Actually the top of the line G5 Apple currently sells is a 2.7GHz machine (dual processor - 2 2.7GHz chips). And they do run hot. Apple uses liquid cooling in the 2.7GHz models. Also the heat dissipation on the Pentium 4 Prescotts IS a lot even when not running overclocked. I have a 3.2GHz Prescott and it is the first computer I've ever had where the exhaust is actually feels hot. Higher speed Prescotts had problems with the retail heat sinks - they would overheat and drop down in speed.
Hey! I LIKE Krull precisely because it DOES suck! Of course I'm somewhat of a connoisseur of bad science fiction. For example, I own Battlefield Earth on DVD. It makes me laugh everytime Travolta says "leverage".
Yeah I agree as well. The line about deserving to kick my ass was a joke. I've only done one Hamidon raid and - stupid me - I did that one before I hit level 50. Nothing like getting to see the maximum debt the game will throw at you. At least you get to shoot during the Hami-raid, my controller spent most of the time crumpled on the ground waiting for a res. Nice that single shot from the mitos did more than my total health. More than my total health at lvl 50 for that matter. I wouldn't be surprised to see some nerfing of the Hami-Os for PVP - BUT consider that they are the ONLY incentive to keep playing once you hit level 50. Which was a big part of my decision to take a vacation from CoH and check out World of Warcraft. I hit 50 and I thought, well I could get my alts up to 50.... or I could run Hamidon all the time or.... I could help other people to lvl 50 or... I could start all over again with a Kheldian. I did make a Peacebringer and play with it for awhile, but do to my time zone I find I have to solo fairly often and they really don't solo well. I'd love to see them work on reasons to keep me playing after I've dinged 50 that don't have anything to do with starting it all over again.
I believe Half-Life source was part of the $49 package as well. I'm not sure about the yet to be released Day of Defeat source. That little 2D side scroller starring Gordon Freeman was a cute bonus too. Reminded me of the Metal Slug series of games.
Yeah and it's pretty sad that just about the only way to view the original Star Wars movies as they were when I was a child is to download the bootleg DVDs off of bittorrent, usenet or other such illegal distribution.
"That said, I did get mine via Steam, but I bought the $59 version which included the entire Valve back catalog via Steam."
Yeah I did the same. I figured I'd rather not have the CDs if I'm going to have to sign up for steam anyway - and the $10 additional for the back catalogue was the clincher. I guess if you already had licenses for the original Half Life that wouldn't be a great option though.
Damn. If you ran 30 Hamidon raids you practically deserve to kick my ass in the arena. I agree they unbalance the high end PVP, but they are the ONLY thing you can do to enhance your characters after level 50. And they aren't exactly easy to get - well ok, not hard but time consuming. I did notice that PVP seems to work best with mixed teams as one on one duels are usually horribly unbalance. I'm also not sure about how the holds are working in the arena. My main character is a 50 Illusion/Kinetics controller and I have heavily stacked hold duration on my two holds. Blaster seem to stand no chance against me. Hold, drop pets, bam, bam they die. Defenders don't fair much better. It's definately a good idea to bring a bunch of break hold inspirations into combat with you. On the other hand versus tankers and scrappers I take a beating. It also seems to me that changing how you slot out your powers could be useful for PVP. Especially endurance drain powers, where they nerfed their effectiveness in PVP (for good reason). I'm interested in seeing how much drain I could get from a 6 slotted end drain on my Transfusion power. I'm already sucking about 1/3 total end with a hit and that's with no end drain enhancements on it. I agree that one of the main points of the arena is to pave the way for City of Villains. I would imagine we will see a LOT of adjustement to how powers work in PVP over the next six months. All an all, a fun new add on to the game and finally something for 50s to do beside spam "when's the next Hami raid?" or PL lowbies. The new costume options and body scaling is really great. Finally we have some fat heroes running around! I made an insufferably cute controller with a stuffed cat on her shoulder. The jackets look pretty cool too.
City of Heroes was the first MMO I ever played. I don't have a huge amount of time to invest in gaming, so a more casual MMO was a good start. It took me a total of 10 months to hit level cap, which probably sounds ridiculous to some people. I just took my time, played a few different characters and generally enjoyed myself. I really have to commend CoH for making a relatively bug free MMO. Sure there have been bugs, but nothing game killing and for the most part not highly irritating. In contrast World of Warcraft which I am now playing is still extremely buggy more than 6 months after launch. I've had my character in WoW stuck logged in to the game after a crash for an entire day. The one thing about CoH is that it really is a fairly simple game. The game revolves around combat, and most of the depth comes from combat tactics. With so many power sets to choose from, there's a lot of flexibility in developing your characters. Outside of combat, there really isn't anything to do except maybe play with changing up your costume. This is both good and bad. On the one hand CoH is free from a lot of the standard MMO bullshit (crafting, seeking out mad loot, running out of money), on the other hand it doesn't offer any additional gameplay options outside of combat. I can't really say that having to spend time working your day job as your secret identity would help the game much. I'd really love to see super bases or something that would give incentive for super groups to be more than just a convenient chat channel. More large scale raids like the end game Hamidon run would be cool too. Oh yeah and we have alternate dimensions - but where is the secret Moon base?:D
Considering the software emulators for NES available on a bojillion platforms (evertyhing from the Xbox to the Gameboy Advance) and the tons of dumped and working rom sets AND the dozens of knockoff grey market Nintendo consoles.... how is it still protected?
Yeah in the Mac world, VRAM is a general term used to refer to video card memory. This stems from the days of the ancient Macs where you could add additional video memory by installing a VRAM card. It's a completely incorrect usage of the term from a technical standpoint but anyone who belongs to the Legion of Jobs will understand the term VRAM as being video memory.
"Yes, my bet is that these cards are targeted at Apple and Tiger."
As opposed to the usual pray on the publics belief that more memory makes a faster video card? I would suggest that seeing as this card is a PCI-Express card and not available in AGP or for the Mac - that you are making a big leap there in your thinking. If I wanted to target Apple and Tiger with a video card - I would make one that has Mac drivers and is manufactured in a form factor that could plug into a Mac. Oh yeah and I would launch it on Apple's site as an option people could purchase when buying their Mac. Also please note that the PCI-X slots in the current PowerMacs are NOT PCI Express slots.
If microsoft ever gains market dominance expect to pay $500 for a basic XBox and $1,000 for one that plays games.
That's just silly. The money is in the software with consoles. If they had a monopoly situation the first place hit would be the developers. They would likely need to fork over even more out of every game sold for the right to publish an Xbox game. This would likely push game cost up. How much the console costs is based around an acceptable loss versus the profit from the average number of games sold per console purchased. This is why the initial console release shows a high price. The cost per unit is higher because when new the parts are newer technology. As the tech ages the machines get cheaper to produce.
On the Super Nintendo the Christian developer Wisdom Tree released: Super 3D Noah's Ark which was an FPS built on the Castle Wolfenstein 3D engine. In the game you had to feed the angry animals by shooting food at them with your slingshot. They would "go to sleep" when they got full. Of course if you didn't feed them in time they would kick your righteous ass just a soundly as the gestapo Wolfenstein. A worty one of the emulators. Highly entertaining for about 5 minutes.
Yep I loved the Amiga too. But it was 7.16MHz 68000 in the 500, 600, 1000 and 2000 models. This was an 8MHz chip running a little slow to synchronize with the chip set timing I believe. Great machine and great OS. The multitasking was so much better than anything else out at the time. About the only thing missing was memory protection.
Yeah because lines like "My PC wasn't Plug-n-Play it was Plug-n-Get Mad" don't smack at all of a marketing copy writer. Nor the smuggly delivered "I saved Christmas".
I mean it's not like OSX or Mac adds ever exhibits any problems. They JUST WORK. All the time. Constantly and consistently. Not subject to any of the complication that case computers to misbehave. And we all know that the Just Work line sure isn't marketing spin. Apple wouldn't ever use marketing spin to promote its products.
I mean there is no way something like iPhoto could destroy Christmas.
OK so you played it for an hour. I played many more than a single hour during the betas. Now I would be inclined to think that maybe they changed stuff since beta - but in the original post I am quoting the afkgamer article which is commenting on the same issue. For a further statement on how irritating this can get check out afkgamers third day update. In particular check the map grahic. Now as for whether this bothers you or not, that is subjective. So yes maybe it is because you are not used to the freedom of movement most MMOs give you, but also it might just be because you aren't bothered by the game mechanic. So if it doesn't bother you - go for it, enjoy, more power to you.
I've heard stories about people walking out of movies. I really have to question their ability to enjoy life
I walked out of that Demi Moore Striptease movie. About halfway through me and my mate decided we would enjoy life more if we went around the corner and dropped a fiver on a pitcher of beer at a real strip club.
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I believe the term I used was "stupid game mechanic" and perhaps that's not exactly what I should have said. Maybe "incongruous game mechanic" would be better. I just feel that when you have a full 3D engine being blocked from getting to places it LOOKS like you should be able to get to is a bit incongruous. They have every right to choose whatever game mechanics they want, obviously. It's their game. Subjectively, how their choices make me feel will determine whether I want to play the game or not. Given that one of things I like about MMOs is the great big open world to explore, this mechanic did bother me. The path railroading just felt wrong. Particularly when you can see where you need to go and it is right next to you but down a three foot drop and instead you need to travel down a long windy path to get there. It's kind of like in the old game Doom when they would put the key directly in front of you but one block up. Since you couldn't jump or reach up in Doom you had to take some long windy path around to get the key. Putting the key right there always annoyed me, it was like flaunting the limitations of the game engine. That's my two bits and it's just my subjectve opinion. There really isn't a right or wrong when you are talking about whether you find a game mechanic annoying or not.
It's because your Windows machine can detect the trace Mac-elements left on your fingertips from using your Mac at home. Bascially the Dell is stressed and really pissed that you have opted to use a Mac at home. It thinks that it is likely to be replaced at some point. It doesn't feel sexy anymore, it feels desperate and second fiddle. Probably your best option is to either replace your Mac at home with a PC, or replace your PC at work with a Mac. Computers exhibiting architecture jealously is all to common with users that "go both ways".
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Actually the top of the line G5 Apple currently sells is a 2.7GHz machine (dual processor - 2 2.7GHz chips). And they do run hot. Apple uses liquid cooling in the 2.7GHz models.
Also the heat dissipation on the Pentium 4 Prescotts IS a lot even when not running overclocked. I have a 3.2GHz Prescott and it is the first computer I've ever had where the exhaust is actually feels hot.
Higher speed Prescotts had problems with the retail heat sinks - they would overheat and drop down in speed.
Hey! I LIKE Krull precisely because it DOES suck!
Of course I'm somewhat of a connoisseur of bad science fiction. For example, I own Battlefield Earth on DVD. It makes me laugh everytime Travolta says "leverage".
Yeah I agree as well. The line about deserving to kick my ass was a joke. I've only done one Hamidon raid and - stupid me - I did that one before I hit level 50. Nothing like getting to see the maximum debt the game will throw at you.
At least you get to shoot during the Hami-raid, my controller spent most of the time crumpled on the ground waiting for a res. Nice that single shot from the mitos did more than my total health. More than my total health at lvl 50 for that matter.
I wouldn't be surprised to see some nerfing of the Hami-Os for PVP - BUT consider that they are the ONLY incentive to keep playing once you hit level 50. Which was a big part of my decision to take a vacation from CoH and check out World of Warcraft. I hit 50 and I thought, well I could get my alts up to 50.... or I could run Hamidon all the time or.... I could help other people to lvl 50 or... I could start all over again with a Kheldian.
I did make a Peacebringer and play with it for awhile, but do to my time zone I find I have to solo fairly often and they really don't solo well.
I'd love to see them work on reasons to keep me playing after I've dinged 50 that don't have anything to do with starting it all over again.
I believe Half-Life source was part of the $49 package as well. I'm not sure about the yet to be released Day of Defeat source.
That little 2D side scroller starring Gordon Freeman was a cute bonus too. Reminded me of the Metal Slug series of games.
Yeah and it's pretty sad that just about the only way to view the original Star Wars movies as they were when I was a child is to download the bootleg DVDs off of bittorrent, usenet or other such illegal distribution.
"That said, I did get mine via Steam, but I bought the $59 version which included the entire Valve back catalog via Steam."
Yeah I did the same. I figured I'd rather not have the CDs if I'm going to have to sign up for steam anyway - and the $10 additional for the back catalogue was the clincher. I guess if you already had licenses for the original Half Life that wouldn't be a great option though.
Damn. If you ran 30 Hamidon raids you practically deserve to kick my ass in the arena.
I agree they unbalance the high end PVP, but they are the ONLY thing you can do to enhance your characters after level 50. And they aren't exactly easy to get - well ok, not hard but time consuming. I did notice that PVP seems to work best with mixed teams as one on one duels are usually horribly unbalance. I'm also not sure about how the holds are working in the arena. My main character is a 50 Illusion/Kinetics controller and I have heavily stacked hold duration on my two holds. Blaster seem to stand no chance against me. Hold, drop pets, bam, bam they die. Defenders don't fair much better. It's definately a good idea to bring a bunch of break hold inspirations into combat with you. On the other hand versus tankers and scrappers I take a beating.
It also seems to me that changing how you slot out your powers could be useful for PVP. Especially endurance drain powers, where they nerfed their effectiveness in PVP (for good reason). I'm interested in seeing how much drain I could get from a 6 slotted end drain on my Transfusion power. I'm already sucking about 1/3 total end with a hit and that's with no end drain enhancements on it.
I agree that one of the main points of the arena is to pave the way for City of Villains. I would imagine we will see a LOT of adjustement to how powers work in PVP over the next six months.
All an all, a fun new add on to the game and finally something for 50s to do beside spam "when's the next Hami raid?" or PL lowbies.
The new costume options and body scaling is really great. Finally we have some fat heroes running around! I made an insufferably cute controller with a stuffed cat on her shoulder. The jackets look pretty cool too.
City of Heroes was the first MMO I ever played. I don't have a huge amount of time to invest in gaming, so a more casual MMO was a good start. It took me a total of 10 months to hit level cap, which probably sounds ridiculous to some people. I just took my time, played a few different characters and generally enjoyed myself. :D
I really have to commend CoH for making a relatively bug free MMO. Sure there have been bugs, but nothing game killing and for the most part not highly irritating. In contrast World of Warcraft which I am now playing is still extremely buggy more than 6 months after launch. I've had my character in WoW stuck logged in to the game after a crash for an entire day.
The one thing about CoH is that it really is a fairly simple game. The game revolves around combat, and most of the depth comes from combat tactics. With so many power sets to choose from, there's a lot of flexibility in developing your characters. Outside of combat, there really isn't anything to do except maybe play with changing up your costume.
This is both good and bad. On the one hand CoH is free from a lot of the standard MMO bullshit (crafting, seeking out mad loot, running out of money), on the other hand it doesn't offer any additional gameplay options outside of combat. I can't really say that having to spend time working your day job as your secret identity would help the game much.
I'd really love to see super bases or something that would give incentive for super groups to be more than just a convenient chat channel. More large scale raids like the end game Hamidon run would be cool too.
Oh yeah and we have alternate dimensions - but where is the secret Moon base?
Considering the software emulators for NES available on a bojillion platforms (evertyhing from the Xbox to the Gameboy Advance) and the tons of dumped and working rom sets AND the dozens of knockoff grey market Nintendo consoles.... how is it still protected?
Off course Apples have roots. The root is at the bottom of the tree. It is UNIX based after all.
Yeah in the Mac world, VRAM is a general term used to refer to video card memory. This stems from the days of the ancient Macs where you could add additional video memory by installing a VRAM card.
It's a completely incorrect usage of the term from a technical standpoint but anyone who belongs to the Legion of Jobs will understand the term VRAM as being video memory.
"Yes, my bet is that these cards are targeted at Apple and Tiger."
As opposed to the usual pray on the publics belief that more memory makes a faster video card?
I would suggest that seeing as this card is a PCI-Express card and not available in AGP or for the Mac - that you are making a big leap there in your thinking. If I wanted to target Apple and Tiger with a video card - I would make one that has Mac drivers and is manufactured in a form factor that could plug into a Mac. Oh yeah and I would launch it on Apple's site as an option people could purchase when buying their Mac.
Also please note that the PCI-X slots in the current PowerMacs are NOT PCI Express slots.
If microsoft ever gains market dominance expect to pay $500 for a basic XBox and $1,000 for one that plays games.
That's just silly. The money is in the software with consoles. If they had a monopoly situation the first place hit would be the developers. They would likely need to fork over even more out of every game sold for the right to publish an Xbox game. This would likely push game cost up.
How much the console costs is based around an acceptable loss versus the profit from the average number of games sold per console purchased.
This is why the initial console release shows a high price. The cost per unit is higher because when new the parts are newer technology. As the tech ages the machines get cheaper to produce.
Actual users sure. Coached and edited? Of course.
DUKE
Okay. You're right. This is probably the only solution.
(holds the PLUGGED IN TAPE/RADIO over the tub)
Let me make sure I have it all lined up. You want me to throw this thing into the tub when "WHITE RABBIT" peaks. Is that it?
GONZO falls back into the water, smiling gratefully.
GONZO
Fuck yes. I was beginning to think I was going to have to go out and get one of the goddamn maids to do it.
DUKE
Are you ready?
R.I.P. Hunter S. Thompson
On the Super Nintendo the Christian developer Wisdom Tree released: Super 3D Noah's Ark which was an FPS built on the Castle Wolfenstein 3D engine. In the game you had to feed the angry animals by shooting food at them with your slingshot. They would "go to sleep" when they got full. Of course if you didn't feed them in time they would kick your righteous ass just a soundly as the gestapo Wolfenstein.
A worty one of the emulators. Highly entertaining for about 5 minutes.
Yep I loved the Amiga too. But it was 7.16MHz 68000 in the 500, 600, 1000 and 2000 models. This was an 8MHz chip running a little slow to synchronize with the chip set timing I believe.
Great machine and great OS. The multitasking was so much better than anything else out at the time. About the only thing missing was memory protection.
Yeah because lines like "My PC wasn't Plug-n-Play it was Plug-n-Get Mad" don't smack at all of a marketing copy writer. Nor the smuggly delivered "I saved Christmas".
I mean it's not like OSX or Mac adds ever exhibits any problems. They JUST WORK. All the time. Constantly and consistently. Not subject to any of the complication that case computers to misbehave. And we all know that the Just Work line sure isn't marketing spin. Apple wouldn't ever use marketing spin to promote its products.
I mean there is no way something like iPhoto could destroy Christmas.
OK so you played it for an hour. I played many more than a single hour during the betas. Now I would be inclined to think that maybe they changed stuff since beta - but in the original post I am quoting the afkgamer article which is commenting on the same issue.
For a further statement on how irritating this can get check out afkgamers third day update. In particular check the map grahic.
Now as for whether this bothers you or not, that is subjective. So yes maybe it is because you are not used to the freedom of movement most MMOs give you, but also it might just be because you aren't bothered by the game mechanic. So if it doesn't bother you - go for it, enjoy, more power to you.
I've heard stories about people walking out of movies. I really have to question their ability to enjoy life
I walked out of that Demi Moore Striptease movie. About halfway through me and my mate decided we would enjoy life more if we went around the corner and dropped a fiver on a pitcher of beer at a real strip club.
To make ME laugh.
I believe the term I used was "stupid game mechanic" and perhaps that's not exactly what I should have said. Maybe "incongruous game mechanic" would be better. I just feel that when you have a full 3D engine being blocked from getting to places it LOOKS like you should be able to get to is a bit incongruous.
They have every right to choose whatever game mechanics they want, obviously. It's their game.
Subjectively, how their choices make me feel will determine whether I want to play the game or not.
Given that one of things I like about MMOs is the great big open world to explore, this mechanic did bother me. The path railroading just felt wrong.
Particularly when you can see where you need to go and it is right next to you but down a three foot drop and instead you need to travel down a long windy path to get there. It's kind of like in the old game Doom when they would put the key directly in front of you but one block up. Since you couldn't jump or reach up in Doom you had to take some long windy path around to get the key. Putting the key right there always annoyed me, it was like flaunting the limitations of the game engine.
That's my two bits and it's just my subjectve opinion. There really isn't a right or wrong when you are talking about whether you find a game mechanic annoying or not.
It's also worthy of note that for the U.S. to abolish slavery it took an extremely bloody civil war that almost destroyed the country.
It's a pop culture reference. Look it up!
Monkey banana raffle!
Whipcrackah!
It's because your Windows machine can detect the trace Mac-elements left on your fingertips from using your Mac at home.
Bascially the Dell is stressed and really pissed that you have opted to use a Mac at home. It thinks that it is likely to be replaced at some point. It doesn't feel sexy anymore, it feels desperate and second fiddle.
Probably your best option is to either replace your Mac at home with a PC, or replace your PC at work with a Mac.
Computers exhibiting architecture jealously is all to common with users that "go both ways".