And better than that, I use a service called ScreenSelect (in UK) which is similar to netflix and has also games, usually I play the new games that way and then buy it used if I really liked it.
if even borrowing a game from a friend was squashed, they'd sell many more copies thanks to people not being able to try things out on the cheap beforehand to find out how much it sucks.
Ah! but in Mexico (at least) there are some public shops where you can rent game consoles for some time (I think Nintendo has something similar). When I was in Mexico I used to go to those places and try an hour of certain game.
I agree with that but in the other had, the 85% of the population that doesnt use firefox already have a computer and are using another browser. The aim would be to get marketshare from IE who is the one that has an uneven marketshare.
How to do that? well, you have to convince the people that is using them to migrate to firefox. As another person wrote one of the ways to convince them is showing the advantages Fx has compared to IE6. On that note, you should show the people what Fx can do right now, for example the ad blocking, tabbed browsing, the live bookmarks, spell checking etc. Some of these properties are achieved using extensions, but please dont just say "firefox has extensions that allow you to make things you can not do with other browsers". Just tell the people what firefox can do (including extensions).
And then, the chance for this mass migration posibility is almost gone, because when Microsoft releases IE7, people will see it as an update. They will update their current program and they may not buy into all the bells and whistles that firefox provides
but sadly 18% of our firefox users need to upgrade to the latest version;) Go do that now.
Do you mean version 2? But I just remember reading a story on slashdot that was tagged "donotdownlad" and there was a highly moded comment stating that Mozilla did not wanted us to download that version...
I am running 1.5.0.4 (now that I see it, it is funny the quantity of digits in that version number, what does the.0 is suppose mean?)
Is it the latest version? according to the Help/update it is:) yay!
Stop trolling (I know, it is a bit late for the answer but, I am free). For one, users will and can run as a normal user instead of as root, and no applications will ever break. Try that with Windows, where all users eventually have to have administrator priviledges, and install dozens of spyware and adware on their machines, bringing in dozens of trojans and worms.
In windows XP, users CAN run as normal users normally once the system is steup.
Why does any user needs to have administration privileges for in Windows XP?
I myself use WinXP in my Notebook, and I created an unprivileged account. I can use every application I need (ftp, http, telnet and ssh for internet, Microsoft Office suite, Eclipse IDE, CodeBlocks, and command line! I can even hibernate and burn CDs, OH! and I can also watch DVDS and CHANGE THE DARN RESOLUTION OF MY SCREEN). So what cant the users do without admin privileges? I am very intrigued!
In contrast, as an unprivileged user on Linux in my university office PC (where I am writing right now) I can not install ANY program (nope, RPM management requires ROOT), I can not change my monitor resolution (I know it supports more than 1024x768 because I was running Win2000 before at 1280 x 1024) because I need ROOT access to modify the xconf. I can not change the date and time of the system, I can not configure a new printer, I can not use some of the space in the computer hard disk (I have some space allocated in a network drive mounted at my ~/ dir which is the only place I have write access) [I made a directory in the tmp directory which is IN the hard drive and then pointed a link to it, it was a nice workaround].
Anyway, there are lots and lots of things that, if I was not a "computer literate" I would have run to the IT guy because I was not able to do.
Thanks for your help, unfortunately I think you missed one of the frist things in my message: Unfortunately I do not have an internet connection with that machine.
So, in order to install software I have to hunt down applications and dependencies, I will try with the Synaptic "save download script".
Now, EasyUbunty also requires an internet connection, I would try to run it from another machine but I do not have access to any other UBUNTU machine (with linux).
DONT start at the top with different "equivalent" functions and formats that you are actually personally unfamiliar with. While OpenOffice handles WinOffice formats, OGG is *not* the same as MP3 and it'll take about 30 seconds for your friend to find out. He's not going to like having to go through an extra step to convert the data so he can put it on his MP3 player (or even download it in the first place). Similarly, SVG is *not* WMV. And he's going to be mightly pissed off when you tell him he has yet another format to manage.
Now I understand why...
First, I never said that OGG was the same as MP3, second I specifically stated OGG (Vorbis). You DO know the difference between the OGG container and the Ogg Vorbis audio format dont you? Next, he understands that he is not able to play the.ogg format in his MP3 player.
Then, what the FUCK are you talking about? I never said anything about WMV, please, I had the care of not mentioning VIDEO or DVD to him because I know it is not well supported out of the box in Ubuntu (in Windows XP you have the Windows media Player which plays ALL KIND OF DVDs).
And of course WMV is not the same as SVG. However, I was talking about WMF or "Windows meta-file" which is (as SVG) a Vector graphics format.
It seems it is the anonymous puto the one that does not know what he is talking about and preferred to write a nice troll without taking the karma hit uh?
Why do developers still use VS 6? I am not sure -- but it seems to still be the most popular windows compiler for most windows developers to out there -- probably because it took microsoft so damned long to replace it that it got ingrained into everything people do.
I am shure as hell that I will not buy Visual Studio 7 to create C++ applications when my good old copy of Visual C++ 6.0 is still working.
I am not saying that MP3 is illegal or whatever. Yes, XMMS plays MP3 as Totem mdedia player does. However THEY DO NOT COME CONFIGURED OUT OF THE BOX. You need to setup the "RestrictedFormat" packages (in Ubuntu) in order to play it.
That is all I was stating, and the difference in OGG (Vorbis) and MP3 is very well defined, OGG is an open encoding algorithm FREE OF PATENTS something that MP3 is not.
Is this guy a troll or a paid Microsoft shill? You decide. Pretty funny comment, coming from YOU Mr. ANONYMOUS Sissy.
IT guy mentions that Linux might fit the bill, and it's free, receives regular security updates and doesn't suffer from virus and spyware problems anyway.
You own me a keyboard.
That was really funny. So, you *really* believe that an IT (from the real world, not your imaginary Sylvania) guy will prefer to install and mantain Linux based operating system Desktops against Windows OS desktops?.
My bet would be that your IT guy will say the manager "get rid of those computers and replace them with new ones, the productivity of the people will increase". Of course these new machines will have WinXP.
It is very, VERY rare the IT (from a small company) that wants to bother with mantaining Linux distirbutions and, moreso that wants to be annoyed with calls from users about "why is this Office thing not working".
I know this will sound as the same old troll but there is, at least with Ubuntu, a long way to go for the Linux desktop mass "takeover".
I just installed Ubuntu in a Pentium 3 400mhz that I found in the trash (I love UK) which had Windows 2000. Unfortunately I do not have an internet connection with that machine.
I configured an account for my flatmate, he is a decent computer literate guy, biologist but he likes technology (he is something like 36 yrold and used to make small BASIC programs in the past).
I am doing an experiment, the first thing he ased when he started using the machine was "but, does it plays MP3"?, I explained him all the situation (he is a "freedom" [in a broad sense, not in libre software as a lot of people is here] activist so, he understands about copyrights and all that shit) and told him about OGG, and showed him that there was support for OGG out of the box.
Of course, I also told him I would install the MP3 support, here is where te problems began, I went to the UBUNTU site, and looked for what was necessary to provide MP3 support, then I downloaded the specified software and tried to installed via USB. None of it installed as every program needed some other program (aka unsatisfied dependency). Even the mp321 needed the id3tag-whatever library. As I didnt wanted to bother I just installed realplayer, and this is what he is using NOW to play mp3 (unfortunatley it does not have a playlist functionality so my friend has to open each file, and there is no way to configure the gnome file manager to make realplayer the default player when you dobule click, it keeps opening in Totem who says that the mp3 is not a multimedia format).
Then, he opened OpenOffice (I told him about how it would be the equivalent for Microsoft Office for his needs). After he opened I went to do something else, and when I returned, he had OO.org in full screen mode and the program was kind of paralyzed. After looking a bit he told me he tried to customize the FullScreen Toolbar (the one that has the "FullScreen" button in it), I just pressed ALT-f4 and then tried again, it seems, the Fullscreen mode in OpenOffice gets "always on top" mode, and then when you try to open the customize screen the window sits under the document window WITH focus, the document window wont get focus unless you close that other window that is behind it. Bad program.
Ok, then I told him about OpenOffice Draw, I use it a lot (it exports to EPS which I use with LaTex). I told him about the Vector graphics format and explained about the SVG and WMF (told him that SVG is the open and standard equivalent to the windows WMF). I made a fast drawing, selected all the elements and exported as SVG. Then I tried to import that image in a DOCUMENT (Open Office Writer Inert/Image/FromFile) and to my surprise THERE IS NO SUPPORT FOR IMPORTING SVG. There is SGV which is I believe a staroffice format, but it is another thing. I tried chaning the extension to whatever (SGV) without success. it was funny that just two minutes before I had told my friend that Linux was cool because it "recognizes the format from the file content and not from the extension", but then it seems OpenOffice.org expects the files to have a specific extension. Bad bad program.
Then I exported the same drawing to WMF (THE WINDOWS PROPIETARY FORMAT) and to my surprise I could import it to OpenOffice Writer without problem (WTF).
Another annoyance, that is of course a RealPlayer problem is that, there is no way to select which soundcard to use. The motherboard has an integraded soundcard and a Soundblaster live (darn Britons, I cant believe I found it in the trash in a rainy day =o). I configured the SoundBlaster live as the default device (in the Ubuntu menu) but the REalPlayer ignored that. What I had to do is connect the speakers to the integraded soundcard jack and then just selected it as the default sound card.
As long as it really IS cheaper to be wasteful, then that's exactly what people will continue to do!
That is the result of a capitalist community, because, at the end of the day the Utility is calculated in terms of money, so in the same way corporations look to maximize their utility by making processes on the cheapest way, so consumers (people) are continuously looking for ways to minimize their (monetary) loss.
This trend will just trend when the communities realize that the Utility function they have been using, based on "Wealth" may provide satisfaction for them in the short/medium term but does not provides satisfaction for the society in long term. Of course some people already know but do not care.
Then, there is the trend of trying to quantify those non-money related issues to put them a "price". As a friend of mine told me (he has a PhD in sustainable development) how much do you value that the Amur Leopard is still walking in Russia?, some people here may understand the vaule, but tell that to the CEO of any NASDAQ company.
Oh, nothing aside of the fact that UK (government?) has always been the USA lamehuevos (soory, could not find the exact translation, but it means they are always willing to please the USA government, even if that means screwing their own people).
On the other hand, USA would never accept the extradition of that person to China.
But I think people using Apple computers are the one with less technical knowledge, at least that was what the MAC was about (no?), to let "everyone else" use a computer. So, if there was a company creating malware for that computer now, with almost no "active protection" I believe they could get a nice perecentage of the userbase to fall into their claws.
Video Game designed evolved to match players against other players more efficiently. They got pretty good at it too. Street Fighter II was not the most popular game because of it's single-player mode, afterall. Every modern arcade had a vs. mode, or at the very least a co-op mode.
Haha, there is no better feeling than beating the ass of a 18+ guy in front of his friends, especially when he keeps challenging and challenging you (a 8 or 9 year old kid). Oh god, I miss those days. I think it was one of the best values of arcades, you got challenged by people you did not know, sometimes they did something really cool (like the 3 Johnny cage heads, or Guile's machine reset or his "statue") and you where feeling to kill to know how did he do it, of course, after you knew, you would invite your friends to the closest arcade just to show how leet you were by making the "statue", or maybe piss of some guy that beat you before by challegning him again and resetting the machine.
One of the last arcade games I enjoyed playing was King Of Fighters, I liked it until KOF200 (wow, that was 6 years ago!), the 3 fighter extension was nice, and unlike the Marvel or other fighting series they did not have those Whole-screen-kick-ur-ass-in-one-hit hyper powers. They even lower the power of the "special" attacks from KOF96 to KOF97. I never was as good as I was in Street Fighter or both Mortal Kombats, but I liked playing a coin every now and then.
Aside of that, I loved pinball, as another poster said before, pinball exploit the arcade hardware advantage.
Now, I have one question for the English players, where THE HECK do you play "normal" Arcades in UK?, I have been here for 2 years and the only standard joystick+buttons arcade I have seen has been in a lonley Tekken arcade in a night-club.
I live in liverpool, and there is no place where I can go play KOF, Mortal Kombat or whatever new arcade there is... the only thing these guys have are betting machines (in every pub) and sometimes they have football arcades or driving arcades (motorcycle, cars, etc). And the ocassional shooting arcade (god, I have seen a Namco shooting arcade where you are supposed to shoot to get money!). Britons are really greed, they are swimming in money and they still want more and more (sorry for the shameless rant, I like Britain, and Britons, otherwise I wont be here:]).
I got a computer from the trash in the street (yeah, damn britons immitating the "use and throw" USA culture). Unfortunately, its BIOS wont allow me to install my 80 GB hard disk (the autodetect choked and when specifying the configuration manually it will recognize it as 8GB only) so I had to upgrade the bios.
The way I did it is just download a WIN98SE boot disk from bootdisk.com and burn the image with Nero (using the "boot cd option" (the Floppy was not working), then i added the AMI flashing utility and the.rom file. It was really straightforward.
Now, I had to use the WIN98SE because I needed the RAMDRIVE as (for some reason) the flashing utility needed to write in the disk when it was flashing.
Audioscrobbler and Last.fm have existed for quite some time. Last.fm is the "commercial" side of the company, while audioscrobbler was (as you state) the name of the plugin that lets you update your online profile.
Now, they have been two very related things since the beggining, (when there was NOT a stand alone player).
There was a time when the two pages where completely different. Now they are just the same.
"last.fm" in a sense is nothing more than a name. The "stand alone player" is just called "last.fm player" yeah, with the "player" word in it.
The reason they made the "player" when they became mainstream was because of the fear of being sued by the record cartels as people could easly streamreap from winamp or other players. Of course a lot of people complained, and there player has now the ability to function as a proxy for other players (stupid if you ask me). There is also a python script that will do the same.
so there is no change in marketing names and no Last.fm is not the name of the player.
For people that live in the UK, Play.com have 3 games for £10. They have great titles, I just bought: - Worms2/Worms-Armaggedon pack - World War II Collection (Battlefield 1942 + MOH Allied Assault + Secret Weapons Over Normandy) - Zoo Tycoon
Yup, life is competition, which means losers. To believe otherwise is to deny humanity.
And not only humanity but life by itself, it is the food chain and the basic rule of life to survive by eliminating others. I have always thought how this so called "reasoning" beings are the ones that kill for other things than self preservation.
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And better than that, I use a service called ScreenSelect (in UK) which is similar to netflix and has also games, usually I play the new games that way and then buy it used if I really liked it.
:)
if even borrowing a game from a friend was squashed, they'd sell many more copies thanks to people not being able to try things out on the cheap beforehand to find out how much it sucks.
Ah! but in Mexico (at least) there are some public shops where you can rent game consoles for some time (I think Nintendo has something similar). When I was in Mexico I used to go to those places and try an hour of certain game.
If I liked it I could rent it from there
Yes and no.
I agree with that but in the other had, the 85% of the population that doesnt use firefox already have a computer and are using another browser. The aim would be to get marketshare from IE who is the one that has an uneven marketshare.
How to do that? well, you have to convince the people that is using them to migrate to firefox. As another person wrote one of the ways to convince them is showing the advantages Fx has compared to IE6. On that note, you should show the people what Fx can do right now, for example the ad blocking, tabbed browsing, the live bookmarks, spell checking etc. Some of these properties are achieved using extensions, but please dont just say "firefox has extensions that allow you to make things you can not do with other browsers". Just tell the people what firefox can do (including extensions).
And then, the chance for this mass migration posibility is almost gone, because when Microsoft releases IE7, people will see it as an update. They will update their current program and they may not buy into all the bells and whistles that firefox provides
but sadly 18% of our firefox users need to upgrade to the latest version ;) Go do that now.
.0 is suppose mean?)
:) yay!
Do you mean version 2? But I just remember reading a story on slashdot that was tagged "donotdownlad" and there was a highly moded comment stating that Mozilla did not wanted us to download that version...
I am running 1.5.0.4 (now that I see it, it is funny the quantity of digits in that version number, what does the
Is it the latest version? according to the Help/update it is
Stop trolling (I know, it is a bit late for the answer but, I am free).
For one, users will and can run as a normal user instead of as root, and no applications will ever break. Try that with Windows, where all users eventually have to have administrator priviledges, and install dozens of spyware and adware on their machines, bringing in dozens of trojans and worms.
In windows XP, users CAN run as normal users normally once the system is steup.
Why does any user needs to have administration privileges for in Windows XP?
I myself use WinXP in my Notebook, and I created an unprivileged account. I can use every application I need (ftp, http, telnet and ssh for internet, Microsoft Office suite, Eclipse IDE, CodeBlocks, and command line! I can even hibernate and burn CDs, OH! and I can also watch DVDS and CHANGE THE DARN RESOLUTION OF MY SCREEN). So what cant the users do without admin privileges? I am very intrigued!
In contrast, as an unprivileged user on Linux in my university office PC (where I am writing right now) I can not install ANY program (nope, RPM management requires ROOT), I can not change my monitor resolution (I know it supports more than 1024x768 because I was running Win2000 before at 1280 x 1024) because I need ROOT access to modify the xconf. I can not change the date and time of the system, I can not configure a new printer, I can not use some of the space in the computer hard disk (I have some space allocated in a network drive mounted at my ~/ dir which is the only place I have write access) [I made a directory in the tmp directory which is IN the hard drive and then pointed a link to it, it was a nice workaround].
Anyway, there are lots and lots of things that, if I was not a "computer literate" I would have run to the IT guy because I was not able to do.
So please stop trolling.
Hey!
Thanks for your help, unfortunately I think you missed one of the frist things in my message:
Unfortunately I do not have an internet connection with that machine.
So, in order to install software I have to hunt down applications and dependencies, I will try with the Synaptic "save download script".
Now, EasyUbunty also requires an internet connection, I would try to run it from another machine but I do not have access to any other UBUNTU machine (with linux).
Why do you people post as anonymous cowards?
.ogg format in his MP3 player.
DONT start at the top with different "equivalent" functions and formats that you are actually personally unfamiliar with. While OpenOffice handles WinOffice formats, OGG is *not* the same as MP3 and it'll take about 30 seconds for your friend to find out. He's not going to like having to go through an extra step to convert the data so he can put it on his MP3 player (or even download it in the first place). Similarly, SVG is *not* WMV. And he's going to be mightly pissed off when you tell him he has yet another format to manage.
Now I understand why...
First, I never said that OGG was the same as MP3, second I specifically stated OGG (Vorbis). You DO know the difference between the OGG container and the Ogg Vorbis audio format dont you? Next, he understands that he is not able to play the
Then, what the FUCK are you talking about? I never said anything about WMV, please, I had the care of not mentioning VIDEO or DVD to him because I know it is not well supported out of the box in Ubuntu (in Windows XP you have the Windows media Player which plays ALL KIND OF DVDs).
And of course WMV is not the same as SVG. However, I was talking about WMF or "Windows meta-file" which is (as SVG) a Vector graphics format.
It seems it is the anonymous puto the one that does not know what he is talking about and preferred to write a nice troll without taking the karma hit uh?
Why do developers still use VS 6? I am not sure -- but it seems to still be the most popular windows compiler for most windows developers to out there -- probably because it took microsoft so damned long to replace it that it got ingrained into everything people do.
I am shure as hell that I will not buy Visual Studio 7 to create C++ applications when my good old copy of Visual C++ 6.0 is still working.
How much is VC++7 for commercial use nowadays?
I am not saying that MP3 is illegal or whatever. Yes, XMMS plays MP3 as Totem mdedia player does. However THEY DO NOT COME CONFIGURED OUT OF THE BOX. You need to setup the "RestrictedFormat" packages (in Ubuntu) in order to play it.
That is all I was stating, and the difference in OGG (Vorbis) and MP3 is very well defined, OGG is an open encoding algorithm FREE OF PATENTS something that MP3 is not.
Is this guy a troll or a paid Microsoft shill? You decide.
Pretty funny comment, coming from YOU Mr. ANONYMOUS Sissy.
IT guy mentions that Linux might fit the bill, and it's free, receives regular security updates and doesn't suffer from virus and spyware problems anyway.
You own me a keyboard.
That was really funny. So, you *really* believe that an IT (from the real world, not your imaginary Sylvania) guy will prefer to install and mantain Linux based operating system Desktops against Windows OS desktops?.
My bet would be that your IT guy will say the manager "get rid of those computers and replace them with new ones, the productivity of the people will increase". Of course these new machines will have WinXP.
It is very, VERY rare the IT (from a small company) that wants to bother with mantaining Linux distirbutions and, moreso that wants to be annoyed with calls from users about "why is this Office thing not working".
Man, you ARE funny.
I know this will sound as the same old troll but there is, at least with Ubuntu, a long way to go for the Linux desktop mass "takeover".
I just installed Ubuntu in a Pentium 3 400mhz that I found in the trash (I love UK) which had Windows 2000. Unfortunately I do not have an internet connection with that machine.
I configured an account for my flatmate, he is a decent computer literate guy, biologist but he likes technology (he is something like 36 yrold and used to make small BASIC programs in the past).
I am doing an experiment, the first thing he ased when he started using the machine was "but, does it plays MP3"?, I explained him all the situation (he is a "freedom" [in a broad sense, not in libre software as a lot of people is here] activist so, he understands about copyrights and all that shit) and told him about OGG, and showed him that there was support for OGG out of the box.
Of course, I also told him I would install the MP3 support, here is where te problems began, I went to the UBUNTU site, and looked for what was necessary to provide MP3 support, then I downloaded the specified software and tried to installed via USB. None of it installed as every program needed some other program (aka unsatisfied dependency). Even the mp321 needed the id3tag-whatever library. As I didnt wanted to bother I just installed realplayer, and this is what he is using NOW to play mp3 (unfortunatley it does not have a playlist functionality so my friend has to open each file, and there is no way to configure the gnome file manager to make realplayer the default player when you dobule click, it keeps opening in Totem who says that the mp3 is not a multimedia format).
Then, he opened OpenOffice (I told him about how it would be the equivalent for Microsoft Office for his needs). After he opened I went to do something else, and when I returned, he had OO.org in full screen mode and the program was kind of paralyzed. After looking a bit he told me he tried to customize the FullScreen Toolbar (the one that has the "FullScreen" button in it), I just pressed ALT-f4 and then tried again, it seems, the Fullscreen mode in OpenOffice gets "always on top" mode, and then when you try to open the customize screen the window sits under the document window WITH focus, the document window wont get focus unless you close that other window that is behind it. Bad program.
Ok, then I told him about OpenOffice Draw, I use it a lot (it exports to EPS which I use with LaTex). I told him about the Vector graphics format and explained about the SVG and WMF (told him that SVG is the open and standard equivalent to the windows WMF). I made a fast drawing, selected all the elements and exported as SVG. Then I tried to import that image in a DOCUMENT (Open Office Writer Inert/Image/FromFile) and to my surprise THERE IS NO SUPPORT FOR IMPORTING SVG. There is SGV which is I believe a staroffice format, but it is another thing. I tried chaning the extension to whatever (SGV) without success. it was funny that just two minutes before I had told my friend that Linux was cool because it "recognizes the format from the file content and not from the extension", but then it seems OpenOffice.org expects the files to have a specific extension. Bad bad program.
Then I exported the same drawing to WMF (THE WINDOWS PROPIETARY FORMAT) and to my surprise I could import it to OpenOffice Writer without problem (WTF).
Another annoyance, that is of course a RealPlayer problem is that, there is no way to select which soundcard to use. The motherboard has an integraded soundcard and a Soundblaster live (darn Britons, I cant believe I found it in the trash in a rainy day =o). I configured the SoundBlaster live as the default device (in the Ubuntu menu) but the REalPlayer ignored that. What I had to do is connect the speakers to the integraded soundcard jack and then just selected it as the default sound card.
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No, with firefox adblock I just need to download the adblock filter lst and never worry about ads.
Overtaking Microsoft is not enough to become the dominant OS, for example see OSX.
You coparison is irrelevant since OSX is not a [supported] IBM-PC or compatible operating system.
IMHO, this is the time when RedHat, Suse and Mandriva should use to make "the jump", even Linsipire (I think this one has had some success in Mexico).
As long as it really IS cheaper to be wasteful, then that's exactly what people will continue to do!
That is the result of a capitalist community, because, at the end of the day the Utility is calculated in terms of money, so in the same way corporations look to maximize their utility by making processes on the cheapest way, so consumers (people) are continuously looking for ways to minimize their (monetary) loss.
This trend will just trend when the communities realize that the Utility function they have been using, based on "Wealth" may provide satisfaction for them in the short/medium term but does not provides satisfaction for the society in long term. Of course some people already know but do not care.
Then, there is the trend of trying to quantify those non-money related issues to put them a "price". As a friend of mine told me (he has a PhD in sustainable development) how much do you value that the Amur Leopard is still walking in Russia?, some people here may understand the vaule, but tell that to the CEO of any NASDAQ company.
But banning Ebay advertising would be shooting on their own feet because that kind of advertising (adwords) provides the main google income.
Otherwise, what's the difference?
Oh, nothing aside of the fact that UK (government?) has always been the USA lamehuevos (soory, could not find the exact translation, but it means they are always willing to please the USA government, even if that means screwing their own people).
On the other hand, USA would never accept the extradition of that person to China.
That's not constructive criticism, you dolt.
:)
Ok, ok I see.
mmm what about:
It lacks beautifulness
Thanks, Ill be here too.
But I think people using Apple computers are the one with less technical knowledge, at least that was what the MAC was about (no?), to let "everyone else" use a computer. So, if there was a company creating malware for that computer now, with almost no "active protection" I believe they could get a nice perecentage of the userbase to fall into their claws.
Video Game designed evolved to match players against other players more efficiently. They got pretty good at it too. Street Fighter II was not the most popular game because of it's single-player mode, afterall. Every modern arcade had a vs. mode, or at the very least a co-op mode.
:]).
Haha, there is no better feeling than beating the ass of a 18+ guy in front of his friends, especially when he keeps challenging and challenging you (a 8 or 9 year old kid). Oh god, I miss those days. I think it was one of the best values of arcades, you got challenged by people you did not know, sometimes they did something really cool (like the 3 Johnny cage heads, or Guile's machine reset or his "statue") and you where feeling to kill to know how did he do it, of course, after you knew, you would invite your friends to the closest arcade just to show how leet you were by making the "statue", or maybe piss of some guy that beat you before by challegning him again and resetting the machine.
One of the last arcade games I enjoyed playing was King Of Fighters, I liked it until KOF200 (wow, that was 6 years ago!), the 3 fighter extension was nice, and unlike the Marvel or other fighting series they did not have those Whole-screen-kick-ur-ass-in-one-hit hyper powers. They even lower the power of the "special" attacks from KOF96 to KOF97. I never was as good as I was in Street Fighter or both Mortal Kombats, but I liked playing a coin every now and then.
Aside of that, I loved pinball, as another poster said before, pinball exploit the arcade hardware advantage.
Now, I have one question for the English players, where THE HECK do you play "normal" Arcades in UK?, I have been here for 2 years and the only standard joystick+buttons arcade I have seen has been in a lonley Tekken arcade in a night-club.
I live in liverpool, and there is no place where I can go play KOF, Mortal Kombat or whatever new arcade there is... the only thing these guys have are betting machines (in every pub) and sometimes they have football arcades or driving arcades (motorcycle, cars, etc). And the ocassional shooting arcade (god, I have seen a Namco shooting arcade where you are supposed to shoot to get money!). Britons are really greed, they are swimming in money and they still want more and more (sorry for the shameless rant, I like Britain, and Britons, otherwise I wont be here
Behold the power of the copyright infringing search engine called GOOGLE
My question is, isnt Yahoo! USA the same company as Yahoo! China? cant they "provide" their lawyers force?
I got a computer from the trash in the street (yeah, damn britons immitating the "use and throw" USA culture). Unfortunately, its BIOS wont allow me to install my 80 GB hard disk (the autodetect choked and when specifying the configuration manually it will recognize it as 8GB only) so I had to upgrade the bios.
.rom file. It was really straightforward.
The way I did it is just download a WIN98SE boot disk from bootdisk.com and burn the image with Nero (using the "boot cd option" (the Floppy was not working), then i added the AMI flashing utility and the
Now, I had to use the WIN98SE because I needed the RAMDRIVE as (for some reason) the flashing utility needed to write in the disk when it was flashing.
Both are right in some way.
Audioscrobbler and Last.fm have existed for quite some time. Last.fm is the "commercial" side of the company, while audioscrobbler was (as you state) the name of the plugin that lets you update your online profile.
Now, they have been two very related things since the beggining, (when there was NOT a stand alone player).
There was a time when the two pages where completely different. Now they are just the same.
"last.fm" in a sense is nothing more than a name. The "stand alone player" is just called "last.fm player" yeah, with the "player" word in it.
The reason they made the "player" when they became mainstream was because of the fear of being sued by the record cartels as people could easly streamreap from winamp or other players. Of course a lot of people complained, and there player has now the ability to function as a proxy for other players (stupid if you ask me). There is also a python script that will do the same.
so there is no change in marketing names and no Last.fm is not the name of the player.
what was your first slashdot username?
...every new site/service has to have a retarded name? eefoof, Okapipi, Dirty Rhino, Blue Hippo, come on!
Haha, and that is nothing, have you heard about Yahoo!, Google, MicroSoft (what does these guys sell? micro and soft?)
For people that live in the UK, Play.com have 3 games for £10. They have great titles, I just bought:
- Worms2/Worms-Armaggedon pack
- World War II Collection (Battlefield 1942 + MOH Allied Assault + Secret Weapons Over Normandy)
- Zoo Tycoon
For £10. delivered
Great games, and the price is excellent =o)
Yup, life is competition, which means losers. To believe otherwise is to deny humanity.
And not only humanity but life by itself, it is the food chain and the basic rule of life to survive by eliminating others. I have always thought how this so called "reasoning" beings are the ones that kill for other things than self preservation.