From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F241381F3 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 09:15:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E6ECE0B78; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 09:15:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f173.google.com (mail-we0-f173.google.com [74.125.82.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48FE2E0B69 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2013 09:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f173.google.com with SMTP id u57so4158750wes.32 for ; Sat, 05 Oct 2013 02:15:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ydldaj6NHHpS+LWmlXoJLJQwTDRdbpA2oEUua4gsCTA=; b=NFTZfGB9eKYbJL6PI/WqspuEVwbXhMsDI4L/QAdZlG0q7nQIuPwwjBOPWxsLPaWdX0 ZSYiDar99lBnsNLXFbTIapJrSUFAZW9SdSRff0jGaJo2tQk7nzWsK7VRt00JGwJ8oqTp axfK/WRHhPFrbQ0KM7FbAFnP2CNVUN9vn0IDK9jLolbO3Q+MeryVB1bU6kSQQ5HSqkcP J1hBOOj31SUa6I3v3ghWRSKeiPYo8s7twpLL4NoevfDndtLjTWCUJgNwjsmJ8IEc6Mn7 EXXExLpEuc7iaP0pdWh3Xq/GV7wdWqRp1ebhYg7TIiW9b/UJ/Ww3o7kSf/Ovy57TPI4n yOxg== X-Received: by 10.194.174.36 with SMTP id bp4mr15729767wjc.7.1380964522994; Sat, 05 Oct 2013 02:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-102-121.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.121]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id e1sm45233wij.6.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 05 Oct 2013 02:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <524FD790.3050801@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 11:10:40 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mantle Open source GPU engine References: <20131004160437.GJ10604@server> <524F150B.3000001@gmail.com> <20131004205334.GM10604@server> In-Reply-To: <20131004205334.GM10604@server> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a8acc120-6da1-45cd-9b4b-1255efac62e6 X-Archives-Hash: ad69fd317447c1fbc3f8d3b44a1553c8 On 04/10/2013 22:53, Bruce Hill wrote: >> Almost ever awesome performance gain in the last 10 years at least that >> > you see in commercial products were driven in whole or in part by the >> > primary high performance market - gamers. >> > >> > Personally, I don't like games much and don't play them much. OK, I >> > don't play them at all. But the market they make up - that's different. >> > Those egg-heads are very important > See previous reply in thread to James. This one was not threaded, but rather, > a reply to the OP, so it makes it look as if you haven't read the thread. > > I played one computer game one day in 1990. Lost that entire day to that > stupid game, and never played again. Except...one time for a few hours with a > new friend the second year living in China. He wanted me to play NFS. After > playing a few races with him, I explained that we do this with _real_cars_ on > _real_roads_ in _real_life_ "back in America". It developed from the days of > moonshining, and your car (and you as a driver) weren't anything if you > couldn't outrun the local cops. ;) > > My gaming yawn was a poor, and needless, expression of disgust. The last two games I played with any seriousness were Leisure Suit Larry and TombRaider.... that was back in the days when interactive games with decent graphics were still new-ish My kids OTOH, they have umbilical feeds to the XBox. And like you, Dad prefers racing real cars and real bikes -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com