Am I the only who finds it rather typical that Dubya completely neglects to answer the first part of the second question? Sure, freedom of religion is fine with him, but how about freedom from religion?
c't really needs to start an English language version of its most excellent magazine. There's already a Dutch version, so why not other languages?
I thought about submitting this, but decided against it because it's a long article in German. There's still a chance an English version is going to show up, maybe if people would mail them? Certain popular articles usually get translated. So start sending in the requests.
Hannover (dpa)- The German Future Award 2000 goes to the inventors of the MP3 filetype. Federal President Johannes Rau handed the award, worth half a million DM to MP3 co-developer Karlheinz Brandenburg at the Expo in Hannover. Bernhard Grill and Harald Pop were honoured with him. This technology allows music files to be compressed so well, that they can be transmitted over the Internet in HiFi quality.
This is actually not a bad idea. One could easily use an IES as a substitute NES, SNES, Genesis, Atari2600 and what not, all at the same time, allowing you to play those classic games on a TV with a handheld controller.
There are plenty of emulators already available for Linux, transfer the roms to the IES and you're set. The only thing that might need adjusting would be the controls, as I'm not sure Indrema's controller would be supported by the emulators. But then, if the emulator is Open Source...;-)
Well, it's rather refreshing to see a game give realistic minimum requirements. Good job.
Min. specs are given as P200MMX, 64MB and a fully supported OpenGL card. My setup is a P208/83MMX, 64MB and a nVidia Riva128 4MB, and I managed to get through the first level. Sure, the framerate is atrocious (I guess under 15 fps), but playable;-)
No, the poster was correct. It would be Dutch. Flemish is not a language as such, it's a collection of South-Netherlandic dialects. Much like Walloon is to French.
The difference between Dutch and Flemish could best be seen as the difference between British-English and American-English (mainly intonation, some spelling and lexical differences).
Oh my, I kinda wish they had chosen "koeieuier" (cow-udder). That would have been impossible to pronounce for anyone who doesn't speak Dutch;-)
So, does anyone know why they named it Rijndael? Its meaning (Rhine-valley) doesn't have anything to do with encryption, plus they used an archaic spelling (correct would be Rijndaal). Is there a person or place involved with that name?
I think Infineon (Siemens spin-off) and Hyundai can be considered to be in the "Rambus can take their patents and put them you-know-where" camp as well
The makers of KFM were the legendary Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker trio, not Zemekis. This film, together with Airplane, Airplane II: The Sequel, Top Secret (Val Kilmer in his first and best role) and The Naked Gun should be in anybody's comedy-collection.
Nice to see a 19th century magazine writing about 21st century technology;-)
I think that historically we will not regard Napster as the source of the problem, nor MP3, nor perhaps even the Internet. The music industry itself lay the foundation for the present malaise in the early 1980s by digitalisation: The Compact Disc.
By digitalisation they created a medium which seemed to have only advantages (beter quality, durability), but when new technologies emerged in the 1990s, a situation cascaded into effect which the industry did not plan on.
First there were PCs which from 1993 onwards were equipped with CD-ROM players that could easily "rip" those digital files off of the CDs.
Next with the publically available Internet of 1994 people could now exchange those digital files anonymously, though it was still impractical.
Then MP3 came to the foreground (±1996) which did make it practical to exchange the files and finally Napster and its ilk (1999) made it all accesible to the masses by providing an easy-to-use service.
Apart from Napster none of these technologies had the intention of the free exchange of music, but combined they created a major headache for record executives.
Think it won't happen again? Watch as the movie-industry makes the same "mistake" all over again. Or what do you think the digitalisation of film combined with greater bandwith, faster processors and terabyte-harddisks will result in?
"Die Schlümpfe" is indeed the German name for the Smurfs, but they're not German by origin. Our little blue friends come from the heartland of European comics, Belgium.
In the native language (French) of their creator Peyo they're called "Les Schtroumpfs". In the other official language of Belgium (Dutch) they were called "De Smurfen". I suppose the English name "The Smurfs" was derived from the Dutch name.
It reminds me of Nintendo's Satellaview system, where you could download games via satellite and then play on your SNES. This, a cooperation with Bandai and only available in Japan, had similar features (i.e. limited playtime, pay-per-play). It is probably best known in the West for its 16-bit remake of Zelda I as well as the game that would inspire Square's Chrono Trigger series. In fact I'm a little surprised that Sega didn't have something like this earlier like Nintendo. Sega was always the one experimenting with networking and such.
As far as emulation goes, this too is nothing new, emulators for Sega's systems have existed for free since console emulation took off in 1996. Nor is the fact that a large gaming company decided to no longer ignore its collection of old games really innovative. The PSX has seen many old SNES games being re-released on an emulator.
The only way this could be considered significant is if Sega will allow this to operate for a long time. One important aspect of emulation is the preservation of classic games and this could help Sega's classics to survive in legality....
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Am I the only who finds it rather typical that Dubya completely neglects to answer the first part of the second question? Sure, freedom of religion is fine with him, but how about freedom from religion?
c't really needs to start an English language version of its most excellent magazine. There's already a Dutch version, so why not other languages?
I thought about submitting this, but decided against it because it's a long article in German. There's still a chance an English version is going to show up, maybe if people would mail them? Certain popular articles usually get translated. So start sending in the requests.
MP3 Inventors Receive German Future Award
Hannover (dpa)- The German Future Award 2000 goes to the inventors of the MP3 filetype. Federal President Johannes Rau handed the award, worth half a million DM to MP3 co-developer Karlheinz Brandenburg at the Expo in Hannover. Bernhard Grill and Harald Pop were honoured with him. This technology allows music files to be compressed so well, that they can be transmitted over the Internet in HiFi quality.
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This is actually not a bad idea. One could easily use an IES as a substitute NES, SNES, Genesis, Atari2600 and what not, all at the same time, allowing you to play those classic games on a TV with a handheld controller.
;-)
There are plenty of emulators already available for Linux, transfer the roms to the IES and you're set. The only thing that might need adjusting would be the controls, as I'm not sure Indrema's controller would be supported by the emulators. But then, if the emulator is Open Source...
It looks like Bush is having second thoughts about his presidential run after he found out just how much a president makes:
Bush Horrified To Learn Presidential Salary
> The man has good taste.
;-) (He of course distanced himself from it after he saw wat Guccione did to it)
What? The man who wrote the script for "Caligula"?
> from the such-a-cute-logo dept.
;-)
Why do I feel I'm being watched?
For those around the world who would like to actually see the ISS in the night sky, as it soars past high above:
ISS Naked-Eye Visiblity Data
It isn't very bright yet, but will be in the future. Perhaps the docked shuttle will add to it as well.
Well, it's rather refreshing to see a game give realistic minimum requirements. Good job.
;-)
Min. specs are given as P200MMX, 64MB and a fully supported OpenGL card. My setup is a P208/83MMX, 64MB and a nVidia Riva128 4MB, and I managed to get through the first level. Sure, the framerate is atrocious (I guess under 15 fps), but playable
No, the poster was correct. It would be Dutch. Flemish is not a language as such, it's a collection of South-Netherlandic dialects. Much like Walloon is to French.
The difference between Dutch and Flemish could best be seen as the difference between British-English and American-English (mainly intonation, some spelling and lexical differences).
Oh my, I kinda wish they had chosen "koeieuier" (cow-udder). That would have been impossible to pronounce for anyone who doesn't speak Dutch ;-)
So, does anyone know why they named it Rijndael? Its meaning (Rhine-valley) doesn't have anything to do with encryption, plus they used an archaic spelling (correct would be Rijndaal). Is there a person or place involved with that name?
Was het maar waar... ;-)
Fist Prost
I'm not sure Alain would like that. Then again, the way his F1 team has been performing...
I think Infineon (Siemens spin-off) and Hyundai can be considered to be in the "Rambus can take their patents and put them you-know-where" camp as well
Not "Holländisch", but "Niederländisch" (Nederlands). Nitpicking, I know, but not all Dutch live in Holland.
The makers of KFM were the legendary Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker trio, not Zemekis. This film, together with Airplane, Airplane II: The Sequel, Top Secret (Val Kilmer in his first and best role) and The Naked Gun should be in anybody's comedy-collection.
Nice to see a 19th century magazine writing about 21st century technology ;-)
I think that historically we will not regard Napster as the source of the problem, nor MP3, nor perhaps even the Internet. The music industry itself lay the foundation for the present malaise in the early 1980s by digitalisation: The Compact Disc.
By digitalisation they created a medium which seemed to have only advantages (beter quality, durability), but when new technologies emerged in the 1990s, a situation cascaded into effect which the industry did not plan on.
First there were PCs which from 1993 onwards were equipped with CD-ROM players that could easily "rip" those digital files off of the CDs.
Next with the publically available Internet of 1994 people could now exchange those digital files anonymously, though it was still impractical.
Then MP3 came to the foreground (±1996) which did make it practical to exchange the files and finally Napster and its ilk (1999) made it all accesible to the masses by providing an easy-to-use service.
Apart from Napster none of these technologies had the intention of the free exchange of music, but combined they created a major headache for record executives.
Think it won't happen again? Watch as the movie-industry makes the same "mistake" all over again. Or what do you think the digitalisation of film combined with greater bandwith, faster processors and terabyte-harddisks will result in?
Doktor Merkwürdigliebe
"Die Schlümpfe" is indeed the German name for the Smurfs, but they're not German by origin. Our little blue friends come from the heartland of European comics, Belgium.
In the native language (French) of their creator Peyo they're called "Les Schtroumpfs". In the other official language of Belgium (Dutch) they were called "De Smurfen". I suppose the English name "The Smurfs" was derived from the Dutch name.
It reminds me of Nintendo's Satellaview system, where you could download games via satellite and then play on your SNES. This, a cooperation with Bandai and only available in Japan, had similar features (i.e. limited playtime, pay-per-play). It is probably best known in the West for its 16-bit remake of Zelda I as well as the game that would inspire Square's Chrono Trigger series. In fact I'm a little surprised that Sega didn't have something like this earlier like Nintendo. Sega was always the one experimenting with networking and such.
As far as emulation goes, this too is nothing new, emulators for Sega's systems have existed for free since console emulation took off in 1996. Nor is the fact that a large gaming company decided to no longer ignore its collection of old games really innovative. The PSX has seen many old SNES games being re-released on an emulator.
The only way this could be considered significant is if Sega will allow this to operate for a long time. One important aspect of emulation is the preservation of classic games and this could help Sega's classics to survive in legality....
And once again Doom goes where no game has gone before ;-)
;-))
Just how many platforms has Doom been ported to by now? Can anyone complete or correct this list:
DOS/x86
Win32/x86
Mac/68x
Mac/PPC
Linux/x86
Linux/IA64
OS/2/x86
Irix/MIPS
Be/x86
NeXT/68x
WinCE
Playstation
N64
SNES (sic)
Atari 2600 (j/k
Saturn?
*BSD?
Solaris?
We won't have to worry about Doom going the Ultima 7 way...