Sure, we'll be hearing lots of good things about this game....in about 6 months time once they finally get around to ironing all the bugs out of multiplayer. I mean, when I party with someone, it kinda helps to be able to see their guy in my instance. If I'm lucky I'll see the floating name above their character -- but that only happens about 5% of the time. Rest of the time, it's like I'm fighting alone.
And that engineer drone bug. The one that deletes any equipment you give to the drone to make it useful. And the one where the stat points you assign to it reset themselves every time you log off/crash. Can't forget that one.
And all the out-of-memory bugs. And the hourly crash to the desktop.
But yeah -- if you can overlook all that, you'll be hearing a LOT about this game!
(Also note: It's 9 days before launch and all of these bugs still persist.)
Polyphony hasn't met a release date within 12 months since the first Gran Turismo. If they can make the PS3 launch, I'll eat my shoes. With some tabasco.
Dreamcast was dead after Sega's constant stream of releasing bad/expensive hardware then abandoning it. When you burn your own customers they wont return, Nintendo so far is doing the exact same thing sega has been doing since the N64 in terms of 3rd party support.
As FidelCatsro pointed out, Nintendo is doing just fine with 3rd party support. There's also one big difference between Sega and Nintendo (and Sony/MS and Nintendo for that matter):
And out of those 1.7 million, 15 of them have gotten to play it without the stuttering problem or authorization difficulties! Reports of a 16th user were unfounded -- the user thought a demo loop was him actually playing.
9thtee.com and weaknees.com should both sell replacement remotes for TiVo. After one too many drops on our living room's tile floor, it's about time we get a new one ourselves . ..
So you're saying that Microsoft should never write software for something that already exists? I'm sorry, but this is something that is VERY MUCH needed for Joe Average. Joe Average doesn't mess with Norton, or Trend, or AVG, or any of that. Joe Average does mess with Windows Updates. Get this and run it from WU, and the number of virii and malware gets dropped considerably*.
*This assumes that the software from MS works properly and does a good job at removing said software.
Re:If it's true, it's a ploy...
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There's absolutely nothing wrong with having a great launch title. There IS something wrong with having a single good launch title, and nothing else worth buying for a good year into your launch. Halo 1 looks to be a Blizzard-esque title (just bought it used at lunch today for my new XBox I got for Christmas) -- that is, nothing super WOW whiz bang new, but taking all previous ideas and polishing it to a lovely gleam.
As for no other consoles having a great launch title, what about Soul Caliber 1 for the Dreamcast?
I wish they had posted Perl scripts -- all the comments that I read merely said "I used This::Library and got it working. It's really easy."
That being said, I did unmerge jabberd1.4 and got jabberd2.0s3 up and running this morning after posting that comment, and the experience is much better. Changes I make to the MySQL database are picked up by the clients, whereas changes I made to the xdb files in 1.4 were overwritten by the clients.
I just hate using non-final software in a production environment.
I've spent the last 3 days at my office attempting to install a Jabber server for internal use. What I want to do is very simple: I merely want to setup IM clients for 20-30 employees, and have their buddy lists controlled by the server itself, so when a new employee is added, all 20-30 existing employees don't have to add them.
Sounds easy right? Obviously you've never used Jabber!
The obvious place for support would appear to be http://jabber.org. But there's no support on that site. Well, maybe jabber.com! Nope, that's a corporate commercial Jabber site. Hmmm, maybe jabberstudio.org! After all, that's where the server software is hosted! Nope, not there either. They have a mailing list where 4-6 different people have asked for help on the same problem . . . and in true Open Source fashion, no one helped them, other than to say, "Well, I've setup a nifty Perl hack to fix that problem . . you just need these 4 libraries and then write your own XML commands.".
Hopefully Apple will put their spit and polish on it and make it usable. In it's current state, Jabber's a pain in the ass to try and configure with absolutely zero documentation to help.
Nice to see Taco reads his own website
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4 stories down on the front page -- is that a new record?
I wouldn't mind seeing some more information about this (this could be good for certain family members) but I don't have the bandwidth at work to view the stream.
This has gotten way out of hand. Is there anything we can do about it? I don't think a boycott at this point would do much -- the people who would care about DeCSS would maybe make up 10% of the buyers if we're really lucky. Other than applying for 150,000 Geocities pages to store the code on:)
Well, this is all fine and good, but what exactly does this have to do with Corel (already noted as a poorly run company before they ever delved in Linux) and Borland (a company that is/was slated to release their devel tools for Linux) not merging? That the 'Linux pyramid scheme' is why they aren't merging? Yeah, world domination may be a pipe dream, and a wonderful war chant, but I don't see how you can say this is the reason for them not merging.
Eh, good point. They haven't ever given a bad review, and you'd think that they would ward us away from bad books. Who knows, maybe a review of a Visual Basic book?:P
Man have I spent hours upon hours on this game. And since q3test only runs right in Linux for me (Windows doesn't like the whole Canopus/3dfx sets of drivers for my Pure 3D) now I have one less reason to reboot! w00! DrH
Well, if they could back up the talk of having the best chips onthe market, they wouldn't have to hide behind their API and depend on it so damn much. If their chips were so incredibly good, they could care less about who tries to copy their API. Granted, if CL or nVidia did use the Glide SDK improperly, then yes, they're in for a tough time. But if they did their product legally, then 3dfx is just wasting money that could be much better spent on hardware design instead of throwing more shit on their original vd1 chip design (wait a minute, isn't that like Windows98 and DOS? *boggle*)
Someone told me (sorry, but I don't know of any URL to verify this at) that, because of the fact that so many people are buying non-3dfx cards, and that the TNT is such a better chip than the VD series, that they changed their stance on this. I certainly hope so, else I'll have to keep playing the first one over and over and over and over . . . hey wait a minute, I still do, hehe:)
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Sure, we'll be hearing lots of good things about this game. ...in about 6 months time once they finally get around to ironing all the bugs out of multiplayer. I mean, when I party with someone, it kinda helps to be able to see their guy in my instance. If I'm lucky I'll see the floating name above their character -- but that only happens about 5% of the time. Rest of the time, it's like I'm fighting alone.
And that engineer drone bug. The one that deletes any equipment you give to the drone to make it useful. And the one where the stat points you assign to it reset themselves every time you log off/crash. Can't forget that one.
And all the out-of-memory bugs. And the hourly crash to the desktop.
But yeah -- if you can overlook all that, you'll be hearing a LOT about this game!
(Also note: It's 9 days before launch and all of these bugs still persist.)
Polyphony hasn't met a release date within 12 months since the first Gran Turismo. If they can make the PS3 launch, I'll eat my shoes. With some tabasco.
The domain name http://lepiratebay.fr/ was just registered.
At least Zonk's not michael.
Oops, there goes my karma.
With all the cheap shots you guys take, I wanted to take the time to say you did a great job with this review. Very detailed and very informative.
First Microsoft switches the XBox to PowerPC chips.
Then Apple switches to Intel processors.
Next, Apple comes out with a multi-button mouse.
Now you're trying to tell me Slashdot is FINALLY switching to CSS?
*runs to a fallout shelter stocked up with beans and bullets*
Dreamcast was dead after Sega's constant stream of releasing bad/expensive hardware then abandoning it. When you burn your own customers they wont return, Nintendo so far is doing the exact same thing sega has been doing since the N64 in terms of 3rd party support.
As FidelCatsro pointed out, Nintendo is doing just fine with 3rd party support. There's also one big difference between Sega and Nintendo (and Sony/MS and Nintendo for that matter):
Nintendo is still making a profit.
And out of those 1.7 million, 15 of them have gotten to play it without the stuttering problem or authorization difficulties! Reports of a 16th user were unfounded -- the user thought a demo loop was him actually playing.
9thtee.com and weaknees.com should both sell replacement remotes for TiVo. After one too many drops on our living room's tile floor, it's about time we get a new one ourselves . . .
http://www.weaknees.com/tivo_remotes.php
So you're saying that Microsoft should never write software for something that already exists? I'm sorry, but this is something that is VERY MUCH needed for Joe Average. Joe Average doesn't mess with Norton, or Trend, or AVG, or any of that. Joe Average does mess with Windows Updates. Get this and run it from WU, and the number of virii and malware gets dropped considerably*.
*This assumes that the software from MS works properly and does a good job at removing said software.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with having a great launch title. There IS something wrong with having a single good launch title, and nothing else worth buying for a good year into your launch. Halo 1 looks to be a Blizzard-esque title (just bought it used at lunch today for my new XBox I got for Christmas) -- that is, nothing super WOW whiz bang new, but taking all previous ideas and polishing it to a lovely gleam.
As for no other consoles having a great launch title, what about Soul Caliber 1 for the Dreamcast?
Now to see if this demo will run on my 1 GHz Athlon TBird w/ Radeon 9600/128MB & 512MB RAM. I doubt it, but hey -- here's hoping :)
I wish they had posted Perl scripts -- all the comments that I read merely said "I used This::Library and got it working. It's really easy."
That being said, I did unmerge jabberd1.4 and got jabberd2.0s3 up and running this morning after posting that comment, and the experience is much better. Changes I make to the MySQL database are picked up by the clients, whereas changes I made to the xdb files in 1.4 were overwritten by the clients.
I just hate using non-final software in a production environment.
I've spent the last 3 days at my office attempting to install a Jabber server for internal use. What I want to do is very simple: I merely want to setup IM clients for 20-30 employees, and have their buddy lists controlled by the server itself, so when a new employee is added, all 20-30 existing employees don't have to add them.
Sounds easy right? Obviously you've never used Jabber!
The obvious place for support would appear to be http://jabber.org. But there's no support on that site. Well, maybe jabber.com! Nope, that's a corporate commercial Jabber site. Hmmm, maybe jabberstudio.org! After all, that's where the server software is hosted! Nope, not there either. They have a mailing list where 4-6 different people have asked for help on the same problem . . . and in true Open Source fashion, no one helped them, other than to say, "Well, I've setup a nifty Perl hack to fix that problem . . you just need these 4 libraries and then write your own XML commands.".
Hopefully Apple will put their spit and polish on it and make it usable. In it's current state, Jabber's a pain in the ass to try and configure with absolutely zero documentation to help.
4 stories down on the front page -- is that a new record?
but how about a version of OpenOffice that runs in OSX natively? I.e. WITHOUT X11?
I've seen that there is a alpha w/ Aqua support, but I have yet to see a download for it -- is it anywhere?
What? Ignorant uninformed posters at Slashdot? Say it ain't so.
2001-03-18 13:30:00
:)
*shrug* the time sounds good
I wouldn't mind seeing some more information about this (this could be good for certain family members) but I don't have the bandwidth at work to view the stream.
This has gotten way out of hand. Is there anything we can do about it? I don't think a boycott at this point would do much -- the people who would care about DeCSS would maybe make up 10% of the buyers if we're really lucky. Other than applying for 150,000 Geocities pages to store the code on :)
Well, this is all fine and good, but what exactly does this have to do with Corel (already noted as a poorly run company before they ever delved in Linux) and Borland (a company that is/was slated to release their devel tools for Linux) not merging? That the 'Linux pyramid scheme' is why they aren't merging? Yeah, world domination may be a pipe dream, and a wonderful war chant, but I don't see how you can say this is the reason for them not merging.
Eh, good point. They haven't ever given a bad review, and you'd think that they would ward us away from bad books. Who knows, maybe a review of a Visual Basic book? :P
Man have I spent hours upon hours on this game. And since q3test only runs right in Linux for me (Windows doesn't like the whole Canopus/3dfx sets of drivers for my Pure 3D) now I have one less reason to reboot! w00! DrH
Well, if they could back up the talk of having the best chips onthe market, they wouldn't have to hide behind their API and depend on it so damn much. If their chips were so incredibly good, they could care less about who tries to copy their API. Granted, if CL or nVidia did use the Glide SDK improperly, then yes, they're in for a tough time. But if they did their product legally, then 3dfx is just wasting money that could be much better spent on hardware design instead of throwing more shit on their original vd1 chip design (wait a minute, isn't that like Windows98 and DOS? *boggle*)
Someone told me (sorry, but I don't know of any URL to verify this at) that, because of the fact that so many people are buying non-3dfx cards, and that the TNT is such a better chip than the VD series, that they changed their stance on this. I certainly hope so, else I'll have to keep playing the first one over and over and over and over . . . hey wait a minute, I still do, hehe :)