Since gcc is under the liscence of the GPL it is impossible for it not to stay free forever. If someone does try to take it away they will just get someone else to maintain it.
I hate to tell you but I have been out of the loop for both sound and enryption. Firstly I have never owned a computer that ever had sound support. Secondly I have never had the opportunity to really have access to a system that needed to have access to data that should have been encrypted. I have never been able to impliment enrypted e-mail in any shape or form due to the lack of a computer that I could secure with a real IP. Lastly I would love the chance to actually travel the world but there are several things stopping me: Language barriers, lack of a large ammount of petty cash, ability to obtain anything but suboptimal employment in said country as a foreigner. Barring these problems I would love to look at the rest of all else that is there but I am pretty much have not seen all of my country first. I know most other people can pretty much predict what their countries will hold for them due to size but I haven't left the part of mine that I am inhabiting now. Cultural diversity in the US is quite astounding and I would like to see more of it.
I just wanted to know how this could effect possible movements in the US. Policy makers take cues from different places around the globe not just what people dream up here.
I actually heard that most radio stations use file servers with some kind of audio file format already. Why is this revelent? Can you use.wav.au.ras instead?
Affect me as an American. If the goog ol' US of A decides to prevent MP3 use they can and will with or without the premission of any world wide authority.
I had wondered about a possible senario. A group of terrorists (say 100 or so of them) break into M$ headquarters in Redmond. Then then proceed to steal the source to windows *.* and then destroy the backups that are archived at the company. This is then repeated simultaneously so that there is no source left except in the hands of the terrorists. Or perhaps if they just posted the source to the net for everything on a server in a protected area of the world (antartica good for overclocking) via a satellite link. In this instince it could be a real threat. If you don't think this is possible just look at how great the US has been about keeping the biggest threat to itself and the world (nuclear weapons) from the hands of foreign nationals. People have I think a right to be militent considering that no one really cares about them or their plight. The question people should be asking themselves is just WHY are we having to upgrade all of our hardware for a great quantity of cash for no reason at all?
What good is that for (alpha channel)? Why do all of these Really Good Ideas(tm) seem to require Einstein level math and Hawking level science? How many people actually understand most of these more obscure ideas.
Ohh.. so Carmack should write an SGI version for even higher end hardware than traditional PC hardware. Now I know the value of a new computer I could walk out there right now and buy a completely new screaming machine for $3,000 and not have to worry for at least 2 weeks. However I think that machines that start at $5,000 are the kind of thing that is good for someone who is going to want to play games. When I look at prices for computers that are comparable to sports cars I get a little nervous. What happens when they release a new version of the computer that you want? Most likely with the current ecconomic model unless you have robbed a bank you will still be paying off the debt you got on the first purtchess. What exactly is a Reality Engine anyway? I doubt that even an SGI could pretent to represent reality in any form. Movies are still a long way from real life.
So my question for you is why make things so impossible. For example take a 486 If you try to say put in a bigger hard disk (30gig) it won't work. If you want a better processor you can't. If you need more memory and you want to get something nice easily you can't. If you want to pick up a new video card you aren't permitted. The whole point of things is that even if I were to do anything to actually get ahold of something better the barrier to entry has been raised. Do you really think that I would bitch if I didn't think that the situation was hopeless for all of the wonderfully limited persons in this world. If you want to do something with PC repair you get screwed because there are never any well kept up guides on the subject. Why do they introduce incompatabilities into systems? Why does everyone have to become mindless slaves? Why is the field of enterfainment still almost as closed as it was for peaseants, surfs, slaves, lower classes in the past as it is for us today? How can anyone justify damage to all sectors of life to get a couple of bucks? There should be a code of ethics that state that people should do and be their damndest to make it equal and fair. No one can tell me that it isn't possible to say have a small switch in the code that says % realisticness or "crappy computer mode" or something so that a game would autodetect all necessary settings and then tailor the game to fit those settings. This can be done because I can conceptually think of it. I am not a trained professional like Carmack. Theoretically someone like that could always make things like those that I have described. It just takes a little time.
To be perfectly honest I think that "warez" is higly inefficient. Half the time If you want something you get nothing but aggraviation and lots of popup porn ads. I really don't see the benefit of spending 10+ hours of valuable time trying to get a software program that is not easily avaible and getting nowhere.
Hate to be condescending but since when does windows=computing? All the comptuers that people picture in the media, on various fictional shows, etc are more likely to look like macs than windows machines.
Bloated as in needing to make me buy a several thousand dollar pc to get what could most likely have been scaled and optimized in assembly if necessary for a lesser machine. People think that it is really necessary to have various programs be tremendously processor intensive. Still we don't have interfaces that allow me to say have a scintiliating conversation with my computer about what I did during the day. Have a computer with simulated feelings. Have a machine with the ability to actually make things indistinguishable from the real world. This tends to make for a real nice experience. No matter how much people develop hardward and no matter how much they charge for said hardware it seems they still fall far short of their goal. What about a really good space simulation about something like star trek? Whatever happened to a good St game for the console. How about a customizable infinite universe to explore with aliens to fight, planets to explore, and women to woo? Anything like this possible? No. This is because people are constantly making thing "look pretty". I would like to be able to have real content I have to upgrade to something new. I really wouldn't care who did it first I would most likely use that product. I just have trouble seeing this grand vision that people are so fond of looking at in any way. I hate to be whinny but when people with supposedly advanced degrees, thousands of dollars more than I get paid a year and more free time than someone serving a life sentence without parole in prison I tend to be a little harsh when they can't even deliver on their promises about making the world a very attractive place for me any my money, time, and patience.
That's actually kind of funny I actually my last linux purtchess was on a couple of CDs of Redhat 6.1 and Mandrake (can't remember the version). I my friend am the cheapest man on earth (next to Ebeenezer Scrooge himself) and even I have paid for something that was linux related.
That's really interesting my father traveled in Germany for a while in the 1970's and everywhere in advertising, the media, and shop windows there were blant displays of porn everywhere. Did someone actually change the laws?
actually no. If they made a game that was something that was absolutely, positively, 100% wonderful that would allow games to last several hundred years or more and ran well on linux on my machine then I would definately use it. The 2 main things are cost and system requirements. I don't care if they will beat the life out of you if you try to even ask about the source as long as the game works and works well for me.
What about QuakeII for N64? I thought I was pretty good. It was the only way I could play any "quake" game. How did they come up with the quake name anyway?
Not everyone plays the game networked capable or enabled for that matter. I can't believe the number of people who take instanteous, constant, reliable net connections for granted. In the future if we expand our reach to the stars the internet will not even be practal. In star trek they hint that sending subspace "messages" is very similar to sending something through SMTP today. Basically your message is intercepted and sent through a relay of stations and then delivered. Although messages can take up to a week to be delivered to their final destination. The internet couldn't handle that much laaaaggggg.
Just like the beautiful works of art in the middle ages in France in the era of Louis XIV-XVI the average person couldn't see or appreciate them. But why 32bit? Isn't the total level of the human eye's color threshold that is perceivable at 24bpp? what good is an extra 8bpp? Couldn't that be just used to speed up the whole thing?
Well I can't see buying something I really can't use; even if it's the only thing that is supporting Carmack. Ok I guess I think it might be interesting to play this what is in the people's experience the best linux optimized hardware configuration (the whole ball of wax) that is the cheapest to run this. Will this be around for a great deal of time? Could I say in 5 years when I can get a better machine say order a copy from ID? Could I now say get a copy of Wolfenstein? That game was really sweet.
Good question for anyone what will happen when computer technology can no longer increase processor speed? Will computers just cost more like in the late 70's? I bet that will change the tune of software manufacturers! The average American does not have anextra $50,000 to spend on "entertainment".
Is this "tournament" thing a network only game? Why do people buy games that are network dependent when a network is not only expensive and requires more and more money but also is not 100% reliable. I a buy a computer I own that computer. If I want to get a network connection I always have to pay in some way for that connection especially the good ones. This type of thinking is dangerous and gets into the realm of things like DIVX and others.
I would buy a version of such a game if the hardware needed to run the game wasn't something that was comparable to an IBM mainframe or something. Why do games have to bloated and take up more and more resources? If I ever write games (and eventually I will write something because I think that most games do not suit me) I will make sure that almost everyone can run them.
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Since gcc is under the liscence of the GPL it is impossible for it not to stay free forever. If someone does try to take it away they will just get someone else to maintain it.
I hate to tell you but I have been out of the loop for both sound and enryption. Firstly I have never owned a computer that ever had sound support. Secondly I have never had the opportunity to really have access to a system that needed to have access to data that should have been encrypted. I have never been able to impliment enrypted e-mail in any shape or form due to the lack of a computer that I could secure with a real IP. Lastly I would love the chance to actually travel the world but there are several things stopping me: Language barriers, lack of a large ammount of petty cash, ability to obtain anything but suboptimal employment in said country as a foreigner. Barring these problems I would love to look at the rest of all else that is there but I am pretty much have not seen all of my country first. I know most other people can pretty much predict what their countries will hold for them due to size but I haven't left the part of mine that I am inhabiting now. Cultural diversity in the US is quite astounding and I would like to see more of it.
I just wanted to know how this could effect possible movements in the US. Policy makers take cues from different places around the globe not just what people dream up here.
I actually heard that most radio stations use file servers with some kind of audio file format already. Why is this revelent? Can you use .wav .au .ras instead?
Affect me as an American. If the goog ol' US of A decides to prevent MP3 use they can and will with or without the premission of any world wide authority.
I had wondered about a possible senario. A group of terrorists (say 100 or so of them) break into M$ headquarters in Redmond. Then then proceed to steal the source to windows *.* and then destroy the backups that are archived at the company. This is then repeated simultaneously so that there is no source left except in the hands of the terrorists. Or perhaps if they just posted the source to the net for everything on a server in a protected area of the world (antartica good for overclocking) via a satellite link. In this instince it could be a real threat. If you don't think this is possible just look at how great the US has been about keeping the biggest threat to itself and the world (nuclear weapons) from the hands of foreign nationals. People have I think a right to be militent considering that no one really cares about them or their plight. The question people should be asking themselves is just WHY are we having to upgrade all of our hardware for a great quantity of cash for no reason at all?
What good is that for (alpha channel)? Why do all of these Really Good Ideas(tm) seem to require Einstein level math and Hawking level science? How many people actually understand most of these more obscure ideas.
Ohh.. so Carmack should write an SGI version for even higher end hardware than traditional PC hardware. Now I know the value of a new computer I could walk out there right now and buy a completely new screaming machine for $3,000 and not have to worry for at least 2 weeks. However I think that machines that start at $5,000 are the kind of thing that is good for someone who is going to want to play games. When I look at prices for computers that are comparable to sports cars I get a little nervous. What happens when they release a new version of the computer that you want? Most likely with the current ecconomic model unless you have robbed a bank you will still be paying off the debt you got on the first purtchess. What exactly is a Reality Engine anyway? I doubt that even an SGI could pretent to represent reality in any form. Movies are still a long way from real life.
is there a real 2 bit processor? Can one construct such a device?
So my question for you is why make things so impossible. For example take a 486 If you try to say put in a bigger hard disk (30gig) it won't work. If you want a better processor you can't. If you need more memory and you want to get something nice easily you can't. If you want to pick up a new video card you aren't permitted. The whole point of things is that even if I were to do anything to actually get ahold of something better the barrier to entry has been raised. Do you really think that I would bitch if I didn't think that the situation was hopeless for all of the wonderfully limited persons in this world. If you want to do something with PC repair you get screwed because there are never any well kept up guides on the subject. Why do they introduce incompatabilities into systems? Why does everyone have to become mindless slaves? Why is the field of enterfainment still almost as closed as it was for peaseants, surfs, slaves, lower classes in the past as it is for us today? How can anyone justify damage to all sectors of life to get a couple of bucks? There should be a code of ethics that state that people should do and be their damndest to make it equal and fair. No one can tell me that it isn't possible to say have a small switch in the code that says % realisticness or "crappy computer mode" or something so that a game would autodetect all necessary settings and then tailor the game to fit those settings. This can be done because I can conceptually think of it. I am not a trained professional like Carmack. Theoretically someone like that could always make things like those that I have described. It just takes a little time.
To be perfectly honest I think that "warez" is higly inefficient. Half the time If you want something you get nothing but aggraviation and lots of popup porn ads. I really don't see the benefit of spending 10+ hours of valuable time trying to get a software program that is not easily avaible and getting nowhere.
Hate to be condescending but since when does windows=computing? All the comptuers that people picture in the media, on various fictional shows, etc are more likely to look like macs than windows machines.
Bloated as in needing to make me buy a several thousand dollar pc to get what could most likely have been scaled and optimized in assembly if necessary for a lesser machine. People think that it is really necessary to have various programs be tremendously processor intensive. Still we don't have interfaces that allow me to say have a scintiliating conversation with my computer about what I did during the day. Have a computer with simulated feelings. Have a machine with the ability to actually make things indistinguishable from the real world. This tends to make for a real nice experience. No matter how much people develop hardward and no matter how much they charge for said hardware it seems they still fall far short of their goal. What about a really good space simulation about something like star trek? Whatever happened to a good St game for the console. How about a customizable infinite universe to explore with aliens to fight, planets to explore, and women to woo? Anything like this possible? No. This is because people are constantly making thing "look pretty". I would like to be able to have real content I have to upgrade to something new. I really wouldn't care who did it first I would most likely use that product. I just have trouble seeing this grand vision that people are so fond of looking at in any way. I hate to be whinny but when people with supposedly advanced degrees, thousands of dollars more than I get paid a year and more free time than someone serving a life sentence without parole in prison I tend to be a little harsh when they can't even deliver on their promises about making the world a very attractive place for me any my money, time, and patience.
That's actually kind of funny I actually my last linux purtchess was on a couple of CDs of Redhat 6.1 and Mandrake (can't remember the version). I my friend am the cheapest man on earth (next to Ebeenezer Scrooge himself) and even I have paid for something that was linux related.
That's really interesting my father traveled in Germany for a while in the 1970's and everywhere in advertising, the media, and shop windows there were blant displays of porn everywhere. Did someone actually change the laws?
actually no. If they made a game that was something that was absolutely, positively, 100% wonderful that would allow games to last several hundred years or more and ran well on linux on my machine then I would definately use it. The 2 main things are cost and system requirements. I don't care if they will beat the life out of you if you try to even ask about the source as long as the game works and works well for me.
What about QuakeII for N64? I thought I was pretty good. It was the only way I could play any "quake" game. How did they come up with the quake name anyway?
What is half life like anyway is it more violent than Quake?
Not everyone plays the game networked capable or enabled for that matter. I can't believe the number of people who take instanteous, constant, reliable net connections for granted. In the future if we expand our reach to the stars the internet will not even be practal. In star trek they hint that sending subspace "messages" is very similar to sending something through SMTP today. Basically your message is intercepted and sent through a relay of stations and then delivered. Although messages can take up to a week to be delivered to their final destination. The internet couldn't handle that much laaaaggggg.
Just like the beautiful works of art in the middle ages in France in the era of Louis XIV-XVI the average person couldn't see or appreciate them. But why 32bit? Isn't the total level of the human eye's color threshold that is perceivable at 24bpp? what good is an extra 8bpp? Couldn't that be just used to speed up the whole thing?
Well I can't see buying something I really can't use; even if it's the only thing that is supporting Carmack. Ok I guess I think it might be interesting to play this what is in the people's experience the best linux optimized hardware configuration (the whole ball of wax) that is the cheapest to run this. Will this be around for a great deal of time? Could I say in 5 years when I can get a better machine say order a copy from ID? Could I now say get a copy of Wolfenstein? That game was really sweet.
In the united states they were selling them at Comp USA in the linux section. In fact the only linux games they sold were from id. Quake II I think.
Good question for anyone what will happen when computer technology can no longer increase processor speed? Will computers just cost more like in the late 70's? I bet that will change the tune of software manufacturers! The average American does not have anextra $50,000 to spend on "entertainment".
Is this "tournament" thing a network only game? Why do people buy games that are network dependent when a network is not only expensive and requires more and more money but also is not 100% reliable. I a buy a computer I own that computer. If I want to get a network connection I always have to pay in some way for that connection especially the good ones. This type of thinking is dangerous and gets into the realm of things like DIVX and others.
I would buy a version of such a game if the hardware needed to run the game wasn't something that was comparable to an IBM mainframe or something. Why do games have to bloated and take up more and more resources? If I ever write games (and eventually I will write something because I think that most games do not suit me) I will make sure that almost everyone can run them.