"Our goal is it to convince hardware manufacturers to include ogg vorbis support in their products. Ogg Vorbis is a high quality audio codec which is patent free!"
That isn't a troll! Sheeesh. This arbitrary labeling of peoples posts as 'trolls' are really irritating. Could someone please remove that particular moderation from the codebase altogether, and please also add a way for the poster to set a 'max' over which his post may not be moderated. Thanks.
They had $150,000 in revenue?! That's insane. What did they do, rent out part of the office?
Transparency isn't really new in quake.
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The original quake had transparent water.. well, if you run a special VIS-pass over the maps and used glquake (or had the power to run a special executable which did it on the fly -- I think -- I never did that though). I played it that way all the time, and it was much fun.
Sprites? Didn't Carmack say he only used three sprites in quake? Or was that quake 2.. no, I think it's the original quake that only had three or so sprites (waterbubbles and something and another).. ah.. I found it on google.
We coded lots of ways for sprites to behave (allways perpendicular, pivot along Z to face origin, pivot on Z to be parallel to view plane, fixed orientation), but we wound up only having three sprites in the entire game: explosions, drowning bubble, and a gold ball light in the registered version....
As for the doom-engine games, there's already DooM Legacy which features TCP/IP network play and split-screen two-player mode on one computer, and more.
Yes, but you probably can't wait around one year for the next-and-better. You know, there as a problem that had to be solved; rendering and modelling was too slow _TODAY_.
I'm well aware of the general strength of the Athlon FPU, and the choice of Intel to forsake generallity for specialization via SIMD and vectorization, and focus on memory bandwidth.
But that doesn't matter when you're staring at your renderer or compiler, trying to figure to best invest to make it go faster.
I know why I despise christians. They keep moralizing and thumping their bibles crying "thou shalt not kill", but man, when they really want to kill someone, they have the PR.
Most Paulists will say that 'kill' and 'murder' are two different things, and that their little cookie-cutter love-christ-manufacture was really only against murdering, not killing, which can be Just in the mind of ignorants.
As soon as a filter picks up a message as spam, the originating server should be probed to see if it's an open relay, and added to a blacklist network if it is. More agressive, probe every server that connects! (Hey, there's less than 2^32 of them:-)
This way a spammer would only be able to relay _one_ message onto hotmail, and if they do the must expect the server to get blacklisted everywhere within hours.
Instead of defining spam, hotmail could define spam combating.
AC is a fine book if you're reading around to be able to implement protocols and cryptographic algorithms, but if I had to pick one book on cryptology it would be David Kahn's The Code-Breakers. A fantastic book on the history of cryptology. I can't even begin to phantom the amount of research that went into this tome, it's just unbelievable.
Don't get the abridged version, and don't expect this one to be up to date on things happening after WW2 -- but understand that this is not a failing, it's a strength.
It 1100+ pages of pure goodness, and I couldn't put it down.
I haven't read Hidden Order, but I've read Emergence, and I really do not think that Holland is a good writer. This isn't a book one must buy, this is more like a book one maybe lends at a library.
My overall feeling after reading it was that I might as well have gone straight for the papers.
For everything (well, almost) C++, you need the C++ in depth series. Get it, it's a great package.
Contains More Exceptional C++, Exceptional C++,
Essential C++, Accelerated C++ and Modern C++ Design.
Accelerated C++ is the best book teaching C++ from the ground up that I have ever seen. It's worth getting and reading even if you think you already know the basics. Really.
I think the toolset was built using v5. The executable contains references like 'vcltest3.dll' and a lot of 'D:\COMP\BORLAND\CBUILDER5\INCLUDE\VCL'-stuff (assertions I think).
Actually, Kylix use a new component library (CLX), so they can't actually 'port' the toolset, which was written using VCL or whatever the old libs was called.
Well, not easily.
I'm not saying it's worthless -- it most certainly is not. However, my inbox is already clean after configuring exim to use all public blacklists I know of, and delivery going through a weighted score system in procmail, so at this point I'm (again, other people might have more severe spam-problems than I) more interested in methods to stop the spammer from even talking to my mailer.
I'd have no problem switching over from SMTP to something more secure if that is what it takes (and I believe it is). Maybe hashcash? I don't know.
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Just don't transcode. Follow this advice and there are no pitfalls to look out for.
Instead, take out your original sources and recompress from them. Don't have high quality sources? Then don't transcode!
That isn't a troll! Sheeesh. This arbitrary labeling of peoples posts as 'trolls' are really irritating. Could someone please remove that particular moderation from the codebase altogether, and please also add a way for the poster to set a 'max' over which his post may not be moderated. Thanks.
Gonna label this a 'troll' too, cowards?
They had $150,000 in revenue?! That's insane. What did they do, rent out part of the office?
The original quake had transparent water.. well, if you run a special VIS-pass over the maps and used glquake (or had the power to run a special executable which did it on the fly -- I think -- I never did that though). I played it that way all the time, and it was much fun.
Sprites? Didn't Carmack say he only used three sprites in quake? Or was that quake 2.. no, I think it's the original quake that only had three or so sprites (waterbubbles and something and another).. ah.. I found it on google.
As for the doom-engine games, there's already DooM Legacy which features TCP/IP network play and split-screen two-player mode on one computer, and more.
Yes, but you probably can't wait around one year for the next-and-better. You know, there as a problem that had to be solved; rendering and modelling was too slow _TODAY_.
I'm well aware of the general strength of the Athlon FPU, and the choice of Intel to forsake generallity for specialization via SIMD and vectorization, and focus on memory bandwidth.
But that doesn't matter when you're staring at your renderer or compiler, trying to figure to best invest to make it go faster.
This is software dependant. I think it is Lightwave that is clearly faster on the P4s due to it having been specifically optimized for the P4.
As always, benchmark on your application. Weigh price vs performance, then buy.
Thanks for playing, though.
Huh? I'm very aware of this, my post did note this distinction, did it not?
My reservation, however, isn't on the literal plane.
...but thanks for playing!
I know why I despise christians. They keep moralizing and thumping their bibles crying "thou shalt not kill", but man, when they really want to kill someone, they have the PR.
Most Paulists will say that 'kill' and 'murder' are two different things, and that their little cookie-cutter love-christ-manufacture was really only against murdering, not killing, which can be Just in the mind of ignorants.
It would be like a gun maker giving pistols to a police department a substantial savings, but making them purchase their own magazines, springs, etc.
Umm.. no? That implies they can do their purchases from someone else, which this case doesn't sound like it would allow.
Don't think so.
If they're indeed trying to get around the open bidding requirement (I assume such exists), then it's called dirty business.
Of puns, there's only one kind.
The samples are low-quality mp3s. How LAME. Vorbis kicks ass down there.
nVidia, Matrox, Intel, AMD?
Depening on how you interpret 'like Apple'.
I'm getting this too. "carin", "stef", "sales", etc.
As soon as a filter picks up a message as spam, the originating server should be probed to see if it's an open relay, and added to a blacklist network if it is. More agressive, probe every server that connects! (Hey, there's less than 2^32 of them :-)
This way a spammer would only be able to relay _one_ message onto hotmail, and if they do the must expect the server to get blacklisted everywhere within hours.
Instead of defining spam, hotmail could define spam combating.
Artificial Intelligence. Russell, Norvig
I'm getting this one, but I'm waiting for the next edition which should be out later this year.
I hope I'll be able to get it for yule as a present for my self, but I've been waiting a long time now.
AC is a fine book if you're reading around to be able to implement protocols and cryptographic algorithms, but if I had to pick one book on cryptology it would be David Kahn's The Code-Breakers. A fantastic book on the history of cryptology. I can't even begin to phantom the amount of research that went into this tome, it's just unbelievable.
Don't get the abridged version, and don't expect this one to be up to date on things happening after WW2 -- but understand that this is not a failing, it's a strength.
It 1100+ pages of pure goodness, and I couldn't put it down.
I haven't read Hidden Order, but I've read Emergence, and I really do not think that Holland is a good writer. This isn't a book one must buy, this is more like a book one maybe lends at a library.
My overall feeling after reading it was that I might as well have gone straight for the papers.
Again, Hidden Order might be a better work.
For everything (well, almost) C++, you need the C++ in depth series. Get it, it's a great package.
Contains More Exceptional C++, Exceptional C++, Essential C++, Accelerated C++ and Modern C++ Design.
Accelerated C++ is the best book teaching C++ from the ground up that I have ever seen. It's worth getting and reading even if you think you already know the basics. Really.
I think the toolset was built using v5. The executable contains references like 'vcltest3.dll' and a lot of 'D:\COMP\BORLAND\CBUILDER5\INCLUDE\VCL'-stuff (assertions I think).
Actually, Kylix use a new component library (CLX), so they can't actually 'port' the toolset, which was written using VCL or whatever the old libs was called. Well, not easily.
Didn't Real put Streambox out of market because Streambox had reveng'ed the protocol to allow downloads of streaming media?!
Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but that would really smell of hypocrisy.
I'm not saying it's worthless -- it most certainly is not. However, my inbox is already clean after configuring exim to use all public blacklists I know of, and delivery going through a weighted score system in procmail, so at this point I'm (again, other people might have more severe spam-problems than I) more interested in methods to stop the spammer from even talking to my mailer.
I'd have no problem switching over from SMTP to something more secure if that is what it takes (and I believe it is). Maybe hashcash? I don't know.