If a game forces you to spend hours doing tasks a bot CAN do, then it's crap.
This is the worst comment about games I have seen in a while. It's bad because on the surface it looks perfectly agreeable. In actuality it is quite insidious.
No game forces you to spend hours doing anything. You're always free to go do something else. Also a bot can be written to play Tetris or solve Sudoku puzzles or even play chess. I don't think that these games are crap and there are plenty of other people who would likely agree with me.
I have played WoW and found it to be enjoyable, but I liked the progression grind from 1-60 and not the general sameness tedium that ensued once max level was reached. Blizzard now wants everyone to focus on endgame and damn the rest. For me, 60 (and later 70) was a journey and not a destination. Now it seems that the less time your character spends on Azeroth actually learning how to play while enjoying the sights, the better.
Ah well. I don't play anymore and I figure that I'm better off for it. I enjoyed getting together with a few friends and questing or even doing an instance, but now that we've all been fervently pushed forward, I am not going to resign myself to the second job of raiding just so I can have equipment that is marginally better than what I have now.
I use Apple products all of the time; the only personal computers that I ever have powered on anymore are all Macs. My "promoting" of Macs to friends and family has been more beneficial in convincing some of them to buy Apple products more than any clever advertising. I've even brought Apple into my workplace and who knows, it may even make a decent foothold in the formerly all MS shop. I would consider myself a fan.
But I will point out the negatives in their products where I see them. There is no point in pretending that they don't exist as all that does is give them time to fester. I am a realist. I'll also point out issues with the company when they deserve it. Yeah, praise is better but only if they are going to work for it.
I am more judgmental because I've been in the IT field for years and have used, and I mean really used, many different OSes out there. I also wouldn't have considered calling myself a Mac user before OS X. Sorry fans, but OS 9 was pretty terrible.
I suppose Apple needs the rabid fanbase as they are advertisers that pay the company for the privilege. Maybe Apple should even thank them every now and then for keeping the company afloat for so many years. They also need the realists that speak their mind and truthfully say what is good, what is bad, and what is downright idiotic. Yes, this means that these groups will clash but it is needed.
I'll agree with you. Using fire to fight fire is a pretty good idea but it rarely works.
Take the example about five years ago of the Welchia worm that was supposed to exploit unpatched Windows systems and then patch them (along with trying to "infect" other unpatched networked systems). It didn't exactly work as planned though and all of the major virus scanners flagged it as malware.
I imagine that if the programmer who wrote it was found that they would still be sitting in jail.
Swatch Internet Time is a decimal based time where the day is divided into 1000 beats. It would have worked too if the government would have mandated it. Imagine how fun that would be.
Hell, want to muck with the time? Why not go with a 28 hour day and have only 6 days in a week. This would screw everyone's circadian rhythm equally. Sounds fair enough.
I find it annoying that the governments that are pushing the world to go to DST (and then changing when it occurs) are the same governments that still have problems getting their citizens to adopt the metric system. Let's just convert the world to an even more wild new standard and watch as the people go insane.
Use Safari? You have to delete the cookie that it sends (and you must accept) or it will send you into a page referring loop.
Use IE5.2 for Mac? It doesn't work. You can't navigate through anything.
Use MS Virtual PC for Mac? It's not sold or supported anymore.
I've had a hotmail.com email address for over a decade before you bastards at MS bought them out and fucked it up. My only options are to buy a Windows system or stop using hotmail. Guess which one I won't be doing.
MacBook Air and other no-optical systems will require this.
Disk Utility -> Create Disk Image -> mount image -> play game.
I am looking at a 631MB.dmg for the original game and a 480 MB.dmg for the expansion right now. This way I can play the game anytime I like and not have to worry about carrying my original CDs with me. I'm happy for this news because it will allow me to delete these as well as the Starcraft.dmg files. A few GB on a laptop is a big deal.
It's taken far too long for the gaming companies to figure this out. Ten years ago games would have no-cd patches out the same day that new copy protection came out. The really invasive ones took maybe a month or two but the crackers could play them. The only people who suffered were the legitimate buyers. Blizzard really should have learned this lesson back in 2000 when Diablo II was causing issues with legitimate disks but pirated copies worked fine.
I was showing a younger friend Phantasy Star and he commented that the Genesis was a pretty nice machine for its time. He was amazed when I told him that it was on the SMS and not the Genesis; that he was seeing what Sega was putting up against the NES.
That game has a lot going for it. Interesting storyline, 3D dungeons, vehicles, all party members showing up on the map. Probably the only thing that Phantasy Star was missing was 3D glasses support. Now that would've been cool.
The NES won that generation by courting third party support and then making it exclusive (Ultima IV?) and the console manufacturers have been doing this ever since. The SMS was clearly a better piece of hardware though but hardware alone isn't enough to move units. Actually I can't think of a single generation where the technically superior console came out on top.
Completely off topic: PS2's Nei died 6 years before FF7's Aeris. Deal with it.
I assume that you're referring to resolution independence which was promised to be in Tiger back in 2004 but still isn't really working properly in Leopard.
If you would like to give it a go, install the Developer Tools and run Quartz Debug (/Developer/Applications/Graphics Tools). Under the Tools menu, you must "Enable QuartzGL" and "Show User Interface Resolution". You can adjust the slider or key in a number to multiply the interface size by. Enjoy. You have to restart apps to get it to take effect.
As for my beef with Apple? Let's see...
1. Lack of PPC support. I understand exactly why, I just don't like it. 2. Many issues with Tiger were never fixed, basically forcing a Leopard upgrade. (networking being a major one) 3. Leopard still has major flaws, some of which I have no hope of ever being resolved. (worthless nVidia drivers... they worked in 10.4!) 4. QuickLook is buggy and crash prone, as well as infuriating when used to view a remote system. Why must it steal my damn focus?
Those are just a few of the ones that are bothering me at the moment.
If you have a Mac with a microphone (which should just about cover every consumer Mac made within the last decade), turn on speech recognition and say the words "Tell me a joke".
The lack of a firewire port on a new Mac makes me think that either Apple has made a new way of doing the target disk function (USB perhaps?) or that functionality is gone. Honestly, having it makes having a Mac portable very versatile and the only other way I can see for a OS reinstall or boot camp install is to purchase an external drive.
I so missed the old Commodore 64 vs Atari 800 debates of my youth. Those of us who actually used computers back then would bring out every talking point and try to convince one another that our brand of computer (which was probably purchased as a result of a coin flip by our parents) was superior in almost every way. Nostalgia ahoy!
Fortunately we've moved on and no longer have useless brand loyalty arguments... oh wait.
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Something Pez forgot to mention is that you can emulate an XO relatively painlessly. There is even a premade image file that is available that you can drop into say QEMU and see what it's all about.
A few caveats: Use something with virtualization which unfortunately means x86. Trying to run this emulated on a high end PowerPC system was saddening. Yes it is only a 433MHz target, but 433MHz is pretty high when you think about it. The other thing to keep in mind is that the premade image wants to change the display to about 1024x768 instead of the XO native 1200x900. The Sugar manager seems to be fine with it but most activities (XO apps) will not display properly.
Go ahead, grab a receipt from 2 years ago. Seriously, go grab that Best Buy receipt that you actually saved for some odd reason like for warranty purposes. I'll wait.
Doesn't look like much of a receipt, does it? Actually it looks like a blank fucking piece of paper. That's because it was either printed on thermal paper or some very soft blue ink that's similar to the prankster's favorite Disappearing Ink. These things are lucky to last a month let alone two whole years. Go ahead and try to prove that you actually purchased Product X and that you didn't just find it off of the back of a truck.
Quite a crafty racket they have got there... I like to call it Purchase Rights Management.
The reason that a new Madden game comes out every year is because it sells. It is almost guaranteed to sell more copies in the first week than Psychonauts has sold since its release. This is why they make more.
I enjoyed Psychonauts but I am not clamoring for a sequel. The writing and voice acting were top notch but it just wasn't a fun game to play. Actually, if I could just watch all of the cut scenes, one liners, and other such parts in a two hour animated movie I'd be pretty happy. As a 10+ hour game it just isn't that worth my time for a replay. Yes, I would buy a theoretical sequel but I imagine that there are others who felt the same way I did and probably wouldn't.
Hey, Doublefine! What the fuck is wrong with you? Free money over here!
It's only free money if the game costs nothing to develop and produce. This is definitely not the case. Add in the fact that they are dealing with a known property that didn't perform stellar in retail and it's really difficult to secure funding to produce a sequel that thousands (not millions) of cult fans would go out and purchase.
Nice straw man; your parent's post said nothing about it running on the O X that the iPhone uses. This is about supporting the Macintosh platform.
I play WoW, natively I might add, on a PowerPC based Macintosh. It is running the same OS (10.5.0) that today's Macs are shipping with. It has 3GB of RAM and a NV6800U. It is still under warranty. It is as powerful of a machine as some of the currently shipping Intel Macs.
In short, EVE Online does not have full compatibility with OS X. I commend them for their attempt to support the platform, even if it is Intel only and kludgy, but people should know that it's not full compatibility and the story, as well as their info pages, should make a point to reflect that fact.
Personally, I will not be playing this even on my Intel Mac. I like the ability to use whichever machine I'm sitting at. The fact that they release a gimped Mac client means little as I could already run this under BootCamp or Parallels. Since they have chosen this route to port their game, there will never be a native Mac client and PowerPC Mac users should just stick to WoW. Hell, Intel Mac users may just stick to WoW for that matter.
Game reviews aren't broken anymore than movie, food, book, or any other form of entertainment reviews are. You have to find a reviewer (or close group of reviewers) that you mostly agree with their past reviews and take their future views accordingly.
It's all opinion people, plain and simple.
For instance, RPGs: I hated FFVII but I enjoyed DQ8. Survival horror: I thought RE4 was needlessly frustrating (and yes, I have the Wii version too) but I really enjoyed Eternal Darkness. RTS: Starcraft and War2 get a thumbs up while War3 and AoE get a thumbs down. I would play Wind Waker dozens of times over including the sailing around parts before I'd ever want to play that blurry no-fun mess of Okami again.
While these may be personal opinions, all of those games I just listed received at least a 9 out of 10 score by many reviewers. If someone starts out a review of Blue Gear Forever by telling me that it's the best RPG since FFVII, I might still read it but I'll have to see some more compelling reviews before I go out and try the game.
Reviews only work if you're willing to review the reviewers.
I worked at a company that had a "top secret" project that they were working on that if the internal name were revealed it could result in, well, not much really... but management was very paranoid that it would get out. This copier could have sensed the name and blanked it out when sales copied "sensitive" material accidentally. Nice.
Except for the fact that once you make the machine start thinking the user begins to stop thinking. If sales knew about this feature then they wouldn't be bothered to care at all what they were copying and sending out to customers. Eventually the copier wouldn't be a fail safe for the user but would be just a new liability for error. I can't see how this is really much better except it just shifts the blame to IT.
Yes, he would be a chimera at least for the time being. He has multiple DNA sources in his body and since both types of DNA can be obtained through blood, he could show up as two separate individuals if DNA testing were performed.
The Lydia Fairchild story is an interesting read. It's rare but it does happen.
Actually, counting the N64 Sin and Punishment there are now three previously Japanese only games for the US Virtual Console. The other two are the Famicom (NES) Super Mario Bros. 2 (which was brought here as the lost levels for the SNES) and Battle Lode Runner for the PC Engine (TurboGrafx16).
I hope this trend continues as I'd really like to see the Mother games as well as old Fire Emblem and Famicom Wars here. Hey, we might even be able to get the PC Engine CD version of Akumajo Dracula X Chi no Rondo if they convert the music to MP3 first. I can only hope.
OK, you can't log web site visits. Heck, from this broad law I don't even think you are allowed to use tools that would allow you to log those IP addresses.
Supposedly, they even plan to send spyware to people they don't like. Who's going to perform these illegal tasks? I sure wouldn't want to apply for that position. Even if you get hired, the government could just declare you a criminal at any time.
The issue with a closed driver for the nVidia cards that actually performs somewhat well is actually a detriment for the community at large. It causes some people who would be interested in making a better open driver to just suck it up and use the existing closed driver because it's easier even though it has many problems.
I am very thankful that AMD has released specs. Until nVidia follows suit there should be no real reason to buy nVidia cards. This means that they will be forced to eventually release specs and those of us who had no support from nVidia will finally get a working driver.
As an nVidia customer, all I can say is Thank You AMD!
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If a game forces you to spend hours doing tasks a bot CAN do, then it's crap.
This is the worst comment about games I have seen in a while. It's bad because on the surface it looks perfectly agreeable. In actuality it is quite insidious.
No game forces you to spend hours doing anything. You're always free to go do something else. Also a bot can be written to play Tetris or solve Sudoku puzzles or even play chess. I don't think that these games are crap and there are plenty of other people who would likely agree with me.
I have played WoW and found it to be enjoyable, but I liked the progression grind from 1-60 and not the general sameness tedium that ensued once max level was reached. Blizzard now wants everyone to focus on endgame and damn the rest. For me, 60 (and later 70) was a journey and not a destination. Now it seems that the less time your character spends on Azeroth actually learning how to play while enjoying the sights, the better.
Ah well. I don't play anymore and I figure that I'm better off for it. I enjoyed getting together with a few friends and questing or even doing an instance, but now that we've all been fervently pushed forward, I am not going to resign myself to the second job of raiding just so I can have equipment that is marginally better than what I have now.
I use Apple products all of the time; the only personal computers that I ever have powered on anymore are all Macs. My "promoting" of Macs to friends and family has been more beneficial in convincing some of them to buy Apple products more than any clever advertising. I've even brought Apple into my workplace and who knows, it may even make a decent foothold in the formerly all MS shop. I would consider myself a fan.
But I will point out the negatives in their products where I see them. There is no point in pretending that they don't exist as all that does is give them time to fester. I am a realist. I'll also point out issues with the company when they deserve it. Yeah, praise is better but only if they are going to work for it.
I am more judgmental because I've been in the IT field for years and have used, and I mean really used, many different OSes out there. I also wouldn't have considered calling myself a Mac user before OS X. Sorry fans, but OS 9 was pretty terrible.
I suppose Apple needs the rabid fanbase as they are advertisers that pay the company for the privilege. Maybe Apple should even thank them every now and then for keeping the company afloat for so many years. They also need the realists that speak their mind and truthfully say what is good, what is bad, and what is downright idiotic. Yes, this means that these groups will clash but it is needed.
How else are they going to move forward?
That is my favorite quote from anyone.
I'll agree with you. Using fire to fight fire is a pretty good idea but it rarely works.
Take the example about five years ago of the Welchia worm that was supposed to exploit unpatched Windows systems and then patch them (along with trying to "infect" other unpatched networked systems). It didn't exactly work as planned though and all of the major virus scanners flagged it as malware.
I imagine that if the programmer who wrote it was found that they would still be sitting in jail.
Swatch Internet Time is a decimal based time where the day is divided into 1000 beats. It would have worked too if the government would have mandated it. Imagine how fun that would be.
Hell, want to muck with the time? Why not go with a 28 hour day and have only 6 days in a week. This would screw everyone's circadian rhythm equally. Sounds fair enough.
I find it annoying that the governments that are pushing the world to go to DST (and then changing when it occurs) are the same governments that still have problems getting their citizens to adopt the metric system. Let's just convert the world to an even more wild new standard and watch as the people go insane.
Dear Fuckers,
What are you supposed to do on a PPC Macintosh?
Use Safari? You have to delete the cookie that it sends (and you must accept) or it will send you into a page referring loop.
Use IE5.2 for Mac? It doesn't work. You can't navigate through anything.
Use MS Virtual PC for Mac? It's not sold or supported anymore.
I've had a hotmail.com email address for over a decade before you bastards at MS bought them out and fucked it up. My only options are to buy a Windows system or stop using hotmail. Guess which one I won't be doing.
MacBook Air and other no-optical systems will require this.
.dmg for the original game and a 480 MB .dmg for the expansion right now. This way I can play the game anytime I like and not have to worry about carrying my original CDs with me. I'm happy for this news because it will allow me to delete these as well as the Starcraft .dmg files. A few GB on a laptop is a big deal.
Disk Utility -> Create Disk Image -> mount image -> play game.
I am looking at a 631MB
It's taken far too long for the gaming companies to figure this out. Ten years ago games would have no-cd patches out the same day that new copy protection came out. The really invasive ones took maybe a month or two but the crackers could play them. The only people who suffered were the legitimate buyers. Blizzard really should have learned this lesson back in 2000 when Diablo II was causing issues with legitimate disks but pirated copies worked fine.
I was showing a younger friend Phantasy Star and he commented that the Genesis was a pretty nice machine for its time. He was amazed when I told him that it was on the SMS and not the Genesis; that he was seeing what Sega was putting up against the NES.
That game has a lot going for it. Interesting storyline, 3D dungeons, vehicles, all party members showing up on the map. Probably the only thing that Phantasy Star was missing was 3D glasses support. Now that would've been cool.
The NES won that generation by courting third party support and then making it exclusive (Ultima IV?) and the console manufacturers have been doing this ever since. The SMS was clearly a better piece of hardware though but hardware alone isn't enough to move units. Actually I can't think of a single generation where the technically superior console came out on top.
Completely off topic: PS2's Nei died 6 years before FF7's Aeris. Deal with it.
I assume that you're referring to resolution independence which was promised to be in Tiger back in 2004 but still isn't really working properly in Leopard.
If you would like to give it a go, install the Developer Tools and run Quartz Debug (/Developer/Applications/Graphics Tools). Under the Tools menu, you must "Enable QuartzGL" and "Show User Interface Resolution". You can adjust the slider or key in a number to multiply the interface size by. Enjoy. You have to restart apps to get it to take effect.
As for my beef with Apple? Let's see...
1. Lack of PPC support. I understand exactly why, I just don't like it.
2. Many issues with Tiger were never fixed, basically forcing a Leopard upgrade. (networking being a major one)
3. Leopard still has major flaws, some of which I have no hope of ever being resolved. (worthless nVidia drivers... they worked in 10.4!)
4. QuickLook is buggy and crash prone, as well as infuriating when used to view a remote system. Why must it steal my damn focus?
Those are just a few of the ones that are bothering me at the moment.
If you have a Mac with a microphone (which should just about cover every consumer Mac made within the last decade), turn on speech recognition and say the words "Tell me a joke".
Have fun.
The lack of a firewire port on a new Mac makes me think that either Apple has made a new way of doing the target disk function (USB perhaps?) or that functionality is gone. Honestly, having it makes having a Mac portable very versatile and the only other way I can see for a OS reinstall or boot camp install is to purchase an external drive.
I so missed the old Commodore 64 vs Atari 800 debates of my youth. Those of us who actually used computers back then would bring out every talking point and try to convince one another that our brand of computer (which was probably purchased as a result of a coin flip by our parents) was superior in almost every way. Nostalgia ahoy!
Fortunately we've moved on and no longer have useless brand loyalty arguments... oh wait.
Something Pez forgot to mention is that you can emulate an XO relatively painlessly. There is even a premade image file that is available that you can drop into say QEMU and see what it's all about.
A few caveats: Use something with virtualization which unfortunately means x86. Trying to run this emulated on a high end PowerPC system was saddening. Yes it is only a 433MHz target, but 433MHz is pretty high when you think about it. The other thing to keep in mind is that the premade image wants to change the display to about 1024x768 instead of the XO native 1200x900. The Sugar manager seems to be fine with it but most activities (XO apps) will not display properly.
Go ahead, grab a receipt from 2 years ago. Seriously, go grab that Best Buy receipt that you actually saved for some odd reason like for warranty purposes. I'll wait.
Doesn't look like much of a receipt, does it? Actually it looks like a blank fucking piece of paper. That's because it was either printed on thermal paper or some very soft blue ink that's similar to the prankster's favorite Disappearing Ink. These things are lucky to last a month let alone two whole years. Go ahead and try to prove that you actually purchased Product X and that you didn't just find it off of the back of a truck.
Quite a crafty racket they have got there... I like to call it Purchase Rights Management.
The reason that a new Madden game comes out every year is because it sells. It is almost guaranteed to sell more copies in the first week than Psychonauts has sold since its release. This is why they make more.
I enjoyed Psychonauts but I am not clamoring for a sequel. The writing and voice acting were top notch but it just wasn't a fun game to play. Actually, if I could just watch all of the cut scenes, one liners, and other such parts in a two hour animated movie I'd be pretty happy. As a 10+ hour game it just isn't that worth my time for a replay. Yes, I would buy a theoretical sequel but I imagine that there are others who felt the same way I did and probably wouldn't.
Hey, Doublefine! What the fuck is wrong with you? Free money over here!
It's only free money if the game costs nothing to develop and produce. This is definitely not the case. Add in the fact that they are dealing with a known property that didn't perform stellar in retail and it's really difficult to secure funding to produce a sequel that thousands (not millions) of cult fans would go out and purchase.
Nice straw man; your parent's post said nothing about it running on the O X that the iPhone uses. This is about supporting the Macintosh platform.
I play WoW, natively I might add, on a PowerPC based Macintosh. It is running the same OS (10.5.0) that today's Macs are shipping with. It has 3GB of RAM and a NV6800U. It is still under warranty. It is as powerful of a machine as some of the currently shipping Intel Macs.
In short, EVE Online does not have full compatibility with OS X. I commend them for their attempt to support the platform, even if it is Intel only and kludgy, but people should know that it's not full compatibility and the story, as well as their info pages, should make a point to reflect that fact.
Personally, I will not be playing this even on my Intel Mac. I like the ability to use whichever machine I'm sitting at. The fact that they release a gimped Mac client means little as I could already run this under BootCamp or Parallels. Since they have chosen this route to port their game, there will never be a native Mac client and PowerPC Mac users should just stick to WoW. Hell, Intel Mac users may just stick to WoW for that matter.
Game reviews aren't broken anymore than movie, food, book, or any other form of entertainment reviews are. You have to find a reviewer (or close group of reviewers) that you mostly agree with their past reviews and take their future views accordingly.
It's all opinion people, plain and simple.
For instance, RPGs: I hated FFVII but I enjoyed DQ8. Survival horror: I thought RE4 was needlessly frustrating (and yes, I have the Wii version too) but I really enjoyed Eternal Darkness. RTS: Starcraft and War2 get a thumbs up while War3 and AoE get a thumbs down. I would play Wind Waker dozens of times over including the sailing around parts before I'd ever want to play that blurry no-fun mess of Okami again.
While these may be personal opinions, all of those games I just listed received at least a 9 out of 10 score by many reviewers. If someone starts out a review of Blue Gear Forever by telling me that it's the best RPG since FFVII, I might still read it but I'll have to see some more compelling reviews before I go out and try the game.
Reviews only work if you're willing to review the reviewers.
I worked at a company that had a "top secret" project that they were working on that if the internal name were revealed it could result in, well, not much really... but management was very paranoid that it would get out. This copier could have sensed the name and blanked it out when sales copied "sensitive" material accidentally. Nice.
Except for the fact that once you make the machine start thinking the user begins to stop thinking. If sales knew about this feature then they wouldn't be bothered to care at all what they were copying and sending out to customers. Eventually the copier wouldn't be a fail safe for the user but would be just a new liability for error. I can't see how this is really much better except it just shifts the blame to IT.
Yes, he would be a chimera at least for the time being. He has multiple DNA sources in his body and since both types of DNA can be obtained through blood, he could show up as two separate individuals if DNA testing were performed.
The Lydia Fairchild story is an interesting read. It's rare but it does happen.
Actually, counting the N64 Sin and Punishment there are now three previously Japanese only games for the US Virtual Console. The other two are the Famicom (NES) Super Mario Bros. 2 (which was brought here as the lost levels for the SNES) and Battle Lode Runner for the PC Engine (TurboGrafx16).
I hope this trend continues as I'd really like to see the Mother games as well as old Fire Emblem and Famicom Wars here. Hey, we might even be able to get the PC Engine CD version of Akumajo Dracula X Chi no Rondo if they convert the music to MP3 first. I can only hope.
Chill man, he's trying to tell us all the story of how you got your nickname.
OK, you can't log web site visits. Heck, from this broad law I don't even think you are allowed to use tools that would allow you to log those IP addresses.
Supposedly, they even plan to send spyware to people they don't like. Who's going to perform these illegal tasks? I sure wouldn't want to apply for that position. Even if you get hired, the government could just declare you a criminal at any time.
Sounds fun.
Does posting in a thread visited by the great CmdrTaco get you more karma? ...
Hi Mom!
Vegeta, how many copies can we get per toner cartridge?
(Does anyone care to guess?)
The issue with a closed driver for the nVidia cards that actually performs somewhat well is actually a detriment for the community at large. It causes some people who would be interested in making a better open driver to just suck it up and use the existing closed driver because it's easier even though it has many problems.
I am very thankful that AMD has released specs. Until nVidia follows suit there should be no real reason to buy nVidia cards. This means that they will be forced to eventually release specs and those of us who had no support from nVidia will finally get a working driver.
As an nVidia customer, all I can say is Thank You AMD!