The consoles players has one advantage tho: they can easily throw their wireless controllers further to hit the PC gamers across the room.
Yes, i am aware the Razer Mamba is a wireless gaming graded mouse. But it just simply doesn't pack the same punch to it.
Whats a pity is that ATI again lagging behind on the performance part in the OpenGL based games/applications. You would think they learned their lesson with the Radeon 9x00 series and the X[3/6/7/8]00 series. How poorly those products perform with 'the next-gen' OpenGL based games, ID's Doom3 engine, and current line of OpenGL games. You would think ATI's Next-gen product would be doing alot better than their previous product line or atleast to be competitive with NV's 'next-gen' harware (i start to hate the word "next-gen", it's marketing lube than actually something meaningfull).
That ATI hardware perform well on DX9 based games is really nice (one of the reason i got myself a Radeon card 2 years ago, when NV's FX serie was just horror on DX9). But fortunately the gaming market doesn't only consist out of DX-based games.
The only thing that can save ATI now is offering very competitive pricing for their new product line at the expense of current product line, which is unlikely looking at their recommended pricing.
I'm a gamer myself. What most gamers wants is not the bleeding edge hardware (well they like to day dream having it, but thats something else than what their wallet allows them to have). But good performance with good image quality at a good price in any range; either entry level or midrange or high-end.
Talking about high-end. It's also a pity that the new X1000 serie seem to less efficient running at high level of FSAA and Anisotropic filters. Those techniques can makes a game, tho how bored the gameplay may be, even interresting (such as Doom3 and other arcade type run and shooter games).
For now, i'm happy to stick to my cheap-ass 120 euro 6800LE card for atleast 2 years to come. Which easily can beat ATI's new midrange product, the X1600XT, with ease and it cost me way less.
At 11:32 CEST i read a message on IRC from a friend that our buddy Madeddie was taken into a hospital in France. At that time i though it was a sick/silly joke, to realize 4 hours later that it wasn't a joke and that one of a fellow IRC regular was involved in the accident and died.
I only hope that Madeddie and Webmind both are ok and back home soon.
Madeddie, if you read this... BETERSCHAP!
My condoleances to Hans Bakker's family and gf.
it's made by open source programers for open source users.
No, anyone is free to use it. And imho, there is no such thing as "open source users", only computer users.
The makers of GIMP are open source programmers who know nothing about graphic design in the professional world
Thats a pretty brave remark from someone who said: visual people who like pretty things and easy to use GUI's - thats why Apple is a great platform for us.
US? Does that mean you are one of them. If so, can i safely assume that YOU do not have much knowledge about programmers in the open source world either? And unless you knows (some of the) GIMP developers personally. You're not in any position at all to say such thing.
Theres no reason for a graphic designer to touch linux ever. Maybe a windows machine, always an apple, but never linux.
Just a though...have you ever used Linux at all? or seen anyone else using it? I enjoy using my Photoshop 7 in Linux. Ever tried using Photoshop 7 behind an old pentium 1? Well i do, setup a linux box which is fairly fast with PS7 and wine and X11 and XDMCP; setup a LAN(100mbps or 1000mbps); setup another box with only X11 on it and with network connectivity to the LAN; connect to box1 on it's XDMCP service and hoppa, using PS7 on a slower machine which the PS7 is actually running on the other box. Talking about using my computers efficiently...instead of buying another blazing fast machine to have a colleage to work on. Just to show you how 2 (or even more) people can consume the powers of computer nowadays posses for something usefull and productive. Instead of wasting it to GUI animations... dont get me wrong tho, I LIKE PRETTY GUI ANIMATIONS.
because they don't know or understand that CODERS ARE NOT GRAPHIC DESIGNERS and vice versa
Just because you dont know any or haven't heard about any of them does not mean it's impossible or that it does not exist.
Infact i know plenty of coders who are excellent designers aswell.
From my point of view, your posting IS NOT insightful at all. But in your intentions , you do have a small point. Linux is often too complicated for graphics designers who worked their whole life on Mac and do not wish to learn or to know whats going on in their computer. Which is often a pre if you want to become handy in Linux.
Photoshop 7 works fine with latest wine from winehq.com aswell (for quite some time/months now). See www.frankscorner.org for instruction etc.
As a former webdeveloper/designer, I had been looking for a way to escape the need to use Windows and expensive proprietary software for my work and started to invest lots of time in how i can continue doing my work and the tools i need for it in an open source software environment. For many tasks i was able to find an OSS alternatives and sometimes even better than on Windows. Only Photoshop has no comparising in the OSS world. Gimp is just not mature enough altho Gimp 2.0 has been much much better compared to the 1.x branch. So for time being i'm forced to run Photoshop (and MSIE6 for testing) in wine and not some commercial fork based on wine such as crossover and winex. Which i btw have to say that i really disgust the way Winex/Transgaming does business and promote their software ("TransGaming's unique software portability solutions allow developers and publishers to leverage their assets by deploying these games and applications across multiple platforms - faster, cheaper, and better than anyone else.").
Timothy, you should wipe clean ur geeky glasses and see it wasn't xmms2 you had on your screenshot... it is beep-media-player (bmp -> http://beepmp.sourceforge.net).
If u wanna lie to general public next time. Make sure you dont provide the evidence which people can see you were lying...
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The consoles players has one advantage tho: they can easily throw their wireless controllers further to hit the PC gamers across the room. Yes, i am aware the Razer Mamba is a wireless gaming graded mouse. But it just simply doesn't pack the same punch to it.
Whats a pity is that ATI again lagging behind on the performance part in the OpenGL based games/applications. You would think they learned their lesson with the Radeon 9x00 series and the X[3/6/7/8]00 series. How poorly those products perform with 'the next-gen' OpenGL based games, ID's Doom3 engine, and current line of OpenGL games. You would think ATI's Next-gen product would be doing alot better than their previous product line or atleast to be competitive with NV's 'next-gen' harware (i start to hate the word "next-gen", it's marketing lube than actually something meaningfull).
That ATI hardware perform well on DX9 based games is really nice (one of the reason i got myself a Radeon card 2 years ago, when NV's FX serie was just horror on DX9). But fortunately the gaming market doesn't only consist out of DX-based games.
From what i gathered on various resources (http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1 818/ and http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2552 ) on benchmarking the X1000 series. They are still performing inadequately compared to ATI's current line of products and that of Nvidia's 6x00 serie.
The only thing that can save ATI now is offering very competitive pricing for their new product line at the expense of current product line, which is unlikely looking at their recommended pricing.
I'm a gamer myself. What most gamers wants is not the bleeding edge hardware (well they like to day dream having it, but thats something else than what their wallet allows them to have). But good performance with good image quality at a good price in any range; either entry level or midrange or high-end.
Talking about high-end. It's also a pity that the new X1000 serie seem to less efficient running at high level of FSAA and Anisotropic filters. Those techniques can makes a game, tho how bored the gameplay may be, even interresting (such as Doom3 and other arcade type run and shooter games).
For now, i'm happy to stick to my cheap-ass 120 euro 6800LE card for atleast 2 years to come. Which easily can beat ATI's new midrange product, the X1600XT, with ease and it cost me way less.
New isn't always betterhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%2C_Norway Winter is coming soon. Get ready to gear up your gaming equipment with an ATI card.
From this article ( http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040216/asp/bengal/s tory_2900904.asp ) on Feb 16 2004 report that an 8 year old boy is the youngest. I'm not a math wiz. But last time i checked on elementairy school. 10 > 8.
What's going on here?
At 11:32 CEST i read a message on IRC from a friend that our buddy Madeddie was taken into a hospital in France. At that time i though it was a sick/silly joke, to realize 4 hours later that it wasn't a joke and that one of a fellow IRC regular was involved in the accident and died. I only hope that Madeddie and Webmind both are ok and back home soon. Madeddie, if you read this ... BETERSCHAP!
My condoleances to Hans Bakker's family and gf.
this is the day dude, check my other post in this thread ;P
visual people who like pretty things and easy to use GUI's - thats why Apple is a great platform for us.
US? Does that mean you are one of them. If so, can i safely assume that YOU do not have much knowledge about programmers in the open source world either? And unless you knows (some of the) GIMP developers personally. You're not in any position at all to say such thing. Just a though...have you ever used Linux at all? or seen anyone else using it? I enjoy using my Photoshop 7 in Linux. Ever tried using Photoshop 7 behind an old pentium 1? Well i do, setup a linux box which is fairly fast with PS7 and wine and X11 and XDMCP; setup a LAN(100mbps or 1000mbps); setup another box with only X11 on it and with network connectivity to the LAN; connect to box1 on it's XDMCP service and hoppa, using PS7 on a slower machine which the PS7 is actually running on the other box. Talking about using my computers efficiently...instead of buying another blazing fast machine to have a colleage to work on. Just to show you how 2 (or even more) people can consume the powers of computer nowadays posses for something usefull and productive. Instead of wasting it to GUI animations
Infact i know plenty of coders who are excellent designers aswell.
From my point of view, your posting IS NOT insightful at all. But in your intentions , you do have a small point. Linux is often too complicated for graphics designers who worked their whole life on Mac and do not wish to learn or to know whats going on in their computer. Which is often a pre if you want to become handy in Linux.
Photoshop 7 works fine with latest wine from winehq.com aswell (for quite some time/months now).
See www.frankscorner.org for instruction etc.
As a former webdeveloper/designer, I had been looking for a way to escape the need to use Windows and expensive proprietary software for my work and started to invest lots of time in how i can continue doing my work and the tools i need for it in an open source software environment. For many tasks i was able to find an OSS alternatives and sometimes even better than on Windows.
Only Photoshop has no comparising in the OSS world. Gimp is just not mature enough altho Gimp 2.0 has been much much better compared to the 1.x branch.
So for time being i'm forced to run Photoshop (and MSIE6 for testing) in wine and not some commercial fork based on wine such as crossover and winex.
Which i btw have to say that i really disgust the way Winex/Transgaming does business and promote their software ("TransGaming's unique software portability solutions allow developers and publishers to leverage their assets by deploying these games and applications across multiple platforms - faster, cheaper, and better than anyone else.").
*PUKE*
Good point, but it doesn't matter much who i accuse of lying...everyone lies. It's just a matter of when and where.
Timothy, you should wipe clean ur geeky glasses and see it wasn't xmms2 you had on your screenshot ... it is beep-media-player (bmp -> http://beepmp.sourceforge.net).
If u wanna lie to general public next time. Make sure you dont provide the evidence which people can see you were lying...