Random Hacker: "I finally cracked it!" Men in black knock at your door. ManInBlack1: "Sir im going to ask you to come with us" Random Hacker: "It was only a game! Really!"
A few comments. I own a G400MAX. They have FULL (repeat) FULL OpenGL Hardware accelerated support for ANY OpenGL application. Its standard. They have a special TurboGL driver optimized for 3D gaming which in no way replaces there other OpenGL drivers. It just makes the games they optimized for work Much quicker. Its stiffly priced. I LOVE the DualHead. I DO watch a DVD on my nice 640x480 SVGA monitor while I cruise the web or do programming.. whatever. The G400Max has Awesome Direct3D support. (*sigh* I love some games that only run in Direct3D accelerated modes.) All in all its Matrox's first card that has probably made much of a dent in the hardcore gaming market. Its no way near a GeForce256 with DDR or even SDR but IT is a playable and awesome card. I wouldnt trade it for ANY of the other cards on the market.
With linux you get a LOT of applications at your disposal. I cannot think of much that would be better than having a bahs shell and maybe fvwm on a palm computing device. If they configure it properly it can have every bit the function of a Palm. And then you have a nice PDA with all the linux software you can get to compile. My primary hope is they would include GCC in there. Again I dont know how they can fit all that much inside of like 8M tho. You can fit a respectable kernel and alot of text-based apps. But how do you fit an X server on the thing. (Unless they go with a Micro Hard drive) Mmn oh well I dont think it will be all that great but we can wait and hope.
If they run linux that sort of increases there amount of software by a huge amount. I will buy one if I can have gcc on the go with me! mmnn mud hacking on the go. Id buy one. and id use it to store my addresses *cough*.
I am impressed. He says Paraphrased... "its a free operating system owned by thousands of programmers who work on it." Thats the closest to the truth ive read in a lot of 'main stream' stuff. pretty cool someone actually took the time to get a little understanding of linux. I dont think everyone out there is clueless. And do you guys really think any potential investor just drops a wad of cash into a company with the name of Linux? really anyone important with lots of money? I can tell you the answer is no. They do a lot of research on companies. Your average day trader may get a little burned but no ones going to get really hurt. ahh well. -JA
They were talking about the suit was filed in 97 so yep.. thats 3 years ago. It fits with the timeline. I was annoyed by reading the article until I saw that.
These guys are just porting bastards! There bank accounts must be rocking right now. And why does EVERY single hot company now a days have to go public? IDSoftware is and probably will always be private? Whats so wrong with that? I guess its cool to have an IPO now. Everyone else is doing it? I think I will IPO the flea circus on my dog or something.
Anyone ever watch Football on FOX? They use very similar technology to do the first down line in yellow. They have like two tractor trailers full of equipment to pull it off. It is really nice stuff. I think as long as they are open about its use that leaves the choice in your hands whether or not you watch there channel. But really how much worse is this than a commercial? So they change the content of the poster or a billboard. Its what media people do.
What is your favorite operating system to do scientific work on? And programming language. Which do you prefer to use and which have you found most beneficial in the long run for doing scientific work.
Most folks missed a good point on DigitalTV... Cable companies in my area are converting now.. Its really REALLY cool. Not only do you get Digital TV if you choose to have it. They have these nice set-top boxes that really benefit from DigitalTV services. Lots of programming information (Tv show times) Cable Internet just around the corner. SO Digital is good. Its only 40USD / Month. Is that TO expensive? I know people who pay 4 times that for an ISDN because they are so hard up for high speed internet in this area.
Everyone always claims company xyz has poor support and htey wont buy from them again? I heard this for Dell, Gateway, Compaq and a number of other companies. Its not that bad.. One of our Dell's (one of 20) and the guy was out the next day it was fixed and life was happy. We have a couple Compaq Proliant's as well. One of the power supplies went. Compaq had it fixed within a day. These people dont get a good reputation and make a lot of money by a poor service/support model.
Yes its true. Most americans are afraid of there own body parts! Its amazing really. So many people think its bad to see a body part EVERYONE else has. I mean if youd been raised being told that ears were just the most evil things and a males genetalia is not. Which would you think is bad? Its so annoying that folks think like that. Whats the big DEAL? You afraid to go without pants or a shirt because someone might see something every person on the planet has? Its like.. freaking sad. I recently went to Austrailia to visit my aunt. I can tell you this aussies have no inhibitions about displaying nudity on TV. As long as its in good taste its cool. (Mostly Educational stuff but..) That just sorta took me back a lil. Not much sense I have always had this philosophy. Whats the big deal? Unless you have penis Envy or you were raised to think your own body parts are something to hide. You dont mind it. Really.. pr0n does very little for me due to my up bringing. Its no big deal just another body part. Not something to get all excited about. Okay so you use your mouth to eat and your unit to reproduce. Ahem whats the big deal? Anyone care to comment?
I am more afraid someone at Olive Garden will snitch my CC num than someone at Amazon.com. A lot more people interaction occurs at some place like a resteraunt(sp). They get to see what kind of person you are and possible what kind of CC you have. Titanium.. yep this is one I want to steal. That scares me a HELL of a lot more than any online site. I have a 500 Dollar unsecured VISA thats all I will ever have. Just for emergencies. I have a debit card on a checking account with no more than 2000USD EVER. The BANK does assume the risk and I am only liable for 50 bucks of it if any of its stolen. Its just like a VISA in every respect except for the fact the money comes straight from my bank account. Bleh. Keep on using them CC's online:-)
Hmmn.. I wonder how a watches small battery holds up to the decoding of an MP#. Plus the drain of a speaker. Hmmn.. I bet they dont get to good of a lifetime.
would it make more sense? to sell theme ach individually and then once your last one is out do the trilogy? AFTER like a year or so. just to make sure people go and buy all three and then buy the trilogy just for completeness? that makes better business sense.
That was one of those self-hyprocitical posts that sort of invalidates itself before it ever gets posted... I did not say John Carmack could do that. I implied it yep. I said if you are intelligent enough to program a massive 3D engine/game WHICH has networking code IN IT. I would imagine its not a far cry to study and LEARN how to do tcp/ip implmentations? Looking at OTHER code books etc.. Its not like its a massive theory involving years of research to prove it or anything. Once you understand enough of 'Computer Science' You can apply that knowledge to any area. And with enough time invested to learn and specalize in that area you can do anything and do it well. Dont give me this weak stuff about solutions or some such nonsense? You saying since I spent 4 years learning TCP/IP and how to implment it I cant learn how to learn database theory and become good in that? NEVER EVER say someone cannot learn something. Thats all I said. Not that JohnC is a master TCP/IP programmer. he can learn it just like I could or you could.
Once you learn enough about programming nothing stands in your way from doing just about anything else. If you can optimize a 3D game as massive as QuakeIII. You can learn about a TCP/IP stack and optimize it.
Is it me.. or did I imagine this number.. 1646392 KB? They smoking something or did there site developer just think it would be entertaining to slap KB on a file size in bytes? I think the latter since I DL'ed it in a few seconds.. heh I almost had a heart attack when I saw the size..
I guess I do not qualify as a programmer since I go to bed before 1am. Work out a lot. AND this is the kicker. Have a good relationship with my girlfriend. Someone should tell my bosses..
Speakng in terms of the review this one was better than most. I think that is the first review I have read in a long while that pretty much does a comprehensive review of other video cards. Mentioning key things you will want to know when it comes time to buy one. The graphs that showed all of the other video boards were awesome. It is great they showed cards llike the G400 and the TNTUltra. 'these'. Are the real benchmarks. How fast it can run quake. not how well a company can rig a program or driver to smoke a 3D Benchmark program. Well.. If you are interested in video cards go read it its good stuff.
In the coming releases.. Instead of adding support for a whole lot of neat and new things. Perhaps making what we have better? Code audits fix ups. Just in my spare time of learning a little about the LInux Kernel ive seen a few little things here and there. It would be sort of nice to audit the code like the OpenBSD folks did. But that put the operating system a bit behind and made it not so much for the "bleeding edge" types which thrive on linux.
Slashdot Mirror
I can see it now...
Random Hacker: "I finally cracked it!"
Men in black knock at your door.
ManInBlack1: "Sir im going to ask you to come with us"
Random Hacker: "It was only a game! Really!"
And so another hacker disappears...
A few comments. I own a G400MAX. They have FULL (repeat) FULL OpenGL Hardware accelerated support for ANY OpenGL application. Its standard. They have a special TurboGL driver optimized for 3D gaming which in no way replaces there other OpenGL drivers. It just makes the games they optimized for work Much quicker. Its stiffly priced. I LOVE the DualHead. I DO watch a DVD on my nice 640x480 SVGA monitor while I cruise the web or do programming.. whatever. The G400Max has Awesome Direct3D support. (*sigh* I love some games that only run in Direct3D accelerated modes.) All in all its Matrox's first card that has probably made much of a dent in the hardcore gaming market. Its no way near a GeForce256 with DDR or even SDR but IT is a playable and awesome card. I wouldnt trade it for ANY of the other cards on the market.
With linux you get a LOT of applications at your disposal. I cannot think of much that would be better than having a bahs shell and maybe fvwm on a palm computing device. If they configure it properly it can have every bit the function of a Palm. And then you have a nice PDA with all the linux software you can get to compile. My primary hope is they would include GCC in there. Again I dont know how they can fit all that much inside of like 8M tho. You can fit a respectable kernel and alot of text-based apps. But how do you fit an X server on the thing. (Unless they go with a Micro Hard drive) Mmn oh well I dont think it will be all that great but we can wait and hope.
If they run linux that sort of increases there amount of software by a huge amount. I will buy one if I can have gcc on the go with me! mmnn mud hacking on the go. Id buy one. and id use it to store my addresses *cough*.
I am impressed. He says Paraphrased... "its a free operating system owned by thousands of programmers who work on it." Thats the closest to the truth ive read in a lot of 'main stream' stuff. pretty cool someone actually took the time to get a little understanding of linux. I dont think everyone out there is clueless. And do you guys really think any potential investor just drops a wad of cash into a company with the name of Linux? really anyone important with lots of money? I can tell you the answer is no. They do a lot of research on companies. Your average day trader may get a little burned but no ones going to get really hurt. ahh well.
-JA
Win2K has IPSec. OpenBSD has IPsec. Theres code available for it. Solaris also has it. So Ipsec is there im sure.
lol at least I was not flaming :P I read articles and spout off ( and get flamed :P )
They were talking about the suit was filed in 97 so yep.. thats 3 years ago. It fits with the timeline. I was annoyed by reading the article until I saw that.
These guys are just porting bastards! There bank accounts must be rocking right now. And why does EVERY single hot company now a days have to go public? IDSoftware is and probably will always be private? Whats so wrong with that? I guess its cool to have an IPO now. Everyone else is doing it? I think I will IPO the flea circus on my dog or something.
Anyone ever watch Football on FOX? They use very similar technology to do the first down line in yellow. They have like two tractor trailers full of equipment to pull it off. It is really nice stuff. I think as long as they are open about its use that leaves the choice in your hands whether or not you watch there channel. But really how much worse is this than a commercial? So they change the content of the poster or a billboard. Its what media people do.
Jeremy Allen
jallen@idminc.com
What is your favorite operating system to do scientific work on? And programming language. Which do you prefer to use and which have you found most beneficial in the long run for doing scientific work.
Most folks missed a good point on DigitalTV... Cable companies in my area are converting now.. Its really REALLY cool. Not only do you get Digital TV if you choose to have it. They have these nice set-top boxes that really benefit from DigitalTV services. Lots of programming information (Tv show times) Cable Internet just around the corner. SO Digital is good. Its only 40USD / Month. Is that TO expensive? I know people who pay 4 times that for an ISDN because they are so hard up for high speed internet in this area.
In light of all of the recent 'linux support' lip servicing IBM has been doing. Do you see them as a threat?
Everyone always claims company xyz has poor support and htey wont buy from them again? I heard this for Dell, Gateway, Compaq and a number of other companies. Its not that bad.. One of our Dell's (one of 20) and the guy was out the next day it was fixed and life was happy. We have a couple Compaq Proliant's as well. One of the power supplies went. Compaq had it fixed within a day. These people dont get a good reputation and make a lot of money by a poor service/support model.
JA
I CAN spell but I choose not to. :-) the learnings done.
Yes its true. Most americans are afraid of there own body parts! Its amazing really. So many people think its bad to see a body part EVERYONE else has. I mean if youd been raised being told that ears were just the most evil things and a males genetalia is not. Which would you think is bad? Its so annoying that folks think like that. Whats the big DEAL? You afraid to go without pants or a shirt because someone might see something every person on the planet has? Its like.. freaking sad. I recently went to Austrailia to visit my aunt. I can tell you this aussies have no inhibitions about displaying nudity on TV. As long as its in good taste its cool. (Mostly Educational stuff but..) That just sorta took me back a lil. Not much sense I have always had this philosophy. Whats the big deal? Unless you have penis Envy or you were raised to think your own body parts are something to hide. You dont mind it. Really.. pr0n does very little for me due to my up bringing. Its no big deal just another body part. Not something to get all excited about. Okay so you use your mouth to eat and your unit to reproduce. Ahem whats the big deal? Anyone care to comment?
Jeremy Allen jallen@idminc.com
p.s. I was born nekkid
I am more afraid someone at Olive Garden will snitch my CC num than someone at Amazon.com. A lot more people interaction occurs at some place like a resteraunt(sp). They get to see what kind of person you are and possible what kind of CC you have. Titanium.. yep this is one I want to steal. That scares me a HELL of a lot more than any online site. I have a 500 Dollar unsecured VISA thats all I will ever have. Just for emergencies. I have a debit card on a checking account with no more than 2000USD EVER. The BANK does assume the risk and I am only liable for 50 bucks of it if any of its stolen. Its just like a VISA in every respect except for the fact the money comes straight from my bank account. Bleh. Keep on using them CC's online :-)
Jeremy Allen
jallen@idminc.com
Hmmn.. I wonder how a watches small battery holds up to the decoding of an MP#. Plus the drain of a speaker. Hmmn.. I bet they dont get to good of a lifetime.
would it make more sense? to sell theme ach individually and then once your last one is out do the trilogy? AFTER like a year or so. just to make sure people go and buy all three and then buy the trilogy just for completeness? that makes better business sense.
That was one of those self-hyprocitical posts that sort of invalidates itself before it ever gets posted... I did not say John Carmack could do that. I implied it yep. I said if you are intelligent enough to program a massive 3D engine/game WHICH has networking code IN IT. I would imagine its not a far cry to study and LEARN how to do tcp/ip implmentations? Looking at OTHER code books etc.. Its not like its a massive theory involving years of research to prove it or anything. Once you understand enough of 'Computer Science' You can apply that knowledge to any area. And with enough time invested to learn and specalize in that area you can do anything and do it well. Dont give me this weak stuff about solutions or some such nonsense? You saying since I spent 4 years learning TCP/IP and how to implment it I cant learn how to learn database theory and become good in that? NEVER EVER say someone cannot learn something. Thats all I said. Not that JohnC is a master TCP/IP programmer. he can learn it just like I could or you could.
Once you learn enough about programming nothing stands in your way from doing just about anything else. If you can optimize a 3D game as massive as QuakeIII. You can learn about a TCP/IP stack and optimize it.
Is it me.. or did I imagine this number.. 1646392 KB? They smoking something or did there site developer just think it would be entertaining to slap KB on a file size in bytes? I think the latter since I DL'ed it in a few seconds.. heh I almost had a heart attack when I saw the size..
I guess I do not qualify as a programmer since I go to bed before 1am. Work out a lot. AND this is the kicker. Have a good relationship with my girlfriend. Someone should tell my bosses..
JA
Speakng in terms of the review this one was better than most. I think that is the first review I have read in a long while that pretty much does a comprehensive review of other video cards. Mentioning key things you will want to know when it comes time to buy one. The graphs that showed all of the other video boards were awesome. It is great they showed cards llike the G400 and the TNTUltra. 'these'. Are the real benchmarks. How fast it can run quake. not how well a company can rig a program or driver to smoke a 3D Benchmark program. Well.. If you are interested in video cards go read it its good stuff.
In the coming releases.. Instead of adding support for a whole lot of neat and new things. Perhaps making what we have better? Code audits fix ups. Just in my spare time of learning a little about the LInux Kernel ive seen a few little things here and there. It would be sort of nice to audit the code like the OpenBSD folks did. But that put the operating system a bit behind and made it not so much for the "bleeding edge" types which thrive on linux.