No, the game looked state of the art, even without the lighting and level changes. At the time only "Ultima Underworld" was remotely close to what Doom would become.
For a quick kick in the pants to your favorite Luddite show them a screenshot of alpha doom, then show them a movie from the lastest Doom beta while chanting: "It's only been nine years, it's only been nine years..."
Take a close look yourself and realize what the future holds. FPS games in 2011 should make Doom III look like these "amateurish" screenshots. We'll probably have Carmack to thank even then, or in 2022 when Doom VI looks like crap in comparison to Doom III. Should be fun...
Hell, I'll probably be playing FPSs until advanced age makes it too difficult, sometime around 2035... then I'll camp...
This is one the most amazingly erroneous things ever written on Slashdot. Somehow you've managed to shift the reason for the rapid proliferation of the x86 architecture from IBM's decision to make the original pc from off the shelf parts to MS providing the operating system.
IBM made a commodity out of PCs, much to its disgust, and would have loved to have a semi-molopoly like Apple had. To this day I still interact with people who refer to the "two" (to many there were only ever two) platforms as "Apple and IBM", and it took me years to consistently invoke "x86".
What I'm trying to say is... here it comes... that if it weren't for MS, we would still be paying an arm and a leg for PCs.
Wow. I design and purchase around 100 systems a year to replace machines that have outlived their useful life, and every year I've had to spend from $40 to $200 for just the OS licenses for each of these machines, plus $50-100 for Office licenses. At this point the MS software costs nearly as much as the hardware. Thank Gawd we're planning to move a significant minority of our installed base to free software over the next four years.
Before the clones hardware used to be more expensive so the MS software tax used to seem less extreme. Who cares if the OS costs $75 when the PC is $4000? Now that a good PC cost $400, $100 (or even $200) is a lot bigger deal. By the time IBM lost significant market share to the clones MS was ready to be anybody's whore, for a price.
To say MS had a lot to do with the steep drop in PC prices is like saying that rats are buoyant and help keep ships afloat.
Well, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the info. It's been about fifteen years since I lived in the south and did any hunting, and that was mostly squirrel, not exactly something that'll have many "leftovers" to donate.
Hunting for food, when there really is a need, is probably a good thing. It's the upper middle class trophy hunters (which I think are much more numerous than the "must hunt for food" types) that bother me. Maybe states should issue 70% fewer licenses, have slightly longer seasons and higher limits, and make getting a license "need based".
Make sure you field dress him, remove his brain stem and spine, then strap him to the hood of your SUV...
Obviously you know nothing about hunting. Most hunters go out to fill their freezer and feed their family.
When they're not reading slashdot.
Many hunters (myself included) donate meat that won't fit in my freezer to shelters and churches.
I have a hard time believing any organized charity would accept meat wrapped in white paper and labeled with masking tape much less turn around and feed this meat to the needy. The liability issues involved with spoiled or poorly dressed meat, or things like "spony" brains, should scare away any organization with significant assets.
Just who do you think makes the rules about which crimes are punishable by death (such as "hacking" is now in the U.S., thanks to homeland security), and who gets to decide. In some jurisdictions judges determine who lives and who dies, and governors often have the last say. The president, when governor of Texas didn't so much as issue a stay of execution until he was deep into the election. 131 executions without a stay, then he suddenly issues his first as he's campaigning in California. When the government decides who lives and who dies politics come into play and that, to me, is a horrible crime against human rights.
Did anyone else find it disgusting when Bush said "Looks nervous don't he?" when he was "pardoning" the Thanksgiving turkey the other day?
"We guarantee an immediate 15% drop in people accessing the -content- on your web site!"
What next, having to correctly answer a reading comprehension question about the ads to get to the web site's supposed message?
If these folks were around in 1776 it'd have read like this:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...
-!!!CURIOUS??? WANNA SEE MORE??? WONDER WHAT "UNALIENABLE" MEANS??? CLICK HERE FOR MORE HOT HOT FREEDOM AND FOUNDING FATHER ON FOUNDING FATHER ACTION!!!"-
-dameron
(really needing that in red, with a blink tag, but nooooo...)
More like 1995, that's when IEEE 1344 ("Firewire") first hit the mainstream. The company I was working for back then purchased AVID systems (at over $100K each) that were running on 68040 Macs. Even then Mac folks were splorkin' all over this mythic "firewire".
I've been happily paying my online account via Mozilla (on Redhat 7.2, then 7.3)for at least five months now.
I used to use Opera disguised as IE, but for the past five months (since mid-June when I got a new laptop) I've been using Opera sans javascript, so I know I wasn't dreaming when I paid all those charges...
I hope.
-dameron
OT: Re:RAISES the question
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Ok, to get this strait, I have a firm grasp of what you and the the AC thinks "begs the question" means, or, should I say, used to mean several decades ago. As it stands there is nothing inappropriate about using "begs the question" in the fashion mentioned, -especially in this forum-.
(Note my not so standard use of the dash. Or the parenthesis, or, -Hades- this entire aside! Not to mention my entire lack of completing a sentence!)
Yet none of this could possibly detract you from my point, and my meaning is clear.
You're being far too formal.
A quick cut and past job to set your mind at ease:
Many people unaware of the technical meaning of "to beg the question" in logic use it in one of two looser senses. The first of these, "to evade the question, to duck the issue", is attested since 1860 (WDEU). The second, "to invite the obvious question, (with an inanimate subject) to raise the question", is now the most commonly heard use of the phrase, although we have found no mention of it prior to The Oxford Guide to English Usage, 1st edition (1983)."
My emphasis, of course. So it appears this issue was settles sometime in the 80s. Or 80's, both are equally correct.
Just kidding, I saw that this was the Stone's Bill Wyman, but wanted to point out that these kinds of freaky "Springeresque" moments arent reserved for our friends in the South.
Maybe he, Roman Polansky and Jerry Lee Lewis could start a media company like SKG and only release PG 13 movies...
-dameron
All I want is a USB 2.0 or Firewire tuner.
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That'd do it, can't find it. If anyone knows where one is please post a link.
The bitrate limitations on the USB port makes this product D.O.A. as far as I can tell. Who wants to watch a tiny window of video on an expensive Apple monitor?
I'm the system admin for a k-12 school of 800 students, about 400 computers and a dozen servers. We have filtering software (which I won't mention or advertise here) on our gateway that purports to block access to pornographic web sites. We are able to enter exception urls into the filter to allow access to specific sites, and have needed to make use of this in quite a few instances.
Here's a list of the sites that were blocked by default that I had to unblock manually:
Some of these sites involve themselves in gay/lesbian issues (particulary in regards to the other BSA the Boy Scouts of America), and may have been incorrectly blocked by keywords for "gay" or more likely "lesbian", but I've scoured the index page source for places like "Access Atlanta" and couldn't find anything that could be construed as remotely offensive, even in a substring.
People who back such laws as this and oppose the recent ruling concerning the "under God" portion of the "Pledge of Allegience" are at odds with America's diverse morality and (non)spirituality. To include a reference to God in the Pledge begs the question "Which God?" or "Whose?". Likewise when legislating morality the question becomes "Whose morals?".
Because nearly every commercial filtering system is protected by "trade secrets" it becomes impossible to expect and answer to the above questions, and illegal to discover them on your own.
Are expected to purchase software that controls our childrens access to information without knowing what it's really doing? Absolutely, and if this law is upheld it'd be illegal to choose otherwise.
Don't entirely know what it blocks and doesn't.
Don't know why.
Blocking software companies won't tell us.
Illegal to find out.
Illegal to not install.
Likely illegal to circumvent.
Orwellian. Yep.
As an aside:
"Protecting children" is a convenient way to get government to move, and it's a red herring. No American politician is going to come out and say "I'm anti-children" or "I think children should look at porn and the taxpayers should foot the bill.". Evoking "protecting children" is just a carrot (or whip if you'd rather) for people who have an agenda to wave in front of legislators.
"Protecting children" also sells tires, and Volvos, and antibacterial soap, and milk, and private schools, and cell phones, and guns...
1. Give away AIM for free 2. Charge companies $35/user to monitor AIM 3. Sell un-monitored "AIM Platinum" for $50 4. Sell "AIM Platinum" monitor for $100/user
Someone needs to write OSS that monitors AIM connections for $0/user. Oh what changes we'd see in AOL's client then...! "Protect your Privacy! Unmonitorable AIM Platinum - GOLD EDITION!"
Of course writing such software would seem kinda evil to most slashdotters, and far too proactive. If it stops being profitable to rob people of their rights and privacy, corporations will stop doing it.
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the game looks VERY amatuer.
No, the game looked state of the art, even without the lighting and level changes. At the time only "Ultima Underworld" was remotely close to what Doom would become.
For a quick kick in the pants to your favorite Luddite show them a screenshot of alpha doom, then show them a movie from the lastest Doom beta while chanting: "It's only been nine years, it's only been nine years..."
Take a close look yourself and realize what the future holds. FPS games in 2011 should make Doom III look like these "amateurish" screenshots. We'll probably have Carmack to thank even then, or in 2022 when Doom VI looks like crap in comparison to Doom III. Should be fun...
Hell, I'll probably be playing FPSs until advanced age makes it too difficult, sometime around 2035... then I'll camp...
-dameron
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, Consumer Electronics fail you.
Oh my, somehow you actually managed to screw up a Yakovism...
-dameron
It's not like you can't put Linux on an iMac, or even run Windows if you want...
-dameron
MS turned the PC market into a commodity market.
... here it comes ... that if it weren't for MS, we would still be paying an arm and a leg for PCs.
This is one the most amazingly erroneous things ever written on Slashdot. Somehow you've managed to shift the reason for the rapid proliferation of the x86 architecture from IBM's decision to make the original pc from off the shelf parts to MS providing the operating system.
IBM made a commodity out of PCs, much to its disgust, and would have loved to have a semi-molopoly like Apple had. To this day I still interact with people who refer to the "two" (to many there were only ever two) platforms as "Apple and IBM", and it took me years to consistently invoke "x86".
What I'm trying to say is
Wow. I design and purchase around 100 systems a year to replace machines that have outlived their useful life, and every year I've had to spend from $40 to $200 for just the OS licenses for each of these machines, plus $50-100 for Office licenses. At this point the MS software costs nearly as much as the hardware. Thank Gawd we're planning to move a significant minority of our installed base to free software over the next four years.
Before the clones hardware used to be more expensive so the MS software tax used to seem less extreme. Who cares if the OS costs $75 when the PC is $4000? Now that a good PC cost $400, $100 (or even $200) is a lot bigger deal. By the time IBM lost significant market share to the clones MS was ready to be anybody's whore, for a price.
To say MS had a lot to do with the steep drop in PC prices is like saying that rats are buoyant and help keep ships afloat.
-dameron
Well, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the info. It's been about fifteen years since I lived in the south and did any hunting, and that was mostly squirrel, not exactly something that'll have many "leftovers" to donate.
Hunting for food, when there really is a need, is probably a good thing. It's the upper middle class trophy hunters (which I think are much more numerous than the "must hunt for food" types) that bother me. Maybe states should issue 70% fewer licenses, have slightly longer seasons and
higher limits, and make getting a license "need based".
-dameron
Well, I'll take a stab at this troll...
Make sure you field dress him, remove his brain stem and spine, then strap him to the hood of your SUV...
Obviously you know nothing about hunting. Most hunters go out to fill their freezer and feed their family.
When they're not reading slashdot.
Many hunters (myself included) donate meat that won't fit in my freezer to shelters and churches.
I have a hard time believing any organized charity would accept meat wrapped in white paper and labeled with masking tape much less turn around and feed this meat to the needy. The liability issues involved with spoiled or poorly dressed meat, or things like "spony" brains, should scare away any organization with significant assets.
-dameron
Just who do you think makes the rules about which crimes are punishable by death (such as "hacking" is now in the U.S., thanks to homeland security), and who gets to decide. In some jurisdictions judges determine who lives and who dies, and governors often have the last say. The president, when governor of Texas didn't so much as issue a stay of execution until he was deep into the election. 131 executions without a stay, then he suddenly issues his first as he's campaigning in California. When the government decides who lives and who dies politics come into play and that, to me, is a horrible crime against human rights.
Did anyone else find it disgusting when Bush said "Looks nervous don't he?" when he was "pardoning" the Thanksgiving turkey the other day?
-dameron
What next, having to correctly answer a reading comprehension question about the ads to get to the web site's supposed message?
If these folks were around in 1776 it'd have read like this:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable...
-!!!CURIOUS??? WANNA SEE MORE??? WONDER WHAT "UNALIENABLE" MEANS??? CLICK HERE FOR MORE HOT HOT FREEDOM AND FOUNDING FATHER ON FOUNDING FATHER ACTION!!!"-
-dameron
(really needing that in red, with a blink tag, but nooooo...)
"I think you meant IEEE 1394"
Yep.
More like 1995, that's when IEEE 1344 ("Firewire") first hit the mainstream. The company I was working for back then purchased AVID systems (at over $100K each) that were running on 68040 Macs. Even then Mac folks were splorkin' all over this mythic "firewire".
I've been happily paying my online account via Mozilla (on Redhat 7.2, then 7.3)for at least five months now.
I used to use Opera disguised as IE, but for the past five months (since mid-June when I got a new laptop) I've been using Opera sans javascript, so I know I wasn't dreaming when I paid all those charges...
I hope.
-dameron
Ok, to get this strait, I have a firm grasp of what you and the the AC thinks "begs the question" means, or, should I say, used to mean several decades ago. As it stands there is nothing inappropriate about using "begs the question" in the fashion mentioned, -especially in this forum-.
(Note my not so standard use of the dash. Or the parenthesis, or, -Hades- this entire aside! Not to mention my entire lack of completing a sentence!)
Yet none of this could possibly detract you from my point, and my meaning is clear.
You're being far too formal.
A quick cut and past job to set your mind at ease:
Many people unaware of the technical meaning of "to beg the question" in logic use it in one of two looser senses. The first of these, "to evade the question, to duck the issue", is attested since 1860 (WDEU). The second, "to invite the obvious question, (with an inanimate subject) to raise the question", is now the most commonly
heard use of the phrase, although we have found no mention of it prior to The Oxford Guide to English Usage, 1st edition (1983)."
My emphasis, of course. So it appears this issue was settles sometime in the 80s. Or 80's, both are equally correct.
Especially in this forum.
-dameron
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Or is the real story here:
"There's a very small market for pricey service delivered to the highly prized wealthy/lazy/immobile demographic..."?
-dameron
Dude, when ACs and the OED differ, I'm going with the OED.
btw, it's asshats like you what make posting online such a pain in the ass.
-dameron
It certainly begs the question, dumbass..
Or do you need to be schooled on "common usage"?
Please don't "beg the question" on that issue..
-dameron
and begs the question: How can I get my product/service/ideology advertised on Slashdot for free?
-dameron
Just kidding, I saw that this was the Stone's Bill Wyman, but wanted to point out that these kinds of freaky "Springeresque" moments arent reserved for our friends in the South.
Maybe he, Roman Polansky and Jerry Lee Lewis could start a media company like SKG and only release PG 13 movies...
-dameron
That'd do it, can't find it. If anyone knows where one is please post a link.
The bitrate limitations on the USB port makes this product D.O.A. as far as I can tell. Who wants to watch a tiny window of video on an expensive Apple monitor?
-dameron
Here's a list of the sites that were blocked by default that I had to unblock manually:
Some of these sites involve themselves in gay/lesbian issues (particulary in regards to the other BSA the Boy Scouts of America), and may have been incorrectly blocked by keywords for "gay" or more likely "lesbian", but I've scoured the index page source for places like "Access Atlanta" and couldn't find anything that could be construed as remotely offensive, even in a substring.
People who back such laws as this and oppose the recent ruling concerning the "under God" portion of the "Pledge of Allegience" are at odds with America's diverse morality and (non)spirituality. To include a reference to God in the Pledge begs the question "Which God?" or "Whose?". Likewise when legislating morality the question becomes "Whose morals?".
Because nearly every commercial filtering system is protected by "trade secrets" it becomes impossible to expect and answer to the above questions, and illegal to discover them on your own.
Are expected to purchase software that controls our childrens access to information without knowing what it's really doing? Absolutely, and if this law is upheld it'd be illegal to choose otherwise.
Don't entirely know what it blocks and doesn't. Don't know why. Blocking software companies won't tell us. Illegal to find out. Illegal to not install. Likely illegal to circumvent.
Orwellian. Yep.
As an aside:
"Protecting children" is a convenient way to get government to move, and it's a red herring. No American politician is going to come out and say "I'm anti-children" or "I think children should look at porn and the taxpayers should foot the bill.". Evoking "protecting children" is just a carrot (or whip if you'd rather) for people who have an agenda to wave in front of legislators.
"Protecting children" also sells tires, and Volvos, and antibacterial soap, and milk, and private schools, and cell phones, and guns...
-dameron
at some point. Did Tori Spelling do an album...?
-dameron
works much the same, but I'd like to see Dolby or any other big company pull a $40 million dollar check out of, say, Fritz Hollings slobbering mouth.
I'd rather wrestle a pit bull for a pork chop.
(btw, to confirm the "S" in Hollings' name I looked him up on google with:
riaa representative "back pocket" congress)
-dameron
"I can hear it, can't you?"
-dameron
1. Give away AIM for free
2. Charge companies $35/user to monitor AIM
3. Sell un-monitored "AIM Platinum" for $50
4. Sell "AIM Platinum" monitor for $100/user
Someone needs to write OSS that monitors AIM connections for $0/user. Oh what changes we'd see in AOL's client then...! "Protect your Privacy! Unmonitorable AIM Platinum - GOLD EDITION!"
Of course writing such software would seem kinda evil to most slashdotters, and far too proactive. If it stops being profitable to rob people of their rights and privacy, corporations will stop doing it.
-dameron
This isn't flaimbait, this is hilarious, if only for the reference to grandma's PE collection...
-dameron
News for NERDS!???
... ..
The Pistols were never for nerds...
Many more like this and Slashdot's whole weltanschauung's gonna crack open and suddenly we'll find ourselves no longer nerdy...
Fingers crossed,
waiting...
waiting...
waiting...
.
Damn.
-dameron