the two projects, WXWINDOWS and the SDL both add the functionality to c++ that had me previously using java, and have it be fast. Another big downer for java has always been how it is strictly controlled by one company.
In the usa we have this problem. we overmilk franchises till they are very very dry. star wars, simpsons, x-men, spiderman, the land before time XXIV. im not sure why its like that for us.
i played both of these games and NWN may have been nice for its multiplayer, it was nowhere near the game that morrowind was. I have never in my life before played a single player role playing game with as much depth as morrowind. Not just storyline depth either, but subtle things like the changing of the moons. NWN was just a rehash of older game ideas.
Babylon 5 was great but the followup series is really, really bad. I'm not sure if it was the bad acting or the crappy stores that drove me away from crusade but after watching it once i never went back.
I have a Windows 2000 Desktop for games, a Windows 2000 Laptop (with a small 1gb linux partition) and a FreeBSD file server in my house. Now you can talk about converting things to windows like NWN and UT2003, but i think what linux lacks in the games department is support for any mmorpgs. Im currently addicted to neocron, and i would run mac os 9 if thats what it required. On my laptop i need wireless internet access whereveer i go. I have 3G cdma by verizon, which has 0 linux support. In fact 3G is the only thing holding me back from a fully linux laptop.
IMO only two or three games out of the some odd thousand that come out in a year are worth the time to play. Game designers need to stop working on pushing out the door a (insert latest popular movie title here) game (god damn that lord of the rings game was terrible) just to make a quick buck.
Also the game distributers are a problem as well, a lot of games are forced onto the shelves way before they are ready and subsiquently fail horribly.
Around here most people that have cable modems are computer savvy, i work on a lot of computers in peoples homes and 99% of joe dumbass has a dialup connection still. By instituting volume pricing i think the cable companys would be shooting themselfs in the foot. You would most likely see a big move to adsl from cable.
of course if volume pricing means they can offer cable at $19.99 (USD) a month to people, joe luser might actually buy it.
i have one of these and love it... mine is the older model with 4 megs of video ram, 800mhz crusoe and win2k prof. but its a great little machine and with the lighting at about halfway and the extended battery it gets a REAL 6-7 hours of battery life. thats watching dvds or divx or whatever. Its the first laptop ive had that i dont drag around the power cord with it.
my deskstar failed and you know what, IBM not only refused to crossship, they said it would be at least three weeks before i saw a replacement AFTER they got my drive.
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the two projects, WXWINDOWS and the SDL both add the functionality to c++ that had me previously using java, and have it be fast. Another big downer for java has always been how it is strictly controlled by one company.
In the usa we have this problem. we overmilk franchises till they are very very dry. star wars, simpsons, x-men, spiderman, the land before time XXIV. im not sure why its like that for us.
i played both of these games and NWN may have been nice for its multiplayer, it was nowhere near the game that morrowind was. I have never in my life before played a single player role playing game with as much depth as morrowind. Not just storyline depth either, but subtle things like the changing of the moons. NWN was just a rehash of older game ideas.
Babylon 5 was great but the followup series is really, really bad. I'm not sure if it was the bad acting or the crappy stores that drove me away from crusade but after watching it once i never went back.
I have a Windows 2000 Desktop for games, a Windows 2000 Laptop (with a small 1gb linux partition) and a FreeBSD file server in my house.
Now you can talk about converting things to windows like NWN and UT2003, but i think what linux lacks in the games department is support for any mmorpgs. Im currently addicted to neocron, and i would run mac os 9 if thats what it required.
On my laptop i need wireless internet access whereveer i go. I have 3G cdma by verizon, which has 0 linux support. In fact 3G is the only thing holding me back from a fully linux laptop.
wow, thats cooler then my single athlon xp :O
IMO only two or three games out of the some odd thousand that come out in a year are worth the time to play. Game designers need to stop working on pushing out the door a (insert latest popular movie title here) game (god damn that lord of the rings game was terrible) just to make a quick buck.
Also the game distributers are a problem as well, a lot of games are forced onto the shelves way before they are ready and subsiquently fail horribly.
Around here most people that have cable modems are computer savvy, i work on a lot of computers in peoples homes and 99% of joe dumbass has a dialup connection still. By instituting volume pricing i think the cable companys would be shooting themselfs in the foot. You would most likely see a big move to adsl from cable.
of course if volume pricing means they can offer cable at $19.99 (USD) a month to people, joe luser might actually buy it.
its too bad no military technology can withstand the mighty slashdoting! muahhahahhahahaha!!
i have one of these and love it... mine is the older model with 4 megs of video ram, 800mhz crusoe and win2k prof. but its a great little machine and with the lighting at about halfway and the extended battery it gets a REAL 6-7 hours of battery life. thats watching dvds or divx or whatever. Its the first laptop ive had that i dont drag around the power cord with it.
my deskstar failed and you know what, IBM not only refused to crossship, they said it would be at least three weeks before i saw a replacement AFTER they got my drive.
I'm NEVER buying an IBM hard drive again.
are you really ready to trust nasa engineers like that after that last big mix-up with metric and English units? i don't think i am.