"Seriously, good as the engine was, doom 3 was a bad game, it lacked much of the gameplay associated with the original games."
For me, the true successor to Doom 2 was Painkiller. A good mix of claustrophobic spaces and wide open ones with 'monsters' coming from all directions, scenes set both indoors and outdoors. Plus great graphics and SFX, a good variety of weapons, and the ability to, occasionally, genuinely surprise and frighten the player.
If someone wanted a new and cheap PC, get a Linux one and format c:
Actually it's been perfectly possible to buy a PC without any operating system in the UK for some time now, if not always. I first did it in 2001. Perhaps not from a big chain store but certainly from the shops and internet sites that actually know something about computers, which is also about the only way to even know what motherboard you're getting, for example....
"Would you trust as accurate a study funded my Microsoft that says that 5 of 6 dentists prefer to use Windows, or would you be more likely to trust as accurate a study funded by some independent group?"
I'd want to see the results of the independent survey of dentists first.....
"I seem to remember that most all the great electronic inventions of the last century were made by amateurs. You can argue that electronics is a subset of physics, but lets keep semantics out of this."
Actually, the RPM challenge is to record an album in the month of February. There is nothing to say that the album should be written during that month.
There IS a web site that encourages writing an album in a month - and it FAWM.org (February Album Writing Month). The RPM challenge took this as inspiration and set up in the same month with slightly different criteria and has been better publicised. For it's first two years, RPMchallenge.com paid tribute to FAWM.org but now seems to be big enough and arrogant enough to have stopped paying tribute to the place it got its ideas from.
This is all fine in the world of capitalism but it still seems pretty uncool to me.
"The reason that Linux is largely unaffected is that it is not very widely used.. If/when we succeed in bringing Linux to the masses, this layer of protection will be torn away"
I'm sure part of the reason Windows is attacked is not just because it's so widespread but because it's produced by Microsoft who have shown some pretty dodgy business practices over the years.
I hope that most hackers (other than the significant number who make money through malware, etc) are kind of revolutionary or, like myself, wish the wealth could be more evenly distributed. I think most hackers aren't just in it to piss people off. If Linux ever dominates the OS market, there will still be thieves but I would hope there would be fewer hackers just trying to piss off users because they use that particular OS.
Clearly the following Frank Zappa quote was about the lyrical content of songs, when faced with 'parental advisory' stickers, but it's just as relevant here...
"If you are an artist reading this, think for a moment... did anyone ask you if you wanted to have the stigma of 'potential filth' popped onto your next release [via this 'appeasement sticker']?
[If you are a songwriter], did anyone ask you if you wanted to spend the rest of your career modifying your [lyric] content to suit the spiritual needs of an imaginary 11-year-old?"
A big track count and lots of plug-ins in multitrack pro-audio recording / production software. I'm sure others have mentioned what it gives you in other areas - that's my area.
"I'm happy with fast math being the default since most people are usually more interested in the first few significant digits than the last few."
This is very true. However, the context is mathematical proof. My point was that, in Pure Mathematics, an answer that is correct to a million billion places still does not constitute a proof. It has to be exact. Those 'last few' are actually infinite.
".999999999... == 1, so the answer is still correct."
It is not correct. At what point did Python point out that those 9's are recurring?
You are right that, mathematically, 0.999999999999... (recurring) is indeed equal to one. But 0.9999999999999 is not equal to 1. Even if there were 100 billion 9's, or any finite number, it is still not equal to 1.
Mathematics is a precise art. Computer calculations generally are not.
"2 boxed sets of unreleased music - at best second rate crap that was not good enough to put out the first time"
No, the stuff Kiss and Simmons put out first time was 'second rate crap that was not good enough to put out the first time'. These box sets are surely third rate crap that it would have been criminal to put out the first time.
This comes just a week after the European launch was announced (November 9, approx. $550, tied into an expensive, exclusive contract).
Surely, this announcement is going to hurt early sales in Europe. Or is demand really so high that people will pay through the nose just to have it a short while before anyone else?
Re:'I'm more concerned with physics 101 and TCP/IP 101 which tell you there's no such thing as an unlimited network'
'Unlimited' doesn't mean 'infinite speed'. It means you can up/download, at the bandwidth you paid for, 24/7, without denial of service or a reduction of that bandwidth. Or at least, that's what it's supposed to mean.
It seems a lot of computer companies think they can take over the world with underhand tactics, installing crap on our computers that we don't want and doing everything they can to stop us uninstalling that crap. And when they lose a load of users for that very reason, they want a second chance?
Tough. Same goes for gator (remember them?), Sony (that rootkit...) and good ol' Microsoft. F*** them all. Boycott them all.
(unfortunately I'm not yet in a position to boycott Microsoft but I will as soon as the stuff I need is available on Linux or similar:) )
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For me, the true successor to Doom 2 was Painkiller. A good mix of claustrophobic spaces and wide open ones with 'monsters' coming from all directions, scenes set both indoors and outdoors. Plus great graphics and SFX, a good variety of weapons, and the ability to, occasionally, genuinely surprise and frighten the player.
Actually it's been perfectly possible to buy a PC without any operating system in the UK for some time now, if not always. I first did it in 2001. Perhaps not from a big chain store but certainly from the shops and internet sites that actually know something about computers, which is also about the only way to even know what motherboard you're getting, for example....
I'd want to see the results of the independent survey of dentists first.....
Astronomy is also a subset of physics.
Actually, the RPM challenge is to record an album in the month of February. There is nothing to say that the album should be written during that month.
There IS a web site that encourages writing an album in a month - and it FAWM.org (February Album Writing Month). The RPM challenge took this as inspiration and set up in the same month with slightly different criteria and has been better publicised. For it's first two years, RPMchallenge.com paid tribute to FAWM.org but now seems to be big enough and arrogant enough to have stopped paying tribute to the place it got its ideas from.
This is all fine in the world of capitalism but it still seems pretty uncool to me.
NOTE: For most of these projects, you don't need the Nintendo Wii console. You only need the Wii controller and a bluetooth connection.
Notice how it's encrypted, though....
I'm sure part of the reason Windows is attacked is not just because it's so widespread but because it's produced by Microsoft who have shown some pretty dodgy business practices over the years. I hope that most hackers (other than the significant number who make money through malware, etc) are kind of revolutionary or, like myself, wish the wealth could be more evenly distributed. I think most hackers aren't just in it to piss people off. If Linux ever dominates the OS market, there will still be thieves but I would hope there would be fewer hackers just trying to piss off users because they use that particular OS.
Why? Is he the 'self-interested actor' mentioned in the text?
"If you are an artist reading this, think for a moment... did anyone ask you if you wanted to have the stigma of 'potential filth' popped onto your next release [via this 'appeasement sticker']?
[If you are a songwriter], did anyone ask you if you wanted to spend the rest of your career modifying your [lyric] content to suit the spiritual needs of an imaginary 11-year-old?"
A big track count and lots of plug-ins in multitrack pro-audio recording / production software.
I'm sure others have mentioned what it gives you in other areas - that's my area.
This is very true. However, the context is mathematical proof. My point was that, in Pure Mathematics, an answer that is correct to a million billion places still does not constitute a proof. It has to be exact. Those 'last few' are actually infinite.
It is not correct. At what point did Python point out that those 9's are recurring?
You are right that, mathematically, 0.999999999999... (recurring) is indeed equal to one.
But 0.9999999999999 is not equal to 1.
Even if there were 100 billion 9's, or any finite number, it is still not equal to 1.
Mathematics is a precise art. Computer calculations generally are not.
No, the stuff Kiss and Simmons put out first time was 'second rate crap that was not good enough to put out the first time'. These box sets are surely third rate crap that it would have been criminal to put out the first time.
Surely, this announcement is going to hurt early sales in Europe. Or is demand really so high that people will pay through the nose just to have it a short while before anyone else?
If they then still refused service because you installed Linux, then....
Re:'I'm more concerned with physics 101 and TCP/IP 101 which tell you there's no such thing as an unlimited network' 'Unlimited' doesn't mean 'infinite speed'. It means you can up/download, at the bandwidth you paid for, 24/7, without denial of service or a reduction of that bandwidth. Or at least, that's what it's supposed to mean.
It seems a lot of computer companies think they can take over the world with underhand tactics, installing crap on our computers that we don't want and doing everything they can to stop us uninstalling that crap. And when they lose a load of users for that very reason, they want a second chance?
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Tough. Same goes for gator (remember them?), Sony (that rootkit...) and good ol' Microsoft. F*** them all. Boycott them all.
(unfortunately I'm not yet in a position to boycott Microsoft but I will as soon as the stuff I need is available on Linux or similar
Well Earth / Moon is also really a double planet. And how many know that Earth has two more distant and much smaller moons?
Someone really ought to tell him.....