When Captain Picard was assimilated by the Borg, they renamed him Locutus.
Considering that the icon of Gates that this site uses is just a picture of Locutus with Stewart's face removed and replaced by Bill, I'm surprised you didn't know.
Re:"In it's day"? How about today?
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Ultima 7 in Windows?
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I've wondered for a long time why so many "modern" CRPGs have abandoned many of the innovations that the were staples of the Ultima series. For example: NPC schedules. Ever since Ultima 5, every single NPC in the game followed a realistic schedule whereby they got up in the morning, ate breakfast, went to work, had lunch, went home, ate dinner, went to bed, etc. Yet, when I play new RPGs that are supposed to be the best on the markey today, like Baldur's Gate 2 was (which I found boring) the NPCs just stand around, day or night, doing the same things. The world is just static.
What is going on here?
Another thing I hate: RPGs that do not use single-scale worlds. I want the entire game on one map, or multiple maps that blend seamlessly with no load screens.
There was absolutely no reason for a remark of this kind. If I had mod points, your post would disappear.
I hope you're joking.
OpenGL performance is lacking
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There are still some functions that OSX does not seem to handle as well as its Classic predecessor. OpenGL performance is at the top of that list. I have many games that run significantly faster in OS9 than in X, some even in Classic.
I'm not sure what exactly is the problem, but it does appear to be gradually improving. For example, upgrading from 10.1.4 to 10.2.1 allowed me to run Jedi Knight II with 4x FSAA and all settings at max in 800x600, rather than 640x480. If I turn FSAA down to 2, I can run it in 1024x768, but it looks better in 800x600.
The system itself is much faster in 10.2, probably at the level it should. But OpenGL needs work.
You know, if you complain to the management, they will do something about it. Even if they have to stop the movie and find the person. What's more, this usually results in anyone who asks for it getting a refund.
Offtopic? His post was NOT offtopic. I think there are some users here who need to be meta-moderated into oblivion. They're certainly not intelligent or mature enough to be rating others' posts.
Interesting. The Balrog looked exactly as I imagined it would. In fact, much of the movie looked as it did in my imagination, especially Hobbiton; that was dead on, as was Bag end.
Of course, much of my imagination was influenced by the Lee illustrations, which were a major influence on the design of the movie, so there is a reason for the similarities.
Still, there were plenty of things that did not come from the illustrations that still fit my imagination pretty closely.
Actually, I had assumed that we were all intelligent enough to know I was referring to a car (particularly since I referred to gas and auto maintennance.) Sorry if I overestimated.
As for tolls, I almost added a dislaimer for that. Personally, I think tolls are a crock. But there aren't any in my area of the country (the South) either.
This was absolutely not a troll. I was quite serious. Go ahead, try joking with one of them about how Bush really isn't president. Of course, that's not really a joke, but they think it is.
I believe his reference to Microsoft was merely to illustrate a point that you seem to have a difficult time grasping. Many/.ers dislike HDTV for reasons similar to those for their dislike of MS. It does NOT make them anti-technology.
And are you SURE that you aren't just convincing yourself that the equipment you spent thousands of dollars on gives you a better picture?
"By insulting shows like Survivor you're insulting a great deal of the population, myself included.
I rather think that's the idea, isn't it? Actually, you could rephrase that to a more correct statement:
"A great deal of the population, myself included, is insulting themselves by watching shows like Survivor."
"It's not bad entertainment, if you would stop being so closed-minded and give it a chance."
Why don't you turn of you damn TV and try a more enlightening form of entertainment? Not all TV programming is bad, but the shows you apparently watch are among the worst.
I remember when TVs had two tuning dials- one for VHF and one for UHF. To view UHF, you had to turn the VHF dial to 3, then you could use the UHF tuner to select a UHF channel. It used to be that FOX was UHF, and it never came in clear. "Married with Children" and "Werewolf" were always so fuzzy when I tried to watch them.
Remember when FOX only broadcast one or two nights a week? The rest of the time it was reruns of "Gilligan's Island" and "I Dream of Genie." Not to mention old movies like "Wolfen." Ooooh. Wolfen. Scary.
"That's fine, but I refuse to have paved roads and an automobile at the expense of not being able to dirve where I want, when I want to, free of charge."
...which sounds perfectly reasonable to me, the obvious costs of gas and automobile maintennance exluded, of course.
Funny, isn't it? The media is always accused of having a liberal bias, but it never seems to materialize. The media is actually the only reason George W. Bush gets to play in the oval office right now.
Since few Republicans I've met seem to have much of a sense of humor when their lord and savior, George W. Bush, is questioned, allow me to let you in on a bit if information:
Even if the Supreme court acted within the constitution by denying a Florida recount, you and all of your fellow Republicans will have to live with the fact that your "compassionate-conservative" messiah was sent to the white house with fewer votes than his opponent and against the wishes of the American people and the spirit of the constitution. This applies both to the popular vote and to the electoral vote, since it has been established that gore did recieve more votes in Florida.
He lost, get it?
His precidency is and always will be illegitimate, no matter how many third-world countries he bombs into oblivion.
Actually, you're wrong on this, too. The Supreme Court could have mandated a statewide recount, and have been perfectly within the bounds of law. What they, in fact, did was to tell them to come up with a fair way to recount, then gave them two hours in which to do it- by all accounts merely a token gesture as two hours was not anywhere near the time it would have taken.
The bitter irony, here, for the citizens of America, is that gore himself may be to blame for not demanding a statewide recount in the first place. Had he done so early enough, there would have been time for it. Of course, he can hardly be blamed for this. There was no precedent at the time for a situation like this. I'm sure he though he was doing the best thing at the time.
Unfortunately, he also had to deal with the pressures the the Bush-partisans were placing on himself, Florida voters, and the media, to admit defeat and "do the honorable thing." Funny, isn't it, how honor is always brought into the equation by the party who stands to benefit the most from it? All of that insipid name-calling, the "Sore Loserman" thing, was just a way for the Bush camp to deflect attention away from the facts, much in the same way he is wagging the dog today by insisting on launching a first strike against Iraq to deflect attention from domestic problems (sound familiar?). All of this in direct defiance of America's long-standing policy of not striking the first blow. It's amazing how much power war can give a president. If he can keep a war going until the 2004 elections, he actually stands a chance of getting re-elected.
I guess that would make each and every Bush supporter out there a war-monger, too. Because that's the only realistic chance he's got. But cheer up, it looks like Bush may actually succeed where so many dictators before him have failed. Then you can look forward to four more years of your favorite brand of chocolatey, Republican-flavored oppression.
So, no matter which way you look at it, your Republican golden-boy was selected, not elected. And history will ultimately mark him thus (if the world survives this war-monger's selectidency.)
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When Captain Picard was assimilated by the Borg, they renamed him Locutus.
Considering that the icon of Gates that this site uses is just a picture of Locutus with Stewart's face removed and replaced by Bill, I'm surprised you didn't know.
I've wondered for a long time why so many "modern" CRPGs have abandoned many of the innovations that the were staples of the Ultima series. For example: NPC schedules. Ever since Ultima 5, every single NPC in the game followed a realistic schedule whereby they got up in the morning, ate breakfast, went to work, had lunch, went home, ate dinner, went to bed, etc. Yet, when I play new RPGs that are supposed to be the best on the markey today, like Baldur's Gate 2 was (which I found boring) the NPCs just stand around, day or night, doing the same things. The world is just static.
What is going on here?
Another thing I hate: RPGs that do not use single-scale worlds. I want the entire game on one map, or multiple maps that blend seamlessly with no load screens.
There was absolutely no reason for a remark of this kind. If I had mod points, your post would disappear.
I hope you're joking.
There are still some functions that OSX does not seem to handle as well as its Classic predecessor. OpenGL performance is at the top of that list. I have many games that run significantly faster in OS9 than in X, some even in Classic.
I'm not sure what exactly is the problem, but it does appear to be gradually improving. For example, upgrading from 10.1.4 to 10.2.1 allowed me to run Jedi Knight II with 4x FSAA and all settings at max in 800x600, rather than 640x480. If I turn FSAA down to 2, I can run it in 1024x768, but it looks better in 800x600.
The system itself is much faster in 10.2, probably at the level it should. But OpenGL needs work.
You know, if you complain to the management, they will do something about it. Even if they have to stop the movie and find the person. What's more, this usually results in anyone who asks for it getting a refund.
FYI
Offtopic? His post was NOT offtopic. I think there are some users here who need to be meta-moderated into oblivion. They're certainly not intelligent or mature enough to be rating others' posts.
Is it me, or does saying that an 800MHz G4 is about twice as fast as a 450MHz PII not sound like much of a statement?
Perhaps if you said your 800MHz G4 was twice as fast as your 1.2Ghz P4, I would be impressed.
Personally, I think you must have made a typo.
I wish I hadn't posted to this topic so I could use my remaining mod points to mod this down. Could someone do it for me, please?
I'd go with Cocoa. The more native, the better.
Interesting. The Balrog looked exactly as I imagined it would. In fact, much of the movie looked as it did in my imagination, especially Hobbiton; that was dead on, as was Bag end.
Of course, much of my imagination was influenced by the Lee illustrations, which were a major influence on the design of the movie, so there is a reason for the similarities.
Still, there were plenty of things that did not come from the illustrations that still fit my imagination pretty closely.
Who said anything about "only?" For All I know, you might swutch back and forth between "Survivor" and "Wall Street Week." Who cares?
Actually, I had assumed that we were all intelligent enough to know I was referring to a car (particularly since I referred to gas and auto maintennance.) Sorry if I overestimated.
As for tolls, I almost added a dislaimer for that. Personally, I think tolls are a crock. But there aren't any in my area of the country (the South) either.
This was absolutely not a troll. I was quite serious. Go ahead, try joking with one of them about how Bush really isn't president. Of course, that's not really a joke, but they think it is.
Troll. Feh!
I believe his reference to Microsoft was merely to illustrate a point that you seem to have a difficult time grasping. Many /.ers dislike HDTV for reasons similar to those for their dislike of MS. It does NOT make them anti-technology.
And are you SURE that you aren't just convincing yourself that the equipment you spent thousands of dollars on gives you a better picture?
I rather think that's the idea, isn't it? Actually, you could rephrase that to a more correct statement:
"A great deal of the population, myself included, is insulting themselves by watching shows like Survivor."
Why don't you turn of you damn TV and try a more enlightening form of entertainment? Not all TV programming is bad, but the shows you apparently watch are among the worst.
I remember when TVs had two tuning dials- one for VHF and one for UHF. To view UHF, you had to turn the VHF dial to 3, then you could use the UHF tuner to select a UHF channel. It used to be that FOX was UHF, and it never came in clear. "Married with Children" and "Werewolf" were always so fuzzy when I tried to watch them.
Remember when FOX only broadcast one or two nights a week? The rest of the time it was reruns of "Gilligan's Island" and "I Dream of Genie." Not to mention old movies like "Wolfen." Ooooh. Wolfen. Scary.
Somebody please mod this gentleman up. People need to know that US world dominance is NOT a good thing.
I would think that this means certain frequencies would be given to organizations that actually need it, rather than just who can pay the most for it.
It is a slippery word, though.
Funny, isn't it? The media is always accused of having a liberal bias, but it never seems to materialize. The media is actually the only reason George W. Bush gets to play in the oval office right now.
That darn liberal media!
Since few Republicans I've met seem to have much of a sense of humor when their lord and savior, George W. Bush, is questioned, allow me to let you in on a bit if information:
He was joking.
About as realistic as readers of CNN.com, USAToday.com, or the Onion, I suppose.
Face, it- there's a more than just left-wing propaganda at Salon. There's a lot of truth that the Bush camp wants suppressed. Don't blind yourself.
If I could mod you up, I'd send your karma throught the roof.
One thing I forgot to say:
Even if the Supreme court acted within the constitution by denying a Florida recount, you and all of your fellow Republicans will have to live with the fact that your "compassionate-conservative" messiah was sent to the white house with fewer votes than his opponent and against the wishes of the American people and the spirit of the constitution. This applies both to the popular vote and to the electoral vote, since it has been established that gore did recieve more votes in Florida.
He lost, get it?
His precidency is and always will be illegitimate, no matter how many third-world countries he bombs into oblivion.
This is so off the original topic, it hurts.
Actually, you're wrong on this, too. The Supreme Court could have mandated a statewide recount, and have been perfectly within the bounds of law. What they, in fact, did was to tell them to come up with a fair way to recount, then gave them two hours in which to do it- by all accounts merely a token gesture as two hours was not anywhere near the time it would have taken.
The bitter irony, here, for the citizens of America, is that gore himself may be to blame for not demanding a statewide recount in the first place. Had he done so early enough, there would have been time for it. Of course, he can hardly be blamed for this. There was no precedent at the time for a situation like this. I'm sure he though he was doing the best thing at the time.
Unfortunately, he also had to deal with the pressures the the Bush-partisans were placing on himself, Florida voters, and the media, to admit defeat and "do the honorable thing." Funny, isn't it, how honor is always brought into the equation by the party who stands to benefit the most from it? All of that insipid name-calling, the "Sore Loserman" thing, was just a way for the Bush camp to deflect attention away from the facts, much in the same way he is wagging the dog today by insisting on launching a first strike against Iraq to deflect attention from domestic problems (sound familiar?). All of this in direct defiance of America's long-standing policy of not striking the first blow. It's amazing how much power war can give a president. If he can keep a war going until the 2004 elections, he actually stands a chance of getting re-elected.
I guess that would make each and every Bush supporter out there a war-monger, too. Because that's the only realistic chance he's got. But cheer up, it looks like Bush may actually succeed where so many dictators before him have failed. Then you can look forward to four more years of your favorite brand of chocolatey, Republican-flavored oppression.
So, no matter which way you look at it, your Republican golden-boy was selected, not elected. And history will ultimately mark him thus (if the world survives this war-monger's selectidency.)