I have a KT7A-Raid motherboard that originally ran a 1.33 GHZ Thunderbird (the 75 Watt of heat disapating one) and have lost 4 capacitors on the motherboard (split on the top or bottom, lost fluid, etc) but every function on the board still works fine. I dunno what those caps were doing but they seem to have not been vital to functionality. The system still to this day runs rock solid. I am working on replacing them, I think they were probably made with that stolen electrolite formula.
I dont see Burnout 3 for the Gamecube and I am not buying an Xbox just for that 1 game.
Looks like crossplatform is a has been for this tech.
Burnout 2 was about identical on the Xbox and Gamecube so I fail to see why thre is a problem making the 3rd one cross platform, they are making a bad PS2 version.
Unlikely. So far in my experiance many copy protections are so badly broken that if you only have a DVD-R or CD-r drive it instis you are a bad evil pirate stealing babies brains to eat and to go buy a cd-rom if you want to play the game you just shelled out $50 for.
I'm just paraphrasing what the support rep told me in E-mail about my purchase.
This lost them my money on the 2nd game in that series (I did not pirate it either).
Recently I became aware of an art exhibit by a photographer (Subhankar Banerjee) depicting ANWAR and it's wildlife.
For some reason The Smithsonian moved the display from a main exhibit hall to a basement hallway. Then removed the texts that accompanied the photographs.
Ted Stevens being head of apropriations who authorizes Smithsonian funding was not happy with a Jimmy Carter quote used in one of the captions.
No matter where you stand on oil drilling, the photographs in this display are some of the best I think I have seen.
After playing Sanitarium and Beyond Good and Evil my wife and I discussed quite a few of the social and political aspects of the games. I think Sanitarium touched on a number of issues in a way that wasn't heavy handed or shoved down your throat.
MY wifes vision gets blurry and her blood suger is kept at an elevated (above 200) state if she drinks diet soda that uses nutrasweet. These effects last for a day or so after she stops using the products.
Regular sugar dosent do that to her, and neither does saccharin or splenda.
According to reliable doccumention about electricty and what not, only high power/high voltage systems tend to suffer the skin effect (that 50K-100K watt radio tower, power lines). You wont see it have any real affect on any home audio equipment. I can link to detailed technical pages on this if you need it.
"(Adding one new block to Tetris is not an innovation;-)"
But if that one block completely changed the Gameplay and the way people play the game IMO it is innovation. Compare New Tetris (N64) to Stock Tetris. True it is more innovative to change the way the game plays, compare Puyo-Puyo to stock Tetris.
In my game/work machine at home: ISA AWE64 Gold AGP Voodoo5 5500 PCI Adaptec 2940 UW
At Work (they have me using office xp): Pentium 2 266 Intel HX chipset mainboard ATI Mach 64 video card Maxtor 2.7 GB hdd
In my firewall/NAT box Pentium 100 (overclocked to 120 since the mainboard wont go slower then that). Number9 9FX reality PCI vid card 512 MB 1/4 inch SCSI tape backup
LOLROF. Thats the old copy protecion that Wizardry (1,2,3 and maybe 4) games on the PC used to use. The "scenario discs" you made were formatted with tracks in reverse order, and the "loader disc" set up the system to read and write to them properly.
Humm, good point. I didnt pay a lot of attention to that.
I guess the Simpsons Hit and Run is worse. While most of the time they jump out of the way, you can also hit them but they are OK after they say a funny quip.
Sometimes the film everyone loves (Th car that could not slow down 2 for instance) is crap and the reviewers go with the public not warning me of crap. Most "art films" never get seen so the good ones, unless a reviewer sees it and makes some noise about it, wont stand a chance.
I noticed something new when I saw Kill Bill this wekend. a set of 4 red dots if you drew lines to them they would make a square. They would be somewhere on the screen every few min. Sometimes in the middle of a big white door for a frame or two, other times off to one side. I wonder if this is the stuff the article talks about.
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I have a KT7A-Raid motherboard that originally ran a 1.33 GHZ Thunderbird (the 75 Watt of heat disapating one) and have lost 4 capacitors on the motherboard (split on the top or bottom, lost fluid, etc) but every function on the board still works fine. I dunno what those caps were doing but they seem to have not been vital to functionality. The system still to this day runs rock solid.
I am working on replacing them, I think they were probably made with that stolen electrolite formula.
I dont see Burnout 3 for the Gamecube and I am not buying an Xbox just for that 1 game.
Looks like crossplatform is a has been for this tech.
Burnout 2 was about identical on the Xbox and Gamecube so I fail to see why thre is a problem making the 3rd one cross platform, they are making a bad PS2 version.
Unlikely.
So far in my experiance many copy protections are so badly broken that if you only have a DVD-R or CD-r drive it instis you are a bad evil pirate stealing babies brains to eat and to go buy a cd-rom if you want to play the game you just shelled out $50 for.
I'm just paraphrasing what the support rep told me in E-mail about my purchase.
This lost them my money on the 2nd game in that series (I did not pirate it either).
I replaced my Ford Escort with a 1st generation Hybrid Toyota Prius. I cut my fuel bills in half. ;)
YMMV
Recently I became aware of an art exhibit by a photographer (Subhankar Banerjee) depicting ANWAR and it's wildlife.
For some reason The Smithsonian moved the display from a main exhibit hall to a basement hallway. Then removed the texts that accompanied the photographs.
Ted Stevens being head of apropriations who authorizes Smithsonian funding was not happy with a Jimmy Carter quote used in one of the captions.
No matter where you stand on oil drilling, the photographs in this display are some of the best I think I have seen.
After playing Sanitarium and Beyond Good and Evil my wife and I discussed quite a few of the social and political aspects of the games. I think Sanitarium touched on a number of issues in a way that wasn't heavy handed or shoved down your throat.
MY wifes vision gets blurry and her blood suger is kept at an elevated (above 200) state if she drinks diet soda that uses nutrasweet. These effects last for a day or so after she stops using the products.
Regular sugar dosent do that to her, and neither does saccharin or splenda.
Rakugaki Showtime would have sold like hotcakes for the PSX budget line.
I use LTO Ultrium on IBM RS/6000 hardware and if used with differential (rather then single ended) SCSI it seems to SCREAM!
First time I saw it in action we backed up 17 GB in less then 10 Min.
Restore from Tape is just about as fast.
I want one for home, but it would take lottery winnings for that kind of spending cash.
Capacity on an Ultrium 2 unit is 200GB uncompressed.
Most I have ever been given was a $100 Gift Certificate.
I'd kill for a $1500 cash bonus.
While I am not as "qualified" as you, I can say the above is full of it (mostly) about the cables.
Assuming a rectangular room with the AV setup at one far end and the listener in the rear third. Where should the L/R speakers be placed?
I'm guessing the "Proprietary Mass-Loaded Compound" came from the goatse guy.
According to reliable doccumention about electricty and what not, only high power/high voltage systems tend to suffer the skin effect (that 50K-100K watt radio tower, power lines).
You wont see it have any real affect on any home audio equipment.
I can link to detailed technical pages on this if you need it.
"(Adding one new block to Tetris is not an innovation ;-)"
But if that one block completely changed the Gameplay and the way people play the game IMO it is innovation. Compare New Tetris (N64) to Stock Tetris.
True it is more innovative to change the way the game plays, compare Puyo-Puyo to stock Tetris.
So cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel?
I still have a set of original Dos 2.0 disks as well as a set for Windows 286
In my game/work machine at home:
ISA AWE64 Gold
AGP Voodoo5 5500
PCI Adaptec 2940 UW
At Work (they have me using office xp):
Pentium 2 266
Intel HX chipset mainboard
ATI Mach 64 video card
Maxtor 2.7 GB hdd
In my firewall/NAT box
Pentium 100 (overclocked to 120 since the mainboard wont go slower then that).
Number9 9FX reality PCI vid card
512 MB 1/4 inch SCSI tape backup
LOLROF.
Thats the old copy protecion that Wizardry (1,2,3 and maybe 4) games on the PC used to use.
The "scenario discs" you made were formatted with tracks in reverse order, and the "loader disc" set up the system to read and write to them properly.
Humm, good point. I didnt pay a lot of attention to that.
I guess the Simpsons Hit and Run is worse. While most of the time they jump out of the way, you can also hit them but they are OK after they say a funny quip.
Sometimes the film everyone loves (Th car that could not slow down 2 for instance) is crap and the reviewers go with the public not warning me of crap.
Most "art films" never get seen so the good ones, unless a reviewer sees it and makes some noise about it, wont stand a chance.
Go check out Kill Bill.
Every few min there are 4 red dots that show up at a random point on the screen. Thats not a reel change mark AFAIK.
I noticed something new when I saw Kill Bill this wekend.
a set of 4 red dots if you drew lines to them they would make a square.
They would be somewhere on the screen every few min.
Sometimes in the middle of a big white door for a frame or two, other times off to one side.
I wonder if this is the stuff the article talks about.
"Mad as a crate of squirrels" is an important thing for acting characters such as Captain Rum.
Brisco County Jr.