Carmack on Doom 3 Video Cards [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

Completely unrelated to teh topic: John Carmack is one of those seriously scary-smart individuals. His hobby is building rockets, because

"The appalling inefficiency in the aerospace industry is also a bit of a driving factor. Due to an accident of history tying them to ICBMs, the evolution of space vehicles has wound up tending towards a local optimum that is in a completely different area than better global solutions, and it doesn't seem likely to break out of the current context. The aerospace industry needs a fresh reboot. There is an order of magnitude improvement available in low hanging fruit.

I have a reasonable time table going for all of our development work, and things are proceeding satisfactorily."

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