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  1. Re:In America, More = Better! on Should Online Console Games Have Dedicated Servers? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well they could impliment a master server honor system also Americas Army. Hopefully they will.
    For the uninitiated, basically you create characters and have to go through a single player training exercise in order to play at all. And the better you do on training and the more training you do (there is optional additional training for medic and special ops and such) the more abilities you have in the game. This makes it harder to have throwaway identities. Also you start out with 10 honor points, you if you go under 9 points you have to goto special low honor servers which are basically group training exercises. And as you gain honor for playig well you get more rank and ability to command.

  2. Re:Licence was only the last straw on Mandrakelinux Goes X.org · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It shows how open source is effective for the consumer, not for nessesarly for the producer. It also shows basic market economy, company makes bad product, consumers switch. This is how things should work, but generally don't in a more locked in system that is generally produced in closed source.

  3. Re:Wow. How? on First 16x DVD+R Recording Tests Available · · Score: 1

    Thats basically right, when looking for the right files to put on the floppy, look for a directory with a file called oemsetup it will probably be under the main driver directory on the cd that came with your MB. Copy that entire directories contents to the floppy (there should be no directories on the floppy, just the files). When installing XP press F6 when it says Press F6 to load SCSI or RAID drivers. The rest you just follow along with whats on the screen.

  4. Re:In America, More = Better! on Should Online Console Games Have Dedicated Servers? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think the point is that at 100 players you have something that more resembled an army. The only problem with this is of course. Respawning would make the game hell to complete any sort of mission, and not respawning would make the game boring as the wait between games would have to be longer.

  5. Re:Mobile Gaming in Japan on Are Mobile Carriers Slowing Down The Mobile Games Market? · · Score: 1

    I'm still pissed that tetris isn't available through t-mobile for my nokia 3595, common people get with the program! (BTW does anyone know how I could downloadh tetris into this pone, as I assume it probably exist)

  6. Re:What now? on Quake IV No-Show To Distress Hardcore At QuakeCon · · Score: 1

    Nope, just in the console version.
    http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/03/09 /161217.sh tml

  7. Re:What now? on Quake IV No-Show To Distress Hardcore At QuakeCon · · Score: 3, Informative

    Id isn't making this game Ravin is, they are getting Ids help, but essentially they are taking the DOOM3 engine, and making their own game. Anyways to the parents Quake 4 isn't going to be like Quake 3, it should be close to Quake 2. Singleplayer game with simple storyline. And many mods of multiplayer actions, hopefully coop also (crosses fingers).

  8. Re:Space vs. Weightlessness on SpaceShipOne 100 km Attempt Slated for June 21 · · Score: 1

    Well its both its all relative remember :)
    Basically you have to constantly accelerate upwards to keep you still, that acceleration is being provided by the earth. :)

  9. Re:Space vs. Weightlessness (clarification) on SpaceShipOne 100 km Attempt Slated for June 21 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thought project! If I were to build a vaccum sealed tube and wrap it around the earth in a perfect sphere (obviously that would be hard to do with mountains and whatnot so you'd have to build it a bit off the ground to accomidate, or maybe someone can find a path... srhrugs). Could you orbit the earth inside it, and would there be any practical uses for such a thing.

  10. Re:Space vs. Weightlessness on SpaceShipOne 100 km Attempt Slated for June 21 · · Score: 0

    He is close, velocity AND acceleration have to be the same, to feel weighless. When standing on earth you have a constent acceleration on 9.8m/(s^2).
    Also the earth your standing on has the same acceleration force being applied to it. BUT, the earth is being held up by all the earth under it stopping it from the acceleration that is being applied to it. And you are being stopped by the earth from accelerating at 9.8m/(s^2) into the center of the earth, and it is that pushing back by the earth vs the natural tendency to accelerate toward the center of mas of earth. That is the feeling of gravity. Thank you, thank you very much, I'll be here all night :)

  11. Re:advanced search on California Senate Passes Preemptive Strike Against Gmail · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think he means before you view it, like how google pre-indexs the web before you search it. It would be handy if google pre-indexed your email before you searched it instead of doing it real-time.

  12. Re:Good thinking there, shooter. on California Senate Passes Preemptive Strike Against Gmail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well google is still rolling it out (which I think makes it insane that california would react the a service that doesn't even exist before seeing its final version) and they havn't needed california yet. While california pays more for most everything I seriously doupt internet sites get a bigger chuck of money from californians than from anywhere else. Google is currently limiting their use to just a few hundred (or maby 5, I don't know) it won't hurt them really to limit their final product to just the rest of the world minus California. Maybe it will atleast teacher california government to get ALL its facts straight before passing laws like this. Or maby it won't, probably it won't. :)

  13. Re:don't buy an Athlon 64 until new socket comes o on Hardware Selection for AMD64 + Linux? · · Score: 1

    Comparing your experience with HP 64 bit with future experience with x86-64 isn't really fair. AMD's 64 is the first 64 bit machine that average consumers and most importantly gamers are buying. If these people are buying in mass, you KNOW the software for it will follow. Noone bothered making software for HP 64 because there just wasn't the market for it.

  14. Re:Quick! on Hubble vs. Webb - How Far Back Will They See? · · Score: 1

    Also other theory that space in infinite but in its infinancy (spelling?) there are eventually exact copies of earth. Much like parrellel diminsions.

  15. Re:Quick! on Hubble vs. Webb - How Far Back Will They See? · · Score: 1

    Not nessearly is the light was properly focused. What of course would be more usefull then a mirror beaming light back to us, would simply be a telescope beaming us a signal (radio or laser) of the pictures it receives, same ultimate effect as the mirror, just rather pointless really.

  16. Re:A bright future on Can Star Wars Episode III Be Saved? · · Score: 1

    Corperate ownership is set at 95 years after publication (or 120 from creation whichever is shorter), not associate with life or death.

  17. Re:More Offtopic Grammar Whining on Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire · · Score: 1

    George H W Bush, is the dad, the one who was president before clinton. I think the poster is suggesting we reelect him and put him back into office. After all it is legal for him to serve another term.

  18. Re:Medieval science meets 21st century on New SpaceShip One Photos Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No they are for strings for wind tunnel test, so you can see which way the air is blowing.

  19. Re:darn tootin' Re:A valid concern on WiFi Signals In Between Television Frequencies · · Score: 1

    Well I was more correcting his statement that channel 5 and 7 would be used for wifi, these are guard channels and if they are used will cause inferferance on the channels next to it.

  20. Re:darn tootin' Re:A valid concern on WiFi Signals In Between Television Frequencies · · Score: 1

    Your reading the media reports and assuming what they mean by spaces in between channels. What they mean is the large amount of unused channels that exist in most rural (hell many urban areas too) areas. And the most important thing about this is, that it is mandated that the devices not interfer with existing TV broadcast. This can easily be done through the wireless hardware where it refuses to use channels that interfer with existing channels, and possibly automatically switching channels if a TV broadcast is detected that might interfer at any time. This is definatly possible to do. Of course there will be people who try to hack their WiFi to do more, but you can bet there will be officers at their door in no time especially when your talking about this new signal which is made to work over much longer distances.

  21. Re:darn tootin' Re:A valid concern on WiFi Signals In Between Television Frequencies · · Score: 1

    Well TV goes up to channel 51, and most areas only have 5 or 6 channels, I'm pretty sure the intent is not to use the guard channels for wifi but the large amount of channels that are not used at all in most areas.

  22. Re:MD tag LLY 347 on Running Video Cards in Parallel · · Score: 1

    Actually it was a direct copy paste from a google search (cause honestly I didn't know what the beltway was either :)
    http://www.c-span.org/guide/congress/glossary/ belt way.htm

  23. Re:Just think on Rutan's SpaceshipOne Hits 200,000 Feet · · Score: 0

    Umm, you do know the japs frequently manned their bombs. Not just drove planes into things as a last ditch effort but real bombs that were manned for control.

  24. Re:altitude is only half the trick to orbit, the o on Rutan's SpaceshipOne Hits 200,000 Feet · · Score: 1

    No if you're going very a geo sync orbit, which has a very high altitute mind you, but you don't have to get up much horizontal speed. Takes a bit to get up there I assume though..

  25. Re:MD tag LLY 347 on Running Video Cards in Parallel · · Score: 1

    THE BELTWAY is an interstate highway
    encircling Washington, DC & passing through Maryland and Virginia suburbs