Handwriting recognition of Chinese characters would be useful for Chinese users, because most people aren't willing to invest the time to learn one of the many Chinese input methods. It's much easier to write the character out than to press a sequence of keys which represent the component parts of the character...
Yeah, go bitch Aureal. They won't release the specs, so we can't write the drivers. Capish?
You paid $100 to Diamond who pays Aureal to make the cards. (I believe that the Monster MX300 is like the Xitel Platinum Storm and the Turtle Beach Montegro (sp?) Quadzilla that they are essentially Aureal manufactured parts in a box prepared by the card "manufacturer".) We're not getting a cent to write Monster MX300 drivers, and it costs money to get the specs.
In other words, bitching at us for the lack of Aureal Vortex 2 drivers is like bitching at FedEx for the loss of a package you shipped via UPS...
Actually, ICD stands for "Installable Client Driver" and is a driver which links itself to Windows' WGL library. Therefore, nVidia isn't actually working on a Linux ICD but a full Linux OpenGL implementation.
Unless, of course, they plan to port WGL to Linux....
Something tells me that some "warez" groups are going to release the Windows binaries anyway. If you really want to play across the two, your chances of getting a Windows binary is better than your chances of getting a Linux binary. So if you do own the CD, getting Windows binaries for use with the Linux version seems better than finding Linux binaries to work with the Windows version.
Okay, we should host that article as a "'Linux Myths' Myths" page. Additionally, I think we should have a "Windows NT Myths" page to refute all the hype MS is spewing.
Just a matter of curiousity, where the hell did you find a Trident 4DWave to begin with? I wanted to buy one to support Trident since they gave the ALSA project the docs, but I can't for the life of me find a local supplier that has them (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), and I refuse to pay a ridiculous S&H charge by buying online (don't have much money).
IMHO, e-mail clients shouldn't be running scripts in the first place. You want some scripts? Leave a link in your mail. E-mail should contain plain text. I'm still groaning about all the people sending their pretty HTML-ized mail all over the place, esp. if it's HTML-only (have you ever tried reading that in pine or elm? they make you save the file to disk before you can view it...)
I'd actually like to see Darryl Strauss win. My personal opinion is that Darryl is the sole reason we are getting commercial 3D game development on Linux in the first place. Gimme a break here, we wouldn't have Linux Q3A without him (at least not this soon).
Without his 3Dfx drivers, 3D support in Linux at the time the decision to do versions for Linux would consist of a Permedia driver and a buggy G200/G400 driver. Darryl created a stable set of drivers for hardware 3D support, even if it had to be under an NDA. He has, however, released the source to any parts of his drivers that 3Dfx's legal department will let him.
Let's see here.... I only have a small number of boxen, so I don't have to worry as much. My main box (overclocked celeron) is called "arealms" as an abbreviation of the name of my old Renegade board. My 133 laptop is called "eclipse" for some reason which escapes me. I named it a couple of years back, okay? My 486sx25 laptop is called "icetea" simply because my friend suggested it over the phone while I was talking to him.:P My p233mmx is called "minidisc" because I named it a week after I got my first MD unit.:)
> I saw this the other day and I'm certain I saw > definite signs of FreeBSD. Also the quick > hacking of a decryption for the code there were > trying to decyper was done extremely realistically > in perl! This is the only film I've ever seen > where quick hacks and typing were done with shell > expansion and quick perl hacks. The % prompts and > X window system screenshots make this argue > against, all the other comments in this thread.
Actually, I remember that 2.0.36 wasn't even RELEASED when I saw Sphere... and I think they used something more along the lines of SunOS or another true UNIX deriative, because I explicitly remember seeing them type 'cat/vmunix' to get the crap scroll past on the screen.
Then there's the fact that they seem to be using csh... most Linux boxes would use bash. I only saw '%', not '$'.
Okay, this question has no relevance whatsoever, but it's been killing me for the past year or so, so I guess I might as well spill my guts when I have the chance.
What the hell happened to American (McGee)?
He seemed to disappear off my radar... the last I heard anything mentioning him was when he released idmap01 to the public.
Highly offtopic, but i can get 53.1fps off q3demo1 on my single overclocked celeron 300a (464) and Voodoo3-2000 (183).
Granted, this is doing 16-bit rendering. I know it's overclocked and all, but it *is* a single CPU. I wouldn't expect the scores on a real Celeron 466 and Voodoo3-3500 to differ much. Hey, I know that the Voodoo3 kinda sucks, but I bought it because Daryll (sp?) had the NDA and was assured to get Voodoo3 support out for Linux. Remember, this was when nVidia was saying "What's Linux?" - which stopped me from waiting for the TNT2.
For those who didn't understand the above post, the BBS chat bot would spout that phrase whenever you said 'hmm' or a variant of that thereof. Another common response was when you said 'name', it would say "My name is (name of author), but you can call me HAL."
A couple of weeks after I fell for the door, I found a copy of it and proceeded to check it out. It's actually quite interesting.
First of all, typos were simply repeated characters. This worked well in practice once or twice, but it gets obvious after a couple more times. A more convincing typo mechanism would be to sometimes type the wrong letter (i.e. lwtter) or double-striking (lewtter) keys directly adjacent to the intended key.
The way the actual AI engine worked was that it parsed the text the user inputted and then compared it to a list of keywords in a data file. When the first match is found, one of the responses are selected and used. Used responses seem to be logged, and if the computer runs out of responses for a particular keyword then the door aborts. The same would happen if the user inputted a blank line twice. There was a "*" keyword at the end for words not covered, and responses would include phrases like "Would you repeat what you said?" and such.
Overall, it didn't work too badly. During Christmas season one year, the author hacked the door to create a "Chat with Santa" door. One of the highlights of that one was when you said 'shit', the AI would say "If shit is what you want for Christmas, shit is what you'll get."
According to what I've read on minidisc.org, ATRAC3 is an updated version of the ATRAC1 compression that minidiscs use which is able to store the same audio quality at 128kbps instead of 292. It can "easily be transcoded into ATRAC1".
As per ATRAC compression itself, it does sound a bit better than MP3 as per audio quality (using my minidisc units as a reference, an Aiwa AM-F7 - Sony ATRAC1 v3.5, and a Sharp 821 - Sharp ATRAC 6.0)
However, the amount of audio that can be encoded on a single stick is too little. If we used ATRAC3 on minidisc players then that would be 160MB on a 74:58 disc, which at 128kbps would be around 171 minutes... not bad...
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The fundemental (sp?) problem to doing that is that the site has been slashdotted and it looks like it's not recovering for a while. It's 4:45pm EST, and still no avail.
Even though the information is on the site, we can't GET on the site. Therefore, the moderators moderated the post up since we want to know wtf it is.
Uhm, you forgot the fact that the Saturn has no hardware 3D acceleration, therefore all 3D work had to be done in software. However, the Saturn does have more RAM. All in all, the added RAM makes the Saturn superior when it comes to 2D (esp. fighting games - their version of Marvel vs. Street Fighter actually let you flip players during play), but lets it lag horribly when it comes to 3D games.
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Handwriting recognition of Chinese characters would be useful for Chinese users, because most people aren't willing to invest the time to learn one of the many Chinese input methods. It's much easier to write the character out than to press a sequence of keys which represent the component parts of the character...
Yeah, go bitch Aureal. They won't release the specs, so we can't write the drivers. Capish?
You paid $100 to Diamond who pays Aureal to make the cards. (I believe that the Monster MX300 is like the Xitel Platinum Storm and the Turtle Beach Montegro (sp?) Quadzilla that they are essentially Aureal manufactured parts in a box prepared by the card "manufacturer".) We're not getting a cent to write Monster MX300 drivers, and it costs money to get the specs.
In other words, bitching at us for the lack of Aureal Vortex 2 drivers is like bitching at FedEx for the loss of a package you shipped via UPS...
Nope, sorry. Coppermine is a rehashed Pentium Pro with larger caches and an optimized instruction pipeline.
Actually, ICD stands for "Installable Client Driver" and is a driver which links itself to Windows' WGL library. Therefore, nVidia isn't actually working on a Linux ICD but a full Linux OpenGL implementation.
Unless, of course, they plan to port WGL to Linux....
ATI doesn't seem to want to release LinuxPPC drivers....
I don't advocate this, but....
Something tells me that some "warez" groups are going to release the Windows binaries anyway. If you really want to play across the two, your chances of getting a Windows binary is better than your chances of getting a Linux binary. So if you do own the CD, getting Windows binaries for use with the Linux version seems better than finding Linux binaries to work with the Windows version.
Hey, you do own a license for the game.....
Where the hell did you get the Gamer's Edition for $80?
Okay, we should host that article as a "'Linux Myths' Myths" page. Additionally, I think we should have a "Windows NT Myths" page to refute all the hype MS is spewing.
- Ed.
Valve seems to be raking in a pretty large sum of money....
Just a matter of curiousity, where the hell did you find a Trident 4DWave to begin with? I wanted to buy one to support Trident since they gave the ALSA project the docs, but I can't for the life of me find a local supplier that has them (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), and I refuse to pay a ridiculous S&H charge by buying online (don't have much money).
NX would be nice... four speaker support...
I do believe I said "slideshow frame rates". :)
Hey, if wrapping Mesa to GGI worked to run Q3test at slideshow frame rates, what's stopping us from running this baby with it?
elm elm elm
:)
Okay, I'll stop now.
IMHO, e-mail clients shouldn't be running scripts in the first place. You want some scripts? Leave a link in your mail. E-mail should contain plain text. I'm still groaning about all the people sending their pretty HTML-ized mail all over the place, esp. if it's HTML-only (have you ever tried reading that in pine or elm? they make you save the file to disk before you can view it...)
Blake Stone was released only a few months before DOOM. DOOM comes and whoops Blake Stone's ass bigtime. Any questions?
P.S. Anybody see the parallelism between the Blake Stone peashooter and the Quake 2 peashooter?
I'd actually like to see Darryl Strauss win. My personal opinion is that Darryl is the sole reason we are getting commercial 3D game development on Linux in the first place. Gimme a break here, we wouldn't have Linux Q3A without him (at least not this soon).
Without his 3Dfx drivers, 3D support in Linux at the time the decision to do versions for Linux would consist of a Permedia driver and a buggy G200/G400 driver. Darryl created a stable set of drivers for hardware 3D support, even if it had to be under an NDA. He has, however, released the source to any parts of his drivers that 3Dfx's legal department will let him.
Let's see here.... I only have a small number of boxen, so I don't have to worry as much. My main box (overclocked celeron) is called "arealms" as an abbreviation of the name of my old Renegade board. My 133 laptop is called "eclipse" for some reason which escapes me. I named it a couple of years back, okay? My 486sx25 laptop is called "icetea" simply because my friend suggested it over the phone while I was talking to him. :P My p233mmx is called "minidisc" because I named it a week after I got my first MD unit. :)
> I saw this the other day and I'm certain I saw
/kernel, not /vmunix.
> definite signs of FreeBSD. Also the quick
> hacking of a decryption for the code there were
> trying to decyper was done extremely realistically
> in perl! This is the only film I've ever seen
> where quick hacks and typing were done with shell
> expansion and quick perl hacks. The % prompts and
> X window system screenshots make this argue
> against, all the other comments in this thread.
Ah, but FreeBSD would have
Actually, I remember that 2.0.36 wasn't even RELEASED when I saw Sphere... and I think they used something more along the lines of SunOS or another true UNIX deriative, because I explicitly remember seeing them type 'cat /vmunix' to get the crap scroll past on the screen.
Then there's the fact that they seem to be using csh... most Linux boxes would use bash. I only saw '%', not '$'.
Okay, this question has no relevance whatsoever, but it's been killing me for the past year or so, so I guess I might as well spill my guts when I have the chance.
What the hell happened to American (McGee)?
He seemed to disappear off my radar... the last I heard anything mentioning him was when he released idmap01 to the public.
Highly offtopic, but i can get 53.1fps off q3demo1 on my single overclocked celeron 300a (464) and Voodoo3-2000 (183).
Granted, this is doing 16-bit rendering. I know it's overclocked and all, but it *is* a single CPU. I wouldn't expect the scores on a real Celeron 466 and Voodoo3-3500 to differ much. Hey, I know that the Voodoo3 kinda sucks, but I bought it because Daryll (sp?) had the NDA and was assured to get Voodoo3 support out for Linux. Remember, this was when nVidia was saying "What's Linux?" - which stopped me from waiting for the TNT2.
For those who didn't understand the above post, the BBS chat bot would spout that phrase whenever you said 'hmm' or a variant of that thereof. Another common response was when you said 'name', it would say "My name is (name of author), but you can call me HAL."
A couple of weeks after I fell for the door, I found a copy of it and proceeded to check it out. It's actually quite interesting.
First of all, typos were simply repeated characters. This worked well in practice once or twice, but it gets obvious after a couple more times. A more convincing typo mechanism would be to sometimes type the wrong letter (i.e. lwtter) or double-striking (lewtter) keys directly adjacent to the intended key.
The way the actual AI engine worked was that it parsed the text the user inputted and then compared it to a list of keywords in a data file. When the first match is found, one of the responses are selected and used. Used responses seem to be logged, and if the computer runs out of responses for a particular keyword then the door aborts. The same would happen if the user inputted a blank line twice. There was a "*" keyword at the end for words not covered, and responses would include phrases like "Would you repeat what you said?" and such.
Overall, it didn't work too badly. During Christmas season one year, the author hacked the door to create a "Chat with Santa" door. One of the highlights of that one was when you said 'shit', the AI would say "If shit is what you want for Christmas, shit is what you'll get."
:)
Ahh, the memories......
-Ed
hmm.......I can smell brain cells frying.... :)
According to what I've read on minidisc.org, ATRAC3 is an updated version of the ATRAC1 compression that minidiscs use which is able to store the same audio quality at 128kbps instead of 292. It can "easily be transcoded into ATRAC1".
As per ATRAC compression itself, it does sound a bit better than MP3 as per audio quality (using my minidisc units as a reference, an Aiwa AM-F7 - Sony ATRAC1 v3.5, and a Sharp 821 - Sharp ATRAC 6.0)
However, the amount of audio that can be encoded on a single stick is too little. If we used ATRAC3 on minidisc players then that would be 160MB on a 74:58 disc, which at 128kbps would be around 171 minutes... not bad...
The fundemental (sp?) problem to doing that is that the site has been slashdotted and it looks like it's not recovering for a while. It's 4:45pm EST, and still no avail.
Even though the information is on the site, we can't GET on the site. Therefore, the moderators moderated the post up since we want to know wtf it is.
Uhm, you forgot the fact that the Saturn has no hardware 3D acceleration, therefore all 3D work had to be done in software. However, the Saturn does have more RAM. All in all, the added RAM makes the Saturn superior when it comes to 2D (esp. fighting games - their version of Marvel vs. Street Fighter actually let you flip players during play), but lets it lag horribly when it comes to 3D games.