FALSE. An http User-Agent is sent because I told my machine to contact that server. When I launch a game, I am not, in my mind, commanding my system to contact a server unless and until I tell my system to join a network game.
The information is not sent unless you connect to a server. So there you go.
The User-Agent header allows the server to better taylor content for my machine. Why would a server care what video card I had?
Knowing what kind of video cards are in use in consumerland allows id to tailor content for your machine. Same purpose. Same result. There you go.
Shipping and Handling? That's all. Shit that's a pretty good deal. They could be charging $500 for it and there's nothing anybody could do beyond entering the market and competing. Doesn't anybody remember how much GCC tapes cost from the FSF? Something like $400 at one time.
GT doesn't need to be another Loki. GT is a huge company, vastly larger than Loki. Probably larger than Loki will ever be. Even when they lose money in a quarter, they are still more than Loki.
God I want so much to moderate this as overrated. But I can't convey enough information with that...:)
Anyway, 20-30% is way off. If you truly think that this is the correct number, turn on your TV and turn down the sound. Or get a pair of binoculars and look at a distant conversation. At 50-80% communication coming via non-verbal forms (as per your statistic excluding pitch and rhythm) you should be able to get the general gist of things easily. Yet I'm betting that you can only pick up the general tone. And in some cases you may not be able to do even that depending on the emotional level of the conversation and other interpersonal dynamics going on.
All I got from the article is that the journalist is a weak minded media skunk. Any geek that can do 72 hours straight programming should be able to do a week of online interaction only, no problems.
PCs suck for gaming, period. Serious gamers are console gamers. When I play games, I want to see a projection screen with 500 watts of surround sound. If you want to sit huddled in front of a postage-stamp-sized screen with scratchy sound out of a pair of shitty speakers, be my guest.:-)
LOL! Dude you're living in denial or something.:) Go out and buy any decent mini system from Sony/AIWA/JVC/et al. Hook it up to your $50 SbLive or Aural based card. And my 17" monitor may be smaller than my 35" TV, but it certainly has a much better picture than my TV be far. Plus when the urge arises I can hook my computer up to my TV. But the urge seldom tweaks my bottom. Have a great weekend!:)
According to Brian Hook (who was at id at the time he made the comment), id has put in the necessary software support to use 3DNow and SSE instructions within the quake3 proper. So driver support, while nice, isn't going to be the only place we get benefits from our instruction sets.
I would hold off on a 3dfx board. Right now they aren't "the best" (whatever that means) and they are going to have new product out in March which should be a lot better than what they got now. If you can only buy 1 card and you have to have it now, the GeForce 256 based cards are fastest. If you can afford two cards, buy a TNT or TNT2 for cheap and then get one of the new 3dfx cards in the spring.
Urm. So you're saying that 4.6 is an odd number? Integers.
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Although, this isn't terribly fascinating, seeing as how 11-19-1997 was all odd, too.
And last Wednesday, and last Monday. And the Saturday before that. And the Thursday before that. And Tuesday before that. Then the previous Sunday. And that Friday, Wednesday and Monday.
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Now, once I RECORD these shows, am I breaking the law ?
Technically yes,(It Is Copyrighted material) but I don't see any groups suing SONY for their latest model that I bought.
Go to the hrrc.org homepage and read their chronology. I didn't read it that closely, and once they started spewing hr.-this and hr.-that I sort of tuned out. But I do remember getting the impression that the Supreme Court made a ruling saying that it's legal for you to record shows from TV to watch at a later time. It was early in the whole VCR phenomena so it's possible that laws have changed since then.
Also you do pay a tax on VCRs and blank tapes. Or you have to pay the cost of having something like macrovision incorporated into your VCR.
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Look, you don't have the right to other peoples things...
Better not use that argument. Don't you know that it's not stealing if you don't take a physical iteam... at least that's the counter argument you're going to get.
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Nice article. Given that we already have some of these rights specifically given to us (at least in the US.) I wonder how things like Macrovision and the CSS protection of DVDs are allowed to continue. They do infringe on our rights to use media we have legally acquired and now it looks like they are fighting to prevent us from exercising our rights.
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Not to mention that the muscle behind the GPL is strictly tied to copyright. Without copyright the GPL wouldn't mean shit. Sure you might be able to "pirate" binaries, but anybody who got their hands on any piece of source could use it any way they wanted.
No, the world doesn't work that way. Unless you and I had some agreement beforehand, I don't owe you anything.
If you want the benefit of my work, and that is what we are talking about here, you pay. We have an agreement. They're called laws. The same laws that say you pay for the software I write (if you want to use it) protects you in numerous other ways.
And I'm not feeling particularily hostile. Just making a graphic point. And you nicely made the proper tie in for me:
Your beating inflicts pain and suffering upon me; even if the physical wounds heal, that trauma is a lasting harm.
And yet me not getting paid for my work isn't a "lasting harm"? In the society we live in, and in almost every country in the world, one has the expectation of being able to get recompense for their work. If I, withing the standards of society, spend two years writing a software package that you feel is worthwhile enough to steal, don't get paid for my work, you have in a very real sense, taken those two years away from me.
Since you seem to think that "consumables" are worth more than something that is easily reproduced, explain to me why I should have to pay some wanker to combine dirt, water and a natural process for the food I eat. Just because something is easily dupped doesn't make it less valuable. In fact I would bet that your average farmer has to put less into producing a bushel of apples than, say, John Carmack is putting into Quake 3.
Bullshit. You see, the way the world works is, I do something. You give me something equal to the value/effort/work I put into the doing. Arguing that there is no physical item taken is wrong. You have taken the value of my work and not paid me for it.
A shitty anology for you. I come over to your house and kick the fuck out of you. Over the next two weeks you heal. No lasting harm. I come over and kick the fuck out of you again. You heal. I come over and kick the fuck out of you and your little sister. You both heal. I show up on Tuesday. Kick the fuck out of you. You heal. Is there anything wrong here? Sure. But by your argument there shouldn't be. I'm not doing anything that permanently physically harms you. Sure you may have to change the way you live, but when you steal my software you change the way I live. If you can't see that you don't deserve to live in a society where people exchange goods and services for a living.
Actually they have lost money. If you pirate quake the day it is released and play for a couple of years. Then purchase a copy once it's hit the bargain bin, they've lost half the purchase price or more.
Bzzzt! Wrong answer. X is not a GUI. Never has been. Never will be. If you want to compare X to anything in the Windows world, think either GDI or device driver.
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The information is not sent unless you connect to a server. So there you go.
Knowing what kind of video cards are in use in consumerland allows id to tailor content for your machine. Same purpose. Same result. There you go.
I've already purchased the game...
You mean, at most, you've preordered it. Since it's not available anywhere. Cancel your order.
Where are my moderator points when I need them? Good point! Hurrah.
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Shipping and Handling? That's all. Shit that's a pretty good deal. They could be charging $500 for it and there's nothing anybody could do beyond entering the market and competing. Doesn't anybody remember how much GCC tapes cost from the FSF? Something like $400 at one time.
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GT doesn't need to be another Loki. GT is a huge company, vastly larger than Loki. Probably larger than Loki will ever be. Even when they lose money in a quarter, they are still more than Loki.
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Well shit, that's either "borderline" or "bordering on". Both work, take your pick.
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Dontcha know we're all borderling autistic? Oh wait, maybe that's just me (being from Utah and all.)
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God I want so much to moderate this as overrated. But I can't convey enough information with that... :)
Anyway, 20-30% is way off. If you truly think that this is the correct number, turn on your TV and turn down the sound. Or get a pair of binoculars and look at a distant conversation. At 50-80% communication coming via non-verbal forms (as per your statistic excluding pitch and rhythm) you should be able to get the general gist of things easily. Yet I'm betting that you can only pick up the general tone. And in some cases you may not be able to do even that depending on the emotional level of the conversation and other interpersonal dynamics going on.
All I got from the article is that the journalist is a weak minded media skunk. Any geek that can do 72 hours straight programming should be able to do a week of online interaction only, no problems.
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Anyway, check out the OS of the next Internet Quake server you play on. You might be surprised.
FreeBSD! (yeah yeah, I know, flamebait. but it's true.)
Right now the next quake server anybody plays on will most likely be 98 or NT. Just a simple fact given the release time of the linux version.
PCs suck for gaming, period. Serious gamers are console gamers. When I play games, I want to see a projection screen with 500 watts of surround sound. If you want to sit huddled in front of a postage-stamp-sized screen with scratchy sound out of a pair of shitty speakers, be my guest. :-)
:) Go out and buy any decent mini system from Sony/AIWA/JVC/et al. Hook it up to your $50 SbLive or Aural based card. And my 17" monitor may be smaller than my 35" TV, but it certainly has a much better picture than my TV be far. Plus when the urge arises I can hook my computer up to my TV. But the urge seldom tweaks my bottom. Have a great weekend! :)
LOL! Dude you're living in denial or something.
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According to Brian Hook (who was at id at the time he made the comment), id has put in the necessary software support to use 3DNow and SSE instructions within the quake3 proper. So driver support, while nice, isn't going to be the only place we get benefits from our instruction sets.
I would hold off on a 3dfx board. Right now they aren't "the best" (whatever that means) and they are going to have new product out in March which should be a lot better than what they got now. If you can only buy 1 card and you have to have it now, the GeForce 256 based cards are fastest. If you can afford two cards, buy a TNT or TNT2 for cheap and then get one of the new 3dfx cards in the spring.
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Note that said itp mirrors explicitly violate iD's no redistribution policy. So go ahead and be an asshole if you must.
So, if you are saying the truth, then this itp mirror actually mails you a CD, huh? Or is what you say is just damp flatulance.
/checks www.quake3arena.com
Yup. You've got a gas problem. Better grab the pepto.
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Yes it will. That's precisely the point.
Offtopic:
Anybody read Brandon Reinhart's (Epic, UT Linux port) latest plan:
I feel that the Linux community is intensely detached and unrealistic about how it approaches games developers.
And there's more. Apparently he's been getting a lot of hate mail.
Get a clue people. Stop shooting the messenger and acting childish and whiny. Perhaps then the various markets will take you more seriously.
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Urm. So you're saying that 4.6 is an odd number? Integers.
Although, this isn't terribly fascinating, seeing as how 11-19-1997 was all odd, too.
And last Wednesday, and last Monday. And the Saturday before that. And the Thursday before that. And Tuesday before that. Then the previous Sunday. And that Friday, Wednesday and Monday.
Woo. I'm underwhelmed.
Shareware: try it. if you like it send me $30.
Go to the hrrc.org homepage and read their chronology. I didn't read it that closely, and once they started spewing hr.-this and hr.-that I sort of tuned out. But I do remember getting the impression that the Supreme Court made a ruling saying that it's legal for you to record shows from TV to watch at a later time. It was early in the whole VCR phenomena so it's possible that laws have changed since then.
Also you do pay a tax on VCRs and blank tapes. Or you have to pay the cost of having something like macrovision incorporated into your VCR.
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Better not use that argument. Don't you know that it's not stealing if you don't take a physical iteam... at least that's the counter argument you're going to get.
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Nice article. Given that we already have some of these rights specifically given to us (at least in the US.) I wonder how things like Macrovision and the CSS protection of DVDs are allowed to continue. They do infringe on our rights to use media we have legally acquired and now it looks like they are fighting to prevent us from exercising our rights.
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Not to mention that the muscle behind the GPL is strictly tied to copyright. Without copyright the GPL wouldn't mean shit. Sure you might be able to "pirate" binaries, but anybody who got their hands on any piece of source could use it any way they wanted.
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If you want the benefit of my work, and that is what we are talking about here, you pay. We have an agreement. They're called laws. The same laws that say you pay for the software I write (if you want to use it) protects you in numerous other ways.
And I'm not feeling particularily hostile. Just making a graphic point. And you nicely made the proper tie in for me:
And yet me not getting paid for my work isn't a "lasting harm"? In the society we live in, and in almost every country in the world, one has the expectation of being able to get recompense for their work. If I, withing the standards of society, spend two years writing a software package that you feel is worthwhile enough to steal, don't get paid for my work, you have in a very real sense, taken those two years away from me.
-sw
Since you seem to think that "consumables" are worth more than something that is easily reproduced, explain to me why I should have to pay some wanker to combine dirt, water and a natural process for the food I eat. Just because something is easily dupped doesn't make it less valuable. In fact I would bet that your average farmer has to put less into producing a bushel of apples than, say, John Carmack is putting into Quake 3.
-sw
Actually they have lost money. If you pirate quake the day it is released and play for a couple of years. Then purchase a copy once it's hit the bargain bin, they've lost half the purchase price or more.
-sw
Bzzzt! Wrong answer. X is not a GUI. Never has been. Never will be. If you want to compare X to anything in the Windows world, think either GDI or device driver.
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