The author has stated that this puts this new source under the GPL, which has a good outlook for us.
Actually it doesn't. If this were true, Microsoft could claim the copyright on Samba and decide what kind of licensing it would carry. The act of reverse engineering and reimplementing makes the result the property of the person doing the reverse engineering.
Lacking any other copyright in the code, it would be smartest for the Livid team to wait for a verifiable version of such code to show up.
...the G3 is noticeably faster than a pentium of the same clock speed.
No arguments from me. Anytime you can get more orthogonal registers you get a faster CPU per cycle. Now look at the max clock rates for the two chips. G3 = 450 Mhz, G4 = 450 Mhz, P3 = 733 Mhz. Given that the speed difference at the same clock rate is not more than 50% for general purpose computing, it should be obvious that the P3 733 is going to be beating out the G3/G4 processors in their *max* configurations. That's the point I make.
It's funny, but the ol' 604e at 332MHz (running a text-based setiathome client) smoked a 500MHz P-III running the test-based client on NT- by approximately 50%.
Sounds like you're a big believer in Bytemarks too. Do you tell all your friends how your candy colored iMac is twice as fast as their ugly, grey Pentium II 500?
Unless you enjoy people laughing at you, if you are going to play the benchmark game you've got to do it right. Picking and choosing your favorite OS/CPU/benchmark combination and matching it against whatever low scoring arrangement you can find doesn't quite fall into the area of scientific benchmarking.
Look at an actual benchmark, say SpecInt or SpecFP. Everybody uses the same code, the same data set. Everybody puts maximum effort into tuning their systems. And shockingly enough we find that the PPC G3/G4s aren't 12 times faster than the equivilant Intel parts.
Or look through John Carmacks.plan updates. Maybe you'll consider him impartial, but maybe you won't.
...and if this 700Mhz is anywhere close to a G4...
Unless Motorola has pulled off some real voodoo with the G4 (like making it twice the speed of the G3 at the same clock) the 250 Mhz clock differential between a PIII 700 and a G4 450 is going to be too much to handle.
Motorola doesn't seem to be able to produce a 500+ Mhz part in volume. Given that both architectures are down in the 1-2 cycle instruction issue area (and in certain situations much better than that) they need to be something like 30% more efficient in their instruction set just to break even.
i wasnt aware of the quake1 source release. if true, that certainly help modifying it for this sort of task.
Strictly speaking the source for Quake was "released" before the source for Doom. Just not legitimately. Maybe it's a thing of the past, but I thought that every interested 3D weenie has/had the sources in their grubby little paws.
Assuming id manages to find time to get the Quake source presentable and out this christmas, the rate of progress for ports and such should be amazing, if you get my drift.
Ironic that a magazine called "Family PC" is writing articles complaining about, the supposed, lack of functionality in a process that allows a parent to put less "family" into their "PC".
If a game is carrying a ESRB rating, which is actually self imposed by the industry and totally voluntary, the parent has the tools they need to easily make a decision about their child playing the game without having to play through the game themselves. How hard is it to look at the jewel case, or even on the CD itself and see what the rating is. It's even part of the silk screen. The only way I can imagine little Susy playing a game like Half-Life, Kingpin or one of the numerous other "mature" titles out there is if the parent doesn't even put enough effort into seeing what their kid is doing.
Theoretically the demo will not use third party maps. Plus it would be safe to assume that there will be very few of the bot players (for single player mode) included.
However, id doesn't have the best track record with decisions in this area. Take the Q2Demo for example. If you install the demo, then install the Q2 3.20 patch you end up with a small DM only game that works with the "official" servers and such. The only problem is that one of the maps uses a different sky than the others and you end up with some real psychodelic visuals on that map. A simple copy and then you have a fully functional DM client (you can play Q2DM1-8.) Download and install the various PGL/OGL maps and you'd be ready to play just about anywhere.
Looking at the current q3test we find that it supposedly is running in "restricted demo mode" but a simple rename of the demoq3 directory to baseq3 and you have the "unrestricted" mode. This allows you to install the various hacked and reverse engineered maps that are available on the net.
Given id's record, it's hard to reconcile their official statements (ie. "no reverse engineering", etc.) with their observed actions.
XFree86 is severely bloated; typically some 25-30M, at least with the i740 server.
One thing you may not be aware of re: bloat is that the mmapped video memory is included in the various reported sizes of the XFree86 process. I don't recall right off hand how much is allocated on the i740, but on the ET6000 16 MB is allocated, even though the chipset is physically limitted to a 4 MB frame buffer. This is because of the way that the hardware works.
Many i740 cards have 8 MB frame buffers, and there is probably some slop in there for MMIO. So that is responsible for a lot of the apparent bloat.
Wow, now that's what I would call completely missing the point. The point isn't that people don't have choice in their thoughs and deeds. It's saying that the US is living a lie because we believe we are free and yet still have to a society to deal with is just pointless trolling. Every country that considers itself "free" has the same issues that the US has. You say something unpopular and you will get a negative reaction from the masses. In any sufficiently large group you will encounter extremists whose actions are outside rational thought. Choosing to view those as the norm is being disingenuous. Attaching two unrelated issues (US freedom and societal dynamics) is shoddy thinking and poor logic. The government is responsible for using public tax monies in a fashion that delivers the most good to the most people. Choosing not to financially support cultural flamebait is not censorship nor is it inappropriate. We do not have a obligation to weigh and discuss every idea that someone thinks is good. We do have an obligation to ourselves to live our lives as we think is right. For the majority of people this does not mean playing an intellectualism. In order for an individual to progress it is necessary for them to realize that sophmoric cries for attention through "challenging the status quo" is not the same as being a contributing member of society. It's also probably good for people to realize that, just like a mosquito, once you get annoying enough you will get swatted. Intruding in other peoples lives is not free speech, it's just asshole-ism. And nobody likes an asshole. As far as receiving death threats for unpopular ideas, that's just wrong. I can't think that there are very many people who think that such is ok. -sw
They can vocalize all they want. It's just that there are consequences to everything you do and say. That's human nature and when the government steps in to say that I have to accept every idea presented, that's when I'll have lost my freedom.
It's easy to criticize something without providing a replacement for it. You may have many disagreements with the philosophical and practical foundations of my country, but until you can provide me with a replacement that will give me the same standard of living and quality of life, I won't be giving your arguments much weight.
Please explain to me how my privacy rights are the worst. And explain how hypocritcal media portrayals actually make me less free. (Please don't be stupid and point out one example of a country that has better privacy rights than the US, you said worst. Show me how all countries have better privacy rights. I'd even be interested in seeing one country that is subtantially better.)
Katz's argument was not about our legal rights, but the forms of censorship that are used against us by society.
Human nature is not a property of US culture. Arguing that the US is not "free" because of the way people and societies work is similar to arguing that the US is not "free" because we are governed by the law of gravity.
In the US you go have the right to say just about anything without fear of government action against you. Yes, the government my stop supporting you, but the government doesn't support a lot of people.
The main problem with US culture right now is that so many people think that they have the freedom of action without consequences.
The problem with people who want to shake things up and expose themselves and others to new ideas is that they aren't willing to do so in such a way as to allow others to live their lives. As far as I'm concerned you can preach and harang all you like, but you can't make me listen to it. Getting into my face about your ideas violates my freedom to choose to live my life the way I want. You can sit back and think about how important it is to consider new ideas and tear down the status quo, but perhaps I want to improve my quality of life in a more pragmatic fashion. You forcing me to spend hours everyday considering every proposed philosphy and crackpot idea that sees the firing of a neuron takes away from my freedom to pursue my own goals.
Choosing to write an article on a particular topic is a statement in and of itself. Disagreeing with that statement is in direct philosophical agreement with the spirit of the article (in this case.)
So when USB keyboards and mice become standard, I wonder who's USB code FreeBSD will be using..
NetBSD got USB first (of the BSDs), then Nick Hibma did a port to FreeBSD and now the two share a common codebase. It works just fine. So, I guess they will be using their own.
One thing to rememebr about the whole fragmented/not-fragmented issue is that, of the "four" BSDs, only one of them forked/split/fragmented/split away from one of the others (and that is OpenBSD which Theo split from NetBSD.) NetBSD never was FreeBSD or vice-versa. Nor was BSDI part FreeBSD or vice-versa. They all have roots in the various BSD releases (4.3, 4.4, 4.4-Lite) but they are different projects with different goals. And remember: duplicated effort is not necessarily a bad thing. Score Whore.
Certainly kiddie porn here in the US, but not elsewhere. And then there's the issue of pushing our Western "morality" down the throats of people who have developed differing points of view, a clear violation of sovreignity.
I'm sure that pretty much none of the feds involved in the various attempts to regulate the net actually think that their legislation is going to affect the internal affairs of sovereign nations. The thing that a lot of people seem to be missing is that the feds could easily mandate firewalls on all international links. Similar to the way the NSA can monitor any international call. So, sure it could be that Sweden doesn't care if you distributed pictures of Sven butt-fucking little 12 year old Inga. It won't come into the US legally if the feds decide that they really want to block it. All in the name of national security. Woo.
I've had nothing but good experiences getting help from the FreeBSD lists. Most recently I needed some help getting my USB equipment up and running. Nick Hibma (the FreeBSD USB guy) was very kind and very responsive and got me up and going in a day. In the past I've gotten responses from David Greenman, Soren Schmidt, Joerg Wunsch and John Dyson. All were polite and courteous and willing to help me get things right. None of them were derogatory, nor did they act elitist or snobbish when it turned out that the problem was just normal stupidity on my part.
Yes you are right, facts do matter. But only the relevant ones. The only apparent fact in this case is if she consented or not. If not, then the guy raped her. You can quibble over "facts" all you like, but get real here. Having a passionate online "love affair" does not give open ended consent to any interaction. In fact, if two people have wild, orgiastic sex on Tuesday, it doesn't mean that anything is going to happen, or is agreed to happen, on Wednesday. And even if consent was given on Tuesday to get nasty on Wednesday, it doesn't mean that people can't change their minds on Wednesday.
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Actually it doesn't. If this were true, Microsoft could claim the copyright on Samba and decide what kind of licensing it would carry. The act of reverse engineering and reimplementing makes the result the property of the person doing the reverse engineering.
Lacking any other copyright in the code, it would be smartest for the Livid team to wait for a verifiable version of such code to show up.
-sw
No arguments from me. Anytime you can get more orthogonal registers you get a faster CPU per cycle. Now look at the max clock rates for the two chips. G3 = 450 Mhz, G4 = 450 Mhz, P3 = 733 Mhz. Given that the speed difference at the same clock rate is not more than 50% for general purpose computing, it should be obvious that the P3 733 is going to be beating out the G3/G4 processors in their *max* configurations. That's the point I make.
-sw
Sounds like you're a big believer in Bytemarks too. Do you tell all your friends how your candy colored iMac is twice as fast as their ugly, grey Pentium II 500?
Unless you enjoy people laughing at you, if you are going to play the benchmark game you've got to do it right. Picking and choosing your favorite OS/CPU/benchmark combination and matching it against whatever low scoring arrangement you can find doesn't quite fall into the area of scientific benchmarking.
Look at an actual benchmark, say SpecInt or SpecFP. Everybody uses the same code, the same data set. Everybody puts maximum effort into tuning their systems. And shockingly enough we find that the PPC G3/G4s aren't 12 times faster than the equivilant Intel parts.
Or look through John Carmacks
-sw
Unless Motorola has pulled off some real voodoo with the G4 (like making it twice the speed of the G3 at the same clock) the 250 Mhz clock differential between a PIII 700 and a G4 450 is going to be too much to handle.
Motorola doesn't seem to be able to produce a 500+ Mhz part in volume. Given that both architectures are down in the 1-2 cycle instruction issue area (and in certain situations much better than that) they need to be something like 30% more efficient in their instruction set just to break even.
-sw
Even though they have a shit corporate rep in some cirlces, it's always nice for more speed to be available in a single chip.
-sw
Strictly speaking the source for Quake was "released" before the source for Doom. Just not legitimately. Maybe it's a thing of the past, but I thought that every interested 3D weenie has/had the sources in their grubby little paws.
Assuming id manages to find time to get the Quake source presentable and out this christmas, the rate of progress for ports and such should be amazing, if you get my drift.
-sw
Ironic that a magazine called "Family PC" is writing articles complaining about, the supposed, lack of functionality in a process that allows a parent to put less "family" into their "PC".
If a game is carrying a ESRB rating, which is actually self imposed by the industry and totally voluntary, the parent has the tools they need to easily make a decision about their child playing the game without having to play through the game themselves. How hard is it to look at the jewel case, or even on the CD itself and see what the rating is. It's even part of the silk screen. The only way I can imagine little Susy playing a game like Half-Life, Kingpin or one of the numerous other "mature" titles out there is if the parent doesn't even put enough effort into seeing what their kid is doing.
-sw
Theoretically the demo will not use third party maps. Plus it would be safe to assume that there will be very few of the bot players (for single player mode) included.
However, id doesn't have the best track record with decisions in this area. Take the Q2Demo for example. If you install the demo, then install the Q2 3.20 patch you end up with a small DM only game that works with the "official" servers and such. The only problem is that one of the maps uses a different sky than the others and you end up with some real psychodelic visuals on that map. A simple copy and then you have a fully functional DM client (you can play Q2DM1-8.) Download and install the various PGL/OGL maps and you'd be ready to play just about anywhere.
Looking at the current q3test we find that it supposedly is running in "restricted demo mode" but a simple rename of the demoq3 directory to baseq3 and you have the "unrestricted" mode. This allows you to install the various hacked and reverse engineered maps that are available on the net.
Given id's record, it's hard to reconcile their official statements (ie. "no reverse engineering", etc.) with their observed actions.
-sw
One thing you may not be aware of re: bloat is that the mmapped video memory is included in the various reported sizes of the XFree86 process. I don't recall right off hand how much is allocated on the i740, but on the ET6000 16 MB is allocated, even though the chipset is physically limitted to a 4 MB frame buffer. This is because of the way that the hardware works.
Many i740 cards have 8 MB frame buffers, and there is probably some slop in there for MMIO. So that is responsible for a lot of the apparent bloat.
-sw
Well shit. There were paragraphs breaks in there at one point.
-sw
Wow, now that's what I would call completely missing the point. The point isn't that people don't have choice in their thoughs and deeds. It's saying that the US is living a lie because we believe we are free and yet still have to a society to deal with is just pointless trolling. Every country that considers itself "free" has the same issues that the US has. You say something unpopular and you will get a negative reaction from the masses. In any sufficiently large group you will encounter extremists whose actions are outside rational thought. Choosing to view those as the norm is being disingenuous. Attaching two unrelated issues (US freedom and societal dynamics) is shoddy thinking and poor logic. The government is responsible for using public tax monies in a fashion that delivers the most good to the most people. Choosing not to financially support cultural flamebait is not censorship nor is it inappropriate. We do not have a obligation to weigh and discuss every idea that someone thinks is good. We do have an obligation to ourselves to live our lives as we think is right. For the majority of people this does not mean playing an intellectualism. In order for an individual to progress it is necessary for them to realize that sophmoric cries for attention through "challenging the status quo" is not the same as being a contributing member of society. It's also probably good for people to realize that, just like a mosquito, once you get annoying enough you will get swatted. Intruding in other peoples lives is not free speech, it's just asshole-ism. And nobody likes an asshole. As far as receiving death threats for unpopular ideas, that's just wrong. I can't think that there are very many people who think that such is ok. -sw
They can vocalize all they want. It's just that there are consequences to everything you do and say. That's human nature and when the government steps in to say that I have to accept every idea presented, that's when I'll have lost my freedom.
-sw
It's easy to criticize something without providing a replacement for it. You may have many disagreements with the philosophical and practical foundations of my country, but until you can provide me with a replacement that will give me the same standard of living and quality of life, I won't be giving your arguments much weight.
Please explain to me how my privacy rights are the worst. And explain how hypocritcal media portrayals actually make me less free. (Please don't be stupid and point out one example of a country that has better privacy rights than the US, you said worst. Show me how all countries have better privacy rights. I'd even be interested in seeing one country that is subtantially better.)
-sw
Human nature is not a property of US culture. Arguing that the US is not "free" because of the way people and societies work is similar to arguing that the US is not "free" because we are governed by the law of gravity.
In the US you go have the right to say just about anything without fear of government action against you. Yes, the government my stop supporting you, but the government doesn't support a lot of people.
The main problem with US culture right now is that so many people think that they have the freedom of action without consequences.
-sw
The problem with people who want to shake things up and expose themselves and others to new ideas is that they aren't willing to do so in such a way as to allow others to live their lives. As far as I'm concerned you can preach and harang all you like, but you can't make me listen to it. Getting into my face about your ideas violates my freedom to choose to live my life the way I want. You can sit back and think about how important it is to consider new ideas and tear down the status quo, but perhaps I want to improve my quality of life in a more pragmatic fashion. You forcing me to spend hours everyday considering every proposed philosphy and crackpot idea that sees the firing of a neuron takes away from my freedom to pursue my own goals.
Choosing to write an article on a particular topic is a statement in and of itself. Disagreeing with that statement is in direct philosophical agreement with the spirit of the article (in this case.)
-sw
Face it, if they could do it, most of our pet cats would chow us for breakfast.
NetBSD got USB first (of the BSDs), then Nick Hibma did a port to FreeBSD and now the two share a common codebase. It works just fine. So, I guess they will be using their own.
One thing to rememebr about the whole fragmented/not-fragmented issue is that, of the "four" BSDs, only one of them forked/split/fragmented/split away from one of the others (and that is OpenBSD which Theo split from NetBSD.) NetBSD never was FreeBSD or vice-versa. Nor was BSDI part FreeBSD or vice-versa. They all have roots in the various BSD releases (4.3, 4.4, 4.4-Lite) but they are different projects with different goals. And remember: duplicated effort is not necessarily a bad thing. Score Whore.
Firewalls. Ask China and Singapore.
I'm sure that pretty much none of the feds involved in the various attempts to regulate the net actually think that their legislation is going to affect the internal affairs of sovereign nations. The thing that a lot of people seem to be missing is that the feds could easily mandate firewalls on all international links. Similar to the way the NSA can monitor any international call. So, sure it could be that Sweden doesn't care if you distributed pictures of Sven butt-fucking little 12 year old Inga. It won't come into the US legally if the feds decide that they really want to block it. All in the name of national security. Woo.
I've had nothing but good experiences getting help from the FreeBSD lists. Most recently I needed some help getting my USB equipment up and running. Nick Hibma (the FreeBSD USB guy) was very kind and very responsive and got me up and going in a day. In the past I've gotten responses from David Greenman, Soren Schmidt, Joerg Wunsch and John Dyson. All were polite and courteous and willing to help me get things right. None of them were derogatory, nor did they act elitist or snobbish when it turned out that the problem was just normal stupidity on my part.
SW
If people were equal there would be no need to help others in a general sense. Once help becomes available, it is taken up by two groups:
a - people who actually need help
b - lazy assholes who like to get free shit
Unfortunately there are too many 'b's out there.
Apparantly you can't get throw this post with a bold word in every sentence.
"...for "gotta have it now" nat on a dynamic IP ppp connection."
The kernel mode natd/pppd combination also does wonderfully well with danymic addresses.
Yes you are right, facts do matter. But only the relevant ones. The only apparent fact in this case is if she consented or not. If not, then the guy raped her. You can quibble over "facts" all you like, but get real here. Having a passionate online "love affair" does not give open ended consent to any interaction. In fact, if two people have wild, orgiastic sex on Tuesday, it doesn't mean that anything is going to happen, or is agreed to happen, on Wednesday. And even if consent was given on Tuesday to get nasty on Wednesday, it doesn't mean that people can't change their minds on Wednesday.