i believe there's a replacement for IFI_loader on sourceforge somewhere, you'll need to run the compiler in wine, but it's probably a really bad idea to start trying this stuff on a team's first year. there's no way(that i know of) you'll get any C++ code on the robot, and no real need for it, in all likelyhood you'll be writing under 200 lines of your own code, and most of the difficulty with it will be making it work as you expect it (#define is your friend here). when you're dealing with 130lbs of robot, it's a lot harder than you would think to make it do what you want. whether or not your team will actually be using the kitbot frame, get them to assemble it and attach all the sensors to it so the programmers can start getting some idea of how to use them.
-former team100 programmer
quake3 is cpu bound, so that comparison is pretty invalid (i could sometimes keep 40fps on a geforce 2 in tremulous, and currently i have no problem maintaining 43fps on my radeon 2950 (r200, not fglrx), and all of this is on an 850mhz cpu, i have my graphics settings set very high for the hardware i play on, because no matter what i do my graphics card is running circles around my cpu)
I saw the first prequel in a theater, the second on HBO, and still haven't seen the third big mistake, the third one was the only one of the prequels that was actually good (not as good as the original trilogy, but definitely good enough that you can't compare it to episodes 1 and 2 like that)
i'd like to be able to use my computer without needing a top of the line graphics card _and_ have the fancy graphics. OS X and linux both need very little for their fancy graphics: beryl runs just fine on my athlon 850mhz and radeon 9250 (with the open source driver), and on my laptop with a radeon 9200 and shared memory (i keep the processor clocked at 600mhz for battery life), i can't exactly remember the specs of the mac, but i've seen OS X's effects work just fine on similar hardware. so why should windows get to require the latest and greatest hardware for effects that have been around long before that hardware existed?
I have heard that there are reasons why the rules allow adult "mentors" to essentially design and build the entire robot. As I understand it, actually driving the robot in competition is the only thing that adults can't do--they can even be the strategist on the field. I think they should get away from that. Kids that age really are young adults, and do have amazing capabilities if you give them some basic training and support. What's the best way to learn? Do it yourself! I think they allow mentors to do that much of the work on the robot to make things easier on rookie teams, since it's very rare for them to have enough skilled students before they get established. When i was on team 100, the adults would help the students when they needed help, but rarely actually do any work that a student couldn't have done in their absence (for the most part, the only work adults did on the robot was the same stuff students did (like if they needed to file a shaft so it fits in the wheel, it wouldn't be uncommon for an adult to grab one while a student grabbed another to speed things up), for an adult to just do something by themselves was almost unheard of).
i think FIRST gets slashdotted every year, at least this year they were considerate enough to not do it on kickoff when everyone needed to download large files from first's website.
couple corrections: it's 4 weeks, you spend the first 2 arguing with teammates about what you should build, and any real programming work starts at your first regional, because the robot was only "finished" on midnight before ship day, and broke down in every one of the practice rounds.
--team 100's former programmer
if you look on their website, they do mention that tremulous was inspired by gloom (i'm too lazy to dig up the link), and a few of the tremulous devs have worked on gloom at some point.
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not true, my dad is paranoid about wasting money, so he decided to measure how much power computers use. we ended up finding that a computer at 100% cpu usage (and since we were testing it on 3d games, the gpu was under heavy load as well) used about 10-20% more power than an idling computer. (we also found that crt monitors are huge offenders, and if you care at all how much power you use, you should buy an lcd)
I recommend a radeon 9200 or 9250 (i have a 9200 in my laptop and a 9250 in my desktop), they have open source drivers that support 2d and 3d accelleration. ubuntu autodetects everything at install, you may have to do some googling on how to set it up on your distro of choice, i got the 9250 for $35 on ebay (including shipping), but that was slightly below average.
you can play almost all of id software's games on linux, most of the old ones have even been gpl'ed. a few very good open source games have been made from old quake engines, tremulous in particular is very good relative to most open source games (i would say that it is as good as commercial games, but i consider myself somewhat biased).
I still don't fully understand why there's a need for both Synaptics and add/remove programs as both could be integrated into one.
they are the same program (hit the advanced button in add/remove), one was was made to look like the add/remove from windows for users who are completely scared of one button being in a different place, the other offers a few more features (to be honest i don't really know much about how they differ, i've been using aptitude since i installed ubuntu).
edgy eft is not stable yet, and not meant for most users. you should be installing dapper (well, i suppose that you can install edgy in less than a month when it becomes the current stable version)
you can offer to remove all the annoying backgrounds, music, movies, and spyware from the profiles of the stolen accounts, and threaten to put up even more of them if they don't pay up. it might work even better than stealing bank accounts
i have it, but it doesn't really compare to the depth of nethack (i have had so many times when i thought "omg, how did they think of that"). and it takes a lot less to get bored of calcrogue than of nethack, i easily beat calcrogue now, but i have trouble making it very far past the quest in nethack
the average end user who just wants to run azureus can find sun's java in synaptic just fine, though some way to ask if you want sun's java to be the default when you install it would be nice (not sure how to do this though, changing things without asking is always a bad idea, and asking for user input is not an option with dpkg)
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i believe there's a replacement for IFI_loader on sourceforge somewhere, you'll need to run the compiler in wine, but it's probably a really bad idea to start trying this stuff on a team's first year. there's no way(that i know of) you'll get any C++ code on the robot, and no real need for it, in all likelyhood you'll be writing under 200 lines of your own code, and most of the difficulty with it will be making it work as you expect it (#define is your friend here). when you're dealing with 130lbs of robot, it's a lot harder than you would think to make it do what you want. whether or not your team will actually be using the kitbot frame, get them to assemble it and attach all the sensors to it so the programmers can start getting some idea of how to use them. -former team100 programmer
quake3 is cpu bound, so that comparison is pretty invalid (i could sometimes keep 40fps on a geforce 2 in tremulous, and currently i have no problem maintaining 43fps on my radeon 2950 (r200, not fglrx), and all of this is on an 850mhz cpu, i have my graphics settings set very high for the hardware i play on, because no matter what i do my graphics card is running circles around my cpu)
i'd like to be able to use my computer without needing a top of the line graphics card _and_ have the fancy graphics. OS X and linux both need very little for their fancy graphics: beryl runs just fine on my athlon 850mhz and radeon 9250 (with the open source driver), and on my laptop with a radeon 9200 and shared memory (i keep the processor clocked at 600mhz for battery life), i can't exactly remember the specs of the mac, but i've seen OS X's effects work just fine on similar hardware. so why should windows get to require the latest and greatest hardware for effects that have been around long before that hardware existed?
yup, been there.
i think FIRST gets slashdotted every year, at least this year they were considerate enough to not do it on kickoff when everyone needed to download large files from first's website.
couple corrections: it's 4 weeks, you spend the first 2 arguing with teammates about what you should build, and any real programming work starts at your first regional, because the robot was only "finished" on midnight before ship day, and broke down in every one of the practice rounds. --team 100's former programmer
if you look on their website, they do mention that tremulous was inspired by gloom (i'm too lazy to dig up the link), and a few of the tremulous devs have worked on gloom at some point.
you misspelled http://tremulous.net/
i don't care why microsoft is doing it, as long as they stop overwriting the mbr when i decide i can't live without windows for gaming.
the numbers don't include the monitor.
not true, my dad is paranoid about wasting money, so he decided to measure how much power computers use. we ended up finding that a computer at 100% cpu usage (and since we were testing it on 3d games, the gpu was under heavy load as well) used about 10-20% more power than an idling computer. (we also found that crt monitors are huge offenders, and if you care at all how much power you use, you should buy an lcd)
I recommend a radeon 9200 or 9250 (i have a 9200 in my laptop and a 9250 in my desktop), they have open source drivers that support 2d and 3d accelleration. ubuntu autodetects everything at install, you may have to do some googling on how to set it up on your distro of choice, i got the 9250 for $35 on ebay (including shipping), but that was slightly below average.
you can play almost all of id software's games on linux, most of the old ones have even been gpl'ed. a few very good open source games have been made from old quake engines, tremulous in particular is very good relative to most open source games (i would say that it is as good as commercial games, but i consider myself somewhat biased).
edgy eft is not stable yet, and not meant for most users. you should be installing dapper (well, i suppose that you can install edgy in less than a month when it becomes the current stable version)
actually, they are copying the Mac OS X save dialog.
or you could just sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy, and not worry when the kernel updates.
you can offer to remove all the annoying backgrounds, music, movies, and spyware from the profiles of the stolen accounts, and threaten to put up even more of them if they don't pay up. it might work even better than stealing bank accounts
i have it, but it doesn't really compare to the depth of nethack (i have had so many times when i thought "omg, how did they think of that"). and it takes a lot less to get bored of calcrogue than of nethack, i easily beat calcrogue now, but i have trouble making it very far past the quest in nethack
nethack!!! (seriously, i always wanted nethack on my calculator, but it doesn't have the memory required for this)
if you had bothered to browse cvs you would find that it has been released under the apache license: http://tesseract-ocr.cvs.sourceforge.net/tesseract -ocr/tesseract/COPYING?view=markup
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the average end user who just wants to run azureus can find sun's java in synaptic just fine, though some way to ask if you want sun's java to be the default when you install it would be nice (not sure how to do this though, changing things without asking is always a bad idea, and asking for user input is not an option with dpkg)