Carmack's QuakeCon Keynote Detailed

TheRaindog writes "In addition to announcing the Quake III source code's impending release, John Carmack's QuakeCon 2005 keynote also covered the programmer's thoughts on Microsoft and Sony's next-gen consoles, physics acceleration in games, and what he'd like to see from new graphics hardware."

Comments

Re:Carmack does graphics, no physics

[domipheus]

I'd quite like to know what you are trying to say with this post other than get a few hits to that site.

Re:F7 for Spellcheck!

[Weh]

Agreed, it's a bit disrespectful to the ones that make this site (the readers/posters). Without readers/posters this site would be nothing.

Re:I attended this, and can offer some insight.

[indifferent children]

Carmack could have been working for NASA or the US military, but instead he simply sits around coding violent computer games. ... he is single-handedly causing the deaths of many young men and women.

What exactly do you think the U.S. military does? It does nothing better than causing the deaths of many young men and women (it is demonstrably much better at killing than nation-building). The targets might be young men and women you want killed, but for someone with a holier than thou attitude, how is this morally defensible? Is your basis for these killings being justifiable: racist, nationalist, jihadist? Perhaps you should have suggested that Carmack work for NASA or in medical research.

Re:Interesting

[Pollardito]

i predict that this post will be caught in a Flamebait/Insightful moderation spiral that will whirl out of control until all Slashdot is consumed by its energy...

or maybe all the moderators will save their points and move onto the next post

XBox 360 or Playstation 3?

[eebra82]

If you guys had to pick one today, which would it be? Personally I've never liked XBox that much, and the games lineup for Playstation 3 is superior to XBox.