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And now I forgot to hit the post anonymously button you american bastards.
I was just joking.;)
Yeah, I got your 18 cm right here, you US fucks
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Yeah, I posted anonymously, and yeah I made spelling mistakes, who gives a shit you god damn american fucks. Your prez was a fuckin alcholic who has said the most retarded quotes by any person of office in history.
As one wise comedian once said:
'You go this way we give you a beer and a hockey stick, you go that way they give you a TEK-9 and a crack pipe'
Yeah, a lot of people can't seem to grasp the control scheme. I'm not sure what it is, some mental spatial mapping that some people can't wrap their heads around. I've always thought of it like asteroids, rotate left/right and thrust. And given the style of game, you can't really do any other control scheme. They wanted more detailed graphics than any game engine/hardware could provide at the time. So they did prerendered backdrops at different angles, and once they went that way, the control scheme used is really the only way to go. This started with alone in the dark.
Now that we are approaching graphics capable of doing that stuff in real time, we might see an end to this but I hope not. I think this limitation of game engines bore a new style of gameplay. And games like Dinocrisis still used that style even though it was a 3d engine. And it was a little creative in using pans/zooms that can't be done in prerenedered stuff.
It used to drive me nuts the guys on electric playground always critizing this style of gameplay. As I said, for some reason, some people just can't grasp it. A friend of mine bought fear effect for the ps1, and was bumping into walls on every turn. I thought after awhile he'd get used to it but he couldn't. It seems it's something you can either play or can't.
Now, on nintendo locking in RE, as I mentioned, pc is usally excempt from these exclusive agreements, but I guess that's not the case here. I've always hated these agreements though. Let it come out on everything and let the best version win. Like in the days of genesis/snes. Sure, each had their own 1st party titles (mario for snes, sonic for gen) but 3rd party developers released on both and let the best version win. I wonder how lucritive these deals are to stop a developer from releasing on other platforms? Halo comes to mind here.
Anyways, I might just have to give in and grab a gamecube.
I'm a huge fan of this series and was surprised sony let a deal with capcom slip away. The previous games on the playstation were ported to pc. Any word on these being ported to something else? It never seemed like a good fit RE being on a cutsy game console. Now if nintendo locked up a few more mature titles and advertised that 'it's not just for the kiddies' it might have went somewhere. As it is, I don't think RE did too well on the gamecube.
So anyone got any word on whats the deal? Is capcom locked into gamecube with the RE series? And usually pc is excempt from such deals, but so far I haven't heard any word of a port.
The recording industry has launched a sweeping effort to identify and shut down individual song swappers, making good on recent threats to expand its legal battle against copyright theft.
Why not say copyright infringement? If I go to your house and steal your cd, call the cops. If I am over at your house and copy your cd, theft has not occurred. It's copyright infringement or commonly referred to as piracy. But the media and latest barrage of commericals would have you believe it's still theft.
I know everyone here know's this, but it's always bugged me.
And in true./ fashion, that's all I've read of the article.
I've been playing more with linux, compiled 2.4.20 to my system, but overlooking the changelog, I can't assess if there is anything I might find interesting.
Looking over the change I don't have a clue what these address.
Some of them you can kind of get an understanding of what it's probably for, but a lot of them, forget it.
It would be nice to know the big points of 21 over 20. Like this IO overhead thing, if it only applies to people with problems is one thing, but say 21 had a 10% gain in performance in that area across the board, more people get interested.
I installed a live based distro to my harddrive and DMA wasn't working by default, recompiled the kernel and it's much smoother now. Before I was experiencing slow downs and lockups. I tested with hdparm and before I was getting 3.04MB, now I'm getting 40MB.
Also, I didn't have to force dma with hdparm, once I compiled for my chipset DMA was detected. I only used hdparm for testing, as I've read that invoking dma and 32bit with hdparm can add overhead as well.
For people that have not used word perfect you don't know what your missing. This is an invaluable feature, and something that was standard and necessary when word processor's were not gui based. I remember back with c64 word processor's like paperclip and Compute's Gazette free open source word processor.
Anyways, once word processor's went gui, they drove me nuts, except for word perfect. This is a feature that would win over a lot of people.
This allows svcd to play on a lot of players that normally don't work with svcd. Basically you demux/remux the file and change the header to vcd but retain the svcd quality. Look on vcdhelp.com for instructions. It's easily done in tmpgenc.net.
But besides file storage, I'm not really excited about dvd video storage. MPEG2 is just too big. Think about this, commerical dual layer discs are 9 gigs. Single layer dvd r is roughly 4.5. At dvd compliant formats thats only about an hour of video. Never mind it takes forever to encode. So I encode this massive 4.5 gig beast of a file for 1 lousy hour? No thanks, I'm more excited about mpeg4 players, if they ever get off the ground.
Ffdshow is a filter for most mpeg4 codecs. Works with divx 4,5, xvid and other mpeg4 implementations. If all you do is playback, no codec required. Also if use alpha xvid codecs and it doesn't playback properly with ffdshow, you know that your vid isn't mpeg4 compliant.
Btw, I capture/encode shows all the time in windows and would like to do this in linux, but it seems really lacking.
First off, avisynth is an indispensable tool for dealing with video. What first attracted me to it was the best ivtc plugin by Donald Graft. This processes telecined sources back to their original film frame rate which I use on toons/film sources.
But the versatility goes way beyond that. Here's an animated menu I made for batman tas for a vcd I was working on, which btw I authored with videopack 5 to include animated menus, galleries with audio and chapter selection (I love pimpin that:) ).
Also worth mentioning is Tmpgenc, probably the best mpeg 1 encoder, which is free.
And not to shabby mpeg2 encoding. Also of course is virtualdub, which has come in handy on many occasions.
So where are the comparable linux equivalents? I couldn't find them. I'd love to see a write up on video encoding on linux, maybe I'll do one myself.
Or does it matter what portion of the song I sample.
I could see this down the road... Oh you wanna use that bit? Well, you gotta pay royalties to 20 other people.
Personally, I think this hurts creative works.
If it's totally blantant thats another matter. An example of this is White Lines. The original is liquid liquid by cavern. It's used in the movie 25th hour. They never received a dime or credit until Duran Duran redid whitelines.
When I think of creepy or something that resinanted with me for a bit it's from Resident Evil, but it's not the atmosphere or sounds it's one of the journals. To appreciate it, here it is in full:
Keeper's Diary May 9, 1998 At night, I played poker with Scott the guard, Alias, and Steve the Researcher. Steve was really lucky, but I think he was cheating. What a scumbag.
May 10, 1998 Today, a high-ranking researcher asked me to take care of a new monster. It looks like a gorilla without any skin. They told me to feed them live food. When I threw in a pig they were playing with it pulling off its legs and pulling out its guts before they actually ate it.
May 11, 1998 Around 5 'o clock this morning, Scott came in and woke me up suddenly. He was wearing a protection suit that looks a space suit. He told me to put one on as well. I heard that there was an accident in the basement lab. It's no wonder; those researchers never rest even at night.
May 12, 1998 I've been wearing this damn spacesuit since yesterday; my skin grows musty and feels very itchy. By way of revenge, I didn't feed those dogs today. Now I feel better.
May 13, 1998 I went to the medical room because my back is all swollen and itchy. They put a big bandage on my back and told me that I don't have to wear the spacesuit anymore. I guess I can sleep well tonight.
May 14, 1998 When I woke up this morning, I found another blister on my foot. I went to the dog's pen and ended up dragging my foot. They have been quiet since morning, which is unusual. I found that some of them had escaped. I'll be in real trouble if the higher ups find out.
May 15, 1998 Even though I didn't feel well, I decided to go see Nancy. It's my first day off in a long time, but I was stopped by the guard on the way out. They say the company has ordered that no one leave the grounds. I can't even make a phone call what kind of joke is this!?!
May 16, 1998 I heard a researcher that tried to escape was shot last night. My entire body feels burning and itchy at night. When I was scratching the swelling on my arm a lump of rotten flesh dropped off. What the hell is happening to me?
May 19, 1998 Fever gone but itchy. Hungry and eat doggy food. Itchy. Itchy. Scott came. Ugly face so killed him. Tasty.
Having access to something like steamboat mickey to watch,distribute and use snips of it in your own works is one thing. But when something eventually enters public domain, say the first appearance of a character, are people free to use that character in their own creative works?
My experience from my geforce 4 to my friends ATI radeon is that radeon's svideo out is much better than geforce's offerings but neither are that great. I also have a external scan converter (iMicro avermedia) which probably beats them both, but still has issues with filling the screen properly and vsync issues.
Are the manufacturers just being cheap on s-video out or is their some technical hurdle that makes it impossible to have a video out that can rival a dvd player?
I remember reading somewhere a few years ago that in their contracts, it restricts them from doing the character voices in public or on something televised. There was an episdoe of LA Law where Dan Castelleneta plays a character who works at an amusement park as Homer Simpson. Throughout the show you hear the Homer voice but only when he's in the costume. I thought that was a way of getting around their restriction in their contracts.
Anyone know if they actually had to get permission to do the voices for this ep of actors studio?
I know it was discussed the other day but things are bugging me about this.
Why the switch from a client/server setup?
Client/server has every advantage over for p2p except the obvious burden of the steep requirements to run a server. This doesn't seem to be a problem though as there are literally thousands of quake servers (never mind all the other fps).
When I am playing on a quake server my only concern connection wise is 'Can I send/receive packets fast enough to/from the server?' With P2P, I now have to have a good connection with each player, which obviously doesn't scale well. P2P is also only as strong as the weakest link. One player with a bad ping can hurt the experience for everyone. Nevermind the overhead of having to tell say 6 other computers where I am/what I'm doing in the gameworld versus telling one computer.
Id brought us the first popular online game experience with client/server and all the nice things like player prediction that made it possible to enjoy a fast paced game over a modem.
So what is Carmack thinkin?!
Is there some other advantage besides no need of a server that P2P has?
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And now I forgot to hit the post anonymously button you american bastards. I was just joking. ;)
Yeah, I posted anonymously, and yeah I made spelling mistakes, who gives a shit you god damn american fucks. Your prez was a fuckin alcholic who has said the most retarded quotes by any person of office in history. As one wise comedian once said: 'You go this way we give you a beer and a hockey stick, you go that way they give you a TEK-9 and a crack pipe'
Yeah, a lot of people can't seem to grasp the control scheme. I'm not sure what it is, some mental spatial mapping that some people can't wrap their heads around. I've always thought of it like asteroids, rotate left/right and thrust. And given the style of game, you can't really do any other control scheme. They wanted more detailed graphics than any game engine/hardware could provide at the time. So they did prerendered backdrops at different angles, and once they went that way, the control scheme used is really the only way to go. This started with alone in the dark.
Now that we are approaching graphics capable of doing that stuff in real time, we might see an end to this but I hope not. I think this limitation of game engines bore a new style of gameplay. And games like Dinocrisis still used that style even though it was a 3d engine. And it was a little creative in using pans/zooms that can't be done in prerenedered stuff.
It used to drive me nuts the guys on electric playground always critizing this style of gameplay. As I said, for some reason, some people just can't grasp it. A friend of mine bought fear effect for the ps1, and was bumping into walls on every turn. I thought after awhile he'd get used to it but he couldn't. It seems it's something you can either play or can't.
Now, on nintendo locking in RE, as I mentioned, pc is usally excempt from these exclusive agreements, but I guess that's not the case here. I've always hated these agreements though. Let it come out on everything and let the best version win. Like in the days of genesis/snes. Sure, each had their own 1st party titles (mario for snes, sonic for gen) but 3rd party developers released on both and let the best version win. I wonder how lucritive these deals are to stop a developer from releasing on other platforms? Halo comes to mind here.
Anyways, I might just have to give in and grab a gamecube.
I'm a huge fan of this series and was surprised sony let a deal with capcom slip away. The previous games on the playstation were ported to pc. Any word on these being ported to something else? It never seemed like a good fit RE being on a cutsy game console. Now if nintendo locked up a few more mature titles and advertised that 'it's not just for the kiddies' it might have went somewhere. As it is, I don't think RE did too well on the gamecube.
So anyone got any word on whats the deal? Is capcom locked into gamecube with the RE series? And usually pc is excempt from such deals, but so far I haven't heard any word of a port.
Yeah I realized that after I submitted. When will I learn to preview... And the ./ typo I blame on linux ;)
I know, bad joke. But C'mon.. Sonny Bono.
They hold roughly 200 megs. So the 16 meg version would be ideal for this. Take mame with you everywhere. :)
I've been playing more with linux, compiled 2.4.20 to my system, but overlooking the changelog, I can't assess if there is anything I might find interesting.
Looking over the change I don't have a clue what these address.
Ex.
Backout erroneous kiobuf dcache flush changes Cset exclude:
Uh, yeah.
Some of them you can kind of get an understanding of what it's probably for, but a lot of them, forget it.
It would be nice to know the big points of 21 over 20. Like this IO overhead thing, if it only applies to people with problems is one thing, but say 21 had a 10% gain in performance in that area across the board, more people get interested.
I installed a live based distro to my harddrive and DMA wasn't working by default, recompiled the kernel and it's much smoother now. Before I was experiencing slow downs and lockups. I tested with hdparm and before I was getting 3.04MB, now I'm getting 40MB.
Also, I didn't have to force dma with hdparm, once I compiled for my chipset DMA was detected. I only used hdparm for testing, as I've read that invoking dma and 32bit with hdparm can add overhead as well.
For people that have not used word perfect you don't know what your missing. This is an invaluable feature, and something that was standard and necessary when word processor's were not gui based. I remember back with c64 word processor's like paperclip and Compute's Gazette free open source word processor.
Anyways, once word processor's went gui, they drove me nuts, except for word perfect. This is a feature that would win over a lot of people.
This allows svcd to play on a lot of players that normally don't work with svcd. Basically you demux/remux the file and change the header to vcd but retain the svcd quality. Look on vcdhelp.com for instructions. It's easily done in tmpgenc.net. But besides file storage, I'm not really excited about dvd video storage. MPEG2 is just too big. Think about this, commerical dual layer discs are 9 gigs. Single layer dvd r is roughly 4.5. At dvd compliant formats thats only about an hour of video. Never mind it takes forever to encode. So I encode this massive 4.5 gig beast of a file for 1 lousy hour? No thanks, I'm more excited about mpeg4 players, if they ever get off the ground.
Get to see half a movie? Will my player freak out?
Sounds good. email and let me know what it's about. mcquaidREMOVE@eg.con.ca
Ffdshow is a filter for most mpeg4 codecs. Works with divx 4,5, xvid and other mpeg4 implementations. If all you do is playback, no codec required. Also if use alpha xvid codecs and it doesn't playback properly with ffdshow, you know that your vid isn't mpeg4 compliant. Btw, I capture/encode shows all the time in windows and would like to do this in linux, but it seems really lacking. First off, avisynth is an indispensable tool for dealing with video. What first attracted me to it was the best ivtc plugin by Donald Graft. This processes telecined sources back to their original film frame rate which I use on toons/film sources.
:) ).
But the versatility goes way beyond that. Here's an animated menu I made for batman tas for a vcd I was working on, which btw I authored with videopack 5 to include animated menus, galleries with audio and chapter selection (I love pimpin that
Also worth mentioning is Tmpgenc, probably the best mpeg 1 encoder, which is free. And not to shabby mpeg2 encoding. Also of course is virtualdub, which has come in handy on many occasions.
So where are the comparable linux equivalents? I couldn't find them. I'd love to see a write up on video encoding on linux, maybe I'll do one myself.
Or does it matter what portion of the song I sample.
I could see this down the road... Oh you wanna use that bit? Well, you gotta pay royalties to 20 other people.
Personally, I think this hurts creative works.
If it's totally blantant thats another matter.
An example of this is White Lines. The original is liquid liquid by cavern. It's used in the movie 25th hour. They never received a dime or credit until Duran Duran redid whitelines.
When I think of creepy or something that resinanted with me for a bit it's from Resident Evil, but it's not the atmosphere or sounds it's one of the journals. To appreciate it, here it is in full:
Keeper's Diary
May 9, 1998
At night, I played poker with Scott the guard, Alias, and Steve the Researcher. Steve was really lucky, but I think he was cheating. What a scumbag.
May 10, 1998
Today, a high-ranking researcher asked me to take care of a new monster. It looks like a gorilla without any skin. They told me to feed them live food. When I threw in a pig they were playing with it pulling off its legs and pulling out its guts before they actually ate it.
May 11, 1998
Around 5 'o clock this morning, Scott came in and woke me up suddenly. He was wearing a protection suit that looks a space suit. He told me to put one on as well. I heard that there was an accident in the basement lab. It's no wonder; those researchers never rest even at night.
May 12, 1998
I've been wearing this damn spacesuit since yesterday; my skin grows musty and feels very itchy. By way of revenge, I didn't feed those dogs today. Now I feel better.
May 13, 1998
I went to the medical room because my back is all swollen and itchy. They put a big bandage on my back and told me that I don't have to wear the spacesuit anymore. I guess I can sleep well tonight.
May 14, 1998
When I woke up this morning, I found another blister on my foot. I went to the dog's pen and ended up dragging my foot. They have been quiet since morning, which is unusual. I found that some of them had escaped. I'll be in real trouble if the higher ups find out.
May 15, 1998
Even though I didn't feel well, I decided to go see Nancy. It's my first day off in a long time, but I was stopped by the guard on the way out. They say the company has ordered that no one leave the grounds. I can't even make a phone call what kind of joke is this!?!
May 16, 1998
I heard a researcher that tried to escape was shot last night. My entire body feels burning and itchy at night. When I was scratching the swelling on my arm a lump of rotten flesh dropped off. What the hell is happening to me?
May 19, 1998
Fever gone but itchy. Hungry and eat doggy food. Itchy. Itchy. Scott came. Ugly face so killed him. Tasty.
May 20, 1998
Itchy.
Tasty.
Having access to something like steamboat mickey to watch,distribute and use snips of it in your own works is one thing. But when something eventually enters public domain, say the first appearance of a character, are people free to use that character in their own creative works?
Might not shoot him, but I get a little ticked that he's making his own omissions in transit.
First one I give an A, this one a C How does one convert the damn qt audio? I'd like to convert these to xvid.
My experience from my geforce 4 to my friends ATI radeon is that radeon's svideo out is much better than geforce's offerings but neither are that great. I also have a external scan converter (iMicro avermedia) which probably beats them both, but still has issues with filling the screen properly and vsync issues. Are the manufacturers just being cheap on s-video out or is their some technical hurdle that makes it impossible to have a video out that can rival a dvd player?
I remember reading somewhere a few years ago that in their contracts, it restricts them from doing the character voices in public or on something televised. There was an episdoe of LA Law where Dan Castelleneta plays a character who works at an amusement park as Homer Simpson. Throughout the show you hear the Homer voice but only when he's in the costume. I thought that was a way of getting around their restriction in their contracts.
Anyone know if they actually had to get permission to do the voices for this ep of actors studio?
A vic-20 for sure.
I know it was discussed the other day but things are bugging me about this.
Why the switch from a client/server setup?
Client/server has every advantage over for p2p except the obvious burden of the steep requirements to run a server. This doesn't seem to be a problem though as there are literally thousands of quake servers (never mind all the other fps).
When I am playing on a quake server my only concern connection wise is 'Can I send/receive packets fast enough to/from the server?' With P2P, I now have to have a good connection with each player, which obviously doesn't scale well. P2P is also only as strong as the weakest link. One player with a bad ping can hurt the experience for everyone. Nevermind the overhead of having to tell say 6 other computers where I am/what I'm doing in the gameworld versus telling one computer.
Id brought us the first popular online game experience with client/server and all the nice things like player prediction that made it possible to enjoy a fast paced game over a modem.
So what is Carmack thinkin?!
Is there some other advantage besides no need of a server that P2P has?
So if the copper was worth more again, you don't think the government should step in if they actually wanted to dig up the wire and sell it?