No, he really is. He is a man of convictions, and lives by these conviction. Not something many people do. Very very few indeed. You really have to meet the man, or at least attend a speech. He is intelligent and will not simply throw ideas, but demonstrate how he came to these beliefs. You might disagree with him on matters of faith, but not on the logic of his arguments. Of course, this point may be kinda wasted here;-)
I read everybody praising StarCraft. Duh. Have you people played TA? Better yet, TA:CC? The gameplay is unchallenged. TA took the RTS genre to new heights by combining a powerful interface (oh the multiple orders for units and factories, guard and patrol options) with a huge number of different units. Morever the ability to combine units or give unexpected orders made this game an ever-evolving RTS, not to mention all the new units.
I played them all, and TA is still the best as of now.
If you haven't tried it, you can have it at a bargain price now. Get TA, TA:CC, install the latest patch, and play a few hours. You'll love it. Then have a network game, with 8 friends. Watch the amazing variety of different strategies that evolve from game to game. Welcome to RTS as it was meant to be.
Like with movies, new does not always mean better;-)
...at the ability of some to (re)discover very mundane things. Even not halted, just booting up the kernel into bash instead of init provides an excellent level of security. It's been standard (at least for some people I know and me) practice for years! We even developed a linux firewall (in beta right now) doing just that.
Has anyone noticed how bandwith cost less to the end-user as to the upstream provider?
Anyone notice a problem here?
Well, there is. The bandwith sold to you is shared. If you use all of it, constantly, then others are deprived of what they paid for. So the upstream provider bills you more to accomodate for your dedicated bandwidth needs.
I'm amazed most broadband operators made it so far selling bandwith so cheap. As a matter of fact most didn't, and bought the farm. Funny how no-one seems to notice.
You did because the AI built units it knew not how to use. There is an altered AI out there that is basically a stripped down version of the original that will build no units it cannot use. The result is challenging. If you did not try it, I suggest you do. However, TA was meant for network play. IMHO, an 8 player TA game is the best RTS experience you can get.
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Nice joke, but the website design could have been a tad better, if only to look more real.
You can definitely use Debian. You can build floppies for the minimum install, then finish
the install using network. I installed on a P133, 16M of RAM.
It is my belief it would run on 486, but I haven't tried.
On the other hand, the latest RH would not install on my 16Mb RAM computer.
Anyway, Freshmeat will give you a whole bunch of light linux distros.
Yeah right. Talk about free and/or open source software all day, and whine when a closed-source proprietary windows app goes down. HA! But then I had noticed already: most people here browse with IE, because no one ever notices when a link goes to a site that will not display in NS. Or maybe everybody uses Konqueror. Yeah, that must be it;)
I belive this could be considered a direct violation of basic human rights. If some third-world dictator did this, everybody would be yelling... The US is racing to a bright new (fascist) world... Huh.
Everyone talked about 'Neuromancer' and Cyberpunk RPG, so I'll just add 'HardWired' by Walter Jon Williams (less cyber, more punk); and "The Shockwave Rider" an absolute must read from John Brunner. I believe this is a very early form of what later got to be known as the Cyberpunk genre.
I'm quite surprised by this article. Quality seems to be going down here. I could have read this in a newspaper: I learned nothing and almost died of shock reading the more un-informed parts.
I do not believe this is news for nerds. They already know. If they don't, they aren't nerds. But then of course maybe one needs to target more people? News for wannabee nerds? Huh...
And how come real RPGs aren't discussed here? I was under the impression that most nerds were Role players too. A poll idea here?
I had an apple//. There are emulators. But you need an apple// to read the floppies. As a matter of fact, they are still readable (I tried recently). But when my old apple finaly dies, nothing will read the disks. If they have not been made into disk images suitable for the emulator, content will be lost.
Another Sony laptop, a european-only model from what I gathered. I have been using it for over a month now, and am quite happy. P///500, 128Mb RAM, 12G HDD, and 15" TFT display. Really nice. I run RedHat 6.1, with the latest XFree (for the NeoMagic chip), as well as Windows for DVD replay. Now for the cons: the video chip sucks (Quake 2 in software rendering runs ok, alien vs predator won't even start), so forget about 3D games. And linux still has no support for the sound chip (Yamaha, I forgot the reference), and SB compatibility is crappy. As a workstation however (this is what I bough the computer for anyway), it is great. Crisp display, lotta RAM & HDD so I can really travel with everything I need, and fast processor. The DVD is zoned hard, and this is a problem for frequent travellers like me, but nothing new. The hardware DVD playback is very good, and the video output is really nice for the purpose of watching a movie on a biger screen. Ah, the modem I got is a *$%#@ CardBus modem from a french company, and is about as useful as the plastic insert that protects the PCMCIA slots, even in windows (never managed to get a 56K connection once while my USR 56K gets one evey time. Overall, a good machine, but still wanting.
I did this just last summer. The motorola Timeport is a tri-band GSM, and will work in the US with world roaming. I never could get the phone to work for data. IR transmission was OK, AT commands were OK, but the phone never answered the carrier. Strange. Motorola is no help whatsoever, so you're on your own. The phone works OK for voice though.
The Hyperion/Endymion saga is a must-read, having everything one can ask of a book: great characters, excellent story-telling, strong plot, and thought provoking.
It even gets better (IMHO) as you move from one book to the next.
Re:ive always disagreed with stuff like this...
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You can't have widespread use of linux if one has to know how to enter shell commands. Most sytem adminitrators choose NT because they're scared shitless by the linux user interface. Right, they should learn. You did. I did. But isn't it easier when everything works, and you learn things as you need to know them? Some people won't ever learn, so be it. And do you know everything about linux? Kernel? IPChains? SMB? NFS? Sendmail? Nah. You install what you need, and look into it further when the need arises. Same for beginners. Everything works out of the box; if you want more, you look deeper into the subject. That's why it's called a learning curve and not a learning cliff;-)
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No, he really is. He is a man of convictions, and lives by these conviction. Not something many people do. Very very few indeed. ;-)
You really have to meet the man, or at least attend a speech. He is intelligent and will not simply throw ideas, but demonstrate how he came to these beliefs. You might disagree with him on matters of faith, but not on the logic of his arguments.
Of course, this point may be kinda wasted here
I read everybody praising StarCraft. Duh. Have you people played TA? Better yet, TA:CC? The gameplay is unchallenged. TA took the RTS genre to new heights by combining a powerful interface (oh the multiple orders for units and factories, guard and patrol options) with a huge number of different units. Morever the ability to combine units or give unexpected orders made this game an ever-evolving RTS, not to mention all the new units. ;-)
I played them all, and TA is still the best as of now.
If you haven't tried it, you can have it at a bargain price now. Get TA, TA:CC, install the latest patch, and play a few hours. You'll love it. Then have a network game, with 8 friends. Watch the amazing variety of different strategies that evolve from game to game. Welcome to RTS as it was meant to be.
Like with movies, new does not always mean better
...at the ability of some to (re)discover very mundane things. Even not halted, just booting up the kernel into bash instead of init provides an excellent level of security. It's been standard (at least for some people I know and me) practice for years! We even developed a linux firewall (in beta right now) doing just that.
Nah. Not the gleam. Usually it's the chainsaw that scares them away. Or the scattered body parts. Go figure.
Has anyone noticed how bandwith cost less to the end-user as to the upstream provider?
Anyone notice a problem here?
Well, there is. The bandwith sold to you is shared. If you use all of it, constantly, then others are deprived of what they paid for. So the upstream provider bills you more to accomodate for your dedicated bandwidth needs.
I'm amazed most broadband operators made it so far selling bandwith so cheap. As a matter of fact most didn't, and bought the farm. Funny how no-one seems to notice.
You did because the AI built units it knew not how to use. There is an altered AI out there that is basically a stripped down version of the original that will build no units it cannot use. The result is challenging. If you did not try it, I suggest you do. However, TA was meant for network play. IMHO, an 8 player TA game is the best RTS experience you can get.
Nice joke, but the website design could have been a tad better, if only to look more real.
Well, Postgresql is OK - just lacking replication, but it's coming our way I think. It's the best alternative to closed-source DB IMHO.
You can definitely use Debian. You can build floppies for the minimum install, then finish the install using network. I installed on a P133, 16M of RAM.
It is my belief it would run on 486, but I haven't tried.
On the other hand, the latest RH would not install on my 16Mb RAM computer.
Anyway, Freshmeat will give you a whole bunch of light linux distros.
I might add David Brin and Kim Stanley Robinson among others. There are great SF authors still, but the old one will be dearly missed.
:-(
I own and read a lot of Poul Anderson's novels. I will miss him
Yeah right. Talk about free and/or open source software all day, and whine when a closed-source proprietary windows app goes down. HA! But then I had noticed already: most people here browse with IE, because no one ever notices when a link goes to a site that will not display in NS. Or maybe everybody uses Konqueror. Yeah, that must be it ;)
I belive this could be considered a direct violation of basic human rights. If some third-world dictator did this, everybody would be yelling... The US is racing to a bright new (fascist) world... Huh.
Everyone talked about 'Neuromancer' and Cyberpunk RPG, so I'll just add 'HardWired' by Walter Jon Williams (less cyber, more punk); and "The Shockwave Rider" an absolute must read from John Brunner. I believe this is a very early form of what later got to be known as the Cyberpunk genre.
I'm quite surprised by this article. Quality seems to be going down here. I could have read this in a newspaper: I learned nothing and almost died of shock reading the more un-informed parts.
I do not believe this is news for nerds. They already know. If they don't, they aren't nerds. But then of course maybe one needs to target more people? News for wannabee nerds? Huh...
And how come real RPGs aren't discussed here? I was under the impression that most nerds were Role players too.
A poll idea here?
I had an apple//. There are emulators. But you need an apple// to read the floppies. As a matter of fact, they are still readable (I tried recently). But when my old apple finaly dies, nothing will read the disks. If they have not been made into disk images suitable for the emulator, content will be lost.
Another Sony laptop, a european-only model from what I gathered. I have been using it for over a month now, and am quite happy. P///500, 128Mb RAM, 12G HDD, and 15" TFT display. Really nice. I run RedHat 6.1, with the latest XFree (for the NeoMagic chip), as well as Windows for DVD replay.
Now for the cons: the video chip sucks (Quake 2 in software rendering runs ok, alien vs predator won't even start), so forget about 3D games. And linux still has no support for the sound chip (Yamaha, I forgot the reference), and SB compatibility is crappy.
As a workstation however (this is what I bough the computer for anyway), it is great. Crisp display, lotta RAM & HDD so I can really travel with everything I need, and fast processor.
The DVD is zoned hard, and this is a problem for frequent travellers like me, but nothing new. The hardware DVD playback is very good, and the video output is really nice for the purpose of watching a movie on a biger screen.
Ah, the modem I got is a *$%#@ CardBus modem from a french company, and is about as useful as the plastic insert that protects the PCMCIA slots, even in windows (never managed to get a 56K connection once while my USR 56K gets one evey time.
Overall, a good machine, but still wanting.
I did this just last summer. The motorola Timeport is a tri-band GSM, and will work in the US with world roaming. I never could get the phone to work for data. IR transmission was OK, AT commands were OK, but the phone never answered the carrier. Strange. Motorola is no help whatsoever, so you're on your own. The phone works OK for voice though.
Yup, I run linux on a lot of sparc boxes, and it has Miguel's name all over it. I'm not using GNOME, but still owe him being able to use my sparcs...
I second the motion.
The Hyperion/Endymion saga is a must-read, having everything one can ask of a book: great characters, excellent story-telling, strong plot, and thought provoking.
It even gets better (IMHO) as you move from one book to the next.
You can't have widespread use of linux if one has to know how to enter shell commands. Most sytem adminitrators choose NT because they're scared shitless by the linux user interface. Right, they should learn. You did. I did. But isn't it easier when everything works, and you learn things as you need to know them? Some people won't ever learn, so be it. And do you know everything about linux? Kernel? IPChains? SMB? NFS? Sendmail? Nah. You install what you need, and look into it further when the need arises. Same for beginners. Everything works out of the box; if you want more, you look deeper into the subject. That's why it's called a learning curve and not a learning cliff ;-)