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Have you ever seen a DirecTV picture on a bad day? Right, fuzzy as hell. Do you want the same thing to happen to your connection? Hell no.
What's more, the average ping on a satellite connection is 750ms. That's right, and that's on StarBand, the full-duplex provider.
The other broadband industries are also plagued as well: the baby bells are hindering progress on DSL expansion (just look at this map; green is DSL enabled, red is not). The cable industry has AOLTimeWarner to worry about.
Oh great. Now any jet with this engine will be the ultimate terrorist target. It'll be like the Hindenburg tragedy all over again: "Oh the humanity, and all the passengers!"
Looks like Doom 3 will be another game where the color palette is "shades of black". Sigh.
Come on! What's the surprise in having a fully illuminated room where you can see each and every monster? Where's the suspense when every wall is pansy pink and wussy blue?
DOOM 3 isn't intended to be another Q3; this is Id Software's effort to plow back into the single-player spotlight it left behind 5 years ago. And they're not trying to make it a "guns a-blazing in broad daylight" cameo, they're trying to make it a dark, gloomy, somber, macabre tale through the infested zone.
If you're complaining about the game not being colorful enough, go back to your "colorful" world where UT and NOLF and N'Suck reign supreme. I'm going to wait patiently for this masterpiece to be released, and I'm going to like it, damnit!
- Vojtech Pavlik: update via82cxxx driver to handle the vt82c686
Yay, so FINALLY a Linux kernel will recognize my Celeron's chipset correctly. Microsoft got its 82c686 driver set finished about a year ago. That was back in the days of 2.2.14.
In the RIAA's terminology, a "legitimate" electronic music distribution system is no system at all. Those luddites in the RIAA all believe (rightly) that any encryption method, content control system, or secured payment system would eventually be cracked and violated. Unfortunately the public's infatuation with mp3 as a means to share music has ballooned out of the RIAA's control. Plus, there's now an mp3 encoder (LAME) that is open-source, meaning that anyone can compile it and use it; gone are the days of paying Fraunhofer IIS royalties for "their intellectual property".
To effectively stop music sharing, the RIAA would have to take down the entire Internet. In the future, it probably won't be some hacker attacking servers; it will be Big Brother.
The original Unreal tried to place a setting in a much different world. However, its lackluster engine, reliance on a now dead hardware manufacturer, and the engine's insatiable appetite for crashing made the game an eventual failure. Epic picked up the good pieces and made a deathmatch-only game, which we all know now as Unreal Tournament.
But what about the original? It was abandoned completely; the final patch (version 226) was released on June 13, 2000, and yet there are still nagging problems of input lag and incredibly slow rendering speeds when compared to the other game it tried to dethrone (i.e., Quake 2). The level loading time problems were only exacerbated, and some of the weapons were rendered impotent by the patch. Epic Games has even gone as far to partially deny the existence of it; if they had their way, Unreal Tournament would have been released first.
Interesting opinions. I don't actually own Oni, so that's why I messed up on the config thing. Judging from the cited examples on how Oni failed so much, I'm guessing that you really liked Half-Life and are looking forward to Red Faction.
...mainly because Bungie didn't implement a binding system; you could only use the standard keyboard setup, and you couldn't change it. While this does have a good side to it (anyone can hop on any machine and play Oni without totally messing up the owner's keyboard config), the game was just too alien without the option of customization.
The lack of a input config option in Oni is just as bad as the savegame problem in Project IGI
in a.d. 2001, war was beginning.
captain: what happen ?
mechanic: microsoft set up us the bomb.
operator: we get signal.
captain: what !
operator: windows media player turn on.
captain: it's you !!
gats: how are you gentlemen !!
gats: all your base are belong to us.
gats: you are on the way to destruction.
captain: what you say !!
gats: you have no time to survive make your time.
gats: ha ha ha ha....
operator: captain !!
captain: take off every 'wpa'!!
captain: you know what you doing.
captain: crack 'wpa'.
captain: for great justice.
Microsoft is trying to turn us all into robotic beings who just turn on the computer, insert the CD, and then click "I Agree" without any thoughts as to our freedom or rights. For this reason, I frown upon anyone who purchases Office XP and Windows XP (right now, I'm using Windows 2000, which I configured and installed myself without Microsoft's cold guiding hands, and Office 97, which I configured and installed myself without Microsoft's cold guiding hands).
Also, I didn't pay for either Win2K or Office 97; my family got Office 97 as a gift from a college professor, and I won Win2k at a Microsoft RoadShow. At the RoadShow, they "trained" us on how to sell Microsoft products. Well, I no longer work in the retail sector, and I certainly won't advocate or suggest the use of any XP product from Microsoft.
To me, XP stands for eXtreme Penetration -- into the user's wallet!
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What's more, the average ping on a satellite connection is 750ms. That's right, and that's on StarBand, the full-duplex provider.
The other broadband industries are also plagued as well: the baby bells are hindering progress on DSL expansion (just look at this map; green is DSL enabled, red is not). The cable industry has AOLTimeWarner to worry about.
But he LIKES Windows. Isn't that a mortal sin for all Linux users?
...so it looks like I won't be needing this for a while.
Can someone either cache, post, or find another loophole to that NYT story? The suspense is killing me!
Oh great. Now any jet with this engine will be the ultimate terrorist target. It'll be like the Hindenburg tragedy all over again: "Oh the humanity, and all the passengers!"
Today, the CueCat, tomorrow, the world!
Come on! What's the surprise in having a fully illuminated room where you can see each and every monster? Where's the suspense when every wall is pansy pink and wussy blue?
DOOM 3 isn't intended to be another Q3; this is Id Software's effort to plow back into the single-player spotlight it left behind 5 years ago. And they're not trying to make it a "guns a-blazing in broad daylight" cameo, they're trying to make it a dark, gloomy, somber, macabre tale through the infested zone.
If you're complaining about the game not being colorful enough, go back to your "colorful" world where UT and NOLF and N'Suck reign supreme. I'm going to wait patiently for this masterpiece to be released, and I'm going to like it, damnit!
Yay, so FINALLY a Linux kernel will recognize my Celeron's chipset correctly. Microsoft got its 82c686 driver set finished about a year ago. That was back in the days of 2.2.14.
Now we only have to wait 1 billion years for planets to form. I'm not too sure that the human race is that patient.
well, it's close enough.
Steve Ballmer to Bill Gates: "What is thy bidding, master?"
With the content control that is in this storage medium, perhaps there should be two more book titles there: 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.
So how many years will it take to build a truly stable Linux kernel? Six? Seven?
...and yet it still works faster and gets a better spectrum response than the official Fraunhofer codec. That's just plain ingenious.
well, it sure is now. And boy can it encode! 647 megabytes of CD-quality WAV in eight minutes! Woo!
To effectively stop music sharing, the RIAA would have to take down the entire Internet. In the future, it probably won't be some hacker attacking servers; it will be Big Brother.
For instance, Rob Malda will have to hold on to that VAIO for a year now, instead of his planned six months.
Remember Samsung's promise to the Linux world, the Yopy? I haven't heard of it ever since its first dose of Slashdot FUD.
But what about the original? It was abandoned completely; the final patch (version 226) was released on June 13, 2000, and yet there are still nagging problems of input lag and incredibly slow rendering speeds when compared to the other game it tried to dethrone (i.e., Quake 2). The level loading time problems were only exacerbated, and some of the weapons were rendered impotent by the patch. Epic Games has even gone as far to partially deny the existence of it; if they had their way, Unreal Tournament would have been released first.
Naaah! Sex is usually half the plot!
As am I.
The lack of a input config option in Oni is just as bad as the savegame problem in Project IGI
The Princess Leia rescue scene from episode IV will be re-enacted over and over. "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"
in a.d. 2001, war was beginning. ....
captain: what happen ?
mechanic: microsoft set up us the bomb.
operator: we get signal.
captain: what !
operator: windows media player turn on.
captain: it's you !!
gats: how are you gentlemen !!
gats: all your base are belong to us.
gats: you are on the way to destruction.
captain: what you say !!
gats: you have no time to survive make your time.
gats: ha ha ha ha
operator: captain !!
captain: take off every 'wpa'!!
captain: you know what you doing.
captain: crack 'wpa'.
captain: for great justice.
Also, I didn't pay for either Win2K or Office 97; my family got Office 97 as a gift from a college professor, and I won Win2k at a Microsoft RoadShow. At the RoadShow, they "trained" us on how to sell Microsoft products. Well, I no longer work in the retail sector, and I certainly won't advocate or suggest the use of any XP product from Microsoft.
To me, XP stands for eXtreme Penetration -- into the user's wallet!