Who's Rachel, your mom? Are you a basement dweller? You certainly do seem to have an awful lot of time on your hands to go around telling people "ur mums face ", creating dozens of slashdot accounts and generally being a nuisance.
Does your mom know you're a renowned internet troll? Maybe I should call and tell her...
You still missed the point that despite the simple graphics the game performs HORRIBLY and the bad performance detracts from the fun of the game. People DO give a shit about a game not lagging because the developer can't be bothered to optimize the graphics code.
The GP only pointed out that even a game like Quake Live which, tangentially, has better graphics outperforms Minecraft. There is no excuse for why Minecraft is dragging even a modern graphics card to its knees when it isn't even doing anything all that special.
Or it sounds like a problem that could be solved with a well defined single file binary format and loading the whole thing as a memory mapped file. Each chunk has a strictly defined limit to its size already, so why not serialize them? It's gotta be a damn site more efficient than constantly opening files for every single 16x16 chunk of terrain.
Sigh, yet another it's only good if it looks bad fanboi. Don't you think it should be the case that a game which looks like minecraft would drastically outperform many fancy-graphic-eye-candy titles? Except what we see is the complete opposite. I understand that some of the things he's doing (such as updating thousands of individual blocks) are resource intensive but if there ARE things he could be doing to offload work onto GPU's then doing you think he should do so? How about the positive way performance in general would affect the game? If the game didn't lag all the time why, it just might be more fun!
Just because someone makes a comparison to a game with "uber graphix" doesn't mean they're threatening Minecraft and it's blocksy charm. Get a grip.
While you certainly have a point with regard to the graphical style of Minecraft, you totally missed the point of the OP which was that by using the more advanced capabilities of OpenGL Mincraft could keep it's charming look and boost performance. He never said a single thing about adding fancy graphics and HDR and all that. Simply that Notch is using methods which have terrible performance and that there is room for improvement if more modern techniques were used. Hell, maybe he could even get rid of that lighting bug which just won't go away.
And as for not requiring decent FPS... well maybe you like constant lag and frame hiccups, but I rather suspect you're quite alone in that. Sure, you don't need that 120 FPS so you can get headshots on n00bs but it is kind of nice to have a smooth framerate while playing a game.
I'm starting to think "Michael Kristopeit" is really some kind of bizarre meta-troll. God only knows how many accounts are registered for this persona and by how many distinct individuals. Reminds me of when I was in high school, my friends and I would all log in to a local Public Access Unix system (grex.cyberspace.org) under the same account and mess with people in the chat room thing they had.
Get you a XBox 360 Wireless controller for windows. It has singlehandedly saved PC gaming for me. It's no good for FPS but since so many games are designed around consoles, why not just use the console controller in the first place? Plus you can sit back and relax while you play instead of being hunched over your keyboard and mouse.
Physicist and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Jason Lisle has proven that the earth doesn't have to be billions of years old for light to reach us from distant stars. His theory of Anisotropic Synchrony Convention proves that light traveled at an infinite velocity at the moment of creation. Thus, we can be comfortable with the fact that the earth turned 6,014 years old on Oct. 23. Thanks to the theory of Amyotrophic Lateral Convection, the truth of the Bible in verified.
The distant starlight problem is resolved if we accept that Genesis is using the anisotropic synchrony convention (ASC) rather than the Einstein synchrony convention. The resolution is simple: under ASC, the one-way speed of light when directed toward earth is axiomatically infinite, even though the round-trip speed of light remains 3 × 108 m/s. Thus, the light from stars that are created on the fourth day will naturally reach the earth essentially instantaneously.
Well DUH! Of course Moses was thinking about Anisotropic Synchrony Convention and special relativity when he wrote Genesis. IT'S IN THE BIBLE FOLKS! And in the beginning, God created Anisotropic Synchrony Convention. Damn scientists and their lies.
I've been playing around with elisp and noticed that after a while you don't really notice all the parens any more. Plus editing lisp with an editor (os?) like emacs which "enforces" indentation makes it even easier to tell at a glance what is going on in a given function.
As an aside, lisp really doesn't have all that much "syntax" in the traditional sense, just parens and the rest is functions.
I'm no lisp maestro by any means but I finally get what other lispers mean when they say the parens just disappear
If you make them pay 90% of the taxes, will you give them 90% of the say in what gets done with their tax money?
LOL! You think they don't have 90% of the say already? Hell, the salary of your congress critters puts them in the higher income brackets ($174,000/year.) Then realize that many of them were financially successful in private life.
I thought it was pretty good, except for the rare case where what you were looking for wasn't the first or second hit. Then it got a little strange. You would have to do this dance between listening to various search results and saying "Next result" or "OK" with typical voice recognition accuracy
what the hell are you talking about? If, in the unlikely event that some TLA government agency actually cared about your communications they would in all likelihood already have a back door into whatever crypto you might get from a consumer grade device. However, back here in the real world, no one, not even the NSA gives a good goddamn about whatever trivial bullshit you would be spewing over that "poorly secured" line anyway. Get over yourself. Your paranoia does not reflect reality.
Better make sure your call to Grandma is using 256-bit AES encryption, wouldn't want the government stealing her brownie recipe now would we?
McCain? Run again? Are you serious? You really think that after the 2008 fiasco the Repubs will give that codger the chance to mess it all up again? Not likely. I'm keeping an eye on this mid-term election. Watch how the Tea Party wins/loses to get an idea of how the 2012 Presidental race will shore up. I'd wager that we'll wee a strong Tea Party showing this fall (they're already upsetting the GOP in race after race) and it will likely be Obama vs. some Tea Party upstart (not Palin, not a chance). Personally I think the Neo-Con wing of the GOP has had its day, the Tea Party (aka True Conservative Patriots) are ascendant. Whether or not their rhetoric can be transformed into workable policy is anyones guess.
Because the Republican who gets in, in 2012 will face the same problems Obama did, and that guy isn't going to make a miracle happen either. And then you people, who blame everything on Obama will finally have to admit that the turkey you voted for aint any better.
Someone give this man a prize. That is by far the funniest thing I've heard in a long, long time.
Over all it is probably a good thing. I don't see what the fuss is about.
Heh, you must be new here. Allow me to fill you in on the Slashdot Objectivist Group Think (tm): 1) All government is bad. 2) All tax revenue will be squandered. 3) All government is bad.
If you have any questions, please read some Ayn Rand and call me in the morning.
1) You fell victim to the exact same misunderstanding of tax law that other idiots like Joe the Plumber did: income taxes are levied on profits, not revenues. If you get $100k in revenue and it costs you $40K to run your business, then you only get taxed on the $60K of net profits. If you decide you want to hire another employee and pay him $30K, then you have $70K in expenses, so now you are only taxed on the $30K of profit. Taxes have no influence on the decision to hire if you properly understand how taxes work.
Hey buddy, sit down and shut up. You're ruining a perfectly good rhetorical boogie man.
why should you feel like a criminal? Buy the software, do what you like, and if it pisses off a bunch of shitty lawyers too bad. Just because a bunch of greedy shit heads want to make everything illegal doesn't mean you should feel bad for doing something you would have done anyway. It's not like you're murdering puppies or anything... are you?
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Who's Rachel, your mom? Are you a basement dweller? You certainly do seem to have an awful lot of time on your hands to go around telling people "ur mums face ", creating dozens of slashdot accounts and generally being a nuisance.
Does your mom know you're a renowned internet troll? Maybe I should call and tell her...
He's probably getting the Monster Discs which are triple insulated to ensure they have cleaner bits and the most digital fidelity.
You still missed the point that despite the simple graphics the game performs HORRIBLY and the bad performance detracts from the fun of the game. People DO give a shit about a game not lagging because the developer can't be bothered to optimize the graphics code.
The GP only pointed out that even a game like Quake Live which, tangentially, has better graphics outperforms Minecraft. There is no excuse for why Minecraft is dragging even a modern graphics card to its knees when it isn't even doing anything all that special.
Or it sounds like a problem that could be solved with a well defined single file binary format and loading the whole thing as a memory mapped file. Each chunk has a strictly defined limit to its size already, so why not serialize them? It's gotta be a damn site more efficient than constantly opening files for every single 16x16 chunk of terrain.
Sigh, yet another it's only good if it looks bad fanboi. Don't you think it should be the case that a game which looks like minecraft would drastically outperform many fancy-graphic-eye-candy titles? Except what we see is the complete opposite. I understand that some of the things he's doing (such as updating thousands of individual blocks) are resource intensive but if there ARE things he could be doing to offload work onto GPU's then doing you think he should do so? How about the positive way performance in general would affect the game? If the game didn't lag all the time why, it just might be more fun!
Just because someone makes a comparison to a game with "uber graphix" doesn't mean they're threatening Minecraft and it's blocksy charm. Get a grip.
While you certainly have a point with regard to the graphical style of Minecraft, you totally missed the point of the OP which was that by using the more advanced capabilities of OpenGL Mincraft could keep it's charming look and boost performance. He never said a single thing about adding fancy graphics and HDR and all that. Simply that Notch is using methods which have terrible performance and that there is room for improvement if more modern techniques were used. Hell, maybe he could even get rid of that lighting bug which just won't go away.
And as for not requiring decent FPS... well maybe you like constant lag and frame hiccups, but I rather suspect you're quite alone in that. Sure, you don't need that 120 FPS so you can get headshots on n00bs but it is kind of nice to have a smooth framerate while playing a game.
You can... but as they say in the docs it doesn't do what you think it would. It's mostly there for turning regular functions into "keywords" so
sub foobar($) ...
can be used like foobar "baz" instead of foobar("baz")
Oh, and it doesn't enforce the prototype either. It really can't since there are no types to speak of.
It's all very perlish.
duh, like the illuminati killed him and shit, don't act so surprised
No, Michael Kristopeit would say something mind shatteringly profound like "Ur mum calls herself the burnt generation."
I nominate Michael Krisotpeit as the 2010 /. Troll of the Year. We can send the award to all the fake addresses he keeps posting.
I swear, there hasn't been a troll this amusing since twitter. WHatever happened to him anyway?
Hey look, the bot's come out to play.
ur mum's face fail.
That the best you got?
ur mums you're an idiot. Look, I can do it too!
I'm starting to think "Michael Kristopeit" is really some kind of bizarre meta-troll. God only knows how many accounts are registered for this persona and by how many distinct individuals. Reminds me of when I was in high school, my friends and I would all log in to a local Public Access Unix system (grex.cyberspace.org) under the same account and mess with people in the chat room thing they had.
Ahh the good old days.
Get you a XBox 360 Wireless controller for windows. It has singlehandedly saved PC gaming for me. It's no good for FPS but since so many games are designed around consoles, why not just use the console controller in the first place? Plus you can sit back and relax while you play instead of being hunched over your keyboard and mouse.
YMMV
Physicist and Nobel Prize winner Dr. Jason Lisle has proven that the earth doesn't have to be billions of years old for light to reach us from distant stars. His theory of Anisotropic Synchrony Convention proves that light traveled at an infinite velocity at the moment of creation. Thus, we can be comfortable with the fact that the earth turned 6,014 years old on Oct. 23. Thanks to the theory of Amyotrophic Lateral Convection, the truth of the Bible in verified.
Sadly this one is "real":
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v3/n1/anisotropic-synchrony-convention
I didn't actually read it, but it seems pretty elaborate.
From the website:
The distant starlight problem is resolved if we accept that Genesis is using the anisotropic synchrony convention (ASC) rather than the Einstein synchrony convention. The resolution is simple: under ASC, the one-way speed of light when directed toward earth is axiomatically infinite, even though the round-trip speed of light remains 3 × 108 m/s. Thus, the light from stars that are created on the fourth day will naturally reach the earth essentially instantaneously.
Well DUH! Of course Moses was thinking about Anisotropic Synchrony Convention and special relativity when he wrote Genesis. IT'S IN THE BIBLE FOLKS! And in the beginning, God created Anisotropic Synchrony Convention. Damn scientists and their lies.
I've been playing around with elisp and noticed that after a while you don't really notice all the parens any more. Plus editing lisp with an editor (os?) like emacs which "enforces" indentation makes it even easier to tell at a glance what is going on in a given function.
As an aside, lisp really doesn't have all that much "syntax" in the traditional sense, just parens and the rest is functions.
I'm no lisp maestro by any means but I finally get what other lispers mean when they say the parens just disappear
If you make them pay 90% of the taxes, will you give them 90% of the say in what gets done with their tax money?
LOL! You think they don't have 90% of the say already? Hell, the salary of your congress critters puts them in the higher income brackets ($174,000/year.) Then realize that many of them were financially successful in private life.
I thought it was pretty good, except for the rare case where what you were looking for wasn't the first or second hit. Then it got a little strange. You would have to do this dance between listening to various search results and saying "Next result" or "OK" with typical voice recognition accuracy
what the hell are you talking about? If, in the unlikely event that some TLA government agency actually cared about your communications they would in all likelihood already have a back door into whatever crypto you might get from a consumer grade device. However, back here in the real world, no one, not even the NSA gives a good goddamn about whatever trivial bullshit you would be spewing over that "poorly secured" line anyway. Get over yourself. Your paranoia does not reflect reality.
Better make sure your call to Grandma is using 256-bit AES encryption, wouldn't want the government stealing her brownie recipe now would we?
McCain? Run again? Are you serious? You really think that after the 2008 fiasco the Repubs will give that codger the chance to mess it all up again? Not likely. I'm keeping an eye on this mid-term election. Watch how the Tea Party wins/loses to get an idea of how the 2012 Presidental race will shore up. I'd wager that we'll wee a strong Tea Party showing this fall (they're already upsetting the GOP in race after race) and it will likely be Obama vs. some Tea Party upstart (not Palin, not a chance). Personally I think the Neo-Con wing of the GOP has had its day, the Tea Party (aka True Conservative Patriots) are ascendant. Whether or not their rhetoric can be transformed into workable policy is anyones guess.
I voted for Obama simply because I figured it was the Democrats turn to fuck things up for a while.
Because the Republican who gets in, in 2012 will face the same problems Obama did, and that guy isn't going to make a miracle happen either. And then you people, who blame everything on Obama will finally have to admit that the turkey you voted for aint any better.
Someone give this man a prize. That is by far the funniest thing I've heard in a long, long time.
Over all it is probably a good thing. I don't see what the fuss is about.
Heh, you must be new here. Allow me to fill you in on the Slashdot Objectivist Group Think (tm): 1) All government is bad. 2) All tax revenue will be squandered. 3) All government is bad.
If you have any questions, please read some Ayn Rand and call me in the morning.
1) You fell victim to the exact same misunderstanding of tax law that other idiots like Joe the Plumber did: income taxes are levied on profits, not revenues. If you get $100k in revenue and it costs you $40K to run your business, then you only get taxed on the $60K of net profits. If you decide you want to hire another employee and pay him $30K, then you have $70K in expenses, so now you are only taxed on the $30K of profit. Taxes have no influence on the decision to hire if you properly understand how taxes work.
Hey buddy, sit down and shut up. You're ruining a perfectly good rhetorical boogie man.
why should you feel like a criminal? Buy the software, do what you like, and if it pisses off a bunch of shitty lawyers too bad. Just because a bunch of greedy shit heads want to make everything illegal doesn't mean you should feel bad for doing something you would have done anyway. It's not like you're murdering puppies or anything... are you?
It's more a store fighting shoplifting by tracking down people they think might be shoplifters and setting fire to their cars.
Oh yes, because that's sooo much better...