You've obviously never talked to any serious guitarists. There are many musicians who are still fanatically pro-analog. I'd say all real musicians have at least a little audiophile in them.
Ah, unfortunately, when you take a file that has been compressed in a lossy format, then compress it into another lossy format, you tend to lose a lot of quality.
For example, I once converted Dark Side of the Moon from 320kbps MP3s to ~320kbps OGGs. Certain cymbals sounded very different.
Sorry to respond to myself, but just after I posted this I did think of one thing: CAPTCHA.
How this could be used in a puzzle to render bots entirely useless without annoying the human, I don't know. And certainly, CAPTCHA will eventually be "cracked", though it's effective for the near future.
What I'D like to see personally is something involving a new peripheral gadget that might be gloves, or a wand or something that could sense movement, and could detect somatic components of spells so that you actually had to learn the movements for spells.
Interesting idea. Unfortunately, anything like that can be too easily emulated in software by cheaters. This kind of thing was discussed on the Horizons board way back when (before they redesigned it into a pile of crap), with the proposal of having to solve some kind of puzzle to pick locks, stuff like that. I pointed out that it would be all too easy to intercept the packets describing the puzzle, and send back packets giving the solution. Is there anything that a MMOG could use that actually requires human skill and could not be emulated better by a computer?
LOOM was and still is astonishingly unique. I didn't like it as much as the Monkey Island games, but still...what the hell happened to LucasArts? They've been going downhill fast ever since they decided to end the X-Wing series, I think.
Why would you want to run KDE on Windows. I understand the "because you can" theory (which is cool), but does anyone actually want to do this full time? Why? Why not run Linux or BSD?
I would. I dual-boot, because I have to run Windows for certain purposes (ie, not games). Cygwin is OK, but the way that Windows looks and acts kinda ruins it. I'd love to use KDE's WM on Windows, for consistency with my Linux install if nothing else.
reiserFS is OSS, and though I'm not the authority on the subject, it's supposedly got some really neat stuff goin on for it. perhaps a more knowledgable person could comment on this?
I'm probably not more knowledgeable, but I'll comment anyway:-)
Yeah, Reiser4 is good stuff. Even Reiser3 is much better than NTFS. It's fast and doesn't need to be defragmented. Unfortunately, Reiser4 is so "innovative" that it requires significant changes to the Linux kernel just to work, which is one reason why it's not yet in Linus's kernel.
Indeed. Anyone with an illegal copy will just download a crack anyway. The only people they're annoying are their paying customers. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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Unfortunately, this doesn't work on Linux (due to X11's handling of middle-click, I suppose).
True enough, but do you really want an accurate economy? In a MMOG, maybe, but for a single-player game (even one like Morrowind), it would probably be more tedious than fun.
That just shows how little true interest in bot programming there is. It is less important than correct lighting and shadows.
Amen. I was recently reading Maximum PC (*shudder*), and they responded to a letter from someone commenting on how bad Doom 3 was. Their response amounted to "Oooo, pretty blinkenlights!" I look forward to the day when we've reached a plateau in 3D engines, and game developers can concentrate on actually making good fun games, instead of dull ones that run like molasses on computers that are more 6 months old.
I love Hitman series for stealth and actively encouraging to kill as few as possible, though still there are levels where killing 30-50 enemies is easier than psaaing the level in stealth manner.
Same thing goes for the Thief series. They encourage stealth, obviously, but oftentimes it's too easy and tempting to just pull out your bow and blackjack rather than outwitting the guards.
You're talking huge amounts of research (read: huge amounts of money) before any useful, practical results are produced. Very few private companies have the resources, let alone the desire to fund such a venture. It costs about $1 billion just to develop a new drug, without radical new technology like stem cells. Much, much more fundamental research is needed before any profits can be made.
Yes, that seems to be the rule. However, you can still find a few pop singers that are actually good. One of my guilty pleasures is Anouk (beware: crappy IE-only website). Anouk is Dutch but sings in English. I doubt she writes most of her own stuff, but she really can sing with a unique voice. She even tours with a real, live band.
So it's more than a little pathetic that these "performers" can't even sing live, but not surprising. There's no way you can bounce around like they do and still draw enough oxygen to sing properly.
Ever since buying an iMac with a single bright blue pixel on its LCD, I've resolved to never again buy another LCD that isn't warranted to be 100% defect-free.
Same here. I got a 17" Planar LCD from Dell with a green pixel towards the center. While it's not too annoying for using most applications, it makes DVDs unwatchable. Very, very frustrating.
I'm probably going to be buying a laptop in the near future, and this is one of my biggest concerns. I want to be able to personally inspect the screen for any defects before I buy it. I don't really care about the excuses; selling a defective product is a disgusting practice.
For that matter, why would anyone make an installation system that had GTK as a dependency? Then, it would never look nice under KDE, so why even bother?
Actually, the latest version of gtk-qt is pretty damn good. I think it has the potential to become a "standard" for KDE users once all the little bugs are worked out.
As do the 15 minutes of adverts, followed by 15 minutes of trailers. I paid for my fucking ticket, why do you think you can show me car commercials? Bullshit. I used to go to the movies fairly often; now I just wait and use NetFlix.
Apple's educational discount knocks the price down by $20 to $479. The upgrade to 512MB RAM is just $67, so for $546, you get a 1.25GHz G4 with 512MB DDR333 RAM. I think I'll go with that. All the other upgrades are still a little too expensive.
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You've obviously never talked to any serious guitarists. There are many musicians who are still fanatically pro-analog. I'd say all real musicians have at least a little audiophile in them.
For example, I once converted Dark Side of the Moon from 320kbps MP3s to ~320kbps OGGs. Certain cymbals sounded very different.
How this could be used in a puzzle to render bots entirely useless without annoying the human, I don't know. And certainly, CAPTCHA will eventually be "cracked", though it's effective for the near future.
Interesting idea. Unfortunately, anything like that can be too easily emulated in software by cheaters. This kind of thing was discussed on the Horizons board way back when (before they redesigned it into a pile of crap), with the proposal of having to solve some kind of puzzle to pick locks, stuff like that. I pointed out that it would be all too easy to intercept the packets describing the puzzle, and send back packets giving the solution. Is there anything that a MMOG could use that actually requires human skill and could not be emulated better by a computer?
I don't think so. But I'd love to be wrong.
LOOM was and still is astonishingly unique. I didn't like it as much as the Monkey Island games, but still...what the hell happened to LucasArts? They've been going downhill fast ever since they decided to end the X-Wing series, I think.
Dr. Zoidberg, is that you?
Given that many of the developers are German, I think that's a safe bet.
I would. I dual-boot, because I have to run Windows for certain purposes (ie, not games). Cygwin is OK, but the way that Windows looks and acts kinda ruins it. I'd love to use KDE's WM on Windows, for consistency with my Linux install if nothing else.
I'm probably not more knowledgeable, but I'll comment anyway :-)
Yeah, Reiser4 is good stuff. Even Reiser3 is much better than NTFS. It's fast and doesn't need to be defragmented. Unfortunately, Reiser4 is so "innovative" that it requires significant changes to the Linux kernel just to work, which is one reason why it's not yet in Linus's kernel.
Does it really matter? You seem reasonably intelligent, and you're posting on Slashdot, so you'd probably have no trouble with Fedora or Mandrake.
Indeed. Anyone with an illegal copy will just download a crack anyway. The only people they're annoying are their paying customers. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work on Linux (due to X11's handling of middle-click, I suppose).
True enough, but do you really want an accurate economy? In a MMOG, maybe, but for a single-player game (even one like Morrowind), it would probably be more tedious than fun.
That just shows how little true interest in bot programming there is. It is less important than correct lighting and shadows.
Amen. I was recently reading Maximum PC (*shudder*), and they responded to a letter from someone commenting on how bad Doom 3 was. Their response amounted to "Oooo, pretty blinkenlights!" I look forward to the day when we've reached a plateau in 3D engines, and game developers can concentrate on actually making good fun games, instead of dull ones that run like molasses on computers that are more 6 months old.
Same thing goes for the Thief series. They encourage stealth, obviously, but oftentimes it's too easy and tempting to just pull out your bow and blackjack rather than outwitting the guards.
Python is "open source tech". You're reading too much into this.
You're talking huge amounts of research (read: huge amounts of money) before any useful, practical results are produced. Very few private companies have the resources, let alone the desire to fund such a venture. It costs about $1 billion just to develop a new drug, without radical new technology like stem cells. Much, much more fundamental research is needed before any profits can be made.
So it's more than a little pathetic that these "performers" can't even sing live, but not surprising. There's no way you can bounce around like they do and still draw enough oxygen to sing properly.
Same here. I got a 17" Planar LCD from Dell with a green pixel towards the center. While it's not too annoying for using most applications, it makes DVDs unwatchable. Very, very frustrating.
I'm probably going to be buying a laptop in the near future, and this is one of my biggest concerns. I want to be able to personally inspect the screen for any defects before I buy it. I don't really care about the excuses; selling a defective product is a disgusting practice.
Actually, the latest version of gtk-qt is pretty damn good. I think it has the potential to become a "standard" for KDE users once all the little bugs are worked out.
Ads? What ads?
People working in DOE labs, perhaps?
It doesn't. It simply centralizes it. Think of hydrogen fuel cells as good batteries.
As do the 15 minutes of adverts, followed by 15 minutes of trailers. I paid for my fucking ticket, why do you think you can show me car commercials? Bullshit. I used to go to the movies fairly often; now I just wait and use NetFlix.
It's a bitch to set up, but there are tons of people willing and able to help on the forums and IRC.
Apple's educational discount knocks the price down by $20 to $479. The upgrade to 512MB RAM is just $67, so for $546, you get a 1.25GHz G4 with 512MB DDR333 RAM. I think I'll go with that. All the other upgrades are still a little too expensive.