"used by the majority of the world's mobile phones"
I don't know much about mobile phone tech, but this sounds strange. This is 2010, I don't know anyone still using a GSM-phone, most of us switched to 3G 6-7 years ago. If it's true, surely GSM users are in the minority in the developed world?
Then this ISP can set up an autoreply that gets triggered by "DMCA" in the body, informing the sender that the DMCA is an american law and totally irrelevant in most other countries. (though writing such replies manually can be a lot of fun, I did plenty of that when I worked as abuse-handler at a large webhost in Denmark. A lot of American lawyer-types really can't get it into their thick skulls that american laws are not universal, and if they have a valid complaint they need to say so (and be specific!) instead of just waving around a wand, trying to invoke the magical DMCA.)
I wish my government would do something similar, like calling for the creation of flying ponies for everyone. No, wait - flying invisible ponies for everyone! I'm sure there would be no problem getting reality to comply with government wishes.
I don't mind fake monarchy as such, or the king himself (I've met him twice, seems like a decent guy who would be better off doing environmental work of some kind). But I really wish we could choose out king (or queen) in an election. Like it was done in the old days, before the 16th century kings decided that they and their children were chosen by god. (it would also be nice/fun if we could cut of their heads if we got bored with them, unfortunately that's not really an option in the 21st century.)
I really wish this would have happened here, in Sweden. Then there would be a public outrcy, the monarchy would have been abolished in 2 seconds, and we wouldn't have to suffer this stupid coverage of the crown princess and her upcoming boring wedding every XXXXXXX minute on every XXXXXXX channel. Our king might be harmless, but he's hardly more important than uncensored access to the internet.
Yes it is, please check comp.sys.cbm or any Commodore-forum before you try to sound as if you have any idea what you're talking about. There is nothing as sought after as a C65 among Commodore-collectors - not even the Commodore MAX. Last year I offered around US$2000 for one of them, but unfortunately the seller wanted more. Latest C65 on ebay (dec. 2009) went for around US$7800.
It was never even released.
Roughly 500 prototypes were sold after Commodores bankruptcy. There were even ads for them in Commodore magazines.
Not related to SSL and stuff like that, but anyway: a few years ago I got a job working doing technical support for Symantec. During training, I was first embedded with the customer service-people, and watched them sit talk to customers, while they took down credit card numbers and other details on paper, which were later thrown out the the general office-trash.
A few days later I was supposed to do "technical training" with the so-called 2nd line support... The day I had to explain to one of them how to unlock the taskbar on Windows XP was the day I quit - after a total of 6 or 7 days of employment.
And who buys their stuff anyway? I haven't touched any of it since then so I don't know if anything has improved, but I remember how the Norton Security-packages idea of protecting the computer was to slow it down to a crawl and basically block everything. Not to mention what a mess it is (was?) to remove it from the system...
> Okay lets put the next wind farm beside your house.
I heard the same thing when wind power came here about 10-15 years ago, and I still say: I'd rather have a wind farm next to my house than a nuclear power plant, an oil power plant or a coal power plant.
which constitutes the bulk of the studio's creative and programming....
Hah. Activision hasn't done anything creative since Fighter Bomber was released in 1990. It was good and quite original despite being a flight sim. After that, boring copies of copies. (yes, I know that a lot of people think CIV II is the best game ever. I think it's slimy.)
There's plenty of other companies left who can remake all those same old games we've seen over and over and over again. Sigh. Everything was better in the old days. Time to boot up my Amiga 4000, which has more great and original games than the PC will ever have (since nobody is doing anything new anymore (on the PC/windows at least)).
Their keyboards are infamous and still equally usable today 20 years later as when they were new.
In other words, they're famous. I'm typing this on an IBM 1391411 (Swedish version of the PS/2 1391401) - best keyboard I've ever had. I got it about 3 years ago after many many "modern" keyboards of different kinds and I'll never go back to some low-profile, "high tech" (=useless mediakeys) keyboard.
And the biggest problem is that very few people grow up with a C64 or an Amiga nowadays. They don't have any reason to learn how a computer actually works (or what a computer is), if they're just put in front of a computer that can load a game into the OS with a double-click. No reason to actually learn anything if that "just works".
Where are you downloading those TV episodes from that you can peg a 30mbit connection, let alone a 100mbit connection?
bitmetv.org for tv series and usenet for movies. (and cheggit.net for porn!)
and most of the legal sources of such content that I'm aware of use steaming rather than downloading.
Well, I didn't say anything about it being legal. I'm honestly not sure I would have much use for 30Mb if I stayed legal, but, well, as long as it takes the TV stations over here 6 months or more to import the TV series I want to see, I (and most others I know) have no intention of being legal. Besides, it's still unclear if it's actually illegal to just download stuff (usenet) over here.
Also... as long as I have to pay a "filesharing tax" on blank cds and dvds, I think it's my damn right to actually "fileshare" even if it's technically not.
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If I robbed a bank in my youth, does that mean I can never say that robbing a bank is a bad thing?
No, but you can't say it with any kind of moral authority if you keep robbing banks over and over again. Iran isn't the only example.
> When was AmigaOS last updated.
April 2010.
Huh? Civilization was never released on the C64. Perhaps you're confusing it with the Amiga version.
I don't get it. What's incredible about these? Most kids have probably made stuff at least as good as this.
"used by the majority of the world's mobile phones"
I don't know much about mobile phone tech, but this sounds strange. This is 2010, I don't know anyone still using a GSM-phone, most of us switched to 3G 6-7 years ago. If it's true, surely GSM users are in the minority in the developed world?
What for? Sim City 2000 is perfect, they should come up with new ideas instead of trying to remake games that can't be improved anyway.
Then this ISP can set up an autoreply that gets triggered by "DMCA" in the body, informing the sender that the DMCA is an american law and totally irrelevant in most other countries. (though writing such replies manually can be a lot of fun, I did plenty of that when I worked as abuse-handler at a large webhost in Denmark. A lot of American lawyer-types really can't get it into their thick skulls that american laws are not universal, and if they have a valid complaint they need to say so (and be specific!) instead of just waving around a wand, trying to invoke the magical DMCA.)
Eh? Why not? What century do you live in?
I wish my government would do something similar, like calling for the creation of flying ponies for everyone. No, wait - flying invisible ponies for everyone! I'm sure there would be no problem getting reality to comply with government wishes.
I don't mind fake monarchy as such, or the king himself (I've met him twice, seems like a decent guy who would be better off doing environmental work of some kind). But I really wish we could choose out king (or queen) in an election. Like it was done in the old days, before the 16th century kings decided that they and their children were chosen by god. (it would also be nice/fun if we could cut of their heads if we got bored with them, unfortunately that's not really an option in the 21st century.)
I really wish this would have happened here, in Sweden. Then there would be a public outrcy, the monarchy would have been abolished in 2 seconds, and we wouldn't have to suffer this stupid coverage of the crown princess and her upcoming boring wedding every XXXXXXX minute on every XXXXXXX channel. Our king might be harmless, but he's hardly more important than uncensored access to the internet.
No it doesn't. And no, none of the Scandinavian countries have among highest suicide rate in the world. And no, we don't have icebears in the streets.
You have much to learn about checking facts instead of repeating myths.
Um...no. The C65 is not a sacred relic.
Yes it is, please check comp.sys.cbm or any Commodore-forum before you try to sound as if you have any idea what you're talking about. There is nothing as sought after as a C65 among Commodore-collectors - not even the Commodore MAX. Last year I offered around US$2000 for one of them, but unfortunately the seller wanted more. Latest C65 on ebay (dec. 2009) went for around US$7800.
It was never even released.
Roughly 500 prototypes were sold after Commodores bankruptcy. There were even ads for them in Commodore magazines.
...but hopefully only the beginning. Let's hope "Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit" can help take down Symantec next.
Uhm. Do you really think you were the first person ever to sneeze on a keyboard?
ha ha ha.
Not related to SSL and stuff like that, but anyway: a few years ago I got a job working doing technical support for Symantec. During training, I was first embedded with the customer service-people, and watched them sit talk to customers, while they took down credit card numbers and other details on paper, which were later thrown out the the general office-trash.
A few days later I was supposed to do "technical training" with the so-called 2nd line support... The day I had to explain to one of them how to unlock the taskbar on Windows XP was the day I quit - after a total of 6 or 7 days of employment.
And who buys their stuff anyway? I haven't touched any of it since then so I don't know if anything has improved, but I remember how the Norton Security-packages idea of protecting the computer was to slow it down to a crawl and basically block everything. Not to mention what a mess it is (was?) to remove it from the system...
Very informative, but I'm pretty sure he was making a joke.
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/energy_policy/doc/factsheets/mix/mix_at_en.pdf
You're welcome.
> Okay lets put the next wind farm beside your house.
I heard the same thing when wind power came here about 10-15 years ago, and I still say: I'd rather have a wind farm next to my house than a nuclear power plant, an oil power plant or a coal power plant.
But are all the schools trying to cover it up every time something like that happens, and protect the teacher in question?
First day on the internet? Welcome.
which constitutes the bulk of the studio's creative and programming....
Hah. Activision hasn't done anything creative since Fighter Bomber was released in 1990. It was good and quite original despite being a flight sim. After that, boring copies of copies. (yes, I know that a lot of people think CIV II is the best game ever. I think it's slimy.)
There's plenty of other companies left who can remake all those same old games we've seen over and over and over again. Sigh. Everything was better in the old days. Time to boot up my Amiga 4000, which has more great and original games than the PC will ever have (since nobody is doing anything new anymore (on the PC/windows at least)).
Their keyboards are infamous and still equally usable today 20 years later as when they were new.
In other words, they're famous. I'm typing this on an IBM 1391411 (Swedish version of the PS/2 1391401) - best keyboard I've ever had. I got it about 3 years ago after many many "modern" keyboards of different kinds and I'll never go back to some low-profile, "high tech" (=useless mediakeys) keyboard.
And the biggest problem is that very few people grow up with a C64 or an Amiga nowadays. They don't have any reason to learn how a computer actually works (or what a computer is), if they're just put in front of a computer that can load a game into the OS with a double-click. No reason to actually learn anything if that "just works".
Where are you downloading those TV episodes from that you can peg a 30mbit connection, let alone a 100mbit connection?
bitmetv.org for tv series and usenet for movies. (and cheggit.net for porn!)
and most of the legal sources of such content that I'm aware of use steaming rather than downloading.
Well, I didn't say anything about it being legal. I'm honestly not sure I would have much use for 30Mb if I stayed legal, but, well, as long as it takes the TV stations over here 6 months or more to import the TV series I want to see, I (and most others I know) have no intention of being legal. Besides, it's still unclear if it's actually illegal to just download stuff (usenet) over here.
Also... as long as I have to pay a "filesharing tax" on blank cds and dvds, I think it's my damn right to actually "fileshare" even if it's technically not.