Definitely, I usually withhold this fact from most online encounters to the point that people are often surprised that I am a Christian. I'm not sure what to think of that.
By the way, does anyone here live in the DC Metro area?
That's what everyone says around here but I can't tell if its just because the area is positively overrun with new people streaming in (because northern Virginia is now a relatively hip place to live) or if it is particularly bad around here. Nevertheless, your comment made me chuckle.
You can speak up all you want, but your point is lost mostly because its yet another Slashdotism and its so damn trite now. It'd be far more productive to actually do something about it though, such as hacking firmware to add Ogg support in.
If people actually took the time to look up accurate information about what they bash they probably wouldn't have much to talk about in the first place. Just like how the Windows-bashers are quick to cite Win98 as a sucky OS, the Mac-bashers point to "huge" price differences when in reality they aren't that much more.
People are only as open-minded as they want to be, and most people prefer the stronger arguments that used to hold true.
I too once held this belief that only those that enjoy the field should be in it. And I think its important to like what you do. But you cannot fault people for wanting a better life than they have right now -- even if it means they don't like their job. I mean, does it really matter if people bought into the ads on TV about becoming a MCSE? This isn't some exclusive clique, this is people trying something else in their life (which I think everyone should do). And if they're willing to work for it, then so be it. As the hype around IT dies down, the salaries decrease, and people will defect to other fields such as business.
Now, if you have to put up with people that barely know the material and don't care to, I can understand frustration, but people may have equally valuable reasons for going into IT that don't include, "I like it."
What Tribe? I was near the top during the first couple of months, but I'd list features like browser, news, emails as wholly unnecessary and a big time sink for a game that needed a lot more polish.
It is exactly the same as people bunny-hopping in Quake. If people don't know it exists then you could say, "hey, thats cheating to get an advantage over other people." The fact is skiing may have seemed unbalancing at first, but it has in fact created a game with a near infinite skill ceiling that still manages to amaze me five years later. Tactics rise and fall in Tribes, the dominant one right now is abusing the chaingun and shooting it like you would shoot guns in Counterstrike to inflate the accuracy, along with tweaking the highly controversial client interpolate settings.
It is the drive to succeed that makes games last many years, as opposed to 3 months and then being shelved. We all hope to find games that engage us for more than those three months, that make us spend hours configuring and (over time) days practicing to be better. If a game says "okay, thats as good as you can get" indirectly via physics, or weapons enabling lower skilled players to take down better ones to "even" the base, you will have pros leaving to find a game that appreciates them instead of dumbing it down.
It is old, came out around 1998 or so. Single best multiplayer game. Infinite skill ceiling, fast gameplay, dirt cheap, and runs well on anything. I still play it regularly. (can you tell?)
>?- name('What kind of self respecting geek uses a low level compiled language to convert lists of ascii codes to a readable string?',X).
X = [_G552, _G553,...]
Yes;)
I've been a member for a long time, and the content seems to be degenerating into a groupthink zealot factory with its own set of dogmas and censors.
Truer words haven't been spoken. Every slightest rant (no matter how small or insignificant the speaker is) against (insert holy technology here) is put on the front page for all to read and publically decry, but then every move by (insert evil entity here) is also posted so we can all rehash the same arguments again and again and complain that (far superior technology) is not number one.
Anyone know of a more balanced news site? I'm getting tired of reading about how Open Source will change the world every day and why I should convert my manager.
Whats funny is that this is a geek website and these people can't get their OS to work properly, so they sit here and complain about it. Most problems on modern OSes stem from either crappy security (default on XP I'm afraid) or crappy hardware (drivers/physical devices). Instead of complaining about how X crashes all the time you could just learn to troubleshoot the thing in the first place.
However, I realize that isn't as fun as bashing Microsoft, so who am I to tell you what to do.
wxWindows is better than Qt from a Windows user's perspective, because wxWindows uses the native API calls, whereas Qt seems to merely draw the UI instead of actually calling it. Menus look very close to the real thing but are always off in tiny, tiny ways. It is never as good as actually just letting the OS do it for you. The Qt site spins this to say it could be faster. Yeah, I don't see how.
Qt's slot/signal mechanism is awesome. However, modern C++ compilers can do it without the additional compiler (use Boost/Loki).
I think that any C++ library should actually use the full gamut of C++ features instead of saying "we're going to worry about the platforms that don't support exception handling/namespaces/templates and just not use them at all." That seems like a great way to end up with MFC. It is 2003 people, lets at least code like it is.
Yes, I realize these features are not implemented everywhere. Perhaps someone should split away from the projects and start a comprehensive, powerful C++ abstraction layer that is for desktop application programming on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. I'm just tired of half-assed libraries getting the crap kicked out of them (comparatively speaking) from.NET because they are too afraid to take advantage of the language.
I ended up working on a wrapper for Win32 because every cross-platform alternative ended up having an Achilles heel of some sort.
So are we going to get up in arms everytime someone dares bash Linux? That is far too many unnecessary tears to shed. There are people that don't like Linux out there.
Deal with it. I really hope some of you don't have such a fragile ego, but the comments are making me wonder.
By capping the frame rate at 60fps, gamers with insanely fast computers will no longer be put at an unfair advantage.
I'll take your computer and play with your unfair advantage, you can have mine, I don't need the advantage!
Just because you are content with 30fps doesn't mean your likes should be foisted onto other people. I want the framerate as high as it goes. If the game isn't nauseatingly fast then I want more FPS. If I get over 100fps average then I put the resolution up until it goes high enough.
And you are an idiot if you think this ends gaming machoism. Its a bunch of prepubscent males on the Internet - all its going to be is gay jokes, consistent misspellings, catch-phrases, and bragging about hardware.
Thank you for telling us your full computer specs, they definitely helped out the post. I don't think you could have made an effective post without them!
Good lord would you people QUIT spreading misinformation about maximum frame rate the eye can see? Every single time a discussion like this comes up somebody has to come in and spout "Gee the max FPS you can see is 24 frames per second thats why movies are that fast" or some other completely bogus claim.
This claim has been proven wrong multiple times on slashdot and elsewhere, please get your facts straight.
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Definitely, I usually withhold this fact from most online encounters to the point that people are often surprised that I am a Christian. I'm not sure what to think of that.
You can speak up all you want, but your point is lost mostly because its yet another Slashdotism and its so damn trite now. It'd be far more productive to actually do something about it though, such as hacking firmware to add Ogg support in.
Ephpod works and is hardly bloatware. There are also more minimalist programs than that available for Windows.
Who are you kidding?
If people actually took the time to look up accurate information about what they bash they probably wouldn't have much to talk about in the first place. Just like how the Windows-bashers are quick to cite Win98 as a sucky OS, the Mac-bashers point to "huge" price differences when in reality they aren't that much more.
People are only as open-minded as they want to be, and most people prefer the stronger arguments that used to hold true.
How exactly are you crushing record companies by using Linux? Linux/OSS has nothing to do with this.
I too once held this belief that only those that enjoy the field should be in it. And I think its important to like what you do. But you cannot fault people for wanting a better life than they have right now -- even if it means they don't like their job. I mean, does it really matter if people bought into the ads on TV about becoming a MCSE? This isn't some exclusive clique, this is people trying something else in their life (which I think everyone should do). And if they're willing to work for it, then so be it. As the hype around IT dies down, the salaries decrease, and people will defect to other fields such as business.
Now, if you have to put up with people that barely know the material and don't care to, I can understand frustration, but people may have equally valuable reasons for going into IT that don't include, "I like it."
What Tribe? I was near the top during the first couple of months, but I'd list features like browser, news, emails as wholly unnecessary and a big time sink for a game that needed a lot more polish.
Newer Tribes games build them in.
It is exactly the same as people bunny-hopping in Quake. If people don't know it exists then you could say, "hey, thats cheating to get an advantage over other people." The fact is skiing may have seemed unbalancing at first, but it has in fact created a game with a near infinite skill ceiling that still manages to amaze me five years later. Tactics rise and fall in Tribes, the dominant one right now is abusing the chaingun and shooting it like you would shoot guns in Counterstrike to inflate the accuracy, along with tweaking the highly controversial client interpolate settings.
It is the drive to succeed that makes games last many years, as opposed to 3 months and then being shelved. We all hope to find games that engage us for more than those three months, that make us spend hours configuring and (over time) days practicing to be better. If a game says "okay, thats as good as you can get" indirectly via physics, or weapons enabling lower skilled players to take down better ones to "even" the base, you will have pros leaving to find a game that appreciates them instead of dumbing it down.
Starsiege: Tribes.
It is old, came out around 1998 or so. Single best multiplayer game. Infinite skill ceiling, fast gameplay, dirt cheap, and runs well on anything. I still play it regularly. (can you tell?)
At this point it was hard not to mark him +1 funny.
Take your tin foil hat off and just buy the thing instead of thinking you have to dodge the man.
What are they going to do, come after every single person who has ever bought one of these crappy little cameras and demand to have it back?
>?- name('What kind of self respecting geek uses a low level compiled language to convert lists of ascii codes to a readable string?',X). X = [_G552, _G553, ...]
Yes ;)
How will open source thank me? Just because it supports an OS with a few users and codecs that are patent-free?
Definitely not grub.
(The bootloader, not the author of the parent comment)
Truer words haven't been spoken. Every slightest rant (no matter how small or insignificant the speaker is) against (insert holy technology here) is put on the front page for all to read and publically decry, but then every move by (insert evil entity here) is also posted so we can all rehash the same arguments again and again and complain that (far superior technology) is not number one.
Anyone know of a more balanced news site? I'm getting tired of reading about how Open Source will change the world every day and why I should convert my manager.
Whats funny is that this is a geek website and these people can't get their OS to work properly, so they sit here and complain about it. Most problems on modern OSes stem from either crappy security (default on XP I'm afraid) or crappy hardware (drivers/physical devices). Instead of complaining about how X crashes all the time you could just learn to troubleshoot the thing in the first place.
However, I realize that isn't as fun as bashing Microsoft, so who am I to tell you what to do.
Heaven forbid someone say something good about MS, right? We can't handle such cognitive dissonance!
mp3.com.com! Thanks to CNET I now don't have to remember that pesky www part, nobody knows what that means anyway. :)
wxWindows is better than Qt from a Windows user's perspective, because wxWindows uses the native API calls, whereas Qt seems to merely draw the UI instead of actually calling it. Menus look very close to the real thing but are always off in tiny, tiny ways. It is never as good as actually just letting the OS do it for you. The Qt site spins this to say it could be faster. Yeah, I don't see how.
.NET because they are too afraid to take advantage of the language.
Qt's slot/signal mechanism is awesome. However, modern C++ compilers can do it without the additional compiler (use Boost/Loki).
I think that any C++ library should actually use the full gamut of C++ features instead of saying "we're going to worry about the platforms that don't support exception handling/namespaces/templates and just not use them at all." That seems like a great way to end up with MFC. It is 2003 people, lets at least code like it is.
Yes, I realize these features are not implemented everywhere. Perhaps someone should split away from the projects and start a comprehensive, powerful C++ abstraction layer that is for desktop application programming on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. I'm just tired of half-assed libraries getting the crap kicked out of them (comparatively speaking) from
I ended up working on a wrapper for Win32 because every cross-platform alternative ended up having an Achilles heel of some sort.
So are we going to get up in arms everytime someone dares bash Linux? That is far too many unnecessary tears to shed. There are people that don't like Linux out there.
Deal with it. I really hope some of you don't have such a fragile ego, but the comments are making me wonder.
By capping the frame rate at 60fps, gamers with insanely fast computers will no longer be put at an unfair advantage.
I'll take your computer and play with your unfair advantage, you can have mine, I don't need the advantage!
Just because you are content with 30fps doesn't mean your likes should be foisted onto other people. I want the framerate as high as it goes. If the game isn't nauseatingly fast then I want more FPS. If I get over 100fps average then I put the resolution up until it goes high enough.
And you are an idiot if you think this ends gaming machoism. Its a bunch of prepubscent males on the Internet - all its going to be is gay jokes, consistent misspellings, catch-phrases, and bragging about hardware.
Thank you for telling us your full computer specs, they definitely helped out the post. I don't think you could have made an effective post without them!
Good lord would you people QUIT spreading misinformation about maximum frame rate the eye can see? Every single time a discussion like this comes up somebody has to come in and spout "Gee the max FPS you can see is 24 frames per second thats why movies are that fast" or some other completely bogus claim.
This claim has been proven wrong multiple times on slashdot and elsewhere, please get your facts straight.