Son of Mars Polar Lander Mars Polar Lander vs. Mothra Revenge of the Mars Polar Lander Attack of the Killer Mars Polar Landers Disco Mars Polar Lander Honey, I Lost Communication With the Mars Polar Lander! How To Bring Out the Best Mars Polar Lander in You
(Score: cos Pi, Who cares? It's a celebration;)
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When I work in KDE, I have a picture of a Pagoda snagged from Digitalblasphemy.com, a dark green colorset, and the green equivalent of the standard titlebar pixmaps that come with KDE. Nothing else has changed.
Most of those themes, on the other hand, are a complete mess. They're resource hogs, they're large, and they're EXTREMELY user-unfriendly. I don't care HOW pretty BlueSteel looks, if you try to work with that in high resolutions, you're gonna be cursing yourself trying to click the iconify, maximize, and close buttons, even if you can tell them apart at anything higher than 1280x1024. But not to pick on only BlueSteel alone, the majority of all themes made for X window managers are this way -- they're an attempt to be pretty but completly drown out any type of functionality.
I hate to drag Windows into this, but I will anyway. I won't even mention quality in this, I'm fairly biased towards the Windows developers, but this isn't about looks, it's about functionality. If you want to see some functional themes that still look pretty, check out some of the ones done for windowblinds. Win3000, Elegant, Titanium are just 3 examples of excellent looking skins that are completly functional on anybody's desktop.
And you know what's sad? The Windows skinners & themers port over the X themes, but vice versa is almost NEVER done. Go look for Win3000 for KDE. Go look for Elegant for Enlightenment. If you can find them, lemme know, cause I want to use them. Hopefully if these themes are indeed found, I can avoid the frustration of accidentally closing a program when all I wanted to do was minimize it.:)
I do appreciate the effort put into the themes by the artists. But please, it IS possible to be good looking and user friendly at the same time.
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One of the former writers from The Simpsons, Mike Reiss, recently came and spoke to our University. One of the questions asked of him was "What exactly does Matt Groenig do on the show?". His response was "if you want to know what Matt Groening did on The Simpsons, ask yourself what Walt Disney did on Toy Story."
Someone else asked why a Simpsons Movie has not yet been created. His answer was simple: if a Simpsons movie WAS to be created, Matt Groenig would be the one to write, produce, and direct it.
And that's why there hasn't been a Simpsons movie yet.
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I haven't had any of those problems with IE 5.0 (in Win95, no active desktop customization stuff).
The only problem I've had so far is when I get moderator access on/., half of the moderation options are rendered incorrectly or are out of position! Despite being a better browser, it's not good enough for Slahsdot:)
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...Great. "This unit will self-destruct upon playing a pirated mp3". Hehe, I bet the RIAA wishes:)
Anyway, back on topic, the only thing I really don't like about this is that there doesn't appear to be any way to upgrade the unit. The codec is expandible (mp4 anyone?), but not the memory. 64 megs is okay, but I'm gonna need to order 110 of these things to fit all of my music collection onto (at the mere cost of $33,000). Most of the other memory-based portable mp3 players have flash cards available -- which is great, store 2-3 CD's (or mixes) on one, and have 1 or 2 extra around.
And before anyone argues that I have too many mp3s, about 99% of my mp3s are legal, so don't go into issues about me having too many. I was raised in the CD generation, remember:)
Oh, hahahaha, lol... Sorry to burst your bubble...
While I'd love to see FFVII/VIII ported to Linux, to exponentially increase their sales, you'd have to practically get all six billion people in the world to buy a copy. Square's games sell like wildfire in Japan, I think FF8 has reported over 6 million copies sold worldwide (1 million here), and should top 10 million by the time it leaves the market.
Unfortunately, Square is one of those companies who are LEAST likely to port games to Linux. They enjoy such great sales for the PSX that perhaps the Windows market barely would scratch about a 50th to a hundredth of the PSX sales. Porting their games to Windows is hardly profitable to them -- if we can't convince some companies who sell around 200-300k copies of a software to port it to Linux, how are we going to convince a company to invest the resources to port a game that sold 6 million copies?:P Plus, their US publisher isn't going to help matters -- EA (SquareEA). Have any EA games been ported over yet? I'm still looking at the vacant sports games market in Linux, the vacant Dungeon Keeper market, and you get the point. EA has been resolute in not going for a venture that isn't deemed profitable, and they just don't see Linux as being profitable at all.
I would LOVE to see the FF series on something other than Windows or Playstation, but It's a pipe dream, and it's mostly smoke:(
While I'm sure that the parent to this is going to be quickly marked as flame (and this may too), I am going to have to agree, in part. One of the reason why I'm thinking of jumping ship is because of the antiquated technology of the X server. It was fine in 1994 and groundbreaking when it was released, but X 4.0 really has to be a breakthrough to keep me from leaving Linux in general. The current releases of X are bloated, slow to draw windows -- themed gtk apps should NOT draw at such a rate that I can watch them fill column by column, especially on a 450mhz w/ an AGP graphics card, and lacks several features which I think are critical, including anti-aliased fonts and on-the-fly resolution AND depth changing (this may have already been accomplished).
I'll wait for X 4.0, if that isn't satisfactory, I'll try some of the demos of accelerated X servers, if they're not satisfactory either, I'm gonna have to say goodbye:(
To those who claim that I shouldn't be using Linux only for X, unfortunately this is the year 2000. It's been a long time since I've been required to use a computer with only a CLI, I've adopted with the technology and for the most part, like the advances in GUI's. I'll continue to learn and use CLI's, however I will not, and never will use them exclusively.
I've tried xmame, and on my machine, it ran at about 1/10th the speed of Mame32:(
If anyone knows how to get it to speed up a tad, I'd like to know -- running my X server at 1152x864x32, which is the same that I'm running Windows in.
I was about to make a semi-flamebait post above about rm -rf'ing my linux parition when Be 5 comes out, if Worms Armageddon comes out for Be.
You're kidding, right?
=) =) =) =)
As much as I like Linux, I want games ported to Be. I probably (key word, probably) won't be using Linux much longer, so any new games that hit that market are going to pass right by me. Brandon Reinhart's already expressed an interest in putting together a team to port UT to Be, which is seriously having me consider paying attention in my CS classes:)
Top games I want to see on Be then:)
1. UT 2. Thief (both Thief & T2) 3. Diablo II (If people can get it to run flawlessly using Wine and / or VMWare, I may end up rm -rfing/mnt/windows & dualboot Linux / Be, instead of Windows / Be;)
And, it's not really a game, but if the zsnes ports zsnes to Be (or Linux), oh, how I will be estatic. For you not in the know, zsnes not only rivals snes9x in playability, however implements some additional functions that enhances the game's picture, sound (real wind effects!), and speed. All this in an easy to use GUI.
AFAIK, VIE UK is still alive & owns the rights to Subspace. They're running the master billing server for the current community (which is around 400-500 players, I believe, it's been over a year since I've actually played the game), but none of the servers themselves. The game itself can be found nearly EVERYWHERE, it's basically freeware by now, however the source remains in the posession of VIE UK.
The creators of Subspace, some of the former Burst Team have started up Harmless Games, and have a beta (or maybe alpha) version of their game Infantry out. Also, freeware a game called Hyperspace, bred with the same genes as Subspace, is currently undergoing closed alpha-testing, but they have applications to join the first round of the semi-public alpha-testing. The game is being created by some of the programmers that were part of the SS community, so there's a chance they would bring aboard some people who could port HS to Linux (or even better, Be. Mmmmm.... Be).
I've given Infantry a shot myself, and would continue to play it, however I didn't enjoy the game that much. Also, a key issue in preventing me from getting into the game is the fact that I have issues with the CEO of Harmless Game's publisher. I've played against this guy in Subspace (he was a player who's squadron was caught using a "secret" admin code during league matches that allowed a player to see enemy ship's locations, locations of flags, and enemy ship's energy levels, all of which posed a great disadvantage to the opposing team). He was also ruthless to anyone who spoke ill of Infantry during it's infancy, including banning an entire staff of personal from a fan site because one of them wrote a critical re/preview of the game, and effectively causing the fan site (the largest one at the time) to shut down.
I dunno about more stable than 4.7. I downloaded a daily snapshot about a week ago -- have they fixed the problem where you cannot open any additional windows? (I forget what exactly it said, but the counter in the log keeps incrementing while no additional windows, i.e. open location, file, preferences will open).
Plus, for some very strange reason, Alt-O and/or Alt-L (whichever one was open location) worked about 10% of the time.
Those were pretty much my only quirks. If they've been fixed in the past week, I'll use it:)
(note, this was in the Linux version. I'm happy with N4.7 + IE5 in Windows)
It's kinda simple, really. It's a state run school, so they really don't have much say when it comes to being told what to do by the state government. I'm blessed with the luxury of going to a private university (and looking at some state run schools and wishing I were there...), since we provide the school with most of its income, they know better to do something like this. We can stand for some things such as banning Napster, or mp3s in general (effective spring term, here:( ), but "blocking sites that aren't educational" and "opposing opposite sex dorm visitations"... Do we really live in the 50's? To Jean McGrath, apparently.
I'm sorry Ms. MgGrath, R-Glendale, but this is the 21st century. We are the future. If you're going to want to tell people what to do, most are smarter than to just lay down and let you have your way with them. The solution is simple -- enrollment will drop, and you'll be voted out of office next term. You seem to forget that nearly all college students are of legal voting age, and while we do not have much reason to vote, someone like you in public office would be enough to make me run out to the next poll and pull the lever for your biggest opponent.
They are our public servants by definition, but most abuse the system, and others are so out of touch with reality... Sad:(
I get (key word: get) mod access, but it's not like I go telling people "okay, I've got mod access, what post do you want me to mark up?" Me telling you that I get mod access is like me saying that I click on the articles to read them: if you're a regular/. reader, logged in, you'll get mod access. It's a given fact.
I never divulge which messages I mark up or down, that's my business and mine alone (and will get judged in M2). I don't have mod access today, and as such I don't have mod access for this discussion -- therefore what exactly did I do to break the mod agreement?
It's flamebait because he posted first. Many moderators would just like to get rid of their points ASAP, so they see the first post being only one line long, posted by an AC, and they think "Troll, Offtopic, Redundant, Overrated. Who cares, I can blow a point."
Almost guaranteed the mod didn't read the context of that post:(
-- posted by a responsible moderator, which seems to be why I get mod access more than I'd like to =)
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If that is so how come Microsoft makes so much money each year? What about Windows 2K, which is expected to be a big money maker? What about the valuations of many Linux companies?
Because Microsoft and Win2K is / will be mainstream. No matter how much protesting and verbal bashing RMS and his following of loyal zealots do, it will not stop the mainstream crowd from purchasing Microsoft products. I, for one, will wait about a month to see if this is the heralded product Microsoft says it is, or is the shitty product the OSS community already assumes it is. Then I will make my decision whether to upgrade my Windows 95 system to 2000. I've already decided that I will get out of the 9x series, that includes Windows Millenium, due out later this year, so if 2000 is any good, I'll be switching.
But there are MANY areas of software which don't make money and have loads of inovation. Look at almost any Linux project. Look at Quake 3 and UnrealT mods. Look at the many rogue-like games still going strong after all this time.
What, in Linux, besides the kernel itself and the fact that it's open sourced can you really call innovating? There's not one piece of software on my Linux system that doesn't exist somewhere as another name performing the same basic functions. Can you name one unique, one specific piece of open sourced software which has no equals on any non-open source system? And I don't mean in name only, I mean some piece of software that performs task X that another piece of software on Solaris, Be, VMS, or even NT can't do? There's no innovation coming from the OSS community yet, other than the fundamental ideals of OSS itself. And they're pushed with such zeal that makes any outsider seem like they've just been slashed by a poisoned dagger, pushed with such zeal while all they seem to do is constantly try to reinvent the wheel.
As for the Q3A and the UT mods, yes, they're innovative, but gaming is the one area where it's relatively easy to be innovative, although many companies chose to rehash older games with prettier graphics and louder sounds. They could just as easily close their source (and lots of mods ARE closed), step up development, hire a few freelance artists and level designers, and voila, you've got yourself a $20 expantion pack.
Several campuses in the University of Wisconsin system built extravagant high-rise dorms during the college attendance booms of the late 1960s. Now many of them sit empty or are being used as "conference centers" (read: cheap state-sponsored hotels).
Consider yourself extremely lucky. I go to college in Philadelphia (won't say which one), and the housing situation is absurd -- there's priorities given to specific classmen (fresh, soph, senior THEN junior:P), about 70% of all students commute, we're growing at a bigger pace than what we can support, there's new dorms being built but we have no space beyond what's here for expantion -- there's abandoned buildings around campus, but we can't knock them down even though they've been deserted for the past 10 years, they're "historical", eyesores who serve no purpose whatsoever but to block the view of the city and cause people who live around them to groan in protest, the only reason they're standing is because some man on some committee thinks it's a good idea to not knock down any building over 50 years old because they're "historical".
Well, now that I've written the longest sentence since James Joyce, I also want to point out that our network access isn't even close to what some other colleges have. We're on Internet 2, but during peak hours it's hard to even get 20k/sec to other I2 sites. I have NO idea why this is, only it's some major flaw in our school's networking.
I could always transfer, but I'm here for the education, not the connection:P
Yep, lunch, dinner and even date plans are often made on AIM (or Gaim, depending on which side of the hard drive you're playing in;).
Also, it's been used on several occasions to tell my roommate to turn his damn music down, even though he's not more than 8 feet away from me.
Although I don't even get close to the absurd bandwidth some other people in College get (800k/sec? 10k is average here, 20k during non-peak hours, around 80k early morning, plus packetloss caused by a bad gateway), I have AIM on 24/7, as do most of the people at my college, even when we go home for the weekend, it's still on for some absurd reason, stockpiling IM's.
I'm looking to stay in the dorms next year -- the new dorm has a 100Mbit network hooked up, while ours is only a 10Mbit, but even they don't get much over 200k/sec during offpeak hours. The only time I've ever gotten 800k/sec is when I sent a file over to my roommate's computer, and that was a rare occasion:(
I agree with you completly, and think that out of all the exec's at Microsoft, the one most likely to have a Linux or a *BSD box is indeed Gates. Balmer is, and always has been more of the PHB type with a mile-wide mean streak, hell all Gates was was an opportunistic nerd who saw technologies, took the idea, modified, slightly improved or slightly degraded them, and resold them, making trillions upon trillions in the process.
Balmer on the other hand is like the proverbial CEO from hell -- doesn't give a damn about the competition, and will do anything to ensure his dominance.
I've always feared the apprentice more than the master... Always more scary -- Maul, Vader and now Balmer.
Given the choice between Gates, the incredibly rich nerd or Balmer, the incredibly rich, uh, person who is insanely greedy (moreso than Gates, from all I've heard), I'll take the incredibly rich Nerd.
This spells trouble. There is a great distrubance in the market...
But it's obvious they were hard at work for at least 1.5 of those years:P
(Office could still become more refiend, less bloaty, and more useful, but to their credit, they did a great job, even impressing a skeptic such as myself:P )
I'm a fan of Oasis & Bush, who are direct ripoffs of the Beatles and Nirvana, respectively, but I hate Offspring, who are a direct ripoff of Green Day.
Weird, huh?
(Although if I tried, I could name around 50 bands in the past 2 years who have come, emulating Green Day's style of music, sold about a million copies of one album, then exited, stage left).
Trust me, not everyone out there uses Enlightenment, and even if it is the most popular (which I'm not sure it is)
By most counts, I believe KDE / KWM is the most popular environment for Linux, even if most of it's supporters suffer from a lack of artistical talent:P
(cheap blow at the KDE theme developers;)
Yea, I'm kinda tired of hearing people say (even in my computer science classes) "What do you use in Linux? I use Gnome..."
I usually keep quiet, cause I look like the guy who should be using Mac OS;)
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That means every geek in the world will be quitting their day job to keep up with the news (including myself ;)
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mmm... 714.29 stories posted per day. That's 89.3 chances a day to flame Jon Katz and 102.04 chances per day to pour hot grits down Hemos's pants.
I hope your chair's comfy Rob, cause you're gonna be staying there for a long time, I want my 714.29 stories now
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Son of Mars Polar Lander
Mars Polar Lander vs. Mothra
Revenge of the Mars Polar Lander
Attack of the Killer Mars Polar Landers
Disco Mars Polar Lander
Honey, I Lost Communication With the Mars Polar Lander!
How To Bring Out the Best Mars Polar Lander in You
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When I work in KDE, I have a picture of a Pagoda snagged from Digitalblasphemy.com, a dark green colorset, and the green equivalent of the standard titlebar pixmaps that come with KDE. Nothing else has changed.
Most of those themes, on the other hand, are a complete mess. They're resource hogs, they're large, and they're EXTREMELY user-unfriendly. I don't care HOW pretty BlueSteel looks, if you try to work with that in high resolutions, you're gonna be cursing yourself trying to click the iconify, maximize, and close buttons, even if you can tell them apart at anything higher than 1280x1024. But not to pick on only BlueSteel alone, the majority of all themes made for X window managers are this way -- they're an attempt to be pretty but completly drown out any type of functionality.
I hate to drag Windows into this, but I will anyway. I won't even mention quality in this, I'm fairly biased towards the Windows developers, but this isn't about looks, it's about functionality. If you want to see some functional themes that still look pretty, check out some of the ones done for windowblinds. Win3000, Elegant, Titanium are just 3 examples of excellent looking skins that are completly functional on anybody's desktop.
And you know what's sad? The Windows skinners & themers port over the X themes, but vice versa is almost NEVER done. Go look for Win3000 for KDE. Go look for Elegant for Enlightenment. If you can find them, lemme know, cause I want to use them. Hopefully if these themes are indeed found, I can avoid the frustration of accidentally closing a program when all I wanted to do was minimize it.
I do appreciate the effort put into the themes by the artists. But please, it IS possible to be good looking and user friendly at the same time.
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One of the former writers from The Simpsons, Mike Reiss, recently came and spoke to our University. One of the questions asked of him was "What exactly does Matt Groenig do on the show?". His response was "if you want to know what Matt Groening did on The Simpsons, ask yourself what Walt Disney did on Toy Story."
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Someone else asked why a Simpsons Movie has not yet been created. His answer was simple: if a Simpsons movie WAS to be created, Matt Groenig would be the one to write, produce, and direct it.
And that's why there hasn't been a Simpsons movie yet.
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I haven't had any of those problems with IE 5.0 (in Win95, no active desktop customization stuff).
/., half of the moderation options are rendered incorrectly or are out of position! Despite being a better browser, it's not good enough for Slahsdot :)
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I'm sure a few memos will be sent out in some companies suggesting the idea of getting a solid 4 hours of sleep ever 3 days.
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...Great. "This unit will self-destruct upon playing a pirated mp3". Hehe, I bet the RIAA wishes
Anyway, back on topic, the only thing I really don't like about this is that there doesn't appear to be any way to upgrade the unit. The codec is expandible (mp4 anyone?), but not the memory. 64 megs is okay, but I'm gonna need to order 110 of these things to fit all of my music collection onto (at the mere cost of $33,000). Most of the other memory-based portable mp3 players have flash cards available -- which is great, store 2-3 CD's (or mixes) on one, and have 1 or 2 extra around.
And before anyone argues that I have too many mp3s, about 99% of my mp3s are legal, so don't go into issues about me having too many. I was raised in the CD generation, remember
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Oh, hahahaha, lol... Sorry to burst your bubble...
:P Plus, their US publisher isn't going to help matters -- EA (SquareEA). Have any EA games been ported over yet? I'm still looking at the vacant sports games market in Linux, the vacant Dungeon Keeper market, and you get the point. EA has been resolute in not going for a venture that isn't deemed profitable, and they just don't see Linux as being profitable at all.
:(
While I'd love to see FFVII/VIII ported to Linux, to exponentially increase their sales, you'd have to practically get all six billion people in the world to buy a copy. Square's games sell like wildfire in Japan, I think FF8 has reported over 6 million copies sold worldwide (1 million here), and should top 10 million by the time it leaves the market.
Unfortunately, Square is one of those companies who are LEAST likely to port games to Linux. They enjoy such great sales for the PSX that perhaps the Windows market barely would scratch about a 50th to a hundredth of the PSX sales. Porting their games to Windows is hardly profitable to them -- if we can't convince some companies who sell around 200-300k copies of a software to port it to Linux, how are we going to convince a company to invest the resources to port a game that sold 6 million copies?
I would LOVE to see the FF series on something other than Windows or Playstation, but It's a pipe dream, and it's mostly smoke
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While I'm sure that the parent to this is going to be quickly marked as flame (and this may too), I am going to have to agree, in part. One of the reason why I'm thinking of jumping ship is because of the antiquated technology of the X server. It was fine in 1994 and groundbreaking when it was released, but X 4.0 really has to be a breakthrough to keep me from leaving Linux in general. The current releases of X are bloated, slow to draw windows -- themed gtk apps should NOT draw at such a rate that I can watch them fill column by column, especially on a 450mhz w/ an AGP graphics card, and lacks several features which I think are critical, including anti-aliased fonts and on-the-fly resolution AND depth changing (this may have already been accomplished).
:(
I'll wait for X 4.0, if that isn't satisfactory, I'll try some of the demos of accelerated X servers, if they're not satisfactory either, I'm gonna have to say goodbye
To those who claim that I shouldn't be using Linux only for X, unfortunately this is the year 2000. It's been a long time since I've been required to use a computer with only a CLI, I've adopted with the technology and for the most part, like the advances in GUI's. I'll continue to learn and use CLI's, however I will not, and never will use them exclusively.
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I've tried xmame, and on my machine, it ran at about 1/10th the speed of Mame32 :(
If anyone knows how to get it to speed up a tad, I'd like to know -- running my X server at 1152x864x32, which is the same that I'm running Windows in.
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/mnt/windows & dualboot Linux / Be, instead of Windows / Be ;)
I was about to make a semi-flamebait post above about rm -rf'ing my linux parition when Be 5 comes out, if Worms Armageddon comes out for Be.
You're kidding, right?
=) =) =) =)
As much as I like Linux, I want games ported to Be. I probably (key word, probably) won't be using Linux much longer, so any new games that hit that market are going to pass right by me. Brandon Reinhart's already expressed an interest in putting together a team to port UT to Be, which is seriously having me consider paying attention in my CS classes
Top games I want to see on Be then
1. UT
2. Thief (both Thief & T2)
3. Diablo II (If people can get it to run flawlessly using Wine and / or VMWare, I may end up rm -rfing
And, it's not really a game, but if the zsnes ports zsnes to Be (or Linux), oh, how I will be estatic. For you not in the know, zsnes not only rivals snes9x in playability, however implements some additional functions that enhances the game's picture, sound (real wind effects!), and speed. All this in an easy to use GUI.
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AFAIK, VIE UK is still alive & owns the rights to Subspace. They're running the master billing server for the current community (which is around 400-500 players, I believe, it's been over a year since I've actually played the game), but none of the servers themselves. The game itself can be found nearly EVERYWHERE, it's basically freeware by now, however the source remains in the posession of VIE UK.
The creators of Subspace, some of the former Burst Team have started up Harmless Games, and have a beta (or maybe alpha) version of their game Infantry out. Also, freeware a game called Hyperspace, bred with the same genes as Subspace, is currently undergoing closed alpha-testing, but they have applications to join the first round of the semi-public alpha-testing. The game is being created by some of the programmers that were part of the SS community, so there's a chance they would bring aboard some people who could port HS to Linux (or even better, Be. Mmmmm.... Be).
Here are the links:
Harmless Games
Infantry Zone
Hyperspace
I've given Infantry a shot myself, and would continue to play it, however I didn't enjoy the game that much. Also, a key issue in preventing me from getting into the game is the fact that I have issues with the CEO of Harmless Game's publisher. I've played against this guy in Subspace (he was a player who's squadron was caught using a "secret" admin code during league matches that allowed a player to see enemy ship's locations, locations of flags, and enemy ship's energy levels, all of which posed a great disadvantage to the opposing team). He was also ruthless to anyone who spoke ill of Infantry during it's infancy, including banning an entire staff of personal from a fan site because one of them wrote a critical re/preview of the game, and effectively causing the fan site (the largest one at the time) to shut down.
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I dunno about more stable than 4.7. I downloaded a daily snapshot about a week ago -- have they fixed the problem where you cannot open any additional windows? (I forget what exactly it said, but the counter in the log keeps incrementing while no additional windows, i.e. open location, file, preferences will open).
:)
Plus, for some very strange reason, Alt-O and/or Alt-L (whichever one was open location) worked about 10% of the time.
Those were pretty much my only quirks. If they've been fixed in the past week, I'll use it
(note, this was in the Linux version. I'm happy with N4.7 + IE5 in Windows)
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It's kinda simple, really. It's a state run school, so they really don't have much say when it comes to being told what to do by the state government. I'm blessed with the luxury of going to a private university (and looking at some state run schools and wishing I were there...), since we provide the school with most of its income, they know better to do something like this. We can stand for some things such as banning Napster, or mp3s in general (effective spring term, here :( ), but "blocking sites that aren't educational" and "opposing opposite sex dorm visitations"... Do we really live in the 50's? To Jean McGrath, apparently.
:(
I'm sorry Ms. MgGrath, R-Glendale, but this is the 21st century. We are the future. If you're going to want to tell people what to do, most are smarter than to just lay down and let you have your way with them. The solution is simple -- enrollment will drop, and you'll be voted out of office next term. You seem to forget that nearly all college students are of legal voting age, and while we do not have much reason to vote, someone like you in public office would be enough to make me run out to the next poll and pull the lever for your biggest opponent.
They are our public servants by definition, but most abuse the system, and others are so out of touch with reality... Sad
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/. reader, logged in, you'll get mod access. It's a given fact.
I get (key word: get) mod access, but it's not like I go telling people "okay, I've got mod access, what post do you want me to mark up?" Me telling you that I get mod access is like me saying that I click on the articles to read them: if you're a regular
I never divulge which messages I mark up or down, that's my business and mine alone (and will get judged in M2). I don't have mod access today, and as such I don't have mod access for this discussion -- therefore what exactly did I do to break the mod agreement?
Please tell me, I'd love to know.
This belongs in quickies ;)
/. -- omg, Mr T. working for (I won't say it to ruin the fun ;) is hilarious =)
I never laughed so hard at a link from
It's flamebait because he posted first. Many moderators would just like to get rid of their points ASAP, so they see the first post being only one line long, posted by an AC, and they think "Troll, Offtopic, Redundant, Overrated. Who cares, I can blow a point."
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Almost guaranteed the mod didn't read the context of that post
-- posted by a responsible moderator, which seems to be why I get mod access more than I'd like to =)
If that is so how come Microsoft makes so much money each year? What about Windows 2K, which is expected to be a big money maker? What about the valuations of many Linux companies?
Because Microsoft and Win2K is / will be mainstream. No matter how much protesting and verbal bashing RMS and his following of loyal zealots do, it will not stop the mainstream crowd from purchasing Microsoft products. I, for one, will wait about a month to see if this is the heralded product Microsoft says it is, or is the shitty product the OSS community already assumes it is. Then I will make my decision whether to upgrade my Windows 95 system to 2000. I've already decided that I will get out of the 9x series, that includes Windows Millenium, due out later this year, so if 2000 is any good, I'll be switching.
But there are MANY areas of software which don't make money and have loads of inovation. Look at almost any Linux project. Look at Quake 3 and UnrealT mods. Look at the many rogue-like games still going strong after all this time.
What, in Linux, besides the kernel itself and the fact that it's open sourced can you really call innovating? There's not one piece of software on my Linux system that doesn't exist somewhere as another name performing the same basic functions. Can you name one unique, one specific piece of open sourced software which has no equals on any non-open source system? And I don't mean in name only, I mean some piece of software that performs task X that another piece of software on Solaris, Be, VMS, or even NT can't do? There's no innovation coming from the OSS community yet, other than the fundamental ideals of OSS itself. And they're pushed with such zeal that makes any outsider seem like they've just been slashed by a poisoned dagger, pushed with such zeal while all they seem to do is constantly try to reinvent the wheel.
As for the Q3A and the UT mods, yes, they're innovative, but gaming is the one area where it's relatively easy to be innovative, although many companies chose to rehash older games with prettier graphics and louder sounds. They could just as easily close their source (and lots of mods ARE closed), step up development, hire a few freelance artists and level designers, and voila, you've got yourself a $20 expantion pack.
Several campuses in the University of Wisconsin system built extravagant high-rise dorms during the college attendance booms of the late 1960s. Now many of them sit empty or are being used as "conference centers" (read: cheap state-sponsored hotels).
:P), about 70% of all students commute, we're growing at a bigger pace than what we can support, there's new dorms being built but we have no space beyond what's here for expantion -- there's abandoned buildings around campus, but we can't knock them down even though they've been deserted for the past 10 years, they're "historical", eyesores who serve no purpose whatsoever but to block the view of the city and cause people who live around them to groan in protest, the only reason they're standing is because some man on some committee thinks it's a good idea to not knock down any building over 50 years old because they're "historical".
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Consider yourself extremely lucky. I go to college in Philadelphia (won't say which one), and the housing situation is absurd -- there's priorities given to specific classmen (fresh, soph, senior THEN junior
Well, now that I've written the longest sentence since James Joyce, I also want to point out that our network access isn't even close to what some other colleges have. We're on Internet 2, but during peak hours it's hard to even get 20k/sec to other I2 sites. I have NO idea why this is, only it's some major flaw in our school's networking.
I could always transfer, but I'm here for the education, not the connection
Yep, lunch, dinner and even date plans are often made on AIM (or Gaim, depending on which side of the hard drive you're playing in ;).
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Also, it's been used on several occasions to tell my roommate to turn his damn music down, even though he's not more than 8 feet away from me.
Although I don't even get close to the absurd bandwidth some other people in College get (800k/sec? 10k is average here, 20k during non-peak hours, around 80k early morning, plus packetloss caused by a bad gateway), I have AIM on 24/7, as do most of the people at my college, even when we go home for the weekend, it's still on for some absurd reason, stockpiling IM's.
I'm looking to stay in the dorms next year -- the new dorm has a 100Mbit network hooked up, while ours is only a 10Mbit, but even they don't get much over 200k/sec during offpeak hours. The only time I've ever gotten 800k/sec is when I sent a file over to my roommate's computer, and that was a rare occasion
I agree with you completly, and think that out of all the exec's at Microsoft, the one most likely to have a Linux or a *BSD box is indeed Gates. Balmer is, and always has been more of the PHB type with a mile-wide mean streak, hell all Gates was was an opportunistic nerd who saw technologies, took the idea, modified, slightly improved or slightly degraded them, and resold them, making trillions upon trillions in the process.
Balmer on the other hand is like the proverbial CEO from hell -- doesn't give a damn about the competition, and will do anything to ensure his dominance.
I've always feared the apprentice more than the master... Always more scary -- Maul, Vader and now Balmer.
Given the choice between Gates, the incredibly rich nerd or Balmer, the incredibly rich, uh, person who is insanely greedy (moreso than Gates, from all I've heard), I'll take the incredibly rich Nerd.
This spells trouble. There is a great distrubance in the market...
Yes, 3 :)
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But it's obvious they were hard at work for at least 1.5 of those years
(Office could still become more refiend, less bloaty, and more useful, but to their credit, they did a great job, even impressing a skeptic such as myself
Hmm.. music is funny like that :)
I'm a fan of Oasis & Bush, who are direct ripoffs of the Beatles and Nirvana, respectively, but I hate Offspring, who are a direct ripoff of Green Day.
Weird, huh?
(Although if I tried, I could name around 50 bands in the past 2 years who have come, emulating Green Day's style of music, sold about a million copies of one album, then exited, stage left).
Trust me, not everyone out there uses Enlightenment, and even if it is the most popular (which I'm not sure it is)
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By most counts, I believe KDE / KWM is the most popular environment for Linux, even if most of it's supporters suffer from a lack of artistical talent
(cheap blow at the KDE theme developers
Yea, I'm kinda tired of hearing people say (even in my computer science classes) "What do you use in Linux? I use Gnome..."
I usually keep quiet, cause I look like the guy who should be using Mac OS