Maybe you'd like to show us a non-kludge-riddled antialiasing algorithm that doesn't need an alpha channel?
Alpha blending lets you make transparent terms, menus, etc. It also allows you to blend the pixels at the edge of text characters with the window below them (a process commonly known as antialiasing)
As for your other concern, have you installed a recent distro on fairly modern hardware? Mandrake 7.1 installed Xf86 automagically for me (on my 3dfx Voodoo3 and NEC monitor)
...throwing truely adult sexual content at their 8 year old
IMHO, an 8-year-old child has no more business being on the internet without supervision than he/she has walking through downtown NYC alone. The internet is not a babysitter, nor is it a sanitized playground made for the enjoyment of little kids. It's a medium by which people exchange information.
If you don't want your precious little darling downloading goatsex pictures, unplug the modem. Using filtering software to keep kids from downloading pr0n is like using a shotgun against mosquitos; you'll never kill them all, and a lot of innocent bystanders are going to get shot. There is no substitute for supervision, and there never will be.
They came for the pedophiles, and I didnt say anyhting. Then they came for the pr0n kings, and I didnt say anything. They came for the MP3 pirates, and I didn't say anything They came for the skr1pt k1dd33z, and I didn't say anything They came for the anarchists, and I didn't say anything Then they came for the "subversives", and there was no one left to wave the 1st amenment for me.
from my own boot-up messages Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 They've gotten a plug in every kernel since before 2.0.0
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x240: 00 c0 f0 35 68 9b Anyone who uses an ne-x000 ethernet card sees this one.
I know I'm gonna get moderated down nope, just flamed...
Look at Apache, the single most used web server on the planet. Look at KDE, they've made a desktop environment that's every bit as good (or better in some cases) as Microsoft's explorer, in far less time than it took MS. And mozilla is coming along nicely, except for a few speed problems.
And the linux kernel is NOT very high-tech
Hey, YOU go write a multi-processor OS kernel that runs on every major hardware platform there is, then you can come back here and call Linux low-tech.
This story would be moderated "Redundant" until it fell down somewhere between "Natalie Portman Pours Hot Grits Down Pants" and "Naked and Petrified First Posts".
Farther down, I'd rather read about first-posting Natalie Portman's petrified grits than this crap. The furby thing has been posted before; twice! At least the trolls can think of new ways to combine the words "hot grits" "Natalie Portman" "First Post!" and "Naked and Petrified".
I'm not going to name names, but there are a bunch of you who regularly post GPL-the-world, proprietary anything is bad, MP3s deserve to be free, intellectual property is a myth, type posts. Now these same people are whining that their slashdot comments are being quoted in a book.
How does it feel now? are you going to stop posting anti-copyright diatribes, or do you just think your writing is more deserving of legal protection than anyone else's?
Notice: I grant permission to the slashdot editors to reprint my comments in part or whole in any form, with or without contacting me. The above is now in my user bio section, I encourage everyone else who feels the same way to put something similar in their info.
Unless of course more people are forcing higher bandwidth...but I think it is the clueful people, not the clueless people, which are really pushing that
Not true! Who is more impressed by graphics-heavy web sites, and who is just as happy reading text with minimal formatting? Who sends email attachments as uncompressed.bmp because he can't figure out WinZip, and who religiously gzips every outgoing file? Who watches streaming video? Who listens to steaming audio? Who actually likes shocked and/or flashed websites?
It's the AOLers driving bandwidth consumption, and therefore driving bandwidth expansion. The users who are considered "clueful" have mostly been online since the days of the 2400 baud dialup, and understand how to minimize bandwidth usage.
JonKatz isn't trying to palm off your comments as his own writing, he's quoting you. That's fair use, and has been upheld by the courts many times. I don't know where your legal advice comes from, but it seems that you should try to borrow JonKatz and Hemos' lawyer for a while; (s)he knows a hell of a lot more than yours. As long as the comment is correctly attributed, fair use is preserved. If you posted A.C., tough shit, you don't get your name or your handle printed in the book. And to head off where your reply will probably come from, "anonymous" is a perfectly good attribution for quotations, if you truly don't know who the author is. Read a few literature/poetry/music criticisms, and see how many verses are quoted from "anonymous".
round 1: costs Photogenics is payware The Gimp is free Score: Photogenics 0, The Gimp 1
round 2: ease of use Sorry guys, but the Gimp UI sucks. I like having a toolbar rather than hunting thru 42 levels of menus to find a function. Score: Photogenics 1, The Gimp 1
round 3: eye-candy effects Photogenics has more nifty effects than The Gimp 1.0.4, but the current devel versions have most of those features. (Gimpressionist, et al.) a point for each. Score: Photogenics 2, The Gimp 2
round 4: drawing media Photogenics: Airbrush, Chalk, Pencil, Sponge, Watercolour, Smudge and Smear. The Gimp: Airbrush, Smudge, Smear (devel only) Score: Photogenics 3, The Gimp 2
round 5: The Stallman Test Photogenics: no source (commercial) The Gimp: More source than you can shake a stick at. (GPL) Score: Photogenics 3, The Gimp 3
round 6: annoying rabid zealot users The Gimp: Linux. Photogenics: Amiga AND Linux -1 for Photogenics Score: Photogenics 2, The Gimp 3
round 7: the Slashdot test The Gimp: +1 insightful (pro-linux karma whore) Photogenics: -1 troll (aM1g4 0wnZ0rZ j00r l4a3 4ss)
Final score counting only serious categories: Photogenics: 3, The Gimp: 2
Are they sure we will still have anything to put in our tanks by then?
Short answer: YES
Long answer: There will certainly be gasoline in 7 years. The middle east is sitting on vast reserves of oil, IIRC more than enough to last us 1000 years at current demand. The former Soviet union has huge amounts of petroleum, and you can bet that the big oil companies are investing huge amounts of money into infrastucture and production there, so they can export that oil, too. The US isn't operating at anywhere near it's full potential for oil production; there's no need to, it's cheaper to import petroleum from the middle east than to produce it here. The question is if it will be cheap enough for Americans to keep driving like we do now.
First things first, 3Dfx hardware does not suck (not as much as you imply, anyway). The problem with nVidia's method of porting the windows drivers over to their new (closed) linux API is that when (it's no longer an if IMHO) when nVidia stops developing drivers for linux, there will be two crufty, closed source drivers to reverse-engineer, not just one that plugs into the standard DRI interface.
This is GOOD for Linux because it means that bug fixes in the Windows drivers will apply to Linux as well. It won't introduce any sort of incompatibility because it is all contained in a standard XFree4 module. This is also BAD for Linux because bug-fixes that change the interface fill break the nVidia driver. Besides, x86 Linux is not the only non-windows OS out there. What if the *BSD, Be, x86 solaris, etc. users want 3D acceleration? Right now, they're SOL.
WTF?! Since when do we expect companies to release open source drivers? Since 3Dfx, Matrox, and ATI have open-source drivers (or at least published specs) WTF shouldn't we expect nVidia to play along with the rest of the industry?
Illicit reproduction of copyrighted material is infringement. It's not "piracy". Bah! piracy has been in common use for copyright infringment (on software anyway) since the days of the Apple][. It's not going away now...
But Napster is a tool and ownership or use of a tool in a legal manner is legal And so is an RPG launcher, but I can't just go down to Wal-Mart and buy one.(honest, officer, I just use it for target shooting) The question is does the potential harm from illegal use outweigh the rights of the people who use it legitimately. For a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, yes. For Napster, maybe.
I have yet to see even one validated, meaningful study of how many illegal MP3s are actually being traded using Naptser Most likely because Napster won't let you look at it's database. That's a "trade secret" (see the/. article a few days ago about napster using the DMCA in its own defense) I haven't even seen an analysis of the bandwidth monster it has apparently become. It's difficult to measure, because napster doesn't use one standard port, and traffic goes to many different places. There are a few.edus that posted graphs of internet traffic before and after banning napster. Look for the first (or second)/. article about banning napster, it had a link.
I can't believe you people! When did music piracy go from something done late at night on IRC and ICQ or by passing CD-Rs around at an underground party, to a god-given constitutional right?!??
This is not censorship, this is not about how Metallica has sold out to The Man, it's about a bunch of annoying little \/\/4R3Z d00dZ and their inablility to either stay within the law or stay out of sight. The sooner Napster dies, the better; all napster does is make theft accessable to the terminally lame, and give the government(s) more reason to monitor and control the internet.
If you want to fight the good fight for rights online, try to pick a fight that doesn't involve somebody's right to be a thief. (the DMCA, openDVD, and UTICTA spring to mind)
I second that, the Voodoo2 kicks ass! I run Q3A at about 24fps, on a system that is below the "minimum system requirements" on the box. (P200, Voodoo2 1000, the box says you need a P266).
Do the Voodoo2 linux drivers support scan-line interleave? From what I've heard, a 2 x Voodoo2 SLI rig is almost as fast as a Voodoo3, and I could get another Voodoo2 for cheap.
Games sell. Games sell hardware, especially 3D cards. It may not fit your stodgy "I use computers for REAL WORK" attitude, but it's true.
Attracting commercial games companies to Linux can only be a Bad Thing....They will try to oppose Open Source software Like Loki? They've been open-sourcing every bit of code they're legally allowed to. Look up SDL someday, it's a beautiful system, and it's open source.
We need to try to keep Linux as an underground phenomenon. Oh, I see, this is YOUR sandbox, and the rest of us aren't welocome here. Last I checked, the GPL says we can make Linux into whatever we want, withoput asking you.
Was that the only GPL violation in Corel Linux? If so, I think that the issue has less to do with Corel willfully disobeying the GPL and more to do with Corel blundering into the Debian-vs-KDE feud that's been raging the last year or so.
If you need low-color XMMS, go to the xmms.org skins page and grab XawXMMS. It only uses two colors (black and white), blends in with other Xaw apps, and is quite readable on 2-bit and 8-bit displays. There's also a Gtk+ skin floating around somewhere that makes XMMS look like a standard Gtk app, it would probably do OK on an 8-bit display too. Of course, you don't have to use XMMS, there are a lot of more "basic" MP3 players out there that don't do the eye-candy skinning and visualization that XMMS does. The music sounds just as good through mpg123, and it doesn't waste CPU cycles or colormap space on effects you don't want.
Is this the same Pinkerton agency that protected the robber-barons of the 1890s by beating union activists, helped A. Mitchell Palmer round up communists and anarchists during the first "red scare", and colluded with Sen. McCarthy in his witch-hunt against the supposed "communists" in the government?
Why are we letting any corporation, let alone one with a century-long record of trampling civil liberties handle school security? Has the NC state government lost it?
Almost every PC-related problem I see is RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM
No it's effing not! POV takes forever to render a frame? Ray-tracing is a lot of floating-point and not much I/O. More CPU power would speed it WAY up. Your Quake3 framerate sucks? If you have a modern 3D card, it's probably because the CPU can't feed vertices to the card fast enough. Want to watch a DVD? A faster CPU would make it smoother. (assuming you don't have hardware MPEG decode)
But if the machine had ADEQUATE RAM IT WOULDN'T HAVE TO FUCKING PAGE AT ALL!!! GET IT?
THERE ARE A LOT OF TASKS THAT REQUIRE FAST NUMBER-CRUNHING, AND THEY WOULD BE FASTER WITH A FASTER CPU, DON'T YOU FUCKING GET IT?
Analog with nasty little markings on the film rather than digital?
Try projecting a DVD on a 35 foot high screen! Film barely shows any grain when projected from 35mm film to a 35 foot screen. I've never dragged my DVD player into the theater to test this, but if the pixelation in a DVD is visible on a 17in computer monitor, it would be intolerable on such a huge screen. A movie projector is an analog image decoder; it takes a compressed image input (35mm x 35 mm film frames) and outputs a 35 ft x 70 ft screen image. It can do this as fast as you run the motor, without slowdowns or dropped frames for fast-moving objects (like software MPEG players sometimes do) Digital is not always better than analog.
Could you provide the comparison from which you have drawn this conclusion please?
Very simple method. I fired up my roommates Windows box and watched the star wars trailer (the highest quality copy I could find) in Quicktime format and then in RealVideo, MPEG and AVI format. The RealVideo file was smaller than quicktime, but the quality sucked. MPEG was slightly bigger than the quicktime format, but looked just as good. The AVI looked as good as the Quicktime, but was absolutely huge.
Why bother with Quicktime? Because the Sorensen codec has the best file size::picture quality ratio. Because Quicktime has become the de-facto standard for anything that reaplplayer isn't good enough to handle. Because we want to watch the blankety-blank X-Men trailer.
Is there a qt2mpeg converter? What's stopping someone from writing one? Patents on the codecs prevent anyone other than sorensen (read: your favorite open-source developer) from using the codec. Reverse-engineering a compressed video format is next to impossible, but you're welcome to try... As for why there's no.mov=>.mpg converter, it's kinda hard to do if you can't decode the video. We don't even need all of Quicktime, just the Sorensen video codec, and the open-source community could do the rest.
The question I have is could we write an app that would use libWine to load the.dlls from the windows QT player and plug them into xanim?
I mean, I still haven't seen a game come out that is better than the original Zelda, I just wonder if it is possible to create a game that captures our imagination the way the simple old stuff did
I thought Final Fantasy VII was at least as good game-play wise as the original Zelda, and had stunningly good graphics. (Especially the FMVs) Then again, read my username... what would you expect me to say?
you see anyone in 15 years wishing for the simple days of Win95?
yes, we'll all be playing minesweeper and solitaire with a 486 emulator on our 15GHz Alpha workstations...
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Maybe you'd like to show us a non-kludge-riddled antialiasing algorithm that doesn't need an alpha channel?
Alpha blending lets you make transparent terms, menus, etc. It also allows you to blend the pixels at the edge of text characters with the window below them (a process commonly known as antialiasing)
As for your other concern, have you installed a recent distro on fairly modern hardware? Mandrake 7.1 installed Xf86 automagically for me (on my 3dfx Voodoo3 and NEC monitor)
IMHO, an 8-year-old child has no more business being on the internet without supervision than he/she has walking through downtown NYC alone. The internet is not a babysitter, nor is it a sanitized playground made for the enjoyment of little kids. It's a medium by which people exchange information.
If you don't want your precious little darling downloading goatsex pictures, unplug the modem. Using filtering software to keep kids from downloading pr0n is like using a shotgun against mosquitos; you'll never kill them all, and a lot of innocent bystanders are going to get shot. There is no substitute for supervision, and there never will be.
They came for the pedophiles,
and I didnt say anyhting.
Then they came for the pr0n kings,
and I didnt say anything.
They came for the MP3 pirates,
and I didn't say anything
They came for the skr1pt k1dd33z,
and I didn't say anything
They came for the anarchists,
and I didn't say anything
Then they came for the "subversives",
and there was no one left to wave the 1st amenment for me.
from my own boot-up messages
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
They've gotten a plug in every kernel since before 2.0.0
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x240: 00 c0 f0 35 68 9b
Anyone who uses an ne-x000 ethernet card sees this one.
I know I'm gonna get moderated down
nope, just flamed...
Look at Apache, the single most used web server on the planet. Look at KDE, they've made a desktop environment that's every bit as good (or better in some cases) as Microsoft's explorer, in far less time than it took MS. And mozilla is coming along nicely, except for a few speed problems.
And the linux kernel is NOT very high-tech
Hey, YOU go write a multi-processor OS kernel that runs on every major hardware platform there is, then you can come back here and call Linux low-tech.
This story would be moderated "Redundant" until it fell down somewhere between "Natalie Portman Pours Hot Grits Down Pants" and "Naked and Petrified First Posts".
Farther down, I'd rather read about first-posting Natalie Portman's petrified grits than this crap. The furby thing has been posted before; twice! At least the trolls can think of new ways to combine the words "hot grits" "Natalie Portman" "First Post!" and "Naked and Petrified".
I'm not going to name names, but there are a bunch of you who regularly post GPL-the-world, proprietary anything is bad, MP3s deserve to be free, intellectual property is a myth, type posts. Now these same people are whining that their slashdot comments are being quoted in a book.
How does it feel now? are you going to stop posting anti-copyright diatribes, or do you just think your writing is more deserving of legal protection than anyone else's?
Notice: I grant permission to the slashdot editors to reprint my comments in part or whole in any form, with or without contacting me.
The above is now in my user bio section, I encourage everyone else who feels the same way to put something similar in their info.
Unless of course more people are forcing higher bandwidth...but I think it is the clueful people, not the clueless people, which are really pushing that
.bmp because he can't figure out WinZip, and who religiously gzips every outgoing file? Who watches streaming video? Who listens to steaming audio? Who actually likes shocked and/or flashed websites?
Not true! Who is more impressed by graphics-heavy web sites, and who is just as happy reading text with minimal formatting? Who sends email attachments as uncompressed
It's the AOLers driving bandwidth consumption, and therefore driving bandwidth expansion. The users who are considered "clueful" have mostly been online since the days of the 2400 baud dialup, and understand how to minimize bandwidth usage.
(ahem) FAIR USE!
JonKatz isn't trying to palm off your comments as his own writing, he's quoting you. That's fair use, and has been upheld by the courts many times. I don't know where your legal advice comes from, but it seems that you should try to borrow JonKatz and Hemos' lawyer for a while; (s)he knows a hell of a lot more than yours.
As long as the comment is correctly attributed, fair use is preserved. If you posted A.C., tough shit, you don't get your name or your handle printed in the book. And to head off where your reply will probably come from, "anonymous" is a perfectly good attribution for quotations, if you truly don't know who the author is. Read a few literature/poetry/music criticisms, and see how many verses are quoted from "anonymous".
round 1: costs
Photogenics is payware
The Gimp is free
Score: Photogenics 0, The Gimp 1
round 2: ease of use
Sorry guys, but the Gimp UI sucks. I like having a toolbar rather than hunting thru 42 levels of menus to find a function.
Score: Photogenics 1, The Gimp 1
round 3: eye-candy effects
Photogenics has more nifty effects than The Gimp 1.0.4, but the current devel versions have most of those features. (Gimpressionist, et al.) a point for each.
Score: Photogenics 2, The Gimp 2
round 4: drawing media
Photogenics: Airbrush, Chalk, Pencil, Sponge, Watercolour, Smudge and Smear.
The Gimp: Airbrush, Smudge, Smear (devel only)
Score: Photogenics 3, The Gimp 2
round 5: The Stallman Test
Photogenics: no source (commercial)
The Gimp: More source than you can shake a stick at. (GPL)
Score: Photogenics 3, The Gimp 3
round 6: annoying rabid zealot users
The Gimp: Linux.
Photogenics: Amiga AND Linux
-1 for Photogenics
Score: Photogenics 2, The Gimp 3
round 7: the Slashdot test
The Gimp: +1 insightful (pro-linux karma whore)
Photogenics: -1 troll (aM1g4 0wnZ0rZ j00r l4a3 4ss)
Final score counting only serious categories:
Photogenics: 3, The Gimp: 2
Final score: The Gimp: 4, Photogenics: 1
Are they sure we will still have anything to put in our tanks by then?
Short answer: YES
Long answer: There will certainly be gasoline in 7 years. The middle east is sitting on vast reserves of oil, IIRC more than enough to last us 1000 years at current demand. The former Soviet union has huge amounts of petroleum, and you can bet that the big oil companies are investing huge amounts of money into infrastucture and production there, so they can export that oil, too. The US isn't operating at anywhere near it's full potential for oil production; there's no need to, it's cheaper to import petroleum from the middle east than to produce it here. The question is if it will be cheap enough for Americans to keep driving like we do now.
First things first, 3Dfx hardware does not suck (not as much as you imply, anyway). The problem with nVidia's method of porting the windows drivers over to their new (closed) linux API is that when (it's no longer an if IMHO) when nVidia stops developing drivers for linux, there will be two crufty, closed source drivers to reverse-engineer, not just one that plugs into the standard DRI interface.
This is GOOD for Linux because it means that bug fixes in the Windows drivers will apply to Linux as well. It won't introduce any sort of incompatibility because it is all contained in a standard XFree4 module.
This is also BAD for Linux because bug-fixes that change the interface fill break the nVidia driver. Besides, x86 Linux is not the only non-windows OS out there. What if the *BSD, Be, x86 solaris, etc. users want 3D acceleration? Right now, they're SOL.
WTF?! Since when do we expect companies to release open source drivers?
Since 3Dfx, Matrox, and ATI have open-source drivers (or at least published specs) WTF shouldn't we expect nVidia to play along with the rest of the industry?
What's UTICTA???
A typo, is that why that "preview" button is there?
Illicit reproduction of copyrighted material is infringement. It's not "piracy".
/. article a few days ago about napster using the DMCA in its own defense) .edus that posted graphs of internet traffic before and after banning napster. Look for the first (or second) /. article about banning napster, it had a link.
Bah! piracy has been in common use for copyright infringment (on software anyway) since the days of the Apple][. It's not going away now...
But Napster is a tool and ownership or use of a tool in a legal manner is legal And so is an RPG launcher, but I can't just go down to Wal-Mart and buy one.(honest, officer, I just use it for target shooting) The question is does the potential harm from illegal use outweigh the rights of the people who use it legitimately. For a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, yes. For Napster, maybe.
I have yet to see even one validated, meaningful study of how many illegal MP3s are actually being traded using Naptser
Most likely because Napster won't let you look at it's database. That's a "trade secret" (see the
I haven't even seen an analysis of the bandwidth monster it has apparently become.
It's difficult to measure, because napster doesn't use one standard port, and traffic goes to many different places. There are a few
I can't believe you people! When did music piracy go from something done late at night on IRC and ICQ or by passing CD-Rs around at an underground party, to a god-given constitutional right?!??
This is not censorship, this is not about how Metallica has sold out to The Man, it's about a bunch of annoying little \/\/4R3Z d00dZ and their inablility to either stay within the law or stay out of sight. The sooner Napster dies, the better; all napster does is make theft accessable to the terminally lame, and give the government(s) more reason to monitor and control the internet.
If you want to fight the good fight for rights online, try to pick a fight that doesn't involve somebody's right to be a thief. (the DMCA, openDVD, and UTICTA spring to mind)
I second that, the Voodoo2 kicks ass! I run Q3A at about 24fps, on a system that is below the "minimum system requirements" on the box. (P200, Voodoo2 1000, the box says you need a P266).
Do the Voodoo2 linux drivers support scan-line interleave? From what I've heard, a 2 x Voodoo2 SLI rig is almost as fast as a Voodoo3, and I could get another Voodoo2 for cheap.
Games sell. Games sell hardware, especially 3D cards. It may not fit your stodgy "I use computers for REAL WORK" attitude, but it's true.
Attracting commercial games companies to Linux can only be a Bad Thing....They will try to oppose Open Source software
Like Loki? They've been open-sourcing every bit of code they're legally allowed to. Look up SDL someday, it's a beautiful system, and it's open source.
We need to try to keep Linux as an underground phenomenon.
Oh, I see, this is YOUR sandbox, and the rest of us aren't welocome here. Last I checked, the GPL says we can make Linux into whatever we want, withoput asking you.
Was that the only GPL violation in Corel Linux? If so, I think that the issue has less to do with Corel willfully disobeying the GPL and more to do with Corel blundering into the Debian-vs-KDE feud that's been raging the last year or so.
If you need low-color XMMS, go to the xmms.org skins page and grab XawXMMS. It only uses two colors (black and white), blends in with other Xaw apps, and is quite readable on 2-bit and 8-bit displays. There's also a Gtk+ skin floating around somewhere that makes XMMS look like a standard Gtk app, it would probably do OK on an 8-bit display too. Of course, you don't have to use XMMS, there are a lot of more "basic" MP3 players out there that don't do the eye-candy skinning and visualization that XMMS does. The music sounds just as good through mpg123, and it doesn't waste CPU cycles or colormap space on effects you don't want.
Is this the same Pinkerton agency that protected the robber-barons of the 1890s by beating union activists, helped A. Mitchell Palmer round up communists and anarchists during the first "red scare", and colluded with Sen. McCarthy in his witch-hunt against the supposed "communists" in the government?
Why are we letting any corporation, let alone one with a century-long record of trampling civil liberties handle school security? Has the NC state government lost it?
Almost every PC-related problem I see is RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM RAM
No it's effing not! POV takes forever to render a frame? Ray-tracing is a lot of floating-point and not much I/O. More CPU power would speed it WAY up. Your Quake3 framerate sucks? If you have a modern 3D card, it's probably because the CPU can't feed vertices to the card fast enough. Want to watch a DVD? A faster CPU would make it smoother. (assuming you don't have hardware MPEG decode)
But if the machine had ADEQUATE RAM IT WOULDN'T HAVE TO FUCKING PAGE AT ALL!!! GET IT?
THERE ARE A LOT OF TASKS THAT REQUIRE FAST NUMBER-CRUNHING, AND THEY WOULD BE FASTER WITH A FASTER CPU, DON'T YOU FUCKING GET IT?
Analog with nasty little markings on the film rather than digital?
Try projecting a DVD on a 35 foot high screen! Film barely shows any grain when projected from 35mm film to a 35 foot screen. I've never dragged my DVD player into the theater to test this, but if the pixelation in a DVD is visible on a 17in computer monitor, it would be intolerable on such a huge screen. A movie projector is an analog image decoder; it takes a compressed image input (35mm x 35 mm film frames) and outputs a 35 ft x 70 ft screen image. It can do this as fast as you run the motor, without slowdowns or dropped frames for fast-moving objects (like software MPEG players sometimes do) Digital is not always better than analog.
Could you provide the comparison from which you have drawn this conclusion please?
Very simple method. I fired up my roommates Windows box and watched the star wars trailer (the highest quality copy I could find) in Quicktime format and then in RealVideo, MPEG and AVI format. The RealVideo file was smaller than quicktime, but the quality sucked. MPEG was slightly bigger than the quicktime format, but looked just as good. The AVI looked as good as the Quicktime, but was absolutely huge.
Why bother with Quicktime?
.mov=>.mpg converter, it's kinda hard to do if you can't decode the video. We don't even need all of Quicktime, just the Sorensen video codec, and the open-source community could do the rest.
.dlls from the windows QT player and plug them into xanim?
Because the Sorensen codec has the best file size::picture quality ratio. Because Quicktime has become the de-facto standard for anything that reaplplayer isn't good enough to handle. Because we want to watch the blankety-blank X-Men trailer.
Is there a qt2mpeg converter? What's stopping someone from writing one?
Patents on the codecs prevent anyone other than sorensen (read: your favorite open-source developer) from using the codec. Reverse-engineering a compressed video format is next to impossible, but you're welcome to try... As for why there's no
The question I have is could we write an app that would use libWine to load the
I mean, I still haven't seen a game come out that is better than the original Zelda, I just wonder if it is possible to create a game that captures our imagination the way the simple old stuff did
I thought Final Fantasy VII was at least as good game-play wise as the original Zelda, and had stunningly good graphics. (Especially the FMVs)
Then again, read my username... what would you expect me to say?
you see anyone in 15 years wishing for the simple days of Win95?
yes, we'll all be playing minesweeper and solitaire with a 486 emulator on our 15GHz Alpha workstations...