Uhm... you probably have longer than until the end of the month. Just because the company is going out of business doesn't mean that your local Software Etc. is going to immediately toss all their Linux game ports out in the trash.
My friend, there are idiots everywhere. You must learn to deal, or you will most likely shall become depressed.
Don't want to download crapass artificial commercial pop? Just don't. I never remember seeing any pop shit show up by accident on any p2p I've used... Maybe your searches are not specific enough, try putting in "pogues street" instead of just street and I assure you you will only see The Pogue's excellent song "Rain Street" and not any crappy pop which might have the word street in it.
Meanwhile, people who turn on the "Disable Sharing" option should be hit in the face with a bag of rocks. Although personally I haven't ripped any CDs for sharing (seeing as how I own so few), I do make sure to let others get at my files....
They did it in a clever fashion too... apparently they released small dormant bits of code hidden in other updates, and then one update all the little bits of code combined and erased some important memory by rewriting it with the message GAMEOVER.
Here's an idea, listen to music that doesn't suck!
Never really heard of emusic before, but I look at them and they are filled with good bands. I go and I look at Punk and I see they have Bad Religion, NOFX, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, and lots of other good punk bands I like. They don't have Blink 182. That is a good thing.
They have MERZBOW. Merzbow is a fuckin' god.
Looking at metal bands they don't have so many as I listen to. I put in Dark Tranquility, In Flames, Nevermore, they all show up only as a list of similar reccomended bands. Guess they couldn't get a deal or something. Other metal bands do show up, Slayer, Amon Amarth. Just like they don't have Blink 182 they don't have Metallica
They don't have Godspeed You Black Emperor!, but they do have them in the database for "similar artists", putting them among the few people to have any idea who Godspeed You Black Emperor! is.
Looking around they don't seem to have current bands who have deals with the big record labels. Mostly this is no problem except for a few bands that have actually managed to become popular while still being good. I think if you manage to listen to good music instead of goat shit emusic looks like a very good deal.
As to spyware and adware... Kazaa has this, Morpheus doesn't. Morpheus tries to serve banner and pop up ads to x million people off a 486, so you do constantly get error messages when it can't get an ad, but there is no spyware.
Now Morpheus vs WinMX
The best part of Morpheus is that it tries so damn hard to get a file. You can leave it on overnight and it will download from 50 different people and 3 different filenames and come out with your file. Unfortunately the music there seems to be rather lacking in variety and obscurity. It is pretty good for downloading pornos though...
WinMX is the place to go for your music. I can actually find the weirdass bands I like. Most of the user interface is better than Morpheus too. The only things WinMX doesn't have is downloading one file from multiple users and the determined automatic retries.
That is damn skippy. Anyone with mod points mod those links up!
The one note is you want to be sure to view that applet in 3d either with 3d glasses or by clicking "Cross" so it goes into "Magic Eye" mode. It's hard enough trying to make sense of that hypercube when it is approximated to 3 dimensions, never mind 2 dimensions...
Here's a fun way to play with extra dimensions... This used to have some nice ASCII art for the first three but Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. Fucking lame-ass filter.
1.) Visualize a line. It has one dimension.
2.) Now add another dimension. Visualize a square. It has two dimensions.
3.) Now add yet another dimension. Visualize a cube. It has three dimensions.
4.) Now add another dimension. Visualize a hypercube. It has four spatial dimensions. Kinda fucks with your head doesn't it? Stuff like this is REAL bad to think about if you can't sleep, by the way.
Tim!
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It would probably be cheaper to put together a cheap computer and a month of broadband internet to download them all in divx...
With 20GB I could fit my entire MP3 collection on their 2 or 3 times. You could just start the transfer it up one night before you went to sleep and then it would be done in the morning. And then chances are you would never need to do a 4 hour transfer again for MONTHS if not years. Every few days you might want to spend 2 or 3 minutes transferring the new songs you downloaded, but most of the stuff on that MP3 Player Hard Drive is going to stay there for a long long time.
The reason your Geforce is slowing down trying to do effects you have seen on X box is that your computer is probably rendering at 1024x768 or higher and the X box I believe renders at 640x480 or possibly lower. Televisions have crappy resolution.
30 fps is not the greatest the human eye can percieve.
Try this: Set your monitor to a 60 hz vertical refresh rate. Now your monitor is making 60 "frames" a second. (That is how fast it will redraw the screen.) Then stand back from your computer and look at a point off to the side of the monitor. You should notice it is flickering madly. Some people get eyestrain if they use a monitor that is running at 60hz or from cheap flourescent lights that flicker at 60hz.
Personally, I find I can no longer notice the flicker once I set it to 85 Hz, so I try to aim for 60-85 fps in my games as a tradeoff between speed and quality. Some people, however, find they can notice a flicker in 85hz and have to go up to around 120 hz or so before they feel comfortable.
They are indeed excellent motherboards. There is however two warnings I will make:
1.) If you have a crappy case it might not fit. I am rather sure that it is the largest size under the ATX standard. Cheap cases, especially those made by OEMs like Dell and HP, might not be able to fit it. Hell, I've seen cheap OEM cases that can't even fit a mid sized ATX motherboard.
2.) This isn't really specific to that motherboard but from what I hear people who are trying to make an inexpensive computer (or going for Athlon with many gigahertz and a Geforce 3 but trying to cut corners elsewhere) will buy this inexpensive motherboard and then a cheap crappy power supply that can't handle having . The result is that it doesn't work in various ways. I will admit that this happened to me. I had a cheap 250 W from my old computer and I figured I might as well at least try it with ECS k7s5a, Athlon 1.4, and Geforce 3 before I went and spent money on a new power supply. It actually worked for about a week and a half with no stability problems or anything, but after that I came home to find the computer that I had left on was now off with the smell of burnt insulation coming from it. I opened the power supply and at least 4 components inside had burnt up. So I purchased a nice powerful 350 Watt and now everything is good.
10 M means 10 molar. It is used to measure the strength of the acid. If I remember right 10 molar means that there are 10 moles or 60.2 x 10^23 (a real big number) of HCl for in every liter. But I could have forgotten something somewhere...
It is also entirely possible to get HCl without taking it from your stomach. I don't remember how you get it though (as in what kind of chemistry to use, you can always buy it).
It's not really stated definitely. It says something like she went off to hide and live a tortured life, and maybe devoured herself in hunger. But it says maybe. Shelob was an offspring of Ungoliant.
On a Warcraft 3 note, does anyone else know what happened to blizzard.com and battle.net? Every page on there seems to be deleted, all 404s... Are they getting ready for the beta sign ups tonight, or have they been |-|@xx0red to screw up the beta sign ups tonight?
I don't know what kind of pizza you get, but when I go to my local pizzeria to purchase some large extra cheese pies, they come in a box 16" x 16" x ~2".
The thing is that you have to be a moron before you find that thing "visually appealing." Thus with the huge number of morons in the world, Apple is assured of decent sales.
This was to suggest that any expectations coming from Diablo probably shouldn't be applied to Warcraft III, because entirely different people are making them.
Full version and demo both work perfectly, except for network play. Full version requries 'patch 3' in order to avoid copy protection issues.
Patch 3 is referring to the the third patch for Sacrifice. Even without multiplayer it is worth $10. Everything in the screenshot looks fine to me. Go purchase it, or try the demo first.
The Diablo games aren't made by the real Blizzard. There is Blizzard North (responsible for Diablo and Diablo II) and Blizzard HQ, responsible for everything else. Blizzard HQ was the original Blizzard, Blizzard North is someone they bought out. There are 2 teams working at Blizzard HQ, and 1 at Blizzard North. Team 1 at HQ is making War3, Team 2 is making World of Warcraft. Blizzard North is doing secret stuff now.
No, I never try to |-|@xx0r anyone or anything. I am just interested in how this works and what it is capable of, especially since I use AIM and thus am affected.
Go out and purchase "Sacrifice". It is an RTS game where you have a definite character. You are a wizard who can summon creatures to fight other wizards. You will be running around in the middle of the battle commanding your creatures and casting spells. You can even be killed, but usually you come back to life rather soon. (Only when you have lost do you not come back to life.)
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Uhm... you probably have longer than until the end of the month. Just because the company is going out of business doesn't mean that your local Software Etc. is going to immediately toss all their Linux game ports out in the trash.
My friend, there are idiots everywhere. You must learn to deal, or you will most likely shall become depressed.
Don't want to download crapass artificial commercial pop? Just don't. I never remember seeing any pop shit show up by accident on any p2p I've used... Maybe your searches are not specific enough, try putting in "pogues street" instead of just street and I assure you you will only see The Pogue's excellent song "Rain Street" and not any crappy pop which might have the word street in it.
Meanwhile, people who turn on the "Disable Sharing" option should be hit in the face with a bag of rocks. Although personally I haven't ripped any CDs for sharing (seeing as how I own so few), I do make sure to let others get at my files....
They did it in a clever fashion too... apparently they released small dormant bits of code hidden in other updates, and then one update all the little bits of code combined and erased some important memory by rewriting it with the message GAMEOVER.
With snail mail, at least they have to throw something physical out instead of just hitting delete....
Once they dropped Mulder I just quit. Sucked for a while before then too. I'll probably have to watch the last episode...
Here's an idea, listen to music that doesn't suck!
Never really heard of emusic before, but I look at them and they are filled with good bands. I go and I look at Punk and I see they have Bad Religion, NOFX, Dropkick Murphys, Pennywise, and lots of other good punk bands I like. They don't have Blink 182. That is a good thing.
They have MERZBOW. Merzbow is a fuckin' god.
Looking at metal bands they don't have so many as I listen to. I put in Dark Tranquility, In Flames, Nevermore, they all show up only as a list of similar reccomended bands. Guess they couldn't get a deal or something. Other metal bands do show up, Slayer, Amon Amarth. Just like they don't have Blink 182 they don't have Metallica
They don't have Godspeed You Black Emperor!, but they do have them in the database for "similar artists", putting them among the few people to have any idea who Godspeed You Black Emperor! is.
Looking around they don't seem to have current bands who have deals with the big record labels. Mostly this is no problem except for a few bands that have actually managed to become popular while still being good. I think if you manage to listen to good music instead of goat shit emusic looks like a very good deal.
As to spyware and adware... Kazaa has this, Morpheus doesn't. Morpheus tries to serve banner and pop up ads to x million people off a 486, so you do constantly get error messages when it can't get an ad, but there is no spyware.
Now Morpheus vs WinMX
The best part of Morpheus is that it tries so damn hard to get a file. You can leave it on overnight and it will download from 50 different people and 3 different filenames and come out with your file. Unfortunately the music there seems to be rather lacking in variety and obscurity. It is pretty good for downloading pornos though...
WinMX is the place to go for your music. I can actually find the weirdass bands I like. Most of the user interface is better than Morpheus too. The only things WinMX doesn't have is downloading one file from multiple users and the determined automatic retries.
That is damn skippy. Anyone with mod points mod those links up!
The one note is you want to be sure to view that applet in 3d either with 3d glasses or by clicking "Cross" so it goes into "Magic Eye" mode. It's hard enough trying to make sense of that hypercube when it is approximated to 3 dimensions, never mind 2 dimensions...
Here's a fun way to play with extra dimensions... This used to have some nice ASCII art for the first three but Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Please use fewer 'junk' characters. Fucking lame-ass filter.
1.) Visualize a line. It has one dimension.
2.) Now add another dimension. Visualize a square. It has two dimensions.
3.) Now add yet another dimension. Visualize a cube. It has three dimensions.
4.) Now add another dimension. Visualize a hypercube. It has four spatial dimensions. Kinda fucks with your head doesn't it? Stuff like this is REAL bad to think about if you can't sleep, by the way.
Tim!
It would probably be cheaper to put together a cheap computer and a month of broadband internet to download them all in divx...
Tim
With 20GB I could fit my entire MP3 collection on their 2 or 3 times. You could just start the transfer it up one night before you went to sleep and then it would be done in the morning. And then chances are you would never need to do a 4 hour transfer again for MONTHS if not years. Every few days you might want to spend 2 or 3 minutes transferring the new songs you downloaded, but most of the stuff on that MP3 Player Hard Drive is going to stay there for a long long time.
Tim
The reason your Geforce is slowing down trying to do effects you have seen on X box is that your computer is probably rendering at 1024x768 or higher and the X box I believe renders at 640x480 or possibly lower. Televisions have crappy resolution.
30 fps is not the greatest the human eye can percieve.
Try this: Set your monitor to a 60 hz vertical refresh rate. Now your monitor is making 60 "frames" a second. (That is how fast it will redraw the screen.) Then stand back from your computer and look at a point off to the side of the monitor. You should notice it is flickering madly. Some people get eyestrain if they use a monitor that is running at 60hz or from cheap flourescent lights that flicker at 60hz.
Personally, I find I can no longer notice the flicker once I set it to 85 Hz, so I try to aim for 60-85 fps in my games as a tradeoff between speed and quality. Some people, however, find they can notice a flicker in 85hz and have to go up to around 120 hz or so before they feel comfortable.
They are indeed excellent motherboards. There is however two warnings I will make:
1.) If you have a crappy case it might not fit. I am rather sure that it is the largest size under the ATX standard. Cheap cases, especially those made by OEMs like Dell and HP, might not be able to fit it. Hell, I've seen cheap OEM cases that can't even fit a mid sized ATX motherboard.
2.) This isn't really specific to that motherboard but from what I hear people who are trying to make an inexpensive computer (or going for Athlon with many gigahertz and a Geforce 3 but trying to cut corners elsewhere) will buy this inexpensive motherboard and then a cheap crappy power supply that can't handle having . The result is that it doesn't work in various ways. I will admit that this happened to me. I had a cheap 250 W from my old computer and I figured I might as well at least try it with ECS k7s5a, Athlon 1.4, and Geforce 3 before I went and spent money on a new power supply. It actually worked for about a week and a half with no stability problems or anything, but after that I came home to find the computer that I had left on was now off with the smell of burnt insulation coming from it. I opened the power supply and at least 4 components inside had burnt up. So I purchased a nice powerful 350 Watt and now everything is good.
10 M means 10 molar. It is used to measure the strength of the acid. If I remember right 10 molar means that there are 10 moles or 60.2 x 10^23 (a real big number) of HCl for in every liter. But I could have forgotten something somewhere...
It is also entirely possible to get HCl without taking it from your stomach. I don't remember how you get it though (as in what kind of chemistry to use, you can always buy it).
It's not really stated definitely. It says something like she went off to hide and live a tortured life, and maybe devoured herself in hunger. But it says maybe. Shelob was an offspring of Ungoliant.
On a Warcraft 3 note, does anyone else know what happened to blizzard.com and battle.net? Every page on there seems to be deleted, all 404s... Are they getting ready for the beta sign ups tonight, or have they been |-|@xx0red to screw up the beta sign ups tonight?
Tim
I don't know what kind of pizza you get, but when I go to my local pizzeria to purchase some large extra cheese pies, they come in a box 16" x 16" x ~2".
The thing is that you have to be a moron before you find that thing "visually appealing." Thus with the huge number of morons in the world, Apple is assured of decent sales.
Tim
This was to suggest that any expectations coming from Diablo probably shouldn't be applied to Warcraft III, because entirely different people are making them.
Tim
Tim
The Diablo games aren't made by the real Blizzard. There is Blizzard North (responsible for Diablo and Diablo II) and Blizzard HQ, responsible for everything else. Blizzard HQ was the original Blizzard, Blizzard North is someone they bought out. There are 2 teams working at Blizzard HQ, and 1 at Blizzard North. Team 1 at HQ is making War3, Team 2 is making World of Warcraft. Blizzard North is doing secret stuff now.
Tim
No, I never try to |-|@xx0r anyone or anything. I am just interested in how this works and what it is capable of, especially since I use AIM and thus am affected.
Go out and purchase "Sacrifice". It is an RTS game where you have a definite character. You are a wizard who can summon creatures to fight other wizards. You will be running around in the middle of the battle commanding your creatures and casting spells. You can even be killed, but usually you come back to life rather soon. (Only when you have lost do you not come back to life.)
Tim
In this Warcraft, if you select a group of units and tell them to move they will only move at the speed of its slowest member.
Tim