I think the "possessed soldier" death sounds from Doom II is actually a camel sound. That sounds funny, but if you've heard a camel "roaming" it's very similar. I think that one has been used in other places too.
You'd have trouble adapting to Sweden and other countries like Germany.:-) Where we always write two words as one, and it's even considered bad practice to separate them. The reason is because of problems like this:
"ice cream" vs "icecream". Here, "ice cream" (written in swedish) would mean "some cream made of ice" literally, while "icecream" would be a completely different word meaning, well:
A smooth, sweet, cold food prepared from a frozen mixture of milk products and flavorings.
I.e. what you probably mean with "ice cream".
Because of "problems" like these, swedes, germans and probably many more, write words together if they mean something special when written together. Or, uh, something like that.:-)
"nose cone" in swedish would be "a cone you put on your nose", or something weird like that, while "nosecone" is a special "thing", in this case:
The forwardmost, usually separable section of a rocket or guided missile that is shaped to offer minimum aerodynamic resistance and often bears protective cladding against heat.
Yes, I'd be happy to see a probe that manages to land on Mars for once.:-) It's sad to see those crashing probes. Even better would be if it not only landed, but also found something interesting while looking for life to create some hype! Would be good for NASA et al. as well.:-/
Not that I really want to bash anyone for their failed probes. When you think about it, it's awesome they have even got probes to land over there. However, I could personally have been without things like mixed up distance units.:-P
And it's not only NASA that makes these kind of mistakes. Read and weep:
"When the European Space Agency's Ariane 5 blew up less than a minute into its maiden mission several months ago, it was revealed that the disaster was created by a software bug -- a program that tried to push a 64-bit number into a 16-bit space. About $7 billion was written off in that single disastrous explosion."
The reason for this? They accidentally uploaded the Ariane 4 software to the Ariane 5 before launch. Needless to say, the rockets didn't work exactly the same.:-)
This math bug caused both the primary and backup computers to hang.
SCO reacted on Monday to Novell's decision to register for the Unix copyrights by calling the move a backdoor act to claim code that is rightfully SCO's. "We see this as a fraudulent attempt by Novell to get something they don't have," said Darl C. McBride, president and chief executive of SCO. "It's fraudulent to now go and say they have these copyright registrations".
I think people just wanted a slam-bang action movie with guns and martial arts and cool effects (like the first)
Actually, this is exactly what I didn't think the first movie was (there was a great deal of philosophical questions raised), and also the reason why I rated it 9 of 10 at IMDb. I found it to be a spectacular combination of ground breaking special effects nicely combined with an unusally "deep" movie. Matrix Revolutions on the other hand... Main characters gone in the major part of the movie, most of the movie taking place in the same location where everyone does the same things (kill robots), and a regular battle between Agent Smith to finish everything where the directors take Matrixesque effects to the limit, and beyond.
There are thousands of hackers much better (if that's the right word), so why does he get all the attention?
Because they aren't known?:-)
I guess media has made Mitnick famous and that's why. But I'd be very interested in hearing of another hacker, whose hacks has been fairly well documented.
I really hope you're right and that some US extremist that don't really represent USA made this statement. Otherwise that would be something I'd call a horribly bad case of anti-diplomacy. Is there a word for that? Anyway, I really hope they're more grown up than oppose France for that reason. Would be like a bad soap opera.
"No, I was talking about France. But if you had any question, let me repeat for the liberals that can only see it one way: I was talking about France."
"Not to sound like an ass or something but this seems like a really childish behaviour."
Not just childish, it's fucking disgusting. Awful. I seriously hope this is a misunderstanding where one american gave his opinion somewhere and it's now quoted as the standpoint of USA.
*If* it's their official point of view, why are USA trying to punish countries that don't agree with their opinion about something?
It's problems like these that happen if one just takes the law in their own hands and later are told that the law doesn't allow them to do so. IMHO, they should get their money back since this is a very poor practice, but they're probably not getting it back since they settled it out of court (which I also think was weird that no one reacted about and stopped them from doing immediately). If only RIAA could stop playing Judge Dredd.:-P
RIAA seem to have even started going for BBS's and FTP's as support for their claims to make ISP's leave out info about P2P users. Fortunately, the court didn't swallow that bait as they had already shown that P2P programs didn't violate the DMCA. The court also noticed that the historic papers about FTPs and BBSs that were discussed was concerning hacking those sites and whether site owners should be liable for this. (I'm sure many of you recall this, it was discussed a bunch of years ago) In other words, some documents completely irrelevant to the case regarding if ISP's should be liable to P2P users transmitting (not storing) data via their routers.
It's far reaching stuff like these that makes it feel like RIAA really has no case and they're just clinging onto the little they've got, trying to twist the law to their advantage.
Quote:
C. Legislative History
In support of its claim that 512(h) can - and should - be read to reach P2P technology, the RIAA points to congressional testimony and news articles available to the Congress prior to passage of the DMCA. These sources document the threat to copyright owners posed by bulletin board services (BBSs) and file transfer protocol (FTP) sites, which the RIAA says were precursors to P2P programs. We need not, however, resort to investigating what the 105th Congress may have known because the text of 512(h) and the overall structure of 512 clearly establish, as we have seen, that 512(h) does not authorize the issuance of a subpoena to an ISP acting as a mere conduit for the transmission of information sent by others. Legislative history can serve to inform the court's reading of an otherwise ambiguous text; it cannot lead the court to contradict the legislation itself. See Ratzlaf v. United States, 510 U.S. 135, 147-48 (1994) (''[W]e do not resort to legislative history to cloud a statutory text that is clear'').
(...)
Furthermore, such testimony as was available to the Congress prior to passage of the DMCA concerned ''hackers'' who established unauthorized FTP or BBS sites on the servers of ISPs, see Balance of Responsibilities on the Internet and the Online Copyright Liability Limitation Act: Hearing on H.R. 2180 Before the House Subcomm. on Courts and Intellectual Property, Comm. on the Judiciary, 105th Cong. (1997)
This detection has nothing to do with the error reporting feature already in Windows XP. It's just designed to better handle crashes in 3rd party software attached to IE.
Slashdot Mirror
And is based on the (Super) Mario franchise.
:-P
So? Am I the only one spotting the sarcasm in the original post?
LOAD "$", 8
LIST
*checks list*
LOAD "GIANA", 8, 1
RUN
* the message 'CRACKED BY MR Z' appears *
* screen starts to flicker in all sorts of colors *
* voila! *
That's all I cared to learn, except for the occasional '10 PRINT "HELLO!" : GOTO 10' program.
I think the "possessed soldier" death sounds from Doom II is actually a camel sound. That sounds funny, but if you've heard a camel "roaming" it's very similar. I think that one has been used in other places too.
Oh yes!
:-) I too wonder what the origin is. I think I'll do some research on internet...
It's reused in several movies I think.
It's also mixed together with another sound in the Town Portal cast sounds in Diablo II.
It has to have a special name too, like the Wilhelm.
You'd have trouble adapting to Sweden and other countries like Germany. :-) Where we always write two words as one, and it's even considered bad practice to separate them. The reason is because of problems like this:
:-)
"ice cream" vs "icecream". Here, "ice cream" (written in swedish) would mean "some cream made of ice" literally, while "icecream" would be a completely different word meaning, well:
A smooth, sweet, cold food prepared from a frozen mixture of milk products and flavorings.
I.e. what you probably mean with "ice cream".
Because of "problems" like these, swedes, germans and probably many more, write words together if they mean something special when written together. Or, uh, something like that.
"nose cone" in swedish would be "a cone you put on your nose", or something weird like that, while "nosecone" is a special "thing", in this case:
The forwardmost, usually separable section of a rocket or guided missile that is shaped to offer minimum aerodynamic resistance and often bears protective cladding against heat.
I guess they have. That's why they think that if anything goes wrong, it will likely be those. :-)
Yes, I'd be happy to see a probe that manages to land on Mars for once. :-) It's sad to see those crashing probes. Even better would be if it not only landed, but also found something interesting while looking for life to create some hype! Would be good for NASA et al. as well. :-/
:-P
:-)
Oh, you missed a failed probe too:
NASA's Mars Polar Lander May Have Landed Safely
Not that I really want to bash anyone for their failed probes. When you think about it, it's awesome they have even got probes to land over there. However, I could personally have been without things like mixed up distance units.
And it's not only NASA that makes these kind of mistakes. Read and weep:
"When the European Space Agency's Ariane 5 blew up less than a minute
into its maiden mission several months ago, it was revealed that the
disaster was created by a software bug -- a program that tried to push a
64-bit number into a 16-bit space. About $7 billion was written off in
that single disastrous explosion."
The reason for this? They accidentally uploaded the Ariane 4 software to the Ariane 5 before launch. Needless to say, the rockets didn't work exactly the same.
This math bug caused both the primary and backup computers to hang.
SCO reacted on Monday to Novell's decision to register for the Unix copyrights by calling the move a backdoor act to claim code that is rightfully SCO's. "We see this as a fraudulent attempt by Novell to get something they don't have," said Darl C. McBride, president and chief executive of SCO. "It's fraudulent to now go and say they have these copyright registrations".
:)
Haha, ohh, the irony.
Great, we're going backwards... this is USENET, isn't it?
The invention here is to represent e-mail in a threaded view. Although it's not really an invention since other mail readers can do this.
Anyway, the problem with switching to Usenet for this feature is that you need to switch.
I think people just wanted a slam-bang action movie with guns and martial arts and cool effects (like the first)
Actually, this is exactly what I didn't think the first movie was (there was a great deal of philosophical questions raised), and also the reason why I rated it 9 of 10 at IMDb. I found it to be a spectacular combination of ground breaking special effects nicely combined with an unusally "deep" movie. Matrix Revolutions on the other hand... Main characters gone in the major part of the movie, most of the movie taking place in the same location where everyone does the same things (kill robots), and a regular battle between Agent Smith to finish everything where the directors take Matrixesque effects to the limit, and beyond.
.. the asterioid being populated by massive amounts nerds who want to get a look at... lots of christmas lights. :-P That's a bit scary. :-/
Depending on the company's size, maybe his boss need to know that his full name is Scott Carr so he can fire the right guy. :)
Ever heard of the AVRO Car?
Yep, if you've RTFA.
There are thousands of hackers much better (if that's the right word), so why does he get all the attention?
:-)
Because they aren't known?
I guess media has made Mitnick famous and that's why. But I'd be very interested in hearing of another hacker, whose hacks has been fairly well documented.
I really hope you're right and that some US extremist that don't really represent USA made this statement. Otherwise that would be something I'd call a horribly bad case of anti-diplomacy. Is there a word for that? Anyway, I really hope they're more grown up than oppose France for that reason. Would be like a bad soap opera.
"Or perhaps you'll ignore it since it fits into your worldview."
Nah, it's equally horrible behavior to me.
"No, I was talking about France. But if you had any question, let me repeat for the liberals that can only see it one way: I was talking about France."
Look at your own country for christ sake...
Not allying with USA doesn't equal allying with terrorists, merely thinking there could be another solution to the conflict than war.
"Not to sound like an ass or something but this seems like a really childish behaviour."
Not just childish, it's fucking disgusting. Awful. I seriously hope this is a misunderstanding where one american gave his opinion somewhere and it's now quoted as the standpoint of USA.
*If* it's their official point of view, why are USA trying to punish countries that don't agree with their opinion about something?
"but apparantly, the U.S. is opposing a french site because France opposed the war in Iraq."
WTF... Are they entirely brain dead? What the fuck does this have to do with the war? Please tell me this isn't true.
:-(
:-P
It's problems like these that happen if one just takes the law in their own hands and later are told that the law doesn't allow them to do so. IMHO, they should get their money back since this is a very poor practice, but they're probably not getting it back since they settled it out of court (which I also think was weird that no one reacted about and stopped them from doing immediately). If only RIAA could stop playing Judge Dredd.
RIAA seem to have even started going for BBS's and FTP's as support for their claims to make ISP's leave out info about P2P users. Fortunately, the court didn't swallow that bait as they had already shown that P2P programs didn't violate the DMCA. The court also noticed that the historic papers about FTPs and BBSs that were discussed was concerning hacking those sites and whether site owners should be liable for this. (I'm sure many of you recall this, it was discussed a bunch of years ago) In other words, some documents completely irrelevant to the case regarding if ISP's should be liable to P2P users transmitting (not storing) data via their routers.
It's far reaching stuff like these that makes it feel like RIAA really has no case and they're just clinging onto the little they've got, trying to twist the law to their advantage.
Quote:
C. Legislative History
In support of its claim that 512(h) can - and should - be read to reach P2P technology, the RIAA points to congressional testimony and news articles available to the Congress prior to passage of the DMCA. These sources document the threat to copyright owners posed by bulletin board services (BBSs) and file transfer protocol (FTP) sites, which the RIAA says were precursors to P2P programs. We need not, however, resort to investigating what the 105th Congress may have known because the text of 512(h) and the overall structure of 512 clearly establish, as we have seen, that 512(h) does not authorize the issuance of a subpoena to an ISP acting as a mere conduit for the transmission of information sent by others. Legislative history can serve to inform the court's reading of an otherwise ambiguous text; it cannot lead the court to contradict the legislation itself. See Ratzlaf v. United States, 510 U.S. 135, 147-48 (1994) (''[W]e do not resort to legislative history to cloud a statutory text that is clear'').
(...)
Furthermore, such testimony as was available to the Congress prior to passage of the DMCA concerned ''hackers'' who established unauthorized FTP or BBS sites on the servers of ISPs, see Balance of Responsibilities on the Internet and the Online Copyright Liability Limitation Act: Hearing on H.R. 2180 Before the House Subcomm. on Courts and Intellectual Property, Comm. on the Judiciary, 105th Cong. (1997)
Maybe because it's new? :-)
They break their marriage to check out cool new worlds.
This detection has nothing to do with the error reporting feature already in Windows XP. It's just designed to better handle crashes in 3rd party software attached to IE.