Glad you went to all the trouble to say it, because all I could do was wince. I am tired of being the guy always running the same tune, every time one of these armchair illuminati crank up the rhetoric.
and then the Canadians wonder why we pick on them half-heartedly... most don't deserve the time and energy spent on focused evisceration.
I guess sometimes as Americans we feel we deserve the support of our allies. But in these cynical times we never really expect it. Certainly not to the extent that was detailed in that post.
Cheney is a politico and a vice president. He does not set doctrine nor strategy. I suppose he can exert influence, so I will hand you that.
We still have done nothing yet. Despite the options and choices that CNN and MSNBC and all those experts tell us we "must" or "will probably" do, so far we have fucked nothing up just yet.
If and when we do (prove to be making the same mistakes as those before us), trust me friend. I will wail, moan and gnash my teeth with the best of them. I will not tow the party line while American blood is pissed away needlessly.
Should we actually prove to be innovative and clever... Well wouldn't that be pleasant?
I just prefer to attack a person after he makes an ass of himself. Not because I have been assured he will (mostly by other assholes).
Also: why is no one mentioning that Tajikistan and other previously Soviet, Muslim republics have access to weapons grade plutonium? Just wondering.
Why does everyone think that the state and war departments are filled with morons that hadn't had far, far more education and history of the region?
michael himself says," Very good article. Too bad we aren't learning from the British and Soviet mistakes."
Learn what? We haven't even committed any action yet! There are no reasons to believe that we have any desire to prosecute this war the same way the Russians did. Everything we know about this campaign is filtered through the media, it's a clown show, but it's the only show in town so we are transfixed by it. But the fact of the matter is that in this stage of the game we are all most certainly watching the misdirection and disinformation portion of the show.
The media seems hell bent on equating this administrations military doctrine with that of the previous, which is a huge mistake. We have not knee-jerk reacted with the obligatory tomahawk launchings and the U.N. saber rattling nonsense. No, NATO is actually involved in this one and the U.N. is silent. Which is compelling as hell to me as far as the differences between Clinton and Bush goes.
So far we have not done anything wrong at all. Well, we haven't done anything really. Yes I know there are reports that the Taliban knocked down a drone surveillance plane. Cool there are also reports of downed UFOs in New Mexico.
Damn this is what happens when during 30 years of peace the only idea the kinder have of war is Hollywood Viet Nam flicks and desert storm. This War will be neither of those.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but if you really want a good Hollywood treatment of the Afghani - Soviet conflict. Check out "The Beast" <http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094716>
How about those of us using secure encryption now? Will using non-compromised versions of PgP be a felony? Will having a copy on your hard drive be dangerous?
The other day I was at the office store, puttzing around the crappy software (though Office Max is carrying various Linux distros.) and I noticed they were selling a nice boxed Pgp + firewall+ miscellaneous crap product from Macaffe called "network security" or something like that. Made me wonder how they are going to root all the sheeple out there that can barely maintain their windows boxen out from the supposed "terrorists".
Strange days indeed.
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I Did Not Know That. thanks for the heads up. the fact of the matter is: i recalled most of that from Clancey's last novel, read it last year sometime though. was just shooting from the hip.
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games, which i guess is just another kind of porn, but imagine a FPS on one of these deals.
though it would have to be set up arcade or pub style, since i would be damned before i blew that kind of coin on game peripheral at home.
You have one of these puppies orbiting around an area that is a potential battle site. If they soak it with stealth graphite/carcinogenic/wonderpaste and deploy it at night or in bad weather it can go on unnoticed just watching. When it picks up something interesting, wham, a nice wing of F-15Es swoops down and ruins everyone's day and then splits at mach 3. Talk about terror...
We have had "robots" like this for a while we call them satellites though unless we have one in geosynch over Afghanistan, they can only be tasked for a part of any given day. And even if one or two were, you could launch dozens of Predators to monitor dozens of battlefield situations.
As for the idea hanging Hellfires off of them? Weird, that presumes there is no air assets available to follow up on surveillance. Unless these birds are considered disposable, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for them to break cover and open themselves up like that. Perhaps they are...
Anyways, I am pretty sure these particular tools are not going to facilitate "skynet" planning the overthrow of humankind anytime soon.
It is kind of interesting that, no matter how you feel about Michael Jackson or country music, the first two grievous instances of this half-ass copy protection appeared on both.
I just have to think that (though everyone shares and collects mp3s) the target demographic for Michael Jackson and most country artists would be more inclined to have to own the shrink wrap then to rip it and share it.
Okay I realize that moms and dads can have junior "make a copy" of this or that for Auntie Sadie or whoever... but think about (shitty) bands like "slipknot" that target the kinder. You know that every 14 year old in Iowa with CDex is mass ripping on a gargantuan scale...
I wonders why? Does Michael think that he can't make up for the infinitesimal loss of revenue because he is not allowed to tour anymore? I dunno.
Always exciting to see America making the business of space exploration/exploitation less science fiction and more of a economic reality.
I was just wondering if another excellent reason to launch rockets from Alaska was to periodically give seizures to the tracking facilities in China, North Korea and well even good ol' Russia.
For instance, perhaps a half a second before launch does the commander in chief for the Pacific navy call them and say, "HEADS UP!" And then a second after they confirm it was civilian planed launch call back and say, "PSYCH! Heh heh... lighten up wussies!"?¾}0A
Because I think I approve of that.
Bad laws get passed all the time.Most of them remain invisible until some poor bastard trips over them. Others such as the DMCA effect us all every day. That is way we have a supreme court here in the states. it just takes time for it all to go through the process, which makes our lives shitty until they are and the courts throw the bad laws out. meanwhile, the senators remain paid.
So the Soviet Union collapses and the one commodity that the Russians have in spades is disaffected out of work college educated people with no chance of gainful employment. Oh yeah there is one really excellent employer, The Russian Mafia.
So the Russian mafia which is not a bunch of criminals with some good criminal idea's, but rather out of work KGB and GRU operators with some brutal spetznaz thrown in are naturally very good at exporting Really Illegal Shit.
Since well hey, look it's 2001, one of the really lucrative commodities that Russian mob sees big things in is code. And hey, look at that there are thousands of out of work coders literally starving because there is no tech industry to hire them to make playstation 2 games.
Illegal code is very hot on the black market, because it's harder to get then trucks full of AK-47s. And billionaire terrorists (which I assume, just might shop at them black market mini-malls) have access to it. They do not need PGP, they do not need anything shrunkwrapped on a compusa shelf or that can be downloaded from a 31337 hAx0r jerk off fttp site.
They have probably read the Clancey novels (or at least "Executive Decision") and have a good grasp on state-department level crypto.
Okay so we all know this, so what exactly are they looking for? Are they looking for retarded saboteurs and sympathizers? If we presume they have access to Soviet quality crypto, how come we didn't piss away all our civil liberties when the soviets used to spook us?
Oh hell, I'm a big boy. I realize that the rights that we all take for granted have tightened and relaxed several times in US history. I am not going to be unreasonable when the government hands me a valid reason to ask me to suspend my crystal tower of individual liberty (when we are indeed in state of emergency) in order to annihilate an enemy that has been known to leave timed plastique charges in local starbucks...
But no. these are not valid reasons. These are empty explanations, you are either stupid or lying to us. Which makes us suspicious. Which makes you the bad guy. Which is fucking up all that national unity that George W. has told me that he expects of me.
So how about giving us an valid and articulate reason for us to let you borrow our liberties. Not that crap you feed the sheep. Then maybe we can talk. Otherwise how can I not see this as another act of terror and another assault to the American way of life that I would honestly stand in front of bullets to protect. (well I would probably do some ducking, but I would be there, damnit.)
If domain names are commodities, then new TLDs are an attempt for the registrars to generate more product.
Fair enough, but the product is shit. And people don't want to buy shitty products. And for this ICANN was silly with great debate for what? Like two years...
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good call, luckily i was useing my mac and it didn't parse.
why am i so surprised that human nature at times like this can sometimes be so vile?
None of us want to see American blood spilled stupidly. (hopefully)
As much as I'm amused and addicted to the frenetic angry passion of slashdot members, none of us are writing policy. No one that affects the forces involved in this is going to read/. And smack the side of their head and say, "hey! Colin! did you know that the Mongolians and Alexander got handed their asses in Afghanistan! oh Shit!". No.
We have to stop reacting to non action. The fact of the matter is the only official pontificating on our armed response is being done by politicos. Guys that have to appeal to the patience of the more passionate of their constituents (who are used the the Clinton admins policy of responding to all acts of aggression by flinging missiles into the void from the side of destroyers or bombing Iraqi SAM sites. And declaring the matter "resolved". Bed time.)
We have really smart, really capable people, in both the State and War departments. People that also know the history of the region. People with really good education. People that sweat this stuff for a living rather then as a hobby. People with better intelligence and resources then Google and CNN. People that have absolutely no desire to send an entire American exploratory army into a slaughter house like so much cattle.
Listen to the language they are using, they are preparing the American people for a war that unlike what we are used to. They are preparing us to expect small squad actions on many fronts in many nations. Covert ops that we might not be privy to. Unconventional warfare is the only way meet unconventional warfare. There will (probably) be no Peter Arnett holding vigil before pool footage of mech divisions gliding effortlessly into the shattered remains of the enemy's front line troops. There will (probably) be no Wolf Blitzer atop of a hotel roof ranting over footage of cruise missile contrails as they criss-cross the sky.
How about we cut them some slack, and only attack the intellect of our military after we have some idea how this war is going to be prosecuted.
hmmm, I wonder what Sony has in store for MPEG-4. Since they are smiling tyrannical MPAA mafia dons, I would think they would attempt to counter it with something propitiatory so they could encode it all to shit.
For that reason alone I am glad to see Philips standing behind MPEG-4 since they are perhaps the only consumer electronics company that can force a standard through market share.
Brilliant point, all the more intriguing after Ashcroft requested Arab-American assistance in translation and interpretation.
On your first point: Once a while back in the suburb I grew up in, a group of vile white supremacists acquired time on a cable access station. When the community was about to burn the station down, the local chief of police asked: "would you rather these idiots act in secrecy or would you like to be able to keep an eye on who is who and what is what?". Made a lot of sense.
Gosh... It never occured to me that i should be owed money because "Gladiator" runs crappy on my Powerbook.
I mean, i am spoiled in as much as i have seven ways to watch DVDs around here. But if thought i was owed money everytime software hosed me by not doing what it was supposed to do, then Microsoft would have bought me (and certainly most of us) a Bently a long time ago.
I had heard that Apple no longer uses the hardware MPG decoder that it used on previous G3 models since the G4 should be able to handle it without a problem... Be that as it may, I am running 9.2 on my Ti Powerbook and playback is abyssmal. Just a nasty piece of software. Perhaps someone will code an alternitive since the G4 Powerbook uses an ATI chip that i believe has inherent decoding abilities.
I can understand that Apple would task it's best brains to getting OS 10.1 out the door, and classic DVD playback is not an "A" item. (I would rather have me gubby paws on 10.1 as well) But it s dirty shame that my two year old Campaq laptop has much better DVD performance then my slick little Ti badboy.
hmmm, and would all of you be "anonymous cowards" as well?
have you any idea what patriotic arab-american's have given to this country? Have contributed to our culture, government and technology? asshole, i am not even hardly arabian and i find myself having to say this...
nah, sorry, again i find myself getting miffed at retards....
whoever the cocksucker was that modded this post down to troll after reading all the anti arab bullshit on this thread can certainly go fuck themselves. have a nice day.
gahhhh, mind is jelly, wasting teenagers maquarding as stormtroopers with flamethrowers for hours now...
it's worked stable enough for me (amd 1.4 gig, win2k, cable modem, nvidia openGL) hasn't disconnected or crashed once.
as for bugs? some lag crazyness, but nothing out of the ordinary. i think a lot of kinder would like to know why i can take a flame thrower hit to the face and still waste them with a pistol... my guess? pure yank/brit bravado baby...
Too bad everyone can't enjoy the brilliant "Aqua" interface of my neato OS X box.
Display PDF sure does make the fonts res beautifully when i am reading all the goatse* posts on/. and now that i have a dual PowerPC 800 box with a gig of RAM, it's almost peppy.
I can't wait till 10.1 so that it will have a gui to help me close my ports... and burn disks!...
(actually i like os x and am i just in a pissy mood, i hope people realize i am trying to be funny here.)
Downloaded it easily enough and the install went without a hitch, I am running win2k on an athlon box; Geforce 3 and soundblaster live... everything config'ed immediately. I have installed gold versions of recent releases that have not installed as easily.
Took a while to find a server that was open but I found one with acceptable ping.. . and it lagged like a mother... okay... tweak this tweak that... lag lag lag... I'll try again at about 4AM CST that should be helpful.
Honestly I liked it more then most of the first impressions I have read here so far. I really dug the flame thrower effect. I mean a lot. Like I think I might want to build one. Okay maybe not.
The quake engine rocks, it looked good, I had fun. Now... back to Arcanum...
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oh do testify my brother.
Glad you went to all the trouble to say it, because all I could do was wince. I am tired of being the guy always running the same tune, every time one of these armchair illuminati crank up the rhetoric.
and then the Canadians wonder why we pick on them half-heartedly... most don't deserve the time and energy spent on focused evisceration.
Jesus that was a terrific post.
I guess sometimes as Americans we feel we deserve the support of our allies. But in these cynical times we never really expect it. Certainly not to the extent that was detailed in that post.
been a long time since i was touched like that.
Best, Post, Ever.
I agree with your points completely, although...
Cheney is a politico and a vice president. He does not set doctrine nor strategy. I suppose he can exert influence, so I will hand you that.
We still have done nothing yet. Despite the options and choices that CNN and MSNBC and all those experts tell us we "must" or "will probably" do, so far we have fucked nothing up just yet.
If and when we do (prove to be making the same mistakes as those before us), trust me friend. I will wail, moan and gnash my teeth with the best of them. I will not tow the party line while American blood is pissed away needlessly.
Should we actually prove to be innovative and clever... Well wouldn't that be pleasant?
I just prefer to attack a person after he makes an ass of himself. Not because I have been assured he will (mostly by other assholes).
Also: why is no one mentioning that Tajikistan and other previously Soviet, Muslim republics have access to weapons grade plutonium? Just wondering.
Amen brother,
Why does everyone think that the state and war departments are filled with morons that hadn't had far, far more education and history of the region?
michael himself says," Very good article. Too bad we aren't learning from the British and Soviet mistakes."
Learn what? We haven't even committed any action yet! There are no reasons to believe that we have any desire to prosecute this war the same way the Russians did. Everything we know about this campaign is filtered through the media, it's a clown show, but it's the only show in town so we are transfixed by it. But the fact of the matter is that in this stage of the game we are all most certainly watching the misdirection and disinformation portion of the show.
The media seems hell bent on equating this administrations military doctrine with that of the previous, which is a huge mistake. We have not knee-jerk reacted with the obligatory tomahawk launchings and the U.N. saber rattling nonsense. No, NATO is actually involved in this one and the U.N. is silent. Which is compelling as hell to me as far as the differences between Clinton and Bush goes.
So far we have not done anything wrong at all. Well, we haven't done anything really. Yes I know there are reports that the Taliban knocked down a drone surveillance plane. Cool there are also reports of downed UFOs in New Mexico.
Damn this is what happens when during 30 years of peace the only idea the kinder have of war is Hollywood Viet Nam flicks and desert storm. This War will be neither of those.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but if you really want a good Hollywood treatment of the Afghani - Soviet conflict. Check out "The Beast" <http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094716>
How about those of us using secure encryption now? Will using non-compromised versions of PgP be a felony? Will having a copy on your hard drive be dangerous?
The other day I was at the office store, puttzing around the crappy software (though Office Max is carrying various Linux distros.) and I noticed they were selling a nice boxed Pgp + firewall+ miscellaneous crap product from Macaffe called "network security" or something like that. Made me wonder how they are going to root all the sheeple out there that can barely maintain their windows boxen out from the supposed "terrorists".
Strange days indeed.
I Did Not Know That. thanks for the heads up. the fact of the matter is: i recalled most of that from Clancey's last novel, read it last year sometime though. was just shooting from the hip.
games, which i guess is just another kind of porn, but imagine a FPS on one of these deals.
though it would have to be set up arcade or pub style, since i would be damned before i blew that kind of coin on game peripheral at home.
It's a tool. And the concept is pretty brilliant.
You have one of these puppies orbiting around an area that is a potential battle site. If they soak it with stealth graphite/carcinogenic/wonderpaste and deploy it at night or in bad weather it can go on unnoticed just watching. When it picks up something interesting, wham, a nice wing of F-15Es swoops down and ruins everyone's day and then splits at mach 3. Talk about terror...
We have had "robots" like this for a while we call them satellites though unless we have one in geosynch over Afghanistan, they can only be tasked for a part of any given day. And even if one or two were, you could launch dozens of Predators to monitor dozens of battlefield situations.
As for the idea hanging Hellfires off of them? Weird, that presumes there is no air assets available to follow up on surveillance. Unless these birds are considered disposable, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for them to break cover and open themselves up like that. Perhaps they are...
Anyways, I am pretty sure these particular tools are not going to facilitate "skynet" planning the overthrow of humankind anytime soon.
It is kind of interesting that, no matter how you feel about Michael Jackson or country music, the first two grievous instances of this half-ass copy protection appeared on both.
I just have to think that (though everyone shares and collects mp3s) the target demographic for Michael Jackson and most country artists would be more inclined to have to own the shrink wrap then to rip it and share it.
Okay I realize that moms and dads can have junior "make a copy" of this or that for Auntie Sadie or whoever... but think about (shitty) bands like "slipknot" that target the kinder. You know that every 14 year old in Iowa with CDex is mass ripping on a gargantuan scale...
I wonders why? Does Michael think that he can't make up for the infinitesimal loss of revenue because he is not allowed to tour anymore? I dunno.
Always exciting to see America making the business of space exploration/exploitation less science fiction and more of a economic reality.
I was just wondering if another excellent reason to launch rockets from Alaska was to periodically give seizures to the tracking facilities in China, North Korea and well even good ol' Russia.
For instance, perhaps a half a second before launch does the commander in chief for the Pacific navy call them and say, "HEADS UP!" And then a second after they confirm it was civilian planed launch call back and say, "PSYCH! Heh heh... lighten up wussies!"?¾}0A
Because I think I approve of that.
Bad laws get passed all the time.Most of them remain invisible until some poor bastard trips over them. Others such as the DMCA effect us all every day. That is way we have a supreme court here in the states. it just takes time for it all to go through the process, which makes our lives shitty until they are and the courts throw the bad laws out. meanwhile, the senators remain paid.
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Power Ball.
So the Soviet Union collapses and the one commodity that the Russians have in spades is disaffected out of work college educated people with no chance of gainful employment. Oh yeah there is one really excellent employer, The Russian Mafia.
So the Russian mafia which is not a bunch of criminals with some good criminal idea's, but rather out of work KGB and GRU operators with some brutal spetznaz thrown in are naturally very good at exporting Really Illegal Shit.
Since well hey, look it's 2001, one of the really lucrative commodities that Russian mob sees big things in is code. And hey, look at that there are thousands of out of work coders literally starving because there is no tech industry to hire them to make playstation 2 games.
Illegal code is very hot on the black market, because it's harder to get then trucks full of AK-47s. And billionaire terrorists (which I assume, just might shop at them black market mini-malls) have access to it. They do not need PGP, they do not need anything shrunkwrapped on a compusa shelf or that can be downloaded from a 31337 hAx0r jerk off fttp site.
They have probably read the Clancey novels (or at least "Executive Decision") and have a good grasp on state-department level crypto.
Okay so we all know this, so what exactly are they looking for? Are they looking for retarded saboteurs and sympathizers? If we presume they have access to Soviet quality crypto, how come we didn't piss away all our civil liberties when the soviets used to spook us?
Oh hell, I'm a big boy. I realize that the rights that we all take for granted have tightened and relaxed several times in US history. I am not going to be unreasonable when the government hands me a valid reason to ask me to suspend my crystal tower of individual liberty (when we are indeed in state of emergency) in order to annihilate an enemy that has been known to leave timed plastique charges in local starbucks...
But no. these are not valid reasons. These are empty explanations, you are either stupid or lying to us. Which makes us suspicious. Which makes you the bad guy. Which is fucking up all that national unity that George W. has told me that he expects of me.
So how about giving us an valid and articulate reason for us to let you borrow our liberties. Not that crap you feed the sheep. Then maybe we can talk. Otherwise how can I not see this as another act of terror and another assault to the American way of life that I would honestly stand in front of bullets to protect. (well I would probably do some ducking, but I would be there, damnit.)
If domain names are commodities, then new TLDs are an attempt for the registrars to generate more product.
Fair enough, but the product is shit. And people don't want to buy shitty products. And for this ICANN was silly with great debate for what? Like two years...
good call, luckily i was useing my mac and it didn't parse.
why am i so surprised that human nature at times like this can sometimes be so vile?
None of us want to see American blood spilled stupidly. (hopefully)
/. And smack the side of their head and say, "hey! Colin! did you know that the Mongolians and Alexander got handed their asses in Afghanistan! oh Shit!". No.
As much as I'm amused and addicted to the frenetic angry passion of slashdot members, none of us are writing policy. No one that affects the forces involved in this is going to read
We have to stop reacting to non action. The fact of the matter is the only official pontificating on our armed response is being done by politicos. Guys that have to appeal to the patience of the more passionate of their constituents (who are used the the Clinton admins policy of responding to all acts of aggression by flinging missiles into the void from the side of destroyers or bombing Iraqi SAM sites. And declaring the matter "resolved". Bed time.)
We have really smart, really capable people, in both the State and War departments. People that also know the history of the region. People with really good education. People that sweat this stuff for a living rather then as a hobby. People with better intelligence and resources then Google and CNN. People that have absolutely no desire to send an entire American exploratory army into a slaughter house like so much cattle.
Listen to the language they are using, they are preparing the American people for a war that unlike what we are used to. They are preparing us to expect small squad actions on many fronts in many nations. Covert ops that we might not be privy to. Unconventional warfare is the only way meet unconventional warfare. There will (probably) be no Peter Arnett holding vigil before pool footage of mech divisions gliding effortlessly into the shattered remains of the enemy's front line troops. There will (probably) be no Wolf Blitzer atop of a hotel roof ranting over footage of cruise missile contrails as they criss-cross the sky.
How about we cut them some slack, and only attack the intellect of our military after we have some idea how this war is going to be prosecuted.
hmmm, I wonder what Sony has in store for MPEG-4. Since they are smiling tyrannical MPAA mafia dons, I would think they would attempt to counter it with something propitiatory so they could encode it all to shit.
For that reason alone I am glad to see Philips standing behind MPEG-4 since they are perhaps the only consumer electronics company that can force a standard through market share.
Brilliant point, all the more intriguing after Ashcroft requested Arab-American assistance in translation and interpretation.
On your first point: Once a while back in the suburb I grew up in, a group of vile white supremacists acquired time on a cable access station. When the community was about to burn the station down, the local chief of police asked: "would you rather these idiots act in secrecy or would you like to be able to keep an eye on who is who and what is what?". Made a lot of sense.
Gosh... It never occured to me that i should be owed money because "Gladiator" runs crappy on my Powerbook.
I mean, i am spoiled in as much as i have seven ways to watch DVDs around here. But if thought i was owed money everytime software hosed me by not doing what it was supposed to do, then Microsoft would have bought me (and certainly most of us) a Bently a long time ago.
I had heard that Apple no longer uses the hardware MPG decoder that it used on previous G3 models since the G4 should be able to handle it without a problem... Be that as it may, I am running 9.2 on my Ti Powerbook and playback is abyssmal. Just a nasty piece of software. Perhaps someone will code an alternitive since the G4 Powerbook uses an ATI chip that i believe has inherent decoding abilities.
I can understand that Apple would task it's best brains to getting OS 10.1 out the door, and classic DVD playback is not an "A" item. (I would rather have me gubby paws on 10.1 as well) But it s dirty shame that my two year old Campaq laptop has much better DVD performance then my slick little Ti badboy.
hmmm, and would all of you be "anonymous cowards" as well?
have you any idea what patriotic arab-american's have given to this country? Have contributed to our culture, government and technology? asshole, i am not even hardly arabian and i find myself having to say this...
nah, sorry, again i find myself getting miffed at retards....
whoever the cocksucker was that modded this post down to troll after reading all the anti arab bullshit on this thread can certainly go fuck themselves. have a nice day.
gahhhh, mind is jelly, wasting teenagers maquarding as stormtroopers with flamethrowers for hours now...
it's worked stable enough for me (amd 1.4 gig, win2k, cable modem, nvidia openGL) hasn't disconnected or crashed once.
as for bugs? some lag crazyness, but nothing out of the ordinary. i think a lot of kinder would like to know why i can take a flame thrower hit to the face and still waste them with a pistol... my guess? pure yank/brit bravado baby...
Too bad everyone can't enjoy the brilliant "Aqua" interface of my neato OS X box.
/. and now that i have a dual PowerPC 800 box with a gig of RAM, it's almost peppy.
Display PDF sure does make the fonts res beautifully when i am reading all the goatse* posts on
I can't wait till 10.1 so that it will have a gui to help me close my ports... and burn disks!...
(actually i like os x and am i just in a pissy mood, i hope people realize i am trying to be funny here.)
Downloaded it easily enough and the install went without a hitch, I am running win2k on an athlon box; Geforce 3 and soundblaster live... everything config'ed immediately. I have installed gold versions of recent releases that have not installed as easily.
Took a while to find a server that was open but I found one with acceptable ping.. . and it lagged like a mother... okay... tweak this tweak that... lag lag lag... I'll try again at about 4AM CST that should be helpful.
Honestly I liked it more then most of the first impressions I have read here so far. I really dug the flame thrower effect. I mean a lot. Like I think I might want to build one. Okay maybe not.
The quake engine rocks, it looked good, I had fun. Now... back to Arcanum...