My 20 gauge shotgun will bludgeon first posters and anything else just fine. It just does a few more things than a bat. Great thing is, I fired off some rounds today, so I know it works great, but its about a hundred years old, therefore Y2K compliant.
I feel a little sad anytime a computer company closes. Even this, b/c I know there are going to be some geeks and other people unemployed. But OTOH hand, freaking good riddance. I mean, packard bell made the _worst_ brand of computers. No other was so recognized even by non-computer geeks as a bad brand. Horrible stuff. I've worked at both Best Buy, a place that sold those horrible machines, and at an independent computer store, and servicing those mchines was horrible. The machines were always built bass-ackwards, cases done weirdly, bios that were weird, crappy sound and modem cards. Poor software installed by default. Never running like they should. Being the number one machine likely to come back b/c of a broken part.
id software developed it, apogee (who now is essentially 3DRealms) published it. GT Software (Later, GT Interactive), published the semi sequel, Spear of Destiny, though this was just more maps and enemies. Nothing notable.
I will wholeheartedly agree to this. My past relationships w/ girls has shown me that the ones who use/appreciate computers, give me alot more time for my obsession. Girls I have dated in the past that didn't understand computers, usually got greatly disgruntled when I'd spend time blowing stuff up on it, or playing one more battle in Final Fantasy Tactics on PSX. Now, admittedly, the circumstances of the relationships were different, the better/more accepting ones did come later when I was older/wiser.
Really though, I think this is something that has to be dealt with on a unique relationship basis, each one fitting into your life differently. Making it fit is very important.
This is so cool. But it tears me. On one half, I hear of a game, thats had things done with it that are totally badass. And could be more badass. But... On one half, its not GPL, not even that sun crap, its source code that very well may never be released. That sucks. I mean, he said that someone put hooks in there for playing tetris while another person takes thier turn. Damn, about fricking time. I've been waiting on that for years. But I'm thinking it could be better. I'd love to see *ICQ or GAIM hooks in there so I could take messages in game. BUT we won't see the source! The coolness of this project is being hled back by its license. C'mon Loki/Activision, can ya do better?///jeff
So maybe what hemos said isn't perfectly accurate... What matters is that this is a pretty big step in the right direction... For now it immediately means regrown thumbs, new skin for burn victims and most likely other neato things that a medical science oriented person would be able to cheer about. But its a damn good start. Its a fresh area for someone to innovate in. Cool Things Will Be Done.
This doesn't mean mozilla will be bloated. I imagine they will hear all these people recoiling in terror and realize not to make one big fat program, but rather the central web browsing module, letting people add what they want. I think its cool. Jabber integration? Yah! I've been waiting for jabber since it was first announced. IRC client? Eh... I don't really do the IRC thing around, but it wouldn't be bad to have it handy. Heres the scary thing... Alright, microsoft sees the way of the future as the web, pushing things to be integrated into the OS like IE and such... Here we have a web browser that will be incorporating all important internet thingies for the most part. Where most of the work force belongs to netscape. Who is owned by AOL. Who is one of microsoft's greatest competitors. Scary, neh?
Wow, thats pretty impressively shallow. And I hope the rest of America _does not_ agree with you. Maybe *I'm* just weird, but I feel comfortable worknig around gay people. Now it took me awhile to feel normal, due to societal/familial/religous ingrainings, but its no big thang now. I know that no normal gay guy is going to get his groove on with me the first time I turn my back on him, because theres no question that I have a definite appreciation for the fairer (female) sex. Thats just the way (in my experience it is). Overall, I think comfort with people being gay has to do with a couple things. Openmindedness and comfort with ones one sexuality. Openmindedness to accept thins nlike one's self, and sexuality comfort to just be cool with being intimate (I mean w/ one's signifigant other). I'm know I'm always working on both for my self, but then again in normal life (unfortunatly) here are plenty of role models of how Not to act.
The market keeps intel *enough* honest, at least not to pull crap like this. This is like a car manufacturer saying I can't using the newest high octane gas w/o buying the year 2000 model. Bull-crap. Intel disco bunnies, whatever... I use what will makes Quake 3 (And Homeworld, and ReVolt and Final Fantasy 8) dance like a friggin john travolta disco inferno, thats the only groove I worry about. OTOH, I'd be amazed if we're not missing out on part of the puzzle here. Okay, this is _only_ something that will piss off apple customers, there really (I hope) has to be something we're missing. Apple has always been a company to dangle happy making carrots in front of their... Scions of Church Apple. (Ie, BeOS, clone powerpcs, helping linux porting). The scions were so happy with the G3, iMac, the return of gaming & thoeretically the iBook, that Apple probably feels they can be bastards for a bit. Intel/x86 stuff is not perfect, but it follows the ideals of open source closer than apple, where competition makes cool stuff availiable for all, not when the Church Pope (Jobs) decides to grant it.
Windows Software I use Exact Audio Copy for the ripping (http://studserver.uni-dortmund.de/~su0165/eac.htm l) And then BladeEnc for the encoding. I *know* blade is not the fastest,:( (I ripped Weird Al's running with Scissors, then handed it to my friend who ripped/encoded at the same time using MusicMatch Jukebox, he was doing 160kbs vs my 128kbs _and_ was faster. All I was doing was encoding. Oh well, both these are free, thats some thing at least), but has good quality overall. Encoding ususally matters for what I'm listening to... Weird Al eventually got 160, while Last of the Mohicans Soundtrack (Celtic Instrumental) got 192, b/c anything less was disgusting. The quality of your sterio is also something to take in account. If you are still using the $5 speakers you got with your computer, then 128kbs is fine. But a nice pair of JBL's with a set of Altec Lansing 48s makes sound descrepancies very noticable.
I would think something like this would only fly in a very technical savvy location. I work for an ISP in Dayton, Ohio and know how low the number of technical users are. Now, admittedly, they are alot more invisible than the problem cases (and there are plenty of those [dumb users]), but the number of them Could Not keep the isp afloat even if it were only one person maintaining the hardware. Silicon valley? Dunno, ask me when I live there, but in the midwest... Naaaaah.
///jeff
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Here, try on these +2 Goggles of View Sarcasm and read what you were replying to again...
In a perfect world, this knowledge *would* be old hat to every sysadmin... But this world is not perfect, so not all the info can be taken for granted. I've been reading/. for over a year, been messing with linux and such for about the same period, but I am more of a computer gamer, so I don't have the m@d aDm1n sk1llz. This stuff is new to me, and I bet its a good reminder to those who are veteran sysadmins who may have forgotten this stuff. So, uh, like lighten up.
Any time when that might have worked is long gone. Nowadays when I run around in Quake 3 or Aliens Vs. Predator, I've usually got icq, wingate and netscape sitting in the background. I can't afford to make my computer into essentially a console (psx or saturn, not tty). Some developers hve me immensly pumped by planning support for external programs such as those, so getting immersed in a game doesn't mean getting cut-off from the net (IF, if, you don't want to, sometimes total immersive is good).
I'm dying to play some old school Ultima 7, but windows has to be rebooted (AFAIK) for it to run b/c it has it's own mem-manager. BUT, I won't play it b/c having to reboot my machine for anything other than infernal Windows is something I will not do. ("I will not condone a course of action thats leads to rebooting chancellor"). I know, stupid for me to feel like this while using 98 on my main PC, but what can you do?
I'm not sure what my college, OSU, has but I know its pitiful. It can't even be picked up off campus. It really pisses me off b/c usually college radio is alot better than the Evil 5's stations (aka corporate). Take 97x in oxford, ohio, now they are a great station. Thier web site is at www.97x.com, and they've got ra streams. Mmmm.... Independent radio. Hmmm. Yet another example of when the mainstream sucks, something good arises (linux, indy radio, etc)
If OSS supports it, then it look like it will. I think it does. I'm sure the live is (though by creative), so therefore, logic would assume there is SB64 PCI support.
Agreed. USPS is pimptastic for getting stuff where you need it. They are the only thing on Ohio State University Campus for sending stuff (There's *supposed* to be one coming soon. To paraphrase Dr. Evil, "riiiiiight"). I've always been treated pretty well by the them. Nothing new here, just another vote of confidence.
Doesn't make my heart feel any less chilled by this news. Maybe accept it, but jesus... I may be por-choice, but that is an abortion I could never, ever do.
I would say this situation varies greatly from college to college. At (the) Ohio State University, things are locked down pretty tightly, not just for dorm resnet'ers, but even for OSU employees. Take me for instance. I work helpdesk. We are lucky to get away with having tribes (a quakish type game) on the machines, and thats only b/c us students are careful about hiding/using/etc. But to put a server? Hah, we'd get reamed up on side, down another. Heck, we've even been told (officially) having any mp3s on our work computers is a Bad Thing.
Overall, what OSU wants the high-speed internet access to be used for is a phat modem. Web, irc, mail, (firewall borks ICQ, yes even w/ firewall settings in ICQ) is okay, but no servers. Not even telnet. Man, OSU internet access sucks. (/whining)
I would actually have to disagree. Okay, unreal monsters do dodge very well. But really, thats just a variation on the "perfect aim" bit, where a computer shooting at you has better than human accuracy. Unreal AIs have have better than human dodging... But only b/c the game is geared towards that. Quite akin to QuakeC bots (And seeing how the AI author, Steven Poldge wrote the definitive Quake 1 'bot, its quite logical). Unreal's AI puts up a good fight, as does Half-Life's and Aliens Vs. Predator's. But none of them have yet to *really* impress me. Eraser Bot for Quake 2 is quite good also. AI gonna impress me? Give it personality. Make it max headroom for cryin' out loud, but make it *seem* like more than some programmer's set of rules. Cheers, jeff
Who said anything about everything on the internet being domain of america? The point of this article is to say an american senator is proposing a bill that is good for american internet users, thats all. Same reason why stuff is posted about that stupid australian censorship bill. Neither affect the internet, but they affect portions of it.
CL & 3dfx *were* partners. When 3dfx bought stb, they cut ties w/ almost all video card manufacturers (excepting quantum3D). Once STB turned 3dfx they've done some stuff in regards to there old RivaTNT cards that wasn't totally kosher, such as when the much-ballyhooed Detonator drivers came out, saying they were buggy for the STB TnT card. On the other hand, they've been the only other company that NVidia to put out drivers for their old TNT card recently.
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My 20 gauge shotgun will bludgeon first posters and anything else just fine. It just does a few more things than a bat. Great thing is, I fired off some rounds today, so I know it works great, but its about a hundred years old, therefore Y2K compliant.
-jeff
I feel a little sad anytime a computer company closes. Even this, b/c I know there are going to be some geeks and other people unemployed. But OTOH hand, freaking good riddance. I mean, packard bell made the _worst_ brand of computers. No other was so recognized even by non-computer geeks as a bad brand. Horrible stuff.
I've worked at both Best Buy, a place that sold those horrible machines, and at an independent computer store, and servicing those mchines was horrible. The machines were always built bass-ackwards, cases done weirdly, bios that were weird, crappy sound and modem cards. Poor software installed by default. Never running like they should. Being the number one machine likely to come back b/c of a broken part.
Exceedingly Craptacular.
Untrue.
id software developed it,
apogee (who now is essentially 3DRealms) published it.
GT Software (Later, GT Interactive), published the semi sequel, Spear of Destiny, though this was just more maps and enemies. Nothing notable.
I will wholeheartedly agree to this.
My past relationships w/ girls has shown me that the ones who use/appreciate computers, give me alot more time for my obsession. Girls I have dated in the past that didn't understand computers, usually got greatly disgruntled when I'd spend time blowing stuff up on it, or playing one more battle in Final Fantasy Tactics on PSX.
Now, admittedly, the circumstances of the relationships were different, the better/more accepting ones did come later when I was older/wiser.
Really though, I think this is something that has to be dealt with on a unique relationship basis, each one fitting into your life differently. Making it fit is very important.
This is so cool. But it tears me. On one half, I hear of a game, thats had things done with it that are totally badass. And could be more badass. But... On one half, its not GPL, not even that sun crap, its source code that very well may never be released. That sucks. I mean, he said that someone put hooks in there for playing tetris while another person takes thier turn. Damn, about fricking time. I've been waiting on that for years. But I'm thinking it could be better. I'd love to see *ICQ or GAIM hooks in there so I could take messages in game. BUT we won't see the source! The coolness of this project is being hled back by its license. C'mon Loki/Activision, can ya do better? ///jeff
So maybe what hemos said isn't perfectly accurate... What matters is that this is a pretty big step in the right direction... For now it immediately means regrown thumbs, new skin for burn victims and most likely other neato things that a medical science oriented person would be able to cheer about. But its a damn good start. Its a fresh area for someone to innovate in. Cool Things Will Be Done.
///jeff
This doesn't mean mozilla will be bloated. I imagine they will hear all these people recoiling in terror and realize not to make one big fat program, but rather the central web browsing module, letting people add what they want. I think its cool. Jabber integration? Yah! I've been waiting for jabber since it was first announced. IRC client? Eh... I don't really do the IRC thing around, but it wouldn't be bad to have it handy. Heres the scary thing... Alright, microsoft sees the way of the future as the web, pushing things to be integrated into the OS like IE and such... Here we have a web browser that will be incorporating all important internet thingies for the most part. Where most of the work force belongs to netscape. Who is owned by AOL. Who is one of microsoft's greatest competitors. Scary, neh?
Wow, thats pretty impressively shallow. And I hope the rest of America _does not_ agree with you. Maybe *I'm* just weird, but I feel comfortable worknig around gay people. Now it took me awhile to feel normal, due to societal/familial/religous ingrainings, but its no big thang now. I know that no normal gay guy is going to get his groove on with me the first time I turn my back on him, because theres no question that I have a definite appreciation for the fairer (female) sex. Thats just the way (in my experience it is).
Overall, I think comfort with people being gay has to do with a couple things. Openmindedness and comfort with ones one sexuality. Openmindedness to accept thins nlike one's self, and sexuality comfort to just be cool with being intimate (I mean w/ one's signifigant other). I'm know I'm always working on both for my self, but then again in normal life (unfortunatly) here are plenty of role models of how Not to act.
Some people are cruisin' for a bruisin'... Your blind steriotyping and unsupported facts make you cruisin' for a moderatin'.
///jeff
This is a job for ('duh-duh=duh') Bruce Perens, or someone else well versed in why Open Source is good. This is the defintion of flamebait.
The market keeps intel *enough* honest, at least not to pull crap like this. This is like a car manufacturer saying I can't using the newest high octane gas w/o buying the year 2000 model. Bull-crap. Intel disco bunnies, whatever... I use what will makes Quake 3 (And Homeworld, and ReVolt and Final Fantasy 8) dance like a friggin john travolta disco inferno, thats the only groove I worry about. OTOH, I'd be amazed if we're not missing out on part of the puzzle here. Okay, this is _only_ something that will piss off apple customers, there really (I hope) has to be something we're missing. Apple has always been a company to dangle happy making carrots in front of their... Scions of Church Apple. (Ie, BeOS, clone powerpcs, helping linux porting). The scions were so happy with the G3, iMac, the return of gaming & thoeretically the iBook, that Apple probably feels they can be bastards for a bit. Intel/x86 stuff is not perfect, but it follows the ideals of open source closer than apple, where competition makes cool stuff availiable for all, not when the Church Pope (Jobs) decides to grant it.
Windows Softwarem l) :( (I ripped Weird Al's running with Scissors, then handed it to my friend who ripped/encoded at the same time using MusicMatch Jukebox, he was doing 160kbs vs my 128kbs _and_ was faster. All I was doing was encoding. Oh well, both these are free, thats some thing at least), but has good quality overall. Encoding ususally matters for what I'm listening to... Weird Al eventually got 160, while Last of the Mohicans Soundtrack (Celtic Instrumental) got 192, b/c anything less was disgusting. The quality of your sterio is also something to take in account. If you are still using the $5 speakers you got with your computer, then 128kbs is fine. But a nice pair of JBL's with a set of Altec Lansing 48s makes sound descrepancies very noticable.
///jeff
I use Exact Audio Copy for the ripping (http://studserver.uni-dortmund.de/~su0165/eac.ht
And then BladeEnc for the encoding.
I *know* blade is not the fastest,
I would think something like this would only fly
///jeff
in a very technical savvy location. I work for an
ISP in Dayton, Ohio and know how low the number
of technical users are. Now, admittedly, they are
alot more invisible than the problem cases (and
there are plenty of those [dumb users]), but the
number of them Could Not keep the isp afloat even if it were only one person maintaining the hardware. Silicon valley? Dunno, ask me when I live there, but in the midwest... Naaaaah.
Here, try on these +2 Goggles of View Sarcasm and read what you were replying to again...
///jeff
In a perfect world, this knowledge *would* be old hat to every sysadmin... But this world is not perfect, so not all the info can be taken for granted. I've been reading /. for over a year, been messing with linux and such for about the same period, but I am more of a computer gamer, so I don't have the m@d aDm1n sk1llz. This stuff is new to me, and I bet its a good reminder to those who are veteran sysadmins who may have forgotten this stuff. So, uh, like lighten up.
Any time when that might have worked is long gone. Nowadays when I run around in Quake 3 or Aliens Vs. Predator, I've usually got icq, wingate and netscape sitting in the background. I can't afford to make my computer into essentially a console (psx or saturn, not tty). Some developers hve me immensly pumped by planning support for external programs such as those, so getting immersed in a game doesn't mean getting cut-off from the net (IF, if, you don't want to, sometimes total immersive is good).
I'm dying to play some old school Ultima 7, but windows has to be rebooted (AFAIK) for it to run b/c it has it's own mem-manager. BUT, I won't play it b/c having to reboot my machine for anything other than infernal Windows is something I will not do. ("I will not condone a course of action thats leads to rebooting chancellor"). I know, stupid for me to feel like this while using 98 on my main PC, but what can you do?
I'm not sure what my college, OSU, has but I know its pitiful. It can't even be picked up off campus. It really pisses me off b/c usually college radio is alot better than the Evil 5's stations (aka corporate). Take 97x in oxford, ohio, now they are a great station. Thier web site is at www.97x.com, and they've got ra streams. Mmmm.... Independent radio. Hmmm.
Yet another example of when the mainstream sucks, something good arises (linux, indy radio, etc)
If OSS supports it, then it look like it will.
I think it does. I'm sure the live is (though by creative), so therefore, logic would assume there is SB64 PCI support.
Agreed. USPS is pimptastic for getting stuff where you need it. They are the only thing on Ohio State University Campus for sending stuff (There's *supposed* to be one coming soon. To paraphrase Dr. Evil, "riiiiiight"). I've always been treated pretty well by the them. Nothing new here, just another vote of confidence.
Doesn't make my heart feel any less chilled by this news. Maybe accept it, but jesus...
I may be por-choice, but that is an abortion I could never, ever do.
sincerely, jeff
I would say this situation varies greatly from college to college. At (the) Ohio State University, things are locked down pretty tightly, not just for dorm resnet'ers, but even for OSU employees. Take me for instance. I work helpdesk. We are lucky to get away with having tribes (a quakish type game) on the machines, and thats only b/c us students are careful about hiding/using/etc. But to put a server? Hah, we'd get reamed up on side, down another. Heck, we've even been told (officially) having any mp3s on our work computers is a Bad Thing.
Overall, what OSU wants the high-speed internet access to be used for is a phat modem. Web, irc, mail, (firewall borks ICQ, yes even w/ firewall settings in ICQ) is okay, but no servers. Not even telnet. Man, OSU internet access sucks. (/whining)
So, thats how my college works (or doesn't).
-jeff
I would actually have to disagree.
Okay, unreal monsters do dodge very well. But really, thats just a variation on the "perfect aim" bit, where a computer shooting at you has better than human accuracy. Unreal AIs have have better than human dodging... But only b/c the game is geared towards that. Quite akin to QuakeC bots (And seeing how the AI author, Steven Poldge wrote the definitive Quake 1 'bot, its quite logical).
Unreal's AI puts up a good fight, as does Half-Life's and Aliens Vs. Predator's. But none of them have yet to *really* impress me. Eraser Bot for Quake 2 is quite good also.
AI gonna impress me? Give it personality. Make it max headroom for cryin' out loud, but make it *seem* like more than some programmer's set of rules. Cheers, jeff
I think one thing to keep in mind is having a limited selection of catagories for replies. Having to many will make them impotent.
Okay, I'm curious, where do we find this movie? I haven't hard about it in theatres, and nothing was turned up on amazon.com... Enlightenment please?
Who said anything about everything on the internet being domain of america? The point of this article is to say an american senator is proposing a bill that is good for american internet users, thats all. Same reason why stuff is posted about that stupid australian censorship bill. Neither affect the internet, but they affect portions of it.
CL & 3dfx *were* partners.
When 3dfx bought stb, they cut ties w/ almost all video card manufacturers (excepting quantum3D).
Once STB turned 3dfx they've done some stuff in regards to there old RivaTNT cards that wasn't totally kosher, such as when the much-ballyhooed Detonator drivers came out, saying they were buggy for the STB TnT card. On the other hand, they've been the only other company that NVidia to put out drivers for their old TNT card recently.