"International - P2P exists outside of the US. All you need is few guys in Kazakhstan with a fat pipeline to share every song he can get his hands on."
Untill the United States invades Kazakhstan and have Hillary Rosen rewrite their Copyright Laws.. like is happening in IRAQ at the moment.
Did'nt see anything about taht in the Gamespot article.
Maybe higher resolution yes, but then again you cant play it in your living room on a 32" widescreen tv with a surround setup (Dolby Digital).
I doubt the PC version will have Dolby Digital support.. but maybe.
The XBOX version is great by the way, the PC version will be too - I suppose. Although, how the game is right now I dont think it will be very good to play it without a JoyPad.
There is some XBOX Live! Button in KOTOR on the XBOX, but I have'nt tried clicking on it:)
There was some EU sponsored survey that estimated that it costs European ISP Subscribers something close to 10 billion Euros a year in costs related to spam.
Ofcourse, the IT industry is known to exaggerate numbers, just look at all the virus "damages" and how much authors of such are sued for. But I would still like to see my Internet Bill without the cost for SPAM.
In my company 50% of all the email we receive is now filtered out as spam.. and since email takes up a heavy chunk of our bandwidth, imagine the cost if we did not have to pay to get "our spam".
Ofcourse, if we NOW remove all spam, the prices would not go down since the ISP's would'nt want to do that:-)
I cant wait for this to blow up in everyone who supports its face.
They will say now that "its about security" and due to all the recent hype around virii sobig.f,y and u.name.it they will have a lot of cluesless users all around the world - and executives (who are just as clueless - but with "power" and money)) backing them.
One day humanity will look back at the 90s/00s with regret.
The Outlook 2003 filter seems to do a good job at recognizing spam from not spam. Still a few emails get through that are spam, and ocasionally some legit emails get put in the spam folder (I noticed that the OSDN Newsletter gets put in the spam folder -.. is'nt that funny;) ).
I heard that earlier whole netblocks from china/asia were blocked by ISP's in the West as there were lots of spam relays there that the admins would not shut down.. maybe this will change now.
China may not have a good human rights record (nor does many other countries though) but maybe in the war against spam a communist country is the cure.
Two people where I work are musicians in their spare time, they manage to organize web sites, concerts, print CD's that they sell.
I dont think BjÃrn Lynne started out as a musician because he wanted to make money, but after a while he became so successfull that he could actually make a living out of making music.
If it was'nt for the fact that I got a hold of a pirated DreamWeaver v2.0 I would never have purchased 4.0, 4.0 Ultradev and MX x 5 licenses for myself and others at the company I work.
... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrranize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
-- Voltarine de Cleyre %%
I thought people became musicians because they wanted to create music and share it with people, is'nt it then better for your music to be shared freely to people who would otherwise not have heard or purchased your works, than to restrict it to those few who purchase your cds. And think about it; those that listened to your free mp3's might buy your next album because they liked your music, wanted to support you, and wanted to have the CD (without any Unfriendly Consumer Schemes (UCS) on it)..
Or Optimize Star Wars Galaxies for Gamers.. I.e some gameplay/fun as opposed to Everquest in Space with LightSabers (if you powerlevel and happen to know a GM or find an Xploit)
What "gaming community" cares about 3DMark 2003, a benchmark that has no relevance to any games on the market past-present-future.
Benchmarking with synthetic tools such as 3DMark 2003 only hurts gamers as the results of these 'tests' force Hardware Manufacturers to optimize their drivers for SYNTHETIC BENCHMARKS as opposed to them optimizing their drivers for actual games/engines, such as Quake3, Unreal, LithTech, others..
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"International - P2P exists outside of the US. All you need is few guys in Kazakhstan with a fat pipeline to share every song he can get his hands on."
Untill the United States invades Kazakhstan and have Hillary Rosen rewrite their Copyright Laws.. like is happening in IRAQ at the moment.
(see theregister.co.uk article)
Good to see the Moderators doing their job.
"interesting" this parent was modded. yay!
So you think that only muslims/muslim sounding people can be terrorists?
Unabomber, Oklahoma Bomber, Atlanta Bomber.
Correct me if i'm wrong. but were not all of these "good decent american white folks".
How many US presidents have been shoot by Middle eastern/African origin people?
Who shot the former Israeli Prime Minister Rabin?
A Terrorist can be anyone - regardless of religion, country of origin, etc.
Probably.
:)
Did'nt see anything about taht in the Gamespot article.
Maybe higher resolution yes, but then again you cant play it in your living room on a 32" widescreen tv with a surround setup (Dolby Digital).
I doubt the PC version will have Dolby Digital support.. but maybe.
The XBOX version is great by the way, the PC version will be too - I suppose. Although, how the game is right now I dont think it will be very good to play it without a JoyPad.
There is some XBOX Live! Button in KOTOR on the XBOX, but I have'nt tried clicking on it
Yes.
:-)
There was some EU sponsored survey that estimated that it costs European ISP Subscribers something close to 10 billion Euros a year in costs related to spam.
Ofcourse, the IT industry is known to exaggerate numbers, just look at all the virus "damages" and how much authors of such are sued for. But I would still like to see my Internet Bill without the cost for SPAM.
In my company 50% of all the email we receive is now filtered out as spam.. and since email takes up a heavy chunk of our bandwidth, imagine the cost if we did not have to pay to get "our spam".
Ofcourse, if we NOW remove all spam, the prices would not go down since the ISP's would'nt want to do that
Anyone else notice the irony of having a Microsoft sponsored advertisement under a article detailing linux & TCPA.
I did before I wrote this, but it was'nt that fun anyway. I think.
Amiga Forever :-)
:-)
I remember that app.. I had it, but it would'nt run, so I bought a FPU with MMU just so I could run it, even though I had no use for it
I cant wait for this to blow up in everyone who supports its face.
They will say now that "its about security" and due to all the recent hype around virii sobig.f,y and u.name.it they will have a lot of cluesless users all around the world - and executives (who are just as clueless - but with "power" and money)) backing them.
One day humanity will look back at the 90s/00s with regret.
Its the end of the world as we know it...
(I could have typed more, but then I would probably owe RIAA 150.000$ per slashdot user who read this)
(all 5 of them since I have a bad karma)
The Outlook 2003 filter seems to do a good job at recognizing spam from not spam. Still a few emails get through that are spam, and ocasionally some legit emails get put in the spam folder (I noticed that the OSDN Newsletter gets put in the spam folder - .. is'nt that funny ;) ).
I heard that earlier whole netblocks from china/asia were blocked by ISP's in the West as there were lots of spam relays there that the admins would not shut down.. maybe this will change now.
China may not have a good human rights record (nor does many other countries though) but maybe in the war against spam a communist country is the cure.
Every time I feel like buying a CD I instead listen to the free mp3's I have downloaded that are non-copyrighted, and send a donation to the EFF.
The RIAA and their cohorts of evil around the world have lost me as a customer - forever.
I have a lot of CD's purchased pre-boycott but post-napster, but they are the last.
Cant believe you modded such obvious ms bashing "interesting".
Hey, lets karma whore - "microsoft sucks, linux & gentoo rules (well, it does)"
Same here.
I have stopped purchasing retail games untill they remove the consumer unfriendly measures (cd in drive).
I will buy a game regardless of the cd issue if it is exceptionally good though...
Been to china lately?
Its only terrorism if you're an arab.
Youre saying a non-religious person would put bugs in the code becasue his "god" did not grant him a day off?
Two people where I work are musicians in their spare time, they manage to organize web sites, concerts, print CD's that they sell.
I dont think BjÃrn Lynne started out as a musician because he wanted to make money, but after a while he became so successfull that he could actually make a living out of making music.
More jobs for the rest of us :-)
If it was'nt for the fact that I got a hold of a pirated DreamWeaver v2.0 I would never have purchased 4.0, 4.0 Ultradev and MX x 5 licenses for myself and others at the company I work.
RIAA/BSA can go f*k off.
... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those
who wish to tyrranize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent,
and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious
and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
-- Voltarine de Cleyre
%%
I thought people became musicians because they wanted to create music and share it with people, is'nt it then better for your music to be shared freely to people who would otherwise not have heard or purchased your works, than to restrict it to those few who purchase your cds. And think about it; those that listened to your free mp3's might buy your next album because they liked your music, wanted to support you, and wanted to have the CD (without any Unfriendly Consumer Schemes (UCS) on it)..
WinME was good.
I rename all my games to "quake3.exe" before I run them, that way I get all the ATI Optimizations for free, for any game, its super-sweet.
OEMs dont care about benchmarks since their customers dont care about them (i.e, those who purchase Compaq/Dell/Amstrad/Whatever in the store..).
Your normal Joe PC-User does'nt even know what a benchmark-"tool" such as 3DMark2003 is.
Or Optimize Star Wars Galaxies for Gamers.. I.e some gameplay/fun as opposed to Everquest in Space with LightSabers (if you powerlevel and happen to know a GM or find an Xploit)
What "gaming community" cares about 3DMark 2003, a benchmark that has no relevance to any games on the market past-present-future.
Benchmarking with synthetic tools such as 3DMark 2003 only hurts gamers as the results of these 'tests' force Hardware Manufacturers to optimize their drivers for SYNTHETIC BENCHMARKS as opposed to them optimizing their drivers for actual games/engines, such as Quake3, Unreal, LithTech, others..