A bit of paranoia never hurt anyone... euh maybe it did;)
Now how can someone use paranoia to... hurt someone else or let's just say another organization? Maybe just by sending the person or the organization on a wild goose chase. A wild american goose chase, what a concept;)
With every creation process comes a destruction process.
If it meant I watched more targetted advertisements, I'd fast forward less.
Not sure about that for everyone. Usually the commercials that everyone remembers are the funny ones. ( Remember: "WAAAAZZZZUUUPPPPP!" ) Currently, i see about one good ad per month. Meaning if you want to target me, then you will have to show the same ad over and over again, which means FAST FOWARD!:-)
Inserting endangered species in an already endangered eco-system is the most stupid idea i've ever heard, even if they are in a reserve with the great wall of China as borders.
Everyone knows the effect of inserting foreign species in a balance eco-system and that already happened in Australia during the colonial days. These species are now making it harder for the native Australian fauna. ( That happened with rabbits, dogs,... )
Those who watch the croc guy on discovery know what i'm talking about, and i would certainly like to hear from Steve about this idea.
Sometimes, i just want to hit people with a buick! I don't know why, don't ask.
Could the biggest problem with Linux usability be that most of the people teaching newbies to use Linux are too smart and know too much?
That is not the term at all... The term is arrogant.
I don't get it people. Why is being a Newbie a bad thing at all!!! Hell! If i'd wanted to market a good and free OS properly, i would want a lot of Newbies! And i wouldn't make them feel like incompetants each time they ask a question. Even if the question seems stupid. ( Remember there are no stupid questions, just inquisitive...;)
The problem with Linux teachers... THERE ARE NO LINUX TEACHERS!!! All i've seen up to date are smart geeks holding all the info for themselves, while laughing at the ignorance of others.
The problem here is selfishness and arrogance. Grow up!
If i could kick all your pretty asses, i would! It would make the most beautiful domino effect ever!
A little background here: I hate console gaming! I really really hate console games and so this is why i'm only suggesting PC 'native' games.
For those of you guys who just don't care at all about console gaming, i strongly suggest you ask Santa a copy of Tribes 2. ( More targets for me to
shoot at;)
Arguments?
1. Best darn game I'VE EVER PLAYED ( Yes its bold! And yes i'm prepare to defend that until death;)
2. There is currently no new games on the market that will give you a Team Based 45 minutes of mayhem like this game. Although Return To Castle Wolfenstein seems good enough, it still isn't Tribes 2. ( Picture a front of 4 tanks, covered from above by 1 squadron of fighters and bombers. It's all about vehicles. )
3. Will a deathmatch at more than 60 players convince you, cause i'm ready to fight this argument to death!;)
Other Suggestions for PC platform:
1. Return to Castle Wolfenstein ( Like i said: "looks good." )
2. Cossacks: Europeen Wars ( A favorite here, this is a great startegy game )
3. Anything except Dark Age of Camelot. ( The game isn't worth a christmas gift. It looks great, it sounds great, but the game content is poor. It is better to wait until next year for this one, believe me! )
There is a thin fine line between a sociologist and a sociopath...
Do you guys use this kind of method, or do you try to do everything in one program?
I try to keep everything under one roof, it's easier for maintenance and debugging.
What advantages or disadvantages do you see in creating one program compared to many programs?
Well on the advantages side, i can only see one. You can actually design well enough to use specific languages for specific jobs and get their full strength. However, i find that most of the time, your productivity or amount of headaches aren't really affected by this advantage.
On the bad side, i usually picture multiple languages applications as big spaghetti bowls. However, this isn't true in many cases.
( ex: using pre-compiled C apache modules in Perl really, really helped my project a lot and it didn't affect the quality of its structure. )
Conclusion: No matter the tools, everything always falls down on the developer's shoulder. Whether you use multiple languages or not, it won't affect the quality of your applications, only your skills at using them will.
A hammer is only effective in the hands of a well skilled carpenter.
I can already picture our geek children quoting these movies:
- Geek1: "Oh yeah, i was on that server yesterday and i encounter another surfer."
- Geek2: "So what happened?
- Geek1: "Well, i said: 'Misa takin a ride gou gou dag, Misa gay ya know..."
- Geek1 & Geek2: LOL.
...
This is a joke people, lighten up...;)
Re:Slashdot is a bunch of bitter geeks!!
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Learn to think for yourselves and don't judge every product by simply looking at the brand name. How shallow is that?
Excuse me ? The only persons who seem unable to evaluate the quality of a product currently are the ones buying M$ products out of marketing hypes. Meaning you. I'm pretty sure you never look at the quality of their product before buying them.
You see Microsoft on the box, then you say:
" Well! Since everybody uses it, it must be good."
I don't mean to be rude ( In fact yes i do ), but when is the last time you really checked the full specs and reviews of a product before buying it. (10 years, 20... ) What i can see of most north american customers these days is a lack of criticism and a faithful fanatism towards big marketing campaigns and brands.
Do us a favor, why don't you go talk your opinion where it matters, meaning somewhere else
This is the lamest comment i've read today. ( Yes i am pissed, and yes this is a flame. )
Re:why so negative towards xbox?
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I don't like ACs and specially the ones that post old links, very very old links.
This link is dated from March!!! (pulpit 2001/ 03/22.html) Damn it! wake up! Robert didn't have a clue at that time what the X-box would look like, what games it would offer and what the future of this console would be.
X-Box, which will launch with 26 games... but X-Box is aimed at a different market segment than Nintendo's GameCube. X-Box users will be older, generally in their 20s and 30s, and drawn primarily from the ranks of PC gamers.
A different market ? Like i should rush out to the store and buy this crappy console. I don't think so. By reading other/. users' comment, the games seem not to be aimed at hard core PC gamers, like myself, at all. And for most critics i read about the X-box 26 (!!??) games, they do not constitute something i would rush to store for.
Sorry that link is as bad as a picture of fat bastard on a toilet seat.
Re:why so negative towards xbox?
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I mean really, linking the xbox release with one totally negative article, while other sites have given it a much better outlook.
What other sites exactly ?
If you want your arguments to gain some weight, you better arm them with solid references, which is not the case here.
Now that's a gadget i would like to try at some points. However, anyone noticed that the thumb doesn't seem to be mapped with this device ? If you look closely at the main pic on the linked page, you can see the thumb is outside the device.
That's kind of necessary for fast typers who use all their 10 fingers to type.
Complete specs would be interresting though, as a picture doesn't prove anything.
Personally, i think in this case capitalism will play against Linux, not for Linux. Think about this, the big capitalist product here is the one made by M$. In other words, big corportion will push for M$ products because they make money with these, not with Open Source projects.
If M$ gets out of this trial without a scar of some sort, i think we are about to see a lot more anti-competitive actions from big corporations against Open Source projects like Samba or Linux.
The only 'We support this...' statements you need from ISPs are:
We support TCP/IP.
We support DHCP.
We support POP3/IMAP.
We support...
Get it ? The rest is in the upper layers and is totally tranparent to what an ISP must provide. If you people have problems with XP and your ISP, it's M$ you should rely on not the ISP.
Road Runner is probably stating this to prevent flood of calls to their offices... ( Yes i believe that they will get tons of calls because of XP. )
- Bozo: "So i was talking to this guy yesterday..."
- Bill: "And ? "
- Bozo: "Well he was behaving like... well don't know the term, but he was kind of doing stuff... that."
- Bill: "What do you mean, i don't understand."
- Bozo: "Wait i'll look in my digital thesaurus for the word i'm missing..."
- Bill: "Yes, these Microsoft products are really great!"
- Bozo: "I don't know, can't find it, but the guy was really annoying."
"Here come see, read our reviews we are the best but the shit we're selling you, can't see it. You have to pay to see it first, and our screenshots there all unexisting files. Of course.... Oh and BTW! feel free to click on our tons of spam generating links. Click on our banners we need your clicks also, bla bla bla..."
Look, it's simple, bigger isn't better.
The satire form of expression is the most wonderful one in the world.
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Postal is a fun game to play for my sadisticly twisted mind. You may not be so sadistic,
Believe me when i say you are wrong. You better;)
You're just frustrated because its taking so long for everything to work right.
You are right and don't you think it's one of the main reason Loki has so many financial problems, i mean the fact that most linux users spend hours trying to make their games work isn't really interresting for a potential investor. (The 'Out-of-the-box' problem).
I gave the distro chances for 12 months;) Nah! Sorry i'm just being hard on you. I agree it's not because something is old that it's useless, the unix example is a very good one, however if there is something better shouldn't you at least look at the other option.
In the case of Postal, sure it's a good game, like i said in my first comment, but it's only a lot of fun for 40 minutes or so, and they could have thought about making a new engine for it, since there's a bunch new ones on the market, that are really better. Plus, I don't know for you, but my Postal discs have been stored in my closet for more than a year, they're dusty and i don't plan to open them in a near future. ( The 'Pong is fun, but there things more interresting right now' argument. )
I don't really picture why Loki chose this game as their 'Secret Project Q'. Banishment from the U.S. isn't banishment from the world and it's certainly not more interresting to play a banished game. Seriously, I give them one finger for chosing this one.
Thanks for the tip on XFree, mine is 4.1.0, but it's the official release.
The glxgears snippet ran at more than 1000fps which is way enough.
Also of note is that you've got to cripple the game back pretty heavily because the G400 and other cards don't have enough silicon muscle to do what the game asks for so it falls back to software in a LOT of places if you don't cripple the game's renderer.
I drew the same conclusions as you, I ran the game with all graphic options at minimum or off, and it was still choppy as hell. Blaming the G400 or G450 is easy and i did this also, but the game runs perfectly on Ouindoze with the same graphic card, as some other people informed me.
Yeah thanks anyways, maybe i'll try to run the game in a near future with a new kernel, but i spent enough time on that for now.
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A bit of paranoia never hurt anyone ... euh maybe it did ;)
... hurt someone else or let's just say another organization? Maybe just by sending the person or the organization on a wild goose chase. A wild american goose chase, what a concept ;)
Now how can someone use paranoia to
With every creation process comes a destruction process.
If it meant I watched more targetted advertisements, I'd fast forward less.
:-)
Not sure about that for everyone. Usually the commercials that everyone remembers are the funny ones. ( Remember: "WAAAAZZZZUUUPPPPP!" ) Currently, i see about one good ad per month. Meaning if you want to target me, then you will have to show the same ad over and over again, which means FAST FOWARD!
Inserting endangered species in an already endangered eco-system is the most stupid idea i've ever heard, even if they are in a reserve with the great wall of China as borders.
... )
Everyone knows the effect of inserting foreign species in a balance eco-system and that already happened in Australia during the colonial days. These species are now making it harder for the native Australian fauna. ( That happened with rabbits, dogs,
Those who watch the croc guy on discovery know what i'm talking about, and i would certainly like to hear from Steve about this idea.
Sometimes, i just want to hit people with a buick! I don't know why, don't ask.
Could the biggest problem with Linux usability be that most of the people teaching newbies to use Linux are too smart and know too much?
... ;)
That is not the term at all... The term is arrogant.
I don't get it people. Why is being a Newbie a bad thing at all!!! Hell! If i'd wanted to market a good and free OS properly, i would want a lot of Newbies! And i wouldn't make them feel like incompetants each time they ask a question. Even if the question seems stupid. ( Remember there are no stupid questions, just inquisitive
The problem with Linux teachers... THERE ARE NO LINUX TEACHERS!!! All i've seen up to date are smart geeks holding all the info for themselves, while laughing at the ignorance of others.
The problem here is selfishness and arrogance. Grow up!
If i could kick all your pretty asses, i would!
It would make the most beautiful domino effect ever!
A little background here: I hate console gaming! I really really hate console games and so this is why i'm only suggesting PC 'native' games.
;)
;)
;)
For those of you guys who just don't care at all about console gaming, i strongly suggest you ask Santa a copy of Tribes 2. ( More targets for me to
shoot at
Arguments?
1. Best darn game I'VE EVER PLAYED ( Yes its bold! And yes i'm prepare to defend that until death
2. There is currently no new games on the market that will give you a Team Based 45 minutes of mayhem like this game. Although Return To Castle Wolfenstein seems good enough, it still isn't Tribes 2. ( Picture a front of 4 tanks, covered from above by 1 squadron of fighters and bombers. It's all about vehicles. )
3. Will a deathmatch at more than 60 players convince you, cause i'm ready to fight this argument to death!
Other Suggestions for PC platform:
1. Return to Castle Wolfenstein ( Like i said: "looks good." )
2. Cossacks: Europeen Wars ( A favorite here, this is a great startegy game )
3. Anything except Dark Age of Camelot. ( The game isn't worth a christmas gift. It looks great, it sounds great, but the game content is poor. It is better to wait until next year for this one, believe me! )
There is a thin fine line between a sociologist and a sociopath...
Who thinks this is good: Telemarketers.
Who thinks this is bad: Me.
Who thinks this is ugly: Phone companies.
This is not how we do it!
So... Get over yourself. The thing is US-centric because the US is where it's all happening.
;)
Yes... that's not an advantage...
Me too, along with all the american crap the rest of the world is getting since the last terrorist
manifestation.
I like to make conspiracy theories usually, but here it's just too damn easy.
Almost not at all. If it wasn't spelled out in a book word for word they couldn't do it.
..."
Nice attitude, this is going to help your schools a lot right ?
"It's too hard for them, you have to give them the candy in the mouth, they are dumb asses you know
If you can't beat them, you might as well give them some irony.
I try to keep everything under one roof, it's easier for maintenance and debugging.
What advantages or disadvantages do you see in creating one program compared to many programs?
Well on the advantages side, i can only see one. You can actually design well enough to use specific languages for specific jobs and get their full strength. However, i find that most of the time, your productivity or amount of headaches aren't really affected by this advantage.
On the bad side, i usually picture multiple languages applications as big spaghetti bowls. However, this isn't true in many cases.
( ex: using pre-compiled C apache modules in Perl really, really helped my project a lot and it didn't affect the quality of its structure. )
Conclusion: No matter the tools, everything always falls down on the developer's shoulder. Whether you use multiple languages or not, it won't affect the quality of your applications, only your skills at using them will.
A hammer is only effective in the hands of a well skilled carpenter.
That's also true for the entire toolkit.
I can already picture our geek children quoting these movies:
;)
- Geek1: "Oh yeah, i was on that server yesterday and i encounter another surfer."
- Geek2: "So what happened?
- Geek1: "Well, i said: 'Misa takin a ride gou gou dag, Misa gay ya know..."
- Geek1 & Geek2: LOL.
...
This is a joke people, lighten up...
Learn to think for yourselves and don't judge every product by simply looking at the brand name. How shallow is that?
... ) What i can see of most north american customers these days is a lack of criticism and a faithful fanatism towards big marketing campaigns and brands.
Excuse me ? The only persons who seem unable to evaluate the quality of a product currently are the ones buying M$ products out of marketing hypes. Meaning you. I'm pretty sure you never look at the quality of their product before buying them.
You see Microsoft on the box, then you say:
" Well! Since everybody uses it, it must be good."
I don't mean to be rude ( In fact yes i do ), but when is the last time you really checked the full specs and reviews of a product before buying it. (10 years, 20
Do us a favor, why don't you go talk your opinion where it matters, meaning somewhere else
This is the lamest comment i've read today. ( Yes i am pissed, and yes this is a flame. )
I don't like ACs and specially the ones that post old links, very very old links.
.html) Damn it! wake up! Robert didn't have a clue at that time what the X-box would look like, what games it would offer and what the future of this console would be.
... but X-Box is aimed at a different market segment than Nintendo's GameCube. X-Box users will be older, generally in their 20s and 30s, and drawn primarily from the ranks of PC gamers.
/. users' comment, the games seem not to be aimed at hard core PC gamers, like myself, at all. And for most critics i read about the X-box 26 (!!??) games, they do not constitute something i would rush to store for.
This link is dated from March!!! (pulpit 2001/ 03/22
X-Box, which will launch with 26 games
A different market ? Like i should rush out to the store and buy this crappy console. I don't think so. By reading other
Sorry that link is as bad as a picture of fat bastard on a toilet seat.
I mean really, linking the xbox release with one totally negative article, while other sites have given it a much better outlook.
What other sites exactly ?
If you want your arguments to gain some weight, you better arm them with solid references, which is not the case here.
That's kind of necessary for fast typers who use all their 10 fingers to type.
Complete specs would be interresting though, as a picture doesn't prove anything.
Personally, i think in this case capitalism will play against Linux, not for Linux. Think about this, the big capitalist product here is the one made by M$. In other words, big corportion will push for M$ products because they make money with these, not with Open Source projects.
If M$ gets out of this trial without a scar of some sort, i think we are about to see a lot more anti-competitive actions from big corporations against Open Source projects like Samba or Linux.
The only 'We support this ...' statements you need from ISPs are:
...
We support TCP/IP.
We support DHCP.
We support POP3/IMAP.
We support
Get it ? The rest is in the upper layers and is totally tranparent to what an ISP must provide. If you people have problems with XP and your ISP, it's M$ you should rely on not the ISP.
Road Runner is probably stating this to prevent flood of calls to their offices... ( Yes i believe that they will get tons of calls because of XP. )
Somewhere in America 2078:
..."
... well don't know the term, but he was kind of doing stuff ... that."
- Bozo: "So i was talking to this guy yesterday
- Bill: "And ? "
- Bozo: "Well he was behaving like
- Bill: "What do you mean, i don't understand."
- Bozo: "Wait i'll look in my digital thesaurus for the word i'm missing..."
- Bill: "Yes, these Microsoft products are really great!"
- Bozo: "I don't know, can't find it, but the guy was really annoying."
Enough said.
The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive.
...
nough said
The only industrial terrorism made on the software market is the one made by Microsoft itself ;)
Think about it ! You'll know it's the truth.
This has to be the worst scam i've ever seen on /.
"Here come see, read our reviews we are the best but the shit we're selling you, can't see it. You have to pay to see it first, and our screenshots there all unexisting files. Of course.... Oh and BTW! feel free to click on our tons of spam generating links. Click on our banners we need your clicks also, bla bla bla..."
Look, it's simple, bigger isn't better.
The satire form of expression is the most wonderful one in the world.
Postal is a fun game to play for my sadisticly twisted mind. You may not be so sadistic,
;)
;) Nah! Sorry i'm just being hard on you. I agree it's not because something is old that it's useless, the unix example is a very good one, however if there is something better shouldn't you at least look at the other option.
Believe me when i say you are wrong. You better
You're just frustrated because its taking so long for everything to work right.
You are right and don't you think it's one of the main reason Loki has so many financial problems, i mean the fact that most linux users spend hours trying to make their games work isn't really interresting for a potential investor. (The 'Out-of-the-box' problem).
I gave the distro chances for 12 months
In the case of Postal, sure it's a good game, like i said in my first comment, but it's only a lot of fun for 40 minutes or so, and they could have thought about making a new engine for it, since there's a bunch new ones on the market, that are really better. Plus, I don't know for you, but my Postal discs have been stored in my closet for more than a year, they're dusty and i don't plan to open them in a near future. ( The 'Pong is fun, but there things more interresting right now' argument. )
I don't really picture why Loki chose this game as their 'Secret Project Q'. Banishment from the U.S. isn't banishment from the world and it's certainly not more interresting to play a banished game. Seriously, I give them one finger for chosing this one.
Thanks for the tip on XFree, mine is 4.1.0, but it's the official release.
Right answer i think. That's the one i got from an old physicist.
Warning: Seriously off-topic.
You know why there is no nobel prize for the math field?
The glxgears snippet ran at more than 1000fps which is way enough.
Also of note is that you've got to cripple the game back pretty heavily because the G400 and other cards don't have enough silicon muscle to do what the game asks for so it falls back to software in a LOT of places if you don't cripple the game's renderer.
I drew the same conclusions as you, I ran the game with all graphic options at minimum or off, and it was still choppy as hell. Blaming the G400 or G450 is easy and i did this also, but the game runs perfectly on Ouindoze with the same graphic card, as some other people informed me.
Yeah thanks anyways, maybe i'll try to run the game in a near future with a new kernel, but i spent enough time on that for now.