We're talking about 4 glasses of Wine, not heavy vodka. I worked in a pharma company, and I saw these figures. Except it becomes dangerous from 4 glasses per day, not 5.
1/ Tetris (no comment)
2/ Gradius (get a Nec...)
3/ Dune (first real VGA game in my opinion...)
4/ Dune 2 (not perfect, but a revolution)
5/ Half Life (first good solo FPS)
Just another graphic card getting hot enough to make toasts with you PC... It becomes boring...
My old Matrox Mystique doesn't heat my entire room, why should these new cards do it ? That's no real progress to me.
I look forward to see some faster progress concerning the power draining of new graphic cards...
"Like it's predecessor, it won't be allowed to land in the USA for some kind of bullshit reason, thanks to the "Not Invented Here" syndrome that's so popular with yankees."
Nevermind, this new plane will land in Japan (or China ?), americans are not the only ones on earth.
For the cost : Concorde didn't cost France money, it showed profit at the end of its story.
For the fuel : the article says the new plane will be better... Have you read the text ?
At least, we go forward.
It looks a little bit like "One man to rule them all" for the moment, at least given the news I see...
But many people agree with Rocard, in France, even if this kind of information concerning patents is not often given by media. He's part of the politicians we like, here, as well as Delors, Badinter,...
Don't you find this is HUGE ???
0.2s to access a piece of data !!! I wouldn't be surprised if my USB Key was faster than that !
I think this is gonna be a serious problem...
Do you know that a few years ago I had AOL (they don't EVER present themselves as "America On Line" here in France, because it could be a liiiiitle marketing penalty) and EVERY data that I received and that I sent get across the ocean to go back to my place ?
For example, if I accessed a french web site, data were going to the USA before arriving to my computer...
AOL is a shame... Of course they log everything...
According to Michel Rocard (former France Prime Minister, now European Deputy), companies like US Majors (Microsoft & Co), Nokia or Alcatel exerted pressure on european commission to have a second look at the pattent issue. In this interview (French) Michel Rocard says that the expert group that was supposed to help the commission, was in fact formed by Microsoft and other IT companies.
Rocard said : "We never could have talked a common language with the companies representatives we met - in particular those from Microsoft. Speaking about free ideas circulation, free access to knowledge, was like speaking chinese to them. In their way of thinking, everything that is not usable for immediate profit cease to be a growth vector. They don't seem to be able to understand that an invention which is a pure spirit creation can't be pattented. It's simply terrifying. Many of us, at the Parliament, agree to say that they never have know such a pressure and such a verbal violence during their parliamentary work. It is a huge case."
18 may 2004, Commission presents a new text even more liberal than the first one, and try to impose it during Agriculture Minister Concil, which primary objective was FISHING. Thanks to Poland interventions, the vote is avoided.
"Concerning France, no word from it. Jacques Chirac claimed himself against extensive software pattenting during his presidential campaing. But the current industry minister, Patrick Devedjian said nothing against the text."
I think this case is a little bit different, because the man you're talking about was indeed neo-nazi.
My opinion is that his action was not commanded by any link with the game itself. Sad story anyway.
Dear "Anonymous Coward", I *think* I can write anything I want, without forcing anyone to agree with me.
Thanks anyway to the one who voted a +1 score for me... at first.
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We're talking about 4 glasses of Wine, not heavy vodka. I worked in a pharma company, and I saw these figures. Except it becomes dangerous from 4 glasses per day, not 5.
1/ Tetris (no comment) 2/ Gradius (get a Nec ...)
3/ Dune (first real VGA game in my opinion...)
4/ Dune 2 (not perfect, but a revolution)
5/ Half Life (first good solo FPS)
Just another graphic card getting hot enough to make toasts with you PC... It becomes boring...
My old Matrox Mystique doesn't heat my entire room, why should these new cards do it ? That's no real progress to me.
I look forward to see some faster progress concerning the power draining of new graphic cards...
"Like it's predecessor, it won't be allowed to land in the USA for some kind of bullshit reason, thanks to the "Not Invented Here" syndrome that's so popular with yankees." Nevermind, this new plane will land in Japan (or China ?), americans are not the only ones on earth. For the cost : Concorde didn't cost France money, it showed profit at the end of its story. For the fuel : the article says the new plane will be better... Have you read the text ? At least, we go forward.
It looks a little bit like "One man to rule them all" for the moment, at least given the news I see... But many people agree with Rocard, in France, even if this kind of information concerning patents is not often given by media. He's part of the politicians we like, here, as well as Delors, Badinter, ...
Don't you find this is HUGE ??? 0.2s to access a piece of data !!! I wouldn't be surprised if my USB Key was faster than that ! I think this is gonna be a serious problem ...
I understand that, I'd just rather see research on the "we can't have any wireless device" side :)
... is not thickness, it's the cable ITSELF I think... I'd rather see some important research on WIFI than this kind of invention...
Do you know that a few years ago I had AOL (they don't EVER present themselves as "America On Line" here in France, because it could be a liiiiitle marketing penalty) and EVERY data that I received and that I sent get across the ocean to go back to my place ?
For example, if I accessed a french web site, data were going to the USA before arriving to my computer...
AOL is a shame... Of course they log everything...
I don't understand how you can criminalize VOIP and authorize Instant Messenging ...
According to Michel Rocard (former France Prime Minister, now European Deputy), companies like US Majors (Microsoft & Co), Nokia or Alcatel exerted pressure on european commission to have a second look at the pattent issue. In this interview (French) Michel Rocard says that the expert group that was supposed to help the commission, was in fact formed by Microsoft and other IT companies.
Rocard said : "We never could have talked a common language with the companies representatives we met - in particular those from Microsoft. Speaking about free ideas circulation, free access to knowledge, was like speaking chinese to them. In their way of thinking, everything that is not usable for immediate profit cease to be a growth vector. They don't seem to be able to understand that an invention which is a pure spirit creation can't be pattented. It's simply terrifying. Many of us, at the Parliament, agree to say that they never have know such a pressure and such a verbal violence during their parliamentary work. It is a huge case."
18 may 2004, Commission presents a new text even more liberal than the first one, and try to impose it during Agriculture Minister Concil, which primary objective was FISHING. Thanks to Poland interventions, the vote is avoided.
"Concerning France, no word from it. Jacques Chirac claimed himself against extensive software pattenting during his presidential campaing. But the current industry minister, Patrick Devedjian said nothing against the text."
... when you don't fill your TPS Report.
I think this case is a little bit different, because the man you're talking about was indeed neo-nazi. My opinion is that his action was not commanded by any link with the game itself. Sad story anyway.
Strange this kind of thing never happen in EU ... (or I'm not informed). But why ?
Do you *really* think he could one day admit the oposite ? :)
... that this "new" site will be hacked in the next days ...
... since many american won't even be able to get IN the car.
Dear "Anonymous Coward", I *think* I can write anything I want, without forcing anyone to agree with me. Thanks anyway to the one who voted a +1 score for me... at first.
... to use GMail ?
... to anyone who writes "F*CK BUSH" with Mars robot tracks !
count the number of "f*ck" in comments for news M$ software ?
... and your own input methods ? For example a "Double-clic" ? ...
.... for now, because things might change with the software patent project ! (erk)
''Don't drop the first two digits. The program may well fail from ambiguity in the Year 10000.'' (I'm a Guru)