I was going to moderate you down as flamebait, but then you'd never get why. It's not Timothy that says anything, it's Lister of Smeg or whatever his name was that submitted it. Credits due where credits due.
Ups forgot one thing. If you actually HAVE read/. since the Chips & Dips days, how come you have a userid 22 times as high as I? I didn't start reading it until it just hade become slashdot.
You're pretty good at whining aren't you? And checking facts isn't really you're strong side either is it? Oh well. Have you actually tried to make/. a better place. Tried to submit good stories? Sent in any editorials on the subject? Tried to post a comment where you DON'T whine? Thought not. So shut up and go away.
I think you're out in the blue here. Black and White has been developed by Lionhead, Peter Molyneux is no longer with Bullfrog. The Black and white project has been going on for something like 2-3 years, and this was set from the beginning. As Peter himself said it, he wanted to be able to take his time and get it right, and this was possible by creating Lionhead and backing it with his own fortune. So I don't think it's the mess you seem to think it is.
Can we say "Tekken Tag Tournament, Tekken Tag Tournament and finally Tekken Tag Tournament". =) All I need. Heck Tekken 3 is the only game I have my PSX for!
Just wanted to point out that not this, nor any other comment by "John Carmack" (181219) are from the real John Carmack (101025). The John Carmack posting here doesn't have a space(32) in his name, but something else instead (easily seen because there's not a '+' in the userinfo URL where there should be one to replace ' ').
Well normally, I would agree with you all the way, but in this case, it happens to be so that copyright law is more or less the same in most western countries, which make the statement somewhat more sensible.
The downfall with E2, is that there's a lot of bullshit and crap on it. People tend to write teeny write-ups in vain attempts to be funny instead of actually writing any information worth having. Something along the lines of E2 but with more information-dedicated writers would be perfect. Add in a repository of interesting text/media and perhaps some kind of moderators/moderator system and it would rock.
Rob w/ grunts: will we have E3 before saturday? =)
Err. I read your comment and thought it sounded REALLY odd for being Metallica. After just 1 minute on the site, I quickly learned that the forums was for members in the Metallica Fan club. That is the 25$ was for becoming a full member of the Metallica fan-club during a year, getting access to special tickets, newsletters, etc etc. It wasn't 25$ for just posting and reading to a forum. Check your facts before you speak. (And yes, I'm kinda fond of Metallica, but no extreme fan. I don't even have all CDs).
No I'm not. They used to be. Check the statistics in for example Newsweek some weeks back, "Stockholm - Hot ipos and cool clubs", where you can see we're quite a bit past them.
Must point out that at least per capita, the US is not the most connected country. Sweden surpasses all other countries both in percentage connected to the internet, and in number of wireless appliances.
There's no way Sweden's legal system or ISP will agree on this. If they do I'll be severly shocked. In my younger days I was stupid enough to do some cracking, and eventually I got sloppy and caught. But even when facing legal actions my ISP did not release it's logs with me. So if they comply with this, it will be quite a new turn.
"It's different with copyrights, there's nothing in the law stating that a copyrighted text should not be obvious. All it needs to be is original, i.e. never having been written before. "
Actually that's not entirely true, a work is copyrightable when it's of such nature that it's unlikely it would be spontaneusly duplicated without knowing the original. Ergo, a very obvious text, such as "Hello World!";) , could not be copyrighted, since many individuals could come up with it without having seen it before.
According to the Features list in the release notes,chrome support should be working, but as soon as I try to set one, it dumps core on me.
1) Am I lame? (Counting this only, not in general, in which case everyone would just say yes =) ) 2) Is chrome support broken? 3) You have to go about setting a chrome some very odd way?
But if you (2) make no effort to implement security, or just leave all the default accounts and passwords on the server, and you get cracked, you'll get no sympathy from me, or anyone else.
So what you're trying to say is, that if you leave your house with the standard locks and very breakable windows, and I come along, break in and steal all your stuff, you're in no position to call the cops or complain?
Sounds fair enough. Could you give me your adress and I'll be right over.
That's one very true point. =) In general without being to prejudiced, the workers in India perhaps have a little bit tougher buying a PC, than the average swede. Perhaps I shouldn't have been so "They weren't first, we were!", I'm just a little bit bored of the extreme us-centricism on./ at some times. =)
The swedish goverment gave extreme tax reductions to all companies (private and the states) who sold computers to their employees. The computers were extremly cheap, good ones with good backup and warrants. Almost all swedish companies jumped on the bandwagon, pressing the computersales in sweden at a new all high. This singlehandedly spread computers into a lot of homes, that didn't have one before. So Ford was in no way revolutionary with this.
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I was going to moderate you down as flamebait, but then you'd never get why. It's not Timothy that says anything, it's Lister of Smeg or whatever his name was that submitted it. Credits due where credits due.
Just on a curious note, exactly what do you have in karma? =)
Sir, I think I speak for everyone when I say, to hell with Seagram.
Linus is finnish, but he is from the swedish-speaking minority of Finland.
Ups forgot one thing. If you actually HAVE read /. since the Chips & Dips days, how come you have a userid 22 times as high as I? I didn't start reading it until it just hade become slashdot.
You're pretty good at whining aren't you? And checking facts isn't really you're strong side either is it? Oh well. Have you actually tried to make /. a better place. Tried to submit good stories? Sent in any editorials on the subject? Tried to post a comment where you DON'T whine? Thought not. So shut up and go away.
I think you're out in the blue here. Black and White has been developed by Lionhead, Peter Molyneux is no longer with Bullfrog. The Black and white project has been going on for something like 2-3 years, and this was set from the beginning. As Peter himself said it, he wanted to be able to take his time and get it right, and this was possible by creating Lionhead and backing it with his own fortune. So I don't think it's the mess you seem to think it is.
Can we say "Tekken Tag Tournament, Tekken Tag Tournament and finally Tekken Tag Tournament". =)
All I need. Heck Tekken 3 is the only game I have my PSX for!
Not far to the Snowcrash vision of U.S. gov I guess. =)
Just wanted to point out that not this, nor any other comment by "John Carmack" (181219) are from the real John Carmack (101025). The John Carmack posting here doesn't have a space(32) in his name, but something else instead (easily seen because there's not a '+' in the userinfo URL where there should be one to replace ' ').
Well normally, I would agree with you all the way, but in this case, it happens to be so that copyright law is more or less the same in most western countries, which make the statement somewhat more sensible.
The downfall with E2, is that there's a lot of bullshit and crap on it. People tend to write teeny write-ups in vain attempts to be funny instead of actually writing any information worth having. Something along the lines of E2 but with more information-dedicated writers would be perfect. Add in a repository of interesting text/media and perhaps some kind of moderators/moderator system and it would rock.
Rob w/ grunts: will we have E3 before saturday? =)
Err. I read your comment and thought it sounded REALLY odd for being Metallica. After just 1 minute on the site, I quickly learned that the forums was for members in the Metallica Fan club. That is the 25$ was for becoming a full member of the Metallica fan-club during a year, getting access to special tickets, newsletters, etc etc. It wasn't 25$ for just posting and reading to a forum. Check your facts before you speak. (And yes, I'm kinda fond of Metallica, but no extreme fan. I don't even have all CDs).
94 was the year I got on the internet. Coincidence? I think not.
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No I'm not. They used to be. Check the statistics in for example Newsweek some weeks back, "Stockholm - Hot ipos and cool clubs", where you can see we're quite a bit past them.
Must point out that at least per capita, the US is not the most connected country. Sweden surpasses all other countries both in percentage connected to the internet, and in number of wireless appliances.
Well at least in Sweden, it's the one that looses the trial that pays for the other ones (and their own) trial costs.
There's no way Sweden's legal system or ISP will agree on this. If they do I'll be severly shocked. In my younger days I was stupid enough to do some cracking, and eventually I got sloppy and caught. But even when facing legal actions my ISP did not release it's logs with me. So if they comply with this, it will be quite a new turn.
Actually, I don't think so, they just have to be original enough. "Verkshöjd" it's called in swedish, have no idea what it is in english.
"It's different with copyrights, there's nothing in the law stating that a copyrighted text should not be obvious. All it needs to be is original, i.e. never having been written before. "
;) , could not be copyrighted, since many individuals could come up with it without having seen it before.
Actually that's not entirely true, a work is copyrightable when it's of such nature that it's unlikely it would be spontaneusly duplicated without knowing the original. Ergo, a very obvious text, such as "Hello World!"
According to the Features list in the release notes,chrome support should be working, but as soon
as I try to set one, it dumps core on me.
1) Am I lame?
(Counting this only, not in general, in which case everyone would just say yes =) )
2) Is chrome support broken?
3) You have to go about setting a chrome some very odd way?
Well I think C++ could have been better with bundled standard libraries.
So what you're trying to say is, that if you leave your house with the standard locks and very breakable windows, and I come along, break in and steal all your stuff, you're in no position to call the cops or complain?
Sounds fair enough. Could you give me your adress and I'll be right over.
That's one very true point. =) In general without being to prejudiced, the workers in India perhaps have a little bit tougher buying a PC, than the average swede. Perhaps I shouldn't have been so "They weren't first, we were!", I'm just a little bit bored of the extreme us-centricism on ./ at some times. =)
The swedish goverment gave extreme tax reductions to all companies (private and the states) who sold computers to their employees. The computers were extremly cheap, good ones with good backup and warrants. Almost all swedish companies jumped on the bandwagon, pressing the computersales in sweden at a new all high. This singlehandedly spread computers into a lot of homes, that didn't have one before. So Ford was in no way revolutionary with this.