The Unreal engine and their tech demo (a few months old now) whips the pants off anything Quake3 can do. Lately i've been impressed by the data you can give bots. Even Croteam is better than Q3A - I hope ID gets it together for Wolfenstein.
Depends entirely on the complexity of the vectors being drawn. If you've just got a few simple boxy widgets it will be quite fast, then it will be OK. I regularly use flash on my P166MMX and it's about the same speed as windows for well crafted Flash.
1. Many toolkits aren't resolution independant and don't scale gracefully.
2. GTK can be liquid and slightly resolution independent for the simple UI widgets - but it's really still based around pixels and you can't scale tewers in any such way without breaking. BeOS's toolkit is heavily pixel based (try increasing widget sizes and watch even the preinstalled software break!).
3. Qt is a little better. Java's Swing is quite good for this type of thing, too.
4. If you don't mind the Motif'ish look try Fulltick.
I'm on the design mailing list and they have talked occasionally of doing XLib on Berlin - and they realise that it's a major step in people's adoption of Berlin. It will be done, but there's more important things right now.
I have had a look at the XFree code and however well written a profiler wouldn't achieve much as X suffers from architectural bloat (though Network transparency does play a small role).
A large part is that X's primitives are too... primitive. Graphics cards are made for one operating system, and are made to be accerated with the higher level graphics primitives available on that system and not the rather crude 'draw line, move box' X'isms. Windows has move box to here with this amount of transparency - and the graphics card can accerate these features. As X primitives are too primitive there's little room for acceration and performance suffers.
OpenGL however has some very well thought-out primitives.
Apologies for fuzzing the primitive term. When X was made they were considered building-block primitives - but now what was primitive is archaic.
No, just a friend who works at a magazine with free tickets to a 16 seat dinner (just enough for intimate chatter, just enough to hide in the group). There is no movie industry in New Zealand, really (Xena/Hercules/those brothers that did "Scarfies"/Once Were Warriors - all loners with few people in common).
He (PJ) comes across quite serious in interviews, but he's a sly joker in person.
The only trailer I've seen is the obscured big-headed oaf one, I hope to see the proper one soon.
Yeah.. I think the best thing Peter Jackson has is a feel for colour. Every shot has the right flow. He's also a nice guy, I had dinner with him in Wellington a few years ago with the release of The Frighteners. I fear when Tr0LLs see a picture of him and start making RMS hygiene jokes, though.
Certainly improved since his braindead days of Tim (Lip)Balm;)
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BZZZT! WRONG!
You write shit like that for a living while wearing a nice suit and talk about e-ventures and you get a big car and a silicon wife.
Trust me, I know!
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The Unreal engine and their tech demo (a few months old now) whips the pants off anything Quake3 can do. Lately i've been impressed by the data you can give bots. Even Croteam is better than Q3A - I hope ID gets it together for Wolfenstein.
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Which is not to say the former wasn't.
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URL?
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Even Ricki Lake admitted that.
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I'm only up to this comment so I don't know if it's been mentioned but Ogg Vorbis will be a cross platform open standard for video and audio.
Right now they're only done the audio part - an mp3 replacement - though.
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I would want a larger drive, too.
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Despite ReiserFS's see-saw FS (ho!) it's allocation table overhead probably makes it not a good choice for small (less than 100meg) drives.
OK, by now!
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ps. I hate flash.
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Go to K5, collect $200, wanker.
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http://www.ufmedia.com/pressbox/pr-vast-jan15-01.h tml
(yes I know, offtopic)
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1. Many toolkits aren't resolution independant and don't scale gracefully.
2. GTK can be liquid and slightly resolution independent for the simple UI widgets - but it's really still based around pixels and you can't scale tewers in any such way without breaking. BeOS's toolkit is heavily pixel based (try increasing widget sizes and watch even the preinstalled software break!).
3. Qt is a little better. Java's Swing is quite good for this type of thing, too.
4. If you don't mind the Motif'ish look try Fulltick.
5. I like number 5.
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
-- Eat your greens or I'll hit you!
I have had a look at the XFree code and however well written a profiler wouldn't achieve much as X suffers from architectural bloat (though Network transparency does play a small role).
A large part is that X's primitives are too... primitive. Graphics cards are made for one operating system, and are made to be accerated with the higher level graphics primitives available on that system and not the rather crude 'draw line, move box' X'isms. Windows has move box to here with this amount of transparency - and the graphics card can accerate these features. As X primitives are too primitive there's little room for acceration and performance suffers.
OpenGL however has some very well thought-out primitives.
Apologies for fuzzing the primitive term. When X was made they were considered building-block primitives - but now what was primitive is archaic.
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OR WILL I?
DNS Cache is much cleaner than BIND and it's easier to get good results. Although a well-tuned BIND is still faster.
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Just because it's thin, or just because you're getting descriptions of the interface, doesn't mean it's not software.
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Really? Wow, do you work in the movie industry?
No, just a friend who works at a magazine with free tickets to a 16 seat dinner (just enough for intimate chatter, just enough to hide in the group). There is no movie industry in New Zealand, really (Xena/Hercules/those brothers that did "Scarfies"/Once Were Warriors - all loners with few people in common).
He (PJ) comes across quite serious in interviews, but he's a sly joker in person.
The only trailer I've seen is the obscured big-headed oaf one, I hope to see the proper one soon.
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(ahh... what one can gleam from a slashdot history)
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Certainly improved since his braindead days of Tim (Lip)Balm ;)
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(I hear Ben has a talk-show now)
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