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  1. Origins of the Borg. on Wired on Slashdot · · Score: 1

    The Borg (a race of cybergenetically enhanced beings) were instituted in an episode of ST-TNG where Picard denies Q a chance to be part of his crew. When Q hears this he tries to teach Picard a lesson and transports the ship to a distant part of the galaxy where they find a borg vessle which has the ability to scan them and determine that they are weak. After taking a real beating from the Borg and Picard begs for mercy Q moves them back to their current position. Another 3 episodes in the series address the borg as well. The next is one where the borg try to assimilate the planet earth. Second one happens where a crashed borg scout vessle leaves a single injured borg and he is taken and given free will and sent back to the collective in leu of killing the whole race through a interative debilitating algorithm. The next is where Lore (data's older twin brother) assists the borg in trying to become fully cyborgenetic by doing his bidding. Then we have a major break. The next we see the borg we find them in the Delta Quadrant with Janeway and that has a lot of episodes (manely because they have a person who is sort of borg herself on board constatly now. So to make a long post longer the borg were most definately not conceived in Generations.

  2. Will it fit on a standard (old 486) motherboard? on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    That's what I need is something that will fit and isn't my cpu (486dx66) a little too slow that is perhaps what I meant. I think this could be done really easily with good programming techniques.

  3. What good do these do anyway as far as the game? on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    I can't play with the compiler/modules/or assembler nor can I do any real development besides game programming.

  4. What is this timecube thing. on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    Checked out the site. Seems like a pretty sketchy evidence? Is this supposed to be some sort of pseudo-ethical thing?

  5. And to address the comment on ignorance. on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    I feel that if one if to really get any benefit from something one needs to take risks and potentially do something stupid to get knowledge from it. If I wanted to learn about cowboys would I not get more experience from being one and doing all the things that one would do than just reading a western? And I also identify myself when I do all correspondence so that individuals can know with whom they are dealing.

  6. Why?? on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    It really dosn't make any sense to me. If you are not on a team when they win that dosn't mean that you win if they do. Man that would be great for the stock market.

  7. I would never buy... on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    Something that had emense problems with it. Did they offer free patches?

  8. The site was down or at least unreachable. on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    For at least about 30 minutes alright I am sorry for the unknowledgeable statement. Doh!!!

  9. Does it need all the same memory resources? on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    Does it need all the same resources such as memory/cpu as the original?

  10. Doom/svgalib on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    Quite nice and it worked for me! Yes!!! Pretty cool however I wish that god-mode had worked for nightmare I wanted more to kill.

  11. Why not a low system version with ascii? on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    I would pay 2x the price if they had one for systems with low memory and such would be pretty cool too to see someone blown away in a puddle of ,,,'s :)

  12. What is a gib? or gibs? intestines? on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    Just get back up and get a BFG10k and kick ass that helps to relieve me.

  13. If you play the regular game. on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    Basically multiplayer games are all like this. The only real challenge to any game would be for you to turn the difficulty level all the way up. The story line of quake would make this the more real senario since it is just one human man against a whole hoarde or killing borg-like aliens. This involves emmense levels of strategy and planning to avoid and kill your opponent. I do believe that some multiplayer play is boring. Perhaps to save time/money for multiplayer games X-evil should be considered http://www.xevil.com a great game (although shareware) you get to kill things to the nth degree and if you register the game you will help a fellow struggling programmer too.

    (Who could only play quake by using N-64. Does the patch for ascii-quake allow for less system resources ram/cpu, etc than traditional quake?)

  14. Re:Java q4? on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    Maybe I'm all wet but isn't java interpreted and so therefore has an enermous penalty running anything much less quake? Dosn't compiling it just make it loose most of the multi-platform useses for it?

  15. What parts? on Carmack on next Q3 test; parts open-sourced · · Score: 0

    The question is what parts? What like the part that says "Hello and Welcome to QIII"?

  16. Pretty Useless on BOFHcam · · Score: 0

    Someone is wasting a whole internic registration/bandwidth on this mess? There really isn't anything positive about this so I guess I am in the right. Plus isn't it mostly just a matter of preference and logic to think that the person thought this through really well before they did it? I don't think anybody get's up in the morning and decides to do this.

  17. Re:Partially right, partially wrong. on Black Futurists In The Information Age · · Score: 0

    Let me say one thing being white does not automatically make you some wealthy capitalist who exploits people. I dare to bet that in those inner cities you can find whites who are in a pretty bad pickle due to various problems in their lives and hence cannot afford net access and PIII 600Mhz machines.

  18. Really Stupid Move on Amazon Posts User Purchasing Data · · Score: 0

    Going to loose great deal of customers

  19. Re:More rationalization of the nanny-state on Black Futurists In The Information Age · · Score: 0

    I have one problem with this the system is not capable to having people becomming totally oriented towards jobs that think even with 100% of the population having doctoral degrees in something some of those people would have such a rewarding job as Al Bundy (Married With Children) at a shoe store.

  20. Re:Not really on 3rd Party PPC Machines from IBM specs · · Score: 0

    Namely the rather still bug filled distributions and the lack of greased lightning response times for fixing bugs or getting updates for packages that I would wish to use. I would like for someone for example to get a devel kernel out with that e2compr patch (or get the patch into the kernel) so that I could get reasonable updates to the core OS instead of waiting several years between 2.0.x and 2.2.x for example.

  21. Re:Not really on 3rd Party PPC Machines from IBM specs · · Score: 0

    Actually it's really not the hd but support for the cd-rom under linux. Ever try to install Red Hat with a dos partition (the rest of a previous almost full linux one) of about 30M free space? The cd has at least 420M worth of rpm's labeled not a whit for the base stuff that is needed.

  22. Re:Not really on 3rd Party PPC Machines from IBM specs · · Score: 0

    Well I would have replied to this via e-mail but I lack an address that is appropriate so I will just have to post this here for the world to see. First of all you have given away the play that the world is supposed to use to get this great conspiracy going in the first place. This is essential to any conspiracy that's why it succeedes: people cannot resist what they do not know about can they? Secondly I am not, and never going to be a quiter in any way, shape, and form, If I have to spend 20+ years getting all sorts of degrees to make me part of the elite I shall (as it is I am not stupid or on the fast track to getting there). Thirdly what I really see happening in the next 50 years is a group of people most likely "hippies" for lack of a better term who will instigate a program of euthenasia, planned depopulation of so called "threatened" areas of terrain. What this will be spurred on by is perhaps some major natural distaster which is created by global warming or the like. This in turn will raise prices on all basic necessities and will queeze most of the population through the cracks in an even more sinester way than through a bunch of people in a smoking room. If any organized conspiracy were in the works people would already have come forward and ratted on those people involved; this is why things like the X-files are not really probable in our time. What of the internet? We have access in most public places (probably sensored in the future) to all the information of a technical nature that we could ever read in a lifetime. This will make people more literate and get their foot in the door. I am just discusted with people who waste time on things when If I just had a little easier time or perhaps a little more power I could improve at least 5,000% or more where people at the top little benefit with the purtchess of several million dollars worth of computer equipment in any form. An example does bill gates get all psyched up when he overclocks his processor on his desk to give him 10% more processing power? I think not.

  23. Re:Am I missing something? on 3rd Party PPC Machines from IBM specs · · Score: 0

    I shall change my .sig shortly. If you really look closely at most of the other sigs out there they are just crap, and quite contradictory crap at that. I have had problems with debian as of late and linux as well perhaps someone will eventually fix all the problems with base level hardware instead of just fixing things that are cool to make the computer actually get up and sing/dance.

  24. Good idea. on Black Futurists In The Information Age · · Score: 0

    Its a nice thing to see.

  25. Re:Not really on 3rd Party PPC Machines from IBM specs · · Score: 1

    Well suppose I wish to get the latest version of a compiler or a certain app (that linux alread), or to act as a server that could handle the slashdot effect, how about replace the hard drive for a model that has a certain higher rpm rating, get to a really nice customizable command interface (bash) set up automatically scheduled jobs, multitask well, artificial intelligence, most modern computer games worth a rat's ass, have Xemacs, let me access something besides the GUI if I want to just for the hell of it, change the desktop so that it looks/functions differently (linux window managers), Borland compilers, etc. All of these things are not avaible on a mac (to my knowledge, or are at least 2x more expensive or 4x more difficult to do).