US- 77.1 years
UK - 77.7 years
France - 78.8 years
Belgium - 77.8
I'm not even going to bother listing more, the US has a relatively poor average life expectancy because of rampant obesity leading to such things as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
...the reason a lot of people go to america for potentially lifesaving, new techniques is not because you have a great health system, far from it, but because you have exhorbatant amounts of money poured into research so that you can "rule the roost" as it were in the scientific community.
...is that some of these kiddies seem to strive to bring down the one thing that gives them any sense of purpose.
Like the attacks on the root servers, well done, bring the domain name system down, now update your hosts file by hand when you want to visit a website/chat on irc to your mates about how 31337 you are.
...I went there, and my girlfriend got her Phd there...believe me there is no air conditioning.
IIRC my girlfriends lab was so warm (uncomfortably so) as the heating was controlled from a building in London (!?!?!?!?!?!).
Also, Birmingham University is where the last death from smallpox happened...some of it got into an air vent and infected a photographer in a lab upstairs.
Now dont get me wrong, Birmingham is a very good uni but they treat their postdocs like absolute shit and I really don't blame the guy for leaving.
My girlfriend got so pissed off with all of the backstabbing in science and became a teacher...makes much more than she did as a scientist and actually enjoys helping people instead of trying to stop other scientists stealing her groups work.
You would think researchers would work together for the greater good, and it really disgusts me that the majority do it for their own nefarious purposes (money, fame etc.) and will do anything to achieve them.
...if you stick with decent plugins you'll be fine.
In fact, now that I think about it I've only ever had my current install (Cubase SX) crash on my once and that was due to a buggy asio driver update for my soundcard. Rolled back the driver and hey presto it was fine again.
There really is no competition now for the PC studio software market now that logic pc has gone the way of the dodo and become mac only. And don't even mention cakewalk, any software that until recently only supported direct-x plugins on the pc doesn't have any business calling itself pro;o)
Another "killer app" is Rosegarden, which is rapidly becoming a suitable replacement for Steinberg Cubase
Not wanting to ruffle anyones feathers here but it is in no way even close to being a replacement for Cubase. As someone who uses Cubase every single day I am speaking from experience.
I tried Rosegarden but it just dusn't have the polish that audio professionals expect in this day and age. It's more on a par with some very early versions of Cubase 3, if even that. Yes, ok, it has VST plugin support but it's nowhere near as seamless and intuitive as cubase, the performance is lacking and it just doesn't feel like a professional app.
They offer windows servers. Some people want these, people who want to run MSSQL or ASP.net or whatnot. Now, what if Microsoft told them "hey, I think it would be in your interests to play along with SCO unless you want us to increase your license fees 100 fold
/tinfoil hat
Microsoft have done similar before and I wouldn't put it past them now.
...but as you point out, yes in fps games it is something novel.
That's what I was trying to get at with my point. And oh yes, xcom rule(s|d) (until I lost my copy a few moves ago).
From looking at the hl2 video it does indeed require some lateral thinking and proper problem solving (something that has been sorely missing from 99.9% of the titles released in the last 5 years).
Some say Romero and Carmack revolutionised gaming with the likes of wolfenstein 3d and doom but i think they actually set it back 10 years and only now is the damage they did being undone.
...have any of you seen the demo video of the upcoming Half-life 2 (or even *gasp* downloaded a leaked beta), I was watching in amazement wondering how games had come so far in such a little time.
Let me elaborate, splinter cell was an amazing game but the storyline was very linear and interacting with the environment pretty much restricted to shooting out lights.
Halflife 2 on the other hand allows you to use some magnetic levitating weapon that can tear metal objects like radiators from the wall and hurl them at the opposition. Boxes and furniture pushed against doors to stop attacking enemies.
I can't even begin to imagine the complexity that has not only gone into the code design but also the level design. That's the crux of it, without amazing and clever levels that leverage all of this new complexity a game falls flat on its face.
...if the owner is a company that is. There is no need to defend the patent anymore...you tried to make it work and lost, tough cookies.
Patents are there to give the holders protection from infringement, but if there is no holder company then no infringement can happen and laws should be drawn up to allow all such patents to become public domain.
...seriously. If you want to do any serious media work (audio/video/image) then you will seriously appreciate more than one monitor. I just stuck a cheap 4mb pci graphics card in my machine, hooked it up to a spare 17 inch monitor and now when I use wavelab/photoshop or whatnot I have all of the tools on the second monitor and the media I'm editing on the primary.
...telewest wanted near on 200 quid a month for a business 0.5 megabit line, no service guarantess whatsoever. All you got was the right to use the line for business purposes. Freedom2surf supply my ADSL line for 19 quid a month (plus vat) and I can not only use it for business use but can also run my own servers on it, that's why for me adsl (and freedom2surf in particular) have my vote.
...120 dollars is just over 60 quid, I can get a 2 megabit service from my ISP (freedom2surf) for 40, granted thats still a lot in dollars, but thats partly due to the monumentally weak dollar more than anything else.
...the zip drive has never had as huge popularity as a storage medium as the floppy, partly due to high media prices, high drive prices and shoddy manufacturing processes (the dreaded click of death). I'd be surprised if more than 5% of computers had a zip drive.
Slashdot Mirror
...I'm sure there are patents of Sony's that Kodak infringe upon, why didn't they just cross-license like the rest of the big boys do?
In 2000:
US- 77.1 years
UK - 77.7 years
France - 78.8 years
Belgium - 77.8
I'm not even going to bother listing more, the US has a relatively poor average life expectancy because of rampant obesity leading to such things as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
Now crawl back under your rock troll.
...the reason a lot of people go to america for potentially lifesaving, new techniques is not because you have a great health system, far from it, but because you have exhorbatant amounts of money poured into research so that you can "rule the roost" as it were in the scientific community.
...is that some of these kiddies seem to strive to bring down the one thing that gives them any sense of purpose.
Like the attacks on the root servers, well done, bring the domain name system down, now update your hosts file by hand when you want to visit a website/chat on irc to your mates about how 31337 you are.
Surely you meant:
257 2332
...the main square with pub after pub and of course, the Stella Artois factory! :o) Damn, I miss living in Belgium...best beers in the world.
...I went there, and my girlfriend got her Phd there...believe me there is no air conditioning.
IIRC my girlfriends lab was so warm (uncomfortably so) as the heating was controlled from a building in London (!?!?!?!?!?!).
Also, Birmingham University is where the last death from smallpox happened...some of it got into an air vent and infected a photographer in a lab upstairs.
Now dont get me wrong, Birmingham is a very good uni but they treat their postdocs like absolute shit and I really don't blame the guy for leaving.
My girlfriend got so pissed off with all of the backstabbing in science and became a teacher...makes much more than she did as a scientist and actually enjoys helping people instead of trying to stop other scientists stealing her groups work.
You would think researchers would work together for the greater good, and it really disgusts me that the majority do it for their own nefarious purposes (money, fame etc.) and will do anything to achieve them.
...or the Internet Explorer logo? ;o)
you could report the vendor for false advertising as , no matter how much the vendor protests that it is not yet tomorrow, it is.
;o).
That's probably why I have never seen a sign like this
My favourite is the "Credit only given to those over 80 years of age who are in the company of both parents.".
...if you stick with decent plugins you'll be fine.
;o)
In fact, now that I think about it I've only ever had my current install (Cubase SX) crash on my once and that was due to a buggy asio driver update for my soundcard. Rolled back the driver and hey presto it was fine again.
There really is no competition now for the PC studio software market now that logic pc has gone the way of the dodo and become mac only. And don't even mention cakewalk, any software that until recently only supported direct-x plugins on the pc doesn't have any business calling itself pro
Another "killer app" is Rosegarden, which is rapidly becoming a suitable replacement for Steinberg Cubase
Not wanting to ruffle anyones feathers here but it is in no way even close to being a replacement for Cubase. As someone who uses Cubase every single day I am speaking from experience.
I tried Rosegarden but it just dusn't have the polish that audio professionals expect in this day and age. It's more on a par with some very early versions of Cubase 3, if even that. Yes, ok, it has VST plugin support but it's nowhere near as seamless and intuitive as cubase, the performance is lacking and it just doesn't feel like a professional app.
...download from their site in zip format:
f ectOffice12_ScreenShots.ZIP
http://www.corel.com/futuretense_cs/ccurl/WordPer
...Microsoft.
/tinfoil hat
tinfoil hat
They offer windows servers. Some people want these, people who want to run MSSQL or ASP.net or whatnot. Now, what if Microsoft told them "hey, I think it would be in your interests to play along with SCO unless you want us to increase your license fees 100 fold
Microsoft have done similar before and I wouldn't put it past them now.
...but as you point out, yes in fps games it is something novel.
That's what I was trying to get at with my point. And oh yes, xcom rule(s|d) (until I lost my copy a few moves ago).
From looking at the hl2 video it does indeed require some lateral thinking and proper problem solving (something that has been sorely missing from 99.9% of the titles released in the last 5 years).
Some say Romero and Carmack revolutionised gaming with the likes of wolfenstein 3d and doom but i think they actually set it back 10 years and only now is the damage they did being undone.
...have any of you seen the demo video of the upcoming Half-life 2 (or even *gasp* downloaded a leaked beta), I was watching in amazement wondering how games had come so far in such a little time.
Let me elaborate, splinter cell was an amazing game but the storyline was very linear and interacting with the environment pretty much restricted to shooting out lights.
Halflife 2 on the other hand allows you to use some magnetic levitating weapon that can tear metal objects like radiators from the wall and hurl them at the opposition. Boxes and furniture pushed against doors to stop attacking enemies.
I can't even begin to imagine the complexity that has not only gone into the code design but also the level design. That's the crux of it, without amazing and clever levels that leverage all of this new complexity a game falls flat on its face.
...who works Pro Bono for them
...if the owner is a company that is. There is no need to defend the patent anymore...you tried to make it work and lost, tough cookies.
Patents are there to give the holders protection from infringement, but if there is no holder company then no infringement can happen and laws should be drawn up to allow all such patents to become public domain.
at forbes CEO approval rating site!:
l l.html
http://www.forbes.com/2003/05/01/cx_ceointernetpo
...seems like their webserver got assimilated by the slashborg.
....but I liked the infinity motif, that was a really nice little touch, make people guess a bit and then hit on it.
...seriously. If you want to do any serious media work (audio/video/image) then you will seriously appreciate more than one monitor. I just stuck a cheap 4mb pci graphics card in my machine, hooked it up to a spare 17 inch monitor and now when I use wavelab/photoshop or whatnot I have all of the tools on the second monitor and the media I'm editing on the primary.
If so please let me know where so I can signup! ;o)
...telewest wanted near on 200 quid a month for a business 0.5 megabit line, no service guarantess whatsoever. All you got was the right to use the line for business purposes. Freedom2surf supply my ADSL line for 19 quid a month (plus vat) and I can not only use it for business use but can also run my own servers on it, that's why for me adsl (and freedom2surf in particular) have my vote.
...120 dollars is just over 60 quid, I can get a 2 megabit service from my ISP (freedom2surf) for 40, granted thats still a lot in dollars, but thats partly due to the monumentally weak dollar more than anything else.
...the zip drive has never had as huge popularity as a storage medium as the floppy, partly due to high media prices, high drive prices and shoddy manufacturing processes (the dreaded click of death). I'd be surprised if more than 5% of computers had a zip drive.