Cocktails are plentiful on this week’s episode. This week in the Tech Top 3 we discuss the latest in the Google Print project, this past week’s Apple announcements, and recent updates to the battle between Blu Ray and HD DVD.
On the Gaming Table, we talk about ID Software and Quake 4, Xbox Live going down, and review a couple of games: a boardgame called Mental Floss, and a video game called Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike.
Episode 3 (20.7MB , 45:17)
Show Notes:
- Google Print sued by Publishers (Business Week)
- Apple updates Pro line-up and introduces Aperture (Aperture, Powermac, Powerbook)
- Blu Ray v. HD DVD (Red Herring)
- Quake IV for Linux (ve3d)
- Xbox Live goes Dead (XboxSolution)
- Mental_Floss boardgame (Mental_Floss)
- Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike (GameSpot)
As always, feel free to send comments, suggestions, or nude photos (ladies only) to Colin or Carl.
11 Responses to “BostonGeek Podcast: Episode 3”
- 1 Pingback on Oct 24th, 2005 at 2:49 pm
yo. just heard all 40 minutes.. you guys really blabber on about stuff, but i enjoyed the drunken comments and would enjoy even more drunkenness… dont stop .. keep it up yo. i think you should add a “weird tech” section, you guys seem to be able to do good that way. good stuff
Weird tech could be interesting… not just to talk about, but to research and find out about. We’ll see what we can do about that. Unfortunately, it is extremely difficult to limit what we both want to discuss. We want to make sure the show is somewhere in the 45min vicinity. Not an easy task. But, like I said, I do like the idea… so it may show up. Could even make for a good Halloween episode.
Oh, and don’t worry… we shall freely imbibe during each podcast. I just may move back to beer, so I can at least remain semi-coherent and cognizant.
Id has been releasing for win32/linux/mac nearly simultaneously like forever, I believe. At least since back in the quake 2 days.
Um, how is downloading the executables for the linux copy of quake hypocritical?
re trivial pursuit: you must really suck at it, guys
think i’ll pass on the doom boardgame.
Well, there is no Mac version of Quake 4 (wonder if it has anything to do with the MacTel announcements. And, i just thought it was noteworthy as I hadn’t remembered it ever being released this simultaneously. From what i remember, Id used to use a company to do the port which would leave to a several week difference between the Windows and Linux version. It was a long time ago…so my memory might be failing me.
I don’t think its that I suck at it, but I just don’t think its an easy game to play on a whim or at many parties (or other loose gatherings of people). Its a serious game (imo) and is treated as such… plus, the pie pieces get stuck if you put them in wrong.
It looks cool… and has gotten some good reviews. Prolly lots of things going explodo!
Must be the liquor… but I am drawing a blank here.
I think I mentioned something about it, but it was in the context of people wanting Linux to be taken seriously as a replacement OS, but then discs aren’t actually sold for it and you have to go looking for it. Because, as Dave points out, Id has been releasing Linux ports of their work forever (although I also do not recall a release that was nearly simultaneous), but they have not actually sold Linux discs.
That seems to me a bit hypocritical.
No, I’m pretty sure they do it in-house. They’ve traditionally (by this I mean up to quake 3, which is when I stopped paying attention to FPS because I couldn’t afford the quarterly vidcard upgrade) written their games in opengl, which is what makes the linux port relatively easy. Maybe you’re thinking of Unreal? They’ve also had good linux support, but it’s done by a third party and definitely lagged the real releases by a decent chunk of time. Now that I think of it, I’m vaguely remembering reading something about crap opengl support on osx, which could be another reason for not having a mac version of quake4 available.
No, you just suck at it.
That’s actually one of the only board games my family will just pick up and play at family parties. It goes by pretty quickly, especially when I team up with my cousin whose trivia knowledge nicely compliments my own.
Course, we could always test my theory, if’n you’re man enough…
Yeah, I thought it was implied that any remark about anything being hypocritical had to come from Carl. And I was pointing out that Carl likes to call anything that annoys him hypocritical without actually taking the time to, you know, consider if the word actually applies. Why do you hate my freedom, Carl?!
I’m curious why you think that id (who are a company that make very good game engines and fairly uninteresting games, imo) providing a downloadable patch to allow their customers to play their game on linux constitutes hypocrisy. Because as far as I can tell, that’s what you’re claiming.
More generally, I’m curious why you think that being taken seriously means you need to charge money for a cd of something you can download for free. And, even if you get a good argument for it, why you’re choosing to ignore the large numbers of companies that do just that.
Don’t you know? Libertarians are against freedom.