...the companies that fork out big bucks for this sort of high-end hardware aren't looking to play Q3.
Well, unless they are id Software:-) which uses Intergraph (among other) hardware for development. Quadro is placed to compete with the likes of Intergraph and SGI. Wait a moment, wasn't NVIDIA working with SGI?!? Maybe we will see SGI Quadro Reality or something...
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Well, at least I read it.:-)
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Indeed. Q3tourney is really a duel map... thats why it sucks with many players. (I happen to hate duels, so it allways sucks for me.;)
Q3test1 can go into much higher numbers (i've tried ~40), but it becomes a different kind of game - if you get the RL, you can wreak massive death upon your opponents... otherwise, you might as well play tetris instead!
Q3test2 with many players is only fun to camp on, but of course no honorable player would do that. *evil grin*
The BP6 uses a Hotpoint controller for ATA66. Abit also sells these separately, called Hotrod, I think.
Promise also makes ATA66 controllers, among them IDE RAID (!).
Linux support? No idea...:-(
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Amen! I hardly need to reply myself.:-)
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...And not much going on. What, like 7-8 smallish platforms for a bunch of blue & red Fisher-Price robot guys to cram onto and randomly gib?
The fact being: This level was designed for play with 3 people! If there are more, it's pretty random. (I tried with 40...hehe.) But it isn't really id's fault when people set their servers on too many players.
Speaking of UT... it's quite similar to Morpheus (or whateveritwascalled). Except you can float around. And you have those damn little random jumps that thow you off buildings... (can I turn them off?)
But sure, UT rocks too, now if they could just get their engine in order on TNTs...
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Besides the curved surfaces, what really is going to make Quake III any different than Quake II?
- It much faster. Not faster as in framerate, but faster as in action speed. A massive Q3A deathmatch with like 40 players is the most intensive game experience I've ever had...
- It is a multiplayer only game. Sure, you will be able to play it yourself against bots, but it's still a simulation of multiplay.
- Q3A is an arcade-style first-person shooter. It's not supposed to have too much tactics. Sure, games with tactics or awesome storylines are cool, but they are another type of game. Part of the power of the FPS is its simplicity.
- johnc himself said that they might later do a game that takes better advantage of the Q3A engine. The best thing you can to with the purty visuals right now is to turn them off...
Small to moderate-sized indoor levels
Did you actually play it? Q3test2 is not small, not indoors, and I bet I can rail you from the other side of it.:>
Indeed. There is a popular misconception here. Gimp is fundamentally a content creation app, while Photoshop is a photo editing app (hence the name). They may share some functions, but the purpose of the apps (In the mind of the coders) is different.
if that is the answer, then why do you use their OS?
(climbs into flameproof tank) Maybe because the alternatives are not up to par either. (climbs back out)
I have yet to encounter one OS which fullfills all my demands. (Tried win95,98,98se,NT,Linux SuSE, Redhat, Mandrake, Slackware. Currently dual-booting 98se and Mandrake.)
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costs ~$10,000 (mostly b/c it comes with the MFC and C-runtime sources).
Bull. I have (and payed for...) the Standard edition, and it includes these as well.
...especially when cygwin/g++ is a better compiler to start with?
I don't know about this... John Carmak of all people use MSVC. Their development tools have allways been their best products. Better that the OS (freaky, I know).
Whats my point? I basically agree with yours. At least in the case of 'private' piracy. If I had a bussiness, I would pay for all my software... I could afford it then.
I wonder how many win coders started with pirated tools...? (Hint hint.) I mean, how many 15 year olds are gonna PAY for MSVC?
Adobe will lose massive "market share" to the GIMP within the next year, even on the Win32/64 platforms.
I would love this to happen, but: Photoshop is primarily a photo editing app (hence the name). Who uses that? Photographers and press. What do they use? Macs! Until Linux can duplicate the easy of use and installation of the Mac OS, the Gimp will be used mainly for content creation (like Tux:-). Nothing wrong with that, but that isn't Photoshops main market.
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And me too. And guess what, the socket has no ground... and the computer is networked to the whole house. Fatalities so far: One Matrox G200, destroyed by being zapped by the VGA cable. I also get zapped myself everytime I connect the stereo to the soundcard - its a wonder that both are still un-fried.
I do not necessarily have a desire to stick around and raise a kid...
No, but if you do, your kid will have a better chance in life. Hence, your genes will have a greater chance to be passed on. But, you have a point. In this case it is hardly that simple. Both the decision to procreate and to stay around afterwards, in the case of humans as we are today, are both genetic and conscious.
There is if everyone has access to the technology.
This is valid, except... Pardon me for being pessimistic, but YA RIGHT! Look at the earth today, and maybe rewind a few centuries. Heck, even food is still not universally accessible, eventhough the western world has a huge overproduction. Everyone - and it really has to be everyone (we are dealing with modifying the human genome here!) - having access to this kind of tech won't happen while I'm alive. Probably not while my (still nonexistent) children are alive either.
A part from this, I do have other objections against modifying human genes before birth, such as the huge risk of narrowing the gene pool, and generaly making the human race more uniform. I belive, as other posters have said, that the human race draws its greatness from its diversity. There is a great risk that most parents would 'play safe', and exclude traits that could lead to handicaps, but also to positive uniqueness, like Einstein's inability in arithmetic, which many have speculated had something to do with his inteligence.
Maybe the human race will be ready to take command of its own genes some time, but I think we need to gain much wisdom first.
I've heard it said that one of the most important jobs someone can ever have is the job of raising a child. It is the responsibility of the parent (in a perfect world) to raise a child who can survive in this world. It is the ultimate accomplishment if the child can do more than survive and actually prosper.
This is not a 'responsibility', this is the conscious extension of the will to pass ones genes on, which of course has been favorably selected by nature. (If a certain gene means we don't want to pass our genes on, it wouldn't get passed on...) I'm damn sure (heh, haven't tried yet) it feels like "the ultimate accomplishment", but that shouldn't surprise anyone. People (or other animals) who feel that way are more likely to do it again, therefore more genes get passed on.
It is important to separate concious morals from instincts - after all, what justice is there in nature? The strong live, the weak die. Do we want our human lives ruled that way? I'd vote no, and I hope you would too.
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...the companies that fork out big bucks for this sort of high-end hardware aren't looking to play Q3.
:-) which uses Intergraph (among other) hardware for development. Quadro is placed to compete with the likes of Intergraph and SGI. Wait a moment, wasn't NVIDIA working with SGI?!? Maybe we will see SGI Quadro Reality or something...
Well, unless they are id Software
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Oh dear... they have gone the way of 3DFX (3dfx) and NVIDIA (nVidia)... or maybe it was the 3D guys that followed LEGO :-)
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..., if you take in the whole body of work (inc. the tegwar) not only do you stand little chance of ever running out of names...
Heh, and you also stand little chance of ever running out of things to read!
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Yes, Tolkien is a great source for names. I name (dos) partitions after weapons in the Middle-earth mythology. Hence:
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Glamdring
Orcrist
Narsil
Anduril
Angrist (a knife, hence a laptop
If I get an Athlon, it would be Ringil. A Mac might be Grond. Hehe. Not sure what I would use Gurthang for... maybe a linux box?
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But what the hell was it supposed to say?
(Ok, I'm probably massively stupid. Being Swedish, I have never been near a Taco Bell sign, much less the actual place.)
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Well, at least I read it. :-)
q3test2 is a good 1-1... untill you play against a RailGod(TM)... spawn,die,spawn,die...
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Indeed. Q3tourney is really a duel map... thats why it sucks with many players. (I happen to hate duels, so it allways sucks for me. ;)
Q3test1 can go into much higher numbers (i've tried ~40), but it becomes a different kind of game - if you get the RL, you can wreak massive death upon your opponents... otherwise, you might as well play tetris instead!
Q3test2 with many players is only fun to camp on, but of course no honorable player would do that. *evil grin*
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The BP6 uses a Hotpoint controller for ATA66. Abit also sells these separately, called Hotrod, I think.
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Promise also makes ATA66 controllers, among them IDE RAID (!).
Linux support? No idea...
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Amen! :-)
I hardly need to reply myself.
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...And not much going on. What, like 7-8 smallish platforms for a bunch of blue & red Fisher-Price robot guys to cram onto and randomly gib?
The fact being: This level was designed for play with 3 people! If there are more, it's pretty random. (I tried with 40...hehe.) But it isn't really id's fault when people set their servers on too many players.
Speaking of UT... it's quite similar to Morpheus (or whateveritwascalled). Except you can float around. And you have those damn little random jumps that thow you off buildings... (can I turn them off?)
But sure, UT rocks too, now if they could just get their engine in order on TNTs...
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Besides the curved surfaces, what really is going to make Quake III any different than Quake II?
:>
- It much faster. Not faster as in framerate, but faster as in action speed. A massive Q3A deathmatch with like 40 players is the most intensive game experience I've ever had...
- It is a multiplayer only game. Sure, you will be able to play it yourself against bots, but it's still a simulation of multiplay.
- Q3A is an arcade-style first-person shooter. It's not supposed to have too much tactics. Sure, games with tactics or awesome storylines are cool, but they are another type of game. Part of the power of the FPS is its simplicity.
- johnc himself said that they might later do a game that takes better advantage of the Q3A engine. The best thing you can to with the purty visuals right now is to turn them off...
Small to moderate-sized indoor levels
Did you actually play it? Q3test2 is not small, not indoors, and I bet I can rail you from the other side of it.
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To tie the two topics back together: Adobe, pleeeeeze port Photoshop to BeOS! Apple wouldn't stand a chance...
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Thats what I read as well... guess we'll have to hire Mindcraft for some benchmarks again ;-)
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hmm, possible, although I have also heard the opposite somewhere (from MS? ;-). Anybody got any real data, rather than AFAIK's?
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Those millions of copies are sold to average users who fancy themselves to be photographers.
:-) Seriously, do you have any statistics on how much Adobe (Photoshop is a app, damnit, not a company) actually sells?
That would be me.
I'll ignore the latter part of your post... zealotry. Sounds like MS commercial.
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I'm making graphics, not altering evidence. :)
Indeed. There is a popular misconception here. Gimp is fundamentally a content creation app, while Photoshop is a photo editing app (hence the name). They may share some functions, but the purpose of the apps (In the mind of the coders) is different.
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LOL. Well, if they are that stupid, its their own problem. ;-)
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(climbs into flameproof tank)
Maybe because the alternatives are not up to par either.
(climbs back out)
I have yet to encounter one OS which fullfills all my demands. (Tried win95,98,98se,NT,Linux SuSE, Redhat, Mandrake, Slackware. Currently dual-booting 98se and Mandrake.)
Btw, have you ever heard of a Shift or Return key? ;-)
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Well, thats good. Not because you are gonna catch pirates, but because you might screw a spammer. ;-)
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Bull. I have (and payed for...) the Standard edition, and it includes these as well.
I don't know about this... John Carmak of all people use MSVC. Their development tools have allways been their best products. Better that the OS (freaky, I know).
Whats my point? I basically agree with yours. At least in the case of 'private' piracy. If I had a bussiness, I would pay for all my software... I could afford it then.
I wonder how many win coders started with pirated tools...? (Hint hint.) I mean, how many 15 year olds are gonna PAY for MSVC?
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I would love this to happen, but: Photoshop is primarily a photo editing app (hence the name). Who uses that? Photographers and press. What do they use? Macs! Until Linux can duplicate the easy of use and installation of the Mac OS, the Gimp will be used mainly for content creation (like Tux :-). Nothing wrong with that, but that isn't Photoshops main market.
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And me too. And guess what, the socket has no ground... and the computer is networked to the whole house. Fatalities so far: One Matrox G200, destroyed by being zapped by the VGA cable. I also get zapped myself everytime I connect the stereo to the soundcard - its a wonder that both are still un-fried.
;-)
(i know, rant
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No, but if you do, your kid will have a better chance in life. Hence, your genes will have a greater chance to be passed on. But, you have a point. In this case it is hardly that simple. Both the decision to procreate and to stay around afterwards, in the case of humans as we are today, are both genetic and conscious.
There is if everyone has access to the technology.
This is valid, except... Pardon me for being pessimistic, but YA RIGHT! Look at the earth today, and maybe rewind a few centuries. Heck, even food is still not universally accessible, eventhough the western world has a huge overproduction. Everyone - and it really has to be everyone (we are dealing with modifying the human genome here!) - having access to this kind of tech won't happen while I'm alive. Probably not while my (still nonexistent) children are alive either.
A part from this, I do have other objections against modifying human genes before birth, such as the huge risk of narrowing the gene pool, and generaly making the human race more uniform. I belive, as other posters have said, that the human race draws its greatness from its diversity. There is a great risk that most parents would 'play safe', and exclude traits that could lead to handicaps, but also to positive uniqueness, like Einstein's inability in arithmetic, which many have speculated had something to do with his inteligence.
Maybe the human race will be ready to take command of its own genes some time, but I think we need to gain much wisdom first.
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I think it would greatly help my identification of you if you didn't post that as an AC... hehe.
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This is not a 'responsibility', this is the conscious extension of the will to pass ones genes on, which of course has been favorably selected by nature. (If a certain gene means we don't want to pass our genes on, it wouldn't get passed on...) I'm damn sure (heh, haven't tried yet) it feels like "the ultimate accomplishment", but that shouldn't surprise anyone. People (or other animals) who feel that way are more likely to do it again, therefore more genes get passed on.
It is important to separate concious morals from instincts - after all, what justice is there in nature? The strong live, the weak die. Do we want our human lives ruled that way? I'd vote no, and I hope you would too.
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