Because that music gets repetetive and takes up a lot of space. Take a game like a modern Final Fantasy. Most people have 72hr or so games of that (not in a row of course, but still.) ~2hrs of music starts to get very repetitive. If the music was constantly changing ever so slightly, it would keep the game feeling fresh. Especially if you do what max payne (among others) did by having music get more intense during intense parts of the game (think about to enter a room with 5 people in it)
"I would've been interested in their head-to-head games if they'd shown more of the game, tactics, strategies, etc, and less of the two hosts."
I couldn't agree more. I'd like to see them give shows to active people in the gaming community like GotFrag.com. Maybe even cover some big name CS competitions? When all the coverage a $100k competition gets is a 45second mention, your priorities are wrong.
Right now CPL is going on, I'd like to see them cutting in on whatever filler show they're playing now to give updates (who won what match, what exciting/unusual things happened like ace rounds)
Of course you won't be profitable, if you're buying your bandwidth 1.5mbit at a time you're going to get charged an assload. Now try buying 3gbits(about what they have in austin.rr.com) and compare the price per mbit. Yeah. Its a lot easier this way.
If they don't want us using it, tell us BEFORE we exceed it. Not that I've ever had a problem with roadrunner, the fact that its owned by the same people that might one day be streaming video (as AOL is wanting to do now) means they understand that people not only demand bandwidth, but deserve it.
"MS does not have any way of playing back MP3s "builtin to the OS"."
Yes, They do. Windows Media Player (Part of the Microsoft Windows System, as they proved to a court) plays them. It actually is pretty embeded, if you click on an mp3 file or are in a dir filled with mp3s there is a 'play all' button on the left, or play song if only one is highlighted. All of the 'Sort By' stuff becomes ID3 info (which is annoying, I wan't to sort my mp3s by creation date.)
I'm pretty sure it was duped, but it was all gained from trading. The worst part was they didnt actually delete the account, just the characters. Since when did they start deleting chars? From what I've read at worst dupes would be deleted, but chars remain intact.
I started playing again when 1.10 beta was released, but offline (with an offline backup of my old char), an blizzard really makes some fine games, but stuff like that and the fact that their copyprotection was nothing but problems for mereally makes them a company I don't want to buy from.
It was a shared account between me and a friend, we had it for dueling (player vs player). One amazon with a.08(old version, better stats) winforce(best bow) with a 40% increased attack speed/20% enhanced damage jeewel in it, a perfect vampire gaze helmut with another 40/20 in it, best belt, best shoes, best everything. And that was just the first char. There was also a barberian with equally good items, and we were working on a sorceress. All of the items were great, but nothing that couldnt drop(as in, no items that someone had to manually create and upload to the server via one of the many exploits).
As a former Diablo2 player, No they shouldn't. I say former, because once they deleted my characters for being too godly, I stopped playing.
If anything, they should roll back the update and restore their old backup. You'll piss a lot of people off, but only mildly as opposed to REALLY pissing off the money hoarders. Not to mention the fact that generally you wouldnt keep that much goods on a single char unless you were playing with it - If you're selling, you spread it out into 5 or 6 mule accounts.
Pretend you're really lazy. Now, instead of finishing a word, just say izzle. For example, the phrase 'the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog' becomes 'the quizzle brizzle fizzle jumpizzled the lizzle dizzle'
Leave a few words intact so it almsot makes sense, and the reader just guesses the rest.
Exactly. Thats why you shouldn't jusy grab 5-CURRENT. At any time it could be completely broken, as it is the development branch. Sure its mostly safe near RC's, but any other time its a crapshoot.
"they changed the warp pads from pentagrams to Star Trek symbols so as not to offend over here. "
This is why we need more companies like IDSoft. IMO, ID really is the best game company ever. Rather than worrying about offending people, they worry about making a fun game thats worth playing. For the record, Quake had powerups called 'Pentagram of Protection', it was a floating pentagram that if you got it you would glow red and have godmode for about 15 seconds, during which time your armor value will read 666
You mean kids parents. Most people under the age of 14 still have their parents buy their games. Even up until 16 thats usually true. By 16, I think a few guns and some booby jiggle shouldnt be enough to scar you for life.
"some scroll mice have the problem that the wheel will generate scroll events when the scroll wheel is clicked"
Its worse than that, even when not even touching the wheel HalfLife will randomly register an event, which is a real pain considering I have my mousewheel down set to switch to a flashbang and mousewheel up set to switch to a grenade, so out of nowhere in the middle of a fire fight I'll be force to pull out a grenade, leaving me unable to shoot for about 500ms, enough time to get shot in the face:/
I think what the original poster intended was for that 10 years to drop significantly. Think about computers 10 years ago, and how much we still use: x86, tcp/ip, some random ibm patents contrast this to how much has failed. Generally after about 4 years any neat idea isnt profitable, even 2 years would be fine.
I personally would like to see software patents have a choice of:
submit full working sourcetree, source is released with the patent expiration after 5 years. No source, Patent expires after 8 months.
Just give it a year, Doom3 is in no hurry to be released:/
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Can't help you on the book, but I'd advise you to aim for O'Rielly rather than the 'Learn $X in 24 hrs' type books.
I did want to reply to a sepcific comment, though, "One of the reasons why I don't use Linux is because of this. It's not about fearing change as much as I know how windows works to the point I can set in up in under an hour rather than mess with linux for days."
This really depends on your definition of 'set up'. You could pop in a knoppix cd and be done with knx-hdinstall in about 20minutes and have a fully working linux system, but thats not really set up as to my definition. When I setup a linux box, I configure it exactly how I want, everything from login configs to disable local passwords, shell configs to setup everything how I want, IP QoS configs so my downloads don't kill my ping in quake or SSH, SSH public keys so I don't need to retype a password everywhere,/etc/hosts so I can login to my servers without typing the full hostname, and plenty more. Its a process that takes the lifespan of your install, but generally you're satisfied after a week or so, but when I recently tried windows 2003 I found that it was the same experience -- a week or so to have things how you want it, but still a while longer to fine tune everything (each little apps preferences, installing all of the third party software you need, hunting down serial numbers, the relative[to linux] mess that is drivers/hardware) All of this stuff is optional configuration, but I feel its a required step for setting up your machine.
One thing I can suggest though is if you're going to dual boot, use ext2 or ext3fs, and look into the 'ext2fsd' project. Mounts an ext2 filesystem in windows, defaults to ReadOnly but can be setup to write also. Very useful.
I'd rather see someone work a better interface on to Mplayer than porting xmms. XMMS always was just a winamp clone, sure it addes some innovative features, but at its heart you can see winamp2 all over it.
mplayer on the other hand would make a great base, it already decodes everything you can think of with more options than you'll ever need, just throw a pretty gui on it and some playlist management and you'd have a great alternative.
I wouldn't/don't mind HTML email as much so long as A) It is perfectly validating html B) It is clearly marked as html mail with a MIME type, in addition to a plain text version my mail client can display instead.
The only problem is you're still left with the 5-10k mail(instead of 500bytes or so) in your inbox, so as the original poster suggested this should be something addressed. On a protocol level, you could have a message type handshake after you specify sender, eg >TO feedback@goatse.cx >MAILTYPE html-traditional xhtml txt rtf doc
is sent to server and is from server).
Some system like that would help a lot, for those that didn't follow, the client tells the server which types of mail it can send, server tells client which one it wants.
Faster, More trusted (SGI's been using it for how many years now?), not sure how it compares cpu-wise. The main thing that keeps me on ext3 is ext2 backwards compatability. You dont have to worry about having custom repair/bootdisks to recognize your install, and its easier to do stuff like mount under windows (great for dual booting)
They pushed a press release too early with some inaccuracies. The latest news says it was NOT a member of the clan, just a friend. Its unclear if it was the clan telling him to shoot or if it was just more friends.
Also for the record, not that it matters, ClanBZ is the ones involved. TeamBZ is just a group of friends that play together. Slight difference, but if you feel like harassing them make sure you get the right clan. *mumbles something about irc.gamesnet.net #clanbz *
NVidia will probably have official drivers the day 2.6.0 ships. Currently their 2.4 drivers work with minor patching, they just have a policy on not supporting development kernels (which -test applies as, i guess)
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Because that music gets repetetive and takes up a lot of space. Take a game like a modern Final Fantasy. Most people have 72hr or so games of that (not in a row of course, but still.) ~2hrs of music starts to get very repetitive. If the music was constantly changing ever so slightly, it would keep the game feeling fresh. Especially if you do what max payne (among others) did by having music get more intense during intense parts of the game (think about to enter a room with 5 people in it)
"I would've been interested in their head-to-head games if they'd shown more of the game, tactics, strategies, etc, and less of the two hosts."
I couldn't agree more. I'd like to see them give shows to active people in the gaming community like GotFrag.com.
Maybe even cover some big name CS competitions? When all the coverage a $100k competition gets is a 45second mention, your priorities are wrong.
Right now CPL is going on, I'd like to see them cutting in on whatever filler show they're playing now to give updates (who won what match, what exciting/unusual things happened like ace rounds)
"Get a T1 and try being an ISP yourself. "
Of course you won't be profitable, if you're buying your bandwidth 1.5mbit at a time you're going to get charged an assload. Now try buying 3gbits(about what they have in austin.rr.com) and compare the price per mbit. Yeah. Its a lot easier this way.
If they don't want us using it, tell us BEFORE we exceed it. Not that I've ever had a problem with roadrunner, the fact that its owned by the same people that might one day be streaming video (as AOL is wanting to do now) means they understand that people not only demand bandwidth, but deserve it.
"MS does not have any way of playing back MP3s "builtin to the OS"."
Yes, They do.
Windows Media Player (Part of the Microsoft Windows System, as they proved to a court) plays them. It actually is pretty embeded, if you click on an mp3 file or are in a dir filled with mp3s there is a 'play all' button on the left, or play song if only one is highlighted. All of the 'Sort By' stuff becomes ID3 info (which is annoying, I wan't to sort my mp3s by creation date.)
I'm pretty sure it was duped, but it was all gained from trading. The worst part was they didnt actually delete the account, just the characters. Since when did they start deleting chars? From what I've read at worst dupes would be deleted, but chars remain intact.
I started playing again when 1.10 beta was released, but offline (with an offline backup of my old char), an blizzard really makes some fine games, but stuff like that and the fact that their copyprotection was nothing but problems for mereally makes them a company I don't want to buy from.
It was a shared account between me and a friend, we had it for dueling (player vs player). One amazon with a .08(old version, better stats) winforce(best bow) with a 40% increased attack speed/20% enhanced damage jeewel in it, a perfect vampire gaze helmut with another 40/20 in it, best belt, best shoes, best everything. And that was just the first char. There was also a barberian with equally good items, and we were working on a sorceress. All of the items were great, but nothing that couldnt drop(as in, no items that someone had to manually create and upload to the server via one of the many exploits).
As a former Diablo2 player, No they shouldn't. I say former, because once they deleted my characters for being too godly, I stopped playing.
If anything, they should roll back the update and restore their old backup. You'll piss a lot of people off, but only mildly as opposed to REALLY pissing off the money hoarders. Not to mention the fact that generally you wouldnt keep that much goods on a single char unless you were playing with it - If you're selling, you spread it out into 5 or 6 mule accounts.
Do you like paying $400 for a couple msecs? Hell, add it up over your programs lifespan and you might get a week or two if you're lucky.
Pretend you're really lazy. Now, instead of finishing a word, just say izzle. For example, the phrase 'the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog' becomes 'the quizzle brizzle fizzle jumpizzled the lizzle dizzle'
Leave a few words intact so it almsot makes sense, and the reader just guesses the rest.
Exactly. Thats why you shouldn't jusy grab 5-CURRENT. At any time it could be completely broken, as it is the development branch. Sure its mostly safe near RC's, but any other time its a crapshoot.
"they changed the warp pads from pentagrams to Star Trek symbols so as not to offend over here. "
This is why we need more companies like IDSoft. IMO, ID really is the best game company ever. Rather than worrying about offending people, they worry about making a fun game thats worth playing. For the record, Quake had powerups called 'Pentagram of Protection', it was a floating pentagram that if you got it you would glow red and have godmode for about 15 seconds, during which time your armor value will read 666
You mean kids parents. Most people under the age of 14 still have their parents buy their games. Even up until 16 thats usually true. By 16, I think a few guns and some booby jiggle shouldnt be enough to scar you for life.
To prevent from being sued for slander they should of dropped the last name, so they would be Roger Is An Asshole(RIAA)
"some scroll mice have the problem that the wheel will generate scroll events when the scroll wheel is clicked"
:/
Its worse than that, even when not even touching the wheel HalfLife will randomly register an event, which is a real pain considering I have my mousewheel down set to switch to a flashbang and mousewheel up set to switch to a grenade, so out of nowhere in the middle of a fire fight I'll be force to pull out a grenade, leaving me unable to shoot for about 500ms, enough time to get shot in the face
I think what the original poster intended was for that 10 years to drop significantly. Think about computers 10 years ago, and how much we still use:
x86, tcp/ip, some random ibm patents contrast this to how much has failed. Generally after about 4 years any neat idea isnt profitable, even 2 years would be fine.
I personally would like to see software patents have a choice of:
submit full working sourcetree, source is released with the patent expiration after 5 years.
No source, Patent expires after 8 months.
Just give it a year, Doom3 is in no hurry to be released :/
Can't help you on the book, but I'd advise you to aim for O'Rielly rather than the 'Learn $X in 24 hrs' type books.
/etc/hosts so I can login to my servers without typing the full hostname, and plenty more. Its a process that takes the lifespan of your install, but generally you're satisfied after a week or so, but when I recently tried windows 2003 I found that it was the same experience -- a week or so to have things how you want it, but still a while longer to fine tune everything (each little apps preferences, installing all of the third party software you need, hunting down serial numbers, the relative[to linux] mess that is drivers/hardware) All of this stuff is optional configuration, but I feel its a required step for setting up your machine.
I did want to reply to a sepcific comment, though,
"One of the reasons why I don't use Linux is because of this. It's not about fearing change as much as I know how windows works to the point I can set in up in under an hour rather than mess with linux for days."
This really depends on your definition of 'set up'. You could pop in a knoppix cd and be done with knx-hdinstall in about 20minutes and have a fully working linux system, but thats not really set up as to my definition. When I setup a linux box, I configure it exactly how I want, everything from login configs to disable local passwords, shell configs to setup everything how I want, IP QoS configs so my downloads don't kill my ping in quake or SSH, SSH public keys so I don't need to retype a password everywhere,
One thing I can suggest though is if you're going to dual boot, use ext2 or ext3fs, and look into the 'ext2fsd' project. Mounts an ext2 filesystem in windows, defaults to ReadOnly but can be setup to write also. Very useful.
And you get to go singleuser every time you want to make a software upgrade.
I'd rather see someone work a better interface on to Mplayer than porting xmms. XMMS always was just a winamp clone, sure it addes some innovative features, but at its heart you can see winamp2 all over it.
mplayer on the other hand would make a great base, it already decodes everything you can think of with more options than you'll ever need, just throw a pretty gui on it and some playlist management and you'd have a great alternative.
I wouldn't/don't mind HTML email as much so long as A) It is perfectly validating html
B) It is clearly marked as html mail with a MIME type, in addition to a plain text version my mail client can display instead.
The only problem is you're still left with the 5-10k mail(instead of 500bytes or so) in your inbox, so as the original poster suggested this should be something addressed.
On a protocol level, you could have a message type handshake after you specify sender, eg
>TO feedback@goatse.cx
>MAILTYPE html-traditional xhtml txt rtf doc
is sent to server and is from server).
Some system like that would help a lot, for those that didn't follow, the client tells the server which types of mail it can send, server tells client which one it wants.
Faster, More trusted (SGI's been using it for how many years now?), not sure how it compares cpu-wise.
The main thing that keeps me on ext3 is ext2 backwards compatability. You dont have to worry about having custom repair/bootdisks to recognize your install, and its easier to do stuff like mount under windows (great for dual booting)
The ironic thing is this wasn't online, this was on lan.
They pushed a press release too early with some inaccuracies. The latest news says it was NOT a member of the clan, just a friend. Its unclear if it was the clan telling him to shoot or if it was just more friends.
Also for the record, not that it matters, ClanBZ is the ones involved. TeamBZ is just a group of friends that play together. Slight difference, but if you feel like harassing them make sure you get the right clan.
*mumbles something about irc.gamesnet.net #clanbz *
Because otherwise someone could post really long lines of text widening the page, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_widening
NVidia will probably have official drivers the day 2.6.0 ships. Currently their 2.4 drivers work with minor patching, they just have a policy on not supporting development kernels (which -test applies as, i guess)