Anyone out there who cares to get into metal I suggest you check out these bands for the range they represent:
Agalloch Nest Rapture (not "The Rapture" just plain, simple Rapture) Tristania Noumena As I Lay Dying My Dying Bride (latest album specifically - A Line of Deathless Kings)
There are more, but this is just off the top of my head...
No scientist with or without Hawking's celebrity status is without fault. Regardless of how many thumbs up or thumbs down his various works have gotten, I think he has at the very least helped publicize science in the eyes of the common man. In a world where creationism and religious fundamentalism can try to squash science and somehow often succeeds, we as a race need books such as A Brief History of Time to at the very least get people interested in science and start asking questions. Questioning everything and anything is probably the most profound act we can do and its great that people don't agree with his theories. Is he deserving of his status? Maybe, maybe not, but I would take him over any religious nut any day of the week.
I am sure I am not the only one who still uses mplayer2 (Media Player 6.x) for most stuff.
Bloat just plain sucks and when mplayer2 is no longer useable I am pretty sure I will seek a 3rd party media player because MS players pretty blow.
Oh and another thing, when was the last time the media player codec download actually found the required codec and installed it for you? I do not think I can think of a single time personally.
The story mentioned human jaws becoming smaller due to no need for chewing, but evolution does not exactly work that way. If someone does not chew, that does not change that persons DNA and pass on genes for a smaller jaw. They pass on genes for whatever sized jaw they happen to have encoded in their genes since birth. Now how would easier to chew foods favor the reproduction in humans with any specifically sized jaws? Large and small jaws would both chew mush just fine and I don't think that effects our ability to servive or sexual selection all that much. Well, maybe women who look like Jay Leno might find it hard to find a date. But seriously, can someone clear this up for me?
That all being said, maybe I am just out of it, but I had not heard of her even being dead. On slashdot and other internet sites you would think it would be better news.
Not everyone thought the original game sucked. It had plenty of bugs and needed content and rebalance, but many players found it fun and saw its potential. Had the last 3 years been spent on balance and enhancement of the original system, this game would be in far better shape today. Instead they added more bugged content that Lucasarts wanted tied into movie and DVD releases (EPIII) and SOE changed around the dev team more times than they will even admit. The orginal game may not have been everyone's idea of what a Star Wars MMORPG should be, but atleast the original developers cared and had a vision and a large portion of players enjoyed that game and its mechanics. The most recent revamp last Nov. left professions gutted; collections of resources, items, and loot useless; leaving veteran players with little to hold on of the original game they once enjoyed. The game has never been complete, but the orginal game was similar to a skeleton needing fleshing out, while the current game is a pile of broken bones from several different animals.
The leaked alpha was highly unoptimized/polished. There were even patches to it that gave more fps. I would not base my hardware requirements on a leaked alpha.
AOL bought ICQ, now it has ads and other useless garbage. Sure hope the RedHat install is not littered with the same crap, not to mention anything in the actual programs.
The structural integrity field of the newer treks is pretty much a pumped up version of running electricity through the outer hull. I think this would be a similar technology.
I would not mind reliving the good old days of PC gaming, although I might have to wait a few years to get back to that level. Think of what Carmack could do the second time around....
I have little experience fighting the undead nor do I spend my free time in Hell, but I would imagine that a "dirt, feces, and concrete" palette may represent that environment perfectly. Although, the demos were indeed dark, and anything id ever does will be argued about until the final point release of any game I suppose -- i.e. Strafe jumping, Palettes, or No Single Player mode.
"Looks like Doom 3 will be another game where the color palette is "shades of black". Sigh."
Yes, because Doom should really have a color palette similar to Mario 64.
Come on, Doom is all about being dark.
Gundam Wing was my first Anime series I ever got into -- saw a tape of episodes 1-4 at WalMart one day and for some reason bought it. Watched the entire series on CN since then. Very good stuff -- more than just giant robots. Not that giant battle robots are in any way bad.
Those who say this blows Intel out of the water are wrong. In ten years chances are you will still have an Intel machine on your desk (or AMD, I am not an Intel whore.) Therefore Intel's annoucement is probably more applicable to you and me -- unless you use supercomputers on a daily basis.
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Anyone out there who cares to get into metal I suggest you check out these bands for the range they represent:
Agalloch
Nest
Rapture (not "The Rapture" just plain, simple Rapture)
Tristania
Noumena
As I Lay Dying
My Dying Bride (latest album specifically - A Line of Deathless Kings)
There are more, but this is just off the top of my head...
No scientist with or without Hawking's celebrity status is without fault. Regardless of how many thumbs up or thumbs down his various works have gotten, I think he has at the very least helped publicize science in the eyes of the common man. In a world where creationism and religious fundamentalism can try to squash science and somehow often succeeds, we as a race need books such as A Brief History of Time to at the very least get people interested in science and start asking questions. Questioning everything and anything is probably the most profound act we can do and its great that people don't agree with his theories. Is he deserving of his status? Maybe, maybe not, but I would take him over any religious nut any day of the week.
uncool, just plain uncool
I am sure I am not the only one who still uses mplayer2 (Media Player 6.x) for most stuff.
Bloat just plain sucks and when mplayer2 is no longer useable I am pretty sure I will seek a 3rd party media player because MS players pretty blow.
Oh and another thing, when was the last time the media player codec download actually found the required codec and installed it for you? I do not think I can think of a single time personally.
The story mentioned human jaws becoming smaller due to no need for chewing, but evolution does not exactly work that way. If someone does not chew, that does not change that persons DNA and pass on genes for a smaller jaw. They pass on genes for whatever sized jaw they happen to have encoded in their genes since birth. Now how would easier to chew foods favor the reproduction in humans with any specifically sized jaws? Large and small jaws would both chew mush just fine and I don't think that effects our ability to servive or sexual selection all that much. Well, maybe women who look like Jay Leno might find it hard to find a date. But seriously, can someone clear this up for me?
yes, yes, and yes
he is proven guilty that he killed his wife.
Reiserfs ain't THAT good.
I can deal with anything else basically.
That all being said, maybe I am just out of it, but I had not heard of her even being dead. On slashdot and other internet sites you would think it would be better news.
Not everyone thought the original game sucked. It had plenty of bugs and needed content and rebalance, but many players found it fun and saw its potential. Had the last 3 years been spent on balance and enhancement of the original system, this game would be in far better shape today. Instead they added more bugged content that Lucasarts wanted tied into movie and DVD releases (EPIII) and SOE changed around the dev team more times than they will even admit. The orginal game may not have been everyone's idea of what a Star Wars MMORPG should be, but atleast the original developers cared and had a vision and a large portion of players enjoyed that game and its mechanics.
The most recent revamp last Nov. left professions gutted; collections of resources, items, and loot useless; leaving veteran players with little to hold on of the original game they once enjoyed.
The game has never been complete, but the orginal game was similar to a skeleton needing fleshing out, while the current game is a pile of broken bones from several different animals.
I learned this from a post on another Tom's related link on /.
Just append print.html to end of the Tom's URL and get the one page print article.
I figure if the article is a dupe, might as well dupe any useful comments, right?
The leaked alpha was highly unoptimized/polished. There were even patches to it that gave more fps. I would not base my hardware requirements on a leaked alpha.
I believe this only allows the controller to opperate as a regular IDE controller.
But I will check out the link.
But I have yet to see drivers for the Promise Fasttrak that support RAID setups.
AOL bought ICQ, now it has ads and other useless garbage. Sure hope the RedHat install is not littered with the same crap, not to mention anything in the actual programs.
The structural integrity field of the newer treks is pretty much a pumped up version of running electricity through the outer hull. I think this would be a similar technology.
I would not mind reliving the good old days of PC gaming, although I might have to wait a few years to get back to that level. Think of what Carmack could do the second time around....
I have little experience fighting the undead nor do I spend my free time in Hell, but I would imagine that a "dirt, feces, and concrete" palette may represent that environment perfectly. Although, the demos were indeed dark, and anything id ever does will be argued about until the final point release of any game I suppose -- i.e. Strafe jumping, Palettes, or No Single Player mode.
"Looks like Doom 3 will be another game where the color palette is "shades of black". Sigh." Yes, because Doom should really have a color palette similar to Mario 64. Come on, Doom is all about being dark.
What is a high quality cable? Please let us know.
Gundam Wing was my first Anime series I ever got into -- saw a tape of episodes 1-4 at WalMart one day and for some reason bought it. Watched the entire series on CN since then. Very good stuff -- more than just giant robots. Not that giant battle robots are in any way bad.
Those who say this blows Intel out of the water are wrong. In ten years chances are you will still have an Intel machine on your desk (or AMD, I am not an Intel whore.) Therefore Intel's annoucement is probably more applicable to you and me -- unless you use supercomputers on a daily basis.