I found Quake kind of weird. I thought the sounds and graphics were inferior to Doom's. Quake has the wimpiest shotgun of any FPS I've played, and most of the levels were dull brown and green.
I still remember the PC Gamer preview showing screenshots of a flying dragon and describing the graphics as being like Myst in real-time. There was supposed to be a physics system that bounced you off the wall when you jumped against it. Even then, gaming journalism was hype-filled crap.
WoW already jumped the shark; people still play it because it's the MySpace of MMOs. Everyone else is playing it.
As for Quake 3, it's probably one of the most solid deathmatch experiences still available. It plays tightly and just feels good to control. I'm not really sure why Counter-Strike took off like it did. I remember trying it and thinking it was fun but not so amazing to generate the following that it did.
The Quake 3 engine, however, was very successful and ended up in several cool games. I would have cited Doom 3 as the point where id became one among many, and I stopped viewing them as the king of first-person shooters.
It was just a quick link to a place to quickly purchase and download Quake 3 for its data files so that you can try out ioquake3. If you already have Quake 3, guess what? You don't have to purchase it again! Congratulations!
This is sad, just another example of how the wheels are coming off the cart while careening down another blind alley.
You're nuts. This is Microsoft finally doing what everyone tells them to do, move forward on APIs and retain compatibility using an emulated environment for those who need it.
Is there any way to incorporate string theory, membranes, dimensions, time travel, or wormholes into this explanation? Kaku has some speaking engagements and needs some buzz words along with the usual Star Trek references.
I know Microsoft's talking point is to reference Windows 1.0, but the Windows 7 dock acts as both a switcher AND a launcher, and the window behavior now resembles OS X. It's a clear ripoff of the Dock.
You actually think the "Pirate Party" isn't a joke and that all those new members will stick around and do something? I'm pretty sure that once all the pirates realize they have to do work, they'll quietly disappear.
Having the judge be a member of copyright protection organizations isn't bias. Copyright is the law, and he's a judge...how is this a story? Hell, he might have been put on this case specifically because he knows copyright law very well. You guys need to accept this--Pirate Bay wasn't just a search engine like Google. It was also hosting the torrent tracker server that tracks the file chunks users were trading with each other. They offer the torrents, and they offer the server connecting the users, and they call themselves PirateBay...and you're defending it? You're surprised they were found guilty in court?
Nobody cares about the "Pirate Party." It's just a bunch of morons who signed up online out of spite and probably will never be heard from again.
Pirates will do whatever it takes to get their free ride back. They do as much as possible to avoid admitting guilt. You're ripping people off. You're the bad guy. You'll talk about the RIAA/MPAA until you're out of breath, you'll invent stupid justifications like piracy is "free advertising" or it's a "new business model," but it's all just a psychological justification to avoid admitting that you're guilty of doing something inethical. You never think about the people you're ripping off--the musicians, software developers, screenwriters, and so on.
The fact that Slashdot has become so militantly pro-piracy in the last decade is really disgusting. It was one thing to defend Napster, but now it's just bleedingly obvious that Slashdot is visited by a ton of selfish leeches who want to spend all day and night running Bittorrent apps, never even dreaming of paying somebody for their work. How would you like it if you were a software developer, and your boss didn't give you a paycheck one month because "information wants to be free," or "you can't 'steal' code," or some other stupid reason that pirates always give?
It's like you guys want to dig for oil forever and expect it to never run out. The piracy issue is finally coming to a head. You know it's illegal and wrong. There's no other reason you do it but that you're selfish like all humans and want something for free without paying money to its creator.
When Microsoft first started promising this back in the 90s, it was supposed to be a database filesystem. Even when it was a layer on top of NTFS, I think it still qualifies as part of the file system conceptually. You and others are just splitting hairs for the sake of upmods.
Your bias is showing. How can you praise apple for doing precisely what you slam ubuntu for?
You misunderstood me. I was saying I'd rather use all the third-party Linux stuff in its vanilla form (Slackware, Arch Linux, and a few other distros tend to ship packages this way) rather than in a heavily preconfigured form like Ubuntu or Mint. I always end up inadvertently breaking the illusion of cohesion by poking around too much.
One of the reasons I prefer BSD is that they develop and ship many of the core tools as part of the OS.
Windows 2000--still the best version they ever made. Simple, clean, and snappy. Try it on a modern PC. It's so wonderfully fast with an interface that stays out of the way. If Windows 2000 had supported my laptop in 2002, I wouldn't have made the jump to XP. I would have used Windows 2000 for many years.
Windows 7 looks like Vista with an OS X Dock. I can't stand Aero, and there doesn't appear to be any refinements to it, so that's disappointing. The cloning of OS X's Dock and window management behavior is another amusingly obvious ripoff that Microsoft and its supporters will deny (the common talking point appears to be that the inspiration was Windows 1.0, not OS X). The option for the classic Start menu has been removed. I really dislike Vista's Start menu and how you scroll inside it to get to things. Thankfully, the search field is a faster, better launcher.
Snow Leopard will be fun to compare to Windows 7. While Microsoft has been moving in a direction of adding more visual flair with each release, Apple has been removing flair from OS X. Right now, it almost resembles NexTStep's dark gray. Once they replace the harsh, blue gel scrollbars with iTunes' clean ones, I'll be really happy staring at my screen all day.
Your old P166 laptop didn't browse a web that was rich in JavaScript applications like today. The memory usage you're seeing from applications is mostly things like caching, which is a good thing. Unused memory is wasted memory.
There is increased functionality, like graphics compositing, higher resolutions, file indexing, system snapshots, and so on. There are also more APIs and services. For instance, in OS X, all text views have system-wide spelling and grammar checking available to them. You're probably also running many more applications at once compared to back then--decoding high-quality MP3s/AACs in real-time for playback, loading multiple websites in tabs that are running JavaScript on them which must be interpreted and executed, leaving a mail application open for hours (which probably has a junk mail filter that must parse things as they come in), and so on. Some of those applications might be cross-platform, like Firefox, which means they're using special toolkits which will also take up more memory. The tradeoff is worth it today, because the advantage is in having the application available everywhere.
You can install Windows 2000 and marvel at the responsiveness of the interface and quick loading times, but when you drag a window and see the old graphics tearing, you'll realize what you're missing. There are fundamentals today that are expected to be there.
Brushed metal doesn't exist anymore. When it did, it was for applications containing a source list or emulating some real world device, so there was an intended consistency. Around the time brushed metal disappeared, black HUDs showed up in Apple's media applications, allowing you to make edits without obscuring too much of what you're working on. The deviations in OS X have a purpose.
The inconsistencies the person you're responding to is talking about is stupid crap like the way fonts are rendered. There is still uneven kerning and bad font choices after all these years. Applications don't follow a standard interface paradigm. You know how a Mac app is going to look and feel, even when it deviates from the norm, such as Delicious Library.
Ubuntu is odd because it's a project trying to take all this third-party work and make it feel like it's cohesive and meant to go together. I'd rather use the stuff in "vanilla" form and not make-believe that it was all created by the same team.
Not any creepier than a website full of pro-piracy nerds who don't believe artists should ever get paid for anything, ever, and then will look for bad guys to post stories about so they feel like good guys instead of immoral pirates.
Man, Slashdot will post ANYTHING to defend its heroes at PirateBay. Face it, ripping people off because you just want shit for free is wrong. PirateBay runs a torrent tracker server for users to connect to other users and trade copyrighted materials, which means they're facilitating piracy.
I just really don't get how seemingly logical people will post pro-piracy comment after pro-piracy comment and then pretend it's not because they're selfish leeches who doesn't want to lose the free ride.
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Surprisingly, Quake Live doesn't support mods.
They're already releasing the game for free to play in a browser. What more do you want?
Who buys used PC games anymore? I don't want somebody else's scratched and smudged up disc.
I found Quake kind of weird. I thought the sounds and graphics were inferior to Doom's. Quake has the wimpiest shotgun of any FPS I've played, and most of the levels were dull brown and green.
I still remember the PC Gamer preview showing screenshots of a flying dragon and describing the graphics as being like Myst in real-time. There was supposed to be a physics system that bounced you off the wall when you jumped against it. Even then, gaming journalism was hype-filled crap.
WoW already jumped the shark; people still play it because it's the MySpace of MMOs. Everyone else is playing it.
As for Quake 3, it's probably one of the most solid deathmatch experiences still available. It plays tightly and just feels good to control. I'm not really sure why Counter-Strike took off like it did. I remember trying it and thinking it was fun but not so amazing to generate the following that it did.
The Quake 3 engine, however, was very successful and ended up in several cool games. I would have cited Doom 3 as the point where id became one among many, and I stopped viewing them as the king of first-person shooters.
It was just a quick link to a place to quickly purchase and download Quake 3 for its data files so that you can try out ioquake3. If you already have Quake 3, guess what? You don't have to purchase it again! Congratulations!
Old meme is old.
You're nuts. This is Microsoft finally doing what everyone tells them to do, move forward on APIs and retain compatibility using an emulated environment for those who need it.
No, it's not.
Is there any way to incorporate string theory, membranes, dimensions, time travel, or wormholes into this explanation? Kaku has some speaking engagements and needs some buzz words along with the usual Star Trek references.
Top news today, a president said we should do something that sounds good. More at six.
No, it's not!
I know Microsoft's talking point is to reference Windows 1.0, but the Windows 7 dock acts as both a switcher AND a launcher, and the window behavior now resembles OS X. It's a clear ripoff of the Dock.
I knew my comment would be modded down. If you disagree with something, you should reply with your counterargument, not mindlessly try to silence me.
You actually think the "Pirate Party" isn't a joke and that all those new members will stick around and do something? I'm pretty sure that once all the pirates realize they have to do work, they'll quietly disappear.
What a load of crap.
Having the judge be a member of copyright protection organizations isn't bias. Copyright is the law, and he's a judge...how is this a story? Hell, he might have been put on this case specifically because he knows copyright law very well. You guys need to accept this--Pirate Bay wasn't just a search engine like Google. It was also hosting the torrent tracker server that tracks the file chunks users were trading with each other. They offer the torrents, and they offer the server connecting the users, and they call themselves PirateBay...and you're defending it? You're surprised they were found guilty in court?
Nobody cares about the "Pirate Party." It's just a bunch of morons who signed up online out of spite and probably will never be heard from again.
Pirates will do whatever it takes to get their free ride back. They do as much as possible to avoid admitting guilt. You're ripping people off. You're the bad guy. You'll talk about the RIAA/MPAA until you're out of breath, you'll invent stupid justifications like piracy is "free advertising" or it's a "new business model," but it's all just a psychological justification to avoid admitting that you're guilty of doing something inethical. You never think about the people you're ripping off--the musicians, software developers, screenwriters, and so on.
The fact that Slashdot has become so militantly pro-piracy in the last decade is really disgusting. It was one thing to defend Napster, but now it's just bleedingly obvious that Slashdot is visited by a ton of selfish leeches who want to spend all day and night running Bittorrent apps, never even dreaming of paying somebody for their work. How would you like it if you were a software developer, and your boss didn't give you a paycheck one month because "information wants to be free," or "you can't 'steal' code," or some other stupid reason that pirates always give?
It's like you guys want to dig for oil forever and expect it to never run out. The piracy issue is finally coming to a head. You know it's illegal and wrong. There's no other reason you do it but that you're selfish like all humans and want something for free without paying money to its creator.
Microsoft has made such announcements in the past. For instance, when they announced their plans for a Whistler->Longhorn->Blackcomb release schedule.
When Microsoft first started promising this back in the 90s, it was supposed to be a database filesystem. Even when it was a layer on top of NTFS, I think it still qualifies as part of the file system conceptually. You and others are just splitting hairs for the sake of upmods.
You misunderstood me. I was saying I'd rather use all the third-party Linux stuff in its vanilla form (Slackware, Arch Linux, and a few other distros tend to ship packages this way) rather than in a heavily preconfigured form like Ubuntu or Mint. I always end up inadvertently breaking the illusion of cohesion by poking around too much.
One of the reasons I prefer BSD is that they develop and ship many of the core tools as part of the OS.
Windows 2000--still the best version they ever made. Simple, clean, and snappy. Try it on a modern PC. It's so wonderfully fast with an interface that stays out of the way. If Windows 2000 had supported my laptop in 2002, I wouldn't have made the jump to XP. I would have used Windows 2000 for many years.
Windows 7 looks like Vista with an OS X Dock. I can't stand Aero, and there doesn't appear to be any refinements to it, so that's disappointing. The cloning of OS X's Dock and window management behavior is another amusingly obvious ripoff that Microsoft and its supporters will deny (the common talking point appears to be that the inspiration was Windows 1.0, not OS X). The option for the classic Start menu has been removed. I really dislike Vista's Start menu and how you scroll inside it to get to things. Thankfully, the search field is a faster, better launcher.
Snow Leopard will be fun to compare to Windows 7. While Microsoft has been moving in a direction of adding more visual flair with each release, Apple has been removing flair from OS X. Right now, it almost resembles NexTStep's dark gray. Once they replace the harsh, blue gel scrollbars with iTunes' clean ones, I'll be really happy staring at my screen all day.
Your old P166 laptop didn't browse a web that was rich in JavaScript applications like today. The memory usage you're seeing from applications is mostly things like caching, which is a good thing. Unused memory is wasted memory.
There is increased functionality, like graphics compositing, higher resolutions, file indexing, system snapshots, and so on. There are also more APIs and services. For instance, in OS X, all text views have system-wide spelling and grammar checking available to them. You're probably also running many more applications at once compared to back then--decoding high-quality MP3s/AACs in real-time for playback, loading multiple websites in tabs that are running JavaScript on them which must be interpreted and executed, leaving a mail application open for hours (which probably has a junk mail filter that must parse things as they come in), and so on. Some of those applications might be cross-platform, like Firefox, which means they're using special toolkits which will also take up more memory. The tradeoff is worth it today, because the advantage is in having the application available everywhere.
You can install Windows 2000 and marvel at the responsiveness of the interface and quick loading times, but when you drag a window and see the old graphics tearing, you'll realize what you're missing. There are fundamentals today that are expected to be there.
Brushed metal doesn't exist anymore. When it did, it was for applications containing a source list or emulating some real world device, so there was an intended consistency. Around the time brushed metal disappeared, black HUDs showed up in Apple's media applications, allowing you to make edits without obscuring too much of what you're working on. The deviations in OS X have a purpose.
The inconsistencies the person you're responding to is talking about is stupid crap like the way fonts are rendered. There is still uneven kerning and bad font choices after all these years. Applications don't follow a standard interface paradigm. You know how a Mac app is going to look and feel, even when it deviates from the norm, such as Delicious Library.
Ubuntu is odd because it's a project trying to take all this third-party work and make it feel like it's cohesive and meant to go together. I'd rather use the stuff in "vanilla" form and not make-believe that it was all created by the same team.
Not any creepier than a website full of pro-piracy nerds who don't believe artists should ever get paid for anything, ever, and then will look for bad guys to post stories about so they feel like good guys instead of immoral pirates.
Man, Slashdot will post ANYTHING to defend its heroes at PirateBay. Face it, ripping people off because you just want shit for free is wrong. PirateBay runs a torrent tracker server for users to connect to other users and trade copyrighted materials, which means they're facilitating piracy.
I just really don't get how seemingly logical people will post pro-piracy comment after pro-piracy comment and then pretend it's not because they're selfish leeches who doesn't want to lose the free ride.