There is a linux port ov UT3 in the works. But between Quake Wars, Orange Box, and finally breaking down and playing KOTORII, I am not having any trouble passing the time.
>Lets just make all conversations and actions a matter of public record.
Sure. Can we start with public servants, people in political office, and corporate officials? I think that would clear up a lot ov the issues we have been having with the world.
How about Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Cleaner & Cleaner XL, Autodesk FBX, Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Inferno, Autodesk Lustre, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder, Autodesk Mudbox, Autodesk Smoke, and Autodesk Toxik?
Used to make movies such as The Fountain, The Covenant, Charlottes Web, Casino Royale, Stranger Than Fiction, D-War, Night at the Museum, Apocalypto, Blood Diamond, Unaccompanied Minors, Rocky Balboa, Babel, The Black Dahlia, and For Your Consideration
Oh, you mean CHEAP movie editor on Linux. (note the emphasis)
Oh, yes. The logging industry never did anything wrong. It is not like Georgia Pacific is one ov the largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States and has been linked to some of the United States' worst toxic waste sites. Oh, and they are in no way racist.
>IF they want a better target, lobby for closing of the "small truck" tax loophole for SUVs and lobby for higher Taxes on Gas.
'Down with cars and oil' v.s. 'down with video games'.
The automotive and oil industry has few foes to rally against them. At least the console manufacturers have the anti-video game pundits who may hop on board just to get back at teh evil gamers. Fact is, console makers are an easier target. Just like the Spotted Owl is native to North America, while the rainforrest is spread across many contries.
see: expending resources where the return may not be significant.
I like pointing out to people that Bullshit is little more then a platform advocating the policies proposed by the right wing conservative think tank Cato Institute, ov which both Penn Jillette and Raymond Joseph Teller are research fellows.
It is little suprise then, that 'Bullshits' stances on abolishing the minimum wage, reforming drug policies, eliminating trade barriers, diminishing federal government involvement in the marketplace, privatizing education, and abolishing affirmative action would benefit most Cato's sponsors : Phillip Morris, Coors Brewing Company, Olin Industries chemical and munitions manufacturers, the Georgia-Pacific logging company, ExxonMobil and Rupert Murdoch.
But hey, at least you admit that it is a 'biased' source.
Sorry to reply to myself, but here is a link to Autodesk's whitepaper talking about how Linux is teh best system for professional video post-production. If you are working for a production company (like I do), you already know this.:)
Fact is, all the large studios use Linux as their primary OS for both desktops AND renderfarms.
Stardust, Transformers, King Kong, Surfs Up, Silent Hill, The Da Vinci Code, The Last Samurai, The Day After Tomorrow, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Steamboy,War of the Worlds, Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Cinderella Man, Bewitched, CSI, Dancing with the Stars, Stargate Atlantis, Rome, Nip/Tuck, Greys Anatomy, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Charmed, Cold Case, ER, Malcolm in the Middle, Smallville, The Sopranos, The O.C., Desperate Housewivesetc, etc.
Your Linux is ready.
"Take advantage of the latest computing, storage and networking technologies. Todays multi-core workstations provide compelling productivity gains. Autodesk creative systems harness the full power of multi-core processor technology, and the extensible, open architecture of the Linux platform.
Better PerformanceBrainstorm ideas more easily. Render complex visual effects shots more quickly. Virtually all creative functionsincluding 3D particles, blurs, color correction, keying, trackingare accelerated. Create a composite, finesse a frame, play back media, or scrub a sequence faster than ever before.
Greater ProductivitySignificant performance improvements mean that artists have more time to make creative decisions enabling them to either try more versions or simply finish projects faster. Clients will be happier because they can get better results, faster.
Increased ROIWith faster project turnaround times, facilities become much more productive overall. They can bid on more projects over time, or complete larger, more lucrative, projects that involve more creative shots."
-Autodesk
>how well does an OpenGL app (not a rich text editor or a web browser) perform on the setup linked in the linuxgazette article?
An opengl app will work perfectly normal on a multi seat system. (provided you have enough resources to run it multiple times on your system)
>And if all four players' characters are in the same room with a non-first-person view, like in Smash Bros. or Bomberman, all four screens would be showing the same thing anyway, so why spend more on three more video cards and three more monitors?
A mid range geforce 7 can run 2 monitors - a quadro can run 4. And (since my above post earlier today) I have been experimenting with Xephyr/Xnest to get true splitscreen; i.e. multiple x sessions split across one screen. Very nice, but I have not been able to figure out how to pipe the controls into each nested session. I have not been trying too hard tho - I am still at w0rk.:)
>My imagined use case involves households with children or for family parties with children. Can you think of some examples that have or would have a rating below M if rated by ESRB?
I dono, my pre-teen and all his friends love it when all 6 ov them rock Quake Wars on my LAN. ( ESRB Teen ) Me, not so much. Do they WANT earth to loose? Those kids couldn't assault a sand castle.
"not enough multiplayer games are designed for use with SDTV or EDTV output and four USB game controllers. Developers of multiplayer games for PC seem to be of the general mindset that each player has his own computer and his own copy of the game."
That is because you can build a multi-head system, with each seat getting its own keyboard, mouse, display, and x11 session. You can have 4 people playing Quake Wars on one linux box. Or, if you want, you can have 2 seats playing quake wars, while the other 2 play Unreal Tournament 3. Try that on a console.
Freelancer was developed by Digital Anvil and bought by Microsoft.
Windows Media Player is built on technology that was developed by VXtreme, Inc and bought by Microsoft.
C# and.NET were built using recycled Visual J++ technology developed by Anders Hejlsberg after Microsoft gave him one million dollars to leave his position as Borland's lead developer.
Sidewinder gamepad was built using technology developed by EXOS, Inc and bought by Microsoft.
"Yes the first thing I do after installing Linux is to search for "Internet Explorer" in Google to download and install it. Now because of your brilliant idea, people like me would install Firefox instead."
The sad thing is... it is funny because it is true. I am a web developer. One ov the first applications on my stack is ies4linux.
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The keyboard has 101 keys; roughly half are reachable from the hand hovering over wasd. Keyboard wins.
Urban Terror has all those trick jumps (ledge-grabs, chain/ wall jumps, powe slides). It is a modified open source quake 3 engine. Check it out.
The average IT support worker is marginally more intelligent then the average food service worker.
Grade School -> Food Service -> IT support -> Marketing
There is a linux port ov UT3 in the works. But between Quake Wars, Orange Box, and finally breaking down and playing KOTORII, I am not having any trouble passing the time.
>Lets just make all conversations and actions a matter of public record.
Sure. Can we start with public servants, people in political office, and corporate officials? I think that would clear up a lot ov the issues we have been having with the world.
>Any rational human being should feel threatened by a theocracy with nukes. Careful now, you don't want to be labeled an anti-semite.
you forgot about quake wars.
How about Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Cleaner & Cleaner XL, Autodesk FBX, Autodesk Flame, Autodesk Inferno, Autodesk Lustre, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder, Autodesk Mudbox, Autodesk Smoke, and Autodesk Toxik?
Used to make movies such as The Fountain, The Covenant, Charlottes Web, Casino Royale, Stranger Than Fiction, D-War, Night at the Museum, Apocalypto, Blood Diamond, Unaccompanied Minors, Rocky Balboa, Babel, The Black Dahlia, and For Your Consideration
Oh, you mean CHEAP movie editor on Linux. (note the emphasis)
http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/linux_wp_2006.pdf
that is funny, i saw an ad selling them on the tv the other day.
The Airforce 2025 report features teleporting attack nanobots. all a nanobot would need to do is enter the body and cause a blood clot in the heart.
All people are biased, but only some are willing to sell their bias to the highest bidder and create propaganda to promote it.
Oh, yes. The logging industry never did anything wrong. It is not like Georgia Pacific is one ov the largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States and has been linked to some of the United States' worst toxic waste sites. Oh, and they are in no way racist.
>IF they want a better target, lobby for closing of the "small truck" tax loophole for SUVs and lobby for higher Taxes on Gas.
'Down with cars and oil' v.s. 'down with video games'.
The automotive and oil industry has few foes to rally against them. At least the console manufacturers have the anti-video game pundits who may hop on board just to get back at teh evil gamers. Fact is, console makers are an easier target. Just like the Spotted Owl is native to North America, while the rainforrest is spread across many contries.
see: expending resources where the return may not be significant.
I like pointing out to people that Bullshit is little more then a platform advocating the policies proposed by the right wing conservative think tank Cato Institute, ov which both Penn Jillette and Raymond Joseph Teller are research fellows.
It is little suprise then, that 'Bullshits' stances on abolishing the minimum wage, reforming drug policies, eliminating trade barriers, diminishing federal government involvement in the marketplace, privatizing education, and abolishing affirmative action would benefit most Cato's sponsors : Phillip Morris, Coors Brewing Company, Olin Industries chemical and munitions manufacturers, the Georgia-Pacific logging company, ExxonMobil and Rupert Murdoch.
But hey, at least you admit that it is a 'biased' source.
So should governments have the freedom to take away human rights?
Sorry to reply to myself, but here is a link to Autodesk's whitepaper talking about how Linux is teh best system for professional video post-production. If you are working for a production company (like I do), you already know this. :)
http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/linux_wp_2006.pdf
Baselight, Boujou, Conform, DaVinci Revival, Deadline, Fire, Flint, FrameCycler, Gelato, Houdini, Maya, Massive, Mental Ray, Mokey, Monet, NUKE, Photogenics, Piranha, Platform LSF, qube!, RaveHD, RealFlow, RealSoft, RenderMan, Rush, Shake, SoftImage, Smoke, SpeedGrade, SteadyMove, US Animation
Fact is, all the large studios use Linux as their primary OS for both desktops AND renderfarms.
Stardust, Transformers, King Kong, Surfs Up, Silent Hill, The Da Vinci Code, The Last Samurai, The Day After Tomorrow, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Steamboy,War of the Worlds, Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Cinderella Man, Bewitched, CSI, Dancing with the Stars, Stargate Atlantis, Rome, Nip/Tuck, Greys Anatomy, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Charmed, Cold Case, ER, Malcolm in the Middle, Smallville, The Sopranos, The O.C., Desperate Housewivesetc, etc.
Your Linux is ready.
"Take advantage of the latest computing, storage and networking technologies. Todays multi-core workstations provide compelling productivity gains. Autodesk creative systems harness the full power of multi-core processor technology, and the extensible, open architecture of the Linux platform. Better PerformanceBrainstorm ideas more easily. Render complex visual effects shots more quickly. Virtually all creative functionsincluding 3D particles, blurs, color correction, keying, trackingare accelerated. Create a composite, finesse a frame, play back media, or scrub a sequence faster than ever before. Greater ProductivitySignificant performance improvements mean that artists have more time to make creative decisions enabling them to either try more versions or simply finish projects faster. Clients will be happier because they can get better results, faster. Increased ROIWith faster project turnaround times, facilities become much more productive overall. They can bid on more projects over time, or complete larger, more lucrative, projects that involve more creative shots."
-Autodesk
>how well does an OpenGL app (not a rich text editor or a web browser) perform on the setup linked in the linuxgazette article?
:)
An opengl app will work perfectly normal on a multi seat system. (provided you have enough resources to run it multiple times on your system)
>And if all four players' characters are in the same room with a non-first-person view, like in Smash Bros. or Bomberman, all four screens would be showing the same thing anyway, so why spend more on three more video cards and three more monitors?
A mid range geforce 7 can run 2 monitors - a quadro can run 4. And (since my above post earlier today) I have been experimenting with Xephyr/Xnest to get true splitscreen; i.e. multiple x sessions split across one screen. Very nice, but I have not been able to figure out how to pipe the controls into each nested session. I have not been trying too hard tho - I am still at w0rk.
>My imagined use case involves households with children or for family parties with children. Can you think of some examples that have or would have a rating below M if rated by ESRB?
I dono, my pre-teen and all his friends love it when all 6 ov them rock Quake Wars on my LAN. ( ESRB Teen ) Me, not so much. Do they WANT earth to loose? Those kids couldn't assault a sand castle.
You jest?
Or does DreamWorks no longer use more than 1,500 Linux desktops and 3,500 Linux servers?
Did ILM get rid ov all their *nix machines?
Or is your definition ov "seriously lacking" something akin to "relied upon by almost the entire professional industry as we know it"?
Baselight, Boujou, Conform, DaVinci Revival, Deadline, Fire, Flint, FrameCycler, Gelato, Houdini, Maya, Massive, Mental Ray, Mokey, Monet, NUKE, Photogenics, Piranha, Platform LSF, qube!, RaveHD, RealFlow, RealSoft, RenderMan, Rush, Shake, SoftImage, Smoke, SpeedGrade, SteadyMove, US Animation
Real pros use Linux.
"not enough multiplayer games are designed for use with SDTV or EDTV output and four USB game controllers. Developers of multiplayer games for PC seem to be of the general mindset that each player has his own computer and his own copy of the game."
That is because you can build a multi-head system, with each seat getting its own keyboard, mouse, display, and x11 session. You can have 4 people playing Quake Wars on one linux box. Or, if you want, you can have 2 seats playing quake wars, while the other 2 play Unreal Tournament 3. Try that on a console.
http://linuxgazette.net/124/smith.html
But Quake Wars has no quad damage.
Freelancer was developed by Digital Anvil and bought by Microsoft. .NET were built using recycled Visual J++ technology developed by Anders Hejlsberg after Microsoft gave him one million dollars to leave his position as Borland's lead developer.
Windows Media Player is built on technology that was developed by VXtreme, Inc and bought by Microsoft.
C# and
Sidewinder gamepad was built using technology developed by EXOS, Inc and bought by Microsoft.
Who need innovation?
"Yes the first thing I do after installing Linux is to search for "Internet Explorer" in Google to download and install it. Now because of your brilliant idea, people like me would install Firefox instead."
The sad thing is... it is funny because it is true. I am a web developer. One ov the first applications on my stack is ies4linux.