John Carmack博客文章的翻译（一）

  
Welcome
 
欢迎（开博致词）
 
I get a pretty steady trickle of emails from people hoping for .plan file updates. There were two main factors involved in my not doing updates for a long time – a good chunk of my time and interest was sucked into Armadillo Aerospace, and the fact that the work I had been doing at Id for the last half of Doom 3 development was basically pretty damn boring.
 
我收到一连串希望我更新计划文件（姑且这样译吧）的Email。我之所以长时间没有更新，主要有两个原因——我大量的时间和兴趣投入到了Armadillo Aerospace，同时我在Id从事的Doom3的后半部分的开发工作是十分无聊的。
 
The Armadillo work has been very rewarding from a learning-lots-of-new-stuff perspective, and I’m still committed to the vehicle development, even post X-Prize, but the work at Id is back to a high level of interest now that we are working on a new game with new technology. I keep running across topics that are interesting to talk about, and the Armadillo updates have been a pretty good way for me to organize my thoughts, so I’m going to give it a more general try here. .plan files were appropriate ten years ago, and sort of retro-cute several years ago, but I’ll be sensible and use the web.
 
从学习新事物的观点来看，在Armadillo的工作是十分有益的。同时，我还致力于车辆开发（其实我也不是很懂什么意思），even post X-Prize（这就就更不懂了）。但是因为我们正在使用新技术开发一个新游戏，所以在Id的工作使我重新感到有很高的兴趣。而且Armadillo的更新资料，对于我来说，是一个组织思维的很好的方法，所以我准备更加全面地尝试使用这个blog。计划文件在十年前是合适的，retro-cute的分类是几年前的东西，但是我要跟上时代，使用网络（大概这个意思吧）。
 
I’m not quite sure what the tone is going to be – there will probably be some general interest stuff, but a bunch of things will only be of interest to hardcore graphics geeks.
 
我不能确定这个blog将会是什么样的风格，这里面可能会有一些符合大众兴趣的东西，但是绝大多数的东西只会是符合图形学的忠实fans的兴趣。
 
I have had some hesitation about doing this because there are a hundred times as many people interested in listening to me talk about games / graphics / computers as there are people interested in rocket fabrication, and my mailbox is already rather time consuming to get through.
 
我曾经对开博这件事犹豫过，因为喜欢听我谈论游戏、计算机图形学和计算机的人是喜欢火箭构造的人的一百倍，而且处理邮箱已经耗费了我大量的时间。
 
If you really, really want to email me, add a “[JC]” in the subject header so the mail gets filtered to a mailbox that isn’t clogged with spam. I can’t respond to most of the email I get, but I do read everything that doesn’t immediately scan as spam. Unfortunately, the probability of getting an answer from me doesn’t have a lot of correlation with the quality of the question, because what I am doing at the instant I read it is more dominant, and there is even a negative correlation for “deep” questions that I don’t want to make an off-the-cuff response to.
 
如果你真的想给我发电邮，就在主题头部加上“[JC]”，那样邮件就会被分类到一个不阻止垃圾邮件的邮箱。我不能回复大多数我收到的邮件，但是我会看所有没有马上被认为是垃圾邮件的东西。很不幸的是，得到我回复的可能性跟问题的质量没有太大的关系，因为我会优先去看那些最近我正在做的东西。而且“深”的问题跟我的即时回复还存在着反关系。