Great. Now if only they'd 'support' surround sound for Doom 3 under Windows. Mine cuts out after 30 seconds to a couple of minutes. Neither iD nor Activision seem interested in acknowledging the problem, and I doubt they ever will, seeing as how they can't make any money off of the sound engine, thanks to Creative Labs.
I'm tempted to install my copy under Linux, but I have an X800Pro. ATI+Linux+Doom 3 == ch-ch-choppy. At best.
If Mr. Barr gets to set the table in favour of Linux, let me use a real Windows install CD, and an answer file. I'll hit enter a few times, and walk away. Windows may not have a clear win even then, but let's not be totally biased.
Reuben Harris has been disassembling a binary with some help from Monte Davidoff, the third author of Altair BASIC (along with Gates and Paul Allen) and who we interviewed here last week. He has the same question in mind:-
"'Could Bill Gates Write Code?' Or was he merely the luckiest man alive," before concluding... "Yes He Bloody Could!"
Although Reuben's analysis is not quite complete, he tells us that Gates, Allen and Davidoff threw every trick at the book to squeeze the interpreter into 4 kilobytes. They succeeded and left some headroom for the programs themselves - without which it would have been pretty useless, of course.
DDR was dirt cheap when the 1.4GHZ came out. The week it was released, I bought a 1.2GHZ TBird, 512MB PC2100 DDR, motherboard, and a shiny new Dual Orb all for about $500 Canadian. You sure you didnt buy a P4? That might explain the grand.
Still, all told it you probably paid about $400US.
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Great. Now if only they'd 'support' surround sound for Doom 3 under Windows. Mine cuts out after 30 seconds to a couple of minutes. Neither iD nor Activision seem interested in acknowledging the problem, and I doubt they ever will, seeing as how they can't make any money off of the sound engine, thanks to Creative Labs. I'm tempted to install my copy under Linux, but I have an X800Pro. ATI+Linux+Doom 3 == ch-ch-choppy. At best.
I hate to be picky, but I have to point out this line in the WSJ article, even if it just proves what a geek I am.
"Wolverine has known many forms in his more than 40 years as a Marvel character."
Wolverine's first appearance was in 1974, in The Incredible Hulk #180. That would give him about 28 years in the Marvel universe.
Yeah, we should be supporting Nvidia's drivers. You know, the ones that most distributions won't include because they're proprietary binaries.
Actually, by almost all accounts, Xbox is #2 in America and Europe. By a very thin margin though. In Japan, they're just dying.
If Mr. Barr gets to set the table in favour of Linux, let me use a real Windows install CD, and an answer file. I'll hit enter a few times, and walk away. Windows may not have a clear win even then, but let's not be totally biased.
How exactly is running code on a modded XBox completely legal?
DDR was dirt cheap when the 1.4GHZ came out. The week it was released, I bought a 1.2GHZ TBird, 512MB PC2100 DDR, motherboard, and a shiny new Dual Orb all for about $500 Canadian. You sure you didnt buy a P4? That might explain the grand. Still, all told it you probably paid about $400US.