it's awsome. Neuros, plays mp3, ogg, it can record with onboard mic, broadcast FM to your car stereo, and much much more.:)
it's grrrreeeeaaaat!
dude. you're awsome. I love your post.
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dude. you're awsome. I love your post.
really, I agree. there isn't a point to having religion be the only point in the game. it's always going to be secondary. as you say, there is no fun gameplay in worship or browbeating the masses into submission.
the real fun religious gameplay comes in with stories about spiritual beings, avoiding sacrificial rituals, killing vampires, incanting spells, or stopping cute animals from following each other into the sea by digging holes.
though I'd rather have normal distros tuned for audio (i.e. the low latency patch, alsa, a few apps like rosegarden, ardour, audacity, csound, a few others...)
at least we now don't have to install Alsa ourselves.:D
I stopped buying new music CDs in 1995. I only buy used. The price is too high, and seems to only go higher.
On the other hand, I'm an independant artist, and only sell handmade CDs. I wont use an RIAA company because I don't want my fans to be raped for money.
I agree with the parent post about caffene is bad. I had the same prob as you and kept trying to be more alert/motiviated with caffene, it turned out to make me feel vacant and not as sharp, and then get headaches which totally killed my thinking.
caffene is bad, just stop it now.:)
Other things to try is the ADHD drugs. cylert was super effective for me, but I only tried for a year when classes were hard and non-interesting. I used to be easily distracted, but while taking that medication, I could sit down, do the work, and finish. One task after another. It was nice. I have mild ADHD though, even ADHD varies between people so your milage may vary.
why use something like direct x when opengl is an open standard with sourcecode and specification open to all?
It's scary that so many people are relying on M$'s proprietary graphicx technology. at any time they could discontinue it, or change the API in such a way to make all games broken. I wouldn't put it past them.
is 1.4 backward compatible? 1.3 and 1.4 are a direct3d thing, what about opengl?
so what if we all just use opengl instead? open standard etc... would definately worth it to pressure the ARB to extend their spec to shaders.... NVIDIA shader extensions would have to be uses cause the opengl ARB is very slow in adopting new standards (like pixel shading)
SGIs are so slow. The thing that make them fast are their mobo. Very fast bus, multichannels, etc... Their processors are ok, but price vs value doesn't make sense.
really they only make sense when you're finely tuning your code to them, but you can't expect all software to be written to take advantage of them.
so, IMHO a render of farm of PIIIs would be much faster in certain cases. and definately makes much more sense for cost. Renderman is free, the hardware is virtually free (real cheap). Expand your farm to make it faster.
I didn't even touch the subject of GeForce vs Onyx3. For most rendering (especially architechture/games/etc..) geforce is going to kick SGI onyx.
another thought. hoaw about mind control? how soon before the gov tries out some nano mind control. maybe not on their people, but maybe the supposed "enemy"?
I wonder how long it is before countries around the world unleash lethal nanobots into foriegn water supplies? A lot like Neal S's diamond age with all that "toner", but what about the nanos that actually do get into humans and cause some damage?
The "VRAC team" is actually about 150 people. the VR Juggler team (the one that writes the software that runs the C6, and many other VR devices), is actually about 4 grad students (allen,chris,patrick,kevin), the original inventor of the CAVE (Dr. Cruz-Neira), and a few others...
VR Juggler is an opensource virtual reality platform. It is the next generation of CAVE software. It runs caves, c6, HMD, powerwall, desktop VR, etc... highly configurable and highly extensible.
For background info:
Dr. Cruz wrote the original CAVElib (closed source) at EVL for the original CAVE system she designed. NOTE: that all CAVE(tm) systems are only 4 walls! The C6 at VRAC is the worlds first 6 sided cave-like device.
VR Juggler is her next endeavor, it doesn't suffer from the problems that CAVElib does, and whats best is that VRJuggler is completely open source (LGPL).
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it's awsome. Neuros, plays mp3, ogg, it can record with onboard mic, broadcast FM to your car stereo, and much much more. :)
it's grrrreeeeaaaat!
dude. you're awsome. I love your post.
really, I agree. there isn't a point to having religion be the only point in the game. it's always going to be secondary. as you say, there is no fun gameplay in worship or browbeating the masses into submission.
the real fun religious gameplay comes in with stories about spiritual beings, avoiding sacrificial rituals, killing vampires, incanting spells, or stopping cute animals from following each other into the sea by digging holes.
why the hell is "evolved" in quotes???
just because algorithms aren't alive doesn't mean they can't be evolved.
(notice how nice this sentance still looks without the quotes)
i agree.
:D
I'd love to have a distro tuned for audio...
though I'd rather have normal distros tuned for audio (i.e. the low latency patch, alsa, a few apps like rosegarden, ardour, audacity, csound, a few others...)
at least we now don't have to install Alsa ourselves.
at last we have default alsa. ding dong the evil oss-free witch is dead!
so when's planet-ccrma going to update to 2.6?
I'm looking forward to the end the nasty OSSFree, and the beginning of the silky smooth default included Alsa sound kernel.
no more annoying upgrading my system to Alsa when I want to make it into a professional audio workstation
whoo hooooo
With OSS moved to comercial, OSS-free doesn't seem to be developed or maintained very well.
Alsa is far ahead of OSS, and I'm surprised they've waited this long for it...
I hate OSS-Free. When are the distros all going to start using Alsa?
It's hell for music/sound guys when the distro doesn't come preinstalled with alsa.
awsome, tons of users, lots of sharing, very original stuff, even artists hang out here: slsk
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I stopped buying new music CDs in 1995. I only buy used. The price is too high, and seems to only go higher.
On the other hand, I'm an independant artist, and only sell handmade CDs. I wont use an RIAA company because I don't want my fans to be raped for money.
my band: http://www.subatomicglue.com
I agree with the parent post about caffene is bad. I had the same prob as you and kept trying to be more alert/motiviated with caffene, it turned out to make me feel vacant and not as sharp, and then get headaches which totally killed my thinking.
:)
caffene is bad, just stop it now.
Other things to try is the ADHD drugs. cylert was super effective for me, but I only tried for a year when classes were hard and non-interesting. I used to be easily distracted, but while taking that medication, I could sit down, do the work, and finish. One task after another. It was nice. I have mild ADHD though, even ADHD varies between people so your milage may vary.
was just in virgin the other day, and every CD is $20. I'm not buying CDs as long as they are $20 or higher.
Here is a 6 sided cave(like), and a 4 sided with movable walls... http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/about/otherLabs/index. html
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http://subatomic.vrsource.org!!
what about the 3D first person shooter, dark forces?
:)
That game was awsome, I really believed I was a rebel.
I even had dreams that I was in the game. Not many games do that to me. It was like I was an actor in the movie. so cool...
creative labs and loki both are maintaining openal very actively.
their discussion board is lively, and patches are submitted all the time.
you guys should do some research before acting like you know stuff.
subatomic-
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicglue
I tried plib about a year ago, and OH MY GOD, it was BAD!!!
It supported (get ready):
- 3 simultaneous voices
- 8 bit mono (only)
- not even 3D sound
Does anyone know if it has gotten better in the last year? Maybe I just missed why it is "so good"?
subatomic -
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicglue
openal is actively maintained, just monitor their mailing list. bug reports go in reletively quick too.
I've been using openal on win32, linux, and IRIX without trouble. The only caveat is the API varies just a little between platforms.
Kevin
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicglue
I like game dev for one... very good mag.
anyone have other favorites?
subatomic
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicglue
why use something like direct x when opengl is an open standard with sourcecode and specification open to all?
It's scary that so many people are relying on M$'s proprietary graphicx technology. at any time they could discontinue it, or change the API in such a way to make all games broken. I wouldn't put it past them.
subatomic
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicglue
is 1.4 backward compatible? 1.3 and 1.4 are a direct3d thing, what about opengl?
so what if we all just use opengl instead? open standard etc... would definately worth it to pressure the ARB to extend their spec to shaders.... NVIDIA shader extensions would have to be uses cause the opengl ARB is very slow in adopting new standards (like pixel shading)
subatomic
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicglue
SGIs are so slow. The thing that make them fast are their mobo. Very fast bus, multichannels, etc... Their processors are ok, but price vs value doesn't make sense.
really they only make sense when you're finely tuning your code to them, but you can't expect all software to be written to take advantage of them.
so, IMHO a render of farm of PIIIs would be much faster in certain cases. and definately makes much more sense for cost. Renderman is free, the hardware is virtually free (real cheap). Expand your farm to make it faster.
I didn't even touch the subject of GeForce vs Onyx3. For most rendering (especially architechture/games/etc..) geforce is going to kick SGI onyx.
subatomic
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicglue
at least the "graphics jargon" is useful to some of us...
subatomic
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicglue
another thought. hoaw about mind control? how soon before the gov tries out some nano mind control. maybe not on their people, but maybe the supposed "enemy"?
subatomic
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicglue
I wonder how long it is before countries around the world unleash lethal nanobots into foriegn water supplies? A lot like Neal S's diamond age with all that "toner", but what about the nanos that actually do get into humans and cause some damage?
subatomic
http://www.mp3.com/subatomicglue
The "VRAC team" is actually about 150 people. the VR Juggler team (the one that writes the software that runs the C6, and many other VR devices), is actually about 4 grad students (allen,chris,patrick,kevin), the original inventor of the CAVE (Dr. Cruz-Neira), and a few others...
VR Juggler is an opensource virtual reality platform. It is the next generation of CAVE software. It runs caves, c6, HMD, powerwall, desktop VR, etc... highly configurable and highly extensible.
For background info: Dr. Cruz wrote the original CAVElib (closed source) at EVL for the original CAVE system she designed. NOTE: that all CAVE(tm) systems are only 4 walls! The C6 at VRAC is the worlds first 6 sided cave-like device.
VR Juggler is her next endeavor, it doesn't suffer from the problems that CAVElib does, and whats best is that VRJuggler is completely open source (LGPL).