Quake was clearly the best game ever, the reason you felt strange playing with a 33.6 modem as opposed to your new snazzy high speed was the Quake used a non predictive latancy system which is very diffrent from HL's predictive system.
It's one weapon style meant players were totally adept with the rocket launcher which was a very deep weapon, as well as killing opponents you could bounce them, use area of effect to shoot around corners, bounce yourself.
Keeping your opponent airborne was the surest way to victory which was difficult when you had a 200 ping (you had to lead them.2 seconds) as well as the slowness of the rockets themselves.
Quake's lack of maps also contributted to it's success with the 6 DM levels and the few playable single player maps players knew every nook and crany of the maps and could bunny hop them backwards and forwards.
This level of knowledge and skill made quake more akin to chess than counter-strike.
You were forced to try and understand your opponent and their next move to predict what to do next, it also brought a level of sound to the game that hasn't been matched since.
I once played blindfolded and beat a novice.
Quake will never be matched and the advent of broadband has killed much of what made it great... adieu Quake we'll never see your equal.
Nintendo did something really brilliant by going with ATI for the graphics in their system (Sony used nvidia right??) by having the same GPU as their competitors they encourage cross compatibility.
And as any PC gamer can tell you, games are NOT limited by CPU.
Plus isn't Nintendo supposed to be really easy to program for?
Why are they 100k? Shouldn't they be a string like an MD5 hash?
No corperation really trusts information from your computer, if your cookie says they owe you $10,000 is their software going to do it? Hell no!
They store all your info on their system so cookies are really a rediculous way of trying to accomplish anything, besides decent browsers like Opera and Firefox have built in autologin capabilities.
I took an Enviro class, don't ask why. current estimates put the world as being able to support 60 billion people on the consumption level of Americans.
Also I think it's interesting to note that America pollutes more than China or India despite having less than 1/4 their population.
But they have very happy customers, whether it's billy who knows GTA looks better on the box than the ps2. Or Tom who uses the media player functionality to play Divx and Mp3.
Sorry still a linux noob used it but only installed it from CD... How would the packages get accross? I mean ok I install one of those 1 floppy distros (Does the Kernal even fit on one floppy?) Then put an ubuntu install on my main PC now how am I doing this install over the network to do it in windows I'd need network drivers, a mounting system for the CD image and even then I would be OVERWRITTING THE OPERATING SYSTEM I'm CURRENTLY USING.
Agreed... These things should all have been put into a database along with all the specs of the system used YEARS ago...
Of course these review sites are often making a bunch of money off this stuff.
Sites like Rotten Tomatoes exist basically leeching off movie and music reviews you'd think someone would do this for computer hardware...
I don't think it's ethical and I think stuff is going to slip through the cracks if they move to such a model but it will go a long way towards demonstrating which Hardware sites are on the level and which aren't as well as offering true comparisons accross generations which is one of the hardest things for hardware sites to show.
Well interestingly China is going to face the same dilema in a few years, piracy is rampant there as well.
If Korea switches to Linux they will have a heck of a lot of technologists ready to support Chinese companies when they switch over to their new OS (Could be Linux could be something built from the ground up.)
No this is a response to the increasingly prevalent defense of "I didn't do it I have unsecured Wi-Fi" which is probably making courts dig through every hard drive.
Unsecured wi-Fi finally has the potential of actually making the internet totally free and open.
But for the majority of comp users on the net they're gonna end up with adware/spyware and if they don't have a second core their system is gonna get kludgy and they are going to complain to me the tech guy.
No matter how much power I give em it won't help when they have 5 weather things 10 password things a million make your computer faster things, a whole bunch of IMs and 12 virus checkers running at the same time.
If it was running at full capacity.... it still wouldn't be enough:(
Dell wants low margins and for that it needs a company that has production levels to spare with Fab36 AMD is able to ramp up to 50% of all chip demand course it'll take em about 1-2 years to finish the overhall.
The right to revolution is guaranteed in the constitution it's the amendment that Americans never seem to be able to understand "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms"... that's not for personal protection (Which would be stupid) it's not for a feeling of power it's so citizens have the ability to overthrow an oppressive regime.
Something they don't have these days. Once again all the power is with the government and new forms of tyranny have the possibility of springing up.
Terrorism seems to be any act against the U.S. Government, half the population already disagrees with the policy of that government.
Why should they be allowed to tap into the intellectual centres of their country?
Universities are the places where revolution has historically started, curtailing student influence merely stops one of the free checks and balances on the system.
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Quake was clearly the best game ever, the reason you felt strange playing with a 33.6 modem as opposed to your new snazzy high speed was the Quake used a non predictive latancy system which is very diffrent from HL's predictive system.
.2 seconds) as well as the slowness of the rockets themselves.
It's one weapon style meant players were totally adept with the rocket launcher which was a very deep weapon, as well as killing opponents you could bounce them, use area of effect to shoot around corners, bounce yourself.
Keeping your opponent airborne was the surest way to victory which was difficult when you had a 200 ping (you had to lead them
Quake's lack of maps also contributted to it's success with the 6 DM levels and the few playable single player maps players knew every nook and crany of the maps and could bunny hop them backwards and forwards.
This level of knowledge and skill made quake more akin to chess than counter-strike.
You were forced to try and understand your opponent and their next move to predict what to do next, it also brought a level of sound to the game that hasn't been matched since.
I once played blindfolded and beat a novice.
Quake will never be matched and the advent of broadband has killed much of what made it great... adieu Quake we'll never see your equal.
Nintendo did something really brilliant by going with ATI for the graphics in their system (Sony used nvidia right??) by having the same GPU as their competitors they encourage cross compatibility.
And as any PC gamer can tell you, games are NOT limited by CPU.
Plus isn't Nintendo supposed to be really easy to program for?
Though they are probaly close it is more likely a situation where the GPU gains slightly more than a linear increase.
Some of the GPU is wasted on Overhead, whether it's the GUI or some underlying operations.
I don't understand the concept of cookies.
Why are they 100k? Shouldn't they be a string like an MD5 hash?
No corperation really trusts information from your computer, if your cookie says they owe you $10,000 is their software going to do it?
Hell no!
They store all your info on their system so cookies are really a rediculous way of trying to accomplish anything, besides decent browsers like Opera and Firefox have built in autologin capabilities.
That's the real solution.
If this is wrong then I don't want to be right.
Um... Native Americans may have a diffrent perspective on the "perfection" of this solution.
In the end they'll probably auction off the lots and use the money for some of the infrastructure needed.
The moon is going to need a pretty involved and socialist government methinks (Considering the consequences of say air or water getting cut off).
Defining the immigration policy will be interesting too, certain countries will probably have more to gain from sending citizens there.
I took an Enviro class, don't ask why. current estimates put the world as being able to support 60 billion people on the consumption level of Americans.
Also I think it's interesting to note that America pollutes more than China or India despite having less than 1/4 their population.
China BTW has > 1.3 billion.
Slashdot has an Article JUST FOR ME!
Ciggarrets should be taxed based on their level of health risk.
It's obvious...
That's it.
But they have very happy customers, whether it's billy who knows GTA looks better on the box than the ps2. Or Tom who uses the media player functionality to play Divx and Mp3.
And a flawless lowest pricing poof there goes the retail channel.
It's not hard.
Have finally solved the riddle of what happens when you know the future!
You create it.
I guess we'll all need to get in shape for Star Trek uniforms.
Fine we'll get the software open source then you can pay the developers to use it... that's fine with everyone else...
Sorry still a linux noob used it but only installed it from CD... How would the packages get accross? I mean ok I install one of those 1 floppy distros (Does the Kernal even fit on one floppy?) Then put an ubuntu install on my main PC now how am I doing this install over the network to do it in windows I'd need network drivers, a mounting system for the CD image and even then I would be OVERWRITTING THE OPERATING SYSTEM I'm CURRENTLY USING.
Hmm?
Agreed... These things should all have been put into a database along with all the specs of the system used YEARS ago...
Of course these review sites are often making a bunch of money off this stuff.
Sites like Rotten Tomatoes exist basically leeching off movie and music reviews you'd think someone would do this for computer hardware...
I don't think it's ethical and I think stuff is going to slip through the cracks if they move to such a model but it will go a long way towards demonstrating which Hardware sites are on the level and which aren't as well as offering true comparisons accross generations which is one of the hardest things for hardware sites to show.
Well interestingly China is going to face the same dilema in a few years, piracy is rampant there as well.
If Korea switches to Linux they will have a heck of a lot of technologists ready to support Chinese companies when they switch over to their new OS (Could be Linux could be something built from the ground up.)
IE language plugin...
Firefox none.
Score!
No this is a response to the increasingly prevalent defense of "I didn't do it I have unsecured Wi-Fi" which is probably making courts dig through every hard drive.
Unsecured wi-Fi finally has the potential of actually making the internet totally free and open.
But for the majority of comp users on the net they're gonna end up with adware/spyware and if they don't have a second core their system is gonna get kludgy and they are going to complain to me the tech guy.
No matter how much power I give em it won't help when they have 5 weather things 10 password things a million make your computer faster things, a whole bunch of IMs and 12 virus checkers running at the same time.
Dual core will.
This IS for everyone.
Fab 36 just oppened.
:(
If it was running at full capacity.... it still wouldn't be enough
Dell wants low margins and for that it needs a company that has production levels to spare with Fab36 AMD is able to ramp up to 50% of all chip demand course it'll take em about 1-2 years to finish the overhall.
IAAEM -
It was definitly for man.
For a man doesn't create the right response.
The right to revolution is guaranteed in the constitution it's the amendment that Americans never seem to be able to understand "The Right to Keep and Bear Arms"... that's not for personal protection (Which would be stupid) it's not for a feeling of power it's so citizens have the ability to overthrow an oppressive regime.
Something they don't have these days. Once again all the power is with the government and new forms of tyranny have the possibility of springing up.
Will linux handle this ok or will I have massive compatibility problems?
Terrorism seems to be any act against the U.S. Government, half the population already disagrees with the policy of that government.
Why should they be allowed to tap into the intellectual centres of their country?
Universities are the places where revolution has historically started, curtailing student influence merely stops one of the free checks and balances on the system.
Sorry What?