to just concentrate on the pure gaming consoles; I personally think they'd need some better games to do that though. Thank god for Zelda.
Gaming companies are going to create games for the systems with the higest sales numbers; it's the best way to make sure that if you make a good game, it'll sell well.
Don't EVER get a girl's name on a tatoo... If you want to impress her, get a heart tatoo and write her name across it every day with a permanent marker. You *will* thank me one day.
Something you could have brough to my attention YESTERDAY. Or possibly 2 years ago.
Hasn't this question of "which distro is better" been discussed to death? I can't believe this made it onto the front page.
Oh, and the "question" was from a comment in this OSNews story. Scroll down, you'll find the comment by toblak. A dumb comment on a dumb story, and it becomes the next "Ask Slashdot". Are you surprised? I'm not.
Ok, maybe I'm wrong, but moderating the parent as Flamebait is just dumb. He's asking a question, and even though he swore he's not baiting anybody!
People, don't negativly moderate! Nobody really reads at 0 anyway. I mean, if a guy posts at 3 by default and it's a baaaaad post, then maybe, but not an AC! If you moderate good posts up rather than bad posts down, all the people reading at 3 or more will be better off, and I don't think many read at less than that (unless they're moderating).
Re:Read the comments under the announcement...
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I dunno about 'struggle', if you read the installation instructions on the gentoo site it's a breeze... I was actually surprised and happy about how easy Gentoo was to install.
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qw (QuakeWorld) is still being played in both europe and the states. Tournaments are held once an year, maybe more... It's not a huge following but it definately exists... The Q1 physics were much different and it is still the 'fastest' game in the quake series (i think, maybe q3), so for some people it's much better.
Of course this is compeditive gaming, and not actually playing q1 start to finish with all the monsters. I'd think that the lighting might be something they'd rather not have because when you game compeditivly you don't want any distractions so you take the 'detail' of the game down dramatically as a trade off for speed. I'm not sure if this is relevant for q1 cause I would assume that most computer it's being played on right now could easily handle it (unlike my 486 which positivly GROANED).
this got modded insightful but i think it's more a 'funny'
there is no way their funding would get caught because they didn't lay down public guidelines for spying. governments RELY on this information, and some of information (i'm not saying most, but some) will be of great benefit to us.
You could have the love and support of thousands of people (well, "virtual people"), but if you want to GPL a game but at the same time raise money so you can keep yourself afloat, you might have a hard time convincing the "money guys" to give you anything:
"Ok, so let me get this straight... You want to get paid to make a game, but give it away and let everybody see exactly how you did it? Waiter? Check please."
If you try to run quake3 or any other 3D game under Linux, you'll run into the same things.
Never had ANY trouble setting up quake3 in linux. Not a GeForce either, a G400 Max. Couple of kernel options and a few tweaks to XF86Config and it was the first "application" I had working on my new Gentoo Linux install besides X
And since I'm already WAY offtopic, I'll mention that the Gentoo Linux install is long but worth it and not difficult at all. The instructions on the website are FANTASTIC. I have never seen better installation instructions in my entire life. I was a hardcore slack user for a while, and this came to be as a bit of a shock. System is nice too:P
Anyway, play q3! and to a lesser extent rtcw! Support your local Cache! Cause computer games are damn fun
I told my brother, my girlfriend and my sister about the spyware and the distributed client, and you know what? They don't give two shits.
Kazaa is the best way to get what they're looking for, and they don't care about anything else. Period. I have a friend who, instead of downloading music is now downloading music videos with Kazaa.
Sure it strikes me as odd that nobody cares, but that's why they're still installing Kazaa.
This is one of them. One of the two pop ups on this page crash it EVERY time. Without fail. I warn you, do not visit this in Galeon (unless there is some way of turning pop-ups off, which is entirely possible, I've never really delved too deep into it's guts.
But I like it MUCH better than Mozilla and Netscape. It just seems cleaner to me.
And for those of you visiting that web site in non Galeon browers, I did eventually figure out how to roll a joint without its help:)
Ok. Let's say there's a company out there who makes locks for doors. They release a new lock to the public with the statement that this lock will keep your door closed no matter what somebody tries.
Then some lockpick figures out how to pick the lock, and instead of using his knowledge to open doors, he tells everybody how to do it in the hope that the company will release a better lock.
Does the lockpick get arrested? Of course not. He's performed a public service, showing that these locks are, in fact, not undefeatable and forces the company to produce a better lock.
The DMCA is retarded because it targets the very people who are pushing for better products. DeCSS, for example, was SHIT. Say it with me, security through obscurity DOESN'T WORK. You know it and I know it.
Our recently arrested Russian friend figured out a way to crack Adobe's protection. What did he do? He wrote papers, did presentations. All in hope that Adobe would get a better protection scheme. What did he get?
And this is supposed to help? Oh wow! Now I know exaclty what it is! It's GNOME architecture for creating reusable software components and compound documents.
You might actually think about what you're posting and who you're posting to before you make a fool out of yourself by assuming everybody is as geeky about GNOME as you are. Or gives a RATS ass about CORBA.
Your description tells me NOTHING about what it is. Reusable code is modular, which makes me think C++ or Java. Compound documents? Sounds like documents that combine different specifications.
So I may not be on the same technical level as you, does that make you better than me? Does that give you the right to be so bloody sarcastic? People are asking an honest question, don't be an ass about it.
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to just concentrate on the pure gaming consoles; I personally think they'd need some better games to do that though. Thank god for Zelda.
Gaming companies are going to create games for the systems with the higest sales numbers; it's the best way to make sure that if you make a good game, it'll sell well.
Don't EVER get a girl's name on a tatoo... If you want to impress her, get a heart tatoo and write her name across it every day with a permanent marker. You *will* thank me one day.
Something you could have brough to my attention YESTERDAY. Or possibly 2 years ago.
This just shows they are acting more serious about providing Enterprise Solutions.
I'd say that's news.
Hasn't this question of "which distro is better" been discussed to death? I can't believe this made it onto the front page.
Oh, and the "question" was from a comment in this OSNews story. Scroll down, you'll find the comment by toblak. A dumb comment on a dumb story, and it becomes the next "Ask Slashdot". Are you surprised? I'm not.
And you've ALREADY been moderated as a Troll.
my g0d.
Ok, maybe I'm wrong, but moderating the parent as Flamebait is just dumb. He's asking a question, and even though he swore he's not baiting anybody!
People, don't negativly moderate! Nobody really reads at 0 anyway. I mean, if a guy posts at 3 by default and it's a baaaaad post, then maybe, but not an AC! If you moderate good posts up rather than bad posts down, all the people reading at 3 or more will be better off, and I don't think many read at less than that (unless they're moderating).
I dunno about 'struggle', if you read the installation instructions on the gentoo site it's a breeze... I was actually surprised and happy about how easy Gentoo was to install.
when one is after you
Nothing! There's nothing behind Door Number 3!
Stupid! You're so STUUUPID!
qw (QuakeWorld) is still being played in both europe and the states. Tournaments are held once an year, maybe more... It's not a huge following but it definately exists... The Q1 physics were much different and it is still the 'fastest' game in the quake series (i think, maybe q3), so for some people it's much better.
Of course this is compeditive gaming, and not actually playing q1 start to finish with all the monsters. I'd think that the lighting might be something they'd rather not have because when you game compeditivly you don't want any distractions so you take the 'detail' of the game down dramatically as a trade off for speed. I'm not sure if this is relevant for q1 cause I would assume that most computer it's being played on right now could easily handle it (unlike my 486 which positivly GROANED).
this got modded insightful but i think it's more a 'funny'
there is no way their funding would get caught because they didn't lay down public guidelines for spying. governments RELY on this information, and some of information (i'm not saying most, but some) will be of great benefit to us.
You could have the love and support of thousands of people (well, "virtual people"), but if you want to GPL a game but at the same time raise money so you can keep yourself afloat, you might have a hard time convincing the "money guys" to give you anything:
"Ok, so let me get this straight... You want to get paid to make a game, but give it away and let everybody see exactly how you did it? Waiter? Check please."
Never had ANY trouble setting up quake3 in linux. Not a GeForce either, a G400 Max. Couple of kernel options and a few tweaks to XF86Config and it was the first "application" I had working on my new Gentoo Linux install besides X
And since I'm already WAY offtopic, I'll mention that the Gentoo Linux install is long but worth it and not difficult at all. The instructions on the website are FANTASTIC. I have never seen better installation instructions in my entire life. I was a hardcore slack user for a while, and this came to be as a bit of a shock. System is nice too :P
Anyway, play q3! and to a lesser extent rtcw! Support your local Cache! Cause computer games are damn fun
I was coming in here to post just this comment.
I told my brother, my girlfriend and my sister about the spyware and the distributed client, and you know what? They don't give two shits.
Kazaa is the best way to get what they're looking for, and they don't care about anything else. Period. I have a friend who, instead of downloading music is now downloading music videos with Kazaa.
Sure it strikes me as odd that nobody cares, but that's why they're still installing Kazaa.
Score:3, Interesting?
Check please!
I'm using Galeon to read this right now 0.11.0, and while it's a really nice, clean interface, it does have some problems.
. htm
:)
http://ska.about.com/library/cannabis/blccrolling
This is one of them. One of the two pop ups on this page crash it EVERY time. Without fail. I warn you, do not visit this in Galeon (unless there is some way of turning pop-ups off, which is entirely possible, I've never really delved too deep into it's guts.
But I like it MUCH better than Mozilla and Netscape. It just seems cleaner to me.
And for those of you visiting that web site in non Galeon browers, I did eventually figure out how to roll a joint without its help
Verloc
Fuck :(
my bad
Ok. Let's say there's a company out there who makes locks for doors. They release a new lock to the public with the statement that this lock will keep your door closed no matter what somebody tries.
Then some lockpick figures out how to pick the lock, and instead of using his knowledge to open doors, he tells everybody how to do it in the hope that the company will release a better lock.
Does the lockpick get arrested? Of course not. He's performed a public service, showing that these locks are, in fact, not undefeatable and forces the company to produce a better lock.
The DMCA is retarded because it targets the very people who are pushing for better products. DeCSS, for example, was SHIT. Say it with me, security through obscurity DOESN'T WORK. You know it and I know it.
Our recently arrested Russian friend figured out a way to crack Adobe's protection. What did he do? He wrote papers, did presentations. All in hope that Adobe would get a better protection scheme. What did he get?
Arrested.
Man, I'm fucking glad I live in Canada.
He was dismantled. I think his parts became some sort of weather simulation device.
And this is supposed to help? Oh wow! Now I know exaclty what it is! It's GNOME architecture for creating reusable software components and compound documents.
You might actually think about what you're posting and who you're posting to before you make a fool out of yourself by assuming everybody is as geeky about GNOME as you are. Or gives a RATS ass about CORBA.
Your description tells me NOTHING about what it is. Reusable code is modular, which makes me think C++ or Java. Compound documents? Sounds like documents that combine different specifications.
So I may not be on the same technical level as you, does that make you better than me? Does that give you the right to be so bloody sarcastic? People are asking an honest question, don't be an ass about it.
VerlocI really can't help myself. It's POLL, not POOL. Sorry
Go I love technology. Soon my toaster will be running Linux. My phone will be FreeBSD though :)