My all time favorite game is the original Tomb Raider and the Far Cry environment reminded me much more of that than did HL2. HL2 reminded much more of TR:AOD which was a complete letdown (I still haven't finished AOD).
I think my angle is more from the "I want an adventure" than the "I want a FPS". The freedom of movement in FC was much greater than in HL2. As I'm playing FC the second time, I'm coming at everything from a new direction and handling tasks in different ways (which even TR didn't really allow). With HL2 the path I take is pretty rigid. (Or so it seemed to me).
But, what parts of HL2 weren't repetitive? I'm not saying FC wasn't, but HL2 didn't differ in that category as far as I remember.
Does anyone know of a Tomb Raider style game written with a modern engine that doesn't suck? I'm ready to dish out some more gaming money and that would be fun!
I also purchased via steam (went with the cheapo $50 version).
I don't think HL2 was worth the money or the hype that surrounds it. Honestly, the game just isn't that much fun. The story line was flat. The weapons (excepting the gravity gun) were nothing special. The game feels unfinished. And the ending was boring.
I had a much better time playing Far Cry. The first time I played it I thought it was never going to end. It's much longer than HL2 and cost me the same amount.
I still liked HL2, but Far Cry is a much better value. I should learn my lesson... hyped games always disappoint me while the sleepers are great. (I never heard much about Far Cry but maybe I missed it.)
although it also said that you are not allowed to reverse engineer the product so even if you could prove that it does phone home, they could sue you for violation it's EULA and the DMCA.
That's true, but they can't stop someone from watching network traffic moving in and out of their machine. Even if the payload was encrypted, the mere existence of it would be alarming.
Another thing, considering they are touting Xorg 6.8 support, how could they possibly forget to update the fglrxconfig program to produce a working config for it!?! Sure it will work with XFree86, but how hard is it to check whether the user has xfree or xorg (or ask) and change the keyboard driver and output filename approriately? Jesus.
And considering that the x.org version is a different download file, they could have easily modified that one to do the right thing. And is it really easier to provide rpms without providing tgzs? Bah!
You lose DRI when you enable composite even with NVIDIA. As for XDAMAGE...well, I'd rather ATI be concentrating on the bug fixes and performance increases they so desperatley rather than waste time on some silly xorg feature.
I can't disagree with you (well, okay, I wouldn't call COMPOSITE silly but...) because this new driver has already hung my laptop. I guess they still have some bug fixes to work on.
Reading the threads over at http://www.rage3d.com does seem to indicate that people are more after the bug and performance fixes.
But, I don't really care what NVIDIA does with their drivers. The stock driver can use COMPOSITE (obviously) and there must be some non-trivial reason ATI couldn't enable COMPOSITE and accelaration. I wish I knew what that reason was though. The release notes don't mention it.
The new drivers work with x.org, yes. But so did the old drivers. I expected this new x.org approved version to give me accelerated transparency and dropshadows but it doesn't.
If you load the COMPOSITE extension you lose DRI and XDAMAGE just seems to not be supported.
So, like, don't go rush to upgrade if that's what you wanted. The 3D acceleration is at least as good as the old version but I wanted eye candy.
(Though, if you know how to get it all working, please share!)
Back in the day you used to be able to "punch a hole" out of the side of a double density 5.25" floppy and use it as a high density disk.
No, the notch (it wasn't called a 'hole') or the lack thereof was the write protect mechanism. By notching a second corner* of the disk, it could be flipped over and the second side of the media could be used.
It, in effect, doubled the capacity of the disk, but did nothing for it's density.
Well, it is nice to see that someone in Washington watches the Daily Show, I guess. The night after the speech they did a segment showing that several of the phrases in the speech were exactly the same as the president uses.
Phrases indeed. I long for a day when the President of the United States can speak in complete sentances.
I suspect (from observing myself and others around me) that the people that actually use devices such as PDAs and digital cameras don't want them integrated either.
The reason, in my view, is simple: Cellular service still, in general, sucks. I personally don't know anyone, lately, that has renewed their service after the contract expires. It's always time to jump ship and try the next provider... it must be better, right?
Okay, Okay... my point: I don't want to be stuck with a PDA/camera Phone that I might not be able to take to my next provider (at least without a hassle).
Hmm.. my point seemed more insightful when I started typing. Oh well. Sorry.
Then you obviously don't have kids. If I had $49.95 for each disc my kid has managed to ruin, I'd be rich. Oh wait, that's why I'm not rich.
Maybe you should teach your kids to take care of the things they have. I realize that accidents happen, but you have implied they ruin a great number of discs (the rich part).
Try this: "Hey kid, if you destroy another $50 game disc you will be shit out of luck and I will probably hit you."
I don't know the why so I can't really help you, but I have noticed the same thing.
Well, let me take a stab... perhaps we have a tendency to position (and reposition) the laptop however it feels most comfortable. Maybe it's just giving better variety?
Nope, three. Konqueror has 'smart' popup blocking where it allows popups that result from an action I take (click a link, keystroke...) and blocks the rest.
It's great because it doesn't break sites that use popups for various legitimate reasons.
You would need a way to tell the difference between a popup that the user wants and a popup that they don't.
1. Strip all javascript popup code from the html as it passes through your proxy.
2. Block all access to specific URLs that the popups try to load. Of course, the popup window will still appear, it'll just be empty.
1 will never work and 2 sucks (plus it'll never work).
I'm happiest with konqueror's 'smart' popup blocking where it doesn't block popups that result from an action I take.
How is having the EU bulk up going to bring on world peace? The US is far more threatened by China than by the EU. And, what do those two statements have to do with one another?
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My all time favorite game is the original Tomb Raider and the Far Cry environment reminded me much more of that than did HL2. HL2 reminded much more of TR:AOD which was a complete letdown (I still haven't finished AOD).
I think my angle is more from the "I want an adventure" than the "I want a FPS". The freedom of movement in FC was much greater than in HL2. As I'm playing FC the second time, I'm coming at everything from a new direction and handling tasks in different ways (which even TR didn't really allow). With HL2 the path I take is pretty rigid. (Or so it seemed to me).
But, what parts of HL2 weren't repetitive? I'm not saying FC wasn't, but HL2 didn't differ in that category as far as I remember.
Does anyone know of a Tomb Raider style game written with a modern engine that doesn't suck? I'm ready to dish out some more gaming money and that would be fun!
I also purchased via steam (went with the cheapo $50 version).
I don't think HL2 was worth the money or the hype that surrounds it. Honestly, the game just isn't that much fun. The story line was flat. The weapons (excepting the gravity gun) were nothing special. The game feels unfinished. And the ending was boring.
I had a much better time playing Far Cry. The first time I played it I thought it was never going to end. It's much longer than HL2 and cost me the same amount.
I still liked HL2, but Far Cry is a much better value. I should learn my lesson... hyped games always disappoint me while the sleepers are great. (I never heard much about Far Cry but maybe I missed it.)
although it also said that you are not allowed to reverse engineer the product so even if you could prove that it does phone home, they could sue you for violation it's EULA and the DMCA.
That's true, but they can't stop someone from watching network traffic moving in and out of their machine. Even if the payload was encrypted, the mere existence of it would be alarming.
Another thing, considering they are touting Xorg 6.8 support, how could they possibly forget to update the fglrxconfig program to produce a working config for it!?! Sure it will work with XFree86, but how hard is it to check whether the user has xfree or xorg (or ask) and change the keyboard driver and output filename approriately? Jesus.
And considering that the x.org version is a different download file, they could have easily modified that one to do the right thing. And is it really easier to provide rpms without providing tgzs? Bah!
You lose DRI when you enable composite even with NVIDIA. As for XDAMAGE...well, I'd rather ATI be concentrating on the bug fixes and performance increases they so desperatley rather than waste time on some silly xorg feature.
I can't disagree with you (well, okay, I wouldn't call COMPOSITE silly but...) because this new driver has already hung my laptop. I guess they still have some bug fixes to work on.
Reading the threads over at http://www.rage3d.com does seem to indicate that people are more after the bug and performance fixes.
But, I don't really care what NVIDIA does with their drivers. The stock driver can use COMPOSITE (obviously) and there must be some non-trivial reason ATI couldn't enable COMPOSITE and accelaration. I wish I knew what that reason was though. The release notes don't mention it.
The new drivers work with x.org, yes. But so did the old drivers. I expected this new x.org approved version to give me accelerated transparency and dropshadows but it doesn't.
If you load the COMPOSITE extension you lose DRI and XDAMAGE just seems to not be supported.
So, like, don't go rush to upgrade if that's what you wanted. The 3D acceleration is at least as good as the old version but I wanted eye candy.
(Though, if you know how to get it all working, please share!)
I freaking hope so!
(my wife works for the DOA)
Back in the day you used to be able to "punch a hole" out of the side of a double density 5.25" floppy and use it as a high density disk.
No, the notch (it wasn't called a 'hole') or the lack thereof was the write protect mechanism. By notching a second corner* of the disk, it could be flipped over and the second side of the media could be used.
It, in effect, doubled the capacity of the disk, but did nothing for it's density.
This is a nice link of information.
*not actually the corner but about an inch down the side.
I kid you not. My Dad initially kept his favorite sites on index/recipe cards and kept them in one of those little boxes. That's pretty portable.
He was impressed, however, when I showed him how to use browser bookmarks.
Phrases indeed. I long for a day when the President of the United States can speak in complete sentances.
*I* long for the day that when people pick on the grammar of others, that they make sure their sh1t don't stank.
Hey, you should have said: "If you're gonna make a grammer joke, you should watch out for the speelling jokes."
Plus, you spelled 'shit' wrong and used the wrong contraction for 'does not'. I'm sure you were just being funny though.
Well, it is nice to see that someone in Washington watches the Daily Show, I guess. The night after the speech they did a segment showing that several of the phrases in the speech were exactly the same as the president uses.
Phrases indeed. I long for a day when the President of the United States can speak in complete sentances.
I suspect (from observing myself and others around me) that the people that actually use devices such as PDAs and digital cameras don't want them integrated either.
The reason, in my view, is simple: Cellular service still, in general, sucks. I personally don't know anyone, lately, that has renewed their service after the contract expires. It's always time to jump ship and try the next provider... it must be better, right?
Okay, Okay... my point: I don't want to be stuck with a PDA/camera Phone that I might not be able to take to my next provider (at least without a hassle).
Hmm.. my point seemed more insightful when I started typing. Oh well. Sorry.
Then you obviously don't have kids. If I had $49.95 for each disc my kid has managed to ruin, I'd be rich. Oh wait, that's why I'm not rich.
Maybe you should teach your kids to take care of the things they have. I realize that accidents happen, but you have implied they ruin a great number of discs (the rich part).
Try this: "Hey kid, if you destroy another $50 game disc you will be shit out of luck and I will probably hit you."
I don't know the why so I can't really help you, but I have noticed the same thing.
Well, let me take a stab... perhaps we have a tendency to position (and reposition) the laptop however it feels most comfortable. Maybe it's just giving better variety?
The art thing is good and fine.. but what about her. She's a chick. That's better than art!
I think it just lost some effectiveness. Is anyone else bothered by this?
No, I'm not. I think you just can't follow directions and want someone here to make you feel better.
the curriculum says I'm supposed to teach Word, PowerPoint, etc, not word processing and presentations.
Did you take a class on using Microsoft Office and then decide to not use it?
There are 2 types of popup blockers.
Nope, three. Konqueror has 'smart' popup blocking where it allows popups that result from an action I take (click a link, keystroke...) and blocks the rest.
It's great because it doesn't break sites that use popups for various legitimate reasons.
You would need a way to tell the difference between a popup that the user wants and a popup that they don't.
1. Strip all javascript popup code from the html as it passes through your proxy.
2. Block all access to specific URLs that the popups try to load. Of course, the popup window will still appear, it'll just be empty.
1 will never work and 2 sucks (plus it'll never work).
I'm happiest with konqueror's 'smart' popup blocking where it doesn't block popups that result from an action I take.
...but you should know that I've been drinking...
If 13% of my potential userbase were blind and it would take minor adjustments in interface colouration to fix the problem, yes.
No doubt!
Maybe...but the lag with the truck is horrible. How long will it take to burn a truckload of DVDs anyway?
Don't feed the trolls and all, but sheesh!
How is having the EU bulk up going to bring on world peace? The US is far more threatened by China than by the EU. And, what do those two statements have to do with one another?
Crap. What happens to me if I get a phoney $20 and then (without knowing is phoney) try to spend it. I have to go to jail? Holy Fuck that sucks.
What kind of cheap ass ink are you using?
...who just can't stand silence.
...is a non-profit technology think-tank.
I'm sor... whoa!
oh, I get it now.