Not to worry, french people being currently reached by "your message" perfectly understand the two senses of the english word. I suspect this is true for most non-american countries.
Yeah, well, from a non-american PoW, the root DNS currently IS run by unelected and unaccountable politicos. With the UN at least everybody has a say in the matter.
Anyway, the US way of running the DNS currently agrees with most of the world, and it is so easy to set up a new DNS on the day where it doesn't that it's not worth discussing in advance.
"Trust in a Bottle"
There's already millions of chemicals out there that have this effect, alcohol only being the most known of them. Sodium Penthotal coming close second.
Commercial DVDs are usually 6 to 8GB (and Single-Layer DVD-R are 4.7 GB), and therefore a DVD image can not be easily burned without quality loss. Plus, I am still more confident in the stability over time of mostly unused HDDs than of burned DVD-Rs (essentially because data that I back up on HDD gets re-backed up regularly whereas I have a tendancy to forget burned data in a CD/DVD pile in a corner). It goes without saying that I dont have free access to a DVD press, which would make the process much easier.
Backing up your DVD collection?
6GB per DVD times 200 DVDs is a good first try to fill any HD. And it is compressed video. What about backing up your holliday movies (in DV) at abour 15GB per hour? Maybe noone needs more than a floppy but certainly anyone can fill a TeraByte quite fast.
Hold it, dude!
$750M over 10 years is hardly all Gates' money. More like a small fraction of what he'll earn during the same time. And all of this is tax deductible anyway. Not to belittle Mr. Gates' gift, but it probably cost him less than the 10 bucks I gave to the tsunami victims cost me, relatively speaking.
Am I the only one to find this post really amusing in the current international diplomatic climate?
ITER 's location has been in negociations for years. Specifically for non-war related negociations, there has to be a time where you admit that you won't find an agreement with the other parties and try to find a solution to the problem your own way. A lot of people seem to disagree currently as to wheteher you can do the same thing with international discussions about whether or not to wage a war on a given country, but it surely is a valid aprroach for research cooperation.
As to whether the ITER discussion have reached this point or not, and whether the EU is right in trying to force the issue, I won't choose a side since I don't know the details of the negotiations.
It would if I was the only one adequate for the job. There are obviously a lot of people in a lot of countries who could be doing this so there is no way I would be asked to do the job if ITER was located in Japan. It just happens that I live near the place where the EU wants ITER to be located and although I am not a great physicist, I'd still love to be able to be a part of it.
Hey, let me be petty if I want to be. This project is so important one of my dreams is to be part of it. If it is located in France I have a decent shot at working on it. So this is very important to me that it is in France. I am not ready to fight for it but understand that if a lot of people in France are in the same mindset as I am, logically the local politicians will be willing to fight to make them happy. Such does the earth turn...
Quite true and such a mistake more or less disqualifies the whole paper in my mind. The guy doesn't know what he's talking about, nothing to learn here.
Reread. Think. Think again. Then post.
Saying that America already has a global electronic/computer-based surveillance system and partially uses it for industrial espionnage is not being an american hater, just stating the truth. Nobody is saying that the US are the only country doing this, only that their is the only network wide enough to be clearly seen by anybody who cares.
The fact that several people here on/. seem to think that Echelon is a conspiracy theory only proves that its existence deserves to be told again and again.
Thanks for listening.
Just tried the app on a T68i. It's a bit buggy right now, but I just love the possibilities it creates. My computer now launches my email app when I come in and quit it when I leave, and I'm only starting to get ideas. I'm going to explore all the Applescript possibilities. I just hope the final version of this app is not too expensive, or that someone develops a free alternative.
First class troll. I almost answered seriously.
Great to see/.-ers still have a sense of humor. Can I also have/.'s first page to create my own little flame war with aberrant affirmations?
Yeah, this one is a good one! But will you be able o stop from buying games after that? It still a steep price to pay just to tap into Bill's pockets.
Hey, you US citizens out there! THAT is a great way to improve your economy, improving the cashflow without any money back in Bill's pocket becomes difficult these days.....
Tsst. Experience proves that such open-sourcing sometimes creates some support behind projects to enhance the game, port it to other platforms, and so on.
I'm specifically thinking about Marathon, which open-sourcing led to a regain of interest in the game, the engine being heavily modified to support OpenGL acceleration (it wasn't a true 3D title to begin with), other improvements for the Sound engine, game engine, graphics engine, network engine, new script language added, game running on Linux, BeOS, Mac OS X, new network games type added, support for different formats of 3D models, and so on.....
Even if Marathon is the exception, it is worth to open-source thousands of game if you get one or two creative projects like that.
Anyway, even if you didn't, it would still be worth it. I don't think hosting the source code for everybody to download costs that much to the companies:-)
I'm hugely waiting for a game that will fill the hole between RTS and FPS. I think it probably would need to be MMO also, since you would need a lot more units to do what I'm implying, but I can't wait for a game where you will be able to be a general in an army as well as as canon fodder, and when you die, you know that you have been useful for something for your team, if only for numbers.
This kind of MMOSFPS (folloming, guy? Massively Multiplayer Online Strategy First-Person Shooter) would probably have to be somewhat less fast-paced than most FPS (think Tribes 2, or even a bit slower), the chain of command would be actually on the field and would have to be protected from opponents, and there would be a rating system, allowing the chain of command to know the skill level of every soldier (and the game to even teams). That way, you'd be given commands adapted to you (Yeah, I know, that could be cleaning the crap), and no one could criticize you for your lack of ability, only too happy to have one more soldier (this would require an extremely balanced rating system, I know).
Of course, You'd also need to judge separately the tactics level (How, that sounds like a difficult game to make, now, eh?) of a guy, so that he can be given command of a group of sharpshooters even if he can't hit a cow, and so on.....
How does that sound?
About as much as you could do the same on Solaris or *BSD (Some apps will work perfectly just like you said, most of them will need a little tweaking, and some will need heavy modifications), yes......
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Then if you don't have any Win* machines on your local network, you are protected?
Check.
Yeah, me is glad that you are paying, too. Thanks, Anonymous Coward.
Not to worry, french people being currently reached by "your message" perfectly understand the two senses of the english word. I suspect this is true for most non-american countries.
Thanks for this post. Spares me to do the exact same.
US foreign policy gets more and more interesting over the years. The world will just have to wait until the good guys are at it.
Yeah, well, from a non-american PoW, the root DNS currently IS run by unelected and unaccountable politicos. With the UN at least everybody has a say in the matter.
Anyway, the US way of running the DNS currently agrees with most of the world, and it is so easy to set up a new DNS on the day where it doesn't that it's not worth discussing in advance.
"Trust in a Bottle" There's already millions of chemicals out there that have this effect, alcohol only being the most known of them. Sodium Penthotal coming close second.
Commercial DVDs are usually 6 to 8GB (and Single-Layer DVD-R are 4.7 GB), and therefore a DVD image can not be easily burned without quality loss. Plus, I am still more confident in the stability over time of mostly unused HDDs than of burned DVD-Rs (essentially because data that I back up on HDD gets re-backed up regularly whereas I have a tendancy to forget burned data in a CD/DVD pile in a corner). It goes without saying that I dont have free access to a DVD press, which would make the process much easier.
Backing up your DVD collection? 6GB per DVD times 200 DVDs is a good first try to fill any HD. And it is compressed video. What about backing up your holliday movies (in DV) at abour 15GB per hour? Maybe noone needs more than a floppy but certainly anyone can fill a TeraByte quite fast.
Hold it, dude! $750M over 10 years is hardly all Gates' money. More like a small fraction of what he'll earn during the same time. And all of this is tax deductible anyway. Not to belittle Mr. Gates' gift, but it probably cost him less than the 10 bucks I gave to the tsunami victims cost me, relatively speaking.
...meaning I expect as brillant future for this network. :-)
Am I the only one to find this post really amusing in the current international diplomatic climate? ITER 's location has been in negociations for years. Specifically for non-war related negociations, there has to be a time where you admit that you won't find an agreement with the other parties and try to find a solution to the problem your own way. A lot of people seem to disagree currently as to wheteher you can do the same thing with international discussions about whether or not to wage a war on a given country, but it surely is a valid aprroach for research cooperation. As to whether the ITER discussion have reached this point or not, and whether the EU is right in trying to force the issue, I won't choose a side since I don't know the details of the negotiations.
It would if I was the only one adequate for the job. There are obviously a lot of people in a lot of countries who could be doing this so there is no way I would be asked to do the job if ITER was located in Japan. It just happens that I live near the place where the EU wants ITER to be located and although I am not a great physicist, I'd still love to be able to be a part of it.
Hey, let me be petty if I want to be. This project is so important one of my dreams is to be part of it. If it is located in France I have a decent shot at working on it. So this is very important to me that it is in France. I am not ready to fight for it but understand that if a lot of people in France are in the same mindset as I am, logically the local politicians will be willing to fight to make them happy. Such does the earth turn...
Quite true and such a mistake more or less disqualifies the whole paper in my mind. The guy doesn't know what he's talking about, nothing to learn here.
Well, of course, to code for your personal machine in the best framework available. Who cares about 95% of the market? They are just 'other people'.
Reread. Think. Think again. Then post. Saying that America already has a global electronic/computer-based surveillance system and partially uses it for industrial espionnage is not being an american hater, just stating the truth. Nobody is saying that the US are the only country doing this, only that their is the only network wide enough to be clearly seen by anybody who cares. The fact that several people here on /. seem to think that Echelon is a conspiracy theory only proves that its existence deserves to be told again and again.
Thanks for listening.
Yes, of course, you can press OK first, if you want. There's no "Cancel" button on this dialog, mind you.
"On the gripping hand" :-)
Well, it's still an APple product, isn't it?
Just tried the app on a T68i. It's a bit buggy right now, but I just love the possibilities it creates. My computer now launches my email app when I come in and quit it when I leave, and I'm only starting to get ideas. I'm going to explore all the Applescript possibilities. I just hope the final version of this app is not too expensive, or that someone develops a free alternative.
First class troll. I almost answered seriously. Great to see /.-ers still have a sense of humor. /.'s first page to create my own little flame war with aberrant affirmations?
Can I also have
Yeah, this one is a good one! But will you be able o stop from buying games after that? It still a steep price to pay just to tap into Bill's pockets.
Hey, you US citizens out there! THAT is a great way to improve your economy, improving the cashflow without any money back in Bill's pocket becomes difficult these days.....
Tsst. Experience proves that such open-sourcing sometimes creates some support behind projects to enhance the game, port it to other platforms, and so on. :-)
I'm specifically thinking about Marathon, which open-sourcing led to a regain of interest in the game, the engine being heavily modified to support OpenGL acceleration (it wasn't a true 3D title to begin with), other improvements for the Sound engine, game engine, graphics engine, network engine, new script language added, game running on Linux, BeOS, Mac OS X, new network games type added, support for different formats of 3D models, and so on.....
Even if Marathon is the exception, it is worth to open-source thousands of game if you get one or two creative projects like that.
Anyway, even if you didn't, it would still be worth it. I don't think hosting the source code for everybody to download costs that much to the companies
I'm hugely waiting for a game that will fill the hole between RTS and FPS. I think it probably would need to be MMO also, since you would need a lot more units to do what I'm implying, but I can't wait for a game where you will be able to be a general in an army as well as as canon fodder, and when you die, you know that you have been useful for something for your team, if only for numbers.
This kind of MMOSFPS (folloming, guy? Massively Multiplayer Online Strategy First-Person Shooter) would probably have to be somewhat less fast-paced than most FPS (think Tribes 2, or even a bit slower), the chain of command would be actually on the field and would have to be protected from opponents, and there would be a rating system, allowing the chain of command to know the skill level of every soldier (and the game to even teams). That way, you'd be given commands adapted to you (Yeah, I know, that could be cleaning the crap), and no one could criticize you for your lack of ability, only too happy to have one more soldier (this would require an extremely balanced rating system, I know).
Of course, You'd also need to judge separately the tactics level (How, that sounds like a difficult game to make, now, eh?) of a guy, so that he can be given command of a group of sharpshooters even if he can't hit a cow, and so on.....
How does that sound?
About as much as you could do the same on Solaris or *BSD (Some apps will work perfectly just like you said, most of them will need a little tweaking, and some will need heavy modifications), yes......