I just want to ask, how can you call your government "democracy" if there are only two parties, only two candidates? Sure, in Poland democracy is young and stupid, but at least we have few parties, few more or less stupid candidates for president, etc... most people are tired with democracy and don't go to vote, but at least we have choices... what choices are in USA? I remember Bush vs Gore, is it always "smaller evil" to choose?
Pendrive is example of something better than floppies - more powerfull, faster, easier to handle. And cheaper if you calculate price/capacity factor.
And I disagree about CDRW. You can use floppy in every PC, you can't use CDRW in every PC, because most have not CD-writer installed. Pendrive requires only USB port - which is in every PC. And it is not just theory - before I bought pendrive I was using floppies - not CDRW.
Noisy computer should be used when high power is needed. Noisy computer should not be standard. Today - it is.
Fast CPU generate more heat, but current fast CPU and two-years-ago fast-CPU are using similiar fans. Acceptable level of heat output, noise, mass and size is just set too high.
Compare PC with DVD player, digital camera or palmtop. Why the hell everything can be small, silent and light, and PC just can't?
Smaller mainboard? Fanless CPU? Micro hard drive? Pendrive instead box of floppies?
Let's just hope... Because currently I have just pendrive. And I would pay for small mainboard with fanless cpu, just give me system with speed like now (Athlon XP 1800) and do not set price 3x higher.
I know that I can buy VIA C3, but it is too slow for me. Can I buy Transmeta CPU for PC?
I was using floppies this year, when I had no Internet access at home, and I wanted to bring some stuff (you can put whole application from freshmeat.net on one or few floppies!) from work. Then I bought pendrive. It's faster, bigger, and much easier to use. I don't see any reason to use floppy drive again. Pendrive is also cheap, so...
1) Enter Doom3 directory 2) Find file pak000.pk4 3) Open it with unzip ("ENTER" in total commander) 4) Enter "script" directory 5) Open any file inside 6) Count number of bytes in text files
Huge part of Doom3 is Open Source. Article is wrong, because it confuses Open Source with Free Software. Doom3 is commercial project, huge part of Doom3 has its source open.
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I had a presentation from SUN yesterday on Solaris 10.
Hi Anonymous Coward.
Essentially Solaris 10 is going to be a huge change.
Number 10 must be big change.
SUN states they are aiming to be the best UNIX solution out there.
That's nice. I can't wait.
With the amount of money they are spending/investing in developing Solaris 10 I believe they are making a very good attempt.
We all hope so.
Linux apps will run on Solaris 10 on Intel/Sparc.
As someone already mentioned - most Linux apps are distributed in sources. If you really need such app you can find 10 minutes to compile it, or you can find precompiled binaries somewhere. What's the benefit? Playing RTCW ET on Solaris?
A new filesystem that will be much better than UFS
Much better? Awesome! (how many percents better?)
Even better Multi-Processor efficiency.
Even better? That's good, or even better.
Of course, more efficient OS, better tcp/ip stack, security, etc. etc.
Even better security? And more efficient OS? Hurrah!
I loved ZDoom in 2000, it was awesome to play on my K6-2, Voodoo3 and shiny Linux 2.4 (or was it 2.2?). Now after reading your post I looked on their website and... There is no more Linux version. On forum I found just flames against Linux. Very sad.
Imagine desk, computer, chair, and two big power plants on both sides used to play heavy metal music in stereo. Even better, imagine 5.1 setup: 5 power plants around desk and one underground (nuclear one?).
Are you sure that you know what are you talking about? Windows and Linux versions of idsoft games are released at almost same time. Check Quake2, Quake3 and RTCW.
Doom was not first computer game. Doom was not first FPS. Doom was not first multiplayer game. That's not the point.
When Doom was released everyone realized obvious things:
- you need fast video card (it was _before_ 3D accelerators!!!), after change from low-end VGA into high-end VGA you could clearly see why it's better
- you need sound card! before doom sound card was just "bonus" for rich players, but can you imagine playing doom without sound? if yes, then you don't know doom at all
- you need fast CPU _only_ for game, and there is no limit - just faster means more fps
Doom was game which started "hardware run".
Maybe you haven't noticed, but there is huge set of missions, graphics, sounds, etc... for Doom. It never happen before Doom. No game had so much contrib stuff. I had whole CD-ROM of that. Whole game was just few MB, CD-ROM had more than 600MB data. It's like 200 CD-ROMs of Civ3 missions.
Thanks to Doom players community changed. Players are important now. There is hardware made only for games (not just joysticks!), mission editor is stardard, there is always downloadable stuff for each popular game, there are servers working only as game servers, there is whole industry around. Was it really same before Doom? Compare budget of standard Atari game from 80s with any game today. And Doom was just milestone.
Article describes basics of ROAM algorithm, I am familiar with it, and I finished coding it long ago. I am aware of fact that ROAM is very CPU intensive, and everyone say that "ROAM should not be used today".
I was searching for any other documents related to new ROAM version, but failed, I am still not sure how "AGP Chunking" really works (picture of triangulated patch would help much) and how to fast operate on diamonds (instead triangles). Could you give any links? Thanks in advance.
When Nintendo will die - only Sony and Microsoft will produce consoles. I think it will be very sad years... AFAIK console market was started by Atari. Winners are companies which had no experience in this area at all... Both Sega and Nintendo failed. Only invested money matters?
from article: 4. Go on ebay and sell my soul for $400+ for an authentic NES
Is NES really so expensive on ebay? Here in Poland on auctions you can buy them for price of Atari/C64/Amiga. Funny thing is that ZX Spectrum is much more expensive (cost of cheap PC mobo) than Amiga.
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I can't find answer anywhere, so I think it may be good question. Anyone was able to test Doom3 linux client on DRI drivers? I mean of course R200.
I just want to ask, how can you call your government "democracy" if there are only two parties, only two candidates? Sure, in Poland democracy is young and stupid, but at least we have few parties, few more or less stupid candidates for president, etc... most people are tired with democracy and don't go to vote, but at least we have choices... what choices are in USA? I remember Bush vs Gore, is it always "smaller evil" to choose?
ShareReactor and Jigle are gone, but there are plenty of other sites, with ShareConnector in lead.
Just burn The Sims 2 CDs from your Linux partition with cdrecord. Play in Windows.
Pendrive is example of something better than floppies - more powerfull, faster, easier to handle. And cheaper if you calculate price/capacity factor.
And I disagree about CDRW. You can use floppy in every PC, you can't use CDRW in every PC, because most have not CD-writer installed. Pendrive requires only USB port - which is in every PC. And it is not just theory - before I bought pendrive I was using floppies - not CDRW.
Noisy computer should be used when high power is needed. Noisy computer should not be standard. Today - it is.
Fast CPU generate more heat, but current fast CPU and two-years-ago fast-CPU are using similiar fans. Acceptable level of heat output, noise, mass and size is just set too high.
Face it - PC is huge, noisy and heavy.
Compare PC with DVD player, digital camera or palmtop. Why the hell everything can be small, silent and light, and PC just can't?
Smaller mainboard?
Fanless CPU?
Micro hard drive?
Pendrive instead box of floppies?
Let's just hope... Because currently I have just pendrive. And I would pay for small mainboard with fanless cpu, just give me system with speed like now (Athlon XP 1800) and do not set price 3x higher.
I know that I can buy VIA C3, but it is too slow for me. Can I buy Transmeta CPU for PC?
I was using floppies this year, when I had no Internet access at home, and I wanted to bring some stuff (you can put whole application from freshmeat.net on one or few floppies!) from work. Then I bought pendrive. It's faster, bigger, and much easier to use. I don't see any reason to use floppy drive again. Pendrive is also cheap, so...
Political means "about America"? And that means "about USA"?
1) Enter Doom3 directory
2) Find file pak000.pk4
3) Open it with unzip ("ENTER" in total commander)
4) Enter "script" directory
5) Open any file inside
6) Count number of bytes in text files
Huge part of Doom3 is Open Source. Article is wrong, because it confuses Open Source with Free Software. Doom3 is commercial project, huge part of Doom3 has its source open.
I had a presentation from SUN yesterday on Solaris 10.
Hi Anonymous Coward.
Essentially Solaris 10 is going to be a huge change.
Number 10 must be big change.
SUN states they are aiming to be the best UNIX solution out there.
That's nice. I can't wait.
With the amount of money they are spending/investing in developing Solaris 10 I believe they are making a very good attempt.
We all hope so.
Linux apps will run on Solaris 10 on Intel/Sparc.
As someone already mentioned - most Linux apps are distributed in sources. If you really need such app you can find 10 minutes to compile it, or you can find precompiled binaries somewhere. What's the benefit? Playing RTCW ET on Solaris?
A new filesystem that will be much better than UFS
Much better? Awesome! (how many percents better?)
Even better Multi-Processor efficiency.
Even better? That's good, or even better.
Of course, more efficient OS, better tcp/ip stack, security, etc. etc.
Even better security? And more efficient OS? Hurrah!
What a nice marketing crap.
John Carmack is posting anonymously on Slashdot? Again? ;)
I loved ZDoom in 2000, it was awesome to play on my K6-2, Voodoo3 and shiny Linux 2.4 (or was it 2.2?). Now after reading your post I looked on their website and... There is no more Linux version. On forum I found just flames against Linux. Very sad.
Imagine desk, computer, chair, and two big power plants on both sides used to play heavy metal music in stereo.
Even better, imagine 5.1 setup: 5 power plants around desk and one underground (nuclear one?).
1993: Doom released
1 month later I go broke buying a 486
1994: Doom II released
1 month later I go broke buying a better 486
Doom2 engine was just fixed/extended Doom engine, hardware requirements were same.
IF Wine is a LGPL-ed product, then how can WineX exist without source code?
:->
Ask BSD people. And also ask them why BSD is much better than GPL
Give me DoomIII on Linux and I might switch now.
Are you sure that you know what are you talking about?
Windows and Linux versions of idsoft games are released at almost same time. Check Quake2, Quake3 and RTCW.
I'll give you Outlook and Comet Cursor - who wouldn't! - but mIRC and AIM are pretty decent applications.
Of course not.
People don't like Outlook, because they can use Mutt, Pine or other console apps. They are happy with it.
People like mirc, because they can use console apps in Linux (like epic, bitchx), which are little worse (in features) than graphic irc client.
Of course they strongly hate XChat, just like they hate X, because "X Windows is for lamers!".
So they are using Windows. And Mirc. And MSIE.
And this is true reason why "Outlook is bad" and "MSIE is good".
Ask random players what they know about Wing Commander II. Then ask about Doom. Compare answers.
Doom was not first computer game. Doom was not first FPS. Doom was not first multiplayer game.
That's not the point.
When Doom was released everyone realized obvious things:
- you need fast video card (it was _before_ 3D accelerators!!!), after change from low-end VGA into high-end VGA you could clearly see why it's better
- you need sound card! before doom sound card was just "bonus" for rich players, but can you imagine playing doom without sound? if yes, then you don't know doom at all
- you need fast CPU _only_ for game, and there is no limit - just faster means more fps
Doom was game which started "hardware run".
Maybe you haven't noticed, but there is huge set of missions, graphics, sounds, etc... for Doom. It never happen before Doom. No game had so much contrib stuff. I had whole CD-ROM of that. Whole game was just few MB, CD-ROM had more than 600MB data. It's like 200 CD-ROMs of Civ3 missions.
Thanks to Doom players community changed. Players are important now. There is hardware made only for games (not just joysticks!), mission editor is stardard, there is always downloadable stuff for each popular game, there are servers working only as game servers, there is whole industry around. Was it really same before Doom? Compare budget of standard Atari game from 80s with any game today. And Doom was just milestone.
Please excuse ontopic post.
Article describes basics of ROAM algorithm, I am familiar with it, and I finished coding it long ago. I am aware of fact that ROAM is very CPU intensive, and everyone say that "ROAM should not be used today".
Has anyone tried ROAM 2.0??
I was searching for any other documents related to new ROAM version, but failed, I am still not sure how "AGP Chunking" really works (picture of triangulated patch would help much) and how to fast operate on diamonds (instead triangles). Could you give any links? Thanks in advance.
However, what Mono is doing would be as if Wine called itself an "Open Source implementation of Windows".
Maybe I misunderstood you, but AFAIK Wine is an Open Source implementation of Microsoft Windows API.
When Nintendo will die - only Sony and Microsoft will produce consoles. I think it will be very sad years... AFAIK console market was started by Atari. Winners are companies which had no experience in this area at all... Both Sega and Nintendo failed.
Only invested money matters?
Maybe I don't understand something [1], but image looks just poor. Why should anyone donate cpu cycles for producing such image? What's the point?
[1] It's a science project, not fun, but what exactly can be read from this picture?
from article:
4. Go on ebay and sell my soul for $400+ for an authentic NES
Is NES really so expensive on ebay?
Here in Poland on auctions you can buy them for price of Atari/C64/Amiga. Funny thing is that ZX Spectrum is much more expensive (cost of cheap PC mobo) than Amiga.
Well, very interesting opinion.
You were in cave for last 3 years?