So where is there mention of EU in the article? I see France France France, but no EU. So what are you talking about? Maybe this has something to do with the fact that, although some grand-grandparent poster was trolling about ITER, the actual project was about a supersonic jet plane, which has nothing to do with either fusion power, hentai porn or cheese.
You're entirely correct. Unfortunately the European constitution, designed to solve some of these problems has been voted down by the French and Dutch voters. So now we're stuck with a bureaucratic monster.
Maybe the US version is more elaborate but the Dutch site sports some pictures of the XBox 360 amd its controller plus an invitation to become a member of the XBox 360 community.
Once every now and then the Slashdot writeup is actually more informative than TFA. This is one of those times.
In my country soccer is the most popular sport by a large margin. Nevertheless I laughed my ass off watching the Simpsons parody of soccer, ending in a huge soccer riot after 5 minutes:)
Frankly, I believe the proposal is going to tank. At least the tax will have to be lowered a lot to be realistic. But the idea is not new. The levy system was introduced with the introduction of audio casette tapes. The basic idea is: '95% of these tapes are going to be used for copies anyway. So let's tax them for a little bit.' Basically it relieves the government of the burden of prosecuting pirating and the artists get compensated.
We are allowed to pirate music to such an extent that in the Netherlands, making a copy for private use is allowed, even if you don't own the CD!
BREIN, the dutch **AA is very unsuccessful in trying to stop piracy for this very reason - they have little legal backing and they're only option is trying to threaten people into signing an agreement that if they ever download something again they will have to pay a large fine.
Luckily, this is not a law yet, it's a proposal and not one with a high chance of success.
Hmm, it seems the tide is right for a Good Old 'Get A Life' post.
Wow, it's like Dune all over again. Gotta wonder why sci-fi is so hard to get right. Maybe this phenomena is not unique to the genre?
Maybe it's because Science Fiction fans are too god damn serious about the genre. Granted, it happens all too often that a good science fiction novel is turned to a mediocre film. It happens that great science fiction novels are turned into horrible movies [1]. Sometimes sequels don't live up to the expectations and sometimes it even happens that they get ruined because they are marketed to six year olds.
But I really don't see why it's reason for such lively debate for such a long time. Seriously, the guy who is forcing all those poor Sci-Fi fans to see these horrible movies really ought to be sued.
Just my two Space Eurocents.
[1] Some people might not share my view on this, so I'm cleverly hiding it down here. But here it goes: A source of an awful lot of whining is when a Great Novel (Starship Troopers) by a Great Author (Heinlein) was turned into a Great Movie (yes!): Starship Troopers. Obviously they weren't great for the same reason, and - apart from the title, the name of a couple of characters and the idea of bald space pilot chicks - the movie had little to do with the novel. But hell, what a work of genius is that movie. Violence, coed showers and a Dutch director. Truly the pinnacle of Hollywood art!
I totally agree! I have been developing with MS VS2005.NET for a couple of months now and I *love* it! From a developers' viewpoint, it's just amazing.
C# is a nice, clean language, which easily works with DLLs and the IDE is nice as well. The C# Windows Form designer does have some glitches though, and I really hope these will be fixed in the final release.
Many people complain a lot about the trains in the Netherlands, but I think they're very good. Most services are twice-per-hour and there aren't that many delays. The Dutch train system is a dream compared to the british railways.
wow... just.. sorry, but that was such a dumb comment. If your opponent has lower latency than you then they see you first, ie going round corners and stuff..
I mean, that's pretty obvious really isn't it?
You comment would've been pretty insightfull if there were no such thing as client prediction. But since that was first implemented in QuakeWorld (AFAIK, but there might be prior art), it's not that bright a comment.
Unfortunatly, you can't rely on ASCII art 'cause retarded MUAs (like gmail) won't display messages in a mono-spaced font. That is a feature I've been requesting for ages. Well congratiulations, now you can use them!
And your argument of using style for structured communication is bunk. What does colors and fonts have to do with your message, and how are they going to render in pine? Bullet points? What's wrong with an asterik? I readily believe that people using Pine will find a message in plaintext just as convincing as a properly formatted message but a lot of people also look at the packaging of the information.
If you want to sell me something, send me the URL of a webpage. If you want to effectivly communcate with me, send me a plain ASCII email. If you need back up images, send links to web page, but for the love of god don't email them to me. I will keep it in mind;)
Notice that neither of the mentioned functions contain any images. The extra bandwidth required by colors, bullets and fonts is negligible [1]. Since e-mail is used for a lot of structured communication these days, it's good to see there's a little more than ASCII art to rely on.
[1] You can only select sans-serif, serif and monospace fonts.
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Because of the same reason you need the JRE to run Java applications.
I prefer my rusty MCGA display, who needs 256 colors at 640x480 anyway?
That surely explains why Bush was re-elected.
Oh wait...
What the heck, I've got karma to burn...
So where is there mention of EU in the article? I see France France France, but no EU. So what are you talking about?
Maybe this has something to do with the fact that, although some grand-grandparent poster was trolling about ITER, the actual project was about a supersonic jet plane, which has nothing to do with either fusion power, hentai porn or cheese.
Exactly US $TOOMUCH. Don't know exactly what that is in Euros, though.
€5,64. Gotta love the current exchange rates!
You're entirely correct. Unfortunately the European constitution, designed to solve some of these problems has been voted down by the French and Dutch voters. So now we're stuck with a bureaucratic monster.
...you haven't visited Des Moines...
Maybe the US version is more elaborate but the Dutch site sports some pictures of the XBox 360 amd its controller plus an invitation to become a member of the XBox 360 community.
Once every now and then the Slashdot writeup is actually more informative than TFA. This is one of those times.
>There is only one thing worse than capitalism :P :-D ...or tree hugging hippies.
:)
>>Yes: Commies.
>>>... let's not forget religious zelots.
Actually, capitalism isn't that bad
LOL, you just made my day :)
In the Netherlands, they sell a sausage named Unox.
In my country soccer is the most popular sport by a large margin. Nevertheless I laughed my ass off watching the Simpsons parody of soccer, ending in a huge soccer riot after 5 minutes :)
In fact, they do. The money is collected by Stichting Thuiskopie (the Home Copy Foundation) and distributed among artists.
Frankly, I believe the proposal is going to tank. At least the tax will have to be lowered a lot to be realistic. But the idea is not new. The levy system was introduced with the introduction of audio casette tapes. The basic idea is: '95% of these tapes are going to be used for copies anyway. So let's tax them for a little bit.' Basically it relieves the government of the burden of prosecuting pirating and the artists get compensated.
We are allowed to pirate music to such an extent that in the Netherlands, making a copy for private use is allowed, even if you don't own the CD!
BREIN, the dutch **AA is very unsuccessful in trying to stop piracy for this very reason - they have little legal backing and they're only option is trying to threaten people into signing an agreement that if they ever download something again they will have to pay a large fine.
Luckily, this is not a law yet, it's a proposal and not one with a high chance of success.
Yeah, it's scheduled just before the release of Duke Nukem Forever.
Hmm, it seems the tide is right for a Good Old 'Get A Life' post.
Wow, it's like Dune all over again. Gotta wonder
why sci-fi is so hard to get right. Maybe this
phenomena is not unique to the genre?
Maybe it's because Science Fiction fans are too god damn serious about the genre. Granted, it happens all too often that a good science fiction novel is turned to a mediocre film. It happens that great science fiction novels are turned into horrible movies [1]. Sometimes sequels don't live up to the expectations and sometimes it even happens that they get ruined because they are marketed to six year olds.
But I really don't see why it's reason for such lively debate for such a long time. Seriously, the guy who is forcing all those poor Sci-Fi fans to see these horrible movies really ought to be sued.
Just my two Space Eurocents.
[1] Some people might not share my view on this, so I'm cleverly hiding it down here. But here it goes: A source of an awful lot of whining is when a Great Novel (Starship Troopers) by a Great Author (Heinlein) was turned into a Great Movie (yes!): Starship Troopers. Obviously they weren't great for the same reason, and - apart from the title, the name of a couple of characters and the idea of bald space pilot chicks - the movie had little to do with the novel. But hell, what a work of genius is that movie. Violence, coed showers and a Dutch director. Truly the pinnacle of Hollywood art!
I totally agree! I have been developing with MS VS2005.NET for a couple of months now and I *love* it! From a developers' viewpoint, it's just amazing.
C# is a nice, clean language, which easily works with DLLs and the IDE is nice as well. The C# Windows Form designer does have some glitches though, and I really hope these will be fixed in the final release.
Many people complain a lot about the trains in the Netherlands, but I think they're very good. Most services are twice-per-hour and there aren't that many delays. The Dutch train system is a dream compared to the british railways.
wow... just.. sorry, but that was such a dumb comment.
If your opponent has lower latency than you then they see you first, ie going round corners and stuff..
I mean, that's pretty obvious really isn't it?
You comment would've been pretty insightfull if there were no such thing as client prediction. But since that was first implemented in QuakeWorld (AFAIK, but there might be prior art), it's not that bright a comment.
There is nothing easier to scale then webapps in the world.
Yes there is. Writing shakespeare. Just add more monkeys and more typewriters.
George Chapline just called. Because he feared being on your dreadful 'quack' list, he retracted his theory.
Unfortunatly, you can't rely on ASCII art 'cause retarded MUAs (like gmail) won't display messages in a mono-spaced font. That is a feature I've been requesting for ages.
;)
Well congratiulations, now you can use them!
And your argument of using style for structured communication is bunk. What does colors and fonts have to do with your message, and how are they going to render in pine? Bullet points? What's wrong with an asterik?
I readily believe that people using Pine will find a message in plaintext just as convincing as a properly formatted message but a lot of people also look at the packaging of the information.
If you want to sell me something, send me the URL of a webpage. If you want to effectivly communcate with me, send me a plain ASCII email. If you need back up images, send links to web page, but for the love of god don't email them to me.
I will keep it in mind
Notice that neither of the mentioned functions contain any images. The extra bandwidth required by colors, bullets and fonts is negligible [1]. Since e-mail is used for a lot of structured communication these days, it's good to see there's a little more than ASCII art to rely on.
[1] You can only select sans-serif, serif and monospace fonts.
2. There is no such thing as "US English." We will let Microsoft know on your behalf.
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