I can't even play Japanese movie-fests. Star Control makes you feel like you're a part of something. It's pretty amazing really. Funny, exciting, rich in interesting characters, difficult and has a great battle engine (you can play melee against your friends for hours).
FF7 made me cry when Aeris died. Really!
It's easily in my top 5 games of all time, along with MOO2, X-COM, Fallout 2 and Buldar's Gate 2, none of which are 3D.
System Shock 2! Very creepy and scary, very good voice acting and dialogues and the story was excellent. It was everything Doom3 tried to be...
Just let me smoke my weed, if Freedom is really what you stand for.
Most scientists/doctors say alcohol is more dangerous then "weed" (causes more fights and half of all killing is under alcohol influence) but they still wouldn't recommend either to be legal for consumption.
"Weed" causes cravings and can make you slow in the head. Yes I experienced this first-hand with a friend of mine. We challenged him to lay off the "weed" (marihuana) for two months and he just "no way!" and he was acting a lot slower then when he didn't smoke that stuff.
Last I checked a whole lot of people voted for Bush and that horse-faced guy. If we can make people belive their vote counts why can't we make them belive their purchase counts?
Then whenever something like this got out like "hey it may be Wal-Marts fault System Shock 3 never came!" and we get Wal-Mart shaking in their pants.
At least if 10% boycott Wal-Mart, because 10% in business world is a big number right?
As a customer you have responsibility. Or do you consider yourself merely a consumer?
Doing to them as they do to others means that you do everything they do, and become every bit as evil as they are; and you've already passed judgement on that kind of evil, so don't be surprised when you get the very punishment you gave to your enemy.
No, the solution really is to lock down the way the OS lets programs hook into the OS itself. Programs shouldn't be able to hide from the user, neither in their operation nor in their storage on media. It shouldn't have to be a long and troublesome hunt to clean out every instance of that spyware.
You mean like forcing programs to use the directory where they are installed for settings and libraries, and not be allowed to touch the system. Any system-level features of the program would still not be installed in the system partition. Just a folder where the OS scans at start-up.
3rd party drives same thing.
The result would be just delete content in these folders and your system is clean again.
As a bonus, reformant of the system partition and reinstall of the OS and you won't loose any program settings and data.
This used to be true with Linux, a seperate partition for user files and settings. Lately however they seem to put everything on one partiton except the swap file.
No matter how good the Cell processor is, what about the GPU? Even though it's just rumours at this point, isn't their graphics card pretty much similar in specs to the one in the 360?
That doesn't matter much because the GPU is fast enough for a HD resolution and AntiAliasing/AnisotropicFiltering for it. The GPU just handles the pixels and their coloring and effects/blending, its the CPU (Cell in this case) that builds up the world and handles the physics and AI and scene interaction.
Essentially the CPU is what makes the game alive, interactive and exciting! Just see how everyone was blown away by the physics in Half-Life 2.
Norwegians also. The game Flaklypa Grand Prix comes with an information flip that politely tells you to not pirate this game to your friends but rather make them buy it.
Though last I read Norway was one of the countries with the most pirating, but I prefer a polite suggestion instead of a lawsuit.
But what about programs settings stored in the registry? When I do my monthly XP re-install (for that "clean OS" feeling) I have to export and import 4 registry trees for just OE alone.
Therefore I love programs like Opera, Eudora, Thumbs Plus 5, mIRC, WinTidy etc that stores their settings in their own directory. I keep these programs at D:\Prografile and when I reinstall I just have to create a shortcut to Opera.exe and all my bookmarks, login-sessions (cookies), wand passwords, history and settings are there!
Also reviewers conducting benchmarks are required to do it on a freshly installed Windows machine, and a re-install makes the system feel "clean."
Those aren't promises, those are concrete ideas and suggestions we can watch him follow through!
I thought simple and to-the-point statements was good, to be clear about the matters, instead of this endless political "we well do better... god bless america... terror terror... god bless america..." mumbo-jumbo.
That's the attitude here in Europe, but overall Americans have a lower education degree then the rest of us polluting trash (1) so I can understand so many like Bush - hes cute and simple!
1) Polluting trash: Japan, Europe, China, etc all modern rich countries with McDonalds
I've a much better idea, disconnect them all together, problem solved!!
"security, they argued, was best implemented in the end point"
that is, the programs, the bloody OS and drivers and stuff. Any software firewall that runs on the PC is not considered "the end"
I will NOT accept any ISP's shoving NAT solutions upon customers, this should NOT be the common and accepted.
A firewall however, set up to maybe block port 135, 4444 and UDP 69 should be OK. TCP Port 135 most important, ut no NAT solution, several services does not work with this like:
Starcraft IRC DCC send/get VPN
And any servers that need an official, working IP.
A NAT solution is not internet access, it is web-access disguised as internet access.
I also care. I try to buy games that come in a small DVD-case instead of a big cardboard box.
but then again, as trees can be re-sown oil won't regenerate until a few million years, and most things we own are made from oil polymers.
Why do i feel stupid when I bring my own plastic bags to the store?
Even my dad has spoken bad about idealistic attitude and that a "utopia" is impossible, but heck we already have it "utopical" already! Every damn little food you can buy in the store is air-tight wrapped for hygiene purposes and we live longer now than ever before.
If we had been more positive to el and hydrogen cars, the citys wouldnt be so polluting, noisy, stressy and smelly. It may very well be quite possible with a different culture, a demand for these things, then a market and then sleazy corporations wanto exploit this market.
It seems to be happening though, but we're awfully slow.
I didnt get it until I learned that 0wning is hacking and controlling another computer.
I doubt my friends would get it at all unless I used my l33t teaching skills to simplifiy and explain it in "english."
I just want people to be informed. More support for Linux, more open windows APIs or something. Create a market? Mind-share and all that, not sure if it will work though.
They day we legalize marijuana is the day that all of the illicit profit disappears.
So we get slower cognition in addition to lung cancer and alcoholic addiction?
I can't see why we also need marijuana to have fun, anyway they just think "drugs" are more OK and go more extreme on other drugs, which also as suggested supports terrorists?
The laws are there for a reason, I agree we are too taboo about sexuality and sex, but people that wanto legalice an habit-forming drug should think about the consequences. Do you want your doctor, your taxi-driver, your kebab maker etc to be slow, addicted or otherwise less performing? Your sister or daughters husband be more easily violent?
Actually, anyone notice this new wizzy installer some apps use (some MS ones too) that will prompt you when it finds locked files and which app has it opened, and allows you to close it and continue.
1. During install it's clean, fast and no kode to enter 2. tells when its updated files are in use, no need for reboot (!) 3. it's small 4. yet remote-control and other "server-like" features are there without the need of a "server-version" that only works on Windows 2000 Server etc. 5. only $39,- for a consumer version 6. SmartPlacement defrag is really smart
PS: I know I'm almost like an ad! but cheap, small, solid, honest and non-bloated software like this is really rare in the day of corporate stock-must-increase must-produce-more must-save-costs business culture.
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Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares
8.7 great game
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/masteroforion
System Shock 2! Very creepy and scary, very good voice acting and dialogues and the story was excellent. It was everything Doom3 tried to be...
Planescape Torment also has some good dialogues
http://jooh.no/ss_planescape.html
These days I'm playing SpellForce. Louse acting and dialogues, but I haven't lost so much sleep because of a game since Baldurs Gate 2.
Most scientists/doctors say alcohol is more dangerous then "weed" (causes more fights and half of all killing is under alcohol influence) but they still wouldn't recommend either to be legal for consumption.
"Weed" causes cravings and can make you slow in the head. Yes I experienced this first-hand with a friend of mine. We challenged him to lay off the "weed" (marihuana) for two months and he just "no way!" and he was acting a lot slower then when he didn't smoke that stuff.
So please don't be cool and promote weed.
Last I checked a whole lot of people voted for Bush and that horse-faced guy. If we can make people belive their vote counts why can't we make them belive their purchase counts?
Then whenever something like this got out like "hey it may be Wal-Marts fault System Shock 3 never came!" and we get Wal-Mart shaking in their pants.
At least if 10% boycott Wal-Mart, because 10% in business world is a big number right?
As a customer you have responsibility. Or do you consider yourself merely a consumer?
theres nothing similar to Plug-and-Play, you MUST know a certain level of programming in order to self-maintain your system, etc etc etc...
You didn't touch a Linux box during the last five years, did you?
Tell me how to
1. change the refresh rate
2. change the resolution
3. change the bit-depth
of the monitor in these Linux variations
1. Fedora Core 5
2. Linspire
3. Suse
A re-install of the OS isnt as user-friendly anymore since most Linux variations put Home and System on the same partition.
Why is this modded Troll I thought it was funny and it reminded me about this comic strip
http://hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2005-08-15
We could have been "fair" to Hitler too.
Absolutely! Just install Linux.
No, the solution really is to lock down the way the OS lets programs hook into the OS itself. Programs shouldn't be able to hide from the user, neither in their operation nor in their storage on media. It shouldn't have to be a long and troublesome hunt to clean out every instance of that spyware.
You mean like forcing programs to use the directory where they are installed for settings and libraries, and not be allowed to touch the system. Any system-level features of the program would still not be installed in the system partition. Just a folder where the OS scans at start-up.
3rd party drives same thing.
The result would be just delete content in these folders and your system is clean again.
As a bonus, reformant of the system partition and reinstall of the OS and you won't loose any program settings and data.
http://jooh.no/programs_on_d.html
This used to be true with Linux, a seperate partition for user files and settings. Lately however they seem to put everything on one partiton except the swap file.
(and mod me up I want karma)
Is it me or is this is the kind of argument you will be considered a "troll" for on forums about 3d graphics.
Of course theres no standard fueling nozzle.
Of course it's going to be expensive.
Of course theres no where to fuel up.
We haven't even begun! If it's to become a reality we have to start somewhere! This may fail, but it's not a failure, it's one way that doesn't work.
At least the Japanese are trying! First the Toyota Prius, now dual-fuel cars, idealistic innovation?
1. technology
2. hardware (rotary "wankel" motor)
3. consumer awareness "oil is running out, hydrogen is clean and quiet"
4. early products (dual fuel cars)
5. maturation
Do I make myself clear!? lol
No matter how good the Cell processor is, what about the GPU? Even though it's just rumours at this point, isn't their graphics card pretty much similar in specs to the one in the 360?
That doesn't matter much because the GPU is fast enough for a HD resolution and AntiAliasing/AnisotropicFiltering for it. The GPU just handles the pixels and their coloring and effects/blending, its the CPU (Cell in this case) that builds up the world and handles the physics and AI and scene interaction.
Essentially the CPU is what makes the game alive, interactive and exciting! Just see how everyone was blown away by the physics in Half-Life 2.
Norwegians also. The game Flaklypa Grand Prix comes with an information flip that politely tells you to not pirate this game to your friends but rather make them buy it.
Though last I read Norway was one of the countries with the most pirating, but I prefer a polite suggestion instead of a lawsuit.
But what about programs settings stored in the registry? When I do my monthly XP re-install (for that "clean OS" feeling) I have to export and import 4 registry trees for just OE alone.
Therefore I love programs like Opera, Eudora, Thumbs Plus 5, mIRC, WinTidy etc that stores their settings in their own directory. I keep these programs at D:\Prografile and when I reinstall I just have to create a shortcut to Opera.exe and all my bookmarks, login-sessions (cookies), wand passwords, history and settings are there!
Also reviewers conducting benchmarks are required to do it on a freshly installed Windows machine, and a re-install makes the system feel "clean."
It seems their belief in God is inverse propotional to their education level. Higher education = more people believ in natural selection.
Thank you God, for your healing gift of religion.
This clip made me truly understand that without an ability to laugh I wouldn't be able to react to a lot of things in life.
Those aren't promises, those are concrete ideas and suggestions we can watch him follow through!
... god bless america ... terror terror ... god bless america ..." mumbo-jumbo.
I thought simple and to-the-point statements was good, to be clear about the matters, instead of this endless political "we well do better
That's the attitude here in Europe, but overall Americans have a lower education degree then the rest of us polluting trash (1) so I can understand so many like Bush - hes cute and simple!
1)
Polluting trash:
Japan, Europe, China, etc all modern rich countries with McDonalds
I've a much better idea, disconnect them all together, problem solved!!
"security, they argued, was best implemented in the end point"
that is, the programs, the bloody OS and drivers and stuff. Any software firewall that runs on the PC is not considered "the end"
I will NOT accept any ISP's shoving NAT solutions upon customers, this should NOT be the common and accepted.
A firewall however, set up to maybe block port 135, 4444 and UDP 69 should be OK. TCP Port 135 most important, ut no NAT solution, several services does not work with this like:
Starcraft
IRC DCC send/get
VPN
And any servers that need an official, working IP.
A NAT solution is not internet access, it is web-access disguised as internet access.
About burying radioactive waste
I read years ago in a "popular science" magazine that they might bury them in some kind of mud. The containers would rot but the mud would keep it.
It's unnecessary and impractical.
Anyone easily annoyed will be irritated by that clip, I remember my dad complaining about it so I had to turn it off for him.
The Search Dog is the same thing, and the cuteness lasts only for 5 minutes then its just a resource hog and deskspace waste.
Most FPS games have a mouse-smoothing feature that upsample the mouse input so it can be synced closer to the FPS.
UT2004 for instance locks FPS to 85 for online play and setting your monitor to 85hz and mouse smoothing to get responsive gameplay.
In quake3 it can usually be set at 125FPS/Hz as q3 isn't very CPU intensive (geometric detail) these days.
Having a high refresh increases accuracy and reflexes, an important part of online competitive games.
I'd like a CRT monitor I can run at 120Hz at 1152x864.
I also care. I try to buy games that come in a small DVD-case instead of a big cardboard box.
but then again, as trees can be re-sown oil won't regenerate until a few million years, and most things we own are made from oil polymers.
Why do i feel stupid when I bring my own plastic bags to the store?
Even my dad has spoken bad about idealistic attitude and that a "utopia" is impossible, but heck we already have it "utopical" already! Every damn little food you can buy in the store is air-tight wrapped for hygiene purposes and we live longer now than ever before.
If we had been more positive to el and hydrogen cars, the citys wouldnt be so polluting, noisy, stressy and smelly. It may very well be quite possible with a different culture, a demand for these things, then a market and then sleazy corporations wanto exploit this market.
It seems to be happening though, but we're awfully slow.
I didnt get it until I learned that 0wning is hacking and controlling another computer.
I doubt my friends would get it at all unless I used my l33t teaching skills to simplifiy and explain it in "english."
I just want people to be informed. More support for Linux, more open windows APIs or something. Create a market? Mind-share and all that, not sure if it will work though.
They day we legalize marijuana is the day that all of the illicit profit disappears.
So we get slower cognition in addition to lung cancer and alcoholic addiction?
I can't see why we also need marijuana to have fun, anyway they just think "drugs" are more OK and go more extreme on other drugs, which also as suggested supports terrorists?
The laws are there for a reason, I agree we are too taboo about sexuality and sex, but people that wanto legalice an habit-forming drug should think about the consequences. Do you want your doctor, your taxi-driver, your kebab maker etc to be slow, addicted or otherwise less performing? Your sister or daughters husband be more easily violent?
This got off-topic but i couldnt help it
Actually, anyone notice this new wizzy installer some apps use (some MS ones too) that will prompt you when it finds locked files and which app has it opened, and allows you to close it and continue.
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Yes! Please mod this up:
I've encountered it with Perfect Disk from Raxco http://www.raxco.com/products/for_the_consumer.cf
1. During install it's clean, fast and no kode to enter
2. tells when its updated files are in use, no need for reboot (!)
3. it's small
4. yet remote-control and other "server-like" features are there without the need of a "server-version" that only works on Windows 2000 Server etc.
5. only $39,- for a consumer version
6. SmartPlacement defrag is really smart
PS: I know I'm almost like an ad! but cheap, small, solid, honest and non-bloated software like this is really rare in the day of corporate stock-must-increase must-produce-more must-save-costs business culture.
Athlon64 64-bit testing under Linux