Just try playing original Quake on a Linux box sometime; squake is much faster than xquake. Unfortunately, Q3 only runs inside X; however, that doesn't matter at all if you're running a server.
I wish that there was a graphics and sound API for Linux that had the low-latency properties that DirectDraw and DirectSound do under Windows. From what I've seen, SVGAlib and OSS are the only comparable ones, and they still need work.
Right now, I'm trying to write an essay on why the Internet IS dehumanizing. I had to go up to my professor's office for some food for thought. He gave me an excerpt from "The Gutenberg Elegies", and it was a refreshing uplift for my mind. He also gave me a due date extension so the essay is due on Monday, not tomorrow (woohoo!).
In return, I'm giving him some screenshots of the Borg from Elite Force. He's never seen Star Trek, and I think that the Borg are the epitome of the idea that he is trying to convey. Meanwhile, he is reading this story from the Boston Globe.
The area that I do question is how much is actually shared - most of the people I see out there are taking, not contributing to the Gnutella and the like.
Of course; after all, most people can't act as a server, even if they have broadband or DSL. That's why most of the ISPs which use those two use asynchronous connections (upload much slower than download). That way, users are driven away from acting as any kind of server, but are more than happy to download files and connect to multiplayer games as a client.
From what I've heard, though, Covad uses restricted SDSL. That's nice, however, it's hard to find a reliable connection to that over here in Verizonland. I've tried to run a Q3 server on my 640/90kbps dn/up DSL connection; it wasn't pretty. My friend kept getting booted off for no reason, and pings were upwards of 300 for the clients.
Well, Carnivore is certainly going to have the FBI touting this Oceanic axiom from 1984 (the book, not the year). Now there's just the other two to go:
WAR IS PEACE
They're working on that one. We're almost sure to see some kind of conflict against the Taliban and Hamas.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
I'm not sure how this one will be implemented. Of course, there's the CIA hiding everything from us. Also, there's the MiB factor (... and the only reason why they go on with their pathetic lives is that they do not know about it!).
they're always "innovating" by putting on little features to their CPUs that end up requiring either a driver upgrade or an entire operating system patch. When Intel gets their act together, I might consider getting a new system. Of course, that might take about three years...
They're already hard to pronounce, don't make it worse. I fear that soon a Czech name will be given to the next big thing, and we'll have to use the reverse caret over the C!
"The humor comes when they claim that bandwidth limitations will ultimately doom P2P (as though bits that traverse through a server somehow take less bandwidth than bits sent from one box directly to another."
Please. Isn't that why the server in the middle is MUCH faster? Between two computers with cable modems, there SHOULD be a server with a T3. Bottlenecks? No, more like a wider pipeline in the middle.
The real problem with massive peer-to-peer networks (e.g.: Napster, Gnutella) is server dedication. One of the T3 Napster servers I've seen only output 2K per second. That means that either there are hundreds more people on that server (unlikely, cause it was one with TMBG songs), or it's doing something else, like a Q3 server or FTP/HTTP.
Personally, I do all my music finding on FTP searches on oth.net. Gnutella is always too slow and too overloaded with pop music and smut. I've considered downloading Photoshop 6, but not off of Gnutella; it would take weeks, even on DSL! My only option is to find a cozy FTP server with it.
Great. Now we'll have people going around saying "My system with a GeForce 2 MX OWNZ!!!" Time to query them:
"So what's your processor?"
[frowns] "Cyrix 166."
"Memory?"
[starts to cry] "32 megabytes."
My Pentium III 500 is doing just fine, and since I upped the RAM to 320MB and a GeForce 2 GTS. I sure wouldn't mind a faster chip so Fast Fourier Transforms would go faster (Cool Edit and SETI@Home), but it serves me well as it is. Also, I do have a 440BX board with AGP2x, but all the latest chipset offerings truly stink (from the failed Intel Rambus ventures to VIA's loads which never have stable drivers).
...in the story of "Guilty until Proven Innocent."
This is very bad. Now the FBI won't have to get a search warrant to dig up some dirt on any suspects of Internet crimes; all they'll have to do is set the Carnivore box to sniff their connection.
Sure, call me paranoid, but now the FBI won't have to deal with the legal system protecting our rights, the same legal system which they constantly label as a "hindrance to justice". All that they want to do is fill their quotas with the doctrine of "hook 'em, book 'em, cook 'em NOW!"
It'd take a real turd to top the follies of Daikatana. Daikatana built up its pathetic reputation over a span of four years. I don't think that anything in development now could be as bad.
...What does the output of the sensors look like? Is it kinda like Geordi LaForge's visor in Star Trek TNG?
Sure, we may never be able to find the answer. Try asking one of these patients what color a flower is. If it wasn't instilled in their mind, they wouldn't know.
do you see a reason to spend $50 on a shitty game like this?
Yes, for the CD itself. I already cut it in half, now all I have to do is mail it to John Romero's desk along with a strongly worded letter on how Daikatana was such a steaming load of elephant crap.
Initially, my reason for buying it was to see if it could be a good single-player game, but it had its chance.
I gave DK a sporting chance, and I thought it was okay. Until I picked up Stuporfly. Then it started getting pointless. I cut the disc in half and it's lying on my CDR spindle right now.
I forgot to mention that for two months after I bought it, I couldn't even RUN Daikatana. I had Windows 2000, and the game had a slew of serious problems while running under Win2K. Not until I got DSL did I download the 44.3 MB (!) patch and experience the load of crap as it was meant to be seen.
...much the same way that "Showgirls" shouldn't have been in theatres. So now EBX, Babbages, and Fry's have an XXX section? How immature has the industry become?
"The [original Intel 820 chipset] issues were not defects within the MTH. The issues were with the Rambus channel itself and the use of large packages at channel speeds. Technically, the problem has been with microwave-like resonance effects in the component packages, connectors and in the structures formed by these when placed on printed circuit boards."
Rambus' strict design rules left engineers with little elbowroom to be creative, another industry insider said. "Engineers as a whole don't like being dictated to," he said. "With Rambus' design there's no flexibility."
...where Dilbert was lugging around his laptop and cell phone so he could continue working while out of the office. After Dilbert told Dogbert this, he said, "So basically, you lug them around everywhere and worry that they'll get stolen or broken."
To that, Dilbert hugged his laptop and said, "Stop it. You're scaring them."
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I'm sure about it, the connector is larger. It's DVI, a standard used only in digital flat panels. A converter isn't too expensive, but neither is it common.
Now companies will license a patent of a company who is licensing a patent from another company, who is licensing a patent from another company, who is...
You get the picture. IMHO, companies are either too lazy to get off their duffs and make something good, or too afraid of retribution by the patent holder of what they're designing. I'm still waiting for this "new" new economy to materialize (I love that mysap.com commercial)
I'm serious. Tomorrow, I'm going to stroll into the Verizon office and ask to talk to the IT administrator. I have DSL through Verizon, so I feel that it is my privilege as a paying customer to tell the company that something is wrong.
To see Verizon's current situation, just look at the XO Communications TV ads with "Megatelco." That's Verizon.
...don't start open-sourcing cadavers without their pre-mortem consent. Also, stay away from the morphine, you'll OD for sure. And put on some OR scrubs while you're in here! Your presence here might give the patients infectious diseases!
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I wish that there was a graphics and sound API for Linux that had the low-latency properties that DirectDraw and DirectSound do under Windows. From what I've seen, SVGAlib and OSS are the only comparable ones, and they still need work.
In return, I'm giving him some screenshots of the Borg from Elite Force. He's never seen Star Trek, and I think that the Borg are the epitome of the idea that he is trying to convey. Meanwhile, he is reading this story from the Boston Globe.
Of course; after all, most people can't act as a server, even if they have broadband or DSL. That's why most of the ISPs which use those two use asynchronous connections (upload much slower than download). That way, users are driven away from acting as any kind of server, but are more than happy to download files and connect to multiplayer games as a client.
From what I've heard, though, Covad uses restricted SDSL. That's nice, however, it's hard to find a reliable connection to that over here in Verizonland. I've tried to run a Q3 server on my 640/90kbps dn/up DSL connection; it wasn't pretty. My friend kept getting booted off for no reason, and pings were upwards of 300 for the clients.
Well, Carnivore is certainly going to have the FBI touting this Oceanic axiom from 1984 (the book, not the year). Now there's just the other two to go:
WAR IS PEACE
They're working on that one. We're almost sure to see some kind of conflict against the Taliban and Hamas.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
I'm not sure how this one will be implemented. Of course, there's the CIA hiding everything from us. Also, there's the MiB factor (... and the only reason why they go on with their pathetic lives is that they do not know about it!).
they're always "innovating" by putting on little features to their CPUs that end up requiring either a driver upgrade or an entire operating system patch. When Intel gets their act together, I might consider getting a new system. Of course, that might take about three years...
They're already hard to pronounce, don't make it worse. I fear that soon a Czech name will be given to the next big thing, and we'll have to use the reverse caret over the C!
Please. Isn't that why the server in the middle is MUCH faster? Between two computers with cable modems, there SHOULD be a server with a T3. Bottlenecks? No, more like a wider pipeline in the middle.
The real problem with massive peer-to-peer networks (e.g.: Napster, Gnutella) is server dedication. One of the T3 Napster servers I've seen only output 2K per second. That means that either there are hundreds more people on that server (unlikely, cause it was one with TMBG songs), or it's doing something else, like a Q3 server or FTP/HTTP.
Personally, I do all my music finding on FTP searches on oth.net. Gnutella is always too slow and too overloaded with pop music and smut. I've considered downloading Photoshop 6, but not off of Gnutella; it would take weeks, even on DSL! My only option is to find a cozy FTP server with it.
My Pentium III 500 is doing just fine, and since I upped the RAM to 320MB and a GeForce 2 GTS. I sure wouldn't mind a faster chip so Fast Fourier Transforms would go faster (Cool Edit and SETI@Home), but it serves me well as it is. Also, I do have a 440BX board with AGP2x, but all the latest chipset offerings truly stink (from the failed Intel Rambus ventures to VIA's loads which never have stable drivers).
This is very bad. Now the FBI won't have to get a search warrant to dig up some dirt on any suspects of Internet crimes; all they'll have to do is set the Carnivore box to sniff their connection.
Sure, call me paranoid, but now the FBI won't have to deal with the legal system protecting our rights, the same legal system which they constantly label as a "hindrance to justice". All that they want to do is fill their quotas with the doctrine of "hook 'em, book 'em, cook 'em NOW!"
It'd take a real turd to top the follies of Daikatana. Daikatana built up its pathetic reputation over a span of four years. I don't think that anything in development now could be as bad.
...till your daddy takes the kernel away!!
Sure, we may never be able to find the answer. Try asking one of these patients what color a flower is. If it wasn't instilled in their mind, they wouldn't know.
Yes, for the CD itself. I already cut it in half, now all I have to do is mail it to John Romero's desk along with a strongly worded letter on how Daikatana was such a steaming load of elephant crap.
Initially, my reason for buying it was to see if it could be a good single-player game, but it had its chance.
I forgot to mention that for two months after I bought it, I couldn't even RUN Daikatana. I had Windows 2000, and the game had a slew of serious problems while running under Win2K. Not until I got DSL did I download the 44.3 MB (!) patch and experience the load of crap as it was meant to be seen.
...much the same way that "Showgirls" shouldn't have been in theatres. So now EBX, Babbages, and Fry's have an XXX section? How immature has the industry become?
But still, SDRAM will be eight times faster before it runs into the same problems that Rambus did.
Check out this Furby riding the lightning.
Also, here is the Tom's Hardware Guide article: The Rambus Zombie Versus the Wounded Chipzilla. Also, the benchmark ; which shows the lower performance figures under Rambus.
To that, Dilbert hugged his laptop and said, "Stop it. You're scaring them."
I'm sure about it, the connector is larger. It's DVI, a standard used only in digital flat panels. A converter isn't too expensive, but neither is it common.
You get the picture. IMHO, companies are either too lazy to get off their duffs and make something good, or too afraid of retribution by the patent holder of what they're designing. I'm still waiting for this "new" new economy to materialize (I love that mysap.com commercial)
To see Verizon's current situation, just look at the XO Communications TV ads with "Megatelco." That's Verizon.
...don't start open-sourcing cadavers without their pre-mortem consent. Also, stay away from the morphine, you'll OD for sure. And put on some OR scrubs while you're in here! Your presence here might give the patients infectious diseases!
Is it a mix of fussing and putzing?
...like shortening the TLD of sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk to something a little easier to remember?