all those perty DX9 effects don't exist on the XBox, making the true glory and splendor of DOOMIII a non-existant on the XBox.
Doom III uses OpenGL, and thus the DirectX version is irrelevent. DoomIII was designed from the start to target the features of the GeForce3, which the Xbox certainly has.
Except no one has any reason to belive that Microsoft has said anything about an Xbox-exclusive release. They asked for it to be on the Xbox, and they may have asked not to have it on the GC and PS2 (which would never happen anyway).
Why is AOL's death good? Not only would we lose one of MS's major competitors and the major sponsor of the Mozilla project (not to mention Winamp), all of the current AOL users would be turned loose on the real Internet. AOL currently serves as a sandbox that keeps those people from doing too much harm. Without it, God knows what would happen.
John Carmack has said that you can usually get twice the performance from a fixed-hardware platform (the Xbox, for example) as a PC. The Xbox has a P3/Celeron and a GeForce 3.5, which is quite decent to run a game like Doom3 at TV resolution with sufficient optimization.
The PS2, OTOH, is about half as capable as the Xbox, and has a graphics system with almost nothing in common with the PC cards Doom3 is programmed for.
Search on KaZaa, etc. for "The Many Uses of the Word Fuck". I've seen it credited to Adam Sandler, but I have no idea if that's true or not. It is rather amusing, however.
The only real point of buying it would be to ensure quality Mac-exclusive games, and a mob of a million geeks will be at Steve Job's throat the minute he makes any Blizzard game Mac-only.
one hell of a bandwidth bill, and that makes me happy.
Remember, financial troubles for AOL mean financial troubles for Netscape, which means 95% of the major Mozilla coders have to find new jobs. AOL isn't completely evil.
Don't buy a 15" tiBook now, wait until they upgrade it to match the 12" and 17" alBooks. If nothing else, the price of the old tiBooks will drop significantly.
Run a proxy (CgiProxy, squid, Apache mod_proxy, whatever) off your FreeBSD box. If you have dynamic DNS on a broadband connection, then you can just reconnect for a different IP every time they block it.
It can't be that intrusive - all such proxies are trivial to bypass. Just search google for "cgiproxy" and click in the results till you find one that's not blocked.
It's a little less professional, but you could use one of the many DNS redirection services (dyndns.org, for example, offers free and premium services) to give you a yourname.sitename.org address. They generally require only an email address and password.
xanim and aviplay suck and always have. Try playing Divx. A DVD? Quicktime? Windows Media? Any common internet format? Sorry, they don't cut it. Xine is currently around the same level as mplayer - they each have their strong points - but two years ago, it sucked just as hard as anything else. mplayer and Xine have shared a fair amount of code, and without one, the other wouldn't have gotten nearly as far.
All Creative cards (including Live!, Audigy, and Audigy 2) have excellent Linux support, including 32-channel hardware mixing. You can pick up a Live for $30 or an Audigy for $60.
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Doom III uses OpenGL, and thus the DirectX version is irrelevent. DoomIII was designed from the start to target the features of the GeForce3, which the Xbox certainly has.
Except no one has any reason to belive that Microsoft has said anything about an Xbox-exclusive release. They asked for it to be on the Xbox, and they may have asked not to have it on the GC and PS2 (which would never happen anyway).
Ten years ago, there was virtually no Windows application base and Apple was still a strong competitor.
Encryption and access control, my friend.
Why is AOL's death good? Not only would we lose one of MS's major competitors and the major sponsor of the Mozilla project (not to mention Winamp), all of the current AOL users would be turned loose on the real Internet. AOL currently serves as a sandbox that keeps those people from doing too much harm. Without it, God knows what would happen.
The PS2, OTOH, is about half as capable as the Xbox, and has a graphics system with almost nothing in common with the PC cards Doom3 is programmed for.
You're depriving Opera of the revenue it makes from selling ads. Q.E.D.
The sad thing is that even though it's an obvious troll, half of his point have real substance behind them.
So, in other words, Brainfuck is the language of the future?
Search on KaZaa, etc. for "The Many Uses of the Word Fuck". I've seen it credited to Adam Sandler, but I have no idea if that's true or not. It is rather amusing, however.
The only real point of buying it would be to ensure quality Mac-exclusive games, and a mob of a million geeks will be at Steve Job's throat the minute he makes any Blizzard game Mac-only.
Even AMD doesn't claim the (1.7Ghz) 2100 matches up with anything beyond a 2.1Ghz P4, and the benchmarks would tend to agree with that.
Remember, financial troubles for AOL mean financial troubles for Netscape, which means 95% of the major Mozilla coders have to find new jobs. AOL isn't completely evil.
Don't buy a 15" tiBook now, wait until they upgrade it to match the 12" and 17" alBooks. If nothing else, the price of the old tiBooks will drop significantly.
Many home DSL providers (my ISP, Bellsouth, for example) give dynamic IPs by default, and you have to pay extra for a static one.
Run a proxy (CgiProxy, squid, Apache mod_proxy, whatever) off your FreeBSD box. If you have dynamic DNS on a broadband connection, then you can just reconnect for a different IP every time they block it.
It's the most important part of a democracy, but one of the lesser parts of a "free society".
It can't be that intrusive - all such proxies are trivial to bypass. Just search google for "cgiproxy" and click in the results till you find one that's not blocked.
It's a little less professional, but you could use one of the many DNS redirection services (dyndns.org, for example, offers free and premium services) to give you a yourname.sitename.org address. They generally require only an email address and password.
John Carmack might argue with that. :-)
xanim and aviplay suck and always have. Try playing Divx. A DVD? Quicktime? Windows Media? Any common internet format? Sorry, they don't cut it. Xine is currently around the same level as mplayer - they each have their strong points - but two years ago, it sucked just as hard as anything else. mplayer and Xine have shared a fair amount of code, and without one, the other wouldn't have gotten nearly as far.
Check it again, and if it still doesn't work with 0.90, please file a bug report. mplayer should not crash under any circumstances.
This is the corporate edition, designed so the sysadmin doesn't have to go and manually activate every installation.
True, but AFAIK current Linux drivers don't support the EAX processor, so the point is moot.
All Creative cards (including Live!, Audigy, and Audigy 2) have excellent Linux support, including 32-channel hardware mixing. You can pick up a Live for $30 or an Audigy for $60.