2) Just accept the fact that PC games means Windows games. This wont change anytime in the near future. Linux just doesnt make even a decent gaming platform, let alone a suitable replacement for Windows and DirectX.
Some of those hulk shots look plain phony. CGI models look great and all, but the motion is always too fluid, too phony.
A big muscleman with green greasepaint would move much more convincingly, Lou Ferigno (sp?) made a more convincing Hulk than an animated model. Roll Big Poppa Pump around in some grass clippings and have him hulk around.
Sometimes the most simple and conventional SFX are the most convincing on screen. CGI is great for aliens and monsters and stuff like that, but there are too many subtleties with human movement that we're all subconciously accustomed to.
Plus, the "making of" documentaries are now just filming a couple nerds sitting in front of a 22 inch monitor looking at wire models.
Earlier in the bible God orders the Israelites to identify their domiciles with lambs blood, so that they wouldnt be affected by the plague of the first born.
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses Exodus 12:7
My point is, you can find a quote to support any point, right or wrong, wise or idiotic, with a bible quote. Look at the KKK, they're all hardcore bible-thumpers.
Re:My voice is my passport.... but i have laryngit
on
No ID Cards in the Future
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Consider the Patriot Act
Ok, I'm considering it.
I can't help but think the Bill of Rights is turning in to what happened to the rights list in Animal Farm.
How?
There's a ton of mention of the Patriot act in every single slashdot article, and how it's so damaging to everyones rights, etc, etc... And slashbot mods always give it a +5 insightful.
But how? Show me an example. Quote the parts of the act that is unconstitutional or denies you your rights.
All that is about security - eg, with SSL your info still makes it out the other end of the tunnel (to visa, paypal, payforporn.com or wherever).
Privacy would be paying for everything in cash, noone knows your real name, or asks any questions when you plunk 100 G-notes down for a shiny new Porsche. As it is now, you sign your name on the sale of contract, and are forced to register and buy insurance using your own name. So much for 'privacy'.
A dirty bomb doesnt have to go KABOOM and rattle all the windows in town. It could be anything that could disperse radioactive dust over a large area.
The article is biased towards "look what the stupid government is doing" like everything else out of San Francisco.
There are other sources of potentially dangerous radiation out there, and being someone who regulary works with fire depts, I know for a fact they want to know everything they can about the factory that just burst into flames.
Your take on the Nintendo/Sony thing is wrong. Nintendo made a deal to let Sony develop the "PlayStation" CD addon for the SNES. Then they dropped them for Phillips. Then they dropped Phillips after Sony threatened to release their own SNES compatible CD playing "PlayStation". Then Nintendo gave up altogether, after watching TG16 and Sega CD fail miserably. Then Sony took the project and made it into Playstation X, which we all know and love (PSX).
Or something like that.
Anyways, dont get to riled up over a Drudge report story. The guy has a habit of taking minor day-to-day corporate memos and blowing them up into the "scoop of the century".
SMB is chatty and slow compared to existing unix solutions like NFS. That sounds double plus redundant to me.
Of course he can speed up his implementation of SMB, because as it is it's an order of magnitude slower than what Win2k does. (As in it takes 10x longer for me to copy the same file to a samba box than it does to a windows box, no matter how much I poke and prod and test different socket options, etc)
Samba only exists for compatibilities sake (to talk to Windows, Apples, Novell, DOS, etc).
Who's working on polishing up that ActiveDirectory and Kerberos stuff so I can continue to use my samba based PDC with WinXP.
It's neat that he's extending the SMB protocol to support some more of the native features of the underlying filesystems.
But I'd wager the lions share of it's user base want samba to replace/supplement Win2k Server, and soon Win2003.
This always happens in open source. Projects get pulled in a new direction before they're completed. Developers always want to work on neat stuff and get bogged down in the academics, and it doesnt produce a truly functional result.
There's nothing that can be done about it, it's his time, his decision. Still, it sure would be nice for samba to be a full member of a Windows 2000 domain.
That outside of the register and slashdot there's no mention of this bug? Google turns up empty, nothing in the MSDN.
Apparently it's affecting few systems, and not every install of SR1a, else it would be major news and be covered by mainstream media, and there'd be a downloadable patch or something.
Could it be some sort of user error? Installing as an unprivelidged user, or using some automated registry cleaner? Or Gator? Gator wrecks a lot of stuff, ya know.
It isnt affecting anything in our office, or any of our clients.
Is it possible that linux zealots are making a mountain out of a molehill? Nah, that's unpossible.
You're right. Plenty of games have been ported to xbox, or from xbox to PC, and it didn't take years or months to do so.
The game isnt out because noone can run it. It's that simple. It still looks like it's going to require a $400 video card to be playable. I'm not talking super enhanced 2048x1024 with every bell and whistle on, I'm talking to get 30fps at 800x600 you'll need a GeForceFX or R9700.
The market for games that require a 300-400 dollar upgrade just ain't there.
I'm reminded of another FPS from years back (cant think of the name of it, but it was some highly touted Jurassic Park thing) that required a P2, when P2's were brand new and most people still had P200/MMX's. It bombed, because noone could play it, and by the time they had a system to play it on - it was old news.
The same thing would happen if Doom 3 came out today. I wouldnt be able to play it. By the time I buy a new video card, Doom 3 would be old news, and I'd never buy it. Because lets face it, FPS games are in a 'flavor of the week' scene.
Perhaps I'm wrong, and they've gotten the engine to scale down to be playable on average systems. But I'm pretty sure that's a major factor in the wait.
Tell your friend to buy a Radeon 9700, as the demo was leaked from an ATI booth at Comdex, and was specifically written to run on that set of hardware. (And multi-cpus as well, I believe it was kludged to run the sound code on a second proc)
I've heard of people getting 20fps with the 9700, with only humble (1.4ghz, 512megs ) system specs.
But this is really the type of question you should pose to the local 0-day w4r3z kiddies.
Their lawsuit against IBM and releasing a linux distro are mutually exclusive.
They claim IBM released trade secrets that were protected by a NDA. (And for all the knee jerk slashdot reaction, that's very much the type of thing IBM would to do hurt a competitor - they ain't saints)
They release a version of linux, but the two dont contradict. If IBM hadn't leaked their stuff, they'd be releasing a linux distro with a handful of proprietary modules, or some code not under GPL. I havent seen this distro, but I wouldnt be surprised if the code they're claim is excluded from the copy of the GPL, pending outcome of this lawsuit.
I know it's addictive to jump up and down and be one of the slashdot "in" crowd (your oxymoron for today), but you can try and look at things objectively and come to your own conclusions.
I mean if Colonel Sanders was suing someone claiming they leaked his "secret blend of herbs and spices", it doesn't mean he's going to stop selling chicken.
And she's the he who came into doubleclick and made peace with the privacy community by changing operations there to protect privacy.
But of course, you have to read the article and generally have a clue what you're talking about to know that. I realize this is slashdot, so carry on ranting.
Slashdot Mirror
1) Buy a gamecube or PS2
2) Just accept the fact that PC games means Windows games. This wont change anytime in the near future. Linux just doesnt make even a decent gaming platform, let alone a suitable replacement for Windows and DirectX.
They can add to their architecture, as they do constantly.
How long until DirectX 9 extensions work in WineX? There's still a ton of DX8 stuff that doesnt work.
The same thing that makes any software project successful:
a win32 port.
Next question please.
- I hate spam spam wastes my whole day!
- spam eats up 999.99999% of my companies bandwidth!
- I use spamassassin! It gets 9999999.9 9 9 9 23 % of all spams!
- I think the government should make people pay for email, that'll end spam!
- People who send spam should go to jail forever
- Why dont you all just relax and accept spam as a downside of a free internet
- I never get spam because I dont sign up for free porn at every opportunity
Superman jumps too (tallest buildings in a single bound). Eventually he just started flying.
I was watching old Superfriends shows on Cartoon Network, apparently Bat Man could fly too.
Oh yeah, and Wonder Woman flies now too in the new Justice League cartoons.
Spiderman doesnt fly, but somehow he can swing above the roofline of a city. Just what does he attach his webs too, birds?
The problem with these cartoons is that they arent realistic.
Some of those hulk shots look plain phony. CGI models look great and all, but the motion is always too fluid, too phony.
A big muscleman with green greasepaint would move much more convincingly, Lou Ferigno (sp?) made a more convincing Hulk than an animated model. Roll Big Poppa Pump around in some grass clippings and have him hulk around.
Sometimes the most simple and conventional SFX are the most convincing on screen. CGI is great for aliens and monsters and stuff like that, but there are too many subtleties with human movement that we're all subconciously accustomed to.
Plus, the "making of" documentaries are now just filming a couple nerds sitting in front of a 22 inch monitor looking at wire models.
That has to be a cutscene, or a publicity shot. I mean how in-game are you going to see yourself walking towards you?
Or do you play as the little alien bug guys?
Either way, it looks far to detailed for an in-game shot, even with "top end" PC hardware.
The mac is not a major gaming platform, nor is linux, nor is DOS, nor BeOS or Novell Netware.
There is only one major platform for gaming on the PC. Dont like it? Buy an xbox. Oops, I mean PS2.
Half No-Life, as an homage to its fan base.
Screw these FPS games. I want a new BattleZone game.
Earlier in the bible God orders the Israelites to identify their domiciles with lambs blood, so that they wouldnt be affected by the plague of the first born.
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses Exodus 12:7
My point is, you can find a quote to support any point, right or wrong, wise or idiotic, with a bible quote. Look at the KKK, they're all hardcore bible-thumpers.
Consider the Patriot Act
Ok, I'm considering it.
I can't help but think the Bill of Rights is turning in to what happened to the rights list in Animal Farm.
How?
There's a ton of mention of the Patriot act in every single slashdot article, and how it's so damaging to everyones rights, etc, etc... And slashbot mods always give it a +5 insightful.
But how? Show me an example. Quote the parts of the act that is unconstitutional or denies you your rights.
How does any of that protect privacy?
All that is about security - eg, with SSL your info still makes it out the other end of the tunnel (to visa, paypal, payforporn.com or wherever).
Privacy would be paying for everything in cash, noone knows your real name, or asks any questions when you plunk 100 G-notes down for a shiny new Porsche. As it is now, you sign your name on the sale of contract, and are forced to register and buy insurance using your own name. So much for 'privacy'.
Space is some scary, dangerous shit. You dont want anything to do with it, trust me.
Finish Doom 3 please.
How would you know?
A dirty bomb doesnt have to go KABOOM and rattle all the windows in town. It could be anything that could disperse radioactive dust over a large area.
The article is biased towards "look what the stupid government is doing" like everything else out of San Francisco.
There are other sources of potentially dangerous radiation out there, and being someone who regulary works with fire depts, I know for a fact they want to know everything they can about the factory that just burst into flames.
...pressing that phone up to your greasy ass cheek gets smudges on it.
I don't think you're using it properly.
Your take on the Nintendo/Sony thing is wrong. Nintendo made a deal to let Sony develop the "PlayStation" CD addon for the SNES. Then they dropped them for Phillips. Then they dropped Phillips after Sony threatened to release their own SNES compatible CD playing "PlayStation". Then Nintendo gave up altogether, after watching TG16 and Sega CD fail miserably. Then Sony took the project and made it into Playstation X, which we all know and love (PSX).
Or something like that.
Anyways, dont get to riled up over a Drudge report story. The guy has a habit of taking minor day-to-day corporate memos and blowing them up into the "scoop of the century".
Well that doesnt make any sense.
SMB is chatty and slow compared to existing unix solutions like NFS. That sounds double plus redundant to me.
Of course he can speed up his implementation of SMB, because as it is it's an order of magnitude slower than what Win2k does. (As in it takes 10x longer for me to copy the same file to a samba box than it does to a windows box, no matter how much I poke and prod and test different socket options, etc)
Samba only exists for compatibilities sake (to talk to Windows, Apples, Novell, DOS, etc).
Who's working on polishing up that ActiveDirectory and Kerberos stuff so I can continue to use my samba based PDC with WinXP.
It's neat that he's extending the SMB protocol to support some more of the native features of the underlying filesystems.
But I'd wager the lions share of it's user base want samba to replace/supplement Win2k Server, and soon Win2003.
This always happens in open source. Projects get pulled in a new direction before they're completed. Developers always want to work on neat stuff and get bogged down in the academics, and it doesnt produce a truly functional result.
There's nothing that can be done about it, it's his time, his decision. Still, it sure would be nice for samba to be a full member of a Windows 2000 domain.
That outside of the register and slashdot there's no mention of this bug? Google turns up empty, nothing in the MSDN.
Apparently it's affecting few systems, and not every install of SR1a, else it would be major news and be covered by mainstream media, and there'd be a downloadable patch or something.
Could it be some sort of user error? Installing as an unprivelidged user, or using some automated registry cleaner? Or Gator? Gator wrecks a lot of stuff, ya know.
It isnt affecting anything in our office, or any of our clients.
Is it possible that linux zealots are making a mountain out of a molehill? Nah, that's unpossible.
Alas FreeCell uses GDI.
Does it run under wine? Because it doesnt run if you copy it to 2000, ME or 98.
Or maybe I'm thinking of Spider solitaire.
You're right. Plenty of games have been ported to xbox, or from xbox to PC, and it didn't take years or months to do so.
The game isnt out because noone can run it. It's that simple. It still looks like it's going to require a $400 video card to be playable. I'm not talking super enhanced 2048x1024 with every bell and whistle on, I'm talking to get 30fps at 800x600 you'll need a GeForceFX or R9700.
The market for games that require a 300-400 dollar upgrade just ain't there.
I'm reminded of another FPS from years back (cant think of the name of it, but it was some highly touted Jurassic Park thing) that required a P2, when P2's were brand new and most people still had P200/MMX's. It bombed, because noone could play it, and by the time they had a system to play it on - it was old news.
The same thing would happen if Doom 3 came out today. I wouldnt be able to play it. By the time I buy a new video card, Doom 3 would be old news, and I'd never buy it. Because lets face it, FPS games are in a 'flavor of the week' scene.
Perhaps I'm wrong, and they've gotten the engine to scale down to be playable on average systems. But I'm pretty sure that's a major factor in the wait.
Tell your friend to buy a Radeon 9700, as the demo was leaked from an ATI booth at Comdex, and was specifically written to run on that set of hardware. (And multi-cpus as well, I believe it was kludged to run the sound code on a second proc)
I've heard of people getting 20fps with the 9700, with only humble (1.4ghz, 512megs ) system specs.
But this is really the type of question you should pose to the local 0-day w4r3z kiddies.
Their lawsuit against IBM and releasing a linux distro are mutually exclusive.
They claim IBM released trade secrets that were protected by a NDA. (And for all the knee jerk slashdot reaction, that's very much the type of thing IBM would to do hurt a competitor - they ain't saints)
They release a version of linux, but the two dont contradict. If IBM hadn't leaked their stuff, they'd be releasing a linux distro with a handful of proprietary modules, or some code not under GPL. I havent seen this distro, but I wouldnt be surprised if the code they're claim is excluded from the copy of the GPL, pending outcome of this lawsuit.
I know it's addictive to jump up and down and be one of the slashdot "in" crowd (your oxymoron for today), but you can try and look at things objectively and come to your own conclusions.
I mean if Colonel Sanders was suing someone claiming they leaked his "secret blend of herbs and spices", it doesn't mean he's going to stop selling chicken.
I could go on all day with this thread
I have every faith that you could go on all week on any given thread without saying anything insightful, witty, clever, or funny.
First, he's a she.
And she's the he who came into doubleclick and made peace with the privacy community by changing operations there to protect privacy.
But of course, you have to read the article and generally have a clue what you're talking about to know that. I realize this is slashdot, so carry on ranting.