ehum... just a short note. check your map. i live in china for the time being. area? should be about the same as the US. cities far apart from each other? Duh, yeah. Train travel used widely? YAP. a LOT. on the ABSOLUTELY NOT densely populated countryside to the west as well as the HIGHLY densely populated coast in the east (14-30 million people / city). I an a foreigner here, and even for biz trips we use the train sometimes. we have German high speed trains (ICE licence) and the maglev in shanghai (neat... fast, quiet, less expensive than a cabride. and a cab costs nothing here). it IS less hassle then flying. i am in sales and i travel a LOT here.
nothing new said here, just dont assume that because of US's huge and not so densely populated area train travel would work. it does.
I usually READ on slashdot, but i guess this time i should write.
So flame me, mod me down, or do whatever you will, I am not the usual poster (might become though... ^^)
As for the parent post:
Possibly it doesn't interest people (console games), as the WCG ONLY features the ****** XBOX with (excuse me for inputting personal opinion) LAME games, because, let's face it, who wants to watch a fighting game (even though I must admit, old 2D fighting games required LOTS fo skills in order to be able to "compete"). Worse even, who would EVER watch HALO if there iq Q3?!?!?!
I was playing Q3 in my years (and Q2 before that), and I played in tournaments. Sheesh, even went to WCG 2002 ^^.
Now some games require skill (Q3, BW, WC3(FT) [ a little less though ]), etc) and those should be respected. I think "skill" is the key point here. I dont mind how flashy and beautyful a game is, if you can't really compete, because "skill" gets "modded up or down" by randomness (and thats why CS never ever had the status of Q3.... I cuold see a total n00b being able to lose 30-3 to a top tier CS player, yet in Q3, the total noob wouldn't have made a single frag).
Now, there are TWO (YES, TWO) worldwide electronic games championships. one is WCG, and one is ESWC (electronic sports worldcup)
http://www.games-services.com/
who was initially created by lan-arena / ligarena. thos 2 entities dont exist in their past form anymore, and the founding members (greetz to m3t4_B) dont seem to eb there anymore. They keep a cyberleague throughout the whole year. WORLDWIDE.
And the games have a wider range than WCG. And they play PS2 games (ProEvolution Soccer mostly (winning eleven for asians and US)). The PES/WE tournament filled all the convention facilities of the Paris soccer stadium where they held the soccer world cup end-game, few years ago. Attendance is enourmous.
Japan, China, and most european countries have an attendance rate and participation rate for PES/WE matches no PS2, which most CS gamers would wish for.
Just to add my 2c......
Simply because americans don't KNOW or do something, don't mean it doesn't exist in the rest of the world.
I am currently living in China (due to work).
I was interested in downloading that app and trying it out, basicallly to see how it behaves during installation and which rights you need. This could be a nasty little thing to run other your not-so-beloved-neighbour who happens to have a large mp3 collection. hehe...
But oh well, big surprise, the IFPI website can't be reached from my host. I tried to tunnel through my other 2 ISPs, and the same thing occurs. When I use some chinese proxy, same thing again. Only when I use anon proxies outside of china, it works.
Well, i guess BAIDU has lost (yet they are going to the next instance and meanwhile my favourite mp3 source still exists ^^) against the RIAA, but the "great firewall of china" is blocking the IFPI website.
Isn't that ironic?
Why don't you take the time to LOOK at yahoo?
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I am a strong gmail supporter, and I have my accounts and I am happy with them. YES, it's beta, but it's already quicker, cleaner and nicer than most free webmail services I know. And they keep implementing new features permanently. Their tech-team is great, they reply pretty fast to bug reports and problems, and altogether I must say I am satisfied. I already moved all my OLD traffic from the hotmail account to gmail and told everyone to mail me there. Now... as for yahoo!... the matters are different. Ok, Hotmail sucks (its MSN, what'd you expect), but yahoo has localized servers everywhere. AND their service varies depending on which server you create your account (or which servers you tranfer your account to. I relocated recently to Shanghai, China (again!) due to professional reasons. I logged in to my yahoo mial, but the.com was slow. China has problems during the daytime. Their network is overloaded and everything going OUT of china ping basically bad, so even on my 12Mbit I go at 5K/s and consider myself happy. Anyways, the.com was slow, so i tried to log in through the cn.mail.yahoo.com portal, and woah, surprise, it's lightning fast. and after logging in, it suggest to transfer my account to the.cn servers. Which i did. It became fast also. BUT IT STAYED IN ENGLISH. now here comes the good part. cn.yahoo.com offers 1GB email already for the past 5 weeks. So does Japan (even 2GB for a small fee). And they do for free. Yahoo is tricky. it depends on the region..tw yahoo offered only up to 10 megs until october. and.cn had 1gb already. Yahoo also has a much lighter interface than hotmail (even though gmail's kicks the shi* out of yahoo!'s). So anyways. I DO support gmail, but I will point out that other have been pulling along wth the storage, that their service is ALSO good and that they already have what google still does not: localized servers so people from everywhere get good access. (All the latter info does NOt apply to MSN Hotmail...anyone surprised?!)
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ehum...
just a short note. check your map. i live in china for the time being. area? should be about the same as the US. cities far apart from each other? Duh, yeah. Train travel used widely? YAP. a LOT. on the ABSOLUTELY NOT densely populated countryside to the west as well as the HIGHLY densely populated coast in the east (14-30 million people / city).
I an a foreigner here, and even for biz trips we use the train sometimes. we have German high speed trains (ICE licence) and the maglev in shanghai (neat... fast, quiet, less expensive than a cabride. and a cab costs nothing here). it IS less hassle then flying. i am in sales and i travel a LOT here.
nothing new said here, just dont assume that because of US's huge and not so densely populated area train travel would work. it does.
I usually READ on slashdot, but i guess this time i should write. So flame me, mod me down, or do whatever you will, I am not the usual poster (might become though... ^^) As for the parent post: Possibly it doesn't interest people (console games), as the WCG ONLY features the ****** XBOX with (excuse me for inputting personal opinion) LAME games, because, let's face it, who wants to watch a fighting game (even though I must admit, old 2D fighting games required LOTS fo skills in order to be able to "compete"). Worse even, who would EVER watch HALO if there iq Q3?!?!?! I was playing Q3 in my years (and Q2 before that), and I played in tournaments. Sheesh, even went to WCG 2002 ^^. Now some games require skill (Q3, BW, WC3(FT) [ a little less though ]), etc) and those should be respected. I think "skill" is the key point here. I dont mind how flashy and beautyful a game is, if you can't really compete, because "skill" gets "modded up or down" by randomness (and thats why CS never ever had the status of Q3.... I cuold see a total n00b being able to lose 30-3 to a top tier CS player, yet in Q3, the total noob wouldn't have made a single frag). Now, there are TWO (YES, TWO) worldwide electronic games championships. one is WCG, and one is ESWC (electronic sports worldcup) http://www.games-services.com/ who was initially created by lan-arena / ligarena. thos 2 entities dont exist in their past form anymore, and the founding members (greetz to m3t4_B) dont seem to eb there anymore. They keep a cyberleague throughout the whole year. WORLDWIDE. And the games have a wider range than WCG. And they play PS2 games (ProEvolution Soccer mostly (winning eleven for asians and US)). The PES/WE tournament filled all the convention facilities of the Paris soccer stadium where they held the soccer world cup end-game, few years ago. Attendance is enourmous. Japan, China, and most european countries have an attendance rate and participation rate for PES/WE matches no PS2, which most CS gamers would wish for. Just to add my 2c...... Simply because americans don't KNOW or do something, don't mean it doesn't exist in the rest of the world.
nice to know there is another fellow slashdotter from shanghai... ^^ any way to reach you except by posting here?
I am currently living in China (due to work). I was interested in downloading that app and trying it out, basicallly to see how it behaves during installation and which rights you need. This could be a nasty little thing to run other your not-so-beloved-neighbour who happens to have a large mp3 collection. hehe... But oh well, big surprise, the IFPI website can't be reached from my host. I tried to tunnel through my other 2 ISPs, and the same thing occurs. When I use some chinese proxy, same thing again. Only when I use anon proxies outside of china, it works. Well, i guess BAIDU has lost (yet they are going to the next instance and meanwhile my favourite mp3 source still exists ^^) against the RIAA, but the "great firewall of china" is blocking the IFPI website. Isn't that ironic?
I am a strong gmail supporter, and I have my accounts and I am happy with them. YES, it's beta, but it's already quicker, cleaner and nicer than most free webmail services I know. And they keep implementing new features permanently. Their tech-team is great, they reply pretty fast to bug reports and problems, and altogether I must say I am satisfied. I already moved all my OLD traffic from the hotmail account to gmail and told everyone to mail me there. Now... as for yahoo! ... the matters are different. .com was slow. China has problems during the daytime. Their network is overloaded and everything going OUT of china ping basically bad, so even on my 12Mbit I go at 5K/s and consider myself happy. Anyways, the.com was slow, so i tried to log in through the cn.mail.yahoo.com portal, and woah, surprise, it's lightning fast. and after logging in, it suggest to transfer my account to the .cn servers. Which i did. It became fast also. BUT IT STAYED IN ENGLISH. now here comes the good part. cn.yahoo.com offers 1GB email already for the past 5 weeks. So does Japan (even 2GB for a small fee). And they do for free. Yahoo is tricky. it depends on the region. .tw yahoo offered only up to 10 megs until october. and .cn had 1gb already.
Ok, Hotmail sucks (its MSN, what'd you expect), but yahoo has localized servers everywhere. AND their service varies depending on which server you create your account (or which servers you tranfer your account to.
I relocated recently to Shanghai, China (again!) due to professional reasons. I logged in to my yahoo mial, but the
Yahoo also has a much lighter interface than hotmail (even though gmail's kicks the shi* out of yahoo!'s).
So anyways. I DO support gmail, but I will point out that other have been pulling along wth the storage, that their service is ALSO good and that they already have what google still does not: localized servers so people from everywhere get good access.
(All the latter info does NOt apply to MSN Hotmail...anyone surprised?!)