Oh? Thanks for the info. The impression I got from the early media/promotion was that it was PvP, not PvE. I'm more of a PvE type so I basically ignored the game.
When I first heard about this game I was thinking, "Oh, someone's going to try to do a more successful Defiance"? Defiance being the sci-fi MMO shooter based on the Syfy TV series of the same name. I played the Destiny Beta, and it's basically Defiance.with faceless master-chief-ish characters. It wasn't equal to Defiance during the beta and I was wondering how they'd get it done in time because it wasn't "ready" and needed more work. I actually told someone that "unless they put a lot of work in it, you're better off playing Defiance. Defianceisn't the greatest game either, but the PS4 doesn't have Defiance so you're stuck with Destiny if you want a similar experience on the PS4."
They really should allow you to use a mouse and keyboard from the getgo instead of going out of your way to buy dongles, people do it anyway. You can use gamepads on the PC, why not a mouse and keyboard on a console?
Where have you been for the past 14 years, you don't need a dongle. Consoles DO allow you to use a mouse and keyboard, but as drinkypoo says, the question is whether the game supports it.
The PS2/PS3/PS4 have USB ports for a reason. I have games for all 3 that have mouse and/or keyboard support.
There's more things to do now. Game spaces and whatnot with mini-golf, Sodium, Novus Prime, etc. You can use it as a sort of "hub" to organize multiplayer games too.
like Warzone 2100 (technically console first, but it lived on with PC)
I thought it was simultaneously released on PC and PSone. Yep, April '99 on the PC, May of '99 on the PSone.
Very interesting game. For those who haven't played it, it's an RTS with 3D map and units. (which is why it runs better on the PSone than the C&C's do) You design/build the units from building blocks of chassis, drive systems, weapons. Unlike other RTS's your units are smarter and collect experience. You actually want to recycle units and repair units and have the commands available to tell your units to "return to that location when damaged" or "use indirect fire at this target being painted by a target acquisition unit"
And the UI changes based on what controls you have in the PSone version. Plug in the PSone mouse and you get more on screen buttons. (though you'll lose the direct unit control hidden feature)
Stallman's argument is a long-view, edge-case worry that will never affect most users. I'd argue that for 90 percent of the users out there, limiting themselves only to free software would actually make them less free in practice, because the actual, real-world universe of things they could likely manage to do with their tech on a day-to-day basis as a result would, in practice, be shorter.
This^^^^
I run Fedora, but I'm not giving up on the Nvidia propietary driver via rpmfusion.
It gives the impression that whatever free presentation apps there are (Libreoffice Impress?) are pretty bad.
More likely, since he uses that MIPS Loongson machine, there probably isn't Libreoffice build for that arch so he had to use whatever he had that would run on it. Heck libreoffice depends on Java for some features and I don't think there's an openjdk mips build either.
what do you mean several releases ago. It's still not as good as it could be in Fedora 20. IIRC it still doesn't let you individualize the packages installed, only letting you select "groups". One of my goals as a Fedora user is to NOT have to deal with the installer and I pray that "fedup" works properly so I don't have to.
I hope this doesn't infect Debian like PulseAudio and systemd.
Are you one of those bearded fellows who tugs at his suspenders as he pines for the days of pine over a serial line or 9600kbps phone line? Do you use TECO because EMACS is too newfangled for you?
Now amittedly I'm a desktop user of Fedora so the change to systemd hasn't really affected me much (I still use the classic service commands which redirect to systemd), but... pulseaudio is better than what came before. Yes, it took time to polish the thing and iron out some issues, it didn't work by default with some HDMI audio till Fedora 18 (one would have to manually edit the default.pa in that case)... but now it works well and can do things that alsa, oss and esd can't easily do.
on-the-fly per application audio control is the best thing ever. I have total control over where my audio goes. If I want one application to route audio to HDMI and another to route audio to analog headphone out, I can do that. I could even route audio over the network, just like X.
That has an http to gopher proxy, and is the home of OverbiteFF which is a Firefox extension that adds gopher support back to it. First "met" floodgap and OverbiteFF's owner/creator back on comp.sys.cbm.
So is gopher.quux.org now the only gopher server left in the entire universe?
Slashdot Mirror
/me googles. Ah, it's Windows only, thats why I hadn't heard of that. Unlike Firefall, Destiny and Defiance are cross-platform.
Oh? Thanks for the info. The impression I got from the early media/promotion was that it was PvP, not PvE. I'm more of a PvE type so I basically ignored the game.
Warframe's more like Dust514, a more traditional team based pvp shooter with some RPG elements.
Destiny and Defiance are PvE centric.
When I first heard about this game I was thinking, "Oh, someone's going to try to do a more successful Defiance"? Defiance being the sci-fi MMO shooter based on the Syfy TV series of the same name. I played the Destiny Beta, and it's basically Defiance.with faceless master-chief-ish characters. It wasn't equal to Defiance during the beta and I was wondering how they'd get it done in time because it wasn't "ready" and needed more work. I actually told someone that "unless they put a lot of work in it, you're better off playing Defiance. Defianceisn't the greatest game either, but the PS4 doesn't have Defiance so you're stuck with Destiny if you want a similar experience on the PS4."
They really should allow you to use a mouse and keyboard from the getgo instead of going out of your way to buy dongles, people do it anyway.
You can use gamepads on the PC, why not a mouse and keyboard on a console?
Where have you been for the past 14 years, you don't need a dongle. Consoles DO allow you to use a mouse and keyboard, but as drinkypoo says, the question is whether the game supports it.
The PS2/PS3/PS4 have USB ports for a reason. I have games for all 3 that have mouse and/or keyboard support.
Without PA, the mute and unmute just work each time one presses the button for it in the keyboard.
I run pulseaudio on Fedora 20, mute/unmute works fine every time I press the button on the keyboard.
Plus works flawlessly on Linux :-)
I don't have it installed myself, but packages are available in Fedora's repositories.
The execution is shit. If I mute it, it doesn't unmute without going down into alsamixer and unmuting it. Mute is one way. Isn't that shit enough?!
I use Pulseaudio on Fedora 20. Mute/unmute works just fine.
Minecraft is already on the PS4, this won't help the Xbox One.
There's more things to do now. Game spaces and whatnot with mini-golf, Sodium, Novus Prime, etc. You can use it as a sort of "hub" to organize multiplayer games too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Color me shocked then, when I switched to a PS4.... Home was not available.
Ditto.
like Warzone 2100 (technically console first, but it lived on with PC)
I thought it was simultaneously released on PC and PSone. Yep, April '99 on the PC, May of '99 on the PSone.
Very interesting game. For those who haven't played it, it's an RTS with 3D map and units. (which is why it runs better on the PSone than the C&C's do) You design/build the units from building blocks of chassis, drive systems, weapons. Unlike other RTS's your units are smarter and collect experience. You actually want to recycle units and repair units and have the commands available to tell your units to "return to that location when damaged" or "use indirect fire at this target being painted by a target acquisition unit"
And the UI changes based on what controls you have in the PSone version. Plug in the PSone mouse and you get more on screen buttons. (though you'll lose the direct unit control hidden feature)
It's fully open source now too.
PSN (PlayStation Network) says hello as well.
Games are large, these days, and I for one enjoy being able to download what I just bought at a reasonable speed.
middle of the USA, Illinois here, on Mediacom
ping: 23ms
download: 21.27 Mbps
upload: 2.74 Mbps
This is on Mediacom's "Prime" 15/1 250GB cap service...which is never actually 15/1, it's always faster.
They offer their Prime Plus locally that's the fastest you can get here, that's 50/5 with a 350GB cap.
The slowest they offer is their "Launch" which is a 3Mbps/512kbps 150GB cap connection at "cheap dial-up" prices.
download large files from my office 1100 miles away in Dallas
Perhaps instead of living in the "boondocks", you should move closer to your work in Dallas by say...moving to Dallas?
Stallman's argument is a long-view, edge-case worry that will never affect most users. I'd argue that for 90 percent of the users out there, limiting themselves only to free software would actually make them less free in practice, because the actual, real-world universe of things they could likely manage to do with their tech on a day-to-day basis as a result would, in practice, be shorter.
This^^^^
I run Fedora, but I'm not giving up on the Nvidia propietary driver via rpmfusion.
It gives the impression that whatever free presentation apps there are (Libreoffice Impress?) are pretty bad.
More likely, since he uses that MIPS Loongson machine, there probably isn't Libreoffice build for that arch so he had to use whatever he had that would run on it. Heck libreoffice depends on Java for some features and I don't think there's an openjdk mips build either.
Dr Stallman
He's not "Dr Stallman". He never earned his doctorate.
what do you mean several releases ago. It's still not as good as it could be in Fedora 20. IIRC it still doesn't let you individualize the packages installed, only letting you select "groups". One of my goals as a Fedora user is to NOT have to deal with the installer and I pray that "fedup" works properly so I don't have to.
I hope this doesn't infect Debian like PulseAudio and systemd.
Are you one of those bearded fellows who tugs at his suspenders as he pines for the days of pine over a serial line or 9600kbps phone line? Do you use TECO because EMACS is too newfangled for you?
Now amittedly I'm a desktop user of Fedora so the change to systemd hasn't really affected me much (I still use the classic service commands which redirect to systemd), but... pulseaudio is better than what came before. Yes, it took time to polish the thing and iron out some issues, it didn't work by default with some HDMI audio till Fedora 18 (one would have to manually edit the default.pa in that case)... but now it works well and can do things that alsa, oss and esd can't easily do.
on-the-fly per application audio control is the best thing ever. I have total control over where my audio goes. If I want one application to route audio to HDMI and another to route audio to analog headphone out, I can do that. I could even route audio over the network, just like X.
I still use XMMS, there's just something about its minimalism. Fedora has packages for it.
try adding this to .bashrc
alias rot13='tr "a-zA-Z" "n-za-mN-ZA-M"'
Damn it! Rickrolled with ROT13. I salute you.
Yahoo provides IMAP as well. It's free.
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mobi...
http://gopher.floodgap.com/gop...
That has an http to gopher proxy, and is the home of OverbiteFF which is a Firefox extension that adds gopher support back to it. First "met" floodgap and OverbiteFF's owner/creator back on comp.sys.cbm.
So is gopher.quux.org now the only gopher server left in the entire universe?
No.
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1...