No no no, Dave Taylor, founder of crack.com. HE used to word at id software. He's the one that did all the ports of id games to linux (until he quit and Zoid took over)
they are 2"x4" BEFORE finishing. After finishing they end up at 1.5"x3.5"
This is just like burger places that claim "half pound of beef" or "quarter pounder with cheese" it's half a pound, or a quarter pound BEFORE cooking it. Or to use the lumber metaphor, before finishing
What's up with all these mainstream press people saying that linux "finally" has a graphical interface now that gnome is out? I mean, gnome is good and everything, but X has been around for a long time. I guess Time would call windowmaker a text based interface...
Odd thing really. When I worked at gamecenter (part of cnet) I only observed one person using Linux, and it wasn't Christopher. Another odd thing was the guy worked in Gamecenter as well. (ya know, Linux hasn't had the greatest games support, at least until now)
PSX 2 has a 499 price tag... by sony of japan. Do you really want to spend that much? And besides, all the psx2 information is purely speculation considering the system hasn't been created yet. The Dreamcast has a modem, can you say that for the PSX2? Another thing is the PSX2 isn't going to be out for at least a couple of years. Why miss out on all these cool Dreamcast games. VF3:TB, Sonic, and so many others. These games look amazing for first gen titles. Come on, why wait for something that doesn't exist yet. Why wait? when the PSX2 comes out, they'll be something "better" coming down the pipeline.
Dreamcast controllers can have as many buttons as they like. the standard funky lookin' pad only has 6 though i beleive. The arcade stick has 8 i think
oh come on. It wasn't just because it had the word intel on the processor that caused your box to be up for 300 days. AMD has been around for a long time and they know what they are doing. I have owned AMD's since their excellent 486. I have never had a problem that was caused by the processor itself. They have always been very reliable and have always had the better price/performance ratio. Yes, i did buy an AMD because it was cheaper. It's also a very good processor. Unlike some people, i guess i don't feel like spending 140 dollars more for basically the same thing. (and don't bitch to me about FPU, it's FPU is fine for everything but games, and all games i play had 3dnow implemented anyway) Damn, some people. You'd think people who are so obsessed about "choices" would embrace AMD instead of the "monopoly" of intel. Hypocrisy, pure hypocrisy.
The Reason idsoftware.com runs linux is because Disruptor is their siteop. And as we all know, disruptor is good for doing one thing, and one thing only. Making animated gifs. For an example, he once came on efnet #quake and asked what the deltree command on linux was... anyway, NT4 is easier for incompetant people, and that's the gist of it. On a side note, telefragged.com runs apache i beleive. They run linux at least.
Quite simply, carmack may be the greatest coder to live on this earth. He is always one step ahaed of the pack in whatever he does. To give an example of how good he is, he offhandidly mentioned that he wrote a voxel renderer for quake2. I mean offhand, he mentioned it like he had simply added another weapon. He has also caused microsoft to change it's stance on OpenGL, though, not much admittedly. After he started a movement, which gained several other developers, MS promised to work with SGI in making a new 3D API. Kind of an amalgam of Directx and OpenGL i guess. So basically, anything carmack says is probably correct. He is a very thorough coder. After listening to him speakign about some of the problems he had encountered during quake/quake2 development, he was certain that the way he had gone was the best way, because he had tried every other way and they just didn't work as well. Another cool thing mentioned, i beleive in Adrian Carmacks book (no relation), is that John wrote the dynamic lighting code for Quake in an hour. I just thought that was amazingly cool
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No no no, Dave Taylor, founder of crack.com.
HE used to word at id software. He's the one that did all the ports of id games to linux (until he quit and Zoid took over)
they are 2"x4" BEFORE finishing. After finishing they end up at 1.5"x3.5"
This is just like burger places that claim "half pound of beef" or "quarter pounder with cheese" it's half a pound, or a quarter pound BEFORE cooking it. Or to use the lumber metaphor, before finishing
he probably used something like figlet, which is infact, a Linux program that has been ported to many other systems
i dunno. I use dos plenty in windows. I guess it's not a gui anymore according to Time :)
What's up with all these mainstream press people saying that linux "finally" has a graphical interface now that gnome is out? I mean, gnome is good and everything, but X has been around for a long time. I guess Time would call windowmaker a text based interface...
Odd thing really. When I worked at gamecenter (part of cnet) I only observed one person using Linux, and it wasn't Christopher. Another odd thing was the guy worked in Gamecenter as well. (ya know, Linux hasn't had the greatest games support, at least until now)
PSX 2 has a 499 price tag... by sony of japan. Do you really want to spend that much?
And besides, all the psx2 information is purely speculation considering the system hasn't been created yet.
The Dreamcast has a modem, can you say that for the PSX2?
Another thing is the PSX2 isn't going to be out for at least a couple of years. Why miss out on all these cool Dreamcast games. VF3:TB, Sonic, and so many others. These games look amazing for first gen titles.
Come on, why wait for something that doesn't exist yet. Why wait? when the PSX2 comes out, they'll be something "better" coming down the pipeline.
Dreamcast controllers can have as many buttons as they like.
the standard funky lookin' pad only has 6 though i beleive.
The arcade stick has 8 i think
No problems as far as i could see. Just don't tighten the screws too much, don't want to break anything...
oh come on. It wasn't just because it had the word intel on the processor that caused your box to be up for 300 days. AMD has been around for a long time and they know what they are doing. I have owned AMD's since their excellent 486. I have never had a problem that was caused by the processor itself. They have always been very reliable and have always had the better price/performance ratio. Yes, i did buy an AMD because it was cheaper. It's also a very good processor. Unlike some people, i guess i don't feel like spending 140 dollars more for basically the same thing. (and don't bitch to me about FPU, it's FPU is fine for everything but games, and all games i play had 3dnow implemented anyway)
Damn, some people. You'd think people who are so obsessed about "choices" would embrace AMD instead of the "monopoly" of intel. Hypocrisy, pure hypocrisy.
The Reason idsoftware.com runs linux is because Disruptor is their siteop. And as we all know, disruptor is good for doing one thing, and one thing only. Making animated gifs.
For an example, he once came on efnet #quake and asked what the deltree command on linux was...
anyway, NT4 is easier for incompetant people, and that's the gist of it.
On a side note, telefragged.com runs apache i beleive. They run linux at least.
Quite simply, carmack may be the greatest coder to live on this earth. He is always one step ahaed of the pack in whatever he does. To give an example of how good he is, he offhandidly mentioned that he wrote a voxel renderer for quake2. I mean offhand, he mentioned it like he had simply added another weapon. He has also caused microsoft to change it's stance on OpenGL, though, not much admittedly. After he started a movement, which gained several other developers, MS promised to work with SGI in making a new 3D API. Kind of an amalgam of Directx and OpenGL i guess.
So basically, anything carmack says is probably correct. He is a very thorough coder. After listening to him speakign about some of the problems he had encountered during quake/quake2 development, he was certain that the way he had gone was the best way, because he had tried every other way and they just didn't work as well.
Another cool thing mentioned, i beleive in Adrian Carmacks book (no relation), is that John wrote the dynamic lighting code for Quake in an hour. I just thought that was amazingly cool