oo... 3d

[stak]

so, continuing in my procrastination, i decided to install looking glass. (https://lg3d.dev.java.net/). it seems a lot more rudimentary than i originally thought.. you can do just about nothing. if you run it in a window, it runs at a decent speed, but you can't really start any apps. if you

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[vnangia]

yeah i remember hearing a fair amount of hype about it on i think /. back in the day - and then not being very impressed with it. i think that it probably needs to run as a native program, instead of java. it'd probably become usably fast at any rate...

[stak]

even if it ran as a native, i doubt the speed would increase that much. it seems like they're working on adding functionality right now.. optimizations will come later (hopefully).

[vnangia]

let's face it, what you wanted to say was "of course optimizations will come later, it's not a microsoft product" :P
how come you're not online these days?

[stak]

i have too many distractions as it is.. going online means zero work..

[cryptomancer]

The wonders of Open source...

cool that's availiable...but considering the tremendous power of PCs, they must have written some bad code...O( n^8)

[stak]

yeah. the minimum system requirements are 2Ghz and 512 megs of ram.. that's pretty brutal. i have geforce4 video card on top of that, and it's still slow.