John Carmack discusses his Tesla

John Carmack discusses his Tesla vs his Ferrari Testarossa during his Quakecon 2009 keynote.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• carmack
• tesla
• testarossa
• quakecon

[Tellatus]

This is what I like about Carmack. No matter what subject he gets into he always have a lot of interesting things to say. You just gotta read between the lines.

[Offspringfan64]

H-O-L-Y S-H-I-T. He IS a god! And please, John, don't go 140 miles an hour EVER, we still need you man! Videogames will SUCK if you die.

[SymonDymond]

@TheBlackDeath3 Pretty unfair to those developers that we removed from id following the RAGE debacle and that the guy responsible walks away like he is teflon coated. Maybe a great programmer, but he must have had some good business people advising him in the past. He is a good example of why good techies need to be balanced with good equally good business people. He lost his way and invested to hard in a platform at the end of its life. EA chose a different route and it worked

[TheBlackDeath3]

@SymonDymond Carmack likes to program, and he likes to make awesome programs. Beyond that, why should he care about whether his program will run on a PC or a console? Maybe he likes console programming better. Either way, this guy is a god.

[OneManShowShow]

why the hell is he talking about car rpms (fail?); hdd rpms is better xD computer annihilates any car imho

[BuddhaMaster84]

Carmack could also be a psychiatrist, going purely academic

[BuddhaMaster84]

Carmack is able to speak in a way that you can never envy him. You just wanna love him!

[SymonDymond]

@Offspringfan64 Sadly your right. Damn pirates are screwing it up for all of us. I dont buy it that this is the only reason though.. I one read an industry magazine talking about the difference in demographic. They talked a lot of about the casual gamer. This was defined as a console owner who buys a game friday and wants it finished by monday. I dont know any like that but there you go. I dont agree that PC folks dont buy games though. There is an MMO in Asia that has 90M subscribers.

[Offspringfan64]

@SymonDymond No hard feelings man , follow the money, ID is a company, Carmacvk is a business man as well as an engineer. Quake Live flopped, drivers for RAGE were fucked up and that pissed people off, piracy is rampant. ID would die as a PC primary developer. In the end, ID needs to get paid too, and when PC people don't buy ID games while console people do...well...I can't judge them.

[SymonDymond]

@Offspringfan64 Amazing how people feel a year later after this. If I knew where he was, I would be strapping jet engines to his fkcing tesla and lighting the fuse. One serious backstabbing sob.

[SymonDymond]

If only we knew in those days he would declare war on PC owners and release RAGE robbing us all.

[AllThisThen]

@shedendpussys What he's saying is you do more ecological damage manufacturing new green products (even if really green, not just branded "green") than you'll recoup in use over their lifetime as compared to a typical product. That this is ignored by "green" companies which are no better than other companies just trying to profit is where it is a scam.