Someday, your PC will catch up to the graphics the XBox and the GameCube can toss out. Someday.
This isn't a troll, just pointing out the obvious fact that they are closed systems. Closed systems = what? The ability to code RIGHT ON THE METAL. No need to futz around with a myriad of hardware configurations, a myriad of drivers, and so forth. All the systems are the same. Thus, a much higher level of optimization can be achieved. Fancy that!
You say UT2k3 and Doom3? Well.. Unreal Championship is coming to XBox.. as is Doom3. Doom3 will even run BETTER on the XBox than your top-end rig. Why? Again, excellent optimization. Fun, eh?
PCs still have a very high level of usefulness, though, in that game modding is impossible on the consoles. Which is too bad, once mods are feasible, there's no real reason to run a PC for gaming. A stable platform where any game for it will RUN, no hours of driver madness, complete with mod goodness for the online gaming.. Perfection.
In actuality, it's NOT nvidia-only. It's just that nvidia has the ONLY drivers available which actually support the functions UT2k3 requires. PowerVR's Beta3 linux drivers would support the game, however, there's some fatal bugs left, and the game crashes. Pity.
Past that, you're pretty well screwed. ATI doesn't care enough to ship decent Linux drivers, or provide proper documentation to the DRI project in order to get drivers. S3TC, which UT2k3 uses extensively, is completely unsupported by all ATI linux drivers.
Though I am hearing that they're fixing up the FireGL 8800 driver (which currently sucks) to provide better support for the 8500, and run UT2k3.
This may have been posted already, i haven't spent any time looking for it, but why not get all the ISPs in on the deal for a large-scale digital music distribution system? A few dollars extra(maybe $5) on your monthly access fee, and you have access to the authorized p2p system that runs - using some sort of key pair system to keep those that aren't subscribed out - complete with the music industry maintaining fat connections to the system with the latest pop crap that they like to shovel out, and everything else. There'd still be the problem of bad encodes and misnamed files, unfortunately, but it would work.
' But go to MP3.com and you will find a ton of bands who made $6 last month in royalties for the priviledge of allowing people to download their music for free.'
Go to MP3.com, as I have frequently in the past, and been diluged with the same label garbage prevalent damn well everywhere else I go to get music. The good free bands and drowned out by whichever company that owns MP3.com pimping their own signed, derivative garbage out of every orifice. While there's more than a mountain of shitty music on mp3.com, there used to be real talent there; finding it now is akin to trying to find a specific atom in an asteroid field, using only a microscope.
Is there even a purpose to doing this? The people who would normally be buying import stuff will just buy a $5 converter to use the peripherals they lock out, and the people who don't import controllers won't have a problem, since it doesn't affect them.
Actually, Cyrix released their 150MHz chip as the PR200+.
I know, I bought one..
And I can see the reasoning behind this all too well.. And I can laugh as Intel tries to market a cpu with a weaker FPU than the AMD K6-2.. We all know how well 3dnow! worked for the k6-2, right?
That's bullshit.
Saying that you have to look at the ads is saying that a PPV channel has the right to play ads for you after you've paid to watch. I've paid for my internet, they have no right to send anything down the pipe I don't want to see - and I enforce that.
Or did it say somewhere in TOS that Kirk's Enterprise was the first starship to have two warp nacells instead of the standard four..
And if this is so, why is this primitive Enterprise driving around with two?
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Someday, your PC will catch up to the graphics the XBox and the GameCube can toss out. Someday.
This isn't a troll, just pointing out the obvious fact that they are closed systems. Closed systems = what? The ability to code RIGHT ON THE METAL. No need to futz around with a myriad of hardware configurations, a myriad of drivers, and so forth. All the systems are the same. Thus, a much higher level of optimization can be achieved. Fancy that!
You say UT2k3 and Doom3? Well.. Unreal Championship is coming to XBox.. as is Doom3. Doom3 will even run BETTER on the XBox than your top-end rig. Why? Again, excellent optimization. Fun, eh?
PCs still have a very high level of usefulness, though, in that game modding is impossible on the consoles. Which is too bad, once mods are feasible, there's no real reason to run a PC for gaming. A stable platform where any game for it will RUN, no hours of driver madness, complete with mod goodness for the online gaming.. Perfection.
In actuality, it's NOT nvidia-only. It's just that nvidia has the ONLY drivers available which actually support the functions UT2k3 requires. PowerVR's Beta3 linux drivers would support the game, however, there's some fatal bugs left, and the game crashes. Pity.
Past that, you're pretty well screwed. ATI doesn't care enough to ship decent Linux drivers, or provide proper documentation to the DRI project in order to get drivers. S3TC, which UT2k3 uses extensively, is completely unsupported by all ATI linux drivers.
Though I am hearing that they're fixing up the FireGL 8800 driver (which currently sucks) to provide better support for the 8500, and run UT2k3.
This may have been posted already, i haven't spent any time looking for it, but why not get all the ISPs in on the deal for a large-scale digital music distribution system? A few dollars extra(maybe $5) on your monthly access fee, and you have access to the authorized p2p system that runs - using some sort of key pair system to keep those that aren't subscribed out - complete with the music industry maintaining fat connections to the system with the latest pop crap that they like to shovel out, and everything else. There'd still be the problem of bad encodes and misnamed files, unfortunately, but it would work.
No, he meant 32-bit.
And that's what makes it funny.
' But go to MP3.com and you will find a ton of bands who made $6 last month in royalties for the priviledge of allowing people to download their music for free.'
Go to MP3.com, as I have frequently in the past, and been diluged with the same label garbage prevalent damn well everywhere else I go to get music. The good free bands and drowned out by whichever company that owns MP3.com pimping their own signed, derivative garbage out of every orifice.
While there's more than a mountain of shitty music on mp3.com, there used to be real talent there; finding it now is akin to trying to find a specific atom in an asteroid field, using only a microscope.
700mhz cpu.. gf3 cpu... anorexic ram..
I could build a better machine for pocket change.
AND run a real OS on it.
Which should I spend my money on?
Is there even a purpose to doing this? The people who would normally be buying import stuff will just buy a $5 converter to use the peripherals they lock out, and the people who don't import controllers won't have a problem, since it doesn't affect them.
Chock this one up to 'annoying the community'.
Actually, Cyrix released their 150MHz chip as the PR200+.
I know, I bought one..
And I can see the reasoning behind this all too well.. And I can laugh as Intel tries to market a cpu with a weaker FPU than the AMD K6-2.. We all know how well 3dnow! worked for the k6-2, right?
That's bullshit. Saying that you have to look at the ads is saying that a PPV channel has the right to play ads for you after you've paid to watch. I've paid for my internet, they have no right to send anything down the pipe I don't want to see - and I enforce that.
Or did it say somewhere in TOS that Kirk's Enterprise was the first starship to have two warp nacells instead of the standard four..
And if this is so, why is this primitive Enterprise driving around with two?