I went through the exact same cycle. I guess I just started a few cycles earlier. My latest stint in Linux is up to a year, over numerous kernel recompiles, with no sign of stopping. Most of the programs I use every day now dont even have counterparts in Windows. I do not know what I would do without access to the simple shell scripting tools in Linux (how the hell do I copy every file created on any day after 12PM in windows?).
I never did anything unusual. Maybe it is because I have older hardware, a GF FX 5500, Athlon XP 1800+, 512/768MB PC2700. I get 25-35 FPS in windows on average scenes and 40-50 FPS in linux, all with medium settings. It may be different if youre comparing performance with higher end cards or higher/lower settings.
Arcanum - I played Arcanum in 4.3 and at least half of the listed issues have been fixed. I guess I am not doing my wiki duty, I will install the game again and update that entry when I get a chance.
Evil Genius, not working due to texturing problems. Also annoyances during install.
Bloodlines works with nVidia, not our fault ati drivers suck.
Call it 1.5/3 since the two that work arent perfect. Not horrible considering the popularity of those games. I am a great collector of obscure RPGs and RTS games, and I do my best to make sure the ones I own are represented in the games database and the support voting.
Slashdot is not about the news. It is about discussing the news. And until I find another forum with the level of customized viewing (I read at +3, but my custom filters include -3 Funny and +1 Freak) that Slash offers it will continue to be the best place to find thoughtful discussion of the topics we cover here.
79% on the 50-100% scale of modern percentile reviewing. It is a general trend that sites using a percentage system rarely give anything scores lower than 50%. Sites using a/10 system are somewhere in the middle, they tend to higher scores but do not shy away from 1s and 2s for truly bad games. I find/5 sites to be the most realistic, as they are unafraid of giving out 1s (which equate to an almost-never-seen 10% on a [10-30-50-70-90] conversion to a %scale).
Obvious solution... A no-dishonor flag, like the pvp flag. (I use 20 and 60 to represent your average low and high level character) If a 20 heals a 60, or attacks a 60, then the 20 is fair game to 60s for 10 minutes. But to prevent AOE shielding, you make the flag transfer by proximity (like a disease, come to think of it), not just healing. So a 20 standing among a lot of 60s is fair game.
Honor for worthy PVP encounters, Dishonor for killing lowbies. Such a simple idea, and anticipation of this feature was what kept many people playing WoW, finally a penalty for "griefers" for over a year. And then suddenly the Honor rules were published, a couple of months before the system went live, and dishonor was explicitly missing. Many people bring up issues such as reverse griefing, using low level players as human shields, ganging up on high level people, etc, but all of these have simple obvious solutions. In the end, why was this aspect of the system nerfed so badly?
Check out City CarShare. Rental vehicles stored in parking spots all over the city, available in timeslots as small as half an hour for only $4/hr peak, $2/hr off peak, plus $.44/mile which includes gas and comprehensive insurance. This is the way of the future. Bicycles, trains, or slidewalks(!) for normal people, rent a car for a few bucks the hour you need it each day, a truck for a little more on the day you need it each month.
What if you want to, for instance, dance while listening? Wireless headphones with 12' range are extremely useful. This kind of device I am not so sure about, but I guarantee there will be a market for it.
12 feet seems like fair use. Lots of people use FM transmitters in their car to do that. How far is copyright infringement? If you broadcast your music 200 feet are you still ok? 20000?
Noncititizens are not afforded even the basic rights afforded under the constitution, you are asserting that we legally protect their copyrights, of all things?
If a restaurant used a LOX compressor to cool a drink to, say, -100C, and served that to someone who subsequently lost their tonque to frostbite, it would be their own fault right? After all, even children understand that refrigerators cool things, and cold things hurt.
The difference in 140 degree and 180 degree coffee is actually NOT a matter of degree (no pun intended). There is a threshold above which the skin and air cannot transfer heat away as fast as it can cook the skin. That threshold for water-like liquids happens to be around 160F. Serving coffee anywhere from 100 up to 140 degrees is a matter of preference, it just changes the level of the sensation of heat. Past 140 degrees enters into what should be criminal negligence, and a jury found to be liable for causing the damage it did. If I give you a 30F piece of ice, or ice cream, or a popsicle, it feels cold. 10F feels colder. -10F feels painfully cold. But around -25F it will actually freeze to your tongue, not only causing pain but also physically damaging your body. This is the same kind of threshold that McDonalds crossed, and doign so is tantamount to assault and fraud.
Try again, The Baen Free Library is a perfect example. FREE copies of books available online, and their sales do nothing but go up when they get added there.
i don't remember, but pacman is deterministic. if you make the same turns each time then the ghosts will follow the same paths. my grandmother owned an atari and could play a perfect game of pacman, including getting every fruit, all 4 ghosts on each super pellet, etc. not exactly a speed run, but the same tactics apply.
I am sure someone will point out, incorrectly, that the linux kernel has no retail value. The retail value of a GPL'd copy of the linux kernel is zero, or nearly so, but the key here is that they are not complying with the GPL. That means what they are distributing has an indeterminate retail value. If you put an unencumbered (read: released to public domain by every rights holder) copy of the linux kernel up on ebay I imagine it would pull in a number with a not-insignificant number of zeros on the end.
You can get support from 'peers' for linux just as well. If Grandma goes and buys WinXP and installs it on her Dell PC that came with anything else (why would she buy the OS she already has?) then Dell is sure as hell not going to support it. They dont support putting 98SE on a machine that came with 98, or XP on a box that came with ME.
I do not think that word means what you think it means. That would actually be Relative Universal Time. And it would be useless. There would be no way to tell when a date was recorded, because "today" would always be 100%, so you see "100%" in a Date field and have no clue when it happened.
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I went through the exact same cycle. I guess I just started a few cycles earlier. My latest stint in Linux is up to a year, over numerous kernel recompiles, with no sign of stopping. Most of the programs I use every day now dont even have counterparts in Windows. I do not know what I would do without access to the simple shell scripting tools in Linux (how the hell do I copy every file created on any day after 12PM in windows?).
I never did anything unusual. Maybe it is because I have older hardware, a GF FX 5500, Athlon XP 1800+, 512/768MB PC2700. I get 25-35 FPS in windows on average scenes and 40-50 FPS in linux, all with medium settings. It may be different if youre comparing performance with higher end cards or higher/lower settings.
Arcanum - I played Arcanum in 4.3 and at least half of the listed issues have been fixed. I guess I am not doing my wiki duty, I will install the game again and update that entry when I get a chance.
Evil Genius, not working due to texturing problems. Also annoyances during install.
Bloodlines works with nVidia, not our fault ati drivers suck.
Call it 1.5/3 since the two that work arent perfect. Not horrible considering the popularity of those games. I am a great collector of obscure RPGs and RTS games, and I do my best to make sure the ones I own are represented in the games database and the support voting.
They do. On emulators installed on PDAs :)
Which games are those? I migrated to Linux a year ago for my sole desktop PC and rarely look back. I play the following on a regular basis in Linux:
World of Warcraft (emulated, faster)
Unreal Tournament 2004 (native, faster)
Neverwinter Nights (native, slower)
Warcraft 3 (emulated, slower)
The only game that has tempted me back towards Windows lately has been Battlefield 2, and that should be working in Linux soon.
Slashdot is not about the news. It is about discussing the news. And until I find another forum with the level of customized viewing (I read at +3, but my custom filters include -3 Funny and +1 Freak) that Slash offers it will continue to be the best place to find thoughtful discussion of the topics we cover here.
79% on the 50-100% scale of modern percentile reviewing. It is a general trend that sites using a percentage system rarely give anything scores lower than 50%. Sites using a /10 system are somewhere in the middle, they tend to higher scores but do not shy away from 1s and 2s for truly bad games. I find /5 sites to be the most realistic, as they are unafraid of giving out 1s (which equate to an almost-never-seen 10% on a [10-30-50-70-90] conversion to a %scale).
they are servo controlled, i am sure. that means you could attach a manual lever to the gearing to open all the panels at once.
Most of the town employees where working at the plant building weapons and ammunition to kill Americans.
... you know the rest.
No, they were building weapons and ammunition.
Guns don't kill people,
Obvious solution... A no-dishonor flag, like the pvp flag. (I use 20 and 60 to represent your average low and high level character) If a 20 heals a 60, or attacks a 60, then the 20 is fair game to 60s for 10 minutes. But to prevent AOE shielding, you make the flag transfer by proximity (like a disease, come to think of it), not just healing. So a 20 standing among a lot of 60s is fair game.
Honor for worthy PVP encounters, Dishonor for killing lowbies. Such a simple idea, and anticipation of this feature was what kept many people playing WoW, finally a penalty for "griefers" for over a year. And then suddenly the Honor rules were published, a couple of months before the system went live, and dishonor was explicitly missing. Many people bring up issues such as reverse griefing, using low level players as human shields, ganging up on high level people, etc, but all of these have simple obvious solutions. In the end, why was this aspect of the system nerfed so badly?
Check out City CarShare. Rental vehicles stored in parking spots all over the city, available in timeslots as small as half an hour for only $4/hr peak, $2/hr off peak, plus $.44/mile which includes gas and comprehensive insurance. This is the way of the future. Bicycles, trains, or slidewalks(!) for normal people, rent a car for a few bucks the hour you need it each day, a truck for a little more on the day you need it each month.
What if you want to, for instance, dance while listening? Wireless headphones with 12' range are extremely useful. This kind of device I am not so sure about, but I guarantee there will be a market for it.
My first FP and I didn't even realize it, I just assumed there was plenty of stuff already buried under my threshold/filters.
12 feet seems like fair use. Lots of people use FM transmitters in their car to do that. How far is copyright infringement? If you broadcast your music 200 feet are you still ok? 20000?
Yes, but does applying such a "trivial" right as copyright not set a precedent for more fundamental rights, like, say, the right to a speedy trial?
Noncititizens are not afforded even the basic rights afforded under the constitution, you are asserting that we legally protect their copyrights, of all things?
If a restaurant used a LOX compressor to cool a drink to, say, -100C, and served that to someone who subsequently lost their tonque to frostbite, it would be their own fault right? After all, even children understand that refrigerators cool things, and cold things hurt.
The difference in 140 degree and 180 degree coffee is actually NOT a matter of degree (no pun intended). There is a threshold above which the skin and air cannot transfer heat away as fast as it can cook the skin. That threshold for water-like liquids happens to be around 160F. Serving coffee anywhere from 100 up to 140 degrees is a matter of preference, it just changes the level of the sensation of heat. Past 140 degrees enters into what should be criminal negligence, and a jury found to be liable for causing the damage it did. If I give you a 30F piece of ice, or ice cream, or a popsicle, it feels cold. 10F feels colder. -10F feels painfully cold. But around -25F it will actually freeze to your tongue, not only causing pain but also physically damaging your body. This is the same kind of threshold that McDonalds crossed, and doign so is tantamount to assault and fraud.
Try again, The Baen Free Library is a perfect example. FREE copies of books available online, and their sales do nothing but go up when they get added there.
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Uhm, they plug in an earbud and listen to the audio prompts, which sound like a phone menu. "For deposit press 1, for withdrawl press 2, ..."
i don't remember, but pacman is deterministic. if you make the same turns each time then the ghosts will follow the same paths. my grandmother owned an atari and could play a perfect game of pacman, including getting every fruit, all 4 ghosts on each super pellet, etc. not exactly a speed run, but the same tactics apply.
I am sure someone will point out, incorrectly, that the linux kernel has no retail value. The retail value of a GPL'd copy of the linux kernel is zero, or nearly so, but the key here is that they are not complying with the GPL. That means what they are distributing has an indeterminate retail value. If you put an unencumbered (read: released to public domain by every rights holder) copy of the linux kernel up on ebay I imagine it would pull in a number with a not-insignificant number of zeros on the end.
You can get support from 'peers' for linux just as well. If Grandma goes and buys WinXP and installs it on her Dell PC that came with anything else (why would she buy the OS she already has?) then Dell is sure as hell not going to support it. They dont support putting 98SE on a machine that came with 98, or XP on a box that came with ME.
I do not think that word means what you think it means. That would actually be Relative Universal Time. And it would be useless. There would be no way to tell when a date was recorded, because "today" would always be 100%, so you see "100%" in a Date field and have no clue when it happened.