Fire Giant
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Yeah, I meant Vortrag. I don't know yet about what it's going to be, any suggestions? (it's a 5 minute talk)
Hmm. The relationship between two countries (in your case, Netherlands and Germany) are always a good topic, but I guess there's not *that* much to say about relations between Netherlands and Germany.
But, how about the "Hanse" - which was a medieval alliance of several wealthy cities in the area of Northern Europe which grew pretty powerful over time. It included cities in your country, too, I think, and German cities (Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen...) played a significant role in it.
Otherwise, if you are more into recent political developments, you could get onto a topic like the introduction of tuition fees in Germany, the recently introduced highway/road-toll or the reforms of the German welfare system.
If you have any questions concerning one of these topics, don't hesitate to ask them here.
@Sukkit: Hehe. I would not say that Viva is the perfect place for trying to learn German, though, because the language of that channel is pretty strange and often far away from everydays German like you could hear it on the road. Probably it would be easier to have a look at the news on a public-law TV channel (ARD, ZDF), because they are usually in a very good language and the people aren't talking too fast.
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This may have been asked already, but in the scenario editor, can the names of units and heroes be changed?
If I get this correctly, you mean renaming them using triggers? That is planned for sure, it in fact is one of the most basic features planned for the editor - while Bobby (Cheezy) made the editor concepts, he always had those things in mind, because they were missed by the community in AoM.
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1024x768 is a standard resolution for most peeps.
Yes - right now. I personally believe it's shifting to 1280x1024, though - at least for modern monitors and TFTs. My family started off with 800x600 on our first Win95 PC (before, on the DOS/Win 3.x PCs everything was text mode or 640x480x16, anyway), then got to 1024x768 as default resolution and then with the first TFTs, me and my mother switched to 1280x1024 (my little brother and sister keep 1024x768 for now, because they are using the old monitors
). The most recent development was switching over to 1400x1050 for me, though. Interestingly, I always came to dislike the smaller resolutions after a week on a higher one. -
Hmm, there are some white lines around the WFG logo on top - looks like it doesn't blend properly with the background.
Besides from that, I do not see anything offensive to my eye - pretty good work, Tim
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Ich soll eine Sprache machen in zwei wochen... für die ganze Klasse...
Ah, you mean a "talk"or a "speech"? That would be called "Vortrag" in German - "Sprache" is meaning "language" and only that. Also, as a matter of interest, what is the talk going to be about?
I really need a dictionary. I know I had one but my sister took it when she went to Germany :\http://www.ponsline.de/cgi-bin/wb/wb.pl? is my preferred dictonary, but the site is German. You need to change the dropdown field at the top to "Engl. -> D" and you'll be able to do do lookups English -> German
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At my school, I enabled a joke application that displayed random fake error messages on all running clients at random intervals ... pretty funny thing, and some people (mainly teachers, though
) fell for it, and I even got a message along the lines of "There is a virus in the network!"... most smarter people got it, though, at latest when the a fake message told them that water was pouring from their floppy drive or something like that -
I have added you, Tim. Seems to work for me, at least I can see your profile
But now, I've lost my headset on a recent LAN party, and I doubt I have a replacement one at hand... so I guess I'll have to live with the integrated laptop microphone and my normal headphones
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Ich denke nicht, dass mein Deutsch wirst gut werden.
(Hahaha, I know nothing of syntax yet)
Well, you took a difficult start there... I won't even know myself which tense that would be supposed to be... "Futur II" or something equivalent, I guess
Anyway, correct would be: "Ich denke nicht, dass mein Deutsch gut verstanden werden wird.", so the mistake is only minor.
Es ist gut zu hören, dass noch jemand hier Deutsch lernt!
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In the 0AD theme everything is pushed to the side.
Yepp, the contents author-cell left of each post are aligned to the left now... doesn't look too great if you ask me
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I've got Skype, and I'm using it from time to time (but it's not constantly running). Feel free to add me and phone me at times when you know I'm not too busy (ask on MSN/ICQ before). My Skype-Name is malteschwarzkopf
(Oh, and I do not have my headset with me all the time, so probably you won't manage to get me into talking to you when I'm at school or somwhere where I do not have my headset or don't want to make a fool of myself talking English into a computer 
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1) No, and it will not be done for a long time. Expect the engine to be done by the time 0 A.D. is completely done
2) If it was done, I doubt that would have been possible, because we're not giving out any binary/source code before beta stage. Also, if we wanted people to build their own games using the 0 A.D. engine, we'd have made 0 A.D. an open source project, no?
You will be having some great possibilities to do modding on the final product, though, so you can in fact create your own game out of it.3) See above, but I think we won't like a commercial game based on 0 A.D., since the primary principle of 0 A.D. is (and has ever been) to create a freeware game. So yes, I think we would mind.
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where`s the roman "square" shield?!?!?!
Early roman legionaries didn't use square shields, they were introduced during the Caesarian era and started to be globally used around the time of the end of the republic.
Due to the fact that 0 A.D. (part I) Romans are representing the early and republician Romans, their units will use the "old" armor and weapons.
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"Milites, hand me that Light Anti-Tank Weapon!"
Incendiary Pigs ready to be set on fire, Centurion!
Great work yet again, Brendan.
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I've got exactly the same problem - I'm only using Outlook because of the synchronization feature (ActiveSync)... I have got an Axim X5 PocketPC since late 2003, and it has become quite a nice companion for me - but I'm forced to use Outlook if I want to manage my mails, events, tasks, notices and contacts with it
I did some extensive research on this topic like eight months ago when I first thought about switching to Thunderbird, but didn't find anything useful and came to the conclusion that it simply isn't possible (since the ActiveSync-protocol is closed-source and MS doesn't give out any details).
This might have changed, though - if anyone knows more, please let me know!
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Well... whatever. For me Windows Firewall just blocked every program I ran
.Yepp, that's a nice summary of what I experienced, too - it blocked everything one might want to use but didn't block attacks from the outside... that's why I disabled it soon (ok, I have the luxury of a hardware firewall, otherwise, I probably won't have disabled it
).Glad to hear that everything's working again and you got around a windows reinstallation, Tim!
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Hehe, I don't have to bother downloading it, because I got it on CD when I visited the CeBIT
Mr. Knopper, the guy who made Knoppix, was there, too.I'm a little angry about the fact that it doesn't seem to include Gnome, though (and I won't really use it, since I have a Debian system installed parallel to Windows; but I still wanted to try it).
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Wow, nice transparent taskbar/windows skin! How do you make that work? WindowBlinds, StyleXP or something like those applications?
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If you have several harddrives you could put all your files on one, and just reformat the other and have windows on that. That does of course require two harddrives...
... or multiple partitions on one drive
Tim: Yes, I think you should be able to use Knoppix - although you won't have write access to NTFS volumes on your harddisk...
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Yeah, when ISPs start providing us with > 300 KBps connections at a reasonable price I'll be happy. I think it's partly due to that cable providers specifically don't have any competitors around their area so they can change a ton. DSL and T1 are probably the same. Hopefully WiMAX might change that...
Hmm, seems to be a little different over here - we have competition on the ISP field (at least in the large cities like Hamburg), and right now, the DSL providers are battling for the fastest connection for the lowest price - as I wrote, I'm currently enjoying a 5/0.5 MBit connection, which usually should be 1.5/0.192 MBit, but with 37,90 Euro including the phone line, the DSL line, the flatrate charge, free phone calls to other clients of our ISP and 2 free phone hours per month, I think I can be fairly satisfied - and it doesn't look like it's slowing down, no, we expect the internet connections to get faster again soon. We've had two or three years without any major changes before, though - that was when DSL used to be 0.7/0.128 MBit over here, and there was only one real ISP for DSL connections.
I've read about some french internet provider which gives it's clients 8 MBit/1 MBit together with unlimited phone calls and digital TV for 30 Euro per month though - but only in France, of course...
On the topic - it sounds nice, yes, but only in theory. Fact is that almost nobody uses this "powerline" stuff over here, as it's not much different from WLAN (only you need a wall connector) but slower and less reliable (for example, you can only use it in the houses electricity network and it doesn't work beyond the electricity counter). I like WLAN better, anyway, because that also works outside in the garden
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Hehe, I've only been using the online service of our local radio station ("Norddeutscher Rundfunk") NDR2 (http://www.ndr2.de; mostly Rock/Pop) and some strange stations I found through the Winamp station search function so far, but I'd certainly appreciate some links to cool stations
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Hmmm, Tim, looks like you have... uhm, a ... bunch... (239!) of adware files on your PC
Try to remove them with Adaware, and if you don't succeed, try "Spybot Search & Destroy" (which has proven to be more effective for me several times, and it's freeware, too). If there's still some adware remaining (possible), you likely won't get around a full windows reinstall. Oh, and are you using Firefox as your default webbrowser? IE has become kind of a horrible adware-gate to PCs during recent time - at least that's what I've seen on multiple computers which I had to repair/reinstall for friends, collegues and clients... -
I currently have a 5/0.5 MBit connection because our ISP has some technical problems and all customers therefore have been set to the highest connection speed, and the daily disconnect after 24 hours has been disabled
This gives quite a comfortable feeling - downloading a new Debian image? 19 minutes... Estimated time for a Gigabyte download? 28 minutes... I love it. -
A messenger brought in news today that snow in Germania is melting - the legions in the Rhine camps start to gather supplies and refresh their supplies, repair and refine their equipment. It's an all busy atmosphere, and you can see messenger riders on all the streets, and the patrols on the frontier are getting more attentive again. Everything seems like there's preparation for a larger campaign going on. No one knows who will be the adversary or where the "Roma Victor" legions will strike, though - that secret is being kept between the emperor and the high military commanders.
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Yes but it kept the Germans from growing in power, having been boosted by the Teutanburg (sp?) Wald victory, slapped them back into place. Plus it stabilized the Rhine frontier and consolidated that territory into the Empire. On the flip side it was also a simple revenge mission and the Romans didn't continue their conquest of Germany. They had come out on top and didn't want to risk another Teutanburg scenario.
It's spelled "Teutoburg", but the battle itself didn't take place in the area that's being called "Teutoburger Wald" in modern times, and where the Arminius monument has been built, but rather (that's something we know from archeological research of the late 20th century) in a forest area near modern Kalkriese near the Weser river.
Plus once they did leave the Germans alone they started to hack each other apart and left the Romans alone. Until the Marcomanni Wars the Romans didn't have any other major Germanic troubles.Very true - and they simply didn't take the opportunity to conquer all Germany because it offered nothing really interesting for Rome. The country wasn't rich, mostly covered with forests and with people who were difficult to govern - nothing attractive for Rome, plus there'd been only more barbarian trouble. The military power of Rome would surely have been great enough to reconquer the country (Germanicus would have if Tiberius hadn't called him back to the Rhine frontier; and later Marcus Aurelius was near to the point of having conquered most of Germania but he died before he could take advantage of his victories).
From my perspective, it's a pity that the Romans didn't advance further, because I live like 100-200 km outside of ancient Roman territory and therefore, there are no Roman remainders in my area.
Anyone uses Skype?
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Tim, I saw you tried to call me some days ago - sorry, I wasn't at the PC at that time. But it seems to have worked. Let's try it again some time