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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Lord C on 9 February 2006, 19:22
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Halo fans will have to upgrade their computer if they want to follow Master Chief's adventures on the PC.
BBC News Reports (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4698072.stm).
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Well, that's what you get for being a g4m3r
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Or you can buy an XBox and play it ... either way Bill wins. I personally do NOT recommend Halo 2. Having played it myself, I can say it's really not worth it. Somehow, while Halo was somewhat original, Halo 2 has lost all originality. The plot is now based on heavily religious aliens who must rely an the self-sacrifice of a so-called Arbiter, after his being burned and tortured by the very same people that emloy him (cuz he failed against Masterchief) ... in a rather medieval kind of way. Then things get really messy with a giant, talking, underground worm that coordinates all life an the surface (the god worm) ... anyway ... somehow the originality has been obliterated by the crack M$ team of developers ... oh, by the way that might have been a spoiler :D
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Or you can buy an XBox and play it ... either way Bill wins. I personally do NOT recommend Halo 2. Having played it myself, I can say it's really not worth it. Somehow, while Halo was somewhat original, Halo 2 has lost all originality. The plot is now based on heavily religious aliens who must rely an the self-sacrifice of a so-called Arbiter, after his being burned and tortured by the very same people that emloy him (cuz he failed against Masterchief) ... in a rather medieval kind of way. Then things get really messy with a giant, talking, underground worm that coordinates all life an the surface (the god worm) ... anyway ... somehow the originality has been obliterated by the crack M$ team of developers ... oh, by the way that might have been a spoiler :D
And I thought Halo sucked ass, Halo 2 must be really shit.
The only Microsoft game I liked was Age Of Empires.
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The only really good thing about Halo 2 was the dual wield weapons in multiplayer, but overall, it just sucked.
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hmmmm, guess which game I'm not buying.
never liked halo anyway.
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I don't think that many people were waiting for it anyway (other than those hardcore halo fans) Gearbox screwed up the first game on PC badly on PC...
oh noes teh anti-halo
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Halo 1 was good
i must admit as a quake engine maniac
i liked the way IT behaved :D
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Hmm, having played Halo on the Xbox with a number of people (split-screen) it is the most boring game I have ever played... I couldn't play it for more than 30 seconds without wanting to turn it off, it has no appeal factor to me whatsoever, and its not like I'm going to be upgrading to Vista anyway.... :)
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In all honesty, Halo is a pretty good game. I'm not upgrading Windows just to play a game, though. Half-life 2 is better.
The only reason I even have winshit is because
a) peoplepc only works on windows (so they say), and no other isp serves my area
b) gaming (I do own a copy of Halo)
c) usb devices work better on windows at the moment
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c) usb devices work better on windows at the moment
Depends on what usb devices. Let me just say that Windows won't recognize my camera without driver installation (OSX and Linux do). Windows won't recognize the existence of a non-FAT formatted usb stick or iPod (OSX and Linux do). Linux has serious troubles with my Microtek scanner's proprietary interface, and doesn't care too much for my Lexmark printer, either (although it will print if forced and/or beaten).
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Lexmark is just shit ... the bastards won't make Linux driver for their pos printers ... I recommend HP ... even though they are unethical about some things. And scanners just won't work for some reason. And USB internet is out of the question. Other than that all USB devices I've tried have worked well (USB Floppy drive, USB mouse + keyboard combo, and the HP printer)
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Epson is great, at least for Macintosh drivers, which is what I use. Eventually, I'll hunt through my box of SDRAM, bump up the Pentium Pro to 64MB, and throw Vector on there.
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c) usb devices work better on windows at the moment
Say what! I have a Kodak Easy Share camera that works quite well with slackware and gPhoto2. Just plug it into the USB port, fire up gPhoto2 and start downloading pics. Works just great, and I didn't have any problems compiling and setting everything up.
If there are USB devices that don't work so good on linux, it's because these devices are WinCripple hardware that doesn't have standard protocols. Like those shitty Lexmark printers that don't have Linux drivers, and they won't release the protocols so that Linux drivers can be written. (Not that that's necessarily a bad thing: Lexmark ink cartridges are ridiculously expensive, and don't last very long either. :mad: )
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Lexmark's gotta die.
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Hmm, my Lexmark Z52 runs fine under Linux, the only problem being that the color saturation with gimp-print is too low by default. The mysterious behavior of the ink cartridges is a another story; but I rather like the printer.
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Hmm, my Lexmark Z52 runs fine under Linux, the only problem being that the color saturation with gimp-print is too low by default. The mysterious behavior of the ink cartridges is a another story; but I rather like the printer.
Have you tried other printers ?
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SuSE didn't like my Z53.Was a great printer though
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Have you tried other printers ?
What? Of course I have. I'm a nerd, and I've been here much longer than the Z52 has. ;) I've owned a HP DeskJet 500C (RIP...I think it's broken, but haven't bothered with it really), an OfficeJet 710 (still works great, it's my dad's), and an HP 3820 that broke. Although the Z52 doesn't have the sheer reliability of the 500C (or the 710 in some cases, but even it suffers from paper roller issues sometimes), I still like it because it's fast and prints pretty damn good photos.
Oh yeah, I forgot to say, my school uses Lexmark T640 network laser printers, and they fucking kick ass. 17 pages in 25 seconds anybody?
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I use a old Parallel port black & white HP LaserJet 6L, lol. No problems under every OS I've tried that has the driver. Its fairly reliable, only problem is is that I need to feed the papers individually into the printer because it will grab all the sheets, get jammed, and crinkles all the papers...
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It's funny how far this has gone off-topic, can we stick to the topic of Halo 2 PC please?
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It is a curse i am afraid... :D
The story line in Halo 2
gets very cheasy!
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Is there more to say about Halo 2 .... other than it sucks ass ?
I gotta admit Lexmarks do print fast, but they get jammed quite often, and the ink dries on the cartrige, and then you gotta clean it off ... and then they get jammed again ... I prefer reliability to speed ... when will I ever need to print stuff fast ?
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HP Deskjet 3845 USB here, plugged into my lan server and shared over all my machines with CUPS, the HPLIP drivers from apt work prefectly with it, before this i had 2 other printers, an Epson stylus C44UX which took me days to get running under linux and broke after a couple of years, and before that a lexmark Z13 that i never got running under linux.
HP RULES!
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c) usb devices work better on windows at the moment
Correction: some usb devices work better on windows, mostly because corporations only release drivers for windows, and won't help if it doesn't work otherwise.
I haven't tried Linux yet (too big to download @ 28.8kbps, and I'm too cheap to buy a disk), but my OpenBSD laptop has problems with my USB keychain for some reason. That and Half-life 2 are the only reasons I use Windows. I know I could use WINE or WineX or etc., but my PoS PC is too slow to get a decent framerate.
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Can't you get Wireless or Satellite internet where you live?
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The latency for satellite connections is somewhat bothersome. I suggest you order a free UBUNTU CD :)
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The latency for satellite connections is somewhat bothersome.
Yup it is.
piratepenguin@pcdeclan:~$ ping -c5 google.com
PING google.com (64.233.167.99): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=225 time=775.623 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=225 time=755.680 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=225 time=1075.086 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=225 time=834.604 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.167.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=225 time=886.953 ms
--- google.com ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 16% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 755.680/865.589/1075.086/114.437 ms
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Can't you get Wireless or Satellite internet where you live?
No, I can't.
I live in the middle of nowhere.
PS. I'm installing Red Hat as soon as I figure out how to unfuck my computer.
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No, I can't.
I live in the middle of nowhere.
Do you live in the northern hemisphere? If you do then I'm nearly sure you can get it.[/offtopic]
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Although I do live in the northern hemisphere, I do not even get reliable phone access, let alone broadband. :mad:
Even the troops in Iraq have a decent internet connection.
That's kinda ironic, when the Marines get broadband charging in, but I can't even get 56kbps within nuke distance of DC.:nothappy:
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[OFFTOPIC]Well, the Netherlands, South Korea, etc. have kick ass internet connections because those countries have compact cities, and have set up wireless connections for "the middle of nowhere" areas.
That you don't get decent internet is simply because the US has large areas and although cities have room enough to expand, there is still lots of space left. And with privitized cable companies, it gets worse. If they figure out that it will make them more money not to lay in viber to your town, rather than providing people with broadband internet, they're not going to do it.[/OFFTOPIC]
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[offtopic]But... a satellite dish should work, should it not?[/offtopic]
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Yes ... satellite should work anywhere on the planet ... (they are usually geostationary satellites near the equator ... so maybe not at the poles, even though it probably works there too)
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Yup it is.
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