I mean, why are they doing these incompatible formats. Let's see, we already have something called DVD's which we buy in stores, the technology is currently WORKING. Why don't the frickin' burners burn in this format and get it over with!!!
Or lemme guess, the DVD's we have are a broken standard where the designers haven't thought that maybe someday someone would say : "wwwhhoooa man, this is cool, if only I could make home movies with these." I mean, have you ever seen a VHS tape NOT work if you taped it with a video recorder and played it on another one? Get the point?
These days, with laws like DMCA, Digital Right Managements, DVDs with unskippable tracks and other crap like these, I am thinking that technology is just going to get suckier, not better. The good old days are over I guess...
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I mean they are at the theater for about a year. I would guess that the film is expensive to produce and transport.
I think it has more to do with the fact the IMAX theaters are not found everywhere so they don't get to show the movie to a lot of people very quickly, compared to traditional cinemas. I've never an Imax room less then half-full, even after a movie came out months ago. There always seems to be a lot of poeple going there. After all it shouldn't cost a lot more. It's not like DVD's where you have to put more information in the same space as CDs. The IMAX film is just bigger.
WTF? How did I get a -1 Troll from some moderator. Did some Linux junkie rated my post as Troll because he/she hates Microsoft? Get a grip moderators, I'm not insulting anyone here, neither am I bashing Linux nor Microsoft. Moderators are the reason why I chose not to moderate in the first place : there are too many imbeciles out there who ruin your effort into serious moderating
You can rate this post at Troll or Flamebait all you want tought.
If for the software this changes nothing (and probably does, after all, the games must still play on the console), it probably changes something in the MOD chip. So that means that the new XBOX that is shipped will not be compatible with the old mocdhips. The result? MOD Chip installers will have to thrown away their old supply of mod chips to make new ones, unless there's a simple way to change the keys in the MOD chip. This is surely going to hurt the mod chip companies who will have to throw away their old mod chips and buy new ones. If Microsoft keeps changing the keys in the hardware often enough, the mod chippers are going to run in a lot of troubles determining which mod chip is needed for which XBOX. This is a brilliant move.
The reason why I didn't go into DirectX stuff is mainly because I don't know much about it. But from what I've seen in some college course, it has a lot of fluffy stuff and initlization routines you have to go through before drawing even a single pixel in Direct 3D and DirectDraw, while in GL you create a window, create a GL context, bind them, and you're ready to go.
If you don't want to start from scratch, Direct3d has 2 modes : immediate and something I think is called retained mode. Retained mode is basically a basic 3d engine with notions of meshes, lights, directions, parent/child space, that sort of stuff, already implemented and is great for beginners. It can even load.x files, which you can create with 3DS Max and then convert to.x with a utility that comes with the SDK. You don't even have to care about model loading, isn't it great? Or of course you can get dirty and play with the immediate mode which achieves the same purpose as OpenGL does, but with a totally different system, which, as Carmack once put it "is broken, but still works."
For the sound though, you will have to go with DirectSound, since it's the best way to make audio on Windows. You might want to look for OpenAL, if you want to do cross platform stuff. It's the OpenGL for audio, hence the AL. I'm not sure though that the standard is set in stone. You should check that out.
Nah, I don't think so. I've read a bit about Valgrind and I'd be surprised if it emulated all the PC hardware like Bochs does. Bochs is interresting because it emulates an entire PC, so it's ideal for OS development.
You should first look at NeHe OpenGL tutorials. It will teach you a long way into 3d programming. It's very well written and covers a lot of subjects. Check it out at http://nehe.gamedev.net/. There are a lot of tutorials, and most of them is written in more than one language, so you can learn about using OpenGL even tough C++ is not your favorite language. The are tutorials in C++, PowerBasic... And code for Mac, Windows, Linux, everything! A true gem. This is the best beginners ressource you can find.
I'm glad someone responded brilliantly to my post as you did. I have to admit, I may have jumped a bit ahead of Jon Katz by talking about 9/11 (silly me), but I still think that part of my point is valid. Today, more and more often do we see journalists using the 9/11 facts or ideas in the news, and I'm not talking *only* about the US, I'm talking everywhere, but it seems though that whenever someone has a chance to put some 9/11 fact in an article, they will do it. I don't know much about other countries, since I don't watch news from Spain or other counrties like that, though I get some news from them from the world news and newspaper.
Second, I wasn't implying that americans are worldless snob. As with every country, there are people who are interrested in other cultures and countries, like you seem to be. But whenever I jump on the web on newsgroups (and I'm not talking only Slashdot here), or watch American news, I can't help but feel that your country is looking more and more to it's own self and not looking around them.
The problem seems to be, in my point of view that the masses aren't that concerned about the rest of the world. And when you have a president like George W. Bush who says "We're not gonna reduce our pollution level because it would be bad for american economy.", then I wonder what the masses even think!!! Especially when it's the masses that put him there in the first place. (even tought that's about 25% of your mass)
Feel free, to respond back, you seem to be an interresting fellow.
Brilliant article. Very intrerresting and has me interrested in looking for such films. It seems I'll reopen my Quake 1 box soon.:-)
The only gripe I have about the article is about this snippet of text : For instance, one might put a terrorist's head on an opponent's body.
That, my friends, is bad journalism. Stop thinking 9/11 and give the rest of the world a rest and stop adding terrorist consipiracies and references to everything you write.
Even tough I sympatize with the american people about the tragic events of 9/11, please lighten up and realize that there has been people who've cried for longer and harder than you in a lot of countries devastated by war and terrorism and that it took you two towers and the death thousands of rich americans to realize the horror of MILLIONS of poor 3rdworld habitants.
Sometimes, I think that americans put more value on their life than other people. It's not rare that thousands of people get killed in a week in some countries due to terrorist activities. But you never hear of them, and you people don't care. But 2000 rich americans, oh... this is much more important.
I'd like to have someone prove me wrong on this... and someone who will say other things than "F*** YOU, A**HOLE." But maybe that changed with 9/11, and you people finally fell back from your cloud.
The problem is, AMD and Intel have already decided to jump on the DRM wagon and are both working on including DRM technology inside their chips. So the only other company who will be able to give us computers that are DRM free will be Apple (maybe, I don't know if they're going to go that way), and Via (with Cyrix) and Transmetta. And they don't have a lot of market share. Apple may gain some, but virtually no one will want a Cyrix or Transmetta processor.
Even though it's not a modeler, it's one of the best animation package around. It's available on Linux, Windows, MacOSX, Irix and more, so you should have a version for your PC. It's made by the folks at Kaydara. One of their big feature IS exactly what you'Re looking for : realtime editing of your motion with NLE and all the gizmo's you might want in a traditional animation package. Plus it has a lot of every usefull tools that are unique to this software. Go check it out.
Also, there's talk about an American Empire [iht.com] Funy to see americains thinking of them as a raising empire, while everywhere else people see the United States as a falling empire. Your so called intellectual are maybe too full of themselves.
And I find it disturbing that people think that American's should rule the world.
Wait until enough people develop.Net solutions on alternative platforms then say, "well that's great, now you can pay us a license fee." Now that would be a diabolical plan. but IIRC, you can't apply for a patent if something has been in the wild for one year. So if Microsoft hasn't applied yet for a pattent on some core aspect of C#, then it probably isn't going to happen. Is there anyone who can clarify that?
It is me, but of all the companies who could have bought PayPal, this is the one I'm the most confortable with. I mean, even tought Ebay is in it for money (after all, you don't buy something at 1.5 billion for fun... or maybe you do, I don't know, I'm not that rich... yet:-p), this is one of the less contreversial takeover/merger that happened in the last few months. They complement each other perfectly, one providing a service, the other the most popular the way to pay on that service.
I don't think tought that Paypal will only work with eBay now. As someone else pointed out, eBay will make a lot more money keeping Paypal as it is right now then making it eBay-centric, tought I'm sure that we'll soon see an option in your eBay account to get a PayPal account, no harm in that.
Personnally, I think a lot of Linux advocates are a little too bit full of themselves. I mean, Microsoft isn't going the Palladium route because it want's to crush Linux. It's going that route because it thinks it's a profitable one that will benefit them in the long run. This isn't a direct blow to the GPL and Linux. Hurting Linux and GPL is an aftershock. MS doesn't give a damn about Linux because they're sure that the RIAA, MPAA, or whoever provides the content will feel better trusting Microsoft then some open source project.
Of course, the real question is who's behind the cameras
When are slashdotters going to stop adding these kind of remarks at the end of their news post? I'm getting tired of all the paranoia and propaganda that is around on Slashdot, even if it is justified sometimes.
... but up here in Canada we've had an ad in the local newspaper for a store which advertised Warcraft 3 with the cluebook coming out on July 3rd. It was about time Blizzard made it official, since it's been known for a week that it was going to ship soon.
"Beta and LaserDisc, say hello to your new friend, D-VHS" *Slams the closet door*
I mean, there are so many disadvantages to this technology. Sure the picture quality is going to be very nice, much better then DVDs but... From what I understand this is a tape based format. Now, anyone who's been using DVDs for a while will never want to use DVHS. It's like going back to dialup when you had broadband : nobody wants to be waiting for the tape to go forward and backward so they can find what they're looking for.
Plus, what's cool about a DVD is that you get access to all the special features easily. But with a tape based format, you will have to fast-forward your way to the end of the tape to find the special features. I hate fastforwaring to the end of my "Army of Darkness" tape to show the alternate ending to friends who want to see it but not the whole movie. (not wanting to see the movie should be a crime, but that's another topic:-) )
Also, DVDs have these advantages over DVHS : they are small, shiny, and you don't get a fine at the videostore because you forgot to *rewind* your DVD.:-p
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I mean, why are they doing these incompatible formats. Let's see, we already have something called DVD's which we buy in stores, the technology is currently WORKING. Why don't the frickin' burners burn in this format and get it over with!!!
Or lemme guess, the DVD's we have are a broken standard where the designers haven't thought that maybe someday someone would say : "wwwhhoooa man, this is cool, if only I could make home movies with these." I mean, have you ever seen a VHS tape NOT work if you taped it with a video recorder and played it on another one? Get the point?
These days, with laws like DMCA, Digital Right Managements, DVDs with unskippable tracks and other crap like these, I am thinking that technology is just going to get suckier, not better. The good old days are over I guess...
Anything can fly, you just have to forget you're falling...
... if there is a bug in your music routine in your game, I guess this will be useless debugging tool.
I mean they are at the theater for about a year. I would guess that the film is expensive to produce and transport.
I think it has more to do with the fact the IMAX theaters are not found everywhere so they don't get to show the movie to a lot of people very quickly, compared to traditional cinemas. I've never an Imax room less then half-full, even after a movie came out months ago. There always seems to be a lot of poeple going there. After all it shouldn't cost a lot more. It's not like DVD's where you have to put more information in the same space as CDs. The IMAX film is just bigger.
Didn't Kasparov beat Deep Blue but got beaten by DeepER Blue?
duh!!!!!!
WTF? How did I get a -1 Troll from some moderator. Did some Linux junkie rated my post as Troll because he/she hates Microsoft? Get a grip moderators, I'm not insulting anyone here, neither am I bashing Linux nor Microsoft. Moderators are the reason why I chose not to moderate in the first place : there are too many imbeciles out there who ruin your effort into serious moderating
You can rate this post at Troll or Flamebait all you want tought.
If for the software this changes nothing (and probably does, after all, the games must still play on the console), it probably changes something in the MOD chip. So that means that the new XBOX that is shipped will not be compatible with the old mocdhips. The result? MOD Chip installers will have to thrown away their old supply of mod chips to make new ones, unless there's a simple way to change the keys in the MOD chip. This is surely going to hurt the mod chip companies who will have to throw away their old mod chips and buy new ones. If Microsoft keeps changing the keys in the hardware often enough, the mod chippers are going to run in a lot of troubles determining which mod chip is needed for which XBOX. This is a brilliant move.
The reason why I didn't go into DirectX stuff is mainly because I don't know much about it. But from what I've seen in some college course, it has a lot of fluffy stuff and initlization routines you have to go through before drawing even a single pixel in Direct 3D and DirectDraw, while in GL you create a window, create a GL context, bind them, and you're ready to go.
.x files, which you can create with 3DS Max and then convert to .x with a utility that comes with the SDK. You don't even have to care about model loading, isn't it great? Or of course you can get dirty and play with the immediate mode which achieves the same purpose as OpenGL does, but with a totally different system, which, as Carmack once put it "is broken, but still works."
If you don't want to start from scratch, Direct3d has 2 modes : immediate and something I think is called retained mode. Retained mode is basically a basic 3d engine with notions of meshes, lights, directions, parent/child space, that sort of stuff, already implemented and is great for beginners. It can even load
For the sound though, you will have to go with DirectSound, since it's the best way to make audio on Windows. You might want to look for OpenAL, if you want to do cross platform stuff. It's the OpenGL for audio, hence the AL. I'm not sure though that the standard is set in stone. You should check that out.
Nah, I don't think so. I've read a bit about Valgrind and I'd be surprised if it emulated all the PC hardware like Bochs does. Bochs is interresting because it emulates an entire PC, so it's ideal for OS development.
You should first look at NeHe OpenGL tutorials. It will teach you a long way into 3d programming. It's very well written and covers a lot of subjects. Check it out at http://nehe.gamedev.net/. There are a lot of tutorials, and most of them is written in more than one language, so you can learn about using OpenGL even tough C++ is not your favorite language. The are tutorials in C++, PowerBasic... And code for Mac, Windows, Linux, everything! A true gem. This is the best beginners ressource you can find.
Didn't Maxtor buy Western Digital earlier this year? That should explain the minor slip-up.
I'm glad someone responded brilliantly to my post as you did. I have to admit, I may have jumped a bit ahead of Jon Katz by talking about 9/11 (silly me), but I still think that part of my point is valid. Today, more and more often do we see journalists using the 9/11 facts or ideas in the news, and I'm not talking *only* about the US, I'm talking everywhere, but it seems though that whenever someone has a chance to put some 9/11 fact in an article, they will do it. I don't know much about other countries, since I don't watch news from Spain or other counrties like that, though I get some news from them from the world news and newspaper.
Second, I wasn't implying that americans are worldless snob. As with every country, there are people who are interrested in other cultures and countries, like you seem to be. But whenever I jump on the web on newsgroups (and I'm not talking only Slashdot here), or watch American news, I can't help but feel that your country is looking more and more to it's own self and not looking around them.
The problem seems to be, in my point of view that the masses aren't that concerned about the rest of the world. And when you have a president like George W. Bush who says "We're not gonna reduce our pollution level because it would be bad for american economy.", then I wonder what the masses even think!!! Especially when it's the masses that put him there in the first place. (even tought that's about 25% of your mass)
Feel free, to respond back, you seem to be an interresting fellow.
Brilliant article. Very intrerresting and has me interrested in looking for such films. It seems I'll reopen my Quake 1 box soon. :-)
The only gripe I have about the article is about this snippet of text :
For instance, one might put a terrorist's head on an opponent's body.
That, my friends, is bad journalism. Stop thinking 9/11 and give the rest of the world a rest and stop adding terrorist consipiracies and references to everything you write.
Even tough I sympatize with the american people about the tragic events of 9/11, please lighten up and realize that there has been people who've cried for longer and harder than you in a lot of countries devastated by war and terrorism and that it took you two towers and the death thousands of rich americans to realize the horror of MILLIONS of poor 3rdworld habitants.
Sometimes, I think that americans put more value on their life than other people. It's not rare that thousands of people get killed in a week in some countries due to terrorist activities. But you never hear of them, and you people don't care. But 2000 rich americans, oh... this is much more important.
I'd like to have someone prove me wrong on this... and someone who will say other things than "F*** YOU, A**HOLE." But maybe that changed with 9/11, and you people finally fell back from your cloud.
Welcome to the real world.
The problem is, AMD and Intel have already decided to jump on the DRM wagon and are both working on including DRM technology inside their chips. So the only other company who will be able to give us computers that are DRM free will be Apple (maybe, I don't know if they're going to go that way), and Via (with Cyrix) and Transmetta. And they don't have a lot of market share. Apple may gain some, but virtually no one will want a Cyrix or Transmetta processor.
Even though it's not a modeler, it's one of the best animation package around. It's available on Linux, Windows, MacOSX, Irix and more, so you should have a version for your PC. It's made by the folks at Kaydara. One of their big feature IS exactly what you'Re looking for : realtime editing of your motion with NLE and all the gizmo's you might want in a traditional animation package. Plus it has a lot of every usefull tools that are unique to this software. Go check it out.
Also, there's talk about an American Empire [iht.com]
Funy to see americains thinking of them as a raising empire, while everywhere else people see the United States as a falling empire. Your so called intellectual are maybe too full of themselves.
And I find it disturbing that people think that American's should rule the world.
Wait until enough people develop .Net solutions on alternative platforms then say, "well that's great, now you can pay us a license fee."
Now that would be a diabolical plan. but IIRC, you can't apply for a patent if something has been in the wild for one year. So if Microsoft hasn't applied yet for a pattent on some core aspect of C#, then it probably isn't going to happen. Is there anyone who can clarify that?
Don't you think "little plumber" is bit pejorative? Maybe you should introduce her (no pun intended) his big brother Luigi instead.
Maybe they could buy FedEx next? They can come at your house, get the box, package it and send it on the same day. Now that would be nice.
It is me, but of all the companies who could have bought PayPal, this is the one I'm the most confortable with. I mean, even tought Ebay is in it for money (after all, you don't buy something at 1.5 billion for fun... or maybe you do, I don't know, I'm not that rich... yet :-p), this is one of the less contreversial takeover/merger that happened in the last few months. They complement each other perfectly, one providing a service, the other the most popular the way to pay on that service.
I don't think tought that Paypal will only work with eBay now. As someone else pointed out, eBay will make a lot more money keeping Paypal as it is right now then making it eBay-centric, tought I'm sure that we'll soon see an option in your eBay account to get a PayPal account, no harm in that.
Personnally, I think a lot of Linux advocates are a little too bit full of themselves. I mean, Microsoft isn't going the Palladium route because it want's to crush Linux. It's going that route because it thinks it's a profitable one that will benefit them in the long run. This isn't a direct blow to the GPL and Linux. Hurting Linux and GPL is an aftershock. MS doesn't give a damn about Linux because they're sure that the RIAA, MPAA, or whoever provides the content will feel better trusting Microsoft then some open source project.
Of course, the real question is who's behind the cameras
When are slashdotters going to stop adding these kind of remarks at the end of their news post? I'm getting tired of all the paranoia and propaganda that is around on Slashdot, even if it is justified sometimes.
... but up here in Canada we've had an ad in the local newspaper for a store which advertised Warcraft 3 with the cluebook coming out on July 3rd. It was about time Blizzard made it official, since it's been known for a week that it was going to ship soon.
"Beta and LaserDisc, say hello to your new friend, D-VHS" *Slams the closet door*
:-) )
:-p
I mean, there are so many disadvantages to this technology. Sure the picture quality is going to be very nice, much better then DVDs but... From what I understand this is a tape based format. Now, anyone who's been using DVDs for a while will never want to use DVHS. It's like going back to dialup when you had broadband : nobody wants to be waiting for the tape to go forward and backward so they can find what they're looking for.
Plus, what's cool about a DVD is that you get access to all the special features easily. But with a tape based format, you will have to fast-forward your way to the end of the tape to find the special features. I hate fastforwaring to the end of my "Army of Darkness" tape to show the alternate ending to friends who want to see it but not the whole movie. (not wanting to see the movie should be a crime, but that's another topic
Also, DVDs have these advantages over DVHS : they are small, shiny, and you don't get a fine at the videostore because you forgot to *rewind* your DVD.