I've played the demo for a couple of hours. The Stalingrad map is a little too closed in for my liking, and I just cant WAIT to try out the Omaha Beach map.
My biggest beef with the RtCW MP test was that the 'storm the beach' was just so..narrow. From the screenshots of MOH's Omaha map, this wont be an issue, and hooboy am I looking forward to that. Hopefully the single player game is engaging as well.
And a seriously positive thumbs up for the player models. I love that they arent just going to be generic GI's and Nazis.
I work for at a dealer for a national cell carrier here in Canada (Telus). We use CDMA. All of our digital phones have had the capacity for two way text messages for well over a year. The network just hasnt implemented it. One way (PC to Phone) SMS has worked fine for almost two years.
I pay 15 dollars per month for web access, but it is UNLIMITED usage and I can use AIM for chatting to all my friends that I con into installing AIM so I am not so bored on the transit ride home. It's great. I just wish Nokia had a plug in keyboard for my 6185.
Bell Canada, Telus, and Rogers-AT&T have actually recently made an agreement to allow full two way text messaging across their networks. So..Canada at least isnt 8 years behind.
I ran a KT133 Motherboard for well over a year. Other than the need for a BIOS update within a week of installing the board, I have never had a problem with it. Never. And I was running an old version of the 4 in 1's. I was also using a Sound Blaster Live! the whole time and never had a speck of trouble with it, either.
All in all, the VIA solution was just as stable for me as my BX mobo with a PII 350.
I recently upgraded to the AMD 761/VIA motherboard, and even without an OS reinstall, it is stable and reliabe.
I suspect those having a great deal of problems are overclockers who are pushing the PCI or AGP bus way out of spec, or those not even installing the drivers.
IANAAZ (I Am Not An AMD Zealot). If at some point Intel exceeds the price/performance ratio that AMD currently offers, I will switch back. But until then, I will support AMD products.
The switch from car names happened when the auto manufacturers started threatening to sue.
Then they switched to World War II fighter names (Spitfire/Duron) When someone pointed out that this wasn't politically correct for a company with a big FAB in Dresden (which the allies firebombed in WWII), they switched to horses.
This was probably one of the most disapointing books I have ever read!
After the sheer genius of the Neuromancer Trilogy, I expected this book to be as wonderful and thought provoking. Instead I found it dull and relatively uninspired. It just left me feeling...
I bought it in hardcover on the day our local bookstore received it, and felt cheated. However, that WAS on it's publication way back when...
Maybe I should dig it out and give it another try..
I've always heard about this problem, but I find it strange that I have been running my MSI K7 Master (AMD/VIA Hybrid) with an SB Live for two weeks now and havent had a single problem with the PCI bus.
I think the point was to show that real time animation of the quality presented in the FF Movie is almost at hand.
I had a friend in the early 90's in the computer animation field who was wowed when his first 486 with an astounding 8mb of RAM could render a full frame of a 640x480 scene in under an hour or so. So I can imagine that wherever he is now, he's happier than can be.
And yeah, if they wanted to demo some huge frame rate, they could dump the textures to a lower quality..but then it wouldnt be all that impressive now, would it?
At four tenths of a second per frame, you get a frame per second rate of 2.5fps, not.4fps. Geeze guys...try a little harder next time!
What I'd like to know is what hardware is sitting around the Quadro? How many and what type of processors, how much RAM. I mean, it's all well and good to talk about how great Quadro is, but whats the rest of the system
Heh, sort of reminds me of the bad old days when AMD would quote system cpomparisons using twice as much RAM as the Intel system, to artificially inflate their scores.
Actually, Sim City has a goal. Make your city big and so it works.
But we are talking about first person shooters here. And while it might be fun for a few minutes to wander around pushing buttons and killing things, I'd quickly go back to Max Payne.
Perhaps a better way of stating the idea he MAY have meant would be to have an open ended plot that lets you work towards the overall goal at your own pace and in your own way. But I don't think that's what he meant.
I've seen some inane comments, but this has to take the cake.
Isnt the point of a game to provide you with challenges and a goal? I know that's why I play games. A good example is Max Payne. It has excellent game mechanics, and a phenomenal story. And I was riveted to it for a week while I worked my way through the various levels. Very linear, and very much plot driven. And also great fun.
Every single person has a non linear forst person adventure, with no preset story that they can participate in every day. It's called life. Go live it if you want to work through something non linear. For me though, I want my games to entertain me. And in the case of FPS games, I cant see one being entertaining in a single player environment without an engaging and interesting storyline.
A lot of people slam slackware for it's (relatively) difficult installation.
Thing is, I learned more about how Linux works, and what is needed and not needed for an installation to work by installing Slackware than I ever have by installing Mandrake or Redhat.
If you want Linux up and running in a quick and dirty way, go for RH or Mandrake. If you dont mind taking a little bit of extra time, and getting a distro that you can learn a lot with, go for Slack.
You wont hear me disagree with you on Linux being a more stable and secure OS (*cough*Code Red*cough*)
Thing is, Linux is still really in it's infancy as a gaming platform. And while I really wish that I could dump Windows for good, so long as the games that I play only work in Windows, it'll have a place on my system.
So here's to Loki porting more and more gameS, and hopefully there will be a time when Linux games release along with the Win32 versions. Then I can stick to Linux partitions.
But then again, you are likely the sort that would look at a Monet and say 'Bah, it's just a crappy old painting! Who in their right mind would want that!'
The thing is that in our digital culture, someone SHOULD be preserving the 'old junk' Because when that stuff disappears, it's GONE. And nothing can bring it back. Hell, I read somewhere that the US government has volumes and volumes of data from the late eighties that is useless because the hardware to read the floppies has died and there is no way to fix it. What wil we leave for our great grandchildren to help them understand us? At this rate, very little.
Unless of course it sucks as badly as Pocket PC/CE *evil grin*
But the PS2 is a console, and what you can do with it can be acomplished with cheaper PC Hardware. I guess if your idea of fun is to spend a lot of cash just so you can say you did it..then go for it.
As for PDA's, if they made a better cursor control on the Ipaq I'd buy one in a second. That way I could play all my favourite's with MAME.
Why on earth would anyone buy a PS2, plus the Linux kit? You can cobble together a PC out of used parts that will perform at LEAST as well as the PS2 linux box for a lot less. And if you arent already technically proficient with PC hardware, building a machine will help you learn those skills rather than just plugging together the PS2 black boxes.
Just because something can be doen, doesn't mean that it makes sense to do it.
Or is this one of the He who has the most toys wins' sort of things? Sometimes it makes me want to cry...
I may be the only person to admit it, but I genuinely hope that Enterprise doesn't stink and that I can enjoy it.
I for one like Scott Bakula, and think that if he does it right he could be a decent captain. But I suppose we wont really know until this fall. Perhaps Berman wont curse this show like he did Voyager. Maybe the Great Brd will reach out from the grave and infuse Enterprise with something more than Berman gave Voyager. And here's hoping that the Borg never turn up! I am all for a show that gives us more Tellarites, Andorians, and Orions, and less Borg and Holodeck fantasy.
Thank heavens for Space. At least not having an UPN affiliate won't mean htat I have to wait a year for Enterprise.
The US Government can afford to invest in some harebrained super high altitude bomber, but htey cant invest the money required for a crew return vehicle for the ISS.
Heaven help us!
Set the ISS up so it's just an icon and cantget any real work done by not provding a way to have a crew larger than three, but pour money into building a piece of insane war hardware. What hte heck is Shrub thinking???
There was a time where information was passed along from generation to generation orally. As systematic forms of writing came about, we began to record things in a form that could be passed on far more accurately than oral traditions allowed for. But even then, writing was actually only for the rich or for the priests. Few 'common' men ever saw a book, let alone possed the skills to read it. The production of manuscripts was a long and tedious process, meaning books were relatively rare.
That all changed when the mechanical printing press came to be. Written word became cheap, and over the next several hundred years, everyone had access to written materials and literacy flourished.
Fast forward to today. We have a several century long ethic that information should be 'free' That beyond the basic outlay for a book, we should be able to pass information around and share it in relative ease. And this is something that I doubt anyone could argue. After all, when it is easy and inexpensive to access information, it is harder to be controlled by someone who would manipulate what you see.
The fact is that the vast majority of people see the internet as a very ephemeral thing. Unlike a book, the words we see here disappear when the power goes off, unless we save a copy or print it. And so there is a great resistance to the concept of paying for something so ephemeral.
However, the fact is that while we all pay for our end of the information tranfer, there is someone at the other end who needs to pay. While information wants to be free, bandwidth costs. The problem is educating people to realize that many of the sites they love and frequent wouldnt exist without an investment by someone in time and money.
Well, off my soap box...
The long and the short of it is that there does need to be a viable payment system for content, so that our favourite sites dont just go away. The problem is that no one has come up with a way to do that yet. Perhaps a subscription model like most major magazines offer, managed in much the same way. Just as long as we dont end up with the virtual equivalent of drop cards.
Hey, Time Enough for Love wasnt a bad book. But it might be the last original thing he did. After thatm he degenerated into trying to tie every single book he ever wrote into one universe (And that started in 'The Number of the Beast'. The last chapter title 'L'envoi' should be excised along with ever novel published after that date)
Asimov also proved that Sci FI authors have some perverse need to link their best works. Did the R Daneel Olivaw/Lije Bailey stories REALLY need to be tied to Foundation? I thought not
As far as gems, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a wonderful bit of pulp sci fi, and is one of the best Sci Fi novels of all time.
Oh yes! There was a short made in 99 with Zienna Merton (Sandra Benes) where she said they were evacuating Alpha, but that the moon would swing past the planet in 25 years, and they might try to reinhabit the base at that point and return to Earth.
So there's a great way to start a new series with new actors.
Have you gotten the first two DVD box sets? It was like being rewound into the 70's and my childhood. I loved it!
And to the other responder, NicK Tate (Alan Carter) was Australian, but this was a British production.
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You obviously weren't in class the day they taught hte lesson that knowledge is power.
Does this stuff have a great deal of relevance to your gigahertz desktop screamer? Not really. But it will give you an understanding of how that box got onto your desk, and for the price it did. It is funny to me that people who often dont have a clue how the things actually work are disdainful of reading and learning about the design and engineering behind the first computers.
To top it all off, I'd much rather have a dozen stories about old computing platforms than have to read another Jon Katz movie review.
There is something that seems to be missing these days, not only in the high technology industries, but almost any industry...
Customer Service.
Most companies dont give a rats ass about you after they have your money in their grubby hands. They dont want to spend the money required to maintain proper support for their products. They dont want to spend the money required to train and retain the people who can take care of their customers. And in the end, those affected the most are the users who need the support the most.
So some seriously mad props to Cisco for having the foresight to maintain and train a workforce that can help out their customers in a timely and efficient manner. It would be a much better world if more corporations got the clue that you already have.
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I guess the movie theaters in Canada are better.
No audio problems at all.
Great movie!!!
I've played the demo for a couple of hours. The Stalingrad map is a little too closed in for my liking, and I just cant WAIT to try out the Omaha Beach map.
My biggest beef with the RtCW MP test was that the 'storm the beach' was just so..narrow. From the screenshots of MOH's Omaha map, this wont be an issue, and hooboy am I looking forward to that. Hopefully the single player game is engaging as well.
And a seriously positive thumbs up for the player models. I love that they arent just going to be generic GI's and Nazis.
I work for at a dealer for a national cell carrier here in Canada (Telus). We use CDMA. All of our digital phones have had the capacity for two way text messages for well over a year. The network just hasnt implemented it. One way (PC to Phone) SMS has worked fine for almost two years.
I pay 15 dollars per month for web access, but it is UNLIMITED usage and I can use AIM for chatting to all my friends that I con into installing AIM so I am not so bored on the transit ride home. It's great. I just wish Nokia had a plug in keyboard for my 6185.
Bell Canada, Telus, and Rogers-AT&T have actually recently made an agreement to allow full two way text messaging across their networks. So..Canada at least isnt 8 years behind.
I ran a KT133 Motherboard for well over a year. Other than the need for a BIOS update within a week of installing the board, I have never had a problem with it. Never. And I was running an old version of the 4 in 1's. I was also using a Sound Blaster Live! the whole time and never had a speck of trouble with it, either.
All in all, the VIA solution was just as stable for me as my BX mobo with a PII 350.
I recently upgraded to the AMD 761/VIA motherboard, and even without an OS reinstall, it is stable and reliabe.
I suspect those having a great deal of problems are overclockers who are pushing the PCI or AGP bus way out of spec, or those not even installing the drivers.
IANAAZ (I Am Not An AMD Zealot). If at some point Intel exceeds the price/performance ratio that AMD currently offers, I will switch back. But until then, I will support AMD products.
The switch from car names happened when the auto manufacturers started threatening to sue.
Then they switched to World War II fighter names (Spitfire/Duron) When someone pointed out that this wasn't politically correct for a company with a big FAB in Dresden (which the allies firebombed in WWII), they switched to horses.
Pretty hard to offend anyone that way.
This was probably one of the most disapointing books I have ever read!
After the sheer genius of the Neuromancer Trilogy, I expected this book to be as wonderful and thought provoking. Instead I found it dull and relatively uninspired. It just left me feeling...
I bought it in hardcover on the day our local bookstore received it, and felt cheated. However, that WAS on it's publication way back when...
Maybe I should dig it out and give it another try..
I've always heard about this problem, but I find it strange that I have been running my MSI K7 Master (AMD/VIA Hybrid) with an SB Live for two weeks now and havent had a single problem with the PCI bus.
I think the point was to show that real time animation of the quality presented in the FF Movie is almost at hand.
I had a friend in the early 90's in the computer animation field who was wowed when his first 486 with an astounding 8mb of RAM could render a full frame of a 640x480 scene in under an hour or so. So I can imagine that wherever he is now, he's happier than can be.
And yeah, if they wanted to demo some huge frame rate, they could dump the textures to a lower quality..but then it wouldnt be all that impressive now, would it?
At four tenths of a second per frame, you get a frame per second rate of 2.5fps, not .4fps. Geeze guys...try a little harder next time!
What I'd like to know is what hardware is sitting around the Quadro? How many and what type of processors, how much RAM. I mean, it's all well and good to talk about how great Quadro is, but whats the rest of the system
Heh, sort of reminds me of the bad old days when AMD would quote system cpomparisons using twice as much RAM as the Intel system, to artificially inflate their scores.
Actually, Sim City has a goal. Make your city big and so it works.
But we are talking about first person shooters here. And while it might be fun for a few minutes to wander around pushing buttons and killing things, I'd quickly go back to Max Payne.
Perhaps a better way of stating the idea he MAY have meant would be to have an open ended plot that lets you work towards the overall goal at your own pace and in your own way. But I don't think that's what he meant.
I've seen some inane comments, but this has to take the cake.
Isnt the point of a game to provide you with challenges and a goal? I know that's why I play games. A good example is Max Payne. It has excellent game mechanics, and a phenomenal story. And I was riveted to it for a week while I worked my way through the various levels. Very linear, and very much plot driven. And also great fun.
Every single person has a non linear forst person adventure, with no preset story that they can participate in every day. It's called life. Go live it if you want to work through something non linear. For me though, I want my games to entertain me. And in the case of FPS games, I cant see one being entertaining in a single player environment without an engaging and interesting storyline.
A lot of people slam slackware for it's (relatively) difficult installation.
Thing is, I learned more about how Linux works, and what is needed and not needed for an installation to work by installing Slackware than I ever have by installing Mandrake or Redhat.
If you want Linux up and running in a quick and dirty way, go for RH or Mandrake. If you dont mind taking a little bit of extra time, and getting a distro that you can learn a lot with, go for Slack.
You wont hear me disagree with you on Linux being a more stable and secure OS (*cough*Code Red*cough*)
Thing is, Linux is still really in it's infancy as a gaming platform. And while I really wish that I could dump Windows for good, so long as the games that I play only work in Windows, it'll have a place on my system.
So here's to Loki porting more and more gameS, and hopefully there will be a time when Linux games release along with the Win32 versions. Then I can stick to Linux partitions.
Actually, old computers are becoming vogue.
But then again, you are likely the sort that would look at a Monet and say 'Bah, it's just a crappy old painting! Who in their right mind would want that!'
The thing is that in our digital culture, someone SHOULD be preserving the 'old junk' Because when that stuff disappears, it's GONE. And nothing can bring it back. Hell, I read somewhere that the US government has volumes and volumes of data from the late eighties that is useless because the hardware to read the floppies has died and there is no way to fix it. What wil we leave for our great grandchildren to help them understand us? At this rate, very little.
Sorry for the rant...
See, I can see the sense of a Linux based PDA.
Unless of course it sucks as badly as Pocket PC/CE *evil grin*
But the PS2 is a console, and what you can do with it can be acomplished with cheaper PC Hardware. I guess if your idea of fun is to spend a lot of cash just so you can say you did it..then go for it.
As for PDA's, if they made a better cursor control on the Ipaq I'd buy one in a second. That way I could play all my favourite's with MAME.
All right...
Why on earth would anyone buy a PS2, plus the Linux kit? You can cobble together a PC out of used parts that will perform at LEAST as well as the PS2 linux box for a lot less. And if you arent already technically proficient with PC hardware, building a machine will help you learn those skills rather than just plugging together the PS2 black boxes.
Just because something can be doen, doesn't mean that it makes sense to do it.
Or is this one of the He who has the most toys wins' sort of things? Sometimes it makes me want to cry...
Some days, I feel just like Batman.
Cell Phone, AlphaNumeric Pager, Cordless Phone, Palm, MP3 Player.
I call it my Utility Belt when I am all decked out. Luckily I drop the cordless phone when I leave work.
I may be the only person to admit it, but I genuinely hope that Enterprise doesn't stink and that I can enjoy it.
I for one like Scott Bakula, and think that if he does it right he could be a decent captain. But I suppose we wont really know until this fall. Perhaps Berman wont curse this show like he did Voyager. Maybe the Great Brd will reach out from the grave and infuse Enterprise with something more than Berman gave Voyager. And here's hoping that the Borg never turn up! I am all for a show that gives us more Tellarites, Andorians, and Orions, and less Borg and Holodeck fantasy.
Thank heavens for Space. At least not having an UPN affiliate won't mean htat I have to wait a year for Enterprise.
The US Government can afford to invest in some harebrained super high altitude bomber, but htey cant invest the money required for a crew return vehicle for the ISS.
Heaven help us!
Set the ISS up so it's just an icon and cantget any real work done by not provding a way to have a crew larger than three, but pour money into building a piece of insane war hardware. What hte heck is Shrub thinking???
From a people that venerate Jerry Lewis...
A Linux IPO.
Be afraid...be very very afraid!!
There was a time where information was passed along from generation to generation orally. As systematic forms of writing came about, we began to record things in a form that could be passed on far more accurately than oral traditions allowed for. But even then, writing was actually only for the rich or for the priests. Few 'common' men ever saw a book, let alone possed the skills to read it. The production of manuscripts was a long and tedious process, meaning books were relatively rare.
That all changed when the mechanical printing press came to be. Written word became cheap, and over the next several hundred years, everyone had access to written materials and literacy flourished.
Fast forward to today. We have a several century long ethic that information should be 'free' That beyond the basic outlay for a book, we should be able to pass information around and share it in relative ease. And this is something that I doubt anyone could argue. After all, when it is easy and inexpensive to access information, it is harder to be controlled by someone who would manipulate what you see.
The fact is that the vast majority of people see the internet as a very ephemeral thing. Unlike a book, the words we see here disappear when the power goes off, unless we save a copy or print it. And so there is a great resistance to the concept of paying for something so ephemeral.
However, the fact is that while we all pay for our end of the information tranfer, there is someone at the other end who needs to pay. While information wants to be free, bandwidth costs. The problem is educating people to realize that many of the sites they love and frequent wouldnt exist without an investment by someone in time and money.
Well, off my soap box...
The long and the short of it is that there does need to be a viable payment system for content, so that our favourite sites dont just go away. The problem is that no one has come up with a way to do that yet. Perhaps a subscription model like most major magazines offer, managed in much the same way. Just as long as we dont end up with the virtual equivalent of drop cards.
Hey, Time Enough for Love wasnt a bad book. But it might be the last original thing he did. After thatm he degenerated into trying to tie every single book he ever wrote into one universe (And that started in 'The Number of the Beast'. The last chapter title 'L'envoi' should be excised along with ever novel published after that date)
Asimov also proved that Sci FI authors have some perverse need to link their best works. Did the R Daneel Olivaw/Lije Bailey stories REALLY need to be tied to Foundation? I thought not
As far as gems, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a wonderful bit of pulp sci fi, and is one of the best Sci Fi novels of all time.
Oh yes! There was a short made in 99 with Zienna Merton (Sandra Benes) where she said they were evacuating Alpha, but that the moon would swing past the planet in 25 years, and they might try to reinhabit the base at that point and return to Earth.
So there's a great way to start a new series with new actors.
Have you gotten the first two DVD box sets? It was like being rewound into the 70's and my childhood. I loved it!
And to the other responder, NicK Tate (Alan Carter) was Australian, but this was a British production.
You obviously weren't in class the day they taught hte lesson that knowledge is power.
Does this stuff have a great deal of relevance to your gigahertz desktop screamer? Not really. But it will give you an understanding of how that box got onto your desk, and for the price it did. It is funny to me that people who often dont have a clue how the things actually work are disdainful of reading and learning about the design and engineering behind the first computers.
To top it all off, I'd much rather have a dozen stories about old computing platforms than have to read another Jon Katz movie review.
There is something that seems to be missing these days, not only in the high technology industries, but almost any industry...
Customer Service.
Most companies dont give a rats ass about you after they have your money in their grubby hands. They dont want to spend the money required to maintain proper support for their products. They dont want to spend the money required to train and retain the people who can take care of their customers. And in the end, those affected the most are the users who need the support the most.
So some seriously mad props to Cisco for having the foresight to maintain and train a workforce that can help out their customers in a timely and efficient manner. It would be a much better world if more corporations got the clue that you already have.