Oh, and did I mention that the sound track to High Fidelty is the best I've ver heard? Turned me on to *so* much good music - especially the beta band....
Of course, the sound track to Grosse Point Blank is excellent too.
This movie rocks my world - never gets old. I was only able to live the life (or a computer programmer at a place *just* like anantech) for 1 year - but it *so* fits! Course, I didn't get to sleep with Jennifer Anniston..... Dammit!
Wings of Desire is easily my favorite film. I've seen it, maybe, 5 times, and see new stuff every time. Truly a great film. Too bad Faraway, So Close! had so little of the magic of the first one. There was a rumor that they were part of a trilogy, but I'd be surprised since so much time has passed.
Don'te ven get me talking about City of Angels - a loose interpretation of Wings of Desire. The *only* good part of that film was the guy from the cop show (denise franz?).
Another movie that is fantastic but forgotten is Never Cry Wolf.
Probably not in the forgotten category, but both need to be mentioned - Grosse Point Blank and High Fidelity. The latter especially - seen it half a dozen times at least.
Come to think of it, Starship Troopers is quite simmilar to the news reports of the Bugger War in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. Hmm, probably just a coincidence.
Maybe not. Robert Heilein wrote Starships Troopers back in the 70's (I think) - way before Enders Game. Maybe OSC was influenced somewhat? There is a maturity to OSC's books that earlier appeared in some (not all) of Heinleins books (by maturity, I mean the non-fantasy aspect of sci fi - Heinlein definatly wrote sci fi with another type of maturity - namly, very sexy).
It'll be a while before Linux has a respectable gaming library.
I don't think this is true any longer. Here is a short list of the games that run nativly in linux:
quake3 return to castle wolfenstien unreal tournament (and ut2003) simcity3000 the sims (kinda-sorta - has it's own winex and saves data is the users directory - runs just as well as a native game). neverwinter nights (my guess is by the end of this month) america's army (coming soon from icculas.org) medal of honor: allied assault (also coming soon from icculas.org) Doom3 (when it's released) serious sam and (coming soon) serious sam: the second encounter civilization: call to power
games that run well in winex: half-life, counter-strike, natural-selection (and all other hl mods that I've tried) jedi knights battlefield 1942 (should be supported, along with everquest, in winex 3.0 which is due out this month) diablo 2 warcraft 3 and at least a dozen other games I haven't tried that are rated as working at level 5 (out of 5).
So, in my opinion, the landscape for games in linux has improved a great deal.
Hmm... Could it be that Dell has an interest in actively killing enterprise-class unix, given that Dell doesn"t manufacture any serious unix hardware. (I know you can installed various flavors of unix on Dell servers and workstations, but Dell has clearly and intentionally linked its own success to Microsoft's.)
This is not in the least true. Dell sells some great servers running linux that are enterprise ready. Not to mention the fact that this article is about how Dell is switching from unix to linux, not unix to windows. Did you *read* the article? No? Then why do you feel justified in responding to it?
This is about as surprising as Microsoft claiming that open source software is crap.
No, here's the surprising thing - this post got moderated as intesting. It's not interesting - it's some guys knee-jerk response to the title of the article.
To me, This just smacks of wishful thinking and marketing.
To me, This post just smacks of some dope who didn't read the article.
Look, I'm the biggest Linux/Unix zealot there is, and I read the article expecting to hate Dell, but all their saying is that Linux has become a very real option to commercial unix.
As a well known humorist, book author, sometime serious columnist (as evidenced by your 9/11 and Hiroshima columns), musician, father, husband, and geek (am I missing anything), what would you like your obit to say when and if (hey, who deserves eternal life more than Dave Barry, huh?) you die?
This page (http://www.icculus.org/) only shows "# MOHAA Spearhead Linux server ALPHA1 (posted 2002-12-31 18:49:50 by icculus). " (same for BF1942 in an older news article).
If you know different, post links - otherwise, don't spread rumors - it deosn't help linux.
I think this misses the point. Since the game is based on the unreal engine, and since the unreal engine runs in linux, I think the idea is to run the game natively in linux, not using wine.
17 years ago, I worked for a non-profit called "Ahead with Horses" which taught physically disabled children to ride horses, and in some cases to vault on them (think gymnastics on horseback). If I remember right, Mr. Shatner was a generous supporter of the program (with both his time and money).
My question is this Mr. Shatner: which are your favorite charities? What's you favorite story related to one of them?
Re:While NS isn't a cstrike killer...
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Funny,
With Half Life and many of it's mods (especially Counter Strike of course), Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament (original amd 2003), Sim City 3000, BZFlag, Civilization CTP, Soldier of Fortune, The Sims and (Coming Soon) Neverwinter Nights and Doom 3, my customers seem very happy with the game selection.
While NS isn't a cstrike killer...
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It is my 2nd favorite Half-Life mod. Is has a level of detail and replayability found in maybe only cstrike and dod (and neither of them are as unique as ns).
We are playing ns right now in my linux-based gaming center - it's very popular so far.
I'm pretty sure if you check with any form of rail transportation - friction between wheel and rail is very minimal. My guess is that atmospheric friction and slope use *much* more energy. Not saying that it won't need *some* energy to keep it going, but it would be nothing compared to the same situation withair friction.
Then again, I could be wrong...
As for the problems that would be caused by a breach in a passenger car - you are 100% on that one - bad mojo would happen.
Exactly! This is the first intelligent post on this topic since this bloody topic started.
Nobody broke into anything. There was no security whatsoever. The fact is that this company fscked up and is trying to blame reuters. If it's on the web, and it's not protected by a password, it's public information. Pure and simple.
Too bad this company is at the end of my *very* long list of people needing to get hit upside the head by a clue stick.
please, somebody with mod points, mod the above post as moronic. "Why a book?" was a joke, not meant to be taken seriously. "Re:Why a book?" is posted by some dolt with no sense of humor....
*If* the Samba Team actually viewed anything that is protected by an NDA, *every* peice of code that they write could be scrutinized for violation of that NDA. However, if it's provable that no member of the Samba Team is beholden to an NDA, and happens to write code that looks just like something that *is* under an NDA - they are still in the clear. Got it?
Besides, this is evil and here's why. We don't know what the licensing scheme is. We *cannot* know unless we sign the NDA that prevents us from telling anybody else. So, not only is the information that is supposed to be public, not, but so is the pricing scheme that the information is licensed under.
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Oh, and did I mention that the sound track to High Fidelty is the best I've ver heard? Turned me on to *so* much good music - especially the beta band....
Of course, the sound track to Grosse Point Blank is excellent too.
This movie rocks my world - never gets old. I was only able to live the life (or a computer programmer at a place *just* like anantech) for 1 year - but it *so* fits! Course, I didn't get to sleep with Jennifer Anniston..... Dammit!
Wings of Desire is easily my favorite film. I've seen it, maybe, 5 times, and see new stuff every time. Truly a great film. Too bad Faraway, So Close! had so little of the magic of the first one. There was a rumor that they were part of a trilogy, but I'd be surprised since so much time has passed.
Don'te ven get me talking about City of Angels - a loose interpretation of Wings of Desire. The *only* good part of that film was the guy from the cop show (denise franz?).
Another movie that is fantastic but forgotten is Never Cry Wolf.
Probably not in the forgotten category, but both need to be mentioned - Grosse Point Blank and High Fidelity. The latter especially - seen it half a dozen times at least.
Come to think of it, Starship Troopers is quite simmilar to the news reports of the Bugger War in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. Hmm, probably just a coincidence.
Maybe not. Robert Heilein wrote Starships Troopers back in the 70's (I think) - way before Enders Game. Maybe OSC was influenced somewhat? There is a maturity to OSC's books that earlier appeared in some (not all) of Heinleins books (by maturity, I mean the non-fantasy aspect of sci fi - Heinlein definatly wrote sci fi with another type of maturity - namly, very sexy).
Just my 2 cents....
It'll be a while before Linux has a respectable gaming library.
I don't think this is true any longer. Here is a short list of the games that run nativly in linux:
quake3
return to castle wolfenstien
unreal tournament (and ut2003)
simcity3000
the sims (kinda-sorta - has it's own winex and saves data is the users directory - runs just as well as a native game).
neverwinter nights (my guess is by the end of this month)
america's army (coming soon from icculas.org)
medal of honor: allied assault (also coming soon from icculas.org)
Doom3 (when it's released)
serious sam and (coming soon) serious sam: the second encounter
civilization: call to power
games that run well in winex:
half-life, counter-strike, natural-selection (and all other hl mods that I've tried)
jedi knights
battlefield 1942 (should be supported, along with everquest, in winex 3.0 which is due out this month)
diablo 2
warcraft 3
and at least a dozen other games I haven't tried that are rated as working at level 5 (out of 5).
So, in my opinion, the landscape for games in linux has improved a great deal.
Hmm... Could it be that Dell has an interest in actively killing enterprise-class unix, given that Dell doesn"t manufacture any serious unix hardware. (I know you can installed various flavors of unix on Dell servers and workstations, but Dell has clearly and intentionally linked its own success to Microsoft's.)
This is not in the least true. Dell sells some great servers running linux that are enterprise ready. Not to mention the fact that this article is about how Dell is switching from unix to linux, not unix to windows. Did you *read* the article? No? Then why do you feel justified in responding to it?
This is about as surprising as Microsoft claiming that open source software is crap.
No, here's the surprising thing - this post got moderated as intesting. It's not interesting - it's some guys knee-jerk response to the title of the article.
To me, This just smacks of wishful thinking and marketing.
To me, This post just smacks of some dope who didn't read the article.
Look, I'm the biggest Linux/Unix zealot there is, and I read the article expecting to hate Dell, but all their saying is that Linux has become a very real option to commercial unix.
Dave,
As a well known humorist, book author, sometime serious columnist (as evidenced by your 9/11 and Hiroshima columns), musician, father, husband, and geek (am I missing anything), what would you like your obit to say when and if (hey, who deserves eternal life more than Dave Barry, huh?) you die?
I finally found it here (mohaa client in linux):
http://icculus.org/news/news.php?id=1122
Cool!
This page (http://www.icculus.org/) only shows "# MOHAA Spearhead Linux server ALPHA1 (posted 2002-12-31 18:49:50 by icculus). " (same for BF1942 in an older news article).
If you know different, post links - otherwise, don't spread rumors - it deosn't help linux.
I think this misses the point. Since the game is based on the unreal engine, and since the unreal engine runs in linux, I think the idea is to run the game natively in linux, not using wine.
I did (before it got slashdotted) it said *server*.
A million posts about politics (with +5's all over the place), but this one *which is on topic*, is at the bottom (with a score of 1)!
I too want to know how they did it - I find *nothing* on the site other than the screenshot...
Serious Sam the First encounter is in beta - the second isn't available linux yet (but they are working on it).
Medal of Honor? I've heard about a linux server but not a linux client. Do you have any info to back this up?
It's called streamripper and you can find it here.
It runs on win9x, *nix, and OS X. I found it yesterday after reading an article on sfgate.com.
I've been using is since yesterday - works great!
17 years ago, I worked for a non-profit called "Ahead with Horses" which taught physically disabled children to ride horses, and in some cases to vault on them (think gymnastics on horseback). If I remember right, Mr. Shatner was a generous supporter of the program (with both his time and money).
My question is this Mr. Shatner: which are your favorite charities? What's you favorite story related to one of them?
Thanks!
You dork - he was kidding.
You need to compile a humor mod...
Funny,
With Half Life and many of it's mods (especially Counter Strike of course), Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament (original amd 2003), Sim City 3000, BZFlag, Civilization CTP, Soldier of Fortune, The Sims and (Coming Soon) Neverwinter Nights and Doom 3, my customers seem very happy with the game selection.
It is my 2nd favorite Half-Life mod. Is has a level of detail and replayability found in maybe only cstrike and dod (and neither of them are as unique as ns).
We are playing ns right now in my linux-based gaming center - it's very popular so far.
Mini-Mo
Minizilla?
Microzilla?
Nanozilla?
Picozilla?
I'm pretty sure if you check with any form of rail transportation - friction between wheel and rail is very minimal. My guess is that atmospheric friction and slope use *much* more energy. Not saying that it won't need *some* energy to keep it going, but it would be nothing compared to the same situation withair friction.
Then again, I could be wrong...
As for the problems that would be caused by a breach in a passenger car - you are 100% on that one - bad mojo would happen.
Exactly! This is the first intelligent post on this topic since this bloody topic started.
Nobody broke into anything. There was no security whatsoever. The fact is that this company fscked up and is trying to blame reuters. If it's on the web, and it's not protected by a password, it's public information. Pure and simple.
Too bad this company is at the end of my *very* long list of people needing to get hit upside the head by a clue stick.
Now *thats* funny! :)
please, somebody with mod points, mod the above post as moronic. "Why a book?" was a joke, not meant to be taken seriously. "Re:Why a book?" is posted by some dolt with no sense of humor....
Or am I wrong?
I think you are wrong - and here is why:
*If* the Samba Team actually viewed anything that is protected by an NDA, *every* peice of code that they write could be scrutinized for violation of that NDA. However, if it's provable that no member of the Samba Team is beholden to an NDA, and happens to write code that looks just like something that *is* under an NDA - they are still in the clear. Got it?
Besides, this is evil and here's why. We don't know what the licensing scheme is. We *cannot* know unless we sign the NDA that prevents us from telling anybody else. So, not only is the information that is supposed to be public, not, but so is the pricing scheme that the information is licensed under.
Their audacity (and arrogence) amazes me...