Sadly, this is far from the truth. Selling PowerPC chips to Apple accounts for a tiny fraction of Motorola's profits. Almost all of their focus is on the mobile and embedded markets. Many higher-end routers have G3's in them, I do believe. As a result, Motorola cares very little that G4's have not increased in speed since over a year ago. As I always say in these discussions, if Apple/Steve would just open their eyes, and let IBM supply them with G4's, the Mhz gap could close very quickly.
Point well taken, but then again, everybody else certainly takes their bloody time new writing OS's. Mac OS X and Windows 2000 come to mind; both were delayed years after their initial release dates. And the rumor is that OS X full, final, release version will not be released at Macworld (in a few weeks), sigh.
Linus has a good bit of foresight, really, because he KNOWS that any release date he set, he would break, and so doesn't bother setting one at all.
>As for Cowboy BeBop, I have a hard time believing that there won't be a lot of snips here and there, that's not counting what has to be cut for time slot.
Haven't seen Coyboy Bebop, but was really surprised when they mentioned Kenshin. It's a top quality series, and I'm very glad that CN is considering airing it, but there is quite a lot of violence, especially in the OAV. CN would have to do a lot of editing, more than they did for Tenchi.
A single period? I see "/." Which, incidentally, is what has been happening to him. Of course, I bet the site is hosted on cable, so I'm not surprised.;)
Yeah, but the Playstation 2 really should have gotten 1st place. Sony has been running very aggresive marketing campaigns, but nobody can buy one. Maybe we could nominate the PS9 from their "PS9" commercials.:P
Warcraft III? Huh? Blizzard's been working on it nonstop since it was announced, which was not all that long ago (just before Diablo II, I think).
>I'm going to guess that it's a mathematical necessity that you must have a fairly abundant material comfort before any serious full-time artwork gets done.
You are quite right. It's pretty clear looking back through history.
The Greeks and Romans kept rather peaceful empires, and we can see the fruits of their artists to this day. In the 500 or so years after the Roman Empire fell, very little artistic or intellectual progress occured in the western world (except in the Mideast, with the rise of the Muslims). Nuthin much happened until the late Middle Ages, as people were to busy farming and being oppresed to write great works of literature. Though, from the Renaissance until now, it's been pretty much constant progress. Progress doesn't happen without relative peace, because people are too busy with basic necessities to engage in idle intellectual pursuits.
> Very few US theatres will touch that kind of a
>movie assuming that the audience would be too
>small.
Hmm, I saw a preview of this movie on the big screen a few months back, and it wasn't in a small movie art theatre. Or if the big theatres don't pick it up, it'll be like Princess Mononoke; look for it in your local art theatre. Failing that, I bet there will be a dub/sub DVD released in a year or so.
You know what the scary thing is? George Orwell was right. A few years too early, but he was right. Ignorance is Bliss, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery, and all that. Perhaps that should read "Slavery is Freedom." It's almost as if the masses want to be controlled; people will take this utter bullshit in stride because it was marketed as a new "feature," perhaps one to protect you against those evil hackers. They'll take away our free music, then our recorded TV shows, then ALL the media that Jack Valenti doesn't want us to see, then our books, and then, well, who knows? Our thoughts? The FBI's Carnivore crap has already proven that our communiucations are not private. And, unfortunately, The Framers of our Constitution got one thing wrong that could cost us everything: privacy is not a right or a liberty in the Constitution, because to them, the thought of privacy being violated in the ways that it can be today was totally alien to them. Perhaps one could argue that your thoughts are your property, and therefore protected by the Constitution, but the Judge Kaplan's of the world won't let that get too far.
So the Judiciary branch won't stop this downward spiral, and Congress sure as hell won't, they're the ones that set it in motion, after all. How about the Executive? Unfortunately, George Dubya hardly has a brain in his head, and the Roe v. Wade opposing conservative justices he appoints certainly won't help matters. Where does the burden fall on, then? The people, of course. I believe it was John Locke who said that if a government was not doing a sufficient job of protecting the peoples rights, the people have a right to replace that government. Let's see some action, people. The John Q. Public's of the world far outnumber the slimy politicians and corporate executives. The masses just have to be educated about how they're being assraped, and I garauntee you, no politician can remain in office if the vast majority of the people don't want him there. Hope lies in the proles, after all.
Funny how NetInfo has been around for at least ten years, but people are only now beginning to see how cool it is. Too bad it never caught on much back in the NeXT days.
Dude, walk while crouching. You move faster than, walking (not running) standing up, and you make no noise. And, everybody comes after you only if an alarm sees you. I think it's the third person view that makes the sneaking hard, though I hope they keep that around in the next game.
The problem comes when "obscurity" means that the unlocked door is in the back, not the front (as if that's not hard to figure out), and the owner of the house refuses to acknowledge the existence of the back door until someone comes in and steals a few things. I can think of at least one company who does that.
Are you insane? That movie is quite possibly the worst adaptation of a game ever. First off, all the little kids who went to see it got something that had basically nothing to do with the games. Secondly, it was rated PG-13, if I recall. Kudos to the idiotic director for scaring off his own target audience. When I saw this movie (I was about 10 or so), I actually found it scary! Definitely not what Mario is supposed to be in the least. And of course, as in all bad movies, the acting and plot was paper thin.
Sheesh.
You know what's funny, though, is how in video game form, Street Fighter is a vastly superior game than Mortal Kombat, but the Street Fighter movie by all accounts sucked, and the Mortal Kombat movie was not bad. I garuantee you that the absolutely excellent soundtrack for Mortal Kombat (thank you KMFDM) helped a bunch.
There's also the Tekken anime, which is supposedly wretched. Too bad, because the game is great, and the massive amount of backstory could have lended itself well to a feature length movie. I guess that's how it always is, there is almost the potential for a good movie, but bad directors almost always mess it up.
>Apple used an 83mhz PCI slot for video in their G3s which was arguably faster than AGP - but no direct comparison.)
Uhm... really? Where can I get one of these Macs? I don't think there is such a thing as a 83mhz PCI slot, and I know the Blue and White G3's had 66mhz slots, because I have one. And, would you care to back up your statement that 66mhz PCI is almost as fast as AGP? I like my comp, but I was under the impression that any AGP system would soundly spank it in performance.
And we'll hopefully keep on evolving. Very possibly, in 100,000 years or so, we'll all be tetrachromats (and not have appendixes anymore;). It's natural selection really. If the (mutated) genetic trait of tetrachromats is proven to be superior, it will propagate throughout the human species, resulting in people with better vision.
What would be fascinating would be to put one of these possible tetrochromats in front of a 32 bit image, and a 48 bit version of the same picture (48 bit or higher monitors do exist, right, we just don't have any need for them?), and see if she could notice the difference. Although, that may not make a difference.
32 bit color, RGBA =
8 bits red
8 bits green
8 bits blue
8 bits alpha
The trichromatic concept of 48 bit color would be, still RGBA =
12 bits red
12 bits green
12 bits blue
12 bits alpha
Although, as I understood it, tetrachromatics don't see more depth of color, they see an extra element of color. Thus it would be RGBA+unknown red/green combo color =
8 bits red
8 bits green
8 bits blue
8 bits alpha
8 bits new color
Wait that's only 40 bits. 12 bits per red, green, etc is 60... Maybe it doesn't work out that way anyway.
Actually, it's pretty common practice for companies to unlock the CD check on games about a year after they're released, when they're making only minimal money off of CD sales. Most of the people who wanted to buy Unreal Tournament have done so already, so Epic won't lose much money from pirates at this point. Incidentally, I believe id software did the same thing with the Quake 3 1.17 point release.
Though it doesn't directly pertain to Linux, most all games I know of (Unreal, Quake, etc) use nice, easy to edit text files for their preference files. I kinda don't think that all apps need the ultra-configurability of XML, even if they aren't helloworld.c.
2 types of people:
either Mac users who didn't want to wait for ATI to make a Mac Radeon, or were fed up with ATI's generally asshole-ish treatment of the mac market, and bought one last summer...
Or people who thought that FSAA in hardware was more important than hardware T&L, and bought one before Nvidia/ATI put software FSAA into their drivers.
Now, there's pretty much no reason, though the Voodoo 4 4500 PCI is a pretty good Mac budget card. (on the PC end, the GeForce 2 MX smacks it down)
I think they have hair patents too, but keep in mind that there is a world of difference between rendering the Final Fantasy Movie and playing Quake 3. "Fast" probably means it takes like 5 minutes to do the calculations instead of 30. Not exactly applicable to real-time games, which is what the article talks about.
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>exclusive deals with people like Motorola
Sadly, this is far from the truth. Selling PowerPC chips to Apple accounts for a tiny fraction of Motorola's profits. Almost all of their focus is on the mobile and embedded markets. Many higher-end routers have G3's in them, I do believe. As a result, Motorola cares very little that G4's have not increased in speed since over a year ago. As I always say in these discussions, if Apple/Steve would just open their eyes, and let IBM supply them with G4's, the Mhz gap could close very quickly.
Point well taken, but then again, everybody else certainly takes their bloody time new writing OS's. Mac OS X and Windows 2000 come to mind; both were delayed years after their initial release dates. And the rumor is that OS X full, final, release version will not be released at Macworld (in a few weeks), sigh.
Linus has a good bit of foresight, really, because he KNOWS that any release date he set, he would break, and so doesn't bother setting one at all.
I highly recommend NOT CLICKING that link.
>As for Cowboy BeBop, I have a hard time believing that there won't be a lot of snips here and there, that's not counting what has to be cut for time slot.
Haven't seen Coyboy Bebop, but was really surprised when they mentioned Kenshin. It's a top quality series, and I'm very glad that CN is considering airing it, but there is quite a lot of violence, especially in the OAV. CN would have to do a lot of editing, more than they did for Tenchi.
Other than the non-traditional ending, I personally thought Jedi was the best of the three. More action. I guess everybody has their fav.
A single period? I see "/." Which, incidentally, is what has been happening to him. Of course, I bet the site is hosted on cable, so I'm not surprised. ;)
Yeah, but the Playstation 2 really should have gotten 1st place. Sony has been running very aggresive marketing campaigns, but nobody can buy one. Maybe we could nominate the PS9 from their "PS9" commercials. :P
Warcraft III? Huh? Blizzard's been working on it nonstop since it was announced, which was not all that long ago (just before Diablo II, I think).
>I'm going to guess that it's a mathematical necessity that you must have a fairly abundant material comfort before any serious full-time artwork gets done.
You are quite right. It's pretty clear looking back through history.
The Greeks and Romans kept rather peaceful empires, and we can see the fruits of their artists to this day. In the 500 or so years after the Roman Empire fell, very little artistic or intellectual progress occured in the western world (except in the Mideast, with the rise of the Muslims). Nuthin much happened until the late Middle Ages, as people were to busy farming and being oppresed to write great works of literature. Though, from the Renaissance until now, it's been pretty much constant progress. Progress doesn't happen without relative peace, because people are too busy with basic necessities to engage in idle intellectual pursuits.
> Very few US theatres will touch that kind of a
>movie assuming that the audience would be too
>small.
Hmm, I saw a preview of this movie on the big screen a few months back, and it wasn't in a small movie art theatre. Or if the big theatres don't pick it up, it'll be like Princess Mononoke; look for it in your local art theatre. Failing that, I bet there will be a dub/sub DVD released in a year or so.
You know what the scary thing is? George Orwell was right. A few years too early, but he was right. Ignorance is Bliss, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery, and all that. Perhaps that should read "Slavery is Freedom." It's almost as if the masses want to be controlled; people will take this utter bullshit in stride because it was marketed as a new "feature," perhaps one to protect you against those evil hackers. They'll take away our free music, then our recorded TV shows, then ALL the media that Jack Valenti doesn't want us to see, then our books, and then, well, who knows? Our thoughts? The FBI's Carnivore crap has already proven that our communiucations are not private. And, unfortunately, The Framers of our Constitution got one thing wrong that could cost us everything: privacy is not a right or a liberty in the Constitution, because to them, the thought of privacy being violated in the ways that it can be today was totally alien to them. Perhaps one could argue that your thoughts are your property, and therefore protected by the Constitution, but the Judge Kaplan's of the world won't let that get too far.
So the Judiciary branch won't stop this downward spiral, and Congress sure as hell won't, they're the ones that set it in motion, after all. How about the Executive? Unfortunately, George Dubya hardly has a brain in his head, and the Roe v. Wade opposing conservative justices he appoints certainly won't help matters. Where does the burden fall on, then? The people, of course. I believe it was John Locke who said that if a government was not doing a sufficient job of protecting the peoples rights, the people have a right to replace that government. Let's see some action, people. The John Q. Public's of the world far outnumber the slimy politicians and corporate executives. The masses just have to be educated about how they're being assraped, and I garauntee you, no politician can remain in office if the vast majority of the people don't want him there. Hope lies in the proles, after all.
No, the funniest part is that you looked at that thoroughly disgusting pic long enough to figure that out.
Funny how NetInfo has been around for at least ten years, but people are only now beginning to see how cool it is. Too bad it never caught on much back in the NeXT days.
Dude, walk while crouching. You move faster than, walking (not running) standing up, and you make no noise. And, everybody comes after you only if an alarm sees you. I think it's the third person view that makes the sneaking hard, though I hope they keep that around in the next game.
Playboy is art, but then, again, it's not porn.
The problem comes when "obscurity" means that the unlocked door is in the back, not the front (as if that's not hard to figure out), and the owner of the house refuses to acknowledge the existence of the back door until someone comes in and steals a few things. I can think of at least one company who does that.
>Mario was neat
Are you insane? That movie is quite possibly the worst adaptation of a game ever. First off, all the little kids who went to see it got something that had basically nothing to do with the games. Secondly, it was rated PG-13, if I recall. Kudos to the idiotic director for scaring off his own target audience. When I saw this movie (I was about 10 or so), I actually found it scary! Definitely not what Mario is supposed to be in the least. And of course, as in all bad movies, the acting and plot was paper thin.
Sheesh.
You know what's funny, though, is how in video game form, Street Fighter is a vastly superior game than Mortal Kombat, but the Street Fighter movie by all accounts sucked, and the Mortal Kombat movie was not bad. I garuantee you that the absolutely excellent soundtrack for Mortal Kombat (thank you KMFDM) helped a bunch.
There's also the Tekken anime, which is supposedly wretched. Too bad, because the game is great, and the massive amount of backstory could have lended itself well to a feature length movie. I guess that's how it always is, there is almost the potential for a good movie, but bad directors almost always mess it up.
They do in SimCity 2000... ;)
And you didn't read the website. This will be an invaluable tool against anti-privacy laws and big government in any country.
>Apple used an 83mhz PCI slot for video in their G3s which was arguably faster than AGP - but no direct comparison.)
Uhm... really? Where can I get one of these Macs? I don't think there is such a thing as a 83mhz PCI slot, and I know the Blue and White G3's had 66mhz slots, because I have one. And, would you care to back up your statement that 66mhz PCI is almost as fast as AGP? I like my comp, but I was under the impression that any AGP system would soundly spank it in performance.
And we'll hopefully keep on evolving. Very possibly, in 100,000 years or so, we'll all be tetrachromats (and not have appendixes anymore ;). It's natural selection really. If the (mutated) genetic trait of tetrachromats is proven to be superior, it will propagate throughout the human species, resulting in people with better vision.
What would be fascinating would be to put one of these possible tetrochromats in front of a 32 bit image, and a 48 bit version of the same picture (48 bit or higher monitors do exist, right, we just don't have any need for them?), and see if she could notice the difference. Although, that may not make a difference.
32 bit color, RGBA =
8 bits red
8 bits green
8 bits blue
8 bits alpha
The trichromatic concept of 48 bit color would be, still RGBA =
12 bits red
12 bits green
12 bits blue
12 bits alpha
Although, as I understood it, tetrachromatics don't see more depth of color, they see an extra element of color. Thus it would be RGBA+unknown red/green combo color =
8 bits red
8 bits green
8 bits blue
8 bits alpha
8 bits new color
Wait that's only 40 bits. 12 bits per red, green, etc is 60... Maybe it doesn't work out that way anyway.
Actually, it's pretty common practice for companies to unlock the CD check on games about a year after they're released, when they're making only minimal money off of CD sales. Most of the people who wanted to buy Unreal Tournament have done so already, so Epic won't lose much money from pirates at this point. Incidentally, I believe id software did the same thing with the Quake 3 1.17 point release.
Though it doesn't directly pertain to Linux, most all games I know of (Unreal, Quake, etc) use nice, easy to edit text files for their preference files. I kinda don't think that all apps need the ultra-configurability of XML, even if they aren't helloworld.c.
I think he was more talking about built-in audio and video, which is a whole different story.
2 types of people:
either Mac users who didn't want to wait for ATI to make a Mac Radeon, or were fed up with ATI's generally asshole-ish treatment of the mac market, and bought one last summer...
Or people who thought that FSAA in hardware was more important than hardware T&L, and bought one before Nvidia/ATI put software FSAA into their drivers.
Now, there's pretty much no reason, though the Voodoo 4 4500 PCI is a pretty good Mac budget card. (on the PC end, the GeForce 2 MX smacks it down)
I think they have hair patents too, but keep in mind that there is a world of difference between rendering the Final Fantasy Movie and playing Quake 3. "Fast" probably means it takes like 5 minutes to do the calculations instead of 30. Not exactly applicable to real-time games, which is what the article talks about.