honestly I never understood it why somebody would pay an awful lot of money just to run around in a T-Shirt or Jacket with the company logo all over the back.
I agree with others: IF I do advertising. I AM the one who should get paid, and I shouldn't pay more the bigger the logo gets.
I try to avoid everything that sports big fat logos. I don't have a problem with a small sticker or logo on the Shirt or the manufacturers name on the car / motorcycle or computer. But at the moment where the Logo is almost bigger then the product I buy it goes too far.
Back in '97 I attended the E3 and one morning I was talking with I a guy who tried to sell his game during the show. He told me that the guys who run Eidos are the same ones who ran U.S. Gold before. And guess what: U.S. Gold was very very known for playing games with the game companies money....
According to him they ran a couple of small time developers in the ground and he told me he is going to stay as far away from them as possible. I know that he landed is game later at Psygnosis.
other brought it already up with Babelfish etc. But I wonder if that doesn't make Google Illegal? They cache the text of websites to search it later? Or am I missing something here (besides that google is a company and not an individual?).
When I read this article I got the impression they are only searching for keywords????
If that is the case they probably only checked if somebody WAS searching for something from metallica and that means they probably only got your search attemp.
But does that mean that now the SEARCH by itself is "illegal"????? And if so. How can they accuse everybody who searches for a keyword that they actually commited a crime?????
Actually Outlook (the full one) and Exchange are not directly affected. Outlook doesn't automatically execute it.
Outlook Express IS a real problem as it simply executes VB Scripts without asking (that is if you have enabled automatic scrip execution in the Intnernet Settings, which is the default).
So yes, my inbox got filled this morning with this crap, but if people would be a bit more educated instead of clicking on everything that doesn't move fast enough those "viruses" wouldn't spread that easily. And if Microsoft would know what security means, they wouldn't allow a script execution in an e-mail program. They should really know by now.
One thing I am really astonished about is that no game company so far came to the idea to actually produce the game on a bootable CDROM with Linux as OS behind the game?
I mean that would make it way easier for most people who don't have a clue about computers to get their games run. No installation, just pop and play:)
I remember back in '94 while selling computers when people got rid of their Amigas to buy PCs to play and they where astonished that they couldn't simply put in the floppy and start playing:)
Okay, windows got easier in that regards (with Autostart etc.) but I wonder why the game industry is not jumping on this (yet)?
I am an avid Sim Fan (well, not much time anymore) and I could basically rattle you down all the different kind of Weapons, their effectivness etc. in the Sims. I read Janes etc. etc.
I also played Doom, Quake and their like, but I don't think I ever got any more aggressive.
What surprsises me though is the fact that a country that is so gun loving as the US is so against knowing that their kids COULD defend their country in case of an attack, after all that is why you have this thing in your constitution about everybody having a gun.
I am not a friend of weapson or violence, but I know that i watched a lot of violent movies, played games etc. But I would say my overall violence level is rather low. IF somebody kills somebody only because he CAN has something to do with his character, nothing else. So even IF the games increase your ability to be violent there are still things IN you that should hold you back.
I confess I love the PDF Format and the way you can move files easily around. But I also catch myself rather often when I print out something just to have it easier to read.
I must say though that I am thinking about getting an e-book. If the reading quality really is as good as on paper I might be convinced, but alone the abilit to simply write something on the back of a sheet of paper or simply mark important parts in a book are essentials to me:)
But I think it might also shift the whole thing a bit.
I am pretty sure that somebody is going to produce an "encoder" that allows anybody to create it's own eBook files. This way a lot of Authors who don't find a publisher might be able to get their work out.
eBooks could be sort of the MP3 for books. I like the idea.
And let's be honest if you have one of those bookstore cards they already KNOW what you buy anyways.
>>* Next you would have to get it onto the PS2 somehow. You can't just go into Easy CD Creator and burn a CD for it. Obviously Sony is probably using a proprietry CD format which hasn't been implemented into a CD burning application
Yes you can. The PSX2 is downward Compatible to the PSX so if you burn a PSX CD it will work.
>>Still, would you have prefered what *did* happen, or would you have preferred that we pulled out of Europe and let the Russians expand westwards? There's not a hell of a lot of other options here.
I don't think Stalin would have gone more into the west. Yes, thanks to the US in big parts and the Bomb.
But that in fact doesn't justify the way the US evolved in the 50s and 60s (and up to this day).
No country is perfect, everybody has some black spots on it. But the difference mainly is that the winner writes the history books, and you have to confess that the US wrote a lot of the history books. Not because they where the good guys, but because they won.
Excuse me, but the US isn't (note present) much different then Russia was.
Yes, both tried to increase their influence. Both used Weapson (Korea, Vietnam) and money to achieve these goals.
BOTH sides tried to achive power. But while russia was at least a bit honest in its attemp the US always tried to convince everybody that they are the good guys. And the US is not.
The US is always there to "defend the poor" if it is in their economic interrest. The oil was in danger? Here we are.
People get slaughtered: "MMhh.... I don't think we can sell much coke there.... lets not go there, and we also don't have any new weapons to play with anyways."
No sorry. The Cold war was the result of fear against each other, and the struggel over World Domination.
Pardon, but the way I see the american system the problem is not so much Washington D.C. but rather the states themselves.
I sometimes wonder WHY the US stays together after all, I get the impression that every state is on his own and all the states are against Washington. Doesn't make much sense to me.
Yes a two party system is bad, but full "democracy" as well (see Weimar Republic for reference).
A "working" democracy is always a compromise. I think what many europeans piss off about the US system is the polarization, you either have to be black or white and there doesn't seem to be any middle way.
I am german and yes there are a bit more shades to the whole thing, and it is not so much that: "We bash Berlin whenever we can" attitute, people are true to their "believes" in a certain way. But if I look at state policy sometimes it seems to be the way that the only thing that counts is to "take control away from the fets".
Things have changed a lot the whole Network is now Digital. ISDN is available to everybody anywhere for a low monthly fee and the same prices as an Analog line (in fact you even get calls cheaper with ISDN now!).
If you ask me I would say he was bullshitting you. The Telekom uses almost exclusivly Siemens Equipment. Call it national pride or something like that.
Even with the imminent threat of communism waning, Europe doesn't even have the balls to eradicate fascism in its own backyard. You let some stupid fucking Serbs threaten world peace. You refuse to send in troops unless your father figure country, the US, does so first. You prolonged the whole Serb/Croat crisis for years because of inaction and cowardice on your part.
I shouldn't answer to this, but okay.
How much do YOU know about the history in Europe? Europe ARE a lot of different countries, with a lot of different ideologies. What happend in Serbia is something that is going on for centuries.
Yugoslavia in the way it existet in 1991 was something that got thrown together after WWII even during WWII while Germany "owned" the land there was a war between the ethnic groups. It was Titos attempt to unite the country and make peace. It failed. And even after WWII the fights where gonig on. Not as publicly but they where.
WWI was broken off because of an Ethnic Fight down there.
And yes, Europe waited until you US people could play with your new weapons and have some fun. Sorry that Europe in general is not as trigger happy as the US.
And about thanking you for saving us from communism: Look at McCarthy and what he did. I don't know, but I am happy that I am NOT in the US. Freedom? In the US? Ha, a far cry from it. You are only free if you have more money then the rest does. Yeah, that is real freedom. And if my freedom is resting on the shoulders of such lunatics as you, I am rather NOT free.
Germany doesn't deny the whole thing. The basic idea is that they try to control the way people learn about it. Yes, that is censorship in a certain way, but we had this quite lengthy in school with a lot of discussion.
Yes Nazi Germany is a difficult subject, especially in Germany, but I don't think that there is any denial going on or the attemp to silence the other speakers, just the fear that people might like to listen to them more then to the reality.
No I am not for censoring it, I believe that it should be available for all to read, and I read it myself to get an idea what they are proposing, but I also understand the fear some people have about it.
Face it. Whenever Germany is doing something unpopular very fast the past is pulled out and stuck into our face. So it isn't very surprising that there are people (3, 4 Generation after everything has happened) that they WANT to forgot. Not because they deny that it happened, but because they don't want to feel responsible for it. I know I don't want to, and I never will feel responsible for what happened back then.
as a non american I am always somewhat amused about the way politic is handled or how people in the US see their "Freedom".
"No rules, stay out of my life, but please, block that part of the Net which has something I don't like for everybody."
If it wouldn't be so sad I would laugh.
I mean there is a country which sees itself as the center of the Universe, which tries to teach other countries about Freedom and tolerance, but they do everything in their own country to undermine this.
Yes, everybody needs the right to have a gun, ups, kids got shot... Mmhh, no the guns are not at fault here, maybe all this violent content on the computer.
Filters are a nifty idea, but the best filter is still the parent who surfs with his kid, the kids are smart enough to disable the filter fast then daddy can install it.
Until people learn to be more responsible for their actions, America, the land of the great will continue to have those problems.
Are other countries better? Not really, they also want to shove the responsiblity to a piece of software, but no country does this under the flag of "Freedom".
I am actually not too surprised about the message boards and everyting.
I started ou in the "Fishtank" called CompuServe back in 1991. At that time it was way better there, because people at least knew how to handle the technology.
I don't blame newbies on the Net, everybody has to start, but I don't think that AOL or CompuServe today are a good breeding ground. In fact I think the opposite is true. It is like giving a 16 year old a 1200cc Motorcylce and no speed limit. Chances are he is going to kill himself.
In the end we have to live with newbies, but we also have to hope that people educate themselves better before they are left on the "Highway".
So in that regards, a flame is not that bad, maybe it corrects some peoples thoughts on how to behave.... Until then though I have my settings on 2 (yes, that even eliminates myself:) ).
Slashdot Mirror
Okay,
honestly I never understood it why somebody would pay an awful lot of money just to run around in a T-Shirt or Jacket with the company logo all over the back.
I agree with others: IF I do advertising. I AM the one who should get paid, and I shouldn't pay more the bigger the logo gets.
I try to avoid everything that sports big fat logos. I don't have a problem with a small sticker or logo on the Shirt or the manufacturers name on the car / motorcycle or computer. But at the moment where the Logo is almost bigger then the product I buy it goes too far.
Well, not over the Internet, but it seems that in North America they distribute all of there movies wherever possible via HD DVD to the Theaters.
;)
The Paramount here in Toronto has two DLP Projectors and they told me it takes them roughly 12 hours to download the DVDs onto the RAID.
The Projectors are impressive (I got a tour of the facility), now looking at my small DLP at home it feels so "wrong"
Mission to Mars was one of the movies they showed digitally, but I must say I didn't notice any differences.
Back in '97 I attended the E3 and one morning I was talking with I a guy who tried to sell his game during the show. He told me that the guys who run Eidos are the same ones who ran U.S. Gold before. And guess what: U.S. Gold was very very known for playing games with the game companies money....
According to him they ran a couple of small time developers in the ground and he told me he is going to stay as far away from them as possible. I know that he landed is game later at Psygnosis.
Okay,
other brought it already up with Babelfish etc. But I wonder if that doesn't make Google Illegal? They cache the text of websites to search it later? Or am I missing something here (besides that google is a company and not an individual?).
Michael
When I read this article I got the impression they are only searching for keywords????
If that is the case they probably only checked if somebody WAS searching for something from metallica and that means they probably only got your search attemp.
But does that mean that now the SEARCH by itself is "illegal"????? And if so. How can they accuse everybody who searches for a keyword that they actually commited a crime?????
Actually Outlook (the full one) and Exchange are not directly affected. Outlook doesn't automatically execute it.
Outlook Express IS a real problem as it simply executes VB Scripts without asking (that is if you have enabled automatic scrip execution in the Intnernet Settings, which is the default).
So yes, my inbox got filled this morning with this crap, but if people would be a bit more educated instead of clicking on everything that doesn't move fast enough those "viruses" wouldn't spread that easily. And if Microsoft would know what security means, they wouldn't allow a script execution in an e-mail program. They should really know by now.
One thing I am really astonished about is that no game company so far came to the idea to actually produce the game on a bootable CDROM with Linux as OS behind the game?
:)
:)
I mean that would make it way easier for most people who don't have a clue about computers to get their games run. No installation, just pop and play
I remember back in '94 while selling computers when people got rid of their Amigas to buy PCs to play and they where astonished that they couldn't simply put in the floppy and start playing
Okay, windows got easier in that regards (with Autostart etc.) but I wonder why the game industry is not jumping on this (yet)?
MMhh
I am an avid Sim Fan (well, not much time anymore) and I could basically rattle you down all the different kind of Weapons, their effectivness etc. in the Sims. I read Janes etc. etc.
I also played Doom, Quake and their like, but I don't think I ever got any more aggressive.
What surprsises me though is the fact that a country that is so gun loving as the US is so against knowing that their kids COULD defend their country in case of an attack, after all that is why you have this thing in your constitution about everybody having a gun.
I am not a friend of weapson or violence, but I know that i watched a lot of violent movies, played games etc. But I would say my overall violence level is rather low. IF somebody kills somebody only because he CAN has something to do with his character, nothing else. So even IF the games increase your ability to be violent there are still things IN you that should hold you back.
Okay,
:)
:)
I confess I love the PDF Format and the way you can move files easily around. But I also catch myself rather often when I print out something just to have it easier to read.
I must say though that I am thinking about getting an e-book. If the reading quality really is as good as on paper I might be convinced, but alone the abilit to simply write something on the back of a sheet of paper or simply mark important parts in a book are essentials to me
So DON'T stop giving printed manuals (yet)
Just my 2 cents.
But I think it might also shift the whole thing a bit.
I am pretty sure that somebody is going to produce an "encoder" that allows anybody to create it's own eBook files. This way a lot of Authors who don't find a publisher might be able to get their work out.
eBooks could be sort of the MP3 for books. I like the idea.
And let's be honest if you have one of those bookstore cards they already KNOW what you buy anyways.
Michael
>>* Next you would have to get it onto the PS2 somehow. You can't just go into Easy CD Creator and burn a CD for it. Obviously Sony is probably using a proprietry CD format which hasn't been implemented into a CD burning application
Yes you can. The PSX2 is downward Compatible to the PSX so if you burn a PSX CD it will work.
Having the world on the brink of a nuclear War is called stability? I guess that is the US definition of stability.
I doubt that would work. Germany with 82 Million people is a far to important market to be ignored.
>>Still, would you have prefered what *did* happen, or would you have preferred that we pulled out of Europe and let the Russians expand westwards? There's not a hell of a lot of other options here.
I don't think Stalin would have gone more into the west. Yes, thanks to the US in big parts and the Bomb.
But that in fact doesn't justify the way the US evolved in the 50s and 60s (and up to this day).
No country is perfect, everybody has some black spots on it. But the difference mainly is that the winner writes the history books, and you have to confess that the US wrote a lot of the history books. Not because they where the good guys, but because they won.
Michael
Excuse me, but the US isn't (note present) much different then Russia was.
Yes, both tried to increase their influence. Both used Weapson (Korea, Vietnam) and money to achieve these goals.
BOTH sides tried to achive power. But while russia was at least a bit honest in its attemp the US always tried to convince everybody that they are the good guys. And the US is not.
The US is always there to "defend the poor" if it is in their economic interrest. The oil was in danger? Here we are.
People get slaughtered: "MMhh.... I don't think we can sell much coke there.... lets not go there, and we also don't have any new weapons to play with anyways."
No sorry. The Cold war was the result of fear against each other, and the struggel over World Domination.
Michael
Pardon, but the way I see the american system the problem is not so much Washington D.C. but rather the states themselves.
I sometimes wonder WHY the US stays together after all, I get the impression that every state is on his own and all the states are against Washington. Doesn't make much sense to me.
Yes a two party system is bad, but full "democracy" as well (see Weimar Republic for reference).
A "working" democracy is always a compromise. I think what many europeans piss off about the US system is the polarization, you either have to be black or white and there doesn't seem to be any middle way.
I am german and yes there are a bit more shades to the whole thing, and it is not so much that: "We bash Berlin whenever we can" attitute, people are true to their "believes" in a certain way. But if I look at state policy sometimes it seems to be the way that the only thing that counts is to "take control away from the fets".
Michael
Things have changed a lot the whole Network is now Digital. ISDN is available to everybody anywhere for a low monthly fee and the same prices as an Analog line (in fact you even get calls cheaper with ISDN now!).
If you ask me I would say he was bullshitting you. The Telekom uses almost exclusivly Siemens Equipment. Call it national pride or something like that.
Even with the imminent threat of communism waning, Europe doesn't even have the balls to eradicate fascism in its own backyard. You let some stupid fucking Serbs threaten world peace. You refuse to send in troops unless your father figure country, the US, does so first. You prolonged the whole Serb/Croat crisis for years because of inaction and cowardice on your part.
I shouldn't answer to this, but okay.
How much do YOU know about the history in Europe? Europe ARE a lot of different countries, with a lot of different ideologies. What happend in Serbia is something that is going on for centuries.
Yugoslavia in the way it existet in 1991 was something that got thrown together after WWII even during WWII while Germany "owned" the land there was a war between the ethnic groups. It was Titos attempt to unite the country and make peace. It failed. And even after WWII the fights where gonig on. Not as publicly but they where.
WWI was broken off because of an Ethnic Fight down there.
And yes, Europe waited until you US people could play with your new weapons and have some fun. Sorry that Europe in general is not as trigger happy as the US.
And about thanking you for saving us from communism: Look at McCarthy and what he did. I don't know, but I am happy that I am NOT in the US. Freedom? In the US? Ha, a far cry from it. You are only free if you have more money then the rest does. Yeah, that is real freedom. And if my freedom is resting on the shoulders of such lunatics as you, I am rather NOT free.
Michael
Germany doesn't deny the whole thing. The basic idea is that they try to control the way people learn about it. Yes, that is censorship in a certain way, but we had this quite lengthy in school with a lot of discussion.
Yes Nazi Germany is a difficult subject, especially in Germany, but I don't think that there is any denial going on or the attemp to silence the other speakers, just the fear that people might like to listen to them more then to the reality.
No I am not for censoring it, I believe that it should be available for all to read, and I read it myself to get an idea what they are proposing, but I also understand the fear some people have about it.
Face it. Whenever Germany is doing something unpopular very fast the past is pulled out and stuck into our face. So it isn't very surprising that there are people (3, 4 Generation after everything has happened) that they WANT to forgot. Not because they deny that it happened, but because they don't want to feel responsible for it. I know I don't want to, and I never will feel responsible for what happened back then.
If it would happen today: Other story.
Michael
They also forget to mention WHICH sites. Sure, if I have a small me2 website I run it on Windows, might end up in the Stats and there we go.
But as it seems not many of the big players use it (and monster.com IS down quite often (at least the DB is).
Michael
...
as a non american I am always somewhat amused about the way politic is handled or how people in the US see their "Freedom".
"No rules, stay out of my life, but please, block that part of the Net which has something I don't like for everybody."
If it wouldn't be so sad I would laugh.
I mean there is a country which sees itself as the center of the Universe, which tries to teach other countries about Freedom and tolerance, but they do everything in their own country to undermine this.
Yes, everybody needs the right to have a gun, ups, kids got shot... Mmhh, no the guns are not at fault here, maybe all this violent content on the computer.
Filters are a nifty idea, but the best filter is still the parent who surfs with his kid, the kids are smart enough to disable the filter fast then daddy can install it.
Until people learn to be more responsible for their actions, America, the land of the great will continue to have those problems.
Are other countries better? Not really, they also want to shove the responsiblity to a piece of software, but no country does this under the flag of "Freedom".
Mmichael
Actually if you read some of those license Agreements it IS.
"No public performance", but if you read the license agreement completly that also means everybody who is not part of your family!
So in the end, they could sue you if you listen to a CD or watch a DVD with friends because of "public performance".
I am actually not too surprised about the message boards and everyting.
:) ).
I started ou in the "Fishtank" called CompuServe back in 1991. At that time it was way better there, because people at least knew how to handle the technology.
I don't blame newbies on the Net, everybody has to start, but I don't think that AOL or CompuServe today are a good breeding ground. In fact I think the opposite is true. It is like giving a 16 year old a 1200cc Motorcylce and no speed limit. Chances are he is going to kill himself.
In the end we have to live with newbies, but we also have to hope that people educate themselves better before they are left on the "Highway".
So in that regards, a flame is not that bad, maybe it corrects some peoples thoughts on how to behave.... Until then though I have my settings on 2 (yes, that even eliminates myself
That they don't give it to their kids, and they might eat it?
I don't know how big it is, but that is my guess.
Michael
Well...
I am writing this on a Win98SE Box (Notebook) and it rebootet just fine...
So my guess is Virus.
Michael