As far as I can tell, the screen percentage setting works like this: if you set it below 100%, it renders the game at a lower resolution than your screen is set to and then upscales it. Badly.
That's also what Halo 3 does on the 360, BTW. Only you don't get to choose the resolution.
Getting advice on how to handle security bugs in your software from someone who works on Sendmail is like getting advice on dealing with relationship problems from someone who was divorced seven times. I mean, sure, he's got experience...
It doesn't mean anything (well, except for "unpatched as of yet" or "disclosed in a not-very-responsible way"). In the pirated movies/games community "zero-day" means that the illegal release was done on the same day that the movie was released to theaters or the game was put on shelves in stores. In the security vulnerabilities community the term is used because many people think it sounds like something a hacker would say (a hacker like Angelina Jolie that is).
Ask both. Include an answer that says "I won't answer this question, because it is phrased incorrectly.". Compare your answers with the answers of the politicians. Vote for the one who agrees with you on most questions (add weighs if you like), treating the "no answer" answer like any other.
If you're looking for a well done, fast-paced, pure fun FPS, I strongly recommend Painkiller and its expansion pack Battle out of Hell. It was released over a year ago, which means it will probably run even on a not-so-recent machine. Check out the demos.
Basically, what Serious Sam promises, Painkiller delivers.
I would like to point your attention to one nomination in the animated short category: The Cathedral.
It's a really nice short, loosely based on a story by Jacek Dukaj, directed by a Polish animator, Tomek Baginski. It won the best animated short award at SIGGRAPH2002.
You probably won't get a chance to see it in a movie theater (it ran for a some time in a few Polish cinemas before Minority Report and Signs), but you can download a trailer here: hi-res Divx (15 MB), low-res Divx (8 MB), low-res MPEG (9 MB).
Here is the author's page about the film (flash required).
and then lo and behold, she says "terrorists" and everybody had guns... guess I played the wrong version of the movie.
You mean the right version?:)
-jfedor
Re:What google neglected to mention...
on
Web Zeitgeist
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
BTW, this is offtopic, but Mr. Malda recently mentioned in a Journal comment that Slashdot has too many "+5, Funny" comments. I agree with this sentiment,
Why don't you just set the Reason Modifier in your preferences accordingly.
Slashdot Mirror
As far as I can tell, the screen percentage setting works like this: if you set it below 100%, it renders the game at a lower resolution than your screen is set to and then upscales it. Badly.
That's also what Halo 3 does on the 360, BTW. Only you don't get to choose the resolution.
-jfedor
While you were whining about BitKeeper, Linus wrote git. And released it under the GPL. What did RMS write during this time? GPLv3.
-jfedor
Just because you can see the code, it doesn't mean that it's open source (remember Microsoft's "shared source"?).
OSI's Open Source Definition specifically forbids such not-for-commercial-use clauses.
A Deepness in the Sky
Getting advice on how to handle security bugs in your software from someone who works on Sendmail is like getting advice on dealing with relationship problems from someone who was divorced seven times. I mean, sure, he's got experience...
I blame Cory Doctorow.
It doesn't mean anything (well, except for "unpatched as of yet" or "disclosed in a not-very-responsible way"). In the pirated movies/games community "zero-day" means that the illegal release was done on the same day that the movie was released to theaters or the game was put on shelves in stores. In the security vulnerabilities community the term is used because many people think it sounds like something a hacker would say (a hacker like Angelina Jolie that is).
-jfedor
Ask both. Include an answer that says "I won't answer this question, because it is phrased incorrectly.". Compare your answers with the answers of the politicians. Vote for the one who agrees with you on most questions (add weighs if you like), treating the "no answer" answer like any other.
-jfedor
... Or your computer?
If you're looking for a well done, fast-paced, pure fun FPS, I strongly recommend Painkiller and its expansion pack Battle out of Hell. It was released over a year ago, which means it will probably run even on a not-so-recent machine. Check out the demos.
Basically, what Serious Sam promises, Painkiller delivers.
-jfedor
I'm getting ~55 FPS in timedemo demo1 on Linux (Fedora Core 1), compared to ~60 FPS on Windows XP on the same machine.
(GeForce 6800, Athlon XP 3000+, 512 MB RAM, 1024x768, high quality, no AA, NVIDIA drivers version 1.0-6111 on Linux, 66.81 on Windows)
-jfedor
You look like you could use a Guinness!
-jfedor
Well...
-jfedor
Learn from the best, learn from Wally.
-jfedor
They should expose their store through XML-RPC or SOAP, so that I can write my own iTunes. The money would still go to them.
(Never gonna happen, I know.)
-jfedor
But the parts of the message that were worth having were independent of the particular belief system he subscribed to.
Guess what, the part of Osama's message that says "kill Americans" doesn't come from Koran either.
-jfedor
I would like to point your attention to one nomination in the animated short category: The Cathedral.
It's a really nice short, loosely based on a story by Jacek Dukaj, directed by a Polish animator, Tomek Baginski. It won the best animated short award at SIGGRAPH 2002.
You probably won't get a chance to see it in a movie theater (it ran for a some time in a few Polish cinemas before Minority Report and Signs), but you can download a trailer here: hi-res Divx (15 MB), low-res Divx (8 MB), low-res MPEG (9 MB).
Here is the author's page about the film (flash required).
-jfedor
- a zombie process is running amuck, often leading to...
- memory exhausted, swap like crazy
A zombie process is a process that finished, but nobody has wait()ed for it yet. It cannot "run amuck".-jfedor
Pardon my curmudgeonliness, but what the hell is wrong with looking at the disk activity light?
The light is often in another room. Ever heard of the X protocol?
-jfedor
Until Linux has superior speed, drivers and ease of use, it will remain as a server based OS, and not as a Gaming OS.
Seems to me it is the games that are needed to make Linux a gaming OS.
-jfedor
The Mozilla 1.2.1 installer and/or ZIP Win32 download is about 12MB with no option to use a stub installer.
Here's a stub installer for Mozilla 1.2.1 (214 KB).
-jfedor
-jfedor
and then lo and behold, she says "terrorists" and everybody had guns... guess I played the wrong version of the movie.
:)
You mean the right version?
-jfedor
BTW, this is offtopic, but Mr. Malda recently mentioned in a Journal comment that Slashdot has too many "+5, Funny" comments. I agree with this sentiment,
Why don't you just set the Reason Modifier in your preferences accordingly.
Oh, I know. You'd have to log in to do that.
-jfedor