DKT was not all that bad, have you actually installed the v.1.2 patch and gotten past the 1st episode (which indeed sucked ass) ? The 2nd and 3rd episodes (ancient Greece and darkage Norway) very very fun. No robotic frogs/flies and with v1.2 you could save your games without those dumb red crystals.
So is this a distro for broadband users ?
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Gentoo 1.0 Released
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I really really DON'T think that it's wise to the base distro so small. The ISO is just 103 MB and offers only the very basic system. If you want most of the apps provided by the distros like RedHat / Mandrake / Debian, you will have to download them. This is pretty much like a net-install. Sure, it's great for those with broadband, but what about those who don't have broadband ?
Make it 1CD, make it have X, Gnome and some nice apps come with the distro itself and I might reconsider trying this.
In case you haven't noticed, RedHat already charges for the boxed version of their linux distro. You can still get the.ISO's from their download sites. The thing with StarOffice is that it'ss closed-source software and will be kept by SUN as such.However, RedHat Linux is a distribution of mainly (99%) open-source software that under the GPL. RedHat has no power to release a distro without releasing the sources.
Of course, they could do it the same way SUSE does things, ie. make it impossible to download.ISO's of the distro itself (thus forcing you to buy it) while still releasing the sources. Somehow, I doubt this would happen.
is why do the OSS and FSF people care so much for the "Windows world". During the last several months, I've seen an enormous amount of articles that deal with how evil Microsoft is when compared to Linux developers and vise-versa. I ask these writers: "Why ?" Why should I care ? I really don't think we're gaining anything by doing the same things MS has been doing all these years. It always goes on like this: "MS attacks, OSS movement responds, MS attacks, OSS movement responds, OSS movement attacks, MS responds". This is getting boring you know, why not make deeds instead of shouting ?
OK, sure, Windows is installed on the majority of the computers out there, but it doesn't make it world's most important thing. Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys are popular too, are they important to me ? Nope.
Actually, I thought The Guyver was rather cool. OK, so I watched the first movie when I was 9 or so, but I remember watching the 2nd one when I was about 14 and I actually liked it, even though I realised that the first one was pathetic.
Of course both of the movies suck by todays standarts, but at the time they were out, I liked 'em pretty much. I heard there was a 3rd Guyver movie in the works, but I think it was never released:/
RCTW wasn't actually developed by ID Software. ID merely "produced" it. RCTW's multiplayer part was developed by Nerve Software and the singleplayer was developed by some other developer who was recently bought by Activision. Can't remember the name though.
"We are deeply disappointed that Ukraine has not passed an effective law and instead is rushing through an ineffective law," said Eric Schwartz
A law by itself, is rarely effective. It's the enforcement of the law that can make things work. Sure, 20 laws on anti-piracy measures can pass in any given country, I am just wondering how would they go around about enforcing them and actually making them work.
Unreal Tournament is limited by the CPU, not the graphics card...
BS. Every 3D game out there nowadays is limited by both. Lots of RAM will help you run UT better, so will a graphics card, the CPU comes 3rd. When it comes to many other games, both the CPU and the graphics card are equally important. I am yet to see a modern game that actually relies more on the CPU then on the video card, this doesn't mean that the CPU can't be a bottleneck though.
Clue; most of that 20% is the RENDERING CODE, which is still largely OpenGL based.
Guess what ? You're wrong. Valve has explicitly stated that the majority of this 20% is actually Quake's network code (mainly QW code). When you look at the HL rendering "skeleton", it's Quake-based, but there's only a "quake feel" to it, the majority of Quake's rendering code was replaced by Valve's own.
And the reason ? It's the API of choice for John Carmack, the main programmer of Quake, Quake 2 and Quake 3: Arena. YES, you can find DirectInput code in Quake3, but can you find a SINGLE LINE of D3D code in ANY of games coming out of ID Software ? No chance in hell.
Then, there's this very nice company called EpicGames. It created Unreal and Unreal Tournament (while trying to push Glide) and are now doing Unreal Warfare. These guys provide nice competition to ID Software and YES, they use Direct3D. Now take a modern computer with an NVIDIA card (chances are you already have one anyways) and play some Quake2 and Quake3...See the framerates ? OK... Now start up Unreal/UT, select D3D as the renderer and...do I really have to tell you how low will your FPS go ?
Start-up Half-Life, the most popular online 3D FPS game at the moment (due to CS), try switching back and forth between the OpenGL and D3D renderers and compare the framerates. I know some of you are going to scream that HL is based on the Quake engine, etc, but just to let you know, only 20% of the HL engine code come from Quake.
Re:I hope they model it after q2 and not q3.
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Quake 4 Announced
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· Score: 1
First of all there's a lot of confusion going on around here. Many ppl actually think that ID is working on Doom3, Quake4 and Doom GBA at the same time and that's not correct. ID is working on Doom3, Raven Software is working on Quake4 (a game built around the Quake2 universe and utilizing the Doom3 tech) and some 3rd company is developing the GBA port for Doom.
A sequel based around the Quake2 universe is simply easier to do. No doubt, it would've been even better if Raven could've developed a great game based on the Quake universe, but living up to the expectations would be VERY hard. With Quake2, you have a stronger and simpler overall theme of the game and you can build on it.
I'll be taking a loan soon (now seems like a good time) and I am gonna wait until GeForce4 or whatever comes out and upgrade my computer to an 1.7 Ghz AMD when those come out.
It has been like that since Quake (yes, the first one) that ID stopped producing quality games and started concentrating on engine technology and Raven Software produced high quality games utilizing the engines from ID.
Hexen II and Heretic II both utilized engines from ID and kicked some major arse. Now being give the Doom3 tech, they're going to create Quake4 and I think they would do it even better then ID itself. Mainly due to fact that most of the original creative talent from Quake has gone away from ID. John Romero, American McGee, etc.
I am a Linux newbie and I am installing/using Linux from time to time to see how this interesting OS is evolving (Win2000 is my main OS). My all-time fav distro is RedHat 7.1, due to the easy to use installer and management/configuration tools.
The main problem with RH 7.1 was the damned GCC 2.96.3 compiler which refuses to compile more then 50% of the programs out there and it really makes me wonder why the hell has RedHat *yet again* made it the default compiler. GCC 2.96.3 and 3.0 ? C'mon ! I thought everybody said that 2.95.3 was the last usable one.
I am very excited about the upcoming 7.2 release with Ximian Gnome 1.4 and XFree 4.1.0, but I will be really pissed if the final release won't include KDE 2.2 and a proper compier as well.
The Punishment Should be Made ASAP.
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Dan Gillmor on WinXP
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· Score: 1, Redundant
This has been said before and I'll say it again: Microsoft has been found guilty. They've been breaking the law and they are still breaking a law. This means that they should be punished.
I am not really sure whether this MS break-up would do any good, but I think I would rather see WinXP delayed by the US goverment and MS forced to alter WinXP. I'm all for WinXP, as long as it doesn't have Product Activation and Passport and as long as I can choose whether I want to install WMP 8, MSN Messenger, MSIE during the actual installation of the OS. Although it would be "OK" if I could actually remove all these components after the installation without breaking anything.
And don't start telling me that "Microsoft is a private company! Nobody has business telling MS how to make their products!" and all that BS. That statement would be correct if MS didn't break the law, which they did. At this point, the goverment HAS to do something to the way MS makes their products.
I just hope they just won't sit on their asses and will actually DO SOMETHING, before WinXP gets out of the door...It was scheduled to go RTM when ? On 27th of August ? Little time left...
Hello. I am a Linux newbie, I've only been using Linux (RH 7.1) for the past few weeks, but that's not the case. The case is, Microsoft FORCED me to begin studying Linux. Yes, you heard that right. I've never taken Linux seriously in the past, but I do. I am sick of these shitty PR stunts and other BS that Microsoft/RIAA/MPAA are pulling out. Some people I've talked to say that they would like to have something other then Windows, but they're stuck with it since everybody else uses it. Well, I have the guts to shout it out loud: FUCK YOU Microsoft ! I am not going to let Mr. Bill Gates dictate me how to use my computer, what hardware to buy and what software to use as well as what music to listen to (MP3 rippers working in XP ? Hah!). I DO respect uncle Billy for what he has archieved as a person, he put his company to a great height, but that doesn't mean I am OK with that. Hell NO ! I am running dual-boot between Win2000 and Linux right now and I am spending less and less time in Win2000 every day. Every day I spend learning Linux, I learn something new about the way computers work and how software is developed. I am now taking part in the Open Source movement by beta-testing Mozilla and submitting it's bugs. It's a "little thing", but I am kinda proud of that:) As for this article/interview...I find it funny. Linux ? A Cancer on Intellectual Property and Innovation ? ROTFLMAO ! It was MS which admitted to using OpenBSD code in Windows XP and not vise-versa... Oh, wait...Microsoft OS'es are close-sourced right ? So you can't put their network code to some actually good use. If somebody is this cancer of the computer industry, it's Microsoft and the Open Source movement is the cure. "Free Software = BAD, Money = GOOD", gotta love that, eh ?
"The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds open-source work." So the goverment should give their money to the already-rich MS instead of innovative, but poor programmers ?
Open source is not available to commercial companies. Does that person have ANY clue ? Oh wait, that's FUD !
The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. That guy has to check the LGPL license.
Linux is not in the public domain. Need I say more ? The scary thing is, it seems that the big decision makers seem to be actually believing this complete bullshit. Anyways, my fingers hurt./me OFF
Hello.
I am a Linux newbie, I've only been using Linux (RH 7.1) for the past few weeks, but that's not the case. The case is, Microsoft FORCED me to begin studying Linux. Yes, you heard that right. I've never taken Linux seriously in the past, but I do. I am sick of these shitty PR stunts and other BS that Microsoft/RIAA/MPAA are pulling out. Some people I've talked to say that they would like to have something other then Windows, but they're stuck with it since everybody else uses it. Well, I have the guts to shout it out loud: FUCK YOU Microsoft !
I am not going to let Mr. Bill Gates dictate me how to use my computer, what hardware to buy and what software to use as well as what music to listen to (MP3 rippers working in XP ? Hah!). I DO respect uncle Billy for what he has archieved as a person, he put his company to a great height, but that doesn't mean I am OK with that. Hell NO !
I am running dual-boot between Win2000 and Linux right now and I am spending less and less time in Win2000 every day. Every day I spend learning Linux, I learn something new about the way computers work and how software is developed. I am now taking part in the Open Source movement by beta-testing Mozilla and submitting it's bugs. It's a "little thing", but I am kinda proud of that:)
As for this article/interview...I find it funny. Linux ? A Cancer on Intellectual Property and Innovation ? ROTFLMAO ! It was MS which admitted to using OpenBSD code in Windows XP and not vise-versa... Oh, wait...Microsoft OS'es are close-sourced right ? So you can't put their network code to some actually good use. If somebody is this cancer of the computer industry, it's Microsoft and the Open Source movement is the cure.
"Free Software = BAD, Money = GOOD", gotta love that, eh ?
"The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds open-source work."
So the goverment should give their money to the already-rich MS instead of innovative, but poor programmers ?
Open source is not available to commercial companies.
Does that person have ANY clue ? Oh wait, that's FUD !
The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source.
That guy has to check the LGPL license.
Linux is not in the public domain.
Need I say more ?
The scary thing is, it seems that the big decision makers seem to be actually believing this complete bullshit. Anyways, my fingers hurt./me OFF.
Yeah, I remeber that too. I am quite interested to see how the RIAA will try to provide any actual proof that people are exchanging "copywrited material". In order to do that, they have to sniff the Aimster packates, in order to read the packets, they'll have to break Aimster's encryption system which will make RIAA wide open for DMCA Violation suit from Aimster. I wonder if Aimster actually manages to kick RIAA in the nuts:)
1) FileSystem designers for making it possible to distribute, keep and even USE copywrited material !
2) Microsoft. They allow people to share folders on LAN so you can copy all your MP3's and DiVX movies off the network, that's copywrite infingement too, you know ?
3) Whoever invented email attachments, for making it possible to tranfer illegal material along with your email, which can also contain copywrited shit.
4) The Free Software Foundation and the Open Source community. For making something that those huge corporations can't make money off.
"Hey! We can't make money off your freelance work! We will sue you now"
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Enough is enough. This is nto funny.
DKT was not all that bad, have you actually installed the v.1.2 patch and gotten past the 1st episode (which indeed sucked ass) ? The 2nd and 3rd episodes (ancient Greece and darkage Norway) very very fun. No robotic frogs/flies and with v1.2 you could save your games without those dumb red crystals.
Guess what ? That was m3h :D My first.
I really really DON'T think that it's wise to the base distro so small. The ISO is just 103 MB and offers only the very basic system. If you want most of the apps provided by the distros like RedHat / Mandrake / Debian, you will have to download them. This is pretty much like a net-install. Sure, it's great for those with broadband, but what about those who don't have broadband ?
Make it 1CD, make it have X, Gnome and some nice apps come with the distro itself and I might reconsider trying this.
In case you haven't noticed, RedHat already charges for the boxed version of their linux distro. You can still get the .ISO's from their download sites. The thing with StarOffice is that it'ss closed-source software and will be kept by SUN as such.However, RedHat Linux is a distribution of mainly (99%) open-source software that under the GPL. RedHat has no power to release a distro without releasing the sources.
.ISO's of the distro itself (thus forcing you to buy it) while still releasing the sources. Somehow, I doubt this would happen.
Of course, they could do it the same way SUSE does things, ie. make it impossible to download
is why do the OSS and FSF people care so much for the "Windows world". During the last several months, I've seen an enormous amount of articles that deal with how evil Microsoft is when compared to Linux developers and vise-versa. I ask these writers: "Why ?" Why should I care ? I really don't think we're gaining anything by doing the same things MS has been doing all these years. It always goes on like this: "MS attacks, OSS movement responds, MS attacks, OSS movement responds, OSS movement attacks, MS responds". This is getting boring you know, why not make deeds instead of shouting ?
OK, sure, Windows is installed on the majority of the computers out there, but it doesn't make it world's most important thing. Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys are popular too, are they important to me ? Nope.
Actually, I thought The Guyver was rather cool. OK, so I watched the first movie when I was 9 or so, but I remember watching the 2nd one when I was about 14 and I actually liked it, even though I realised that the first one was pathetic.
:/
Of course both of the movies suck by todays standarts, but at the time they were out, I liked 'em pretty much. I heard there was a 3rd Guyver movie in the works, but I think it was never released
RCTW wasn't actually developed by ID Software. ID merely "produced" it. RCTW's multiplayer part was developed by Nerve Software and the singleplayer was developed by some other developer who was recently bought by Activision. Can't remember the name though.
A law by itself, is rarely effective. It's the enforcement of the law that can make things work. Sure, 20 laws on anti-piracy measures can pass in any given country, I am just wondering how would they go around about enforcing them and actually making them work.
...as I am running the final very fine on my p3/450 @ 517, 128 mb ram.
BS. Every 3D game out there nowadays is limited by both. Lots of RAM will help you run UT better, so will a graphics card, the CPU comes 3rd. When it comes to many other games, both the CPU and the graphics card are equally important. I am yet to see a modern game that actually relies more on the CPU then on the video card, this doesn't mean that the CPU can't be a bottleneck though.
Guess what ? You're wrong. Valve has explicitly stated that the majority of this 20% is actually Quake's network code (mainly QW code). When you look at the HL rendering "skeleton", it's Quake-based, but there's only a "quake feel" to it, the majority of Quake's rendering code was replaced by Valve's own.
And the reason ? It's the API of choice for John Carmack, the main programmer of Quake, Quake 2 and Quake 3: Arena. YES, you can find DirectInput code in Quake3, but can you find a SINGLE LINE of D3D code in ANY of games coming out of ID Software ? No chance in hell.
Then, there's this very nice company called EpicGames. It created Unreal and Unreal Tournament (while trying to push Glide) and are now doing Unreal Warfare. These guys provide nice competition to ID Software and YES, they use Direct3D. Now take a modern computer with an NVIDIA card (chances are you already have one anyways) and play some Quake2 and Quake3...See the framerates ? OK... Now start up Unreal/UT, select D3D as the renderer and...do I really have to tell you how low will your FPS go ?
Start-up Half-Life, the most popular online 3D FPS game at the moment (due to CS), try switching back and forth between the OpenGL and D3D renderers and compare the framerates. I know some of you are going to scream that HL is based on the Quake engine, etc, but just to let you know, only 20% of the HL engine code come from Quake.
First of all there's a lot of confusion going on around here. Many ppl actually think that ID is working on Doom3, Quake4 and Doom GBA at the same time and that's not correct. ID is working on Doom3, Raven Software is working on Quake4 (a game built around the Quake2 universe and utilizing the Doom3 tech) and some 3rd company is developing the GBA port for Doom. A sequel based around the Quake2 universe is simply easier to do. No doubt, it would've been even better if Raven could've developed a great game based on the Quake universe, but living up to the expectations would be VERY hard. With Quake2, you have a stronger and simpler overall theme of the game and you can build on it. I'll be taking a loan soon (now seems like a good time) and I am gonna wait until GeForce4 or whatever comes out and upgrade my computer to an 1.7 Ghz AMD when those come out.
Haha, nice one :D
It has been like that since Quake (yes, the first one) that ID stopped producing quality games and started concentrating on engine technology and Raven Software produced high quality games utilizing the engines from ID.
Hexen II and Heretic II both utilized engines from ID and kicked some major arse. Now being give the Doom3 tech, they're going to create Quake4 and I think they would do it even better then ID itself. Mainly due to fact that most of the original creative talent from Quake has gone away from ID. John Romero, American McGee, etc.
...for the 7.2 release of RedHat.
I am a Linux newbie and I am installing/using Linux from time to time to see how this interesting OS is evolving (Win2000 is my main OS). My all-time fav distro is RedHat 7.1, due to the easy to use installer and management/configuration tools.
The main problem with RH 7.1 was the damned GCC 2.96.3 compiler which refuses to compile more then 50% of the programs out there and it really makes me wonder why the hell has RedHat *yet again* made it the default compiler. GCC 2.96.3 and 3.0 ? C'mon ! I thought everybody said that 2.95.3 was the last usable one.
I am very excited about the upcoming 7.2 release with Ximian Gnome 1.4 and XFree 4.1.0, but I will be really pissed if the final release won't include KDE 2.2 and a proper compier as well.
This has been said before and I'll say it again: Microsoft has been found guilty. They've been breaking the law and they are still breaking a law. This means that they should be punished.
I am not really sure whether this MS break-up would do any good, but I think I would rather see WinXP delayed by the US goverment and MS forced to alter WinXP. I'm all for WinXP, as long as it doesn't have Product Activation and Passport and as long as I can choose whether I want to install WMP 8, MSN Messenger, MSIE during the actual installation of the OS. Although it would be "OK" if I could actually remove all these components after the installation without breaking anything.
And don't start telling me that "Microsoft is a private company! Nobody has business telling MS how to make their products!" and all that BS. That statement would be correct if MS didn't break the law, which they did. At this point, the goverment HAS to do something to the way MS makes their products.
I just hope they just won't sit on their asses and will actually DO SOMETHING, before WinXP gets out of the door...It was scheduled to go RTM when ? On 27th of August ? Little time left...
Hello. I am a Linux newbie, I've only been using Linux (RH 7.1) for the past few weeks, but that's not the case. The case is, Microsoft FORCED me to begin studying Linux. Yes, you heard that right. I've never taken Linux seriously in the past, but I do. I am sick of these shitty PR stunts and other BS that Microsoft/RIAA/MPAA are pulling out. Some people I've talked to say that they would like to have something other then Windows, but they're stuck with it since everybody else uses it. Well, I have the guts to shout it out loud: FUCK YOU Microsoft ! I am not going to let Mr. Bill Gates dictate me how to use my computer, what hardware to buy and what software to use as well as what music to listen to (MP3 rippers working in XP ? Hah!). I DO respect uncle Billy for what he has archieved as a person, he put his company to a great height, but that doesn't mean I am OK with that. Hell NO ! I am running dual-boot between Win2000 and Linux right now and I am spending less and less time in Win2000 every day. Every day I spend learning Linux, I learn something new about the way computers work and how software is developed. I am now taking part in the Open Source movement by beta-testing Mozilla and submitting it's bugs. It's a "little thing", but I am kinda proud of that :) As for this article/interview...I find it funny. Linux ? A Cancer on Intellectual Property and Innovation ? ROTFLMAO ! It was MS which admitted to using OpenBSD code in Windows XP and not vise-versa... Oh, wait...Microsoft OS'es are close-sourced right ? So you can't put their network code to some actually good use. If somebody is this cancer of the computer industry, it's Microsoft and the Open Source movement is the cure. "Free Software = BAD, Money = GOOD", gotta love that, eh ?
/me OFF
"The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds open-source work." So the goverment should give their money to the already-rich MS instead of innovative, but poor programmers ?
Open source is not available to commercial companies. Does that person have ANY clue ? Oh wait, that's FUD !
The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. That guy has to check the LGPL license.
Linux is not in the public domain. Need I say more ? The scary thing is, it seems that the big decision makers seem to be actually believing this complete bullshit. Anyways, my fingers hurt.
Yeah, I remeber that too. I am quite interested to see how the RIAA will try to provide any actual proof that people are exchanging "copywrited material". In order to do that, they have to sniff the Aimster packates, in order to read the packets, they'll have to break Aimster's encryption system which will make RIAA wide open for DMCA Violation suit from Aimster. I wonder if Aimster actually manages to kick RIAA in the nuts :)
2) Microsoft. They allow people to share folders on LAN so you can copy all your MP3's and DiVX movies off the network, that's copywrite infingement too, you know ?
3) Whoever invented email attachments, for making it possible to tranfer illegal material along with your email, which can also contain copywrited shit.
4) The Free Software Foundation and the Open Source community. For making something that those huge corporations can't make money off.
"Hey! We can't make money off your freelance work! We will sue you now"