All of Mr. Nixon's points are easily refuted
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I'm a pretty active Usenet poster and binary downloader, and let me assure any of you who are riding the fence on this that yEnc *is* much, much faster. It is light years ahead of uuencoded binaries, and the coolest thing since.PAR to hit Usenet.
Whatever kind of "transition period" Mr. Nixon is referring to has already passed. Let me just cry a freaking river for the poor programmers who have to update their code to accommodate the changing spec--it seems that the most popular usenet progs have *already* done this. If "Joe's Special Shareware Usenet Posting and Spyware Program" needs to be updated so that its 7 users can stay happy, then so be it.
Whatever kind of "confusion" this guy is referring to is nonexistent. yEnc downloading and decoding with the right software is as transparent as uudecoding. Promise. People don't have to relearn anything.
I read Mr. Nixon's "I invented better binary posting, but didn't rush to claim credit" anecdote and can't even force myself to care. Sounds like sour grapes to me.
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And to think that all I got to see at Austin's biggest music festival were live bands. Where was the "rogue movie screening" booth? I must have missed it.
I took a world history course only two years ago in which I learned about the Chinese treasure ships. They were intended to be these massive, floating testements to the wealth and power of the Chinese civilization. The point of the treasure ship expeditions was to impress upon other cultures the strength of the Chinese emperor. As nine-sailed behemoths weighed down with gold, silk, and other riches, the treasure ships didn't disappoint.
One of the more hotly contested historical points is why China turned inward when it was, hands down, *the* strongest nation in the world in the latter half of the fifteenth century. It was on the verge of an industrial revolution predating the British one by hundreds of years, but that never happened: A new emperor came to power who associated the treasure ship expeditions with both the old emperor and the eunuch power regime, and the Chinese policy of expansionism came to a quick end.
It was previously known that the Chinese made it around the tip of Africa, and even as far as South America. Only a small number of people accept early Chinese circumnaviagtion of the globe as truth. I'm one of them, and so was my professor.
What could you be so agitated about? Maybe I thought that./ wasn't the proper forum for potty-mouthed insults? Besides, my dear mother could be reading this. What would she think? Also, dirty words make baby Jesus cry.
Thanks for that page-long personal narrative, Michael. Maybe a "click the link below for more" would have sufficed?
A much better renewable energy solution.
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You know what's better than stomping away like an animal on this contraption? Letting Mother Nature do the work for you by getting a solar panel for your laptop. Not only are they cheaper than this thing, but they don't involve looking like an idiot to passersby.
I promise I'm not affiliated with this company.
I just thought I'd provide an example so that you folks know what I'm talking about.
Here's some shameless karma whoring for all of you who want to get a taste for what kind of content this guy had on his site:
You can find a decent representation of what used to be there at Archive.org.
Ha ha! No, I'm not a "backer of the Democratic Party". I'm *guessing* that's what you're implying. It's similar to how I also have to *guess* at what you mean with your interesting use of the word "deceipt". Get a spell-checker. Or, better yet, start writing speeches for the fortunate son. You're already more than qualified.
As far as physical traits, I don't even have to bother. How could I possibly top http://www.bushorchimp.com ?? Eeeek eeek! I've just flushed the national surplus down the toilet! Eeek! I'm a puppet! Eeek! Eeek! Want banana!!
Does that cream your coffee, my meek, gullible friend? Good. Now go post your hate speech someplace else.
To accommodate an earlier post by a fellow./er, yes, most of the last century's greatest scientists were indeed German, and did indeed live in Germany while it was run by a fascist dictator. In fact, many if not most (see, *I* can use broad generalizations, too) of those same scientists were borrowed for use in developing a burgeoning post-WWII American space program. That program is called NASA now.
I find this kind of what-if Hitler postulating sickening. In a really twisted way, Americans have latched onto and sensationalized what they collectively consider to be the lowest common denominator in human action. With their bums firmly planted on their high horses, they sit back in their easy chairs and watch the steady flow of horseshit revisionism that trickles through the ether on the Hitler (oops, "History") channel.
They sit there, disgusting domestic brew in one hand, greasy remote control in the other, fantasizing about a world devoid of the hated "brown people". If given a public forum, they are lightly scolded for making statements such as "Hitler had some good ideas" (Buchanan). And then they post to Slashdot, hinting at "just how close we came" to the realization of their closet fantasy world.
It's possible that you've been burned plenty of times in other ways. I've been buying items on eBay for over two years now, and I've found that most sellers are very good at giving you exactly what you bid on. Not having the item sent to you at all is a pretty rare thing. However, there are a few sellers who will:
1.) Lie or at least be a little disingenuous about the quality of the items up for sale. (Ex: "This was pulled from a working computer!" or "Only minor scratches!" Notice how the seller plays the game of Little Johnny Linguist by hiding behind non-committal and misleading statements.) There is little a buyer can do to prevent this besides carefully reading the item description.
2.) Rip you off on shipping. Even if buyer and seller are located on opposite coasts, the shipping and handling fees sometimes run anywhere from $5-$30 more than the actual costs involved. "Skimming off the top" like this is all too common among eBay sellers.
While I applaud the efforts of the ripped-off buyers in tracking down this scam artist, I wish that eBay would implement some sort of system for mitigating shipping costs so that the routine scamming that all of us experience will finally come to an end.
Second, I completely concur: that Borland IDE was choice. But nobody's stopping you from *still* using it, even in Windows. Works great, as always. Give it a shot if you still have a copy lying around.
If I were a betting man, I'd guess that it will probably be geared towards squeezing the last bit of horsepower from that floundering line of Intel processors.
Let's not get personal here. After all, I could go on and on about how "furious george" is both a lame no-talent punk band *and* some sort of programming guru who's never heard of SDL. SDL, by the way, is the very library that the Loki programmers employed to create "Civilization: Call to Power."
I feel that talk of the burgeoning "DirectX equivalent" that the Loki programmers actually used to code most of their games seems a little more germane to the original post than some inane babble about how you spend your days, but oh well. I'm just some armchair pundit. Or something. The DirectX problem will no longer be one in the very near future. Bet on it.
Your entire (and I do mean entire) post reads like so many sour grapes. Uh, of *course* Linux is difficult to install and configure. Of *course* coping with.dot files can be a banal, unnecessary waste of anyone's time. Linux is not some sort of perfect cure-all to any computing problem. But believe it or not, it has plenty of untapped potential as a gaming OS. I'm sorry that Linux hurt you, baby. Most of us love it for its flaws as well as its beauty.
As an aside, when someone says that something has "gone the way of the dinosaur", they're generally not speaking in the present tense. I'm not the Verb Tense Police, but you might want to look into that.
It comes down to this: I'm just not really sure how you've disproved my point. You specifically have problems with X--mostly stemming from how you're unfamiliar with your hardware--so somehow that means that the rest of us will never enjoy a decent game running Linux?
>Windows will continue to be the best platform >for games, just as MacOS continues to be the >best platform for many multimedia tasks.
I hate to mince words here, but dig this: Some might argue that *BeOS* is the best platform for many multimedia tasks. But it's gone the way of the dinosaur because almost *nobody* used it in that manner, regardless of how well designed it was.
Likewise, I would argue that *Linux* is the best platform for gaming...if you're ready to cope with a limited selection of games. I won't bore you with FPS benchmarks, but Linux (3rd party drivers and all) has evolved to a point where it can spank Windows 2000 and XP on a regular basis every time a part-time gamer wants to turn that badass mail server in the back room into a temporary gaming box. The file system is faster and more efficient. A user can easily give any game close-to-realtime priority if fragging a friend is foremost on her/his mind, picking up 5-10 extra frames per second in the process...
My point is that Windows is *not* a superior gaming platform compared to Linux, just that it is far better supported by game developers and hardware manufacturers alike. Until that changes, we will all find ourselves downloading the new DirectX version 37.
As stated in other posts, John Romero was a kind of 90's game-designing rock star. His conspicous excesses, trophy girl, and dubious new-money lifestyle became emblematic of dot.com and new tech millionaire waste in general. Thus, the fact that Romero is selling his Ferrari (an object scorned and ridiculed at Oldmanmurray.com, among others) is also emblematic of how the mighty have fallen.
And, to accomodate an earlier post: no, long hair, especially girlish long hair, is *not* sexy on men. It's silly and immasculating. Anyone not half as "tough looking" as Lorenzo Lamas (ha!) comes off appearing oh-too-fey. This isn't 1988, John Romero. The '80's called, and they want...actually, you know what? The '80's didn't call you at all. Nobody is, in light of the Daikatana debacle.
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I'm a pretty active Usenet poster and binary downloader, and let me assure any of you who are riding the fence on this that yEnc *is* much, much faster. It is light years ahead of uuencoded binaries, and the coolest thing since .PAR to hit Usenet.
Whatever kind of "transition period" Mr. Nixon is referring to has already passed. Let me just cry a freaking river for the poor programmers who have to update their code to accommodate the changing spec--it seems that the most popular usenet progs have *already* done this. If "Joe's Special Shareware Usenet Posting and Spyware Program" needs to be updated so that its 7 users can stay happy, then so be it.
Whatever kind of "confusion" this guy is referring to is nonexistent. yEnc downloading and decoding with the right software is as transparent as uudecoding. Promise. People don't have to relearn anything.
I read Mr. Nixon's "I invented better binary posting, but didn't rush to claim credit" anecdote and can't even force myself to care. Sounds like sour grapes to me.
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Nothing to see here, go back to downloading pr0n now.
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There's nothing but love and support here, not judgement! We love you regardless of what society thinks! It's okay to be you!
There's nothing but love and support here, not judgement! We love you regardless of what society thinks!
And to think that all I got to see at Austin's biggest music festival were live bands. Where was the "rogue movie screening" booth? I must have missed it.
I took a world history course only two years ago in which I learned about the Chinese treasure ships. They were intended to be these massive, floating testements to the wealth and power of the Chinese civilization. The point of the treasure ship expeditions was to impress upon other cultures the strength of the Chinese emperor. As nine-sailed behemoths weighed down with gold, silk, and other riches, the treasure ships didn't disappoint.
One of the more hotly contested historical points is why China turned inward when it was, hands down, *the* strongest nation in the world in the latter half of the fifteenth century. It was on the verge of an industrial revolution predating the British one by hundreds of years, but that never happened: A new emperor came to power who associated the treasure ship expeditions with both the old emperor and the eunuch power regime, and the Chinese policy of expansionism came to a quick end.
It was previously known that the Chinese made it around the tip of Africa, and even as far as South America. Only a small number of people accept early Chinese circumnaviagtion of the globe as truth. I'm one of them, and so was my professor.
I wouldn't mind a couple of C3PO control knobs for my Les Paul, though. :)
...that tens of thousands of people will see nothing but my initials and automatically know that I am being referred to.
Well hells, bells!
./ wasn't the proper forum for potty-mouthed insults? Besides, my dear mother could be reading this. What would she think? Also, dirty words make baby Jesus cry.
What could you be so agitated about? Maybe I thought that
Thanks for that page-long personal narrative, Michael. Maybe a "click the link below for more" would have sufficed?
You know what's better than stomping away like an animal on this contraption? Letting Mother Nature do the work for you by getting a solar panel for your laptop. Not only are they cheaper than this thing, but they don't involve looking like an idiot to passersby. I promise I'm not affiliated with this company. I just thought I'd provide an example so that you folks know what I'm talking about.
Here's some shameless karma whoring for all of you who want to get a taste for what kind of content this guy had on his site: You can find a decent representation of what used to be there at Archive.org.
Ha ha! No, I'm not a "backer of the Democratic Party". I'm *guessing* that's what you're implying. It's similar to how I also have to *guess* at what you mean with your interesting use of the word "deceipt". Get a spell-checker. Or, better yet, start writing speeches for the fortunate son. You're already more than qualified.
As far as physical traits, I don't even have to bother. How could I possibly top http://www.bushorchimp.com ?? Eeeek eeek! I've just flushed the national surplus down the toilet! Eeek! I'm a puppet! Eeek! Eeek! Want banana!!
Does that cream your coffee, my meek, gullible friend? Good. Now go post your hate speech someplace else.
To accommodate an earlier post by a fellow ./er, yes, most of the last century's greatest scientists were indeed German, and did indeed live in Germany while it was run by a fascist dictator. In fact, many if not most (see, *I* can use broad generalizations, too) of those same scientists were borrowed for use in developing a burgeoning post-WWII American space program. That program is called NASA now.
I find this kind of what-if Hitler postulating sickening. In a really twisted way, Americans have latched onto and sensationalized what they collectively consider to be the lowest common denominator in human action. With their bums firmly planted on their high horses, they sit back in their easy chairs and watch the steady flow of horseshit revisionism that trickles through the ether on the Hitler (oops, "History") channel.
They sit there, disgusting domestic brew in one hand, greasy remote control in the other, fantasizing about a world devoid of the hated "brown people". If given a public forum, they are lightly scolded for making statements such as "Hitler had some good ideas" (Buchanan). And then they post to Slashdot, hinting at "just how close we came" to the realization of their closet fantasy world.
That's like saying that almost the entire American population consists of hyper-conservative Republicans who can't properly chew snack foods.
...but *don't* mount them at boot.
It's possible that you've been burned plenty of times in other ways. I've been buying items on eBay for over two years now, and I've found that most sellers are very good at giving you exactly what you bid on. Not having the item sent to you at all is a pretty rare thing. However, there are a few sellers who will:
1.) Lie or at least be a little disingenuous about the quality of the items up for sale. (Ex: "This was pulled from a working computer!" or "Only minor scratches!" Notice how the seller plays the game of Little Johnny Linguist by hiding behind non-committal and misleading statements.) There is little a buyer can do to prevent this besides carefully reading the item description.
2.) Rip you off on shipping. Even if buyer and seller are located on opposite coasts, the shipping and handling fees sometimes run anywhere from $5-$30 more than the actual costs involved. "Skimming off the top" like this is all too common among eBay sellers.
While I applaud the efforts of the ripped-off buyers in tracking down this scam artist, I wish that eBay would implement some sort of system for mitigating shipping costs so that the routine scamming that all of us experience will finally come to an end.
...as an intellectual in the book than Russell Crowe is in the movie?
First of all, GO PACK!!
Second, I completely concur: that Borland IDE was choice. But nobody's stopping you from *still* using it, even in Windows. Works great, as always. Give it a shot if you still have a copy lying around.
>I wonder how it will compare to gcc?
If I were a betting man, I'd guess that it will probably be geared towards squeezing the last bit of horsepower from that floundering line of Intel processors.
/AMD fan
That Codeweaver's App Database in particular is pretty choice, thanks.
Let's not get personal here. After all, I could go on and on about how "furious george" is both a lame no-talent punk band *and* some sort of programming guru who's never heard of SDL. SDL, by the way, is the very library that the Loki programmers employed to create "Civilization: Call to Power."
.dot files can be a banal, unnecessary waste of anyone's time. Linux is not some sort of perfect cure-all to any computing problem. But believe it or not, it has plenty of untapped potential as a gaming OS. I'm sorry that Linux hurt you, baby. Most of us love it for its flaws as well as its beauty.
I feel that talk of the burgeoning "DirectX equivalent" that the Loki programmers actually used to code most of their games seems a little more germane to the original post than some inane babble about how you spend your days, but oh well. I'm just some armchair pundit. Or something. The DirectX problem will no longer be one in the very near future. Bet on it.
Your entire (and I do mean entire) post reads like so many sour grapes. Uh, of *course* Linux is difficult to install and configure. Of *course* coping with
As an aside, when someone says that something has "gone the way of the dinosaur", they're generally not speaking in the present tense. I'm not the Verb Tense Police, but you might want to look into that.
It comes down to this: I'm just not really sure how you've disproved my point. You specifically have problems with X--mostly stemming from how you're unfamiliar with your hardware--so somehow that means that the rest of us will never enjoy a decent game running Linux?
>Windows will continue to be the best platform >for games, just as MacOS continues to be the >best platform for many multimedia tasks.
I hate to mince words here, but dig this: Some might argue that *BeOS* is the best platform for many multimedia tasks. But it's gone the way of the dinosaur because almost *nobody* used it in that manner, regardless of how well designed it was.
Likewise, I would argue that *Linux* is the best platform for gaming...if you're ready to cope with a limited selection of games. I won't bore you with FPS benchmarks, but Linux (3rd party drivers and all) has evolved to a point where it can spank Windows 2000 and XP on a regular basis every time a part-time gamer wants to turn that badass mail server in the back room into a temporary gaming box. The file system is faster and more efficient. A user can easily give any game close-to-realtime priority if fragging a friend is foremost on her/his mind, picking up 5-10 extra frames per second in the process...
My point is that Windows is *not* a superior gaming platform compared to Linux, just that it is far better supported by game developers and hardware manufacturers alike. Until that changes, we will all find ourselves downloading the new DirectX version 37.
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Is there a prohibitive NDA or two keeping them from *really* contributing to the community?
As stated in other posts, John Romero was a kind of 90's game-designing rock star. His conspicous excesses, trophy girl, and dubious new-money lifestyle became emblematic of dot.com and new tech millionaire waste in general. Thus, the fact that Romero is selling his Ferrari (an object scorned and ridiculed at Oldmanmurray.com, among others) is also emblematic of how the mighty have fallen.
And, to accomodate an earlier post: no, long hair, especially girlish long hair, is *not* sexy on men. It's silly and immasculating. Anyone not half as "tough looking" as Lorenzo Lamas (ha!) comes off appearing oh-too-fey. This isn't 1988, John Romero. The '80's called, and they want...actually, you know what? The '80's didn't call you at all. Nobody is, in light of the Daikatana debacle.
Rock and Roll, baby.