steam kicked in at 2:04 CST (according to my PC) and the game was decrypted/enabled by 2:15. the feel of it is just right. (if you get the great idea to whack the combine soldiers with the telephone be prepared to run)
I'm not gonna start off by bashing the whole Intel community, and gloating about Apple, but really, would it have been so hard to incorporate those wires into a single connector? That kind of goat-thinking is responsible for the medicricy of today's machines when compared to Apple hardware.
There might not be any 10Ghz for a looong time. What we will probably see are two 4Ghz cores, or one 64bit 6Ghz before anything comes even close to 10Ghz on a single die.
well, i'm not sure what you'd call computationally intensive tasks, but i can compress a DVD under 20 minutes, burn one, run photoshop cs and iPhoto in the background, and browse slashdot at the same time. i may be wrong, but there's no way i'd do that on a 3 years old PC. (especially 1.4GHz)
I thought the force powers in academy were too strong. Perhaps they were more true to the SW universe, but they made the game too easy. (I played it on the hard setting.)
And yeah, I think the storyline was much more than flimsy. It was very weak, but I think the voice acting was the worst.
Hmm, maybe if they did a KOTOR like game set in the outcast plot...
I hate to say it, but this is probably a very neccessary step in assuring the survival and prosperity of the U.S. empire.
There probably will be no more conventional world wars, we (the U.S.) have enough nukes to dissuade any global conflict. So, since we don't have to worry about a ground assault, we need to concentrate on air/space defense that can shoot down any ICBMs from unstable dictatorial states, or trigger all holy hell on enemy before they have the time to prepare their defenses in case we start feeling threatened by them.
I'd like to believe that Kerry administration would have taken a different approach to preserving the empire, something that would benefit both us and the world, but Bush, being a cowboy that he is, clearly has no regard for global opinion. (Note that I'm not saying that we should let the French shit on us if we do need to defend ourselves, but that we don't really have a right to "liberate" whomever we want through a half-baked war.)
We'll see where the world will be 20-30 years from now in terms of military alleigances...
was how the bad guys actually died when they smashed their flying gyroscopes into trees and mountains. Sure, nothing is shown, (except for the bigass explosion) but you know that no human can survive that. Also, they shot real bullets, not some whackyass lasers like in SW.
Compare that to the piece of crap Spawn (sorry to bring it up for anyone who managed to repress it) where I don't think anyone dies...
Well, barring any unexpected results in Ohio, I'll concede to you that this is very useles for speakers. However, it would be supernice for headphones. One could play loud games late at night, or listen to music in the office. It appears that none of my coworkers share the love for Guns n' Roses, so I'm always chained to my PC via headphone wire.
If only there was some sort of *magical* rechargeable battery-like device.
And yeah, the audiophiles would definitely not like these, since they only like LPs. But for the normal folk, these would work great, if only the smart engineer-people could figure out how to make rechargeable batteries.
exactly. just like phones. why the hell do people need wireless phones?
and especially cell phones. the recepcion would be much better, i think, and cheaper if we would just string a single wire from a central antenna, to each phone. i hate how cellphones are so expensive. sure they give them out for free, but those are not really the ones i want.
Ok, just for the record, if 20 years from now we are still crusading around the world, and I decide that I don't want to send my son to die for half-baked imperial tendencies I would like to point out that I didn't support the warmongering in the first place!
Thank you for the links. However, since both WMV9 and AVC (h.264) are included into specs, does that mean that each hardware DVD player will have to have both decoders? And would each movie have to be encoded in either of the two?
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steam kicked in at 2:04 CST (according to my PC) and the game was decrypted/enabled by 2:15.
the feel of it is just right.
(if you get the great idea to whack the combine soldiers with the telephone be prepared to run)
I'm not gonna start off by bashing the whole Intel community, and gloating about Apple, but really, would it have been so hard to incorporate those wires into a single connector?
That kind of goat-thinking is responsible for the medicricy of today's machines when compared to Apple hardware.
There might not be any 10Ghz for a looong time. What we will probably see are two 4Ghz cores, or one 64bit 6Ghz before anything comes even close to 10Ghz on a single die.
well, i'm not sure what you'd call computationally intensive tasks, but i can compress a DVD under 20 minutes, burn one, run photoshop cs and iPhoto in the background, and browse slashdot at the same time.
i may be wrong, but there's no way i'd do that on a 3 years old PC. (especially 1.4GHz)
But then again I use Apple products. Right now I have a 1.4 G4, and I don't foresee upgrading it for another 3 years...
I thought the force powers in academy were too strong. Perhaps they were more true to the SW universe, but they made the game too easy. (I played it on the hard setting.)
And yeah, I think the storyline was much more than flimsy. It was very weak, but I think the voice acting was the worst.
Hmm, maybe if they did a KOTOR like game set in the outcast plot...
With the exception of Jedi Academy, I think the Jedi Outcast series have been some of the most fun and engaging FPS games around.
Hey-a mister moderator. Wassa matter? You no like-a spahgetti, no?
but it's all in French... (Le File, L'Edit...)
I hate to say it, but this is probably a very neccessary step in assuring the survival and prosperity of the U.S. empire.
There probably will be no more conventional world wars, we (the U.S.) have enough nukes to dissuade any global conflict. So, since we don't have to worry about a ground assault, we need to concentrate on air/space defense that can shoot down any ICBMs from unstable dictatorial states, or trigger all holy hell on enemy before they have the time to prepare their defenses in case we start feeling threatened by them.
I'd like to believe that Kerry administration would have taken a different approach to preserving the empire, something that would benefit both us and the world, but Bush, being a cowboy that he is, clearly has no regard for global opinion. (Note that I'm not saying that we should let the French shit on us if we do need to defend ourselves, but that we don't really have a right to "liberate" whomever we want through a half-baked war.)
We'll see where the world will be 20-30 years from now in terms of military alleigances...
was how the bad guys actually died when they smashed their flying gyroscopes into trees and mountains.
Sure, nothing is shown, (except for the bigass explosion) but you know that no human can survive that. Also, they shot real bullets, not some whackyass lasers like in SW.
Compare that to the piece of crap Spawn (sorry to bring it up for anyone who managed to repress it) where I don't think anyone dies...
Hey-a relax-a, let us have a some spaghetti, no?
hahaha:)
Q: how many Gn'R fans does it take to replace a lightbulb?
A: none, they all sit in the dark hoping it'll fix itself. and when it does, it will shine brighter than ever!
My bad, I kept thinking about headphones and how it would be convenient for those.
But yes, for speakers this is pretty worthless.
Well, barring any unexpected results in Ohio, I'll concede to you that this is very useles for speakers.
However, it would be supernice for headphones. One could play loud games late at night, or listen to music in the office. It appears that none of my coworkers share the love for Guns n' Roses, so I'm always chained to my PC via headphone wire.
If only there was some sort of *magical* rechargeable battery-like device.
And yeah, the audiophiles would definitely not like these, since they only like LPs.
But for the normal folk, these would work great, if only the smart engineer-people could figure out how to make rechargeable batteries.
exactly.
just like phones. why the hell do people need wireless phones?
and especially cell phones. the recepcion would be much better, i think, and cheaper if we would just string a single wire from a central antenna, to each phone. i hate how cellphones are so expensive. sure they give them out for free, but those are not really the ones i want.
Ok, just for the record, if 20 years from now we are still crusading around the world, and I decide that I don't want to send my son to die for half-baked imperial tendencies I would like to point out that I didn't support the warmongering in the first place!
yeah very funny.
those punks probably now think that it was a coordinated cyber-attempt to disrupt the election, and now they've got all of our IPs.
when did firewire go optical?
re: High-speed IEEE 1394 optical fiber networks...
Thank you for the links.
However, since both WMV9 and AVC (h.264) are included into specs, does that mean that each hardware DVD player will have to have both decoders?
And would each movie have to be encoded in either of the two?
Will it be the new h.264 or something else?
And does anyone with a preview release of Tiger have any information on how fast it codecs a file?
I was trying to be funny! Don't mod me Informative! Woe to all who read the OP and consider it Informative.
It was a reference to star trek!
reversing the polarity of the transponder...
duh...
sweet, sweet singapore toilet water.
ahhhhh....