Its not played by many as its rather hard and the average standard of play is prohibitively high.
Basically the aim of the website is not to attract new players but to provide the information that the current players want.
It basically requires a friend who already plays it to introduce you to it. It requires a rediculous amount of time investment and is rather hard core as such. Most people who play it have previously mastered QuakeWorld, Quake2 or Quake3 and are moving on to the next level.
It is however incredibly well coded and designed mod.
I play a mod for Quake3 that is probably the fastest, craziest mind numbingly difficult first person shooter there is.
I've played it and other first person shooters for about 3 years and I can definately say it improves your spatial awareness and hand eye coordination.
People have also commented on my low reaction times and general ability to notice things.
The thing is, I reckon sports can improve these areas as well if not more effectively. Playing games doesn't exactly get you fit either so its important to do both.
My Duron 950 manages it with 1 teeny stutter at the bit where neo swings the pole round. My friends Duron 950 with only 100Mhz FSB (Mine is 133) stutters alot.
Not sure why your AthlonXP would be having any problems.
mplayer/home/video/trailers/matrix\ reloaded.mov ... Opening video decoder: [qtvideo] Quicktime Video decoder External func COMCTL32.dll:17 External func COMCTL32.dll:16 QuickTime6 DLLs found QuickTime.qts patched!!! old entry=0x6693b330 ...
Still, its better than nothing as I would hazard a guess that most people that run linux have a ia32 box. It does require a decent machine to play the ultra hi res matrix reloaded trailer though. My duron 950 *just* manages it, anything less will stutter.
There's no such thing as unbreakable encrytion, only encryption which is hard to break. You can always use brute force attacks and the time required to succeed is dependent on how much processing time you throw at the problem.
I so wish that Apple or Some bright person would add Ogg support to the iPod. The iPod is now supported under Wondows, OS* and Linux and by using Ogg you could fit about twice as much music into the same space by lowering the quality.
I have found that ogg -q 0 (~64Kbit) is as good as 128Kbit Mp3...
Of course the iPod would need discrete math implementation but I believe there is an open one.
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AOLIM - Oh No !! Burning Cd's - 'cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data image.iso' seems to work for me. Games - I only play Q1, Q2, Q3, CS & UT =P Doom 3 Will be released for Linux too DemoWare - Oh No !! ISP Support - If you need support you shouldnt be running linux. Also don't tell them.
MS office stuff could be a problem for those people unfortunate enough to have to use it. Inroads are being made in that area though.
As for your last point Linux already can do most of that and it most definately wouldnt lose reliability or stability and there is always a minimum horsepower for anything, Linux however consistenly requires less.
They went to all that trouble to serve up a webpage from the south pole. They surely can't have that much bandwidth at the south pole then they go and get slashdotted.
Well at least their systems wont need any cooling.
I'm no chemist but that sounds explosive and as such unlikely to be alowed in planes. I can just imagine faulty cells blowing laptops to bits. I can see the fuel cells having a very prominent disclaimer.
I know that batteries like Lithium cells are epxlosive if their contents come into contact with water but as these fuel cells are refilable they must be far less safe.
Valid point but it certainly makes a good stress test. This was posted on/. when they were testing Ogg a while back. The service was almost completely uninterupted and that was with higher bitrate streams as well as the low ones so I can only assume that they are easily able to cope.
Oh wait, cope with the Slashdot effect. Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
The previous ogg streaming by the BBC was excellent to say the least. 128Kbit Ogg gives stunning Quality for music and way more than you need for voice.
Unfortunately they are only doing Radio 1 at 64Kbit at the moment which is alot crisper than 64Kbit Mp3 but seems to mess up the treble more.
What is excellent is that you can save the stream to disk which must be the easiest way ever to record your favorite program.
The links for Radio 1 on the/. post work but they are not currently listed on the BBC page.
The low bandwidth option runs at vbr around 50Kbit which means you will have to have a very good modem connection for it to work.
Please mail the BBC support about this as I really hate wma and real audio, plus they are inferiour and proprietry.
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With 1/5th of the worlds population I'm sure China has the *potential* manpower to overtake the rest of the worlds software industry.
It would be nice if they make lots of open contributions though.
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If *I* got money out of M$ I REALLY wouldnt need to get money out of anyone else.
Its not played by many as its rather hard and the average standard of play is prohibitively high.
Basically the aim of the website is not to attract new players but to provide the information that the current players want.
It basically requires a friend who already plays it to introduce you to it. It requires a rediculous amount of time investment and is rather hard core as such. Most people who play it have previously mastered QuakeWorld, Quake2 or Quake3 and are moving on to the next level.
It is however incredibly well coded and designed mod.
I play a mod for Quake3 that is probably the fastest, craziest mind numbingly difficult first person shooter there is.
I've played it and other first person shooters for about 3 years and I can definately say it improves your spatial awareness and hand eye coordination.
People have also commented on my low reaction times and general ability to notice things.
The thing is, I reckon sports can improve these areas as well if not more effectively. Playing games doesn't exactly get you fit either so its important to do both.
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Fair enough
If you read my post carefully it says:
"ultra high res"
My Duron 950 manages it with 1 teeny stutter at the bit where neo swings the pole round. My friends Duron 950 with only 100Mhz FSB (Mine is 133) stutters alot.
Not sure why your AthlonXP would be having any problems.
I think mencoder favours ffmpeg for Mpeg4 encoding and the mplayer docs suggest it as better quality and faster than Xvid ?
Pity it wasnt tested too.
Yes you can view ALL sorenson material on linux, try the latest STABLE version of mplayer or the latest beta10 of xine-lib.
Wow maybe the 3rd film will be as crap as the first 2.
How will Palladium stop me running Linux ?
If it can then it will flop.
Mind you, its bound to be cracked before they release it giving us all a reason to laugh alot.
There's no such thing as unbreakable encrytion, only encryption which is hard to break. You can always use brute force attacks and the time required to succeed is dependent on how much processing time you throw at the problem.
I so wish that Apple or Some bright person would add Ogg support to the iPod. The iPod is now supported under Wondows, OS* and Linux and by using Ogg you could fit about twice as much music into the same space by lowering the quality.
I have found that ogg -q 0 (~64Kbit) is as good as 128Kbit Mp3...
Of course the iPod would need discrete math implementation but I believe there is an open one.
AOLIM - Oh No !!
Burning Cd's - 'cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data image.iso' seems to work for me.
Games - I only play Q1, Q2, Q3, CS & UT =P Doom 3 Will be released for Linux too
DemoWare - Oh No !!
ISP Support - If you need support you shouldnt be running linux. Also don't tell them.
MS office stuff could be a problem for those people unfortunate enough to have to use it. Inroads are being made in that area though.
As for your last point Linux already can do most of that and it most definately wouldnt lose reliability or stability and there is always a minimum horsepower for anything, Linux however consistenly requires less.
I personaly consider using MS products unethical.
I must get one of these for the office.
They will always bid higher than you !
Sounds like fun if you can come up with a valid reason to bid.
So I guess that they will be spending more on "Toilet Seats" instead...
WARNING: This residence protected by emp.
So that all the pixies that live inside my PC can tell the time when they come out at night to play.
They went to all that trouble to serve up a webpage from the south pole. They surely can't have that much bandwidth at the south pole then they go and get slashdotted.
Well at least their systems wont need any cooling.
I live in a Slashdot world.
TCP/IP Enabled Lego Brick
Makes me immediately think of a generic 4x2x3 (you know the one) lego brick with a Cable Modem, keyboard and monitor attached.
Probably a yellow brick I think.
I'm no chemist but that sounds explosive and as such unlikely to be alowed in planes. I can just imagine faulty cells blowing laptops to bits. I can see the fuel cells having a very prominent disclaimer.
I know that batteries like Lithium cells are epxlosive if their contents come into contact with water but as these fuel cells are refilable they must be far less safe.
Valid point but it certainly makes a good stress test. This was posted on /. when they were testing Ogg a while back. The service was almost completely uninterupted and that was with higher bitrate streams as well as the low ones so I can only assume that they are easily able to cope.
Oh wait, cope with the Slashdot effect. Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
The previous ogg streaming by the BBC was excellent to say the least. 128Kbit Ogg gives stunning Quality for music and way more than you need for voice.
/. post work but they are not currently listed on the BBC page.
Unfortunately they are only doing Radio 1 at 64Kbit at the moment which is alot crisper than 64Kbit Mp3 but seems to mess up the treble more.
What is excellent is that you can save the stream to disk which must be the easiest way ever to record your favorite program.
The links for Radio 1 on the
The low bandwidth option runs at vbr around 50Kbit which means you will have to have a very good modem connection for it to work.
Please mail the BBC support about this as I really hate wma and real audio, plus they are inferiour and proprietry.