They probably decided to go to Linux to keep government workers from playing Starcraft on the job. They say that 1 in every 45 people in South Korea own a legal copy of it. Who knows how many pirated copies there are.
Damned mac-hating idiot. I hate the "macs are for morons" narrow-minded attitude. I have a ph.d in computer science and I use macs. I do research in computer graphics and medical visualization on my Mac, along with my linux box and my 20 processor SGI.
If you install the developer tools CD, you get make, you get cc, you get c++, even lexx and yacc. I've install X windows, icewm. I could install which every GUI I felt like. I've install Mesa, tcl/tk, vim, vtk Open Inventor. Just about anything you can install on a Linux box, you can install on OS X.
They have a similar system at Georgia Tech, called the NAVE. It's a three sided, small scale cave. The interesting thing about it is that they did it on the cheap. Just a bunch of students with hammers and nails to put it together. I think they said it cost 60 grand total in parts.
The PC's driving the walls were running Windows. So when we got a demo, they rebooted the machines first off. They said to clear out all the OS cruft. The synchronization between the walls was not very good at times. I'd say large fractions of a second. Thats the one thing a big SGI gets you, really tight synchronization between the walls.
There were these handle bars that the front of the treadmill that you turned. Overall it was not a very compelling experience.
I seem to recall some Japanese researcher built an omni-directional type treadmill. I think you just basically walked on a surface of ball bearings.
About getting 30 fps, in the old days we had the world's fastest graphics computer. It would draw 20-30 thousand triangles per second. Pixel-Planes 4 was a large rack of several thousand custom chips. It was a SIMD array with a processor per pixel.
If you wanted stereo at 30 FPS, your scene had to be ~4-500 triangles. Of course now you could do that all in software on an old crappy PC.
Many moons ago, when I was a grad student at UNC we had some demos with a treadmill and with an exercise bike. You'd use the treadmill to walk around the build. For the bike you'd pedal around a simple terrain.
I remember seeing an old guy (maybe 75 years old) trying to walk around on the treadmill. I swear that he was going to have a heart attack.
I'm always amazed that given all the VR demos we did, I never saw anyone lose their lunch. People would get dizzy, but no one actually blew chunks.
The Palestinian authority is said to have ordered
youths in the occupied territories not to congregate or
show any signs of jubilation.
But in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and
Lebanon, shots were fired in celebration and some
said that as Israel's chief backer, the United States
deserved this punishment.
Why should my hard earned tax dollars go to pay for streets that I don't use? Cops that I don't need? I don't think we need a military and I shouldn't have to pay for it! I want my tax dollars to go for federally sponsort PR0N!!!!
Wow! DirectX sounds so COOOOLLL!
Can I run it on my Mac? Can I run it on
my on my Irix box? My Sparcstation? Can
I use it to run Maya?
That would be sooooo awesome, baby!
Yeah, but I'm just waiting for a giant meteor
to wipe out the dinosaurs (M$) that rule the
earth, this clearing the landscape for the smaller, smarter, more survivable mammals.
I've been playing with it since it came out.
As a Linux/Irix hacker at work and Mac guy
at home, I have to say that OS X is so F***ING
COOL! You get the best of both worlds, mac
easy of use and Unix power.
Speed-wise the unofficial 10.0.1 update that's floating around made a world of difference for me. Also doing things like reducing the # of colors and renicing the GUI make it much more usable.
The Developers CD includes all the GNU tools you'd want, a load of examples and plus some Apple tools. Just started playing with Apple's Project Builder yesterday. That's their integrated development tool. Looks pretty nice, although
I'm more of a makefile type. Built and ran a couple of the OpenGL examples.
Did I mention that OS X is way cool? Every time I use it, I just think to myself, this is so F-ing cool.
dave chen
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They probably decided to go to Linux to keep government workers from playing Starcraft on the job. They say that 1 in every 45 people in South Korea own a legal copy of it. Who knows how many pirated copies there are.
Mmmmmmm. Jello steak.
Damned mac-hating idiot. I hate the "macs are for morons" narrow-minded attitude. I have a ph.d in computer science and I use macs. I do research in computer graphics and medical visualization on my Mac, along with my linux box and my 20 processor SGI.
So go screw yourself.
dave
If you install the developer tools CD, you get make, you get cc, you get c++, even lexx and yacc. I've install X windows, icewm. I could install which every GUI I felt like. I've install Mesa, tcl/tk, vim, vtk Open Inventor. Just about anything you can install on a Linux box, you can install on OS X.
dave
They have a similar system at Georgia Tech, called the NAVE. It's a three sided, small scale cave. The interesting thing about it is that they did it on the cheap. Just a bunch of students with hammers and nails to put it together. I think they said it cost 60 grand total in parts.
The PC's driving the walls were running Windows. So when we got a demo, they rebooted the machines first off. They said to clear out all the OS cruft. The synchronization between the walls was not very good at times. I'd say large fractions of a second. Thats the one thing a big SGI gets you, really tight synchronization between the walls.
dave chen
OS X. iDVD. iTunes. Final Cut Pro 3.
Sure Apple is know for their design aesthetic, but they have some really cool technology too.
Mr Ashcroft? It's Bill Gates on the line. He said it's time for you to grab ankle.
There were these handle bars that the front of the treadmill that you turned. Overall it was not a very compelling experience.
I seem to recall some Japanese researcher built an omni-directional type treadmill. I think you just basically walked on a surface of ball bearings.
About getting 30 fps, in the old days we had the world's fastest graphics computer. It would draw 20-30 thousand triangles per second. Pixel-Planes 4 was a large rack of several thousand custom chips. It was a SIMD array with a processor per pixel.
If you wanted stereo at 30 FPS, your scene had to be ~4-500 triangles. Of course now you could do that all in software on an old crappy PC.
dave
Many moons ago, when I was a grad student at UNC we had some demos with a treadmill and with an exercise bike. You'd use the treadmill to walk around the build. For the bike you'd pedal around a simple terrain.
I remember seeing an old guy (maybe 75 years old) trying to walk around on the treadmill. I swear that he was going to have a heart attack.
I'm always amazed that given all the VR demos we did, I never saw anyone lose their lunch. People would get dizzy, but no one actually blew chunks.
dave
Akebono, Ron Jeremy and Cowbow Neal!
Also this link is a nice little story of how a Palestinian official threaten the life of an AP cameraman who filmed the celebration.
Here's a
link.
Why should my hard earned tax dollars go to pay for streets that I don't use? Cops that I don't need? I don't think we need a military and I shouldn't have to pay for it! I want my tax dollars to go for federally sponsort PR0N!!!!
Wow! DirectX sounds so COOOOLLL! Can I run it on my Mac? Can I run it on my on my Irix box? My Sparcstation? Can I use it to run Maya? That would be sooooo awesome, baby!
Yeah, but I'm just waiting for a giant meteor to wipe out the dinosaurs (M$) that rule the earth, this clearing the landscape for the smaller, smarter, more survivable mammals.
Well, I have it working. Don't go accusing people of lying just because you're a dumbass.
I've been playing with it since it came out. As a Linux/Irix hacker at work and Mac guy at home, I have to say that OS X is so F***ING COOL! You get the best of both worlds, mac easy of use and Unix power. Speed-wise the unofficial 10.0.1 update that's floating around made a world of difference for me. Also doing things like reducing the # of colors and renicing the GUI make it much more usable. The Developers CD includes all the GNU tools you'd want, a load of examples and plus some Apple tools. Just started playing with Apple's Project Builder yesterday. That's their integrated development tool. Looks pretty nice, although I'm more of a makefile type. Built and ran a couple of the OpenGL examples. Did I mention that OS X is way cool? Every time I use it, I just think to myself, this is so F-ing cool. dave chen