i've been using maxtor hard drives (diamond max series or something) for a while now, and i haven't heard anything from them since i upgraded my 2 giger many years ago. so i automatically assumed all modern hard drives don't make noise.
what does make noise though are the 9 fans in my case. however, when i try to sandwich them i don't get the same temperature benefits like the reviewer does with his hard drive. oh well.
will changing my mouse, maybe to a higher/lower resolution mouse, different shape of mouse, a touchpad, a trackball, etc. change my signature? if so, how is this supposed to work? signing my name with a different pen doesn't change my signature.
will this have any effect on those nasty EULAs? do i really HAVE to agree to them now? i may be wrong but as far as i know clicking "I Agree" doesn't mean anything.
what differences does this have with mouse gesture recognition software?
i believe the reason there are explosion noises is so the sound dude can have a job.
but i distinctly remember reading about this a long, long time ago (in a website far away), and somebody, i think lucas, said the ships have an explosion noise box in their ships so the pilots know when they've made a kill. i can't find the url though.
bunny hopping is definitely stupid looking and it has ruined quite a few demos, but i agree with the skill factor involved. better players should be able to move faster. for example, in doom the better players would use the strafe+forward or wall hugging trick to move faster, and this didn't look (as) stupid, and people were cool with that.
now, the counter balance to the speed gain is the jumping noise made while doing it. you can hear a bunny jumping fool from a mile away. i'm pretty sure this is a large part of what made bunny jumping so popular, the non/anti bunny jumping people are still able to compete by utilising the other skills.
the other fun with bunny hopping is that it is very difficult to perfect. people are still developing new bunny hopping techniques in quake and i suspect people will be working on it for at least another year despite quake's community dying.
i believe we can have the effects of bunny hopping:
1) faster running for better players 2) counter balanced to make way for other techniques 3) difficult to perfect
without it looking stupid at the same time. i'm not sure how it can be done but i'm thinking something like a more advanced version of how track and field arcade game was (faster button pushing, faster running) except it would rely on game physics bending skill instead of button vibrating skill.
when you said simple and less intense games, i wasn't thinking of this. i was thinking like the stupid 1k games i have on my TI 82.
those games look like straight out NES/Atari 2600 game clones (i think the old prince of persia itself is in there somewhere), and back then those were as complex and big budget as they get. maybe what we are seeing here is another generation of video games. in 15 years the mobile generation gamers will be remeniscing about the good old nokia 7250 games they used to play.
with that much tubing maybe he should have drilled a couple holes in the side of his fridge and stuck the radiator in there. has anybody ever done this? my garage is significantly farther away from my machine than the nearest fridge.
either way, that box isn't going anywhere. all LAN parties where he will be able to show that rig off will be held in his garage.
i remember there was a controller for the SNES, Genesis, and i think NES called the turbo touch 360 that used a laser sensor on a flat surface instead of the Dpad, i was thinking maybe an updated version of that which detects a finger covering some light emitting gizmo.
or how about connectors which can be fused through skin?
and i've often seen elevator buttons which aren't buttons but solid flat things that seem to only activate when i touch it with my finger (i tried poking one with my keys and it didn't work), i'm not sure how those work but it seems like that could be implemented in a thin device as well.
bending seems like a decent idea but i'm so used to jamming my finger onto things to make things happen.
yeah, sure, as if they aren't already mutated to shit. how many people do you know have a tank of tropical fish that are even close to anything born naturally?
sure they may not be as exotic as 'glow in the dark' fish but almost everybody i know with an aquarium has some queer breed of goldfish with 5 tails and eyeballs half the size of the rest of the body or something equally ridiculous. i think these people are just doing the one-up by directly messing with genetics instead of doing it the old fashioned way, through selective breeding.
so i'm a fan of normal looking, more expensive, hopefully legally edible when they get big, ugly fishies.
Are they really doing any mandating? I RTFA and it seems like they're only making the move to free software only because it's cheaper, not because they have to or anybody is forcing them to.
It only seems like they are mandating it because of the story title, even in the babelfish translation of the spanish original article title they're only 'migrating.'
I was wondering why they'd try to force open source software on anybody, isn't that against morals and such?
it allows for protocol plugins so that you can use it with different IM networks. Check the site, people have been making tons. they get pretty whacky too, i know game server plugins exist. maybe a jabber plugin too. it puts it all into one nice clean little client unless you want it ugly and bloated and trillianish.
miranda itself doesn't give you a server to IM everybody on but the way it's designed it should be simple to modify it so that it does. this is the biggest difference between miranda and jabber.
miranda is open source, but the program is buggy (maybe only for me, maybe because i'm using windows client). so hurrah for them.
it seems like every gamer wants to try and stress the good points about gaming, and the arguments are usually one sided because the sources and references are gamers themselves. you use interviews at a LAN party, have you tried using interviews from pissed off mothers (i haven't watched the video yet, still downloading)? it is anti social in the sense that there is no direct contact through a video game server, even at LAN parties most of the communication is done through monitors or by people screaming at each other. then again i can sincerely say i have met at least half of the people i keep in contact with today through playing video games.
only for geeks? i don't know how to argue this, the non geeks turned gamers eventually call themselves geeks anyway, jokingly or not. unless you define geek as a video game player it's not only for geeks.
gaming is non productive because most of what people do while playing video games is learn to play that video game better. you can argue this with training reflexes, logic skills, adding creative juice and all that jazz but it depends which is worth more or less to the gamers themselves. for example my time is definitely better spent not playing video games but looking for a job.
i have a feeling people here will edge more towards the side of gaming, what else would i use my wind.. i mean linux system for? i'm going to fight for the pissed off mothers just because i'm pretty sure they'll be the underdogs here.
i have the urge to start planting high risk caches, like hidden in the park ranger's car or inside a police station bathroom maybe. how about daredevil caches, atop suspension bridges or skyrises, inside the house of a really pissed off rottweiler, or at the far end of a shooting range?
then people would start dying trying to do geocaches, that'll have some serious effect on geocachers. imagine the community it would create though, imagine elite geocachers who have planted and tackled the most insane caches. geocaching bragging rights baby!
i don't use studded tires, those are the fuckers that fuck up the road, not me.
as if they're not going to use it to hand out speeding tickets and shit too. they have NO right to know where i drive, not that i have anything to hide; or live in oregon.
and isn't it the idea to get people who are close to me? i'm in burnaby bc and i was getting people in ohio, california, new zealand... nobody at least within my own country. it was also making this god awful takka takka takka noise while doing it.
"hi where are you from? are you physically near me?"
"i doubt it, where are you?"
"burnaby, bc"
"yeah definitely in the area.. new zealand LOL!"
i'm doubting this program does anything at all, just kind of pretends it does.
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i've been using maxtor hard drives (diamond max series or something) for a while now, and i haven't heard anything from them since i upgraded my 2 giger many years ago. so i automatically assumed all modern hard drives don't make noise.
what does make noise though are the 9 fans in my case. however, when i try to sandwich them i don't get the same temperature benefits like the reviewer does with his hard drive. oh well.
will changing my mouse, maybe to a higher/lower resolution mouse, different shape of mouse, a touchpad, a trackball, etc. change my signature? if so, how is this supposed to work? signing my name with a different pen doesn't change my signature.
will this have any effect on those nasty EULAs? do i really HAVE to agree to them now? i may be wrong but as far as i know clicking "I Agree" doesn't mean anything.
what differences does this have with mouse gesture recognition software?
i believe the reason there are explosion noises is so the sound dude can have a job.
but i distinctly remember reading about this a long, long time ago (in a website far away), and somebody, i think lucas, said the ships have an explosion noise box in their ships so the pilots know when they've made a kill. i can't find the url though.
this is obviously too much for one person to handle. we need to create a distributed network among kazaa network users.
i will start by suing myself. you can help too by donating your spare cpu cycles towards our cause.
don't forget this gamespy article.
bunny hopping is definitely stupid looking and it has ruined quite a few demos, but i agree with the skill factor involved. better players should be able to move faster. for example, in doom the better players would use the strafe+forward or wall hugging trick to move faster, and this didn't look (as) stupid, and people were cool with that.
now, the counter balance to the speed gain is the jumping noise made while doing it. you can hear a bunny jumping fool from a mile away. i'm pretty sure this is a large part of what made bunny jumping so popular, the non/anti bunny jumping people are still able to compete by utilising the other skills.
the other fun with bunny hopping is that it is very difficult to perfect. people are still developing new bunny hopping techniques in quake and i suspect people will be working on it for at least another year despite quake's community dying.
i believe we can have the effects of bunny hopping:
1) faster running for better players
2) counter balanced to make way for other techniques
3) difficult to perfect
without it looking stupid at the same time. i'm not sure how it can be done but i'm thinking something like a more advanced version of how track and field arcade game was (faster button pushing, faster running) except it would rely on game physics bending skill instead of button vibrating skill.
when you said simple and less intense games, i wasn't thinking of this. i was thinking like the stupid 1k games i have on my TI 82.
those games look like straight out NES/Atari 2600 game clones (i think the old prince of persia itself is in there somewhere), and back then those were as complex and big budget as they get. maybe what we are seeing here is another generation of video games. in 15 years the mobile generation gamers will be remeniscing about the good old nokia 7250 games they used to play.
with that much tubing maybe he should have drilled a couple holes in the side of his fridge and stuck the radiator in there. has anybody ever done this? my garage is significantly farther away from my machine than the nearest fridge.
either way, that box isn't going anywhere. all LAN parties where he will be able to show that rig off will be held in his garage.
i remember there was a controller for the SNES, Genesis, and i think NES called the turbo touch 360 that used a laser sensor on a flat surface instead of the Dpad, i was thinking maybe an updated version of that which detects a finger covering some light emitting gizmo.
or how about connectors which can be fused through skin?
and i've often seen elevator buttons which aren't buttons but solid flat things that seem to only activate when i touch it with my finger (i tried poking one with my keys and it didn't work), i'm not sure how those work but it seems like that could be implemented in a thin device as well.
bending seems like a decent idea but i'm so used to jamming my finger onto things to make things happen.
yeah, sure, as if they aren't already mutated to shit. how many people do you know have a tank of tropical fish that are even close to anything born naturally?
sure they may not be as exotic as 'glow in the dark' fish but almost everybody i know with an aquarium has some queer breed of goldfish with 5 tails and eyeballs half the size of the rest of the body or something equally ridiculous. i think these people are just doing the one-up by directly messing with genetics instead of doing it the old fashioned way, through selective breeding.
so i'm a fan of normal looking, more expensive, hopefully legally edible when they get big, ugly fishies.
this guy did it 2nd
yay for legway.
Are they really doing any mandating? I RTFA and it seems like they're only making the move to free software only because it's cheaper, not because they have to or anybody is forcing them to.
It only seems like they are mandating it because of the story title, even in the babelfish translation of the spanish original article title they're only 'migrating.'
I was wondering why they'd try to force open source software on anybody, isn't that against morals and such?
the cover of the book is a picture of a cover of another book.
what the hell? mod this -1 redundant!
i've been using miranda for a while now.
it allows for protocol plugins so that you can use it with different IM networks. Check the site, people have been making tons. they get pretty whacky too, i know game server plugins exist. maybe a jabber plugin too. it puts it all into one nice clean little client unless you want it ugly and bloated and trillianish.
miranda itself doesn't give you a server to IM everybody on but the way it's designed it should be simple to modify it so that it does. this is the biggest difference between miranda and jabber.
miranda is open source, but the program is buggy (maybe only for me, maybe because i'm using windows client). so hurrah for them.
this reminds me of bang the machine, a documentary about gamers.
i am a video game addict so don't get me wrong.
it seems like every gamer wants to try and stress the good points about gaming, and the arguments are usually one sided because the sources and references are gamers themselves. you use interviews at a LAN party, have you tried using interviews from pissed off mothers (i haven't watched the video yet, still downloading)? it is anti social in the sense that there is no direct contact through a video game server, even at LAN parties most of the communication is done through monitors or by people screaming at each other. then again i can sincerely say i have met at least half of the people i keep in contact with today through playing video games.
only for geeks? i don't know how to argue this, the non geeks turned gamers eventually call themselves geeks anyway, jokingly or not. unless you define geek as a video game player it's not only for geeks.
gaming is non productive because most of what people do while playing video games is learn to play that video game better. you can argue this with training reflexes, logic skills, adding creative juice and all that jazz but it depends which is worth more or less to the gamers themselves. for example my time is definitely better spent not playing video games but looking for a job.
i have a feeling people here will edge more towards the side of gaming, what else would i use my wind.. i mean linux system for? i'm going to fight for the pissed off mothers just because i'm pretty sure they'll be the underdogs here.
i have the urge to start planting high risk caches, like hidden in the park ranger's car or inside a police station bathroom maybe. how about daredevil caches, atop suspension bridges or skyrises, inside the house of a really pissed off rottweiler, or at the far end of a shooting range?
remember mook?
then people would start dying trying to do geocaches, that'll have some serious effect on geocachers. imagine the community it would create though, imagine elite geocachers who have planted and tackled the most insane caches. geocaching bragging rights baby!
time to go buy some tupperware and a gps unit!
i'm not paying according to how far i drive.
i don't use studded tires, those are the fuckers that fuck up the road, not me.
as if they're not going to use it to hand out speeding tickets and shit too. they have NO right to know where i drive, not that i have anything to hide; or live in oregon.
but still...
i have no way of removing people off of my list.
and isn't it the idea to get people who are close to me? i'm in burnaby bc and i was getting people in ohio, california, new zealand... nobody at least within my own country. it was also making this god awful takka takka takka noise while doing it.
"hi where are you from? are you physically near me?"
"i doubt it, where are you?"
"burnaby, bc"
"yeah definitely in the area.. new zealand LOL!"
i'm doubting this program does anything at all, just kind of pretends it does.