What? Do you mean AT ALL? That's the one thing I missed when Q3A came out. The game is great and all, but even when you're not online, it's still kind of a MP mode (same can be said for Tribes et al, it's still a MP style game even when playing offline).
That's why I fell in love with the id games. I could creap around in a dungeon (or turn on god mode and let off a bit of steam shooting imps or nazis or whatever with a gattling gun in Bring It On mode), or the same thing in some weird Hitler controlled Keep somewhere, and play the game myself. There was no "team" in it. It is just me against the world.
Are you saying that I can't do this with this release (I don't mean the demo since RTCW demo was MP only), but I mean even in the final version?
Yea, that part really kinda irked me about that post too. I've been giving id my money since (litterally) the very first Wolf3d came out for DOS on 5.25" floppies however many hundreds of years ago. I'll happily continue the trend.
Although I got a much heavier-duty machine (PIV-2.4GHz / GF4-ti4600), I get on the average of 200 FPS (varies between 180 - 200 depending on the map) with every piece of eyecandy cranked to the max at 1024x768. RTCW is not slow on my box at all. Actually, I get lower frame rates in Q3A (120 - 130) for whatever reason. I dunno about that, but still, RTCW is not slow. (period)
Disclaimer: granted I haven't played this yet since the servers are dead it seems, but I do get the same results out of UT2003 as you're reporting as well.
Actually it's funny you mention that. I didn't see a single "In Soviet Russia, iPods make a Beowulf cluster of you" kinda jokes in the iPod story a day or two ago. I hope that trend means it's finally coming to an end.
I just found their "witty" embedded reminders too obnoxious. They practically take over your desktop.
What in the world are you talking about?
I bought Crossover Office about a year or so ago (and have been updating it of course). Are you instead refering to the *FREE* plugin so you can watch quicktime stuff or whatever in Konq/Mozzie/whatever? You mean that one that they are handing out their work for free? The one that guys/gals/etc. are trying like hell to feed their families and are still handing out most of their work for FREE? You mean THAT Codeweavers stuff and not the Office one that this article is about, correct?
How can someone else except me decide what's good? My moods change, sometimes rapidly as well.
I was thinking the same thing. I can go from Slayer to Yanni to Pink Floyd to Iron Maiden to Brian Eno to David Bowie in the span of about 15 minutes. I'd almost LOVE to see what kinda play list it suggests for THAT kind of listening.
Geek then starts programming project to make him COOLER???
However, if you're more a hardware guy like myself, and you're at a bar and that damn Internet Jukebox thing craps out (again...) and the moron who serviced it last forgot to lock it and you know the guts of the thing (it's a real PC in there - serial, USB, etc.) and you walk over and re-seat a couple cards and then reboot it and she gets all her music back...
:-)
Yes, I've had to do this a couple times now (and it really does work with some of the girls!). It's OK that I do it because I'm OK friends with the bar tenders. They trust me. (and it gets me a few Sam Adams on the house...
The parent poster's The parent poster's company has made its decision. They should deal with it.
I got the impression that is exactly what his/her/it's point exactly was. They locked themselves into software that they only use because "everyone else does". I know I'm in the same boat despite everything I (litterally) prove otherwise. I'm surprised (from time to time) that I haven't got canned yet. I've been told (essentially) that I can't even say the "L" word anymore. OK, fine. I still speak up on alternatives, and also PROVE that they are viable ones (Mozzie, OOo, etc.). It's like talking to a wall, though.
Imagine the savings this company could reap by switching to [snip OS to make this more a real issue (yes, I love Linux but that obviously doesn't apply in this topic)] and some kind of OpenOffice product.
I thought the exact same thing, brother. I'm *really* trying like hell not to forward this story to my Upper-Aboves and include a link to OpenOffice in the message body...
The dude didn't say "false", he said "The Register's story is not quite accurate, but the registration bug is real.". What part of that did you not get? The article referenced doesn't get *EVERY TINY LITTLE DETAIL* right, but the fact still remains that this is something that I get to look forward to getting calls and e-mails about in the VERY near future (I'm the Admin...).
Why in God's name would you need it running Samba? It's running Linux. Have you never heard of NFS? Even then, the shoutcast server download is quite small. This thing would handle it fine. And there's lots of other options too that are quite small. Samba? Man, what were you thinking?
Ok, I should have been clearer. I know Linux doesn't have a monstrosity like the Windows registry. My comment was sarcastic, hinting at the fact that Windows needs regular fixing because its registry gets clobbered.
I was the AC that replied to the AC that replied to my comment. I realized I didn't read your comment right. I agree with you though, the registry is a really Bad Idea (tm)... I'm sorry that I didn't read your comment right the first time and gave kind of a knee-jerk reaction to it.
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Everything they know relates to Windows. On a decent system, they get Permission denied for everything. Or they run their machines as root, and mess them up, after which Linux gets messier than Windows ever was (remember that Unix was not designed to prevent you from doing stupid things).
Yes. I agree with this. As much as I TRULY like working in a more *NIX-ish enviroment, it does indeed have it's short-commings. If someone is logged in to X as root and right-clicks/usr and accidentally chooses Delete...
Can you say Hiroshima?
I'm just curious, do you know what shot is was? I've seen that movie probably damn near that many times. I'm just wondering which shot it was because there's no mention of that in the "Making Of" that's on the DVD.
I (personally) freakin' HATE the Luna garbage. I put in "Calssic" mode.
Yes, XP is indeed that much worse.
I'm not that much of a Win* fan these days, but I still will always say (and I have a lot of people that will say the same thing, and no, they aren't *NIX heads), w2k was the best thing they EVER put out. I REALLY miss using w2k. I never had any severe prblems with it and I've been using it since Beta-2 (that MCSP subscription used to be REALLY nice...:-)). XP is indeed crap. It feels like '95a did. It was pushed out of the house before it was ready.
high-flyers trapped in a house sized environment for 500 days is probably going to be terribly boring.
I dunno. The Truman Show was a pretty good movie. I don't agree with the concept (if it was Real (tm)), but this would be slightly the same idea. Granted, Truman didn't know he was being broadcast, but the concept is that people tuned in to watch his life. This wouldn't be too much different. Have you ever seen Mars from a Head-Cam point of view? I know I haven't. I'd hit a Pay-Per-Veiw to see that. Hell, Hooters broadcasts WWE PPV's for free, I guess I know where I'll be.:-)
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There will be no SP mode.
What? Do you mean AT ALL? That's the one thing I missed when Q3A came out. The game is great and all, but even when you're not online, it's still kind of a MP mode (same can be said for Tribes et al, it's still a MP style game even when playing offline).
That's why I fell in love with the id games. I could creap around in a dungeon (or turn on god mode and let off a bit of steam shooting imps or nazis or whatever with a gattling gun in Bring It On mode), or the same thing in some weird Hitler controlled Keep somewhere, and play the game myself. There was no "team" in it. It is just me against the world.
Are you saying that I can't do this with this release (I don't mean the demo since RTCW demo was MP only), but I mean even in the final version?
For a *free* game. Don't *buy*, indeed.
/me waits for Doom 3 to hit the shelves.
Yea, that part really kinda irked me about that post too. I've been giving id my money since (litterally) the very first Wolf3d came out for DOS on 5.25" floppies however many hundreds of years ago. I'll happily continue the trend.
I just have to jump in and second this.
Although I got a much heavier-duty machine (PIV-2.4GHz / GF4-ti4600), I get on the average of 200 FPS (varies between 180 - 200 depending on the map) with every piece of eyecandy cranked to the max at 1024x768. RTCW is not slow on my box at all. Actually, I get lower frame rates in Q3A (120 - 130) for whatever reason. I dunno about that, but still, RTCW is not slow. (period)
Disclaimer: granted I haven't played this yet since the servers are dead it seems, but I do get the same results out of UT2003 as you're reporting as well.
bwahahaha! I hope you hit +5, Funny for that great crack!
I opened this page with zero posts (not even the trolls) and the server was already dead...
Good job!
I don't get it.
P tags, Ogg tags, Beowulf tags, MSSUX tags...
/me runs and hides.
Actually it's funny you mention that. I didn't see a single "In Soviet Russia, iPods make a Beowulf cluster of you" kinda jokes in the iPod story a day or two ago. I hope that trend means it's finally coming to an end.
Oh, errr... nevermind.
About 5 hours before the web was invented.
What, so Al Gore invented the term "pr0n" as well?!? Damn that guy is a genius. Why didn't he get elected president? Oh... wait... nevermind...
I just found their "witty" embedded reminders too obnoxious. They practically take over your desktop.
What in the world are you talking about?
I bought Crossover Office about a year or so ago (and have been updating it of course). Are you instead refering to the *FREE* plugin so you can watch quicktime stuff or whatever in Konq/Mozzie/whatever? You mean that one that they are handing out their work for free? The one that guys/gals/etc. are trying like hell to feed their families and are still handing out most of their work for FREE? You mean THAT Codeweavers stuff and not the Office one that this article is about, correct?
How can someone else except me decide what's good? My moods change, sometimes rapidly as well.
I was thinking the same thing. I can go from Slayer to Yanni to Pink Floyd to Iron Maiden to Brian Eno to David Bowie in the span of about 15 minutes. I'd almost LOVE to see what kinda play list it suggests for THAT kind of listening.
Geek then starts programming project to make him COOLER???
:-)
However, if you're more a hardware guy like myself, and you're at a bar and that damn Internet Jukebox thing craps out (again...) and the moron who serviced it last forgot to lock it and you know the guts of the thing (it's a real PC in there - serial, USB, etc.) and you walk over and re-seat a couple cards and then reboot it and she gets all her music back...
Yes, I've had to do this a couple times now (and it really does work with some of the girls!). It's OK that I do it because I'm OK friends with the bar tenders. They trust me. (and it gets me a few Sam Adams on the house...
Sometimes it's good to be a geek.
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
Where they ever really "in it"?
Tell the users to
You have (L)users that actually listen to what you say? Dude, where do I sign up?
The parent poster's The parent poster's company has made its decision. They should deal with it.
I got the impression that is exactly what his/her/it's point exactly was. They locked themselves into software that they only use because "everyone else does". I know I'm in the same boat despite everything I (litterally) prove otherwise. I'm surprised (from time to time) that I haven't got canned yet. I've been told (essentially) that I can't even say the "L" word anymore. OK, fine. I still speak up on alternatives, and also PROVE that they are viable ones (Mozzie, OOo, etc.). It's like talking to a wall, though.
Imagine the savings this company could reap by switching to [snip OS to make this more a real issue (yes, I love Linux but that obviously doesn't apply in this topic)] and some kind of OpenOffice product.
I thought the exact same thing, brother. I'm *really* trying like hell not to forward this story to my Upper-Aboves and include a link to OpenOffice in the message body...
If the Reg is false, then what's the true story?
The dude didn't say "false", he said "The Register's story is not quite accurate, but the registration bug is real.". What part of that did you not get? The article referenced doesn't get *EVERY TINY LITTLE DETAIL* right, but the fact still remains that this is something that I get to look forward to getting calls and e-mails about in the VERY near future (I'm the Admin...).
I think we all slashdotted Norway...
/Me high fives everyone.
we must get it to run Samba
Why in God's name would you need it running Samba? It's running Linux. Have you never heard of NFS? Even then, the shoutcast server download is quite small. This thing would handle it fine. And there's lots of other options too that are quite small. Samba? Man, what were you thinking?
Thank you for that Agent J! That's really cool you found that for me/us!
Ok, I should have been clearer. I know Linux doesn't have a monstrosity like the Windows registry. My comment was sarcastic, hinting at the fact that Windows needs regular fixing because its registry gets clobbered.
/usr and accidentally chooses Delete...
I was the AC that replied to the AC that replied to my comment. I realized I didn't read your comment right. I agree with you though, the registry is a really Bad Idea (tm)... I'm sorry that I didn't read your comment right the first time and gave kind of a knee-jerk reaction to it.
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Everything they know relates to Windows. On a decent system, they get Permission denied for everything. Or they run their machines as root, and mess them up, after which Linux gets messier than Windows ever was (remember that Unix was not designed to prevent you from doing stupid things).
Yes. I agree with this. As much as I TRULY like working in a more *NIX-ish enviroment, it does indeed have it's short-commings. If someone is logged in to X as root and right-clicks
Can you say Hiroshima?
Hmmm... you make an eerie point...
I'm just curious, do you know what shot is was? I've seen that movie probably damn near that many times. I'm just wondering which shot it was because there's no mention of that in the "Making Of" that's on the DVD.
Two things:
I (personally) freakin' HATE the Luna garbage. I put in "Calssic" mode.
Yes, XP is indeed that much worse. :-)). XP is indeed crap. It feels like '95a did. It was pushed out of the house before it was ready.
I'm not that much of a Win* fan these days, but I still will always say (and I have a lot of people that will say the same thing, and no, they aren't *NIX heads), w2k was the best thing they EVER put out. I REALLY miss using w2k. I never had any severe prblems with it and I've been using it since Beta-2 (that MCSP subscription used to be REALLY nice...
high-flyers trapped in a house sized environment for 500 days is probably going to be terribly boring.
:-)
I dunno. The Truman Show was a pretty good movie. I don't agree with the concept (if it was Real (tm)), but this would be slightly the same idea. Granted, Truman didn't know he was being broadcast, but the concept is that people tuned in to watch his life. This wouldn't be too much different. Have you ever seen Mars from a Head-Cam point of view? I know I haven't. I'd hit a Pay-Per-Veiw to see that. Hell, Hooters broadcasts WWE PPV's for free, I guess I know where I'll be.