What I don't understand is... what's the problem with a rave party? Doesn't the police have anything to do? Like catching criminals or something like this?
I don't see any problem with a few hundred people dancing and having fun together. Isn't it what the fucking life is for? To have some fun.. to actually LIVE A BIT?
People are cattle... not more for the whole bunch of idiotic politicians and their stupid cops who obviously don't see a need to use a brain anymore.
I wonder if this is typical situation, when you start your development on MS-Windows with all the restricting consequences that this odd platform offers and the weird style of coding it forces develepers to use.
On my opinion, when you start on MS-Windows, it's always wrong, because you get some unportable crap. The only way to make this right, is to choose the right toolkit that is portable to all platforms at once, if you don't want to build a toolkit by yourself.
When I look at Google's statement (that I would like to interpret this way)... "Why doesn't Linux have an UI toolkit like MS-Windows?", it reminds me of the old weird comment from NVidia on FreeBSD/amd64 "Make FreeBSD behave more like Linux, then we give you drivers."... Have the people who say such things really understood what they demand?
The different standards are not a real show stopper, really. I remember that I've had an Action Replay adapter on SNES that could make blocked US-versions and JP-versions of SNES modules run on my PAL TV. There is really no reason to block the regions. When I buy a Japanese game (and I know what I am doing, when I do this!) I WANT the Japanese game.
Localization is not an argument btw. They can delay the translations indefinitely, if they want. I sometimes prefer the untranslated version. And why doesn't it run?...
One restriction that is valid is the law... you know, Germans are scared of blood and stuff like that. British are trying to close their eyes when weapons are on the screen etc. But come on... some of us are over 18, and I didn't say that I am waiting for games that have mostly no age restrictions at all in most countries in the world.
I am really angry at many game companies. They make really cool games, but don't care to make them available everywhere.
Game consoles have regional restrictions. The "EU PAL region", I am living in, gets cool games about 11 months after the US/NTSC region. And now I am still waiting for my game that was release in September last year in US. It won't come anymore, the company (well known) told me. Instead they released a boring childish one here as an alternative that the US region does not know.
Great mess! I am watching videos of this game on youtube (where they are getting blocked, because "licensed content" and stupid shit like youtube is today, but that's another story) and I am seeing people playing it. I am jealous.
I have always bought Nintendo consoles. They have removed regional restrictions temporarily. And now they are back. I say "fuck you" to Nintendo! You won't get any more cent from me. Go to hell! Really.
And all of you, stupid game publishers, THINK ABOUT what you do! You hate gamers and buyers of consoles? Then live with it that you don't get any profit and everyone begins to copy and mod their consoles to get the content running they like.
Money is there. Games are not there! Now what? I have still about 4 japanese games I would like to have. And? I will never get them to run. Fuck you, really!
you dont need a package manager to run setup.exe. it's called an executable for a reason.
that's just a stupid argument.
I need a package manager. I don't want to update all dependencies by hand. What's the point of visiting a website to do installation tasks? Do you trust what you see there? Do you check the checksums of working versions by hand that the committer tested for you as a service? Where do you get a list of all installable software for your system? How do you search for appropriate software for your system?
when you compare MS-Windows with Linux. This is really annoying that people try to map their MS-Windows experiences on Linux. Do you want it MS-Windows-like? Stay with MS-Windows!
How when we do it the other way?
I would never use MS-Windows, because I don't know a decent package manager for it that works with all the SETUP.EXE packages.
I'm generally using UTC on all my hardware. Please setup UTC on my MS-Windows, so I don't have to care about WHAT TIME it is, but WHERE I CURRENTLY AM IN THE WORLD.
And if I ever update my hardware (e.g. hard disk, mainboard), I don't want to be forced to install everything from scratch.
The main reason they use Western songs is to appeal to new players, giving them songs they are familier with and get them on to the machine.
Of course, you are right. And I know it. That's why I said "I wouldn't mind if they kick the licensed songs out (that they talk about here)". That's my opinion and I know that my opinion might be not popular.
My main problem is how they drastically cut the song list between home and arcade versions.
I've seen this, too. And a DVD is not the limiting factor I can tell you. I bet it would be possible to have about 100 songs on one DVD (it may be even more, if you don't want the full-screen video-clip songs). But Konami wants to sell the game efficiently. I don't care as long as it's great.
The music that comes from the music industry on DDR games or Hottest Party is the boring part of the game (well, not all of them, but most). Why not eliminate these tracks and put more native JPOP stuff on it that really makes fun? I would buy the games also without the music of the people who complain here. I've already ask Konami about it before. And now I'm even a bit happy that the music industry wants more money. This will perhaps minimize the impact of them on the music style. NAOKI and others, make more music for DDR!!
Also... I haven't bought any music CDs for more than a decade, because I am very picky (I cannot really find what I need) and I don't like the greed. Some few licensed music tracks from the games (that also are sold by the music industry) are really good and I have actually considered to buy them. But I am seeing this greed again and I have enough for another decade. They cannot offer almost anything for me and complain.
And let's not forget. On DDR/HP (I don't know guitar hero and stuff like that) the licensed songs are only covers, because the originals sound poor to me.
Maybe there are some exceptions. Some Mega Man bosses are known to be difficult. But finding the weak spot of a boss took me some time and after some crazy ideas, I could manage to destroy them. Sometimes it was also incredibly hard, even you know the weak spot, because the time frame to evade attacks was minimal.
Mega Man 1 on gameboy was so much fun that I bought almost all of them. I even had to buy 2 foreign versions, because Capcom hasn't released them here.
You are right. Sometimes a game is good, even I played it to the end within 2 hours, like for example Portal. But come on... I was really disappointed how short and easy it is.
But in contrast to this one exceptional game, there many boring games, because they are easy.
Take for example Kirby's Dream Land. What the hell is this? You just go through it within half an hour or so. Same with Duck Tales.
Tiny toons on SNES? Well, perhaps this one is like Kirby for 6-year-olds. I don't know...
Or Cool Spot? Come on...
I've also played FIFA on SNES with my cousin. That was so boring to win against the computer player that we started to use our feet only. Ok, that was somehow fun, because we still could win easy. But this was also the last time we played this game.
Well, I've played games that are rated as the most difficult ones and I can tell you, if you have to time sit a game, you will master it. Take a look at Super Contra or Megaman X. These ones are difficult like hell. At Super Contra, as a kid, I could see the end of it. Today, I die after few steps in level 1.:) I still cannot image how I've done it.
Now I'm playing DDR Hottest Party a lot, because it's fun and I want to lose some weight;)
If this game(s) would be easy, I would not play it, because they are not challenging. I have a lot of fun at getting fast and faster, but it appeared _very_ difficult for me when I started to play DDR a few months ago. I failed many games at beginner level when I started to play it.:) God, this is really embarrassing.;)
The point is, if a game is not difficult, you don't need to play it. You don't have a challenge. It's like watching an interactive movie. Boring!
Hmmm... I did similar studies and found out that most players of violent games also use toilets, eat bread and have one pair of eyes! I call for going to shit on sidewalks, eat croissants and stab yourself one eye out to try to escape this typical character traits of a potential killer.
Wait, when I think again, it's better to get rid of both eyes, because someone might think you are into game piracy.
You know that paradigms are independent on the programming laguage, you choose? It is perfectly possible to write object-oriented programs in C. It's the way you think during the programming process. A language can support a certain paradigm very well, but that's all it can do.
I would still recommend C, because it's the most universal language. It has a trade-off between minimal and useful syntax.
In the end it depends on the focus. If you are teaching some funky mathematicians, you better use something functional. When your students are interested in business jobs where you often have to orchestrate smaller process components, teach them BPEL or other process languages.
Object-oriented programming is important, but it's difficult to teach and difficult to understand for someone who hasn't seen how to operate a computer before. The students often don't understand why you have rich syntax to define classes, objects and their relations and you have to spend a lot of time to teach them "the why" and not "the what".
I've tried to install SP1 on my dual-boot system twice (FreeBSD/amd64). It did not work and the stupid thing even does not tell me WHY. Worse is, the windows update mechanism will try to install the SP1 again and again, so the only plausible solution is to switch the automatic updates off.
No. I have read the news in German about a week ago. Internet sharing is allowed. We do this all the time. I just considered to share access with everybody. This is a new decision they have made here for a special case that a customer is a crime victim himself, because someone got access to his accesspoint. The default case is that everyone is guilty as so-called "Mitstörer" (can be perhaps translated like "an allied person in crime").
one interesting fact. You are only off-hook if you didn't know that your wifi can be used by someone else (this was the case here). If you are offering wireless LAN access to people for free, you still can and WILL be hold responsible when anyone of your users commits a crime. You don't have rights like ISPs have.
While I am no Microsoft fan, I am amazed at the hubris of comments in this thread.
Well, imagine... I hate Apple and still: this is weird!
Safari vulnerability can be exploited for root access to the box without IE being in the equation AT ALL.
And I can tell you that, on the other hand, it will work even without Safari involved. Simply placing a DLL on a desktop will autoload it when Internet Explorer starts. This is exactly as stupid as having "." in path environment variable. Let's think about it a moment... how many applications, tools and programs have access to a user's desktop?
But hey... it's Microsoft... who the hell understands their "security" ideas?
Safari downloads files (e.g. dynamic libraries) in user directories where the Internet Explorer could autoload them on start. Isn't the bigger problem within Internet Explorer? Why did Microsoft setup a library path to a user's directory at all?
we need only one worm that starts "illegal" downloads on every PC and whole France as a country is offline? Where are the script kiddies when you need them?
You need to learn about your own stupidity by having PITA. That works best.
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What I don't understand is... what's the problem with a rave party? Doesn't the police have anything to do? Like catching criminals or something like this?
I don't see any problem with a few hundred people dancing and having fun together. Isn't it what the fucking life is for? To have some fun.. to actually LIVE A BIT?
People are cattle... not more for the whole bunch of idiotic politicians and their stupid cops who obviously don't see a need to use a brain anymore.
I wonder if this is typical situation, when you start your development on MS-Windows with all the restricting consequences that this odd platform offers and the weird style of coding it forces develepers to use.
On my opinion, when you start on MS-Windows, it's always wrong, because you get some unportable crap. The only way to make this right, is to choose the right toolkit that is portable to all platforms at once, if you don't want to build a toolkit by yourself.
When I look at Google's statement (that I would like to interpret this way)... "Why doesn't Linux have an UI toolkit like MS-Windows?", it reminds me of the old weird comment from NVidia on FreeBSD/amd64 "Make FreeBSD behave more like Linux, then we give you drivers."... Have the people who say such things really understood what they demand?
Yeah, tell me how 2-3 hours DDR a day makes me fat?
It's even on DVD... should I pay twice?
The different standards are not a real show stopper, really. I remember that I've had an Action Replay adapter on SNES that could make blocked US-versions and JP-versions of SNES modules run on my PAL TV. There is really no reason to block the regions. When I buy a Japanese game (and I know what I am doing, when I do this!) I WANT the Japanese game.
Localization is not an argument btw. They can delay the translations indefinitely, if they want. I sometimes prefer the untranslated version. And why doesn't it run? ...
One restriction that is valid is the law... you know, Germans are scared of blood and stuff like that. British are trying to close their eyes when weapons are on the screen etc. But come on... some of us are over 18, and I didn't say that I am waiting for games that have mostly no age restrictions at all in most countries in the world.
Yes. I was talking about the handhelds.
No, this is generally NOT OK.
I am really angry at many game companies. They make really cool games, but don't care to make them available everywhere.
Game consoles have regional restrictions. The "EU PAL region", I am living in, gets cool games about 11 months after the US/NTSC region. And now I am still waiting for my game that was release in September last year in US. It won't come anymore, the company (well known) told me. Instead they released a boring childish one here as an alternative that the US region does not know.
Great mess! I am watching videos of this game on youtube (where they are getting blocked, because "licensed content" and stupid shit like youtube is today, but that's another story) and I am seeing people playing it. I am jealous.
I have always bought Nintendo consoles. They have removed regional restrictions temporarily. And now they are back. I say "fuck you" to Nintendo! You won't get any more cent from me. Go to hell! Really.
And all of you, stupid game publishers, THINK ABOUT what you do! You hate gamers and buyers of consoles? Then live with it that you don't get any profit and everyone begins to copy and mod their consoles to get the content running they like.
Money is there. Games are not there! Now what? I have still about 4 japanese games I would like to have. And? I will never get them to run. Fuck you, really!
you dont need a package manager to run setup.exe. it's called an executable for a reason. that's just a stupid argument.
I need a package manager. I don't want to update all dependencies by hand. What's the point of visiting a website to do installation tasks? Do you trust what you see there? Do you check the checksums of working versions by hand that the committer tested for you as a service? Where do you get a list of all installable software for your system? How do you search for appropriate software for your system?
when you compare MS-Windows with Linux. This is really annoying that people try to map their MS-Windows experiences on Linux. Do you want it MS-Windows-like? Stay with MS-Windows!
How when we do it the other way?
I would never use MS-Windows, because I don't know a decent package manager for it that works with all the SETUP.EXE packages.
I'm generally using UTC on all my hardware. Please setup UTC on my MS-Windows, so I don't have to care about WHAT TIME it is, but WHERE I CURRENTLY AM IN THE WORLD.
And if I ever update my hardware (e.g. hard disk, mainboard), I don't want to be forced to install everything from scratch.
etc.
The main reason they use Western songs is to appeal to new players, giving them songs they are familier with and get them on to the machine.
Of course, you are right. And I know it. That's why I said "I wouldn't mind if they kick the licensed songs out (that they talk about here)". That's my opinion and I know that my opinion might be not popular.
My main problem is how they drastically cut the song list between home and arcade versions.
I've seen this, too. And a DVD is not the limiting factor I can tell you. I bet it would be possible to have about 100 songs on one DVD (it may be even more, if you don't want the full-screen video-clip songs). But Konami wants to sell the game efficiently. I don't care as long as it's great.
The music that comes from the music industry on DDR games or Hottest Party is the boring part of the game (well, not all of them, but most). Why not eliminate these tracks and put more native JPOP stuff on it that really makes fun? I would buy the games also without the music of the people who complain here. I've already ask Konami about it before. And now I'm even a bit happy that the music industry wants more money. This will perhaps minimize the impact of them on the music style. NAOKI and others, make more music for DDR!!
Also... I haven't bought any music CDs for more than a decade, because I am very picky (I cannot really find what I need) and I don't like the greed. Some few licensed music tracks from the games (that also are sold by the music industry) are really good and I have actually considered to buy them. But I am seeing this greed again and I have enough for another decade. They cannot offer almost anything for me and complain.
And let's not forget. On DDR/HP (I don't know guitar hero and stuff like that) the licensed songs are only covers, because the originals sound poor to me.
Running FreeBSD/amd64. ;)
Maybe there are some exceptions. Some Mega Man bosses are known to be difficult. But finding the weak spot of a boss took me some time and after some crazy ideas, I could manage to destroy them. Sometimes it was also incredibly hard, even you know the weak spot, because the time frame to evade attacks was minimal.
Mega Man 1 on gameboy was so much fun that I bought almost all of them. I even had to buy 2 foreign versions, because Capcom hasn't released them here.
You are right. Sometimes a game is good, even I played it to the end within 2 hours, like for example Portal. But come on... I was really disappointed how short and easy it is.
But in contrast to this one exceptional game, there many boring games, because they are easy.
Take for example Kirby's Dream Land. What the hell is this? You just go through it within half an hour or so. Same with Duck Tales.
Tiny toons on SNES? Well, perhaps this one is like Kirby for 6-year-olds. I don't know...
Or Cool Spot? Come on...
I've also played FIFA on SNES with my cousin. That was so boring to win against the computer player that we started to use our feet only. Ok, that was somehow fun, because we still could win easy. But this was also the last time we played this game.
You like to pay money for short fun?
Well, I've played games that are rated as the most difficult ones and I can tell you, if you have to time sit a game, you will master it. Take a look at Super Contra or Megaman X. These ones are difficult like hell. At Super Contra, as a kid, I could see the end of it. Today, I die after few steps in level 1. :) I still cannot image how I've done it.
Now I'm playing DDR Hottest Party a lot, because it's fun and I want to lose some weight ;)
If this game(s) would be easy, I would not play it, because they are not challenging. I have a lot of fun at getting fast and faster, but it appeared _very_ difficult for me when I started to play DDR a few months ago. I failed many games at beginner level when I started to play it. :) God, this is really embarrassing. ;)
The point is, if a game is not difficult, you don't need to play it. You don't have a challenge. It's like watching an interactive movie. Boring!
Hmmm... I did similar studies and found out that most players of violent games also use toilets, eat bread and have one pair of eyes! I call for going to shit on sidewalks, eat croissants and stab yourself one eye out to try to escape this typical character traits of a potential killer.
Wait, when I think again, it's better to get rid of both eyes, because someone might think you are into game piracy.
You know that paradigms are independent on the programming laguage, you choose? It is perfectly possible to write object-oriented programs in C. It's the way you think during the programming process. A language can support a certain paradigm very well, but that's all it can do.
I would still recommend C, because it's the most universal language. It has a trade-off between minimal and useful syntax.
In the end it depends on the focus. If you are teaching some funky mathematicians, you better use something functional. When your students are interested in business jobs where you often have to orchestrate smaller process components, teach them BPEL or other process languages.
Object-oriented programming is important, but it's difficult to teach and difficult to understand for someone who hasn't seen how to operate a computer before. The students often don't understand why you have rich syntax to define classes, objects and their relations and you have to spend a lot of time to teach them "the why" and not "the what".
That simple task crashes FreeBSD. Regularly, reliably crashes it.
Have you heard about the FreeBSD USB2 project? They have important a totally new USB stack into the -CURRENT kernel recently. You could try it out.
I hope you reported your USB problem on the stable mailing list or at least on their bug tracker.
I've tried to install SP1 on my dual-boot system twice (FreeBSD/amd64). It did not work and the stupid thing even does not tell me WHY. Worse is, the windows update mechanism will try to install the SP1 again and again, so the only plausible solution is to switch the automatic updates off.
(Well, whatever. Vista is just for gaming.)
Especially, if 2008 is not so large for this person.
No. I have read the news in German about a week ago. Internet sharing is allowed. We do this all the time. I just considered to share access with everybody. This is a new decision they have made here for a special case that a customer is a crime victim himself, because someone got access to his accesspoint. The default case is that everyone is guilty as so-called "Mitstörer" (can be perhaps translated like "an allied person in crime").
one interesting fact. You are only off-hook if you didn't know that your wifi can be used by someone else (this was the case here). If you are offering wireless LAN access to people for free, you still can and WILL be hold responsible when anyone of your users commits a crime. You don't have rights like ISPs have.
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Don't we have such system already? Does that mean you are not communists?
Well, imagine... I hate Apple and still: this is weird!
Safari vulnerability can be exploited for root access to the box without IE being in the equation AT ALL.And I can tell you that, on the other hand, it will work even without Safari involved. Simply placing a DLL on a desktop will autoload it when Internet Explorer starts. This is exactly as stupid as having "." in path environment variable. Let's think about it a moment... how many applications, tools and programs have access to a user's desktop?
But hey... it's Microsoft... who the hell understands their "security" ideas?
Safari downloads files (e.g. dynamic libraries) in user directories where the Internet Explorer could autoload them on start. Isn't the bigger problem within Internet Explorer? Why did Microsoft setup a library path to a user's directory at all?
we need only one worm that starts "illegal" downloads on every PC and whole France as a country is offline? Where are the script kiddies when you need them?
You need to learn about your own stupidity by having PITA. That works best.