I'm sorry to see it, but netscape has:
1. Too much loading time.
2. Too many things I don't need.
3. Too much "designish" thingies that disturbs a clean interface.
4. Did I say too much loading time?:P
I've been playing CS (counter-strike) for some time now, and I must say that every new high-tech game I've tried I've ended up deleting. They are all too complex, and they was no fun playing in multiplayer-mode. There was so many things that players could hide behind. Also, they seem to lack realistic movement, even if they have good graphics.
It seems like every game tries to look good on pictures, and developers put zero time in building a good gameplay.
I remember the game Stunt Car Racer on Amiga 500. The models sucked and the environment looked like h*ll. But still it was one of the best racing physics I've ever played in a game.
I suggest game programmers look into some older games and learn from then, instead of looking at fancy rendered 3d graphics and say "hey, let us program that realtime!"
Doom9 is an independent "journalist" that seem to have a very good overview at things in the encoding scene. Here is a sniplet from what he writes:
"First an update on the XviD situation. The release of the Sigma source code does not mean it's all over, it's far from being over. The license agreement which you have to agree to before you can download, and install the codec is not compatible with the GPL. Furthermore, it can now clearly be seen (download the source code and have a look for yourself) that the Sigma codec is pretty much a copy of the XviD codec, but all the copyright notices of the original developers have been removed and replaced. This does not only violate the GPL but copyright laws - you can't just take a program, change a few lines and change the copyright statements, you only have copyright protection for the parts you wrote on your own. And related to this the Sigma codec also contains code taken from the OpenDivX project, the files were outfitted with 2 different copyright notices which is quite funny."
I hope that Sigma will respect GPL licences.
I will for sure stop every purchase of Sigma stuff where I work.
When I clicked this slashdot article, I instantly thought this was about students that play Counter-Strike. I instantly thinked that I should press the "back" button, but then I was thinking of posting this small article to notify you people that there exist dudes who actually feel attached to games.
Intel has invested so much in making space between transistors as small as possible, that they just had to release a new Pentium. I guess we won't see the real benefit from this researching before they go above 3ghz.
I believe the next step would be that people no longer watch movies, but are joining in (logging on to a service) and are becoming their own director of a movie, in some kind of computer game or similar (mass-roleplay or whatever). If something really exiting happened, the on-line service will analyse the data and sell the REPLAY (of what happened) to the world as a "movie". Still, this would be the next step for making movies more and more interactive, and finally I guess some people may dedicate their lives to services like this.
In other words, we will see a big MERGE, where Movies/hollywood will meet the game-companies. I think this merge may be comparative to the computer and telecom merge that is taking place right now.
I am both sorry and happy about this. Happy because it will make a more thrilling life for people that take part in these big on-line services, and sorry because they will lose their real-life. I know several people that allready "live" for EverQuest, Counter-Strike and Anarchy Online. I fear for their future.
This article itself is pure spam . . It contains information we allready knew about, and it contains a commercial for Associated Press. If slashdot had a block article button, I would have pressed it.
i still see a lot of new features developed by different message programs, and i would not like to see that these new features are not being used, because you would never know if the other person runs the same a program that has the same feature as you need (e.g. desktop sharing and similar).
a commitee or organisation for unity would only prevent this development. look what happened to unix in the old days.
I'm sorry to say this, but people who have bought Windows OS is a potentially product buyer, while Linux surfers tend to search all day for the free solutions. So why should we ever support Linux?
I think that all these "running (insert OS here) on xbox" and similar hacks and cracks only supports the main campain from Microsoft: sell xboxes. I dont like all the promotion MS will get because of these projects. Please stop posting them. If everybody gets a modded xbox, the prices will increase, since microsoft no longer earns money on xbox software. This means that the situation is just a win-win IF news like this can be read just by a few people.
I think User friendly can easily be overdone by Are You Sure and similar questions. I guess this eventually will be a battle between how the users earlier experience will be. More and more programs are coming with "expert options" or "basic options" for windows. I guess this is the correct path to go.
How can internet stuff be a crime? Comon! Its just a lame-ass program trapping lame-ass mis-spelling lame-asses. One million? Two millions? By hitting my neighbor in the head I would be fined much less than this. I just laugh of the USA and its stupid political laws. LOL!
I noticed something funny here in Norway. When Yoda started fighiting, everybody in the theatre started laughing! I laughed too! And when he was finished fighting, he took his stick and started looking old again.
Well the net is not a newspaper. And should not be compared to it. The news that is proven incorrect should be changed. The only question I ask is "Can we sue the news if they contain news that is proven incorrect?"
I totally agree with this. Sex is never proven to destroy people's mind, however I constantly see kids hitting other kids in some strange style they've seen in a movie. Like Kung-Fu and similar.
I totally agree. I found the scene where Darth Maul was cut in half. Even if this character had his amazing footwork, speed and the scary look he still was nothing like the Evil Darth Vader in Episode 4. I guess nobody was really afraid of this man who rarely said nothing, thus they really didn't care about if he even was killed. Still Lucas decided to cut him in half. I almost laughed at this stupid scene.
If he was as scary as Darth Vader I might agree that we really needed to get justice for all his evil.. Lucas, you hear me? Withdraw Episode 2 and make it scary as hell. Then you can cut heads and stuff!
I use an account that is an administrator-member every day on my Windows.
My uptime on this workstation is 40days and I have never been hacked (i dont run any firewalls, but a small network monitor). By the way, there exist a nice freeware portblocker at http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network.h tm if you want to use a firewall.
Now back to topic. Why can't users use root all the time? Every time I have to do changes on my Linux box I have to use a root-user, thus I use root almost every day. It sux, and I've started using root as my primary login. Ofcoz I could do a rm -R / * or similar, but guess what? I don't care!
It's all about functionality and user experience. Security people can just "stfu" coz they just disable the most used features at your computer.
In the end you have to respect users and their need to a) learn about the computer by doing mistakes b) trust that the general hacker do not want to hack you unless he has a good reason c) see in the real world how things seem to work, even if you did not protect it like a child in a baby buggy
Even if The Matrix was not the first to present this "we-are-only-inside-a-virtual-reality-machine" - thought, it still was groundbreaking to the movie-scene.
I think we can draw parallells to the society today, where we see more and more people that finds themselves sitting alone and play on-line games like Anarchy Online, EverQuest and similar. They have found their virtual world that in the end might be too real. When you e.g. loose friends in this virtual world, the road to suicidal thoughts might be very easy - especially if one have lost many friends and family in the real life.
Don't split up into various "organizations" that in the end would, potentially, kill eachother because of stupid disagreements. You only pave the way for Microsoft.
More details (resolution etc)
The movie is delivered to the theatres on many DVD-discs. The resolution is 1280x1024. The DVD-discs are transferred to a special server from Avica Technology ( http://www.avicatech.com/ ). Then the movie is sent to the advanced digital projector.
The picture is, according to one of the attendees at a 35mm projector-test in Las Vegas, a LARGE improvement. Contrast, colors and depht is better.
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I'm sorry to see it, but netscape has: :P
1. Too much loading time.
2. Too many things I don't need.
3. Too much "designish" thingies that disturbs a clean interface.
4. Did I say too much loading time?
I've been playing CS (counter-strike) for some time now, and I must say that every new high-tech game I've tried I've ended up deleting. They are all too complex, and they was no fun playing in multiplayer-mode. There was so many things that players could hide behind. Also, they seem to lack realistic movement, even if they have good graphics.
It seems like every game tries to look good on pictures, and developers put zero time in building a good gameplay.
I remember the game Stunt Car Racer on Amiga 500. The models sucked and the environment looked like h*ll. But still it was one of the best racing physics I've ever played in a game.
I suggest game programmers look into some older games and learn from then, instead of looking at fancy rendered 3d graphics and say "hey, let us program that realtime!"
"First an update on the XviD situation. The release of the Sigma source code does not mean it's all over, it's far from being over. The license agreement which you have to agree to before you can download, and install the codec is not compatible with the GPL. Furthermore, it can now clearly be seen (download the source code and have a look for yourself) that the Sigma codec is pretty much a copy of the XviD codec, but all the copyright notices of the original developers have been removed and replaced. This does not only violate the GPL but copyright laws - you can't just take a program, change a few lines and change the copyright statements, you only have copyright protection for the parts you wrote on your own. And related to this the Sigma codec also contains code taken from the OpenDivX project, the files were outfitted with 2 different copyright notices which is quite funny."
I hope that Sigma will respect GPL licences. I will for sure stop every purchase of Sigma stuff where I work.
When I clicked this slashdot article, I instantly thought this was about students that play Counter-Strike. I instantly thinked that I should press the "back" button, but then I was thinking of posting this small article to notify you people that there exist dudes who actually feel attached to games.
Intel has invested so much in making space between transistors as small as possible, that they just had to release a new Pentium. I guess we won't see the real benefit from this researching before they go above 3ghz.
The public pays for the future Intel.
I believe the next step would be that people no longer watch movies, but are joining in (logging on to a service) and are becoming their own director of a movie, in some kind of computer game or similar (mass-roleplay or whatever). If something really exiting happened, the on-line service will analyse the data and sell the REPLAY (of what happened) to the world as a "movie". Still, this would be the next step for making movies more and more interactive, and finally I guess some people may dedicate their lives to services like this.
In other words, we will see a big MERGE, where Movies/hollywood will meet the game-companies. I think this merge may be comparative to the computer and telecom merge that is taking place right now.
I am both sorry and happy about this. Happy because it will make a more thrilling life for people that take part in these big on-line services, and sorry because they will lose their real-life. I know several people that allready "live" for EverQuest, Counter-Strike and Anarchy Online. I fear for their future.
If they should be able to run code at our computers, they increase the security risk, since viruses may exploit these programs.
This article itself is pure spam . . It contains information we allready knew about, and it contains a commercial for Associated Press. If slashdot had a block article button, I would have pressed it.
i still see a lot of new features developed by different message programs, and i would not like to see that these new features are not being used, because you would never know if the other person runs the same a program that has the same feature as you need (e.g. desktop sharing and similar).
a commitee or organisation for unity would only prevent this development. look what happened to unix in the old days.
I'm sorry to say this, but people who have bought Windows OS is a potentially product buyer, while Linux surfers tend to search all day for the free solutions. So why should we ever support Linux?
I think that all these "running (insert OS here) on xbox" and similar hacks and cracks only supports the main campain from Microsoft: sell xboxes. I dont like all the promotion MS will get because of these projects. Please stop posting them. If everybody gets a modded xbox, the prices will increase, since microsoft no longer earns money on xbox software. This means that the situation is just a win-win IF news like this can be read just by a few people.
this is NOT true. winXP features many fixes and addons. Be sure that your system have signed drivers that are throughoughly tested by MS.
I think User friendly can easily be overdone by Are You Sure and similar questions. I guess this eventually will be a battle between how the users earlier experience will be. More and more programs are coming with "expert options" or "basic options" for windows. I guess this is the correct path to go.
How can internet stuff be a crime? Comon! Its just a lame-ass program trapping lame-ass mis-spelling lame-asses. One million? Two millions? By hitting my neighbor in the head I would be fined much less than this. I just laugh of the USA and its stupid political laws. LOL!
I noticed something funny here in Norway. When Yoda started fighiting, everybody in the theatre started laughing! I laughed too! And when he was finished fighting, he took his stick and started looking old again.
What was lucas thinking of?
If everybody knows what everybody does, then we would care as much as if nobody knew nothing about anybody.
It's no joke.
I watched the TeleSync and it's a wicked movie. I recommend it.
Well the net is not a newspaper. And should not be compared to it. The news that is proven incorrect should be changed. The only question I ask is "Can we sue the news if they contain news that is proven incorrect?"
I totally agree with this. Sex is never proven to destroy people's mind, however I constantly see kids hitting other kids in some strange style they've seen in a movie. Like Kung-Fu and similar.
I totally agree. I found the scene where Darth Maul was cut in half. Even if this character had his amazing footwork, speed and the scary look he still was nothing like the Evil Darth Vader in Episode 4. I guess nobody was really afraid of this man who rarely said nothing, thus they really didn't care about if he even was killed. Still Lucas decided to cut him in half. I almost laughed at this stupid scene.
If he was as scary as Darth Vader I might agree that we really needed to get justice for all his evil.. Lucas, you hear me? Withdraw Episode 2 and make it scary as hell. Then you can cut heads and stuff!
I use an account that is an administrator-member every day on my Windows.
h tm if you want to use a firewall.
My uptime on this workstation is 40days and I have never been hacked (i dont run any firewalls, but a small network monitor). By the way, there exist a nice freeware portblocker at http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network.
Now back to topic. Why can't users use root all the time? Every time I have to do changes on my Linux box I have to use a root-user, thus I use root almost every day. It sux, and I've started using root as my primary login. Ofcoz I could do a rm -R / * or similar, but guess what? I don't care!
It's all about functionality and user experience. Security people can just "stfu" coz they just disable the most used features at your computer.
In the end you have to respect users and their need to
a) learn about the computer by doing mistakes
b) trust that the general hacker do not want to hack you unless he has a good reason
c) see in the real world how things seem to work, even if you did not protect it like a child in a baby buggy
Even if The Matrix was not the first to present this "we-are-only-inside-a-virtual-reality-machine" - thought, it still was groundbreaking to the movie-scene.
;-)
I think we can draw parallells to the society today, where we see more and more people that finds themselves sitting alone and play on-line games like Anarchy Online, EverQuest and similar. They have found their virtual world that in the end might be too real. When you e.g. loose friends in this virtual world, the road to suicidal thoughts might be very easy - especially if one have lost many friends and family in the real life.
The Matrix is more real than you know
Don't split up into various "organizations" that in the end would, potentially, kill eachother because of stupid disagreements. You only pave the way for Microsoft.
This is not Open Source. Use XVID! www.xvid.org and it's better than both VP3 and VP4, as tested on http://doom9.net
The movie is delivered to the theatres on many DVD-discs. The resolution is 1280x1024. The DVD-discs are transferred to a special server from Avica Technology ( http://www.avicatech.com/ ). Then the movie is sent to the advanced digital projector.
The picture is, according to one of the attendees at a 35mm projector-test in Las Vegas, a LARGE improvement. Contrast, colors and depht is better.