Spring RTS Engine

You know what would be amazing? MMORTS. Galactic scale MMORTS with both space and ground combat. One can dream....

You probably should check out the ATI's new 4850 ($200) and 4870 ($300, release next week) cards. They might just offer the best value for the money. Their openGL performance seem decent too. Also, Nvidia is dropping the price of their 9800 GTX to $200, and releasing the 9800 GTX+ for $230. All of t...

Well, you don't want the propellant to actually explode, but instead burn. Explosion will give a sudden kick of pressure that actually isn't that effective at transferring energy to your projectile (but instead very good at blowing your gun up). Burning, on the other hand, gives a much more even and...

What the US need to stop using, is the space shuttle. It's a good tech demonstrator, but seriously, that thing costs more per launch than the Saturn V rocket. And to Consider that the Saturn V's are single use non-recoverable systems. Ultimately, a space craft that has to bring all its fuel to get i...

Anyone read Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson? He talks quite a bit about the space elevator in there. But yeah, the material (weight/strength ratio) required for space elevator is entirely beyond what we are capable of currently. In the foreseeable future cheap space travel probably will come from a...

Well, glad to see people actively discussing this. Obviously vista have more features, no question about it. It is in many ways better than XP, no doubt about that either. It's another version of windows, not some miracle OS MS marketed it to be, which I doubt anyone will dispute. But still, what ab...

Dude, please read the article before you decide that it's FUD. Really. Please do. Otherwise it's difficult to consider your judgments anything more than mere words. Oh, and I think it's useful to read on MS's own white paper on the subject: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/stream/output_protect....

Conclusion of that article: "The worst thing about all of this is that there's no escape. Hardware manufacturers will have to drink the kool-aid (and the reference to mass suicide here is deliberate [Note L]) in order to work with Vista: ├óÔé¼┼ôThere is no requirement to sign the [content-prote...

well, if it's a DX10 game then I'm assuming it'll be vista only. I'm curious about openGL support also. Does anyone have a reliable source on the matter?

If it's just DRM I really don't care. But there are more indirect consequences that does not bode well for the entire pc industry, both in hardware and software designs.
If you haven't done so, read the whole article, then read MS's response, and make your own judgment.

Also, what's going on with opengl support in vista? I thought they decided to support it natively, but tomshardware's recent review said performance of some games and opengl applications are badly affected due to "lack of opengl support". Anyone knows what the real deal is? By the way, che...

Not sure if someone posted this before, but....
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/p ... ctionality

Read the whole thing (it's worth it).

See what you think. I'm curious to hear.

Yeah, weed is supposedly not very addictive and not as bad for you as cigarettes, I think.

you know what's a bad movie? Doom. I can't believe I sit through that movie with drunk people (even they, while drunk, thought it belonged to the worst 10 movies of all time).

echo FTW!!!
For cleaniness we are suppose to use templates, but....
echo FTW!!!
(php of course)

Weaver wrote:

Optimus Prime wrote:check this 11:20 mins video of Sup Com :) (hope no one posted it already)

http://www.downloads.gamereplays.org/su ... tation.zip

Listen very carefully at 2:30 and tell me what you hear?

Do I hear "spring look"?

EV Nova!!!!!11one$@)@#N@two2

I really hope this country doesn't pull out now, with Iraq in its current state. That would just be irresponsible.

ok that makes sense now.

wait, I thought Alexander was destroyed by the anti-matter bomb? Or what the hell happened?