Sweet, so it installs and configures your graphics/sound/chipset/etc drivers for you as well, including resolving conflicts between "version 77.78 of the video drivers run game X 20% faster, but causes random crashing on game Y" ?
Count me in for this PC gaming revolution since they've sorted that out!
Lowtax was giving away SA merchandise randomly to people who donated. He has hundreds, if not thousands, of shirts/etc in his basement he's never sold, so he wanted addresses added to the donations so that he could ship, at his own cost, at least a bumper sticker or t-shirt to everyone donating.
STANDARDIZATION. They will be the FIRST IM service to use the IETF messaging and presence standard.
Remember the days back when Prodigy users couldn't email AOL users, and you coudln't email either from a university "internet email"
That is where we are now with IM.
Imagine if back then someone was whacky enough to make an email client which required an account from every major provider in order to email your friends, rather than simply everyone moving to the official smtp and mime standards.
That is where we are now with IM.
Google having an IM service should give the critical mass necessary to jabber for other IM services to investigate, and finally use it (at least bridged).
I yearn for the day when I have only 1 IM ID. People who like yahoo can use their client and YIM ID, people who run their own jabber server can use whatever client they want, etc. Hell, they can even run propriatary video conferencing/etc which require their own software for all I care as long as I can do simple messaging with anyone on any service.
And to those of you assholes who continually compare Doom3's engine to the Source engine, and say it sucks... just write an engine that's even half as good as the Q3 engine, and then maybe you can say what sucks, and what doesn't
This is bullshit. Doom1 was a great game. I could not, from scratch, build an engine as good as doom1. But I am still able to tell you that quake1's engine is MUCH better FOR THE END USER. It looks better, allows more control, etc.
This whole "well if you can't write it, you can't judge it" is total and utter bullshit. Can someone who can't cook not complain that (for example) a steak at the outback isnt' as good as a steak at Ruth's Chris?
How about this, for a spin. IF you cannot, from scratch, create ME, then you cannot complain about me and what I complain about.
Like that one?
So you're saying the Australian media disallows criticizing the sitting government? That's news to me.
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Now, anyone saying "podcatcher" should be shot. But if you don't understand how podcasting works, don't blame it on the people who do.
Think of it like netflix for radio shows, as opposed to "streaming" (like radio) or "going to blockbuster" (downloading).
Without the idea of podcasting, if there was an audio show you were interested in, every day you'd go to their site, check if there's a new show, download it yourself, save it to a directory, then either burn it to cd, copy it to an mp3 player, or listen to it on your pc.
With podcasting, you subscribe to an RSS feed, which is good because it has a title, datetime, and unique ID. When your client sees a new item in the feed, it auto-downloads it, and (if you set it up) auto-copies it to your mp3 player and loads it up in a new playlist. Or if you don't have an mp3 player, it will blink in your tray to let you know you have a new show to listen to.
It's no more "streaming audio" than downloading an installer for a program is "streaming executable".
The cool thing about it is if you have 2-3 that you listen to, then each day on your drive to work you can listen to something you're interested in instead of some zany idiots on 10X.Y.
Side note: Right now, because it's not, there are probably 10:1 ratio of shitty/worthless podcasts to interesting ones. THis doesn't mean that podcasting in general sucks, though. The BBC is already podcasting some of their more interesting shows, and the ABC in Australia is piloting the same. There's also plenty of niche shows which are still quite good and have a very focused show, for example I am a big wine drinker and love listening to http://www.winecast.net/.
cd/usr/src/anyProgramEverJustAbout cat INSTALL.TXT Installing XYZ is easy, just follow these steps: 1../configure --prefix=/usr/local 2. make 3. sudo make install Note: If you do not have sudo installed, simply run "su" (type in your root password here) and then run "make install".
XP has better backwards compatibility than 2000, and uses less ram if you turn off the theming service.
It also boots much more quickly on the same hardware, allows for multiple user sessions at the same time, doesn't require reinstallation (like 98 does every few months), has driver rollback capability inbuilt as well as system file versioning, and supports both automated recovery and a dos-esque recovery console for true disaster recovery.
It's not the be all end all, but saying it's got nothing over 2k, and nothing over 98se (what a laugh) is just FUD.
Maybe you got modded overrated because your "facts" are 100% anecdotal.
Here, I will respond in kind: All of my friends who drink a lot of non-diet soft drinks are quite thin. The same group of friends also start each day with 3 eggs, have 2-3 sausage rolls and a meat pie for lunch, then have a huge fatty dinner, all washed down with coke. This MUST mean that, in order to lose weight and be healthy, I should eat more eggs, sausage rolls, and coke.
Both of our posts are worthless. Correlation does not prove causation. It's common sense that if each Coke has 200 calories, and you're drinking 5 a day, that's a chicken dinner just in softdrinks, with no nutritional content. But just the act of drinking the soda is not to blame, you'd have the same weight problem no matter what if you burn less calories than you take in.
I didn't mod you, as I haven't had mod points since the big perma-mod-ban debacle.
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You obviously don't have an nvidia or ati graphics card, nor a creative soundcard.
Nvidia's latest drivers STILL have fixes for intermittant crashes in QUAKE 3 OF ALL GAMES.
My pioneer amp/receiver does this.
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http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/article/0,,
Sweet, so it installs and configures your graphics/sound/chipset/etc drivers for you as well, including resolving conflicts between "version 77.78 of the video drivers run game X 20% faster, but causes random crashing on game Y" ?
Count me in for this PC gaming revolution since they've sorted that out!
Lowtax was giving away SA merchandise randomly to people who donated. He has hundreds, if not thousands, of shirts/etc in his basement he's never sold, so he wanted addresses added to the donations so that he could ship, at his own cost, at least a bumper sticker or t-shirt to everyone donating.
I kid I kid...
My point is that once google uses it, and is open, another service somewhere will pop up that uses it.
Then another.
And finally AOL and yahoo will be forced by the market to allow XMPP S2S connections, even if they don't allow "any old jabber client" to connect.
"I like to chat on AIM with my friends, but brittney uses that y one. Her boyfriend's on it so she won't get aim! What a bitch"
STANDARDIZATION. They will be the FIRST IM service to use the IETF messaging and presence standard.
Remember the days back when Prodigy users couldn't email AOL users, and you coudln't email either from a university "internet email"
That is where we are now with IM.
Imagine if back then someone was whacky enough to make an email client which required an account from every major provider in order to email your friends, rather than simply everyone moving to the official smtp and mime standards.
That is where we are now with IM.
Google having an IM service should give the critical mass necessary to jabber for other IM services to investigate, and finally use it (at least bridged).
I yearn for the day when I have only 1 IM ID. People who like yahoo can use their client and YIM ID, people who run their own jabber server can use whatever client they want, etc. Hell, they can even run propriatary video conferencing/etc which require their own software for all I care as long as I can do simple messaging with anyone on any service.
I agree with a lot of what you say, BUT:
And to those of you assholes who continually compare Doom3's engine to the Source engine, and say it sucks... just write an engine that's even half as good as the Q3 engine, and then maybe you can say what sucks, and what doesn't
This is bullshit. Doom1 was a great game. I could not, from scratch, build an engine as good as doom1. But I am still able to tell you that quake1's engine is MUCH better FOR THE END USER. It looks better, allows more control, etc. This whole "well if you can't write it, you can't judge it" is total and utter bullshit. Can someone who can't cook not complain that (for example) a steak at the outback isnt' as good as a steak at Ruth's Chris?
How about this, for a spin. IF you cannot, from scratch, create ME, then you cannot complain about me and what I complain about. Like that one?
These broken wings
And learn to fly again, learn to live so free
...it MUST be true.
Where do they get this shit?
So you're saying the Australian media disallows criticizing the sitting government? That's news to me.
Now, anyone saying "podcatcher" should be shot. But if you don't understand how podcasting works, don't blame it on the people who do.
Think of it like netflix for radio shows, as opposed to "streaming" (like radio) or "going to blockbuster" (downloading).
Without the idea of podcasting, if there was an audio show you were interested in, every day you'd go to their site, check if there's a new show, download it yourself, save it to a directory, then either burn it to cd, copy it to an mp3 player, or listen to it on your pc.
With podcasting, you subscribe to an RSS feed, which is good because it has a title, datetime, and unique ID. When your client sees a new item in the feed, it auto-downloads it, and (if you set it up) auto-copies it to your mp3 player and loads it up in a new playlist. Or if you don't have an mp3 player, it will blink in your tray to let you know you have a new show to listen to.
It's no more "streaming audio" than downloading an installer for a program is "streaming executable".
The cool thing about it is if you have 2-3 that you listen to, then each day on your drive to work you can listen to something you're interested in instead of some zany idiots on 10X.Y.
Side note: Right now, because it's not, there are probably 10:1 ratio of shitty/worthless podcasts to interesting ones. THis doesn't mean that podcasting in general sucks, though. The BBC is already podcasting some of their more interesting shows, and the ABC in Australia is piloting the same. There's also plenty of niche shows which are still quite good and have a very focused show, for example I am a big wine drinker and love listening to http://www.winecast.net/.
Two words for you:
Gates Foundation.
Look it up. It will change your views on Gates as a person (despite your views of Gates as a businessman).
They:s /index.html
-post on the website the location of all fixed and mobile speed cameras http://www.canberraconnect.act.gov.au/speedcamera
-have big signs saying "RED LIGHT AND SPEED CAMERA AHEAD" for fixed cameras
If you get nabbed with those conditions, you deserve your ticket.
cd /usr/src/anyProgramEverJustAbout ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
cat INSTALL.TXT
Installing XYZ is easy, just follow these steps:
1.
2. make
3. sudo make install
Note: If you do not have sudo installed, simply run "su" (type in your root password here) and then run "make install".
If I write my own JDBC driver, am I emulating a JDBC driver, or am I implementing the API?
XP has better backwards compatibility than 2000, and uses less ram if you turn off the theming service.
It also boots much more quickly on the same hardware, allows for multiple user sessions at the same time, doesn't require reinstallation (like 98 does every few months), has driver rollback capability inbuilt as well as system file versioning, and supports both automated recovery and a dos-esque recovery console for true disaster recovery.
It's not the be all end all, but saying it's got nothing over 2k, and nothing over 98se (what a laugh) is just FUD.
Basically it tells you to install m0n0wall, activate the shaper, and they'll post again sometime on how to make rules for specific games.
Why was this posted now, instead of in a few weeks when there's some actual content?
Killzone was not real time rendered, so there's no reasonable reason to believe the real game will look anything like that.
Both in the US and in Australia this is not the case. Chances are something is either wrong with your phone or your line.
What country are you in?
I like using the battery and wireless signal strength widgets, set to 10% opacity and small up in the corner, for example...
Did you not see the big fight between starbuck and that hot hot crazy cylon bitch?
If they were in high quality xvid mkv with soft subs and dual audio, I would pay say $4 per episode, or a pack of 6 for $20.
Maybe even allow you to earn credit by seeding a ton, to encourage the BT usage...
Maybe you got modded overrated because your "facts" are 100% anecdotal.
Here, I will respond in kind:
All of my friends who drink a lot of non-diet soft drinks are quite thin. The same group of friends also start each day with 3 eggs, have 2-3 sausage rolls and a meat pie for lunch, then have a huge fatty dinner, all washed down with coke. This MUST mean that, in order to lose weight and be healthy, I should eat more eggs, sausage rolls, and coke.
Both of our posts are worthless. Correlation does not prove causation. It's common sense that if each Coke has 200 calories, and you're drinking 5 a day, that's a chicken dinner just in softdrinks, with no nutritional content. But just the act of drinking the soda is not to blame, you'd have the same weight problem no matter what if you burn less calories than you take in.
I didn't mod you, as I haven't had mod points since the big perma-mod-ban debacle.