Here's my translation for those that don't understand Norwegian:
Note: Arne is
Arne is interested in Japanese samurai films. They can only be bought from Japan and are all Region 3. Arne makes his DVD player (including his pc) region-free in order to watch the films.
Arne's 3 year old daughter plays wildly with the children-DVDs he's bought. Many have been damaged. Arne therefore makes back-up copies of the DVDs after he buys them. Since Arne is not very good with computers a colleague does it for him.
Arne has many DVDs. When he's travelling he transfers some of them to his iPod in order to watch them on the plane.
Arne har lastet ned tusenvis av låter fra forskjellige nettbutikker. Dette har kostet mange tusen kroner. Arne klarer ikke å ta sikkerhetskopi av alt på egenhånd.Han vet at det er viktig å ta sikkerhetskopi. Derfor lagrer han musikken på en ekstern lagringstjeneste (f.eks mp3tunes.com) slik at musikken ikke forsvinner hvis maskinen hans går i stykker.
While you're absolutely right that an unpatched PC should be behind a firewall/NAT, the trouble of course is that quite often this is not "possible".
Case in point: A few months ago my mother got a shiny new ADSL connection. Since it's a triple-play (net, tv and phone over ADSL) offering it comes with a ok router; nothing spectacular, but I've seen worse, and thus I thought everything was fine (not!). A week or so later her connection basically went down (you'd have to be lucky to get on-line), also IE windows began popping up (pushing some scum-ware called SystemDoctor2006) this despite the fact that she's using Firefox. Yes, she had a virus, and it had gotten in from the internet without the need for IE. It turned out that the router was set up to put the PC in the DMZ (probably to save the ISP from support calls asking why Bit Torrent isn't working properly), thus exposing it to $Deity knows what. The morale therefore being that routers may NOT be set up properly for security thus exposing the PC even when you think it's secure.
The ISP, by the way, is Neuf (http://www.neuf.fr), so if you know someone that uses them be nice and check their router configuration.
(If it seemed a bit confused: It's 01.00 here, I'm Danish, have a slight cold, am tired and about to go to bed. YAY!)
Of course the real solution is for CD publishers to include the track listing on the disc itself... never could understand why that wasn't thought of when the CD was invented.
Don't know if you're simply complaining that it wasn't a part of the standard from the start, but since 1996 CD-Text have actually existed. Not that it seems to be particularly well supported or anything - at least it's very few of my ~150 CDs that have it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text
Germany for example has some of the worst customer service and burocracy on earth.
Now, I don't actually know how it is in Germany, but I don't think it can beat France when it comes to bad service and bureaucracy. It's simply astonishing, especially when you, like me, come from Denmark.
Just found this toay: http://www.civanon.org/ Admittedly it's not about MMOs, but it really cracked me up and is still slightly on-topic. A few qoutes: "It was the Industrial Age that finally did me in. I was into the hard stuff, man: electronics, combustion, motorized transportation." "I've been attending CivAnon meetings for approximately 18 months now. Partly because I began to get a perverse thrill out of wiping out entire civilizations with atomic intercontinental ballistic weaponry, and partly because they serve cake at the meetings. I like to kill, that's true. But I like cake even more." "One more turn. One more turn."
Wish I had mod points. If ever there was a true comment, this would be it. I mean, just look at the CPE brouhaha for an idea. Happy times when the EU finally cuts the farming subsidies.
Imagine a more spread out game were you cannot reach every corner in a few minutes. Perhaps it even takes hours if not days to go into the deep....... Add a third group, the money grabbers and they might get their fun out of buying low and selling high. Travelling the lands in search if items to buy.
Sounds a lot like EVE Online to me. While I haven't played it myself, most of the reviews and official blurbs pitch it as being very open-ended and capitalistic (Machiavelli's name crops up a number of times): what you do and how you do it is very much up to you and your imagination. It's certainly a game I intend to check out at some point.
While I haven't tried it myself, I just heard something like that today. It was a cell phone that was acting up, apparently it was the battery. So the girl who owns it was told to put the battery in the freezer for an hour or so. She haven't had any troubles since.
Actually it does have something to that effect, but as you point out yourself most people are logged in as admin, so it doesn't really matter. In Win2k hold shift when right-clicking an.exe and there will be a "Run as..." menu.
Also we've never had any really bad services in Denmark, so the number of disgruntled customers have to be quite limited. From what I can read in the other comments Denmark is Nirvana compared to the US.
Here in Denmark we've had portability for ~ one year. And to the best of my knowledge it haven't really changed anything drastically. But then it was a real mess to begin with, you could easily wait for several weeks, even months to get it through. Especially the biggest provider, TDC, caught a lot of flak from one of the small service-providers, Telmore, for obstructing the process. Now it is working though, the transfer taking place in a week or so (correct me if I'm wrong here. Never used it myself).
How about making low quality mp3's, say 56kbps, available for unlimited download. Or capped at, say, 500. Then, if I like them I can always download the HQ versions, or buy the CD.
It's in times like this I'm glad that I live in Denmark. I don't even have to be 18 to buy X rated magazines (at least I haven't heard it should be illegal). Sometimes I wonder if those persons who makes this kind of laws believe that their own body is ugly, and then imposes restrictictions on other peoble, so that these peoble wont know any different. Now I just wonder when it will be illegal to give birth to a child "because it could offend someone".
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Who are Kripos and EFN?
Here's my translation for those that don't understand Norwegian:
Note: Arne is
Arne is interested in Japanese samurai films. They can only be bought from Japan and are all Region 3. Arne makes his DVD player (including his pc) region-free in order to watch the films.
Arne's 3 year old daughter plays wildly with the children-DVDs he's bought. Many have been damaged. Arne therefore makes back-up copies of the DVDs after he buys them. Since Arne is not very good with computers a colleague does it for him.
Arne has many DVDs. When he's travelling he transfers some of them to his iPod in order to watch them on the plane.
Arne har lastet ned tusenvis av låter fra forskjellige nettbutikker. Dette har kostet mange tusen kroner. Arne klarer ikke å ta sikkerhetskopi av alt på egenhånd.Han vet at det er viktig å ta sikkerhetskopi. Derfor lagrer han musikken på en ekstern lagringstjeneste (f.eks mp3tunes.com) slik at musikken ikke forsvinner hvis maskinen hans går i stykker.
Unless they also limit the size of the actual message, you can just Base64 encode the file.
While you're absolutely right that an unpatched PC should be behind a firewall/NAT, the trouble of course is that quite often this is not "possible".
Case in point: A few months ago my mother got a shiny new ADSL connection. Since it's a triple-play (net, tv and phone over ADSL) offering it comes with a ok router; nothing spectacular, but I've seen worse, and thus I thought everything was fine (not!). A week or so later her connection basically went down (you'd have to be lucky to get on-line), also IE windows began popping up (pushing some scum-ware called SystemDoctor2006) this despite the fact that she's using Firefox. Yes, she had a virus, and it had gotten in from the internet without the need for IE.
It turned out that the router was set up to put the PC in the DMZ (probably to save the ISP from support calls asking why Bit Torrent isn't working properly), thus exposing it to $Deity knows what. The morale therefore being that routers may NOT be set up properly for security thus exposing the PC even when you think it's secure.
The ISP, by the way, is Neuf (http://www.neuf.fr), so if you know someone that uses them be nice and check their router configuration.
(If it seemed a bit confused: It's 01.00 here, I'm Danish, have a slight cold, am tired and about to go to bed. YAY!)
Don't know if you're simply complaining that it wasn't a part of the standard from the start, but since 1996 CD-Text have actually existed. Not that it seems to be particularly well supported or anything - at least it's very few of my ~150 CDs that have it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text
Now, I don't actually know how it is in Germany, but I don't think it can beat France when it comes to bad service and bureaucracy. It's simply astonishing, especially when you, like me, come from Denmark.
I couldn't find anything at Free's site, but for the Neuf offering you'll need at least 5mbps. And the two services seems to be mostly similar.- reponses.html
http://offres.neuf.fr/offres/television/Questions
Just found this toay:
http://www.civanon.org/
Admittedly it's not about MMOs, but it really cracked me up and is still slightly on-topic.
A few qoutes:
"It was the Industrial Age that finally did me in. I was into the hard stuff, man: electronics, combustion, motorized transportation."
"I've been attending CivAnon meetings for approximately 18 months now. Partly because I began to get a perverse thrill out of wiping out entire civilizations with atomic intercontinental ballistic weaponry, and partly because they serve cake at the meetings. I like to kill, that's true. But I like cake even more."
"One more turn. One more turn."
Wish I had mod points. If ever there was a true comment, this would be it.
I mean, just look at the CPE brouhaha for an idea.
Happy times when the EU finally cuts the farming subsidies.
And a real-world example: http://www.anaerob.dk/gallery/studenterkoersel/in
No reason at all, actually there are good reasons not to, use tables.
http://f0dder.reteam.org/amdp4.htm
Well, perhaps not so good, but it can be done.
Sounds a lot like EVE Online to me. While I haven't played it myself, most of the reviews and official blurbs pitch it as being very open-ended and capitalistic (Machiavelli's name crops up a number of times): what you do and how you do it is very much up to you and your imagination.
It's certainly a game I intend to check out at some point.
Some reviews to wet your mouth:
http://archive.gamespy.com/reviews/june03/evepc/
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/evethesecondgenesi
In this case it doesn't make it any less correct. And why should it mention UNIX? I'd say that, considering the meaning, it's a fair guess as to why it was chosen.. &btnG=Google+Search
But seeing as you don't trust E2:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=etc
http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=etc
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Aetc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etc.
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=etc.
While I haven't tried it myself, I just heard something like that today. It was a cell phone that was acting up, apparently it was the battery. So the girl who owns it was told to put the battery in the freezer for an hour or so. She haven't had any troubles since.
> Windows doesn't have the concept of Unix sudo.
.exe and there will be a "Run as..." menu.
Actually it does have something to that effect, but as you point out yourself most people are logged in as admin, so it doesn't really matter.
In Win2k hold shift when right-clicking an
Have you tried Zoomplayer? Even the free version is WAY better than WMP. And the Pro version is almost unbeatable.
Also we've never had any really bad services in Denmark, so the number of disgruntled customers have to be quite limited. From what I can read in the other comments Denmark is Nirvana compared to the US.
Here in Denmark we've had portability for ~ one year. And to the best of my knowledge it haven't really changed anything drastically. But then it was a real mess to begin with, you could easily wait for several weeks, even months to get it through. Especially the biggest provider, TDC, caught a lot of flak from one of the small service-providers, Telmore, for obstructing the process.
Now it is working though, the transfer taking place in a week or so (correct me if I'm wrong here. Never used it myself).
How about making low quality mp3's, say 56kbps, available for unlimited download. Or capped at, say, 500. Then, if I like them I can always download the HQ versions, or buy the CD.
"Friggin Internet Explorer always loads, I can't remove the icon from the desktop like in Win2K"
Strange, as it's not quite my (uhm) experience. Actually everything but the trashcan can be removed.
It's in times like this I'm glad that I live in Denmark. I don't even have to be 18 to buy X rated magazines (at least I haven't heard it should be illegal).
Sometimes I wonder if those persons who makes this kind of laws believe that their own body is ugly, and then imposes restrictictions on other peoble, so that these peoble wont know any different.
Now I just wonder when it will be illegal to give birth to a child "because it could offend someone".