PS: While we're on the topic of Half-Life, does anyone know why the engine doesn't allow resolutions above 1280x960? It seems like an arbitrary limit that could be easily removed. Maybe some of the people that invest months of time into writing HL cheats should try to figure out how to remove that limit instead...
They might not have textures at high enough resolution on the disc. It would probably look crappy magnifing them anymore.
Check out http://www.armadilloaerospace.com. They're also trying to get manned rockets up in space. It's being worked on by a group of people including John Carmack.(Of Doom/Quake/Wolfenstein fame if you are the one person on earth that didnt't know)
This is desperately needed in CS courses. Here at SFU, they don't force you take a first year english course. The core computing science courses are great. That is the reputation of the school. Great technical expertise, weak communication skills. The reputation is well deserved.
These kinds of skills would help tremendously in the work force and in graduate school. You always here complaining about coders not knowing how to comment code. Not being able to stick to schedules. Not being able to write good documentation. Not being able to attain correct specifications from the customer. Etc, etc, etc.
I'm not an X-Files fan. But one of the dudes that plays the lone gunmen is a vancouver actor. He was on a local show by the name of Urban Rush. And he said that he would be in the final episode.
What if Colgate could work some kind of scheme such that anyone buying toothpaste had to pay Colgate, regardless of which toothpaste they wanted to buy? This would drive all competitors out of the market. If I bought Crest, I would have to pay for Crest, and for Colgate. If I bought Colgate, I would only have to pay for Colgate. This is how MS got to where they are. Not through providing superior products.
And even when you did buy Colgate you would also have to buy their toothbrushes and dental floss and go to their dentist.
I think it will be the first compiler that implements partial template specialization. I'm pretty sure VC, Intel, and GCC do not implement that at the moment.
The company's vision statement is "A computer on every desk and in every home." That vision is seeing completion (at least in the Western world). How much of it being attributed to Microsoft can be debated. However, Microsoft has been instrumental in enforcing standards upon the industry so that an open PC platform could flourish. Microsoft also provides software that almost anyone can use and use to be productive.
"A computer on every desk and in every home running Microsoft software." And they provide software if you can afford to shell out $500 every couple years to buy the "newest and greatest" Windoze and Office.
Microsoft is consistently one of the most philantropic corporations around. They gives tons of money to schools, libraries and universities. They just gave 8 million bucks to build my new CS building. How many of y'all got donations from MS while you were an undergrad?
So that they can control the creation of new technology and influence the direction of the curriculum.
Bill Gates has given $24 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, which will spend the money on AIDS research, cancer research, and vaccinations for the third world (among God knows how many other uses).
Because the marketing department said Billy Boy was getting a bad reputation and partly for tax purposes and partly to gain political influence.
Microsoft products are actually pretty nice. If you're an experienced Unix administrator or do-it-yourself Linux guru, I'm sure you can find lots of reasons to not like MS software. But it's typically easier for common folk to use than competing products (Windows) and sometimes just downright superior (Office).
But definitely at a monetary price and at the cost of losing the liberty to choose other products that are much better.
"The Ferraris are only gravy, honest?"
-- John Carmack"
I don't think they care too much about money.
Management wise, id has a CEO by the name of Todd Hollenshead. Other than that everyone is pretty much either a programmer, or an artist. They don't have the manpower to publish or market. And I don'ty think they want to publish or market.
It means that they found a publisher, which is Activision. Having a publisher means they can put on a better show at E3. id definitely did not want to go to E3 without a publisher. Activision does what it is good at: marketing. id does what it is good at: making cool shit. The Activision deal should not be a surprise since they also published RtCW.
I highly recommend STLPort. This makes sure that when you're using VC++ for windoze and gcc for *nix that everything will still be cross-platform and as you expect it. The VC++ implementation of the STL is not that great (surprise!).
STLPort claims to have the best conformance and best performance. Performance shouldn't be that much of an issue, since you would probably use the stl container and if it wasn't fast enough you would write it yourself.
Also STLPort's error and warning messages are a whole lot better than other implementations.
...or is my AMD K6-2 running Linux, Apache, Ftp, SSH, CVS, etc.
"Microsoft's development of reliable and scalable server operating systems has enabled AMD to enter and compete more effectively in the server businesses...because most non-Microsoft server operating systems only run on specialized microprocessors," he testified.
That's sweet. The AI of the bots is fricken amazing. Now I can figure out how they got the Nazis to kick grenades back at you. And how they managed to get the Nazis to sneak up behind you when they have spotted you. RtCW doesn't get that much credit for their AI, but is was quite good for a FPS.
A long, long time ago there was this company by the name of IBM. IBM made a computer. IBM had power. Then the bios was reverse engineered. IBM didn't have power anymore.
Then came the folks at M$. M$ bought an operating system by the name of "Quick and Dirty Operating System" or QDOS. M$ dropped the Q, both figuratively and literaly, and we were left with a dirty operating system by the name of DOS. Now M$ had the power. This power continued with the introduction of Windoze and continues still today.
A bunch of people got really, really mad at M$ for a variety of reasons. Groups of them attempted to overthrow M$ by creating other operating systems. But a sly company by the name of Sun developed a new cup of proprietary abstraction called Java.
Java gained much appeal, but was never able to really give Sun the power that they sought. And they all didn't live happily ever after since everybody has paper clips yelling at them pretending that the paper clip is smarter than the user.
Moral #1: Sun created Java to create another layer of abstraction so that they could rule the desktop market.
Moral #2: The paper clip is smarter than most users.
So which evil do you wanna support? I'd support Java if it was standardized by a committee such as ANSI or ISO. And Sun allowed use of Java license-free.
Here's the first page: The Next Generation of motherboards...?
Ok, bye, bye karma, but have you guys ever heard of copyright? I know we're a bunch of mp3 rippin, open-source codin, GPL copyleft luvin Linux geeks, but I think the author's copyright should be respected. Just like when I open-source my code and my copyleft should be respected.
Now is the time to increase the testing effort. Everybody out there, please download the latest nightly build. Get out there and test and submit bugs to Bugzilla.
You can poke fun as much as you want about the release timeline, but these Mozilla guys really work their asses off to get this product out to you at no charge. The least we can do as part of the open source community is help out by testing.
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P.S. Posted using April 9th Mozilla nightly build. A testament to how well it works and the stability of the nightly builds. I install a nightly build almost every morning and never had to revert back to using an older build because something major was broken. I always install the Linux tarballs, but of course YMMV for other platforms and installation methods. But I don't expect anything would be different for the Windoze and Mac builds.
It doesn't give a clear date, but it shows the Mozilla peoples' line of thinking. You need to test to make sure that the package that you distribute, be it rpm, debian package, tarball, installs correctly on all platforms. That nothing was overlooked, and that there aren't any showstoppers. RC1 is pretty much Mozilla1.0 feature wise. The difference between the two will be a spit polish to make sure everything is nice and shiny.
I googled and googled and googled, but I couldn't find any direct proof. I was able to find this in the google cache though. This seems to be the only statement which nVidia has made with respect to Linux and open source drivers. If anyone else has more info, that would definitely be cool.
That is one of the main reasons I choose nVidia. Whenever I have an OpenGL question, the nVidia driver writers are right there to answer questions. It is not hard to find them on the discussion boards at opengl.org and the opengl gamedevelopers mail list. There are also tons of opengl demos on the developer site.
Secondly, their Linux drivers are quite good. I don't care too much if they are not open source, at least they work well.
Btw, the reason why nVidia drivers are not open source. nVidia wanted one driver for all cards under their Unified Driver Architecture model. The open source community (XFree I believe, but correct me if I'm wrong) wanted the specs to the actual hardware. nVidia was willing to give the community exactly what their Windows driver writing team has and the community did not agree.
Some agree with nVidia's point of view, others agree with the community. It doesn't really matter, the end result is closed source drivers.
The reason a lot of AI research is not implemented in games is because it is just too slow. A typical assignment for an introductory course in AI at university is to implement a bunch of algorithms to solve an N-Puzzle. The fastest implementation can take a few seconds to solve, with the slowest taking on the order of about 10mins. This just isn't feasible for games where you need to spit out a frame every 30ms. A lot of algorithms just aren't suited for real-time applications.
On the other hand the game industry hasn't really used a lot of the research academia has come up with. It would be really cool to see some text-to-speech stuff in games. That would probably make the dialogue in games a whole lot better.
They're a right wing newspaper that tries to serve the interest of large corporations.
How is this worse than the left-wing newspapers serving the intersts of the vocal minority?
Are you saying that had it been published in the Globe and Mail that it would somehow be more reliable?
You obviously didn't read my whole post. I said that the researchers findings may still be valid, but you need to question the National Post's motives when reading the story. As you would have to question the Globe and Mail's motives if was printed in their newspaper.
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They might not have textures at high enough resolution on the disc. It would probably look crappy magnifing them anymore.
Kinda funny, I'll be buying a Geforce4 (Geforce5?) when DoomIII comes out.
Check out http://www.armadilloaerospace.com. They're also trying to get manned rockets up in space. It's being worked on by a group of people including John Carmack.(Of Doom/Quake/Wolfenstein fame if you are the one person on earth that didnt't know)
Did you guys notice the No Smoking sign behind the "toilets". I don't think I wanna know what the daemons have been eating.
Woops, did I mention bad proof-reading skills. The correct link is: SFU
These kinds of skills would help tremendously in the work force and in graduate school. You always here complaining about coders not knowing how to comment code. Not being able to stick to schedules. Not being able to write good documentation. Not being able to attain correct specifications from the customer. Etc, etc, etc.
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I'm not an X-Files fan. But one of the dudes that plays the lone gunmen is a vancouver actor. He was on a local show by the name of Urban Rush. And he said that he would be in the final episode.
And even when you did buy Colgate you would also have to buy their toothbrushes and dental floss and go to their dentist.
I think it will be the first compiler that implements partial template specialization. I'm pretty sure VC, Intel, and GCC do not implement that at the moment.
It means that they found a publisher, which is Activision. Having a publisher means they can put on a better show at E3. id definitely did not want to go to E3 without a publisher. Activision does what it is good at: marketing. id does what it is good at: making cool shit. The Activision deal should not be a surprise since they also published RtCW.
STLPort claims to have the best conformance and best performance. Performance shouldn't be that much of an issue, since you would probably use the stl container and if it wasn't fast enough you would write it yourself.
Also STLPort's error and warning messages are a whole lot better than other implementations.
Dammit!!! I would have had first post if it wasn't for this perlbox desktop. ;)
That's sweet. The AI of the bots is fricken amazing. Now I can figure out how they got the Nazis to kick grenades back at you. And how they managed to get the Nazis to sneak up behind you when they have spotted you. RtCW doesn't get that much credit for their AI, but is was quite good for a FPS.
Then came the folks at M$. M$ bought an operating system by the name of "Quick and Dirty Operating System" or QDOS. M$ dropped the Q, both figuratively and literaly, and we were left with a dirty operating system by the name of DOS. Now M$ had the power. This power continued with the introduction of Windoze and continues still today.
A bunch of people got really, really mad at M$ for a variety of reasons. Groups of them attempted to overthrow M$ by creating other operating systems. But a sly company by the name of Sun developed a new cup of proprietary abstraction called Java.
Java gained much appeal, but was never able to really give Sun the power that they sought. And they all didn't live happily ever after since everybody has paper clips yelling at them pretending that the paper clip is smarter than the user.
Moral #1: Sun created Java to create another layer of abstraction so that they could rule the desktop market.
Moral #2: The paper clip is smarter than most users.
So which evil do you wanna support? I'd support Java if it was standardized by a committee such as ANSI or ISO. And Sun allowed use of Java license-free.
PK
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Now is the time to increase the testing effort. Everybody out there, please download the latest nightly build. Get out there and test and submit bugs to Bugzilla.
You can poke fun as much as you want about the release timeline, but these Mozilla guys really work their asses off to get this product out to you at no charge. The least we can do as part of the open source community is help out by testing.
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PK
P.S. Posted using April 9th Mozilla nightly build. A testament to how well it works and the stability of the nightly builds. I install a nightly build almost every morning and never had to revert back to using an older build because something major was broken. I always install the Linux tarballs, but of course YMMV for other platforms and installation methods. But I don't expect anything would be different for the Windoze and Mac builds.
It doesn't give a clear date, but it shows the Mozilla peoples' line of thinking. You need to test to make sure that the package that you distribute, be it rpm, debian package, tarball, installs correctly on all platforms. That nothing was overlooked, and that there aren't any showstoppers. RC1 is pretty much Mozilla1.0 feature wise. The difference between the two will be a spit polish to make sure everything is nice and shiny.
PK
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Secondly, their Linux drivers are quite good. I don't care too much if they are not open source, at least they work well.
Btw, the reason why nVidia drivers are not open source. nVidia wanted one driver for all cards under their Unified Driver Architecture model. The open source community (XFree I believe, but correct me if I'm wrong) wanted the specs to the actual hardware. nVidia was willing to give the community exactly what their Windows driver writing team has and the community did not agree.
Some agree with nVidia's point of view, others agree with the community. It doesn't really matter, the end result is closed source drivers.
PK
On the other hand the game industry hasn't really used a lot of the research academia has come up with. It would be really cool to see some text-to-speech stuff in games. That would probably make the dialogue in games a whole lot better.
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