That's why these CS-like games sucks! Having to wait the entire round to respawn is unacceptable. Me and my friends started play CS, but after a month we came back to Quake3Arena. The main diference is that in CS your life is very important (strategy). In Quake you life is not important, only killing is important (arcade). In Quake, even your own death is fun.
Just create a mod for q3a that turns quake console into a shell terminal, make a boot CD with it, and I'll use nothing else.:P Please, I *need* this mod!
These "#number"'s made me think.. The "parent" link at the end of each comment should jump (<a href="#parent_reference">) directly to the parent comment, instead of opening a new page with just the parent. And the "#number"'s could be converted automaticaly to links like that too. That would make it easier to use (write and read) references to other comments.
I agree 100% on you. I think it's very important for a computer hacker/programmer/scientist wanna-be to know how the computer work, and learning assembly makes that way clearer.
I myself started with BASIC, tought. Only about five years ago I wrote my first assembly little program (for 8051) to control an LCD and some keys, attached to the serial port of a PC, a console for an mp3-car-player.
I suggest you find a place with no tech - no computers, ATMs, keyboards, pagers, even no push button phones. No televisions, VCRs... nothing with a button.
How funny.. I'm suffering from pain in the (right) wirst from some months now. On the new-year's holyday I went camping for an entire week in a place with no eletricity at all. I though my pain would relief, but it got worst than ever!
I'm not saying that books are useless, your mileage may (will) vary (wildly), but I have bought/read just *one* (technical) book over my entire passage on the university (tanembaum's "modern operating systems", from 197x IIRC). And, yes, I completed the computer science course, and I consider myself a pretty good coder (and even a scientist:) (yeah, i would be perfect if i was modest)
*companies*? *working for*? Well, (thanks god) most of the code I write is personal (hobby project, hacking around, learning, testing, having fun, etc), so that the "90% of all your coding work will never be used for anything" pretty much apply, and that's no problem. And I don't think it's wasted time. Now, in a professional (capitalist) enviroment the coding is make by demand, so most of it *will* be used. (Just as I don't think that when it comes to a point that you just throw away (mostly) all the code and restart from scratch is not a waste either.)
I wanna fight for pleasure. No big fucking engine NOISE in my ears, thanks. Gimme real wings!
I wonder.. with the advance of new materials (and nanotech, etc), I could be possible someday to build a really light wing. Each wing would be a strucutre of 'bones' articulated in a 'VV' shape. Half of it (one of the 'V's) follow your arm. When you open your two arms straight the thing 'locks' soundly on this position (like when you open your arms pretending to be wings, to fly). This way you could carry it like a backpack and mount and dismount the wings easly. It could have three 'modes': backpack (free arms); with your arms attached to the wings (but you can still use your arms, just keeping them closed); and with the wings spawned, with the arms straight opened.
That's a real exoskeleton, not this little helicopter. It's more like a motorcycle, in terms of size and usage.
The 'VV' shape (for each wing) doubles our 'wingspread', making it plausible for a flight.
The only problem is: are we (or can we get) strong enough to flap the wings to give propulsion? Just imagine your self running for an open area, 'wearing' the wing, you open it when you reach the speed, flap, and you're flying! 8^) For a glide (like Batman) no need for strenght, as the strucutre of the exoskeleton will lock in the straight position (with each wing holding against the strucutre on the back).
That reminds me of a great book called "Cosmicomics" from Italo Calvino, one of my favourite writers (in fact he's my favourite non-brazilian writer). In the first story it tells about the epoch when the Moon was closer to the Earth, so close that on perigee you could sail under the Moon and jump there!:)
From 10h to 21h of the next day, with just an one-hour break for lunch. That's 32h. But the interesting part is: after that many hours, I was on an altered state, just like I was on drugs, I just didn't want to stop coding! and when I finnaly went home I was still very awake for some hours, I just couldn't sleep. I think there it's like when you're doing phisical exercise for hours, and your body starts producing endorphin, and you feel like superman.. something like that, for the brain.
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Or maybe a Cowboy Neal's son?
No, not like that.
I mean like the regular Quake could act as a terminal, letting me run bash, ssh, etc inside the Quake console itself.
ttyquake is just for fun, it's not intended to really play Quake.
That's why these CS-like games sucks! Having to wait the entire round to respawn is unacceptable. Me and my friends started play CS, but after a month we came back to Quake3Arena.
The main diference is that in CS your life is very important (strategy). In Quake you life is not important, only killing is important (arcade).
In Quake, even your own death is fun.
Just create a mod for q3a that turns quake console into a shell terminal, make a boot CD with it, and I'll use nothing else. :P
Please, I *need* this mod!
These "#number"'s made me think..
The "parent" link at the end of each comment should jump (<a href="#parent_reference">) directly to the parent comment, instead of opening a new page with just the parent.
And the "#number"'s could be converted automaticaly to links like that too.
That would make it easier to use (write and read) references to other comments.
if it's worth to write, it's worth to rewrite
X would be a better name then
I plant canabis in my computer room.
%-)
A change like this calls for a 2.0 version number.
I agree 100% on you.
I think it's very important for a computer hacker/programmer/scientist wanna-be to know how the computer work, and learning assembly makes that way clearer.
I myself started with BASIC, tought.
Only about five years ago I wrote my first assembly little program (for 8051) to control an LCD and some keys, attached to the serial port of a PC, a console for an mp3-car-player.
try about:kitchensink
No prob.
Rembember it's Phoenix, it will just raise again and start a new life!
I suggest you find a place with no tech - no computers, ATMs, keyboards, pagers, even no push button phones. No televisions, VCRs ... nothing with a button.
How funny.. I'm suffering from pain in the (right) wirst from some months now. On the new-year's holyday I went camping for an entire week in a place with no eletricity at all. I though my pain would relief, but it got worst than ever!
FTP is the [F]ile [T]ransfer [P]rotocol.
period.
CLAP, CLAP, CLAP!! :P
Pleas mod the Mr A.C here up to the SKY!
No Douglas Adams' "The Restaurant At The End Of The Galaxy" reference? /.?
Is this
I'm not saying that books are useless, your mileage may (will) vary (wildly), but I have bought/read just *one* (technical) book over my entire passage on the university (tanembaum's "modern operating systems", from 197x IIRC). :)
And, yes, I completed the computer science course, and I consider myself a pretty good coder (and even a scientist
(yeah, i would be perfect if i was modest)
*companies*? *working for*?
Well, (thanks god) most of the code I write is personal (hobby project, hacking around, learning, testing, having fun, etc), so that the "90% of all your coding work will never be used for anything" pretty much apply, and that's no problem.
And I don't think it's wasted time.
Now, in a professional (capitalist) enviroment the coding is make by demand, so most of it *will* be used.
(Just as I don't think that when it comes to a point that you just throw away (mostly) all the code and restart from scratch is not a waste either.)
Exoskeleton? This is more like a mini-helicopter. This thing isn't even articulated!
I wanna fight for pleasure.
No big fucking engine NOISE in my ears, thanks.
Gimme real wings!
I wonder.. with the advance of new materials (and nanotech, etc), I could be possible someday to build a really light wing.
Each wing would be a strucutre of 'bones' articulated in a 'VV' shape. Half of it (one of the 'V's) follow your arm. When you open your two arms straight the thing 'locks' soundly on this position (like when you open your arms pretending to be wings, to fly).
This way you could carry it like a backpack and mount and dismount the wings easly. It could have three 'modes': backpack (free arms); with your arms attached to the wings (but you can still use your arms, just keeping them closed); and with the wings spawned, with the arms straight opened.
That's a real exoskeleton, not this little helicopter. It's more like a motorcycle, in terms of size and usage.
The 'VV' shape (for each wing) doubles our 'wingspread', making it plausible for a flight.
The only problem is: are we (or can we get) strong enough to flap the wings to give propulsion? Just imagine your self running for an open area, 'wearing' the wing, you open it when you reach the speed, flap, and you're flying! 8^)
For a glide (like Batman) no need for strenght, as the strucutre of the exoskeleton will lock in the straight position (with each wing holding against the strucutre on the back).
they're on ebay (rtfa), scroll down
ha! I just found another story from Cosmicomics online. It's damn funny, and somewhat geek-oriented. Worth a read: How Much Shall We Bet?
That reminds me of a great book called "Cosmicomics" from Italo Calvino, one of my favourite writers (in fact he's my favourite non-brazilian writer). In the first story it tells about the epoch when the Moon was closer to the Earth, so close that on perigee you could sail under the Moon and jump there! :)
use "<" (less than) and ">" (greater than) to write the "<" and ">" symbols
From 10h to 21h of the next day, with just an one-hour break for lunch. That's 32h.
But the interesting part is: after that many hours, I was on an altered state, just like I was on drugs, I just didn't want to stop coding! and when I finnaly went home I was still very awake for some hours, I just couldn't sleep.
I think there it's like when you're doing phisical exercise for hours, and your body starts producing endorphin, and you feel like superman.. something like that, for the brain.