What'd I'd love to see is these same tests with 4x or higher AA turned on. Apparently, nVidia disallowed MaximumPC from doing any tests but those, which is probably why the FX comes out on top. I'd bet that the 9700 wins at 4x and up.
Yes, it has an Invite function. You can see which of your Friends are online and invite them into a game you're hosting. They either accept or decline; and if they accept, they just pop out the disk of whatever they were playing and pop in the disk for whatever game you invited them to play.
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There is a scene in which Gollum peeks from different sides of a tree in order to indicate his split personality. It's later than the first Gollum conversation -- after Gollum has been tricksed by Frodo and is reconsidering his loyalty to master.
Yes, it was at the very end of the movie and Gollum only did it once. I thought it was well done and didn't detract from the effect.
You have some good points, but Battle.net is hardly analogous to Live. Battle.net has been around for five years or so and only supports four or five titles. Live has been around for one month and has ten or more titles. By holiday 2003 MS says there will be 60 Live-enabled titles. By holiday 2003 there will still be four or five Battle.net titles.
If your friend is playing Diablo and you're playing Warcraft III, can you invite him to play WCIII with you? Live let's you invite across games. I don't play on Battle.net, so I'm really asking.
All current and future games on Live will have voice capability -- it's a requirement from MS. Yes, there are only ten titles currently, but the service has only been in existance for a month, so give it some time, ok?
Many PC games may support voice, but most don't. And even those that do, not everyone who plays them has a voice mic. Everyone who has Live has a voice headset.
Live and PC gaming are different approaches -- one is a service that has added benefits that you pay $50 a year for. PC gaming is free and supports modems.
My argument isn't with your last sentance, it was with the statement (which may not even have been yours -- I'm too lazy to look) that "PC gaming has had everything Live offers for years", which I just don't think is true.
Something similar happened to my Dad's business about 15 years ago. Back then, they just trusted the employees. For some reason I can't recall, they decided to fire the sysadmin that was running their billing systems and gave him a months notice. During that month, they let him take time off from work to interview at other places and were generally pretty nice about the whole thing.
A couple weeks after he left, the system started crashing and losing data. Apparently he used a rather well-known bomb because the company they used for support was able to dial in and found it rather quickly. He was charged, arrested, tried, and found guilty. It was a big deal because the state (South Carolina) had just passed some really though computer crime laws at the time, and the Attorney General wanted a "test case" for the law.
My Dad and his partner's requested that the guy not get any jail time since he had a wife and some kids, but he got major probation and a huge fine (something like $60,000, which was a lot back then). Plus he now has a felony charge on his record. Last I heard, he had gotten out of the computer biz and was working in a family business.
Anyway, the short lesson is: if you're a company firing someone with privileges, pay them the two weeks or whatever but don't let them back on site. And if you're the guy getting sacked, don't try to get revenge through sabotage; it's just not worth it.
As an aside: every place I've worked had a policy that whenever someone was fired they were led to their desk with a cardboard box, then escorted out of the building that very moment.
Do you know where the best video games come from? It ain't America! It's Japan! Wow, ain't that cool? And do you know where the best developers are? Japan again!
That's one opinion. Personally, I like Miyamoto's games and Sega's games. Most other Japanese developers I couldn't care less about. Most Japanese games have odd stories populated by spikey-haired juveniles, or else they're dating sims. I don't get them. Which is fine...the Japanese don't get American/European games either. But for me, saying that a system has a lot of Japanese games isn't really a selling point.
Also, this guy lost his mac, I understand that, but why is he worried about being able to pay his college tuition? Is he saying the overdraft charge on the fake check was for the whole amount? That makes no sense. Is the author subtly begging for help with his tuition?
No, I think the idea was that he was out $2300 and also without a computer. As any good Mac user would do, he had to buy a new one. He said he was going to downgrade, so he probably only dropped $1500 or so on the new machine -- but that's $1500 that could've gone toward tuition.
Honda cars are built out of such thin sheetmetal that I can - and have - dented them with my thumb. They derive their strength from the shape of the material, not from the material itself - it's just a four-wheeled soft drink can. This cuts cost and raises gas mileage at the expense of long-term durability. If the passenger places his or her foot hard enough on the floor, relatively modern (~1996) Accords flex enough that the brake lights go on. I wouldn't want to know where a Honda would bend if I went to Home Depot and used the trunk to bring home a couple of bags of topsoil for my flower garden.
I understand your point, but methinks you're exaggerating a bit. I've hauled plenty of topsoil from Lowes in my wife's 1999 Accord and never had a problem at all. Never seen a problem with pressing down too hard on the passenger side floor. Never had a problem hauling three large-sized people in the back seat. Never even had a problem when I was rear-ended at ~10mph by a old-model all steel oldsmobile -- not even a ding in the bumper.
I'll agree that newer cars aren't built to last like the older ones, but the manufacurers are well aware of the weaknesses in their products, and you can be sure that they aren't going to be the type of defects that would commonly appear within the warranty period -- otherwise all that cost savings would be lost.
Statements from MS's license agreement and indications from beta testers are that Live will be a yearly fee, not a monthly fee. This makes me think that they will still charge somewhere around $50 a year after the first.
The small print on the Live Starter kit says you can use it to sign up until 10/30/03, so if the fee were higher than $50 you could just buy another starter kit instead.
The voice commication is marvelous. I too, was worried about swearing, yelling, etc. But it's not happening yet -- just your usual good-natured trash-talking and "good game"s all around. I have yet to mute anyone.
This is funny. It gets corrected all the time but don't let that stop you.
Microsoft only has a monopoly in the OS market. Therefore, legally, they can do whatever they want in the console market without fear of anti-trust law. All the console companies buy out smaller developers. Why scream "monopoly" when MS does it?
Something I'm going to throw in here that's probably not related to the problem you're seeing:
Hyperthreading in Intel's Xeon processors are supposed to speed everything up, but are slowing down some apps we use here at work. I have no hard data aside from some benchmarks, but what I suspect is happening is this: hyperthreading enables "virtual" CPUs; so much so that the BIOS sees 4 procs on our dual proc machines. So what happens if you have two CPU intensive threads what happen to get loaded onto two separate virtual CPUs, but the same physical CPU?
I would think that the hyperthreading would be smart enough to account for this case, but it's my best guess as to the slowdown we're seeing.
Palm's claim is that, through "color-blending" (i.e. dithering), the 12-bit screen comes close to the 16-bit screens 65,000 colors. But what if you use this "color-blending" on the 16-bit screen? Then you would end up with much more than 65,000 colors. So their comparison is apples to oranges and is one of the most ridiculous pieces marketing drivel I've ever heard.
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What'd I'd love to see is these same tests with 4x or higher AA turned on. Apparently, nVidia disallowed MaximumPC from doing any tests but those, which is probably why the FX comes out on top. I'd bet that the 9700 wins at 4x and up.
Yes, it has an Invite function. You can see which of your Friends are online and invite them into a game you're hosting. They either accept or decline; and if they accept, they just pop out the disk of whatever they were playing and pop in the disk for whatever game you invited them to play.
There is a scene in which Gollum peeks from different sides of a tree in order to indicate his split personality. It's later than the first Gollum conversation -- after Gollum has been tricksed by Frodo and is reconsidering his loyalty to master.
Yes, it was at the very end of the movie and Gollum only did it once. I thought it was well done and didn't detract from the effect.
You have some good points, but Battle.net is hardly analogous to Live. Battle.net has been around for five years or so and only supports four or five titles. Live has been around for one month and has ten or more titles. By holiday 2003 MS says there will be 60 Live-enabled titles. By holiday 2003 there will still be four or five Battle.net titles.
If your friend is playing Diablo and you're playing Warcraft III, can you invite him to play WCIII with you? Live let's you invite across games. I don't play on Battle.net, so I'm really asking.
All current and future games on Live will have voice capability -- it's a requirement from MS. Yes, there are only ten titles currently, but the service has only been in existance for a month, so give it some time, ok?
Many PC games may support voice, but most don't. And even those that do, not everyone who plays them has a voice mic. Everyone who has Live has a voice headset.
Live and PC gaming are different approaches -- one is a service that has added benefits that you pay $50 a year for. PC gaming is free and supports modems.
My argument isn't with your last sentance, it was with the statement (which may not even have been yours -- I'm too lazy to look) that "PC gaming has had everything Live offers for years", which I just don't think is true.
Something similar happened to my Dad's business about 15 years ago. Back then, they just trusted the employees. For some reason I can't recall, they decided to fire the sysadmin that was running their billing systems and gave him a months notice. During that month, they let him take time off from work to interview at other places and were generally pretty nice about the whole thing.
A couple weeks after he left, the system started crashing and losing data. Apparently he used a rather well-known bomb because the company they used for support was able to dial in and found it rather quickly. He was charged, arrested, tried, and found guilty. It was a big deal because the state (South Carolina) had just passed some really though computer crime laws at the time, and the Attorney General wanted a "test case" for the law.
My Dad and his partner's requested that the guy not get any jail time since he had a wife and some kids, but he got major probation and a huge fine (something like $60,000, which was a lot back then). Plus he now has a felony charge on his record. Last I heard, he had gotten out of the computer biz and was working in a family business.
Anyway, the short lesson is: if you're a company firing someone with privileges, pay them the two weeks or whatever but don't let them back on site. And if you're the guy getting sacked, don't try to get revenge through sabotage; it's just not worth it.
As an aside: every place I've worked had a policy that whenever someone was fired they were led to their desk with a cardboard box, then escorted out of the building that very moment.
Please. It may be novel on a console, but Xbox Live has nothing that PCs haven't had for years.
Really? Wow. I didn't know that the PC had:
- support for a Friends list
- ability to invite a Friend into a game, even if they're playing a different game
- voice chat supported by all online titles
- the ability to permanently mute any user
- your own alias that belongs to you over all games
Do you know where the best video games come from? It ain't America! It's Japan! Wow, ain't that cool? And do you know where the best developers are? Japan again!
That's one opinion. Personally, I like Miyamoto's games and Sega's games. Most other Japanese developers I couldn't care less about. Most Japanese games have odd stories populated by spikey-haired juveniles, or else they're dating sims. I don't get them. Which is fine...the Japanese don't get American/European games either. But for me, saying that a system has a lot of Japanese games isn't really a selling point.
The guy's practically foaming at the mouth with his rabid Mac-ness...
/. Linux geeks feel about their OS. To many Mac and Linux users it is certainly much more than just an OS.
Get a grip, pal. It's only an operating system.
One might say the same about the way all the
Besides, I think he was going for humor. He was probably expecting the vast majority of his audience to be Mac users. Don't take it personally.
Also, this guy lost his mac, I understand that, but why is he worried about being able to pay his college tuition? Is he saying the overdraft charge on the fake check was for the whole amount? That makes no sense. Is the author subtly begging for help with his tuition?
No, I think the idea was that he was out $2300 and also without a computer. As any good Mac user would do, he had to buy a new one. He said he was going to downgrade, so he probably only dropped $1500 or so on the new machine -- but that's $1500 that could've gone toward tuition.
Honda cars are built out of such thin sheetmetal that I can - and have - dented them with my thumb. They derive their strength from the shape of the material, not from the material itself - it's just a four-wheeled soft drink can. This cuts cost and raises gas mileage at the expense of long-term durability. If the passenger places his or her foot hard enough on the floor, relatively modern (~1996) Accords flex enough that the brake lights go on. I wouldn't want to know where a Honda would bend if I went to Home Depot and used the trunk to bring home a couple of bags of topsoil for my flower garden.
I understand your point, but methinks you're exaggerating a bit. I've hauled plenty of topsoil from Lowes in my wife's 1999 Accord and never had a problem at all. Never seen a problem with pressing down too hard on the passenger side floor. Never had a problem hauling three large-sized people in the back seat. Never even had a problem when I was rear-ended at ~10mph by a old-model all steel oldsmobile -- not even a ding in the bumper.
I'll agree that newer cars aren't built to last like the older ones, but the manufacurers are well aware of the weaknesses in their products, and you can be sure that they aren't going to be the type of defects that would commonly appear within the warranty period -- otherwise all that cost savings would be lost.
Also from the interview:
"Is the story you told true?
Oh yeah, it's definitely true."
So you're impression is wrong.
...about being reponsible for the nickname 'captain' being given to all of us named Kirk in real life?
Statements from MS's license agreement and indications from beta testers are that Live will be a yearly fee, not a monthly fee. This makes me think that they will still charge somewhere around $50 a year after the first.
The small print on the Live Starter kit says you can use it to sign up until 10/30/03, so if the fee were higher than $50 you could just buy another starter kit instead.
The voice commication is marvelous. I too, was worried about swearing, yelling, etc. But it's not happening yet -- just your usual good-natured trash-talking and "good game"s all around. I have yet to mute anyone.
I'm one that got turned away from EB. Luckily they still had MechAssult in stock, though. And I picked up my live kit from Best Buy the next day.
Try the big retailers like Best Buy or Target. My local EB was sold out as well, but Best Buy had plenty. Plenty = 1 or 2 dozen.
Easy. It was a picture of a ragged-looking thief in a prison, nicely shadowed with the only light coming in from a barred window high up the wall.
:)
I think the thief appeared to be making his way across the cell, bracing himself against one wall with a hand.
How many points do I get?
This is funny. It gets corrected all the time but don't let that stop you.
Microsoft only has a monopoly in the OS market. Therefore, legally, they can do whatever they want in the console market without fear of anti-trust law. All the console companies buy out smaller developers. Why scream "monopoly" when MS does it?
Bah, that's nothing. I made my CPU and graphics card out of LEGOs.
Something I'm going to throw in here that's probably not related to the problem you're seeing:
Hyperthreading in Intel's Xeon processors are supposed to speed everything up, but are slowing down some apps we use here at work. I have no hard data aside from some benchmarks, but what I suspect is happening is this: hyperthreading enables "virtual" CPUs; so much so that the BIOS sees 4 procs on our dual proc machines. So what happens if you have two CPU intensive threads what happen to get loaded onto two separate virtual CPUs, but the same physical CPU?
I would think that the hyperthreading would be smart enough to account for this case, but it's my best guess as to the slowdown we're seeing.
Yeah, except that Spider-Man made $100 mil more in NA that AotC. An IMAX release ain't gonna make up that difference.
I always thought old monitors were supposed to sit around in your attic. Same goes for old printers.
...if they answer "42", then hire them.
Palm's claim is that, through "color-blending" (i.e. dithering), the 12-bit screen comes close to the 16-bit screens 65,000 colors. But what if you use this "color-blending" on the 16-bit screen? Then you would end up with much more than 65,000 colors. So their comparison is apples to oranges and is one of the most ridiculous pieces marketing drivel I've ever heard.
Upgrade to the latest. Works fine in Moz for me.