Fire Giant
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Actually, you guys should check out Joshua's latest article. It has something about this (unproven but interesting).
http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/page.php?p=6508
Fourth paragraph
Uuuh, interesting - I thought I read that article, but somehow I didn't quite remember the thing about Cartharginians reaching Mexico... although that reminds me of some theory I've read once, which said that a Roman fleet got blown across the Atlantic Ocean one time and in fact reached America - unfortunately, no further colonization followed (I don't remember if they even got back to Europe, but I doubt it). Imagine, legionaries in America
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Cute 7 extensions only here... but I think I'll get some more again soon, but generally I prefer a small number of extensions and a fast FF lauch time over an enormous numbers of extensions and IE-like launchtimes
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*bookmarks topic for preparative work for next French exam
*Nice list, though I knew many of these (*pats self on shoulder*), there are some nice new ones - and with my luck to write bad marks in French exams even though using good vocabulary, I will hopefully make good use of the recent "french-related" threads by Tim - thanks for that
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They probably will once the percentage of Firefox users reaches noticeable number over like 30% - and, as the current developments are, this isn't too unlikely. Firefox is being promoted by a lot of magazines and websites - although some of the more "stupid" magazines ("Computer Bild" in Germany) really came to the conclusion that IE was the better browser (I wonder if MS paid them for saying this
). Unfortunately, Firefox will never manage to reach the group of users who only know IE, who don't even know what a security update does and only see the icon saying something like "internet" on their desktop -
Try validating it as XHTML 1.0 Transitional --- 183 errors
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Well, many people on the 0 A.D. team are only here because of RaW - including myself. I think I would never have found out about WFG (still WFS back then) if I didn't search for Roman modpacks for AoK (someone told me there were some), and somehow stumbled into the link to the WFG forums on the AoKH Blacksmith page...
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Hehe, number 3 isn't bad either
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Looking great, Michael!
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Powel just asked for his resignment; is this only the usual ceremony thing or is it for real?
Unfortunately, he meant if for real. All newspapers are writing about it today - he's gone for sure, and either Rice or Wolfowitz will be his heirs. That's a pity, since Powell was always a moderate and globally well-liked person, but I can understand he doesn't want to be in that position any more (especially after the desaster about the faked Iraqi WMD proofs in front of the UN Security Concil, which made his international reputation drop quit a lot).
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Hmm, I had the opportunity to get my hands on a beta build of Longhorn some months ago, and I have to say that I wasn't too impressed. Everything was kind of Alpha-ish and broken, and the OS was really really slow, so I was glad I didn't replace my primary OS with it but installed it on another partition. There are certainly some nice ideas in Longhorn, but it will still take time until they are implemented in a useful way, IMO. The only cool thing in the alpha build I had was that you could make windows have funny and "cool" transparency and 3d effects - but that's just cosmetic stuff which in fact slows down the PC, so nothing I would buy Longhorn for.
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My list of good "historical" fiction settled in ancient times:
- Rosemary Sutcliff: The Eagle Of The Ninth
- Simon Scarrow: Under The Eagle
- Simon Scarrow: The Eagle's Conquest
- Simon Scarrow: When The Eagle Hunts
- Simon Scarrow: The Eagle And The Wolves
(all of these belong to the "Eagle" series of Simon Scarrow, which is still being continued - they feature the adventures of the two legionaries Cato and Macro, who participate in the conquest of Britain in 42 AD)
- Hans Dieter Stöver: The Varus Case (German only, I think)
- Hans Dieter Stöver: Spartacus, Slave and Rebell (German as well)
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Now after a restart it says that 180 search assistant has been removed by a third party program. It may cause programs not to run as expected. Please re-install it..blablabla (and you guessed it..installing any program does not work).
We are screwed?
Uhm, I guess you wont be sorry about that "180 search assistant". I've met that application several times already (on clients computers, most times), and it's a bad piece of spyware. Maybe it has even brought the virus onto the PC. Just a - slightly offtopic - remark from me
Also, not all Win98 CDs are bootable - as I remember, only full versions, some upgrade versions and some OEM CDs are bootable. Anyway, you should always be able to use the "old school way" and take a floppy disk... I think the Win98 boot disk still can format the HDD (the Me/2000 one doesn't, AFAIK).
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@Argalius
Well I think the localized versions of FF are important, but if you know English I suggest you use the English version of FF. English is an important language and used a lot in the academic world. Using English software, and reading English sites has proved very useful for school now, as most of my books are in English. So if you get the chance to use English daily, take it
Yepp, absolutely. I have noticed that my English made quite a large "jump ahead" as soon as I started to read English websites and texts frequently, and another one when I started to actively participate in English communities
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For the few games I have bought in the last years, I always preferred a retail box, for the same reasons as Desmond
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Hehe, this sorryeverbody.com website is quite popular in Europe, too. Many large news sites and newspapers reported about it, and several times it went down because the server collapsed.
And some of the pictures are really funny (sorry to all Bush supporters, I hope you won't kill me now)
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Hmm, most extensions seem to work, but unfortunately, the development of the TBP extension seems to have been stopped - I don't see why, as the tab browsing properties which can be edited via Firefox Preferences are pretty limited and TBP was a nice improvement, but I guess I can't change it. At least, there's a FF 1.0 compatible version of the TBP extension.
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Hehe, especially things like "Rep Up" or "I'll do it after the merger" could serve as taunts pretty well, since they have kind of a "secondary meaning" in certain game situations, not only the "insider-meaning" from the forum
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Sure it won't, but there haven't been that many total conversion mods for RTS games in the past, no (I can't remember a single one that succeeded)?
And 0 A.D. will hopefully make total conversion mods easy and powerful, so they can in fact change the whole game, not only its appearance -
As far as Romans go, yes they are the same civ but the Late Romans were very different from the earlier ones. In Part I there will be the Pre-Marian army, and without a doubt the Marian army will be in Part II, and possibly a post-4th century AD army.
Exactly. The often imagined "Asterix"-legionaries with square shields and standardized armor and weapons are in fact the troops of the late republic and the empire, which came up after the Marian reforms which allowed poor plebejans (who could not pay for their own equipment) to enter military service as well. Before, the army was divided into the Velites, Hastatii, Pricipes and Triarii units (as shown in Rome - TW as well; though they are wrong with some details about the equipment in Rome).
With these reforms, not only the whole army life and equipment changed, but also the tactics commanders used. We are trying to represent this dramatic change - which not only involves the army, but rather the whole society and government structures after the rise of Caesar and Augustus - by dividing the romans into two civilisations. Sure, it might look somewhat annoying if Republician Romans fight against Imperial Romans, but you can have such a conflict with all other civilisations as well (Iberians probably have never met Dacians in battle). The Imperial Romans will surely be played quite different from the Republician Romans, and with some other neat features we have decided to put back for Part II, we might be able to represent the Imperial Roman army as accurate as possible and give this civilisation the uniqueness it deserves
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I got it yesterday in the European afternoon time - after not having been able to access the mozilla page for almost an hour
Most of the extensions don't work any more, but the most important (except the Tab-Config-thingy, unfortunately) do, and it sure won't be long before the others get updated as well.This Google.com-startpage thing is indeed interesting, I think. Rumors about an alliance of Google and Mozilla (and a possible "Google browser" based on the Firefox code) have been on news sites for quite some time, and this could be the first step. Also, there is some Google-help-document floating around the web proposing surfers to use Firefox "or another secure browser".
Interestingly, a major german news site (spiegel.de) reported today that Microsoft/MSN were about to launch their new search engine, which will be a full-scale attack on Google (according to Steve Ballmer), tomorrow, possibly in order to counter the Firefox release PR (many newspapers only have a limited space for computer news and might rather report about the MSN search thing than the Firefox release). Looks like Microsoft is finally starting to realize the threat posed by Firefox... may they feel it even stronger soon (as I'm writing this, news are coming in about Firefox having reached 6% market share, gaining 5.5% in the past six months and it has even passed the 20% for "major IT-related websites")!
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Oh ok, but do you already have plans for the other civs because I can't really think of a civ that was there in 1-500 AD but not before BC.
Think of Imperial Rome, the Parthians, the Huns, the Dacians, for example
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Congratulations on the successful launch to everyone who was involved with creating this new website!
It is (IMO) a milestone of advance for WFG PR, since it's a lot better than the old site and personally appeals much more to me (and I doubt that's much different with other people).
Great work, everyone!
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1.0 PR here, and I'm happy with it. Will have a look at 1.0 once it's out, of course, but feature-wise, it shouldn't be much of a difference
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Oh. When would WFG's birthday be?
I don't know exactly, but somewhere in December/January 2001 (?), I think... but Jason should know this much better. As I said, I've only been actively involved with WFG for about two years now, and therefore don't know the very old times - though I already knew WFG when it was still called WFS and 0 A.D. was still an AoK mod
MSDNAA & Longhorn
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Hmm, you shouldn't be too harsh about Longhorn - after all, the version that got leaked yet are only alphas, and there's much to change until the final version in 2006. Also, there indeed are quite some nice features in the alphas already (even apart from cool-looking 3D windows flying around on minimizing and maximizing and Alt-Tab). There's certainly a lot of features that will make the upgrade as unaviodable as upgrading from, say, Me to XP was.
But I do not have to say that I would want MS to bring out a hurried new windows version, just to have something release - XP is a very stable, nice and overall good system I could still live with for some years (especially with "Add-Ons" like Firefox). They better should test their product throughly and make it better and less of a security hole than release a hurried version