I had a big CSB for this, but it's gone forever now. I'll write it later as a blog post but not here.
Glide was only for playing games...poorly by today's standards (like tiled 8-bit was when it came out). If initial design was ever done on Glide hardware, I've never heard of it. In 1998, right after graduating from high school, I bought an Intergraph Intense 3D Voodoo card. Voodoo Rush with 4MB for 2D and 2MB for 3D. Still far better than an N64 or PS1. I went from being able to run Quake in a grainy and odd resolution to having smooth visuals that just blew me away... at the time.
That was for playing games. 3Dfx was doing with their Glide API what Faceculus/Ocubook is doing to Revive. "No! Mine! I don't care if you buy my stuff or give me market share! *raspberry spit*" And what happened to 3dfx?
Nvidia went a different direction, especially with the GeForce/Quadro (Transforms and Lighting offloaded from the CPU?!). I bought a Riva TNT2 Ultra card in 2000 that let me play around, creating things in 3DS Max and a program called Jamagic in 2001. Bad stuff happened that nuked that career path, but I was more suited to VR anyway. Hell, I bought a VictorMaxx "vr" HMD for my SNES in like 1996 just to get a taste. In 1999, I got to try a dual VGA HMD that was like being in the back row at a crappy movie theater for FOV. I was still hooked for life. Firing up my Vive for the first time? Same FOV as my racing helmet.
Room-scale VR reminds me of any game that gives the player free roam until they head to the next screen. And a GTX 1080 is still great for creation, not just playing. Hell, I managed to get my Vive working with my 2009 Radeon HD 5870. I just had to connect it to the DisplayPort.
Granted, it would be rather limited, but imagine virtually witnessing Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, or crossing the Delaware River with George Washington.
The days of buying an album just because you really like one song on it are over.
Back in the day, the only album I liked every track on was Van Halen's Best of Vol 1. Paying $16 for Chumbawamba's Tubthumper just because "Tubthumping" (the "I get knocked down, but I get up again" / "pissing the night away" song) was such an earworm was ridiculous, but I couldn't get that on a CD single (which were often $5), let alone around $1 today (and that's versus '90s dollars).
Speaking of CD Singles, I ended up buying a Nine Inch Nails CD Maxi-Single with 10 tracks for $6 with remixes of four different NIN tracks on it. For as much as I listened to that one, I'm glad CDs don't wear out the way tape/vinyl does.
All the more reason old people should not be leaders of any stripe.
Take your Geritol, watch Matlock, and have a nap. No, I don't know where your cereal bowl is. No, I don't care that you remember when "this was all farmland". And, no, your time "in the war" isn't a bargaining chip.
If I could get shoes that don't break on that "running on my toes" joint after three months, that would be awesome. Trick is it's not the same for every given shoe size. I'd pay double or more for a shoe that would last a couple of years at that joint, since getting the rest to last that long is a given.
I doubt you'd be welcome at an ad industry conference with that attitude either. You're suggesting companies concentrate on engineering and customer service instead of marketing? Madness!
I'd be burned as a Witch and defecated upon. Vigorously.
It's a gathering of evil sociopaths. They don't care about why people don't like what they produce. We should be happy these monsters are in advertising, because otherwise they'd probably be driving around in vans kidnapping people, torturing and murdering them, and then eating the remains in cannibalistic orgies. These are evil people.
Sounds like the plot of a game that should really be made. Or at least a book.
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I had a big CSB for this, but it's gone forever now. I'll write it later as a blog post but not here.
Glide was only for playing games...poorly by today's standards (like tiled 8-bit was when it came out). If initial design was ever done on Glide hardware, I've never heard of it. In 1998, right after graduating from high school, I bought an Intergraph Intense 3D Voodoo card. Voodoo Rush with 4MB for 2D and 2MB for 3D. Still far better than an N64 or PS1. I went from being able to run Quake in a grainy and odd resolution to having smooth visuals that just blew me away... at the time.
That was for playing games. 3Dfx was doing with their Glide API what Faceculus/Ocubook is doing to Revive. "No! Mine! I don't care if you buy my stuff or give me market share! *raspberry spit*" And what happened to 3dfx?
Nvidia went a different direction, especially with the GeForce/Quadro (Transforms and Lighting offloaded from the CPU?!). I bought a Riva TNT2 Ultra card in 2000 that let me play around, creating things in 3DS Max and a program called Jamagic in 2001. Bad stuff happened that nuked that career path, but I was more suited to VR anyway. Hell, I bought a VictorMaxx "vr" HMD for my SNES in like 1996 just to get a taste. In 1999, I got to try a dual VGA HMD that was like being in the back row at a crappy movie theater for FOV. I was still hooked for life. Firing up my Vive for the first time? Same FOV as my racing helmet.
Room-scale VR reminds me of any game that gives the player free roam until they head to the next screen. And a GTX 1080 is still great for creation, not just playing. Hell, I managed to get my Vive working with my 2009 Radeon HD 5870. I just had to connect it to the DisplayPort.
Wow. Looks like I definitely made the right decision cancelling my Rift preorder and spending the extra dosh on a Vive.
VR is supposed to be about getting up and moving anyway. I've been looking forward to this for 20 years now.
"It won't happen again; we promise*."
* We'll still do it, we'll just be more stealthy.
If a girl says she 19 and she looks 19, she's 12.
If a girl says she's 26 and the looks 26, she damn near 40.
And it will be a big industry the way other cosmetics have been for decades.
Electromagnetic braking was the first thing that came to mind. Thank you.
Someone at Daily Fail is asleep at the switch once again.
Yeah, with the same business model that made inkjet printers such a phenomenal advantage.
They might be onto something.
Granted, it would be rather limited, but imagine virtually witnessing Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, or crossing the Delaware River with George Washington.
Don't forget the Quaalude segment in The Wolf of Wall Street.
How long until I have one for carpool lanes?
Petrified? I thought that was a Userfriendly comic meme?
Earring who called collect. Bound to dis your float accounts.
Installed on March 1, four days ago. So far I've had no problems, but I'm running an install that's completely fresh after I switched from HDD to SDD.
Guess the ISISsies haven't gotten the hint yet.
It's the low-hanging elephant in the room.
That video gave me cancer back in junior high.
I hear there's a second one, but I'm loath to watch it.
Tom Green proved that in a heartbeat with "Lonely Swedish" (Bum Bum Song) in spades back in 1999.
In fact, it was so effective that MTV was called out on their TRL (the "L" is for live) show not actually being live.
The days of buying an album just because you really like one song on it are over.
Back in the day, the only album I liked every track on was Van Halen's Best of Vol 1.
Paying $16 for Chumbawamba's Tubthumper just because "Tubthumping" (the "I get knocked down, but I get up again" / "pissing the night away" song) was such an earworm was ridiculous, but I couldn't get that on a CD single (which were often $5), let alone around $1 today (and that's versus '90s dollars).
Speaking of CD Singles, I ended up buying a Nine Inch Nails CD Maxi-Single with 10 tracks for $6 with remixes of four different NIN tracks on it. For as much as I listened to that one, I'm glad CDs don't wear out the way tape/vinyl does.
Yesterday...
My Precision machines ran hot, but I blamed that on being about a mile up. Guess I was wrong.
The idea behind Xeons is running dual. Fail.
All the more reason old people should not be leaders of any stripe.
Take your Geritol, watch Matlock, and have a nap. No, I don't know where your cereal bowl is. No, I don't care that you remember when "this was all farmland". And, no, your time "in the war" isn't a bargaining chip.
I so wish I had a +1 to give. Bravo!
Godwin's Law got Lampshaded there.
If I could get shoes that don't break on that "running on my toes" joint after three months, that would be awesome. Trick is it's not the same for every given shoe size. I'd pay double or more for a shoe that would last a couple of years at that joint, since getting the rest to last that long is a given.
I doubt you'd be welcome at an ad industry conference with that attitude either. You're suggesting companies concentrate on engineering and customer service instead of marketing? Madness!
I'd be burned as a Witch and defecated upon. Vigorously.
It's a gathering of evil sociopaths. They don't care about why people don't like what they produce. We should be happy these monsters are in advertising, because otherwise they'd probably be driving around in vans kidnapping people, torturing and murdering them, and then eating the remains in cannibalistic orgies. These are evil people.
Sounds like the plot of a game that should really be made. Or at least a book.