It doesn't matter. Even the Windows version is pretty dead.
UT3 servers are mostly bereft of players, which is a crying shame given that it's a fantastic game that most current rigs by gamers can run at max settings. The high system requirements were a barrier to entry to players when it first launched, but that's no longer true now. Check out the current Unreal Tournament 3 server stats
UT 2004 has more than twice the number of players & servers running: UT2k4 server stats. Sure, its mechanics were more enjoyed by players of classic UT99, but UT3 should be enjoyed on its own.
Unreal Tournament series' gameplay, mechanics & multiple game modes was always superior to the quake series (not to mention much more fun and prettier). Oh, and the graphics are pretty gorgeous!
UT3 has been going on sale during holidays during the past 3 years now. You guys should grab it when it goes on sale on Steam this Christmas-New Year. It drops down to about $10 or comes bundled with the complete Unreal series cheap which is amazing bang for buck.
Would be great if more players could hop in. C'mon guys, give it ago! Pretty sure it'll be dirt cheap and well worth your money this coming Steam Christmas-New Year sale.
It's useful for typing headlines/subject headings/titles in no-format plaintext only documents (think notepad).
Useful for designing menus, buttons, titles & logos in Graphic design also.
And... I used to use it a lot when I was a little kid learning BASIC from old library books, as all the code then was written in uppercase so I would type them verbatim.
Since those old books were written in a single font, all uppercase helped separate computer code from from prose text.
There were 2 critical drawbacks with this engine. One was the pallete of colors. Most people complained about Quakes dull, brown, gray, blue and beige colors, without knowing that it was the only solution for archieving lighting over surfaces. Since each material needs a wide variety of reserved colors for displaying darkened/brightened portions of the surface, the game was limited to just a few colors and all their respective shades. This was when 8-bit displays (just 256 colors) ruled the Earth, and superior color depths were impossible for the mainstream video equipment.
What I don't get is why it's called Rage HD being an iPhone game... low-res = HD? Even the iPad's resolution is meh.
Moreover... wtf, iD? Why does everything have to be brown again? What the heck is it with iD games and all-brown palettes?
(trivia: Quake 1 was all-brown because of limits with the game engine)
That being said, aren't most shooters these days just guided on rails anyways? Except for stuff like Bioshock & Fallout, most shooters are now just guided corridors where scripted cutscenes trigger at preset points & you can't run around and explore as much anymore.
I suppose that's also a side effect of what most engines pay these days for such high detail -> Maps tend to be much smaller. Deus Ex 2's maps were waaaay smaller than Deus Ex 1's.
Summary doesn't mention that 3rd TFA says that Hammersmith just wrote a book about his experiences and is looking at gamers as a target audience and that the other article link is about a young gamer middle east veteran who was involved in the COD: Black Ops game production.
While we're at it, I propose the removal of the artificial rounding off of citizens' bank accounts to 2 digits after the decimal point.
It is an outdated model stuck on physical money and a scam run by institutions pocketing the fractions (think salami slicing).
The rise of "paperless" money, rapid currency exchange fluctuations + digital microtransactions at consumer level have made this very feasible.
I want my bank account to be able to say ".0238538327" after the whole numbers' place. If I make games, I want to be able to sell virtual goods at $0.00056 per transaction if I want to. When your audience is the entire internet, small amounts like that can rack up to substantial numbers. I want institutions to be able to do that for me affordably, and I want to see that number reflect in my account instead of being thrown away.
I mean in this age of digital, how much does it cost to actually make/record/monitor a transaction when everything's already digital?
Any takers? Maybe this is an opportunity to create a new startup. Maybe this is a niche that can challenge Paypal. Take it. Run away with the idea. I don't care who implements it, as long as it gets implemented.
The Cherry Mobile P1 over here which was developed earlier & is selling like hotcakes looks about the same (like a small kid's calculator), but has a small LCD + Text functions, predictive txt, 8 available ringtones.
Check 'em out, it's only about $22. They come in different colors too. Even though I don't need one, I want one just because it's so cute & cheap.
It's about the size of a credit card & really thin. Review here.
Have you noticed any strange abilities, powers or personality changes emerging after exposure to these strange pieces of metal for extended periods of time?
Hmmm... you may also want to consider forging a magical sword out these strange metal fragments...
You can then challenge the meteor sword-wielding Sir Terry Pratchett to an internet duel of epic proportions...
Why don't you Americans just file a class-action suit against the TSA for sexual harassment?
Both the naked photography and "enhanced patdowns" are ridiculously invasive. What they're doing is useless, absurd and completely unacceptable.
What's wrong with the USA? By allowing this to happen and continuing to allow it, you guys are allowing the terrorists to win: Mission accomplished, you guys are living in terror.
Start a country-wide movement, get major media coverage and support. Stop this madness.
H.264's patent licensing fees make it a dealbreaker for law-abiding indies, open source advocates and small hardware makers who don't want to pay.
WebM is free.
It's also a good potential "unifying format" for web video codec-wise the same way Flash has been player-wise because we're still in the same codec hell as far as HTML5 video is concerned due to Mozilla foundation's refusal to use H.264.
H.264 licensing fees look reasonable though if products or services are sold at profit. Not sure how it goes though for free software or products that make marginal profits.
Also, they have absolutely horrendous eye-capture technology.
Except for some cultures like the Japanese where they talk without making a lot of eye contact, a large part of facial expressions & mannerism is with the the eyes.
Valve's Half-Life 2 was amazing because of this (well, they did bag the guy who worked on Gollum's animations...)
That being said, Noire looks like it's full of creepy animated corpses because the eyes aren't alive. They keep staring in the distance instead of properly focusing at proper objects/people and flicking around like normal human beings.
Also, Rockstar needs to learn proper editing and pacing of cutscenes. They all kept dragging on painfully in GTA IV/Expansions, making them really irritating to watch and yet unskippable if you wanted to find out more about the story.
On the other hand, despite all the difficulties, with Oracle's vast resources at its disposal, it would be ridiculous if they couldn't do a new OSX port. Maybe Steve Jobs wants the opportunity to call Oracle "lazy" too;P
I don't think you can without turning off Javascript. I have yet to see an effective Javascript ad-detecting filter.
Current extremely annoying offenders are those floating CSS layer replacements for popup window ads that cover articles you're reading.
At least with Flash ads, you can block Flash easily via Flashblock. With Javascript, a lot of Web 2.0 sites nowadays simply stop functioning properly when Javascript is disabled.
Did no one else notice the even more horrifying fact that he set up phishing websites to steal account usernames and passwords?
According to Facebook, Guerbuez fooled its users into providing him with their usernames and passwords. One method was the use of fake websites that posed as legitimate destinations.
This guy deserves to be repeatedly sodomized in jail with the use of unpeeled pineapples.
As hair-pulling frustrating it is, there are some institutions and corporations which have a company policy to only use IE.X "for security & stability purposes" because it was what all their legacy apps & inventory systems were built for and those legacy systems could/would break in different browsers, and this is a big big headache.
I recall that there's a policy akin to this in Korean government.
I wish it weren't so, and anyone who can download a plugin can easily install a better standards-compliant browser, right?
IE should just die for the betterment of humanity.
It's been holding back the web for over a decade now and is the cause of majority of cross-browser compatibility problems.
As for HTML5, even Google has given a sane and rational explanation why HTML5 is not ready yet and does not suit their needs as compared to Flash. Read it here.
Yes, HTML5 is the future, but it goes hand and hand with Flash. The two synergize and don't compete with each other. Good Flash developers know when *NOT* to use Flash.
On non-cross-browser compatible HTML5 Demos, these does not run in the latest version of Opera (which has always been the most standards-compliant browser during the history of its existence):
*Google Images Gift Box - CSS 3D example
*The Smallest 3D Maker -> points appear not where you click
*Archery app -> ditto
and many others...
Before you argue any further, please read my article at TheNextWeb as I've tried to make a fair and balanced assessment on the HTML5/Flash issue. (you'll have to pardon the grammatical errors, wrote it w/ little sleep and a lot of typos got past proofreading)
- ActionScript is the place when good language design went to die
You're talking about ActionScript 1. You should check out ActionScript 3, the current iteration. It's for all intents and purposes, the same syntax as JAVA. ActionScript 2 is a variant of JavaScript (it's an ECMAScript implementation).
Oh, also, for developing on iOS devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad, think of the environment as closer to game consoles where the owners have very tight grips on which devs can enter. The license & requirements to dev on iOS is much cheaper than compared to applying for Playstation, X-Box, Wii & NDS (and that's why it's also a lot of game developers are switching to iOS).
Aside from that, a growing number of users are already ditching their PSPs & NDSs for smartphones/PMPs. Nokia had the right idea with the N-Gage, they just borked its execution horrendously (whoever had the final say on designed the ergonomics obviously never played a console game in his life).
Oh, and don't forget to look into Unity3D! It's also cross platform and with proper tweaks, you can get your app to run on Windows, Mac, iOS & w/ additional licenses, Wii, X-Box 360, PS3, Android (soon).
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His girlfriend, muse & painting subject committed suicide in the '70s and devastated him. Wouldn't wish that on anyone.
It doesn't matter. Even the Windows version is pretty dead.
UT3 servers are mostly bereft of players, which is a crying shame given that it's a fantastic game that most current rigs by gamers can run at max settings. The high system requirements were a barrier to entry to players when it first launched, but that's no longer true now. Check out the current Unreal Tournament 3 server stats
UT 2004 has more than twice the number of players & servers running: UT2k4 server stats. Sure, its mechanics were more enjoyed by players of classic UT99, but UT3 should be enjoyed on its own.
Unreal Tournament series' gameplay, mechanics & multiple game modes was always superior to the quake series (not to mention much more fun and prettier). Oh, and the graphics are pretty gorgeous!
UT3 has been going on sale during holidays during the past 3 years now. You guys should grab it when it goes on sale on Steam this Christmas-New Year. It drops down to about $10 or comes bundled with the complete Unreal series cheap which is amazing bang for buck.
Would be great if more players could hop in. C'mon guys, give it ago! Pretty sure it'll be dirt cheap and well worth your money this coming Steam Christmas-New Year sale.
Uhh... Does this mean Australia could have been taken down by Anonymous? They should have asked for help from Amazon instead :P
Red race car mattress, Sailor Moon bed spread. Connect the dots.
... he's a Japanese superhero?
It's useful for typing headlines/subject headings/titles in no-format plaintext only documents (think notepad).
Useful for designing menus, buttons, titles & logos in Graphic design also.
And... I used to use it a lot when I was a little kid learning BASIC from old library books, as all the code then was written in uppercase so I would type them verbatim.
Since those old books were written in a single font, all uppercase helped separate computer code from from prose text.
"Children of the night... what a mess they make!"
Leslie Nielsen: Dead and Loving It
AFAIK they picked the palette + colors because of limits with the lighting engine. They had to pick certain colors as others were "reserved".
FYI:
http://www.doomworld.com/lordflathead/zaldron.html
There were 2 critical drawbacks with this engine. One was the pallete of colors. Most people complained about Quakes dull, brown, gray, blue and beige colors, without knowing that it was the only solution for archieving lighting over surfaces. Since each material needs a wide variety of reserved colors for displaying darkened/brightened portions of the surface, the game was limited to just a few colors and all their respective shades. This was when 8-bit displays (just 256 colors) ruled the Earth, and superior color depths were impossible for the mainstream video equipment.
What I don't get is why it's called Rage HD being an iPhone game... low-res = HD? Even the iPad's resolution is meh.
Moreover... wtf, iD? Why does everything have to be brown again? What the heck is it with iD games and all-brown palettes?
(trivia: Quake 1 was all-brown because of limits with the game engine)
That being said, aren't most shooters these days just guided on rails anyways? Except for stuff like Bioshock & Fallout, most shooters are now just guided corridors where scripted cutscenes trigger at preset points & you can't run around and explore as much anymore.
I suppose that's also a side effect of what most engines pay these days for such high detail -> Maps tend to be much smaller. Deus Ex 2's maps were waaaay smaller than Deus Ex 1's.
Summary doesn't mention that 3rd TFA says that Hammersmith just wrote a book about his experiences and is looking at gamers as a target audience and that the other article link is about a young gamer middle east veteran who was involved in the COD: Black Ops game production.
:-/
What a one-sided post.
While we're at it, I propose the removal of the artificial rounding off of citizens' bank accounts to 2 digits after the decimal point.
It is an outdated model stuck on physical money and a scam run by institutions pocketing the fractions (think salami slicing).
The rise of "paperless" money, rapid currency exchange fluctuations + digital microtransactions at consumer level have made this very feasible.
I want my bank account to be able to say ".0238538327" after the whole numbers' place. If I make games, I want to be able to sell virtual goods at $0.00056 per transaction if I want to. When your audience is the entire internet, small amounts like that can rack up to substantial numbers. I want institutions to be able to do that for me affordably, and I want to see that number reflect in my account instead of being thrown away.
I mean in this age of digital, how much does it cost to actually make/record/monitor a transaction when everything's already digital?
Any takers? Maybe this is an opportunity to create a new startup. Maybe this is a niche that can challenge Paypal. Take it. Run away with the idea. I don't care who implements it, as long as it gets implemented.
It *IS* way way way too expensive.
The Cherry Mobile P1 over here which was developed earlier & is selling like hotcakes looks about the same (like a small kid's calculator), but has a small LCD + Text functions, predictive txt, 8 available ringtones.
Check 'em out, it's only about $22. They come in different colors too. Even though I don't need one, I want one just because it's so cute & cheap.
It's about the size of a credit card & really thin. Review here.
Rough conversion guide:
44 Philippine Pesos = US/Ca/Au $1
60 Philippine Pesos = 1 Euro
Have you noticed any strange abilities, powers or personality changes emerging after exposure to these strange pieces of metal for extended periods of time?
Hmmm... you may also want to consider forging a magical sword out these strange metal fragments... You can then challenge the meteor sword-wielding Sir Terry Pratchett to an internet duel of epic proportions...
Congratulations, America.
Osama Bin Laden has won.
Read the ridiculous treatment of this upstanding citizen who stood up to the TSA. He wrote a very interesting account of the abuse the TSA is doing.
An excerpt: 'I looked him straight in the eye and said, "if you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested."'
Why don't you Americans just file a class-action suit against the TSA for sexual harassment?
Both the naked photography and "enhanced patdowns" are ridiculously invasive. What they're doing is useless, absurd and completely unacceptable.
What's wrong with the USA? By allowing this to happen and continuing to allow it, you guys are allowing the terrorists to win: Mission accomplished, you guys are living in terror.
Start a country-wide movement, get major media coverage and support. Stop this madness.
Yes it does for mobile devices that support Flash Player 10.1 like them Android 2.2 ones and the Blackberry Tab.
H.264's patent licensing fees make it a dealbreaker for law-abiding indies, open source advocates and small hardware makers who don't want to pay.
WebM is free.
It's also a good potential "unifying format" for web video codec-wise the same way Flash has been player-wise because we're still in the same codec hell as far as HTML5 video is concerned due to Mozilla foundation's refusal to use H.264.
H.264 licensing fees look reasonable though if products or services are sold at profit. Not sure how it goes though for free software or products that make marginal profits.
Also, they have absolutely horrendous eye-capture technology.
Except for some cultures like the Japanese where they talk without making a lot of eye contact, a large part of facial expressions & mannerism is with the the eyes.
Valve's Half-Life 2 was amazing because of this (well, they did bag the guy who worked on Gollum's animations...)
That being said, Noire looks like it's full of creepy animated corpses because the eyes aren't alive. They keep staring in the distance instead of properly focusing at proper objects/people and flicking around like normal human beings.
Also, Rockstar needs to learn proper editing and pacing of cutscenes. They all kept dragging on painfully in GTA IV/Expansions, making them really irritating to watch and yet unskippable if you wanted to find out more about the story.
Offtopic, but yeah :-/
Can't access the page too.
I guess this is as good as anywhere to comment on it right now.
This sounds really, really bad for Java's future on OSX now that Apple's deprecated it and it's Oracle that's now supposed to do the porting.
;P
Read this weekend perspective on the whole Apple dropping Java thing.
On the other hand, despite all the difficulties, with Oracle's vast resources at its disposal, it would be ridiculous if they couldn't do a new OSX port. Maybe Steve Jobs wants the opportunity to call Oracle "lazy" too
So how does this make you feel, thenextstevejobs?
I don't think you can without turning off Javascript. I have yet to see an effective Javascript ad-detecting filter.
Current extremely annoying offenders are those floating CSS layer replacements for popup window ads that cover articles you're reading.
At least with Flash ads, you can block Flash easily via Flashblock. With Javascript, a lot of Web 2.0 sites nowadays simply stop functioning properly when Javascript is disabled.
Did no one else notice the even more horrifying fact that he set up phishing websites to steal account usernames and passwords?
According to Facebook, Guerbuez fooled its users into providing him with their usernames and passwords. One method was the use of fake websites that posed as legitimate destinations.
This guy deserves to be repeatedly sodomized in jail with the use of unpeeled pineapples.
This is not FUD.
.X "for security & stability purposes" because it was what all their legacy apps & inventory systems were built for and those legacy systems could/would break in different browsers, and this is a big big headache.
As hair-pulling frustrating it is, there are some institutions and corporations which have a company policy to only use IE
I recall that there's a policy akin to this in Korean government.
I wish it weren't so, and anyone who can download a plugin can easily install a better standards-compliant browser, right?
IE should just die for the betterment of humanity.
It's been holding back the web for over a decade now and is the cause of majority of cross-browser compatibility problems.
As for HTML5, even Google has given a sane and rational explanation why HTML5 is not ready yet and does not suit their needs as compared to Flash. Read it here.
Yes, HTML5 is the future, but it goes hand and hand with Flash. The two synergize and don't compete with each other. Good Flash developers know when *NOT* to use Flash.
On non-cross-browser compatible HTML5 Demos, these does not run in the latest version of Opera (which has always been the most standards-compliant browser during the history of its existence):
*Google Images Gift Box - CSS 3D example
*The Smallest 3D Maker -> points appear not where you click
*Archery app -> ditto
and many others...
Before you argue any further, please read my article at TheNextWeb as I've tried to make a fair and balanced assessment on the HTML5/Flash issue. (you'll have to pardon the grammatical errors, wrote it w/ little sleep and a lot of typos got past proofreading)
Thanks.
- ActionScript is the place when good language design went to die
You're talking about ActionScript 1. You should check out ActionScript 3, the current iteration. It's for all intents and purposes, the same syntax as JAVA. ActionScript 2 is a variant of JavaScript (it's an ECMAScript implementation).
Oh, also, for developing on iOS devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad, think of the environment as closer to game consoles where the owners have very tight grips on which devs can enter. The license & requirements to dev on iOS is much cheaper than compared to applying for Playstation, X-Box, Wii & NDS (and that's why it's also a lot of game developers are switching to iOS).
Aside from that, a growing number of users are already ditching their PSPs & NDSs for smartphones/PMPs. Nokia had the right idea with the N-Gage, they just borked its execution horrendously (whoever had the final say on designed the ergonomics obviously never played a console game in his life).
Oh, and don't forget to look into Unity3D! It's also cross platform and with proper tweaks, you can get your app to run on Windows, Mac, iOS & w/ additional licenses, Wii, X-Box 360, PS3, Android (soon).