I generally leave my computer on, and recently I realized that the noise was nearly unbearable to those who were unacustomed to it. I also realized how pleasant it might be to have a near-silent system, so I took it upon myself to see what I could do to make my system noiseless.
I think the main problem with your plan is the amount of airflow required to properly cool a CPU with just a heatsync. Unless it is a Celeron300A or C3 or something of that nature, if you use a just a heatsync you'll need an 80mm fan running at least 2000 RPM. At that speed, the noise the air makes is quite noticeable, even if you choose to get one of the ultra-quiet brands.
I finally decided to just get a new heatsync/cpu fan combo for around $30 from QuietPC and I have to say that not only is it almost silent, it keeps my system cooler than the stock Intel CPU fan. The PSU is another source of noise, and I upgraded my 300W Antec to a 370W TTGI-350SS for around $40. TTGI isn't as well known a name as Enermax or Zalman, but I've found my PSU to be just as noiselss as advertised.
I don't want to discourage you, but I don't really consider heatsync/case fan combos viable for a silent PC with an Athlon XP or P4. It might be expensive to experiment, but then again having such a quiet machine is worth it. I take great pleasure in surprising my friends by turning my monitor on the show them that my computer is already on.
According to it states that the UK target 0.1 fatalities/million train-km by 2009
No, the article says:
The objective of the Railway Group is to achieve an accidental fatality rate no greater than 0.1 per million
miles by 2009... the target of 0.1 accidental equivalent fatalities per million train miles by 2009 equates to a reduction in accidental equivalent fatalities per year from 103 in 1999/00 to approximately 34 in 2008/99
I didn't think I would have to explain my. Note the original numbers were given in miles, not kilometers. The target reduction from 103 to 34 fatalities (0.1 per million miles) is 67%. 3.02 x 0.1 = 0.30 fatalities per million miles. 1 mile is equivalent to 1.60 kilometers, so 0.30 / 1.60 = 0.18 fatalities/ million train-km. I apologize for being a little off in my original estimate
Vietnam - 5.29 fatalities/million train-km
Thailand - 1.05
Bangladesh - 0.66
Netherlands- - 0.28
United States - 0.25
India - 0.21
Iran - 0.11
Japan - 0.10
France - 0.05
Russia - 0.01 The U.K. - 0.1 fatalities/million train-km
The safety record seems to be significantly worse than some countries, but then again it's significantly better than others. It all depends on what you're comparing it to I suppose.
I think he was referring to the business style of AMC and other movie theaters and how it is similar to that of the failed dot coms. With income of -$121.9 million on $1,340 million in sales, they aren't exactly close to making a profit. Read up the rest of the info on this company and you'll realize you'd have to be crazy to invest in this company. The inflated price will eventually drop.
I logged into my Hotmail account to fix this, and it made me reenter my password. Apparently I have a MS Passport profile. I don't want one, and I never asked to have one. I wonder about the legality of this...
Kinda reminds me of a MS developer mailing list I accidently got subscribed to. I tried to unsubscribe, but to do that I needed a passport profile. So in order to stop getting one anoying mailing list I would have had to give away my info which would be freely distributed among all the marketing companies sleeping with Microsoft.
I've posted this before, but I'll post it again. I, and many other customers of ATTBI I am sure, feel the great disservice is the fact that ATTBI has the gull to increase the rates while also decreasing the service speeds. From memory, here is what the service essentially has been (innacuracies may occur, but the basic premise is true):
I can understand how some people would be upset enough to risk losing their account in order to get faster speeds, but I am not one of them. Sure, I have the option to switch to another broadband company, but when AT&T has a monopoly on high speed connections in my area, I'm must endure what they force upon me or otherwise have a very limited connection speed.
MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC) is a not-for-profit California organization whose mission is to defend the Internet's e-mail system from abuse by spammers. Their principal means of accomplishing this mission is by educating and encouraging ISP's to enforce strong terms and conditions prohibiting their customers from engaging in abusive e-mail practices.
DUL (Dial-up User List) is not a blacklist, though it is often mistaken for such. The DUL is a listing of dynamic ISPs that is used as a filter by subscriber ISPs to prevent direct e-mail from those addresses.
Ummm... I believe he is talking about Divx, Circuit City's failed attempt at creating a pay-per-play DVD system. It's interesting to note that Divx was called a technology "before its time" so maybe that time is now.
Read up on the history of the DivX codec, and you'll see it was originally called "DivX;-)" as a gesture to make of the Circuit City technology that the others so vehemently opposed. I can't find the sites now, but about 2 years ago there was a great article about the developement of the DivX;-) codec and I'd highly recommend reading it if you can find it.
Actually, I think ebonics is almost a completely different language from English. And no, it's not Spanish/English, it's a a dialect of American English spoken by some African-Americans. Written, it looks very similar to standard English, or something like
I as Ruf could she bring it ovah to tom crib.
which translates to I asked Ruth if she could bring it over to Tom's place.
But, orally it seems more like a foreign language than a dialect.
The community that attempted to adopt Ebonics was Oakland with a 53% African American community. This brings up the point that the Hispanic community is over 50% of the California population and still growing fast. It will be interesting to see what language is the official language of California in the next few years.
The problem with 24 is that it alienates viewers who miss a few shows. I saw the first two episodes, then missed the next two. I tried to watch the fifth, but I had no clue what was going on and gave up after about ten minutes. That is not a good way to get ratings.
I read Undeclared was not signed for another season, but I'm pretty sure Richter will get another year- he's gotten nothing but praise from critics.
King of the Hill definitely appeals to more than the 18-25 demographic, maybe Simpsons and Malcom in the Middle too, but nor so much.
Spaceballs made fun of everything in hip culture at the time. The character Vinny the Gangster, Pizza the Hut's sidekick, is one of the more subtle spoof of Max Headroom.
Maybe I'm wrong though, I never really saw much of Max Headroom, but this post made me go watch Spaceballs again. I'm so glad I bought the DVD!
This looks to be a somewhat interesting interview. From the looks of it though, the questions deal mostly with the aspects of Chiangs life rather than any details of the upcoming movie. Frankly, I don't really want to hear is life story, or what website I can go to if I want to learn more about is past work. I want the lowdown on production, like what they used for the animation, props, and all that cool stuff.
I've been a Star Wars fan since the late 70's- I even bought a Millenium Falcon with my allowance (though I sold it at a garage sale when I was a teenager, boy am I kicking myself for that one). Anyway, this movie looks like it's got quite an all star production crew. I'm looking forward to seeing it, hopefully in one of the digital theatres if it's not too expensive. Though I sometimes wonder at the dedication of the people willing to sacrifice 3 months of their lives to wait in line.
1. Reliability 2. Scalability 3. Capable of high performance on the deskto 4. Cost-effective to maintain 5. Uses commodity, Intel-based hardware
The transition to Linux required that PDI/DreamWorks port all of its own tools from SGI. Few of the high-end commercial graphics tools supported Linux out of the box. Together, HP and PDI/DreamWorks worked to convince Alias|Wavefront and others that they needed to port their applications to Linux. Ultimately, HP and PDI/DreamWorks were successful, and DreamWorks has fully integrated Linux versions of all of its major tools including Maya and Wacom's Cintiq interactive pen display.
As has been mentioned in some of the above posts, one of the most important things (for me, anyway) is avoiding distractions. Things like snack machines, pool tables in the office, etc, may improce employee morale, but they also tend to be a distraction from real work. Once I get focused and start working, temptations such as those really aren't much of a problem.
Probably my biggest issue is with noise. It could be my farely ADD-type tendencies, but almost any noise beyond what is found in a normal office environment makes it really hard for me to work. Music may be great for the mood, but I just can't work unless the music is classical or something else really light. Also, if I have an office near a window, it could be a problem if the the windows aren't soundproofed enough and I have to listen to the conversations all the smokers have on their breaks.
This reminds me, a Fry's Electronics had an ad in the paper today that I was really tempted by. Their website, Outpost.com, has the same product for about twice the price. Anyway, the deal is you get a Duron 950 CPU with a motherboard and case with a 300W PSU for $99. Add a fan, drives, video card, and RAM, and you have yourself a pretty killer machine for around $300. That's less than the GF3 Ti500, and it would require some top of the line games to notice much of a difference. Anyway, check it out, outpost has it listed for $179.00 but I can pick it up at Fry's for $99.
Silly me. For some bizzare reason I thought moderation was supposed to be done based on the content of the post. Guess I was wrong.
As for the.sig, I thought it was flamebait too until I actually read the journal entry. Quite interesting. Being a Linux user myself, I think that one of the main reasons I use it is because it is FREE. I'd hesitate to label myself as cheap, but the price certainly does have its appeal. Though I do believe the same article was published on CNet or some such place a few months ago.
I'm not sure why this was modded down as a troll, as he seems to have some good points.
Anyway, it is in the carrier's best interest to control the equipment used to access their network. In the newspaper today, there was an interesting article on the HDTV standard, which while a somewhat different scenerio is still relevant. The studios want all newer TV's manufactured to contain DRM type stuff, which would make the previously sold HDTV's obsolete. Now whether or not they can do this over the airwaves is the debate. Over cable is one thing, but over airwaves they've paid the FCC for the rights to, can they control what type of equipment has access to it. I see this as very much the same argument, and believe that if this antitrust case goes through, the TV network companies will in the future see very much the same case.
At the risk of losing Karma, I'd have to say this interview blows. I've touced it up a little to make it more interesting.
Question 1 Mr. Duffy, to start off with: What does the "A" in Robert A. Duffy stand for, how old are you, when did you join id software and what does your job description say in terms of your duties within the company?
Robert Duffy: The fucking a motherfucking stands for Allen. Goddamned sons of bitches like you. I am 38 and I've been full time at id for about two and a half years and I did contract work for them bastards for about one and a goddamn half years before that. You will feel my burns. My juicy job description is "Programmer", I work on the fucking editor, tools, the fucking in-game gui systems and game code ( doors, security cameras, etc.. You are a pussy. about to get started on some effects for shits as well ). You are a pussy. I also (in addition to the fact that you're a shit) deal with our licensees most of the fucking time as far as code updates and shit and at times work on other shits as needed. I should slam your throat. I worked with Kevin [Cloud] on the fucking Wolf MP shit and did some work on Wolf towards the fucking end of the fucking project tidying some shit up.
Question 2 I'm sure a lot of enthusiastic gamers out there would like to know and follow in your footsteps: What kind of education did you go through and what other companies / projects did you work for before you got hired by id? What did you want to be when you were a kid?
Robert Duffy: I am self taught. Pop Quiz, why are you such a fuckhead? The fucking last 3 companies I was at before id I wrote code as well as managed the fucking development process. Jesus was right, you are a shithole. I was Director of Technology for a motherfucking company in Los Angeles just prior to coming to fuckin' id, co-founded a fuckin' net company back in the fucking early-mid nineties before that.. You are a pussy. etc..
A fighter pilot but my fucking vision rules.
Question 3 Who was around when you had your application interview and how did you feel when you entered the "holy hallways" of id software for the first time?
Robert Duffy: John [Carmack] sent my stupid ass an jizz saying them poo pirates wanted to hire my stupid ass full time. I went up and talked to fuckin' that piece of shit ( and I think Graeme [Devine] was there at the fucking time ) told that bastard I'd get back to that piece of shit in a fuckin' day or so god-damn and after discussing that piece of shit with my fucking wife went for that shit. I was first at id many years ago when DOOM was first shipping, we were looking to license technology for some shit at the fucking time.
More recently when I started contracting that piece of shit was a motherfucking GOOD impression but a goddamn bit intimidating.
Question 4 Violence in Gaming and its influence on teenagers is a huge topic worldwide. My opinion is that people who spend some time kicking butt in fast-paced shooters like Q3A will definitely not tend to aggressively kick butt out on the streets. What is your take?
Robert Duffy: I'll have to keep my goddamn take on this bullshit to myself.
Question 5 As far as I understand legislation in your country, it is part of the constitution that every american citizen is allowed to wear a gun. In my opinion that is one major reason for teenage high- school killings - while claiming games like "Doom" guilty is completely ridiculous. What is your opinion?
Robert Duffy: Well wearing a gun and owning a gun are two goddamn different shits and neither of them shits have to fuckin' do with any game in my goddamn opinion. The only fucking countries I have ever seen citizens wearing guns are ones where the fuck that piece of shit was illegal. You are a fuckmonster. I don't think to date I have seen a citizen wearing a fuckin' firearm in public here in the fucking US.
Question 6 Doom 3: Quoting John Carmack, for the new engine the editor will be part of the main game executable and called via a command line parameter. Will that make it possible for level designers to preview their maps without fully re-compiling each time? Will the 3D-Window within the editor finally be game-engine-powered? And what will this mean in terms of the editor's looks and usability in general?
Robert Duffy: Yes the fucking editor is built into the fucking game ( as are all the fucking tools ). You and your sluts can preview in realtime fuckin' what a level looks like. The fucking editor is much like Q3Radiant but with additional functionality.
Question 7 In your opinion, what is the biggest benefit community & professional level designers will face using the new tools / editor compared to what Q3Radiant does for them today?
Robert Duffy: Real time preview and integration will help a whole shitload.
Question 8 How is development of the new engine and tools coming along? Are the new tools already in use by anyone, creating content for the new engine? In general - without giving "when it's done" statements;o) - when do you think a demo version of the new engine will be available: Late 2002, Early 2003 oder Late 2003?
Robert Duffy: Things are going goddamn well.
Question 9 If you were - and you are now:o) - to give yourself three attributes without giving a damn about what other people might think about you - what would they be?
Robert Duffy: Hmmm.. I dunno, I'm fairly happy to live with myself as I am and deal with the fucking GOOD and "f'ing great" aspects of that;-)
Question 10 What do you think about George Bush? Do you believe in God? What are your basic ethical values in every day social life?
Robert Duffy: He has done a great job under intense pressure. I am glad he is our president. Yes but not like most people probably do. I try to fuckin' be a GOOD moral human on a fuckin' daily basis.
We would like to thank Robert Duffy for taking the time to answer our questions and wish both him and id software all the best for the future."
Does giving the.gov a retinal scan make you incapable of living exactly as you are now?
The government could make us all shave our heads and wear uniforms, and it still wouldn't make us incapable of living our lives exactly as we are now. The point is, who would want to live their lives that way?
This doesn't sound very easy at all to me. I don't usually think of Alaska and Siberia being connected, and I'd imagine crossing the ice between them would be quite hazardous.
I hear Southern California was quite unaffected by the situation, but here in Northern California it posed quite a problem. I believe it was in February or March that it was really bad, and I remember getting hit twice by the rolling blackouts (once at work and once at home, lucky me).
I found the Republican gubernatorial primaries interesting. The main competition was over who hated Davis more and it seems like most people ignored the more important issues.
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I know this is OT, but...
I just checked out your webpage and I must say it's an awesome design- very nice color scheme and easily navigated layout.
I think the main problem with your plan is the amount of airflow required to properly cool a CPU with just a heatsync. Unless it is a Celeron300A or C3 or something of that nature, if you use a just a heatsync you'll need an 80mm fan running at least 2000 RPM. At that speed, the noise the air makes is quite noticeable, even if you choose to get one of the ultra-quiet brands.
I finally decided to just get a new heatsync/cpu fan combo for around $30 from QuietPC and I have to say that not only is it almost silent, it keeps my system cooler than the stock Intel CPU fan. The PSU is another source of noise, and I upgraded my 300W Antec to a 370W TTGI-350SS for around $40. TTGI isn't as well known a name as Enermax or Zalman, but I've found my PSU to be just as noiselss as advertised.
I don't want to discourage you, but I don't really consider heatsync/case fan combos viable for a silent PC with an Athlon XP or P4. It might be expensive to experiment, but then again having such a quiet machine is worth it. I take great pleasure in surprising my friends by turning my monitor on the show them that my computer is already on.
No, the article says:
I didn't think I would have to explain my. Note the original numbers were given in miles, not kilometers. The target reduction from 103 to 34 fatalities (0.1 per million miles) is 67%. 3.02 x 0.1 = 0.30 fatalities per million miles. 1 mile is equivalent to 1.60 kilometers, so 0.30 / 1.60 = 0.18 fatalities/ million train-km. I apologize for being a little off in my original estimateVietnam - 5.29 fatalities/million train-km
Thailand - 1.05
Bangladesh - 0.66
Netherlands- - 0.28
United States - 0.25
India - 0.21
Iran - 0.11
Japan - 0.10
France - 0.05
Russia - 0.01
The U.K. - 0.1 fatalities/million train-km
The safety record seems to be significantly worse than some countries, but then again it's significantly better than others. It all depends on what you're comparing it to I suppose.
I think he was referring to the business style of AMC and other movie theaters and how it is similar to that of the failed dot coms. With income of -$121.9 million on $1,340 million in sales, they aren't exactly close to making a profit. Read up the rest of the info on this company and you'll realize you'd have to be crazy to invest in this company. The inflated price will eventually drop.
Hey, your website doesn't work in Opera 6.01. It returns a bunch of code unless I switch to identify as MSIE 5.0. Just wanted to let you know.
Kinda reminds me of a MS developer mailing list I accidently got subscribed to. I tried to unsubscribe, but to do that I needed a passport profile. So in order to stop getting one anoying mailing list I would have had to give away my info which would be freely distributed among all the marketing companies sleeping with Microsoft.
February 2000- 3.5 Mb/s down, 1.5 Mb/s up- Price= $49.95/month
January 2001- 3.5 Mb/s down, 128 Kb/s up- Price = $49.95/month
January 2002- 1.5 Mb/s down, 128 Kb/s up- Price= $59.95/month
I can understand how some people would be upset enough to risk losing their account in order to get faster speeds, but I am not one of them. Sure, I have the option to switch to another broadband company, but when AT&T has a monopoly on high speed connections in my area, I'm must endure what they force upon me or otherwise have a very limited connection speed.
DUL (Dial-up User List) is not a blacklist, though it is often mistaken for such. The DUL is a listing of dynamic ISPs that is used as a filter by subscriber ISPs to prevent direct e-mail from those addresses.
Read up on the history of the DivX codec, and you'll see it was originally called "DivX
I as Ruf could she bring it ovah to tom crib.
which translates to I asked Ruth if she could bring it over to Tom's place.
But, orally it seems more like a foreign language than a dialect.
The community that attempted to adopt Ebonics was Oakland with a 53% African American community. This brings up the point that the Hispanic community is over 50% of the California population and still growing fast. It will be interesting to see what language is the official language of California in the next few years.
I read Undeclared was not signed for another season, but I'm pretty sure Richter will get another year- he's gotten nothing but praise from critics.
King of the Hill definitely appeals to more than the 18-25 demographic, maybe Simpsons and Malcom in the Middle too, but nor so much.
Maybe I'm wrong though, I never really saw much of Max Headroom, but this post made me go watch Spaceballs again. I'm so glad I bought the DVD!
This looks to be a somewhat interesting interview. From the looks of it though, the questions deal mostly with the aspects of Chiangs life rather than any details of the upcoming movie. Frankly, I don't really want to hear is life story, or what website I can go to if I want to learn more about is past work. I want the lowdown on production, like what they used for the animation, props, and all that cool stuff.
I've been a Star Wars fan since the late 70's- I even bought a Millenium Falcon with my allowance (though I sold it at a garage sale when I was a teenager, boy am I kicking myself for that one). Anyway, this movie looks like it's got quite an all star production crew. I'm looking forward to seeing it, hopefully in one of the digital theatres if it's not too expensive. Though I sometimes wonder at the dedication of the people willing to sacrifice 3 months of their lives to wait in line.
Maybe this is similar to what you are thinking of.
Reasons for the switch (from the article):
1. Reliability
2. Scalability
3. Capable of high performance on the deskto
4. Cost-effective to maintain
5. Uses commodity, Intel-based hardware
The transition to Linux required that PDI/DreamWorks port all of its own tools from SGI. Few of the high-end commercial graphics tools supported Linux out of the box. Together, HP and PDI/DreamWorks worked to convince Alias|Wavefront and others that they needed to port their applications to Linux. Ultimately, HP and PDI/DreamWorks were successful, and DreamWorks has fully integrated Linux versions of all of its major tools including Maya and Wacom's Cintiq interactive pen display.
Probably my biggest issue is with noise. It could be my farely ADD-type tendencies, but almost any noise beyond what is found in a normal office environment makes it really hard for me to work. Music may be great for the mood, but I just can't work unless the music is classical or something else really light. Also, if I have an office near a window, it could be a problem if the the windows aren't soundproofed enough and I have to listen to the conversations all the smokers have on their breaks.
This reminds me, a Fry's Electronics had an ad in the paper today that I was really tempted by. Their website, Outpost.com, has the same product for about twice the price. Anyway, the deal is you get a Duron 950 CPU with a motherboard and case with a 300W PSU for $99. Add a fan, drives, video card, and RAM, and you have yourself a pretty killer machine for around $300. That's less than the GF3 Ti500, and it would require some top of the line games to notice much of a difference. Anyway, check it out, outpost has it listed for $179.00 but I can pick it up at Fry's for $99.
The game is also extremely playable with my "lowly" PIII-800 with a Voodoo3 at 1024x768 and I rarely face FPS slowdowns.
As for the .sig, I thought it was flamebait too until I actually read the journal entry. Quite interesting. Being a Linux user myself, I think that one of the main reasons I use it is because it is FREE. I'd hesitate to label myself as cheap, but the price certainly does have its appeal. Though I do believe the same article was published on CNet or some such place a few months ago.
Anyway, it is in the carrier's best interest to control the equipment used to access their network. In the newspaper today, there was an interesting article on the HDTV standard, which while a somewhat different scenerio is still relevant. The studios want all newer TV's manufactured to contain DRM type stuff, which would make the previously sold HDTV's obsolete. Now whether or not they can do this over the airwaves is the debate. Over cable is one thing, but over airwaves they've paid the FCC for the rights to, can they control what type of equipment has access to it. I see this as very much the same argument, and believe that if this antitrust case goes through, the TV network companies will in the future see very much the same case.
Question 1
Mr. Duffy, to start off with: What does the "A" in Robert A. Duffy stand for, how old are you, when did you join id software and what does your job description say in terms of your duties within the company?
Robert Duffy: The fucking a motherfucking stands for Allen. Goddamned sons of bitches like you. I am 38 and I've been full time at id for about two and a half years and I did contract work for them bastards for about one and a goddamn half years before that. You will feel my burns. My juicy job description is "Programmer", I work on the fucking editor, tools, the fucking in-game gui systems and game code ( doors, security cameras, etc.. You are a pussy. about to get started on some effects for shits as well ). You are a pussy. I also (in addition to the fact that you're a shit) deal with our licensees most of the fucking time as far as code updates and shit and at times work on other shits as needed. I should slam your throat. I worked with Kevin [Cloud] on the fucking Wolf MP shit and did some work on Wolf towards the fucking end of the fucking project tidying some shit up.
Question 2
I'm sure a lot of enthusiastic gamers out there would like to know and follow in your footsteps: What kind of education did you go through and what other companies / projects did you work for before you got hired by id? What did you want to be when you were a kid?
Robert Duffy: I am self taught. Pop Quiz, why are you such a fuckhead? The fucking last 3 companies I was at before id I wrote code as well as managed the fucking development process. Jesus was right, you are a shithole. I was Director of Technology for a motherfucking company in Los Angeles just prior to coming to fuckin' id, co-founded a fuckin' net company back in the fucking early-mid nineties before that.. You are a pussy. etc..
A fighter pilot but my fucking vision rules.
Question 3
Who was around when you had your application interview and how did you feel when you entered the "holy hallways" of id software for the first time?
Robert Duffy: John [Carmack] sent my stupid ass an jizz saying them poo pirates wanted to hire my stupid ass full time. I went up and talked to fuckin' that piece of shit ( and I think Graeme [Devine] was there at the fucking time ) told that bastard I'd get back to that piece of shit in a fuckin' day or so god-damn and after discussing that piece of shit with my fucking wife went for that shit. I was first at id many years ago when DOOM was first shipping, we were looking to license technology for some shit at the fucking time.
More recently when I started contracting that piece of shit was a motherfucking GOOD impression but a goddamn bit intimidating.
Question 4
Violence in Gaming and its influence on teenagers is a huge topic worldwide. My opinion is that people who spend some time kicking butt in fast-paced shooters like Q3A will definitely not tend to aggressively kick butt out on the streets. What is your take?
Robert Duffy: I'll have to keep my goddamn take on this bullshit to myself.
Question 5
As far as I understand legislation in your country, it is part of the constitution that every american citizen is allowed to wear a gun. In my opinion that is one major reason for teenage high- school killings - while claiming games like "Doom" guilty is completely ridiculous. What is your opinion?
Robert Duffy: Well wearing a gun and owning a gun are two goddamn different shits and neither of them shits have to fuckin' do with any game in my goddamn opinion. The only fucking countries I have ever seen citizens wearing guns are ones where the fuck that piece of shit was illegal. You are a fuckmonster. I don't think to date I have seen a citizen wearing a fuckin' firearm in public here in the fucking US.
Question 6
Doom 3: Quoting John Carmack, for the new engine the editor will be part of the main game executable and called via a command line parameter. Will that make it possible for level designers to preview their maps without fully re-compiling each time? Will the 3D-Window within the editor finally be game-engine-powered? And what will this mean in terms of the editor's looks and usability in general?
Robert Duffy: Yes the fucking editor is built into the fucking game ( as are all the fucking tools ). You and your sluts can preview in realtime fuckin' what a level looks like. The fucking editor is much like Q3Radiant but with additional functionality.
Question 7
In your opinion, what is the biggest benefit community & professional level designers will face using the new tools / editor compared to what Q3Radiant does for them today?
Robert Duffy: Real time preview and integration will help a whole shitload.
Question 8 ;o) - when do you think a demo version of the new engine will be available: Late 2002, Early 2003 oder Late 2003?
How is development of the new engine and tools coming along? Are the new tools already in use by anyone, creating content for the new engine? In general - without giving "when it's done" statements
Robert Duffy: Things are going goddamn well.
Question 9 :o) - to give yourself three attributes without giving a damn about what other people might think about you - what would they be?
Robert Duffy: Hmmm.. I dunno, I'm fairly happy to live with myself as I am and deal with the fucking GOOD and "f'ing great" aspects of that ;-)
If you were - and you are now
Question 10
What do you think about George Bush? Do you believe in God? What are your basic ethical values in every day social life?
Robert Duffy: He has done a great job under intense pressure. I am glad he is our president. Yes but not like most people probably do. I try to fuckin' be a GOOD moral human on a fuckin' daily basis.
We would like to thank Robert Duffy for taking the time to answer our questions and wish both him and id software all the best for the future."
The government could make us all shave our heads and wear uniforms, and it still wouldn't make us incapable of living our lives exactly as we are now. The point is, who would want to live their lives that way?
This doesn't sound very easy at all to me. I don't usually think of Alaska and Siberia being connected, and I'd imagine crossing the ice between them would be quite hazardous.
I found the Republican gubernatorial primaries interesting. The main competition was over who hated Davis more and it seems like most people ignored the more important issues.