It does NOT render well in Opera for Linux (5.0 or 5.05TP), but it does so in 5.12 for Windows. Or Mozilla (any platform). It's quite funny in IE 6.0.:)))
It's not like that. The site is simply checking. If it isn't IE and isn't Netscape 4.x, then print "your browser is not compatible, upgrade to IE, blah blah blah".
In other words, the site WOULD work if not for that stupid check. Yes, we can make the browser pretend it's another browser (Konqueror and Opera do that quite easily), but we shouldn't have to...
The problem with this is that it makes it look that FreeBSD isn't secure, or OpenBSD isn't portable, for example.
When in fact:
- all three are more secure (by default) than any Linux;
- OpenBSD runs on about 10 architectures;
- all three are usually faster and more efficient than Linux.
This is not a flame or religious argument. I use Linux on my main desktop machine. But the BSDs (which I use on a couple of servers, and am also trying on the desktop) "feel" faster.
He was NOT fired. Both UO and U9 were released months before being ready, thanks to EA, and he got fed up with that.
FYI, Peter Molyneux left Bullfrog (owned by EA) for exactly the same reasons (Dungeon Keeper, his last game there, was released before he wanted to). EA has a history of doing that: "we've spent too much with your game already, release it now or it's cancelled".
Why does everyone say that nVidia has an obfuscated driver? They had one for XF86 3.3.4, because it was rushed, but by 3.3.5 (which came out quickly after 3.3.4) the driver is a normal, non-obfuscated one. Yet, it seems many people had the original/. story "fixed" in their minds, and think "obfuscated driver" when they read nVidia.:) Oh, well...
You obviously don't "get" games if you don't see how a gamer can take his/her gaming VERY seriously. I bet you think "games are for kids". This isn't intended as a flame - it's just an anti-stereotype.
The TNT2 will always be faster, but the faster the processor, the bigger the difference between the TNT and TNT2. On a P2-300 (I have one) we SEE the difference. On a P200mmx, probably not a lot. Also, the TNT2 has other advantages over the original TNT, such as the 32Mb (even less texture swapping, i.e. pauses during games) and a much smaller performance hit when doing 32-bit color instead of 16-bit color, at the same resolution. But both are great cards, and pure 3dfx killers if you ask me.:)
>Nobody in their right mind is going to play Q3A > in 32bit color anyway even with a TNT2, it's > looks fine in 16bit, and the frame rates kick > butt. Nobody? I sure will. Have you 3dfx users ever *seen* 32-bit color? Not in a game with 8-bit textures like Quake or Quake2, but in one with 16-bit textures (Unreal, Half-Life) or 24-bit (Q3A)? This weekend I finally tried Unreal in my TNT at 800x600x32, and it "converted" me - people keep saying Unreal sucks, but I don't think I can even look at Quake2 again (ok, I can, because it's still a good game). Or play Unreal in my old 3dfx card again. Unreal in 32-bit color really took my breath away lots of times, and few games have done that lately. Try to look at the "Tundra" deathmatch level in a TNT and you'll see what I mean.
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John Romero = Doom + Quake + Daikatana.
John Carmack = Doom + Quake + Quake 2 + Quake 3.
(I'm not mention the Keen games, or Wolf 3D, or the rest of them)
Now, I think Doom and Quake are better games than Daikatana, Quake 2 or 3, which makes me keep my belief that Carmack and Romero "belong" together.
Hmm, and Konqueror 2.2.1 hangs. :(
It does NOT render well in Opera for Linux (5.0 or 5.05TP), but it does so in 5.12 for Windows. Or Mozilla (any platform). It's quite funny in IE 6.0. :)))
Konqueror 2.x can't access HTTPS sites through a proxy, which makes it useless for a lot of companies. This is sad, because I love it as a browser...
It's not like that. The site is simply checking. If it isn't IE and isn't Netscape 4.x, then print "your browser is not compatible, upgrade to IE, blah blah blah".
In other words, the site WOULD work if not for that stupid check. Yes, we can make the browser pretend it's another browser (Konqueror and Opera do that quite easily), but we shouldn't have to...
So shoot the legs. Simple.
But Linus can only name what he wrote.
The problem with this is that it makes it look that FreeBSD isn't secure, or OpenBSD isn't portable, for example.
When in fact:
- all three are more secure (by default) than any Linux;
- OpenBSD runs on about 10 architectures;
- all three are usually faster and more efficient than Linux.
This is not a flame or religious argument. I use Linux on my main desktop machine. But the BSDs (which I use on a couple of servers, and am also trying on the desktop) "feel" faster.
He was NOT fired. Both UO and U9 were released months before being ready, thanks to EA, and he got fed up with that.
FYI, Peter Molyneux left Bullfrog (owned by EA) for exactly the same reasons (Dungeon Keeper, his last game there, was released before he wanted to). EA has a history of doing that: "we've spent too much with your game already, release it now or it's cancelled".
Score 4, Insightful?
-1, Troll or Flamebait is more like it...
- "The Wheel of Time" series, by Robert Jordan
- "The Sword of Truth" series, by Terry Goodkind
- Dragonlance "Chronicles" & "Legends", by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
- everything by Raymond E. Feist
Why does everyone say that nVidia has an obfuscated driver? They had one for XF86 3.3.4, because it was rushed, but by 3.3.5 (which came out quickly after 3.3.4) the driver is a normal, non-obfuscated one. Yet, it seems many people had the original /. story "fixed" in their minds, and think "obfuscated driver" when they read nVidia. :) Oh, well...
You obviously don't "get" games if you don't see how a gamer can take his/her gaming VERY seriously. I bet you think "games are for kids". This isn't intended as a flame - it's just an anti-stereotype.
How can you go to sleep at night, after doing what you do?
I think the author of the article meant free as in "free beer", not "free speech". Sun CAN make Solaris cost $0 if they want to.
The TNT2 will always be faster, but the faster the processor, the bigger the difference between the TNT and TNT2. On a P2-300 (I have one) we SEE the difference. On a P200mmx, probably not a lot. Also, the TNT2 has other advantages over the original TNT, such as the 32Mb (even less texture swapping, i.e. pauses during games) and a much smaller performance hit when doing 32-bit color instead of 16-bit color, at the same resolution. But both are great cards, and pure 3dfx killers if you ask me. :)
>Nobody in their right mind is going to play Q3A > in 32bit color anyway even with a TNT2, it's > looks fine in 16bit, and the frame rates kick > butt. Nobody? I sure will. Have you 3dfx users ever *seen* 32-bit color? Not in a game with 8-bit textures like Quake or Quake2, but in one with 16-bit textures (Unreal, Half-Life) or 24-bit (Q3A)? This weekend I finally tried Unreal in my TNT at 800x600x32, and it "converted" me - people keep saying Unreal sucks, but I don't think I can even look at Quake2 again (ok, I can, because it's still a good game). Or play Unreal in my old 3dfx card again. Unreal in 32-bit color really took my breath away lots of times, and few games have done that lately. Try to look at the "Tundra" deathmatch level in a TNT and you'll see what I mean.
Actually, Sid did work much more on Gettysburg than on Alpha Centauri - AC is (mostly) a Brian Reynolds game like Civ 2. Just for information. :)