Same here, doom taught me about serial network interfacing (null modem), and quake taught me TCP-IP :), quake 2 taught me how AWESOME 2 voodoo 2 cards were compared to software rendering, quake 3 taught me that mods can be better than the actual game (actually quake 1 did with team fortress, but at least quake had good single player), quake 4 taught me to play before I buy...

I just logged out of borderlands online play to see this, so it is a good surprise. One thing I hope they do is realize the PC version can be much better than the console versions. The pc version was defaulting to directx 9 mode with none of the special goodies the unreal engine can do in DX10 mode. Luckily someone figured out how to edit the config files to remove the console feel and make it look like a real modern game for the most part. I hope for their next game they put full detail options into the options menu instead of having to make us track down config file switches to make it run like a modern pc game, instead of a straight console port. Also, press to talk on the voice chat would be more useful than keeping my mic on the entire game while you can hear my kids in the background, or phone calls, or the sound of my shooting in the microphone. Hrm, also if you could, fix it so I can buy game of the year edition on steam after I bought it after it first came out, so I can get all the dlc for cheaper than actually buying all the dlc separately or making another steam account just for 1 game. Other than that, Borderlands is a good game for me, I like coop play, and i do like the randomness of weapon drops.

I hope you are kidding, because you might want to see how you messed up your windows setup if that is true. Granted there are a few games that do run better in linux, but those are generally older windows games running like directx 7, from my experiance, source games run much more stable and I get better framerates in windows 7. People can tell when I use wine with some games like Day of Defeat Source for sure since people think I am hacking with my jerky movement (almost like a speed hack, but more or less looks like I am lagging). Wine is cool and all, don't get me wrong, but it's nothing like running it on the real OS for many games made in the last few years. I mean, I might be doing something wrong, or wine has really improved greatly over the last year, but I somehow think that running something on it's native OS is generally better if it was designed for that version of the OS.

If distro's/admin's adopt it or not is another question altogether. For most, the basic tools of: "su -c 'make install'" or "sudo" do all the needed things. On a well built system, why would the (non-sysadmin) user need root access for anything? Most businesses do not allow non-IT staff to install software or change anything more than the wallpaper. You usally need to make a request to IT to have something special done on your machine anyway. It's generally a good setup that way.

Maybe it's because I have big hands, I owned a game gear, I normally game on pc (lots of hand space between the mouse and wasd keys makes for rather comfy gaming), and I actually prefer the old huge xbox controller I am saying this but I like this controller idea. I am sure after seeing all the complaints nintendo will probably make a smaller version so those people can happily squint at a smaller screen or something. Looking at it being used on videos, it doesn't look that uncomfy to me, I mean they are showing little asian women using this with small hands and not having a problem, I think that maybe I will be okay. I do hope though these controllers can somehow be priced in the 50 dollar area or so though. That wouldn't break the bank for me. I can't say I would hate it if the xbox players doesn't buy it though. Those of you who have had to sit though the rubbish they spew out on their headsets (not tactical data, or teamwork, but the vocal equivalent of goatse) probably appreciate a game online without voice. When they were showing the starfox64 remake with the video all I could think was, "If this was on 360, all you would see are penises)", and when they were showing off drawing stuff on the tekken charactors, "Yeah, that would be all penises and swasticas on live...".

I'm going to guess that Nintendo sticks with ATI/AMD since they have for the last 2 systems, but we shall see. I do know that Nintendo do not adhere to razor blade marketing (selling consoles cheap so they can make it back in software sales) so they will have to use the cheapest bidder to keep their console price under control so people can afford it.

That's your distro trying to shove the free driver down your throat. I personally use Sabayon since it has many flavors, and it automatically installs the restricted nvidia driver for you on a fresh install, saving a ton of hassle. I'm sure there are other distrobutions that do not push the free driver, but I am unable to think of any off hand.

Yeah, this is new stuff here. Before today, no women were slapped in music, movies, plays, books, or any media whatsoever. I haven't ever heard a person going to jail ever say, "Duke Nukem made me slap/kill/donkey punch my wife". Though I have seem some radical muslims/christians abuse the crap out of their wives because the bible/koran told them it was okay. In the real world, only those that live in a fantasy world think something is okay because of something they read/watched/heard in the media. Smart people do smart things, not so smart... well don't. If it isn't this game that causes said crazy to lose it and slap his wife, it will be another. Blame crazy people for being crazy, and leave the rest of the people the hell alone.

Oh, it's better than say... 3-4 years ago. But there's still those few games that you need to kill pulseaudio for in order to play (id engine games mostly like quake wars, doom 3, etc) that try to talk directly to alsa, but I agree that it is better than it used to be. Pulseaudio is maturing and soon I believe we won't have to play with our sound systems at all for all of our audio needs.

Too bad you threw out descent before checking out dxx-rebirth. The new open source engine runs in any resolution you want in opengl in windows mac and linux with online udp. But yeah, the old days of games having to code for specific hardware did blow. Have a sound card? Is it soundblaster compatible? Does your video card run glide, opengl, or direct3d? Those days were hell. Almost as much hell as modern linux audio... Pulseaudio? Alsa? OSS? etc...

Is that a crack on the tsunami? Seriously though, sony, nintendo, nissan, honda, toyota, etc have much more to worry about than a hacker cracking their firmware. As much as I don't like sony right now, I hope the best for everyone in japan right now since they are going through a hard time, and I suggest that anyone who has an extra dime kicking around their changepurse to donate to the red cross right now.

But I wish they had the same app in a generic browser or at least a pc/linux/android aswell. Possible uses could include not having to miss a ball game because the wife wants to watch dancing with the stars (not everyone has 2 hdtv's). Or many times I want to watch tv in bed so I do the hulu thing. But it would be nice to see live local news in bed. It seems that al jazeera is the only streaming news source these days. PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong, I would love to find a free streaming local station service.

Before 2005(?) or so I would easily spend 3000 dollars a year on games... probably would buy 100 movies a year and go to the theater. I would "temperarily pirate" games to see if they would work on my pc to see if the game in question would work on my sub-par pc. Basically, I would download it off TPB and see if it ran at a playable framerate and uninstall it, then go to the store and buy it. Most games didn't have demos at that time. Also, since I was single and the economy wasn't really that terrible (I was single?) I didn't mind to spend 50 dollars for an xbox game, especially since I could get demo discs at the game store, or try the game in the gamestop. Well since then I quit console gaming since computer games aren't lagging behind, and I have much more options. But the one thing that is true now is I am not buying anymore dvds. I am not going to the theater anymore. I think the last movie I saw in the theater was the last lord of the rings. Why? I pay 20-30 dollars to go to the movie to only see once, and I am getting scolded about piracy before the movie starts ("You wouldn't steal a car, you wouldn't download a hamburger" nonsense), leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Why the hell are you telling me about piracy when I BOUGHT THE DAMN MOVIE TICKET. You don't need to be telling me about piracy, I obviously paid for my ticket and popcorn, so shut your damn pie hole, stop wasting my time and show me my entertainment I paid for, not some damn public service announcement about how little money you make. I bought 100 dvd's a year, until these unskipable ads started showing up, and the same exact ads I saw in the theater about not downloading hamburgers, and I said, "fuck it, no more dvd's I guess". I don't download movies, I don't even pirate games temperarily anymore. I just buy on steam after playing the demo off steam. I watch movies on hulu, or my back catalog of dvds. I haven't even bought any music or downloaded any other than jamendo (creative commons) stuff in a few years. Other than that, I might listen to pandora radio or the local radio station. Like the middle eastern countries are learning right now, if you oppress your people/customers and think you have them by the jewels, don't cry when they strike back with their fists or wallets. We are not sheep, we are your paycheck. And if you like to continue to recieve your paycheck, start working for us, instead of against us. Now there are some pirates out there that will pirate because they will pirate. They will be there forever. Just like thieves will and CEO's that walk off with a bunch of the companies money. But STOP PUNISHING THE INNOCENT for the mistakes of others. Mass punishment was stupid in school, and is still today as adults. Punishing the paying users with DRM when you KNOW that the pirates are not affected by this bullshit. Punishing the movie goers and dvd buyers with nazi ads is moronic. Grow the fuck up and take a breath of fresh air. Like the indies are figuring out, give us a little bit of respect, and we will fill your pocket book with hard green.

Nuff said. I swear, someone needs to filter out these moronix stories. It feels like they get their stories from a nine year old telling rumors to the geek table at the lunch room. "Hey man, it's official, microsoft is porting halo to linux!!! ZOMG!!! I heard from a bobby who told johnny who told jamal! It must be true!"

That sounds about right because kids know alot about life with all that real world experiance of living on their own, paying their own bills, taking care of their kids. They know adults don't desserve a little bit of "me" time when the kids are in bed after a long day of running around. They know that the world belongs to the kids for the fun stuff, and the adults just get to have the right to earn all the money they blow on the childs 60 dollar games, a car, and college, or whatever else they need. Adults are just there to buy their games and drive them all over town, after that they can go shine their shoes and relax in bed with the wall street journal, dreaming they were as cool as their smart children. So what if it was mom and dad's generation that gave them video games or computers from mom and dad's investment in them through out the years. That we watched the evolution from Pong to Crysis, that we might have even coded our own games on a computer that was as powerful as their calculators (or even on calculators). We are creepy if we keep the same hobby for thirty years. Hell, I still play some of my old atari carts from time to time in the very few limited times I get a break from kids or work, and if my kid told me I was too old to play my atari, I would tell him he's too young to understand the feeling of nostalgia. When I was a kid, I thought it was cool to see someone that had refurbed a pinball machine, and would play it in his garage almost every other night. If it makes him happy, leave him the hell alone.