In A.D. 2003 War was beginning Teenager1: What happen? Teenager2: Somebody set up us the P2P sniffer. Teenager3: We get e-mail. Teenager1: What! Teenager3: Main mail client turn on. RIAA: How are you gentlemen! RIAA: All your MP3 are belong to us. RIAA: You are on the way to bankruptcy. Teenager1: What you say! RIAA: You have no chance to pay us make your time. RIAA: HA HA HA HA.... Teenager1: Take off every share! Teenager2: You know what you doing. Teenager1: Move share. Teenager1: For great lawsuit.
It's image. If the RIAA looks like a bully with a select few of these lawsuits, that's the image they'll get. The power of the media is surprising and all it takes is a few buttons pushed to give the RIAA bad press with the press.
I usually hate stories like this but I have to eat my own words here.
Just like CDs and floppies aren't going to go away any time soon, I don't think we're going to see the end of through-the-air television any time soon.
Sue me for not reading the comments yet, but has anyone mentioned SETI?
And how long have we been sucking down new x86 hardware? O.o
Er, one more thing. Don't get me wrong, I was hopping mad when I found out about Quake/Quack but now nVidia has done that and more.
Optimizations that change your preferences behind your back aren't optimizations, they're deceptions. If I set anisotropic aliasing to 32x, I want 32x, not 0x. That's what Quake/Quack and 3DMark/3DMurk are and you can't argue that.
Oh and ever wonder why they specifically chose anisotropic aliasing and not, say, texture bias? I'm not saying this is it, but who remembers back when nVidia was bashing ATI for their anistropic filtering method? Are they trying to get them back or something? o.O
At the very least, as people are saying, ATI honed up to it right away. This is the least nVidia could have done and not label them as "bugs" or "application-specific optimizations." Even if this was done in a game (some people are calling 3DMurk a legit application-specific optimization), changing a user's options behind your back isn't an optimization.
How would you like if you disabled Java or Javascript in IE for all security clearances and when you go visit *.microsoft.com, it's enabled without you doing anything?
I'd like to know who decides on doing this or not. It's detrimental to no one but nVidia's own sales once they get caught and there's a whole lot of bad press that gets generated. I simply can't see a point other than the fact that they're behind ATI and desperate times call for desperate measures (sue me, I used an old saying).
I've never taken kindly to nVidia ever since the TNT2 and have always thought their method of business to be shady. They've always done nothing but try to increase 3D Mark scores and this is the height (bottom?) of their fight. And don't get me started on them releasing that new driver set so long ago to coincide with ATI's release of a new video card to overshadow it.
I don't like business who act shady. You can imagine my feelings towards Microsoft.
To the real Randy Ziskind, if his Linux-infected egotistical self is still looking at this board:
Im 17
I love video games
I know Visual Basic
I know C++
about 60 projects combined in both languages
im not a moron
need to find a spare hard drive so i can freakin learn how to use Linux:)
More flamebait, yes, but after reading all the rants by Randy-old-monkey, I have to say, you Linux junkies need to realize without games there wouldn't be a computer industry. We'd all be using Playstation and your console would be faster than your computer. I use Windows (id love if Gnome ran Windows apps, i wonder how good Wine is). Can you imagine? We'd be using 8086s cuz the Linux junkies still want to run web servers. You dont need more than a 80586-120 running FreeBSD. Why the fuck are Intel and AMD battling it out with 1GHz CPUs? Because Quake 3 wont run at 10x7 on PII300. Why are memory prices so damned low? Because your PIII800 is worthless with 32MB of ram. Why the fuck did AMD make the KX133 chipset? Because IronGate sucks donkey balls. How come the 440BX chipset kills the i820? Well we won't go there, but these advances are all because of games. If it was up to standard desktop applications to drive the computer industry, the most intense application i can see being used is MS Excel or Access on Windows 3.1, or for UNIX machines, a heavy load ftp server.
Get off it, loser, gamers are giving you your hardware. Voodoo 3's arent a piece of shit thats bloating Linux drivers. If you want unfucking bloated software go back to the original version of Linux Torvalds created, throw it on your 286 and shut the fuck up.
Er, anyway. I have to say, im quite amused with some of the people's posts here. One llama complaining one other poster doesnt know C, i tell you i nearly fell off my chair reading that post, dude (yes keep quiet, i know C++/VB, though the Q1 source confuses me); someone else saying Carmack has no right to enforce the GPL which in my eyes, they need to start coding their own project for 1-2 years and see how they feel; and some 13 year old cheering himself for being the first poster. Dear lord, get a life. Firstly, yeah, im on Carmack's side, i've got an open source project under VB, that im not releasing under the GPL because one people would just laugh at me and two it's not a large project so there's no point. It's 2 years of me, and im not about to let someone steal it and call it their own. A friend of mine says one of their friends wanted to do that and the thought still puts fire in my eyes. I've impressed some people so much they think i should sell it to Micro$oft, but personally i dont think it's that good. But enough shameless plug, the GPL and us programmers are at risk here:) Sure, i think Slade's project is great, but i think it's more of a slap in the wrist rather than threatening to take him to court. I read the last sentence in Carmack's.plan and thought "big daddy wants blood". It's a tad extreme but it'll set an example for other fagbunnys that want to violate the GPL and prance through happy grasslands like faeries screaming bloody murder. I've been violated. And so has Carmack.
I almost guaruntee this won't be asked:) but, i'd like to know if John Carmack would ever plan to add Glide support into Quake 3? Everyone who has Unreal/UT or any game that supports Glide and Open GL knows that Glide runs almost 30fps faster (especially in the case of Unreal). With the upcoming (?) t-buffer capable 3dfx card, it'd be nice to see Quake 3 showing off anything, especially the new shadow effects, because only Glide will support them for a while.
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In A.D. 2003 ....
War was beginning
Teenager1: What happen?
Teenager2: Somebody set up us the P2P sniffer.
Teenager3: We get e-mail.
Teenager1: What!
Teenager3: Main mail client turn on.
RIAA: How are you gentlemen!
RIAA: All your MP3 are belong to us.
RIAA: You are on the way to bankruptcy.
Teenager1: What you say!
RIAA: You have no chance to pay us make your time.
RIAA: HA HA HA HA
Teenager1: Take off every share!
Teenager2: You know what you doing.
Teenager1: Move share.
Teenager1: For great lawsuit.
The law doesn't accept ignorance as an excuse.
Yeah, but the 10 O' clock news does.
It's image. If the RIAA looks like a bully with a select few of these lawsuits, that's the image they'll get. The power of the media is surprising and all it takes is a few buttons pushed to give the RIAA bad press with the press.
I usually hate stories like this but I have to eat my own words here.
Actually, it says right here that it uses a lithium ion battery. 10-18 hours. Finally someone got the right idea. :)
Just like CDs and floppies aren't going to go away any time soon, I don't think we're going to see the end of through-the-air television any time soon.
Sue me for not reading the comments yet, but has anyone mentioned SETI?
And how long have we been sucking down new x86 hardware? O.o
Er, one more thing. Don't get me wrong, I was hopping mad when I found out about Quake/Quack but now nVidia has done that and more.
Optimizations that change your preferences behind your back aren't optimizations, they're deceptions. If I set anisotropic aliasing to 32x, I want 32x, not 0x. That's what Quake/Quack and 3DMark/3DMurk are and you can't argue that.
Oh and ever wonder why they specifically chose anisotropic aliasing and not, say, texture bias? I'm not saying this is it, but who remembers back when nVidia was bashing ATI for their anistropic filtering method? Are they trying to get them back or something? o.O
At the very least, as people are saying, ATI honed up to it right away. This is the least nVidia could have done and not label them as "bugs" or "application-specific optimizations." Even if this was done in a game (some people are calling 3DMurk a legit application-specific optimization), changing a user's options behind your back isn't an optimization.
How would you like if you disabled Java or Javascript in IE for all security clearances and when you go visit *.microsoft.com, it's enabled without you doing anything?
I'd like to know who decides on doing this or not. It's detrimental to no one but nVidia's own sales once they get caught and there's a whole lot of bad press that gets generated. I simply can't see a point other than the fact that they're behind ATI and desperate times call for desperate measures (sue me, I used an old saying).
:)
I've never taken kindly to nVidia ever since the TNT2 and have always thought their method of business to be shady. They've always done nothing but try to increase 3D Mark scores and this is the height (bottom?) of their fight. And don't get me started on them releasing that new driver set so long ago to coincide with ATI's release of a new video card to overshadow it.
I don't like business who act shady. You can imagine my feelings towards Microsoft.
And yes, I'm still bitter over 3dfx.
More flamebait, yes, but after reading all the rants by Randy-old-monkey, I have to say, you Linux junkies need to realize without games there wouldn't be a computer industry. We'd all be using Playstation and your console would be faster than your computer. I use Windows (id love if Gnome ran Windows apps, i wonder how good Wine is). Can you imagine? We'd be using 8086s cuz the Linux junkies still want to run web servers. You dont need more than a 80586-120 running FreeBSD. Why the fuck are Intel and AMD battling it out with 1GHz CPUs? Because Quake 3 wont run at 10x7 on PII300. Why are memory prices so damned low? Because your PIII800 is worthless with 32MB of ram. Why the fuck did AMD make the KX133 chipset? Because IronGate sucks donkey balls. How come the 440BX chipset kills the i820? Well we won't go there, but these advances are all because of games. If it was up to standard desktop applications to drive the computer industry, the most intense application i can see being used is MS Excel or Access on Windows 3.1, or for UNIX machines, a heavy load ftp server.
Get off it, loser, gamers are giving you your hardware. Voodoo 3's arent a piece of shit thats bloating Linux drivers. If you want unfucking bloated software go back to the original version of Linux Torvalds created, throw it on your 286 and shut the fuck up.
Er, anyway. I have to say, im quite amused with some of the people's posts here. One llama complaining one other poster doesnt know C, i tell you i nearly fell off my chair reading that post, dude (yes keep quiet, i know C++/VB, though the Q1 source confuses me); someone else saying Carmack has no right to enforce the GPL which in my eyes, they need to start coding their own project for 1-2 years and see how they feel; and some 13 year old cheering himself for being the first poster. Dear lord, get a life. Firstly, yeah, im on Carmack's side, i've got an open source project under VB, that im not releasing under the GPL because one people would just laugh at me and two it's not a large project so there's no point. It's 2 years of me, and im not about to let someone steal it and call it their own. A friend of mine says one of their friends wanted to do that and the thought still puts fire in my eyes. I've impressed some people so much they think i should sell it to Micro$oft, but personally i dont think it's that good. But enough shameless plug, the GPL and us programmers are at risk here :) Sure, i think Slade's project is great, but i think it's more of a slap in the wrist rather than threatening to take him to court. I read the last sentence in Carmack's .plan and thought "big daddy wants blood". It's a tad extreme but it'll set an example for other fagbunnys that want to violate the GPL and prance through happy grasslands like faeries screaming bloody murder. I've been violated. And so has Carmack.
I almost guaruntee this won't be asked :) but, i'd like to know if John Carmack would ever plan to add Glide support into Quake 3? Everyone who has Unreal/UT or any game that supports Glide and Open GL knows that Glide runs almost 30fps faster (especially in the case of Unreal). With the upcoming (?) t-buffer capable 3dfx card, it'd be nice to see Quake 3 showing off anything, especially the new shadow effects, because only Glide will support them for a while.