Re: Quake performance SGI vs Sun

From: Ivan Jager (aij+nospam_at_andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:40:13 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, joe smith wrote:
> > supported configuration). Or you try to make something out if the fact,
> > that a polygon is not the same as a triangle, though nobody said that.
>
> I recall the events differently, I remember someone wrote that triangles are
> SAME THING as polygons and that NURBS surfaces are tesselated into polygons.

IIRC, he said a triangle is a polygon. You answered saying that a triangle
is a subset of a polygon (only confirming what he said) and then
contradicting yourself by saying that a triangle is not a polygon because
it only has 3 sides.

[snip]
> The problem all along is that I am not humble.

Also that you take offence even when it is obvious none was intended. (For
example, when someone [you removed his name] said that the CAD users who
are allways braging about their PeeCees tend to call the help desk more
than the UNIX users, you got on the defensive saying that you never called
the help desk...)

> > That is trolling.
>
> That is your point of view. Mine is that I don't hold back, pretend or try
> to behave in 'adult' fashion. I say what I mean that's it. A lot of people
> find the carrier signal, not the actual datastream offensive.

And that is trolling.

> That is their problem.

No, it is yours.

> <some criticism snipped, agreed>

If by "agreed" you mean "ignored". You are still removing attributions.
You still are hiding behind a fake name and fake email address. You still
are trying to be offensive, and offended.

Your repeated saying that your opinions are facts and objective doesn't
help either.

> > like to mention your silly "weekly newsletter" or those extremely
>
> Funny, I was just thinking the other day that maybe the joke's getting stale
> and drop it.

Good.

> > childish postings where you are trying to show off other peoples
> > spelling mistakes (AFAIK there was one in this thread, too). I don't
>
> Only correct Cosmos, as he did before that point me to the grammar school
> 2-3 times prior to any reaction from me.

And then you started "correcting" random peoples' posts too. (Adding the
"missing" articles before proper nouns, such as _the_ Quake, _the_ SGI,
and such. That is like saying your name is _the_ Joe.)

> If someone treats me like a child I will act like one.

It only proves their point.

> > mind if you want to go out playing with your fellows from
> > <comp.sys.sgi.kindergarten> like "cosmo" or "UNIX museum", but I don't
> > think that <comp.sys.sgi.hardware> is the place where this should
> > happen.
>
> Now the discussion is seriously starting to drift off-topic.

It started when you joined it, as Dominik pointed out.

> I am not
> especially interested in talking about myself either. I rather talk about
> the hardware, programming it and so on. Some things I say brings out
> extremely defensive reaction from some people.

Some things cosmo says brings out extremly defensive reactions from you
too.

> If it insults someone that Pentium90 + 3dfx card from ca. 1997 is very fast
> in Quake, that's not my problem. It is the truth. I been the first to agree
> that Quake is not a very relevant graphics hardware benchmark for CAD like
> tasks. I speculated that the fillrate must be the bottleneck, or to use the
> common phrase: "the application FILLRATE LIMITED" .. I been criticized for
> saying the above, but no one can say that it has not been a lie.

And no one said it is the truth either.

> That is the topic here. Everything else is backslash or somekind of freak
> reaction to what I have written.

Or freak reactions from you to what others have written. Almost 50% (if
not more) of the recent posts to comp.sys.sgi.hardware are from you.
That is yet another indication that you are a troll.

Now it is up to you. You can either read this and try to act less like a
troll, or you can ignore me completely, as you did with Dominik's post.
Your choice. I don't intend to participate in this discussion any more.

Ivan

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