I just got used to the mechanics of CS, down to moving then stopping for brief moments to increase the accuracy, and being able to 1 shot kills with HS's etc. I've never really been a fan of games where you can pump a zillion rounds into someone and they're still going. Not very realistic (or more likely just a pain and completely changes the tactics you need to employ). I did spend a fair amount of time playing Quake, Quake II, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Quake III, etc (mostly against bots for all of those admittedly, apart from the first Quake), and I must say that out of all the mods I've played, CS has definitely provided the most fun. I tried a few 'realism' type mods for QuakeIII and HL, but they weren't that great.. probably the only game which came close to CS for fun and skill was The Opera. That had one shot kill possibilities if you were good, but also had other crazy fun stuff like melee combat and multiplayer bullet time.
I have a similar program, but with that guy who played Agent Smith. When he turned up in LotR, it totally ruined it for me. I kept saying 'Mr Andersonnnnn' after his lines..
To be honest, last time I started MUDding, I'd just bought a shiny new graphics card, but just kept MUDding for months, even to the detriment of my University studies, heh. Thanks for the advice though. Have heard good things about Crossover too, but not sure it's worth spending any money on yet since I can dual boot. Ooh it's only £30.. may as well get it!:D
I prefer to use a mouse. While I did have a mouse to play Quake II on my PSX, it still sucked;) And even the difference between GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas is marked enough for me to want the latest version. Whereas with things like Microsoft Office or Quake then I'm happy with earlier versions, some applications really do get better with each release..
Well the way I prefer to play CS it isn't really deathmatch, but like I said I spent a lot of time coding bots for it before I'd played it online a lot;) Yep Battlefield was really popular last time I checked. EA make stuff for every console out there, you wouldn't think it would be that hard for them to port to Linux. When they finally do I guess that's when Linux has 'made it' as a mainstream gaming platform, though it's not that much of a boost, as most EA games are just recycled trash. I have to admit that I like Need For Speed though. I've only bought 3 NFS games tho, and all for different systems so far, so I don't feel ripped off yet;)
"Also, although this is interesting it is fairly common in fishes to have extra sets of teeth that are not located on the jaws (e.g. pharyngeal teeth) that can be used to crush or hold prey."
This isn't a troll, but since HL and Counter-Strike came out, those games haven't really been worth playing in my opinion! I used to play a lot of Quake III against bots since I didn't have a decent net connection back then, and I made some mods for it, but then after playing Counter-Strike and coding my own bots for that, I've found vanilla deathmatch rather dull. There's still a market for plain old deathmatch of course, but these days the mainstream thing is class based team combat isn't it?
Things are heading in the right direction though, it's great to see:)
Same here. I spent ages trying to get GTA:San Andreas to run on WINE (Vice City was fine, but not San Andreas, grr). Now that I've gone back to playing MUDs I guess technically I could be running Linux (in fact I've been MUDding via telnet on Mac OS, so I guess technically I've been gaming on unix anyway)
Yep, I think it would be better judged as a percentage. Though I have noticed that some of them new fangled >1000000 users have been coming up with some pretty funny posts recently. Positively shocking.
While I've heard enough arguments on both sides as to not be sure any more (the best argument I've heard is about global warming on other planets, which shows that we're not really having as much of an effect as we thing we are), it seems that a lot of people just try and dismiss the whole thing because they want to continue guzzling gas and polluting the planet. Personally I love driving and all the modern benefits we receive because of our polluting ways, but cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions and our use of oil is a worthwhile cause anyway, unless you just don't give a shit about our descendants.
I suggest that he works from home and just uses a robot, possibly fitted with a 9mm pistol, to communicate with his office workers. This could spawn a whole new generation of FPSs.
We did already try using an AIBO and putting it on the table in our conference room, it was rather amusing, and also worked well (they have a speaker, camera and Wi-Fi built in, so you can control it and talk through it, was pretty cool). Shame that one of the managers just left it lying on its charger for 2 years and knackered the battery.. he should have just given it to me to take home!
Nah I don't need it, I've been fairly proficient at tracking down bugs since before I went to Uni.:P I've just been using a text editor and the apache error log recently (been learning Perl to do some HTML/DB stuff), and Delphi CodeGear for my Windows apps.
I complain about Adobe occasionally. I complain about companies whose products I think are bloated whether they are a large or small company. I couldn't give a toss if a company has a monopoly as long as they are providing a worthwhile service/product at a reasonable price. Nobody would care about MS being on top if they didn't bring out bollocks like Vista. Honestly I thought they had finally started sorting things out with XP, it's hilarious how bad the reception of Vista has been. I was worried that everyone was going to welcome it with open arms, but I've even had someone at work who is just your average teenager (though these days kids are brought up with computers so they are a bit more computer literate) install XP onto her laptop because she thought that Vista was a load of balls. I am encouraged.
I don't think he was referring to coding the kernel in Java (which would IMO be a really strange use of Java since Java is intended to be interpreted, though I suppose a Java kernel would be more portable), he was talking about coding the kernel in such a way as to be able to run Java apps more efficiently. Sorry if you knew that, your post became a bit ambiguous to me when you mentioned C.
There are some simple things that it could do as 'warnings' though, checking if the test variable is being referenced in the loop, or if it's a global variable it could check if it's modified in any functions being called etc.. you could have a poorly constructed loop that will only repeat infinitely in weird conditions, but the computer won't know that that isn't intentional of course.. and in certain programs you want 'infinite 'loops anyway, or loops that will run until you kill the app..
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I just got used to the mechanics of CS, down to moving then stopping for brief moments to increase the accuracy, and being able to 1 shot kills with HS's etc. I've never really been a fan of games where you can pump a zillion rounds into someone and they're still going. Not very realistic (or more likely just a pain and completely changes the tactics you need to employ). I did spend a fair amount of time playing Quake, Quake II, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Quake III, etc (mostly against bots for all of those admittedly, apart from the first Quake), and I must say that out of all the mods I've played, CS has definitely provided the most fun. I tried a few 'realism' type mods for QuakeIII and HL, but they weren't that great.. probably the only game which came close to CS for fun and skill was The Opera. That had one shot kill possibilities if you were good, but also had other crazy fun stuff like melee combat and multiplayer bullet time.
I have a similar program, but with that guy who played Agent Smith. When he turned up in LotR, it totally ruined it for me. I kept saying 'Mr Andersonnnnn' after his lines..
.. I know Script-Fu!
Nevermind.. look over there.. blonde.. brunette..
To be honest, last time I started MUDding, I'd just bought a shiny new graphics card, but just kept MUDding for months, even to the detriment of my University studies, heh. Thanks for the advice though. Have heard good things about Crossover too, but not sure it's worth spending any money on yet since I can dual boot. Ooh it's only £30.. may as well get it! :D
I prefer to use a mouse. While I did have a mouse to play Quake II on my PSX, it still sucked ;) And even the difference between GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas is marked enough for me to want the latest version. Whereas with things like Microsoft Office or Quake then I'm happy with earlier versions, some applications really do get better with each release..
Well the way I prefer to play CS it isn't really deathmatch, but like I said I spent a lot of time coding bots for it before I'd played it online a lot ;) Yep Battlefield was really popular last time I checked. EA make stuff for every console out there, you wouldn't think it would be that hard for them to port to Linux. When they finally do I guess that's when Linux has 'made it' as a mainstream gaming platform, though it's not that much of a boost, as most EA games are just recycled trash. I have to admit that I like Need For Speed though. I've only bought 3 NFS games tho, and all for different systems so far, so I don't feel ripped off yet ;)
Thanks dude :) I'm going to have to try WINE/parallels/whatever on Mac OS just for fun, even though I already have a dual boot setup on my MBP..
"Also, although this is interesting it is fairly common in fishes to have extra sets of teeth that are not located on the jaws (e.g. pharyngeal teeth) that can be used to crush or hold prey."
Sounds like a girl I know.
This isn't a troll, but since HL and Counter-Strike came out, those games haven't really been worth playing in my opinion! I used to play a lot of Quake III against bots since I didn't have a decent net connection back then, and I made some mods for it, but then after playing Counter-Strike and coding my own bots for that, I've found vanilla deathmatch rather dull. There's still a market for plain old deathmatch of course, but these days the mainstream thing is class based team combat isn't it?
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Things are heading in the right direction though, it's great to see
Same here. I spent ages trying to get GTA:San Andreas to run on WINE (Vice City was fine, but not San Andreas, grr). Now that I've gone back to playing MUDs I guess technically I could be running Linux (in fact I've been MUDding via telnet on Mac OS, so I guess technically I've been gaming on unix anyway)
Yep, I think it would be better judged as a percentage. Though I have noticed that some of them new fangled >1000000 users have been coming up with some pretty funny posts recently. Positively shocking.
While I've heard enough arguments on both sides as to not be sure any more (the best argument I've heard is about global warming on other planets, which shows that we're not really having as much of an effect as we thing we are), it seems that a lot of people just try and dismiss the whole thing because they want to continue guzzling gas and polluting the planet. Personally I love driving and all the modern benefits we receive because of our polluting ways, but cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions and our use of oil is a worthwhile cause anyway, unless you just don't give a shit about our descendants.
Commander Taco *is* a bioweapon. Anthrax doesn't even approach his spice levels.
Finally something to replace Pirates vs Ninjas.. Borg vs Daleks! Though to be honest the Ninjas would kick both their asses.
I suggest that he works from home and just uses a robot, possibly fitted with a 9mm pistol, to communicate with his office workers. This could spawn a whole new generation of FPSs.
We did already try using an AIBO and putting it on the table in our conference room, it was rather amusing, and also worked well (they have a speaker, camera and Wi-Fi built in, so you can control it and talk through it, was pretty cool). Shame that one of the managers just left it lying on its charger for 2 years and knackered the battery.. he should have just given it to me to take home!
Nah I don't need it, I've been fairly proficient at tracking down bugs since before I went to Uni. :P I've just been using a text editor and the apache error log recently (been learning Perl to do some HTML/DB stuff), and Delphi CodeGear for my Windows apps.
Heh yes. "You appear to think this is Pascal/BASIC, would you like me to temporarily erase that part of your memory?"
I complain about Adobe occasionally. I complain about companies whose products I think are bloated whether they are a large or small company. I couldn't give a toss if a company has a monopoly as long as they are providing a worthwhile service/product at a reasonable price. Nobody would care about MS being on top if they didn't bring out bollocks like Vista. Honestly I thought they had finally started sorting things out with XP, it's hilarious how bad the reception of Vista has been. I was worried that everyone was going to welcome it with open arms, but I've even had someone at work who is just your average teenager (though these days kids are brought up with computers so they are a bit more computer literate) install XP onto her laptop because she thought that Vista was a load of balls. I am encouraged.
How do you usually manage to navigate the comments on /.?
Ah. May have been better along the lines of "w00tz, Java Kernel lmaoolwtflolz!".
I don't think he was referring to coding the kernel in Java (which would IMO be a really strange use of Java since Java is intended to be interpreted, though I suppose a Java kernel would be more portable), he was talking about coding the kernel in such a way as to be able to run Java apps more efficiently. Sorry if you knew that, your post became a bit ambiguous to me when you mentioned C.
There are some simple things that it could do as 'warnings' though, checking if the test variable is being referenced in the loop, or if it's a global variable it could check if it's modified in any functions being called etc.. you could have a poorly constructed loop that will only repeat infinitely in weird conditions, but the computer won't know that that isn't intentional of course.. and in certain programs you want 'infinite 'loops anyway, or loops that will run until you kill the app..
Yes. You must not speak of the-one-who-rhymes-with-masturbates, or he will cast an unforgivable curse on your machine: puteulanus fenestra mortalis!
His next project is to have a handy little helper with a RAM chip avatar. His name is chippy and he comes out with helpful phrases like:
"You appear to be creating an infinite loop. Would you like me to increment your counter variable?"
"You appear to be writing a virus, would you like a list of the latest Windows Vista sploits?"