ID software supplies the binary code to Quake 3 too. I went to their website and downloaded the entire game. Try ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com. Cruise over to the Q3 section and download the Linux native binaries. All you need is a WAD file. Its the whole game for free but is unplayable unless you have the WAD which is only on the CD which you must pay for. Although the source isn't open YET clearly they understand you cant keep an engine locked up. They are fine just controlling the WAD.
BTW if you dont know what the WAD is ill explain. Its simply a file with all the media on it. It has all the maps/monsters/graphics. You can even go into the WAD file and change the pics t change the game without messing anything up.
Ok here is how i say that. They make money. The source is open (eventually). They make a whole lot more money than open source companies do and personally i wouldn't mind if every company did what they are doing.
Id Software also released the source to Doom';s 1&2, Quakes 1&2, and i believe Wolfenstien. This is why i want to go ahead and pay full price for Id Software. You can almost call their business a sucessful open source model.
Thats like saying they arent checking what you read if they dont watch you check it out. Just becuase they go in and check the records doesn't mean its not going to show what you read.
And thats why sceptics always win (if you can "win"). You can never prove we DID go there 100% but you CAN prove we didn't go there. Personally i believe we went there but thats jsut because its not worth my time to look up something so unimportant to my life. Some people need to jsut accept things not because thats the true final answer but because its a waste of their time worrying about it.
This is pretty much why we won WWII. Until then the navy could only time a fuse and hope it was nearby when it went off. The rader emitter/detector was an enginious design and after its invention many times greater amoputns of planes were shot down.
Damnit man quit bitching about what he says and DO SOME WORK. Jesus if you dont put out at least 500 lines of new code or debug 5,000 lines of code a day its your fault the company isn't profiting. Recently it has been figured out that the "..." step before "profit" is actualy "push your developers to the limit and back becuase somehow when they are pushed the code is BETTER".
I dont see this as a bad thing. Personally i dont plan on buying Doom 3 immediatly after it comes out anyway. The game will only get better as there is a need for more power. Imagine being able to do see honestly better graphics and framerates that change the experiance years after it comes out. The best part is it probably wont be a BAD game at 20 fps.
Im not saying you cant get it to run on ASCII White computers. I dont know if you can or not but i woudl believe it if someone did. I am saying that you would recieve no benefit from running it on the single node and no single node can get 150 fps on Doom 3.
So your AGP card in one node can directly access the RAM fo computers across the network? WTF r u talking about. Your thinking of the 1x/2x/4x/8x measurement. What that tells us is the amount fo bandwidth the the system ram. And if you look at some benchmarks its not as big of a factor as internal RAMDAC. I dont play games i code them in OpenGL. Maybe if you would do more than skim Tom's and Anand you could find this stuff out.
Actualyl i doubt ASCII White could go over 50 fps. Doom 3 requires video card power NOT CPU/RAM bandwidth. Super computers are mad for crunching large numbers quickly but are not designed for real-time creation of frames for a game. Maybe if you had one machine with a Radeon 9K it would work but even tthen still probably not because the latency to get the calculations back from the other comps would be too much.
As insightful as your comment is it has nothing to do with my post. Im tired of people replying to the first post simply to have their post higher up than it would be if they replied at 5:49 to the main topic. Although i am not fond of hipocrasy i am also not fond of offtopic posts such as my own therefore is seeing the flaws of this post it is posted without my +1 bonus.
When the programmers dont care. Too often people learn to program when what they really want to do is produce. Im not sure about commerical games but i know many times smaller games are messed up when everyone has i different idea or plan.
Obviosuly you dont understand Schrodinger's cat if you say it died. The cat is not killed. Schrodinger has simply created several alternate universes in which some of the time the cat dies and sometimes it doesn't.
Actually i just considered myself quite busy. Damn I wish i could devote this much time to a hobby. Although this is good its not nearly as good as The Simpsons Archive. ANYTHING Simpsons is there.
Maybe you mean half as big. Your using a double negative. Im not being picky i just wanna clarify. The new keyboard weighs less, is smaller in all dimensions and still has the same keyboard layout. Kick ass engineering at its best.
Its like a giant p2p proxy. But its anonymous too. Might as well say its like pgp i suppose.
Anyway the main way to decribe it is this. Its essentially makes all your internet traffic anonymous. You and everyone else on freenet can do whatever you want, read whatever you want and nobody knows its YOU... just another freenet user.
Freenet is free software designed to ensure true freedom of communication over the Internet. It allows anybody to publish and read information with complete anonymity. Nobody controls Freenet, not even its creators, meaning that the system is not vulnerable to manipulation or shutdown.
Freenet is also efficient in how it deals with information, adaptively replicating content in response to demand. We have and continue to pioneer innovative new ideas such as the application of emergent behavior to computer communication, and public-key cryptography to creating secure namespaces. For more information please read this paper on the Freenet architecture.
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In a safe not even Microsoft can get to it.
Its the perfect combination of technology/drugs/music/porn
ID software supplies the binary code to Quake 3 too. I went to their website and downloaded the entire game. Try ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com. Cruise over to the Q3 section and download the Linux native binaries. All you need is a WAD file. Its the whole game for free but is unplayable unless you have the WAD which is only on the CD which you must pay for. Although the source isn't open YET clearly they understand you cant keep an engine locked up. They are fine just controlling the WAD.
BTW if you dont know what the WAD is ill explain. Its simply a file with all the media on it. It has all the maps/monsters/graphics. You can even go into the WAD file and change the pics t change the game without messing anything up.
Ok here is how i say that. They make money. The source is open (eventually). They make a whole lot more money than open source companies do and personally i wouldn't mind if every company did what they are doing.
Id Software also released the source to Doom';s 1&2, Quakes 1&2, and i believe Wolfenstien. This is why i want to go ahead and pay full price for Id Software. You can almost call their business a sucessful open source model.
Thats like saying they arent checking what you read if they dont watch you check it out. Just becuase they go in and check the records doesn't mean its not going to show what you read.
And thats why sceptics always win (if you can "win"). You can never prove we DID go there 100% but you CAN prove we didn't go there. Personally i believe we went there but thats jsut because its not worth my time to look up something so unimportant to my life. Some people need to jsut accept things not because thats the true final answer but because its a waste of their time worrying about it.
This is pretty much why we won WWII. Until then the navy could only time a fuse and hope it was nearby when it went off. The rader emitter/detector was an enginious design and after its invention many times greater amoputns of planes were shot down.
I thought they really just used a bunch of actors. Of course they didn't REALLY use elves but damn now i feel let down.
Damnit man quit bitching about what he says and DO SOME WORK. Jesus if you dont put out at least 500 lines of new code or debug 5,000 lines of code a day its your fault the company isn't profiting. Recently it has been figured out that the "..." step before "profit" is actualy "push your developers to the limit and back becuase somehow when they are pushed the code is BETTER".
I dont see this as a bad thing. Personally i dont plan on buying Doom 3 immediatly after it comes out anyway. The game will only get better as there is a need for more power. Imagine being able to do see honestly better graphics and framerates that change the experiance years after it comes out. The best part is it probably wont be a BAD game at 20 fps.
Im not saying you cant get it to run on ASCII White computers. I dont know if you can or not but i woudl believe it if someone did. I am saying that you would recieve no benefit from running it on the single node and no single node can get 150 fps on Doom 3.
So your AGP card in one node can directly access the RAM fo computers across the network? WTF r u talking about. Your thinking of the 1x/2x/4x/8x measurement. What that tells us is the amount fo bandwidth the the system ram. And if you look at some benchmarks its not as big of a factor as internal RAMDAC. I dont play games i code them in OpenGL. Maybe if you would do more than skim Tom's and Anand you could find this stuff out.
Actualyl i doubt ASCII White could go over 50 fps. Doom 3 requires video card power NOT CPU/RAM bandwidth. Super computers are mad for crunching large numbers quickly but are not designed for real-time creation of frames for a game. Maybe if you had one machine with a Radeon 9K it would work but even tthen still probably not because the latency to get the calculations back from the other comps would be too much.
As insightful as your comment is it has nothing to do with my post. Im tired of people replying to the first post simply to have their post higher up than it would be if they replied at 5:49 to the main topic.
Although i am not fond of hipocrasy i am also not fond of offtopic posts such as my own therefore is seeing the flaws of this post it is posted without my +1 bonus.
When the programmers dont care. Too often people learn to program when what they really want to do is produce. Im not sure about commerical games but i know many times smaller games are messed up when everyone has i different idea or plan.
Obviosuly you dont understand Schrodinger's cat if you say it died. The cat is not killed. Schrodinger has simply created several alternate universes in which some of the time the cat dies and sometimes it doesn't.
What we need is links describing what they7 are going to DO with it. Im not saying its useless but i dont know much about it but am interested.
Or untill they hit the iceburg. I can see it now "Mayden Voyage of the Clawhammer CPU crashes into Itanic".
Actually i just considered myself quite busy. Damn I wish i could devote this much time to a hobby. Although this is good its not nearly as good as The Simpsons Archive. ANYTHING Simpsons is there.
...Do these standards help linux spread out and mature or simply go against everything that linux has done right?
Personally i think if its done right its a good thing.
Maybe you mean half as big. Your using a double negative. Im not being picky i just wanna clarify. The new keyboard weighs less, is smaller in all dimensions and still has the same keyboard layout. Kick ass engineering at its best.
If it was that insidious than the article would have been wrote differantly.
Its like a giant p2p proxy. But its anonymous too. Might as well say its like pgp i suppose.
Anyway the main way to decribe it is this. Its essentially makes all your internet traffic anonymous. You and everyone else on freenet can do whatever you want, read whatever you want and nobody knows its YOU... just another freenet user.
From the website:
Freenet is free software designed to ensure true freedom of communication over the Internet. It allows anybody to publish and read information with complete anonymity. Nobody controls Freenet, not even its creators, meaning that the system is not vulnerable to manipulation or shutdown.
Freenet is also efficient in how it deals with information, adaptively replicating content in response to demand. We have and continue to pioneer innovative new ideas such as the application of emergent behavior to computer communication, and public-key cryptography to creating secure namespaces. For more information please read this paper on the Freenet architecture.
BTW its also a Good Thing TM.