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America's Army - Operations 1.9 for Linux Released
Primer writes "Icculus has done it again: The Linux port of America's Army: Operations version 1.9 is now available. This latest version features many improvements in the interface, punkbuster, and a new map. The file weighs in at a hefty 504 megs, but luckily there are plenty of mirrors, plus a very well seeded torrent. Get it while it's hot!"
If someone wants to insert this into Freenet and post the CHK, all other mirrors will pale in comparison.
Anyone know if this works in Canada? I'm guessing yes, but if it doesn't I can save the bandwidth for the download :-)
If we remember that this game was essentially designed as a recruitment tool - doesn't porting it to Linux seem an odd choice?
I understand the Army could certainly use more hackers in the ranks but how large is the intersection between your average Linux gamer and some one who might be convinced to enter the military because of a video game experience?
Maybe this just release just amplifies the weirdness (at least to me) of thinking that a video game will convince people to join up when you can see the real thing on TV at night and it's clearly NOT the same thing.
=tkk
Bill Gates - Creationist?!?
You are prejudiced. You assumed that most users of Linux are long-haired Army-hating hippies.
You forget that many people that use Linux, in fact, many people who run Open Source projects are conservative and love the Army. I am glad that the Army took the time to make a game for the Linux platform. I think it is a good idea to target the Linux users. I think the Army needs forward thinking people who are technically inclined and familiar with Linux and the Open Source development model, conservative or liberal.
I am going to download it and show my friends. Maybe my two friends who are in the Marines won't be interested -- one of them is in Iraq right now. But my other friends who love to make a buck and spend it on charities will enjoy it.
As far as the video game not being representative of reality, I don't think the commercials and radio spots do much to represent reality either. The point is to get the people who listen to the ads or play the game to think about the Army as an option for their future.
If one person steps into a recruiting center to ask about what life in the Army would really be like, then they would've succeeded.
(And I don't want to hear any crap about recruiters that lie. When a recruiter lies, they go to prison, and the person they lied to is allowed to go home. Try joining the Army and telling your sergeant in drill camp that your recruiter never told you it would be this hard. You'll see first hand how seriously they take that.)
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
Right, that's why no one cares that recruiters lied to you, they just point and laugh. I was there, I've seen it. Most of the rest of us also laughed at the poor dumb bastards who thought Basic Combat Training was going to be something like they have it in the Air Force. For the most part recruiters do not lie. They just forget to tell you about the bad stuff. But then again, when I'm getting friends to join the Army, I do the same thing.
The Army is a great opertunity for young men and women to exceed the capabilities of their peers. The Army does not care if you have a background in computers or anything else for that matter. If you score well on the technical part of your ASVAB, you can get just about any job. I have a friend who completed the Satellite Controller course with me who didn't even know what the Start button was until I showed him. Not to say the course is easy, it is not. But the Army teaches you everything you need to know and whatever they don't teach you in class, you will learn in the field.
-Daniel Wood, PFC, U.S. Army Satellite Network Controller
After installing 1.9 (which took up an extra 500 megabytes compared to 1.7! I bet 250 of that is the medic training which nobody will use more than once) my average framerate on my favorite maps dropped to an unplayable 10 (it was about 21 with 1.7 with the resolution at 1024x768 and the options at or near defaults), and turning down all the options and resolution doesn't seem to do anything for it. Furthermore, all the sound is coming across as roughly analog cell phone quality. I'm using a GF4MX and an Audigy. I dual-boot with windows XP, and my 1.9 windows install is no slower than 1.7 was and its sound quality is fine. Anybody else having this or similar problems?
worst. use of tax payer dollars. evar.
It's where you intentionally light a smaller, controlled fire in the path of a wildfire. The idea is to quickly use up the fuel so it won't continue to support the wildfire and by making it wide enough the wildfire hopefully won't be able to jump across it.
It's where the phrase "fight fire with fire" came from!
John