Mud slinging something like that back doesn't make me believe them, and it makes me trust them even less than initially throwing the DMCA at the researcher. In fact it's that much worse because it means GameSpy feels justified by their actions and it's not just a rouge incident.
In my experience on an iBook that I owned for about 6 months, Gentoo is the cream of the crop. I didn't get anywhere near a useable system with the other distros available (Yellow Dog, Mandrake, & Debian) while I was cookin just fine in Gentoo. That was of course with prior Gentoo experience.
I must say that the sound devices in the iBook (and I understand in all macs) is TERRIBLE in Linux, the volume does very strange things like change which side of stero sound you recieve. Other than that, things went great.
The iBook was a 700MHz with 640MB ram. While it took awhile longer to compile things as compared to my x86 boxes, it wasn't slow enough that I had any real problems with it.
Since when do you need a 3ghz processor and a gig of ram let alone a GeForceFX (yes he noted it's slow, not slow enough mind you) for a fileserver?
And why is he putting a keyboard/mouse in the picture? Oh he's putting windows on it... he forgot to buy a license for that! I'm not sure I understand the comment on it not being smart to put XFS/JFS/ReiserFS/Ext3 on a firewire drive... can somebody explain why that's not smart?
$3,100 dollars is REALLY steep for a machine that shouldn't cost anything more than the drives it serves data from.
If you look at the costs involved in printing art, the media itself, and shipping out CDs, there's a great injustice for spending.99 on a song. Even if it IS easier and lets you select the songs you want, you're talking about getting no media, low quality sound, and a locked down file (without reencoding it losing even MORE quality).
Where in here do I see the record industries ripping people off? This formula gives them a LOT more money for a product with MUCH less quality. Even if you don't pay 16/cd or just want a few tracks. You're talking about giving them quite a bit more per song than I'd dare give them. At.99/song assume that a CD has 18 songs. You pay the same amount (per song, yes you can buy entire albums for less... but that goes back to quality) and they pay less to deliver it to you.
I'm not totally against capitalism here. However the RIAA seems only to be finding the solutions that screw their customers and put more cents per purchase in ther pockets instead of quality, value added services/products.
If that were true then they would just be offering CDA and then maybe value added data (I recall the an Orgy album providing a music video as value added material), nor would the RIAA be suing customers. There aren't enough customers saying they won't buy methinks. A damn shame too because (at least in the US) we haven't seen a really good, industry crippling boycott in quite awhile.
Good point actually. They can model what happens when the registrar hijacks the internet with a friendly service that comes up if you mistype a domain, and break all spam reporting.
Don't forget that NVIDIA's best comeback to ATi's HL2 deal was that they didn't use their (then beta) 5x.xx drivers which didn't even show fog at the time! (a major part of the demo) Even if ATi cheated as well, we're not exactly talking about an honest competition either. I suspect that we'll find another slip up by NVIDIA next.
Hard to say either one is ahead of the other at "cheating", though either side could claim development error. I wish cheating weren't a part of the game, but you can't claim one or the other is high and mighty.
It might be hefty off of iRivers site, but the other resellers sell the device for up to $50 less than iRiver. This still isn't quite the price of an iPod and nowhere close to the DJ, but the iRiver still comes with a WHOLE lot more features than the others plus (from the tests/reports I read) has much better sound quality than any of the players available (granted, nobody knows much about the DJ yet). I'd say that's worth the ~50-100 extra dollars, especially when you're already going to dump more than 300 out on a music device.
Somebody already hurt my karma for dissing the iPod, but I'd say the iPod is pretty junky compared to everything in the iRiver. Some things aren't quite as refined, but that's also giving people a whole lot more freedom to dump files onto their player instead of use REALLY junky software like iTunes or MusicMatch.
Errr... except it's not really smaller (yes maybe by a few mm it might be) and I'd MUCH rather have the sexy iRiver portable than an apple. Going into public with an apple device would make my friends question my sexuality.
In the end, the iPod is a piece of crap compared to the features and sound quality of at least the iRiver portable, I can't say much to the others. There are a few useability things the iPod may have, but then it's not really all that great to use if you have to run either iTunes OR MusicMatch to put files on it.
The other thing about.Hack is that the players all seem to know how to make their own adventures. In the manga (Legend of the Twilight, different storyline), there are admin run events. Even in that they stress that the guild has no real authority.
I think that before we have these types of things, we almost have to rid ourselves completely of NPCs and make monster hunting something you do mostly on a quest instead of just to level until you're the most powerful person in the world.
Amen! I joined RoE a few days ago, discovering that all of the morons that came home from school and played Galaxies don't exist on smaller MMOGs. Even in Galaxies I prefered to find planets on the outskirts so that people wouldn't be there. The only trouble with that in a larger game like Galaxies turned out to be that the devs didn't pay any attetion to those planets. Buildings would warp me out of themselves, ships would land on mission/bazaar terminals, and NPCs (mostly droids) would get stuck in corners EVERYWHERE. That's what I'd call a type of Friday the 13th type of enviornment.
I find RoE to be consistant, competitive, and still full of adventure/fun. Having GMs on site helps quite a bit too. If you put a GM in somplace like Anchorhead in SWG then they'd be swamped by complainers, newbies (note: that's the main thing RoE GMs deal with as I see), and people reporting real problems of which there are too many to count. A nightmare for sure.
Bottom line: Small community = fewer problems = better game experience.
I also recall when Planetarion was free (I dont know, 4th or 5th generation when I started) that the player associations or whatever they were called all banded together and became so powerful taking over so many planets that the game was pointless. My galaxy in peticular was doing very well (on the top 10 list) by itself until the folks in one of the associations crushed each and every one of us in one swift move. No protection against it, nothing to do but ruin 6 months of hard gaming.
Because of that experience, I'm not so sure that I'd waste money going back to it. I do recall Planetarion being a VERY awesome game though, must better IMO in multiplayer interaction than Earth 2025.
Not all do, I believe Anarchy lets you download an enormous demo, and the game I'm currently in, Rubies of Eventide lets you download the game for free as well. While RoE doesn't have the exposure that SWG or Evercrack has in a store, I think it has a higher IQ level in game b/c of it being a smaller community.
I keep finding people with old SGI boxes, I feel like I'm in a club now:)
My 4D is top line, so it's not terrible, I'm not real sure what I'm planning on doing with it yet. But everything's working and it's complete.
The SCSI in these things really is sweet, no joke. I've got two 1.2gig drives, one of them's even labeled "Gov't";) It still has all of the data that it's original owner had on it!
I use SCSI in my Personal Iris 4d/35, it's not a server.:-D Sure it's an age old SGI <b>workstation</b>. Anyway, don't limit/generalize it to servers because there are plenty of non-server (and I don't really even mean top end workstation, maybe mid-range) uses for SCSI.
Putting a SCSI drive in Gma's email machine might not be quite as smart though.
Well that's fairly good news, I hadn't heard about the creators wishes in the past. Being any commercial company I wouldn't set any limits on what Bandai will do, even if it isn't a mmorpg. There are plenty of other things I could immagine they could do to warp it into another video game should they decide that.Hack will profit for them.
But Bandai also does.Hack which is currently PS2 material. I'd wonder what contracts lurk underneath that that could make Bandai switch consoles, I doubt Sony will let them switch over.Hack now after four games are released..Hack is going over pretty big, and understandably so. I'd immagine Sony wants to keep.Hack so that they can create 'The World' online someday on their machine.
Damn man, you can't take a compliment to your holy GNU for anything eh? Most linux users at one time or another compile a program, they cross the line, and most that I know realize exactly what GNU CC is. Yes, GNU sure has pumped code into distributions, otherwise you wouldn't be calling it GNU/Linux. What does Linux end up as? A distribution. If the creator of Linux asked for it to be called GNU/Linux, by all means go for it. Otherwise it's rude to rename somebody else's work. By what you claim about BSD, you can tout GNU on your own without Linux.
It kind of proves my point that putting other names with <insert project/os/tool/lib/whatever> before or after them really doesnt make sense. If the creator likes the idea, so be it... but to rename somebody else's work by refering to it differently is just rude. You don't hear Linus refering to Linux as anything other than Linux. You won't hear me refer to form2mail as PHP/form2mail. Or even better PHP/MySQL/Sendmail/form2mail:)
That'd be acceptable, but it's still not addressing other OSes that ship with GNU tools (maybe not libc, but yes, plenty include gcc). Your GNU holy war makes absolutely no sense. Give credit where credit is due? Yes GNU is awesome and has pumped quite a bit of good code into the Linux distributions. You said yourself that it does't really have a lot to do with the kernel, but being POSIX compliant which means the GNU libs/tools really have nothing to do with Linux. Call GNU an implimentation of POSIX libraries and utilities, that might make sense.
The bottom line is still that we have folk running around touting GNU in front of Linux, a cheap advertisement for something that gcc users already realize without that bit of help.
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Mud slinging something like that back doesn't make me believe them, and it makes me trust them even less than initially throwing the DMCA at the researcher. In fact it's that much worse because it means GameSpy feels justified by their actions and it's not just a rouge incident.
In my experience on an iBook that I owned for about 6 months, Gentoo is the cream of the crop. I didn't get anywhere near a useable system with the other distros available (Yellow Dog, Mandrake, & Debian) while I was cookin just fine in Gentoo. That was of course with prior Gentoo experience.
I must say that the sound devices in the iBook (and I understand in all macs) is TERRIBLE in Linux, the volume does very strange things like change which side of stero sound you recieve. Other than that, things went great.
The iBook was a 700MHz with 640MB ram. While it took awhile longer to compile things as compared to my x86 boxes, it wasn't slow enough that I had any real problems with it.
Since when do you need a 3ghz processor and a gig of ram let alone a GeForceFX (yes he noted it's slow, not slow enough mind you) for a fileserver?
And why is he putting a keyboard/mouse in the picture? Oh he's putting windows on it... he forgot to buy a license for that! I'm not sure I understand the comment on it not being smart to put XFS/JFS/ReiserFS/Ext3 on a firewire drive... can somebody explain why that's not smart?
$3,100 dollars is REALLY steep for a machine that shouldn't cost anything more than the drives it serves data from.
If you look at the costs involved in printing art, the media itself, and shipping out CDs, there's a great injustice for spending .99 on a song. Even if it IS easier and lets you select the songs you want, you're talking about getting no media, low quality sound, and a locked down file (without reencoding it losing even MORE quality).
.99/song assume that a CD has 18 songs. You pay the same amount (per song, yes you can buy entire albums for less... but that goes back to quality) and they pay less to deliver it to you.
Where in here do I see the record industries ripping people off? This formula gives them a LOT more money for a product with MUCH less quality. Even if you don't pay 16/cd or just want a few tracks. You're talking about giving them quite a bit more per song than I'd dare give them. At
I'm not totally against capitalism here. However the RIAA seems only to be finding the solutions that screw their customers and put more cents per purchase in ther pockets instead of quality, value added services/products.
If that were true then they would just be offering CDA and then maybe value added data (I recall the an Orgy album providing a music video as value added material), nor would the RIAA be suing customers. There aren't enough customers saying they won't buy methinks. A damn shame too because (at least in the US) we haven't seen a really good, industry crippling boycott in quite awhile.
What do you need a single session cdrom for? Just rip the audio tracks. It's not exactly like it'll cease to be an audio disc.
Good point actually. They can model what happens when the registrar hijacks the internet with a friendly service that comes up if you mistype a domain, and break all spam reporting.
Don't forget that NVIDIA's best comeback to ATi's HL2 deal was that they didn't use their (then beta) 5x.xx drivers which didn't even show fog at the time! (a major part of the demo) Even if ATi cheated as well, we're not exactly talking about an honest competition either. I suspect that we'll find another slip up by NVIDIA next.
Hard to say either one is ahead of the other at "cheating", though either side could claim development error. I wish cheating weren't a part of the game, but you can't claim one or the other is high and mighty.
It might be hefty off of iRivers site, but the other resellers sell the device for up to $50 less than iRiver. This still isn't quite the price of an iPod and nowhere close to the DJ, but the iRiver still comes with a WHOLE lot more features than the others plus (from the tests/reports I read) has much better sound quality than any of the players available (granted, nobody knows much about the DJ yet). I'd say that's worth the ~50-100 extra dollars, especially when you're already going to dump more than 300 out on a music device.
Somebody already hurt my karma for dissing the iPod, but I'd say the iPod is pretty junky compared to everything in the iRiver. Some things aren't quite as refined, but that's also giving people a whole lot more freedom to dump files onto their player instead of use REALLY junky software like iTunes or MusicMatch.
The battery life report... give me a break? He has to be a headcase if he expects people to believe that (esp comming off a fanboy site)
Errr... except it's not really smaller (yes maybe by a few mm it might be) and I'd MUCH rather have the sexy iRiver portable than an apple. Going into public with an apple device would make my friends question my sexuality.
In the end, the iPod is a piece of crap compared to the features and sound quality of at least the iRiver portable, I can't say much to the others. There are a few useability things the iPod may have, but then it's not really all that great to use if you have to run either iTunes OR MusicMatch to put files on it.
The other thing about .Hack is that the players all seem to know how to make their own adventures. In the manga (Legend of the Twilight, different storyline), there are admin run events. Even in that they stress that the guild has no real authority.
I think that before we have these types of things, we almost have to rid ourselves completely of NPCs and make monster hunting something you do mostly on a quest instead of just to level until you're the most powerful person in the world.
Amen! I joined RoE a few days ago, discovering that all of the morons that came home from school and played Galaxies don't exist on smaller MMOGs. Even in Galaxies I prefered to find planets on the outskirts so that people wouldn't be there. The only trouble with that in a larger game like Galaxies turned out to be that the devs didn't pay any attetion to those planets. Buildings would warp me out of themselves, ships would land on mission/bazaar terminals, and NPCs (mostly droids) would get stuck in corners EVERYWHERE. That's what I'd call a type of Friday the 13th type of enviornment.
I find RoE to be consistant, competitive, and still full of adventure/fun. Having GMs on site helps quite a bit too. If you put a GM in somplace like Anchorhead in SWG then they'd be swamped by complainers, newbies (note: that's the main thing RoE GMs deal with as I see), and people reporting real problems of which there are too many to count. A nightmare for sure.
Bottom line: Small community = fewer problems = better game experience.
I also recall when Planetarion was free (I dont know, 4th or 5th generation when I started) that the player associations or whatever they were called all banded together and became so powerful taking over so many planets that the game was pointless. My galaxy in peticular was doing very well (on the top 10 list) by itself until the folks in one of the associations crushed each and every one of us in one swift move. No protection against it, nothing to do but ruin 6 months of hard gaming.
Because of that experience, I'm not so sure that I'd waste money going back to it. I do recall Planetarion being a VERY awesome game though, must better IMO in multiplayer interaction than Earth 2025.
Rubies of Eventide - Just to prove I can do it mommy!!
Not all do, I believe Anarchy lets you download an enormous demo, and the game I'm currently in, Rubies of Eventide lets you download the game for free as well. While RoE doesn't have the exposure that SWG or Evercrack has in a store, I think it has a higher IQ level in game b/c of it being a smaller community.
I believe they relate this number to keeping personal molecule collections.
I keep finding people with old SGI boxes, I feel like I'm in a club now :)
;) It still has all of the data that it's original owner had on it!
My 4D is top line, so it's not terrible, I'm not real sure what I'm planning on doing with it yet. But everything's working and it's complete.
The SCSI in these things really is sweet, no joke. I've got two 1.2gig drives, one of them's even labeled "Gov't"
Well...
:-D Sure it's an age old SGI <b>workstation</b>. Anyway, don't limit/generalize it to servers because there are plenty of non-server (and I don't really even mean top end workstation, maybe mid-range) uses for SCSI.
I use SCSI in my Personal Iris 4d/35, it's not a server.
Putting a SCSI drive in Gma's email machine might not be quite as smart though.
Well that's fairly good news, I hadn't heard about the creators wishes in the past. Being any commercial company I wouldn't set any limits on what Bandai will do, even if it isn't a mmorpg. There are plenty of other things I could immagine they could do to warp it into another video game should they decide that .Hack will profit for them.
But Bandai also does .Hack which is currently PS2 material. I'd wonder what contracts lurk underneath that that could make Bandai switch consoles, I doubt Sony will let them switch over .Hack now after four games are released. .Hack is going over pretty big, and understandably so. I'd immagine Sony wants to keep .Hack so that they can create 'The World' online someday on their machine.
Damn man, you can't take a compliment to your holy GNU for anything eh? Most linux users at one time or another compile a program, they cross the line, and most that I know realize exactly what GNU CC is. Yes, GNU sure has pumped code into distributions, otherwise you wouldn't be calling it GNU/Linux. What does Linux end up as? A distribution. If the creator of Linux asked for it to be called GNU/Linux, by all means go for it. Otherwise it's rude to rename somebody else's work. By what you claim about BSD, you can tout GNU on your own without Linux.
Somebody needs to go back to happy school.
That was all backwards too. I'm sure my idea is still represented there.
lmao No, that's actually a fairly good point.
:)
It kind of proves my point that putting other names with <insert project/os/tool/lib/whatever> before or after them really doesnt make sense. If the creator likes the idea, so be it... but to rename somebody else's work by refering to it differently is just rude. You don't hear Linus refering to Linux as anything other than Linux. You won't hear me refer to form2mail as PHP/form2mail. Or even better PHP/MySQL/Sendmail/form2mail
That'd be acceptable, but it's still not addressing other OSes that ship with GNU tools (maybe not libc, but yes, plenty include gcc). Your GNU holy war makes absolutely no sense. Give credit where credit is due? Yes GNU is awesome and has pumped quite a bit of good code into the Linux distributions. You said yourself that it does't really have a lot to do with the kernel, but being POSIX compliant which means the GNU libs/tools really have nothing to do with Linux. Call GNU an implimentation of POSIX libraries and utilities, that might make sense.
The bottom line is still that we have folk running around touting GNU in front of Linux, a cheap advertisement for something that gcc users already realize without that bit of help.