Many people will appreciate it when you share and share alike. And that by itself is worth much more than choosing life, a career, or a fscking big television.
If your standards are high enough to hold out for SERIOUS talent, you're gonna be out of luck without the big bucks, dude.
I think you and I differ on definitions of the words "standards" and "attractive." My standards were phenomenally high and I found what I was looking for - a lifelong partner who has borne two daughters, shared my life and work and who is an attractive companion in every possible way.
I suppose you mean I can't have an international model on my arm without serious clams. Agreed - but what for? To show off? To whom? To keep her in jewels and toys? To subsidise her? And then how do I know she's not just after the money? And then after six months, she just moves on to the next smeg-for-brains. That's not love - that's the pathetic crap we get served by celebrity magazines every day.
Four billion years of evolution is working against any other decision on the hottie's part.
Dear Aiden, I don't know you from a bar of soap but I'd like to encourage you in your efforts developing Free Software. I understand your antipathy towards Microsoft given its track record of mocking, attacking and undermining Free Software but don't waste your energy hating it. It is, as Professor Eben Moglen, counsel for the Free Software Foundation, said the other day, on the wrong side of the software movement. Rather continue to write, improve upon, distribute and enourage others to use Free Software. And don't think you aren't perfectly entitled to charge money for Free Software - I do it for a living and it earns me quite a lot of money.
I'm not going to bore you with all the stupid Pascal stuff I did at your age, neither will I drivel on about making a few bucks from the odd software sale. What I will say is this: make sure you do something that you really enjoy for a living when you finally need to earn a living. Never take a job on the money alone. To spend most of your time doing something you hate just because the paycheck is good is soul-destroying. Using a job as a stepping stone is fine, but make sure you have a goal to do what you want. Don't worry if this process takes ten or fifteen years - you can still have lots of fun along the way while picking up experience. And there's at least one attractive woman out there who will love you for who you are, not how much you earn. You'll find her if you keep looking. Sometimes you'll find that she was there all the time - just that you didn't notice. Good luck.
You sound like you have much enthusiasm for programming. That's great - and one day it might provide you with a steady income. Developing Free Software teaches you all sorts of good habits which will stand you in good stead in the real world: client expectations, deadlines, having to work with obnoxious idiots who are nonetheless brilliant coders, version control and a passion for elegance and cleanliness. Even if it doesn't and you do something else for a living, writing Free Software is a pleasant part-time addiction that can provide many happy hours - I hesitate to say relaxation - occupation for your mind.
Free Software is not a myth or a lie: it is the largest single technical knowledge repository on the planet available to all who want at no charge. None of the code contained therein has been obtained by trickery or extortion. On the contrary, hundreds of thousands of intelligent coders want what you want: to program cool stuff and share it with others. And they have done so. There is no food chain in Free Software. It is perfectly possible for a young University student like yourself to change the world given enough talent, hard work and help from like-minded people (you may have noticed this somewhere before).
Like some other correspondents of yours, I also happen to know a few choice quotes about political systems. But since none of them shed any light whatsoever on the process of or motivation for writing Free Software, I will not waste your time with them.
You will encounter opposition from many quarters. Some of this opposition will be from genuinely concerned but misguided people who want to deny reality, ignorant as they are about the 21st century, the market share of Apache or sendmail, and the difference between bits and atoms. Some will even call you stupid or a bigot. Don't worry. You will be proud one day to tell your grandchildren that you created a program that thousands of people - maybe even millions - used to improve their lives. Right now your skills and enthusiasm are of enormous worth to yourself and many others. Many people will appreciate it when you share and share alike. And that by itself is worth much more than choosing life, a career, or a fscking big television.
The AC is both everyone and no one in particular at the same time. ... We have survived by hiding from them and by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers, which means that sooner or later someone is going to have to mod them.
Someone?
I won't lie to you Neo. Everyone, every single man or woman who has commented on the AC problem has been $rtbled. But where they have failed you will succeed.
This is quite close to the truth actually:) On the extended edition of FoTR, one of the production designers says Peter Jackson sat them all down at the beginning of the project and said something along the lines of: "I don't want you approaching this as a fantasy work. I want you to imagine that these events really happened and that we've been privileged to witness and document them on film." Certainly the attention to detail of the different cultures and settings benefited from that kind of mindset.
Could anybody who knows the physics behind this please explain how this thing will perform/behave compared to a normal RC heli, and then compared to a full size heli?
No idea but the Hoverfly flies like its much larger brothers by using small upward facing motors on its rotors and then co-ordinating them electronically. It does have a small gyro but there are no servos since cyclic and collective are controlled electronically and the anti-torque rotor is much smaller than normal since it's not the main rotor providing the thrust.
I use Gentoo and love it, but a Stage 3 install isn't anywhere near comparable to RH 9. IIRC it doesn't even include X, and certainly not KDE and GNOME.
OK, I was installing from the Live CDs (I bought them) using the Gentoo Reference Platform option. To install X and Gnome at stage 25 before you reboot you can just: emerge -k xfree emerge -k gnome
which only takes a couple of minutes on this Celeron.
The two challenges with Gentoo are 1) the need to compile everything from scratch (which can take ages)
You don't need to compile everything out of the box on Gentoo - you have a choice between stage 1 (all from source), 2 (base system) or 3 (all binary) tarballs. I just stuck a stage 3 install on my wife's machine (all binary packages) and it took only slightly longer than a RedHat 9 install on another machine the day before.
and 2) the almost vertical learning curve required to get the resulting linux system to work (work out of the box? - not really!).
YMMV on this. I've never had a problem getting it all to work first time. Forgot something? emerge packagename and you're done.
Sagan himself fell into the same traps though. Read Michael Crichton's excellent speech on the dangers of "consensus" science. It has a number of other good points to add to this dicussion. One very pertinent one is that we should be cautious of a bunch of concerned scientists:)
If distributions don't package it but instead go with X from freedesktop.org, XFree86 will die in weeks as developers will move over to the new, freer codebase (Keith Packard has said he wants the freedesktop.org release to be DFSG-free).
Great post - can you just explain what is meant here: Keith Packard wants freedesktop.org to be free as *in* DFSG or free *of* the DFSG ? I hope the former...
Well, ok, but with a toilet seat YOU supply the fuel.
Of course in Soviet Russia....actually no, I'm not going to go there.
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This is from a very funny book written in the 19th century. In those days the Net equivalent was the library and the function of the banner ad was admirably filled by leaflets for patent medicine...
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch - hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into - some fearful, devastating scourge, I know - and, before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.
I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever - read the symptoms - discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it - wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus's Dance - found, as I expected, that I had that too, - began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically - read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight. Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee? Why this invidious reservation? After a while, however, less grasping feelings prevailed. I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid's knee. Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
I sat and pondered. I thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view, what an acquisition I should be to a class! Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I have since been induced to come to the opinion that it must have been there all the time, and must have been beating, but I cannot account for it. I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head, and I went a bit round each side, and a little way up the back. But I could not feel or hear anything. I tried to look at my tongue. I stuck it out as far as ever it would go, and I shut one eye, and tried to examine it with the other. I could only see the tip, and the only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
I went to my medical man. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I'm ill; so I thought I would do him a good turn by going to him now. "What a doctor wants," I said, "is practice. He shall have me. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your
By Stephen Evans BBC North America Business Correspondent
The MyDoom virus has triggered a new wave of attacks from lazy business journalists. It is also looks like a new front [sic] in a war waged by those who want to argue from facts and those who just make up anything that comes into their heads.
It's usually no easier to fathom the motives of virus creators than it is of any other perpetrator of damage for damage's sake. But I'm going to be clever and subtly equate their motives with normal geeks in the first paragraph just to prepare the ground for you. There - done.
In the case of the MyDoom computer worm, the motivation seems clearer. This is a good point and I'll ignore the alarm bells it rings, since I've just said how most virus writers' work is baffling to explain. Then I'll introduce SCO as the victim and assert that the perpetrator was someone devoted to the Linux operating system.
The a quick paragraph on the history of the case which gets almost all major facts wrong followed by an entire section drawn on the very shaky premise that it must have been a geek Linux internet zealot who believes that code should be free to all. A few pointed jabs at Linux users later and I'll quickly admit that there is no proof of any of this, but that my (and of course your) conclusions should be clear.
My conclusion is just as lazy. A nice section of speculation and poor research to finish off - with all the usual trigger phrases like "experts are pondering", "possibility", "might", and "internet blackmail."
By now you can guess that I am an utter moron, with no more qualifications to be a business correspondent than a piece of cheese.
Dosbox's sound mixers are very correct but yes - they're horribly slow. I'm working on an MMX assembly version which preliminary testing shows to be roughly 100 times faster thanks to a little reorganisation of the data and processing 4 samples at a time with the saturation ops. I had this complaint with dosbox too but I worked out its real CPU requirements based on what it's emulating and it's much higher than I first thought: VGA + 386 + peripherals + decent sound card like an Ultrasound adds up to a frightening amount of processing power which must be emulated.
BTW Kings Quest 6 works very well with frameskip set to 4 and CPU cycles set to 4500 on my Ghz PIII.
My favourite Weird Al quote of all time (from here):
Q: Hey Al!!!!! What do u think about Napster? I just want to know if you approve.
A: I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I'm concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!!!!!
Please tell him from me that I've spent more enjoyable hours on PainKeep than any other Quake[1|2|3] mod - even AQ. I remember mailing the team way back when saying how much I was enjoying it but the mail bounced at the time. In fact, I *still* play PainKeep....
For me, the PainKeep partial conversion for Quake I (I believe there is also one for Q3) showed how a mod should be done. The levels were solid, the design and sounds were excellent, but most of all, the new weapons and additional items were brilliant.
The AirFist was the first defensive weapon mod for Quake 1 and it definitely leveled the playing field against rocket launcher-wielding opponents (as well as providing a cool way of jumping and blowing objects out of reach of other players). There were also cool weapons like the gravity well, the sentinel (think Aliens robot sentries here) and grappling hooks.
Lots of thought went into the design and balance of all the items, so much so that it wasn't really noticeable - the gameplay was just fun.
Harris used this cliche himself. He was quite unrepentant about his decision to firebomb civilian areas saying, in an interview for The World at War: "if you sow the wind, be prepared to reap the whirlwind."
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They should have just called it the Kwality Team - we would have known immediately what project they were working on.
Many people will appreciate it when you share and share alike. And that by itself is worth much more than choosing life, a career, or a fscking big television.
Ha! Troll! I knew it...
It's called a punchline...
If your standards are high enough to hold out for SERIOUS talent, you're gonna be out of luck without the big bucks, dude.
I think you and I differ on definitions of the words "standards" and "attractive." My standards were phenomenally high and I found what I was looking for - a lifelong partner who has borne two daughters, shared my life and work and who is an attractive companion in every possible way.
I suppose you mean I can't have an international model on my arm without serious clams. Agreed - but what for? To show off? To whom? To keep her in jewels and toys? To subsidise her? And then how do I know she's not just after the money? And then after six months, she just moves on to the next smeg-for-brains. That's not love - that's the pathetic crap we get served by celebrity magazines every day.
Four billion years of evolution is working against any other decision on the hottie's part.
In many cases, she learns soon enough.
...another letter.
Dear Aiden,
I don't know you from a bar of soap but I'd like to encourage you in your efforts developing Free Software. I understand your antipathy towards Microsoft given its track record of mocking, attacking and undermining Free Software but don't waste your energy hating it. It is, as Professor Eben Moglen, counsel for the Free Software Foundation, said the other day, on the wrong side of the software movement. Rather continue to write, improve upon, distribute and enourage others to use Free Software. And don't think you aren't perfectly entitled to charge money for Free Software - I do it for a living and it earns me quite a lot of money.
I'm not going to bore you with all the stupid Pascal stuff I did at your age, neither will I drivel on about making a few bucks from the odd software sale. What I will say is this: make sure you do something that you really enjoy for a living when you finally need to earn a living. Never take a job on the money alone. To spend most of your time doing something you hate just because the paycheck is good is soul-destroying. Using a job as a stepping stone is fine, but make sure you have a goal to do what you want. Don't worry if this process takes ten or fifteen years - you can still have lots of fun along the way while picking up experience. And there's at least one attractive woman out there who will love you for who you are, not how much you earn. You'll find her if you keep looking. Sometimes you'll find that she was there all the time - just that you didn't notice. Good luck.
You sound like you have much enthusiasm for programming. That's great - and one day it might provide you with a steady income. Developing Free Software teaches you all sorts of good habits which will stand you in good stead in the real world: client expectations, deadlines, having to work with obnoxious idiots who are nonetheless brilliant coders, version control and a passion for elegance and cleanliness. Even if it doesn't and you do something else for a living, writing Free Software is a pleasant part-time addiction that can provide many happy hours - I hesitate to say relaxation - occupation for your mind.
Free Software is not a myth or a lie: it is the largest single technical knowledge repository on the planet available to all who want at no charge. None of the code contained therein has been obtained by trickery or extortion. On the contrary, hundreds of thousands of intelligent coders want what you want: to program cool stuff and share it with others. And they have done so. There is no food chain in Free Software. It is perfectly possible for a young University student like yourself to change the world given enough talent, hard work and help from like-minded people (you may have noticed this somewhere before).
Like some other correspondents of yours, I also happen to know a few choice quotes about political systems. But since none of them shed any light whatsoever on the process of or motivation for writing Free Software, I will not waste your time with them.
You will encounter opposition from many quarters. Some of this opposition will be from genuinely concerned but misguided people who want to deny reality, ignorant as they are about the 21st century, the market share of Apache or sendmail, and the difference between bits and atoms. Some will even call you stupid or a bigot. Don't worry. You will be proud one day to tell your grandchildren that you created a program that thousands of people - maybe even millions - used to improve their lives. Right now your skills and enthusiasm are of enormous worth to yourself and many others. Many people will appreciate it when you share and share alike. And that by itself is worth much more than choosing life, a career, or a fscking big television.
The AC is both everyone and no one in particular at the same time. ...
We have survived by hiding from them and by running from them. But they are the gatekeepers, which means that sooner or later someone is going to have to mod them.
Someone?
I won't lie to you Neo. Everyone, every single man or woman who has commented on the AC problem has been $rtbled. But where they have failed you will succeed.
This is quite close to the truth actually :) On the extended edition of FoTR, one of the production designers says Peter Jackson sat them all down at the beginning of the project and said something along the lines of: "I don't want you approaching this as a fantasy work. I want you to imagine that these events really happened and that we've been privileged to witness and document them on film."
Certainly the attention to detail of the different cultures and settings benefited from that kind of mindset.
Could anybody who knows the physics behind this please explain how this thing will perform/behave compared to a normal RC heli, and then compared to a full size heli?
No idea but the Hoverfly flies like its much larger brothers by using small upward facing motors on its rotors and then co-ordinating them electronically. It does have a small gyro but there are no servos since cyclic and collective are controlled electronically and the anti-torque rotor is much smaller than normal since it's not the main rotor providing the thrust.
I use Gentoo and love it, but a Stage 3 install isn't anywhere near comparable to RH 9. IIRC it doesn't even include X, and certainly not KDE and GNOME.
OK, I was installing from the Live CDs (I bought them) using the Gentoo Reference Platform option. To install X and Gnome at stage 25 before you reboot you can just:
emerge -k xfree
emerge -k gnome
which only takes a couple of minutes on this Celeron.
The two challenges with Gentoo are 1) the need to compile everything from scratch (which can take ages)
You don't need to compile everything out of the box on Gentoo - you have a choice between stage 1 (all from source), 2 (base system) or 3 (all binary) tarballs. I just stuck a stage 3 install on my wife's machine (all binary packages) and it took only slightly longer than a RedHat 9 install on another machine the day before.
and 2) the almost vertical learning curve required to get the resulting linux system to work (work out of the box? - not really!).
YMMV on this. I've never had a problem getting it all to work first time. Forgot something? emerge packagename and you're done.
They haven't. They don't do business that way.
Of course not. And Halloween Document 7 is entirely a figment of all our imaginations. As is ASF support in VirtualDub...
...a globular cluster of these!
Sagan himself fell into the same traps though. Read Michael Crichton's excellent speech on the dangers of "consensus" science. It has a number of other good points to add to this dicussion. One very pertinent one is that we should be cautious of a bunch of concerned scientists :)
If distributions don't package it but instead go with X from freedesktop.org, XFree86 will die in weeks as developers will move over to the new, freer codebase (Keith Packard has said he wants the freedesktop.org release to be DFSG-free).
Great post - can you just explain what is meant here: Keith Packard wants freedesktop.org to be free as *in* DFSG or free *of* the DFSG ? I hope the former...
Well, ok, but with a toilet seat YOU supply the fuel.
Of course in Soviet Russia....actually no, I'm not going to go there.
This is from a very funny book written in the 19th century. In those days the Net equivalent was the library and the function of the banner ad was admirably filled by leaflets for patent medicine...
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch - hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into - some fearful, devastating scourge, I know - and, before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.
I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever - read the symptoms - discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it - wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus's Dance - found, as I expected, that I had that too, - began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically - read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight. Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee? Why this invidious reservation? After a while, however, less grasping feelings prevailed. I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid's knee. Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
I sat and pondered. I thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view, what an acquisition I should be to a class! Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I have since been induced to come to the opinion that it must have been there all the time, and must have been beating, but I cannot account for it. I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head, and I went a bit round each side, and a little way up the back. But I could not feel or hear anything. I tried to look at my tongue. I stuck it out as far as ever it would go, and I shut one eye, and tried to examine it with the other. I could only see the tip, and the only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
I went to my medical man. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I'm ill; so I thought I would do him a good turn by going to him now. "What a doctor wants," I said, "is practice. He shall have me. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your
Linux cyber-battle turns nasty
By Stephen Evans
BBC North America Business Correspondent
The MyDoom virus has triggered a new wave of attacks from lazy business journalists. It is also looks like a new front [sic] in a war waged by those who want to argue from facts and those who just make up anything that comes into their heads.
It's usually no easier to fathom the motives of virus creators than it is of any other perpetrator of damage for damage's sake. But I'm going to be clever and subtly equate their motives with normal geeks in the first paragraph just to prepare the ground for you. There - done.
In the case of the MyDoom computer worm, the motivation seems clearer. This is a good point and I'll ignore the alarm bells it rings, since I've just said how most virus writers' work is baffling to explain. Then I'll introduce SCO as the victim and assert that the perpetrator was someone devoted to the Linux operating system.
The a quick paragraph on the history of the case which gets almost all major facts wrong followed by an entire section drawn on the very shaky premise that it must have been a geek Linux internet zealot who believes that code should be free to all. A few pointed jabs at Linux users later and I'll quickly admit that there is no proof of any of this, but that my (and of course your) conclusions should be clear.
My conclusion is just as lazy. A nice section of speculation and poor research to finish off - with all the usual trigger phrases like "experts are pondering", "possibility", "might", and "internet blackmail."
By now you can guess that I am an utter moron, with no more qualifications to be a business correspondent than a piece of cheese.
Interresting! So Dosbox's sound emulation is that much a bottleneck?
:)
;)
:(
Proof coming soon
Are we going to see your code in 0.62?
As soon as it works 100% - strange clipping bug when I run ImpulseTracker and some old DOS demos
Dosbox's sound mixers are very correct but yes - they're horribly slow. I'm working on an MMX assembly version which preliminary testing shows to be roughly 100 times faster thanks to a little reorganisation of the data and processing 4 samples at a time with the saturation ops.
I had this complaint with dosbox too but I worked out its real CPU requirements based on what it's emulating and it's much higher than I first thought: VGA + 386 + peripherals + decent sound card like an Ultrasound adds up to a frightening amount of processing power which must be emulated.
BTW Kings Quest 6 works very well with frameskip set to 4 and CPU cycles set to 4500 on my Ghz PIII.
When you program for Windows, you're programming COMMUNISM - a friendly reminder from your friends at Slashdot.
If only the article wasn't such a troll...
My favourite Weird Al quote of all time (from here):
Q: Hey Al!!!!! What do u think about Napster? I just want to know if you approve.
A: I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I'm concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!!!!!
Please tell him from me that I've spent more enjoyable hours on PainKeep than any other Quake[1|2|3] mod - even AQ. I remember mailing the team way back when saying how much I was enjoying it but the mail bounced at the time.
In fact, I *still* play PainKeep....
For me, the PainKeep partial conversion for Quake I (I believe there is also one for Q3) showed how a mod should be done. The levels were solid, the design and sounds were excellent, but most of all, the new weapons and additional items were brilliant.
The AirFist was the first defensive weapon mod for Quake 1 and it definitely leveled the playing field against rocket launcher-wielding opponents (as well as providing a cool way of jumping and blowing objects out of reach of other players). There were also cool weapons like the gravity well, the sentinel (think Aliens robot sentries here) and grappling hooks.
Lots of thought went into the design and balance of all the items, so much so that it wasn't really noticeable - the gameplay was just fun.
Didn't you notice her nick?
Do you get wafers with it?
To use another cliche, you reap what you sow.
Harris used this cliche himself. He was quite unrepentant about his decision to firebomb civilian areas saying, in an interview for The World at War: "if you sow the wind, be prepared to reap the whirlwind."