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waytoomuchcoffee writes "Valve has announced "immediate availability" of a linux 64-bit dedicated Counterstrike server, designed to run on AMD's upcoming Opteron. This follows on the heels of Unreal Tournament 2003, previously reported on Slashdot. Gamespy has a related story up on a presentation of the future of 64-bit gaming (sponsored by AMD) at last week's Game Developers Conference. As Intel is in no hurry to make the jump to 64-bit desktops, this leaves AMD to court the gaming market."
how many people have preordered it over the age of 13? zero? no offense, but it offends me that nintendo went in that direction. I've been a long time zelda fan (since it was called zelda and not Link)... Yes, i played those 2 or 3 nintendo 'Links', but didn't really like them.. got interested in SNES Zelda: A Link to the Past.... beat it a couple dozen times, got Ocarina of Time, beat that; loved both of those games because the graphics were realistic in the "not-cartoony" sense. Then i read that they're making the new one, get a little excited, kept reading the article, turn the page, and there's a screen shot. no more than 1 minute later i burned the magazine. They have our generation hooked to Zelda, they're not going to be very successful with the next generation (entirely different discussion), so why do they do this to us? I just hope they make up for it later on. btw, A Link to the Past is the best Zelda game ever.
I remember my old nVidia Riva 128 which handled 128-bit graphics! Those were the days! ;)
I'm 24 and I've pre-ordered it.
Also, all the link games except Ocarina are compeletly cartoony. The graphics are total cartoons. Have you seen the demos for Link yet? It's really quite amazing cartoony yes, but better then more cartoons because the animation actually runs at full speed. Most kids cartoons on TV only run at 20 frames per seconnd it seems to keep costs low. It makes a big difference.
What are you talking about? Zelda has always been "cartoony," as you put it. That's it's style. Love it or leave it. If you want something that is "realistic" try playing Global Ops or Raven Shield.
Don't those idiots realize that 4 player capable GameCube with progressive scan would be the ultimate platform for some serious Worms action? Worms on GC would be a better party game then Super Mario Party - is there anyone here stupid enough to buy that horrible excuse for a game? It takes two and a half years to actually make it around the board, and you spend a year just waiting for the damn mini-games to load. Then they are boring as shit!
Oh don't get me started with lame Mario franchise games - I thought Mario was a plumber, not a janitor! Why the fuck is he running around with a vacuum cleaner sucking up GHOSTS? Are those idiots at Nintendo in Japan on CRACK?
Sorry about I just wanted to blow off some steam.. Carry on.
-Pat
...Where all restaurants are Taco Bell, and Intel STILL holds the marketplace at gunpoint.
Intel has taken its position of two decades ago as the chosen processor manufacturer for IBM and leveraged it into a position of market dominance, holding back the newest technology until they've made their fortunes on the old stuff, this is not news. Like MicroShaft, they rode IBM's coattails until they insidiously developed worldwide ties in the industry, using IBM's name recognition to make themselves a power and then turning on the hand that fed them. At this point they began making demands of not only their parent company, but the industry in general, and a world of computer megalopolies was born. Each segment of the industry now has its superpowers, and no matter how much we argue and fight, for the most part they drive the industry, by making inside deals and holding back new technology, or by using their corporate power as a club to beat the competition to death in the courts. Even the federal government is no match for them; they have more money at their disposal than the fed does, and ironocally, the very people who might take them on in court are working on computers made with Intel chips and running MicroShaft software, thereby feeding those megacorporations with our taxpayer money. Now don't get me wrong; I don't feel a bit sorry for IBM, hell, in a way, MicroSoft and Intel are IBM's children. Those predatory business practices we all revile were learned from IBM, and learned well. No, it is the consumer I feel bad for, shelling out thousands of dollars for a computer using a processor that is 10 years behind state of the art, running a (sic) OS that could have been written by monkeys... the old joke (its been this way so long it IS an old joke) about "What is MicroSoft's latest Beta... errr, OS?" and "Which version of the 386 is Intel releasing this week?" still hold nauseatingly true, and the only satisfaction I get from all of it is seeing IBM standing in line with all the other computer manufacturers waiting to be doled out the same technology as the rest of us.
Now I know that real business machines run on other hardware and software, and we can hold these computer equivalents of a Lamborghini or a TEREX earth mover (depending on their intended purpose) up as shining examples of what technology CAN be, but the truth is it doesn't filter down to the consumer for far too long, and by the time we see it, it's been diluted to the point of being comparatively the same as a Yugo. In a world driven by free enterprise, we should expect to get a little more for our hard won dollars than a machine that was actually obsolete before our LAST machine was built.
Mnem
*Goggles at the error message he just got*
-ERROR 1313- Your request could not be processed.
Requested process *GET A LIFE* has caused an invalid page fault in MODULE:INTERNET at address 3NO:HELLNO
OMIGAWD ! I BROKE THE INTERNET!!!