SPOILEROO!!!!
And don't forget Iain M. Banks' "Feersum Endjinn"... Many years later, but many orders of magnitude better than either of those novels (and yes, I've read all three:)
Then fucking *don't*? What's the problem? Is EverQuest somehow impinging on your rights just by existing?
Hell, I've been paying the monthly fee, without playing, for the last six months -until I move back to a place were I can keep a computer better than a crappy laptop going- just to keep my characters alive.
I've gotten more entertainment for my ten bucks a month on Everquest than out of *any* movie I've seen in the last year, and just about 80 percent of the books I've read. I'd call that excellent value.
This is the application that comes the closest (that I know of) to the power of the old Directory Opus on the Amiga. Easier to use with only the keyboard, too.
Besides, Unreal Tournament is just a pale imitation of Q3A... Q3A has the gameplay AND graphics edge. It is nice both are coming out for Linux, though, and I hope both sell well.
Third-person shooters are the stupidest idea ever. Almost as dumb as a first-person platform game.
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Well, if you have some kind of genetic inability to attain a Zen state, we all feel for you. If you choose to believe that, since you cannot attain one, such states do not exist, well, we all feel for you.
Well, I'd rather lose that part of my privacy that is my video card manufacturer, and get to play Quake III. If it was my email address or MAC address, it would be different.
Unfortunately, being stupid has never been an obstacle to breeding. An argument could be made, in fact, that being stupid makes you more successful at breeding than being intelligent...
Not really. I used to have a demo called EyeCatcher or something like that running on my seriously under-powered SGI Indy. Its motion analysis was good enough to let you control your character on the screen, and probably the entire computing power of an SGI Indy wouldn't ammount to a hill of beams when lost in the sloshing masses of power of modern PCs.
I don't think using a camera as an interface would cause any serious overhead.
Funny, I flame MS mostly as a user environment. My productivity drops by three quarters when I move from my 6-year-old SGI Indy to my Pentium II 300 running NT, mostly because I don't have immediate access to my customized scripts, aliases and hotkeys.
I know that much of this stuff can be had in the form of UNIX tools for NT, but I cannot be arsed to get them. My goal is to get off NT as soon as I possibly can.
Yeah, Ohh. For your information, there have been SGI versions of all id games since Doom, and as far as I remember, John Carmack didn't come around putting a gun to anybody's head to buy SGI hardware.
Actually, not at all. When you render images for feature film special effects, you do so at 48 bit, because 24bpp is just not good enough. When you have subtle gradations, you start seeing some horrible banding at film resolutions.
So the answer is no, 24bpp is by no means beyond the threshold of the human eye.
Er... As an owner of a MIPS-based SGI too, I need Linux on it like I need a hole in the head. I'm happy to see SGI support Linux on the Intel platform, but I don't particularly look forward to or care to see Linux on MIPS, for whatever long MIPS has left, which may not be that much.
I understand that maybe IRIX isn't the best OS around from a security standpoint, but as a workstation OS for a single user, is absolutely peerless, with only BeOS and the AmigaOS coming close (although I have no first hand experience of Solaris, I'd be happy to add it to the list).
Dude, if id Software announced that their next game consisted of a cardboard box with a bit of John Carmack's navel fluff in it, Epic Games would come out the same week announcing they would do the same for Unreal 3, but dye the fluff purple.
A rather pathetic way of doing business, if you ask me...
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SPOILEROO!!!! And don't forget Iain M. Banks' "Feersum Endjinn"... Many years later, but many orders of magnitude better than either of those novels (and yes, I've read all three :)
Then fucking *don't*? What's the problem? Is EverQuest somehow impinging on your rights just by existing?
Hell, I've been paying the monthly fee, without playing, for the last six months -until I move back to a place were I can keep a computer better than a crappy laptop going- just to keep my characters alive.
I've gotten more entertainment for my ten bucks a month on Everquest than out of *any* movie I've seen in the last year, and just about 80 percent of the books I've read. I'd call that excellent value.
Actually, the technical term for going from UNIX to a M$ solution is "downgrading".
This is the application that comes the closest (that I know of) to the power of the old Directory Opus on the Amiga. Easier to use with only the keyboard, too.
:)
http://www.unix11.com
And it's GPLed too...
Everything depends on it. They will not know success until the old logo is back.
One mission to fix the Hubble; two missions to upgrade it.
Three missions to bring it up, and in the darkness stead it.
[wipes tear off eye]
Man, it's great to be alive, isn't it?
Oh, that explains it. We have an Epic Games sock-puppet in Slashdot.
UT is a load of derivative, me-too bollocks. Maybe some day Epic will do something original, but that will have to be after Carmack retires.
Are there any DVD players that work under NT?
Besides, Unreal Tournament is just a pale imitation of Q3A... Q3A has the gameplay AND graphics edge. It is nice both are coming out for Linux, though, and I hope both sell well.
Third-person shooters are the stupidest idea ever. Almost as dumb as a first-person platform game.
Well, if you have some kind of genetic inability to attain a Zen state, we all feel for you. If you choose to believe that, since you cannot attain one, such states do not exist, well, we all feel for you.
Feel the love, man. Feel the moderation.
Yeah, and John Carmack could come around to your house and anally rape you.
We're asking for an actual reason to be bothered by id gathering that particular information, not about a reductio-ad-absurdum paranoid scenario.
If someone started logging our MAC addresses, then it would be something to be concerned about. Video card statistics? That's trivial.
Well, I'd rather lose that part of my privacy that is my video card manufacturer, and get to play Quake III. If it was my email address or MAC address, it would be different.
Hey, it's MY privacy, it's MY problem.
...until they restore the old logo. That's all there is to it.
Unfortunately, being stupid has never been an obstacle to breeding. An argument could be made, in fact, that being stupid makes you more successful at breeding than being intelligent...
Not really. I used to have a demo called EyeCatcher or something like that running on my seriously under-powered SGI Indy. Its motion analysis was good enough to let you control your character on the screen, and probably the entire computing power of an SGI Indy wouldn't ammount to a hill of beams when lost in the sloshing masses of power of modern PCs.
I don't think using a camera as an interface would cause any serious overhead.
Funny, I flame MS mostly as a user environment. My productivity drops by three quarters when I move from my 6-year-old SGI Indy to my Pentium II 300 running NT, mostly because I don't have immediate access to my customized scripts, aliases and hotkeys.
I know that much of this stuff can be had in the form of UNIX tools for NT, but I cannot be arsed to get them. My goal is to get off NT as soon as I possibly can.
A MOO with a 3d engine? You may want to give EverQuest a try, unless you have a social life and plan to keep it, that is.
If people put more effort on helping others and less on sanctimonious preaching, the world would be a better place.
For spoiling the ending of the Clarke story... :(
Yeah, Ohh. For your information, there have been SGI versions of all id games since Doom, and as far as I remember, John Carmack didn't come around putting a gun to anybody's head to buy SGI hardware.
So Ohh yourself.
Actually, not at all. When you render images for feature film special effects, you do so at 48 bit, because 24bpp is just not good enough. When you have subtle gradations, you start seeing some horrible banding at film resolutions.
So the answer is no, 24bpp is by no means beyond the threshold of the human eye.
Er... As an owner of a MIPS-based SGI too, I need Linux on it like I need a hole in the head. I'm happy to see SGI support Linux on the Intel platform, but I don't particularly look forward to or care to see Linux on MIPS, for whatever long MIPS has left, which may not be that much.
I understand that maybe IRIX isn't the best OS around from a security standpoint, but as a workstation OS for a single user, is absolutely peerless, with only BeOS and the AmigaOS coming close (although I have no first hand experience of Solaris, I'd be happy to add it to the list).
Dude, if id Software announced that their next game consisted of a cardboard box with a bit of John Carmack's navel fluff in it, Epic Games would come out the same week announcing they would do the same for Unreal 3, but dye the fluff purple.
A rather pathetic way of doing business, if you ask me...