So they plan to market small boxes that simulate coin tones to give free calls on payphones? Woohoo!:D
But seriously, it pisses me off when someone picks a name or term that's already got an established definition. (I swear, I saw someone call their graphics library 'QuickDraw' on Freshmeat a long time ago.)
When I read the announcement, I was suprised to see "breaks all mods, source in a week or two so they can recompile". Since mods are the heart and soul of the Quake series, wouldn't it have been smarter to just wait that week or two?
The patch may be great and does your laundry, too, but if it leaves players with nothing while they wait an unlikely minimum of a week or more before the source even comes out (nevermind waiting for the mod makers to come up to speed with new releases, which is the unavoidable part), mmm...some suckage for the players for a while.:/
Buuuut, I guess this is redundant and rather obvious...(or not, I mean, it *was* released.:))
Thankfully, my main game is still Quakeworld TF. >;)
Question...how come we can go thousands of years without looking into the sky, yet all of a sudden, because we're looking, we're finding all this shit "coming close"? Just seems too much of a coincidence.
Isn't that what basically created Darth Vader in the first place? Replacing parts of his body with cybernetic ones until he was almost totally machine? Sounds to me like that's what is happening to Lucas...the more CGI he puts into the movies...well, you get the picture.
I tried thinking down the road a bit, and had another chilling thought hit me: all-CGI Darth Vader in Episode 3. He doesn't really have any visible human parts, and that shiny black mask just lends itself to 3D rendering...it will happen. I can feel it.:(
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was best known as a sports writer before his Holmes stories became popular. The most curious aspect of the Holmes stories is their reflection of Doyle's interest in Eastern Philosophy.
Ahh! Now that you mention it, I do seem to recall reading something about that... Whoops.:D
Sir Alec's anti-Star Wars stance mirrors a similar situation with another knighted one: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle... From what I remember, Doyle did a lot of different stories, from different genres, but all people wanted was more of his Sherlock Holmes stories. He gets fed up with him being the only thing he's known for, and goes and kills the guy off in 'The Final Problem',only to bring him back due to popular demand. (Feel free to correct me on any of this, I'm guilty of only reading his Holmes stories, myself...:))
But this sort of public display of arrogance and disdain-for-that-which-brings-you-fame-and-fortune aside, deaths at such a late age don't really bother me. To me, I see it as the cycle completing itself. He wasn't cut down in the prime of his life by a car accident, or brain tumor, for instance.
I've been running a K6-2/266 for a LONG time now. I do everything from graphic editing to programming, dual booting under Linux and Win95. I have never EVER had a problem that was related to the K6, except for when I was overclocking it to 300Mhz...it didn't like that, and would get Signal 11 errors compiling things. But once I turned it back down to what it was supposed to be, it's been working fine for years.
And at the time, it was about $50 cheaper than buying Intel back then. Never been sorry I bought it.:)
The same reason code wheels and manual lookups are a pain in the ass for games: if it's inconvienient for the honest consumer, and can still be easily cracked by pirates, then then only ones to be aggrivated and lose are the customers. That's the difference, to me anyways, between this and other situations.
I don't have a problem with 'cartoons', but the whole animation-on-top-of-CGI look I saw in the previews really turned me off. Clashed really bad, and tained the interest I had.
I think it's just that people are so underhanded and rotten that theories like this are more and more easily believable, because they really do happen nowadays.:( It's getting tough seperating the BS from the real deal...
What's wrong with people here? (well, most of them, anyway) Now, if Xbox would have been made by anybody else but Microsoft, it wouldn't get the shit it is getting here! Please, remove the Microsoft label and what do you see?
Welp, I see a device made from readily available PC components stripped down together into a small box, and as far as we know, cheap price. All in an attempt to break into a market they have very little experience in, so they can cash in on the latest video game craze and add to their already wild amounts of cash. I realize there's nothing really wrong with that -- it's business. I respect that opinion. But I just don't agree with it...having to move into every single little market, simply because you've got the cash to buy your way in.
*shrug*
For me, it basically comes down to: the X-Box does not impress me in the least, and coming from Microsoft only makes the negative comments that much sweeter. >;)
I'm getting pretty fucking tired of these bloodsucking pricks constantly smearing their advertising feces all over any place that isn't already occupied by a physical object. What makes them think we give a shit about a Pocket Fisherman? ADS EVERY GODDAMN PLACE WE GO. Email, websites, around the rink in a sports game. I'm sure they'd tatoo ads on the backs of newborn babies if they could. It's a fucking sickness. I haven't seriously looked at anyones ads for more than 1/12th a second in a VERY long time. They've saturated my environment so much that I just TUNE THE FUCKERS OUT. You wonder why people get violent over spammers.
Oh. Shit. Well, guys, that's it I guess. Longing has spoken. The same guy that fought the good fight against those other scourges of liberty, VHS and the recordable cassette tape, has put his foot down. Both are obviously tools that can only be used to pirate copywritten works. After all, why would they sell blank video tapes at Blockbuster? It's pretty damned obvious to ME.
It's been fun, but I guess the jig is up...we'll all have to erase Napster from our lives, because Longing has exposed us like the cockroaches we are. Oh the pain. The shame. I mean, after all, we collectively killed Kid Rock.
Open up the code to the Dialectizer. Let others host the page-viewing portion. That has to be a better alternative than letting these rich uneducated cocksuckers get their way.
Man I used to LOVE pouring over the schematics and programming info that hardware used to come with so long ago...and then, ever so slowly...they just...stopped.
Goddamn shame...I certainly hope the Linux community doesn't go that way...all source and fun...and then, slowly, more and more closed...
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Egads man, it was a joke. One that definately made me smirk as I read it. (Like the other reply to you about the beowulf cluster. ;))
;P
Don't be so serious.
Colonel Sandurz: "1-2-3-4-5."
Skroob: "1-2-3-4-5?"
Sandurz: "Yes."
Skroob: "That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!"
I hate when this happens too, but when it's something that I missed the first time around (like in this case), I always feel grateful. :)
...and me with no moderator points to mark this up. :(
So they plan to market small boxes that simulate coin tones to give free calls on payphones? Woohoo! :D
But seriously, it pisses me off when someone picks a name or term that's already got an established definition. (I swear, I saw someone call their graphics library 'QuickDraw' on Freshmeat a long time ago.)
When I read the announcement, I was suprised to see "breaks all mods, source in a week or two so they can recompile". Since mods are the heart and soul of the Quake series, wouldn't it have been smarter to just wait that week or two?
:/
:))
The patch may be great and does your laundry, too, but if it leaves players with nothing while they wait an unlikely minimum of a week or more before the source even comes out (nevermind waiting for the mod makers to come up to speed with new releases, which is the unavoidable part), mmm...some suckage for the players for a while.
Buuuut, I guess this is redundant and rather obvious...(or not, I mean, it *was* released.
Thankfully, my main game is still Quakeworld TF. >;)
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;)
That the fake-rms was using rms@stallman.org was my first tip-off, since I thought RMS had a gnu.org email address.
Naughty dastardly trolls.
I'd like to keep my urine INSIDE my pants, thanks. =D
This reminds me of the interview with a can of Spam and Spam Lite from a while back...I just can't remember where I read it though...
No, I mean objects capable of mass destruction. :)
Question...how come we can go thousands of years without looking into the sky, yet all of a sudden, because we're looking, we're finding all this shit "coming close"? Just seems too much of a coincidence.
Good question. I tend to seperate the two usages of CGI in my mind and never really gave it much thought. :)
:)
I imagine, you could say it's "Computer Graphics Integration", which would be good for refering to CG integrated into movies.
Isn't that what basically created Darth Vader in the first place? Replacing parts of his body with cybernetic ones until he was almost totally machine? Sounds to me like that's what is happening to Lucas...the more CGI he puts into the movies...well, you get the picture.
:(
I tried thinking down the road a bit, and had another chilling thought hit me: all-CGI Darth Vader in Episode 3. He doesn't really have any visible human parts, and that shiny black mask just lends itself to 3D rendering...it will happen. I can feel it.
Ahh! Now that you mention it, I do seem to recall reading something about that... Whoops. :D
Sir Alec's anti-Star Wars stance mirrors a similar situation with another knighted one: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle... From what I remember, Doyle did a lot of different stories, from different genres, but all people wanted was more of his Sherlock Holmes stories. He gets fed up with him being the only thing he's known for, and goes and kills the guy off in 'The Final Problem',only to bring him back due to popular demand. (Feel free to correct me on any of this, I'm guilty of only reading his Holmes stories, myself...:))
e aside, deaths at such a late age don't really bother me. To me, I see it as the cycle completing itself. He wasn't cut down in the prime of his life by a car accident, or brain tumor, for instance.
But this sort of public display of arrogance and disdain-for-that-which-brings-you-fame-and-fortun
Oh, I get it...redundant. Very funny. >:D
I've been running a K6-2/266 for a LONG time now. I do everything from graphic editing to programming, dual booting under Linux and Win95. I have never EVER had a problem that was related to the K6, except for when I was overclocking it to 300Mhz...it didn't like that, and would get Signal 11 errors compiling things. But once I turned it back down to what it was supposed to be, it's been working fine for years.
:)
And at the time, it was about $50 cheaper than buying Intel back then. Never been sorry I bought it.
> does anyone think that people would stop using them?
:D
I sure hope not: what a fun way to thin the herd.
The same reason code wheels and manual lookups are a pain in the ass for games: if it's inconvienient for the honest consumer, and can still be easily cracked by pirates, then then only ones to be aggrivated and lose are the customers. That's the difference, to me anyways, between this and other situations.
I don't have a problem with 'cartoons', but the whole animation-on-top-of-CGI look I saw in the previews really turned me off. Clashed really bad, and tained the interest I had.
I think it's just that people are so underhanded and rotten that theories like this are more and more easily believable, because they really do happen nowadays. :(
It's getting tough seperating the BS from the real deal...
Welp, I see a device made from readily available PC components stripped down together into a small box, and as far as we know, cheap price. All in an attempt to break into a market they have very little experience in, so they can cash in on the latest video game craze and add to their already wild amounts of cash. I realize there's nothing really wrong with that -- it's business. I respect that opinion. But I just don't agree with it...having to move into every single little market, simply because you've got the cash to buy your way in.
*shrug*
For me, it basically comes down to: the X-Box does not impress me in the least, and coming from Microsoft only makes the negative comments that much sweeter. >;)
I'm getting pretty fucking tired of these bloodsucking pricks constantly smearing their advertising feces all over any place that isn't already occupied by a physical object. What makes them think we give a shit about a Pocket Fisherman? ADS EVERY GODDAMN PLACE WE GO. Email, websites, around the rink in a sports game. I'm sure they'd tatoo ads on the backs of newborn babies if they could. It's a fucking sickness. I haven't seriously looked at anyones ads for more than 1/12th a second in a VERY long time. They've saturated my environment so much that I just TUNE THE FUCKERS OUT. You wonder why people get violent over spammers.
Screw humanity. >:S
It's been fun, but I guess the jig is up...we'll all have to erase Napster from our lives, because Longing has exposed us like the cockroaches we are. Oh the pain. The shame. I mean, after all, we collectively killed Kid Rock.
Open up the code to the Dialectizer. Let others host the page-viewing portion. That has to be a better alternative than letting these rich uneducated cocksuckers get their way.
I'd put that up on my site in a heartbeat.
Man I used to LOVE pouring over the schematics and programming info that hardware used to come with so long ago...and then, ever so slowly...they just...stopped.
Goddamn shame...I certainly hope the Linux community doesn't go that way...all source and fun...and then, slowly, more and more closed...
:(