Well, if it wasn't for the massive mumbo jumbo and lack of any real world stats, this might have me jumping up and down..let me know when this thing can run QuakeX or Photoshop for a good benchmark and I might care a little more. Looks pretty cool, tho.
Sig? Who needs a fucking sig with a name like this!
Star Trek: The Secret of The Vulcan Fury was a game being designed for by Interplay and set for release in January. At the moment it is MIA, with nobody acknowledgeing anything about it. The best I have heard is that it is VERY, VERY, delayed...many insiders assume this means canceled. That gamed had some very dialed graphics, with voice overs by original cast members. Maybe Interplay will get around to releasing it now as "Deforest Kelly's last appearance"...
Nah, they are doing it in OpenGL and Glide. Blizzard isn't stupid enough to go with just glide. Check out the link below for the whole story. http://www.blizzard.com/PRESS/990513c.html
I think that it is safe to assume this is just more evidence that 3dfx tries to be anti-competitive. I hope Creative sues them back, because it seems very unlikely that they violated a liscenseing agreement knowing that the 3dfx lawyers are so damned trigger-happy. This is most likely just another attempt by 3dfx to try and scare other people away from developing glide wrappers.
I don't know if there are actually daily shootings in inner city schools, and there sure as hell aren't massacres, but you are right. Schools in poor, urban, and mainly black area's have been hotbeds of violence for years, and as usual, the majority white politicians just let it slip through the cracks. Hell, if this had happened in a black school, it wouldn't have been an issue for more than a day.
"Some people have gotten so much into the roles, that they actually killed their fellow games. "
No they have not. This is urban legend created by Catholic schools during the late seventies too keep parents of students from allowing their children to play the game after the church realized that simply condeming the game's common use of magic just wasn't enough. The story was then worked into some of those pamphlets that Southern Baptists leave all over the place, and it spread like wildfire. Stop believing everything you hear.
You obviously have NO CLUE how to get anything like this. It isn't on the web. It is all distributed across private ftp's, which people get access to via friends they make on IRC. Try hanging around in a few VCD chat rooms on efnet for a while and see how hard it is to get a copy of the Buffy Episode, Star Wars, etc....
Look. I know you guys really dig all this computer shit, but face it. The rest if the workd doesn't give a fuck about you if you use your skills for good, and you can all figure each other out without needing a label.
So why don't you stop wasting your time worrying about this crap and get back to what really matters- T and FUCKIN A!!! GO GET LAID DAMMIT!!! It's a weekend! GO GET DRUNK AND SCREW!!! Hell, I'm having fun, mackin chicks, and I'm at work. So go do something cool.
Stealing via mp3 is a good thing. Remember, most bands HATE record companies. They get 80 cents an album, most of which ends up right back with the label to payback production of the album and the video. If bands start losing money to mp3, they might just start to sell albums online (like public enemy is doing for other reasons) for a lot less. Which would you rather do? Download an album in the next big kick ass format of cd quality for $5 bucks, most of which goes right back to the band, or continue to pay 12-18 dollars to record companies.
Screw hard drive sizes, bandwitdth is the issue. At least 50% of people I know who do lots with mp3 are running on ISDN or slower. Now many people with dsl and up just trade cd images and burn them. College students are starting to push this now that they all get ethernet access to the net. The RIAA is gonna lose out not to mp3, but to cheap DSL and cable modems when people just start swapping entire cd's online.
The RIAA is such a joke...I wonder if they actually think anyone is going to support SDMI when supporting MP3 is far more commercially lucrative. I must give mad props out to the guys getting paid 6 digits to blow this kind of smoke up the record label CEO's asses.
As usual, Jon Katz gives us a well written(excluding the question marks), thought provoking article that misses a big point.
George Lucas has every right to sell out.
When I went to target a few days ago and saw the "Official Darth Maul Boy's Bike!" I almost threw up. It was disgusting. Star Wars merchandising is greed and American capitalism at its worst. Just spoon feeding crap with a logo on it to anyone who will buy it.
But a few moments after taking such offense at it, I realized that George Lucas WORKED HIS ASS OFF TO GET WHERE HE IS. George Lucas pumped blood, sweat and tears into the original Star Wars, and suckered Fox out of the liscensing rights to make sure he would always be able to do whatever he wanted to with his stuff from then on. And he busts ass to pack serious quality into everything else he touches. He has every right to dump this crap out into the market place and rake in the bucks, because he didn't get there by fucking around.
If the hype depresses you Jon, just ignore it. If you get that much of it on TV that it bothers you, you are watching too damned much TV anyway. If you don't like the merchandise, don't buy it. But don't get pissed at George Lucas about it.
Good idea? Kick ass idea!!! A nive little html plugin for Winamp could take care of this.... Just make a pretty picture with hyperlinks to the songs. It would kick ass!
So make it your task to bust the RIAA's balls every chance you get. Trade mp3's everywhere. Help newbies learn about using IRC to access the big mp3 ftps. If we all teach our little sisters how to get the new "Backstreet Boys" (i know, i know...but at least this way they don't buy it) album on mp3, and then they show a friend who shows a friend....
my point is, teenyboppers may be lame and stupid, but so are the millions of mp3 traders with IRC nicks like L33T D00D and H4X0R4L|F3. Don't underestimate them, because the RIAA certainly is. If we triple the number of morons involved by teaching them how to make a good 160khz mp3, the RIAA will be beaten into submission within a year, and dead six months after that.
if I could drop for or five bucks for a full length album on a web site versus paying for it in a store, I would whip out my visa card and start buying over the web ASAP. Prince made a fortune off his "Crystal Ball" album (the record company called it a failure, but think about it. 250,000 copies sold and the only cost to Prince was manufacturing and the web overhead? He made out pretty damned well at 40 bucks a copy...) and Public Enemy will make a TON of money off the new mp3 release.
I really do wish it could work this way. The time is near, tho...
How long will this live in relation to now, or to after they (try to) implement this bullshit? I would guess that some of those folks who hang out in #cracks all day doing custom cracks just for the hell of it will bust this shit open in about a day or so. Not to mention the hardcore senior warez group crackers, who will rip this apart in under a day.
at which point the RIAA will have lost out to a bunch of anonymous haxors who they can't just "muscle" around in court.
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Well, if it wasn't for the massive mumbo jumbo and lack of any real world stats, this might have me jumping up and down..let me know when this thing can run QuakeX or Photoshop for a good benchmark and I might care a little more. Looks pretty cool, tho.
Sig? Who needs a fucking sig with a name like this!
Star Trek: The Secret of The Vulcan Fury was a game being designed for by Interplay and set for release in January. At the moment it is MIA, with nobody acknowledgeing anything about it. The best I have heard is that it is VERY, VERY, delayed...many insiders assume this means canceled. That gamed had some very dialed graphics, with voice overs by original cast members. Maybe Interplay will get around to releasing it now as "Deforest Kelly's last appearance"...
KHANNNNNNN!!!!!!
Oh well, I guess they had to start dropping off sometime.
Nah, they are doing it in OpenGL and Glide. Blizzard isn't stupid enough to go with just glide. Check out the link below for the whole story.
http://www.blizzard.com/PRESS/990513c.html
I think that it is safe to assume this is just more evidence that 3dfx tries to be anti-competitive. I hope Creative sues them back, because it seems very unlikely that they violated a liscenseing agreement knowing that the 3dfx lawyers are so damned trigger-happy. This is most likely just another attempt by 3dfx to try and scare other people away from developing glide wrappers.
I don't know if there are actually daily shootings in inner city schools, and there sure as hell aren't massacres, but you are right. Schools in poor, urban, and mainly black area's have been hotbeds of violence for years, and as usual, the majority white politicians just let it slip through the cracks. Hell, if this had happened in a black school, it wouldn't have been an issue for more than a day.
Pretty fucked up, ain't it?
"Some people have gotten so much into the roles, that they actually killed their fellow games. "
No they have not. This is urban legend created by Catholic schools during the late seventies too keep parents of students from allowing their children to play the game after the church realized that simply condeming the game's common use of magic just wasn't enough. The story was then worked into some of those pamphlets that Southern Baptists leave all over the place, and it spread like wildfire. Stop believing everything you hear.
You obviously have NO CLUE how to get anything like this. It isn't on the web. It is all distributed across private ftp's, which people get access to via friends they make on IRC. Try hanging around in a few VCD chat rooms on efnet for a while and see how hard it is to get a copy of the Buffy Episode, Star Wars, etc....
Look. I know you guys really dig all this computer shit, but face it. The rest if the workd doesn't give a fuck about you if you use your skills for good, and you can all figure each other out without needing a label.
So why don't you stop wasting your time worrying about this crap and get back to what really matters- T and FUCKIN A!!! GO GET LAID DAMMIT!!! It's a weekend! GO GET DRUNK AND SCREW!!! Hell, I'm having fun, mackin chicks, and I'm at work. So go do something cool.
It appears (after at his older site) that this is a k62 300 overclocked to 500 mHz....Kryogen has nothing on Dr. Freeze IMHO...
Stealing via mp3 is a good thing. Remember, most bands HATE record companies. They get 80 cents an album, most of which ends up right back with the label to payback production of the album and the video. If bands start losing money to mp3, they might just start to sell albums online (like public enemy is doing for other reasons) for a lot less. Which would you rather do? Download an album in the next big kick ass format of cd quality for $5 bucks, most of which goes right back to the band, or continue to pay 12-18 dollars to record companies.
think about it....
Screw hard drive sizes, bandwitdth is the issue. At least 50% of people I know who do lots with mp3 are running on ISDN or slower. Now many people with dsl and up just trade cd images and burn them. College students are starting to push this now that they all get ethernet access to the net. The RIAA is gonna lose out not to mp3, but to cheap DSL and cable modems when people just start swapping entire cd's online.
And I just can't wait!
The RIAA is such a joke...I wonder if they actually think anyone is going to support SDMI when supporting MP3 is far more commercially lucrative. I must give mad props out to the guys getting paid 6 digits to blow this kind of smoke up the record label CEO's asses.
and if you believe what Jane's tells you, I have this letter you can forward to 10 people and get 10,000,000,000 dollars from microsoft....
if someone saved the report, pleez mirror it. Strangely enough, the link is dead....imagine that, a report critcizing echelon being dead....
As usual, Jon Katz gives us a well written(excluding the question marks), thought provoking article that misses a big point.
George Lucas has every right to sell out.
When I went to target a few days ago and saw the "Official Darth Maul Boy's Bike!" I almost threw up. It was disgusting. Star Wars merchandising is greed and American capitalism at its worst. Just spoon feeding crap with a logo on it to anyone who will buy it.
But a few moments after taking such offense at it, I realized that George Lucas WORKED HIS ASS OFF TO GET WHERE HE IS. George Lucas pumped blood, sweat and tears into the original Star Wars, and suckered Fox out of the liscensing rights to make sure he would always be able to do whatever he wanted to with his stuff from then on. And he busts ass to pack serious quality into everything else he touches. He has every right to dump this crap out into the market place and rake in the bucks, because he didn't get there by fucking around.
If the hype depresses you Jon, just ignore it. If you get that much of it on TV that it bothers you, you are watching too damned much TV anyway. If you don't like the merchandise, don't buy it. But don't get pissed at George Lucas about it.
Good idea? Kick ass idea!!! A nive little html plugin for Winamp could take care of this.... Just make a pretty picture with hyperlinks to the songs. It would kick ass!
Actually, quicktime 4 is shareware. I should know, I registered my copy.
A few months to hack it? Please....one good warez group will bust it in a few hours.....
So make it your task to bust the RIAA's balls every chance you get. Trade mp3's everywhere. Help newbies learn about using IRC to access the big mp3 ftps. If we all teach our little sisters how to get the new "Backstreet Boys" (i know, i know...but at least this way they don't buy it) album on mp3, and then they show a friend who shows a friend....
my point is, teenyboppers may be lame and stupid, but so are the millions of mp3 traders with IRC nicks like L33T D00D and H4X0R4L|F3. Don't underestimate them, because the RIAA certainly is. If we triple the number of morons involved by teaching them how to make a good 160khz mp3, the RIAA will be beaten into submission within a year, and dead six months after that.
if I could drop for or five bucks for a full length album on a web site versus paying for it in a store, I would whip out my visa card and start buying over the web ASAP. Prince made a fortune off his "Crystal Ball" album (the record company called it a failure, but think about it. 250,000 copies sold and the only cost to Prince was manufacturing and the web overhead? He made out pretty damned well at 40 bucks a copy...) and Public Enemy will make a TON of money off the new mp3 release.
I really do wish it could work this way. The time is near, tho...
How long will this live in relation to now, or to after they (try to) implement this bullshit? I would guess that some of those folks who hang out in #cracks all day doing custom cracks just for the hell of it will bust this shit open in about a day or so. Not to mention the hardcore senior warez group crackers, who will rip this apart in under a day.
at which point the RIAA will have lost out to a bunch of anonymous haxors who they can't just "muscle" around in court.
so they will have plenty of cash to blast these bastard's with....
Remember when the RIAA tried to stop the RIO? Boy, that suit went real far.....