P1-MMX: Intel: "MMX makes the colors brighter!" P2: Intel: "The P2 enables you to get onto the internet!" P3: Intel: "The P3 makes the Internet faster!" P4: Intel: "The P4 enables you to download mp3s from the internet and.. ermm.. press (!) them onto CD!"
What people seem to keep forgetting is that emulating the processor is approximately 10% of the job. There's all the rest of the hardware to emulate! The CPU is the EASY part.
You do not have the literacy to participate in this conversation if you have thus far failed to understand that this is what has been said - indeed by more people than just me, if you care to read any of the other comments about the same subject.
My original point about the enunciation (look the word up) in the context of the native speaker still stands - ie, the difference between the words in the respective language is *exactly* the same for the respective native speakers.
That you nitpick about the "tay" sound in table is clear indication that you are unable to grasp the point of the comparison.
Any bloody moron knows that it's the intonation of the syllables in successive words that separate, differentiate and give meaning to them. This concept applies wholly to all these examples, including "no va", "nova", "notable", "no table", "not able", etc.
Refrain from your idiotic nitpicking and choose to agree on this point, which has been the actual topic of this thread all along.
You are foolishly pronouncing the words in an English fashion. What about the fact that the native speakers in question were Spanish do you fail to understand?
Ask a Spaniard to pronounce "no va", then ask him to pronounce "nova". Until then, just believe those of us that know. Ok?
Furthermore, I believe I do know how English words are pronounced.
"Chances are they will currently have good enough hardware for Doom 3, or they will take it for granted that they will need an upgrade before they buy the game."
You, sir, are most definitely included in that list. My point was it comes as no surprise to you (or anybody in #1) that you'd need the appropriate hardware.
Look, these days, there will be 2 main types of people that will buy this game.
1) Oldskool die-hard Doom lovers. These people have been around long enough that the concept of hardware upgrades is nothing new to them. Chances are they will currently have good enough hardware for Doom 3, or they will take it for granted that they will need an upgrade before they buy the game.
2) Newskool FPS gamer kids. They take their gaming pretty seriously, and having the latest hardware is pretty much a competitive issue to them. If you find any of these guys with less than 512mb of RAM or a 3D card older than a GeForce 3, chances are they don't have the money to buy Doom 3 anyway.
The hardware requirements stated are really light for a game of that genre, especially considering the target market. I think the poster is rather off-target by insinuating that this is a problem.
I'm not sure why you are so insistent on not believing what people are saying here, but let me drill the point in.
You *CAN* and *DO* create FAT32 partitions larger than 32Gb in various revisions of Windows. The largest one I have created, using Microsoft's own Windows Installer, was 200Gb. However, there are many revisions that have an added 'feature' which removes this ability. The Win2k OEM CD that came with my laptop, for instance, refuses. Yet my friend's Win2k CD happily creates FAT32 partitions as big as you like.
Maybe gamers these days just aren't used to keyboards? The menus are easily navigated with keyboard shortcuts, and I had the jump system mastered after about 5 minutes' practice. I suppose I like a game that requires to you get the knack of something a bit tricky.
I'm in agreement about the other points. The levels are a bit frustrating and dull. I think that they really need to add more colour and animation to the levels, and possibly scale them down a bit so that you can see more of the level in one screen.
As with any lossy compression, the quality only remains constant if exactly the same encoder, heuristics, and parameters as the first compression are used to compress it the second time. And even then, this is only in the naive case.
For sub-$400 (we're talking around $370) you can get yourself a more compact, more convenient and faster mass storage system that'll give you instant access to the equivalent of over 430 x 80min CDs. It's called an IDE hard drive. Specifically the Maxtor 300Gb.
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A: Christopher Walken.
It smacks of Intel-style media hype idiocy.
P1-MMX: Intel: "MMX makes the colors brighter!"
P2: Intel: "The P2 enables you to get onto the internet!"
P3: Intel: "The P3 makes the Internet faster!"
P4: Intel: "The P4 enables you to download mp3s from the internet and.. ermm.. press (!) them onto CD!"
What people seem to keep forgetting is that emulating the processor is approximately 10% of the job. There's all the rest of the hardware to emulate! The CPU is the EASY part.
Wow, did you ever miss the boat.
No table -> noTAYble
Notable -> NOtable
No va -> noVA
Nova -> NOva
You do not have the literacy to participate in this conversation if you have thus far failed to understand that this is what has been said - indeed by more people than just me, if you care to read any of the other comments about the same subject.
My original point about the enunciation (look the word up) in the context of the native speaker still stands - ie, the difference between the words in the respective language is *exactly* the same for the respective native speakers.
That you nitpick about the "tay" sound in table is clear indication that you are unable to grasp the point of the comparison.
Any bloody moron knows that it's the intonation of the syllables in successive words that separate, differentiate and give meaning to them. This concept applies wholly to all these examples, including "no va", "nova", "notable", "no table", "not able", etc.
Refrain from your idiotic nitpicking and choose to agree on this point, which has been the actual topic of this thread all along.
You are foolishly pronouncing the words in an English fashion. What about the fact that the native speakers in question were Spanish do you fail to understand?
Ask a Spaniard to pronounce "no va", then ask him to pronounce "nova". Until then, just believe those of us that know. Ok?
Furthermore, I believe I do know how English words are pronounced.
I think not. The difference in enunciation to the respective native audiences is exactly the same with both examples.
no-VA vs NO-va, and NO-ta-ble vs no-TA-ble.
Thank you for saving me a load of typing. Good job :)
Bah, luxury! I'm going to play my Doom 3 over ssh using libaa
Yeah, that's me too.
:)
iddqd
idkfa
IDCHOPPERS!
"Chances are they will currently have good enough hardware for Doom 3, or they will take it for granted that they will need an upgrade before they buy the game."
You, sir, are most definitely included in that list. My point was it comes as no surprise to you (or anybody in #1) that you'd need the appropriate hardware.
Look, these days, there will be 2 main types of people that will buy this game.
1) Oldskool die-hard Doom lovers. These people have been around long enough that the concept of hardware upgrades is nothing new to them. Chances are they will currently have good enough hardware for Doom 3, or they will take it for granted that they will need an upgrade before they buy the game.
2) Newskool FPS gamer kids. They take their gaming pretty seriously, and having the latest hardware is pretty much a competitive issue to them. If you find any of these guys with less than 512mb of RAM or a 3D card older than a GeForce 3, chances are they don't have the money to buy Doom 3 anyway.
The hardware requirements stated are really light for a game of that genre, especially considering the target market. I think the poster is rather off-target by insinuating that this is a problem.
We 'saw' many accidents down at the logmill that could've been prevented by this new technology. No more 'saw' fingers!
Guffaw. Chortle.
Descent 1 used to do a similar thing way back in 1994 for progressive LODing
I'm not sure why you are so insistent on not believing what people are saying here, but let me drill the point in.
You *CAN* and *DO* create FAT32 partitions larger than 32Gb in various revisions of Windows. The largest one I have created, using Microsoft's own Windows Installer, was 200Gb. However, there are many revisions that have an added 'feature' which removes this ability. The Win2k OEM CD that came with my laptop, for instance, refuses. Yet my friend's Win2k CD happily creates FAT32 partitions as big as you like.
Yeah, colour is sorely lacking.
Are you READING THIS, Chronic Logic?!
The jump system is truly awful
Maybe gamers these days just aren't used to keyboards? The menus are easily navigated with keyboard shortcuts, and I had the jump system mastered after about 5 minutes' practice. I suppose I like a game that requires to you get the knack of something a bit tricky.
I'm in agreement about the other points. The levels are a bit frustrating and dull. I think that they really need to add more colour and animation to the levels, and possibly scale them down a bit so that you can see more of the level in one screen.
As with any lossy compression, the quality only remains constant if exactly the same encoder, heuristics, and parameters as the first compression are used to compress it the second time. And even then, this is only in the naive case.
Thanks, that's precisely the problem I was pointing out too.
You'll find that's coincidental and/or anecdotal, but NOT ironic.
Exactly 42 minutes between them.
Somebody tear the editors a new one!
For sub-$400 (we're talking around $370) you can get yourself a more compact, more convenient and faster mass storage system that'll give you instant access to the equivalent of over 430 x 80min CDs. It's called an IDE hard drive. Specifically the Maxtor 300Gb.
Maybe you just want to see robotics in action?
What do you think?
I think you need to put forward at least a reason if you want anybody to listen.
You'd expect to find photo developing facilities in a journalism department, surely
used it grammatically what?
And to clear it up, the lightbulb does seem to be a british development.