VisionTek makes (made?) quality nVidia based video cards. They are popular because they are reasonably priced without compromising quality. Check out their website for more information about the products they offer (offered?). I'm currently using a VisionTek GeForce2 Ti, and I would gladly look to them in the future for an upgrade.
I've actually seen The Matrix on an Imax screen. I happened to be in Chicago visiting my brother on a Friday, and the Navy Pier Imax Theater was showing it. It was probably just a normal print of the film being projected onto the giant screen, though.
When I was younger I had a small Märklin train train set. Before this I had a regular american style HO setup in our basement. The Märklin quality blew it away. I remember looking through the catalogue (circa 1990) and seeing this:
I was amazed that each and every train was given a unique, addressable identity. You could have many locomotives on the same set of track running independantly of each other. In addition, you could hook up a PC to your digital control box, and have the computer control your whole layout.
While using ethernet to do this is interesting, its not exactly new. In fact, unless you have a massive train layout I imagine that it would be overkill.
While home over thanksgiving with no bandwidth, I dug up the old family atari 7800 from my parents basement, specifically to beat Pitfall II once again. I was able to find an ascii map online, but I've spent the last 15 min with a search engine to no avail. When I go home for christmas I'll attempt to look in the browser history on that computer, and find the site once more.
I agree... I've never read the Dune series but I'm working my way through the WoT books now. I couldn't help but draw parallels between the Fremen and the Aiel; their disbelief of anything but a desert world (chani asking paul about the waters of his homeland, aiel shocked by vegetation and rivers on the opposite side of the spine of the world). I find other similiarities as well... Paul and Rand both started out as naive boys and quickly become powerful leaders.
An adaptation of a book can never match the original work, however. I'll be reading the first Dune novel at the very least after watching the miniseries.
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Though the BBC didn't get his name right (Garrett), I actually worked for his research lab at PSU. Very interesting stuff.
There's more information about other projects the group is working on here.
VisionTek makes (made?) quality nVidia based video cards. They are popular because they are reasonably priced without compromising quality. Check out their website for more information about the products they offer (offered?). I'm currently using a VisionTek GeForce2 Ti, and I would gladly look to them in the future for an upgrade.
I've actually seen The Matrix on an Imax screen. I happened to be in Chicago visiting my brother on a Friday, and the Navy Pier Imax Theater was showing it. It was probably just a normal print of the film being projected onto the giant screen, though.
Yah, theres a nerve on the roof of your mouth which causes icecream headaches.
if you ever get one, try rubbing your tongue on the roof of your mouth to try warming it up, it might help.
When I was younger I had a small Märklin train train set. Before this I had a regular american style HO setup in our basement. The Märklin quality blew it away. I remember looking through the catalogue (circa 1990) and seeing this:
Digital Train Control
I was amazed that each and every train was given a unique, addressable identity. You could have many locomotives on the same set of track running independantly of each other. In addition, you could hook up a PC to your digital control box, and have the computer control your whole layout.
While using ethernet to do this is interesting, its not exactly new. In fact, unless you have a massive train layout I imagine that it would be overkill.
Just my opinion...
-dopaz
While home over thanksgiving with no bandwidth, I dug up the old family atari 7800 from my parents basement, specifically to beat Pitfall II once again. I was able to find an ascii map online, but I've spent the last 15 min with a search engine to no avail. When I go home for christmas I'll attempt to look in the browser history on that computer, and find the site once more.
I agree... I've never read the Dune series but I'm working my way through the WoT books now. I couldn't help but draw parallels between the Fremen and the Aiel; their disbelief of anything but a desert world (chani asking paul about the waters of his homeland, aiel shocked by vegetation and rivers on the opposite side of the spine of the world). I find other similiarities as well... Paul and Rand both started out as naive boys and quickly become powerful leaders. An adaptation of a book can never match the original work, however. I'll be reading the first Dune novel at the very least after watching the miniseries.