The trend of dumbing down video games for the console still affects PC gamers. It may just be anecdotal but I find that FPS games are switching to context-based menu in the UI, instead of having each possible action being a hard key, presumably because consoles don't have as many buttons. The result is that FPS games that are released for PC and console, the PC version *feels* like I'm using a controller, even though I'm on a keyboard and a mouse. In Rainbow Six Vegas, why is it that I have to hold down R (reload) to bring up the context menu for adding a silencer and change the rate of fire? In Call of Duty 4 I have to press 1 repeatedly to get the weapon I want. Why do I need to pull out the machine gun once just to put it back so I can whip out the pistol? It's not efficient and slows the game down. I think the last "old school" FPS is half-life 2, but it is getting dated...
I have to agree with you, marketing chicks are hot. They are usually the hot chicks that were studying history or some liberal arts subject in college. You wanted to bang her then. You will want to bang her now.
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not to mention you lose features when you use older boards with new processors. For example FTA says Hypertransports goes from 3.0 to 2.0 (whatever that means) and DDR3 won't be supported if your board only supports DDR2, obviously.
I used to intern at AMD during the K8 days (Athlon 64). It was awesome that they came out with the chip and kicked Intel P4's ass. But now I guess the juggernaut took notice and focused its efforts on regaining the performance title and look at what they were able to do.
I also don't like the spin AMD is putting on with this spider platform. It feels too gamer orientated whereas Intel leaves it up to the board manufactures like Nvidia or formerly ATI to provide the gaming platform and it focused on making the chip. AMD really needs to focus on getting the OEMs to put their chips into their computers to be profitable, not by selling to a niche market, albeit with a high profit margin. Maybe that's what they were going for in the first place, to provide a platform, but I feel it's going the wrong directly. More integration isn't necessarily better and in the enthusiast market where the consumers want to customize everything, this is probably going against their wishes.
Replacement parts. Wasn't this the premise of the movie The Island, that clones were used for replacement parts? And you know what happened in the movie right? Clones have feelings too!
...gave women and minorities the same rights as everyone else, won the space race, gave you the ability to even post your snarky comments due to the fact that we pushed technology forward. These are just a few of the many things we have contributed to the greater good the greater good
whatever little he has contributed is still much more than most of the folks in the world will accomplish.
also, while I agree computer "science" is an evolutionary science that doesn't require advanced degrees to contribute, unlike traditional sciences such as chemistry or physics, the overwhelming majority of the published works in traditional sciences are baby-steps building on top of previous works. This is how progress is made. You have to start from somewhere.
eMusic has been around and has been DRM free. Their selection is probably larger than Amazon's at this point. Best part is when I import the mp3s into iTunes the songs are properly recognized and the album covers are downloaded accordingly. It looks to me that some tests at least goes on there to make sure that it is compatible with iTunes.
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The trend of dumbing down video games for the console still affects PC gamers. It may just be anecdotal but I find that FPS games are switching to context-based menu in the UI, instead of having each possible action being a hard key, presumably because consoles don't have as many buttons. The result is that FPS games that are released for PC and console, the PC version *feels* like I'm using a controller, even though I'm on a keyboard and a mouse. In Rainbow Six Vegas, why is it that I have to hold down R (reload) to bring up the context menu for adding a silencer and change the rate of fire? In Call of Duty 4 I have to press 1 repeatedly to get the weapon I want. Why do I need to pull out the machine gun once just to put it back so I can whip out the pistol? It's not efficient and slows the game down. I think the last "old school" FPS is half-life 2, but it is getting dated...
I have to agree with you, marketing chicks are hot. They are usually the hot chicks that were studying history or some liberal arts subject in college. You wanted to bang her then. You will want to bang her now.
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not to mention you lose features when you use older boards with new processors. For example FTA says Hypertransports goes from 3.0 to 2.0 (whatever that means) and DDR3 won't be supported if your board only supports DDR2, obviously.
I used to intern at AMD during the K8 days (Athlon 64). It was awesome that they came out with the chip and kicked Intel P4's ass. But now I guess the juggernaut took notice and focused its efforts on regaining the performance title and look at what they were able to do.
I also don't like the spin AMD is putting on with this spider platform. It feels too gamer orientated whereas Intel leaves it up to the board manufactures like Nvidia or formerly ATI to provide the gaming platform and it focused on making the chip. AMD really needs to focus on getting the OEMs to put their chips into their computers to be profitable, not by selling to a niche market, albeit with a high profit margin. Maybe that's what they were going for in the first place, to provide a platform, but I feel it's going the wrong directly. More integration isn't necessarily better and in the enthusiast market where the consumers want to customize everything, this is probably going against their wishes.
...gave women and minorities the same rights as everyone else, won the space race, gave you the ability to even post your snarky comments due to the fact that we pushed technology forward. These are just a few of the many things we have contributed to the greater good the greater goodwhatever little he has contributed is still much more than most of the folks in the world will accomplish. also, while I agree computer "science" is an evolutionary science that doesn't require advanced degrees to contribute, unlike traditional sciences such as chemistry or physics, the overwhelming majority of the published works in traditional sciences are baby-steps building on top of previous works. This is how progress is made. You have to start from somewhere.
eMusic has been around and has been DRM free. Their selection is probably larger than Amazon's at this point. Best part is when I import the mp3s into iTunes the songs are properly recognized and the album covers are downloaded accordingly. It looks to me that some tests at least goes on there to make sure that it is compatible with iTunes.