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There is a java port of Raid on Bungeling Bay. I spent many hours playing this on the c64, one of my favorite c64 games. Also played Trolls and Tribulations. quite a bit. (When I was much younger, lol)
You really know its a small world, when your neighbors invent Myst. Video games has been part of my culture here in the Pacific Northwest, I have made many friends who are either directors of large game companies, owners, and some who are just hard core programers and gfx artists. Funny, most of my friends growing up are in the tech field, support, sys-admins, or programmers. Dont even get them started on the "Old Days" of computers, everything from vic-20s, tsr80s, apples2e/2gs converstations...
The server runs in command line mode, so it should run pretty easy under winex. It even uses the Unreal 2003 engine, before the Unreal 2003 game is even out. But don't expect the game to run on your older linux boxes, the game runs on a 800mhz/gf2 basic machine with about 20fps in 800x600. On my AMD 1800/gfti500 I get about 40-50 in 1024x768 with every gfx option turned on. And boy the gfx are the best out, (until doom3!) Skins are handled nicely, where no matter what side you are, your always Americans. The enemy is either arabs, or normal soldiers without backpacks. You can run, jog, walk or take baby steps and each affects your shooting and sound. Walk slow hunched down, or lie on your stomach (and roll left/right) and you can snipe an enemy or surprise ambushed. Very realistic. (Thou we do need a knife in the game.)
And if you like CS, you will really like this. This game isn't CS where you can jump and shoot an awp and kill someone, you have to plan, ambush, take aim, act as a team. The levels are awesome, the HQ mission, where you have to invade a camp and rescue a POW, is fantastic. The tunnel level has a very detailed collapsed ends with cars trapped, where you have to take out the terrorists and not let any escape. The mount mckenna mission is nicely detailed, you have 2 teams, honor or loyalty, and must capture and defend 3 points. Surprising how many people think this is quake3, and Die:)
And they are going to release special missions, (For free!), where you can train in special ops, sharp shooting, navy seals, etc. Im sure each branch of the armed services wants a mission pack for them.
BTW, not sure how Homelan got to host all the servers (Are they they only game hosting service out?) But they seem to on top of it, switching servers around so people can play. Thou 4th of july was a bad time to release, 500,000 people couldn't play, only 10 servers and buggy code. Hopefully a patch will be out soon, oh yea, that's this slashdot topic!
"This was an honest disagreement about accounting procedures..." - President Bush - The art of spin control.
I personally like icewm to get the work done, AntiAliasing is in being beta tested, but thats the last thing to be complete.
There is alot of fluff in a WM in KDE and Gnome I dont use. I personally like Gnomes look and feel, but KDE has AA working out of the box, and has a easier configuration for user setup.
The things that I use alot * alt-tab (sorry, i have way too many apps loaded, and need to switch quickly) * taskbar (I even has a taskbar on my amiga before windows) * window placement alignment (nice feature, snap alignment in windows) * Cut and paste (icewm supports windows keys)
Really, the only thing left I want/need in icewm is AA fonts working correctly.
It only works if the company and company CEO live in Sealand also. Even thou your servers are hosted on the moon, the courts will go after the company and employees first.
So... Base your company in Sealand, and make the records offlimits to courts outside Sealand. Maybe use a few dummy corps around the world to throw off courts.
-Devils Advocate- I remember seeing how someone sued a corporation, they lost and couldnt sell thier products in the USA. The customs agents siezed the products at request of the courts. Seems you could use these laws to request ISPs to block SeaHeaven.
I've been playing video games for over 25 years, and Guess what... I can multitask better than most people, and have better concentration. Have 10 terminal sessions open, still listening to Euro dance, chatting on irc, reading email, reading slashdot, and still do my work. I am so quick, I give people head-aches when they are watching me work.
But I can believe the anger problem, I no longer have the patience for the "n00bie" on counter-strike who shots his own team members. WHY YOU LITTLE MO#$#@$#!$!#@$!!!....
"This was an honest disagreement about accounting procedures..." - President Bush
Committess * Committee on Energy and Commerce * Committee on the Judiciary
Sub-committees * Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property (Judiciary) * Energy and Air Quality (Energy and Commerce) * Telecommunications and the Internet (Energy and Commerce)
I never even heard of the NetCaucus but he seems to be majorly involved with Internet and Government. Wonder who else is belongs to this caucus and "Gets It"...
Oh yes, nobody talks about about the corporate area.
I currently have to use netscape 4.7 for iplanet(netscape) products, preside products, nortel, lucent, ericcson. Have to use IE for e-room and intranet sites that our IT department builds (hr, finance, payroll, etc.)
The one left I cant really even fake partially is e-room, that company is like a virus, they invade and make all the project manangers use it, then your stuck with crappy IE.
But Im a mozilla user, I have to create custom filters in proxomitron filter out java applets that check which version of browser im running. My work order system runs flawlessly under mozilla, but the webmaster put 2 java apps to make sure im running IE! The whole company wants IE, but my production servers need Netscape 4.7.
Then there is cold fusion and java applets guis, ARGH... Why cant everything be plain text with input/drop down/check mark boxes? I'm trying to get work done on slow links across the country with servers thousands of miles away from me, and I have to wait for a damn java gui to pop up. KILL ME NOW. Developers dont code web admin tools worth shit. I wish they had to walk a mile in an operations/sys-admin shoes.
Have you played the free game www.americasarmy.com? Its based on the unreal 2003 engine, its free, if you like counter-strike, you will love americas army.
Alot of web developers learned how to develop pages before CSS, now years later they are stuck, doing flash, java anything but CSS. But your right, any contest should work on browsers other than IE. It is the best developers that win right?
MacWorld Expo is not ran by Apple, its a EXPO of many vendors including Apple. So we have Apple forcing IDG to exclude sites they dont like. The list inludes many NON-rumor sites, which is wrong. IDG wont back down at fear of Apple.
The whole control freak nature of Apple is mind boggling. - By buying oil from the Middle East, my government funds terrorists.
The outcome: Absent new laws to restrict monitoring, most customers will be monitored and fined when they screw up. Knowing this, fewer customers will speed or drive out of area, reducing rental rates (rental agencies would like to simply pocket the profits from safer driving, but since so much competition exists in the industry prices in most mid-sized or larger areas will probably fall).
Gasp! When has the market gotten cheaper? This is the fundamental flaw in everyone's view, scare everyone to obey the little rules, and the world will be cheaper, safer. Sorry, isn't going to happen. The is no big brother, but there is a handful of companies tracking everything you do, and selling it. You should never trust any company. (Look at Eron...)
We need privacy laws, and we them now. The laws governing invasive technology, or lack thereof will form how society evolves. Privacy is being eroded at all areas of our life, and the common mantra is "Giving up privacy for safety". It has to stop.
- Hell is paved with good intentions. - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)
A guy at work was reading some sites in Chinese in IE5, I showed him Opera for the Unicode support. I was surprised at how different the pages looked, and all text was correctly displayed.
The good news, he hooked up me up with some chinese mp3 websites.:)
Actually, crumple zones are good for high impact, but for little fender benders, a crumpled car is a high cost to the person. Fenders are not even fenders any more, they are cheap pieces of plastic, that scratch and dent, and costs too much money to replace. Something about an old truck with re-enforced steel tubing makes more sense in this pass the buck, let insurance handle it world.. - lets remove all the warning labels, and let nature weed out the idiots.
Ya, With multiple PC's in the house, my windows boxs always had the correct time(sa.windows.com i think is the time server). On my unix boxes I just use rdate, "rdate -s time-nw.nist.gov" and everything is set. Was thinking about setting up a ntp server, but it would use time-nw.nist.gov also, might as well cut that step out. - Verizon uses thin copper on city streets... = no dsl.
Acutally, 2.8mbit was the speed for the devices. But like everything else it depends on how many channels you use for data. Some devices only use 2-3 channels out of 8. Phones for power reasons only use 1-2. You need a dedicated GPRS modem with muliple channels for more bandwidth.
Dont blame the telco, blame the hardware/phone vendors.
I work for AT^H^H^H Telco.. running the SGSN/GGSNs (main transport) for the GPRS data network. Currently we have multiple products to give you faster speed, most is used for tethering, if you use a gprs modem or a phone in gprs tethered mode, you can use compression software to get better speed. 56K(115K) is a nice notch up from the 1.2k+ of cdpd. With the compression software installed, windows (sorry, ive only seen a windows client) takes the fat inet pipe and converts it into a compressed format that downloads text in 768K speed, re-images pictures to make them faster for download. This solves the short term problem for speed. UMTS is already being deployed, (WE are talking FULL GSM people..) This is why most everyone went the GPRS method(TDMA), the hardware is easily upgradeable, just swap out part of the nortel hardware, and boom, Full 2mbit GSM. We already have multiple T1's going to base stations for the bandwidth. Yes its shared bandwidth, so is cable modems.
Its funny, we use the same hardware as the UK Telecoms, the same phone vendors, but we are 6+ months from deploying (or trial) UMTS that will put the UK telecoms to shame. American pricing is all you can eat, unlimited service. I will have high speed wireless to my apartment, before Verizon gets me DSL. (Verizon has some messed up lan lines in seattle/bothell areas)
GPRS is an easy mod for GSM phones, this is why your seeing UK style phones with color displays now. Nokia, Ericcson only has to modify a phone, not re-invent it.
6 months till 2003, it will be an Interesting year...
IF it was only that easy. What about XFS? Do you still use the font server? Do we turn it off? How about enabling TTF fonts? Truetype? Does Xfree 4.2.0 (inital) have the truetype support? Does your distro support it? Do I have to recompile anything?
Man might be nice to have an entire document, for whatever distro, with rpm levels on how to get AA setup. There is too much "turn this on" and it works mumbo-jumbo.
Using CD's to back my HD is a pain, but its cheaper than tape. DVDRs are too slow still to use, and blanks are expensive. (For now..) Trying to backup a website that is 6gigs (db dumb/etc), and would fit on 1 blank media, would rock. With 80-120 gig HDs out there, 4 blanks to back up would be a god send.
BTW, my Half-Life directory alone is 9 gigs, with mods, skins, level, movies, sounds. My entire Game directory fills a 80 gig PC. We need larger media NOW.
If your interested in seeing what the money of the past looks like, found a good url. http://www.frbsf.org/currency/bills.html A 1776 1 3rd dollar. 33.3333333 cents. lol
Where can I get good non-riaa streaming techno? I listen to http://www.digitallyimported.com/ every day at work, and I love it. I even started saving streams, worried that it would shut down. I would even pay a subscription if it would keep them in business. Thou at 7 cents a song, about a buck an hour is quite steep, more than my cable bill a month.
There are really only 3 major wholesale companies, Ingram Micro, Merisel, and Tech Data. Most of the mom/pop shops are buying from them.
Im lucky, in Seattle, we have such a cut throat market, we can get good "pricewatch" type prices. And you can barter down. I like to buy from hard drives northwest and Computer Stop. Theres a small russian shop up the street Compu$ave Inc that has tons of oem motherboards, and cases
I check pricewatch, compare with Computer Source, a local computer magazine that has all the local stores and ads. Then I see which has the best deal. If taxes are the same as shipping, I goto a local shop. Makes it easier if I get a bad part.
- There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Why not make a divx file? Its a laptop screen anyways? I like to watch futurama or simpsons in divx on my laptop, perfectly legal since I recorded it off my paid for dss service.
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There is a java port of Raid on Bungeling Bay. I spent many hours playing this on the c64, one of my favorite c64 games. Also played Trolls and Tribulations. quite a bit. (When I was much younger, lol)
You really know its a small world, when your neighbors invent Myst. Video games has been part of my culture here in the Pacific Northwest, I have made many friends who are either directors of large game companies, owners, and some who are just hard core programers and gfx artists. Funny, most of my friends growing up are in the tech field, support, sys-admins, or programmers. Dont even get them started on the "Old Days" of computers, everything from vic-20s, tsr80s, apples2e/2gs converstations...
left, right, left, right, a, b, start
The server runs in command line mode, so it should run pretty easy under winex. It even uses the Unreal 2003 engine, before the Unreal 2003 game is even out. But don't expect the game to run on your older linux boxes, the game runs on a 800mhz/gf2 basic machine with about 20fps in 800x600. On my AMD 1800/gfti500 I get about 40-50 in 1024x768 with every gfx option turned on. And boy the gfx are the best out, (until doom3!) Skins are handled nicely, where no matter what side you are, your always Americans. The enemy is either arabs, or normal soldiers without backpacks. You can run, jog, walk or take baby steps and each affects your shooting and sound. Walk slow hunched down, or lie on your stomach (and roll left/right) and you can snipe an enemy or surprise ambushed. Very realistic. (Thou we do need a knife in the game.)
:)
And if you like CS, you will really like this. This game isn't CS where you can jump and shoot an awp and kill someone, you have to plan, ambush, take aim, act as a team. The levels are awesome, the HQ mission, where you have to invade a camp and rescue a POW, is fantastic. The tunnel level has a very detailed collapsed ends with cars trapped, where you have to take out the terrorists and not let any escape. The mount mckenna mission is nicely detailed, you have 2 teams, honor or loyalty, and must capture and defend 3 points. Surprising how many people think this is quake3, and Die
And they are going to release special missions, (For free!), where you can train in special ops, sharp shooting, navy seals, etc. Im sure each branch of the armed services wants a mission pack for them.
BTW, not sure how Homelan got to host all the servers (Are they they only game hosting service out?) But they seem to on top of it, switching servers around so people can play. Thou 4th of july was a bad time to release, 500,000 people couldn't play, only 10 servers and buggy code. Hopefully a patch will be out soon, oh yea, that's this slashdot topic!
"This was an honest disagreement about accounting procedures..." - President Bush - The art of spin control.
I personally like icewm to get the work done, AntiAliasing is in being beta tested, but thats the last thing to be complete.
There is alot of fluff in a WM in KDE and Gnome I dont use. I personally like Gnomes look and feel, but KDE has AA working out of the box, and has a easier configuration for user setup.
The things that I use alot
* alt-tab (sorry, i have way too many apps loaded, and need to switch quickly)
* taskbar (I even has a taskbar on my amiga before windows)
* window placement alignment (nice feature, snap alignment in windows)
* Cut and paste (icewm supports windows keys)
Really, the only thing left I want/need in icewm is AA fonts working correctly.
It only works if the company and company CEO live in Sealand also. Even thou your servers are hosted on the moon, the courts will go after the company and employees first.
So... Base your company in Sealand, and make the records offlimits to courts outside Sealand. Maybe use a few dummy corps around the world to throw off courts.
-Devils Advocate-
I remember seeing how someone sued a corporation, they lost and couldnt sell thier products in the USA. The customs agents siezed the products at request of the courts. Seems you could use these laws to request ISPs to block SeaHeaven.
TOO MANY IFS!
I've been playing video games for over 25 years, and Guess what... I can multitask better than most people, and have better concentration. Have 10 terminal sessions open, still listening to Euro dance, chatting on irc, reading email, reading slashdot, and still do my work. I am so quick, I give people head-aches when they are watching me work.
But I can believe the anger problem, I no longer have the patience for the "n00bie" on counter-strike who shots his own team members. WHY YOU LITTLE MO#$#@$#!$!#@$!!!....
"This was an honest disagreement about accounting procedures..." - President Bush
Rick Boucher - Virginia-9th, Democrat
Committess
* Committee on Energy and Commerce
* Committee on the Judiciary
Sub-committees
* Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property (Judiciary)
* Energy and Air Quality (Energy and Commerce)
* Telecommunications and the Internet (Energy and Commerce)
I never even heard of the NetCaucus but he seems to be majorly involved with Internet and Government. Wonder who else is belongs to this caucus and "Gets It"...
Oh yes, nobody talks about about the corporate area.
I currently have to use netscape 4.7 for iplanet(netscape) products, preside products, nortel, lucent, ericcson. Have to use IE for e-room and intranet sites that our IT department builds (hr, finance, payroll, etc.)
The one left I cant really even fake partially is e-room, that company is like a virus, they invade and make all the project manangers use it, then your stuck with crappy IE.
But Im a mozilla user, I have to create custom filters in proxomitron filter out java applets that check which version of browser im running. My work order system runs flawlessly under mozilla, but the webmaster put 2 java apps to make sure im running IE! The whole company wants IE, but my production servers need Netscape 4.7.
Then there is cold fusion and java applets guis, ARGH... Why cant everything be plain text with input/drop down/check mark boxes? I'm trying to get work done on slow links across the country with servers thousands of miles away from me, and I have to wait for a damn java gui to pop up. KILL ME NOW. Developers dont code web admin tools worth shit. I wish they had to walk a mile in an operations/sys-admin shoes.
Have you played the free game www.americasarmy.com? Its based on the unreal 2003 engine, its free, if you like counter-strike, you will love americas army.
Alot of web developers learned how to develop pages before CSS, now years later they are stuck, doing flash, java anything but CSS. But your right, any contest should work on browsers other than IE. It is the best developers that win right?
Yup, your the minority. (-;
MacWorld Expo is not ran by Apple, its a EXPO of many vendors including Apple. So we have Apple forcing IDG to exclude sites they dont like. The list inludes many NON-rumor sites, which is wrong. IDG wont back down at fear of Apple.
The whole control freak nature of Apple is mind boggling.
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By buying oil from the Middle East, my government funds terrorists.
The outcome: Absent new laws to restrict monitoring, most customers will be monitored and fined when they screw up. Knowing this, fewer customers will speed or drive out of area, reducing rental rates (rental agencies would like to simply pocket the profits from safer driving, but since so much competition exists in the industry prices in most mid-sized or larger areas will probably fall).
Gasp! When has the market gotten cheaper? This is the fundamental flaw in everyone's view, scare everyone to obey the little rules, and the world will be cheaper, safer. Sorry, isn't going to happen. The is no big brother, but there is a handful of companies tracking everything you do, and selling it. You should never trust any company. (Look at Eron...)
We need privacy laws, and we them now. The laws governing invasive technology, or lack thereof will form how society evolves. Privacy is being eroded at all areas of our life, and the common mantra is "Giving up privacy for safety". It has to stop.
-
Hell is paved with good intentions. - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)
A guy at work was reading some sites in Chinese in IE5, I showed him Opera for the Unicode support. I was surprised at how different the pages looked, and all text was correctly displayed.
:)
The good news, he hooked up me up with some chinese mp3 websites.
Actually, crumple zones are good for high impact, but for little fender benders, a crumpled car is a high cost to the person. Fenders are not even fenders any more, they are cheap pieces of plastic, that scratch and dent, and costs too much money to replace. Something about an old truck with re-enforced steel tubing makes more sense in this pass the buck, let insurance handle it world..
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lets remove all the warning labels, and let nature weed out the idiots.
Ya, With multiple PC's in the house, my windows boxs always had the correct time(sa.windows.com i think is the time server). On my unix boxes I just use rdate, "rdate -s time-nw.nist.gov" and everything is set. Was thinking about setting up a ntp server, but it would use time-nw.nist.gov also, might as well cut that step out.
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Verizon uses thin copper on city streets... = no dsl.
Acutally, 2.8mbit was the speed for the devices. But like everything else it depends on how many channels you use for data. Some devices only use 2-3 channels out of 8. Phones for power reasons only use 1-2. You need a dedicated GPRS modem with muliple channels for more bandwidth.
Dont blame the telco, blame the hardware/phone vendors.
I work for AT^H^H^H Telco.. running the SGSN/GGSNs (main transport) for the GPRS data network. Currently we have multiple products to give you faster speed, most is used for tethering, if you use a gprs modem or a phone in gprs tethered mode, you can use compression software to get better speed. 56K(115K) is a nice notch up from the 1.2k+ of cdpd. With the compression software installed, windows (sorry, ive only seen a windows client) takes the fat inet pipe and converts it into a compressed format that downloads text in 768K speed, re-images pictures to make them faster for download. This solves the short term problem for speed. UMTS is already being deployed, (WE are talking FULL GSM people..) This is why most everyone went the GPRS method(TDMA), the hardware is easily upgradeable, just swap out part of the nortel hardware, and boom, Full 2mbit GSM. We already have multiple T1's going to base stations for the bandwidth. Yes its shared bandwidth, so is cable modems.
Its funny, we use the same hardware as the UK Telecoms, the same phone vendors, but we are 6+ months from deploying (or trial) UMTS that will put the UK telecoms to shame. American pricing is all you can eat, unlimited service. I will have high speed wireless to my apartment, before Verizon gets me DSL. (Verizon has some messed up lan lines in seattle/bothell areas)
GPRS is an easy mod for GSM phones, this is why your seeing UK style phones with color displays now. Nokia, Ericcson only has to modify a phone, not re-invent it.
6 months till 2003, it will be an Interesting year...
Streamer, anyone get it working?
All the channels seem to drop out, even the lowest 24k channels. Good idea, if it Worked.
And since the car sells for 1/2 the price of other cars, people will flock to it.
Embrace, Extend, Litigate.
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www.
IF it was only that easy. What about XFS? Do you still use the font server? Do we turn it off? How about enabling TTF fonts? Truetype? Does Xfree 4.2.0 (inital) have the truetype support? Does your distro support it? Do I have to recompile anything?
Man might be nice to have an entire document, for whatever distro, with rpm levels on how to get AA setup. There is too much "turn this on" and it works mumbo-jumbo.
Back to the real world...
Using CD's to back my HD is a pain, but its cheaper than tape. DVDRs are too slow still to use, and blanks are expensive. (For now..) Trying to backup a website that is 6gigs (db dumb/etc), and would fit on 1 blank media, would rock. With 80-120 gig HDs out there, 4 blanks to back up would be a god send.
BTW, my Half-Life directory alone is 9 gigs, with mods, skins, level, movies, sounds. My entire Game directory fills a 80 gig PC. We need larger media NOW.
If your interested in seeing what the money of the past looks like, found a good url. http://www.frbsf.org/currency/bills.html
A 1776 1 3rd dollar. 33.3333333 cents. lol
Where can I get good non-riaa streaming techno? I listen to http://www.digitallyimported.com/
every day at work, and I love it. I even started saving streams, worried that it would shut down. I would even pay a subscription if it would keep them in business. Thou at 7 cents a song, about a buck an hour is quite steep, more than my cable bill a month.
Why stay away from frys? They have good prices on cables, misc, keyboards, etc. But you have to know good prices when you see them.
There are really only 3 major wholesale companies, Ingram Micro, Merisel, and Tech Data. Most of the mom/pop shops are buying from them.
Im lucky, in Seattle, we have such a cut throat market, we can get good "pricewatch" type prices. And you can barter down. I like to buy from hard drives northwest and Computer Stop. Theres a small russian shop up the street Compu$ave Inc that has tons of oem motherboards, and cases
I check pricewatch, compare with Computer Source, a local computer magazine that has all the local stores and ads. Then I see which has the best deal. If taxes are the same as shipping, I goto a local shop. Makes it easier if I get a bad part.
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There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
What is anonymous proxies, and proxy lists are blacklisted also?
Why not make a divx file? Its a laptop screen anyways? I like to watch futurama or simpsons in divx on my laptop, perfectly legal since I recorded it off my paid for dss service.