I admit I read all the bad reviews and the horrible things that people said about this. My conclusion after hitting it on a cheap tuesday:
It didn't dissapoint.
See, I went into the movie *knowing* it would suck, the plot was bad, [insert stream of examples on this movie's suckage] etc
But because I went in knowing that the movie was that bad, I didn't even have a *glimmer* of hope that there would be anything good in it, and therefor wasn't dissapointed.
My favorite quote was from my friend who I dragged along with me: "Look! it's the matrix!" (in the middle of a scene blatently ripped off from the Matrix).
Carmack will never be booted. He may decide to leave (a la Zoid leaving iD), but *any* company would be a fool to fire him.
Lets face it, the man rocks as a coder. I've heard that his code isn't the most beautiful, but lets face it, id has been at the forefront of the FPS/graphics/etc industry due a LOT to JCs code.
And IMHO id (or any company for that matter) would be fools to kick him out. Course, if they did Carmack would most likely start a company of his own so that he could do what he loves doing.
Even though doom was a "run around and shoot everything" it was the first game I think we (I'm guessing) felt had "atmosphere".
In reality it had a thin story and a simple find-key-shoot-things philosophy, but the game did have soul. I personally am sad that Paul was fired over this (love you man) but I'm also looking forward to a game with (hopefully) the same feel but with updated and awsome graphics.
My question is about the new technology he mentioned. Does this mean that they won't be simply using the q3 engine and making a new game around it but instead will be starting from the ground up? Friggin' programmers!:)
This will be interesting to see how things go anyway.
Corel has already done this with their Debian-based distro. Now I don't personally have that high a rating of corel's distro, but this hit #1 on my list of "really cool apps".
Basically (for those who haven't seen it), it's a neighborhood network looking tool that shows your files, smb, and nfs connections (and ftp and http as well, but I might be wrong).
Now I don't think that the question of can this be done exists, it's can it be done *well*.
I hope so, because I'd much rather click to mount (a la gnomba) than type out "mount -t nfs 192.168.1.2:/some/shared/system/mounts/nfs/foo/bar"
I too have written a little review of this show, and if anyone cares, it's up at this location.
Sadly I've never liked Woo's "lets make that kick just a little cooler/wilder than the last one" style. Nor his "every action sequence must involve explosions or slow-mo no matter what it is".
A buddy of mine did something similar by simply renaming bots (this is in UT) to the names of their *favorite* customers. While not as cool as skins, certainly satisfying.
Agreed. I think that this comes down to the user not getting handcuffed by the app and being allowed to be as smart or as stupid as they want. Ie: if you have 4 panes open, one with your local files, one with a browser, one with a file view of your files on a remote server, logged in as root, and one with a user login on a system you're in the process of changing from a user system to an mp3 server.. well, I see a bit of potential for error there. ie: Bad Idea
However, if you do a 2 pane system, one of local files, one of say, a remote ftp server where you're uploading files, this is a Good Idea.
I realize that 99% of this is sarcasm, but I have to agree:)
'sides, the reason I started using linux in the first place was that it wasn't a point and drool interface. And yes, I have made my own distro:) and yes, I did get a large speed increase.
It keeps me off the streets anyway. Do a search for "Linux from scratch howto" if you're interested in how to do it yourself.
My test for mozilla (and now netscape 6) has been to load www.enlightenment.org properly.
Netscape 6 fails. Something in raster's table code no doubt, but netscape and ie render it just dandy, but the last few milestones of mozilla and now ns (using 99% mozilla from what I can see) fails.
Other impressions are good. It's a more polished (note I didn't say just "polished") mozilla. The intro page is cute too, and mail seems (from a cursory glance) to work.
HTTPS works too which is a huge bonus:) Of course, it's probably because they're using a closed source crypto library or something.
htaccess sites work fine too, but you need to hit TAB a few times to get from the username to the password dailoge.
Rendering and resizing are as always, lightning fast:) Though I do wish wish wish that the "hit back button == reload page from the site" thing would get fixed. This is one area that IE kicks ass in sadly:( When you from from a intensive page (eg: a theme gallery on themes.org) to another page, then hit back, IE will simply display the page but ns has to reload the page... and if the page has dynamic content, well, that means going back to the server, which sucks.
IMHO, adding this, in addition to the existing speed of the rendering engine (well, and more polishing) would give ns/mozilla a HUGE edge.
From what I saw on the "making of" section on the DVD the flips were assisted by harnesses but were "real". The CGI used for those would have been the removal of wires.
That's actually one of the more impressive things about the matrix for me, the things in it that were NOT CGI. The actors did a LOT of training to get "realistic" fighting moves, and the fights they had were for the most part "real".
CD: - Duration: 10 minutes average - Cost: $20 - Cost per hour: $120.
Uhmm...... what cds do you buy that are only 10 minutes long? The ones I have are (average) 10 songs at (average) 3min each. Even at 2 min / song that's still 20 minutes. Personally if I bought a CD and found it was only 10 minutes long I'd be quite pissed.
Of course, based on your calcs I think you mean 10 hours average, not minutes, so I'll shut up now:)
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Or how about my work IP which has no reverse (we're strapped into a T1 from the ISP downstairs). This doesn't give us a reverse lookup which is no big deal 99% of the time until I swear up and down that I'm in canada but am still denied. I guess since I don't come up as a *.ca address I must be a middle east terrorist looking to use my 128bit netscape to send messages about [censored] the [censored]s [censored]. Hell, why don't I just talk about [censored]ing the [censored]!
Want to know what is worse than using edlin? Worse even that using ed or ae? How about talking someone through using edlin? No just a person though, a/realtor/ (those of you who are realtors are excused from this rant). I did tech support for a real estate board, talking people through using the new dial in system to see latest listings and doing property evaluations etc. At one point (in between the guy wanting to hook up the TI-1000 and the one who got the PII (at that time the fastest thing around) (for the sole purpose of using our dos based dial in software and quicken or something), I had to walk some person who had 0 computer knowledge, who didn't *want* to learn anything, through editing their autoexec.bat or some such thing. What OS were they running? DOS 3.1 IIRC. No "edit", no nothing. Only edlin. I hate edlin, it's awful. But I'd have traded talking someone through using it on the phone for it any day.
Moderation is the key:) (yes, I saw the humor tags, but FreeUser does have a point).
Just like schools are not teaching any UNIX these days (or that's the percetion I get, I know my college/university only had 1 unix class), there shouldn't be "only" open source teachings.
Just like schools shouldn't go to one extreme and saw "we will only teach MS products to our students", schools should also not say "we will only teach linux and nothing but linux to our students".
Though I think that with the abundance of Windows software out there, and the need for it for the cool games (quake* and loki's stuff aside), I figure that students will have enough access to windows stuff to learn it.
But as with everything, moderation is the key. Not all linux, but not all windows right?
Teacher != techie don't forget too. I know Chris from #userfriendly and I don't recall if he's the IT guy or a teacher who handles computers as well.
Either way, I agree with him, being a techie is cool. Hell, I wish someone paid me to play with computers, networks, and teaching people how to use computers better!
Not "teach to use computers" mind you... I did my share of tech support and I would have no desire to deal with "click my mouse? is that a left click, or a right click? a click click... what do you call that, a double click again? I know you told me this yesturday but I forgot again, would you mind showing me how to turn on my computer today, It was on when I left for work but when I came home the screen was black so I turned it on and then it was off and then I turned it off and it was on and it said scandisk and I was so scared!!!!!!!!!!"
In case you're wondering, no, I haven't recovered from my 4 years of doing tech support for (gah) realtors....
This is the main thing that got me. I know Windows installs can be large, but freeing up 90%? Hell, even freeing up 50% would indicate to me some sort of problem...
I have a feeling this is in reference to their symlink-to-server feature. Maybe what happens is if you have application foo on your system and it's also installed on a mounted server, your application foo turns into a symlink to the server.
Personally I don't like this at all. The automation process has *so* much potential of going wrong. Last thing I need is windows (well, not that I run it anyway) going off and arbitrarily deciding to delete/symlink files. It's not like windows doesn't have enough probems with keeping track of DLLs *anyway*.
It normally takes a few days for the.debs to be released. I'd just keep an eye on the GNOME ftp site over the next week till they are released. Or wait till the.rpms are released (sadly this is generally done before.debs) and use alien. I'm personally going to wait (impatiently) for the "real".debs:)
This is similar to the way wingate works, when it overwrites the TCP stack with it's own. Kinda sucks, esp when you try to "upgrade" a site from their wingate setup to something else, and discover that you have to re-install windows on all their clients boxes so that you can have them actually use that nice linux firewall/gateway you just put in.
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I admit I read all the bad reviews and the horrible things that people said about this. My conclusion after hitting it on a cheap tuesday:
It didn't dissapoint.
See, I went into the movie *knowing* it would suck, the plot was bad, [insert stream of examples on this movie's suckage] etc
But because I went in knowing that the movie was that bad, I didn't even have a *glimmer* of hope that there would be anything good in it, and therefor wasn't dissapointed.
My favorite quote was from my friend who I dragged along with me: "Look! it's the matrix!" (in the middle of a scene blatently ripped off from the Matrix).
Carmack will never be booted. He may decide to leave (a la Zoid leaving iD), but *any* company would be a fool to fire him.
Lets face it, the man rocks as a coder. I've heard that his code isn't the most beautiful, but lets face it, id has been at the forefront of the FPS/graphics/etc industry due a LOT to JCs code.
And IMHO id (or any company for that matter) would be fools to kick him out. Course, if they did Carmack would most likely start a company of his own so that he could do what he loves doing.
Even though doom was a "run around and shoot everything" it was the first game I think we (I'm guessing) felt had "atmosphere".
:)
In reality it had a thin story and a simple find-key-shoot-things philosophy, but the game did have soul. I personally am sad that Paul was fired over this (love you man) but I'm also looking forward to a game with (hopefully) the same feel but with updated and awsome graphics.
My question is about the new technology he mentioned. Does this mean that they won't be simply using the q3 engine and making a new game around it but instead will be starting from the ground up? Friggin' programmers!
This will be interesting to see how things go anyway.
Corel has already done this with their Debian-based distro. Now I don't personally have that high a rating of corel's distro, but this hit #1 on my list of "really cool apps".
/mounts/nfs/foo/bar"
Basically (for those who haven't seen it), it's a neighborhood network looking tool that shows your files, smb, and nfs connections (and ftp and http as well, but I might be wrong).
Now I don't think that the question of can this be done exists, it's can it be done *well*.
I hope so, because I'd much rather click to mount (a la gnomba) than type out "mount -t nfs 192.168.1.2:/some/shared/system
Ya know?
Sadly I've never liked Woo's "lets make that kick just a little cooler/wilder than the last one" style. Nor his "every action sequence must involve explosions or slow-mo no matter what it is".
But that's just me :)
.... except for it being slow as dog shit and getting internal server errors all over the place!
:)
Course, I'm quite sure that this is because they're being slashdotted ATM
Anyone else having the program segfault on startup?
:(
Fresh install on a unstable debian box with E+gnome etc and segfault on startup
TIA for any thoughts.
A buddy of mine did something similar by simply renaming bots (this is in UT) to the names of their *favorite* customers. While not as cool as skins, certainly satisfying.
Ok, quick quiz here....
Was the above:
a) line noise
b) mr dithers' swearing
c) sendmail rules?
:)
Assuming you're talking about the site in your .sig....
alan@polarity:~$ ping www.jjjjulius.com
ping: unknown host www.jjjjulius.com
Agreed. I think that this comes down to the user not getting handcuffed by the app and being allowed to be as smart or as stupid as they want.
Ie: if you have 4 panes open, one with your local files, one with a browser, one with a file view of your files on a remote server, logged in as root, and one with a user login on a system you're in the process of changing from a user system to an mp3 server.. well, I see a bit of potential for error there. ie: Bad Idea
However, if you do a 2 pane system, one of local files, one of say, a remote ftp server where you're uploading files, this is a Good Idea.
:)
alan, stating the obvious again...
I realize that 99% of this is sarcasm, but I have to agree :)
:) and yes, I did get a large speed increase.
'sides, the reason I started using linux in the first place was that it wasn't a point and drool interface. And yes, I have made my own distro
It keeps me off the streets anyway. Do a search for "Linux from scratch howto" if you're interested in how to do it yourself.
My test for mozilla (and now netscape 6) has been to load www.enlightenment.org properly.
:) Of course, it's probably because they're using a closed source crypto library or something.
:) Though I do wish wish wish that the "hit back button == reload page from the site" thing would get fixed. This is one area that IE kicks ass in sadly :( When you from from a intensive page (eg: a theme gallery on themes.org) to another page, then hit back, IE will simply display the page but ns has to reload the page... and if the page has dynamic content, well, that means going back to the server, which sucks.
Netscape 6 fails. Something in raster's table code no doubt, but netscape and ie render it just dandy, but the last few milestones of mozilla and now ns (using 99% mozilla from what I can see) fails.
Other impressions are good. It's a more polished (note I didn't say just "polished") mozilla. The intro page is cute too, and mail seems (from a cursory glance) to work.
HTTPS works too which is a huge bonus
htaccess sites work fine too, but you need to hit TAB a few times to get from the username to the password dailoge.
Rendering and resizing are as always, lightning fast
IMHO, adding this, in addition to the existing speed of the rendering engine (well, and more polishing) would give ns/mozilla a HUGE edge.
my $0.02
alan
From what I saw on the "making of" section on the DVD the flips were assisted by harnesses but were "real". The CGI used for those would have been the removal of wires.
That's actually one of the more impressive things about the matrix for me, the things in it that were NOT CGI. The actors did a LOT of training to get "realistic" fighting moves, and the fights they had were for the most part "real".
my $0.02CND
- Duration: 10 minutes average
- Cost: $20
- Cost per hour: $120.
Uhmm...... what cds do you buy that are only 10 minutes long? The ones I have are (average) 10 songs at (average) 3min each. Even at 2 min / song that's still 20 minutes. Personally if I bought a CD and found it was only 10 minutes long I'd be quite pissed.
Of course, based on your calcs I think you mean 10 hours average, not minutes, so I'll shut up now :)
Yup, it's pretty cool.
Now to get it ported.....
Or how about my work IP which has no reverse (we're strapped into a T1 from the ISP downstairs). This doesn't give us a reverse lookup which is no big deal 99% of the time until I swear up and down that I'm in canada but am still denied. I guess since I don't come up as a *.ca address I must be a middle east terrorist looking to use my 128bit netscape to send messages about [censored] the [censored]s [censored]. Hell, why don't I just talk about [censored]ing the [censored]!
:)
Want to know what is worse than using edlin? Worse even that using ed or ae? How about talking someone through using edlin? No just a person though, a
I did tech support for a real estate board, talking people through using the new dial in system to see latest listings and doing property evaluations etc. At one point (in between the guy wanting to hook up the TI-1000 and the one who got the PII (at that time the fastest thing around) (for the sole purpose of using our dos based dial in software and quicken or something), I had to walk some person who had 0 computer knowledge, who didn't *want* to learn anything, through editing their autoexec.bat or some such thing.
What OS were they running? DOS 3.1 IIRC. No "edit", no nothing. Only edlin. I hate edlin, it's awful. But I'd have traded talking someone through using it on the phone for it any day.
Hell YES!
Moderation is the key :)
(yes, I saw the humor tags, but FreeUser does have a point).
Just like schools are not teaching any UNIX these days (or that's the percetion I get, I know my college/university only had 1 unix class), there shouldn't be "only" open source teachings.
Just like schools shouldn't go to one extreme and saw "we will only teach MS products to our students", schools should also not say "we will only teach linux and nothing but linux to our students".
Though I think that with the abundance of Windows software out there, and the need for it for the cool games (quake* and loki's stuff aside), I figure that students will have enough access to windows stuff to learn it.
But as with everything, moderation is the key. Not all linux, but not all windows right?
Teacher != techie don't forget too. I know Chris from #userfriendly and I don't recall if he's the IT guy or a teacher who handles computers as well.
Either way, I agree with him, being a techie is cool. Hell, I wish someone paid me to play with computers, networks, and teaching people how to use computers better!
Not "teach to use computers" mind you... I did my share of tech support and I would have no desire to deal with "click my mouse? is that a left click, or a right click? a click click... what do you call that, a double click again? I know you told me this yesturday but I forgot again, would you mind showing me how to turn on my computer today, It was on when I left for work but when I came home the screen was black so I turned it on and then it was off and then I turned it off and it was on and it said scandisk and I was so scared!!!!!!!!!!"
In case you're wondering, no, I haven't recovered from my 4 years of doing tech support for (gah) realtors....
This is the main thing that got me. I know Windows installs can be large, but freeing up 90%? Hell, even freeing up 50% would indicate to me some sort of problem...
I have a feeling this is in reference to their symlink-to-server feature. Maybe what happens is if you have application foo on your system and it's also installed on a mounted server, your application foo turns into a symlink to the server.
Personally I don't like this at all. The automation process has *so* much potential of going wrong. Last thing I need is windows (well, not that I run it anyway) going off and arbitrarily deciding to delete/symlink files. It's not like windows doesn't have enough probems with keeping track of DLLs *anyway*.
It normally takes a few days for the .debs to be released. I'd just keep an eye on the GNOME ftp site over the next week till they are released. Or wait till the .rpms are released (sadly this is generally done before .debs) and use alien. I'm personally going to wait (impatiently) for the "real" .debs :)
This is similar to the way wingate works, when it overwrites the TCP stack with it's own. Kinda sucks, esp when you try to "upgrade" a site from their wingate setup to something else, and discover that you have to re-install windows on all their clients boxes so that you can have them actually use that nice linux firewall/gateway you just put in.
Pah..
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