I'm about as disaster prone as anyone when it comes to X thing not working, but I've never had to mess with any of my browser plugins in Firefox.
Quicktime, Real (well, Real Alternative), and amazingly, even WMP work perfectly with Firefox for me.
My pet peeves with Firefox have to do with its memory footprint and how it doesn't render some IE-designed websites correctly. The latter isn't even Firefox's fault really, since it's more standards compliant than IE.
Between the combined political oppression and instability of the two countries they won't get terribly far if they attempt this sort of alliance.
China's setting itself up for a gigantic market crash anyway (which in turn will mess up the rest of the world). What SHOULD concern us is what's going to happen to China when it eventually collapses in on itself.
I personally think the whole OS debate is retarded.
Sorry, you use whatever tool your boss tells you to use, and if you have a choice, you use the one that works for you (be it because you're familiar with it, or because it simply works). People will have their opinions, and regardless of how effective or more efficient one OS is on paper in comparison to another, it depends on the user.
If you think your flavor of Linux, or OSX, or Windows is the best thing for you, that's great, shut the fuck up and use it. You aren't going to win converts by telling someone their OS of choice "sucks ass" or how they're "stupid" for using it.
I for example, think Macs suck. I fucking HATE dealing with OS9, and to a slightly lesser extent, OSX. It's just not my bag. However, if it really DID suck as much as I thought it did, no one would be using it would they? It's my personal opinion, so I just keep my grumblings to myself whenever the painful time comes that I have to work on a Mac.
The only consolation I get for having wasted money to see this movie with my friends is that Tom gets hit in the head with a big rock in the last fight scene.
I'm not the only person who's happy that the asshole that made me waste hours fixing the dozens of idiot-owned unpatched boxes is going to jail?
You can go ahead and blame the user all you want (a popular thing to do in the Slashdot crowd, because of course, us IT people NEVER MAKE MISTAKES), but the user didn't "write" the virus.
I tried them out of curiosity, and I am indeed seeing improvement in framerates in Doom 3. I wonder though, if these tweaks are designed for OpenGL, will they translate over to other OpenGL games like Call of Duty?
Where whiny sexless Linux zealots plug their ears and scream while windows users tell them Linux is too hard.
Windows User: Why can't I just double click and install something? Linux is too hard!
Slashdotter: JESUS YOU NEWB ALL U HAV3 2 DO IS MAKE INSTALL HOW HARD IS THAT?
Windows User: But that didn't work! I got a bunch of errors!
Slashdotter: OMG UR SO STUPID, LINUX IS EASY!
Then there's this chestnut:
Windows power user: I run Win2k and have an uptime of over a year. Hasn't crashed on me yet.
Slashdotter: ANCTDOTES DONT COUNT BECUZ MY GRANDMAS WINXP BOX I SET UP CRASHES EVERY OTHER MINUTE AND IM SURE ITS NOT MY FAULT GOD WINDOWS SUCSK
or this one:
Windows User: I tried Mandrake/Xandros/RedHat and thing went wrong and all my stuff didn't work.
Slashdotter: THAT CRAP DISTRO DOESNT REPRESENT LINUX WHY ARE YOU USING THAT NEWB DISTRO ANYWAY BECAUSE EASY TO USE INSTALLERS ARE FOR STUPID FAGGOTS USE GENTOO or
Or:
Server Admin: But
Slashdotter: UR JUST NOT DOING IT RIGHT AND I BET WINDOWS IS JUST TOTALLY WORSE BECAUSE IM NOT GOING TO EXPLAIN WHY ITS BECAUSE ITS WINDOWS AND IT SUCCKS
Oh yeah, you go to hell alright. Also, parts of the base are being taken over by hell.
But don't let me throw you, you spend a LOT of time running through similar looking futuristic tunnels with crappy light fixtures that go out if you look at them crosseyed.
The multiplayer is forgettable overall. It seemed like an afterthought (or a bone tossed to the kiddies who refuse to play anything that they can't pwnz0r other people at online), which it was, since Doom 3 was meant to be primarily single player.
The single player starts out tense and atmospheric, and quickly gets dull. A lot of people will try comparing this game to System Shock 2, but outside of the audio/video logs and oddly designed facilities, the scares never really change.
Idiots will probably respond to this with, "ZOMG ITS ANN FPS WAT D U EXPCT", but the scares almost never change. Enemies bust out of strangely hidden compartments in the walls and cealing behind and in front of you, and you'll be able to guess exactly where the lights will mysteriously go out after about an hour of playing.
Comparing Doom 3 to Half Life is just stupid. The grunts in HL actually try to flank you and use grenades to drive you out of cover. The zombie marines in Doom 3 either run up and empty their clip at you, or find a single spot of cover and pop out every couple seconds to shoot. Pretty much everything demonic just rushes you from whatever wall compartment you walked by.
Did I mention that your flashlight is separate from your guns, and you can't even have a pistol and flashlight out at the same time? Combine that with how freaking dark Doom 3 is (and it is VERY dark), and you'll either be getting chewed up switching back and forth from flashlight to gun, or just firing blindly in the dark. Yeah, that's fun alright.
Doom 3 makes an awesome first impression, but in the end the whole experience is just shallow. The engine is incredible and no doubt the mod scene will do some amazing stuff with it, but Doom 3 isn't revolutionary. Hell, it's barely evolutionary.
Pick it up now if you're starved for a passable singleplayer FPS, or if you're looking to impress all the l33t kiddies with your framerate counts.
For everyone else, wait until Id comes to their senses and drops the price to $45-50.
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Most Linux distros are now dummy-friendly enough at install, but until it's easy to install/upgrade software and drivers without touching the commandline at all, Joe Sixpack is going to want nothing to do with it.
Nevermind that no hardcore gamer is going use Linux as their primary OS what with the increasing number of DirectX only games. Half Life 2 will probably be the nail in the coffin for people claiming to be Linux gamers.
It's not really the Linux community's fault that developers are using a non cross-platform API though.
My best friend works at Best Buy right now, and his superiors basically all but say, "push the PRPs and sell enough that we're in the 'green' or get fired."
If they don't sell enough PRPs or do good enough business, even higher ups come to the store to bitch out the managers.
...managed to ruin a perfectly good mobo, graphics card, ram, and soundcard instantly.
He didn't using mounting screws. He carefully installed all of his hardware, and leaned the damn motherboard in the case. And then RMA'd all of the stuff, and DID IT AGAIN. He was convinced he was getting dud hardware until me and one of my other friends gave him a generous beating with the cluestick after he asked us for our help.
I haven't had to restart my Win2k box for about 2 months now, and that's after installing and uninstalling 4-5 games and about a dozen applications. Memory usage is pretty much the same as when I first booted it too.
How did this get modded as informative instead of funny?
And could someone explain why people shit on my state, despite going to college here because the colleges in their states suck or don't offer what they want?
If you don't like Indiana, don't fucking come here. The fewer idiot fratboy engineering students passed out on the street, the better.
I'm going to get beaten to death with very small cellular phones for saying this, but I was never much of a Miyazaki fan.
The only work Miyazaki or his studio have done that I've liked is Graveyard of the Fireflies, and I don't think Miyazaki himself had hardly anything to do with it, oddly enough.
Damn near all the fansubs I've been subjected to are a complete joke.
My Japanese language teacher from highschool used to let us watch anime brought in my students on fridays, and he always to laugh at how poor the translations were, even from the socalled "masters" like AniKraze.
It's mostly just wannabe Nihonjin with a year of class under their belt, a Japanese friend on AIM, and a pirated video editor.
Anyone notice that a lot of the AMERICAN cartoons we like (Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, Clerks, and I believe Invader Zim) are all animated primarily by Korean animation farms?
Also, I will take this opportunity to interject my worthless 2 cents about current anime: It sucks. I haven't seen a decent anime made after 1998.
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I'm about as disaster prone as anyone when it comes to X thing not working, but I've never had to mess with any of my browser plugins in Firefox.
Quicktime, Real (well, Real Alternative), and amazingly, even WMP work perfectly with Firefox for me.
My pet peeves with Firefox have to do with its memory footprint and how it doesn't render some IE-designed websites correctly. The latter isn't even Firefox's fault really, since it's more standards compliant than IE.
I only touch IE when I use Windows Update.
Between the combined political oppression and instability of the two countries they won't get terribly far if they attempt this sort of alliance.
China's setting itself up for a gigantic market crash anyway (which in turn will mess up the rest of the world). What SHOULD concern us is what's going to happen to China when it eventually collapses in on itself.
...which is usually the case with ANYTHING.
I personally think the whole OS debate is retarded.
Sorry, you use whatever tool your boss tells you to use, and if you have a choice, you use the one that works for you (be it because you're familiar with it, or because it simply works). People will have their opinions, and regardless of how effective or more efficient one OS is on paper in comparison to another, it depends on the user.
If you think your flavor of Linux, or OSX, or Windows is the best thing for you, that's great, shut the fuck up and use it. You aren't going to win converts by telling someone their OS of choice "sucks ass" or how they're "stupid" for using it.
I for example, think Macs suck. I fucking HATE dealing with OS9, and to a slightly lesser extent, OSX. It's just not my bag. However, if it really DID suck as much as I thought it did, no one would be using it would they? It's my personal opinion, so I just keep my grumblings to myself whenever the painful time comes that I have to work on a Mac.
Hit Fileplanet and look around for an "ultra ultra detail" mod. It enables self shadowing, but god help you if you don't have a godbox.
As for the engine wars, I find Half Life 2 far more beautiful than Doom 3, and I'm saying this having played through all of Doom 3.
1. There's actually CS1.5 for Steam out there. Google is your friend.
2. You no longer have to authenticate over the net to play Steam games anymore.
3. You don't have to update any of your games if you don't want either. Right click on the game and turn off automatic updating.
4. You are a fucking idiot, in case I forgot to mention it. Die.
Sorry guys, it was worth the karma burn.
The only consolation I get for having wasted money to see this movie with my friends is that Tom gets hit in the head with a big rock in the last fight scene.
I'm not the only person who's happy that the asshole that made me waste hours fixing the dozens of idiot-owned unpatched boxes is going to jail?
You can go ahead and blame the user all you want (a popular thing to do in the Slashdot crowd, because of course, us IT people NEVER MAKE MISTAKES), but the user didn't "write" the virus.
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4547.html
I tried them out of curiosity, and I am indeed seeing improvement in framerates in Doom 3. I wonder though, if these tweaks are designed for OpenGL, will they translate over to other OpenGL games like Call of Duty?
Where whiny sexless Linux zealots plug their ears and scream while windows users tell them Linux is too hard.
Windows User: Why can't I just double click and install something? Linux is too hard!
Slashdotter: JESUS YOU NEWB ALL U HAV3 2 DO IS MAKE INSTALL HOW HARD IS THAT?
Windows User: But that didn't work! I got a bunch of errors!
Slashdotter: OMG UR SO STUPID, LINUX IS EASY!
Then there's this chestnut:
Windows power user: I run Win2k and have an uptime of over a year. Hasn't crashed on me yet.
Slashdotter: ANCTDOTES DONT COUNT BECUZ MY GRANDMAS WINXP BOX I SET UP CRASHES EVERY OTHER MINUTE AND IM SURE ITS NOT MY FAULT GOD WINDOWS SUCSK
or this one:
Windows User: I tried Mandrake/Xandros/RedHat and thing went wrong and all my stuff didn't work.
Slashdotter: THAT CRAP DISTRO DOESNT REPRESENT LINUX WHY ARE YOU USING THAT NEWB DISTRO ANYWAY BECAUSE EASY TO USE INSTALLERS ARE FOR STUPID FAGGOTS USE GENTOO or
Or:
Server Admin: But
Slashdotter: UR JUST NOT DOING IT RIGHT AND I BET WINDOWS IS JUST TOTALLY WORSE BECAUSE IM NOT GOING TO EXPLAIN WHY ITS BECAUSE ITS WINDOWS AND IT SUCCKS
Linux is harder, get over it.
Oh yeah, you go to hell alright. Also, parts of the base are being taken over by hell.
But don't let me throw you, you spend a LOT of time running through similar looking futuristic tunnels with crappy light fixtures that go out if you look at them crosseyed.
The multiplayer is forgettable overall. It seemed like an afterthought (or a bone tossed to the kiddies who refuse to play anything that they can't pwnz0r other people at online), which it was, since Doom 3 was meant to be primarily single player.
The single player starts out tense and atmospheric, and quickly gets dull. A lot of people will try comparing this game to System Shock 2, but outside of the audio/video logs and oddly designed facilities, the scares never really change.
Idiots will probably respond to this with, "ZOMG ITS ANN FPS WAT D U EXPCT", but the scares almost never change. Enemies bust out of strangely hidden compartments in the walls and cealing behind and in front of you, and you'll be able to guess exactly where the lights will mysteriously go out after about an hour of playing.
Comparing Doom 3 to Half Life is just stupid. The grunts in HL actually try to flank you and use grenades to drive you out of cover. The zombie marines in Doom 3 either run up and empty their clip at you, or find a single spot of cover and pop out every couple seconds to shoot. Pretty much everything demonic just rushes you from whatever wall compartment you walked by.
Did I mention that your flashlight is separate from your guns, and you can't even have a pistol and flashlight out at the same time? Combine that with how freaking dark Doom 3 is (and it is VERY dark), and you'll either be getting chewed up switching back and forth from flashlight to gun, or just firing blindly in the dark. Yeah, that's fun alright.
Doom 3 makes an awesome first impression, but in the end the whole experience is just shallow. The engine is incredible and no doubt the mod scene will do some amazing stuff with it, but Doom 3 isn't revolutionary. Hell, it's barely evolutionary.
Pick it up now if you're starved for a passable singleplayer FPS, or if you're looking to impress all the l33t kiddies with your framerate counts.
For everyone else, wait until Id comes to their senses and drops the price to $45-50.
Seriously, go outside, go buy a gun. Cheer up.
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Frownies.
Has there ever been a fiction book describing a utopian society that wasn't secretly evil in some way?
I guess we all get off on the sob stories and the apocalypse.
Most Linux distros are now dummy-friendly enough at install, but until it's easy to install/upgrade software and drivers without touching the commandline at all, Joe Sixpack is going to want nothing to do with it.
Nevermind that no hardcore gamer is going use Linux as their primary OS what with the increasing number of DirectX only games. Half Life 2 will probably be the nail in the coffin for people claiming to be Linux gamers.
It's not really the Linux community's fault that developers are using a non cross-platform API though.
My best friend works at Best Buy right now, and his superiors basically all but say, "push the PRPs and sell enough that we're in the 'green' or get fired."
If they don't sell enough PRPs or do good enough business, even higher ups come to the store to bitch out the managers.
...managed to ruin a perfectly good mobo, graphics card, ram, and soundcard instantly.
He didn't using mounting screws. He carefully installed all of his hardware, and leaned the damn motherboard in the case. And then RMA'd all of the stuff, and DID IT AGAIN. He was convinced he was getting dud hardware until me and one of my other friends gave him a generous beating with the cluestick after he asked us for our help.
I haven't had to restart my Win2k box for about 2 months now, and that's after installing and uninstalling 4-5 games and about a dozen applications. Memory usage is pretty much the same as when I first booted it too.
So, am I stretching my credibility there?
Zealots, ugh. Go away.
Now, do you have any real information?
How did this get modded as informative instead of funny? And could someone explain why people shit on my state, despite going to college here because the colleges in their states suck or don't offer what they want? If you don't like Indiana, don't fucking come here. The fewer idiot fratboy engineering students passed out on the street, the better.
I'm going to get beaten to death with very small cellular phones for saying this, but I was never much of a Miyazaki fan.
The only work Miyazaki or his studio have done that I've liked is Graveyard of the Fireflies, and I don't think Miyazaki himself had hardly anything to do with it, oddly enough.
I was a bad English student. I'm seriously cracking up at my bad typing.
Damn near all the fansubs I've been subjected to are a complete joke.
My Japanese language teacher from highschool used to let us watch anime brought in my students on fridays, and he always to laugh at how poor the translations were, even from the socalled "masters" like AniKraze.
It's mostly just wannabe Nihonjin with a year of class under their belt, a Japanese friend on AIM, and a pirated video editor.
Anyone notice that a lot of the AMERICAN cartoons we like (Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, Clerks, and I believe Invader Zim) are all animated primarily by Korean animation farms? Also, I will take this opportunity to interject my worthless 2 cents about current anime: It sucks. I haven't seen a decent anime made after 1998.
It's mostly just you making fun of the user for not being familiar with the Open Source crappola we all know and love here.
Dear lord, more comedy impaired BSOD and Virus jokes.