PC's have reached a level of power that is overkill for what most people use them for. 3D games are one of the few applications that are pushing new hardware and software sells for Microsoft and Dell.
Yes - Office 11 isn't out yet. If past performance is any indication, that'll bog your system something fierce as well.
Most ACs are retards. Thus, ironic. Thank you anyhow for the attempted grammar lesson.
And so keep getting the castoffs from Digg. My whole point was that everyone reads both, so we don't need it posted on both. Go look at Diggvsdot - once it gets posted on one, it gets posted on the other. Then again, it's obvious that not everyone does, and I didn't realize there was so much animosity....
Oh, fuck it. You'll just call me a retard again. Yippee. Enjoy your crappy little posts.
Wow. An AC calling me a retard, and calling Digg people retards. I'd love to wade through the irony, but it's a bit thick. I've been reading Slashdot for... damn, a long time now. Remember Jon Katz? Remember news for nerds? Heck, my wife has a 5-number ID. Face it - Slashdot's gone down hill. I'm not saying Digg is the end-all-be-all, but I've found a lot more links worth reading lately than Slashdot has. Even if Digg's comment system does suck, it's a better link site.
Or at least stop grabbing the Digg headlines and submitting them. One site or the other, people. If I read it on Digg, I don't want to see it on Dot. And vice versa.
From what I remember, 3DRealms made so much money off of Duke Nukem 3d, they were paying their own way. Using their prior profits to fund the game, so that they could release it whenever they durn well pleased.
Go read a book or something:) Yeah - at 8 bucks a pop. I remember being OUTRAGED when I bought The Stainless Steel Rat for 3.25. It was thin, and _expensive_. I keep hearing that the Science Fiction book market is dead, but I've got more new authors than I know what to do with, and a couple of them (Hi, Charlie!) are as prolific right now as Piers Anthony ever was. But I cannot believe that books are 8 bucks a pop. Annoys the hell out of me. I could go see a movie for that. Sure, it's only two hours, but I'm paying to see something that cost 100 million or so. I know a book doesn't cost that much to make/print.
From reading the forums, Fasa Studios (the game devs) are promoting this as an team multiplayer title. It's Counterstrike, with teleport and wings.
Some video. I personally wouldn't watch it. It'll just disappoint you. Very much an FPS ala Unreal Tournament. Sad, since Crimson Skies was a good game, and they've done a decent job (some good, some bad) with Battletech over the years. But this? *shudder*
I'm not sure if this would count, but I haven't "read" comic books for decades.... except for Planetary. It's by Warren Ellis, the artwork is quite good, and the premise (quoting here)
We gather information on the hidden wonders of the world.
Mystery archaeologists. There's a hundred years of fantastic events that planetary intends to excavate.
We're mapping the secret history of the twentieth century.
Now, this may be too straightahead. It involves superheroes. It adds in variants of all sorts of history: Godzilla. Doc Savage. "Them". But it's a good read.
I remember buying the original Geforce. $300. Amazing graphics, used it for a long while. But if I'd known that it would cause the "average" videocard's price to be $300, I would not have bought it.
Check out his TV show - probably floating around the internet somewhere. 6-part series about the history of cryptography. Neat stuff, probably doubly so if you've read the book.
But it's not like Wal-mart invented this concept. It used to be that when you wanted a particular type of hammer/drill/file/chisel/etc, you'd buy that particular type. The quality was high, the price was high, and it was pert-near custom-made for the specific job you wanted it for. All the manufacturers said that they built them this was because that's what their customers said they wanted.
Then the Japanese came in. They didn't care about this niche-tool market. So instead of a specialized tool, they'd give you a more general tool, not built as well, but it cost 1/3rd the amount of the German/USA/British-made equivalent. People bought them in droves, because even though they _said_ they wanted a specific type of hammer, when push came to shove this cheaper product was "close enough".
From what I can see, all they're doing is running differential backups. As long as you have the preceding files, you can get it all back. I've done this with database backups, both by using differentials and by manually creating a diff-style file.
From RTFA, they chose not to release anything until 2 weeks before they released it. Very nice - as a fan of mods, it's disheartening to see the number of mods that never hit beta, much less release.
I have no idea who these people are, so I'm glad it made Slashdot tonight. As opposed to tomorrow, when instead of my one crappy post saying "who are they, why should I care, and why aren't they funny", there'd be dozens, maybe even more, saying the same thing.
So I watched 3 clips of theirs - none of them were actually funny.
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IIRC, on Freakazoid the character Fanboy talked about how Tron really wasn't the "movie that ruined Disney" like everyone things, but instead it was The Black Hole that was the gigantic flop that everyone remembers.
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Wow. It works! Microsoft and DRM. Come on, Karma!
PC's have reached a level of power that is overkill for what most people use them for. 3D games are one of the few applications that are pushing new hardware and software sells for Microsoft and Dell.
Yes - Office 11 isn't out yet. If past performance is any indication, that'll bog your system something fierce as well.
Most ACs are retards. Thus, ironic. Thank you anyhow for the attempted grammar lesson.
And so keep getting the castoffs from Digg. My whole point was that everyone reads both, so we don't need it posted on both. Go look at Diggvsdot - once it gets posted on one, it gets posted on the other. Then again, it's obvious that not everyone does, and I didn't realize there was so much animosity....
Oh, fuck it. You'll just call me a retard again. Yippee. Enjoy your crappy little posts.
I want to go back to the time when green was a flavour
Eat the parsley that comes on the entree's plate. That is green, personified.
Wow. An AC calling me a retard, and calling Digg people retards. I'd love to wade through the irony, but it's a bit thick. I've been reading Slashdot for... damn, a long time now. Remember Jon Katz? Remember news for nerds? Heck, my wife has a 5-number ID. Face it - Slashdot's gone down hill. I'm not saying Digg is the end-all-be-all, but I've found a lot more links worth reading lately than Slashdot has. Even if Digg's comment system does suck, it's a better link site.
Or at least stop grabbing the Digg headlines and submitting them. One site or the other, people. If I read it on Digg, I don't want to see it on Dot. And vice versa.
From what I remember, 3DRealms made so much money off of Duke Nukem 3d, they were paying their own way. Using their prior profits to fund the game, so that they could release it whenever they durn well pleased.
FYI, search the internet - I seem to remember someone doing High-Res textures for Unreal Tournament, which they said could also be used for DX.
Long Tail. I want the Doc Savage movie. Done. I want some esoteric documentary? Done.
Not that it'll be used for that, but the potential is there.
Go read a book or something :)
Yeah - at 8 bucks a pop. I remember being OUTRAGED when I bought The Stainless Steel Rat for 3.25. It was thin, and _expensive_. I keep hearing that the Science Fiction book market is dead, but I've got more new authors than I know what to do with, and a couple of them (Hi, Charlie!) are as prolific right now as Piers Anthony ever was. But I cannot believe that books are 8 bucks a pop. Annoys the hell out of me. I could go see a movie for that. Sure, it's only two hours, but I'm paying to see something that cost 100 million or so. I know a book doesn't cost that much to make/print.
Given that NCSoft already has a No-Monthly-Fee MMO, I'd bet this is a Pay Per Month.
From reading the forums, Fasa Studios (the game devs) are promoting this as an team multiplayer title. It's Counterstrike, with teleport and wings.
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Some video. I personally wouldn't watch it. It'll just disappoint you. Very much an FPS ala Unreal Tournament. Sad, since Crimson Skies was a good game, and they've done a decent job (some good, some bad) with Battletech over the years. But this? *shudder*
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Now, this may be too straightahead. It involves superheroes. It adds in variants of all sorts of history: Godzilla. Doc Savage. "Them". But it's a good read.
Yes, but you're both right. It was a parody of Airplane 77, etc, but it used a TON of footage from Zero Hour.
I remember buying the original Geforce. $300. Amazing graphics, used it for a long while. But if I'd known that it would cause the "average" videocard's price to be $300, I would not have bought it.
Check out his TV show - probably floating around the internet somewhere. 6-part series about the history of cryptography. Neat stuff, probably doubly so if you've read the book.
But it's not like Wal-mart invented this concept. It used to be that when you wanted a particular type of hammer/drill/file/chisel/etc, you'd buy that particular type. The quality was high, the price was high, and it was pert-near custom-made for the specific job you wanted it for. All the manufacturers said that they built them this was because that's what their customers said they wanted.
Then the Japanese came in. They didn't care about this niche-tool market. So instead of a specialized tool, they'd give you a more general tool, not built as well, but it cost 1/3rd the amount of the German/USA/British-made equivalent. People bought them in droves, because even though they _said_ they wanted a specific type of hammer, when push came to shove this cheaper product was "close enough".
Draw your own conclusions.
My first thought when I heard it start looping was "Frippertronics Hero". :)
From what I can see, all they're doing is running differential backups. As long as you have the preceding files, you can get it all back. I've done this with database backups, both by using differentials and by manually creating a diff-style file.
On to the next article.
From RTFA, they chose not to release anything until 2 weeks before they released it. Very nice - as a fan of mods, it's disheartening to see the number of mods that never hit beta, much less release.
Alternatively: tip the veal, try the waitress....
I have no idea who these people are, so I'm glad it made Slashdot tonight. As opposed to tomorrow, when instead of my one crappy post saying "who are they, why should I care, and why aren't they funny", there'd be dozens, maybe even more, saying the same thing.
So I watched 3 clips of theirs - none of them were actually funny.
I don't get it.
God bless the National Proletariat Radio!
IIRC, on Freakazoid the character Fanboy talked about how Tron really wasn't the "movie that ruined Disney" like everyone things, but instead it was The Black Hole that was the gigantic flop that everyone remembers.
- NWN2 - Single Player/Co-op. Sometime this spring
- Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. Single Player. March 20th.
- Guild Wars: Factions. MMO-lite. April 28th.
- Dreamfall (Longest Journey 2). Single-player adventure. Spring.
That being said, 3 of those are fantasy RPGs. Where are the good Sci-Fi RPGs? Where are some more Adventure games?