So don't play games on a console. I don't. I'm fairly satisfied with what I buy on the PC. I don't see why any game should cost $15,000,000. Holy crap. For that much money, I could hire Steven Spielberg to make my life story.
You need a new video card. My girlfriend can play this game without any problems at all. Very, very smooth.
She's got the following system:
Biostar nForce 4 Ultra motherboard (NF4UL-A9) AMD Athlon64 3200+ One gigabyte of DDR400 RAM (two sticks of 512MB) Chaintech nVidia GeForce 6600GT Onboard sound (Realtek ALC850) Standard 7200 RPM SATA hard drive, DVD-RW, USB gamepad, etc. XP Home (32 bit version)
I think your video card isn't all that great, you've got too little RAM, or you're infested with spyware, because my girlfriend's system doesn't sound any faster than your system. And she's using the integrated sound...
I'm pretty sure that all of them, at one time, had active DEC Alpha ports. Linux was very popular on the Alpha, as well. However, as the Alpha is pronounced dead time after time, Alpha ports fall out of date and eventually stop compiling altogether. I don't think you can even compile OpenBSD on the Multia any more. Pity.
NetBSD, however, I would trust to keep "obsolete" ports working. Linux is good about this, too, but I wouldn't bet my (theoretical) job on the latest Linux kernels supporting an Alpha server I wanted to put back in production.
If you want, just subsitute your favorite dead platform (Atari, Amiga, 68k Mac, etc) for the Alpha, and I think you'll see that NetBSD will probably never die.
There's actually a lot of room for plot in a Doom movie.
First of all, let's say that the demons really are coming in from Hell. Okay. So, is this the Christian Hell where damned souls go? If so, then, that really demands that we ask ourselves, "Is there a heaven?" And, following that, the ultimate religious question of all time, "Is there a God?"
What would you think if you saw definitive proof of Hell? Wouldn't that cause you to rethink your philosophy on life? Wouldn't you become quite the ardent (even zealous) believer? And, which religion would you choose to belive? Catholicism? Judaism? Islam, even?
There are a lot of questions here for an existentialist, theological movie to tackle. Why is this happening? Is it God's plan, assuming that God must exist, given the existence of Hell? What happens to your immortal soul when you are killed (and devoured) by a demon? What happens to your immortal soul when you are killed in Hell?
Why not have an atheist fight the legions of Hell? It'd be rather ironic to have a man who disbelieves in that which he is fighting. What if the existence of Hell doesn't necessarily prove God's existence? That'd make for a very interesting debate within the movie. An atheist might take the view that Hell, as a physical place, does not have to validate religion. I can believe that France exists without believing that France has a king. Perhaps an atheist could acknowledge the existence of a soul without believing in an afterlife. Or something.
Anyways, there are plenty of ways to do a horror movie like this, without it turning into a mindless action movie. One could even make the philosophical and theological parts of the movie less important than the explosions.
Personally, I'd like to see a movie where people take a moment to reflect on how their worldview has changed, given concrete evidence of something fantastic. I'm quite the cynic, but seeing a portal to heaven, hell, the astral plane, Valhalla, or France might make me rethink a few things.
I've been DYING for someone to do something like this!!
I'm so sick and tired of these boring, small-time, namby pamby criminals. I want a criminal mastermind to make his presence known. How come we don't have anyone like Lex Luthor or Dr. No? Where are all the criminal masterminds??
Maybe what the cops say is true: criminals are stupid.
Oh well. Back to reading about stupid criminal tricks on fark.
I really don't understand why some people have so many problems with Microsoft updates and patches. I don't. I'll admit that I keep my Windows PCs in as close to pristine state as possible. I learned a decade ago, back in the days of Windows 3.x, that you can't load a Windows PC down with software. Every time that you do, it crashes horribly.
I try to keep the number of installed programs to a minimum, like say half a dozen, maybe a dozen.
putty - to ssh into UNIX systems Mozilla - for web browsing Ad-Aware - in case spyware gets in somehow NetHack - to waste time CDex - to extract audio AIM - to talk to my friends Quicktime - to watch movie trailers on apple.com the latest iD game - to satisfy that FPS urge
Beyond that, I might have three or four more commercial games installed (Diablo 2, Morrowind, etc).
I can't imagine loading a Windows PC with anything more than that. You'd have to be insane. I can understand installing Office, if you have to. I can understand maybe installing a virus checker or an e-mail client, if you feel you need them. But I wouldn't. Too muany installed programs on a Windows PC means disaster.
Not only have I neither read the original article nor the summary, but I have not read the parent post. I can unequivocally say that the parent poster is wrong, however.
Ordinarily, I'd agree whole-heartedly with you, but -- in this case -- I have too much doubt in my mind. The U.S. government is fighting both a war of PR and bullets against terrorism. In some demographics, the PR war is doing very well. In other demographics, it's backfiring. I think that I'm probably in the "backfiring" demographic, along with the crazies and slashbots that I usually make fun of.
If the U.S. government had such a strong case against this man, why did they detain him? Maybe they wanted him to squirm and more seriously consider pleading guilty to his crimes, so that they could go after bigger fish. Maybe they wanted to pressure him into pleading guilty to crimes of which he is innocent. I don't know, and I can't know.
The biggest problem is that I have this much doubt in the DOJ. If I had more faith in the DOJ, I wouldn't be coming up with conspiracy theories. I think that the DOJ needs to fix their image and bring disenchanted Americans back into the fold. Poor morale is infectious.
Hah. Keep fighting the good fight, soldier. Though we may never win a single battle, and the President will never declare a War On Bad English, we must never give up hope.
Too bad you didn't post logged in, or I'd have added you as a friend.
No wonder you can't get a date. Take a look at what comes out of your mouth. You're an asshole, plain and simple. Girls, contrary to popular geek belief, do not like assholes. That's why guys like me get the chicks and guys like you don't.
Maybe you should think about going gay. Then you can be a misogynist and still get laid.
Umm.. wastes all my tax money on some bullshit alien thing.
Actually, I guess I only needed one point.
Bah. If we're wasting money on SETI, then at least waste some money on spontaneous human combustion, UFO anal probes, and research on the Illuminati, too.
That'd be more entertaining to read about, when I scan the Weekly World News while standing in line at the supermarket.
I only read the YRO articles so that I can laugh at the paranoid slashbots.
ALERT! ALERT! PUT ON TIN FOIL HAT! POSSIBLE CONSPIRACY DETECTED!
Notice that the privacy geeks are usually the worst offenders in violating our privacy, too. They post our social security numbers on the web, just to show that it's possible. Corporations don't do that shit, because they know there'd be a huge public outcry. But we can't do anything to the privacy geeks.
I say we send the lot of them to Alaska. They'll be harmless there.
Oh man. That takes me back. Check out this cutting edge hardware:
Asus P2B-D (dual processor i440BX chipset) Two 450 MHz Pentium IIIs Two 128MB PC100 CL2 DIMMs Tekram DC390U2W (single channel Ultra2 LVD SCSI controller) Quantum Atlas 10K 9.1GB SCSI drive Four IBM 4.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra2 LVD SCSI drives in an external SCSI case Matrox G400 (DirectX 7, 32MB SDR) Inwin Q500 tower case (250W power supply)
I eventually upgraded the RAM to 512MB, switched the motherboard to an Asus P3C-D (dual processor i820 motherboard that uses RAMBUS RIMMs), bought 256MB of RAMBUS memory (yeah, it was a downgrade, but RAMBUS RAM was way expensive back then), upgraded to an ATI Radeon LE (32MB DDR), and moved the whole thing into a black Antec case (with a fucking huge power supply... 400W or something).
Now I've got a dual 1.2 GHz Athlon MP system with a 36GB Seagate Cheetah 15k.3 Ultra 320 SCSI drive, a fucking huge 500W power supply, and some other cool stuff that I found on ebay.
Dude, get some 1.2 GHz Athlon MPs cheap at Newegg. They only cost about $50 each now. The motherboards are over $200, and they all suck. You might as well get a Tyan Tiger MPX, which is what I got.
It's a hell of a lot cheaper than an Opteron, and you can't even find any Opteron motherboards yet. I have a feeling the Opteron boards are going to sell for over $400, because that's how much the good P4 Xeon boards go for.
Don't go for an Opteron unless you wanna debug the first generation of a brand new CPU architecture. I'd stick with Xeons and Athlon MPs. Buy an Opteron next year.
And try to avoid investing too much money in an Athlon MP system, since AMD isn't really too fond of the Athlon MP any more. I think it's dead. Too bad. The chips were a bit cheaper than a Xeon, even if the motherboards sucked.
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So don't play games on a console. I don't. I'm fairly satisfied with what I buy on the PC. I don't see why any game should cost $15,000,000. Holy crap. For that much money, I could hire Steven Spielberg to make my life story.
You need a new video card. My girlfriend can play this game without any problems at all. Very, very smooth.
She's got the following system:
Biostar nForce 4 Ultra motherboard (NF4UL-A9)
AMD Athlon64 3200+
One gigabyte of DDR400 RAM (two sticks of 512MB)
Chaintech nVidia GeForce 6600GT
Onboard sound (Realtek ALC850)
Standard 7200 RPM SATA hard drive, DVD-RW, USB gamepad, etc.
XP Home (32 bit version)
I think your video card isn't all that great, you've got too little RAM, or you're infested with spyware, because my girlfriend's system doesn't sound any faster than your system. And she's using the integrated sound...
How do you get 17 out of that?
arm, mips, alpha, x86-64, m68k, powerpc, sh3, sh5, hppa, i386, ns32k, sparc, and vax... that makes 13.
I'm pretty sure that all of them, at one time, had active DEC Alpha ports. Linux was very popular on the Alpha, as well. However, as the Alpha is pronounced dead time after time, Alpha ports fall out of date and eventually stop compiling altogether. I don't think you can even compile OpenBSD on the Multia any more. Pity.
NetBSD, however, I would trust to keep "obsolete" ports working. Linux is good about this, too, but I wouldn't bet my (theoretical) job on the latest Linux kernels supporting an Alpha server I wanted to put back in production.
If you want, just subsitute your favorite dead platform (Atari, Amiga, 68k Mac, etc) for the Alpha, and I think you'll see that NetBSD will probably never die.
There's actually a lot of room for plot in a Doom movie.
First of all, let's say that the demons really are coming in from Hell. Okay. So, is this the Christian Hell where damned souls go? If so, then, that really demands that we ask ourselves, "Is there a heaven?" And, following that, the ultimate religious question of all time, "Is there a God?"
What would you think if you saw definitive proof of Hell? Wouldn't that cause you to rethink your philosophy on life? Wouldn't you become quite the ardent (even zealous) believer? And, which religion would you choose to belive? Catholicism? Judaism? Islam, even?
There are a lot of questions here for an existentialist, theological movie to tackle. Why is this happening? Is it God's plan, assuming that God must exist, given the existence of Hell? What happens to your immortal soul when you are killed (and devoured) by a demon? What happens to your immortal soul when you are killed in Hell?
Why not have an atheist fight the legions of Hell? It'd be rather ironic to have a man who disbelieves in that which he is fighting. What if the existence of Hell doesn't necessarily prove God's existence? That'd make for a very interesting debate within the movie. An atheist might take the view that Hell, as a physical place, does not have to validate religion. I can believe that France exists without believing that France has a king. Perhaps an atheist could acknowledge the existence of a soul without believing in an afterlife. Or something.
Anyways, there are plenty of ways to do a horror movie like this, without it turning into a mindless action movie. One could even make the philosophical and theological parts of the movie less important than the explosions.
Personally, I'd like to see a movie where people take a moment to reflect on how their worldview has changed, given concrete evidence of something fantastic. I'm quite the cynic, but seeing a portal to heaven, hell, the astral plane, Valhalla, or France might make me rethink a few things.
You have posted the single most lucid comment on Slashdot. Bravo, sir.
I do not understand.
Please post in French or German, as I think I would understand that better than your English.
* Other web browsers, for compatibility testing
Like what? There isn't anything else, unless you count Opera. I don't.
* Graphics editor (for designing web sites)
Umm. Don't need one. Don't want one.
* Text editor (for editing web sites and programs)
Notepad? Wordpad?
* Word processor (for writing letters & other
documentation that'll need printing)
Notepad. Wordpad.
* Spreadsheet (for doing occasional organisational
tasks)
Never used one in my life. But, that's why I included Office, at the end, as something that some people consider necessary. I don't.
* C++ compiler (for the obvious)
* Java compiler (ditto)
* Version control system front end
That's why God invented UNIX.
* Various 'back end' admin systems for web sites
that I manage
?? Never used one. Don't need one. Don't want one.
* Antivirus software (I sometimes send compiled
programs directly to clients; company policy is
scan-before-send).
Like I said, some people would consider AV programs necessary. I don't.
* CD writing software
Yeah, I forgot that. I got Nero with my CDRW. It works fine.
Well, it's a good thing that nobody is reading this stuff, because I'd probably be modded as flamebait again. Gimme a break.
That's very funny. I'll have to write that one down.
I'll let you in on a secret.
I've been DYING for someone to do something like this!!
I'm so sick and tired of these boring, small-time, namby pamby criminals. I want a criminal mastermind to make his presence known. How come we don't have anyone like Lex Luthor or Dr. No? Where are all the criminal masterminds??
Maybe what the cops say is true: criminals are stupid.
Oh well. Back to reading about stupid criminal tricks on fark.
I really don't understand why some people have so many problems with Microsoft updates and patches. I don't. I'll admit that I keep my Windows PCs in as close to pristine state as possible. I learned a decade ago, back in the days of Windows 3.x, that you can't load a Windows PC down with software. Every time that you do, it crashes horribly.
I try to keep the number of installed programs to a minimum, like say half a dozen, maybe a dozen.
putty - to ssh into UNIX systems
Mozilla - for web browsing
Ad-Aware - in case spyware gets in somehow
NetHack - to waste time
CDex - to extract audio
AIM - to talk to my friends
Quicktime - to watch movie trailers on apple.com
the latest iD game - to satisfy that FPS urge
Beyond that, I might have three or four more commercial games installed (Diablo 2, Morrowind, etc).
I can't imagine loading a Windows PC with anything more than that. You'd have to be insane. I can understand installing Office, if you have to. I can understand maybe installing a virus checker or an e-mail client, if you feel you need them. But I wouldn't. Too muany installed programs on a Windows PC means disaster.
Minimalism, folks. It always saves the day.
I like that. I shall use it in the future. Thank you for enriching my insult dictionary.
Not only have I neither read the original article nor the summary, but I have not read the parent post. I can unequivocally say that the parent poster is wrong, however.
Ordinarily, I'd agree whole-heartedly with you, but -- in this case -- I have too much doubt in my mind. The U.S. government is fighting both a war of PR and bullets against terrorism. In some demographics, the PR war is doing very well. In other demographics, it's backfiring. I think that I'm probably in the "backfiring" demographic, along with the crazies and slashbots that I usually make fun of.
If the U.S. government had such a strong case against this man, why did they detain him? Maybe they wanted him to squirm and more seriously consider pleading guilty to his crimes, so that they could go after bigger fish. Maybe they wanted to pressure him into pleading guilty to crimes of which he is innocent. I don't know, and I can't know.
The biggest problem is that I have this much doubt in the DOJ. If I had more faith in the DOJ, I wouldn't be coming up with conspiracy theories. I think that the DOJ needs to fix their image and bring disenchanted Americans back into the fold. Poor morale is infectious.
Hah. Keep fighting the good fight, soldier. Though we may never win a single battle, and the President will never declare a War On Bad English, we must never give up hope.
Too bad you didn't post logged in, or I'd have added you as a friend.
No wonder you can't get a date. Take a look at what comes out of your mouth. You're an asshole, plain and simple. Girls, contrary to popular geek belief, do not like assholes. That's why guys like me get the chicks and guys like you don't.
Maybe you should think about going gay. Then you can be a misogynist and still get laid.
Actually, I guess I only needed one point.
Bah. If we're wasting money on SETI, then at least waste some money on spontaneous human combustion, UFO anal probes, and research on the Illuminati, too.
That'd be more entertaining to read about, when I scan the Weekly World News while standing in line at the supermarket.
More Batboy stories!
I only read the YRO articles so that I can laugh at the paranoid slashbots.
ALERT! ALERT! PUT ON TIN FOIL HAT! POSSIBLE CONSPIRACY DETECTED!
Notice that the privacy geeks are usually the worst offenders in violating our privacy, too. They post our social security numbers on the web, just to show that it's possible. Corporations don't do that shit, because they know there'd be a huge public outcry. But we can't do anything to the privacy geeks.
I say we send the lot of them to Alaska. They'll be harmless there.
Now I see why you're an enemy of a friend.
What a dumbass.
What are you, some sort of commie? We spell it neighborhood in the free world.
You didn't have time to read the article.
Your slashdot privileges are revoked for one week.
Oh man. That takes me back. Check out this cutting edge hardware:
Asus P2B-D (dual processor i440BX chipset)
Two 450 MHz Pentium IIIs
Two 128MB PC100 CL2 DIMMs
Tekram DC390U2W (single channel Ultra2 LVD SCSI controller)
Quantum Atlas 10K 9.1GB SCSI drive
Four IBM 4.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra2 LVD SCSI drives in an external SCSI case
Matrox G400 (DirectX 7, 32MB SDR)
Inwin Q500 tower case (250W power supply)
I eventually upgraded the RAM to 512MB, switched the motherboard to an Asus P3C-D (dual processor i820 motherboard that uses RAMBUS RIMMs), bought 256MB of RAMBUS memory (yeah, it was a downgrade, but RAMBUS RAM was way expensive back then), upgraded to an ATI Radeon LE (32MB DDR), and moved the whole thing into a black Antec case (with a fucking huge power supply... 400W or something).
Now I've got a dual 1.2 GHz Athlon MP system with a 36GB Seagate Cheetah 15k.3 Ultra 320 SCSI drive, a fucking huge 500W power supply, and some other cool stuff that I found on ebay.
Dude, get some 1.2 GHz Athlon MPs cheap at Newegg. They only cost about $50 each now. The motherboards are over $200, and they all suck. You might as well get a Tyan Tiger MPX, which is what I got.
It's a hell of a lot cheaper than an Opteron, and you can't even find any Opteron motherboards yet. I have a feeling the Opteron boards are going to sell for over $400, because that's how much the good P4 Xeon boards go for.
Don't go for an Opteron unless you wanna debug the first generation of a brand new CPU architecture. I'd stick with Xeons and Athlon MPs. Buy an Opteron next year.
And try to avoid investing too much money in an Athlon MP system, since AMD isn't really too fond of the Athlon MP any more. I think it's dead. Too bad. The chips were a bit cheaper than a Xeon, even if the motherboards sucked.
If I were a subscriber, I could have known that there's an article on the BBC web site TEN MINUTES earlier than now!
Wow!
I think I'll subscribe!
IAWTP
I'm sort of torn between not caring at all and caring enough to yawn.
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