The open source community is just that, a COMMUNITY. It's not a single hive-mind or something, it's different people with different interests and different goals. Is it too hard for you to understand that?
No, that sucks. A typical modern desktop hard drive is almost twice as fast (~45-53 MB/s). And I'm not even talking about Serial ATA, just plain ol' ATA-133.
My guess is that when they say "burning a DVD", what they really wanted to say is "encoding an MPEG-2 stream and burning it on-the-fly to a DVD-video".
(OT) Funny how I own a DVD-RW drive for over 6 months now, yet all I've burned was data. Reading stuff like that makes me wonder if I'm the only guy on Earth who uses DVD-Rs purely as "bigger CD-Rs".
Why do so many people think flash memory is fast? That's not true at all. It's actually slower than a modern hard disk and, quite naturally, much much slower than RAM.
Actually we could continue this comparison a bit further:
- Both use PowerPC processors in their flagship machines. - Both have released a small footprint machine shaped as a cube (the G4 Cube and the GameCube). - Both are being constantly qualified as "dying" by idiot analysts at least once every 6 months.
Honest question: Why don't you just dual-boot? It's not like it's hard. I do it. My Windows partition exists only for Windows-only games, and those rare times I really need to use MS Office because OOo doesn't do something specific.
"In D3D, if you didn't have support for say, vertex shader 2.0, you could run it in software."
But will it run at an acceptable performance? I've always wondered about this. Automatic software fallbacks have always been advertised as a definitive plus for D3D, but it is really good? Just curious.
If you're talking about the API itself, it's already there. Just look at Wine. Yes, it's slow and buggy, since it's just a wrapper.
In order to have REAL, NATIVE Direct3D support for Linux, it would have to be on a driver level. There's no way in hell Microsoft will allow nVidia and ATi to port Direct3D to Linux.
You cut the "on slashdot" part when you quoted me. My point was that you were dissing slashdot's most worshipped programmer, which is bound to piss off a lot of people.
Anyway that was very informative. I wasn't aware that Carmack was such a sloppy coder.
I agree. When I was reading this I said: Damn, only Windows-only games, huh? Hey wait, gish isn't! What the hell? Why do they only mention Windows 98/ME/2000/XP ?
What happened to the Linux port? IIRC, before launch they said the game would be Windows/OSX/Linux, yet I've been browsing their site lately and haven't seen any talk about Linux (except their servers).
Trillian is nothing spectacular. Quite frankly I don't see why anyone would pay money for that program, with all the very good free-as-in-both-meanings IM clients that are already available on Windows.
Note to all Mac and Linux users: you're not missing much, so don't bother whining about not having ports.
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The open source community is just that, a COMMUNITY. It's not a single hive-mind or something, it's different people with different interests and different goals. Is it too hard for you to understand that?
But firewire drives are very expensive, which kind of defeats the point of the Mac Mini.
No, that sucks. A typical modern desktop hard drive is almost twice as fast (~45-53 MB/s). And I'm not even talking about Serial ATA, just plain ol' ATA-133.
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My guess is that when they say "burning a DVD", what they really wanted to say is "encoding an MPEG-2 stream and burning it on-the-fly to a DVD-video".
(OT) Funny how I own a DVD-RW drive for over 6 months now, yet all I've burned was data. Reading stuff like that makes me wonder if I'm the only guy on Earth who uses DVD-Rs purely as "bigger CD-Rs".
Why do so many people think flash memory is fast? That's not true at all. It's actually slower than a modern hard disk and, quite naturally, much much slower than RAM.
By "addons", he was referring to the SegaCD and the 32X. The horror... the horror...
Actually we could continue this comparison a bit further:
- Both use PowerPC processors in their flagship machines.
- Both have released a small footprint machine shaped as a cube (the G4 Cube and the GameCube).
- Both are being constantly qualified as "dying" by idiot analysts at least once every 6 months.
Honest question: Why don't you just dual-boot? It's not like it's hard. I do it. My Windows partition exists only for Windows-only games, and those rare times I really need to use MS Office because OOo doesn't do something specific.
"In D3D, if you didn't have support for say, vertex shader 2.0, you could run it in software."
But will it run at an acceptable performance? I've always wondered about this. Automatic software fallbacks have always been advertised as a definitive plus for D3D, but it is really good? Just curious.
If you're talking about the API itself, it's already there. Just look at Wine. Yes, it's slow and buggy, since it's just a wrapper.
In order to have REAL, NATIVE Direct3D support for Linux, it would have to be on a driver level. There's no way in hell Microsoft will allow nVidia and ATi to port Direct3D to Linux.
You cut the "on slashdot" part when you quoted me. My point was that you were dissing slashdot's most worshipped programmer, which is bound to piss off a lot of people.
Anyway that was very informative. I wasn't aware that Carmack was such a sloppy coder.
Are you saying The Carmack has bad coding practices?? On slashdot?! Wow, you got some balls (or you're just ignorant).
In S. Korea, dead pixels are for old people.
I agree. When I was reading this I said: Damn, only Windows-only games, huh? Hey wait, gish isn't! What the hell? Why do they only mention Windows 98/ME/2000/XP ?
Another FPS I didn't know about?
Mod parent up. He's the only one who provided an accurate answer to the question.
I'd also add that nVidia's license does allow redistribution through physical media.
What happened to the Linux port? IIRC, before launch they said the game would be Windows/OSX/Linux, yet I've been browsing their site lately and haven't seen any talk about Linux (except their servers).
I take it you've never played Kirby's Adventure. This game suffered from slowdowns about half of the time due to its many simultaneous, big sprites.
First time I hear about Windows breaking from a earthquake. Most of the time it's trojans and viruses.
Trillian is nothing spectacular. Quite frankly I don't see why anyone would pay money for that program, with all the very good free-as-in-both-meanings IM clients that are already available on Windows.
Note to all Mac and Linux users: you're not missing much, so don't bother whining about not having ports.
Logically speaking, if slashdot was slashdottable, it would be slashdotted 24/7 (well, almost).
My guess is that it has a weird form factor, and wouldn't fit in an original GBA.
That's only when you're posting as an AC.
You know someone's a REAL geek when they start their numbered lists with zero.