More to the point we don't know when this archive is. It's the Zion archive so we assume that humans survive, and perhaps its a long time after the machines have been defeated and we have the hindsight to realise that it was all our own fault. Or maybe the machines just like to keep copies of everything, even the human's zion archive.
Of course there is the fact that the machines keep humans conscious in the matrix, why not grow us as vegetables... it would solve a lot of problems.
Well both Redhat and Mandrake prompt you to create non-root users during install so it is possible to never login as root and only su
The big difference is that the idea is old and well entrenched in unix but only new in win*. So there is little win software that can take advantage of it so limited access users have less utility for everyday use, particularly if you want to play games, although this is changing.
um, I live in Brisbane Australia and in the CDB alone there are at least three places with 50-100 machines with comfy seats, broadband, food and the latest games.
Whats the big deal? Oh I see they have a big spectator screen. Who is going to be watching? Are you going to charge people to watch other people play? It is not the same as conventional sport. Watching gamers is only interesting for other gamers. How much football do you think there would be on TV if only pro players enjoyed watching it?
Seriously though I work at a internet/games cafe in Brisbane Australia and there are about 12-15 people that have started playing it there since I put it on a few machines last week. It is still unbalanced and some things don't fit right, but it does suit many different players and styles, and can only get better. I have people playing this that have always hated FPS and only ever played RTS, and they are becoming good FPS players now.
maybe if hw recognition wasn't so much slower and less effecient than typing then OSS developers would do something. But the fact of the matter is that its just an idea that is easy to sell cause a lot of people (changing now) can't type or don't want to learn. It just isn't a better way to input data.
OSS doesn't quite seem able to quickly develop ideas that have no real substance to them.
While I'm posting I might as well point out the flaw in the MS site's analogy of StarTrek PADDs. I don't think I've ever seen a ST character use a PADD for any purpose other than giving data like a report or cargo manifest to another character. I've never seen a character actually produce work on one. They appear to be little else than digital paper rather than portable computers.
Someone should send them a story on how having all those MS-Tax copies of windows from bought PCs is great when company drops around cause you have lots of extra drink coasters.
"Do you have an idea for a story? We'd love to hear from you. How have you used Microsoft software to make your home or work life easier, more fun, faster, or simpler? Submit your ideas, and you could get published on the Insider Web site! Submit Your Idea Today!"
If it is true that women are more relationship focussed than men then we need to build games that take this into account. What is a relationship? Interaction of different characters. So instead of one character that does everything for the entire game, how about changing from character to character (even from the good guys to the bad guys) and have this affect the gameplay. Having equal ammounts of gameplay for the hero, his romantic interest, the side kick, the evil villian, the clueless henchmen etc shows you more sides of the story and how their actions affect each other. Maybe even generate sympathy for the 'villian' cause they have justification for their actions, even though they must be stopped. Think about movies that you like, how many of them are only about one character that doesn't interact with other characters?
Its not that games are male-focused with violence and competition but they are EGO-FOCUSED. One character all the time who does everything himself and doesn't need anyone else. A team is a relationship and an excellent storytelling method, especially a team created by forcing people with old conflicts together by circumstance (like ex-lovers, childhood rivals, old enemies etc). Have some mission objectives that conflict with the overall aim just so one character can get back at one of the others because of something that happened 10 years ago. Petty differences and childish arguments.
We don't have (many) games like this because it takes time, effort and talent to create a good story and characters like this. Its just easier and quicker to have some gungho meat-heat run from point A to B to C, blow/stab/punch/fireball everything in sight, and then tack on a few cut scenes of 'story' as to why he had to do this.
By the way I remember playing the first tomb-raider (when I bought my first computer) and I think that Natla (the villian(ess?)) was a much more interesting and developed character than Lara.
just wait till they find the landed cylinders and the fighting machines climbout and start laying waste. Then I guess we'll have to run to Saddam to get some of his biological weapons to fight them.;-)
I'm still running 7.3 cause I don't have the bandwidth or the cash at the moment so I'm wondering...
While I understand that gnome and kde apps are available on each others menus with generic names such as 'webbrowser' and 'email client' I've only actually heard of gnome apps in place of kde ones so I'm wondering what kde apps have 'privleged' status on gnome's menus?
excellent original background - check sexy, tough, butt kicking heroine - check great 3d graphics - check story driven action - check support for the platform I just spent $2000au for - DOH!!!
probably stupid question as apache on linux may include the same modules, but just in case I will ask. What do people recommend (module wise) for running a webdav server on linux for mac users to access? What is the most compatiable and does Linux apache ship with the same modules as OSX or is their webdav one of their own?
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safari at least a minimal codebase and bot a lot of browser cruft
>>I'm sure it wouldn't take Mozilla developers so
>>long if they started from an old, working
>>codebase, made it for just one platform,
More to the point we don't know when this archive is. It's the Zion archive so we assume that humans survive, and perhaps its a long time after the machines have been defeated and we have the hindsight to realise that it was all our own fault. Or maybe the machines just like to keep copies of everything, even the human's zion archive.
Of course there is the fact that the machines keep humans conscious in the matrix, why not grow us as vegetables... it would solve a lot of problems.
and when you click on a slashdotted link... "SITE DENIED!!!"
Well both Redhat and Mandrake prompt you to create non-root users during install so it is possible to never login as root and only su
The big difference is that the idea is old and well entrenched in unix but only new in win*. So there is little win software that can take advantage of it so limited access users have less utility for everyday use, particularly if you want to play games, although this is changing.
Won't be a problem. When you send an email from Outlook.NET it will automatically bill your passport.NET account. No fuss. ;-)
hello? Age of Mythology anyone?
um, I live in Brisbane Australia and in the CDB alone there are at least three places with 50-100 machines with comfy seats, broadband, food and the latest games.
Whats the big deal? Oh I see they have a big spectator screen. Who is going to be watching? Are you going to charge people to watch other people play? It is not the same as conventional sport. Watching gamers is only interesting for other gamers. How much football do you think there would be on TV if only pro players enjoyed watching it?
CyberRoom, 25 Adelaide Street in the City - neon sign can't miss it.
I work on the weekends but am often in during the week playing as tabby_cat.
woo-hoo, my first posted story ;-)
Seriously though I work at a internet/games cafe in Brisbane Australia and there are about 12-15 people that have started playing it there since I put it on a few machines last week. It is still unbalanced and some things don't fit right, but it does suit many different players and styles, and can only get better. I have people playing this that have always hated FPS and only ever played RTS, and they are becoming good FPS players now.
is that the site returns a 'slashdotted page' instead of a 404 error
maybe if hw recognition wasn't so much slower and less effecient than typing then OSS developers would do something. But the fact of the matter is that its just an idea that is easy to sell cause a lot of people (changing now) can't type or don't want to learn. It just isn't a better way to input data.
OSS doesn't quite seem able to quickly develop ideas that have no real substance to them.
While I'm posting I might as well point out the flaw in the MS site's analogy of StarTrek PADDs. I don't think I've ever seen a ST character use a PADD for any purpose other than giving data like a report or cargo manifest to another character. I've never seen a character actually produce work on one. They appear to be little else than digital paper rather than portable computers.
think note*BOOK*
other people learn from my mistakes. Does that count? ;-)
Someone should send them a story on how having all those MS-Tax copies of windows from bought PCs is great when company drops around cause you have lots of extra drink coasters.
"Do you have an idea for a story? We'd love to hear from you. How have you used Microsoft software to make your home or work life easier, more fun, faster, or simpler? Submit your ideas, and you could get published on the Insider Web site! Submit Your Idea Today!"
If it is true that women are more relationship focussed than men then we need to build games that take this into account. What is a relationship? Interaction of different characters. So instead of one character that does everything for the entire game, how about changing from character to character (even from the good guys to the bad guys) and have this affect the gameplay. Having equal ammounts of gameplay for the hero, his romantic interest, the side kick, the evil villian, the clueless henchmen etc shows you more sides of the story and how their actions affect each other. Maybe even generate sympathy for the 'villian' cause they have justification for their actions, even though they must be stopped. Think about movies that you like, how many of them are only about one character that doesn't interact with other characters?
Its not that games are male-focused with violence and competition but they are EGO-FOCUSED. One character all the time who does everything himself and doesn't need anyone else. A team is a relationship and an excellent storytelling method, especially a team created by forcing people with old conflicts together by circumstance (like ex-lovers, childhood rivals, old enemies etc). Have some mission objectives that conflict with the overall aim just so one character can get back at one of the others because of something that happened 10 years ago. Petty differences and childish arguments.
We don't have (many) games like this because it takes time, effort and talent to create a good story and characters like this. Its just easier and quicker to have some gungho meat-heat run from point A to B to C, blow/stab/punch/fireball everything in sight, and then tack on a few cut scenes of 'story' as to why he had to do this.
By the way I remember playing the first tomb-raider (when I bought my first computer) and I think that Natla (the villian(ess?)) was a much more interesting and developed character than Lara.
just wait till they find the landed cylinders and the fighting machines climbout and start laying waste. Then I guess we'll have to run to Saddam to get some of his biological weapons to fight them. ;-)
actually it reminds me more of a StyleXP theme called Rhodium (I think)
whats wrong with
disk1 - workstation installs and tools/utilties
disk2 - servers
disk3 - additional apps
That way i could just grab disk one and install apache from source? I guess that makes way too much sense.
I'm still running 7.3 cause I don't have the bandwidth or the cash at the moment so I'm wondering ...
While I understand that gnome and kde apps are available on each others menus with generic names such as 'webbrowser' and 'email client' I've only actually heard of gnome apps in place of kde ones so I'm wondering what kde apps have 'privleged' status on gnome's menus?
I did a quick search and this is the oldest I can find: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=64184&sid=1339 4
That was in 2001, how far back to slashdot's archives go?
Thank goodness spends so much money on innovation research. Without them we would never have known that bigger monitors are better.
Well if the GPL was good enough for ID...
And armagetron has gltron beat hands down.
News for Zergs. Stuff that slithers.
excellent original background - check
sexy, tough, butt kicking heroine - check
great 3d graphics - check
story driven action - check
support for the platform I just spent $2000au for - DOH!!!
probably stupid question as apache on linux may include the same modules, but just in case I will ask. What do people recommend (module wise) for running a webdav server on linux for mac users to access? What is the most compatiable and does Linux apache ship with the same modules as OSX or is their webdav one of their own?