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... the implementation sucked.

I leech regularily from alt.binaries.anime and the related newsgroups. When the yEnc posts started coming in, I simply upgraded my newsreader to the newest version. But a LOT of people out there use Agent, and it was absolute pain to combine/decode all the yEnc posts that started popping up all over the place. The worst of it is that the yEnc posters were basically saying, "Start living in the present and upgrade". Nevermind that at the time that only yEnc-capable newsreaders were for Windows...

I mean, I don't know, but this sounds a lot like the OS wars that have been going on for quite some time. Some people simply don't want to have to switch newsreaders. Some people don't want to have to switch OSes. And that's fine, because it's a free world out there. I like the idea of yEnc (I get more out of my Easynews account), but I really don't think it should have been introduced so quickly.

In fact, Yenc will help pay-per-gigabyte Usenet users achieve a greater bang for their buck. Anything that saves money is a good thing!!

The BSODs and GSODs you hear of are actually not true

Please look at this
XBOX BSOD

The picture taken at DreamHack 2001, a big LAN event held in Sweden. Microsoft is a sponsor of the event and they were demoing XBOX on site. The picture is taken from the XBOX there.. which is a beta unit, according to Microsoft. It probably is :p

http://xnews.3dnews.net/

:)

Isn't that why we have graphics detail options on PCs? Win32 developers aren't forced to program for the lowest common denominator thanks to DirectX, which can detect which options a graphics card supports automatically. PC games also usually have "high detail actors" options.

My video card (GeForce 2 GTS) has a bandwidth of ~5.4GB/sec to the on-board RAM, which is similar to the X-Box's video specs. My CPU has 1.4GB/sec of bandwidth to RAM, similar to the X-Box again. My CPU is more capable that the X-Box's, as is my RAM. We should be able to see graphics in our games much better than what is found in the X-Box... yet it hasn't happened yet. Game developers don't want to mess with the "small time" that is PC gaming. Consoles are where the big bucks is. It's very depressing because I spent a lot of money building up my PC, yet I don't have any games similar to what we can find on consoles. At least, that's the conclusion I've come to after reading this thread which discusses this very thought. It's kind of sobering, but also disappointing.

Here's my favorite gaming sites to visit almost daily:

VoodooExtreme
Shacknews
Stomped
Computer Gaming Online
GamesSpy
3D News
Firing Squad
Avault
Games Domain
GamesMania
IGN News (PC)

Here

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