Minimum System Requirements:
1.2 GHz Processor - 256 MB RAM - DirectX 7 level graphics cards - Windows 2000/XP/Me/98 - 4.5 GB of available Hard Drive Space - Mouse - Keyboard - Internet connection required
(emphasis mine)
That's what it says on the bottom of my Best Buy purchased retail box of HL2.
Two months or so ago, Valve announced that they were shutting down WON. A 1.5 mod for Steam has been released, though, and you can play it just fine - it's old CS without the hitbox/scope/etc bullshit, but you do still have to run Steam to play it. It include the HLDS server.
It's about the only way to play 1.5 now.
I was thinking that the whole "Spielberg invented PG-13" thing was a little fishy. I pulled out my copy of Red Dawn, and it boldly claims that it is the first film to recieve a PG-13 rating, with Dreamscape being the second.
Unfortunately, IMDB just gives the year of release, so I can't prove/disprove this, but at least CNN gives some credit with the trivia question. IMDB does, however, back up your claim in the trivia section for Red Dawn.
He said "Lineage". Not "Lineage 2". There is a rather substantial difference, not only in system requirements and appearance, but in cost.
Lineage was a free download, and for $2 or so they'd ship you a CD with the latest patches integrated in, and you could install without the 12 hour or longer download, which was a nice option for those on dialup. (And surprisingly, it plays well on dialup.) Additionally, every time a major update (Or "Episode") was released, they'd send you a new CD for free. I've got half a dozen laying around somewhere....
Lineage 2, on the other hand, is available for retail purchase, and while you may purchase it from plaync.com, this only works if you are in a country where brick-and-mortar retailers don't carry the game, otherwise you are told "sorry!". One major tip to prospective players - don't order it from gamestop.com, no matter how desperate you are to play the next day - drive to Best Buy and suck up the overhead in gas prices. Gamestop had a "leak" with an employee in distribution, who dumped the SQL database with 200,000 or so CD-Keys from the machine that printed the sleeves, and resulted in several hundred people getting unusable copies of the game. NC Soft is re-issuing new keys fairly promptly, but it's still a 2-3 day pain in the ass.
As far as gameplay becoming stagnant, that's why Chronicle 2 is going to be well recieved - that, and my Sorc will no longer suck wind in Cruma Tower.:)
...or something like that. I've been smoking for 15 years, until almost exactly 6 days ago, to the hour. I always said it wasn't an addiction until a couple of years ago, when I would dip if I couldn't afford a pack of cigs. (Out of work linux admin at the time, employed rent-a-cop working on CJ degree now.) Because of my change in career plus my lack of stamina from 15 years of smoking, it's just becoming more and more apparent that it's a good idea to quit now, at age 28, instead of 10 more years down the road, when I do get the dreaded phone call from my doc.
I recently moved from ServerMatrix's parent company, The Planet, because of their poor customer service and new billing software, which refused to take my credit card. Interland didn't have a problem with my card, and customer service has been great so far. They have "self-managed" servers for $69/mo, with 500 GB of transfer, running RH9. Cologuys was mentioned in a previous post for a colo solution, and I used to work for another company that had a cage in the same datacenter, Colo4Dallas, which isn't a bad site, but one of the main bandwidth providers for Colo4 is Cogent, which has had many complaints about the network reliability. Besides, if you're coloing a large number of machines, you'd probably be better off going straight to Colo4. Both The Planet and Colo4 are right off Stemmons Freeway (I-35) in Dallas, TX, as is the Infomart (warning, flash heavy site!), where The Planet started before they bought the old Inflow datacenter. They helpfully provide a listing of thier tenants, so you can possibly find a good deal going through the list.
I would strongly recommend against any of the DTI owned companies (affordablecolo.com, affordabledomain.net, affordableservers.net, or dtihosting.com), as I have worked with them in the past and witnessed the unplugging of live servers from power strips so they could be rearranged in a rack for the amusement of the one senior technician they had - the 21 year old owner. Webhostingtalk.com has many, many, stories from former customers of DTI - search for cbaker17, the owner's handle, to find them quickly. For that matter, I'd recommend researching any company you're looking into on WHT.
I've had this battle before, in both IT and physical security (ie, rent-a-cop) occupations. Security isn't exempt from OT, and therefore, gets overtime - the company I was at refused to pay OT and also went so far as to change the defined "workweek" to 7 days, period - even scattered across 1 month. IRS and DOL define a "workweek" as 7 consecutive days. A nice sit-down talk with the owner with printed documentation in hand and a few phone calls from myself and my fellow cow-orkers to the Regional Dept. of Labor Administrator, and we got our OT.
Interestingly, the DOL website has news concerning proposed changes to the definition of a "computer professional", but unfortunately for you, the current rules are so vague as to define just about anyone in the IT industry as to be exempt from OT. A good overview comparison document is at http://www.labor.gov/_sec/media/speeches/541_Side_ By_Side.htm.
Your state may give you more rights, but Uncle Sam isn't going to help you any.
I've been using a SGI branded GDM-17E11 (17") on my PC for a couple of years now. Serial dates to March 1994.
Yes, it is a sync-on-green monitor, and uses a 13W3 connector. I use a 13W3 -> VGA converter cable and did a bit of soldering inside based on a couple of old newsgroup postings I dug up. It works beautifully at 1600x1200x60Hz. RedHat 8 has been the only distro to correctly autodetect it and configure X correctly, btw; but Gentoo cooperates quite nicely.
(I can still use it on my SGI Indy, with no un-modification. Just switch the cables out.)
Freelancer is actually a pretty cool game, with some nifty mods to add ships from various Science Fiction genres (Star Wars and Bab5 come to mind) available out there on that newfangled internet thingy. The storyline isn't too bad, but after beating it in about 4 days, I figured maybe it was time to get into the modding......lasted about a week. *shrug* Great game, lousy lifespan.
No, GWB is prez because of this (apparently) little known entity called "The Electoral College". It's taught in 6th grade civics classes. Maybe you should take a refresher before you try and influence governmental leadership again. (ie, vote).
Yes, I'm flaming. I'm pissed, because no one seems to know how the system actually works, and instead goes on a bender about how wronged the country was because GWB is The POTUS.
Mod me down - I don't give a rat's ass. Rant over.
Concievably, you could NFS or Coda share the portage tree for that server farm, and that way, once one machine has compiled the app, the others could simply install it. Might save you a bit of time, if anything, as long as the hardware and compile options are the same.
Getting debian to run on my R5K Indy was an 8 hour chore, just for the base system and apt-get. I've been thinking about trying Gentoo on the thing, but didn't know how mature the mips port is - if you feel like sharing your experience or some tips, could you drop me a line? The dick crashed a while back, and it's been collecting dust for about a year now, but I'd like to get it back in the game so I can help with the IndyCam driver development.:)
Fat Wallet isn't comparing the prices of e-tailers - that's why Pricewatch and Price Grabber are there. Fat Wallet is for comparing brink-and-mortar retailer prices. ie, Wal-Mart, Staples, Best Buy, and Target.
The main problem is that technically (and lawyers love technicalities) the price flyers are copyrighted. The prices aren't. But since it's printed, and FW is reproducing something in print, without the copyright owner's permission, it's a violation of the DMCA.
Is the claim valid? Yes. Is the DMCA being used in a "new" way? No.
Is it still way too ambiguous and far reaching? Hell yes. The DMCA needs a serious rewrite, if not just to be stricken from the books entirely.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
That sums it up, I think.:)
Wal-Mart has a history of selling censored music selections; it's not surprising to hear that they aren't willing to sell a soft-porn version of a game. Especially when you consider that while middle-age men may buy movies at Wal-Mart while the wimmunfolk are shopping; most of the PC and console gamers that buy from Wal-Mart (or K-B, or Toys-R-Us) are under 18.
That being said, what retailers _are_ going to be selling the uncensored version of the game?
I'm working on a games review site - Meltdown Gaming - (yes, that was a plug), and of the games we've been reviewing, I'd think something more along the lines of Airport Tycoon or maybe Stardock'sThe Corporate Machine excellent business sim would be more along the lines to judge dollars and sense.
Or, just put them out on the streets, with a copy of Dope Wars. (for Win95, now! whoo!):)
For even more fun, pit the CS students against the business majors - have one semester's class project be to write a business sim the next semester's class has to successfully complette in order to pass... *evil grin*
Or even better - have them attempt to start thier own successful dotcom...or is that already an accepted practice?
Your '93 Talon has a potentially fatal flaw in it's "programming"....I suggest you call the "programmers" and get a "patch".
--------------------------------------------- NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number: 98V069002 Component: POWER TRAIN:TRANSMISSION:AUTOMATIC Manufacturer: CHRYSLER CORPORATION Mfg. Campaign #: 780 Year: 1993 Make: EAGLE Model: TALON Potential Number of Units Affected: 42214 Manufactured From: MAY 1989 To: FEB 1998 Year of Recall: '98 Type of Report: Vehicle Summary: Vehicle Description: Passenger vehicles. Lockup of the transfer case can occur due to insufficient lubrication. This condition can cause a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash. Dealers will inspect the vehicles for adequacy of the transfer case oil volume, transfer case oil leakage, and operational degradation of the transfer case mechanism. If oil volume is insufficient, the appropriate amount of oil will be added. If there is transfer case oil leakage, affected components will be replaced. If the transfer case shows operational degradation, the transfer case will be replaced. Owner notification began July 6, 1998. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact Chrysler at 1-800-992-1997. Also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Auto Safety Hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236). ----------------------------------------------
Wine is not a "cheap way to embrace...technology" - it's a mechanism by which Linux users can cope with the MS Bulldozer and get (barely) functional programs to run under thier choice of an OS. Now that more applications and games are being ported to Linux, Wine will be more of a frivolous toy, and not a necessary tool.
Windowing environments that are functionally similar to MS Windows are not copies - they are ways to ease the transition for users moving from Windows to Linux by not forcing them to learn how to use yet another GUI.
C compilation? Gimme a break. C is the building blocks with which any *nix is built. For that matter, it's the ease of cross-compilation with C that makes Linux so portable...and IMHO, one of Linux's main strengths - I don't have to pay $600+ for a compiler that will produce completely compatible binaries for my system. Tell ya what - you go and build ACix with Pascal after writing your own Pascal compiler in assembler, and I'll give you the Yert Award for Innovative Waste of Technical Effort.
As far as the file manager crossed with a browser - well, maybe that was a slip-up.:)
From personal (painful) experience, minors can enter into contract - however, the parents or legal guardian is responsible for the terms of the contract being settled - in other words, your son can save up his pennies for two years, go buy Win98, put it on your system, loan it to the rest of his 5th grade class, and sell it at the local Pawn - and you get to be the one paying the SPA's fines.
OTOH, if he turns out to make a great actor, you get to manage where his money goes...
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I don't think many slaves are sent to get degrees in civil engineering these days...
Minimum System Requirements: 1.2 GHz Processor - 256 MB RAM - DirectX 7 level graphics cards - Windows 2000/XP/Me/98 - 4.5 GB of available Hard Drive Space - Mouse - Keyboard - Internet connection required
(emphasis mine)
That's what it says on the bottom of my Best Buy purchased retail box of HL2.
no chance you've got the source laying around for download, I suppose...
Two months or so ago, Valve announced that they were shutting down WON. A 1.5 mod for Steam has been released, though, and you can play it just fine - it's old CS without the hitbox/scope/etc bullshit, but you do still have to run Steam to play it. It include the HLDS server. It's about the only way to play 1.5 now.
I was thinking that the whole "Spielberg invented PG-13" thing was a little fishy. I pulled out my copy of Red Dawn, and it boldly claims that it is the first film to recieve a PG-13 rating, with Dreamscape being the second.
Unfortunately, IMDB just gives the year of release, so I can't prove/disprove this, but at least CNN gives some credit with the trivia question. IMDB does, however, back up your claim in the trivia section for Red Dawn.
And here I've been looking for one for weeks...early bird gets the worm, I guess.
No, you are mistaken.
:)
He said "Lineage". Not "Lineage 2". There is a rather substantial difference, not only in system requirements and appearance, but in cost.
Lineage was a free download, and for $2 or so they'd ship you a CD with the latest patches integrated in, and you could install without the 12 hour or longer download, which was a nice option for those on dialup. (And surprisingly, it plays well on dialup.) Additionally, every time a major update (Or "Episode") was released, they'd send you a new CD for free. I've got half a dozen laying around somewhere....
Lineage 2, on the other hand, is available for retail purchase, and while you may purchase it from plaync.com, this only works if you are in a country where brick-and-mortar retailers don't carry the game, otherwise you are told "sorry!". One major tip to prospective players - don't order it from gamestop.com, no matter how desperate you are to play the next day - drive to Best Buy and suck up the overhead in gas prices. Gamestop had a "leak" with an employee in distribution, who dumped the SQL database with 200,000 or so CD-Keys from the machine that printed the sleeves, and resulted in several hundred people getting unusable copies of the game. NC Soft is re-issuing new keys fairly promptly, but it's still a 2-3 day pain in the ass.
As far as gameplay becoming stagnant, that's why Chronicle 2 is going to be well recieved - that, and my Sorc will no longer suck wind in Cruma Tower.
Quitters never win, and winners never quit!
...or something like that. I've been smoking for 15 years, until almost exactly 6 days ago, to the hour. I always said it wasn't an addiction until a couple of years ago, when I would dip if I couldn't afford a pack of cigs. (Out of work linux admin at the time, employed rent-a-cop working on CJ degree now.) Because of my change in career plus my lack of stamina from 15 years of smoking, it's just becoming more and more apparent that it's a good idea to quit now, at age 28, instead of 10 more years down the road, when I do get the dreaded phone call from my doc.
Agreed... 280KBps to Memphis, TN, US.
I recently moved from ServerMatrix's parent company, The Planet, because of their poor customer service and new billing software, which refused to take my credit card. Interland didn't have a problem with my card, and customer service has been great so far. They have "self-managed" servers for $69/mo, with 500 GB of transfer, running RH9. Cologuys was mentioned in a previous post for a colo solution, and I used to work for another company that had a cage in the same datacenter, Colo4Dallas, which isn't a bad site, but one of the main bandwidth providers for Colo4 is Cogent, which has had many complaints about the network reliability. Besides, if you're coloing a large number of machines, you'd probably be better off going straight to Colo4. Both The Planet and Colo4 are right off Stemmons Freeway (I-35) in Dallas, TX, as is the Infomart (warning, flash heavy site!), where The Planet started before they bought the old Inflow datacenter. They helpfully provide a listing of thier tenants, so you can possibly find a good deal going through the list.
I would strongly recommend against any of the DTI owned companies (affordablecolo.com, affordabledomain.net, affordableservers.net, or dtihosting.com), as I have worked with them in the past and witnessed the unplugging of live servers from power strips so they could be rearranged in a rack for the amusement of the one senior technician they had - the 21 year old owner. Webhostingtalk.com has many, many, stories from former customers of DTI - search for cbaker17, the owner's handle, to find them quickly. For that matter, I'd recommend researching any company you're looking into on WHT.
Literati is HUGE between midnight and 4am Central Time. It's packed, and words like "nodosity" (109 pts. yay, me.) fly across the board.
Of course, I'm nowhere near 40 -or- female, and prefer CounterStrike, but hey, gotta stimulate the brain once in a while, right?
I've had this battle before, in both IT and physical security (ie, rent-a-cop) occupations. Security isn't exempt from OT, and therefore, gets overtime - the company I was at refused to pay OT and also went so far as to change the defined "workweek" to 7 days, period - even scattered across 1 month. IRS and DOL define a "workweek" as 7 consecutive days. A nice sit-down talk with the owner with printed documentation in hand and a few phone calls from myself and my fellow cow-orkers to the Regional Dept. of Labor Administrator, and we got our OT.
_ By_Side.htm.
Interestingly, the DOL website has news concerning proposed changes to the definition of a "computer professional", but unfortunately for you, the current rules are so vague as to define just about anyone in the IT industry as to be exempt from OT. A good overview comparison document is at http://www.labor.gov/_sec/media/speeches/541_Side
Your state may give you more rights, but Uncle Sam isn't going to help you any.
-Yert
I've been using a SGI branded GDM-17E11 (17") on my PC for a couple of years now. Serial dates to March 1994.
Yes, it is a sync-on-green monitor, and uses a 13W3 connector. I use a 13W3 -> VGA converter cable and did a bit of soldering inside based on a couple of old newsgroup postings I dug up. It works beautifully at 1600x1200x60Hz. RedHat 8 has been the only distro to correctly autodetect it and configure X correctly, btw; but Gentoo cooperates quite nicely.
(I can still use it on my SGI Indy, with no un-modification. Just switch the cables out.)
Freelancer is actually a pretty cool game, with some nifty mods to add ships from various Science Fiction genres (Star Wars and Bab5 come to mind) available out there on that newfangled internet thingy. The storyline isn't too bad, but after beating it in about 4 days, I figured maybe it was time to get into the modding... ...lasted about a week. *shrug* Great game, lousy lifespan.
No, GWB is prez because of this (apparently) little known entity called "The Electoral College". It's taught in 6th grade civics classes. Maybe you should take a refresher before you try and influence governmental leadership again. (ie, vote).
Yes, I'm flaming. I'm pissed, because no one seems to know how the system actually works, and instead goes on a bender about how wronged the country was because GWB is The POTUS.
Mod me down - I don't give a rat's ass. Rant over.
Concievably, you could NFS or Coda share the portage tree for that server farm, and that way, once one machine has compiled the app, the others could simply install it. Might save you a bit of time, if anything, as long as the hardware and compile options are the same.
Getting debian to run on my R5K Indy was an 8 hour chore, just for the base system and apt-get. I've been thinking about trying Gentoo on the thing, but didn't know how mature the mips port is - if you feel like sharing your experience or some tips, could you drop me a line? The dick crashed a while back, and it's been collecting dust for about a year now, but I'd like to get it back in the game so I can help with the IndyCam driver development. :)
I'll bite.
Fat Wallet isn't comparing the prices of e-tailers - that's why Pricewatch and Price Grabber are there. Fat Wallet is for comparing brink-and-mortar retailer prices. ie, Wal-Mart, Staples, Best Buy, and Target.
The main problem is that technically (and lawyers love technicalities) the price flyers are copyrighted. The prices aren't. But since it's printed, and FW is reproducing something in print, without the copyright owner's permission, it's a violation of the DMCA.
Is the claim valid? Yes.
Is the DMCA being used in a "new" way? No.
Is it still way too ambiguous and far reaching? Hell yes. The DMCA needs a serious rewrite, if not just to be stricken from the books entirely.
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane. That sums it up, I think. :)
Wal-Mart has a history of selling censored music selections; it's not surprising to hear that they aren't willing to sell a soft-porn version of a game. Especially when you consider that while middle-age men may buy movies at Wal-Mart while the wimmunfolk are shopping; most of the PC and console gamers that buy from Wal-Mart (or K-B, or Toys-R-Us) are under 18.
That being said, what retailers _are_ going to be selling the uncensored version of the game?
I'm working on a games review site - Meltdown Gaming - (yes, that was a plug), and of the games we've been reviewing, I'd think something more along the lines of Airport Tycoon or maybe Stardock's The Corporate Machine excellent business sim would be more along the lines to judge dollars and sense.
:)
Or, just put them out on the streets, with a copy of Dope Wars. (for Win95, now! whoo!)
For even more fun, pit the CS students against the business majors - have one semester's class project be to write a business sim the next semester's class has to successfully complette in order to pass... *evil grin*
Or even better - have them attempt to start thier own successful dotcom...or is that already an accepted practice?
Yert
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/c ars/problems/recalls/recmmy1.cfm
Do a search for your car - maybe it's got more "bugs" than you think...
Your '93 Talon has a potentially fatal flaw in it's "programming"....I suggest you call the "programmers" and get a "patch".
---------------------------------------------
NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number: 98V069002 Component: POWER TRAIN:TRANSMISSION:AUTOMATIC Manufacturer: CHRYSLER CORPORATION Mfg. Campaign #: 780 Year: 1993 Make: EAGLE Model: TALON Potential Number of Units Affected: 42214 Manufactured From: MAY 1989 To: FEB 1998 Year of Recall: '98 Type of Report: Vehicle Summary: Vehicle Description: Passenger vehicles. Lockup of the transfer case can occur due to insufficient lubrication. This condition can cause a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash. Dealers will inspect the vehicles for adequacy of the transfer case oil volume, transfer case oil leakage, and operational degradation of the transfer case mechanism. If oil volume is insufficient, the appropriate amount of oil will be added. If there is transfer case oil leakage, affected components will be replaced. If the transfer case shows operational degradation, the transfer case will be replaced. Owner notification began July 6, 1998. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact Chrysler at 1-800-992-1997. Also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Auto Safety Hotline at 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).
----------------------------------------------
-Yert
Wine is not a "cheap way to embrace...technology" - it's a mechanism by which Linux users can cope with the MS Bulldozer and get (barely) functional programs to run under thier choice of an OS. Now that more applications and games are being ported to Linux, Wine will be more of a frivolous toy, and not a necessary tool.
:)
Windowing environments that are functionally similar to MS Windows are not copies - they are ways to ease the transition for users moving from Windows to Linux by not forcing them to learn how to use yet another GUI.
C compilation? Gimme a break. C is the building blocks with which any *nix is built. For that matter, it's the ease of cross-compilation with C that makes Linux so portable...and IMHO, one of Linux's main strengths - I don't have to pay $600+ for a compiler that will produce completely compatible binaries for my system. Tell ya what - you go and build ACix with Pascal after writing your own Pascal compiler in assembler, and I'll give you the Yert Award for Innovative Waste of Technical Effort.
As far as the file manager crossed with a browser - well, maybe that was a slip-up.
- Yert
I wonder if Microsoft had to pay licensing fees to Al Gore in order to let Internet Explorer actually use the 'net...
From personal (painful) experience, minors can enter into contract - however, the parents or legal guardian is responsible for the terms of the contract being settled - in other words, your son can save up his pennies for two years, go buy Win98, put it on your system, loan it to the rest of his 5th grade class, and sell it at the local Pawn - and you get to be the one paying the SPA's fines.
OTOH, if he turns out to make a great actor, you get to manage where his money goes...
-Yert