having only tried TF2 via wine once about a year ago, i'd be inclined to agree with the AC. i got it running, and semi-playable, but the graphics were a little sluggish and stuttery - even on low settings, with directx adjustments and all the other tweaks recommended on winehq. it was enough of a performance hit to make me resigned to running a dual-boot system.
i'll check out playonlinux though, thanks for the link.
(hopes to god that it works, since my win7rc is expiring, i only own a copy of winXP 32bit, and having an entire second OS solely for the purpose of playing 2 or 3 games is getting old regardless...)
s2 games is also working on heroes of newerth, a dota clone/fork/somethingorother (currently in beta). it runs (on all low settings) on my pentium m 1.8ghz mobility radeon 9700 old laptop. much nicer on my new desktop, but playable on weaker hardware. in short, s2 games gives me hope for the future of linux gaming.
"managing flows" unburied a memory of a tampon commercial.
During your period, your flow level can change from one day to the next. That's why Tampax developed the Compak Multipax. You get 3 tampon absorbencies to meet your changing needs, in one convenient package.
a government job is not a "good" job, it is a drain on the tax base because it generates no wealth. It only helps the individual at the expense of the rest of us.
yeah, man. the military, police, firefighters, national park/forest system, local parks, judiciary, cia, roads, and schools are a real fuckin' drain. never did me any good; but goddamn, those bourgeois grunts and jarheads sure are living the high life (at the expense of the rest of us) in baghdad and kabul.
generating wealth isn't the only measure of usefulness. i agree with a lot of the other stuff you said, but the part i quoted is downright asinine.
I lasted less than a year in my programming job after college. The work was interesting (I love coding), and I worked with good people for a great company - I just couldn't stand being inside all day, cooped up and sedentary.
I went on to work for a general contractor, eventually working on every phase of projects from estimating/bidding to finish carpentry. Then I worked for the US Forest Service, building and maintaining hiking trails in the frontcountry and deep wilderness (by far the best job I've had work-wise, but I recently left due to my inability to comprehend or deal with the machinations of the ass-backwards bureaucracy).
I am by far the happiest when I'm using my mind and body in tandem, instead of putting one on the backburner, be it body in office, or mind in base grunt work. My only regret? Not staying with the coding just long enough to pay off my student loans, and build up a decent nest egg (I'm still glad I went to college, I just struggle with the debt). My first job out of college paid $65k a year - since then, I've not made more than $22k in a year - but I'm astoundingly happier.
"The question is, how much time and energy do I want to spend chasing these guys," Stephen King wrote in an e-mail message. "And to what end? My sense is that most of them live in basements floored with carpeting remnants, living on Funions and discount beer."
carpet remnants, funions, cheap beer. sounds about right for anyone who would consider "gerald's game" to be literature. way to insult your audience, steve-o.
with that site gone, how will people ever know that soy beverages, soy cheese, soy flour, soy meal, soy oil, soy sauce, soy protein, and soybeans ALL CONTAIN SOY PRODUCTS?
i know it's not all of them, but seriously - damn near half of the products on that page have SOY in the name. i can only deduce that geocities hates natural selection.
If you didn't want the advertisements, why didn't you just PAY money to get a hosted service? Oh, that's right, you're a cheap hypocrite bastard. You go screw yourself.
random ads over WW II pictures, especially some of the pictures of fallen soldiers I had up, didn't sit well with me - so I ponied up cash for a real webhost, and didn't look back.
i hosted my first website, a WW II history site, on geocities - before the ad requirements got out of hand. when their ads got completely obnoxious, i asked for a way to keep the ad in a top frame, or any way to keep it from covering my content, but was told to pony up cash.
random ads over WW II pictures, especially some of the pictures of fallen soldiers I had up, didn't sit well with me - so I ponied up cash for a real webhost, and didn't look back.
perhaps i'm just too good at holding a grudge, but i'm glad they're dead.
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I keep a bootable XP partition
some vendors refuse to accept the fact that people have moved beyond Windows XP
huh.
having only tried TF2 via wine once about a year ago, i'd be inclined to agree with the AC. i got it running, and semi-playable, but the graphics were a little sluggish and stuttery - even on low settings, with directx adjustments and all the other tweaks recommended on winehq. it was enough of a performance hit to make me resigned to running a dual-boot system.
i'll check out playonlinux though, thanks for the link.
(hopes to god that it works, since my win7rc is expiring, i only own a copy of winXP 32bit, and having an entire second OS solely for the purpose of playing 2 or 3 games is getting old regardless...)
i'm willing to bet that she wouldn't describe those 5 minutes as "good."
bas doot
another vote for savage 2.
s2 games is also working on heroes of newerth, a dota clone/fork/somethingorother (currently in beta). it runs (on all low settings) on my pentium m 1.8ghz mobility radeon 9700 old laptop. much nicer on my new desktop, but playable on weaker hardware. in short, s2 games gives me hope for the future of linux gaming.
also:
world of goo (amazing)
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080510052539217/Games.html
http://whdb.com/2008/top-25-linux-games-for-2008/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_gaming
fork it dude, let's go bowling.
when proselytizing for open source, you might want to avoid comparisons to slave-built structures.
"Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalising its ability to produce good reporting," he said.
so fox news will still be free, since it clearly MUST be cheap, and they long ago cannibalized their ability to produce good reporting.
"managing flows" unburied a memory of a tampon commercial.
During your period, your flow level can change from one day to the next. That's why Tampax developed the Compak Multipax. You get 3 tampon absorbencies to meet your changing needs, in one convenient package.
could you at least read the TITLE of the post you're replying to?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=Property&Subcategory=20&Description=&Type=&N=2000190020+1309821317+1301919996&srchInDesc=&MinPrice=&MaxPrice=&PropertyCodeValue=3098%3A21311&PropertyCodeValue=3098%3A21317&PropertyCodeValue=1099%3A17865
a government job is not a "good" job, it is a drain on the tax base because it generates no wealth. It only helps the individual at the expense of the rest of us.
yeah, man. the military, police, firefighters, national park/forest system, local parks, judiciary, cia, roads, and schools are a real fuckin' drain. never did me any good; but goddamn, those bourgeois grunts and jarheads sure are living the high life (at the expense of the rest of us) in baghdad and kabul.
generating wealth isn't the only measure of usefulness. i agree with a lot of the other stuff you said, but the part i quoted is downright asinine.
I lasted less than a year in my programming job after college. The work was interesting (I love coding), and I worked with good people for a great company - I just couldn't stand being inside all day, cooped up and sedentary.
I went on to work for a general contractor, eventually working on every phase of projects from estimating/bidding to finish carpentry. Then I worked for the US Forest Service, building and maintaining hiking trails in the frontcountry and deep wilderness (by far the best job I've had work-wise, but I recently left due to my inability to comprehend or deal with the machinations of the ass-backwards bureaucracy).
I am by far the happiest when I'm using my mind and body in tandem, instead of putting one on the backburner, be it body in office, or mind in base grunt work. My only regret? Not staying with the coding just long enough to pay off my student loans, and build up a decent nest egg (I'm still glad I went to college, I just struggle with the debt). My first job out of college paid $65k a year - since then, I've not made more than $22k in a year - but I'm astoundingly happier.
you must have some freaky junk.
4 strength 4 stam leather belt AAAHHHHHHHHHH level 18 UHHHH UUUUUHHHHHH!!
wolfram alpha tells me that the answer to life, the universe, and everything is not "42" but "Launching May 2009..."
The quality of appointees from this administration has so far been a bit on the disappointing side, to say the least.
and yet they're still somehow better than bush appointees...rumsfeld, gonzales, brown, et al...
FTFA:
"The question is, how much time and energy do I want to spend chasing these guys," Stephen King wrote in an e-mail message. "And to what end? My sense is that most of them live in basements floored with carpeting remnants, living on Funions and discount beer."
carpet remnants, funions, cheap beer. sounds about right for anyone who would consider "gerald's game" to be literature. way to insult your audience, steve-o.
...where the deer and the antelope play
It happens over and over again, and there is nothing to stop you from doing it as well.
the crushing weight of regulation has so far prevented adoption of my rearden-fill bean bag chair.
Language Douche
-1 Ignatius J. Reilly
but then you'd also need
+1 Ignatius J. Reilly
with that site gone, how will people ever know that soy beverages, soy cheese, soy flour, soy meal, soy oil, soy sauce, soy protein, and soybeans ALL CONTAIN SOY PRODUCTS?
i know it's not all of them, but seriously - damn near half of the products on that page have SOY in the name. i can only deduce that geocities hates natural selection.
If you didn't want the advertisements, why didn't you just PAY money to get a hosted service? Oh, that's right, you're a cheap hypocrite bastard. You go screw yourself.
random ads over WW II pictures, especially some of the pictures of fallen soldiers I had up, didn't sit well with me - so I ponied up cash for a real webhost, and didn't look back.
hey, how 'bout that!
final score...
cheap hypocrite bastard: 1
vapid, vitriolic, foot-in-mouth bastard: 0
*cringe*
that's some pretty awful englishfail.
oh, that button below says "preview," not "impatiently wait for submit button to appear." now i get it.
i hosted my first website, a WW II history site, on geocities - before the ad requirements got out of hand. when their ads got completely obnoxious, i asked for a way to keep the ad in a top frame, or any way to keep it from covering my content, but was told to pony up cash.
random ads over WW II pictures, especially some of the pictures of fallen soldiers I had up, didn't sit well with me - so I ponied up cash for a real webhost, and didn't look back.
perhaps i'm just too good at holding a grudge, but i'm glad they're dead.
It also has a racing seat made of SoyFoam, a soybean oil-based, flexible foam material.
i've daydreamed about striking it rich with soybean based home insulation, mainly so i'd have an excuse to say "insoylation."