I know, I know, it's years old, it's practically as old as what the egyptians built. I know, I know, I get my a** kicked by pre-teens when I go online for just about any FPS (including Solitaire. Oh, wait...) -- I'm just sooooo old and lousy.
But still, Carmack is (a) god! It's a kick-ass game, written by kick-ass, performance-aware (fanatic, even) professionals. It sure as h*ck has value, also today!
Amen to that! I do a good deal of amateur photo shooting + editing, and although I *really* want to get rid of Windows and go pure OSS, I find that sometimes Photoshop has some more advanced features that I need. Yes, adjustment layers, for one...;-) (On a side note: I need Nikon Capture as well. Still haven't found anything OSS that will convert RAWs well enough, including dcraw.)
But still, The GIMP is sufficient for perhaps 80% of the work I do on photos, so it is by no means a poor piece of software; far from it.
1. take TV signal, encode into MPEG 2. stuff encoded signal onto disk 3. read from disk (or, perhaps the last couple secs are in buffer RAM) 4. decode and display
The trick is that all this takes time to do, since the MPEG encoder needs a buffer of sufficient size (= # of frames = time) to achieve good a good compression/quality compromise. That's where the most of those four secs come in.
BTW, when you see the four steps above, it becomes obvious how the time shifting is done, since (1,2) and (3,4) are run in parallel (in principle, two threads).
Now, it has indeed been a few years since I did any Pascal, but AFAIR Pascal doesn't init variables? Does anyone remember?
If it doesn't the above code is not really predictable. Which may be the point: What's Bill's personal preference? I wonder if his intimate life is Win98-based? Just imagine being working hard when the system crashes and has to be rebooted? (Which also means you've lost what you were working on). How about Viagra for Windows?
Ah, sorry... I haven't had my morning coffee yet. I'll go grab it now...
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I know, I know, it's years old, it's practically as old as what the egyptians built. I know, I know, I get my a** kicked by pre-teens when I go online for just about any FPS (including Solitaire. Oh, wait...) -- I'm just sooooo old and lousy.
But still, Carmack is (a) god! It's a kick-ass game, written by kick-ass, performance-aware (fanatic, even) professionals. It sure as h*ck has value, also today!
Amen to that! I do a good deal of amateur photo shooting + editing, and although I *really* want to get rid of Windows and go pure OSS, I find that sometimes Photoshop has some more advanced features that I need. Yes, adjustment layers, for one... ;-) (On a side note: I need Nikon Capture as well. Still haven't found anything OSS that will convert RAWs well enough, including dcraw.)
But still, The GIMP is sufficient for perhaps 80% of the work I do on photos, so it is by no means a poor piece of software; far from it.
Well, I do. And several friends I know.
Thanks for all the laughs. You and Tex Avery were the guiding lights.
This is because the thing does this:
1. take TV signal, encode into MPEG
2. stuff encoded signal onto disk
3. read from disk (or, perhaps the last couple secs are in buffer RAM)
4. decode and display
The trick is that all this takes time to do, since the MPEG encoder needs a buffer of sufficient size (= # of frames = time) to achieve good a good compression/quality compromise. That's where the most of those four secs come in.
BTW, when you see the four steps above, it becomes obvious how the time shifting is done, since (1,2) and (3,4) are run in parallel (in principle, two threads).
Now, it has indeed been a few years since I did any Pascal, but AFAIR Pascal doesn't init variables? Does anyone remember?
If it doesn't the above code is not really predictable. Which may be the point: What's Bill's personal preference? I wonder if his intimate life is Win98-based? Just imagine being working hard when the system crashes and has to be rebooted? (Which also means you've lost what you were working on). How about Viagra for Windows?
Ah, sorry... I haven't had my morning coffee yet. I'll go grab it now...