This CPU is going to spend a lot of time waiting for memory, even with a generous cache. How many programmers design their data structures to be cache friendly?
Extra clocks never hurt anybody. It seems to me you're saying the ratio of cache load time to clock will be wasteful if you increase the clock too much. The new pIII's have full speed cache anyways and the load time is still getting lower. If you want more cache, get a xeon. These chips will still have uses.
i agree. if you don't think something is appropriate for YOUR kids, don't let YOUR kids see it. if they do see it, explain to them what YOUR views are on the topic. anything other than that is meaningless if not destructive, but certainly not helpful. let a parent be a parent, governments don't have the time, resources, right, or ability to parent children (and this isn't a bad thing either).
have their been any efforts for existing consoles to allow somebody else to legally produce a device that would play their existing games? imagine if the next palm shipped with a port for gameboy games and nintendo actually helped them develop hardware or a good emulator. nintendo sells games rather than people dl'ing roms, the palm gains a nice feature, and i (who have never bought a gameboy - it can't play quake II...) might consider picking one up as pda's are cool, and there would be 1000's of games to choose from for it. what am saying though, if it won't play quake II, do i really want it?
don't buy the product. if you bought it, take it back. tell your friends not to buy it, they tell their friends, etc.
sure, someone on a mission could start giving personal endorsements, but it all boils down to "who you trust?" do your homework on a product, and if you get burned, prevent someone else from doing the same.
it's far too easy to blame the ISP's cheap modems than it is to realize that the phone lines and garbage modems that customers have are truly the problem. whenever i see an hcf winmodem i cringe because i know that they are utter crap and there are plenty of other types of modems being shipped by big names like compaq and hp that are a v.90 modem in name only. coupled with the fact that most telco's are less than willing to guarantee anything above a 14.4 connection and you have an equation for disaster. but what do people do? they read 56k v.90 on their spec sheet (if they even read it) and assume that if they don't get 56000 connects that their isp is cutting them short.
[idsoftware.com] Welcome to id Software's Finger Service V1.5!
Name: John Carmack Email: johnc@idsoftware.com Description: Programmer Project: Quake 3 Arena Last Updated: 06/01/2000 02:51:45 (Central Standard Time) -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------- 6/1/00 ------
Well, this is going to be an interesting.plan update.
Most of this is not really public business, but if some things aren't stated explicitly, it will reflect unfairly on someone.
As many people have heard discussed, there was quite a desire to remake DOOM as our next project after Q3. Discussing it brought an almost palpable thrill to most of the employees, but Adrian had a strong enough dislike for the idea that it was shot down over and over again.
Design work on an alternate game has been going on in parallel with the mission pack development and my research work.
Several factors, including a general lack of enthusiasm for the proposed plan, the warmth that Wolfenstien was met with at E3, and excitement about what we can do with the latest rendering technology were making it seem more and more like we weren't going down the right path.
I discussed it with some of the other guys, and we decided that it was important enough to drag the company through an unpleasant fight over it.
An ultimatum was issued to Kevin and Adrian(who control >50% of the company): We are working on DOOM for the next project unless you fire us.
Obviously no fun for anyone involved, but the project direction was changed, new hires have been expedited, and the design work has begun.
It wasn't planned to announce this soon, but here it is: We are working on a new DOOM game, focusing on the single player game experience, and using brand new technology in almost every aspect of it. That is all we are prepared to say about the game for quite some time, so don't push for interviews. We will talk about it when things are actually built, to avoid giving misleading comments.
It went smoother than expected, but the other shoe dropped yesterday.
Kevin and Adrian fired Paul Steed in retaliation, over my opposition.
Paul has certainly done things in the past that could be grounds for dismissal, but this was retaliatory for him being among the "conspirators".
I happen to think Paul was damn good at his job, and that he was going to be one of the most valuable contributors to DOOM.
We need to hire two new modeler/animator/cinematic director types. If you have a significant commercial track record in all three areas, and consider yourself at the top of your field, send your resume to Kevin Cloud.
The only difference I can see is a role reversal. You're the little guy sueing the big nasty corporation.
Now excuse me, I'm off to sue my college German professor for not interpreting my German correctly. Just because he didn't like what I said doesn't mean it's wrong...
My tyan board (dual PII/III, can't quote the part num.) has a feature in the bios which warns if the processor is overclocked, has the option to not proceed if it is overclocked, or to just ignore everything and boot happily.
Can Intel or any other maker of mobo chipsets implement a 'feature' that does not permit overclocking. This would be done inside the chipset of the motherboard, not on the processor or in the bios like current methods.
just like phone calls from credit card companies and junk mail from the postal service, if I didn't ask for it, I don't want it.
I always get a chuckle though of people's silly javascript mail syntax checkers... I've never seen one that will reject a domain of only one character followed by a.net,.org, etc. That's my way of avoiding email I don't want.
I was thinking... I've never seen anything but Intel and Alpha boxes running Windows in a server environment (I might be wrong though). Does this shortage hurt more than just gamers in any quantity worth mentioning? B1ood
The important question is will it play Quake. With something that can live off of a battery and fairly portable, I could probably use that during class.
I half expected you to start quoting the Bible as you got going there:)
I have to disagree with you though on calling 'charity' dispicable. No matter how the legal crap against microsoft goes, people should always be grateful for charity and they certainly don't have to be blinded in regards to MS's true motives. That would be naive, and dispicable on the part of the receiver.
If the DOJ were to become involved in the battle of the media players similar to the web browser battle, I'd have to laugh. I'm certainly not a Microsoft supporter, but I'd find it very ironic that the only two pieces of MS software I wish i had in Linux (IE and Media Player) would be the only ones specifically under fire from the government.
Much as I hate to admit it, Internet Explorer is the browser to beat, largely because of M$'s [illegal?] bundling of it with the OS and OS integration, the average home user wants to be able to click on an icon that's there when they get their PC - that's IE.
I think Internet Explorer is the browser to beat not only because almost all new pc's ship with it, but because it is the easiest to write attractive pages for. Just compare how much richer the Document Object Model is for IE than Netscape (haven't tested any DHTML in Mozilla yet). I've read the W3C specs, I've tore through the o'reilly books on web programming languages galore, and I've written and seen enough pages work brilliantly (and this is just javascript and css, nothing insecure) in IE that crash and burn in NS not because of bad code but because IE is just plain better at rendering the source it's given.
That's what I WANT mozilla to be... the browser that I can write webpages for that are fun to look at (ie, use current authoring technology) but provide good content in Linux. B1ood
And is anyone else rendering the page as a gross combination of purple and yellow backgrounds? (White text on yellow background, what a wonderful idea!)
What do you expect from someone using Microsoft Frontpage to sell a Windows98 only piece of hardware? I'm surprised they don't have any scrolling marquees, or maybe a few hundred of the same animated gif.
Is it really that much to ask for? Hit this for my story of late. Our network now is so slow (the WAN itself, outside traffic is even worse) that people ping 150+ between dorms in the evenings. Students recently send me an email to pull down my dedicated servers because *cough* they were wasting bandwidth. I'm appalled by the idea though. I did so much as to speak with the dean and he assured me that the problem would be fixed by next semester. The real issue though is some professors assign homework which requires things from off the web, and in the evenings, trying to navigate the web is just too frustrating. I'd rather dial into where I work and be on a modem but the ghetto phone setup does not even allow that at present. I'm paying for this why? B1ood
When I had my first data structures and algorithms course, a debugger was VERY helpful to trace the values in the data segment of linked lists and such. I found that any time that I was using dynamic classes which utilized pointers, a debugger, though cryptic at first, gives MUCH quicker results than outputting trace text. Some bugs I couldn't detect with trace text, but were fairly easy to track with a debugger. B1ood
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This CPU is going to spend a lot of time waiting for memory, even with a generous cache. How many programmers design their data structures to be cache friendly?
Extra clocks never hurt anybody. It seems to me you're saying the ratio of cache load time to clock will be wasteful if you increase the clock too much. The new pIII's have full speed cache anyways and the load time is still getting lower. If you want more cache, get a xeon. These chips will still have uses.
B1ood
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sure, someone on a mission could start giving personal endorsements, but it all boils down to "who you trust?" do your homework on a product, and if you get burned, prevent someone else from doing the same.
B1ood
B1ood
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B1ood
Welcome to id Software's Finger Service V1.5!
Name: John Carmack
Email: johnc@idsoftware.com
Description: Programmer
Project: Quake 3 Arena
Last Updated: 06/01/2000 02:51:45 (Central Standard Time)
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6/1/00
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Well, this is going to be an interesting .plan update.
Most of this is not really public business, but if some things aren't stated explicitly, it will reflect unfairly on someone.
As many people have heard discussed, there was quite a desire to remake DOOM as our next project after Q3. Discussing it brought an almost palpable thrill to most of the employees, but Adrian had a strong enough dislike for the idea that it was shot down over and over again.
Design work on an alternate game has been going on in parallel with the mission pack development and my research work.
Several factors, including a general lack of enthusiasm for the proposed plan, the warmth that Wolfenstien was met with at E3, and excitement about what we can do with the latest rendering technology were making it seem more and more like we weren't going down the right path.
I discussed it with some of the other guys, and we decided that it was important enough to drag the company through an unpleasant fight over it.
An ultimatum was issued to Kevin and Adrian(who control >50% of the company): We are working on DOOM for the next project unless you fire us.
Obviously no fun for anyone involved, but the project direction was changed, new hires have been expedited, and the design work has begun.
It wasn't planned to announce this soon, but here it is: We are working on a new DOOM game, focusing on the single player game experience, and using brand new technology in almost every aspect of it. That is all we are prepared to say about the game for quite some time, so don't push for interviews. We will talk about it when things are actually built, to avoid giving misleading comments.
It went smoother than expected, but the other shoe dropped yesterday.
Kevin and Adrian fired Paul Steed in retaliation, over my opposition.
Paul has certainly done things in the past that could be grounds for dismissal, but this was retaliatory for him being among the "conspirators".
I happen to think Paul was damn good at his job, and that he was going to be one of the most valuable contributors to DOOM.
We need to hire two new modeler/animator/cinematic director types. If you have a significant commercial track record in all three areas, and consider yourself at the top of your field, send your resume to Kevin Cloud.
----this is my sig----
B1ood
Now excuse me, I'm off to sue my college German professor for not interpreting my German correctly. Just because he didn't like what I said doesn't mean it's wrong...
B1ood
Can Intel or any other maker of mobo chipsets implement a 'feature' that does not permit overclocking. This would be done inside the chipset of the motherboard, not on the processor or in the bios like current methods.
B1ood
B1ood
I always get a chuckle though of people's silly javascript mail syntax checkers... I've never seen one that will reject a domain of only one character followed by a .net, .org, etc. That's my way of avoiding email I don't want.
B1ood
I was thinking... I've never seen anything but Intel and Alpha boxes running Windows in a server environment (I might be wrong though). Does this shortage hurt more than just gamers in any quantity worth mentioning?
B1ood
B1ood
B1ood
I have to disagree with you though on calling 'charity' dispicable. No matter how the legal crap against microsoft goes, people should always be grateful for charity and they certainly don't have to be blinded in regards to MS's true motives. That would be naive, and dispicable on the part of the receiver.
B1ood
i think the title says it all...
B1ood
B1ood
If the DOJ were to become involved in the battle of the media players similar to the web browser battle, I'd have to laugh. I'm certainly not a Microsoft supporter, but I'd find it very ironic that the only two pieces of MS software I wish i had in Linux (IE and Media Player) would be the only ones specifically under fire from the government.
B1ood
I think Internet Explorer is the browser to beat not only because almost all new pc's ship with it, but because it is the easiest to write attractive pages for. Just compare how much richer the Document Object Model is for IE than Netscape (haven't tested any DHTML in Mozilla yet). I've read the W3C specs, I've tore through the o'reilly books on web programming languages galore, and I've written and seen enough pages work brilliantly (and this is just javascript and css, nothing insecure) in IE that crash and burn in NS not because of bad code but because IE is just plain better at rendering the source it's given.
That's what I WANT mozilla to be... the browser that I can write webpages for that are fun to look at (ie, use current authoring technology) but provide good content in Linux.
B1ood
What do you expect from someone using Microsoft Frontpage to sell a Windows98 only piece of hardware? I'm surprised they don't have any scrolling marquees, or maybe a few hundred of the same animated gif.
B1ood
Is it really that much to ask for? Hit this for my story of late. Our network now is so slow (the WAN itself, outside traffic is even worse) that people ping 150+ between dorms in the evenings. Students recently send me an email to pull down my dedicated servers because *cough* they were wasting bandwidth. I'm appalled by the idea though. I did so much as to speak with the dean and he assured me that the problem would be fixed by next semester. The real issue though is some professors assign homework which requires things from off the web, and in the evenings, trying to navigate the web is just too frustrating. I'd rather dial into where I work and be on a modem but the ghetto phone setup does not even allow that at present. I'm paying for this why?
B1ood
When I had my first data structures and algorithms course, a debugger was VERY helpful to trace the values in the data segment of linked lists and such. I found that any time that I was using dynamic classes which utilized pointers, a debugger, though cryptic at first, gives MUCH quicker results than outputting trace text. Some bugs I couldn't detect with trace text, but were fairly easy to track with a debugger.
B1ood
You mean like people that say to when they mean too?
B1ood