Now I suggest you look at these next ones for video cards since 3d cards are very essential to gamers. My card is a Hercules 3d Prophet2 GeForce2 GTS 64mb. If you plan on getting an NVdia card I suggeset getting any of the Hercules 3d Prophet Series. They are the best for gaming in my opinion. If you want TV out/in, dvd playback, and some decent 3d, you can go with the ATI Radeon, but I can't endorse it since I've never used it, I've only heard other people's stories.
Disclaimer: I don't feel like running a spell check or grammer check on myself. I'll leave it up to the Anonymous Cowards to point out my mistakes or broken urls or whatever.
"A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy seems to have certain special abilities, not usually found in kids his age, or even fully-grown adults."
Sounds more like he's a child prodigy or something.
Now the movie Josh and S.a.m. stars two kids. One of them, Josh, is a human who can't drive a really nice sports car (From what I remember). He has a younger brother named Sam. In the movie Josh convinces Sam that he, Sam, is a robot or something to that equivialent. Mostly Josh and S.a.m. is about the two brothers trying to get back home and they find the blonde chick from The Goonies along the way.
Anyways, D.A.R.Y.L. was cooler because he steals and flys a jet plane and puts gum over the camera inside the cockpit which was "totally tubular" back in the mid 1980's.
In the end both kids were human. So neither had much to do with them robot wise...
Maybe for linux, but I like the windows version of POV-Ray. It's nice and easy to type code then render because of the easy to use GUI. It can be a pain sometimes to have to get out of the text editor then type up a line of code to render it.
Sometimes it's just easier to code it up and click a button to render.
Ok ok, As a POV-Ray freak, I just gotta reply to this. POVLAB went open source a while ago (I think, I don't use modellers for povray, I Hand code). So I guess you can consider that a good thing. However one thing bothers me. It says on the site
The aim is to make a complete free 3D package with POV-Ray which could compete with commercial softwares (like 3D Studio).
Now POV-Ray is no where near as advanced as 3D Studio is for rendering. POV-Ray totally requires floating point for rendering, while 3d studio uses a 3d card for rendering (I think that's right, I don't really use 3d studio:/)
The only thing I feel POV-Ray has an advantage over 3D Studio is that it is opensource, freeware, and multiplatform. HELL you can run pov-ray on an Amiga system. Who the hell uses Amiga anyways? But hey, it'll work! It'll work also on *NIX, SunOS, DOS, etc. Point is, you see 3D studio isn't open source and what, only works in Windows 9x/NT? With things being open source and all, people with enough time can port these things over to other platforms. It would be nice to see this OpenFX thingie be ported over and what not.
as a little bottom note thingie, I would like to point out a few things. First of all, I really don't know the difference between all this opensource/gpl/whatever stuff. All I know about it is that the source code is right there to play with. Another thing is just because my name is PovRayMan (and have a 5 digit/. UID) doesn't mean I'm the smartest POV-Ray guy in the world. I started using POV-Ray four years ago, and became obsessed, so I called myself PovRayMan. But nowadays, I just don't find time to play with it. The last major project I did with povray was build a beowulf cluster that used PVM-POV.
This completely unorganized ramble has been brought to you by me!
this is a problem with linux when it goes retail. A product that is a free download doesn't have much of a source of income. Working for something open source or gpl or whatever the hell it is comes at a price.
Now be gentle when replying to this comment. I'm no linux buff, but I don't have to be one to see the obvious that more people are likely to download SuSE than buy it at the store...
but, WinQuake was an executable for Quake which ran through windows with no need for dos. I believe WinQuake uses Win32 API's and I wouldn't be suprised if the ipaq quake was winquake or some specially made port of winquake.
Slashdot Mirror
Here are some urls for you if you wanna build a nice gaming box...
p c
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l ue_3dcard_roundup_10-00/
p er_he_video_shootout_10-00/
The urls explain themselves sorta.
These two are buyers guides for computers...
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/theguide/value_game_
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/theguide/high_game_p
Now I suggest you look at these next ones for video cards since 3d cards are very essential to gamers. My card is a Hercules 3d Prophet2 GeForce2 GTS 64mb. If you plan on getting an NVdia card I suggeset getting any of the Hercules 3d Prophet Series. They are the best for gaming in my opinion. If you want TV out/in, dvd playback, and some decent 3d, you can go with the ATI Radeon, but I can't endorse it since I've never used it, I've only heard other people's stories.
Anyways here are the urls.
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/articles/va
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/articles/su
That's about it...
Disclaimer: I don't feel like running a spell check or grammer check on myself. I'll leave it up to the Anonymous Cowards to point out my mistakes or broken urls or whatever.
-PovRayMan
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Modded offtopic eh? Of course moderaters don't understand a quick light jab at "funny" do they?
*sigh*
-PovRayMan
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According to this source on IMDB.com about the plot to D.A.R.Y.L.
"A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy seems to have certain special abilities, not usually found in kids his age, or even fully-grown adults."
Sounds more like he's a child prodigy or something.
Now the movie Josh and S.a.m. stars two kids. One of them, Josh, is a human who can't drive a really nice sports car (From what I remember). He has a younger brother named Sam. In the movie Josh convinces Sam that he, Sam, is a robot or something to that equivialent. Mostly Josh and S.a.m. is about the two brothers trying to get back home and they find the blonde chick from The Goonies along the way.
Anyways, D.A.R.Y.L. was cooler because he steals and flys a jet plane and puts gum over the camera inside the cockpit which was "totally tubular" back in the mid 1980's.
In the end both kids were human. So neither had much to do with them robot wise...
...but remember... Johnny 5 is Alive!
-PovRayMan
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Last I heard the GF3 was coming out the same time it was on the PC as it was for the MAC.
-PovRayMan
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Judge Sipowitz ordered an injunction against anyone in the United State to use any prime numbers in the following areas.
- Age
- Math Class
- Slashdot UIDs
- Programming
Judge Sipowitz was then sued by CmdrTaco because of his slashdot uid. CmdrTaco is also suing for emotional damages...
(I asked a bunch of people on IRC if 1 was a prime number. I got lot of yes and no responses. Then again turning to IRC for help? I must be crazy.)
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part of the code;
set bugs = 1;
Oh.
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Census Guy: "You're a Jedi? HAH! Prove it!"
Jedi: *waves hand* "You don't need me to prove anything."
Census Guy: "You have nothing to prove to me."
Jedi: "You owe me $20"
Census Guy: *reaches into wallet* "Here is the $20 I owe you."
Jedi: "Hey cool it worked."
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Thanks for posting the link to unixsex.com. Now all the trolls will have a new idol to post anonymous about.
unixse.cx man
Ugn. Gotta throw up now..
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-More confusing rules/laws/confusing words
-Uhmm, hrmm..
-Jon Katz?
Er, damn. I don't know much about this GPL stuff. Can't think of anything funny...
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We don't need
-Jon Katz
-Anonymous Cowards
-Trolls
Err, wait. That's about 80% of slashdot...
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...this indirect blame that really scares me. Other people getting in trouble for other's wrong doings just isn't fair.
-Posting anonymously to avoid trolls. (seriously)
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Maybe for linux, but I like the windows version of POV-Ray. It's nice and easy to type code then render because of the easy to use GUI. It can be a pain sometimes to have to get out of the text editor then type up a line of code to render it.
Sometimes it's just easier to code it up and click a button to render.
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Ok ok, As a POV-Ray freak, I just gotta reply to this. POVLAB went open source a while ago (I think, I don't use modellers for povray, I Hand code). So I guess you can consider that a good thing. However one thing bothers me. It says on the site
:/)
/. UID) doesn't mean I'm the smartest POV-Ray guy in the world. I started using POV-Ray four years ago, and became obsessed, so I called myself PovRayMan. But nowadays, I just don't find time to play with it. The last major project I did with povray was build a beowulf cluster that used PVM-POV.
The aim is to make a complete free 3D package with POV-Ray which could compete with commercial softwares (like 3D Studio).
Now POV-Ray is no where near as advanced as 3D Studio is for rendering. POV-Ray totally requires floating point for rendering, while 3d studio uses a 3d card for rendering (I think that's right, I don't really use 3d studio
The only thing I feel POV-Ray has an advantage over 3D Studio is that it is opensource, freeware, and multiplatform. HELL you can run pov-ray on an Amiga system. Who the hell uses Amiga anyways? But hey, it'll work! It'll work also on *NIX, SunOS, DOS, etc. Point is, you see 3D studio isn't open source and what, only works in Windows 9x/NT? With things being open source and all, people with enough time can port these things over to other platforms. It would be nice to see this OpenFX thingie be ported over and what not.
as a little bottom note thingie, I would like to point out a few things. First of all, I really don't know the difference between all this opensource/gpl/whatever stuff. All I know about it is that the source code is right there to play with. Another thing is just because my name is PovRayMan (and have a 5 digit
This completely unorganized ramble has been brought to you by me!
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If I remember correctly I told you to sign up on /. so you didn't post as an anonymous coward.
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Wow, our user ID numbers are close together.
:)
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I guess I'm just spoiled with this 1.5mbit down connection :/
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this is a problem with linux when it goes retail. A product that is a free download doesn't have much of a source of income. Working for something open source or gpl or whatever the hell it is comes at a price.
Now be gentle when replying to this comment. I'm no linux buff, but I don't have to be one to see the obvious that more people are likely to download SuSE than buy it at the store...
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You're forgetting maddog!
He has a great image!
He looks like santa claus.
Children would switch to linux if santa said so.
Btw, this is John "Maddog" Hall. Picture references are great!
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I made a beowulf cluster too.
You can read more about my beowulf cluster at this site.
Slashdot is a good place to spam your own beowulf website!
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What are you doing?
Hey NNKK, pick up the cordless!
What are you doing?
haha, that commercial owned.
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I'm a dummy. And I made a beowulf cluster. Check it out here.
Any dummy can make a beowulf cluster.
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oops!
What about the game gear and sega nomad?
Although they are hand helds, the sega nomad played the sega carts...
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DC came out in 98? Yep.
Eh! WRONG!
Dreamcast came out 9-9-99!
Don't you remember those ads?
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IANASP (I am not a smart person)
but, WinQuake was an executable for Quake which ran through windows with no need for dos. I believe WinQuake uses Win32 API's and I wouldn't be suprised if the ipaq quake was winquake or some specially made port of winquake.
Then again I could be wrong, after all IANASP.
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I mean year 19100. Doh
:(
There goes my karma
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