one would imagine that if we ever get a product like this at a consumer price point (i.e., less than $1k US), that games would be created to take advantage of them.
just like quake lets you run around at 70 kph and carry 30 tons of ammo, the physics added to games wouldn't become more realistic, but less.
OTOH, porn could be a lot more life-like, ya know?
Breaking a single one of these connections usually crashes the computer.' (a la Windows =))
so, who can find me an operating system, open source or closed, that can withstand an electrical connection failure? redudant hardware is typically abstracted from the OS, so it stands to reason that any real hardware failure is gonna cause you a very real OS failure. GNU/Linux or GNU/Not.
At least not directly: taxes are always, always, always passed on to the consumer. it's just another cost of doing business.
what, do you think the guys sit around the boardroom when a new tax gets passed, and they think, "well gee, we're gonna have to bite the bullet on this one." hell, no! they raise prices, pure and simple.
telco's call it "TPV" or Third Party Verification. believe me (cause i work for a telco), when the rep says they're recording your agreement, that your voice is being recorded for later verification. if you really want that verification, you (or your lawyer) could get that recording.
by law, telcos have to have those recordings verified by a third party -- but telcos are allowed to have the verification done after the fact. hence, it's still possible to slam -- most customers don't give a damn if/when their LD carrier is changed. sad but true.
as a not-so-funny side note, this recently became an issue with my company and me when they slammed my father. when he told me, i sent a few polite emails to the people in charge, and the TPV recording was used to verify that my dad did indeed get slammed. his account was credited, and he was switched back to his former LD carrier. see, not all telcos suck.
here is a different version of your post, with the names changed:
Microsoft, essentially, owns the instant communication market. MSN Messenger Service has some 70 million users (or so they say) and I think we're seeing ICQ #'s in about the same range. I can't really blame them for being absent here. (Before you start blaming them for embracing and extending protocols, or closing out markets, please consider the evidence. Although Microsoft is a frightening market giant, they have not done anything to illegally or unethically corner the instant messenging market.) Anyway, my point is, the odds are very, very good that anyone you might want to reach will use one of those two services. (And with ICQ's excellent cross-platform support, there's no excuse for them not to).
Additionally, MSN Messenger Service and ICQ (both owned, though not created, by the same company) use radically different, fundamentally dissimilar naming conventions. When you start introducing others into the fray, a unified protocol or client could easily become a hindrance or lead to complications.
Microsoft has more-or-less earned (or acquired) the instant messenging market. When something better comes out, I have no doubt that it will take the place of MSN Messenger Service or ICQ. Until then, though, incompatible standards shouldn't be foisted upon them.
i'm not trying to troll here, but methinks that if it was MS not joining the standards committee, your attitude (and by extension, the attitude of others on/.) might be significantly different.
IANTC (I Am Not The Carmack), but it seems to me that if these drivers do indeed implement this feature for all games including Q3A, that it could only be done if it was an OpenGL hack/trick/normal API call. If this is the case, then it's not the fault of the game author.
OTOH, the driver may be overlaying an internal wireframe representation of its polygons on top of the frame buffer (?), but if that's the case, it's still not the fault of the game author.
From Webster's New World Dictionary (ISBN 0-446-31299-1):
gender (jen' der) n., the classification by which words are grouped as masculine, feminine, or neuter.
You see, the correct word is sex. I realize my dictionary is slightly outdated (circa 1984), and I also realize that new dictionaries have a different definition than the one above. And yes, I realize that it's natural for a language to change and grow over time.
However, it makes me sick to witness this change in this particular case. Why? Because the language was successfully manipulated by the Politically Correct.
Remember: those that control your language control your thoughts.
The US Constitution guarantees heath care? Guarantees food? Would you happen to be a product of the public education system in this country? I only ask because you seem to have a fundemental misunderstanding of the document in question.
>I'm still having a hard time deciphering what the point is.
could it be OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE? i.e., the same thing that nixon did?
the clinton/gore whitehouse has repeatidly acted as if the laws of the US do not apply to them, and when caught, have used every means possible to keep themselves in power.
quake3arena only supports SMP on operating systems that are SMP-capable, which is quite a bit different from your statment that carmack implemented SMP all by his lonesome.
or should i say, does anyone remember when the word gender had to do with language, and the word sex had to do with organs?
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seems to me that far too many folks on all sides of this get worked up over code that should be completely transparent. did you pick your OS because of it's kernel, or did you pick it for the apps that it can run? (please save us all some time and don't bother mentioning how *nix kernels are so much better than other kernels.)
sure, each OS has advantages and disadvantages, and we can all yap about them until we're blue. but that doesn't change the fact that an OS (or more appropriately, an OS kernel) is pretty useless without other applications.
Now someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the type of complexity they're talking about here a Bad Thing? I mean, how many times have you heard someone bemoan the CISC architecture and how complicated it is? And in the next breath, you typically hear about the wonders of RISC (or more accurately, RISC-influenced). This sounds like another layer. What about the axiom, "Do one thing, and do it well"?
Granted, from an application and OS perspective, it really doesn't matter what the microcode does, but increased complexity typically comes at a price -- it costs more to design, to produce, and to run.
OTOH, if their objective is to supplant existing CPU architectures, it may well lead to one of those magic Star Trek boxes -- you know, the ones that can read alien computers just by being in the same room.
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one would imagine that if we ever get a product like this at a consumer price point (i.e., less than $1k US), that games would be created to take advantage of them.
just like quake lets you run around at 70 kph and carry 30 tons of ammo, the physics added to games wouldn't become more realistic, but less.
OTOH, porn could be a lot more life-like, ya know?
three words:
supply and demand
Breaking a single one of these connections usually crashes the computer.' (a la Windows =))
so, who can find me an operating system, open source or closed, that can withstand an electrical connection failure? redudant hardware is typically abstracted from the OS, so it stands to reason that any real hardware failure is gonna cause you a very real OS failure. GNU/Linux or GNU/Not.
here's a $200 firewall box. dunno if it GNU/Runs GNU/Linux or GNU/Not.
hey, it's funny, and even slightly on topic:
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates
i mean, how could a BSOD not steal focus?
great, now i'm gonna have to fight with mom for my GameBoy.
read the frickin article. it says "will offer" not "will include".
At least not directly: taxes are always, always, always passed on to the consumer. it's just another cost of doing business.
what, do you think the guys sit around the boardroom when a new tax gets passed, and they think, "well gee, we're gonna have to bite the bullet on this one." hell, no! they raise prices, pure and simple.
telco's call it "TPV" or Third Party Verification. believe me (cause i work for a telco), when the rep says they're recording your agreement, that your voice is being recorded for later verification. if you really want that verification, you (or your lawyer) could get that recording.
by law, telcos have to have those recordings verified by a third party -- but telcos are allowed to have the verification done after the fact. hence, it's still possible to slam -- most customers don't give a damn if/when their LD carrier is changed. sad but true.
as a not-so-funny side note, this recently became an issue with my company and me when they slammed my father. when he told me, i sent a few polite emails to the people in charge, and the TPV recording was used to verify that my dad did indeed get slammed. his account was credited, and he was switched back to his former LD carrier. see, not all telcos suck.
here is a different version of your post, with the names changed:
/.) might be significantly different.
Microsoft, essentially, owns the instant communication market. MSN Messenger Service has some 70 million users (or so they say) and I think we're seeing ICQ #'s in about the same range. I can't really blame them for being absent here. (Before you start blaming them for embracing and extending protocols, or closing out markets, please consider the evidence. Although Microsoft is a frightening market giant, they have not done anything to illegally or unethically corner the instant messenging market.) Anyway, my point is, the odds are very, very good that anyone you might want to reach will use one of those two services. (And with ICQ's excellent cross-platform support, there's no excuse for them not to).
Additionally, MSN Messenger Service and ICQ (both owned, though not created, by the same company) use radically different, fundamentally dissimilar naming conventions. When you start introducing others into the fray, a unified protocol or client could easily become a hindrance or lead to complications.
Microsoft has more-or-less earned (or acquired) the instant messenging market. When something better comes out, I have no doubt that it will take the place of MSN Messenger Service or ICQ. Until then, though, incompatible standards shouldn't be foisted upon them.
i'm not trying to troll here, but methinks that if it was MS not joining the standards committee, your attitude (and by extension, the attitude of others on
food for thought.
IANTC (I Am Not The Carmack), but it seems to me that if these drivers do indeed implement this feature for all games including Q3A, that it could only be done if it was an OpenGL hack/trick/normal API call. If this is the case, then it's not the fault of the game author.
OTOH, the driver may be overlaying an internal wireframe representation of its polygons on top of the frame buffer (?), but if that's the case, it's still not the fault of the game author.
From Webster's New World Dictionary (ISBN 0-446-31299-1):
gender (jen' der) n., the classification by which words are grouped as masculine, feminine, or neuter.
You see, the correct word is sex. I realize my dictionary is slightly outdated (circa 1984), and I also realize that new dictionaries have a different definition than the one above. And yes, I realize that it's natural for a language to change and grow over time.
However, it makes me sick to witness this change in this particular case. Why? Because the language was successfully manipulated by the Politically Correct.
Remember: those that control your language control your thoughts.
The US Constitution guarantees heath care? Guarantees food? Would you happen to be a product of the public education system in this country? I only ask because you seem to have a fundemental misunderstanding of the document in question.
>I'm still having a hard time deciphering what the point is.
could it be OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE? i.e., the same thing that nixon did?
the clinton/gore whitehouse has repeatidly acted as if the laws of the US do not apply to them, and when caught, have used every means possible to keep themselves in power.
THAT'S the point.
quake3arena only supports SMP on operating systems that are SMP-capable, which is quite a bit different from your statment that carmack implemented SMP all by his lonesome.
or should i say, does anyone remember when the word gender had to do with language, and the word sex had to do with organs?
seems to me that far too many folks on all sides of this get worked up over code that should be completely transparent. did you pick your OS because of it's kernel, or did you pick it for the apps that it can run? (please save us all some time and don't bother mentioning how *nix kernels are so much better than other kernels.)
sure, each OS has advantages and disadvantages, and we can all yap about them until we're blue. but that doesn't change the fact that an OS (or more appropriately, an OS kernel) is pretty useless without other applications.
i seem to recall quite a few disparaging remarks directed against mindcraft and others.
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perhaps an formal apology is in order. oh, wait --never mind; this is
Now someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the type of complexity they're talking about here a Bad Thing? I mean, how many times have you heard someone bemoan the CISC architecture and how complicated it is? And in the next breath, you typically hear about the wonders of RISC (or more accurately, RISC-influenced). This sounds like another layer. What about the axiom, "Do one thing, and do it well"?
Granted, from an application and OS perspective, it really doesn't matter what the microcode does, but increased complexity typically comes at a price -- it costs more to design, to produce, and to run.
OTOH, if their objective is to supplant existing CPU architectures, it may well lead to one of those magic Star Trek boxes -- you know, the ones that can read alien computers just by being in the same room.