You already lowered your standard when you chose to use linux as a gaming platform. Linux does many things well, gaming is not one of them, especially not windows gaming. Getting proper audio support alone is a crapshoot, I'd say 90%(*) of all linux desktop systems get no more than stereo audio, with one sound source at a time locking the sound (so no mp3s + game, or game + gaim im sounds letting you know you should alttab out and see whos talking to you).
Then theres video support, which has improved a lot thanks to nvidia, but I hear it's still pretty bad for most ati's. Not sure if this has changed, I stopped using ati back in the RageXL days. Either way its never as simple as just shoving the card in and running install.exe off the cd.
Then you have the games themself. Selections improving a lot (Unreal/Doom engines), HL just isnt a linux game, sorry.
To the original poster/grand parent who says Valve took a cross platform game and locked it in, No, No they didn't. HL1 was never cross platform unless you count the week or two they had it running on Macs before they decided it would be more cost efficient to swallow all development costs than to release it and let it fail in the market. See here for reference. If you were refering to Quake being cross platform and HL1 not, then you'd be closer to accurate but still not really, Read the wiki entry for details on the sillyness behind the quake port. For some reason, I doubt that all came with the sdk Valve recieved from idsoft. For that matter, that even predated any 3d accel in quake, so even if Valve could do a software-only linux port based on the code they recieved it would hardly be worth any hours spent testing it or releasing it.
"If you're not interested in building a game from scratch, have you looked into implementing your game as a mod for some already existing game?"
I'd go a step further. Grab quakeworld(preferably a fork like ezquake of ftequake, depending on what you need) learn quakec, and make a mod. Anything you can't do in quakec, mod the client to do. In the end you'll already have real nice netcode and a good overall game base, and have other people adding features you can easily adapt to your game.
While I agree Webb is overrated, her attraction isn't in her appearence. Physically she is attractive, but nothing you wouldn't run into daily at college. Thats part of the attraction though, it makes the random gamerkiddies feel she's more obtainable and 'real', unlike your average hollywood atention-seeking-barbie. Mix in what is seen as an attractive personality(though is really just onscren persona) and you have mass obsession.
As for the majority of your post, I do agree. I wasn't a big fan of G4TV because most of my gaming is computer whereas the show focused more on console, but at least it was true to what it was. Mixing it with techtv just diluted both and ruined what little they had. I liked techtv a lot, and ZDTV even more, but they were nevery very strong channels. Anyone that reads slashdot during the day already knew the news stories The ScreenSavers was going to cover, but we still watched because of the personalities and other things that made it interesting. Once you start messing that up, all you have left is filler. Really, I just touched on why TV based tech or gaming is a downhill medium, and magazines even more so. Due to the internet we mostly all have access to everything interesting as it happens. Unless they can create their own content entirely, they have nothing. Even if they can, they need to be able to hold it until the next airing/publication which is hard when competing with people that publish online instantly. Why wait another month for that preview of a game when you could just download the beta tonight?
I'm just waiting for someone to sell a hacked up mythtv box at a nice price that makes it just as easy to watch downloaded video as it is to watch tv. PVRs really changed tv, now we're used to just looking through our list of recorded shows and picking one to watch. Would anyone really care how it got there? Be it recorded live as you were at work, or downloaded overnight.. The end result is the same.
Now we just need a better system for it all and tv might get real interesting.
Meh, its easy to say suicidal behavior is easy to predict in hindsight, but how many people match all the criteria that people apply to the suicides who are not going to commit suicide?
All automated flagging will do is annoy a lot of people and discourage them from posting anything honest about how they feel. What they really need is someone personally noticing and taking action, not some automated spider ran by someone who could give a fuck about you. Its the same reason guidance councelers don't really help depression in schools -- You know he doesn't care.
Want to do something about it? Start caring about people, and discourage others when they just brush someone off or act with disregard to how it impacts others. It's a social issue that needs a societal fix, not a bot going around perscribing prozac to anyone whos ever had a shitty week, which is where this will end up eventually. It's even more cost effective than the forces mental health screening planned for public schools.
Yeah, but then you're just trading it for Lilo notice spam, screwed up hostname spoofs that goes against the rfc, and other silliness. Why not just have it over MSN Chat if you're going to violate all the relevant standards anyways?
Actually to clarify, about a week ago I downloaded a playboy PDF just to see if I was missing something. Seemed about equiv to the.art porn I used to jerk to in my AOL days (circa age 11 or so). Nowhere near the realness of a good amature webcam stream, or the arousal levels of some real porn (dvdrip stuff). Just seeing a woman standing around naked is far closer to art than porn IMO, and maybe thats what the article was refering to. Of course, thats the common belief in most of the world, US has always just been pretty prude on nudity.
I'm 19 and still havn't seen a porn mag. I do have a good 60 gigs downloaded from empornium alone thoug. If nothing else the internet at least lets us find what we want rather than settling for whats available, whether thats good or bad is debatable
I think at least a few here would be happy with all software forced into public domain. Of course, we might stop releasing our sourcecode, but at least then we wouldnt risk jailtime every time we try to patch a bad 'feature' out of a binary.
Not only that, but any general purpose tool(like cp or mv) are just as good as an editor. And if you deny stuff like that, what do you really have left other than maybe a few custom written administrative apps that you could have left suid anyways?
It seems like a silly timeframe for a star wars show. Jedis when theyre hiding, luke when he doesn't know anything about the force, dark side ruling without any serious opposition.. The way they described it makes it sound like there won't even be any light sabers.
Seems like theyre trying to clone the success of Smallville, except Superman found out his powers on his own-- Luke didn't know about them until taught.
Perfect balance, but individual ability factors in many times-- Being able to accurately time everything (when is this item going to respawn? when do I need to prefire this rocket based on the noise I just heard?), precision (try keeping a lightning shaft on someone.. It's hard. Or juggle someone with rockets, etc), and a form of stamina thats hard to explain -- Most games let you rest at some point, for example at the end/begining of a round, or after a wave of attacks. In deathmatch, if you stop for a second you've made a mistake. You need to constantly be either attacking the other guy, collecting resources(grabbing the weapons/ammo/armor/health as they spawn-- Doesn't matter if you don't need them, you need to deprive your enemy of them).. Actually, if you're only doing one of those things you're going to lose, because this has to be done constantly for the duration of the duel. Sounds easy, but it will leave your mind tired after a full 10 minutes of not even having a second to stop and think, always having to go off instinct. Not only do you need to keep track of your ammo/health/armor, but you need to keep a mental estimate of your enemies, and his current location. It's hard.
The game I'm refering to of course is QuakeWorld from 1998. It's been done.
Offtopic question, Was she at the 'face' of the company? (someone whom customers interact with directly, especially in person but phone would count too).
Its wrongful(morally) either way, but somewhat understandable if customers interacted with her personally. At least, more so than if she was just some webdesign monkey burried in a cube somewhere, for example.
When theres enough money on the line, you become an expert on everything you use to win pretty fast.
For that matter, if you think button mashing will actually doing anything close to productive, you're probably confusing this for an mmorpg. FPS games are all about timing, strategy, reflexes, accuracy, and interpretation of info. You need to be able to distinguish the sound of someone taking a single mis-step and making noise for a 10th of a second and be able to know exactly what to do with it. A good pair of headphones will let you know exactly where they are, a bad pair will give you a general direction for you to mash buttons at.
It might sound like a big name to uninformed buyers, but this kid plays painkiller. He didn't get popular until 2005, and has been a pretty much one trick poney. I'd be more impressed if it was someone like Brian "Destrukt" Flanders, or even the overhyped fatal1ty would know more than vo0.
I don't care how well you do in one game, if you can't adapt to other games then your opinion as a "pro gamer" doesn't extend beyond your field. Someone whos able to rock at multiple games obviously knows a lot more about being good than just a few tricks to one game, and thus I'd give a shit more about their input on headphones/hardware.
With the way the music industry and scene works, its more like
Download.ADVANCED. Listen to it for a few weeks, get tired of it. Get the.RETAIL on tuesday, note that its still not in your local stores. Finally find a copy overpriced at best buy around the time the first single starts getting big. Debate buying it, realise you're already tired of the music since you've listened to it for well over a month now, and just keep what you have.
I don't have the sourcecode to the firmware cablebox, dvd player, OR tv.
My cablebox can be 'upgraded' to stop working at any time by time warner. They've even crippled it in the past -- You used to be able to disable video output on the music channel s before they 'upgraded' it to show ads. Then they added some games for a month or two, then removed them and started promoting it as a new feature for the next model up.
Last I checked, time warner still has millions/billions of subscribers.
Is she hot? Seriously though, I don't think its so much that geeky-coolness is slipping into the mainstream as it is society is becoming somewhat better at intermixing and tollerance instead of just "those are the nerds, we're the preps..We can't talk to them". Afterall, we all adapt to our surroundings. Hang out with the right group of people and you'll subconciously pick up their lingo. You can get non-gamers saying "for the win", "woot" or whatever the phrase of the day is if they spend enough time with you and feel the right way about you. She probably just started hanging out with the slightly-geeky gamer type in school and picked it up off him(or her).
Societal evolution is an interesting thing to follow.
While I agree there are more important issues, if it was made well enough and had the right support your single $100 device could act as every book, pen, and pencil needed for a long time. Even one per group of kids, 3-5 per group.. You could save a lot of money compared to axing a bunch of trees. But then again I have to wonder why they would be doing this first rather than us, who would make a much better test market.
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In 6 years, I'd probably still take it assuming its still working. :(
You already lowered your standard when you chose to use linux as a gaming platform. Linux does many things well, gaming is not one of them, especially not windows gaming.
Getting proper audio support alone is a crapshoot, I'd say 90%(*) of all linux desktop systems get no more than stereo audio, with one sound source at a time locking the sound (so no mp3s + game, or game + gaim im sounds letting you know you should alttab out and see whos talking to you).
Then theres video support, which has improved a lot thanks to nvidia, but I hear it's still pretty bad for most ati's. Not sure if this has changed, I stopped using ati back in the RageXL days. Either way its never as simple as just shoving the card in and running install.exe off the cd.
Then you have the games themself. Selections improving a lot (Unreal/Doom engines), HL just isnt a linux game, sorry.
To the original poster/grand parent who says Valve took a cross platform game and locked it in, No, No they didn't.
HL1 was never cross platform unless you count the week or two they had it running on Macs before they decided it would be more cost efficient to swallow all development costs than to release it and let it fail in the market. See here for reference.
If you were refering to Quake being cross platform and HL1 not, then you'd be closer to accurate but still not really, Read the wiki entry for details on the sillyness behind the quake port. For some reason, I doubt that all came with the sdk Valve recieved from idsoft. For that matter, that even predated any 3d accel in quake, so even if Valve could do a software-only linux port based on the code they recieved it would hardly be worth any hours spent testing it or releasing it.
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"If you're not interested in building a game from scratch, have you looked into implementing your game as a mod for some already existing game?"
I'd go a step further. Grab quakeworld(preferably a fork like ezquake of ftequake, depending on what you need) learn quakec, and make a mod. Anything you can't do in quakec, mod the client to do. In the end you'll already have real nice netcode and a good overall game base, and have other people adding features you can easily adapt to your game.
While I agree Webb is overrated, her attraction isn't in her appearence. Physically she is attractive, but nothing you wouldn't run into daily at college. Thats part of the attraction though, it makes the random gamerkiddies feel she's more obtainable and 'real', unlike your average hollywood atention-seeking-barbie. Mix in what is seen as an attractive personality(though is really just onscren persona) and you have mass obsession.
As for the majority of your post, I do agree. I wasn't a big fan of G4TV because most of my gaming is computer whereas the show focused more on console, but at least it was true to what it was. Mixing it with techtv just diluted both and ruined what little they had. I liked techtv a lot, and ZDTV even more, but they were nevery very strong channels. Anyone that reads slashdot during the day already knew the news stories The ScreenSavers was going to cover, but we still watched because of the personalities and other things that made it interesting. Once you start messing that up, all you have left is filler. Really, I just touched on why TV based tech or gaming is a downhill medium, and magazines even more so. Due to the internet we mostly all have access to everything interesting as it happens. Unless they can create their own content entirely, they have nothing. Even if they can, they need to be able to hold it until the next airing/publication which is hard when competing with people that publish online instantly. Why wait another month for that preview of a game when you could just download the beta tonight?
I'm just waiting for someone to sell a hacked up mythtv box at a nice price that makes it just as easy to watch downloaded video as it is to watch tv. PVRs really changed tv, now we're used to just looking through our list of recorded shows and picking one to watch. Would anyone really care how it got there? Be it recorded live as you were at work, or downloaded overnight.. The end result is the same.
Now we just need a better system for it all and tv might get real interesting.
Meh, its easy to say suicidal behavior is easy to predict in hindsight, but how many people match all the criteria that people apply to the suicides who are not going to commit suicide?
All automated flagging will do is annoy a lot of people and discourage them from posting anything honest about how they feel. What they really need is someone personally noticing and taking action, not some automated spider ran by someone who could give a fuck about you. Its the same reason guidance councelers don't really help depression in schools -- You know he doesn't care.
Want to do something about it? Start caring about people, and discourage others when they just brush someone off or act with disregard to how it impacts others. It's a social issue that needs a societal fix, not a bot going around perscribing prozac to anyone whos ever had a shitty week, which is where this will end up eventually. It's even more cost effective than the forces mental health screening planned for public schools.
Yeah, but then you're just trading it for Lilo notice spam, screwed up hostname spoofs that goes against the rfc, and other silliness. Why not just have it over MSN Chat if you're going to violate all the relevant standards anyways?
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Actually to clarify, about a week ago I downloaded a playboy PDF just to see if I was missing something. Seemed about equiv to the .art porn I used to jerk to in my AOL days (circa age 11 or so). Nowhere near the realness of a good amature webcam stream, or the arousal levels of some real porn (dvdrip stuff). Just seeing a woman standing around naked is far closer to art than porn IMO, and maybe thats what the article was refering to. Of course, thats the common belief in most of the world, US has always just been pretty prude on nudity.
I'm 19 and still havn't seen a porn mag. I do have a good 60 gigs downloaded from empornium alone thoug. If nothing else the internet at least lets us find what we want rather than settling for whats available, whether thats good or bad is debatable
I think at least a few here would be happy with all software forced into public domain. Of course, we might stop releasing our sourcecode, but at least then we wouldnt risk jailtime every time we try to patch a bad 'feature' out of a binary.
Not only that, but any general purpose tool(like cp or mv) are just as good as an editor. And if you deny stuff like that, what do you really have left other than maybe a few custom written administrative apps that you could have left suid anyways?
It seems like a silly timeframe for a star wars show. Jedis when theyre hiding, luke when he doesn't know anything about the force, dark side ruling without any serious opposition.. The way they described it makes it sound like there won't even be any light sabers.
Seems like theyre trying to clone the success of Smallville, except Superman found out his powers on his own-- Luke didn't know about them until taught.
Attack of the clones, indeed.
Its been done;
Perfect balance, but individual ability factors in many times-- Being able to accurately time everything (when is this item going to respawn? when do I need to prefire this rocket based on the noise I just heard?), precision (try keeping a lightning shaft on someone.. It's hard. Or juggle someone with rockets, etc), and a form of stamina thats hard to explain -- Most games let you rest at some point, for example at the end/begining of a round, or after a wave of attacks. In deathmatch, if you stop for a second you've made a mistake. You need to constantly be either attacking the other guy, collecting resources(grabbing the weapons/ammo/armor/health as they spawn-- Doesn't matter if you don't need them, you need to deprive your enemy of them).. Actually, if you're only doing one of those things you're going to lose, because this has to be done constantly for the duration of the duel. Sounds easy, but it will leave your mind tired after a full 10 minutes of not even having a second to stop and think, always having to go off instinct. Not only do you need to keep track of your ammo/health/armor, but you need to keep a mental estimate of your enemies, and his current location. It's hard.
The game I'm refering to of course is QuakeWorld from 1998. It's been done.
Offtopic question, Was she at the 'face' of the company? (someone whom customers interact with directly, especially in person but phone would count too).
Its wrongful(morally) either way, but somewhat understandable if customers interacted with her personally. At least, more so than if she was just some webdesign monkey burried in a cube somewhere, for example.
When theres enough money on the line, you become an expert on everything you use to win pretty fast.
For that matter, if you think button mashing will actually doing anything close to productive, you're probably confusing this for an mmorpg. FPS games are all about timing, strategy, reflexes, accuracy, and interpretation of info. You need to be able to distinguish the sound of someone taking a single mis-step and making noise for a 10th of a second and be able to know exactly what to do with it. A good pair of headphones will let you know exactly where they are, a bad pair will give you a general direction for you to mash buttons at.
It might sound like a big name to uninformed buyers, but this kid plays painkiller. He didn't get popular until 2005, and has been a pretty much one trick poney.
I'd be more impressed if it was someone like Brian "Destrukt" Flanders, or even the overhyped fatal1ty would know more than vo0.
I don't care how well you do in one game, if you can't adapt to other games then your opinion as a "pro gamer" doesn't extend beyond your field. Someone whos able to rock at multiple games obviously knows a lot more about being good than just a few tricks to one game, and thus I'd give a shit more about their input on headphones/hardware.
With the way the music industry and scene works, its more like
.ADVANCED. Listen to it for a few weeks, get tired of it. .RETAIL on tuesday, note that its still not in your local stores.
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Finally find a copy overpriced at best buy around the time the first single starts getting big. Debate buying it, realise you're already tired of the music since you've listened to it for well over a month now, and just keep what you have.
I don't have the sourcecode to the firmware cablebox, dvd player, OR tv.
My cablebox can be 'upgraded' to stop working at any time by time warner. They've even crippled it in the past -- You used to be able to disable video output on the music channel s before they 'upgraded' it to show ads. Then they added some games for a month or two, then removed them and started promoting it as a new feature for the next model up.
Last I checked, time warner still has millions/billions of subscribers.
Is she hot?
Seriously though, I don't think its so much that geeky-coolness is slipping into the mainstream as it is society is becoming somewhat better at intermixing and tollerance instead of just "those are the nerds, we're the preps..We can't talk to them". Afterall, we all adapt to our surroundings. Hang out with the right group of people and you'll subconciously pick up their lingo. You can get non-gamers saying "for the win", "woot" or whatever the phrase of the day is if they spend enough time with you and feel the right way about you. She probably just started hanging out with the slightly-geeky gamer type in school and picked it up off him(or her).
Societal evolution is an interesting thing to follow.
How many of those redhat installs included firefox?
While I agree there are more important issues, if it was made well enough and had the right support your single $100 device could act as every book, pen, and pencil needed for a long time. Even one per group of kids, 3-5 per group.. You could save a lot of money compared to axing a bunch of trees. But then again I have to wonder why they would be doing this first rather than us, who would make a much better test market.