Was not revolutionary, In terms of looks it was somewhere between Quake1 and 2, In terms of multiplayer it was somewhere around Quake1 with badly balanced weapons.
I haven't played Halo2 yet, but I got bored of Halo1 very quickly, I don't think I will find anything in it that compares even remotely with Doom3, Half Life 2.
would purchase any music at 96kb/s (stream) or 128 (download), unless it was your average cheesy pop. My sis had a few 128's and there is one particular song that we both like (NERD - Almost Over Now, Jason Nevins Mix, which is def _not_ the song I would pick for testing quality), she listened to my 192kb/s and said its not very different, the i put her's on again to listen too and you could actually see the "oh shit that does sound like crap" in her.
Im sure the 128 of Napster is probably equiv to about a 160, but that really still isn't good enough, particularly when you consider that your buying a crippled version (Which is fine if they could guarentee that there will always be mp3 players, portable and computer based) and to keep your going to have to burn/rip which is going to kill all definition that the original song had. If I buy something digitally I expect to be able to keep it,
I'd rather donate $2 per track to the artist and download off a dodgy P2P app than pay any music company $1 and be forced to re-buy it when they decide that its time for a new music tech and for everybody to re-buy thier old music.
it was disolved ages ago, its privatised now, with diff train companies for different regions and one company for the rails etc (which went bust / was broken up a bit ago)
Perhaps less albums will be sold because of iTunes
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because your average pop star releases a few decent (or at least good selling songs) and the rest of the album is just fillers. If your a fan of Enigma or Paul van Dyk who always sequence thier album or Dj Tiesto who usually mixes them you will see that the Album is far more than just a collection of songs. I often refuse to listen to snippets of an album like those and always listen to it in full
that films/music are computer generated art in thier current form. certainly something like the Final Fantasy film or Toy story would be classed as art. Therefore i do not believe it is the tools that are used that defines art but the creativity that goes into creating a work.
It seems stupid that something that is created with a paintbrush is art, something at is created with a chisel can be art, even something that is created with a _chainsaw_ is art (in rare occasions) but something that is created with a computer isn't.
of course a chainsaw can be used for cutting trees and a comp can be used for doing spreadsheets and neither is art.
We are never going to get anywhere while the GFX card manufacturers are only releasing closed source drivers, because of the diversity of distro's they are always going to be (compared to blows) shit unless some _really_ major work is done on GLX, DRI and the Kernel to make it so that one binary can be used anywhere, or alternatively the manufacturers release OSS drivers.
I don't know too much about bare bones programming but it should be possible to have OSS drivers without giving away industry secrets about how your hardware works, heck the specs for processors are open and can be used by any OS, but the internals certainly aint.
Im using Pipecall, now i don't make a lot of calls but its super cheap, 1p per min for any landline, 12p for any mobile, and 3 quid line rental... bargain. I don't use the phone a lot as most of my friends are wired/like to text but i have hardly any phone bill at all.
... that picassa is super smooth when moving things around, it feels like its using d3d stuff etc. even my dad who's the biggest technophobe around commented on how smooth it was. This is on a Matrox Mystique however!
you must be clueless, all it takes is Microsoft Active Disk, or LVM or Linux Software Raid or some hardware implementation. I mean really, its about an hours work no matter what u use.
Women can say men are useless at multitasking, but men can't say women are bad at Math.
Both sexes have different pro's and con's. We can drink more alcohol and tend to be physically stronger.
He _may_ have a point, perhaps it needs to be studied. I once heard that while mens brains are bigger womens brains have more communication are between the two lobes. I would have actually thought that a structure like womens might mean that they are better at identifying patterns (science) but worse are raw calculation (maths).
I think humans are creatures not of great intellect, but great stored knowledge (books etc), and by ourselves would still be hairless apes. I'm 100% sure that the success of an individual in a specific field has much more to do with determination/study of that individual than what sex they are, although i would not say that a bias of the sexes would not be visible, maybe as a very small percentage take from a massive sample.
Application Bundles just don't do dependencies at all. It works because most things are statically linked, both on Windows and Mac OS X. Linux is waaay more library dependant than either of those OS's.
Package Management does "just work" the problem is a major implementation issue, IE your app isn't compiled for your distro, Or RPM has dependencies of libblah.so.4 when you have libblah.so.5.
Apt works, and it works perfectly, but like all things its implementation dependant, your reliant on getting a package for you distro, It's a shame there are so many types (oh and RPM is Bunk, Portage or apt is waaaaaay better).
Are nasty as they look like one file, and are actually directories that don't open when you dbl click.
Linux Package Management takes all the pain away from having everything in / and on a well implemented system (which prob doesn't exist yet) you can have the rpm as an icon for the app, double click, a scrollbar goes across the screen and its done, could not be simpler. Of course apt-get makes this even easier.
How the application is stored in the filesystem has no impact what so ever on usiblity either, coz a user should be either oblivious to it, or be aware of it, but the ui just works so don't look.
because there is a lifetime for every component, it would be reasonable to expect a reasonably static rate of growth of tin wiskers, and it will therefore prolly take a set amount of time for them to grow between components and short (at least in particular types of products.
Forinstance if AMD started manufacturing the AMD64 3200+ and got the substitues wrong, they would all start failing at rougly the same time, taking down all computers that are built using them.
It's not such a date of failure but the inference is they will prolly all fail at similar times
They make practically no $$$ on music, people knowing this didn't understand thier hostility to license to Real.
Apple's reason is because they are planning on ITMS being the sole distributer of all music.
I honestly believe Apple is far more Evil (in a slashdot way) than MS. Even if MS is equally evil they have few fanboys that are as religious as the Apple ones, and are heavily watched by Governments etc.
My Ma and Pa are administrators, that i hate, OO.o installed in my account, didn't have the file associations transported to my mum and dads, wierdness...
but features don't make a game. Doom is remembered by everybody, not just because of the graphics but because it felt right, all the weapons were well bananced, also they were balanced just right next to the enemies also, The level design was good for its day (being slightly non-linear). The whole game felt like something which was playtested to death, not by people who were looking for bugs but by the developers who _really_ cared about the game. A lot of mags said Duke Nukem was better, but it never seemed as polished. Doom 2 did feel like a rush job however tho. The same happened with Quake, the _quality_ was waay better than Unreal, even though Unreal added a pretty good story etc and superb EAX sound.
There's always a tendency to say X game is better than the (at the time) benchmark product because of Y feature. And yes. if Doom had Duke Nukem's funky multi floor workaround it would have been better, but that feature (and others as well) don't make it better.
I don't know abour Marathon, it may be superb. I never played it, but who remembers it now? everybody remembers Doom, and most have cleared it. I even re-bought it on CD a bit ago, and I've just started re-playing it. It's still one of the best.
"In the spirit of all this freedom, we welcome any suggestions, as well as provide the source code free of charge for anyone who wishes to tinker with it. Please explore this website, download the software and try out many of the things you would do on those expensive commercial applications."
and the license " Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. "
Well fuck me, MS is sponsoring not just free software but Free software, Very interesting! Oh and can we take this and shove it on Linux?
EA maybe classed as evil, but UBI are the people that won't let you install thier latest games with things like Nero/Daemon Tools installed, coz they are paranoid about copy prevention (its going to happen get over it, don't you think it'd take me an hour or so to figure out how, but if the games good enough i _will_ buy it).
I absolutely adore Rainbow Six: Raven Shield, Loved Splinter Cell (1, Pandora was a bit shit in comparison), well into the original Ghost Recon, and will probably buy most of the sequels.
Thier evilness however is only challenged by Valve's Steam.
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Was not revolutionary, In terms of looks it was somewhere between Quake1 and 2, In terms of multiplayer it was somewhere around Quake1 with badly balanced weapons.
I haven't played Halo2 yet, but I got bored of Halo1 very quickly, I don't think I will find anything in it that compares even remotely with Doom3, Half Life 2.
would purchase any music at 96kb/s (stream) or 128 (download), unless it was your average cheesy pop. My sis had a few 128's and there is one particular song that we both like (NERD - Almost Over Now, Jason Nevins Mix, which is def _not_ the song I would pick for testing quality), she listened to my 192kb/s and said its not very different, the i put her's on again to listen too and you could actually see the "oh shit that does sound like crap" in her.
Im sure the 128 of Napster is probably equiv to about a 160, but that really still isn't good enough, particularly when you consider that your buying a crippled version (Which is fine if they could guarentee that there will always be mp3 players, portable and computer based) and to keep your going to have to burn/rip which is going to kill all definition that the original song had. If I buy something digitally I expect to be able to keep it,
I'd rather donate $2 per track to the artist and download off a dodgy P2P app than pay any music company $1 and be forced to re-buy it when they decide that its time for a new music tech and for everybody to re-buy thier old music.
it was disolved ages ago, its privatised now, with diff train companies for different regions and one company for the rails etc (which went bust / was broken up a bit ago)
because your average pop star releases a few decent (or at least good selling songs) and the rest of the album is just fillers. If your a fan of Enigma or Paul van Dyk who always sequence thier album or Dj Tiesto who usually mixes them you will see that the Album is far more than just a collection of songs. I often refuse to listen to snippets of an album like those and always listen to it in full
that films/music are computer generated art in thier current form. certainly something like the Final Fantasy film or Toy story would be classed as art. Therefore i do not believe it is the tools that are used that defines art but the creativity that goes into creating a work.
It seems stupid that something that is created with a paintbrush is art, something at is created with a chisel can be art, even something that is created with a _chainsaw_ is art (in rare occasions) but something that is created with a computer isn't.
of course a chainsaw can be used for cutting trees and a comp can be used for doing spreadsheets and neither is art.
We are never going to get anywhere while the GFX card manufacturers are only releasing closed source drivers, because of the diversity of distro's they are always going to be (compared to blows) shit unless some _really_ major work is done on GLX, DRI and the Kernel to make it so that one binary can be used anywhere, or alternatively the manufacturers release OSS drivers.
I don't know too much about bare bones programming but it should be possible to have OSS drivers without giving away industry secrets about how your hardware works, heck the specs for processors are open and can be used by any OS, but the internals certainly aint.
... because the very stylish apple ones are pretty shit. what you want is some Sone MDREX71SL. Very good, and reasonably priced too.
Im using Pipecall, now i don't make a lot of calls but its super cheap, 1p per min for any landline, 12p for any mobile, and 3 quid line rental... bargain. I don't use the phone a lot as most of my friends are wired/like to text but i have hardly any phone bill at all.
That it declares Source the more complete engine, yet it doesn't include physics (Havoc) or probably AI either.
So if your developing Source you have the most complete engine, but have to go buy Havoc + pos AI stuff too.
Hmm very "complete".
... that picassa is super smooth when moving things around, it feels like its using d3d stuff etc. even my dad who's the biggest technophobe around commented on how smooth it was. This is on a Matrox Mystique however!
I find it highly ammusing that Patricia Hewitt can't spell her name correctly!
you must be clueless, all it takes is Microsoft Active Disk, or LVM or Linux Software Raid or some hardware implementation. I mean really, its about an hours work no matter what u use.
Women can say men are useless at multitasking, but men can't say women are bad at Math.
Both sexes have different pro's and con's. We can drink more alcohol and tend to be physically stronger.
He _may_ have a point, perhaps it needs to be studied. I once heard that while mens brains are bigger womens brains have more communication are between the two lobes. I would have actually thought that a structure like womens might mean that they are better at identifying patterns (science) but worse are raw calculation (maths).
I think humans are creatures not of great intellect, but great stored knowledge (books etc), and by ourselves would still be hairless apes. I'm 100% sure that the success of an individual in a specific field has much more to do with determination/study of that individual than what sex they are, although i would not say that a bias of the sexes would not be visible, maybe as a very small percentage take from a massive sample.
Application Bundles just don't do dependencies at all. It works because most things are statically linked, both on Windows and Mac OS X. Linux is waaay more library dependant than either of those OS's.
Package Management does "just work" the problem is a major implementation issue, IE your app isn't compiled for your distro, Or RPM has dependencies of libblah.so.4 when you have libblah.so.5.
Apt works, and it works perfectly, but like all things its implementation dependant, your reliant on getting a package for you distro, It's a shame there are so many types (oh and RPM is Bunk, Portage or apt is waaaaaay better).
add a year on it coz MS is nearly always late. your "better than entry level" is now very very very bargain bucket.
Are nasty as they look like one file, and are actually directories that don't open when you dbl click.
Linux Package Management takes all the pain away from having everything in / and on a well implemented system (which prob doesn't exist yet) you can have the rpm as an icon for the app, double click, a scrollbar goes across the screen and its done, could not be simpler. Of course apt-get makes this even easier.
How the application is stored in the filesystem has no impact what so ever on usiblity either, coz a user should be either oblivious to it, or be aware of it, but the ui just works so don't look.
because there is a lifetime for every component, it would be reasonable to expect a reasonably static rate of growth of tin wiskers, and it will therefore prolly take a set amount of time for them to grow between components and short (at least in particular types of products.
Forinstance if AMD started manufacturing the AMD64 3200+ and got the substitues wrong, they would all start failing at rougly the same time, taking down all computers that are built using them.
It's not such a date of failure but the inference is they will prolly all fail at similar times
Remember, "they hate our freedom" - GWB.
If you measure it by that the raft of terrorist measures brought in already means they did.
iTunes / iPod is a power game.
They make practically no $$$ on music, people knowing this didn't understand thier hostility to license to Real.
Apple's reason is because they are planning on ITMS being the sole distributer of all music.
I honestly believe Apple is far more Evil (in a slashdot way) than MS. Even if MS is equally evil they have few fanboys that are as religious as the Apple ones, and are heavily watched by Governments etc.
My Ma and Pa are administrators, that i hate, OO.o installed in my account, didn't have the file associations transported to my mum and dads, wierdness...
these are banned in the uk
but features don't make a game. Doom is remembered by everybody, not just because of the graphics but because it felt right, all the weapons were well bananced, also they were balanced just right next to the enemies also, The level design was good for its day (being slightly non-linear). The whole game felt like something which was playtested to death, not by people who were looking for bugs but by the developers who _really_ cared about the game. A lot of mags said Duke Nukem was better, but it never seemed as polished. Doom 2 did feel like a rush job however tho. The same happened with Quake, the _quality_ was waay better than Unreal, even though Unreal added a pretty good story etc and superb EAX sound.
There's always a tendency to say X game is better than the (at the time) benchmark product because of Y feature. And yes. if Doom had Duke Nukem's funky multi floor workaround it would have been better, but that feature (and others as well) don't make it better.
I don't know abour Marathon, it may be superb. I never played it, but who remembers it now? everybody remembers Doom, and most have cleared it. I even re-bought it on CD a bit ago, and I've just started re-playing it. It's still one of the best.
MythTV on Linux on a Water Cooled XBox
"In the spirit of all this freedom, we welcome any suggestions, as well as provide the source code free of charge for anyone who wishes to tinker with it. Please explore this website, download the software and try out many of the things you would do on those expensive commercial applications."
and the license
" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
"
Well fuck me, MS is sponsoring not just free software but Free software, Very interesting! Oh and can we take this and shove it on Linux?
EA maybe classed as evil, but UBI are the people that won't let you install thier latest games with things like Nero/Daemon Tools installed, coz they are paranoid about copy prevention (its going to happen get over it, don't you think it'd take me an hour or so to figure out how, but if the games good enough i _will_ buy it).
I absolutely adore Rainbow Six: Raven Shield, Loved Splinter Cell (1, Pandora was a bit shit in comparison), well into the original Ghost Recon, and will probably buy most of the sequels.
Thier evilness however is only challenged by Valve's Steam.