I haven't tried Perfect Dark, but I played Turok 2 for n64, and while the single player is weak, its damn good for multiplayer. Since it separates the aiming (analog pad) from the moving (c-pad) it makes it handle much more like a traditional mouse+keyboard FPS combo. Its got a really fast weapon-switching system (hold the key then push the direction of the weapon on the display) so no cycling through a long list, just quick click+select. Because of its improved control system, you can actually aim up or down without switching to aimer mode (one reason I can't stand goldeneye). Theres also a really wide weapon spread.
Its not PC Q3a, but I think it comes the closest to feeling like a proper PC FPS game.
Not on a playstation dual-pad. Thats got 8 buttons, one digital pad (which I often uses as buttons for weapon/item switching or banking in space games) and 2 full analog pads (1 for aiming, 1 for strafing). Personally, I've always really hated the 10-key-weapon switching system. In Q2, I always bind 3 keys to use the inventory (left, right, select).
Better thought - Buy CD's from bands that are unafilliated with the RIAA, and download music that was produced specifically to be released on MP3 (meaning stuff that's legal to distribute) like indy bands and whatnot. Or, just abolish music until this is sorted out, if you're just lazy.
This is where Canada has an advantage. While a 3rd party still can't be president, minor parties do have power. The Prime Minister of Canada is just the head of the political party that has the most seats. Simple, straightforward. Still, canada's got its own system problems (like the completely bizarre senate system).
Yes, it is people with money who create wealth. Monetary wealth. Money, in the stock market, in big businesses who don't need investors to help them move their factories to tijuana. The upper class have no use for more money, as it just goes into the stock market where it doesn't do the economy a rats ass of good. Now, reduce taxes for the working class, and you might have something there, as the working class actually spends their money, keeping it in the commercial circulation, which is good for economic growth. But guess who owns Bush? Its not the working class.
You stupid Americans and your "Obscene taxes". Your taxes are lower then everyone elses, and its flushing your people down the toilet. Crippled education system, no health-care for the poor, a doomed retirement system, pathetic assistance for paying for university. Maybe high taxes might go to some good? Oh, wait, you need the money for your second SUV and so you can keep golfing and the country club. Can't take a little inconvenience to help your fellow man?
wait, are you trying to tell me that Libertarians believe that corporates will cease environmentally destructive acts (get this) out of the goodness of their own hearts!! hooo boooy! Tell me another one, like how the food producers wont completely slack off on safety to keep their overheads low? And how the news reporters who might tell us about this will be completely unbiased, and not swayed by bribes, wait, no, "funding" by any faction?
Many libertarians claim that ethics will be reflect in the buying decisions and career choices of the people, that companies performing evil acts will fail due to the lost business of the moral majority. How can people make serious decisions if the information they base those decisions on is corrupted? Do you trust your news sources?
Whatever, its your country, destroy it if you like. Us Canadians will sit back and watch in horrified fascination.
Idunno, while much of the Libertarian angle has merit (legalisation of consentual "victimless" crimes such as gambling, drugs, and bizarre sexual acts) I am continually bothered by the fact that Libertarians makes noone responsible for the less fortunate. Not everyone comes out of a wealthy family that can afford a)health care b)good food and c)safe living conditions. Now, you can say to most of the people in that house "its your own fscking fault you lazy loser" but, if I use a cliche, think of the children. Its not their fault mommie's a crackwhore, and daddy's in prison, but they get no welfare, can't pay for education, and don't stand a rats ass of surviving to adulthood. They're lives are shit by no fault of their own. If they live to adulthood, they'll end up a crackwhore or a prisoner because they lacked the education to do any better. And the rich grow richer. Dog-eat-dog does not account for the puppies. And don't give me that "voluntary taxation" shite. Look how well "voluntary standards" work (not at all). There will always be unpopular charities (like disease research that's doesn't have the word "cancer", or any celebrities suffering from it, but still kills/cripples lots of people), and besides, why should the charitable be punished, and the heartless be rewarded?
While I really like Nader's platform and beliefs, I think he's doing more damage then good in running for office. Nader is taking votes away from the democrats mainly, and the democrats need all the votes they can get. Hypothetically speaking (i don't know the numbers) the useless 7% Nader might get is 7% that could've gone to making sure Bush stays the hell out of the white house, by getting Gore elected.
Times like this I'm really, really happy to be Canadian. I don't envy your political system.
Its more who it is then what it is. Anything to do with Nullsoft is big Slashdot news, and it gives the writer a chance to bitch about the Gnutella source (or lack thereof).
Your quite right, technology will provide for small enough equipment to make practically any sort of palm setup feasible. Why bother with a whole integrated unit too? I mean, why not just go with snap-on peripherals like you see on gameboy. Desktops are covered in bizarre peripherals, theres little reason why you can't just make a mini-version for a palm-top (well, some peripherals might be problematic, like scanners). It might get a little bulky if you've got a lot of gizmoes, a system that takes up a whole bicycle pouch (or fanny-pack, or whatever you wanna call it) but I figure a palm-system can be as intricate as a modern PC is, once the systems are micronized enough. With a good peripheral interface, it could be like a pc, you just snap-on what you want it to do. Mini camera, cell-phone uplink, headset or receiver, tv-io, ethernet dongle, joystick, vr-glasses, lastertag gun, speakers, whatever. The concept of "a machine for this, a machine for that" will break down once you can fit a full modern desktop-power computer in a palmtop. Of course, by that time, the desktop machines will still probably put the palms to shame in every aspect but size, but you can't win 'em all.
Well, while I don't recollect the box actually crashing, I can tell you a story of a friend who's Win2k kernel disappeared one day for no apparent reason. Thats less of a crash then a terminal catastrophic falure though.
If you value your brain cells so much, you can't touch alcohol either (dude, it suffocates your brains). Besides, people don't smoke weed the way they eat red meat or smoke tobacco. I have never met anyone I considered perpetually stoned, but I've met plenty of people who are a) always smoking cigarettes or b) eating red meat at every single meal. Weed should be treated like alcohol, its effects are very similar in many ways (except that I've never met a dangerously violent stoned person). But, this whole thread is completely offtopic anyways.
Except for one problem. Not one teacher at my high schoo knew how to do any of this. I remember playing Quake in my drafting class and my teacher being cool with it because my best frag-partner set up the network, and teach doesn't wanna risk losing Paul.
Actually, that's exactly what my VB class did, and it worked great. Yes, VB blows, but it was still fun to see all the warped crap we could throw together. I made a cute little deathmatch tank game with a tile-based level editor. There were tetris clones, jumpman clones, one wierd starfighter thing, and lots of fun. Sure, none of them were UT, but it was cool that they were all slapped together by high-school students. Game programming teaches tons of wierd problem solving, like speed streamlining and (the biggest bitch of all) collision detection. Or, of course, you could go back to slapping together cash registers and student databases.
Yes, but using nuclear weaponry against live targets, and by extension using shield explosions (this was explicitly stated) was illegal. Therefore, an imperial fleet would come down and whoop your ass if you had people popping shields with lasguns.
Its called Roughnecks (referring to the name of the company that the heros are in). While the animations nice, theres something wierd with the renderer. It feels a little blurry, and gives me eyestrain (and I don't get eyestrain from much).
Hmm, while I do realize that privacy on irc is a mythical animal, is there any system for allowing a channel to "opt out" of this? I mean, channels can refuse to be shown in the/list can be invite-only. While this sort of thing can be hacked, its nice to keep some semblance of respect of privacy in such a potentially mainstream program as an IRC searchbot. Adding some sort of "unsearchable" tag to channels would be nice.
What else has he been in other then as the t-1000? I remember seeing him in the old "Double Dragon" movie as the bad guy. That movie was really aweful. His acting was totally wooden, it was totally weak, but maybe that was just cause the movie sucked.
Well, you compare them to 3dfx, who aren't exactly the epitomy of morality themselves, making and protecting a proprietary standard like Glide. Still, you're right that nvidia's bein' bastards. I'm hoping that the Radeon means that ATI can finally be a real competition. They're usually pretty cool (if occasionally incompetent).
I don't see how this is gonna work. Escaflowne is damn violent, lots of ppl get killed, lots of blood. I havent seen many, but I saw the episode where the hero becomes bonded to his mech, and is bleeding all over the place 'cause his mech is damaged.
I've worked a fair bit in VB, and I can tell you that its damn tough to make software that doesn't take the focus. By default, when a new window is made, it has the focus. The systems for moving around the zindex are really screwed up, so most develpers just let the windows appear on top. Then theres message boxes. Can anyone think of a more annoying way to inform the user of an event then to have a new window pop up in the middle of the screen with a loud sound that wont go away until you click "okay"?
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I haven't tried Perfect Dark, but I played Turok 2 for n64, and while the single player is weak, its damn good for multiplayer. Since it separates the aiming (analog pad) from the moving (c-pad) it makes it handle much more like a traditional mouse+keyboard FPS combo. Its got a really fast weapon-switching system (hold the key then push the direction of the weapon on the display) so no cycling through a long list, just quick click+select. Because of its improved control system, you can actually aim up or down without switching to aimer mode (one reason I can't stand goldeneye). Theres also a really wide weapon spread. Its not PC Q3a, but I think it comes the closest to feeling like a proper PC FPS game.
Not on a playstation dual-pad. Thats got 8 buttons, one digital pad (which I often uses as buttons for weapon/item switching or banking in space games) and 2 full analog pads (1 for aiming, 1 for strafing). Personally, I've always really hated the 10-key-weapon switching system. In Q2, I always bind 3 keys to use the inventory (left, right, select).
Better thought - Buy CD's from bands that are unafilliated with the RIAA, and download music that was produced specifically to be released on MP3 (meaning stuff that's legal to distribute) like indy bands and whatnot. Or, just abolish music until this is sorted out, if you're just lazy.
I know why - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these. Hey, that actually might work! Of course, your arms might look silly with 38 identical watches.
This is where Canada has an advantage. While a 3rd party still can't be president, minor parties do have power. The Prime Minister of Canada is just the head of the political party that has the most seats. Simple, straightforward. Still, canada's got its own system problems (like the completely bizarre senate system).
Yes, it is people with money who create wealth. Monetary wealth. Money, in the stock market, in big businesses who don't need investors to help them move their factories to tijuana. The upper class have no use for more money, as it just goes into the stock market where it doesn't do the economy a rats ass of good. Now, reduce taxes for the working class, and you might have something there, as the working class actually spends their money, keeping it in the commercial circulation, which is good for economic growth. But guess who owns Bush? Its not the working class.
You stupid Americans and your "Obscene taxes". Your taxes are lower then everyone elses, and its flushing your people down the toilet. Crippled education system, no health-care for the poor, a doomed retirement system, pathetic assistance for paying for university. Maybe high taxes might go to some good? Oh, wait, you need the money for your second SUV and so you can keep golfing and the country club. Can't take a little inconvenience to help your fellow man?
*snicker* *giggle*
wait, are you trying to tell me that Libertarians believe that corporates will cease environmentally destructive acts (get this) out of the goodness of their own hearts!! hooo boooy! Tell me another one, like how the food producers wont completely slack off on safety to keep their overheads low? And how the news reporters who might tell us about this will be completely unbiased, and not swayed by bribes, wait, no, "funding" by any faction?
Many libertarians claim that ethics will be reflect in the buying decisions and career choices of the people, that companies performing evil acts will fail due to the lost business of the moral majority. How can people make serious decisions if the information they base those decisions on is corrupted? Do you trust your news sources?
Whatever, its your country, destroy it if you like. Us Canadians will sit back and watch in horrified fascination.
Idunno, while much of the Libertarian angle has merit (legalisation of consentual "victimless" crimes such as gambling, drugs, and bizarre sexual acts) I am continually bothered by the fact that Libertarians makes noone responsible for the less fortunate. Not everyone comes out of a wealthy family that can afford a)health care b)good food and c)safe living conditions. Now, you can say to most of the people in that house "its your own fscking fault you lazy loser" but, if I use a cliche, think of the children. Its not their fault mommie's a crackwhore, and daddy's in prison, but they get no welfare, can't pay for education, and don't stand a rats ass of surviving to adulthood. They're lives are shit by no fault of their own. If they live to adulthood, they'll end up a crackwhore or a prisoner because they lacked the education to do any better. And the rich grow richer. Dog-eat-dog does not account for the puppies. And don't give me that "voluntary taxation" shite. Look how well "voluntary standards" work (not at all). There will always be unpopular charities (like disease research that's doesn't have the word "cancer", or any celebrities suffering from it, but still kills/cripples lots of people), and besides, why should the charitable be punished, and the heartless be rewarded?
While I really like Nader's platform and beliefs, I think he's doing more damage then good in running for office. Nader is taking votes away from the democrats mainly, and the democrats need all the votes they can get. Hypothetically speaking (i don't know the numbers) the useless 7% Nader might get is 7% that could've gone to making sure Bush stays the hell out of the white house, by getting Gore elected. Times like this I'm really, really happy to be Canadian. I don't envy your political system.
Its more who it is then what it is. Anything to do with Nullsoft is big Slashdot news, and it gives the writer a chance to bitch about the Gnutella source (or lack thereof).
Your quite right, technology will provide for small enough equipment to make practically any sort of palm setup feasible. Why bother with a whole integrated unit too? I mean, why not just go with snap-on peripherals like you see on gameboy. Desktops are covered in bizarre peripherals, theres little reason why you can't just make a mini-version for a palm-top (well, some peripherals might be problematic, like scanners). It might get a little bulky if you've got a lot of gizmoes, a system that takes up a whole bicycle pouch (or fanny-pack, or whatever you wanna call it) but I figure a palm-system can be as intricate as a modern PC is, once the systems are micronized enough. With a good peripheral interface, it could be like a pc, you just snap-on what you want it to do. Mini camera, cell-phone uplink, headset or receiver, tv-io, ethernet dongle, joystick, vr-glasses, lastertag gun, speakers, whatever. The concept of "a machine for this, a machine for that" will break down once you can fit a full modern desktop-power computer in a palmtop. Of course, by that time, the desktop machines will still probably put the palms to shame in every aspect but size, but you can't win 'em all.
Well, while I don't recollect the box actually crashing, I can tell you a story of a friend who's Win2k kernel disappeared one day for no apparent reason. Thats less of a crash then a terminal catastrophic falure though.
If you value your brain cells so much, you can't touch alcohol either (dude, it suffocates your brains). Besides, people don't smoke weed the way they eat red meat or smoke tobacco. I have never met anyone I considered perpetually stoned, but I've met plenty of people who are a) always smoking cigarettes or b) eating red meat at every single meal. Weed should be treated like alcohol, its effects are very similar in many ways (except that I've never met a dangerously violent stoned person). But, this whole thread is completely offtopic anyways.
Except for one problem. Not one teacher at my high schoo knew how to do any of this. I remember playing Quake in my drafting class and my teacher being cool with it because my best frag-partner set up the network, and teach doesn't wanna risk losing Paul.
Actually, that's exactly what my VB class did, and it worked great. Yes, VB blows, but it was still fun to see all the warped crap we could throw together. I made a cute little deathmatch tank game with a tile-based level editor. There were tetris clones, jumpman clones, one wierd starfighter thing, and lots of fun. Sure, none of them were UT, but it was cool that they were all slapped together by high-school students. Game programming teaches tons of wierd problem solving, like speed streamlining and (the biggest bitch of all) collision detection. Or, of course, you could go back to slapping together cash registers and student databases.
if you really dig doom II, you've gotta get legacy doom. gl graphics and tcp/ip networking.
Yes, but using nuclear weaponry against live targets, and by extension using shield explosions (this was explicitly stated) was illegal. Therefore, an imperial fleet would come down and whoop your ass if you had people popping shields with lasguns.
Its called Roughnecks (referring to the name of the company that the heros are in). While the animations nice, theres something wierd with the renderer. It feels a little blurry, and gives me eyestrain (and I don't get eyestrain from much).
Hmm, while I do realize that privacy on irc is a mythical animal, is there any system for allowing a channel to "opt out" of this? I mean, channels can refuse to be shown in the /list can be invite-only. While this sort of thing can be hacked, its nice to keep some semblance of respect of privacy in such a potentially mainstream program as an IRC searchbot. Adding some sort of "unsearchable" tag to channels would be nice.
What else has he been in other then as the t-1000? I remember seeing him in the old "Double Dragon" movie as the bad guy. That movie was really aweful. His acting was totally wooden, it was totally weak, but maybe that was just cause the movie sucked.
Well, you compare them to 3dfx, who aren't exactly the epitomy of morality themselves, making and protecting a proprietary standard like Glide. Still, you're right that nvidia's bein' bastards. I'm hoping that the Radeon means that ATI can finally be a real competition. They're usually pretty cool (if occasionally incompetent).
Gosh, does that suck.
I don't see how this is gonna work. Escaflowne is damn violent, lots of ppl get killed, lots of blood. I havent seen many, but I saw the episode where the hero becomes bonded to his mech, and is bleeding all over the place 'cause his mech is damaged.
I've worked a fair bit in VB, and I can tell you that its damn tough to make software that doesn't take the focus. By default, when a new window is made, it has the focus. The systems for moving around the zindex are really screwed up, so most develpers just let the windows appear on top. Then theres message boxes. Can anyone think of a more annoying way to inform the user of an event then to have a new window pop up in the middle of the screen with a loud sound that wont go away until you click "okay"?