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  1. Re:"code" is OBSOLETE, loosers!!!! by Hal_Porter · · Score: 1, Funny · on Quake 3 Source Code Review

    If this Carmat guy had spend more time updating his skills with modern languages like PHP his website wouldn't have got pwned

    http://doom-ed.com/

    <?php
    define('DB_NAME', 'wp_doomed_com'); // The name of the database
    define('DB_USER', 'wp_doomed_com'); // Your MySQL username
    define('DB_PASSWORD', 'wp15'); // ...and password
    //define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
    define('DB_HOST', 'mysql25.secureserver.net'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
    define('MAIN_TITLE', 'doom-ed.com');
     
    $link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD) or die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
    mysql_select_db(DB_NAME) or zdie('Could not select database');

  2. Re:Game control? by Wumpus · · Score: 1 · on CMU Video Conference System Gets 3D From Cheap Webcams

    Sorry, can't find the place where I saw this. The closest I came was this:

    http://doom-ed.com/blog/1999/11

    This is an archive of his old .plan updates in blog form. I know that the actual .plan updates are archived somewhere on www.bluesnews.com, but I can't figure out where they are. That post just mentions that he started working on it, but there's no followup there. I do remember reading a followup somewhere else some time later, and he mentioned the latency issue.

    The latency had nothing to do with the CPU speed, and everything to do with the camera buffering a couple of frames before sending them on the bus. Granted, cameras are better today, but I can still see the latency. At this point, it's probably acceptable for most applications, but people tend to notice latency in games more than they would in other applications.

  3. John Carmack .plan on blackjack by drivers · · Score: 2, Interesting · on The Real MIT Blackjack Mastermind

    I remember that too.

    I found this at this url (at the bottom)
    http://doom-ed.com/blog/1998/09

    In his 9/8/1998 update it says:

    A few of us took a couple days off in vegas this weekend. After about
    ten hours at the tables over friday and saturday, I got a tap on the shoulder...

    Three men in dark suits introduced themselves and explained that I was welcome
    to play any other game in the casino, but I am not allowed to play
    blackjack anymore.

    Ah well, I guess my blackjack days are over. I was actually down a bit for
    the day when they booted me, but I made +$32k over five trips to vegas in the
    past two years or so.

    I knew I would get kicked out sooner or later, because I don't play "safely".
    I sit at the same table for several hours, and I range my bets around 10 to 1.

  4. Re:Obviously... by bdjacobson · · Score: 1 · on Uri Geller Accused of Bending Copyright Law

    Why can't Carmack gamble? Isn't he the video games guy? Archived Carmack .plan from 1998. He got banned for winning. Not that time, but over the last 5 years.

    That's pretty impressive that they could keep track of all that.
  5. Re:Obviously... by Captain+Nitpick · · Score: 1 · on Uri Geller Accused of Bending Copyright Law

    Why can't Carmack gamble? Isn't he the video games guy? Archived Carmack .plan from 1998. He got banned for winning.
  6. They nailed Carmack.. by xTK-421x · · Score: 4, Interesting · on The Tech Used to Catch Vegas Cheats

    JC made a post talking about how the casinos nailed him for card counting:

    A few of us took a couple days off in vegas this weekend. After about ten hours at the tables over friday and saturday, I got a tap on the shoulder...

    Three men in dark suits introduced themselves and explained that I was welcome to play any other game in the casino, but I am not allowed to play blackjack anymore.

    Ah well, I guess my blackjack days are over. I was actually down a bit for the day when they booted me, but I made +$32k over five trips to vegas in the past two years or so.

    Taken from here: http://doom-ed.com/blog/category/doom-ed/john-carm ack/

  7. Carmack has tried... by Namarrgon · · Score: 3, Informative · on Cell-based Server Blade Demonstrated
    Carmack explored threading the Quake3 engine pretty thoroughly - and concluded that it really didn't help much, due to the nature of the problem - high-bandwidth communication between threads.

    Some types of computing problems (e.g the compositing app I work on) multithread very well, and some just don't.

    It's possible Q3A might thread better on a Cell, due to high bandwidth between SPEs - but then again, he was using a the second thread for vertex processing, which is done by the GPU these days anyway.