USB kinda works in linux with the newer kernals... I got it working and I don't even know what I'm doing. Just get a 2.3.something kernal, install it, and enable the USB modules. If you get it working the USB power will turn on.
Too bad the modem I wanted to use wasn't ACM compliant. I guess I'm stuck with windows only until I get cable modems (installed by flying pigs, no doubt), more disk space (enough to spare 2G on a extra OS), or a compatible driver.
NOTE: I don't *really* mind using windows. I just wanted variety.
Can you explain to me how Q3A is better than Q2? There are less weapons(IIRC), they don't work any better (or any different really) and they are IMO comparitively poorly balenced. As for mods, each game means developers must make a whole new set, so there were more for Q2 than Q3A, at least at the beginning. And there were custom DM maps in almost every ID game since Quake, and the community makes its own maps pretty effectively.
Here's a way they could redeem themselves technologically and make money in the process -
1. Set up a website.
2. Allow fans to download mp3s. Charge the same price for each CD downloaded as they would get as a royalty if it were sold (plus bandwith cost.)
3. A few songs as free samples wouldn't hurt either, but that's optional.
Everyone would win. Since we aren't using the services of the record companies, we shouldn't have to pay them. This way, we could cut them out and get music more cheaply, while not harming the artists at all. I think many Napster users would go for this; I know I would.
Of course, the RIAA isn't going to get any money, but why should they? We don't need their services any more. Let them sell their obsolete format to those who would buy it, and let us get it straight from the source, minus the middleman.
I would say Quake was pretty innovative... Although the storyline wasn't great (but what was there was pretty good) it was the first game in a completely new format (true 3d enviroment) and it was actually FUN, single or multi (it probably had the best monster mix in any ID game.) Quake 2 was really the first 'meant for multiplayer' as was revealed by the single player (which sucked) and the good weapon balance (better than Q3A!!)
But seriously, at least the other games had new weapons. Q3A really is just the same old stuff over again, and IMO not even done as well this time. I would really rather play Q2 than Q3A. Q2 has more weapons, better weapon balence, and runs faster. Q3A... umm... is pretty... I guess. And UT blows it out of the water.
There's also the possibility that some of the people have the CDs already, but they are too badly scratched to use. I would personally fit into that group, except that I haven't downloaded new copies yet. While I'm not sure if that is legal (probably not, under the same principle as my.mp3.com, which I really wish I would have known about before) it is perfectly ethical and they are certainly not copyright thieves for doing it.
How on earth do you launch yourself vertically in a game that permits neither jumping nor even looking up or down? Sure you haven't been playing zdoom all this time?
You can destroy it without codes, but you can't see it, not by any method I know.
The final boss of Doom II is John Romero's head on a stick, and while I don't know about his screams, upon entering his room he says, "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero" backwards. It sounds really strange.
The boss is always the head on a stick, but you will only see this if you use the code "idclip" to pass through the wall he's behind (you cannot normally get behind the wall.)
In my opinion, ID software needs to get the old crew back instead of driving them away. Ever since Q1, the single player experiance has been degenerating, and Q2 multiplayer had better gameplay and weapon balence than Q3. Anyone who disagrees just needs to look at Q3A. World's most beautiful engine with the worst game ID ever produced(granted, it's still OK by most standards.) I mean, there wasn't ONE original weapon is Q3A (the gauntlet is just a new graphic for the chainsaw.) Right now, ID is riding their prior successes and the community(would anyone have bought Q3A if there were no mods?) , but they can't do it forever, not with games like half-life and UT around. Unless their next offering is the kind of truly innovative game we know ID can produce, they'll soon be forgotten.
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Well, duh, you're supposed to help them out. That's like complaining that your quake guy won't pull the trigger of his gun by himself.
I've seen news about new releases from Microsoft here before. It's just that there is only one microsoft, and many linux distros, so they generate more news.
Trust me, if Microsoft releases a new OS, you'll hear about it here. Now, some of the comments might be biased, but that's life.
Sure, 30 fps is probably decent most of the time, but every game has certain moments where the framerate varies heavily. Therefore, a 100 fps card is better than a 45 fps card because when you get into a serious firefight or a hardware-intensive level, the 100 fps card will not deteriorate nearly as badly. Even software usually gets over 30 fps on a fast computer; the problem is when it doesn't (and it doesn't look as good either.)
Now, if I could get a card that was 30 fps ALL of the time, I'd take that any day.
I remember it, which is strange, because my memory sucks.
I even still remember the startup song...
I remember that I liked it at the time, but I was just a little kid then.
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The thing is, he's built probably around 50 computers, and he's made probably 15 pentiums, 18 pentium IIs, 2 K6-2s, and 15 Pentium IIIs (12 specially by order.) So far, he's had 1 AMD fail and 0 Pentiums. That says quite a bit, although it's not outside the realm of probability.
Anyways, when he bought P3s before (lately he hasn't been building any) he was probably thinking, "Well, Pentiums are totally reliable and have always worked. As for AMD, well, I had problems with one once, and they just don't seem as good" (remember, he's never seen an Athlon.) So he gets the Pentiums, and since he sells the computers (and therefore displaces the price difference) it doesn't affect him much. It makes a lot bigger impression when you personally waste 10 hours troubleshooting a computer with a faulty CPU than it does to hear people in computer magazines babble.
As for that miserable computer, it was a cheapo, and he probably sold it cheap or sent it back.
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>Gee, your friend was stupid, He should have taken his computer back to whereever he bought it, or the CPU to whereever he bought it, and >demanded a replacement! WTF do you think warrenties are for, scratching your ass with? Do you really think every K6-2 has to be >clocked at 100mhz to work!
>PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO OWN A COMPUTER!
Listen. He runs a cybercafe here in town. He buys all his stuff OEM and it probably didn't come with a warrenty. And anyways, he might had sent it back eventually. I don't know.
And I know that every K6-2 doesn't have to be clocked to 100 mhz to run (and there is a diffence between underclocking 100 mhz and underclocking TO 100mhz.) The one I'm using right now seems to be just fine (granted, it's not my computer.)
And as your last comment indicates, you don't seem to understand the diffence between 'me' and 'my friend'. Since you fail to comprehend basic pronouns, I hereby judge you too dumb to post at slashdot.
But I will at least refrain from usuing all caps.
Because Intel has a vastly superior reputation.
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None of my friends buy Athlons because AMD has a poor reputation. One of my friends bought a K6-2 and it was a POS. We had to underclock it around 100 mhz just to use it at all, and it crashed frequently for no reason.
We've never, ever, had any kind of problems with any Intel processors.
Now, Athlons are a new thing, and they might be different. If I upgrade, I'll probably get an Athlon, but that's just because I'm adventurous and poor (college student.)
I've done it a few times, and hardly ever are dissenting opinions moderated down. Dissenting opinions are usually modded up, just by virtue of no being the same old crap over again. If not modded up, they are left at 0 or 1. If I see valid opinions modded down, I fix them.
The only things I ever see at -1 is absolute crap like ' naked and Petrified!' or stuff that doesn't make any sense at all. Even the gritsmen are usually amusing enough to survive.
Anyways, if you ruin the system, you won't take it over. Remember who holds all the power. Slashdot is not a democracy. Rob can change the system any time he likes, and he doesn't need to give you a reason. If you completely destroy moderation, he'll just remove comments or IP ban offenders.
If you think your ideas are so superior, why don't you start your own site? When on your first day you recieve 400 comments reading 'Project Takeover naked and petrified!', you will understand the meaning of moderation.
If Sony really wanted in, don't you think they'd just sell the items themselves? It's a lot easier to get powerful items when you run the game itself, don't you think?
I say they are trying to stop camping and people getting cheated out of real money.
Maybe they'll understand it better in that historical context. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, but those who do can perhaps be saved from doing so.
My first attempt to post this failed; if there are two identical postings that's why.
I know this is a joke but could it really be done?
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Ok... picture this scenario.
A hacker writes a trojan. It is dormant unless the system has a jumperless abit motherboard. If there is one, it flashes the bios setting the CPU voltage and speed to the maximum settings and disabling the soft power switch. Then, when you reboot, meltdown. It doesn't matter if you halt... the extra voltage going to the CPU will fry it whether it's cycling or not. And, with soft power disabled, you can't easily switch it off (sure, you can pull the plug, but that will waste time.) Now, it probably wouldn't explode (although it could) but it could wreck the CPU.
Hey, wait.... could this be why it's been patented so far ahead of it's invention? Probably it was invented in 2138, and the patent has worked its way back, 2 years at a time...
I'm sure they'll be grown in sterile laboratory enviroments. These aren't your standard bacon pigs, after all - I'm sure they'll be very expensive and looked after closely.
I won't disagree about the state of computer education, but the assumption that a football coach doesn't know anything is stupid. My school had the football coach teaching calculus, and he knew EXACTLY what he was talking about. Same with most of the other teachers. The problem I had was that there weren't any advanced classes, period (except college-sponsored MSCE ones.) About the farthest you'd get in the HS system was MS word (although to be fair, they did teach wordperfect.) I heard they used to have a programming class a few years ago, but got canceled due to abuses. Too bad:(
We need nanotechnology for that?
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Perhaps you need to be informed of a recent advance in chemical detection technology. It's called a 'drug test'.
If this was ethical, they'd be doing it, but fact is, it's not. If they ever tried it, the customers would just say, "You're going to do WHAT?!?!?!?" and storm out of the office.
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USB kinda works in linux with the newer kernals... I got it working and I don't even know what I'm doing. Just get a 2.3.something kernal, install it, and enable the USB modules. If you get it working the USB power will turn on.
Too bad the modem I wanted to use wasn't ACM compliant. I guess I'm stuck with windows only until I get cable modems (installed by flying pigs, no doubt), more disk space (enough to spare 2G on a extra OS), or a compatible driver.
NOTE: I don't *really* mind using windows. I just wanted variety.
Can you explain to me how Q3A is better than Q2? There are less weapons(IIRC), they don't work any better (or any different really) and they are IMO comparitively poorly balenced. As for mods, each game means developers must make a whole new set, so there were more for Q2 than Q3A, at least at the beginning. And there were custom DM maps in almost every ID game since Quake, and the community makes its own maps pretty effectively.
Here's a way they could redeem themselves technologically and make money in the process -
1. Set up a website.
2. Allow fans to download mp3s. Charge the same price for each CD downloaded as they would get as a royalty if it were sold (plus bandwith cost.)
3. A few songs as free samples wouldn't hurt either, but that's optional.
Everyone would win. Since we aren't using the services of the record companies, we shouldn't have to pay them. This way, we could cut them out and get music more cheaply, while not harming the artists at all. I think many Napster users would go for this; I know I would.
Of course, the RIAA isn't going to get any money, but why should they? We don't need their services any more. Let them sell their obsolete format to those who would buy it, and let us get it straight from the source, minus the middleman.
I would say Quake was pretty innovative... Although the storyline wasn't great (but what was there was pretty good) it was the first game in a completely new format (true 3d enviroment) and it was actually FUN, single or multi (it probably had the best monster mix in any ID game.) Quake 2 was really the first 'meant for multiplayer' as was revealed by the single player (which sucked) and the good weapon balance (better than Q3A!!)
But seriously, at least the other games had new weapons. Q3A really is just the same old stuff over again, and IMO not even done as well this time. I would really rather play Q2 than Q3A. Q2 has more weapons, better weapon balence, and runs faster. Q3A... umm... is pretty... I guess. And UT blows it out of the water.
There's also the possibility that some of the people have the CDs already, but they are too badly scratched to use. I would personally fit into that group, except that I haven't downloaded new copies yet. While I'm not sure if that is legal (probably not, under the same principle as my.mp3.com, which I really wish I would have known about before) it is perfectly ethical and they are certainly not copyright thieves for doing it.
How on earth do you launch yourself vertically in a game that permits neither jumping nor even looking up or down? Sure you haven't been playing zdoom all this time?
You can destroy it without codes, but you can't see it, not by any method I know.
The final boss of Doom II is John Romero's head on a stick, and while I don't know about his screams, upon entering his room he says, "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero" backwards. It sounds really strange.
The boss is always the head on a stick, but you will only see this if you use the code "idclip" to pass through the wall he's behind (you cannot normally get behind the wall.)
In my opinion, ID software needs to get the old crew back instead of driving them away. Ever since Q1, the single player experiance has been degenerating, and Q2 multiplayer had better gameplay and weapon balence than Q3. Anyone who disagrees just needs to look at Q3A. World's most beautiful engine with the worst game ID ever produced(granted, it's still OK by most standards.) I mean, there wasn't ONE original weapon is Q3A (the gauntlet is just a new graphic for the chainsaw.) Right now, ID is riding their prior successes and the community(would anyone have bought Q3A if there were no mods?) , but they can't do it forever, not with games like half-life and UT around. Unless their next offering is the kind of truly innovative game we know ID can produce, they'll soon be forgotten.
Well, duh, you're supposed to help them out. That's like complaining that your quake guy won't pull the trigger of his gun by himself.
I've seen news about new releases from Microsoft here before. It's just that there is only one microsoft, and many linux distros, so they generate more news.
Trust me, if Microsoft releases a new OS, you'll hear about it here. Now, some of the comments might be biased, but that's life.
Sure, 30 fps is probably decent most of the time, but every game has certain moments where the framerate varies heavily. Therefore, a 100 fps card is better than a 45 fps card because when you get into a serious firefight or a hardware-intensive level, the 100 fps card will not deteriorate nearly as badly. Even software usually gets over 30 fps on a fast computer; the problem is when it doesn't (and it doesn't look as good either.)
Now, if I could get a card that was 30 fps ALL of the time, I'd take that any day.
I remember it, which is strange, because my memory sucks.
I even still remember the startup song...
I remember that I liked it at the time, but I was just a little kid then.
The thing is, he's built probably around 50 computers, and he's made probably 15 pentiums, 18 pentium IIs, 2 K6-2s, and 15 Pentium IIIs (12 specially by order.) So far, he's had 1 AMD fail and 0 Pentiums. That says quite a bit, although it's not outside the realm of probability.
Anyways, when he bought P3s before (lately he hasn't been building any) he was probably thinking, "Well, Pentiums are totally reliable and have always worked. As for AMD, well, I had problems with one once, and they just don't seem as good" (remember, he's never seen an Athlon.) So he gets the Pentiums, and since he sells the computers (and therefore displaces the price difference) it doesn't affect him much. It makes a lot bigger impression when you personally waste 10 hours troubleshooting a computer with a faulty CPU than it does to hear people in computer magazines babble.
As for that miserable computer, it was a cheapo, and he probably sold it cheap or sent it back.
>Gee, your friend was stupid, He should have taken his computer back to whereever he bought it, or the CPU to whereever he bought it, and >demanded a replacement! WTF do you think warrenties are for, scratching your ass with? Do you really think every K6-2 has to be >clocked at 100mhz to work!
>PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO OWN A COMPUTER!
Listen. He runs a cybercafe here in town. He buys all his stuff OEM and it probably didn't come with a warrenty. And anyways, he might had sent it back eventually. I don't know.
And I know that every K6-2 doesn't have to be clocked to 100 mhz to run (and there is a diffence between underclocking 100 mhz and underclocking TO 100mhz.) The one I'm using right now seems to be just fine (granted, it's not my computer.)
And as your last comment indicates, you don't seem to understand the diffence between 'me' and 'my friend'. Since you fail to comprehend basic pronouns, I hereby judge you too dumb to post at slashdot.
But I will at least refrain from usuing all caps.
None of my friends buy Athlons because AMD has a poor reputation. One of my friends bought a K6-2 and it was a POS. We had to underclock it around 100 mhz just to use it at all, and it crashed frequently for no reason.
We've never, ever, had any kind of problems with any Intel processors.
Now, Athlons are a new thing, and they might be different. If I upgrade, I'll probably get an Athlon, but that's just because I'm adventurous and poor (college student.)
I've done it a few times, and hardly ever are dissenting opinions moderated down. Dissenting opinions are usually modded up, just by virtue of no being the same old crap over again. If not modded up, they are left at 0 or 1. If I see valid opinions modded down, I fix them.
The only things I ever see at -1 is absolute crap like ' naked and Petrified!' or stuff that doesn't make any sense at all. Even the gritsmen are usually amusing enough to survive.
Anyways, if you ruin the system, you won't take it over. Remember who holds all the power. Slashdot is not a democracy. Rob can change the system any time he likes, and he doesn't need to give you a reason. If you completely destroy moderation, he'll just remove comments or IP ban offenders.
If you think your ideas are so superior, why don't you start your own site? When on your first day you recieve 400 comments reading 'Project Takeover naked and petrified!', you will understand the meaning of moderation.
Until then, shut up.
C'mon, this is space. They'll be playing Descent.
If Sony really wanted in, don't you think they'd just sell the items themselves? It's a lot easier to get powerful items when you run the game itself, don't you think?
I say they are trying to stop camping and people getting cheated out of real money.
I'm not sure exactly what it is, but is it not what he says. Something disgusting. I didn't look long enough to identify it.
Yeah, I know, I'm feeding the trolls, but I just want to prevent others with weak stomachs from seeing it.
Maybe they'll understand it better in that historical context. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, but those who do can perhaps be saved from doing so.
My first attempt to post this failed; if there are two identical postings that's why.
Ok... picture this scenario.
A hacker writes a trojan. It is dormant unless the system has a jumperless abit motherboard. If there is one, it flashes the bios setting the CPU voltage and speed to the maximum settings and disabling the soft power switch. Then, when you reboot, meltdown. It doesn't matter if you halt... the extra voltage going to the CPU will fry it whether it's cycling or not. And, with soft power disabled, you can't easily switch it off (sure, you can pull the plug, but that will waste time.) Now, it probably wouldn't explode (although it could) but it could wreck the CPU.
Hey, wait.... could this be why it's been patented so far ahead of it's invention? Probably it was invented in 2138, and the patent has worked its way back, 2 years at a time...
I'm sure they'll be grown in sterile laboratory enviroments. These aren't your standard bacon pigs, after all - I'm sure they'll be very expensive and looked after closely.
I won't disagree about the state of computer education, but the assumption that a football coach doesn't know anything is stupid. My school had the football coach teaching calculus, and he knew EXACTLY what he was talking about. Same with most of the other teachers. The problem I had was that there weren't any advanced classes, period (except college-sponsored MSCE ones.) About the farthest you'd get in the HS system was MS word (although to be fair, they did teach wordperfect.) I heard they used to have a programming class a few years ago, but got canceled due to abuses. Too bad :(
Perhaps you need to be informed of a recent advance in chemical detection technology. It's called a 'drug test'.
If this was ethical, they'd be doing it, but fact is, it's not. If they ever tried it, the customers would just say, "You're going to do WHAT?!?!?!?" and storm out of the office.
Lower rates are not worth the cost of freedom.