Keep in mind that this doesn't necessarily show what the engine is capable of, but only what it will do in Doom 3.
Same as the old Doom. Doom2.wad ran fine on the old 486, but given a faster machine you can render larger rooms, more monsters, etc. Some newer levels I've made for ZDoom push the engine pretty far on my 1.5GHz machine. Things I'm doing now would crash my old box.
Blah! After being used to Doom monsters, I tried to pick up quake. I'm used to these guys taking a few shotgun blasts at most to kill for non-bosses, but as far as I could tell, the weakest Quake monster took 5 grenades! Going around the next corner just to find another monster that I'd have to shoot in the face 50 times with a shotgun got old pretty quick. I think Doom was more fun.
Of course. But the same goes for any physical object that I might buy. My point was that the thing they're selling being IP doesn't give Valve any more reason to use a goofy pricing model than if they were selling chairs to the place.
Yeah, and when I buy a used couch, the couch manufacturing companies don't get my money either. So what? I wanted a couch, and the guy selling it didn't, so I bought it. That's how a free market works. Of *course* they'd rather I bought a new one!
It's still neat to play with, though. I just started playing with it, and the ability to make 'lumpy' terrain is much greater than what you have in ZDoom or Build. And real time lighting is always nice:) having 2-dimensional maps certainly makes map building easier, too.
But if they could extend this to a true 3D engine, that'd be ub3r c00l.
In the meantime, I'll put off learning C# for a while to play with this:)
> Note to students that have Physics B or > Calc AB schools: do yourself a favor and > study and request to take the Physics C > tests and the Calc BC. The Physics B is a non > engineering/science major exam it won't do > you any good for those programs. Physics C > will generally translate to your first 2 > semesters of engineering/science physics. > Calc BC can cover 2 semesters rather than > the AB 1 semester.
That's good advice. Nobody I asked seemed to know this, so even after taking AP physics in high school and getting a 4 on the B test, I'm now having to take 2 more semesters of physics, which cover the exact same things we covered in high school. From what I hear, the C test isn't even especially harder than the B.
Here's some more advice to Software Engineers: When you first get in, tell that you're a CS, test out of as many programming classes as you can, and then change your major back to SE. At UW-Platteville, anyway, the tests are pretty easy, but only if you're a CS. SE's gotta do a lot more work. This will do wonders for your credits and amount of free time:)
Yup. My university does the same thing. You used to be able to do tricks with using specific port numers to get around bandwidth caps, but this year they upgraded the packet filter. It basically caps the bandwidth on anything it doesn't recognise (and simply blocks stuff like KaZaA), so even if you encrypt your connections you're still screwed.
Yeah, that's my other website. Geocities doesn't support any server-side scripting at all, AFAIK. Fortunately, the one hosting togos.dhs.org also supports mod_perl, so I'm not completely screwed:)
Not troll. This post speaks truth. PHP is the programming language for idiots, by idiots. Here are some reasons:
Magic quotes: Ick! Yuck! Ugh! Magic quotes BAD!!!
Pointers: There are none! (The closest its got is variable references, which aren't the same as java/ruby/perl style references/pointers).
No namespaces! OK, PHP 5 will have namespaces, but for some reason they thought in necessary to use a different delimiter depending on what you're referencing: Module::Module::Module verus Module::Module:Class WTF? I don't care if it's a module or a class or a string or whatever! I just want to call a method on it!
Oh, yeah, and magic quotes (they're worth mentioning twice). Ugh! Ick! Yuck! And don't tell me to turn them off in my configuration file. My hosting company doesn't let people screw with that.
No. PHP sucks just as much. Just in a different way. If you want to move to something else, try mod_perl. I switched from PHP a while ago and am happier, now.
Theres nothing wrong with gotos, as long as you don't use them in a place where a function call would be better. I haven't lookead at this code closely, but its probably the case that the alternative would have involved a while loop with some nasty 'ok, quit this time?' variable in it. In this case, a goto is much cleaner.
Pfft. I tried to pick up Python a couple times. We just didn't click. Had to get out the reference manual any time I wanted to do anything, because all the functions were hidden under levels of sys.net.http.HTTP.HttpRequest.request stuff (or whatever).
I think the best way to choose a language is just to try a bunch of them and see which one makes *you* the most productive. For me that's Ruby. If Python makes you happy then good for you, but I just don't think a person can make a good judgement on what programming language they should use based on language features alone.
Oh, yeah, and the lack of "}" or "end" annoys me;)
If you can't do your own work, why are you in college to begin with? The who point is to get a 'higher education', not copy off your neighbor and wallow in dishonest behavior.
As I see it, the point of college is to get a degree so that maybe there's a slight chance that someone might hire you for something, someday. College is a way of testing how much crap a person can put up with. If they graduate, that means they can put up with a lot of crap, and are fit for corporate culture.
The vase majority of the stuff that people actually *learn* in college can be just as easily learned off the internet. Personally, I've learned a lot more (and not just about the subject of my major) by surfing e2 and wikipedia alone than I have from my classes. And if you happen to be into software you'll learn a lot more by working for fun on personal projects than you will from programming classes, which don't teach you much more than to use whichever bracing style they tell you or fail. It is much more about pushing people into a mold than providing a useful learning experience.
WTF? that's not what he said. He didn't say that you should buy players that only play Ogg. He sait that by releasing his stuff in Ogg, he encourages its use. Of course, if a lot of people start using Ogg, the market for it will be larger and companies will be more likely to include support in players.
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That may be, but "more eye candy" is a bit of an understatement.
Keep in mind that this doesn't necessarily show what the engine is capable of, but only what it will do in Doom 3.
Same as the old Doom. Doom2.wad ran fine on the old 486, but given a faster machine you can render larger rooms, more monsters, etc. Some newer levels I've made for ZDoom push the engine pretty far on my 1.5GHz machine. Things I'm doing now would crash my old box.
I, for one, am using this as an oppurtunity to replace my *crappy* video card.
Blah! After being used to Doom monsters, I tried to pick up quake. I'm used to these guys taking a few shotgun blasts at most to kill for non-bosses, but as far as I could tell, the weakest Quake monster took 5 grenades! Going around the next corner just to find another monster that I'd have to shoot in the face 50 times with a shotgun got old pretty quick. I think Doom was more fun.
Of course. But the same goes for any physical object that I might buy. My point was that the thing they're selling being IP doesn't give Valve any more reason to use a goofy pricing model than if they were selling chairs to the place.
> Software is, by its nature, this kind of
> intangible IP. There is NO physical
> representation of it.
That's all well and good, but it doesn't explain why I should have to pay for it goofy.
Yeah, and when I buy a used couch, the couch manufacturing companies don't get my money either. So what? I wanted a couch, and the guy selling it didn't, so I bought it. That's how a free market works. Of *course* they'd rather I bought a new one!
Urgh. Well that's too bad.
:) having 2-dimensional maps certainly makes map building easier, too.
:)
It's still neat to play with, though. I just started playing with it, and the ability to make 'lumpy' terrain is much greater than what you have in ZDoom or Build. And real time lighting is always nice
But if they could extend this to a true 3D engine, that'd be ub3r c00l.
In the meantime, I'll put off learning C# for a while to play with this
> Note to students that have Physics B or
:)
> Calc AB schools: do yourself a favor and
> study and request to take the Physics C
> tests and the Calc BC. The Physics B is a non
> engineering/science major exam it won't do
> you any good for those programs. Physics C
> will generally translate to your first 2
> semesters of engineering/science physics.
> Calc BC can cover 2 semesters rather than
> the AB 1 semester.
That's good advice. Nobody I asked seemed to know this, so even after taking AP physics in high school and getting a 4 on the B test, I'm now having to take 2 more semesters of physics, which cover the exact same things we covered in high school. From what I hear, the C test isn't even especially harder than the B.
Here's some more advice to Software Engineers:
When you first get in, tell that you're a CS, test out of as many programming classes as you can, and then change your major back to SE. At UW-Platteville, anyway, the tests are pretty easy, but only if you're a CS. SE's gotta do a lot more work. This will do wonders for your credits and amount of free time
> I don't care if it's another republican,
> or an eggplant.
I, for one, am fully in favor of replacing all our politicians with eggplants. Or oak trees. Or whatever.
Though I must say that good old 'no-skeletons-in-my-closet' Russ is doing a good job.
Yup. My university does the same thing. You used to be able to do tricks with using specific port numers to get around bandwidth caps, but this year they upgraded the packet filter. It basically caps the bandwidth on anything it doesn't recognise (and simply blocks stuff like KaZaA), so even if you encrypt your connections you're still screwed.
Yeah, that's my other website. Geocities doesn't support any server-side scripting at all, AFAIK. Fortunately, the one hosting togos.dhs.org also supports mod_perl, so I'm not completely screwed :)
Not troll. This post speaks truth. PHP is the programming language for idiots, by idiots. Here are some reasons:
Magic quotes: Ick! Yuck! Ugh! Magic quotes BAD!!!
Pointers: There are none! (The closest its got is variable references, which aren't the same as java/ruby/perl style references/pointers).
No namespaces! OK, PHP 5 will have namespaces, but for some reason they thought in necessary to use a different delimiter depending on what you're referencing:
Module::Module::Module verus Module::Module:Class
WTF? I don't care if it's a module or a class or a string or whatever! I just want to call a method on it!
Oh, yeah, and magic quotes (they're worth mentioning twice). Ugh! Ick! Yuck! And don't tell me to turn them off in my configuration file. My hosting company doesn't let people screw with that.
Conclusion: PHP is teh SuX!!!
No. PHP sucks just as much. Just in a different way. If you want to move to something else, try mod_perl. I switched from PHP a while ago and am happier, now.
Theres nothing wrong with gotos, as long as you don't use them in a place where a function call would be better. I haven't lookead at this code closely, but its probably the case that the alternative would have involved a while loop with some nasty 'ok, quit this time?' variable in it. In this case, a goto is much cleaner.
yah... e2 is teh sux
(about 20 times).
Probably used Nvu to make the page
(I know, I know, they probably didn't, but what's that say about their web desigh sk!11z?)
Pfft. I tried to pick up Python a couple times. We just didn't click. Had to get out the reference manual any time I wanted to do anything, because all the functions were hidden under levels of sys.net.http.HTTP.HttpRequest.request stuff (or whatever).
;)
I think the best way to choose a language is just to try a bunch of them and see which one makes *you* the most productive. For me that's Ruby. If Python makes you happy then good for you, but I just don't think a person can make a good judgement on what programming language they should use based on language features alone.
Oh, yeah, and the lack of "}" or "end" annoys me
> Don't expect people to use JAZZ
...on Windows, though. AFAICT, Linux
> for Midi composition either...
Hey! I used Jazz for a long time!
can't do MIDI. Maybe when I get a 2.6 kernel...
If you can't do your own work, why are you in college to begin with? The who point is to get a 'higher education', not copy off your neighbor and wallow in dishonest behavior.
As I see it, the point of college is to get a degree so that maybe there's a slight chance that someone might hire you for something, someday. College is a way of testing how much crap a person can put up with. If they graduate, that means they can put up with a lot of crap, and are fit for corporate culture.
The vase majority of the stuff that people actually *learn* in college can be just as easily learned off the internet. Personally, I've learned a lot more (and not just about the subject of my major) by surfing e2 and wikipedia alone than I have from my classes. And if you happen to be into software you'll learn a lot more by working for fun on personal projects than you will from programming classes, which don't teach you much more than to use whichever bracing style they tell you or fail. It is much more about pushing people into a mold than providing a useful learning experience.
But that's just my experience. YMMV
You can, but people wouldn't like you for it.
Hmm, yes. I walk there when I get bored sometimes. You can even touch it! Sure enough, there's a big, white, rocky "M" there.
Or maybe she just reads about it a lot :/
Besides, it shouldn't be about "what sounds better" at all. It should be about "what sounds closest to the original recording"
Really? Personally, I like my music to sound *good*. This is why I encode my friends' Deftones albums in lossy formats :)
WTF? that's not what he said. He didn't say that you should buy players that only play Ogg. He sait that by releasing his stuff in Ogg, he encourages its use. Of course, if a lot of people start using Ogg, the market for it will be larger and companies will be more likely to include support in players.