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Review: BZFlag 3D Tank Game
GonzoJohn writes "LinuxOrbit.com reviews the 3D Tank game BZFlag. 'Have you ever been walking down the street, minding your own business, and suddenly look down to find something you hadn't expected? It might be money, it might be a decoder ring, it could be anything. But the almost universal reaction is pleasurable. 'That's a nice surprise,' you think as you stoop and pocket whatever good fortune has dropped in your path. The same thing can happen in the strangest places. For example, a recent post on our message boards inquired, 'What's your favorite flag in bzflag?'. Not being familiar with the game, I had to ask "What's bzflag?' Little did I know that such an innocent inquiry would result in an almost indecent obsession with a very cool game.'"
One of the obvious querks of NTFS is its use of compression. The goal of compression for filesystems is to obviously decrease filesizes while keeping read and write times as fast as possible. NTFS does a very good job of this, except that it uses a lossy algorithm which means that data is actually lossed when decompressing files.
Now usually this isn't a problem , since users can choose which files they want compressed, except that windows 2000 and windows XP automatically compresses files with this lossy algorithm when they have lots of whitespace. Can you just imagine losing parts of your assignment and having to retype it because Windows automatically compressed your work with a lossy algorithm !
NTFS also has very bad recovery. This disk check utility can only be run on the disk only so often because too frequent disk checks on NTFS leads to hard drive corruption. This is why you see windows only check NTFS drives once every 20 or so shutdowns.
And for you power users:
NTFS also performs slower than FAT32. This has been thoroughly benchmarked here .
Not to mention that linux has very poor support for NTFS. Though it may be able to read NTFS drives, writing to them is a completely seperate issue, almost surely resulting in data loss.
If I was to choose a filesystem today my first choice would have to be FAT16. It has a performance advantage over FAT32 and NTFS and doesn't have any of the drawback that NTFS has, as well as being fully compatible with linux.
people say that is synchronicty... ;-)
Some events in sequence that would put you
in contact with something you desire/want/would like. It would look like coincidence, but
those people belive there is no coincidences,
so, the universe just helped you
When discussing the "pleasure" of such an event (as described in the original post), you can measure the pleasure in grudes. Grudes is a scale from negative values, through to positive values. I don't know if there is the equivalent of "absolute zero" for Grudes, but I can provide some examples:
a) -1000 Grudes is equal to the feeling you getin the pit of your stomach when you look in your rear-view mirror, and see that a police officer is about to pull you over for speeding.
b) 4310 Grudes is equal to the feeling you have when your home town team comes back from a deficit to win the final game in some sporting event playoff situation that you care about.
I don't know how many Grudes one might feel while playing BZFlag. Anyone have any ideas?
I think you`re at the wrong site then...this is yankee-doodle-dandy land all the way!
Oh, and before you complain about words such as color, fall (not autumn) etc etc remember that these are ENGLISH words, the way they were spelt before people set off to America. They only changed to their pretentious french-style spellings because the Elizabethans decided they were cooler that way. They were wrong - coloUr is a stupid way to spell it.
this guy uses links and italics
quick mod him up!
SHARON II - Fencing Arafat
After "Sharon - Massacra in Libanon" the new Sharon game is here with more
blood and more action. You are a warlord in the Middle East and you control
a holy territory called Israel, or at least almost. A small ethnic grouping
called Palestinians are still resisting dominance.
Your task is to control the Palestinians. You must keep their leader Arafat
trapped while occupying the remaining landzones of Palestinian residence.
There are though several challenges to overcome:
* The more Palestinians you kill, the more suicide bombers will explode
in your civil areas. This is bad if you loose the grip on the
local and international medias.
* International observers will try to gain access to Arafat and will
damage the control of the international medias.
* Local human rights groups will try to pursuade the local media to
give bad press.
The game is over if Arafat breaks loose, if local media makes you loose the
next election or if international press makes US and Europe invade
Israel.
This game is a tactical game but with a lot of war action and scary scenery.
If you like shoot'm'all games without too much political complexity, this
is the game for you. If you want more political game play, change the game
settings and you will have additional peace talks and UN hearings. This is
though not nessessary for simple gaming.
Don't miss Sharon II. Available from all major outlets.
:-) = I am happy
:^) = I am happy with my big nose
C:\> = I am happy with my OS
Manhole cover? You mean my pants?
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Yeah, I know, off topic. Bite me.