That and I want to know just what game's programmers are dumb enough to draw major amounts of detail that normally will never be visible? Me thinks a lot of the sheep are riled up over something that's more their imagination than reality.
To be fair, 3rd party developers can find lots of things wrong with Windows without even having the source code. So it's obviously better or something;-)
That is how it works and it *does* work. Think about it - assuming no bugs in the emulation that make it non-deterministic you are running multiple copies of the same ROMs on the same emulator. The emulated program will see the same environment and the same keypresses with the same timing on all machines, and will generate the same pseudo-random numbers. Result? It works fine.
At the risk of being a bit trollish myself, let me just say from deep personal experience that anyone who thinks Win9X is usable by unassisted non-technical people has never given their parents a computer.
And to be even more accurate, MS recently started *paying* radio stations to use Media Server/.WMA audio. That's why a lot of stations recently dropped Real even though Real still has 90+% market share for streaming media (no station is suicidal enough to do that sort of thing otherwise).
Agreed. I have the sinking feeling the MPAA considers lower quality a good thing, a la "we gave consumers high-quality anamorphic DVDs and got piracy in return. we'll show them!".
DGA/DGA2 in combination with XVideo lets you get fullscreen with mode switching, etc. The easiest way to deal with all of that and just do fast 2d drawing without worrying is SDL (www.libsdl.org) - it's fast, it's got an API that mostly makes sense, and it's portable and LGPLed (on Windoze it's infinitely more fun than dealing with direct DirectX code).
To be fair, I think this article being posted is doing more damage to the Travolta-ologists than the original removed post. Look at all the great links to anti-Scientology(tm) stuff!
It's kinda sickening to see obviously intelligent people like yourself going along with the politicians' vote-buying schemes. They are very nearly to the point where a majority of the voting public will pay no taxes at all (the reason Daschle keeps bringing up how a person making $25k will get no cut is because that person, right now, pays *NO* federal income tax. Sounds good 'til you know that, right?).
Once a majority of the public is recieving government handouts and paying no taxes, they're in the pockets of the politicians and lobbyists, and they'll start passing corporate/government control stuff that makes DMCA look tame. There's a very important reason the US was not designed to be a democracy (it's a representative republic), and it's being subverted as we speak.
The Windows 9x/ME versions of IE from 4.0 through 5.5 all run fairly well on WINE, and it's improving basically weekly. The only thing that can't be supported is Java, because MS cheats by running the JVM in a kernel driver. And we really don't want to let arbitrary Windows code run in kernel mode:)
It's related to how the x86 FPU works and how GCC uses it. You'd get the same answer on any x86 operating system using GCC, including FreeBSD and Windows 2000.
Making fun of Scientologists doesn't exactly require a lot of effort (they more or less do it for you), but getting picketed when you're not even there is indeed a triumph:)
Some of the wackier GNOME hackers are working on a VB clone, and it already runs simple forms and such (there's even a hack to run VB.ASP webpages). They're also planning to use it in Gnumeric to allow full macro compatibility with Excel. That would be a big boost to free/open software if they achieve flawless Excel import/export (it already works very well on all the.xls files I've tried).
Agreed. I got DSL also figuring it'd be better than my RoadRunner cable hookup. Big mistake - it kept disconnecting itself when it would connect at all, and the internal PCI card worked only with Windows 9x (no NT/2000, no MacOS, no Linux/BSD/Be/etc). Meanwhile I'm frequntly getting download speeds in excess of 200K *bytes* per second on RR, which is well above where even the twice-as-expensive 1.5 Mbps DSL tops out at. And the cablemodem has a standard 10BaseT connector and uses standard TCP/IP and DHCP (no wacky logins or "secondary dialup adaptors").
Hey, everyone remembers Toaplan. Or at least shmup fans like myself do. They never made anything as classic as Gradius or Raiden II, but they did solid work.
That's because Microsoft applications don't use standard ASCII for quotes in order to do their "smart quotes" feature. There's a program called the "Demoronizer" that fixes that and other damage if you want your web pages viewable outside Windoze.
FWIW, I had similar problems with tracks ending in the middle etc. However, upgrading the firmware (to the version that adds.WMA support) has fixed all the glitches as far as I can tell, and it also adds the ability to seek within a song (which I think was ridiculous to leave out in the first place).
How about real special editions of the other films? Several aren't in anamorphic widescreen (yes, I *do* have a 16:9 TV), and the lack of extras is almost laughable compared to nearly every other DVD out there.
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What about frying birds and such? Any environmentalists wanna comment? :)
That and I want to know just what game's programmers are dumb enough to draw major amounts of detail that normally will never be visible? Me thinks a lot of the sheep are riled up over something that's more their imagination than reality.
To be fair, 3rd party developers can find lots of things wrong with Windows without even having the source code. So it's obviously better or something ;-)
That is how it works and it *does* work. Think about it - assuming no bugs in the emulation that make it non-deterministic you are running multiple copies of the same ROMs on the same emulator. The emulated program will see the same environment and the same keypresses with the same timing on all machines, and will generate the same pseudo-random numbers. Result? It works fine.
At the risk of being a bit trollish myself, let me just say from deep personal experience that anyone who thinks Win9X is usable by unassisted non-technical people has never given their parents a computer.
And to be even more accurate, MS recently started *paying* radio stations to use Media Server/.WMA audio. That's why a lot of stations recently dropped Real even though Real still has 90+% market share for streaming media (no station is suicidal enough to do that sort of thing otherwise).
Except that P&LI isn't on Hack.
But they could listen to "Mirrorshades" all they wanted then.
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Agreed. I have the sinking feeling the MPAA considers lower quality a good thing, a la "we gave consumers high-quality anamorphic DVDs and got piracy in return. we'll show them!".
DGA/DGA2 in combination with XVideo lets you get fullscreen with mode switching, etc. The easiest way to deal with all of that and just do fast 2d drawing without worrying is SDL (www.libsdl.org) - it's fast, it's got an API that mostly makes sense, and it's portable and LGPLed (on Windoze it's infinitely more fun than dealing with direct DirectX code).
The links are wrong because they changed .2 to .3 in the text but missed the links. If you manually fix the links it's all there on FTP.
To be fair, I think this article being posted is doing more damage to the Travolta-ologists than the original removed post. Look at all the great links to anti-Scientology(tm) stuff!
HL and CS are playable with OpenGL acceleration on Wine. Check out http://lhl.linuxgames.com/.
Mwahahahaha. The guys who "professionally" picket $cientology oughta use that on their signs.
It's kinda sickening to see obviously intelligent people like yourself going along with the politicians' vote-buying schemes. They are very nearly to the point where a majority of the voting public will pay no taxes at all (the reason Daschle keeps bringing up how a person making $25k will get no cut is because that person, right now, pays *NO* federal income tax. Sounds good 'til you know that, right?).
Once a majority of the public is recieving government handouts and paying no taxes, they're in the pockets of the politicians and lobbyists, and they'll start passing corporate/government control stuff that makes DMCA look tame. There's a very important reason the US was not designed to be a democracy (it's a representative republic), and it's being subverted as we speak.
The Windows 9x/ME versions of IE from 4.0 through 5.5 all run fairly well on WINE, and it's improving basically weekly. The only thing that can't be supported is Java, because MS cheats by running the JVM in a kernel driver. And we really don't want to let arbitrary Windows code run in kernel mode :)
It's related to how the x86 FPU works and how GCC uses it. You'd get the same answer on any x86 operating system using GCC, including FreeBSD and Windows 2000.
Making fun of Scientologists doesn't exactly require a lot of effort (they more or less do it for you), but getting picketed when you're not even there is indeed a triumph :)
Some of the wackier GNOME hackers are working on a VB clone, and it already runs simple forms and such (there's even a hack to run VB .ASP webpages). They're also planning to use it in Gnumeric to allow full macro compatibility with Excel. That would be a big boost to free/open software if they achieve flawless Excel import/export (it already works very well on all the .xls files I've tried).
Agreed. I got DSL also figuring it'd be better than my RoadRunner cable hookup. Big mistake - it kept disconnecting itself when it would connect at all, and the internal PCI card worked only with Windows 9x (no NT/2000, no MacOS, no Linux/BSD/Be/etc). Meanwhile I'm frequntly getting download speeds in excess of 200K *bytes* per second on RR, which is well above where even the twice-as-expensive 1.5 Mbps DSL tops out at. And the cablemodem has a standard 10BaseT connector and uses standard TCP/IP and DHCP (no wacky logins or "secondary dialup adaptors").
Hey, everyone remembers Toaplan. Or at least shmup fans like myself do. They never made anything as classic as Gradius or Raiden II, but they did solid work.
That's because Microsoft applications don't use standard ASCII for quotes in order to do their "smart quotes" feature. There's a program called the "Demoronizer" that fixes that and other damage if you want your web pages viewable outside Windoze.
Actually the latest firmware and software let you grab mp3s out of the box and back onto your PC.
FWIW, I had similar problems with tracks ending in the middle etc. However, upgrading the firmware (to the version that adds .WMA support) has fixed all the glitches as far as I can tell, and it also adds the ability to seek within a song (which I think was ridiculous to leave out in the first place).
How about real special editions of the other films? Several aren't in anamorphic widescreen (yes, I *do* have a 16:9 TV), and the lack of extras is almost laughable compared to nearly every other DVD out there.