Honestly, I doubt you play FPS games because the difference between the 24-32fps range and the 50-60's is way noticeable. Forget the theoretical technicalities of human eyes capabilities for one second because I'm sure when the FPS of a game reaches the 30's, there are other factors that make it sluggish and all that together give us the perception that the difference between 30's and 60's is an important difference.
It will bring us time to kick ass and chew bubblegum:D
But no, in all seriousness... We can all laugh at how long it's taking to make this game, but in the end it's still a game and it might or it might not be fun. Isn't that what counts?
The problem here is that we're expecting something huge (at least most of us used to) because this is Duke and its been hyped up forever and ever. The slightest news about Duke Nukem Forever quickly spreads to every gaming site you can think of. Do you think 3d Realms does not know this? In exchange they want to make sure that the game they deliver will meet the expections of gamers.
As a developer, you fail. How can you make a website and ignore most users?
This is why it's a pain in the ass making large websites, making them work among IE7 and the rest of the world can be a long and agonizing process and as you do it, you learn these little css hacks that can be used to do certain things.
Why overclock? Why not? That's my question? Pretty damn fast? for who? For a slashdotter who's programming in FORTRAN or for a gamer who needs more clocks?
With today's heatsinks, at most what you'd need is a $40-50 heatsink and your cpu can reach speeds of a processor that costs double or triple the one you have. Most video cards out there can overclock without any modifications to the cooling.
Overclocking is safe too, if you know what you're doing. If your PC starts displaying artifacts on the screen you know you've reached your limit without hurting your hardware. Oh I know, you'll tell me that your reducing the hardware's lifespan! Blablabla, how many of you honestly use the same processor after a few years? I know that as geeks, we have old hardware lying around that can be made into pr0n file servers, but most hardware can already last more than a decade.
Of course, it's never a guarantee in overclocking so don't be surprised if your hardware isn't reaching the speeds of someone else you know, but generally you can get extra boosts out of what you have with very little to add onto, at most a good cpu heatsink.
These new devices just aren't the alternatives to normal exercise.
First off, eat right. No matter how much you exercise, as long as you're eating shit, your body will look like it too.
Then theres the gym. Oh that's right, "I DONT HAVE THE TIME!". Bullshit! If you can't find 4 hours a week to put into making yourself healthier than don't cry when you're 50-60 with health problems and have a hard time going up the stairs and have to take the elevator just to go from 2nd to 3rd floor.
Or is it that all people here are IT folks who work from 9/9 and weekends?
My beef with Apple is that I have to buy their hardware just because I want OSX. I already have the hardware, why should I buy again more hardware? I already have too much old hardware lying around the house.
I don't care if the action of making OS work on third party hardware nearly killed Apple, that's their problem, not mine. People say OSX doesn't cost a lot compared to XP or Vista or whatever Windows but when the end result is that I have to spend $1500+ CAD on a computer just to use OSX on a portable device, I call their statement bs.
That does not imply that they did, or will... but possibly would...
Oh I get it, you're one of them! K, let's take this seriously.
When it goes as far as chatting with a "kid" for several days, giving very detailed descriptiosn of what they wanna do to them and drive hours to meet them, you can't possibly tell me they would then back out and say "no I wouldn't be able to do it.". Ok maybe 1-2 out of a bunch would feel too guilty and not do the act but for sure some of them would have gone all the way with kids.
These people bring beer and lube and condoms. They're dead serious.
There is nothing wrong with a horny guy but there is something very wrong with a horny guy who wants sexual relations with a kid. Does it ruin their life to be on national television? Possibly. I say so be it, make them understand how serious it is.
I say if it takes something "illegal" such as using hidden cameras that no one agree's with to catch something even "more illegal", then that's fine. Catch them and make them understand. The worst is when in the early shows when there were no cops, the molester would leave and within 24 hours would try again and was caught again. I donno about you but I can't see how you can defend the man who wants sex with a kid versus the hidden cameramen spying and trying to catch these people.
And ruining their lives for tv ratings? Well, at least at the same they're showing to the viewers how molesters pull it off and then you might hopefully have parents who are more aware of what their kids do on the internet and not do jack shit until it happens to them.
Well, most people are putting up with a car with a locked hood seeing how Windows remains the dominating OS for the desktops at home and the workplace so how is that worse than having the same people put up with a car that has an open hood (Linux distro) with a locked compartment (video drivers)? Sounds already better doesn't it?
When the situation is that a game performs better on Linux than Windows using proprietary drivers from the same company and I'm talking about Nvidia, surely somewhere that company has done their homework at making their product work. If ATI/AMD can do the same, that would be a great leap.
I think the problem is because so many companies provide poor support to Linux, the community thinks contributors who are active in the OSS community are the ones who can improve anything but what if you have a company that has programers that know very well what they're doing, should there be a need to open up the drivers? Yeah for enthusiasts it's always good but for the end-users, not really because they have support for their product that they payed for and it works like it's suppose to.
Linux users have been spoiled that's all. It's two extremes, you have the fully customizable Linux and the very closed Windows. Once you get a taste of the openness of Linux, you think it's great and everything should be like that, but then you forget how some things work great on Windows despite being very locked in. It doesn't have to be one or the other. What's wrong with having an Open system like Linux with some closed parts as long as everything works?
Even if ATI released 100% working, fast drivers, they would be useless if they weren't OPEN and FREE.
You people are all crazy about GPL/Open Source. "VIVA OPEN SOURCE WE WANT SOURCE CODES!". Seriously, how many *nix users contribute to OSS projects? How many contribute code? I bet a good bunch of people contribute because I've seen projects that have died and have been picked up by other developers to keep some applications alive so I won't deny the existence of contributors.
What I will say is that I would honestly prefer closed source drivers like Nvidia but that work correctly and perform great rather than open source drivers with the current ppl @ ATI. Call me crazy but why does every company that develop on Linux have to give in to this OSS idealogy, the idea of giving to the community in order to keep it alive? Seriously the company that do so are great but the companies that don't want to, it's their choice it's their product and it's their software.
Does ATI need to improve their drivers? Hell yes. Is the solution to open source their drivers? Maybe, maybe not. Get a good team of linux developers to regularly work on them at ATI and if the drivers perform great, you will see many happy ATI users who will not need to buy a Nvidia video card to simply to stay on Linux. Sure there will be a few pissed off GPL/OSS/Linux/Penguin zealots who will cry for the source code, too bad for them I guess.
It's ok! Believe me, they will discover something even better!
The next intelligent species will find us and be amazed at how many human corpses they've found lying around next to an artifact with what seems to be a mice-shaped object in their hand. It might take them a while to guess what we were doing, unless Slashdot plans to be around by the year five million.
I loved Carmageddon, but you don't see me running down the streets killing cows and pedestrians.
Whenever children get influenced by games and do what they portray, blame the parents in 99% of the cases, and I leave 1% out because I'm not a parent so I can't say for sure but it's not because of some rare situations that you won't produce a game that I'd enjoy playing.
The more games produced, the better, at least we can look around and see which ones are quality for our entertaining needs.
Rogers and Fido (owned by Rogers) are the only GSM carriers of Canada. The same GSM bastardized phones that are locked that may not enable you to customize your ringtones without buying them are sold unlocked directly from the warehouses from Taiwan at a way cheaper price, the RAZR being the best example because it's everywhere you look at.
What I hope is that someone will find a way of unlocking the iPhone. It sucks when you think that you're slowly paying for the iPhone with your 1-2-3 years contract and then you're stuck with a device that is finally yours, you realize you're still suck with that same carrier.
The death of "Turbo" was when the Turbo Button stopped appearing on computer cases:X Now wasn't that cool or what, you had TURBO and the speed of your procesor was indicated on a led display.
No I didn't say that Apple is the Louis Vuitton of geeks. Again, it's not about what the iphone offers versus its competition, at least I think it isn't since like everybody knows most of its features are available on existing devices at a much affordable price.
What will matter here for Apple is will the interface they present to the user on the iphone be worth the switch from their current devices, if any.
Was the iPod revolutionary when it came out? AFAIK the Dell Jukebox was also around at that time when the iPod came out. The difference? Not much when you compare the features. They both had similar battery life, they both played both played music for your ears. Where is the difference then? The Dell Jukebox would make your ears bleed! What I mean is, you don't have to be revolutionary to beat the competition. Just take what others are doing wrong, and do it right, or in a way that you think people will enjoy. The iPod wasn't/isn't successful because of marketing only. It does a great job at being an mp3 player and not a piece of shit that you battle with just to get it working.
What about the iPhone? It's the same concept if you ask me. There are pocket pc's and blackberries that have many features that the iPhone promiss to offer its customers and whatnot. The difference is more in the interface and how you'll use it rather than discovering new features.
I say this cause I see a lot of people commenting on the iphone and saying that "X" and "Y" devices do what the iphone does.
AFAIK, a Geo Metro and a Lexus IS350 can both go from point A to point B and reach the maximum allowed speed limits on (almost) any road you'll be travelling on. The difference is the experience you get out of driving those cars.
If you owned a company who's (almost) exclusive way of communicating with customers is by email, would you give it up and tell the millions who depend on Paypal that they'll receive receipts by the mailman? Yes their customer service is shit so I won't even try to sugarcoat that reality. Right let's send an email to customers in Africa, the receipt for a purchase shall come in by Air-Camel straight from UK!
Yes, fake paypal emails do look very similar sometimes to the real thing, but if you fall for it, you deserve it. When I worked at a gas station, I was just surprised at the number of customers who would not read the simple instructions at the gas pump when they wanted to pay at the gaspump, and then when something wrong happened they'd come at me inside and bitch that the machine sucks. Well fuck them, I'd tell them "Just read the instructions. They don't sucks, See that man on #4, he did it... so you can too, no?". Even better, they'd come inside, pick a pack of gum and ask me what's the price when the price tag is right there where they picked the fucking gum.
Theres always a pattern to fake emails. You have to use "just a bit" of common sense. The very first emails ebay and paypal send you, just like any other company that operates online is that they will never ask for your information and with paypal you should always manually type the site when in doubt, x.com doesn't take long to type now does it?
PayPal is shit but the options are pretty limited so we have to make an extra effort as customers to avoid the most issues.
Slashdot Mirror
So basically Comcast is up against most of the Internet's series of tubes? They don't stand a chance! oh wait..
Honestly, I doubt you play FPS games because the difference between the 24-32fps range and the 50-60's is way noticeable. Forget the theoretical technicalities of human eyes capabilities for one second because I'm sure when the FPS of a game reaches the 30's, there are other factors that make it sluggish and all that together give us the perception that the difference between 30's and 60's is an important difference.
Three times more likely?
It's in times like these I wish I were a religious man
*Reverend running wild* It's all over people! We don't have a prayer!
What will Duke bring to this table?
:D
It will bring us time to kick ass and chew bubblegum
But no, in all seriousness... We can all laugh at how long it's taking to make this game, but in the end it's still a game and it might or it might not be fun. Isn't that what counts?
The problem here is that we're expecting something huge (at least most of us used to) because this is Duke and its been hyped up forever and ever. The slightest news about Duke Nukem Forever quickly spreads to every gaming site you can think of. Do you think 3d Realms does not know this? In exchange they want to make sure that the game they deliver will meet the expections of gamers.
See what he did? Because of him, we're scared of _ANY_ sequel. DAmn yoU Jar Jar!!!!!1
As a developer, I shall continue to ignore IE
As a developer, you fail. How can you make a website and ignore most users?
This is why it's a pain in the ass making large websites, making them work among IE7 and the rest of the world can be a long and agonizing process and as you do it, you learn these little css hacks that can be used to do certain things.
Professional? I believe you're mistaking Slashdot's staff with the guys at Fox news.
Why overclock? Why not? That's my question? Pretty damn fast? for who? For a slashdotter who's programming in FORTRAN or for a gamer who needs more clocks?
With today's heatsinks, at most what you'd need is a $40-50 heatsink and your cpu can reach speeds of a processor that costs double or triple the one you have. Most video cards out there can overclock without any modifications to the cooling.
Overclocking is safe too, if you know what you're doing. If your PC starts displaying artifacts on the screen you know you've reached your limit without hurting your hardware. Oh I know, you'll tell me that your reducing the hardware's lifespan! Blablabla, how many of you honestly use the same processor after a few years? I know that as geeks, we have old hardware lying around that can be made into pr0n file servers, but most hardware can already last more than a decade.
Of course, it's never a guarantee in overclocking so don't be surprised if your hardware isn't reaching the speeds of someone else you know, but generally you can get extra boosts out of what you have with very little to add onto, at most a good cpu heatsink.
These new devices just aren't the alternatives to normal exercise.
First off, eat right. No matter how much you exercise, as long as you're eating shit, your body will look like it too.
Then theres the gym. Oh that's right, "I DONT HAVE THE TIME!". Bullshit! If you can't find 4 hours a week to put into making yourself healthier than don't cry when you're 50-60 with health problems and have a hard time going up the stairs and have to take the elevator just to go from 2nd to 3rd floor.
Or is it that all people here are IT folks who work from 9/9 and weekends?
My beef with Apple is that I have to buy their hardware just because I want OSX. I already have the hardware, why should I buy again more hardware? I already have too much old hardware lying around the house. I don't care if the action of making OS work on third party hardware nearly killed Apple, that's their problem, not mine. People say OSX doesn't cost a lot compared to XP or Vista or whatever Windows but when the end result is that I have to spend $1500+ CAD on a computer just to use OSX on a portable device, I call their statement bs.
Judging from your huge unreadable paragraph, you're using Vista right ;)
Say that again?
That does not imply that they did, or will... but possibly would...
Oh I get it, you're one of them! K, let's take this seriously.
When it goes as far as chatting with a "kid" for several days, giving very detailed descriptiosn of what they wanna do to them and drive hours to meet them, you can't possibly tell me they would then back out and say "no I wouldn't be able to do it.". Ok maybe 1-2 out of a bunch would feel too guilty and not do the act but for sure some of them would have gone all the way with kids.
These people bring beer and lube and condoms. They're dead serious.
There is nothing wrong with a horny guy but there is something very wrong with a horny guy who wants sexual relations with a kid. Does it ruin their life to be on national television? Possibly. I say so be it, make them understand how serious it is.
I say if it takes something "illegal" such as using hidden cameras that no one agree's with to catch something even "more illegal", then that's fine. Catch them and make them understand. The worst is when in the early shows when there were no cops, the molester would leave and within 24 hours would try again and was caught again. I donno about you but I can't see how you can defend the man who wants sex with a kid versus the hidden cameramen spying and trying to catch these people.
And ruining their lives for tv ratings? Well, at least at the same they're showing to the viewers how molesters pull it off and then you might hopefully have parents who are more aware of what their kids do on the internet and not do jack shit until it happens to them.
Well, most people are putting up with a car with a locked hood seeing how Windows remains the dominating OS for the desktops at home and the workplace so how is that worse than having the same people put up with a car that has an open hood (Linux distro) with a locked compartment (video drivers)? Sounds already better doesn't it?
When the situation is that a game performs better on Linux than Windows using proprietary drivers from the same company and I'm talking about Nvidia, surely somewhere that company has done their homework at making their product work. If ATI/AMD can do the same, that would be a great leap.
I think the problem is because so many companies provide poor support to Linux, the community thinks contributors who are active in the OSS community are the ones who can improve anything but what if you have a company that has programers that know very well what they're doing, should there be a need to open up the drivers? Yeah for enthusiasts it's always good but for the end-users, not really because they have support for their product that they payed for and it works like it's suppose to.
Linux users have been spoiled that's all. It's two extremes, you have the fully customizable Linux and the very closed Windows. Once you get a taste of the openness of Linux, you think it's great and everything should be like that, but then you forget how some things work great on Windows despite being very locked in. It doesn't have to be one or the other. What's wrong with having an Open system like Linux with some closed parts as long as everything works?
Even if ATI released 100% working, fast drivers, they would be useless if they weren't OPEN and FREE.
You people are all crazy about GPL/Open Source. "VIVA OPEN SOURCE WE WANT SOURCE CODES!". Seriously, how many *nix users contribute to OSS projects? How many contribute code? I bet a good bunch of people contribute because I've seen projects that have died and have been picked up by other developers to keep some applications alive so I won't deny the existence of contributors.
What I will say is that I would honestly prefer closed source drivers like Nvidia but that work correctly and perform great rather than open source drivers with the current ppl @ ATI. Call me crazy but why does every company that develop on Linux have to give in to this OSS idealogy, the idea of giving to the community in order to keep it alive? Seriously the company that do so are great but the companies that don't want to, it's their choice it's their product and it's their software.
Does ATI need to improve their drivers? Hell yes. Is the solution to open source their drivers? Maybe, maybe not. Get a good team of linux developers to regularly work on them at ATI and if the drivers perform great, you will see many happy ATI users who will not need to buy a Nvidia video card to simply to stay on Linux. Sure there will be a few pissed off GPL/OSS/Linux/Penguin zealots who will cry for the source code, too bad for them I guess.
It's ok! Believe me, they will discover something even better!
The next intelligent species will find us and be amazed at how many human corpses they've found lying around next to an artifact with what seems to be a mice-shaped object in their hand. It might take them a while to guess what we were doing, unless Slashdot plans to be around by the year five million.
Homer Simpson: I'm feeling kind of low, Apu. Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it? You know, Skittlebrau.
I loved Carmageddon, but you don't see me running down the streets killing cows and pedestrians. Whenever children get influenced by games and do what they portray, blame the parents in 99% of the cases, and I leave 1% out because I'm not a parent so I can't say for sure but it's not because of some rare situations that you won't produce a game that I'd enjoy playing. The more games produced, the better, at least we can look around and see which ones are quality for our entertaining needs.
Rogers and Fido (owned by Rogers) are the only GSM carriers of Canada. The same GSM bastardized phones that are locked that may not enable you to customize your ringtones without buying them are sold unlocked directly from the warehouses from Taiwan at a way cheaper price, the RAZR being the best example because it's everywhere you look at.
What I hope is that someone will find a way of unlocking the iPhone. It sucks when you think that you're slowly paying for the iPhone with your 1-2-3 years contract and then you're stuck with a device that is finally yours, you realize you're still suck with that same carrier.
A toilet seat answering phone calls? That must be one shitty experience.
The death of "Turbo" was when the Turbo Button stopped appearing on computer cases :X Now wasn't that cool or what, you had TURBO and the speed of your procesor was indicated on a led display.
No I didn't say that Apple is the Louis Vuitton of geeks. Again, it's not about what the iphone offers versus its competition, at least I think it isn't since like everybody knows most of its features are available on existing devices at a much affordable price.
What will matter here for Apple is will the interface they present to the user on the iphone be worth the switch from their current devices, if any.
Was the iPod revolutionary when it came out? AFAIK the Dell Jukebox was also around at that time when the iPod came out. The difference? Not much when you compare the features. They both had similar battery life, they both played both played music for your ears. Where is the difference then? The Dell Jukebox would make your ears bleed! What I mean is, you don't have to be revolutionary to beat the competition. Just take what others are doing wrong, and do it right, or in a way that you think people will enjoy. The iPod wasn't/isn't successful because of marketing only. It does a great job at being an mp3 player and not a piece of shit that you battle with just to get it working.
What about the iPhone? It's the same concept if you ask me. There are pocket pc's and blackberries that have many features that the iPhone promiss to offer its customers and whatnot. The difference is more in the interface and how you'll use it rather than discovering new features.
I say this cause I see a lot of people commenting on the iphone and saying that "X" and "Y" devices do what the iphone does.
AFAIK, a Geo Metro and a Lexus IS350 can both go from point A to point B and reach the maximum allowed speed limits on (almost) any road you'll be travelling on. The difference is the experience you get out of driving those cars.
But..... Dey Terk ERRR JERRRBSSS!
Um, no.
If you owned a company who's (almost) exclusive way of communicating with customers is by email, would you give it up and tell the millions who depend on Paypal that they'll receive receipts by the mailman? Yes their customer service is shit so I won't even try to sugarcoat that reality. Right let's send an email to customers in Africa, the receipt for a purchase shall come in by Air-Camel straight from UK!
Yes, fake paypal emails do look very similar sometimes to the real thing, but if you fall for it, you deserve it. When I worked at a gas station, I was just surprised at the number of customers who would not read the simple instructions at the gas pump when they wanted to pay at the gaspump, and then when something wrong happened they'd come at me inside and bitch that the machine sucks. Well fuck them, I'd tell them "Just read the instructions. They don't sucks, See that man on #4, he did it... so you can too, no?". Even better, they'd come inside, pick a pack of gum and ask me what's the price when the price tag is right there where they picked the fucking gum.
Theres always a pattern to fake emails. You have to use "just a bit" of common sense. The very first emails ebay and paypal send you, just like any other company that operates online is that they will never ask for your information and with paypal you should always manually type the site when in doubt, x.com doesn't take long to type now does it?
PayPal is shit but the options are pretty limited so we have to make an extra effort as customers to avoid the most issues.