It's $60/mo for me. That $60 lets me download about 160mb a day before I hit the "Fair Access Policy" which caps me at about 4-5kB/s for the next twelve hours. The speeds up to that point are okay, but it still sucks ass. $60/mo for that!?
Okay, well, you didn't mention a concern about downloads. You want games! Well, no. It's not going to work. If I go into a server for any given FPS game with this thing my ping is about 500-900. It's never, ever less than 400. If you're concerned enough about gaming to ask slashdot about this, I'm sure you understand exactly what devastating effects that would have on gameplay. There are other posts in this discussion about the speed of light being the limiting factor. It's really true. It takes about a quarter second to half a second for your signal to even reach a server and come back.
I was in your same situation. My parents were moving and I can't afford, yet, to live on my own. So I moved with them to the middle of nowhere. Now I made the wrong choice and I have what I would describe as the shittiest ISP I have ever used (I haven't used AOL. Not sure how that would compare.:P). I got this because I had to keep my system up to date (doing development work, etc - yes, out of my parents' house) and I'm addicted to pornography and demand easy and quick access to it.
If things like pornography and downloading music, videos, or other big content are not important to you, do not get this. You will NOT play games at any adequate level on this kind of connection.
Turn based games are okay.
Keep a dialup account handy to play anything else, though.
The funny thing is, show me more than a handful of inventors who truly made it big from their inventions.
Why? When I can just quote your other post...
New products hit the market every day that were designed by some mom or some kid in a garage
I will, however, name one person that immediately pops into my mind as an individual patent holder who's made quit a bit of money off his invention. He is Tom Jolly, and has a patent or two on gameplay mechanics for games like Diskwars.
Patents are here to help inventors like him. Without patents a larger game company (his is just him) could take any original concept he develops and rip it off, leaving him penniless and them rich with their greater ability to manufacture and distribute games. As it is now, Fantasy Flight Games payed him a decent sum of money for the right to use the Diskwars game mechanics, and I think I'd qualify that as 'making it big'.
So apparently everything I've ever liked about videogames is what's wrong with them?
Let's go over some things. The way I see it:
Boobies: Good. 'Nuff said.
Storylines/Epics: I happen to like playing the hero. It sure as hell beats a game about being an average Joe going to the local gas station to pick up a pack of twinkies.
Spectacles: I like pretty graphics. Gameplay is more important, yes, but I appreciate the depth some games give by immersing the player in a realistic world.
Cinema: Okay, got me there. Too many non-interactive cutscenes can be bad. But I will point out that Xenosaga was quite good.
Disclaimer: All this is IMO.
I might be a shallow, simple action gamer, but I know what I like in my games. >:|
I'm a programmer who switched to Dvorak quite some time ago. It's true that some of the symbols (C/C++ heavily used ones) are in odd locations, but that never really held me back from being able to type them for some reason.
The most significant difference I noticed was that I am now using more verbose variable, class, and function names because it's quite simple to type out what something's really used for now. As a result my code is much easier to follow and maintain than before.
That area that the Native Americans were displaced from now produces more food than any other area in the world, which would not have been possible if they remained. I'm not saying they were justified, but they were sure as hell vindicated.
I have gone through two Epson printers (Stylus Color 640 and Stylus Color 740) because ink dried in the print head. Both printers were not worth the price in money or effort to fix them (both reasonably old), so they were both trashed. They had both been hand-me-downs from others anyway.
However, I suddenly found myself having to do alot of printing for classes so I went and specifically looked for a printer with the print head on the ink cartridge. I got an HP Photosmart 7260 because it was the cheapest one I could find in the crappy town, and I've been happy ever since. When I buy a new ink cartridge it's going to be a bit expensive, but it's better than having to toss the whole printer, IMO.:]
I just went through and typecasted all the floats to ints.
Just keep compiling and every time it gives an error on a line that reads something like "x = y;" change it to "x = (int)(y);" (Of course x and y are both going to look alot more complicated than that). There's probably a better way I could have done it, though.
A way to avoid completely screwing over your data when you accidentally delete stuff, I find, is to use libtrash.
It uses LD_PRELOAD to override alot of file destroying commands like unlink() or even fopen() so it sends them to a designated trash can directory instead, where you can delete them later. It's saved my files more times than I can remember.
I use a window manager called Ion. The interface is divided up into frames instead of windows. The frames can be split and resized, and apps can be dragged from one frame to another.
I beg to differ about that not being able to find things with a spindle. Before I just dumped all my written CDs onto them, the CDs were scattered around my room in who the hell knows how many places. Now they are all in one place, taking up very little space. I would much rather search through the stack of CDs for a specific CD than try to find it elsewhere. At least now I know where to look for them.
This was my first reaction too, perhaps they merely need to clarify, or re-word the TOS. It is quite possible this is a misunderstanding, and they may have had no intention of it being interpreted this way.
I have the same situation, I have NWN install on an NTFS partition. For me, it worked perfectly to symlink all the data files it would have me copy to the actual ones on the NTFS drive. As a result, the space occupied on my linux drive is only 13M.
Why have redundant files when you don't need to?:]
I started with DirectX, and I will never use a Microsoft API again. I still have nightmares about it's obscure documentation and techniques. OpenGL is far simpler. If you value your sanity, you will use OpenGL.:]
Five years old? Doom has been around for 10 years as of this year. Before that was Wolfenstein. There is a rating system in place, and it is the parent's responsibility to enforce it. Unfortunately it appears that the average parents is too damn lazy and wants the government to do their job for them... again.
I didn't like wxWindows because I believe it says you have to create a new Makefile for every different OS that you wish to support. I am still looking for a GUI library that will let me write the software once, and compile it on many different platforms.
GTK looks very good for this, but I seem to have issues with it and cygwin. This is probably just my fault, and I'm doing something wrong, so I continue to learn to develop programs with it anyways.
He says that all the window managers are trying to imitate windows with the windows, icons, etc. I assure you there is quite a bit of innovation occuring in the field. The window manager I use is ION, and it's completely different from anything I have seen before.
It is far from complete, but still quite usable, IMO.
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Not to mention the harm you're doing to your eye by trying to focus on something that's an inch away from your face.
Actually, the focus is fixed to about 10 feet with those.
I'm on Direcway's asstastic service right now.
:P). I got this because I had to keep my system up to date (doing development work, etc - yes, out of my parents' house) and I'm addicted to pornography and demand easy and quick access to it.
It's $60/mo for me. That $60 lets me download about 160mb a day before I hit the "Fair Access Policy" which caps me at about 4-5kB/s for the next twelve hours. The speeds up to that point are okay, but it still sucks ass. $60/mo for that!?
Okay, well, you didn't mention a concern about downloads. You want games! Well, no. It's not going to work. If I go into a server for any given FPS game with this thing my ping is about 500-900. It's never, ever less than 400. If you're concerned enough about gaming to ask slashdot about this, I'm sure you understand exactly what devastating effects that would have on gameplay. There are other posts in this discussion about the speed of light being the limiting factor. It's really true. It takes about a quarter second to half a second for your signal to even reach a server and come back.
I was in your same situation. My parents were moving and I can't afford, yet, to live on my own. So I moved with them to the middle of nowhere. Now I made the wrong choice and I have what I would describe as the shittiest ISP I have ever used (I haven't used AOL. Not sure how that would compare.
If things like pornography and downloading music, videos, or other big content are not important to you, do not get this. You will NOT play games at any adequate level on this kind of connection.
Turn based games are okay.
Keep a dialup account handy to play anything else, though.
The funny thing is, show me more than a handful of inventors who truly made it big from their inventions.
Why? When I can just quote your other post...
New products hit the market every day that were designed by some mom or some kid in a garage
I will, however, name one person that immediately pops into my mind as an individual patent holder who's made quit a bit of money off his invention. He is Tom Jolly, and has a patent or two on gameplay mechanics for games like Diskwars.
Patents are here to help inventors like him. Without patents a larger game company (his is just him) could take any original concept he develops and rip it off, leaving him penniless and them rich with their greater ability to manufacture and distribute games. As it is now, Fantasy Flight Games payed him a decent sum of money for the right to use the Diskwars game mechanics, and I think I'd qualify that as 'making it big'.
Linux From Scratch, of course!
Let's go over some things. The way I see it:
Disclaimer: All this is IMO.
I might be a shallow, simple action gamer, but I know what I like in my games. >:|
I'm a programmer who switched to Dvorak quite some time ago. It's true that some of the symbols (C/C++ heavily used ones) are in odd locations, but that never really held me back from being able to type them for some reason.
The most significant difference I noticed was that I am now using more verbose variable, class, and function names because it's quite simple to type out what something's really used for now. As a result my code is much easier to follow and maintain than before.
That area that the Native Americans were displaced from now produces more food than any other area in the world, which would not have been possible if they remained. I'm not saying they were justified, but they were sure as hell vindicated.
I have gone through two Epson printers (Stylus Color 640 and Stylus Color 740) because ink dried in the print head. Both printers were not worth the price in money or effort to fix them (both reasonably old), so they were both trashed. They had both been hand-me-downs from others anyway.
:]
However, I suddenly found myself having to do alot of printing for classes so I went and specifically looked for a printer with the print head on the ink cartridge. I got an HP Photosmart 7260 because it was the cheapest one I could find in the crappy town, and I've been happy ever since. When I buy a new ink cartridge it's going to be a bit expensive, but it's better than having to toss the whole printer, IMO.
You absolutely, positively have to rip the audio from this and loop it.
They'll love it. I'm sure. >:D
I just went through and typecasted all the floats to ints.
Just keep compiling and every time it gives an error on a line that reads something like "x = y;" change it to "x = (int)(y);" (Of course x and y are both going to look alot more complicated than that). There's probably a better way I could have done it, though.
The source is included with many of the games and I have compiled at least two of them on my own to play on Linux.
The latest game is gonna be kinda weird though. I've never touched a D compiler... the source is there, nevertheless.
A way to avoid completely screwing over your data when you accidentally delete stuff, I find, is to use libtrash.
It uses LD_PRELOAD to override alot of file destroying commands like unlink() or even fopen() so it sends them to a designated trash can directory instead, where you can delete them later. It's saved my files more times than I can remember.
I use a window manager called Ion. The interface is divided up into frames instead of windows. The frames can be split and resized, and apps can be dragged from one frame to another.
Well, I think it's kinda cool, anyway.
My dad owns a one man game company and his web site has a page about this.
:]
Here.
His games have made it into Games Magazine's top 100 games list more than once, so he might have some reasonable advice.
I am pretty sure #4 is Daikatana.
#19 would be a game from Derek Smart's ill fated Battlecruiser series, I believe.
Gamespy has a really crappy way of protecting stuff for the future articles.
Screenshot for game #1
Just change the last number in the URL for the other 2-20 games.
I beg to differ about that not being able to find things with a spindle. Before I just dumped all my written CDs onto them, the CDs were scattered around my room in who the hell knows how many places. Now they are all in one place, taking up very little space. I would much rather search through the stack of CDs for a specific CD than try to find it elsewhere. At least now I know where to look for them.
This was my first reaction too, perhaps they merely need to clarify, or re-word the TOS. It is quite possible this is a misunderstanding, and they may have had no intention of it being interpreted this way.
Maybe someone should try asking them?
I have the same situation, I have NWN install on an NTFS partition. For me, it worked perfectly to symlink all the data files it would have me copy to the actual ones on the NTFS drive. As a result, the space occupied on my linux drive is only 13M.
:]
Why have redundant files when you don't need to?
Is it associated with a large change in brightness? Like in drawing a white box on top of a black area?
It could be static electricity, as it is suddenly going from one number of electrons to a very different number of electrons hitting the screen.
Gee, it's great to have an electrical engineer as a dad...
Actually, some games are reported to run slightly faster under some circumstances under Wine.
As shown here, for example.
I'm not saying this is true for everything, but there are cases where it is.
I started with DirectX, and I will never use a Microsoft API again. I still have nightmares about it's obscure documentation and techniques. OpenGL is far simpler. If you value your sanity, you will use OpenGL. :]
Five years old? Doom has been around for 10 years as of this year. Before that was Wolfenstein. There is a rating system in place, and it is the parent's responsibility to enforce it. Unfortunately it appears that the average parents is too damn lazy and wants the government to do their job for them... again.
I didn't like wxWindows because I believe it says you have to create a new Makefile for every different OS that you wish to support. I am still looking for a GUI library that will let me write the software once, and compile it on many different platforms.
GTK looks very good for this, but I seem to have issues with it and cygwin. This is probably just my fault, and I'm doing something wrong, so I continue to learn to develop programs with it anyways.
He says that all the window managers are trying to imitate windows with the windows, icons, etc. I assure you there is quite a bit of innovation occuring in the field. The window manager I use is ION, and it's completely different from anything I have seen before.
It is far from complete, but still quite usable, IMO.