The original story did indicate that the creatures came from portals from hell, but in actuality, you later learn that they came from space.
This is reflected even more in the Doom novels, as Flynn Taggert (the hero) learns that the creatures were created bt aliens to represent demons. The demons were significant in a sense that they were part of humanity's greatest fears.
Now, I am waiting for Wal-Mart to start carrying OS-less notebooks. The moment that they do is the moment that they get my money. I would be very impressed.
Most of these game stores (EB and Babbages Etc./Funcoland stores) don't accept returns on consoles *period*. They will do an exchange only if the unit is defective, and only it it falls within a very small timeframe, unless you purchase an ESP replacement guarantee. Why is this the way that it is? They can't resell an opened system as new. The retail store's only option is to sell it in as a used system, which puts them at a loss. This isn't just the rules of the store, but want the console manufacturers want the retail stores to do. This is why they won't take them back.
There is also most likely no television that will not work with your unit. This excuse will not work, and the salespeople know this. If you have a problem, they will sell you an RF adapter. If you need an RF adapter your prehistoric GE television probably shouldn't be playing a Gamecube anyway.
I agree about the SEGA sports games, but Visual Concepts didn't make the Virtua Tennis games.
The game was done by Hitmaker (AM3), makers of such recent games as Crazy Taxi and Confidential Mission.
About EA though; I don't really think that they are going to be quite as big in the coming years as many people may think. Their popularity was largely due to the Sony franchise, and with better sports games coming from SEGA, I am not disappointed in this deal with EA.
Great post. Where were you about 3 months ago when my friend swore up and down that his ATA133s were going to smoke my ATA100 drives? I tried to convince him to get a better drive, but he insisted on an ATA133. Maxtor makes good quality drives, but there are still plenty of faster ATA 100 solutions at the same price.
It is all about tricking the idiots into spending more money for the "bleeding edge components".
I specifically recall him saying nearly the exact same thing at a local book signing for "If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor." Given Raimi's excellent job on Spiderman, I can see his future being very good- toward the level of being able to direct just about any action film that he desires.:)
I get the same performance out of my IDE RAID array, and if you don't believe me, I can show you some benchmarks the prove that it busts read speeds by 15 MBps over the highest single SCSI drives. As for write speeds, a single SCSI drive is still 10-15 MBps faster. SCSI is still the fastest option when dealing with RAID, but the price is just not economical for home use. I am perfectly happy with my IDE RAID-0 setup. There isn't a single program that doesn't load instantaneously.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that Impress is pretty slick too. It doesn't have an issue with PowerPoint files at all, and the rendering is gorgeous. Even sound effects work great.
I don't have any problems with the speed of the software on a PII 550. I must agree with you though. The software is VERY impressive. I have been putting it through all sorts of tests at work. It handles DOC files like a dream. I have been able to open them, and resave them as DOC files that MSOffice seems to also like. I occasionally have problems with DOC files that use complex tables and such, but I really think that this would satisfy 90% of people that use it. Let's not forget to mention just how flexible it is with it's native formats. Every Excel file that I have opened has worked PERFECTLY. I have saved them after making changes to the file, and Excel can open them up perfectly. Once again, the native OpenOffice format is just as flexible as what Excel can be with it's own format, but the OpenOffice software has no problems with Excel files at all.
This is perhaps one of the greatest peices of Open Source software that I have seen for some time. I can guarantee that this is going to be big... Really big.
I have been doing some testing of OpenOffice.org 1.0, and it seems to be able to open and export Excel spreadsheets nearly perfectly. As a matter of fact, I have had absolutely no problems with it. It may be dependant upon certain variables, but it seems to have great filters in it for everything except for really elaborate.DOC files.
I can't say that I disagree. The Dreamcast was totally unappreciated, but it is pointless to convince someone of something different. Many people are just overly-obsessed with Sony products, and don't realize that there are better, less expensive products out there. JVC and Panasonic make televisions that are on par, or better than the Vega/Wega units.
Nothing can change the fact that in 2001 the best selling PS2 games were mostly Dreamcast ports. Fortunately, a lot of the excellent games like Skies of Arcadia are making their way to the PS2 to finally be appreciated by the folks that thought that the PS2 was the end-all-be-all in gaming.
And just why doesn't it compare to the PS2? And don't give me any crap on the "Emotion Engine", because we all know that the hardware is still a load of crap.
The funny thing about it that in terms of functionality, the PS2 is less capable than the 4 year old Dreamcast, with the *only* exception being its DVD playback capability.
Oh well. I will probably still be playing my Dreamcast games before I ever decide to buy a PS3.
As a life-ling RPG player, you sure do limit yourself to one game machine.
Some other greats include Skies of Arcadia, Fallout/2, Arc the Lad Collection, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force 3, Breath of Fire series, The old school Final Fantasy games, and Golden Sun. Really, most of those are some of the best games around, but I must agree- I love Xenogears. We also must not forger about all of the good old school PC RPGs, if you can dig those.
PowerVR has been making an attempt to supply closed source drivers to the Linux community. I had some problems with the first beta drivers, but they worked and were accellerated. I havne't tried the beta 2 drivers yet, but they are supposed to glue to just about any modern kernel.
There are still exceptions... I have a friend who has owned AMD products over the last few years, yet he claims that Intel products are more reliable (because his boss tells him that it is true, and they use them in their business.) The truth is that the ignorant folks know only of a "Pentium" name, a patented term. They sell them because they are familiar.
I personally love AMD. Have have never had any stability problems with their CPUs. In fact, AMD and Cyrix have always been more reliable products for my uses. I will buy whatever is priced the best. If the P4s were cheaper than Athlons then I would buy the Intel product, and vice-versa.
The AMD products are more modern CPUs in design; efficent and more RISK-like in design. Until Intel can start making better products, that won't change. SSE-2 is the only benefit to the Intel CPUs, and hardly anything can make use of it. But when it is used, it drastically enhances performance.
My next machine, however, will probably not be X86 based at all.
Candi: Oh, give it to me, you big stud! Rodgers: I'm not a stud! Candi: Huh? Rodgers: I am not a stud! I'm... [takes off his mask to reveal Clark] Clark:...JIZZ MASTER ZERO!
Having used Lycoris, I can say that it is an excellent choice as a desktop OS. Everything works very nicely right out of the box. Installation is easy. There is only one of each type of program. The interface is clean. Configuration is totally easy.
Let me first say that I am an experienced user of Mandrake, Red Hat, Suse, and Slackware. This is the best choice in a lean simple-to-use distibution. It doesn't have all of the extra crap that you see on a Suse or Red Hat distribution, but it is simple to install for novice users, unlike Slack.
If you want to compile programs from sources, it is as simple as downloading and burning a 150 MB developer's ISO (there aren't 3 disks as the review states). The faq tells you how to install all of the delevoper's RPMS.
This is totally ideal for novice Linux users or businesses. Even Wine works right out of the box. I was totally impressed with this and as a result I ordered a retail copy even though it is the same as the download edition.
But why am I not using it on my main computer? I missed playing Metal of Honor: Allied Assult. I aim to buy a laptop soon, and I will be using Lycoris on that. It is an excellent solution, and a well-thought peice of software. I expect that the next release will be even better.
My only real complaint is the partitioning wizard. I didn't particularly like the way that it was structured in comparision to Mandrake's graphical wizard, or Slackware's fisk based setup. It just seemed to clunky (as it normally does on a Caldera install) and the best option is to just let it do a default partition setup.
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Does it have a Creative Labs logo on it?
This may be part of the problem.
The original story did indicate that the creatures came from portals from hell, but in actuality, you later learn that they came from space.
This is reflected even more in the Doom novels, as Flynn Taggert (the hero) learns that the creatures were created bt aliens to represent demons. The demons were significant in a sense that they were part of humanity's greatest fears.
Now, I am waiting for Wal-Mart to start carrying OS-less notebooks. The moment that they do is the moment that they get my money. I would be very impressed.
Most of these game stores (EB and Babbages Etc./Funcoland stores) don't accept returns on consoles *period*. They will do an exchange only if the unit is defective, and only it it falls within a very small timeframe, unless you purchase an ESP replacement guarantee. Why is this the way that it is? They can't resell an opened system as new. The retail store's only option is to sell it in as a used system, which puts them at a loss. This isn't just the rules of the store, but want the console manufacturers want the retail stores to do. This is why they won't take them back.
There is also most likely no television that will not work with your unit. This excuse will not work, and the salespeople know this. If you have a problem, they will sell you an RF adapter. If you need an RF adapter your prehistoric GE television probably shouldn't be playing a Gamecube anyway.
This sums it up very well:
Want a refund on your Gamecube?
Now, there were a few stores that were offering refunds, but only if you bought it within a day or two of the recent price drops.
I agree about the SEGA sports games, but Visual Concepts didn't make the Virtua Tennis games.
The game was done by Hitmaker (AM3), makers of such recent games as Crazy Taxi and Confidential Mission.
About EA though; I don't really think that they are going to be quite as big in the coming years as many people may think. Their popularity was largely due to the Sony franchise, and with better sports games coming from SEGA, I am not disappointed in this deal with EA.
60-70 MB per sec? Who makes an IDE drive that fast? The fastest that I have seen was less than 50 MB per sec.
Great post. Where were you about 3 months ago when my friend swore up and down that his ATA133s were going to smoke my ATA100 drives? I tried to convince him to get a better drive, but he insisted on an ATA133. Maxtor makes good quality drives, but there are still plenty of faster ATA 100 solutions at the same price.
It is all about tricking the idiots into spending more money for the "bleeding edge components".
Which is exactly why my ATA100 drives are faster at burst reading than my friend's ATA133 drives. His drives have a minor advantage at writing though.
No amount of explanation could convince him that ATA133 drives weren't any faster than ATA100 drives. He was blinded by the numbers.
I specifically recall him saying nearly the exact same thing at a local book signing for "If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor." Given Raimi's excellent job on Spiderman, I can see his future being very good- toward the level of being able to direct just about any action film that he desires. :)
Maybe we just don't watch much television? I know that I didn't see any advertising.
Nope. It's all fast. That may have something to do with my machine having a gig of RAM though. :)
I get the same performance out of my IDE RAID array, and if you don't believe me, I can show you some benchmarks the prove that it busts read speeds by 15 MBps over the highest single SCSI drives. As for write speeds, a single SCSI drive is still 10-15 MBps faster. SCSI is still the fastest option when dealing with RAID, but the price is just not economical for home use. I am perfectly happy with my IDE RAID-0 setup. There isn't a single program that doesn't load instantaneously.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that Impress is pretty slick too. It doesn't have an issue with PowerPoint files at all, and the rendering is gorgeous. Even sound effects work great.
I don't have any problems with the speed of the software on a PII 550. I must agree with you though. The software is VERY impressive. I have been putting it through all sorts of tests at work. It handles DOC files like a dream. I have been able to open them, and resave them as DOC files that MSOffice seems to also like. I occasionally have problems with DOC files that use complex tables and such, but I really think that this would satisfy 90% of people that use it. Let's not forget to mention just how flexible it is with it's native formats. Every Excel file that I have opened has worked PERFECTLY. I have saved them after making changes to the file, and Excel can open them up perfectly. Once again, the native OpenOffice format is just as flexible as what Excel can be with it's own format, but the OpenOffice software has no problems with Excel files at all.
This is perhaps one of the greatest peices of Open Source software that I have seen for some time. I can guarantee that this is going to be big... Really big.
I have been doing some testing of OpenOffice.org 1.0, and it seems to be able to open and export Excel spreadsheets nearly perfectly. As a matter of fact, I have had absolutely no problems with it. It may be dependant upon certain variables, but it seems to have great filters in it for everything except for really elaborate .DOC files.
I urge everyone to give it a shot.
I can't say that I disagree. The Dreamcast was totally unappreciated, but it is pointless to convince someone of something different. Many people are just overly-obsessed with Sony products, and don't realize that there are better, less expensive products out there. JVC and Panasonic make televisions that are on par, or better than the Vega/Wega units.
Nothing can change the fact that in 2001 the best selling PS2 games were mostly Dreamcast ports. Fortunately, a lot of the excellent games like Skies of Arcadia are making their way to the PS2 to finally be appreciated by the folks that thought that the PS2 was the end-all-be-all in gaming.
And just why doesn't it compare to the PS2? And don't give me any crap on the "Emotion Engine", because we all know that the hardware is still a load of crap.
The funny thing about it that in terms of functionality, the PS2 is less capable than the 4 year old Dreamcast, with the *only* exception being its DVD playback capability.
Oh well. I will probably still be playing my Dreamcast games before I ever decide to buy a PS3.
As a life-ling RPG player, you sure do limit yourself to one game machine.
Some other greats include Skies of Arcadia, Fallout/2, Arc the Lad Collection, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force 3, Breath of Fire series, The old school Final Fantasy games, and Golden Sun. Really, most of those are some of the best games around, but I must agree- I love Xenogears. We also must not forger about all of the good old school PC RPGs, if you can dig those.
PowerVR has been making an attempt to supply closed source drivers to the Linux community. I had some problems with the first beta drivers, but they worked and were accellerated. I havne't tried the beta 2 drivers yet, but they are supposed to glue to just about any modern kernel.
Slashdot still won't post any PowerVR related articles that I write.
There are still exceptions... I have a friend who has owned AMD products over the last few years, yet he claims that Intel products are more reliable (because his boss tells him that it is true, and they use them in their business.) The truth is that the ignorant folks know only of a "Pentium" name, a patented term. They sell them because they are familiar.
I personally love AMD. Have have never had any stability problems with their CPUs. In fact, AMD and Cyrix have always been more reliable products for my uses. I will buy whatever is priced the best. If the P4s were cheaper than Athlons then I would buy the Intel product, and vice-versa.
The AMD products are more modern CPUs in design; efficent and more RISK-like in design. Until Intel can start making better products, that won't change. SSE-2 is the only benefit to the Intel CPUs, and hardly anything can make use of it. But when it is used, it drastically enhances performance.
My next machine, however, will probably not be X86 based at all.
Candi: Oh, give it to me, you big stud! ...JIZZ MASTER ZERO!
Rodgers: I'm not a stud!
Candi: Huh?
Rodgers: I am not a stud! I'm...
[takes off his mask to reveal Clark]
Clark:
Having used Lycoris, I can say that it is an excellent choice as a desktop OS. Everything works very nicely right out of the box. Installation is easy. There is only one of each type of program. The interface is clean. Configuration is totally easy.
Let me first say that I am an experienced user of Mandrake, Red Hat, Suse, and Slackware. This is the best choice in a lean simple-to-use distibution. It doesn't have all of the extra crap that you see on a Suse or Red Hat distribution, but it is simple to install for novice users, unlike Slack.
If you want to compile programs from sources, it is as simple as downloading and burning a 150 MB developer's ISO (there aren't 3 disks as the review states). The faq tells you how to install all of the delevoper's RPMS.
This is totally ideal for novice Linux users or businesses. Even Wine works right out of the box. I was totally impressed with this and as a result I ordered a retail copy even though it is the same as the download edition.
But why am I not using it on my main computer? I missed playing Metal of Honor: Allied Assult. I aim to buy a laptop soon, and I will be using Lycoris on that. It is an excellent solution, and a well-thought peice of software. I expect that the next release will be even better.
My only real complaint is the partitioning wizard. I didn't particularly like the way that it was structured in comparision to Mandrake's graphical wizard, or Slackware's fisk based setup. It just seemed to clunky (as it normally does on a Caldera install) and the best option is to just let it do a default partition setup.
Don't forget that it is going to contain Digital Rights Management. Say bye bye to your illegal MP3s.