Doom was always played on a flat model, with height effectively emulated... You couldn't look up or down, and if you fired in the direction of a monster that was above you, the game automatically fired upwards to hit it.
The mouse lets you easily aim up and down as well as left and right, so it makes a very good tool for the job. It's designed to point, so you can easily point it at the target. Using a keyboard, or even an analog control pad is much harder because you can't simply move it to the right position and stop, it's much harder to be accurate and virtually impossible to be accurate and fast.
Games should retain the ability to play independent of the manufacturer supplied networks...
You know, so people can run their own private servers, join third party servers and engage in lan play. I've noticed a lot of console games don't even allow lan play anymore, we used to get a large group of friends together to play network games years ago, but that's becoming difficult these days.
What if you have an xbox, and your friend already has a ps3... It means you can't play against each other until one of you buys another console and a new copy of the game, which could go either way. But more likely, you just wouldn't bother, so it has just as much chance of making people buy a competing console (which they may find they prefer and thus buy more games for) or simply not making a purchase at all.
Games like quake would handle cross platform play just fine, i used to play on the amiga, sgi irix, linux, windows and mac without issues...
All of these systems are using TCP/IP to communicate, and the consoles don't even have the excuse of endian issues (since they are all PPC) or bitness issues.
I have found open source games are generally very good at cross platform play, tho early versions often have issues when played on different endian or bitness architectures.
A large company will probably flatten the laptop and install it's corporate image on the machine... You would need some form of hardware keylogger, and then some method of getting the logs out of the machine. Not impossible, but not all that simple either. You could potentially wire the keylogger up to a cellular data card and have it call out with the details periodically.
That's why you can use a stripped down linux, which will already support most of those things.
SATA has a standard - AHCI, easy to support USB has standards, OHCI/UHCI for USB1 and EHCI for USB2, so easily supported USB-storage for the CD or whatever other USB attached media you have.. USB HID has standards too...
There used to be standards for sound and video (vga/vesa, soundblaster) that various manufacturers followed, but that's not the case these days. Having totally nonstandard hardware and relying on driver layers for compatibility is just another method of lock-in tho.
It's an A4000 with a cyberstorm MK2 68060 card, which has 4 simm slots capable of holding 32mb modules, i have 3x 32mb and 1x 16mb fitted. Then there is the 2mb of chip ram on the motherboard... It's also possible to fit an additional 16Mb of ram on the motherboard, but that will be much slower than the memory on the cyberstorm board.
I believe the A4000 processor slot is limited to addressing 128Mb, and that there are processor cards for the A1200 system which support even more than this.
It's also theoretically) possible to add up to 512mb more ram to an A4000 using Zorro-3 cards, tho this will also be quite slow.
It only annoys you because MS has intentionally not provided the capability, in an attempt to force people onto their proprietary formats.
First, you don't need to install openoffice/staroffice, there are plenty of other programs which will open ODF files, most of which are available for free.
Second, OpenOffice for windows is 148MB, last i checked the MS equivalent was much bigger, cannot be downloaded for free and is only available for 2 platforms.
Third, every modern OS except windows supports ODF to some level out of the box (osx with the preview function in finder and textedit for example).
Basically, MS is screwing you and using you as a pawn to screw others, and rather than seeing what's going on and trying to stand up for yourself, your just sucking it up.
No, they just have a database of people without a tv licence, and then they send threatening letters and occasionally turn up to do random inspections. If they find any equipment capable of receiving a tv signal in your house they will bust you for it, they don't have to catch you in the act of using it. Also, anyone who sells tv receiving equipment in the uk is required to hand over the names and addresses of anyone who buys it.
I second that... As a european who sometimes visits the US on business, my personal phone roams on AT&T and my work phone roams on t-mobile (since it's supplied by a european version of tmobile)... AT&T always seems to have a signal and reasonable quality service, yet i've seen the tmobile phone lose signal or break up calls in manhattan of all places.
The video playback formats can be added to with software updates, there are ports of vlc to both of these phones, and with similar spec processors they should have about the same performance for playing video.
You may not have to install Apple software, you have to install Microsoft software instead, something many of us are also unwilling to do...
But i do agree with you, being forced to install/use something you don't want is not very pleasant, hopefully these linux based phones will follow open standards.
By not supporting it... Both Windows and OSX include rudimentary document editors by default (wordpad / textedit), the OSX one supports ODT while the windows one only supports their proprietary doc format.
MS not supporting something out of the box causes significant harm to or even destroys a format. Also the OS is used as leverage to push other applications, which are often designed to cause even greater levels of lockin.
Take filesystems, windows only supports proprietary microsoft filesystems (with the exception of iso9660/ufs in certain cases, and they didn't implement this by choice), whereas any other os will support various other things aswell (osx supports ufs for what its worth). Because of this, it looks like makers of various devices will be forced to license a proprietary filesystem from microsoft thus increasing the cost of the devices and impeding use of other platforms. If windows supported an open standard filesystem, everyone could use that royalty free so everyone would benefit.
Yes, you are free to choose and i'm sure the FSF would support your choice in principle.. However by choosing windows, you are choosing a proprietary product that seeks to take away that freedom of choice from other people.
Were you to run proprietary software that interoperated perfectly using open standards then your choice would not affect others and everyone would be happy.
I couldn't care less what other people use, but i do hate it when someone sends me files in proprietary formats because that reduces my level of freedom.
While i don't condone such actions in the slightest, it is society that has made you think of it as an unpleasant act...
In the absence of an upbringing telling you it's bad, as child you'd probably not really understand what was going on, and although the situation may be physically painful, children endure physical pain of various forms anyway.
Unless educated otherwise, a child will just see the act as a physical pain like any other, it is society which adds emotional stress to the situation and ultimately makes it worse.
No, the cheaper copy actually cost more to develop, because having developed all the features for the expensive version they then had to do additional work to disable them in the cheaper versions.
Ahh, the old copy your OS to ram trick... I used to do that on the Amiga, i had 18MB of ram and never managed to use it, even with 8MB of it being used as a ramdisk (RAD: not RAM:).
I still have that Amiga, and another one with 112MB...
It is possible to use windows 2003 as a workstation, all of the stuff (directx, sound, video etc) necessary to support typical desktop/gaming use is right there, and it often performs better than xp for gaming. 2003 has pae support fully enabled, and will use more than 4gb of ram on a 32bit install, and supports the same drivers as xp.
On the various systems i've tried it with, i have encountered no problems installing appropriate video/audio drivers and using 2003 as a gaming platform. The most recent box i've done this on was a Q6600 with 8gb of ram, everything works just fine.
There is only one mention of nVidia in the article, which states that he was unable to perform several tests until he updated his video driver, after which the tests worked.
It doesn't say what the problem with the original driver was, just that the later version fixed it. As i understand it, early versions of vista were dogged with driver problems, particularly video drivers, it's highly likely that his original driver would have caused problems with or without PAE.
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Doom was always played on a flat model, with height effectively emulated...
You couldn't look up or down, and if you fired in the direction of a monster that was above you, the game automatically fired upwards to hit it.
The mouse lets you easily aim up and down as well as left and right, so it makes a very good tool for the job. It's designed to point, so you can easily point it at the target. Using a keyboard, or even an analog control pad is much harder because you can't simply move it to the right position and stop, it's much harder to be accurate and virtually impossible to be accurate and fast.
Games should retain the ability to play independent of the manufacturer supplied networks...
You know, so people can run their own private servers, join third party servers and engage in lan play. I've noticed a lot of console games don't even allow lan play anymore, we used to get a large group of friends together to play network games years ago, but that's becoming difficult these days.
What if you have an xbox, and your friend already has a ps3...
It means you can't play against each other until one of you buys another console and a new copy of the game, which could go either way. But more likely, you just wouldn't bother, so it has just as much chance of making people buy a competing console (which they may find they prefer and thus buy more games for) or simply not making a purchase at all.
Makes you wonder how they fuck it up so badly...
Games like quake would handle cross platform play just fine, i used to play on the amiga, sgi irix, linux, windows and mac without issues...
All of these systems are using TCP/IP to communicate, and the consoles don't even have the excuse of endian issues (since they are all PPC) or bitness issues.
I have found open source games are generally very good at cross platform play, tho early versions often have issues when played on different endian or bitness architectures.
A large company will probably flatten the laptop and install it's corporate image on the machine...
You would need some form of hardware keylogger, and then some method of getting the logs out of the machine. Not impossible, but not all that simple either. You could potentially wire the keylogger up to a cellular data card and have it call out with the details periodically.
That's why you can use a stripped down linux, which will already support most of those things.
SATA has a standard - AHCI, easy to support
USB has standards, OHCI/UHCI for USB1 and EHCI for USB2, so easily supported
USB-storage for the CD or whatever other USB attached media you have..
USB HID has standards too...
There used to be standards for sound and video (vga/vesa, soundblaster) that various manufacturers followed, but that's not the case these days. Having totally nonstandard hardware and relying on driver layers for compatibility is just another method of lock-in tho.
Gconf is optional.. I tend to avoid it for that reason.
It's an A4000 with a cyberstorm MK2 68060 card, which has 4 simm slots capable of holding 32mb modules, i have 3x 32mb and 1x 16mb fitted.
Then there is the 2mb of chip ram on the motherboard...
It's also possible to fit an additional 16Mb of ram on the motherboard, but that will be much slower than the memory on the cyberstorm board.
I believe the A4000 processor slot is limited to addressing 128Mb, and that there are processor cards for the A1200 system which support even more than this.
It's also theoretically) possible to add up to 512mb more ram to an A4000 using Zorro-3 cards, tho this will also be quite slow.
It only annoys you because MS has intentionally not provided the capability, in an attempt to force people onto their proprietary formats.
First, you don't need to install openoffice/staroffice, there are plenty of other programs which will open ODF files, most of which are available for free.
Second, OpenOffice for windows is 148MB, last i checked the MS equivalent was much bigger, cannot be downloaded for free and is only available for 2 platforms.
Third, every modern OS except windows supports ODF to some level out of the box (osx with the preview function in finder and textedit for example).
Basically, MS is screwing you and using you as a pawn to screw others, and rather than seeing what's going on and trying to stand up for yourself, your just sucking it up.
The world doesn't work like that...
You have to play the game and achieve a position of power before you can change anything.
If you don't play the game, stick to your principles you and the few others who join you will easily get beaten down by those willing to play dirty.
No, they just have a database of people without a tv licence, and then they send threatening letters and occasionally turn up to do random inspections.
If they find any equipment capable of receiving a tv signal in your house they will bust you for it, they don't have to catch you in the act of using it.
Also, anyone who sells tv receiving equipment in the uk is required to hand over the names and addresses of anyone who buys it.
I second that...
As a european who sometimes visits the US on business, my personal phone roams on AT&T and my work phone roams on t-mobile (since it's supplied by a european version of tmobile)...
AT&T always seems to have a signal and reasonable quality service, yet i've seen the tmobile phone lose signal or break up calls in manhattan of all places.
The video playback formats can be added to with software updates, there are ports of vlc to both of these phones, and with similar spec processors they should have about the same performance for playing video.
You may not have to install Apple software, you have to install Microsoft software instead, something many of us are also unwilling to do...
But i do agree with you, being forced to install/use something you don't want is not very pleasant, hopefully these linux based phones will follow open standards.
What's "office communicator mobile" ?
The iphone talks to exchange just fine, and it has rdp (and vnc) clients available for it..
If you want to beat a dirty player, you have to play dirty yourself.
You may not like it, but there's not really any way round it.
By not supporting it...
Both Windows and OSX include rudimentary document editors by default (wordpad / textedit), the OSX one supports ODT while the windows one only supports their proprietary doc format.
MS not supporting something out of the box causes significant harm to or even destroys a format. Also the OS is used as leverage to push other applications, which are often designed to cause even greater levels of lockin.
Take filesystems, windows only supports proprietary microsoft filesystems (with the exception of iso9660/ufs in certain cases, and they didn't implement this by choice), whereas any other os will support various other things aswell (osx supports ufs for what its worth). Because of this, it looks like makers of various devices will be forced to license a proprietary filesystem from microsoft thus increasing the cost of the devices and impeding use of other platforms. If windows supported an open standard filesystem, everyone could use that royalty free so everyone would benefit.
Yes, you are free to choose and i'm sure the FSF would support your choice in principle..
However by choosing windows, you are choosing a proprietary product that seeks to take away that freedom of choice from other people.
Were you to run proprietary software that interoperated perfectly using open standards then your choice would not affect others and everyone would be happy.
I couldn't care less what other people use, but i do hate it when someone sends me files in proprietary formats because that reduces my level of freedom.
While i don't condone such actions in the slightest, it is society that has made you think of it as an unpleasant act...
In the absence of an upbringing telling you it's bad, as child you'd probably not really understand what was going on, and although the situation may be physically painful, children endure physical pain of various forms anyway.
Unless educated otherwise, a child will just see the act as a physical pain like any other, it is society which adds emotional stress to the situation and ultimately makes it worse.
You also have to consider nature...
Once people are capable of reproducing then surely nature has deemed that person ready to have sex...
Obviously sex before being able to reproduce serves no natural purpose.
No, the cheaper copy actually cost more to develop, because having developed all the features for the expensive version they then had to do additional work to disable them in the cheaper versions.
Unless your code is kernel drivers, you will be able to run a 64bit kernel with 32bit userland apps...
On the other hand, 64bit processors have been around since the early 90s, there really is no excuse for code that isn't 64bit clean.
Ahh, the old copy your OS to ram trick...
I used to do that on the Amiga, i had 18MB of ram and never managed to use it, even with 8MB of it being used as a ramdisk (RAD: not RAM:).
I still have that Amiga, and another one with 112MB...
It is possible to use windows 2003 as a workstation, all of the stuff (directx, sound, video etc) necessary to support typical desktop/gaming use is right there, and it often performs better than xp for gaming. 2003 has pae support fully enabled, and will use more than 4gb of ram on a 32bit install, and supports the same drivers as xp.
On the various systems i've tried it with, i have encountered no problems installing appropriate video/audio drivers and using 2003 as a gaming platform. The most recent box i've done this on was a Q6600 with 8gb of ram, everything works just fine.
There is only one mention of nVidia in the article, which states that he was unable to perform several tests until he updated his video driver, after which the tests worked.
It doesn't say what the problem with the original driver was, just that the later version fixed it. As i understand it, early versions of vista were dogged with driver problems, particularly video drivers, it's highly likely that his original driver would have caused problems with or without PAE.