this guy should upload the code to freenet where, hopefully, it is impossible to remove the program or discover the author. This is the exact kind of thing freenet was designed for, so if the author is out there in slashland, go for it! Civil Disobedience ra ra ra!
if you have figured out how to watch the demos so that the other player is visible, please reply. Someone above said to install the osp mod, but I can't get that to work. it says there is no uii386.so, which I assume means it can't find the UI. I tried copying baseq3/uii386.so to the osp dir, but then it says it can't find cgamei386.so. It's supposed to use the qvm version.... aw fuck it, I'm going to bed.
I installed it and did./quake3 +set fs_game osp, but I still don't see anyone. Any other hints, linux specific?
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that's amazingly cool, thanks! Now if only my cable got a ping lower than 300 on a consistant basis:(.
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I'd still play q2 rocket arena, but the linux support is awful. They don't implement either mouse handling or full-screen mode or sound very well, so it's too much of a pain to bother. q3a for linux is much much cleaner, and although its version of rocket arena doesn't compare to ra2, I play it instead.
1) Check the availability lists before you buy, duh. When I got a scanner, I checked out the SANE page and went down the list, and cross-referenced that with what was up on ebay. I got a microtek E6 for 60$, and it can do 8.5x13 at 600 dpi with great color, and it has totally native support in the Gimp.
Linux has great support for sound cards, video cards, that sort of thing, but the second you stray into more exotic territory (scanners, digital cameras, etc) you gotta check the pages.
2) _Everyone_ is an asshole on forums, not just linux users. HP is not going to drop linux support because of some stupid web forum. Are windows users any more polite? What about mac users? I just think this is a non-issue. I really doubt that HP is subscribing to the linux-usb list, and if they are they aren't going to say "waahhh, they called us cockmasters... no drivers for j00!" Call them up. Have a friendly chat. You run a website that some people have heard of, this lets you do things. Bruce Perens works there? then get _him_ to talk to them! Take advantage of your connections, don't just be another email.
but I think the point is that people asking questions on a free website aren't looking for great law knowledge, as you mention. Thus, you get what you pay for -- easy answers to easy questions. The point is if you want real advice, you need a real lawyer. It became a problem when someone actually wanted to represent him in court, for instance.
if you read the article, the kid can answer questions on the court tv level. He has no depth or complexity of knowledge. If you pay, you get someone who can answer the tough questions.
I don't understand, why can't you just take the various waveforms produced with each method and see how they compare to the original? Then you would see that WMA is off by x% and ogg is off by y%. Why do people focus on totally subjective listening tests?
um, who cares what other people think? The files are a good size, the sound is good, and the code is available. I rip all my cds to ogg, why do I need someone else's permission to use them. I doubt they'll ever be used in standalone players (unless someone hacks in a codec), but I don't see why ogg support can't be added to the empeg car deal-y.
it's not illegal to have a monopoly. If you remember there used to be no choice in local phone service and cable TV, but the prices were still reasonable. A monopoly only becomes a problem when the company exploits it. For instance, Microsoft became an illegal monopoly when it tied its monopoly product (the OS) with a new, competing product (the browser) in order to give it an incredibly unfair advantage.
As long as AOL behaves (stop laughing in the back please!) they can have a monopoly and it's legal.
I guess I get the idiot literalist award for today. thanks:) Also it's tough to load the scsi driver as a module when all my disks are scsi -- circular logic leads to kernel panics
Hey, if you gave me a choice between dinky text messages and a cable modem for 30$ a month, I'll take the cable modem. The US is far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of high speed internet. In Australia you get dialup or nothing. You would have to pay hundreds a month even for iDSL.
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"What's with that garbage about space/time, not being able to clone for more than one day, etc. hooey? Couldn't they clone her every day? It's not like they had her memories anyway."
the whole point of the space/time hooey was to explain why his mother _did_ obviously have memories of David and the house, etc. A mere clone wouldn't.
"David was poorly designed."
_exactly_. he was a prototype. A test. David was an extremely flawed model because he is so dependant on his emotions. Think about how devoted he would have to be given the transition to the third act. His need for his mother's love became so crippling to his electronic psyche that it precluded every single other concern.
I don't understand why everyone tries to capture mpeg. MJPEG takes up more space, but is much nicer on the processor, as well as much easier configurable quality (in KB per frame). I have an older mjpeg card that chugs away nicely, and I've never dropped a single frame. Though perhaps my dedicated scsi drives are more responsible for that.
hey now, I needed to downgrade from the "new" delete-all-your-data adaptec scsi driver (6.x.x) to the "old" doesn't-delete-all-your-data driver (5.x.x), and I knew I had done it properly when I saw the correct version number. leave that in!
that's not the point. the point is that we can do the oldest stuff that pixar did (the lamps) in realtime now. Nobody thinks we can do shrek in realtime now. So that's a 10-year lag in prerender to realtime. The question is, will we be able to do shrek in realtime in another ten years?
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this guy should upload the code to freenet where, hopefully, it is impossible to remove the program or discover the author. This is the exact kind of thing freenet was designed for, so if the author is out there in slashland, go for it! Civil Disobedience ra ra ra!
if you have figured out how to watch the demos so that the other player is visible, please reply. Someone above said to install the osp mod, but I can't get that to work. it says there is no uii386.so, which I assume means it can't find the UI. I tried copying baseq3/uii386.so to the osp dir, but then it says it can't find cgamei386.so. It's supposed to use the qvm version.... aw fuck it, I'm going to bed.
I installed it and did ./quake3 +set fs_game osp, but I still don't see anyone. Any other hints, linux specific?
that's amazingly cool, thanks! Now if only my cable got a ping lower than 300 on a consistant basis :(.
I'd still play q2 rocket arena, but the linux support is awful. They don't implement either mouse handling or full-screen mode or sound very well, so it's too much of a pain to bother. q3a for linux is much much cleaner, and although its version of rocket arena doesn't compare to ra2, I play it instead.
Heck, this is too easy: The .Net, starring Sandra Bullocks
There are two things to learn from this story:
1) Check the availability lists before you buy, duh. When I got a scanner, I checked out the SANE page and went down the list, and cross-referenced that with what was up on ebay. I got a microtek E6 for 60$, and it can do 8.5x13 at 600 dpi with great color, and it has totally native support in the Gimp.
Linux has great support for sound cards, video cards, that sort of thing, but the second you stray into more exotic territory (scanners, digital cameras, etc) you gotta check the pages.
2) _Everyone_ is an asshole on forums, not just linux users. HP is not going to drop linux support because of some stupid web forum. Are windows users any more polite? What about mac users? I just think this is a non-issue. I really doubt that HP is subscribing to the linux-usb list, and if they are they aren't going to say "waahhh, they called us cockmasters... no drivers for j00!" Call them up. Have a friendly chat. You run a website that some people have heard of, this lets you do things. Bruce Perens works there? then get _him_ to talk to them! Take advantage of your connections, don't just be another email.
but I think the point is that people asking questions on a free website aren't looking for great law knowledge, as you mention. Thus, you get what you pay for -- easy answers to easy questions. The point is if you want real advice, you need a real lawyer. It became a problem when someone actually wanted to represent him in court, for instance.
if you read the article, the kid can answer questions on the court tv level. He has no depth or complexity of knowledge. If you pay, you get someone who can answer the tough questions.
it's for the sunday magazine, and those articles are usually written well in advance of the publication date.
I don't understand, why can't you just take the various waveforms produced with each method and see how they compare to the original? Then you would see that WMA is off by x% and ogg is off by y%. Why do people focus on totally subjective listening tests?
this has to be the first time that the linux renderring cluster wasn't the focus of the entire article! The reference is almost offhand, it's spooky.
where is that from, anyway?
um, who cares what other people think? The files are a good size, the sound is good, and the code is available. I rip all my cds to ogg, why do I need someone else's permission to use them. I doubt they'll ever be used in standalone players (unless someone hacks in a codec), but I don't see why ogg support can't be added to the empeg car deal-y.
it's not illegal to have a monopoly. If you remember there used to be no choice in local phone service and cable TV, but the prices were still reasonable. A monopoly only becomes a problem when the company exploits it. For instance, Microsoft became an illegal monopoly when it tied its monopoly product (the OS) with a new, competing product (the browser) in order to give it an incredibly unfair advantage.
As long as AOL behaves (stop laughing in the back please!) they can have a monopoly and it's legal.
I guess I get the idiot literalist award for today. thanks :) Also it's tough to load the scsi driver as a module when all my disks are scsi -- circular logic leads to kernel panics
Hey, if you gave me a choice between dinky text messages and a cable modem for 30$ a month, I'll take the cable modem. The US is far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of high speed internet. In Australia you get dialup or nothing. You would have to pay hundreds a month even for iDSL.
"What's with that garbage about space/time, not being able to clone for more than one day, etc. hooey? Couldn't they clone her every day? It's not like they had her memories anyway."
the whole point of the space/time hooey was to explain why his mother _did_ obviously have memories of David and the house, etc. A mere clone wouldn't.
"David was poorly designed."
_exactly_. he was a prototype. A test. David was an extremely flawed model because he is so dependant on his emotions. Think about how devoted he would have to be given the transition to the third act. His need for his mother's love became so crippling to his electronic psyche that it precluded every single other concern.
[owen@localhost owen]$ cat /proc/scsi/driver_name/0
/proc/scsi/driver_name/0: No such file or directory
cat:
that's why.
I don't understand why everyone tries to capture mpeg. MJPEG takes up more space, but is much nicer on the processor, as well as much easier configurable quality (in KB per frame). I have an older mjpeg card that chugs away nicely, and I've never dropped a single frame. Though perhaps my dedicated scsi drives are more responsible for that.
hey now, I needed to downgrade from the "new" delete-all-your-data adaptec scsi driver (6.x.x) to the "old" doesn't-delete-all-your-data driver (5.x.x), and I knew I had done it properly when I saw the correct version number. leave that in!
slashdot really really realyl needs story moderation. this is pathetic.
that's not the point. the point is that we can do the oldest stuff that pixar did (the lamps) in realtime now. Nobody thinks we can do shrek in realtime now. So that's a 10-year lag in prerender to realtime. The question is, will we be able to do shrek in realtime in another ten years?
they also had aim, and bought icq anyway.
hell, how about:
* establishing OpenGL as the de facto 3d platform for the next couple years, ensuring that directx didn't totally swamp the market right away.
yes everyone uses directx now, but everyone still has FULL opengl support with their cards. it's a given.