The Bush-Bin Laden connection. Again, total misunderstanding on the facts. Bin Laden has over 50 siblings, and the Bin Laden family has massive power in the Gulf. There are reportedly thousands of family members all over the globe. First of all, it must be understood that simple meetings with the Bin Laden family doesn't mean you're connected to Osama. This family has rejected Bin Laden and even disowned him.
Additionally, all major oil companies have some sort of deals or talks. It's the business. No money was given to the Bin Laden family. And no, Bush didn't finance Al-Qaeda.
Wow, you're quite easily dissuaded? That was a horrible counter-argument. Not to mention the excellent straw-man he set up to knock down.
Rob, why doesn't Real drop all the pretense of desiring to have an interoperable solution with the Ipod and actually use one for their downloads site? The Ipod supports a few standard file formats and one DRM encumbered one. If Real were really about customer choice, they'd sell non DRM encumbered files and then be able to shout from a mountain that their music works with the Ipod as well as almost every other digital media player.
You shouldn't mod posts down because of the signature but instead because of its content. You're abusing the moderation system. It's very easy to hide all signatures in your preferences if you don't wish to see them.
Ahhh, you're talking about using the GPU's 2D features for acceleration. Yes, most OSes have been doing that for ages. But, 3D has been the point of innovation on video cards which is why Quartz Extreme uses OpenGL (the equivalent of Direct3D) to accelerate all of the windows.
I would have used DVD encoding in both examples, but I wasn't sure if Linux had any encoders since most Linux users aren't interested in paying MPEG2 licensing fees.:)
Thanks for correcting the part about ray-tracers, but my point still stands.
This is about more than eye-candy. I used the transparent Terminal as an example of some of Quartz Extreme's additional benefits, but it comes into play when any window is moved. Mac OS X had a real transparent Terminal before it had Quartz Extreme, but it used a lot of the CPU to composite it.
Apple's Quartz Extreme off-loads compositing of the graphics display to the GPU. So, while I'm dragging my truly transparent Terminal across my desktop, the CPU can still work on the DVD encode it was working on without worrying about my window drag. However, you and your faux transparent terminal on Linux will have to steal cycles away from your ray-tracing program in order to do the same. The same thing happens with every window you or I move.
Core Image and Core Video will allow the GPU to do much of the same for filters. They'll be produced by the GPU instead of the CPU and they'll happen in real-time instead of me having to wait for the CPU to render them.
So, while Windows and Linux users' GPUs are usually idle unless they're playing a game, Mac users' GPUs are providing a faster, richer experience.
If you're like me, the Apple will quickly move from the corner of the room to the center and you'll have an old Windows box sitting in the corner with Linux on it.
"If Doom 3 is so important to you, please pay for it, ID software will have more money, they will spend it, butterfly-effect."
Exactly. John Carmack will buy a new Ferrari. One of the Ferrari factory workers will get a bonus and decide to strike out on his own pizza shop. A business man from America will happen upon his shop while on vacation and persuade him to bring his pizza to America and start a new franchise. Enzo Pizza will invade the market with a higher quality, lower price pizza that will enliven competition in the pizza delivery market. A younger gamer playing at a Doom 3 LAN party will order one of these pizzas while saving $1.73 over the pizza he would have bought from Papa Johns.
I'd love to see Id or someone else port the mpterra1 map from Quake 3: Team Arena to Doom 3. That map was one of the most fun team deathmatch and capture the flag maps of all time. I guess I'll have to wait until CTF is added to Doom 3.
I hope the Mac OS X release is one of those higher priority things.:) I'd like to play multiplayer a bit before I have to worry about cheaters so much.
PS - Congratulations on the game. I played it on a friend's computer and it is excellent. I was very impressed with the menu design -- both normal menus and in-game ones. Id has exceeded their prior human interface work by a wide margin. In fact, I do believe that it's the nicest interface I've seen on a FPS yet.
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Rob, why doesn't Real drop all the pretense of desiring to have an interoperable solution with the Ipod and actually use one for their downloads site? The Ipod supports a few standard file formats and one DRM encumbered one. If Real were really about customer choice, they'd sell non DRM encumbered files and then be able to shout from a mountain that their music works with the Ipod as well as almost every other digital media player.
Apple is ahead of the curve. They proclaimed the death of the floppy disk in 1998 when they announced the Imac.
You boot from the optical drive or from the network.
Those are still DVDs.
The death of the what, now?
You shouldn't mod posts down because of the signature but instead because of its content. You're abusing the moderation system. It's very easy to hide all signatures in your preferences if you don't wish to see them.
There wasn't one in the article summary but there is one in my signature. ;)
Ahhh, you're talking about using the GPU's 2D features for acceleration. Yes, most OSes have been doing that for ages. But, 3D has been the point of innovation on video cards which is why Quartz Extreme uses OpenGL (the equivalent of Direct3D) to accelerate all of the windows.
I would have used DVD encoding in both examples, but I wasn't sure if Linux had any encoders since most Linux users aren't interested in paying MPEG2 licensing fees. :)
Thanks for correcting the part about ray-tracers, but my point still stands.
This is about more than eye-candy. I used the transparent Terminal as an example of some of Quartz Extreme's additional benefits, but it comes into play when any window is moved. Mac OS X had a real transparent Terminal before it had Quartz Extreme, but it used a lot of the CPU to composite it.
It's about freeing up CPU cycles for other tasks.
But when is it used? It's used by the OS whenever a window is moved on a Macintosh.
This is about more than transparency.
Apple's Quartz Extreme off-loads compositing of the graphics display to the GPU. So, while I'm dragging my truly transparent Terminal across my desktop, the CPU can still work on the DVD encode it was working on without worrying about my window drag. However, you and your faux transparent terminal on Linux will have to steal cycles away from your ray-tracing program in order to do the same. The same thing happens with every window you or I move.
Core Image and Core Video will allow the GPU to do much of the same for filters. They'll be produced by the GPU instead of the CPU and they'll happen in real-time instead of me having to wait for the CPU to render them.
So, while Windows and Linux users' GPUs are usually idle unless they're playing a game, Mac users' GPUs are providing a faster, richer experience.
If you're like me, the Apple will quickly move from the corner of the room to the center and you'll have an old Windows box sitting in the corner with Linux on it.
Yeah, Bill also seems to forget about BFS. Tiger's Spotlight functionality was architected by the same person that created BFS.
I'd buy some if they were DRM-free files.
And my PowerMac G5 dual 2 Ghz is damn quiet. It makes less noise than my TV's fan unless I'm really taxing the processors.
No, you just put your Mac to sleep and it's back up and ready in 1-2 seconds when needed.
"If Doom 3 is so important to you, please pay for it, ID software will have more money, they will spend it, butterfly-effect."
Exactly. John Carmack will buy a new Ferrari. One of the Ferrari factory workers will get a bonus and decide to strike out on his own pizza shop. A business man from America will happen upon his shop while on vacation and persuade him to bring his pizza to America and start a new franchise. Enzo Pizza will invade the market with a higher quality, lower price pizza that will enliven competition in the pizza delivery market. A younger gamer playing at a Doom 3 LAN party will order one of these pizzas while saving $1.73 over the pizza he would have bought from Papa Johns.
Everyone wins.
IBM has an article on Yellow Dog on PowerMacs. I personally can't see running anything but Mac OS X on a PowerMac, but to each his own.
I'd love to see Id or someone else port the mpterra1 map from Quake 3: Team Arena to Doom 3. That map was one of the most fun team deathmatch and capture the flag maps of all time. I guess I'll have to wait until CTF is added to Doom 3.
I hope the Mac OS X release is one of those higher priority things. :) I'd like to play multiplayer a bit before I have to worry about cheaters so much.
PS - Congratulations on the game. I played it on a friend's computer and it is excellent. I was very impressed with the menu design -- both normal menus and in-game ones. Id has exceeded their prior human interface work by a wide margin. In fact, I do believe that it's the nicest interface I've seen on a FPS yet.
Apple tops PC Magazine's customer satisfaction survey.
I guess you could say it is infinitely cheaper if your time is worth nothing.
How in the hell can this be "Offtopic?" It's a direct reply to the article text!
I'm sorry, did you say build? Reply to this when you can link to an equivalent Dell or HP system for a much lower price.