I disagree. Granted Doom's plot wasn't in depth, you got a small story screen after every episode or number of levels in Doom II and Final Doom, but you did indeed have a story to work off.
I expect Doom 3 will have the plot more inline with the game, especially at first, since the invasion is supposed to happen at the begining of the game, but after the smoke clears, it will probably be more like Quake 2's plot - Get a mission, probably say a thing or 2 and then go on a kill-crazy rampage of brutal, nightmare death.
Fun for the whole family. Unfortunately, I won't actually be able to find out for another 2 years, since that's how long I expect my current computer to last, and it doesn't come very close to the minimum specs. *sigh*
Let's hope not.. the answer and the question are mutually exclusive. If by chance someone does know both the answer and the question, well, the universe will be destroyed and replaced by something even stranger.. which most people believe has already happened.... or course, you know this already.
Arachne!?!?! You mean that dead browser for DOS and SVGAlib? Looks like they finally acknowledge that on their webpage, and talk of Arachne II appears to be mostly talk.
Anyone notice that there are editor holy wars (vi emacs), distro holy wars, but no 'browser' holy wars (yeah, ie vs mozilla, but that windows vs linux... I'm talking all in linux). Stuff like 'theme isn't finished' would be jumped on by the 'other browser' elitists. So linux needs a second open source free browser project so we can have a browser holywar.
It was Opera vs. Mozilla for me, but every version of Opera sucked more than the last since 5.0 IMO... then Firefox came out and solved everything.
As for second open source free browsers.. take your pick. KDE has Konqueor and there's always links2 -g - with a bit more eye candy links2 would be quite nice to use.
Probably too late for anyone to read this now, but meh. I've seen many comment calling for standardization of copy and paste shortcut keys, and many arguments against the ctrl-c/ctrl-v keys due to issues like dvorak keyboards and mouse handedness (kinda silly, I'm left-handed and I don't see any problem with using my right on the mouse.)
IMO, the best way to please everyone is not forcing them to use one set of bindings. Have X handle the keys, but let them be rebindable inside the X config file. Ideally, this would be much more flexible than hardcoding copy/paste.
Alternatitvely, X could leave this alone and let the desktop environment be responsible (since most DE's allow rebinding already), but this would leave a few users in the cold for a while if they only use a simple window manager. Well, guess I'll sit back and wait for someone to tell me I'm wrong or that this already exists. guurh?
1.) Feed the hungry.
2.) Bring world peace.
3.) Become a viable renewable power source.
Damn it! Well, there goes three more 6 month experiments to find alternative uses for Linux down the drain. I was really hoping that renewable power source theory would work too. Back to the chalkboard, fellas.
Or better - "Your eyes cannot possibly comprehend the intensity of this image. The photons will not be shown for the sake of your sanity and/or ability to see."
I agree that ebuild are cool, I love my gentoo, but I have to say that it doesn't make sense to use ebuilds accross multiple distributions for 3 reasons.
1. The are still in a state of constant change, no standard except the current state, whatever it may be, to work off. Portage needs to set in stone specifications for ebuilds for major releases that will not change until the next major release. This way the packages themselves could more easily support them.
2. Ebuilds take a lot of developer effort. The portage maintainers have to create all of these ebuilds and supporting multiple distributions which change the layout of their packages could be a nightmare.
3. How often do you emerge rsync? Gentoo is built upon the idea (mostly) of keeping packages fresh and new. Vendors may not want to support "foo-1.3-r15.ebuild", they may want to have releases of a version on their cds, support that, and only update if security flaws are found or if the vendor makes and entirely new release of the distro.
In a bussiness, I might steer clear of a distro like Gentoo, only due to the de facto standard of keeping maintainance on the system. Yes, I know there exists full releases of Gentoo, but really, who keeps purely to the packages in those releases? (and I expect a few hands to raise now, but I refer to those as statisical outliers:)
The first thing most gentoo users do when installing is sync to get the newest packages, nothing like a bleeding edge system to play with.
I bought an SV25 a long while back and it had MAJOR heat problems - Cause: internal power supply in the front that venting in the case rather than out of it.
That power supply sat right under the floppy in a tight little corner. It burnt out every floppy drive I put in (and for some reason at the time I cared)
I suspended it once to leave the house.. when I came back I smelt a funny smell.. checked it's temp - 151 degrees fahrenheit! It somehow still ran for a while.
Eventually I rigged up a cool looking power supply to the outside of the case and fed the wires in. That worked, but it wasn't very portable anymore.
Personally I'd like to see external power catch on more to a point that it wouldn't be proprietary to the case... hell if I'm not using a machine for heavy gaming or running loads of drives.. there's not much need for a 400+ watt internal power supply. Plus - small comps - very sexy.
... or I could quit complaining and by a decent laptop already. nah.
The article does raise an interesting point in my eyes.. Modern Processors put out too much heat!
I'm wondering when Intel and AMD will stop concentrating on speed (as at some point it may become less relevent, but not quite yet I guess) and start concentrating on lessening the heat generation.
I for one pray for the day that even passive cooling becomes enough to run a pentium....
As a side note to that, Via has managed to make processors that can be passively cooled, but they're much slower and equivalent to a P3.
I applaud the "Praise the lord" link, but a joystick is functionally equivilant to a mouse IMO, and lynx.. I shudder. If you go text for a browser *shudder again* at least go for Links and gpm if you don't use X because tabbing links still sucks.
That totally wasn't the point, but now that you mention it....
Do you game without using a mouse? Do you browse the internet by tabbing though all your links? Do you invoke the powers of Jesus Christ to double-click icons for you?
There's no doubt that blackbox, vim, and such tools are great. I use them frequently on machines that aren't powerful enough for other thing or console based tools for if I can't access or need something better.
But seriously, What kind of a moron are you?
If MS thought the way you do, we'd all still be using DOS or a unix shell and everything would be console based without the use of a mouse!
Powerful windowing managers such as KDE and word processors that can produce papers that don't look like crap are a natural progression in computing.
You say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but remember, that is how MS and Apple both got to where they are today when the copied the gui and mouse from Xerox.
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I disagree. Granted Doom's plot wasn't in depth, you got a small story screen after every episode or number of levels in Doom II and Final Doom, but you did indeed have a story to work off.
I expect Doom 3 will have the plot more inline with the game, especially at first, since the invasion is supposed to happen at the begining of the game, but after the smoke clears, it will probably be more like Quake 2's plot - Get a mission, probably say a thing or 2 and then go on a kill-crazy rampage of brutal, nightmare death.
Fun for the whole family.
Unfortunately, I won't actually be able to find out for another 2 years, since that's how long I expect my current computer to last, and it doesn't come very close to the minimum specs. *sigh*
Let's hope not.. the answer and the question are mutually exclusive. If by chance someone does know both the answer and the question, well, the universe will be destroyed and replaced by something even stranger.. which most people believe has already happened.... or course, you know this already.
Arachne!?!?! You mean that dead browser for DOS and SVGAlib? Looks like they finally acknowledge that on their webpage, and talk of Arachne II appears to be mostly talk.
Anyone notice that there are editor holy wars (vi emacs), distro holy wars, but no 'browser' holy wars (yeah, ie vs mozilla, but that windows vs linux... I'm talking all in linux). Stuff like 'theme isn't finished' would be jumped on by the 'other browser' elitists. So linux needs a second open source free browser project so we can have a browser holywar.
It was Opera vs. Mozilla for me, but every version of Opera sucked more than the last since 5.0 IMO... then Firefox came out and solved everything.
As for second open source free browsers.. take your pick. KDE has Konqueor and there's always links2 -g - with a bit more eye candy links2 would be quite nice to use.
Probably too late for anyone to read this now, but meh.
I've seen many comment calling for standardization of copy and paste shortcut keys, and many arguments against the ctrl-c/ctrl-v keys due to issues like dvorak keyboards and mouse handedness (kinda silly, I'm left-handed and I don't see any problem with using my right on the mouse.)
IMO, the best way to please everyone is not forcing them to use one set of bindings. Have X handle the keys, but let them be rebindable inside the X config file. Ideally, this would be much more flexible than hardcoding copy/paste.
Alternatitvely, X could leave this alone and let the desktop environment be responsible (since most DE's allow rebinding already), but this would leave a few users in the cold for a while if they only use a simple window manager.
Well, guess I'll sit back and wait for someone to tell me I'm wrong or that this already exists. guurh?
It will not:
1.) Feed the hungry.
2.) Bring world peace.
3.) Become a viable renewable power source.
Damn it! Well, there goes three more 6 month experiments to find alternative uses for Linux down the drain. I was really hoping that renewable power source theory would work too. Back to the chalkboard, fellas.
when they have a website! It's kind of jumping the gun when all you have to link to is a sourceforge project page.
Star Fleet Command - James Kirk as a young cadet. Starring Eminem as the brash rule-breaking young officer.
You know, it's sad, but I'd actually pay to see that
Or better - "Your eyes cannot possibly comprehend the intensity of this image. The photons will not be shown for the sake of your sanity and/or ability to see."
I also have sex with farm animals
I agree that ebuild are cool, I love my gentoo, but I have to say that it doesn't make sense to use ebuilds accross multiple distributions for 3 reasons.
:)
1. The are still in a state of constant change, no standard except the current state, whatever it may be, to work off. Portage needs to set in stone specifications for ebuilds for major releases that will not change until the next major release. This way the packages themselves could more easily support them.
2. Ebuilds take a lot of developer effort. The portage maintainers have to create all of these ebuilds and supporting multiple distributions which change the layout of their packages could be a nightmare.
3. How often do you emerge rsync? Gentoo is built upon the idea (mostly) of keeping packages fresh and new. Vendors may not want to support "foo-1.3-r15.ebuild", they may want to have releases of a version on their cds, support that, and only update if security flaws are found or if the vendor makes and entirely new release of the distro.
In a bussiness, I might steer clear of a distro like Gentoo, only due to the de facto standard of keeping maintainance on the system. Yes, I know there exists full releases of Gentoo, but really, who keeps purely to the packages in those releases? (and I expect a few hands to raise now, but I refer to those as statisical outliers
The first thing most gentoo users do when installing is sync to get the newest packages, nothing like a bleeding edge system to play with.
Cheers.
This just in.
SCO annouces that they will sue the creators
of the myDoom worm for infringing to SCO's
intellectual property.
SCO claims that several lines of code in the
myDoom worm were stolen from UNIX, but thus far
SCO has failed to show the infringing code.
More at eleven.
I'm envious of this thing
... or I could quit complaining and by a decent laptop already. nah.
I bought an SV25 a long while back and it had MAJOR heat problems - Cause: internal power supply in the front that venting in the case rather than out of it.
That power supply sat right under the floppy in a tight little corner. It burnt out every floppy drive I put in (and for some reason at the time I cared)
I suspended it once to leave the house.. when I came back I smelt a funny smell.. checked it's temp - 151 degrees fahrenheit! It somehow still ran for a while.
Eventually I rigged up a cool looking power supply to the outside of the case and fed the wires in. That worked, but it wasn't very portable anymore.
Personally I'd like to see external power catch on more to a point that it wouldn't be proprietary to the case... hell if I'm not using a machine for heavy gaming or running loads of drives.. there's not much need for a 400+ watt internal power supply. Plus - small comps - very sexy.
The article does raise an interesting point in my eyes.. Modern Processors put out too much heat!
I'm wondering when Intel and AMD will stop concentrating on speed (as at some point it may become less relevent, but not quite yet I guess) and start concentrating on lessening the heat generation.
I for one pray for the day that even passive cooling becomes enough to run a pentium....
As a side note to that, Via has managed to make processors that can be passively cooled, but they're much slower and equivalent to a P3.
Finally a computer exists that can easily fit in my apartment with enough power to play Doom III at 30 fps.
I applaud the "Praise the lord" link, but a joystick is functionally equivilant to a mouse IMO, and lynx.. I shudder. If you go text for a browser *shudder again* at least go for Links and gpm if you don't use X because tabbing links still sucks.
That totally wasn't the point, but now that you mention it....
Do you game without using a mouse?
Do you browse the internet by tabbing though all your links?
Do you invoke the powers of Jesus Christ to double-click icons for you?
Of course shoutcuts are nice, but get real.
There's no doubt that blackbox, vim, and such tools are great. I use them frequently on machines that aren't powerful enough for other thing or console based tools for if I can't access or need something better. But seriously, What kind of a moron are you? If MS thought the way you do, we'd all still be using DOS or a unix shell and everything would be console based without the use of a mouse! Powerful windowing managers such as KDE and word processors that can produce papers that don't look like crap are a natural progression in computing. You say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but remember, that is how MS and Apple both got to where they are today when the copied the gui and mouse from Xerox.