The problem with "monetize" is, the sense has become not just "make money from it" but "lock it up".
Worse is, words like "monetize" label you as a drooling facetime slither animal, right up with with "going forward" and "best practices". Just don't say "monetize" and people will respect you more.
Oh wow, apparently a slither animal had mod points
Oddly enough, Linux seems to boot fine on recent PCs in spite of widespread fears to the contrary. Sometimes you need to google for some (intentionally?) obscure bios setting, but that's about it. I suspect that Microsoft knows they will pay dearly if that ever changes.
Sure, you can't boot Linux on a msft surface, but nobody cares. If anybody cared I'm sure it would be done.
The only situation in which I can see myself being "restricted" by closed-source software is if I didn't trust the company, and the product was poorly supported.
You may hold that view right up until the day your favorite closed-source software gets end-of-lifed with major security bugs in it, so you have to buy it all over again. Of course that never happens.
Well the thing is, free software with free source code never stops getting better, as long as it gets used. Usually, the only way to kill off free software is with other free software that does the same thing better.
What makes you think that? Recent benchmarks show llvm/clang well behind across the board. At least it compiles faster.
and getting better much faster than it is (does GCC development consist of anything other than backporting LLVM's features these days?)
That is precisely the killer advantage of GPL over BSD license. There is no shame whatsoever in porting code if it is good. Rather, it is the professional thing to do. However it is a gross exaggeration to say the GCC team does only that.
I don't know how you could have something like Word without charging for it. Yes, there is Open Office and LIbre Office, but those were not free when they started out. They only became free when it was deemed impractical to challenge Microsoft.
So? How it got there is irrelevant. The point is, you can have something like Word without charging for it, we have proof by example. Kind of defeated your own argument right at the outset, don't you think?
Not that much worse than the situation on Windows, really.
You probably don't have any data on Windows installed by the user on random hardware. I expect that you will find that Windows is way worse than Linux now. For most people, that pain is suffered by the OEM so it's hidden.
Who the hell modded that troll up? Latest data point for me was yesterday, a drive by install off the standard Ubuntu usb key onto a big name ultrabook of recent vintage came up perfectly with suspend, 3D hardware, and wifi all working perfectly. Five minutes later Windows was gone for good (just click "install Ubuntu") and good riddance.
Hardly worth remarking on the success cases these days, the failures are more interesting. If you have one (which you don't because you're just a random asshole troll reading from a script) then report it and watch that issue vanish too. See, it's fun.
The problem with "monetize" is, the sense has become not just "make money from it" but "lock it up".
Worse is, words like "monetize" label you as a drooling facetime slither animal, right up with with "going forward" and "best practices". Just don't say "monetize" and people will respect you more.
Zenimax has another lawsuit against Luckey and Oculus for design ideas they claim were taken from them after Luckey signed a non-disclosure agreement with them as well.
It has nothing to do with tech, Zenimax guys are just pissed that Carmack got out of their clutches and ended up richer than them.
unified lighting and shadow volumes allowing for cool looking, but hard shadows with little ambient light;
Apparently you missed the part where he dropped shadow volumes in favor of shadow mapping (and did some great work there).
MegaTexture allowing for little repetition, but featuring muddy textures that look terrible up close, awful pop-in, and huge install sizes; etc...
You seem to be talking about a different game than I ran. He set out to create a world that artists could paint on without restriction, and he did that. Anybody who claims that Tech 5 is less than impressive is an idiot. I expect that if Zenimax has not been such dicks then Tech 6 would be out by now with a far better walkaround engine.
Anyway, the bottom line is: John Carmack has contributed more to graphics technology than you, created more games that people had fun with than you, is smarter than you, has a prettier wife, and is richer than you. Probably his balls are bigger too.
google cardboard pretty much makes this tech obsolete.
If you want to get an idea how crappy the gyros are in your cellphone, just try google sky map or any compass app. Very much a case of, you get what you pay for.
One thing about us FOSS "zealots" (aka "users") is that we're perfectly happy to promote what we do with our slashdot names, our real names, whatever name is normal for the place we're in. We don't need to hide and call names from the shadows and pretend we didn't really say it.
We believe in how we want to be treated by software. And we've been living in that world, lets see, well, for the most part since emacs and gcc! And linux of course was a giant step forwards overall. But it wouldn't have happened without the GNU environment, at least not as a mainstream thing.
We may be chirping away, but it is the happy chirps of us little birdies successfully using the tools we wanted, the tools we believe in, the tools that respect us and that we've been using for decades now.
~\_@< ~~~ Peep peep! ~~~
Hmm, lots of free software hating astroturfers with mod points slithering around tonight. I wonder if they are those losers who are paid to hang out on social forums and advance some agenda or other. Hard to imagine a lower form of internet life.
Actually, it is pragmatic. He knows that his endorsement does not carry a huge weight, but it carries some, so he uses it to draw attention. Which it did.
Oh what's this? RMS hating trolls skulking about with mod points?
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The problem with "monetize" is, the sense has become not just "make money from it" but "lock it up".
Worse is, words like "monetize" label you as a drooling facetime slither animal, right up with with "going forward" and "best practices". Just don't say "monetize" and people will respect you more.
Oh wow, apparently a slither animal had mod points
Oddly enough, Linux seems to boot fine on recent PCs in spite of widespread fears to the contrary. Sometimes you need to google for some (intentionally?) obscure bios setting, but that's about it. I suspect that Microsoft knows they will pay dearly if that ever changes.
Sure, you can't boot Linux on a msft surface, but nobody cares. If anybody cared I'm sure it would be done.
It seems apparent you did not read his full answer.
The only situation in which I can see myself being "restricted" by closed-source software is if I didn't trust the company, and the product was poorly supported.
You may hold that view right up until the day your favorite closed-source software gets end-of-lifed with major security bugs in it, so you have to buy it all over again. Of course that never happens.
Well the thing is, free software with free source code never stops getting better, as long as it gets used. Usually, the only way to kill off free software is with other free software that does the same thing better.
Maybe you're full of crap? There are endless examples of free software that people want to use, do use, and reply upon happily.
It's fulfilling?
Thank goodness LLVM is already on par with GCC
What makes you think that? Recent benchmarks show llvm/clang well behind across the board. At least it compiles faster.
and getting better much faster than it is (does GCC development consist of anything other than backporting LLVM's features these days?)
That is precisely the killer advantage of GPL over BSD license. There is no shame whatsoever in porting code if it is good. Rather, it is the professional thing to do. However it is a gross exaggeration to say the GCC team does only that.
I don't know how you could have something like Word without charging for it. Yes, there is Open Office and LIbre Office, but those were not free when they started out. They only became free when it was deemed impractical to challenge Microsoft.
So? How it got there is irrelevant. The point is, you can have something like Word without charging for it, we have proof by example. Kind of defeated your own argument right at the outset, don't you think?
it's like an eco-freak saying that if you can't get to work without your gas guzzler, it's your ethical obligation to quit.
It's nothing whatsoever like that. Didn't anyone ever tell you that argument by analogy is a logical fallacy when the analogy is false?
Not that much worse than the situation on Windows, really.
You probably don't have any data on Windows installed by the user on random hardware. I expect that you will find that Windows is way worse than Linux now. For most people, that pain is suffered by the OEM so it's hidden.
Who the hell modded that troll up? Latest data point for me was yesterday, a drive by install off the standard Ubuntu usb key onto a big name ultrabook of recent vintage came up perfectly with suspend, 3D hardware, and wifi all working perfectly. Five minutes later Windows was gone for good (just click "install Ubuntu") and good riddance.
Hardly worth remarking on the success cases these days, the failures are more interesting. If you have one (which you don't because you're just a random asshole troll reading from a script) then report it and watch that issue vanish too. See, it's fun.
Why wait? Switch to Linux now and run Windows games under KVM with 99.6% of native performance. While gaining a marketable skill at the same time (vm management).
The problem with "monetize" is, the sense has become not just "make money from it" but "lock it up".
Worse is, words like "monetize" label you as a drooling facetime slither animal, right up with with "going forward" and "best practices". Just don't say "monetize" and people will respect you more.
Crazy like a fox
Suck them dry, they like it. And Apple needs money more than they do.
Ad servers don't just steal bandwidth, they often add massive latency. Google's front page search gets really slow sometimes because of that.
Shut up and do your own hack.
Zenimax has another lawsuit against Luckey and Oculus for design ideas they claim were taken from them after Luckey signed a non-disclosure agreement with them as well.
It has nothing to do with tech, Zenimax guys are just pissed that Carmack got out of their clutches and ended up richer than them.
unified lighting and shadow volumes allowing for cool looking, but hard shadows with little ambient light;
Apparently you missed the part where he dropped shadow volumes in favor of shadow mapping (and did some great work there).
MegaTexture allowing for little repetition, but featuring muddy textures that look terrible up close, awful pop-in, and huge install sizes; etc...
You seem to be talking about a different game than I ran. He set out to create a world that artists could paint on without restriction, and he did that. Anybody who claims that Tech 5 is less than impressive is an idiot. I expect that if Zenimax has not been such dicks then Tech 6 would be out by now with a far better walkaround engine.
Anyway, the bottom line is: John Carmack has contributed more to graphics technology than you, created more games that people had fun with than you, is smarter than you, has a prettier wife, and is richer than you. Probably his balls are bigger too.
Some time ago I read that Suckerberg...
Ahem. Spelling mistake detected, I think you meant Suckerborg
$2G was still a bit rich. But mind you it's John Carmack so the quality is going to be there.
google cardboard pretty much makes this tech obsolete.
If you want to get an idea how crappy the gyros are in your cellphone, just try google sky map or any compass app. Very much a case of, you get what you pay for.
You're trolling anonymously. Very telling.
One thing about us FOSS "zealots" (aka "users") is that we're perfectly happy to promote what we do with our slashdot names, our real names, whatever name is normal for the place we're in. We don't need to hide and call names from the shadows and pretend we didn't really say it.
We believe in how we want to be treated by software. And we've been living in that world, lets see, well, for the most part since emacs and gcc! And linux of course was a giant step forwards overall. But it wouldn't have happened without the GNU environment, at least not as a mainstream thing.
We may be chirping away, but it is the happy chirps of us little birdies successfully using the tools we wanted, the tools we believe in, the tools that respect us and that we've been using for decades now.
~\_@< ~~~ Peep peep! ~~~
Hmm, lots of free software hating astroturfers with mod points slithering around tonight. I wonder if they are those losers who are paid to hang out on social forums and advance some agenda or other. Hard to imagine a lower form of internet life.
Actually, it is pragmatic. He knows that his endorsement does not carry a huge weight, but it carries some, so he uses it to draw attention. Which it did.
Oh what's this? RMS hating trolls skulking about with mod points?