What really threw him for a loop was the fact that the only things I do left-handed is write and eat. Everything else (baseball, throwing, etc.) all right-handed.
That's precisely like me. I write and eat with my left hand, but everything else I do with my right hand, mostly because I simply can't do it with the left.
Plus, it makes life a bit easier that I didn't have to hunt down a leftie bass guitar. I still snap pencil leads like there's no tomorrow, though:(
I usually buy a good product from the previous generation, since it's sufficient for my needs.
I play a lot of new games, but until yesterday, I was still using my 2½ year old Geforce4 Ti4200, and was doing great. I bought an FX5900XT to replace it (mostly because of Doom3), and I am quite convinced that this card will give me at least another 2½ years of use, which I consider very acceptable for a US$220 graphics card (which is also what my Ti4200 cost when I bought it).
Nobody really needs the lastest and greatest. They just convince themselves that they do.
Re:Scripted comedy... no thanks
on
Humor in Games?
·
· Score: 1
The pedestrians were replaced with robots in the German release. Thankfully, the danish release was untouched:)
Then we would all join hands and sing about rainbows.
Off-topic I know, but this reminds me of an old IE4 ad I saw in a magazine, where "the web and your desktop comes together as one, and the world is a happy place where we dance and sing about rainbows and free software, and everyone is happy". I'll have to find it and scan it sometime...
Done. I hope enough people write in to convince them to sell their wares outside of Japan, and perhaps add a few nice features, too (like a slightly higher resolution, or even built-in wifi, which would positively rock).
Commander Keen episodes 4-6 ("Secret Of The Oracle", "The Armageddon Machine" and "Aliens Ate My Babysitter") had the vertical Pong-clone minigame, called "Paddle War". A real time-waster, though the computer was far too easy to beat.
Re:Legal Issue!! If you own lockpicks, please READ
on
Steel Bolt Hacking
·
· Score: 1
Cops can't search you for speeding. If you let them do it, you're the fool. Or the victim of an evil officer, who doesn't work by the book, in which case a complaint would be in place.
Whatever happened to tolerance and live and let live....
Whatever happened to mutual tolerance and live and let live?
You need a larger vehicle for the things you do, and that's fine. You have a legitimate need, although a stationcar from Volvo or Audi could probably handle your needs while still not posing a greater threat to other people than a normal car.
Unnecessary use of large vehicles (by this I mean the majority of SUVs) is a danger to other trafficants. So, to set a good example, you should really consider if you really need that SUV, or if a slightly smaller and more 'friendly' car could handle your needs.
Well, as long as the standard on IRC is ISO-8859-x, I consider UTF-8 to be rather useless;)
(-15 is the exact same as -1, BTW. It just adds Euro support, which is nice.)
I know that Gnome complains a bit when stuff is not Unicode, but properly set LC_ variables smooth out a lot of problems. Apps like Rox that only support UTF-8 are a pain in the ass, though. It's probably the only reason I'm still using Konqueror, since I refuse to move my system to Unicode before it's properly supported in all the apps I use.
And my addiction to Zsh probably means that it wont be soon;)
I took the heatsink off and to my suprise the CPU came out too! The thermal grease basically glued it to the heatsink, so I had to take a flat head screwdriver and pry it off. It went flying a bit, bent a pin or two, I fixed them, put it back together, and walla it worked!
A similar thing happened to me, when I was transferring my almost brand-new 2.6Ghz P4 from a full-size ATX MB to a SFF MB (Soltek Qbic barebone). As I removed the heatsink, I found it to be sorta stuck, so I, in my mad dash to get the machine up and running, pulled a little harder on the heatsink, and suddenly, it comes loose.
But the socket was strangely empty, and right there on the heatsink is the CPU, almost glued stuck by the stock P4 thermal pad. After prying it off carefully and installing everything, it still worked fine.
Are there any credible gamer-centric alternatives to Creative Labs' products?
Terratec are the only ones I can think of at the moment. They make quality parts, and they have a game-oriented line.
I have an old Addonics SV550 (YMF724 chip) myself, and it's all I need. It doesn't have any fancy features, but it works, and the output sounds great, and that's all I need.
I'm beginning to think that onboard sound has finally reached a point where sound cards have become as good as obsolete. Hell, the only reason I use my YMF724 card is because the onboard sound in my machine doesn't have hardware mixing support in Linux.
"Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"
System Shock and it's absolutely stunningly brilliant sequel ranks as some of the most immersive and downright scary games ever.
The athmosphere created in System Shock 2, with the "ghosts" of the former crew members and the brilliantly eerie sounds, is thick enough to slice with a knife. And the fight against SHODAN becomes very personal when you have to endure her threats as you try to thwart her plans. If only I could get System Shock 2 working in WINE...:(
I'm hoping that Doom3 will bring back some memories of System Shock, and that perhaps someone will make a System Shock mod for Doom3 which will bring the originals justice
Slashdot Mirror
Hell, I wish I had a girlfriend, since I also want to cuddle.
But I'm fairly certain that I share this predicament with the majority of people here.
Ah well, I'll just stick with the old "sit on my hand (the left one!) so it feels like a stranger" routine...
What really threw him for a loop was the fact that the only things I do left-handed is write and eat. Everything else (baseball, throwing, etc.) all right-handed.
:(
That's precisely like me. I write and eat with my left hand, but everything else I do with my right hand, mostly because I simply can't do it with the left.
Plus, it makes life a bit easier that I didn't have to hunt down a leftie bass guitar. I still snap pencil leads like there's no tomorrow, though
Hell, I didn't know about "Run As..." in Windows 2K/XP/2003 until a few weeks ago.
It's the equivelant of 'su', yet it is so badly documented you'd think MS were hiding it on purpose...
I usually buy a good product from the previous generation, since it's sufficient for my needs.
I play a lot of new games, but until yesterday, I was still using my 2½ year old Geforce4 Ti4200, and was doing great. I bought an FX5900XT to replace it (mostly because of Doom3), and I am quite convinced that this card will give me at least another 2½ years of use, which I consider very acceptable for a US$220 graphics card (which is also what my Ti4200 cost when I bought it).
Nobody really needs the lastest and greatest. They just convince themselves that they do.
The pedestrians were replaced with robots in the German release. Thankfully, the danish release was untouched :)
Then we would all join hands and sing about rainbows.
Off-topic I know, but this reminds me of an old IE4 ad I saw in a magazine, where "the web and your desktop comes together as one, and the world is a happy place where we dance and sing about rainbows and free software, and everyone is happy". I'll have to find it and scan it sometime...
Done. I hope enough people write in to convince them to sell their wares outside of Japan, and perhaps add a few nice features, too (like a slightly higher resolution, or even built-in wifi, which would positively rock).
Commander Keen episodes 4-6 ("Secret Of The Oracle", "The Armageddon Machine" and "Aliens Ate My Babysitter") had the vertical Pong-clone minigame, called "Paddle War". A real time-waster, though the computer was far too easy to beat.
Cops can't search you for speeding. If you let them do it, you're the fool. Or the victim of an evil officer, who doesn't work by the book, in which case a complaint would be in place.
UT2004 (and UT2003, I think) uses a second thread for all sound processing.
I get a healthy boost on my P4 with HT enabled versus with HT disabled. I can only assume it's even more pronounced on a true SMP rig.
Whatever happened to tolerance and live and let live....
Whatever happened to mutual tolerance and live and let live?
You need a larger vehicle for the things you do, and that's fine. You have a legitimate need, although a stationcar from Volvo or Audi could probably handle your needs while still not posing a greater threat to other people than a normal car.
Unnecessary use of large vehicles (by this I mean the majority of SUVs) is a danger to other trafficants. So, to set a good example, you should really consider if you really need that SUV, or if a slightly smaller and more 'friendly' car could handle your needs.
According to my dad (he's been playing drums for ~35 years), sticks treated with bee wax are the very best you can get.
http://www.b-stick.com/ (the web design sucks nuts, but their sticks are good)
I wouldn't say that he's obsessed with them, but it's close.
I know gentoo has an etc versioning system that means it's portage doesn't scribble over your config files.
;)
You still have to go through the updates manually, though, which can be quite time-consuming if you neglect it for a month or so.
Ah Linux, you may be a Cutie, but your still just a cobbled together Frankensteins monster.
Quite true, but it's my cobbled together Frankenstein monster cutie
Yes, and being a damn good (if not the very best) deathmatch game currently available.
Actually, all of id Software's games have aged quite well. I still play all of the from time to time.
Hey, that's even less power than my firewall.
No, that was Tim Willits who said that, and he said that all the weapons from the original Doom, not Doom 2, were in the game.
I never get any spam on the mail address I registered for fileshack with.
And you cannot download more than one file simultanously when logged into a free account at fileshack. So sharing an account like that is pretty dumb.
Well, as long as the standard on IRC is ISO-8859-x, I consider UTF-8 to be rather useless ;)
;)
(-15 is the exact same as -1, BTW. It just adds Euro support, which is nice.)
I know that Gnome complains a bit when stuff is not Unicode, but properly set LC_ variables smooth out a lot of problems. Apps like Rox that only support UTF-8 are a pain in the ass, though. It's probably the only reason I'm still using Konqueror, since I refuse to move my system to Unicode before it's properly supported in all the apps I use.
And my addiction to Zsh probably means that it wont be soon
I took the heatsink off and to my suprise the CPU came out too! The thermal grease basically glued it to the heatsink, so I had to take a flat head screwdriver and pry it off. It went flying a bit, bent a pin or two, I fixed them, put it back together, and walla it worked!
A similar thing happened to me, when I was transferring my almost brand-new 2.6Ghz P4 from a full-size ATX MB to a SFF MB (Soltek Qbic barebone). As I removed the heatsink, I found it to be sorta stuck, so I, in my mad dash to get the machine up and running, pulled a little harder on the heatsink, and suddenly, it comes loose.
But the socket was strangely empty, and right there on the heatsink is the CPU, almost glued stuck by the stock P4 thermal pad. After prying it off carefully and installing everything, it still worked fine.
ISO-8859-15 is your saviour!
;)
Zsh handles Motörhead just fine
(I'm danish, by the way, so I need Æ Ø and Å in my filenames.)
Great.
I've been waiting to refine that command which I also never use.
Are there any credible gamer-centric alternatives to Creative Labs' products?
Terratec are the only ones I can think of at the moment. They make quality parts, and they have a game-oriented line.
I have an old Addonics SV550 (YMF724 chip) myself, and it's all I need. It doesn't have any fancy features, but it works, and the output sounds great, and that's all I need.
I'm beginning to think that onboard sound has finally reached a point where sound cards have become as good as obsolete. Hell, the only reason I use my YMF724 card is because the onboard sound in my machine doesn't have hardware mixing support in Linux.
And in addition to this mythical next project from id Software, John Carmack has said that he has at least one more game engine in him.
:)
Although Doom3 is right around the corner, I can't wait to see their next project(s). The stuff id makes are always jam-packed with goodness
Let's just hope Raven remembers Linux support. A Quake game without Linux support would be a very bad move.
Many Quake fans are Linux users, and they make up a considerable portion of the fanbase.
"Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"
:(
System Shock and it's absolutely stunningly brilliant sequel ranks as some of the most immersive and downright scary games ever.
The athmosphere created in System Shock 2, with the "ghosts" of the former crew members and the brilliantly eerie sounds, is thick enough to slice with a knife. And the fight against SHODAN becomes very personal when you have to endure her threats as you try to thwart her plans. If only I could get System Shock 2 working in WINE...
I'm hoping that Doom3 will bring back some memories of System Shock, and that perhaps someone will make a System Shock mod for Doom3 which will bring the originals justice