Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] laptops

2004-05-10 Thread Ethan Price
Intel has _just_ realased the Dothan series of mobile processers, so Intel's Centrino technology is great for battery life. They have processers as low as 1 GHz using like only 1.1 volts I believe, keeping it alive for much longer. And as long as he has a nice videocard (aka Nvidia or ATi 128 mb c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenGL/DirectX wrapper

2004-05-06 Thread Ethan Price
I think for the most part no, since even both ATi and Nvidia's cheapest cards support OpenGL (to my knowledge), and even they can muster only just enough power to run it smoothly. -Ethan  >From: "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: FlightGear developers discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Maintenance log proposal

2004-04-09 Thread Ethan Price
Just make it user friendly to do maintenance, so new people know why in the world the electrical system just shut off on the 172 and can't get it working again. -Ethan >From: Roy Vegard Ovesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: FlightGear developers discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trademark violations could be a problem

2004-03-25 Thread Ethan Price
What I've found is that as long as you make someone's product look good (or at least not bad) then they are happy. So as long as we make Boeings look and act like Boeings, and Cessnas look and act liike Cessnas, we shouldn't have a problem. And besides, if no one has a problem with us modeling thi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Visualising forces

2004-03-15 Thread Ethan Price
Not to mention blackout/redout from extreme G's. -Ethan >From: David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: FlightGear developers discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: FlightGear developers discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Visualising forces >Date: Mon, 15 Mar 200

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2003-10-29 Thread Ethan Price
I'm planning to put together a "commercial"(though I don't plan to sell it) version of FlightGear. Does anyone know whether this has been done before, and if so, where can I find it?(also, is this the appropriate board to post on, or should this be posted somewhere else?) Thank you,