Thanks. I was about to change the url to betanews.com to read that when I saw an article with no comments. It was posted at 3:21 and I went, hey.. I might have a chance to become like all those other/. lamers and go for a first post!
Thanks for not trolling on me for beating you to the first post, Tronster.
Hrmm wouldn't another disadvantage be that this is for linux only?
I'm a big fan of scorched earth, and I'm pissed that I can't play this game. Guess this is how you linux people feel when something comes out that interests you that runs on Windows only.
Ok, I don't know much about credit cards since I've never used or owned one. I basically know how they work though, you have a limit as to how much you can spend, then you pay the people who gave you the card or whoever the ammount you spent on stuff and if you're a good spender you can get the limit increased. I think that's right..
ok so here's what I wanna know...
If someone gets my CC number, what can someone do with it. I really don't know so that's why I'm asking. I mean, it's just a number... Don't you need more than that to make evil/good use of the whole credit card?
Yeah this is kind of a stupid question, but I've just never used one or even asked about it. So I'm just curious now:)
frame rate is probably the most important thing to me in gaming. That's why I bought a 3d Prophet2 GeForce2 GTS 64mb video card over the Voodoo5 5500. I gave 3dfx a chance with the Voodoo3 2000 PCI. Worst thing I ever did.
By the way, sfindley. 3dfx doesn't make absolutly shitty stuff, sure some sucks, but you konw why they were getting 9 fps? BECAUSE FSAA WAS CRANKED TO 4X AND THEY WERE RUNNING 1280x980! FSAA at 4x should be running at 640x480. With that they would probably be getting 30-40fps with the motion blur. I can't be certain with that, but it's a good guess considering the Voodoo5 is king of FSAA (as far as I remember from articles in the past).
I wonder what will happen to the next batch of GeForce2 cards (Maybe GeForce3 next) now that Nvidia has 3dfx. Hopefully superier FSAA and motion blur. We can only speculate right now.
Well, the 486's and P-100's were sitting in a back room at our school so we used those in our project, free of cost.
They consisted of 515mb hard drives. Just enough for a small install of debian and povray. Keep in mind you don't need to load up a bunch of crap on like X or whatnot. The only box that we installed X on was the server so we could show off the images.
How much energy? Well figure how much a big high school puts in wattage through a single outlet in a wall. We plugged EVERYTHING into ONE SINGLE outlet. How stupid is that?:) That means, hubs, computers, monitors (2 total) were all chained together with power strips and plugged into one outlet. Fun:)
Network throughput? Hrmm, dunno what you mean by that, but we were on a 10 network because the only cards we had free were all 10 so that worked just fine. Keep in mind we did this because we could, but we really wanted mention slashdot because that would make us cool:) Anyways it wasn't switched, it was just hubbed. It didn't matter because it was fast enough as it was.
It doesn't matter anyways, our cluster is in peices and god knows where. Our school sold off the old boxes to other places. We didn't fully get the schools permission to use them in the first place, but we got the SYSADMIN at our school to help us with some things. We call him Mr. Network. He's a big geek:)
Well we ran PWM or something for PVMpov. We called it a beowulf cluster. I'm not really the person to talk to about how the system was setup. I only took care of the povray part and building the machines up. I'm not all that linux inclined, but my friend is. I think we completely explained how we setup the machines with linux. it was kind of cool too. We wrote some perl scripts that copied one hard drive to another or something like that, and then would distribute the nessecary povray file to rendering. I might be slightly wrong, but that's pretty much how it is. But really, I was just the povray freak of the whole project:).
I am a major gamer. I like to play Quake1/2/3 a LOT. I play some UT and a lot of Half-Life (Firearms/TFC/Counter Strike/Plain of HL). I have a 3d Prophet2 GeForce2 GTS 64mb video card. The thing is insane, cost me a pretty penny but it was worth it. So far I've only tested it in Windows. What I want to do next is test it out in linux. In fact just a few hours ago I finished downloading the SuSE 6.4 evaluation ISO. I guess I could try it out with that. Unfortunatly for me I can't play Half-Life under linux, but I would be able to try it out with Quake3.
In Windows, I'm running the Detonator 3 6.31 drivers. Before I was using 5.16a drivers (Came on the cd) and was pulling about 45-50fps on timedemos at 1152x864 with 32bit color on and all the other settings jacked (Sound on during the timedemos too). Now with those same settings and the DET3 6.31 drivers I get about 70fps. Sure I probably can't truely see 70fps, but it's WAY smoother than 45-50fps.
I'd just like to see how Linux could handle my card and Quake3. Oh yeah, my box is an Athlon 750/128mb ram/3d Prophet2 GF2 GTS 64mb/Of course more stuff but nothing else I need to mention that is essential to gaming or something. So what I would like to know is if anyone else has similiar hardware that can run tests with Linux and Windows to see what difference they get. I did read that article a while back about comparing Linux to Windows with 3d games, but I'd rather see what a user gets not some lab.
Oh yes, NyQuil in it's original "green death" flavor. Have you ever tasted it? At first your stomach turns into a giant knot, and you go boom, out. "Green death" is a fairly decent description of the mint flavored NyQuil.
At my college they won't let you have alcohol at all on campus regardless of age, but I don't think they ban NyQuil. I wouldn't be suprised if there were some parties where people danced around in their dorm rooms drinking NyQuil straight from the bottle or from shotglasses.
Microsoft will never make their operating systems free. More people in this world use Windows, and will pay large ammounts of money for site licenses. Many companies willingly do this, and will continue to do so in the future. The only thing I can see happening is just the price dropping, but that still wouldn't justify the ability to make billions so easily.
Intel is really pushing AMD with a Tulatin at 1.26GHz. and a Pentium4 at 2GHz shipping Q3 of 2001.
Haha, whoops. I thought the Pentium4 2GHz would be shipping with Quake3. I gotta stop playing games as much as I do. Anyways, I'm an AMD person. I used to be 3dfx until my eyes caught on the GeForce2 GTS 64mb (Which I proudly own). Maybe the P4 will impress me enough to switch out from using AMD. Hell I went from my Celery 333 to Athlon 750. I could very well switch to Pentium4 if it's worth my money.
What do you/. readers prefer for a search engine? I prefer Google. Gets the job done easily with no clutter of useless features like Yahoo! Mail, Games, Credit Cards, all that other junk. Yeah I know this is kinda off topic, so please go easy on me moderators:)
I heard that with some decoder card that you can watch DVD's in linux. That's just what I heard, I could be completely wrong. If you can play DVDs in linux with a decoder card that would leave laptops out because I don't think there are laptop dvd decoder cards. Is there? Or do they run of software?
I spent $420 on my 3D Prophet2 GeForce2 GTS 64mb card. I bought that retail. You can pick it up for $50-$80 less online and other places. It's just a little less powerfull than the Voodoo5 6000 really. Oh yeah, did anyone mention the V5 6000 is about $600? Not only does it take up hella too much space, but it costs way more than it's worth. The V5 6000 is probably a furnace. If you want decent gaming, just get a GeForce2 MX. They're almost as good as the 3D Prophet2 GF2 GTS 64mb card, but hella cheaper. Below $200.
Remember when 3dfx was good? I wouldn't invest in 3dfx again. I'm all for NVidia now.
POV-Ray is a freeware opensource ray tracer. It is very well supported in the community as there are many different patches that inhance POV-Ray in itself. Not only is this program open source and freeware, it's on every damn operating system I can think of (Very short list hehe) But you'll find it for Windows, Linux, Macs, Amiga, DOS, etc.
There are several others such as, sPatch (kind if dead, but if you can find it you'll love it. It's a modeller that lets you export to POV-Ray or export DXF files.)
Another fun little program which I haven't had the time to play with is Blue Moon Rendering Tools. Read this for more info on BMRT.
Finally there is Radiance. I haven't had time to mess with this program, but it can make stunningly realistic images through the programs usage of realistic lighting. This is only for UNIX users at the moment. There is no known port (that I know about) that is in the works.
Well that's just a list of some 3d goodies. I've wanted to toy around with 3ds Max for a while. Sure I could have warezed it off, but I've given up on that. Now I can play around with a free stripped down version of 3dsmax. Yippie skippy or something.
As far as I remember, scour is just a search engine for media software (mp3s, videos, pictures). Google is a search engine for finding webpages as well as media. Google is primarily for webpages and such. The topic "MPAA Sues Scoure: Will Google Be Next?" is wrongly worded. Hrmm, is wrongly a word?
Slashdot Mirror
...but the year is 191000!
Err..
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Thanks. I was about to change the url to betanews.com to read that when I saw an article with no comments. It was posted at 3:21 and I went, hey.. I might have a chance to become like all those other /. lamers and go for a first post!
Thanks for not trolling on me for beating you to the first post, Tronster.
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Download here
I dunno if someone else posted this yet, but I did a google search for "scorched earth" and got that link. Been playing it for a while now. Go get it.
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Hrmm wouldn't another disadvantage be that this is for linux only?
I'm a big fan of scorched earth, and I'm pissed that I can't play this game. Guess this is how you linux people feel when something comes out that interests you that runs on Windows only.
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Ok, I don't know much about credit cards since I've never used or owned one. I basically know how they work though, you have a limit as to how much you can spend, then you pay the people who gave you the card or whoever the ammount you spent on stuff and if you're a good spender you can get the limit increased. I think that's right..
:)
ok so here's what I wanna know...
If someone gets my CC number, what can someone do with it. I really don't know so that's why I'm asking. I mean, it's just a number... Don't you need more than that to make evil/good use of the whole credit card?
Yeah this is kind of a stupid question, but I've just never used one or even asked about it. So I'm just curious now
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frame rate is probably the most important thing to me in gaming. That's why I bought a 3d Prophet2 GeForce2 GTS 64mb video card over the Voodoo5 5500. I gave 3dfx a chance with the Voodoo3 2000 PCI. Worst thing I ever did.
By the way, sfindley. 3dfx doesn't make absolutly shitty stuff, sure some sucks, but you konw why they were getting 9 fps? BECAUSE FSAA WAS CRANKED TO 4X AND THEY WERE RUNNING 1280x980! FSAA at 4x should be running at 640x480. With that they would probably be getting 30-40fps with the motion blur. I can't be certain with that, but it's a good guess considering the Voodoo5 is king of FSAA (as far as I remember from articles in the past).
I wonder what will happen to the next batch of GeForce2 cards (Maybe GeForce3 next) now that Nvidia has 3dfx. Hopefully superier FSAA and motion blur. We can only speculate right now.
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Guess we won't be shocking anymore monkies for $20 now...
:)
If you haven't seen that banner ad, consider yourself lucky
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Wonder if this will do anything for NV20 which I'm eagerly waiting to be released...
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Wonder if that new game could get the programmers in trouble. Doubt it though.
:)
The game rules anwyays
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1.) Wasn't it only 300 NEC laptops with Crusoes? That certianly is not something major, but still newsworthy.
2.) Athlon is like dead in a way. Thunderbirds and Durons are what's happening.
That's about it.
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Go after the people who make the cd burners, what about the people who are using these 100% legal peices of hardware for their illegal use?
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Haha, Jeff K. is so damn funny. I'd like to see him a do a guide on how to hack a TIVO. I especially love his guide on video cards.
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Well, the 486's and P-100's were sitting in a back room at our school so we used those in our project, free of cost.
:) That means, hubs, computers, monitors (2 total) were all chained together with power strips and plugged into one outlet. Fun :)
:) Anyways it wasn't switched, it was just hubbed. It didn't matter because it was fast enough as it was.
:)
They consisted of 515mb hard drives. Just enough for a small install of debian and povray. Keep in mind you don't need to load up a bunch of crap on like X or whatnot. The only box that we installed X on was the server so we could show off the images.
How much energy? Well figure how much a big high school puts in wattage through a single outlet in a wall. We plugged EVERYTHING into ONE SINGLE outlet. How stupid is that?
Network throughput? Hrmm, dunno what you mean by that, but we were on a 10 network because the only cards we had free were all 10 so that worked just fine. Keep in mind we did this because we could, but we really wanted mention slashdot because that would make us cool
It doesn't matter anyways, our cluster is in peices and god knows where. Our school sold off the old boxes to other places. We didn't fully get the schools permission to use them in the first place, but we got the SYSADMIN at our school to help us with some things. We call him Mr. Network. He's a big geek
Hope that somewhat answers your questions.
-PovRayMan
Well we ran PWM or something for PVMpov. We called it a beowulf cluster. I'm not really the person to talk to about how the system was setup. I only took care of the povray part and building the machines up. I'm not all that linux inclined, but my friend is. I think we completely explained how we setup the machines with linux. it was kind of cool too. We wrote some perl scripts that copied one hard drive to another or something like that, and then would distribute the nessecary povray file to rendering. I might be slightly wrong, but that's pretty much how it is. But really, I was just the povray freak of the whole project :).
-PovRayMan
I am a major gamer. I like to play Quake1/2/3 a LOT. I play some UT and a lot of Half-Life (Firearms/TFC/Counter Strike/Plain of HL). I have a 3d Prophet2 GeForce2 GTS 64mb video card. The thing is insane, cost me a pretty penny but it was worth it. So far I've only tested it in Windows. What I want to do next is test it out in linux. In fact just a few hours ago I finished downloading the SuSE 6.4 evaluation ISO. I guess I could try it out with that. Unfortunatly for me I can't play Half-Life under linux, but I would be able to try it out with Quake3.
In Windows, I'm running the Detonator 3 6.31 drivers. Before I was using 5.16a drivers (Came on the cd) and was pulling about 45-50fps on timedemos at 1152x864 with 32bit color on and all the other settings jacked (Sound on during the timedemos too). Now with those same settings and the DET3 6.31 drivers I get about 70fps. Sure I probably can't truely see 70fps, but it's WAY smoother than 45-50fps.
I'd just like to see how Linux could handle my card and Quake3. Oh yeah, my box is an Athlon 750/128mb ram/3d Prophet2 GF2 GTS 64mb/Of course more stuff but nothing else I need to mention that is essential to gaming or something. So what I would like to know is if anyone else has similiar hardware that can run tests with Linux and Windows to see what difference they get. I did read that article a while back about comparing Linux to Windows with 3d games, but I'd rather see what a user gets not some lab.
-PovRayMan
Oh yes, NyQuil in it's original "green death" flavor. Have you ever tasted it? At first your stomach turns into a giant knot, and you go boom, out. "Green death" is a fairly decent description of the mint flavored NyQuil.
At my college they won't let you have alcohol at all on campus regardless of age, but I don't think they ban NyQuil. I wouldn't be suprised if there were some parties where people danced around in their dorm rooms drinking NyQuil straight from the bottle or from shotglasses.
Microsoft will never make their operating systems free. More people in this world use Windows, and will pay large ammounts of money for site licenses. Many companies willingly do this, and will continue to do so in the future. The only thing I can see happening is just the price dropping, but that still wouldn't justify the ability to make billions so easily.
-PovRayMan
I just moved to RI, I'm at Johnson and Wales. If I were still in Massachusetts (My home town is 45mins from MIT) I'd probably go.
Intel is really pushing AMD with a Tulatin at 1.26GHz. and a Pentium4 at 2GHz shipping Q3 of 2001.
Haha, whoops. I thought the Pentium4 2GHz would be shipping with Quake3. I gotta stop playing games as much as I do. Anyways, I'm an AMD person. I used to be 3dfx until my eyes caught on the GeForce2 GTS 64mb (Which I proudly own). Maybe the P4 will impress me enough to switch out from using AMD. Hell I went from my Celery 333 to Athlon 750. I could very well switch to Pentium4 if it's worth my money.
-PovRayMan
What do you /. readers prefer for a search engine? I prefer Google. Gets the job done easily with no clutter of useless features like Yahoo! Mail, Games, Credit Cards, all that other junk. Yeah I know this is kinda off topic, so please go easy on me moderators :)
-PovRayMan
I heard that with some decoder card that you can watch DVD's in linux. That's just what I heard, I could be completely wrong. If you can play DVDs in linux with a decoder card that would leave laptops out because I don't think there are laptop dvd decoder cards. Is there? Or do they run of software?
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prm@[boo]3d-shooters.com
www.3d-shooters.com
You're just jealous because you're too cheap to afford a 3D Prophet2 GeForce2 GTS 64mb card.
I spent $420 on my 3D Prophet2 GeForce2 GTS 64mb card. I bought that retail. You can pick it up for $50-$80 less online and other places. It's just a little less powerfull than the Voodoo5 6000 really. Oh yeah, did anyone mention the V5 6000 is about $600? Not only does it take up hella too much space, but it costs way more than it's worth. The V5 6000 is probably a furnace. If you want decent gaming, just get a GeForce2 MX. They're almost as good as the 3D Prophet2 GF2 GTS 64mb card, but hella cheaper. Below $200.
Remember when 3dfx was good? I wouldn't invest in 3dfx again. I'm all for NVidia now.
POV-Ray is a freeware opensource ray tracer. It is very well supported in the community as there are many different patches that inhance POV-Ray in itself. Not only is this program open source and freeware, it's on every damn operating system I can think of (Very short list hehe) But you'll find it for Windows, Linux, Macs, Amiga, DOS, etc.
There are several others such as, sPatch (kind if dead, but if you can find it you'll love it. It's a modeller that lets you export to POV-Ray or export DXF files.)
Another fun little program which I haven't had the time to play with is Blue Moon Rendering Tools. Read this for more info on BMRT.
Finally there is Radiance. I haven't had time to mess with this program, but it can make stunningly realistic images through the programs usage of realistic lighting. This is only for UNIX users at the moment. There is no known port (that I know about) that is in the works.
Well that's just a list of some 3d goodies. I've wanted to toy around with 3ds Max for a while. Sure I could have warezed it off, but I've given up on that. Now I can play around with a free stripped down version of 3dsmax. Yippie skippy or something.
-PovRayMan
As far as I remember, scour is just a search engine for media software (mp3s, videos, pictures). Google is a search engine for finding webpages as well as media. Google is primarily for webpages and such. The topic "MPAA Sues Scoure: Will Google Be Next?" is wrongly worded. Hrmm, is wrongly a word?
-PovRayMan