Tracing route to authorize.quake3arena.com [192.246.40.56]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1
2 10 ms
3 10 ms *
4 200 ms 80 ms 150 ms 3.ATM1-0-0.BOS-0.WINSTAR.NET [216.172.250.17]
5 50 ms 60 ms 40 ms 9.atm4-0.nyc1-bb1.winstar.net [63.141.227.5]
6 130 ms 130 ms 160 ms pos9-0-0.new-york.winstar.net [63.141.111.62]
7 40 ms 10 ms 30 ms winstar-gw.new-york.savvis.net [216.172.248.154]
8 220 ms 230 ms 211 ms atm9-0-030.CR-1.usdlls.savvis.net [209.83.222.30
]
9 70 ms 90 ms * idsoft-1.CR-1.usdlls.savvis.net [209.176.32.178]
10 190 ms 190 ms 231 ms monster.idsoftware.com [192.246.40.56]
Trace complete.
And, a ping:
C:\WINNT\system32>ping authorize.quake3arena.com
Pinging authorize.quake3arena.com [192.246.40.56] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.246.40.56: bytes=32 time=230ms TTL=119
Reply from 192.246.40.56: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=119
Reply from 192.246.40.56: bytes=32 time=260ms TTL=119
Reply from 192.246.40.56: bytes=32 time=200ms TTL=119
As for the rest of the questions, I'm not the admin, so I'm powerless to change anything.
The key difference is in what kind of benchmark it is. Q3 is used to compare the capabilities of 3D accelerators, while SQL and Oracle benchmark tests are used to compare transaction throughput. Also, I agree on one point of yours; Q3's reputation as a benchmarking tool is not one of its selling points; the playability and excitement of playing it ARE selling points. That's why more people like Q3; Epic/DE/Legend has built a reputation of combining glitzy level architecture with strange weapons. People are turned off by that, since they know full well that most of the weapons could work (let alone exist) in real life.
Back in the 60's, the school was given a decision on how to spend the money: swimming pool or planetarium. They opted for the planetarium. Even though the jocks whined back then, there was a dark, domed sanctuary for the nerds of the school.
Unfortunately, the webpage for the astronomy class hasn't been built yet, so you can't see for yourself. However, it's great to see the elementary school children from around the state come in to see the show. At one point in the standard show for the kiddies, the sky goes cloudy, then lightning strikes (strobe light burst) and you can hear the sound of rain. At that point, Mr. Jameson, the astronomy teacher, runs around with a spray bottle filled with water and sprays at the audience! It's a blast!
Netware has outlived its intended lifespan. Here at the college, there is a Netware server handling the printers and the main file server. Every time the printer runs out of paper, a dialog box pops up on EVERY computer signaling that the printer is out of paper. Print jobs take about four times as long as they would on a comparable NT3.51 network, and the shared files take too long to transfer. Also, the Internet access has the ping of a 56k modem, despite the T1 line coupled with the gigabit backplanes of the network.
I'm eager to see the Netware server be replaced or revived with BSD or Win2K Advanced server. Maybe then we can have Win2K Pro on the lab workstations instead of NT4SP5. Besides, 3DSMAX would look a lot prettier in full Direct3D splendor, as well as true DirectX sound acceleration.
"A study into software patents commissioned by the EU seems to conclude that software patents are OK, it's just the U.S. Patent Office that sucks."
Damn right. With blaring examples like the Cue:Cat's base64+XOR "encryption method", and Amazon.com's "One click shopping", it's a wonder that the government hasn't taken action to refine the requirements for a patent. Then again, Congress is really delayed as it is (debates, quorum calls, and filibusters; oh my!).
On a side note, for the person who wanted to patent the "no click banner ad", you've been beaten to the punch. A web casino already did something like that two years ago with a Java applet; whenever you hover your pointer over the banner ad, your browser goes there. However, it got annoying as hell and died.
"Anti-aliasing is irrelevent... vector displays do not suffer from aliasing."
My point exactly. On TVs and monitors, vector graphics have to be rasterized. Since vector displays aren't bound by an X-by-Y rectangular display, there isn't any aliasing.
On an offtopic note, in my high school planetarium back in April, I brought in my home computer to show my presentation on Venus and Mars. I projected Q3 on the 50-foot tall dome. Sure, the ultimate Q3 experience, but I was still looking at my monitor; I like CRTs too much.
Re:You can do this in Windows too.
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Just type in "nslookup" in the Run dialog or in a DOS box.
You'll be issued a ">" prompt. Type in the domain name (e.g.: "authorize.quake3arena.com", "slashdot.org", etc.). The IP address of the domain name is returned in the very last line before the next prompt.
This might bring back the allure of those vector-based games of the 80s. It'll be even sharper, since back then anti-aliasing wasn't in use. Hell, the best 3D rendering back then (Tron) was 16-bit non-textured.
Speaking of which, in the movie Tron, the transition between Tron looking at the MCP's ship and Flynn driving the jalopy recognizer, there's a framerate drop down to 12 FPS. Since it's a cross-fade, the rendering computer had to render both scenes at the same time. Once the first scene fades away, the computer stops rendering it, and the framerate jumps back to 24 FPS.
...then all the hardware review sites wouldn't legally be able to post timedemo results as benchmarks. Granted, right now Q3 is THE OpenGL benchmark to look for, as it's pretty much the one with the most strenuous rendering scenarios. Also, keep in mind that NVidia optimized the Detonator 3 primarily so that Q3 wouldn't slow down under a high-sprite situation (gibbing 3 bodies at once with the railgun and watching the cloud of blood in the air!).
Fortunately, Id isn't as protective of their "intellectual property" as Microsoft is. They did provide the source to qagame so that modmakers could exploit the entire code. Meanwhile, even attempting to start a Windows programming project requires you to plunk down hundreds, and even thousands of dollars to Microsoft just to fund their cause.
The largest single file to date that I have downloaded was 110MB (Elite Force demo). That took one hour. There is no way that I'm spending 3.8 hours just to download a 54-minute video.
Seriously, couldn't they have encoded this in DivX? Even though it is frowned upon by the government, it could've reduced the file size even more.
I'm the guy at the Parts counter at my local CompUSA. Customers usually ask us questions about everything, so we have to be ready. 90% of the time, we get computer-illiterate customers (I'm not going to call them "idiots", because if I did, then I'd have to call my parents and sister "idiots"!), but sometimes we get an experienced person who either needs to check their settings, confirm something, and so on. We answer it all (even where to get RDRAM; I'll tell you which internet warehouse to choose for the part!)
Personally, I'm going with "PlayStation 2", since that's what's printed on the damned thing! I'll refer to it as the "supercharged Animé machine" when I want to criticize it.
Don't get Linus Torvalds as a keynote speaker. He's a busy man, he has a terrible accent (you hear his voice when testing your soundcard driver), and the price of getting him as a keynote speaker would be enormous.
This number would be reserved for people who actually know what's going on. First, to validate that they are a techie, they would have to answer some networking trivia question like "What's the address structure in IPv6?" or "What should your subnet mask be set to?". If the caller answers correctly, then the support begins with the analysis of ping and tracert readouts. If the problem is with the servers on the ISP's side, someone is sent to tweak around with the servers.
I don't know, but this sounds a whole lot better than the heavily scripted "tech support" that ISP's are currently offering. I'd appreciate a guy with an actual brain inside his cranium instead of these marginally fluent morons filling in positions at the desk.
When will they ever learn that? Wesley wasn't endangering the assets of @Home or AT&T (at least not intentionally); he was simply pointing out the draconian tech support practices and internal policies of the company. @Home is admitting that it's abusing its customers by claiming ownership of these documents; it's the smoking gun! If I were representing @Home on this, I would deny ownership and think up some new policies.
Once we do find these documents, let's post them as a story on Slashdot so the world can see what ISPs really think of customers.
@Home. It should conjure up images of a soccer mom chatting with her friends about the latest Jerry Springer, not some diligent coder hard at work trying to apt-get something. Consumer-oriented high-speed connections (specifically, the "bandwidth for the rest of us" marketed ones) tend to be the worst. When ISPs make a consumer-oriented connection, they automatically assume that they can slack off on the administration of the connection (cases in point: Verizon, AOL, @Home, Flashcom, etc.).
Speaking of which, Verizon's been giving me a near-250 ping to the 'net lately. That's as bad as a 56k modem. I prefer an intermittently-working fast network over a slow-as-hell network that doesn't go down.
The spending figures were in the The Boston Globe, from an article about hazing in the Russian military (I can't post the link, slashcode always mangles globe links). The article was written from David Filipov.
The Russian Space agency could start a TV show.
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Mir Lives
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This Old Mir
The first episode would be on how to repair solar panels and navigate a Progress freighter into the Mir docking port.
Next week: Scrubbing that furry space fungus off of the control panels!
Once Mir is effectively replaced by the ISS, let's just blow it out of the sky. That fungus-ridden space fossil is a biohazard and has no reason whatsoever in returning to our atmosphere. Either that or shoot it into the center of the sun. (Don't *bleep* with Wendy Testaburger!)
Wrong, Russia is still broke.
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"Look's like they're not broke after all."
Not quite. Russia's military only gets the equivalent of $3 billion in funding, whereas the U.S. military gets over $600 billion. This bailout for the Mir is only worth about three fighter planes; pretty stingy by our government's standards.
Slashdot Mirror
Change "could" to "couldn't". Yes, I forgot to use Preview, slap me with the steel ruler.
I've been pinging the Q3 authorization server; here's the output (Slashcode's gonna mangle this, but all that counts is the end):
C:\WINNT\system32>tracert authorize.quake3arena.com
Tracing route to authorize.quake3arena.com [192.246.40.56] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 10 ms 3 10 ms * 4 200 ms 80 ms 150 ms 3.ATM1-0-0.BOS-0.WINSTAR.NET [216.172.250.17]
5 50 ms 60 ms 40 ms 9.atm4-0.nyc1-bb1.winstar.net [63.141.227.5] 6 130 ms 130 ms 160 ms pos9-0-0.new-york.winstar.net [63.141.111.62] 7 40 ms 10 ms 30 ms winstar-gw.new-york.savvis.net [216.172.248.154] 8 220 ms 230 ms 211 ms atm9-0-030.CR-1.usdlls.savvis.net [209.83.222.30 ] 9 70 ms 90 ms * idsoft-1.CR-1.usdlls.savvis.net [209.176.32.178] 10 190 ms 190 ms 231 ms monster.idsoftware.com [192.246.40.56]Trace complete.
And, a ping:
C:\WINNT\system32>ping authorize.quake3arena.com
Pinging authorize.quake3arena.com [192.246.40.56] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.246.40.56: bytes=32 time=230ms TTL=119
Reply from 192.246.40.56: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=119 Reply from 192.246.40.56: bytes=32 time=260ms TTL=119 Reply from 192.246.40.56: bytes=32 time=200ms TTL=119As for the rest of the questions, I'm not the admin, so I'm powerless to change anything.
The key difference is in what kind of benchmark it is. Q3 is used to compare the capabilities of 3D accelerators, while SQL and Oracle benchmark tests are used to compare transaction throughput. Also, I agree on one point of yours; Q3's reputation as a benchmarking tool is not one of its selling points; the playability and excitement of playing it ARE selling points. That's why more people like Q3; Epic/DE/Legend has built a reputation of combining glitzy level architecture with strange weapons. People are turned off by that, since they know full well that most of the weapons could work (let alone exist) in real life.
Unfortunately, the webpage for the astronomy class hasn't been built yet, so you can't see for yourself. However, it's great to see the elementary school children from around the state come in to see the show. At one point in the standard show for the kiddies, the sky goes cloudy, then lightning strikes (strobe light burst) and you can hear the sound of rain. At that point, Mr. Jameson, the astronomy teacher, runs around with a spray bottle filled with water and sprays at the audience! It's a blast!
I'm eager to see the Netware server be replaced or revived with BSD or Win2K Advanced server. Maybe then we can have Win2K Pro on the lab workstations instead of NT4SP5. Besides, 3DSMAX would look a lot prettier in full Direct3D splendor, as well as true DirectX sound acceleration.
Damn right. With blaring examples like the Cue:Cat's base64+XOR "encryption method", and Amazon.com's "One click shopping", it's a wonder that the government hasn't taken action to refine the requirements for a patent. Then again, Congress is really delayed as it is (debates, quorum calls, and filibusters; oh my!).
On a side note, for the person who wanted to patent the "no click banner ad", you've been beaten to the punch. A web casino already did something like that two years ago with a Java applet; whenever you hover your pointer over the banner ad, your browser goes there. However, it got annoying as hell and died.
My point exactly. On TVs and monitors, vector graphics have to be rasterized. Since vector displays aren't bound by an X-by-Y rectangular display, there isn't any aliasing.
On an offtopic note, in my high school planetarium back in April, I brought in my home computer to show my presentation on Venus and Mars. I projected Q3 on the 50-foot tall dome. Sure, the ultimate Q3 experience, but I was still looking at my monitor; I like CRTs too much.
You'll be issued a ">" prompt. Type in the domain name (e.g.: "authorize.quake3arena.com", "slashdot.org", etc.). The IP address of the domain name is returned in the very last line before the next prompt.
Speaking of which, in the movie Tron, the transition between Tron looking at the MCP's ship and Flynn driving the jalopy recognizer, there's a framerate drop down to 12 FPS. Since it's a cross-fade, the rendering computer had to render both scenes at the same time. Once the first scene fades away, the computer stops rendering it, and the framerate jumps back to 24 FPS.
Fortunately, Id isn't as protective of their "intellectual property" as Microsoft is. They did provide the source to qagame so that modmakers could exploit the entire code. Meanwhile, even attempting to start a Windows programming project requires you to plunk down hundreds, and even thousands of dollars to Microsoft just to fund their cause.
I just made an educated guess that 3% of the people in the US are journalists.
Just take a look at who you're asking: the U.S. Government. They wouldn't open source the recipe to the Presidential cookies!
The largest single file to date that I have downloaded was 110MB (Elite Force demo). That took one hour. There is no way that I'm spending 3.8 hours just to download a 54-minute video.
Seriously, couldn't they have encoded this in DivX? Even though it is frowned upon by the government, it could've reduced the file size even more.
I'm the guy at the Parts counter at my local CompUSA. Customers usually ask us questions about everything, so we have to be ready. 90% of the time, we get computer-illiterate customers (I'm not going to call them "idiots", because if I did, then I'd have to call my parents and sister "idiots"!), but sometimes we get an experienced person who either needs to check their settings, confirm something, and so on. We answer it all (even where to get RDRAM; I'll tell you which internet warehouse to choose for the part!)
Personally, I'm going with "PlayStation 2", since that's what's printed on the damned thing! I'll refer to it as the "supercharged Animé machine" when I want to criticize it.
Eek. 3 miles is really close for a fly-by. I wonder how much gravity it felt from that.
Don't get Linus Torvalds as a keynote speaker. He's a busy man, he has a terrible accent (you hear his voice when testing your soundcard driver), and the price of getting him as a keynote speaker would be enormous.
That's 0.03%. Very scary indeed.
I don't know, but this sounds a whole lot better than the heavily scripted "tech support" that ISP's are currently offering. I'd appreciate a guy with an actual brain inside his cranium instead of these marginally fluent morons filling in positions at the desk.
Once we do find these documents, let's post them as a story on Slashdot so the world can see what ISPs really think of customers.
Speaking of which, Verizon's been giving me a near-250 ping to the 'net lately. That's as bad as a 56k modem. I prefer an intermittently-working fast network over a slow-as-hell network that doesn't go down.
The spending figures were in the The Boston Globe, from an article about hazing in the Russian military (I can't post the link, slashcode always mangles globe links). The article was written from David Filipov.
The first episode would be on how to repair solar panels and navigate a Progress freighter into the Mir docking port.
Next week: Scrubbing that furry space fungus off of the control panels!
Once Mir is effectively replaced by the ISS, let's just blow it out of the sky. That fungus-ridden space fossil is a biohazard and has no reason whatsoever in returning to our atmosphere. Either that or shoot it into the center of the sun. (Don't *bleep* with Wendy Testaburger!)
Not quite. Russia's military only gets the equivalent of $3 billion in funding, whereas the U.S. military gets over $600 billion. This bailout for the Mir is only worth about three fighter planes; pretty stingy by our government's standards.