Come on, the game isn't even out yet! Not to mention those very same screenshots and concept art have been floating on the net for months already...
It still looks damn fine. I've been waiting for a good single player Quake since the excellent Quake 2. I hope the soundtrack is as cool as the one in that game as well:)
...because it's my opinion, but am i the only one *completely* let down by the trailer? It looks.. mmm, cheap - the sets, the costumes, weapons, even the non-CGI monsters we've been told so much about. Not to mention giving away a major (at least from the game) part of the story at the very end, or the whacky story (human genome, eh?)
By the way, Rottentomatoes.com is now hosting the same high quality trailer from IGN, without crappy subscriptions.
Behind the fuzz and the hype machine, Vista will simply be another OS. There's nothing radically new about it - as someone said before, it does look like XP with a new flashy skin.
People (you know, real world people) are reluctant to upgrade without a very good reason. I mean, you can still find machines running Win 98 all arround! As of today, there's not a single good reason of why end users should upgrade to Vista other than the "oooh! shinny!" factor. Not one. No killer features, and certainly no innovative ones. At the end of the day, it's just another OS.
And yes, Apple has a much better desktop OS. If somehow cheap boxes become able to run OSX in the near future, things will get really interesting.
Same here, even though i know it's for the best if it does that.
For the record, i've recently purchased a 80gb 7200rpm Hitachi Deskstar after a faulty psu burned my old trusty Seagate. I needed the drive in a hurry, and was a little bit uneasy with the Hitachi drives (you know, ex-IBM...), but after 6 months of non-stop server use i have to say they're excellent. Fast, reliable, and very quiet - not as much as the Seagate Barracudas, which you couldn't tell if they were running or not, but close.
Seagate is still my #1 drive brand, but from my own experiences and what i've heard from them, Hitachi is a close second choice.
I've recently "discovered" podcasting... i thought it was straight-old streaming MPEG audio (like Shoutcast plugin for Winamp, which enjoyed popularity a few years ago), but instead is RSS delivery of MP3 audio files - reminds me of when i was a kid and used to do my own "radio shows" on a dual cassete deck stereo. No different than posting the files online with a web server.
I just don't get it. Then again, i don't get a lot of recent computer trends... i'm turning 25, and already feel old.
For one, their philanthropy really is unmatched. I've never heard of an OSS company giving away anywhere *near* the cash that MS gives away. On top of that, MS made PC's ubiquitous. Sure, you could say, "somebody else would've done it", but there's no way of knowing. But absolutely, definitely, MS made PC's widespread and easy to use for the masses... something that no OSS project has even come close to doing.
Then again, the Internet you're using runs (and did even more in the past) mostly on non-MS software, specially OSS. You could then argue we wouldn't have Internet as we know it today without OSS just as you could argue PCs wouldn't be as widespread today without MS.
Just an example - it's not always so black-or-white. Microsoft has it pros and cons and so does OSS, and both have done their share of good for us, the users. Now, while i acknowledge what MS did for the computer industry, i find a bit too much calling them "philanthropic". They are a buisness, and do everything for a reason (i.e., get more money). No that there's anything wrong with that, but MS, particularly, has an historial of shady motivations an buisness actions.
nVidia drivers for Linux are top notch, performing equally, if not better, than their Windows counterparts. I'd still wish they open source them, or atleast release complete specs, but this is the second best thing.
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There's a well known compant that makes bread products in South America called Bimbo. Try selling those in the USA;)
Thanks for the advice! Amazing game, i love the looks of it - feels like a mixture of Tron (the movie) and Rez. It was about time someone did something new in the PC world. And it's available for Linux!
Ditto. The C64 was addictive as crack; i hated the whole Tamagotchi/virtual pets for years, only to realize i enjoyed the granddaddy of them all games back in my childhood.
Fusors are a common source of neutrons; specially seemingly simple arrangements like the Farnsworth fusor (that's right, the same guy who invented TV). The hard thing about fusion is getting excess energy from it.
It IS newsworthy! It's not the first dupe of a story still viewable in the main index, but it is the first dupe only 7 hours after the original! Don't be mean, you!
Touché. The sad truth is simple: most modern games are more focused in glitz and "oooh! shiny!" features rather than in gameplay. This has been said a millon times, but it doesn't make it wrong, sadly enough, and it's the reason why we keep seeing sequels, FPSs variants with zero inventive, MMORPGs, and RTSs which play all pretty much the same as their predecesors. It gets boring quick.
My brother has a friend who owns a video store, so we get to watch a lot of DVDs at home - yes, most recent "blockbuster" releases have unskippable trailers. Shrek 2, as it has been mentioned a few times here, is one of them. Alexander was another one.
I live in region 4 aswell, but we usually see a lot of DVDs for other regions (the wonders of region-free players!)
Same here, but the "most annoying DVD feature of all time" prize goes to (taaa-daah!) unskippable trailers/clips/FBI warnings/whatever. In some recent releases, it's downright infuriating - with up to three movie trailers you have to go through before you can even get to the content.
As it is, switching to X.Org is completely painless, on every architecture: you don't even need to rename your config files! Drivers work, configs work. The codebase hasn't been forked too much besided some newer extensions. You can literally uninstall one and install the other and continue using your system like nothing happened.
But you're right, it's Debian mantainers' job to do this. For better or worse, knowing Debians' history, it will take a good while until it reaches stable.
X.Org is quite more stable than the latest release of XFree in my opinion. Besides, XFree is being (slowly) ditched by the OSS comunity in favor of X.Org. Right now the two are pretty much the same, even at driver level, but this won't be the case for long. Why don't do the switch now that it's completely painless?
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Come on, the game isn't even out yet! Not to mention those very same screenshots and concept art have been floating on the net for months already...
:)
It still looks damn fine. I've been waiting for a good single player Quake since the excellent Quake 2. I hope the soundtrack is as cool as the one in that game as well
By the way, Rottentomatoes.com is now hosting the same high quality trailer from IGN, without crappy subscriptions.
Let's let the market decide this one. Consumers are not stupid.
That's highly debatable. Most consumers are sheep.
It makes sense.
Behind the fuzz and the hype machine, Vista will simply be another OS. There's nothing radically new about it - as someone said before, it does look like XP with a new flashy skin.
People (you know, real world people) are reluctant to upgrade without a very good reason. I mean, you can still find machines running Win 98 all arround! As of today, there's not a single good reason of why end users should upgrade to Vista other than the "oooh! shinny!" factor. Not one. No killer features, and certainly no innovative ones. At the end of the day, it's just another OS.
And yes, Apple has a much better desktop OS. If somehow cheap boxes become able to run OSX in the near future, things will get really interesting.
Damn good flick!
Same here, even though i know it's for the best if it does that.
For the record, i've recently purchased a 80gb 7200rpm Hitachi Deskstar after a faulty psu burned my old trusty Seagate. I needed the drive in a hurry, and was a little bit uneasy with the Hitachi drives (you know, ex-IBM...), but after 6 months of non-stop server use i have to say they're excellent. Fast, reliable, and very quiet - not as much as the Seagate Barracudas, which you couldn't tell if they were running or not, but close.
Seagate is still my #1 drive brand, but from my own experiences and what i've heard from them, Hitachi is a close second choice.
You should probably know that "pedo" means "fart" in most of latin america :)
I've recently "discovered" podcasting... i thought it was straight-old streaming MPEG audio (like Shoutcast plugin for Winamp, which enjoyed popularity a few years ago), but instead is RSS delivery of MP3 audio files - reminds me of when i was a kid and used to do my own "radio shows" on a dual cassete deck stereo. No different than posting the files online with a web server.
I just don't get it. Then again, i don't get a lot of recent computer trends... i'm turning 25, and already feel old.
For one, their philanthropy really is unmatched. I've never heard of an OSS company giving away anywhere *near* the cash that MS gives away. On top of that, MS made PC's ubiquitous. Sure, you could say, "somebody else would've done it", but there's no way of knowing. But absolutely, definitely, MS made PC's widespread and easy to use for the masses... something that no OSS project has even come close to doing.
Then again, the Internet you're using runs (and did even more in the past) mostly on non-MS software, specially OSS. You could then argue we wouldn't have Internet as we know it today without OSS just as you could argue PCs wouldn't be as widespread today without MS.
Just an example - it's not always so black-or-white. Microsoft has it pros and cons and so does OSS, and both have done their share of good for us, the users. Now, while i acknowledge what MS did for the computer industry, i find a bit too much calling them "philanthropic". They are a buisness, and do everything for a reason (i.e., get more money). No that there's anything wrong with that, but MS, particularly, has an historial of shady motivations an buisness actions.
Not only properly, better. To this day, System Shock 2 is the most inmersive FPS ever made - long steps ahead of HL2 if you ask me.
nVidia drivers for Linux are top notch, performing equally, if not better, than their Windows counterparts. I'd still wish they open source them, or atleast release complete specs, but this is the second best thing.
There's a well known compant that makes bread products in South America called Bimbo. Try selling those in the USA ;)
Thanks for the advice! Amazing game, i love the looks of it - feels like a mixture of Tron (the movie) and Rez. It was about time someone did something new in the PC world. And it's available for Linux!
Lemon 64 has it for download. The VICE emulator runs it flawlessly, and it's available for every platform you could imagine.
Ditto. The C64 was addictive as crack; i hated the whole Tamagotchi/virtual pets for years, only to realize i enjoyed the granddaddy of them all games back in my childhood.
Maybe because if you include solar panels, you also need batteries of some sort. They add a lot of weight.
On top of that, she doesn't like me fucking with her...
...work machine *that* much.
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Dude, dump her already!
Ohh, i see. Nevermind!
Fusors are a common source of neutrons; specially seemingly simple arrangements like the Farnsworth fusor (that's right, the same guy who invented TV). The hard thing about fusion is getting excess energy from it.
It IS newsworthy! It's not the first dupe of a story still viewable in the main index, but it is the first dupe only 7 hours after the original! Don't be mean, you!
Touché. The sad truth is simple: most modern games are more focused in glitz and "oooh! shiny!" features rather than in gameplay. This has been said a millon times, but it doesn't make it wrong, sadly enough, and it's the reason why we keep seeing sequels, FPSs variants with zero inventive, MMORPGs, and RTSs which play all pretty much the same as their predecesors. It gets boring quick.
...and as such, it's awfully sticky. If i catch myself humming it in the car someone's gonna die, i swear!
My brother has a friend who owns a video store, so we get to watch a lot of DVDs at home - yes, most recent "blockbuster" releases have unskippable trailers. Shrek 2, as it has been mentioned a few times here, is one of them. Alexander was another one.
I live in region 4 aswell, but we usually see a lot of DVDs for other regions (the wonders of region-free players!)
Same here, but the "most annoying DVD feature of all time" prize goes to (taaa-daah!) unskippable trailers/clips/FBI warnings/whatever. In some recent releases, it's downright infuriating - with up to three movie trailers you have to go through before you can even get to the content.
Publicists should be shot.
As it is, switching to X.Org is completely painless, on every architecture: you don't even need to rename your config files! Drivers work, configs work. The codebase hasn't been forked too much besided some newer extensions. You can literally uninstall one and install the other and continue using your system like nothing happened.
But you're right, it's Debian mantainers' job to do this. For better or worse, knowing Debians' history, it will take a good while until it reaches stable.
X.Org is quite more stable than the latest release of XFree in my opinion. Besides, XFree is being (slowly) ditched by the OSS comunity in favor of X.Org. Right now the two are pretty much the same, even at driver level, but this won't be the case for long. Why don't do the switch now that it's completely painless?