The fact is that much of the worlds' art was commissioned, or created for
profit, under direction, or deadline, or was constrained by the technology of
the time. And although most games don't conceal a deep political or
psychological meaning, neither do most paintings adorning the walls of most of
the world's greatest galleries. The best games today evoke emotion, convey
a story or excite the imagination. What more can be expected from Art?
DX8's hardware independence is also looking a bit silly now as they make point releases to support ATI's new hardware. They might as well say D3D-GF3 or D3D-R200 instead of DX8 and DX8.1.
So, I guess, DX8.1 compatibility for GF3 Titanium means exactly nothing, just marketing buzzword.
Here in Poland, where we have GPRS running for some time now, the fastest available GPRS phone (the Motorola Timeport 260) can only do 40.2 kbps and the fastest "conventional GSM" (actually HSCSD) phone (Siemens S40) does 56 kbps.
(both numbers are download speeds, it's asymetric)
So just because the theoretical max for GPRS is 115.2 kbps it doesn't mean you will be getting it - check your phone first.
The author of the article and the guy who submitted the story clearly don't have a clue about Unicode. Unicode can encode over one million characters, as stated here.
Unicode may have its problems, but this is not one of them.
Even Lars von Trier doesn't make his movies according to the rules he set. In fact I think I never heard of a movie that would comply to the Dogma rules. And I'm sure if I did the movie would suck bad.
I think the closest one would be Blair Witch Project. It wasn't so bad, but I wonder if that's what Mr. von Trier had in mind.
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-jfedor
So, I guess, DX8.1 compatibility for GF3 Titanium means exactly nothing, just marketing buzzword.
-jfedor
Polish company STOEN also started such tests in August. They will last till the end of the year.
:-/)
(Of course the only purpose of these tests is to show that their service won't be available in my area.
-jfedor
That makes my 2nd ed. Red Book even more obsolete. :)
-jfedor
AFAIK, both Titanic and Shrek were rendered on Linux. (They were using Alphas in Digital Domain and Intels at PDI to do it.)
Furthermore, PDI is using Linux *on the desktop* since early 2001.
-jfedor
So, I guess he was wrong, eh?
-jfedor
-- John Carmack (2001-06-04)
-jfedor
Here in Poland, where we have GPRS running for some time now, the fastest available GPRS phone (the Motorola Timeport 260) can only do 40.2 kbps and the fastest "conventional GSM" (actually HSCSD) phone (Siemens S40) does 56 kbps.
(both numbers are download speeds, it's asymetric)
So just because the theoretical max for GPRS is 115.2 kbps it doesn't mean you will be getting it - check your phone first.
-jfedor
The author of the article and the guy who submitted the story clearly don't have a clue about Unicode. Unicode can encode over one million characters, as stated here.
Unicode may have its problems, but this is not one of them.
-jfedor
... let's not fool ourselves.
I know many people who will never buy a CD again because they can get the music in mp3.
-jfedor
... they have had things like these on the streets for years.
-jfedor
What happens when one company holds a trademark on a name which is a substring of another company's trademark?
-jfedor
Polish lyrics of the Jesus Christ Superstar musical (Wojciech Mlynarski's translation).
Thanks.
-jfedor
You can boot the Windows partition you keep "just for Diablo II" and "just for playing DVDs", install QuickTime for Windows and watch the movie.
-jfedor
I have a game called "Diablo" for ZX Spectrum. I wonder if the company that made it still exists so it could sue Blizzard.
And you can search IMDb to see many movies with "diablo" in their titles (maybe that's because "diablo" is a word from the dictionary).
-jfedor
I think this will be the time:
2001-03-15 22:20:37
-jfedor
Here you go.
-jfedor
Even Lars von Trier doesn't make his movies according to the rules he set. In fact I think I never heard of a movie that would comply to the Dogma rules. And I'm sure if I did the movie would suck bad.
I think the closest one would be Blair Witch Project. It wasn't so bad, but I wonder if that's what Mr. von Trier had in mind.
-jfedor
And you forgot one. Kinetix/Discreet/Autodesk/(whoever they are this week) will be releasing an OpenSource version of the Max modeller.
Are you sure it's gonna be open source?
I thought it was only going to be free as in beer.
-jfedor
We need a Dreamcast port of MAME. This would mean over 1500 new games for the dying console. :)
-jfedor
s/that/than/
Scientists are usually better judges that governments.
-jfedor
I believe his name was Gutenberg, not Gütenberg.
-jfedor
Assuming it's the same guy and not an imposter...
It is really him, I just confirmed it via private E-mail.
-jfedor
It's about time courts stopped interfering with things they don't understand.
-jfedor