight, indeed.
As always with leaked pics, no guarantees on accuracy.
:-P
No, because they're from a George Lucas production after all, and he'll probably break a new record as the first producer that messed things up so badly that he didn't even managed to stay true to his own universe.
Don't miss the next Beta Weekend Event for a weekend of Guild Wars gaming. It's THIS weekend (starting January 7th) and you can get free beta keys at FilePlanet for an entire weekend of fun. Or not. Regardless, it's a good way to make up your mind, and I suppose the only "cost" is a disposable e-mail address for the sign-up! :-)
Personally, I have ordered the pre-order package for a key that will be good for all BWE's and it's a good tip if you end up liking the game, since it's not certain they'll give away keys for free next time.
None other than Paul Allen. Yep, of Microsoft fame. Boo, hiss, where are the groups of objectors now?
Guess what... One may dislike what Microsoft does and whatever that guy is responsible for doing there, but still like what he's doing here. Why is that so hard to imagine?
So you think it's science fiction? Not at all. You'll see that some people are so convinced that this kind of human enhancements will happen that they predict than in a few decades, all sporting events 'will be split up to accommodate enhanced and unenhanced athletes.
The second sentence says it's not science fiction, while final does. Make up your mind...
Personally I'd rather see people donate to help out with the Tsunami relief
You do understand that people can do both, right? Or are you suggesting people should donate their entire fortune to Tsunami relief funds or else they're assholes or have too big ego's? That's ridiculous.
>> have just one single entity provide and verify the virtual avatar.
:-p
> Bad idea, implementation irrelevant.
So I guess you hide your money in your bed too?
Yes, that's comparable to how it is in Sweden too. Thing is, you can't really compare an asynchronous line in price to a synchronous 10Mbps line. Just look at the upload speed. ;-)
Would just like to say that we were in the same situation here in Sweden with an existing copper network infrastructure and little fiber for consumer use. And today, 56 kbps is really the "last horrible choice" (or for someone who's not interested much in Internet), 512 kbps via ADSL the "unfortunate man's choice" (living in the "wrong area", often a bit too long from a city) and 10 Mbps often the "citizen's choice".
Consequently, they get blisteringly fast internet connections, and are often puzzled or pitying when their US friends complain about slow downloads or quadruple-digit ping values. The US can have this kind of speed, and it will, but the time required to replace an existing network (or notwork, as may be the case ^_^) is several orders of magnitude greater than the requirement for installing an infrastructure into a virgin environment.
The day after it had happened, I only heard news of 7 m (22 ft) waves. Sounds more reasonable, and better matching that video too. Also, I can imagine areas being hit differently, that video may not necessarily show a beach among the worst hit.
Interesting times, indeed.
:-S
Yeah, that's surely a geek-optimistic way to look at it.
This sucks!
Can someone show me the way to an OS with no security issues, please?
Or if that's not possible, tell me why this is news?
If 2.6 is unstable, what was 2.5 for / why isn't it called 2.5?
Some software cannot be developed with the open source business model, it doesn't work.
However, browsers apparently can?
Yes, that's a possible explanation, although the martian atmosphere is so much thinner than earth, so even with pretty strong wind speeds, it will do significantly less than on Earth.
Yes and everyone who cannot afford a Ferrari should get one for free, right?
I wasn't saying that BSA should give away software at all, where did you get that from?
I'm just saying that BSA (or other antipiracy organizations) says copied software is lost revenue with the argument "piracy is theft", while this only hold true if a pirate would buy all software s/he pirates if they couldn't. Problem is: they wouldn't.
I just read your post title (LOL) and only have this to say: That's why suprnova.org shut down and will re-open with Exeem links. No, they didn't shut down because MPAA knocked on their door, but as a precautionary measure so they wouldn't get caught.
:-P
:-D
There's a blog with the news and screenshots of Exeem, but I forgot where it was and can't find the forum thread about the reopening on Neowin either.
You'll just have to trust a random internet stranger on it.
The users of the term "piracy is theft" usually defend themselves in saying that you're stealing revenue and then show you some graphs from BSA about their crappy apps/games selling less over time. :-P
:-)
That term is of course not true either, and only an assumption that you have unlimited money to spend on software and media so everything you've got by piracy, you'd otherwise have paid for if piracy wasn't possible. In other words a quite stupid assumption. Using their own defense, not all copying of copyrighted material is stealing, and I'd like to hear what they have to say about that.
At some point someone has to be liable for the content published.
:-)
.torrent links? They will then be easily searchable with Google.
Yes, logic speaking, right?
If you want to run a website where any jackass off the net [like me] can post shit then you have to accept some liability.
First, the "shit" isn't copyrighted material. That's like saying a fingerprint is a human. The copyrighted material always remains on the participants' hard drives. To simplify, all the posted "shit" contains is a "link" to the seeder's file and s/he then shout to all downloaders of that torrent "here I am, come get illegal material from me". No copyrighted material even pass the web site.
Yes, they do provide more convenient ways to find pirated (or not) material than, say, Google, but that's the only thing they do. Does that automatically make them liable? Where do we draw the line then? Is Google liable if someone post a message in their new Google Groups that contains
One part support piracy by referencing material (a web site of some kind), the other support piracy with bandwidth (ISP), another does the actual download (leecher), and finally one does the sharing (seeder). To me it's not entirely clear who's liable. The leecher/seeder makes most sense to me, but so far none have been sued. Funny huh.
I think the reason they're this cocky is because we have a prejudicate here saying it's OK to tell where copyrighted material may be found since way back in the BBS days IIRC.
It will compete with Outlook express though.
That's what Thunderbird does.
This is supposed to be a step beyond that one.
And as a home user, I'm certainly willing to check out alternative options.