--It's a tossup for me. I finally have a "decent" computer (went from P100 to P233MMX to AMD Duron 900MHz) and spend more time doing Linux stuff on it than playing games...
However:
o Console games are Hardware Compatible by definition. You buy a game for your platform, it runs. Plug in and go. No patches, no driver upgrades, etc.
o BUT: Console games are much more LIMITED than PC games. Only certain controller configs per game, save functionality limited to nonexistent, and with the Xbox - NEXT TO *ZERO* CHEATCODES! Now THAT's annoying.
o PC games are usually cheaper, especially over time / most Console games start ~$50 and tend to hold their price-point longer.
o PC games tend to Crash *HARD* when they abend; console games, seldom to never.
--Right now I prefer playing my old Dreamcast with Soul Calibur and UR Tourn to almost anything on the PC.
A few hours after the worms were initially found, our intrepid reporter went back to the site and found a strange torpedo-shaped object which the worms had begun to congregate around.
Earthquakes have since begun plaguing the region, and the worms appear to be mutating at a highly increased rate.
NASA consultants David Marcus and a mysterious female known only as "Saavik" have been sent in to investigate.
In other news: the popcorn you are eating, has been pissed in. Film at eleven.
> 2) Wrestling with and killing that giant worm-constrictor thing that was wrapping itself around his neck, and then throwing its carcass aside as though that happened to him all the time
--IIRC, in the book version it was even better - right after that, he gets a call from the ship (or he might have called the ship) and says "There's nothing happening down here." The crewmembers with him look at him with some new respect.
--I think the last one I tried was like 3.1... Still have it installed AAMOF, but I never boot to it.
BASH command-line handling was goofy. Couldn't wrap beyond 80 chars.
System as a whole ran s-l-o-w - it's like there were no optimizations.
Install - if you don't know anything about how BSD handles "slices", you're screwed. I had to go to a FreeBSD installation to re-learn how it works.
Install documentation "in-situ" was pretty much nonexistent. They need to make the thing MUCH more user-friendly before I'll even attempt installing it again.
I saw no way of activating my DSL directly from OBSD right after install, altho I could connect to my existing Linux Squid proxy cache. So I went back to Linux.
--Anybody that's using the latest OBSD and can help with any/all of this stuff, fee free to post... This is not a troll/flamebait, this was my actual experience with OpenBSD.
--That was my 1st thought too. Stupid software probably saw "webring" and decided it was pr0n... Either that or somebody pranked him by rating his site that way.
--I have no idea why people would consciously avoid SW info (except maybe to avoid all reference to JAR JAR!!... AAAGH) IMHO the movie probably won't be worth it.
--Oh, COME ON - this is hardly a "spoiler." The way I understand it, a spoiler is something that would spoil the entire experience of watching the movie for someone.
--The last SW movie was almost enough to spoil the whole SW *franchise* for me, it sucked so bad!! Merely telling people that Chewbacca is going to be in the next one is hardly a movie-killer.
--Now look: bad plot, crappy timing, cringe-worthy dialogue, horrible acting, significant lack of EDITING and NO POINT to doing the movie in the first place - THAT's a movie-killer. Lucas seems all set to release another stinker on the world.
--I hope I'm wrong... I didn't like the "first episode" movie that much, but I saw it more than once (loved the race, the associated sound effects, Darth Maul, Natalie Portman, Darth Maul [did I mention him already?], Darth Maul's dual saber, R2D2 and C3PO - all made it worth suffering thru the bad parts) and I'll probably watch it again. Contrast with "Episode 2" - despite Natalie's Nipple Scene, I have *absolutely no desire* to ever suffer through THAT dreck again.
--Compared to ESB, man... I hope Lucas pulls his head out of the sand and lets somebody COMPETENT and SKILLED direct his final offering. Otherwise we'll only have the First Four Movies that are worth watching (and of course the book series.)
--No, he's not kidding. I have DSL with SBC/Ameritech in NE IL, and tested my DSL speed with pppstatus and vmware running Windows ME + IE6. (Shtupid Java applet on the test site won't work with either Opera or Konqueror in Linux.)
--See: http://www.dslreports.com/stest
--It says my DL speed is 1137kbps (kilobits) = 138.8 KB/sec UL speed is 227kbps.
--That's just one benchmark mind you - running over a Linux+Squid proxy connection, to a VMWare session running Windows ME + IE6. (I didn't want to reboot to win98.) Normally I get 150KB/sec during apt-get stuff, and have seen it climb to over 200KB (kiloBYTES)/sec with multiple http request streams from Opera. PPPStatus says I avg about 150-165KB/sec, maybe 170 sustained if it's a good day. Right now my high-water mark according to pppstatus is 177.29 KB/s.
Data path: VMware running Win ME + IE6 Knoppix Linux with 100Mb Ether Squid proxy server 1500Mb DSL.
--SBC management may stink as a company (don't just trust my report, look at some of the complaints about them online!), but at least the downloads are fast. I can usually get a Knoppix ISO in about an hour and a half. OTOH, I'm paying $60/month for the priv.
--God, that series was so lame. I got SO tired of stupid curly-blond-haired-guy NOT being able to control the Alien Power Suit, and always crash-landing like a dumbass.
--Moderators on crack... First of all, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were ATOMIC, not nuclear. Second, having radioactive materials in your groundwater doesn't sound like a good idea for the general surrounding populace!
--If even "tactical" nukes are as harmless as you *think*, we'd be USING THEM.
--Too small. Try minimum of *4 gig*, 8gig is nice... Forty gig (especially 68-pin SCSI) that is inexpensive, quiet, fast, and lasts 10 YEARS is a nice dream.
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--The difference would be the NUCLEAR FALLOUT, numbnuts...
--Nuclear weapons and "can be used safely" don't go together in the same sentence. If you drop a few half-tonne bombs, you don't have to worry about the surrounding countryside getting RADIOACTIVE (and all that that implies.)
--You are correct. According to Jerry Pournelle, the Russians never really bought into the MAD "logic" and simply concentrated on continuing to build up their nuke capabilities.
--Hey now, just because some of us watch WWE doesn't mean we like EVERYTHING that's going on over there these days... Thursday night programming is demonstrably better than Monday - among other things.
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--You're a devoted reader of http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3 , aren't you? ;-)
'Sokay, so'm I.
--It's a tossup for me. I finally have a "decent" computer (went from P100 to P233MMX to AMD Duron 900MHz) and spend more time doing Linux stuff on it than playing games...
However:
o Console games are Hardware Compatible by definition. You buy a game for your platform, it runs. Plug in and go. No patches, no driver upgrades, etc.
o BUT: Console games are much more LIMITED than PC games. Only certain controller configs per game, save functionality limited to nonexistent, and with the Xbox - NEXT TO *ZERO* CHEATCODES! Now THAT's annoying.
o PC games are usually cheaper, especially over time / most Console games start ~$50 and tend to hold their price-point longer.
o PC games tend to Crash *HARD* when they abend; console games, seldom to never.
--Right now I prefer playing my old Dreamcast with Soul Calibur and UR Tourn to almost anything on the PC.
A few hours after the worms were initially found, our intrepid reporter went back to the site and found a strange torpedo-shaped object which the worms had begun to congregate around.
Earthquakes have since begun plaguing the region, and the worms appear to be mutating at a highly increased rate.
NASA consultants David Marcus and a mysterious female known only as "Saavik" have been sent in to investigate.
In other news: the popcorn you are eating, has been pissed in. Film at eleven.
--You might find "Macroscope" by Piers Anthony an interesting read...
jstar
!!!
"It tastes like... BURNING!"
--Sometimes you wish the Mod point system went beyond 5. If it did, I'd mod you up even more.
> 2) Wrestling with and killing that giant worm-constrictor thing that was wrapping itself around his neck, and then throwing its carcass aside as though that happened to him all the time
--IIRC, in the book version it was even better - right after that, he gets a call from the ship (or he might have called the ship) and says "There's nothing happening down here." The crewmembers with him look at him with some new respect.
--That's not Funny, that's probably Insightful...
--If you're not joking around, I'll have to try that next install...
--I think the last one I tried was like 3.1... Still have it installed AAMOF, but I never boot to it.
BASH command-line handling was goofy. Couldn't wrap beyond 80 chars.
System as a whole ran s-l-o-w - it's like there were no optimizations.
Install - if you don't know anything about how BSD handles "slices", you're screwed. I had to go to a FreeBSD installation to re-learn how it works.
Install documentation "in-situ" was pretty much nonexistent. They need to make the thing MUCH more user-friendly before I'll even attempt installing it again.
I saw no way of activating my DSL directly from OBSD right after install, altho I could connect to my existing Linux Squid proxy cache. So I went back to Linux.
--Anybody that's using the latest OBSD and can help with any/all of this stuff, fee free to post... This is not a troll/flamebait, this was my actual experience with OpenBSD.
--That was my 1st thought too. Stupid software probably saw "webring" and decided it was pr0n... Either that or somebody pranked him by rating his site that way.
--I have no idea why people would consciously avoid SW info (except maybe to avoid all reference to JAR JAR!!... AAAGH) IMHO the movie probably won't be worth it.
--Hope I'm wrong people...
--Oh, COME ON - this is hardly a "spoiler." The way I understand it, a spoiler is something that would spoil the entire experience of watching the movie for someone.
--The last SW movie was almost enough to spoil the whole SW *franchise* for me, it sucked so bad!! Merely telling people that Chewbacca is going to be in the next one is hardly a movie-killer.
--Now look: bad plot, crappy timing, cringe-worthy dialogue, horrible acting, significant lack of EDITING and NO POINT to doing the movie in the first place - THAT's a movie-killer. Lucas seems all set to release another stinker on the world.
--I hope I'm wrong... I didn't like the "first episode" movie that much, but I saw it more than once (loved the race, the associated sound effects, Darth Maul, Natalie Portman, Darth Maul [did I mention him already?], Darth Maul's dual saber, R2D2 and C3PO - all made it worth suffering thru the bad parts) and I'll probably watch it again. Contrast with "Episode 2" - despite Natalie's Nipple Scene, I have *absolutely no desire* to ever suffer through THAT dreck again.
--Compared to ESB, man... I hope Lucas pulls his head out of the sand and lets somebody COMPETENT and SKILLED direct his final offering. Otherwise we'll only have the First Four Movies that are worth watching (and of course the book series.)
--No, he's not kidding. I have DSL with SBC/Ameritech in NE IL, and tested my DSL speed with pppstatus and vmware running Windows ME + IE6. (Shtupid Java applet on the test site won't work with either Opera or Konqueror in Linux.)
--See: http://www.dslreports.com/stest
--It says my DL speed is 1137kbps (kilobits) = 138.8 KB/sec
UL speed is 227kbps.
--That's just one benchmark mind you - running over a Linux+Squid proxy connection, to a VMWare session running Windows ME + IE6. (I didn't want to reboot to win98.) Normally I get 150KB/sec during apt-get stuff, and have seen it climb to over 200KB (kiloBYTES)/sec with multiple http request streams from Opera. PPPStatus says I avg about 150-165KB/sec, maybe 170 sustained if it's a good day. Right now my high-water mark according to pppstatus is 177.29 KB/s.
Data path:
VMware running Win ME + IE6 Knoppix Linux with 100Mb Ether Squid proxy server 1500Mb DSL.
--SBC management may stink as a company (don't just trust my report, look at some of the complaints about them online!), but at least the downloads are fast. I can usually get a Knoppix ISO in about an hour and a half. OTOH, I'm paying $60/month for the priv.
Mod on this parent is off; that's not Funny, that's INSIGHTFUL...
--God, that series was so lame. I got SO tired of stupid curly-blond-haired-guy NOT being able to control the Alien Power Suit, and always crash-landing like a dumbass.
--Some more of Jennifer Connelly before she had that rack-reduction would have been even nicer...
--I agree with you, but somehow I doubt they'll have that awesome, touching piano score at the end. Twenty years has done Bad Thingz to Hollywierd.
--Mark my words and see if I'm right - from what I've seen in the movie trailers, Daredevil will be seen as better than Hulk.
Bah, I'm through trying to educate you. Go away and try to overcome your thick-headedness. :P
--Moderators on crack... First of all, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were ATOMIC, not nuclear. Second, having radioactive materials in your groundwater doesn't sound like a good idea for the general surrounding populace!
--If even "tactical" nukes are as harmless as you *think*, we'd be USING THEM.
> 2 - 4Gb drives,
--Too small. Try minimum of *4 gig*, 8gig is nice... Forty gig (especially 68-pin SCSI) that is inexpensive, quiet, fast, and lasts 10 YEARS is a nice dream.
--The difference would be the NUCLEAR FALLOUT, numbnuts...
--Nuclear weapons and "can be used safely" don't go together in the same sentence. If you drop a few half-tonne bombs, you don't have to worry about the surrounding countryside getting RADIOACTIVE (and all that that implies.)
--You are correct. According to Jerry Pournelle, the Russians never really bought into the MAD "logic" and simply concentrated on continuing to build up their nuke capabilities.
--Hey now, just because some of us watch WWE doesn't mean we like EVERYTHING that's going on over there these days... Thursday night programming is demonstrably better than Monday - among other things.