Mac OS X is going to be severely kludged if you try to install it on an OldWorld Mac. If that 3400 isn't upgraded with a G3, then the grandparent poster won't be able to go beyond 10.1. Classic Mac OS is of limited usefulness anymore since it doesn't have up-to-date applications being released for it.
Linux development, oddly enough, has suffered a similar fate. You need to have BootX installed (this may be true for NetBSD as well), which entails a Mac OS partition, even if it is a minimal install. Also, most of the exciting new development is taking place with the newer PPC platforms, trying to bring the latest iMac or G5 into line. (I tried to install Gentoo on a 603-based clone last year and didn't get much beyond stage1.)
NetBSD's "run on everything, even if it is obsolete" philosophy, though, is something of an insurance policy against the devs getting distracted by new shiny stuff. If it breaks, somebody somewhere will pay attention. Apple themselves is only going to guarantee a quality experience with their OS for a minimum level of technology, so a dedicated group of developers like NetBSD is just about the last place to turn.
As soon as Old Biff returns to 2015 (from 1955, natch), we see him stumbling out of the DeLorean and collapsing behind a dumpster after he breaks his cane. A cutscene shows Old Biff fading away, as in the altered timeline he is killed sometime before 2015 due to his corruption. So the timeline changes around him as he returns, and Doc and Marty aren't affected as they weren't part of the change. Kind of a convoluted way of doing things, and somewhat contradictory to the first movie, thus leading to confusion if you don't pay close attention.
I don't see anything wrong with it. M4s for everybody! (Or Kalishnikovs, since they are much more common and debatably more reliable.)
If you wish to take the subject to ridiculous extremes, then I will say that I believe not even the government should be allowed to possess weapons of mass destruction, and that the people would be well within their rights to use force to remove the capability to destroy civilization.
I "skimmed" a lot of DS9. And I mean A LOT. The first two seasons weren't that great... some episodes were down to Enterprise-level. I finally got back into it around the time the Dominion and Worf started to figure in heavily (what do you know, gimmicks that worked!). Even then, I didn't watch every week. There was quite a bit of Dominion War stuff I missed... but I could still come in, watch a single episode, and walk away entertained, even though they were part of an overall arc. Now, going back and being able to watch those arcs in sequence greatly enhances the entertainment value, I will agree. But individual episodes of Enterprise still leave me cold. If they had nifty massive space battles, or strong standalone character pieces like "In The Pale Moonlight," I might get pulled in. The entire point of my above post was that I have watched all the stuff that was supposed to pull me in, AND IT DIDN'T WORK. Call me obstinate, but I still don't like it. I use the DS9 comparison so heavily here because that was the only Trek series up till now to heavily employ the concept of the story arc. TOS, TNG, and Voyager all were mostly standalone episodes with the occasional interseason cliffhanger.
Now, about characterization. That's all well and good that they're learning how to be a starship crew. It's obvious that Archer can't have the "ultraslick" personality of Picard. But what I get from Archer is the aloofness of Sisko with an occasional dash of the brashness of Kirk. Not too terribly exciting.
Also, if they're just now learning to be a starship crew, doesn't that ignore previous efforts at space travel, even in the pre-Enterprise continuity? I mean, I'm sure our current space shuttle crews could handle something like NX-01 with a minimum of fuss. Wasn't part of the point of having a cramped vessel of limited capability such as NX-01 to make links between Star Trek and contemporary cramped, limited space technology?
There are also established space crews by the time of Enterprise. What about the cargo crews that (I believe, correct me if I'm wrong) Trip Tucker's family is part of? Wouldn't it be just a snazzy upgrade in technology for them? I mean sure, they have new devices like the transporter to get used to, but other than that, NX-01 could be a freighter with bigger engines. To me, it seems like the spit-and-polish crew of the other Treks, but with supposedly more primitive tech. It would be much more interesting if we saw the crew as trying to become more regimented from the more loose, informal cargo crew culture. Instead, they've basically already got the military discipline so there's little there to develop. I'm not suggesting Star Trek: Redneck Rampage, although that would be pretty damned funny. But I still don't think the series is showing the development of a starship crew that it's supposed to, if so much of the baseline stuff is already in place and we're just watching some running fanboy injoke about the development of the technology.
Also, if there's some decrease in available talent between now and the 22nd century, can we explore why that is? Maybe it's due to the after-effects of World War III, which were barely touched upon in First Contact. It'd be nice to explore that (and I don't mean through the Vulcans being condescending to warlike, primitive humans angle, that just serves to draw a sharper dichotomy between Enterprise and established Trek).
I have to admit that I was against the idea of a prequel to start with. It just seemed like the Berman/Braga team saw that George Lucas made a financial (if not artistic) success of the idea and therefore decided it was worth copying. I watched the pilot anyway, but gave up about halfway through. Now, Trek pilots are classically weak, but this one was just boring. Like Voyager on Sominex.
So I waited a while. I still didn't like the whole prequel idea, didn't like the fact that the tech seemed to be more advanced than the first TOS pilot, and wasn't that impressed by the cheesy technological substitutions for stuff from chronologically subsequent eras of Trek like "polarized hull plating" and "protein resequencers." (Now of course the obvious reason is that "The Cage" was 1966 and "Broken Bow" was 2001, but how do they go from "phase pistols" to "laser pistols" back to "phasers?" Why does the Romulan ship look like it belongs in the 24th century with the similarly-styled D'Deridex rather than the 22nd? But I digress.)
So when an anticipated "event" episode that all the reviewers said was good came up, I tuned in. I did this with the Borg episode. How cute, they managed to work one of the the most recognizable Trek villains in and made all sorts of in-jokey references while leaving the principal cast in the dark as to what they had just encountered! I did this again with the first Xindi episode, when half of Florida got taken out. The terrorist metaphor and somber mood just seemed forced to me, like they were groping for something to write into the script.
I did this again for the last Xindi episode. That was pretty neat, even though Archer's action-hero stint left me cold. The Death Star ripoff was kinda cool, and seeing the CGI P-51s was neat even though I knew the twist was coming, but the alien Nazi thing was just blah. I didn't really care how that turned out, fearing similar convolution to the concealment of the Borg and the intro of the Xindi. Since then I've tuned in once more, to the Augment episodes with Brent Spiner. He was kinda cool (my mom even walked into the room and exclaimed, "It's Data!") but the actors playing the Augments (who had to carry much of the story) kinda sucked. It was partly what they had to work with. The most memorable thing, to me, was that it was the first time I had heard the word "bitch" in what was ostensibly a Star Trek episode. Ooh, edgy.
That being said, I have to respect Manny Coto for tying in old plot elements. It looks like the next hyped "event" episode will be the Mirror Universe one, and I may tune in for the "ooh-ahh" of a CGI battle damaged Constitution-class. But the TrekToday preview I saw made a point of noting how much more aggressive and backstabbing the mirror Archer would be. Big whoop. Another problem I've had with the show is that Scott Bakula seems to have lost his acting talent since "Quantum Leap." All the Archer performances I've seen come off as wooden, and I have no reason to believe this won't be the same.
Another point in Enterprise's favor is the awesome special effects that trump just about anything else in Trek, but SFX do not a show make. Without characters to fly all them nifty ships in a convincing manner, it ain't worth much. A lot of people have cited the addition of Worf to DS9 as something similar to the Enterprise gimmick castings, but think about what they did with Worf on DS9. He got married, got captured and thrown in a POW camp, met Martok and joined his House, watched his wife die, and at the end of it all wound up a diplomat instead of a warrior. Tell me, is Arik Soong gonna be back, ever? Are Riker and Troi going to be stranded in the 22nd century and join the NX-01 crew, and thus explore new situations we haven't seen their characters in before? Hell, is any of this gonna happen with the already-established Enterprise characters as a result of these castings? Somehow, I doubt it.
This comment is already way too long, but I'm also gonna h
Some of the most innovative gameplay I've seen in an FPS. Needs a little more polish, but I hope the devs will stick with it. I quit due to WoW but I'm gonna get back into it now that I've got a faster box.
Probably illicit info, but the OS 10.1 upgrade CD that was so widely distributed had a file, I believe in the System folder, called CheckForOSX or something similar. If you made an image of the disc, removed this file, and burned the image, then you had a functional full install CD. Dunno if this is true for later versions.
This guy's site has gameplay screenshots of a number of cars. Most interestingly to me, the game features the Plymouth Superbird, as well as a DMC Houston-modified DeLorean (OMGWTF?!).
Originally, the Eugenics Wars were set in the late 21st century (around 1996), according to "Space Seed." The war later in the 21st century was from a throwaway line in a DS9 episode, and a blatant attempt to make up for the fact that the Eugenics Wars didn't really happen.:)
Greg Cox has lately authored a good series of ST novels on the Eugenics Wars. He recasts it as a kind of "behind-the-scenes" thing centered around real life events. The enhancements to Khan and his bretheren mainly seem to focus on muscle strength and cognitive abilities, not necessarily any enhanced optics or anything the article's talking about. Perhaps designer gene modification to one's unborn offspring will become popular, but that would probably be far more dangerous than bionics.
I've checked the archives repeatedly, ever since Google brought groups online (never had a deja account, never needed anything like it until my ISP's news server went away).
The first newsgroup I ever participated in (alt.games.video.tiger.game-com) appears not to have a complete archive, only about 539 threads going back to mid-1999. I know that the group existed from 1998 on, and a couple of my friends on the group regularly posted through DejaNews. Did Deja (or does Google) have a policy of deleting old threads from less popular groups? Did the Deja db get damaged in transit? What's goin' on here?
I play on a 1GHz B&W G3 with 896MB RAM and a Radeon 9100 PCI 64MB. Sometimes, especially in towns with a large outdoor population like Brill, the game will get noticeably jumpy, but I'm typically in the neighborhood of 30FPS with everything cranked down to low. My friend just got a GF6800 and honestly, the game doesn't really look any better on that card anyway. I'd say you might run into a couple of trouble spots, but my biggest bottleneck is probably the graphics card.
Does anyone ever misspell your TNG character's name in a somewhat humorous manner, or refer to you by your character's name rather than your name?
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I'd gladly pay $60-80 for a non-steam version of HL2.
Would you have a reason to pay this much for HL2 if Steam did not exist? Thus, is such a demand in fact a result of the constraints placed on supply? If it is, then perhaps you can see why Valve would pursue such an idea.
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I heard secondhand that one of the chem. professors at my school once got a call from the FBI in the middle of the night, asking him to report to the lab immediately. Once he got there, he learned that there were two dead custodians laying on the floor. Apparently they had found a jug of distilled methanol and made the wrong guess.
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Mac OS X is going to be severely kludged if you try to install it on an OldWorld Mac. If that 3400 isn't upgraded with a G3, then the grandparent poster won't be able to go beyond 10.1. Classic Mac OS is of limited usefulness anymore since it doesn't have up-to-date applications being released for it.
Linux development, oddly enough, has suffered a similar fate. You need to have BootX installed (this may be true for NetBSD as well), which entails a Mac OS partition, even if it is a minimal install. Also, most of the exciting new development is taking place with the newer PPC platforms, trying to bring the latest iMac or G5 into line. (I tried to install Gentoo on a 603-based clone last year and didn't get much beyond stage1.)
NetBSD's "run on everything, even if it is obsolete" philosophy, though, is something of an insurance policy against the devs getting distracted by new shiny stuff. If it breaks, somebody somewhere will pay attention. Apple themselves is only going to guarantee a quality experience with their OS for a minimum level of technology, so a dedicated group of developers like NetBSD is just about the last place to turn.
The black CDs supply that extra touch of feigned authenticity that I need for my pirated PlayStation games.
As soon as Old Biff returns to 2015 (from 1955, natch), we see him stumbling out of the DeLorean and collapsing behind a dumpster after he breaks his cane. A cutscene shows Old Biff fading away, as in the altered timeline he is killed sometime before 2015 due to his corruption. So the timeline changes around him as he returns, and Doc and Marty aren't affected as they weren't part of the change. Kind of a convoluted way of doing things, and somewhat contradictory to the first movie, thus leading to confusion if you don't pay close attention.
They can probably find plenty of dark matter between Berman and Braga's respective sets of ears.
Freedom
or
A political tool that benefits an elite minority.
You decide.
I don't see anything wrong with it. M4s for everybody! (Or Kalishnikovs, since they are much more common and debatably more reliable.)
If you wish to take the subject to ridiculous extremes, then I will say that I believe not even the government should be allowed to possess weapons of mass destruction, and that the people would be well within their rights to use force to remove the capability to destroy civilization.
Alright, so riddle me this:
I "skimmed" a lot of DS9. And I mean A LOT. The first two seasons weren't that great... some episodes were down to Enterprise-level. I finally got back into it around the time the Dominion and Worf started to figure in heavily (what do you know, gimmicks that worked!). Even then, I didn't watch every week. There was quite a bit of Dominion War stuff I missed... but I could still come in, watch a single episode, and walk away entertained, even though they were part of an overall arc. Now, going back and being able to watch those arcs in sequence greatly enhances the entertainment value, I will agree. But individual episodes of Enterprise still leave me cold. If they had nifty massive space battles, or strong standalone character pieces like "In The Pale Moonlight," I might get pulled in. The entire point of my above post was that I have watched all the stuff that was supposed to pull me in, AND IT DIDN'T WORK. Call me obstinate, but I still don't like it. I use the DS9 comparison so heavily here because that was the only Trek series up till now to heavily employ the concept of the story arc. TOS, TNG, and Voyager all were mostly standalone episodes with the occasional interseason cliffhanger.
Now, about characterization. That's all well and good that they're learning how to be a starship crew. It's obvious that Archer can't have the "ultraslick" personality of Picard. But what I get from Archer is the aloofness of Sisko with an occasional dash of the brashness of Kirk. Not too terribly exciting.
Also, if they're just now learning to be a starship crew, doesn't that ignore previous efforts at space travel, even in the pre-Enterprise continuity? I mean, I'm sure our current space shuttle crews could handle something like NX-01 with a minimum of fuss. Wasn't part of the point of having a cramped vessel of limited capability such as NX-01 to make links between Star Trek and contemporary cramped, limited space technology?
There are also established space crews by the time of Enterprise. What about the cargo crews that (I believe, correct me if I'm wrong) Trip Tucker's family is part of? Wouldn't it be just a snazzy upgrade in technology for them? I mean sure, they have new devices like the transporter to get used to, but other than that, NX-01 could be a freighter with bigger engines. To me, it seems like the spit-and-polish crew of the other Treks, but with supposedly more primitive tech. It would be much more interesting if we saw the crew as trying to become more regimented from the more loose, informal cargo crew culture. Instead, they've basically already got the military discipline so there's little there to develop. I'm not suggesting Star Trek: Redneck Rampage, although that would be pretty damned funny. But I still don't think the series is showing the development of a starship crew that it's supposed to, if so much of the baseline stuff is already in place and we're just watching some running fanboy injoke about the development of the technology.
Also, if there's some decrease in available talent between now and the 22nd century, can we explore why that is? Maybe it's due to the after-effects of World War III, which were barely touched upon in First Contact. It'd be nice to explore that (and I don't mean through the Vulcans being condescending to warlike, primitive humans angle, that just serves to draw a sharper dichotomy between Enterprise and established Trek).
I've given the show multiple chances so far.
I have to admit that I was against the idea of a prequel to start with. It just seemed like the Berman/Braga team saw that George Lucas made a financial (if not artistic) success of the idea and therefore decided it was worth copying. I watched the pilot anyway, but gave up about halfway through. Now, Trek pilots are classically weak, but this one was just boring. Like Voyager on Sominex.
So I waited a while. I still didn't like the whole prequel idea, didn't like the fact that the tech seemed to be more advanced than the first TOS pilot, and wasn't that impressed by the cheesy technological substitutions for stuff from chronologically subsequent eras of Trek like "polarized hull plating" and "protein resequencers." (Now of course the obvious reason is that "The Cage" was 1966 and "Broken Bow" was 2001, but how do they go from "phase pistols" to "laser pistols" back to "phasers?" Why does the Romulan ship look like it belongs in the 24th century with the similarly-styled D'Deridex rather than the 22nd? But I digress.)
So when an anticipated "event" episode that all the reviewers said was good came up, I tuned in. I did this with the Borg episode. How cute, they managed to work one of the the most recognizable Trek villains in and made all sorts of in-jokey references while leaving the principal cast in the dark as to what they had just encountered! I did this again with the first Xindi episode, when half of Florida got taken out. The terrorist metaphor and somber mood just seemed forced to me, like they were groping for something to write into the script.
I did this again for the last Xindi episode. That was pretty neat, even though Archer's action-hero stint left me cold. The Death Star ripoff was kinda cool, and seeing the CGI P-51s was neat even though I knew the twist was coming, but the alien Nazi thing was just blah. I didn't really care how that turned out, fearing similar convolution to the concealment of the Borg and the intro of the Xindi. Since then I've tuned in once more, to the Augment episodes with Brent Spiner. He was kinda cool (my mom even walked into the room and exclaimed, "It's Data!") but the actors playing the Augments (who had to carry much of the story) kinda sucked. It was partly what they had to work with. The most memorable thing, to me, was that it was the first time I had heard the word "bitch" in what was ostensibly a Star Trek episode. Ooh, edgy.
That being said, I have to respect Manny Coto for tying in old plot elements. It looks like the next hyped "event" episode will be the Mirror Universe one, and I may tune in for the "ooh-ahh" of a CGI battle damaged Constitution-class. But the TrekToday preview I saw made a point of noting how much more aggressive and backstabbing the mirror Archer would be. Big whoop. Another problem I've had with the show is that Scott Bakula seems to have lost his acting talent since "Quantum Leap." All the Archer performances I've seen come off as wooden, and I have no reason to believe this won't be the same.
Another point in Enterprise's favor is the awesome special effects that trump just about anything else in Trek, but SFX do not a show make. Without characters to fly all them nifty ships in a convincing manner, it ain't worth much. A lot of people have cited the addition of Worf to DS9 as something similar to the Enterprise gimmick castings, but think about what they did with Worf on DS9. He got married, got captured and thrown in a POW camp, met Martok and joined his House, watched his wife die, and at the end of it all wound up a diplomat instead of a warrior. Tell me, is Arik Soong gonna be back, ever? Are Riker and Troi going to be stranded in the 22nd century and join the NX-01 crew, and thus explore new situations we haven't seen their characters in before? Hell, is any of this gonna happen with the already-established Enterprise characters as a result of these castings? Somehow, I doubt it.
This comment is already way too long, but I'm also gonna h
Some of the most innovative gameplay I've seen in an FPS. Needs a little more polish, but I hope the devs will stick with it. I quit due to WoW but I'm gonna get back into it now that I've got a faster box.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Probably illicit info, but the OS 10.1 upgrade CD that was so widely distributed had a file, I believe in the System folder, called CheckForOSX or something similar. If you made an image of the disc, removed this file, and burned the image, then you had a functional full install CD. Dunno if this is true for later versions.
OH GOD NO IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!
Handheld gaming platform with gimmicky advanced features (Intarweb connectivity vs. cell phone integration)? check.
Relatively diminuitive cult following? check.
Games of questionable quality? check.
Management who really doesn't fucking know what they're selling and repeatedly screws over the relatively diminuitive cult following? check.
Oh well, at least the N-Gage has color.
This guy's site has gameplay screenshots of a number of cars. Most interestingly to me, the game features the Plymouth Superbird, as well as a DMC Houston-modified DeLorean (OMGWTF?!).
Originally, the Eugenics Wars were set in the late 21st century (around 1996), according to "Space Seed." The war later in the 21st century was from a throwaway line in a DS9 episode, and a blatant attempt to make up for the fact that the Eugenics Wars didn't really happen. :)
Greg Cox has lately authored a good series of ST novels on the Eugenics Wars. He recasts it as a kind of "behind-the-scenes" thing centered around real life events. The enhancements to Khan and his bretheren mainly seem to focus on muscle strength and cognitive abilities, not necessarily any enhanced optics or anything the article's talking about. Perhaps designer gene modification to one's unborn offspring will become popular, but that would probably be far more dangerous than bionics.
I don't think the DeLorean is on their list at all.
Besides, it wasn't that bad...
My Vanagon (3rd-gen Bus) gets down from 80mph quite smoothly, thank you very much.
But I sure as hell wouldn't try that in an original Bus with drum brakes.
I've checked the archives repeatedly, ever since Google brought groups online (never had a deja account, never needed anything like it until my ISP's news server went away).
The first newsgroup I ever participated in (alt.games.video.tiger.game-com) appears not to have a complete archive, only about 539 threads going back to mid-1999. I know that the group existed from 1998 on, and a couple of my friends on the group regularly posted through DejaNews. Did Deja (or does Google) have a policy of deleting old threads from less popular groups? Did the Deja db get damaged in transit? What's goin' on here?
I play on a 1GHz B&W G3 with 896MB RAM and a Radeon 9100 PCI 64MB. Sometimes, especially in towns with a large outdoor population like Brill, the game will get noticeably jumpy, but I'm typically in the neighborhood of 30FPS with everything cranked down to low. My friend just got a GF6800 and honestly, the game doesn't really look any better on that card anyway. I'd say you might run into a couple of trouble spots, but my biggest bottleneck is probably the graphics card.
Does anyone ever misspell your TNG character's name in a somewhat humorous manner, or refer to you by your character's name rather than your name?
Would you have a reason to pay this much for HL2 if Steam did not exist? Thus, is such a demand in fact a result of the constraints placed on supply? If it is, then perhaps you can see why Valve would pursue such an idea.
I heard secondhand that one of the chem. professors at my school once got a call from the FBI in the middle of the night, asking him to report to the lab immediately. Once he got there, he learned that there were two dead custodians laying on the floor. Apparently they had found a jug of distilled methanol and made the wrong guess.
1.21 gigapixels?!
How am I going to display an image of that size? It can't be done, can it, Philo?
What the fuck do political philosophies have to do with this article? Am I just missing the point of your comment entirely?
I think that Dr. Mephisto's prices might be slightly less exorbitant.