While it can be cute to "eschew" everything mainstream, really, you're just being contrary. Facebook is cool. It keeps your friends in the know about you and you in the know about your friends. Yeah, you give up "privacy", but any sort of sincere interaction with another person is going to entail that. Whether you're on the cell phone, typing out an email, or shooting the shit in person, you've got to reveal some of yourself. The perfectly private human being is an opaque and lonely one.
The latest cable company in my neck of the woods, AT&T, is offering digital cable here also. The whole setup is pretty cool. I can browse TV listings on screen (it even has a search!), and the 200+ channels are well . . . intresting. What I found most intriguing, however, is that on the back of the cable box is a small plug labeled "Data". The plug looks like the 9 pin serial ports I see on PCs except the gender is wrong. Does anyone have any idea what this does? (None of my cables fit it, so I can't really explore)
hey Linus, i thought you said the cool new innovation that somehow competes with Transmeta sucked. were you lying then or are you lying now? i'd really like to see you explain this one.
If something like the previous statement was posted to a thread, would it deserve to be marked down?
AC said: And I'm interested in nitro-glycerin and fertilizer bombs. Does that mean I shoudl be able to play with them?
Yes, it does. If everybody who wants to play with explosives, weapons, and other dangerous things do, then they won't live to reproduce and spread their idiocy through the gene pool. That's why I'm against gun control, but don't wish to own a gun.
Daveo! Oh daveo, where have you gone? Daveo speaks with his person in the first. Since when did this begin, oh daveo? Don't be discouraged, my son. Though they may fight your strange modes of speech, do not back away from the battle! Natty says that the third person will prevail over the blandness of the first.
Drivers wrongly came to the conclusion that moderators are just randomly selected, normal users like you and me.
You fail to see my son. Though your small mind, at least compared to my genetically enhanced one, may not grasp the situation, I do. A normal user of Slashdot is a fair (not of complexion mind you), competant (well, competant if they don't try to interact with the outside world), and generally intellegent individual(with some exceptions). When they are picked to be one of the few however, they become evil human beings. They lie, they bitch, some even start using NT in mission critical applications! Their lives become utterly centered around their incredible power, their power to control the great force know as/.
This can happend to anyone. Your best friend could suffer from Moderationous Powrus as we speak. Maybe you mother, your father, or even YOU. Symptoms Include:
Constant and maybe even excessive reading of Slashdot.
The growing of a short goatee, and maniacal laughing.
They're favorite topic of conversation changes to "The many possibilities of being dictator and wordly god of the Earth"
Please, if you notice these symptoms apearing in a family member, a loved one, or an aquatance. You must imediately lock them in a closet devoid of any meens through which they could communicate with the outside world. Including windows, phone jacks, cable lines, power outlets, and musical instruments. People generally recover after 3 days or when ever their moderation points expire. This is a serious problem, and should not be taken lightly.
Now THIS is the kind of bullish propoganda one would read on Mackido. Sure, you'll have to buy a new motherboard if you want the newest generation of CPU's. I guess if you wanted to, you could slap a new proccesor on your old board, turn that 133 mhz Pentium into a 233, but as you say, that doesn't give much of a performance increase. What you don't realize is, that unlike on Macs, PC motherboards don't have a whole hell of alot on them 'cept the bare esentials. Sure they have the chipset, your little pci/isa/agp slots, and usually IDE/floppy controlers. They don't include things like video,sound,3d hardware, ethernet, and whatever else you want on your computer. That meens you don't have to thrown away everything else when you upgrade your motherbaord. The motherboard is just another component in the system. It happends to have alot to do with your computers performance, so it's replaced alot.
How modularized PC's are is very important. It's probably their greatest strength. While macs are prone to the all-in-one problem. "Ooops, the sound in my iMac just died. If I want it working again, I'll have to trade in the whole unit." If such a thing happends to your PC, you can just pull out the old sound card and insert a new one. That's why Apple pisses me off. I'm just a kid and I can not afford a Macintosh. PERIOD. A PC offers me alot better price to performance ratio inside my price range. I can customize my system, and buy junky components where I don't care about their quality. "Hey, I could give a flying %&$# about sound quality and I'm on a budget. I'll just pull that sound card from a 386 and use it in my speed demon!" Where would Apple let me save money on a Macintosh by doing that? Beleive me, if I could put together a PPC machine, capable of running MacOS, for the same price of a PC, I'd be browsing this from LinuxPPC right now.
Sorry if I ranted on for a long time. It's just that I hate it when people spread misinformation(even if it's not directly lies).
For more indepth look: http://www.mackido.com/Hardware/USB20.html
I respond:
No. Mackido is not a good source of information. Haven't you notcied how Microsoft is always wrong and Apple is always right, at least according to that web site? That is just a bad sign, and a sure sign of propoganda/misinformation. I wouldn't trust anything I've read on Mackido
I can understand why Anonoymous Cowards are needed. Sometimes people don't want/can't have something attributed to them either for job safety or some other situation where saying the wrong things could get someone in trouble. I however don't understand why moderation has to be anonymous. I think alot of bad moderation would be discouraged if people knew that they could be judged by how they moderate. Just put their name on the top of the post or something.
Just what the voices on Echelon have been telling me
I don't know about you, but for the most part I find that upgrades are not cost-effective - you won't spend much more if you buy a whole new machine and sell your old one.
I responded:
I think that the above statement can be very true in the world of macs. Upgrades tend to be very expensive, in some cases more then it would cost to buy a new machine. This is where PC-comaptibles are cool. So many companies are making various components for them (mostly because of the popularity of windows) that upgrading can be inexpensive. PC's, at least one's put together by hobbiests, tend to be very modularized. If I don't like my current video I can pull the video card, put in a new one, and sell the old. It's the samething for sound, ethernet, and everything else I want to keep. I could even replace the entire motherboard, if I wanted to go that far, and put in a faster one. While keeping my older case, video, sound, ethernet, disk drive, whatever.
Apple was on the right track with thir processor daughterboards, those were cool. Apple however, never bought them to the low end. Can I buy a new upgradeable sub-500$ Macintosh around? That's what I got from building my pc when I couldn't afford to spend anything more then 300$ at the time of building! Power Mac's are just inaccesible to me. Some of these "mac evangelists" don't seem to understand that there IS a maximum price. It doesn't matter to me if for 900 bucks I can get a supercomputer capable of solving the problem of life, the universe, and everything in under a minute, if I don't have 900$ to spend.
It's -Sydney-.... not Sidney. Get off yer Linux box and do some geography.
I reply (in my big I know everything voice):
Okay, man! You got me, but not in the way you thought you did. I accidently wrote Australia, instead of Ohio. Yes, I meant the grand old city of Sidney, Ohio USA. You see, this Sidney place is kind of a hub for the Echelon network, and so the perfect place to spy in on it. I guess the message my spies came across this morning, about how all the Australians are really aliens, was still on my mind. Sorry!
By the way, I didn't even have to get off my Linux box to find that out! Neiner Neiner!
Deap in the heart of a nameless American investor's firm the following conversation was recorded by Agent 000 of British Intelligence. The message was sent across the world through the Echelon network, and picked up by my tranceiver in Sidney, Australia. Many an agent risked his life to bring this message to slashdot, so enjoy!
"Oh my f'ing lord, Larry, look at that."
"Uhhh, yeah Bill?"
"Ya know that Linux thingie we invested in?"
"Yeah, I remember that. It had a stupid name, Red Cap or something"
"Well I just read here that this other company , Mandrakesoft, is being invested in by this Axa joint"
"Uhh, so?"
"Uhh, so! This Mandrakesoft stole Linux from the Red Hat people, and you wouldn't beleive this .."
"What Bill?"
"Them danm bastard Red Hat people LET them steal it, they practically gave it away, if what I'm reading here is true!"
"That's kinda sucky isn't it?"
"Hell it's sucky! I'm pulling all my money from those bastards, before ya know it, they'll be giving their product away for free!"
"Well, if ya think it's a good idea Bill, I'll do it too"
"Them danm crazy's if ya ask me. I meen that's no way to run a business"
Not only are executions more expensive, but there is always the risk that you are executing someone that isn't guilty.
First of all, I don't see how executions could be more expensive. If someone is in a prision for a very long time, you have to pay for their food, medication and board. If you kill the guy, you don't have these problems.
Second of all, if you risk executing someone who isn't guilty, you also risk locking away someone who isn't guilty. If your system of justice can not sort out the guilty from the innocent, then it shouldn't be throwing people in jail, not to mention executing them. Of course in a society such as the United States, it would be impossible to devise such a legal system without infringing on that pesky bill of rights . ..
Actually, I crack Canadian jokes because they're sooo easy. I meen what isn't there to make fun of about Canada? In Canada it's cold and polar bears keep on eating residents. They have a stupid sport and they enter their own players into the olympics! How snotty is that? Talking about snotty, they won't even allow themselves to be admitted as the 51st state! They would rather stay a wholly own subsidary of the state of New York! God do I hate those totally out of touch and uneducated Canadians.
I once read that Macos 8 would run on chrp/prep boxes that didn't have Apple roms, though of course, in an unsupported fashion. When I say heard, I don't meen the early Apple promises, but rather users saying so after system 8 was released. Has anyone ever seen this or have anything else to back it up? I've found a single article about it, but at the time of this writing the server appears to be down. here. I also remember hearing it on Macosrumors way back when, but I'm not sure how reliable Macosrumors is . ..
I'm really curious about this, I've kinda had it on the top of my head for a while(yes I don't have much to do!) So if you could tell me anything I don't know, I'd be happy.
That link is the most usefull thing to come from my post. Wow. I've gotta start saying blam in my quake deathmatches. Blam! Blam!BLAM! blam! Blam! blam blam blam!!!!!!!!
I downloaded the demo yesterday when Happypenguin gave word of it, but now that I finally get around to running it, it only say blam! I'm running a glibc 2.1 system, Redhat 6. The readme doesn't say anything about the meening of Blam! Anyways generally games do more then print out a 4 letter word right? I meen this isn't American television! What does blam meen? I like the word blam blamblam!
blam!!!!!!!!
Is blam supposed to be a fun word? I think it's a fun word.
You can get a Windows CE machine (And Windows too for that matter) to talk to a Linux box, just set up a ppp connection which reads the string "CLIENT/SERVER" from the device, and writes the string "SERVER", then start ppp.
I write in response:
shudder I spent 2 days trying to get a Windows NT 3.51 box and my Linux box talking to each other over a null modem cable. The same cable and same Linux box were fine connecting with 2 other operating system(Macos and Linux). I knew about the client/server/bull but I still never got it working. They just wouldn't talk right. That experience showed me what is truely horrible about Windows. The Windows NT box wanted me to specify whether it was the "server" or the "client". I tried to tell it that PPP is a peer to peer protocal and that there is no "server" or "client", but it wouldn't listen (: It's these strange spins on using the standard protocals that makes it hard or impsosible to make a Windows box work with other systems, but work automagicaly with its own breed.
So try this, but be prepared for a major headache. Well that was my rant for today, I hope you people enjoyed it.
You know, you might just be right. I happend to have recently graduated the 8th grade and so I've experienced first hand how teachers "use" the internet. It basicly ends up as wasted classtime. The class, starting from a page determined by the teacher, goes on an "easter egg hunt" for information about a topic. We write down the answers to the questions on the little pieces of paper and pretend like we're part of a high-tech generation. Also, we usually don't get any homework from that class for the day.
If a lecture had been given instead, alot more information would have probably been conveyed(Unless of course I fell asleep, but that's another problem). So putting the 'net in the public schools won't make the children smart, but it sure makes them politicians look like they care, don't it?
Well I'm proud to say that I marked this post up as insightfull, . . . twice . . . Yes that is right, I wasted two moderation points on this little bugger. (It's safe for me to say this stuff as I'm no longer a moderator, I ran out of points).
> I have played the new Quake II for N64. How >close is this to the PC version any improvements? Quake II for an N64, ewwwwwww. The real beauty of the quake games is their expandibility, which is something you can't do on a console. For instance, Team Fortress is an addon to Quake I. It adds diffrent classes and team play to quake. Best of all the addon is available for free(as in beer), so one can amuse him self with quake for years just by playing with all the addons. There is a huge amount of internet quake playing so you can always find someone or 31 ones, to play with. Consoles can't do that either ): Did you say that your N64 overheats? That's probably a bad sign, mine doesn't have any heat problems.
Well, if you saw q3test running from software opengl you'd agree with the statement of 3d card required. Measuring the speed of a game in spf (seconds per frame) is no fun.
Actually this is a pretty intresting game. I played a demo-test-beta thingie of it when I was still going into windows once in a while and I thought it was pretty cool. The idea was you go around a city and "talk" to various ai loosers. They give you hints and you use those hints to find out what you're supposed to do. Everybody can be killed, even the people who will help you. People will get really mad and maybe attack you if you have your gun out, so you have to hide it. The game allows you to collect money which can be spent on thugs to join your "gang" or new weapons for your self. So there is some decisions in this game, it's not all killing stuff.
Anyways I think it's pretty cool to get another game for linux. Unfortunately, money is not someting I have any of, ahhh the life of a student, so I won't be buying it ): Of course this game isn't nearly as good as quakeworld/TF, afterall Team Fortress is the greatest game of all time.
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While it can be cute to "eschew" everything mainstream, really, you're just being contrary. Facebook is cool. It keeps your friends in the know about you and you in the know about your friends. Yeah, you give up "privacy", but any sort of sincere interaction with another person is going to entail that. Whether you're on the cell phone, typing out an email, or shooting the shit in person, you've got to reveal some of yourself. The perfectly private human being is an opaque and lonely one.
The latest cable company in my neck of the woods, AT&T, is offering digital cable here also. The whole setup is pretty cool. I can browse TV listings on screen (it even has a search!), and the 200+ channels are well . . . intresting. What I found most intriguing, however, is that on the back of the cable box is a small plug labeled "Data". The plug looks like the 9 pin serial ports I see on PCs except the gender is wrong. Does anyone have any idea what this does? (None of my cables fit it, so I can't really explore)
hey Linus, i thought you said the cool new innovation that somehow competes with Transmeta sucked. were you lying then or are you lying now? i'd really like to see you explain this one.
If something like the previous statement was posted to a thread, would it deserve to be marked down?
AC said: And I'm interested in nitro-glycerin and fertilizer bombs. Does that mean I shoudl be able to play with them?
Yes, it does. If everybody who wants to play with explosives, weapons, and other dangerous things do, then they won't live to reproduce and spread their idiocy through the gene pool. That's why I'm against gun control, but don't wish to own a gun.
Hey, a hurricane is coming? Wait a second, I think I know what that meens . . . . . . no school!!! Yippeee!
Daveo! Oh daveo, where have you gone? Daveo speaks with his person in the first. Since when did this begin, oh daveo? Don't be discouraged, my son. Though they may fight your strange modes of speech, do not back away from the battle! Natty says that the third person will prevail over the blandness of the first.
Drivers wrongly came to the conclusion that moderators are just randomly selected, normal users like you and me.
You fail to see my son. Though your small mind, at least compared to my genetically enhanced one, may not grasp the situation, I do. A normal user of Slashdot is a fair (not of complexion mind you), competant (well, competant if they don't try to interact with the outside world), and generally intellegent individual(with some exceptions). When they are picked to be one of the few however, they become evil human beings. They lie, they bitch, some even start using NT in mission critical applications! Their lives become utterly centered around their incredible power, their power to control the great force know as /.
This can happend to anyone. Your best friend could suffer from Moderationous Powrus as we speak. Maybe you mother, your father, or even YOU. Symptoms Include:
Constant and maybe even excessive reading of Slashdot.
The growing of a short goatee, and maniacal laughing.
They're favorite topic of conversation changes to "The many possibilities of being dictator and wordly god of the Earth"
Please, if you notice these symptoms apearing in a family member, a loved one, or an aquatance. You must imediately lock them in a closet devoid of any meens through which they could communicate with the outside world. Including windows, phone jacks, cable lines, power outlets, and musical instruments. People generally recover after 3 days or when ever their moderation points expire. This is a serious problem, and should not be taken lightly.
Now THIS is the kind of bullish propoganda one would read on Mackido. Sure, you'll have to buy a new motherboard if you want the newest generation of CPU's. I guess if you wanted to, you could slap a new proccesor on your old board, turn that 133 mhz Pentium into a 233, but as you say, that doesn't give much of a performance increase. What you don't realize is, that unlike on Macs, PC motherboards don't have a whole hell of alot on them 'cept the bare esentials. Sure they have the chipset, your little pci/isa/agp slots, and usually IDE/floppy controlers. They don't include things like video,sound,3d hardware, ethernet, and whatever else you want on your computer. That meens you don't have to thrown away everything else when you upgrade your motherbaord. The motherboard is just another component in the system. It happends to have alot to do with your computers performance, so it's replaced alot.
How modularized PC's are is very important. It's probably their greatest strength. While macs are prone to the all-in-one problem. "Ooops, the sound in my iMac just died. If I want it working again, I'll have to trade in the whole unit." If such a thing happends to your PC, you can just pull out the old sound card and insert a new one. That's why Apple pisses me off. I'm just a kid and I can not afford a Macintosh. PERIOD. A PC offers me alot better price to performance ratio inside my price range. I can customize my system, and buy junky components where I don't care about their quality. "Hey, I could give a flying %&$# about sound quality and I'm on a budget. I'll just pull that sound card from a 386 and use it in my speed demon!" Where would Apple let me save money on a Macintosh by doing that? Beleive me, if I could put together a PPC machine, capable of running MacOS, for the same price of a PC, I'd be browsing this from LinuxPPC right now.
Sorry if I ranted on for a long time. It's just that I hate it when people spread misinformation(even if it's not directly lies).
Pfhor said:
For more indepth look: http://www.mackido.com/Hardware/USB20.html
I respond:
No. Mackido is not a good source of information. Haven't you notcied how Microsoft is always wrong and Apple is always right, at least according to that web site? That is just a bad sign, and a sure sign of propoganda/misinformation. I wouldn't trust anything I've read on Mackido
I can understand why Anonoymous Cowards are needed. Sometimes people don't want/can't have something attributed to them either for job safety or some other situation where saying the wrong things could get someone in trouble. I however don't understand why moderation has to be anonymous. I think alot of bad moderation would be discouraged if people knew that they could be judged by how they moderate. Just put their name on the top of the post or something.
Just what the voices on Echelon have been telling me
I don't know about you, but for the most part I find that upgrades are not cost-effective - you won't spend much more if you buy a whole new machine and sell your old one.
I responded:I think that the above statement can be very true in the world of macs. Upgrades tend to be very expensive, in some cases more then it would cost to buy a new machine. This is where PC-comaptibles are cool. So many companies are making various components for them (mostly because of the popularity of windows) that upgrading can be inexpensive. PC's, at least one's put together by hobbiests, tend to be very modularized. If I don't like my current video I can pull the video card, put in a new one, and sell the old. It's the samething for sound, ethernet, and everything else I want to keep. I could even replace the entire motherboard, if I wanted to go that far, and put in a faster one. While keeping my older case, video, sound, ethernet, disk drive, whatever.
Apple was on the right track with thir processor daughterboards, those were cool. Apple however, never bought them to the low end. Can I buy a new upgradeable sub-500$ Macintosh around? That's what I got from building my pc when I couldn't afford to spend anything more then 300$ at the time of building! Power Mac's are just inaccesible to me. Some of these "mac evangelists" don't seem to understand that there IS a maximum price. It doesn't matter to me if for 900 bucks I can get a supercomputer capable of solving the problem of life, the universe, and everything in under a minute, if I don't have 900$ to spend.
Anonymous Coward said:
It's -Sydney-.... not Sidney. Get off yer Linux box and do some geography.
I reply (in my big I know everything voice):
Okay, man! You got me, but not in the way you thought you did. I accidently wrote Australia, instead of Ohio. Yes, I meant the grand old city of Sidney, Ohio USA. You see, this Sidney place is kind of a hub for the Echelon network, and so the perfect place to spy in on it. I guess the message my spies came across this morning, about how all the Australians are really aliens, was still on my mind. Sorry!
By the way, I didn't even have to get off my Linux box to find that out! Neiner Neiner!
Deap in the heart of a nameless American investor's firm the following conversation was recorded by Agent 000 of British Intelligence. The message was sent across the world through the Echelon network, and picked up by my tranceiver in Sidney, Australia. Many an agent risked his life to bring this message to slashdot, so enjoy!
"Oh my f'ing lord, Larry, look at that."
"Uhhh, yeah Bill?"
"Ya know that Linux thingie we invested in?"
"Yeah, I remember that. It had a stupid name, Red Cap or something"
"Well I just read here that this other company , Mandrakesoft, is being invested in by this Axa joint"
"Uhh, so?"
"Uhh, so! This Mandrakesoft stole Linux from the Red Hat people, and you wouldn't beleive this . ."
"What Bill?"
"Them danm bastard Red Hat people LET them steal it, they practically gave it away, if what I'm reading here is true!"
"That's kinda sucky isn't it?"
"Hell it's sucky! I'm pulling all my money from those bastards, before ya know it, they'll be giving their product away for free!"
"Well, if ya think it's a good idea Bill, I'll do it too"
"Them danm crazy's if ya ask me. I meen that's no way to run a business"
First of all, I don't see how executions could be more expensive. If someone is in a prision for a very long time, you have to pay for their food, medication and board. If you kill the guy, you don't have these problems.
Second of all, if you risk executing someone who isn't guilty, you also risk locking away someone who isn't guilty. If your system of justice can not sort out the guilty from the innocent, then it shouldn't be throwing people in jail, not to mention executing them. Of course in a society such as the United States, it would be impossible to devise such a legal system without infringing on that pesky bill of rights . . .
Actually, I crack Canadian jokes because they're sooo easy. I meen what isn't there to make fun of about Canada? In Canada it's cold and polar bears keep on eating residents. They have a stupid sport and they enter their own players into the olympics! How snotty is that? Talking about snotty, they won't even allow themselves to be admitted as the 51st state! They would rather stay a wholly own subsidary of the state of New York! God do I hate those totally out of touch and uneducated Canadians.
I once read that Macos 8 would run on chrp/prep boxes that didn't have Apple roms, though of course, in an unsupported fashion. When I say heard, I don't meen the early Apple promises, but rather users saying so after system 8 was released. Has anyone ever seen this or have anything else to back it up? I've found a single article about it, but at the time of this writing the server appears to be down. here. I also remember hearing it on Macosrumors way back when, but I'm not sure how reliable Macosrumors is . . .
I'm really curious about this, I've kinda had it on the top of my head for a while(yes I don't have much to do!) So if you could tell me anything I don't know, I'd be happy.
That link is the most usefull thing to come from my post. Wow. I've gotta start saying blam in my quake deathmatches. Blam! Blam! BLAM! blam! Blam! blam blam blam!!!!!!!!
God is that a cool word
I downloaded the demo yesterday when Happypenguin gave word of it, but now that I finally get around to running it, it only say blam! I'm running a glibc 2.1 system, Redhat 6. The readme doesn't say anything about the meening of Blam! Anyways generally games do more then print out a 4 letter word right? I meen this isn't American television! What does blam meen? I like the word blam blam blam!
Is blam supposed to be a fun word? I think it's a fun word.
Anoymous Coward worte:
You can get a Windows CE machine (And Windows too for that matter) to talk to a Linux box, just set up a ppp connection which reads the string "CLIENT/SERVER" from the device, and writes the string "SERVER", then start ppp.
I write in response:
shudder I spent 2 days trying to get a Windows NT 3.51 box and my Linux box talking to each other over a null modem cable. The same cable and same Linux box were fine connecting with 2 other operating system(Macos and Linux). I knew about the client/server/bull but I still never got it working. They just wouldn't talk right. That experience showed me what is truely horrible about Windows. The Windows NT box wanted me to specify whether it was the "server" or the "client". I tried to tell it that PPP is a peer to peer protocal and that there is no "server" or "client", but it wouldn't listen (: It's these strange spins on using the standard protocals that makes it hard or impsosible to make a Windows box work with other systems, but work automagicaly with its own breed.
So try this, but be prepared for a major headache. Well that was my rant for today, I hope you people enjoyed it.
You know, you might just be right. I happend to have recently graduated the 8th grade and so I've experienced first hand how teachers "use" the internet. It basicly ends up as wasted classtime. The class, starting from a page determined by the teacher, goes on an "easter egg hunt" for information about a topic. We write down the answers to the questions on the little pieces of paper and pretend like we're part of a high-tech generation. Also, we usually don't get any homework from that class for the day.
If a lecture had been given instead, alot more information would have probably been conveyed(Unless of course I fell asleep, but that's another problem). So putting the 'net in the public schools won't make the children smart, but it sure makes them politicians look like they care, don't it?
Well I'm proud to say that I marked this post up as insightfull, . . . twice . . . Yes that is right, I wasted two moderation points on this little bugger. (It's safe for me to say this stuff as I'm no longer a moderator, I ran out of points).
I've had my moment in the spot light, thank you.
> I have played the new Quake II for N64. How
>close is this to the PC version any improvements?
Quake II for an N64, ewwwwwww. The real beauty of the quake games is their expandibility, which is something you can't do on a console. For instance, Team Fortress is an addon to Quake I. It adds diffrent classes and team play to quake. Best of all the addon is available for free(as in beer), so one can amuse him self with quake for years just by playing with all the addons. There is a huge amount of internet quake playing so you can always find someone or 31 ones, to play with. Consoles can't do that either ): Did you say that your N64 overheats? That's probably a bad sign, mine doesn't have any heat problems.
Well, if you saw q3test running from software opengl you'd agree with the statement of 3d card required. Measuring the speed of a game in spf (seconds per frame) is no fun.
Actually this is a pretty intresting game. I played a demo-test-beta thingie of it when I was still going into windows once in a while and I thought it was pretty cool. The idea was you go around a city and "talk" to various ai loosers. They give you hints and you use those hints to find out what you're supposed to do. Everybody can be killed, even the people who will help you. People will get really mad and maybe attack you if you have your gun out, so you have to hide it. The game allows you to collect money which can be spent on thugs to join your "gang" or new weapons for your self. So there is some decisions in this game, it's not all killing stuff.
Anyways I think it's pretty cool to get another game for linux. Unfortunately, money is not someting I have any of, ahhh the life of a student, so I won't be buying it ): Of course this game isn't nearly as good as quakeworld/TF, afterall Team Fortress is the greatest game of all time.
>Wow, that will make a nice gaming machine. I wonder how soon it'll be before we get photorealistic FPS.
Do we really want photorealistic quake? I meen if I saw a photorealistic head exploding, I think I'd be sick. Ick.