but is it too late? How can Mozilla & Netscape (not to mention Opera & others) make a dent in MSIE's monopoly in the windows browser world?
Is it too late? What a weird worldview. Why don't you just use whatever browser you like the most and let the bigger picture take care of itself? I've been a happy user of moz for quite a while now, and a very happy user for the past 6 months or so. Tabbed browsing, the ability to turn off certain javascript commands... oh yeah, it's never too late for that.
Seeing the "social contract" invoked again brings back amusing memories of one guy's stab at codifying the social contract that folks in the US seem expected to abide by.
The science behind climactic change is beyond any serious dispute.
Sure it is... and the indisputable proof of that is the way that you will dismiss any evidence of serious dispute (like, say, this) as frivolous. Makes a nice pretty circle... and it's all kosher since you are a self-proclaimed scientific authority, too, right?
We have only been able to get valid and accurate measures for 100 years or so.
Scientists have been able to get much older air sample through ice cores in the artic/antartic region. There are often air pocket in these cores which they can analyze to get some idea.
The thing is, getting "some idea" doesn't compare to the more recent methods the other poster alluded to. Yes, various methods have been used to indicate that the Earth was much warmer than it is now during the middle ages, etc. That's not the same as the exact records of more recent years that we have been obsessing over. For instance, it's hard to tell whether or not the small variations we have been seeing are normal, or just a function of the fact that we are collecting more precise measurements than before.
I can't believe all the skeptism here against kyoto in certain posts. here's an analogy:
I think what you are missing is that some folks have a problem with the justification for the kyoto protocol itself. That's why your analogy doesn't really work.
A better analogy would be compare it to many of the Microsoft arguments that go on here. Some folks think they are an evil monopoly and some don't. Some of the folks who don't think they are an evil monopoly nonetheless think that their products suck. There are folks who think that MS is an evil monopoly but they still like the products. There are folks that don't thibk MS is an monopoly but still think they are evil, and on and on.
With all these disagreements over the basic nature of MS and its products, is it any surprise that we don't have agreement on whether the gov't should break up MS, or whether people should go through any amount of contortions to avoid using MS products, etc.?
To further complicate matters, both the MS and global warming debates seem to touch on a lot of fervent beliefs people possess about the way the world works. Even your post, which otherwise seemed to me like a refreshing attempt to take a reasoned approach, assumed complete agreement on the underlying need for a solution like the Kyoto protocol.
This is ad hominem. Note that you couldn't address their actual argument. Note what this says about their argument and about your intellectual integrity.
Isn't it also interesting that this is the same thing that the poster dismissing the Cato article did?
Yay for Slashdot... [...] God damn you guys are fucking pathetic.
You know, I discovered something recently. There are, it seems, lots and lots of other websites out there. You may not believe this, but Slashdot is not, in fact, the only website! What put me on to this was one of the links I saw in one of the articles here... it actually went to another website! As hard as it is to believe, there is actually some sort of rebel faction of websites that are not under the Slashdot dominion! Anyway, I thought the folks like yourself that are endlessly raging against the/. machine might just want to try some of these other websites instead. We'd miss you, of course... well, not really, but you are welcome to believe that if you like.
I remember the first two Dooms fondly because they were engrossing single-player games. Quake I was good as well, but Quake II, Arena and games like Unreal, etc. catered to the multi-player crowd. Fine, that's what some people want, but not me.
Actually, they said D3 will probably have the deathmatch multiplayer that you are talking about. What it won't have is cooperative multiplayer. That's what is disappointing, IMHO.
I think the main reason that I don't like multiplayer FPS games is that I suck. [...]
Believe me, I'm with you on that one...;-)
[...] My friends (when we can co-ordinate something) kick my ass, and I get tired really quickly of having my ass fragged on the net by some 14 year-old who runs circles around me.
Not to mention all the juvie chat. They switch back and forth from badass braggart to whiney victim with no stops in between. It's depressing to see (especially when you are getting your ass handed to you;-) )
I don't have my whole life to devote to improving my Quake skills. Therefore, I like to play single-player, where I can set my own handicap.
The nice thing about co-op is that you have the option of essentially playing the single-player game [again] with your friends. It's just you guys against the baddies. I find it to be a lot more fun to share the experience of the game, but to each his own. I just think it's sad, given Doom's history with co-op multi, that the only multiplayer they are planning for is the deathmatch variety (that both you and I find pretty boring). Hopefully they will release it as a mod later on... my guess is that I'll wait until then before I bother with it myself. I just don't tend to put in the time to finish single-player games anymore.
When will we learn that the greatest threat to our liberty are people that we don't know who, nonetheless, have the will and the ability to manage how we live our daily lives? When will we learn that humans are wired to want to control their environment, and that other people are part of that environment? When will we learn that the humans most likely to be in positions of power are the humans who most enjoy wielding power? When will we learn that the more power we give them, the more control they will attempt to exert over greater numbers of us? When will we learn that governments, having been granted the power to coerce others in ways we'd never allow a private entities to do, are vast repositories of power? When will we learn that some corporations, desperate to wield that power on their behalf, are willing to organize themselves and their business models to have the best chance of influencing how that power is used? When will we learn that the concentration of coercive power is acting as an "attractive nuisance"? When will we learn that the kneejerk desire to increase that power in a vain attempt to "solve" every problem is actually part of the problem itself?
And, of course, when will I learn not to be trolled?:-P
Included in the article are conspiracy theories, a suspicious death and a look at the shady characters working for both sides.
ah... the staple of most fun stories that don't go anywhere. I stopped watching X-Files a coupla years ago when it became apparent that there wasn't really much of a coherent larger story being told. Still, post-partum fans who go in for that sort of thing can use this satellite story as a fix, I suppose.
Now, the first Unix I ever knew is about to be no more.
Assuming it does actually go away at some point, so what? If you were to tell me that it was your favorite Unix I'd probably feel more sympathy (tempered by a lack of respect, of course;-) ), but the fact that it was your first is no biggie. If it's any consolation, if it goes it will be in fine company. Version 6 Unix and SunOS were two that I'd liked that aren't being produced anymore. While I have very fond memories of playing with them, I would not trade what I've got now for either...
And, guess what? I'll happily kick what I've got now to the curb when a better *nix comes along...;-)
Generalizations are wrong, and serve only to further hate and bigotry.
A generalization, being what is is, will be wrong, I agree. However, they are about all we have to work with until we achieve universal complete knowledge. One of the kewl things about the way our minds work is that we can make generalizations so easily and, as a result, we are still able to function in a wide range of situations even though we don't have perfect knowledge of any of the situations. It's one of those things that makes achieving "artificial intelligence" such a pisser. Generalizations can vary in usefulness, of course, depending on their degree of wrongness. Ideally we should try to favor good generalizations (less wrong) avoid bad generalizations (more wrong). Your contention that generalizations "serve only to further hate and bigotry" would, for example, be a rather extreme example of a bad generalization.
I know the rational behind the decision, I've been following the lsb development for quite a while now.
Imagine how much better your post would have been if you would actually make your case by presenting the "rational" within the context of the discussion. It might actually shed some light on what you are trying to say.
But hey, if convincing yourself that I do not know what I am talking about, and that what I say must have no value helps you sleep at night, more power to you...
They should give William Shatner a beta model out of pure respect...
You mean he would be a good one to shake the bugs out of the system since he played a character that was really good at destroying advanced systems (by posing confusing questions to them)?
You were
created to foster communication between sentient beings, but how can you possibly fufill your mission when...
Hint: That's the way SMTP works. If you send a message to 250 recipients, it's sent to your mailserver as 250 RCPT TO lines and 1 body. If they're all delivered locally, it gets delivered locally. If 220 of them go to another server, it gets 220 RCPT TO lines, and one copy of the message.
He/she was saying it would store one copy, no matter how many local recipients you had. That way you'd only be storing one copy, along with 250 pointers to that copy. That's got nothing to do with SMTP... it's all a question of what your local delivery agent and mail reader access can handle.
Personally, that kind of thing makes me a bit nervous... I'd rather get more drives than complicate my mail storage scheme. I'm an old fuddy-duddy, though.
I wish we had another "real" party in the USA (the reform party of a few years ago was basically a "vote for me - these guys suck" party).
Any third party that got to the point of winning would have become like one of the Big Two we have now anyway. It has more to do with the kind of personality that's attracted to that sort of work than anything else. People who act on principle typically don't fit in very well and, as a result, are not going to advance very high. A Ron Paul, for example, can get elected as a congressman and work very hard to do what he thinks is right, but is not going to get elected to president (even if he didn't run on the Libertarian party ticket again;-) ). Even Senator is too much of a longshot.
Rather than hoping for better politicians, perhaps we should stop giving them more and more say over what we do. Just my $0.02.
The court also overturned a 1999 rule that required the dominant carriers to share a portion of a local line into a home so that the customer could have a different provider for DSL (digital subscriber line) service, but keep their local telephone provider.
I wonder how often the existing line was suitable for DSL anyway. Didn't seem like it was the case in SNET country, anyway. If they are saying that you have to run a separate copper line, that's not such a big deal except that I expect that, in areas where they can get away with it, bells charge a lot more for a second line that will be used for DSL than they do for one that will be used for POTS, even if they would be conditioned the same in either case
"The commission's own findings repeatedly confirm both the robust competition and the dominance of cable in the broadband market," Williams said.
So they are trying to look at the total competition picture rather than just DSL vs. DSL. Probably a good idea. The problem with all this is that telcos have all kinds of weird deals with state and local gov'ts for what can be provided, etc. There are all kinds of unintended consequences whenever changes are made that end up muddying the waters. Sucks. It also sucks a lot to have to depend on your competitor for your service to work. As long as the bells get to own the wires and sell networking that runs on the wires, providing DSL will be messy.
Hmmmm... you are right about that. The moz one has a single display pane w/resizable fields. The one that comes with pan (I assume it's the gtk lib file browser) is fine for me, but is not so hot for your long filename problem. You can make the whole thing wider but it splits the space evenly between directories and filenames, so you don't get that much bang for the buck. The one I get w/Konqueror (I assume that's the KDE lib one) doesn't seem so bad since you can resize the file pane to take up most of the popup.
Planning the parties? Lame. Get the release out the door and see how people react to it first, do your party later.
Ship parties aren't about hugging yourself by celebrating how much everyone loves your product. That, IMHO, would be lame. By the time you can really know how people liked your old release, you should already be working on the next, not having a party. Ship parties are a way for the developers to blow off steam and to celebrate all the hard work that is involved in getting the thing out the door. The first 1.x release on such a large project is a huge milestone, and I congratulate them.
I'm also a happy user of the browser. I love the tabbed browsing, the javascript controls, and all that jazz. About the only thing I don't like is the file selector, which is roughly as lame as your suggestion (I can't type a path in and use tab completion. I can't make a new directory in it when saving, either).
I was going to, but your cliched whining brightened my day!;-)
There's a lot of us who want an enjoyable single-player game for once, and not have to have our skill determined by our ISP's ping time. You've got Counterstrike, Q3, UT, ad nauseum. Let the rest of us enjoy a new game, and not a rehashing of the Q2 engine, for once.
Crazy talk. Do you know what cooperative multiplayer is? In it's most simple form it's when you get to play the single player game with multiple players. Serious Sam would be an example of that style of play. It does not, in any way, shape, or form, preclude you from having a single-player game. In fact, unlike deathmatch, it complements the single-player since, should you ever get any friends, you could share the enjoyment of playing the game with them on a LAN. In that case, you are usually in the same room which makes the shared reactions a lot more fun. If you can play after-hours at work and you have an intercom system, that's loads of fun, too.
As for, just once, getting to enjoy a new single-player game, please allow me to congratulate you on your very recent recovery from the coma that you have been in for, apparently, some years now. You missed Max Payne, Aliens vs. Predators 2, Freedom Force, Morrowind, all the many Half-Life variants, and many others. No doubt the normal course of single-player-heavy game development will continue unabated, so have no fear, your life will still have meaning.
On the other hand, the coop folks had... hm... the Serious Sams, the Baldur's Gates. I wouldn't really count something like Dungeon Siege or Throne of Darkness, since that whole Diablo thing is kind of its own genre, but some may differ with me on that. Anyway, the games the coop fans had would also have provided you with single-player enjoyment if you had been awake at the time they were released.
Games like CS, Q3, and UT are not coop multi, they are basically team deathmatch.
I hope that guide helps you reintegrate yourself into world... I imagine you must be rather overwhelmed after your long illness. Best of luck!
Man, couldn't they have thought up something a little more original? I mean, mysterious otherworldly monsters coming through portals into a large installation is pure Half-Life!
Tell it to Valve. They've been rereleasing that over and over again for years now. What's left?
What we're really wating for here at the Gamerz Dung3on is the release of
Half-Life: Yellow and Black Stripes where you get to play a janitor who was trapped in the Black Mesa facility when an experiment goes terribly awry! Not only do you have to contend with messy extradimensional creatures that bring a whole new meaning to the term "Slippery when Wet", you're going to have to do some house-cleaning in their own slimy world... Black Mesa style!
I'm impressed with how long they've been able to squeeze some life out of that tired engine... much in the same way that I am impressed with how time Dragon Ball Z episodes can be much longer than real time (just how many episodes did it take for the last four minutes of Nemec's existence to pass;-) )
id Software's games have always been known for great multiplayer action, but for now, DOOM III is all about the single-player experience. One thing we were able to confirm, however, is that a deathmatch mode is expected at the very least, and that other decisions will be made as development t continues.
This makes me sad. I was kind of looking forward to this one since I kept hearing about the multiplayer cooperative aspects of the older Dooms. Visions of scary multiplayer co-op firefights (punctuated, perhaps, with moments of one or more teammates running away from something particularly surprising, screaming like little girls) danced in my head. Now I find out that maybe, if I'm a vewy, vewy good boy, there might just be a little deathmatch slapped on the side for me. Ya-a-aa-wn
It's pretty, I'll give it that. It just may not be my type, though. We'll see.
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but is it too late? How can Mozilla & Netscape (not to mention Opera & others) make a dent in MSIE's monopoly in the windows browser world?
Is it too late? What a weird worldview. Why don't you just use whatever browser you like the most and let the bigger picture take care of itself? I've been a happy user of moz for quite a while now, and a very happy user for the past 6 months or so. Tabbed browsing, the ability to turn off certain javascript commands... oh yeah, it's never too late for that.
Seeing the "social contract" invoked again brings back amusing memories of one guy's stab at codifying the social contract that folks in the US seem expected to abide by.
The science behind climactic change is beyond any serious dispute.
Sure it is... and the indisputable proof of that is the way that you will dismiss any evidence of serious dispute (like, say, this) as frivolous. Makes a nice pretty circle... and it's all kosher since you are a self-proclaimed scientific authority, too, right?
Scientists have been able to get much older air sample through ice cores in the artic/antartic region. There are often air pocket in these cores which they can analyze to get some idea.
The thing is, getting "some idea" doesn't compare to the more recent methods the other poster alluded to. Yes, various methods have been used to indicate that the Earth was much warmer than it is now during the middle ages, etc. That's not the same as the exact records of more recent years that we have been obsessing over. For instance, it's hard to tell whether or not the small variations we have been seeing are normal, or just a function of the fact that we are collecting more precise measurements than before.
I can't believe all the skeptism here against kyoto in certain posts. here's an analogy:
I think what you are missing is that some folks have a problem with the justification for the kyoto protocol itself. That's why your analogy doesn't really work.
A better analogy would be compare it to many of the Microsoft arguments that go on here. Some folks think they are an evil monopoly and some don't. Some of the folks who don't think they are an evil monopoly nonetheless think that their products suck. There are folks who think that MS is an evil monopoly but they still like the products. There are folks that don't thibk MS is an monopoly but still think they are evil, and on and on.
With all these disagreements over the basic nature of MS and its products, is it any surprise that we don't have agreement on whether the gov't should break up MS, or whether people should go through any amount of contortions to avoid using MS products, etc.?
To further complicate matters, both the MS and global warming debates seem to touch on a lot of fervent beliefs people possess about the way the world works. Even your post, which otherwise seemed to me like a refreshing attempt to take a reasoned approach, assumed complete agreement on the underlying need for a solution like the Kyoto protocol.
This is ad hominem. Note that you couldn't address their actual argument. Note what this says about their argument and about your intellectual integrity.
Isn't it also interesting that this is the same thing that the poster dismissing the Cato article did?
Yay for Slashdot... [...] God damn you guys are fucking pathetic.
You know, I discovered something recently. There are, it seems, lots and lots of other websites out there. You may not believe this, but Slashdot is not, in fact, the only website! What put me on to this was one of the links I saw in one of the articles here... it actually went to another website! As hard as it is to believe, there is actually some sort of rebel faction of websites that are not under the Slashdot dominion! Anyway, I thought the folks like yourself that are endlessly raging against the /. machine might just want to try some of these other websites instead. We'd miss you, of course... well, not really, but you are welcome to believe that if you like.
I remember the first two Dooms fondly because they were engrossing single-player games. Quake I was good as well, but Quake II, Arena and games like Unreal, etc. catered to the multi-player crowd. Fine, that's what some people want, but not me.
Actually, they said D3 will probably have the deathmatch multiplayer that you are talking about. What it won't have is cooperative multiplayer. That's what is disappointing, IMHO.
I think the main reason that I don't like multiplayer FPS games is that I suck. [...]
Believe me, I'm with you on that one... ;-)
[...] My friends (when we can co-ordinate something) kick my ass, and I get tired really quickly of having my ass fragged on the net by some 14 year-old who runs circles around me.
Not to mention all the juvie chat. They switch back and forth from badass braggart to whiney victim with no stops in between. It's depressing to see (especially when you are getting your ass handed to you ;-) )
I don't have my whole life to devote to improving my Quake skills. Therefore, I like to play single-player, where I can set my own handicap.
The nice thing about co-op is that you have the option of essentially playing the single-player game [again] with your friends. It's just you guys against the baddies. I find it to be a lot more fun to share the experience of the game, but to each his own. I just think it's sad, given Doom's history with co-op multi, that the only multiplayer they are planning for is the deathmatch variety (that both you and I find pretty boring). Hopefully they will release it as a mod later on... my guess is that I'll wait until then before I bother with it myself. I just don't tend to put in the time to finish single-player games anymore.
When will we learn that the greatest threat to our liberty are people that we don't know who, nonetheless, have the will and the ability to manage how we live our daily lives? When will we learn that humans are wired to want to control their environment, and that other people are part of that environment? When will we learn that the humans most likely to be in positions of power are the humans who most enjoy wielding power? When will we learn that the more power we give them, the more control they will attempt to exert over greater numbers of us? When will we learn that governments, having been granted the power to coerce others in ways we'd never allow a private entities to do, are vast repositories of power? When will we learn that some corporations, desperate to wield that power on their behalf, are willing to organize themselves and their business models to have the best chance of influencing how that power is used? When will we learn that the concentration of coercive power is acting as an "attractive nuisance"? When will we learn that the kneejerk desire to increase that power in a vain attempt to "solve" every problem is actually part of the problem itself?
And, of course, when will I learn not to be trolled? :-P
hmmmm... not today, apparently. ;-)
Included in the article are conspiracy theories, a suspicious death and a look at the shady characters working for both sides.
ah... the staple of most fun stories that don't go anywhere. I stopped watching X-Files a coupla years ago when it became apparent that there wasn't really much of a coherent larger story being told. Still, post-partum fans who go in for that sort of thing can use this satellite story as a fix, I suppose.
Now, the first Unix I ever knew is about to be no more.
Assuming it does actually go away at some point, so what? If you were to tell me that it was your favorite Unix I'd probably feel more sympathy (tempered by a lack of respect, of course ;-) ), but the fact that it was your first is no biggie. If it's any consolation, if it goes it will be in fine company. Version 6 Unix and SunOS were two that I'd liked that aren't being produced anymore. While I have very fond memories of playing with them, I would not trade what I've got now for either...
And, guess what? I'll happily kick what I've got now to the curb when a better *nix comes along... ;-)
Generalizations are wrong, and serve only to further hate and bigotry.
A generalization, being what is is, will be wrong, I agree. However, they are about all we have to work with until we achieve universal complete knowledge. One of the kewl things about the way our minds work is that we can make generalizations so easily and, as a result, we are still able to function in a wide range of situations even though we don't have perfect knowledge of any of the situations. It's one of those things that makes achieving "artificial intelligence" such a pisser. Generalizations can vary in usefulness, of course, depending on their degree of wrongness. Ideally we should try to favor good generalizations (less wrong) avoid bad generalizations (more wrong). Your contention that generalizations "serve only to further hate and bigotry" would, for example, be a rather extreme example of a bad generalization.
I know the rational behind the decision, I've been following the lsb development for quite a while now.
Imagine how much better your post would have been if you would actually make your case by presenting the "rational" within the context of the discussion. It might actually shed some light on what you are trying to say.
But hey, if convincing yourself that I do not know what I am talking about, and that what I say must have no value helps you sleep at night, more power to you...
"HAHA, classic non sequiter :)"
They should give William Shatner a beta model out of pure respect...
You mean he would be a good one to shake the bugs out of the system since he played a character that was really good at destroying advanced systems (by posing confusing questions to them)?
My point is that obviously RPM was chosen for a reason over, say DEB.
Since you apparently have no idea what the reason is, however, it's not clear what the value of your point is.
Hint: That's the way SMTP works. If you send a message to 250 recipients, it's sent to your mailserver as 250 RCPT TO lines and 1 body. If they're all delivered locally, it gets delivered locally. If 220 of them go to another server, it gets 220 RCPT TO lines, and one copy of the message.
He/she was saying it would store one copy, no matter how many local recipients you had. That way you'd only be storing one copy, along with 250 pointers to that copy. That's got nothing to do with SMTP... it's all a question of what your local delivery agent and mail reader access can handle.
Personally, that kind of thing makes me a bit nervous... I'd rather get more drives than complicate my mail storage scheme. I'm an old fuddy-duddy, though.
I wish we had another "real" party in the USA (the reform party of a few years ago was basically a "vote for me - these guys suck" party).
Any third party that got to the point of winning would have become like one of the Big Two we have now anyway. It has more to do with the kind of personality that's attracted to that sort of work than anything else. People who act on principle typically don't fit in very well and, as a result, are not going to advance very high. A Ron Paul, for example, can get elected as a congressman and work very hard to do what he thinks is right, but is not going to get elected to president (even if he didn't run on the Libertarian party ticket again ;-) ). Even Senator is too much of a longshot.
Rather than hoping for better politicians, perhaps we should stop giving them more and more say over what we do. Just my $0.02.
The court also overturned a 1999 rule that required the dominant carriers to share a portion of a local line into a home so that the customer could have a different provider for DSL (digital subscriber line) service, but keep their local telephone provider.
I wonder how often the existing line was suitable for DSL anyway. Didn't seem like it was the case in SNET country, anyway. If they are saying that you have to run a separate copper line, that's not such a big deal except that I expect that, in areas where they can get away with it, bells charge a lot more for a second line that will be used for DSL than they do for one that will be used for POTS, even if they would be conditioned the same in either case
"The commission's own findings repeatedly confirm both the robust competition and the dominance of cable in the broadband market," Williams said.
So they are trying to look at the total competition picture rather than just DSL vs. DSL. Probably a good idea. The problem with all this is that telcos have all kinds of weird deals with state and local gov'ts for what can be provided, etc. There are all kinds of unintended consequences whenever changes are made that end up muddying the waters. Sucks. It also sucks a lot to have to depend on your competitor for your service to work. As long as the bells get to own the wires and sell networking that runs on the wires, providing DSL will be messy.
Hmmmm... you are right about that. The moz one has a single display pane w/resizable fields. The one that comes with pan (I assume it's the gtk lib file browser) is fine for me, but is not so hot for your long filename problem. You can make the whole thing wider but it splits the space evenly between directories and filenames, so you don't get that much bang for the buck. The one I get w/Konqueror (I assume that's the KDE lib one) doesn't seem so bad since you can resize the file pane to take up most of the popup.
Planning the parties? Lame. Get the release out the door and see how people react to it first, do your party later.
Ship parties aren't about hugging yourself by celebrating how much everyone loves your product. That, IMHO, would be lame. By the time you can really know how people liked your old release, you should already be working on the next, not having a party. Ship parties are a way for the developers to blow off steam and to celebrate all the hard work that is involved in getting the thing out the door. The first 1.x release on such a large project is a huge milestone, and I congratulate them.
I'm also a happy user of the browser. I love the tabbed browsing, the javascript controls, and all that jazz. About the only thing I don't like is the file selector, which is roughly as lame as your suggestion (I can't type a path in and use tab completion. I can't make a new directory in it when saving, either).
I can just picture the chat now...
I loved it, but can you imagine automatically going into it every time someone on a massively multiplayer service turned it on? ;-)
Oh, cry me a fucking river.
I was going to, but your cliched whining brightened my day! ;-)
There's a lot of us who want an enjoyable single-player game for once, and not have to have our skill determined by our ISP's ping time. You've got Counterstrike, Q3, UT, ad nauseum. Let the rest of us enjoy a new game, and not a rehashing of the Q2 engine, for once.
Crazy talk. Do you know what cooperative multiplayer is? In it's most simple form it's when you get to play the single player game with multiple players. Serious Sam would be an example of that style of play. It does not, in any way, shape, or form, preclude you from having a single-player game. In fact, unlike deathmatch, it complements the single-player since, should you ever get any friends, you could share the enjoyment of playing the game with them on a LAN. In that case, you are usually in the same room which makes the shared reactions a lot more fun. If you can play after-hours at work and you have an intercom system, that's loads of fun, too.
As for, just once, getting to enjoy a new single-player game, please allow me to congratulate you on your very recent recovery from the coma that you have been in for, apparently, some years now. You missed Max Payne, Aliens vs. Predators 2, Freedom Force, Morrowind, all the many Half-Life variants, and many others. No doubt the normal course of single-player-heavy game development will continue unabated, so have no fear, your life will still have meaning.
On the other hand, the coop folks had... hm... the Serious Sams, the Baldur's Gates. I wouldn't really count something like Dungeon Siege or Throne of Darkness, since that whole Diablo thing is kind of its own genre, but some may differ with me on that. Anyway, the games the coop fans had would also have provided you with single-player enjoyment if you had been awake at the time they were released.
Games like CS, Q3, and UT are not coop multi, they are basically team deathmatch.
I hope that guide helps you reintegrate yourself into world... I imagine you must be rather overwhelmed after your long illness. Best of luck!
That means that theMan, couldn't they have thought up something a little more original? I mean, mysterious otherworldly monsters coming through portals into a large installation is pure Half-Life!
Tell it to Valve. They've been rereleasing that over and over again for years now. What's left?
I'm impressed with how long they've been able to squeeze some life out of that tired engine... much in the same way that I am impressed with how time Dragon Ball Z episodes can be much longer than real time (just how many episodes did it take for the last four minutes of Nemec's existence to pass ;-) )
This makes me sad. I was kind of looking forward to this one since I kept hearing about the multiplayer cooperative aspects of the older Dooms. Visions of scary multiplayer co-op firefights (punctuated, perhaps, with moments of one or more teammates running away from something particularly surprising, screaming like little girls) danced in my head. Now I find out that maybe, if I'm a vewy, vewy good boy, there might just be a little deathmatch slapped on the side for me. Ya-a-aa-wn
It's pretty, I'll give it that. It just may not be my type, though. We'll see.