Just like Id mainly makes stuff for other companies to license, Valve has come up with something really good to sell to other companies. I work at an games centre & these are two annoying scenerios we face: update for a game comes out or a new game is released & needs to be installed. With everything but Steam there is a hassle of getting copies, fighting with cdkeys & cd-checks & doing the actually installations on the 50+ game machines. Its a nightmare. With Steam & the CafeAdminServer from Valve it all just happens. Our pre-load of HL2 didn't start until about 12 hours ago. It went on during a very busy Saturday morning, no complaints, no lag, no problems. HL2 really did just magically appear on the machines. And when they patch it, it will just happen. You don't notice except that bugs are just suddenly fixed.
CS is crap as far as realism goes. Its fun, but that is it. If you want realism play RogueSpear. I play it at the game centre where I work for a kick every now and again, but for any longer than an hour it bores me. And after how many years the AWP (shouldn't it be AWM?) is still too dominant.
But the good thing with CS:Source Beta is the physics. It bodes very well for HL2 & associated mods. And the fact that it runs very well on machines that Doom3 was totally unplayable on. Bodes very well.
I don't seem to remember fighting one monster per room in Doom/2. I remember hordes of the buggers and mowing them down with utter glee. Its like they couldn't afford to pay the monsters so they had to make cut-backs.
I wish iD would just admit that they aren't a games company but rather a graphics engine company and get on with it.
I really hate to have to tell people this, but id doesn't make games for you. They make graphics engines to license to other companies. Doom3 is the demo of their latest product. It is expected to be a standard of graphics capabilities for a few years, until their next one comes out, so of course it will chug on your mid-range machine.
That being said I'm enjoying Doom3, about 12 hours into it on Normal difficulty. Anyone complaining about stupid AI is probably playing it on easy so they can breeze through it and say they've played it.
Here's a thought. Maybe they don't make games for people who play them 10 hours a day & see the lack of secondary fire as a fatal game destroying flaw. Maybe they make games for people who play them for fun. You know, fun, sit down for a few hours & have a bash after work.
Well after the last year or so of WorldWar2 & current world crisis team shooters (everything from Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Battlefield, America's Army, Joint Ops and back again) I'm quite looking forward to a scary bloodbath with demons. As far as upgrading to play, I'll wait a few months until semester is over & play the XBox version.
I call it 'dumb gameplay'. R6 has heartbeat sensors etc for a reason, to allow planning: determine location of terrorists, make a plan, execute plan. *That* is smart gameplay.
Does anyone have a source of information concerning the SETI project's search criteria or methodology?
I was just wondering since it occurred to me that since we have no idea what a more advanced civilisation might be using to communicate we might be best trying to listen for signals in response to our own radio leakage. Therefore we shouldn't be looking any further than 25lightyears or so,50 years of high power radio = 25 years out & then signal return time of another 25. And expanding the search over time.
I mean if they are just systimatically searching every system I would rather donate my CPU time to something else.
While using my desktop machine as an inpromtu router for our cable-modem, I was playing around with linux-from-scratch and did del/dev/* instead of del dev/*. Firstly tried to stick the Redhat CD in to reinstall the dev RPM, no/dev/cdrom arrgghhh!!!. Then downloaded the RPM from the redhat site and installed it. My roommate meantime is still playing CS online and didn't even notice that anything happened. Try that under Windows !!!;-)
Oh and I wouldn't put much faith in www.cybercafes.com as it lists "cafe escape" which was owned by my current boss. It closed down almost 4 years ago.
I'm posting this from the internet cafe/gaming centre where I work and we charge a maximum rate of $3.40AU an hour. This is about 50c to $1 less than most places in the same city, this is in the CBD only as I don't know about the outer suburbs.
I don't put much faith in this gentleman's research methods.
"When IE 4.x and higher starts, it reads the registry to locate installed BHO's and then loads them into the memory space for IE."
So if I write protect this section of the registry so no user can write to it then IE will never load the BHOs? I starting to think that read-only for the entire "\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer" might be a good idea.
FYI: I work at an internet gaming cafe, I don't think I've ever seen so much spyware:(
You mean it won't be possible to make a living from just playing games. Oh my god. You mean you will have to do something that might benefit society in someway?!?!?! Now if only we can get people to stop watching normal sports & reality TV too.
So the beef is with DVD region encoding & how governments let companies mistreat consumers by dividing markets. This is what should be addressed. If you demand a feature that you might be using for legal purposes but that 95% of the population will use for warez you are not going to get it, and perhaps rightfully so.
Myself I'm planning on buying a dual-layer DVD writer to re-encode what I buy from overseas.
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Just like Id mainly makes stuff for other companies to license, Valve has come up with something really good to sell to other companies. I work at an games centre & these are two annoying scenerios we face: update for a game comes out or a new game is released & needs to be installed. With everything but Steam there is a hassle of getting copies, fighting with cdkeys & cd-checks & doing the actually installations on the 50+ game machines. Its a nightmare. With Steam & the CafeAdminServer from Valve it all just happens. Our pre-load of HL2 didn't start until about 12 hours ago. It went on during a very busy Saturday morning, no complaints, no lag, no problems. HL2 really did just magically appear on the machines. And when they patch it, it will just happen. You don't notice except that bugs are just suddenly fixed.
Steam was just ahead of its time.
CS is crap as far as realism goes. Its fun, but that is it. If you want realism play RogueSpear. I play it at the game centre where I work for a kick every now and again, but for any longer than an hour it bores me. And after how many years the AWP (shouldn't it be AWM?) is still too dominant.
But the good thing with CS:Source Beta is the physics. It bodes very well for HL2 & associated mods. And the fact that it runs very well on machines that Doom3 was totally unplayable on. Bodes very well.
I don't seem to remember fighting one monster per room in Doom/2. I remember hordes of the buggers and mowing them down with utter glee. Its like they couldn't afford to pay the monsters so they had to make cut-backs.
I wish iD would just admit that they aren't a games company but rather a graphics engine company and get on with it.
forget I asked. Perhaps I should RTFComments as well as the article.
whats the vehicle test map called?
XBox MMORPG's now that we can type in them?
I really hate to have to tell people this, but id doesn't make games for you. They make graphics engines to license to other companies. Doom3 is the demo of their latest product. It is expected to be a standard of graphics capabilities for a few years, until their next one comes out, so of course it will chug on your mid-range machine.
That being said I'm enjoying Doom3, about 12 hours into it on Normal difficulty. Anyone complaining about stupid AI is probably playing it on easy so they can breeze through it and say they've played it.
Here's a thought. Maybe they don't make games for people who play them 10 hours a day & see the lack of secondary fire as a fatal game destroying flaw. Maybe they make games for people who play them for fun. You know, fun, sit down for a few hours & have a bash after work.
Well after the last year or so of WorldWar2 & current world crisis team shooters (everything from Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Battlefield, America's Army, Joint Ops and back again) I'm quite looking forward to a scary bloodbath with demons. As far as upgrading to play, I'll wait a few months until semester is over & play the XBox version.
redirects all their searches to sitefinder....
I call it 'dumb gameplay'. R6 has heartbeat sensors etc for a reason, to allow planning: determine location of terrorists, make a plan, execute plan. *That* is smart gameplay.
kill them all and let god sort them out!
IHNSTMY but don't the robots have lots of transparent plastics? so maybe it should have been iRobot?
Does anyone have a source of information concerning the SETI project's search criteria or methodology?
I was just wondering since it occurred to me that since we have no idea what a more advanced civilisation might be using to communicate we might be best trying to listen for signals in response to our own radio leakage. Therefore we shouldn't be looking any further than 25lightyears or so,50 years of high power radio = 25 years out & then signal return time of another 25. And expanding the search over time.
I mean if they are just systimatically searching every system I would rather donate my CPU time to something else.
nothing but the rain ;-)
While using my desktop machine as an inpromtu router for our cable-modem, I was playing around with linux-from-scratch and did del /dev/* instead of del dev/*. Firstly tried to stick the Redhat CD in to reinstall the dev RPM, no /dev/cdrom arrgghhh!!!. Then downloaded the RPM from the redhat site and installed it. My roommate meantime is still playing CS online and didn't even notice that anything happened. Try that under Windows !!! ;-)
Oh and I wouldn't put much faith in www.cybercafes.com as it lists "cafe escape" which was owned by my current boss. It closed down almost 4 years ago.
$10 an hour???
I'm posting this from the internet cafe/gaming centre where I work and we charge a maximum rate of $3.40AU an hour. This is about 50c to $1 less than most places in the same city, this is in the CBD only as I don't know about the outer suburbs.
I don't put much faith in this gentleman's research methods.
"When IE 4.x and higher starts, it reads the registry to locate installed BHO's and then loads them into the memory space for IE."
:(
So if I write protect this section of the registry so no user can write to it then IE will never load the BHOs? I starting to think that read-only for the entire "\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer" might be a good idea.
FYI: I work at an internet gaming cafe, I don't think I've ever seen so much spyware
You mean it won't be possible to make a living from just playing games. Oh my god. You mean you will have to do something that might benefit society in someway?!?!?! Now if only we can get people to stop watching normal sports & reality TV too.
ok once and for all.
All the emacs & vi people behind the mall at 8.
There can be only one!!!
>>OTOH, "Tabby", "Calico"
Should I call my lawyer now then?
XP-Pro detects my old ET4000 as a "386 processor" & demands drivers or else.
>>Windows supports almost every known video card out of the box
http://www.gamespy.com/gdc2003/korean/
I would have thought they were undead.
So the beef is with DVD region encoding & how governments let companies mistreat consumers by dividing markets. This is what should be addressed. If you demand a feature that you might be using for legal purposes but that 95% of the population will use for warez you are not going to get it, and perhaps rightfully so.
Myself I'm planning on buying a dual-layer DVD writer to re-encode what I buy from overseas.