That just isn't true, there was more variation between the different levels in the original game than in Doom 3.
Agreed 100%. At this point, I'm counting on people making their own levels to save this game. Ahh, if only I had the kind of time I used to have in High School and College.
Contrast Doom 3 levels with the level designs in Quake 2. I'll never forget the alien scientists doing Mengele-style operations on the Marines, while they cried out "Make it Stop!"... now THAT was FUCKING SCARY.
The dark corridors do their job, this is an incredibly scary game
Sorry, I disagree. Yes, even after setting the Brightness control to a pretty high value, I am still left asking: why the fuck did I shell out the cash for a Radeon9800 Pro, just to see a fucking 90% BLACK SCREEN?
You also may want to check out the ASM (Automated Storage Manager). It only works for disks that Oracle manages, but it does some pretty cool automatic load-balancing and RAIDing.
Disclaimer:
Yes, I do work for ORCL.
No, I do not work on either OCFS or ASM (but I have partied with those guys:-)
For the record, aside from the free (as in beer) software downloads, Oracle has also released a bunch of GPL'd and OSS software. IMO, Oracle really doesn't get enough "media play" for this among the Slahdot crowd.
If you saw Chuck Rozwat's LinuxWorld keynote (2 years ago, I think) you'll know that Oracle uses Linux PCs for its base development. Not just for "back-office apps", mind you, I mean a gigantic development environment with THOUSANDS of Linux PCs. The resulting inevitable patches to coreutils, etc, are all on the oss.oracle.com site above, as are Oracle's (GPLed) Clustered Filesystem.
Either anyone should be allowed to spoof their ID, in which case caller ID becomes worthless, or nobody should be allowed to do it.
Allowed??! Allowed?!?!?
Have you learned nothing about the nature of technology from the perverse antics of the RIAA?
You can make an algorithm "illegal", but you damn well can't stop it from being used. In my (not even remotely Humble) opinion, that's why, utlimately, the only realistic political stance is a Libertarian one.
Quoth rice_burners_suck: I believe in people taking initiative and helping out the community, and I also believe in taking responsibilities and powers away from government
I couldn't agree more. And that's why I am a supporter of the Free State Project.
those honors belonged to Rational Corporation (a company whose products were so unstable that it made Windows 95 look good)
I have to agree. I've worked with, and for, five different Fortune-50 companies, each of them shedding blood on a daily basis because of deep problems with software from Rational (now owned by IBM).
At first, I loved Rational, because ClearCase was the coolest filesystem hack ever. I mean, fucking brilliant. But the implementation... *shudder*
It's one thing to bitch about "Them" clueless feds (or in this case, the state of California) screwing with "Us".
You can bitch and whine all you like... but guys like Seth here are actuall doing something about the root cause!
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this Earth.
This means there is an inevitable tendancy of Government to restrict freedom ever more wretchedly. DMCA? Abusive patent ovverreach? PATRIOT? All merely corollaries of the root problem, my friends!
As far as I can tell, it's our best chance to have a free society. Even ESR thinks so (whatever you think of him!)
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Roscoe's post is *not* redundant.
I don't have enough info to prove/disprove/add value, but it's an interesting observation worth review, I don't want his post buried with a "0" rating, and I'm willing to burn karma if my judgement is wrong.
Bah!
I'll add another anecdote. I bought a 2000 Honda Insight a few months after they came out (actually, I was on a waiting list -- the dealership sent out emails whenever they got one on the lot saying "first come, first served!")
Anyway, after 3 years of driving, my overall average lifetime average is 60.3 MPG (the dashboard displays it). I drive about 60% highway and 40% city, though of course in the San Francisco Bay area, "highway" can be more start-and-stop than "city".
You can definitely learn to adapt your driving patterns to be more fuel-efficient. I'm sure that applies to any car, but having your current/instantaneous fuel efficiency right on the dashboard provides a great feedback learning mechanism. If I'm patient and go for fuel savings, 65+ MPG is quite do-able. My 60 MPG average is because I drive fast (75+ MPH, sorry officer, but that's not unreasonable on highway 101) and I accelerate fast when I want to overtake or go up hill (both of which incur a pretty significant efficiency toll).
The Hybrid acceleration did surprise my skeptical family members -- if you put pedal to metal, you can screech tires, since the battery is unloading energy at the same time as the fuel engine.
Really, I'd hate to see some over-regulatory nanny beureucrat fucking with what is, at the end of the day, a car that gets way better mileage than non-hybrids. Let Consumer Reports and their ilk give the "real scoop", ie, that manufacturer's claims are only true on perfect level frictionless rollers with no wind. No shit. Do you *really* think your 2004 BMW 3 Series 325Ci Coupe gets 20 MPG city/29 MPG highway? Really? I call bullshit!
The Freestate project is cool and all, but i'm unable to locate anything resembling a MCSE position in the frikking state, so i can't afford to move there.
I also wish they had picked something a little more CENTRAL to the rest of the country
Oh come on... the Pilgrims made a 6-month transatlantic voyage, the founding fathers realized that if caught by "The Authorities" (British royalists) they'd be hung for treason, and you're bitching about it being hard to find your personal first-choice of job, and it not being your first choice for geographical convenience?
That's cool and all, just don't complain when Ashcroft and his fellow Moralists tell you how to live, alternating every 4 years or so with Kerry and his fellow would-be Socialsts taking your money!
I confess I'm not convinced one way or another about whether "privacy" is indeed a fundamental right, and where its limits (as for any right: think "yelling Fire in a theater") ought to be drawn.
The phrase "reasonable expectation of privacy" seems like a useful tool. It at least gives us a test to start drawing lines. For most of the technically-aware, we know that any transaction by credit card is not reasonably private, for example.
No, no, no... "All men are created equal" relates to Equality in the eyes of the Law.
What we're saying (and what Libertarians, Objectivists, Capitalists, and generally people of such bent have been saying for decades) is that people are NOT equal in terms of: intelligence, looks, motivation, parental fortune, geographical accident, etc.
Do yourself a favor, it will take only 5 minutes of your time. Carefully read the following blockquote and its link.(shamelessly copied from the Idea Channel)
Laissez-faire capitalism has never worked, and can never work
Funny that you mention it... I've actually been wondering about this for awhile. What are the best historical examples of as-close-to-pure laissez-faire capitalism as have happened in the real world?
I'm serious in asking. I know plenty of examples of Socialist and Communist economies. "19th-century America" is often quoted as being close to pure capitalism. But I haven't seen any good, preferably peer-reviewed analyses of various degrees of capitalism. I'm not looking for theory or Ayn Rand novel references; I'm looking for social- or economics- science dissertations or whitepapers.
I'm no bigot; if the facts contradict my opinion, my opinion is forced to change. Can anybody provide a useful URL or book reference one way or the other?
Get it in your head once and for good: "People are not equal! People will never be equal!"
You said it, buddy.
You would think, with so many millions of people who have survived through "enforced equality" (Communism, and its slightly-less-ugly bastard brother, Socialism), that people would get the lesson by now:
Thanks! Sometimes I think it's kinda cheesy. But, I do think it's at least a little interesting that as a kid I listened to 2112 so many times, I wore out the cassette tape... and now, that sig is in my work email too (see my profile for the irony)
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I dunno who was the AC that wrote this, but it's hilarious. Thanks!
Agreed 100%. At this point, I'm counting on people making their own levels to save this game. Ahh, if only I had the kind of time I used to have in High School and College.
Contrast Doom 3 levels with the level designs in Quake 2. I'll never forget the alien scientists doing Mengele-style operations on the Marines, while they cried out "Make it Stop!"... now THAT was FUCKING SCARY.
The dark corridors do their job, this is an incredibly scary game
Sorry, I disagree. Yes, even after setting the Brightness control to a pretty high value, I am still left asking: why the fuck did I shell out the cash for a Radeon9800 Pro, just to see a fucking 90% BLACK SCREEN?
You also may want to check out the ASM (Automated Storage Manager). It only works for disks that Oracle manages, but it does some pretty cool automatic load-balancing and RAIDing.
Disclaimer: :-)
Yes, I do work for ORCL.
No, I do not work on either OCFS or ASM (but I have partied with those guys
That's the most concise analysis of N. Korea I've read since this whole issue hit the mainstream.
Oracle's Free (as in speech) software
If you saw Chuck Rozwat's LinuxWorld keynote (2 years ago, I think) you'll know that Oracle uses Linux PCs for its base development. Not just for "back-office apps", mind you, I mean a gigantic development environment with THOUSANDS of Linux PCs. The resulting inevitable patches to coreutils, etc, are all on the oss.oracle.com site above, as are Oracle's (GPLed) Clustered Filesystem.
Allowed??! Allowed?!?!?
Have you learned nothing about the nature of technology from the perverse antics of the RIAA?
You can make an algorithm "illegal", but you damn well can't stop it from being used. In my (not even remotely Humble) opinion, that's why, utlimately, the only realistic political stance is a Libertarian one.
I just did.
Now, I sure wish our VP would read this...
I believe in people taking initiative and helping out the community, and I also believe in taking responsibilities and powers away from government
I couldn't agree more. And that's why I am a supporter of the Free State Project .
Liberty in our Lifetime!
I have to agree. I've worked with, and for, five different Fortune-50 companies, each of them shedding blood on a daily basis because of deep problems with software from Rational (now owned by IBM).
At first, I loved Rational, because ClearCase was the coolest filesystem hack ever. I mean, fucking brilliant. But the implementation... *shudder*
This means there is an inevitable tendancy of Government to restrict freedom ever more wretchedly. DMCA? Abusive patent ovverreach? PATRIOT? All merely corollaries of the root problem, my friends!
That's why I am posting this: The Free State Project
As far as I can tell, it's our best chance to have a free society. Even ESR thinks so (whatever you think of him!)
Roscoe's post is *not* redundant. I don't have enough info to prove/disprove/add value, but it's an interesting observation worth review, I don't want his post buried with a "0" rating, and I'm willing to burn karma if my judgement is wrong. Bah!
I'll add another anecdote. I bought a 2000 Honda Insight a few months after they came out (actually, I was on a waiting list -- the dealership sent out emails whenever they got one on the lot saying "first come, first served!")
Anyway, after 3 years of driving, my overall average lifetime average is 60.3 MPG (the dashboard displays it). I drive about 60% highway and 40% city, though of course in the San Francisco Bay area, "highway" can be more start-and-stop than "city".
You can definitely learn to adapt your driving patterns to be more fuel-efficient. I'm sure that applies to any car, but having your current/instantaneous fuel efficiency right on the dashboard provides a great feedback learning mechanism. If I'm patient and go for fuel savings, 65+ MPG is quite do-able. My 60 MPG average is because I drive fast (75+ MPH, sorry officer, but that's not unreasonable on highway 101) and I accelerate fast when I want to overtake or go up hill (both of which incur a pretty significant efficiency toll).
The Hybrid acceleration did surprise my skeptical family members -- if you put pedal to metal, you can screech tires, since the battery is unloading energy at the same time as the fuel engine.
Really, I'd hate to see some over-regulatory nanny beureucrat fucking with what is, at the end of the day, a car that gets way better mileage than non-hybrids. Let Consumer Reports and their ilk give the "real scoop", ie, that manufacturer's claims are only true on perfect level frictionless rollers with no wind. No shit. Do you *really* think your 2004 BMW 3 Series 325Ci Coupe gets 20 MPG city/29 MPG highway? Really? I call bullshit!
That's correct. Nobel prize winner Milton Friedman analyzed the relationship in some detail.
And that's why I am a supporter of the Free State Project.
Liberty in our lifetime!
These days Oracle is pitching clusters of low-cost Linux PCs, even -- no wait, especially -- for large, mission-critical databases that Must Stay Up.
They've seen the future... and it's Linux, apparently...
Oh come on... the Pilgrims made a 6-month transatlantic voyage, the founding fathers realized that if caught by "The Authorities" (British royalists) they'd be hung for treason, and you're bitching about it being hard to find your personal first-choice of job, and it not being your first choice for geographical convenience?
That's cool and all, just don't complain when Ashcroft and his fellow Moralists tell you how to live, alternating every 4 years or so with Kerry and his fellow would-be Socialsts taking your money!
NO!! Stand and Fight!
It's the least you can do in memory of the people who died trying to end such tyrrany.
Yep, same thing that Nobel laureates like Milton Friedman have said for decades.
So... you feel that the government has become a monster, interfering in your life? Instead of complaining, actually do something to Solve the Problem!
In my opinion, you're better off learning the words to "Old New Hampshire". After all, New Hampshire is the One Best shot at a Free State!
Anyhooo, my mife is pregnant; our first child is on the way. We settled on "Maxwell Mephisto" as the first and middle names.
>:)
The phrase "reasonable expectation of privacy" seems like a useful tool. It at least gives us a test to start drawing lines. For most of the technically-aware, we know that any transaction by credit card is not reasonably private, for example.
What we're saying (and what Libertarians, Objectivists, Capitalists, and generally people of such bent have been saying for decades) is that people are NOT equal in terms of: intelligence, looks, motivation, parental fortune, geographical accident, etc.
Do yourself a favor, it will take only 5 minutes of your time. Carefully read the following blockquote and its link.(shamelessly copied from the Idea Channel)
Funny that you mention it... I've actually been wondering about this for awhile. What are the best historical examples of as-close-to-pure laissez-faire capitalism as have happened in the real world?
I'm serious in asking. I know plenty of examples of Socialist and Communist economies. "19th-century America" is often quoted as being close to pure capitalism. But I haven't seen any good, preferably peer-reviewed analyses of various degrees of capitalism. I'm not looking for theory or Ayn Rand novel references; I'm looking for social- or economics- science dissertations or whitepapers.
I'm no bigot; if the facts contradict my opinion, my opinion is forced to change. Can anybody provide a useful URL or book reference one way or the other?
Thanks In Advance!
You said it, buddy.
You would think, with so many millions of people who have survived through "enforced equality" (Communism, and its slightly-less-ugly bastard brother, Socialism), that people would get the lesson by now:
Sigh... it almost makes me want to join ESR and the rest of the Free Staters.
Sometimes I think it's kinda cheesy. But, I do think it's at least a little interesting that as a kid I listened to 2112 so many times, I wore out the cassette tape... and now, that sig is in my work email too (see my profile for the irony)