Since Timothy seems to be confused about Dooku-here goes. MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD
First of all Dooku left the Jedi Order after the Battle of Naboo. He left because he felt the Jedi betrayed themselves by serving the corrupt republic.
Dooku joined the separatists, because, in a nutshell, the Republic is dead. The bureaucrats rule, not the voters. So Dooku wants to secede from the Republic and create the Confederacy of Indepnedent Systems.
Here's where Darth Sidious comes in: He (as Palpatine) creates the clone army to counter the Separatists' droid army (secretly), and later, to eliminate the Jedi. Also, the separatists are kind of a conglomeration of guilds and unions like the Trade Federation, Techno Union, and others.
Finally, Dooku is described as a fencer, and he uses a lightsaber with a curved handle. And he can use Sith lightning. And yes, I bought the book on April 23.
One of the best parts to me seems like USB support. Instead of having to buy a 100 dollar special keyboard, just plug in a usb one. Same goes for mice. I personally despise Graffiti, and almost always use my StowAway keyboard or the onscreen keyboard (for Visor)
PCMCIA support is great too for 802.11b and things like that. Now if they can keep the price less than $700 or so, it will be perfect.
Apparently, Westwood has given up on the Tiberian Sun Series. C&C was Dawn, then Tiberian sun, and C&C 3 would have been twilight.
IMHO, I thought the idea of alien (?) lifeforms and cool technology far more interesting than an alternate past or future (Red Alert et al). The titans, MLRS's and such were much cooler units too. RA2 was fun, but the AI was the real problem. Too Predictable. But since killing terrorists is en vogue, it'll definitely sell.
Don't you mean 1.3 billion Chinese? Also, regardless of whether they use Linux, dumb terminals, or that Other Operating System, this would be a huge step forward for free speech and democracy.
Although it's not likely to happen anytime soon, having China connected would more than triple the percentage of humans that use the web.
Exactly. The treo and things like it such as the Palm VII and i705 have thousands of apps available for them. Also, what happens when your RIM's battery dies? There goes a day's worht of email and faxes.
I'm sticking with Palm OS based PDAs, like my monochrome visor deluxe, at least until color screens get affordable. Also, you can get Palm.net for only $10 a month. Also, the Palm VII is now just $199.
Here's the translation for those of you too lazy to put the URL into Babelfish:
Dresdner researchers developed transparent and extremely hard page frames. By the material, from which visors can firingfixed be manufactured, also the pentagon is fascinated.
A 10 times 10 centimeters large disk (strength: only about 400 gram weigh, are however three times harder 1.0 cm as hardened steel. With firing tests under contract of the German Federal Armed Forces from the Bundeswehr in Koblenz " outstanding results " were obtained, report the researcher Andreas Krell.
Also in the US state Idaho were examined the tiles: The pentagon is fascinated of the transparency of the material, with which firingfixed of visors or large windows of armored reconnaissance vehicles can be built.
Or, we could just build a superconducting particle accelerator as large as the solar system. Then we could probe distances as small as the Planck length (the approximate size of most strings).
Then again, with the SSC canceled, maybe not . . .
Anandtech has had a review up since last year (December 27). They didn't exactly gush over it, calling it a good pc for average use, but they like the price, $250.
Last time I checked, the original UT (and the original unreal) didn't have vertex or pixel shaders. UT2, because the engine it is based on, Unreal II, does. UT was a DirectX 7 based game, Unreal II and UT2 are both DirectX 8 based.
I believe the guy's name who said "I've got the death sentence in 12 systems" was Dr. Evazan.
His friend, the walrus-faced Aqualish who got his arm lopped off, was Ponda Baba.
Also, for those who don't read SW novels, Porkins' first name was Jek, and he had the nickname Piggy.
Intel's new.13 micron P3, the Tualatin core, doesn't need active cooling, only a heatsink. PC Power & Cooling sells the Sleekline 1260, a mine 1U sized pc, and it merely has a heatsink with two tiny case fans drawing air through it (inside view).
Unfortunately, you need a mobo with the i815 b step chipset, which has a very limited life span. Of course, your cooling mileage may vary.
There already are five forms of matter. Solid, liquid, gas, plasma, and neutron star. Not counting the so called dark matter that may or may not exist.
It's going to be hard for AMD to keep up the clock speed race with the Pentium 4, but this is a good start. Here's two more reviews, Anandtech and Tom's Hardware.
Apple's OS X is a good operating system at heart, but can't Apple at least finish the darn thing? Those DVD-R drives on the new G4s are really useful as plain-jane cd-rom drives aren't they? OS X doesn't support cd burners or regular DVD-ROM drives either.
Also, the "Classic" emulation apparently doesn't work well, because Apple is throwing in a copy of OS 9.1 as well. Because of these problems it isn't even shipping on new Macs until summer.
What an innovative product! Finally, Palm offers everything that its nearest competitor, Handspring, does, a usb cradle, 16-bit color screen, and expansion. It only took two years, too! So, the m505 does everything the HS Visor Prism does and the m500 does everything the deluxe does. Now we'll see if Palm can offer as many different modules as Handspring, and match their prices.
Let me get this straight, 2.5 hours of video on a 128 meg memory stick? Yeah, right. Even DivX uses 600+ megabytes to hold that much, and no 33mhz processor can decode MPEG-4 (or MPEG-2), so the video would have to be MPEG-1 or AVI which isn't compressed at all. Who wants to watch grainy (because of the coarse resolution), 10 fps video on a 3 inch screen?
Also, the only possible way to cram 4 hours of mp3s would be to encode them at 64 kbps or lower, which is FM radio quality, and besides, Sony hates mp3s because of their ties to the record industry. Other than Sony's outrageous claims, sounds like a winner if they can keep it less than $500.
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First of all Dooku left the Jedi Order after the Battle of Naboo. He left because he felt the Jedi betrayed themselves by serving the corrupt republic.
Dooku joined the separatists, because, in a nutshell, the Republic is dead. The bureaucrats rule, not the voters. So Dooku wants to secede from the Republic and create the Confederacy of Indepnedent Systems.
Here's where Darth Sidious comes in: He (as Palpatine) creates the clone army to counter the Separatists' droid army (secretly), and later, to eliminate the Jedi. Also, the separatists are kind of a conglomeration of guilds and unions like the Trade Federation, Techno Union, and others.
Finally, Dooku is described as a fencer, and he uses a lightsaber with a curved handle. And he can use Sith lightning. And yes, I bought the book on April 23.
PCMCIA support is great too for 802.11b and things like that. Now if they can keep the price less than $700 or so, it will be perfect.
IMHO, I thought the idea of alien (?) lifeforms and cool technology far more interesting than an alternate past or future (Red Alert et al). The titans, MLRS's and such were much cooler units too. RA2 was fun, but the AI was the real problem. Too Predictable. But since killing terrorists is en vogue, it'll definitely sell.
Although it's not likely to happen anytime soon, having China connected would more than triple the percentage of humans that use the web.
I'm sticking with Palm OS based PDAs, like my monochrome visor deluxe, at least until color screens get affordable. Also, you can get Palm.net for only $10 a month. Also, the Palm VII is now just $199.
Dresdner researchers developed transparent and extremely hard page frames. By the material, from which visors can firingfixed be manufactured, also the pentagon is fascinated.
A 10 times 10 centimeters large disk (strength: only about 400 gram weigh, are however three times harder 1.0 cm as hardened steel. With firing tests under contract of the German Federal Armed Forces from the Bundeswehr in Koblenz " outstanding results " were obtained, report the researcher Andreas Krell.
Also in the US state Idaho were examined the tiles: The pentagon is fascinated of the transparency of the material, with which firingfixed of visors or large windows of armored reconnaissance vehicles can be built.
Then again, with the SSC canceled, maybe not . . .
Anandtech has had a review up since last year (December 27). They didn't exactly gush over it, calling it a good pc for average use, but they like the price, $250.
Last time I checked, the original UT (and the original unreal) didn't have vertex or pixel shaders. UT2, because the engine it is based on, Unreal II, does. UT was a DirectX 7 based game, Unreal II and UT2 are both DirectX 8 based.
The February issue of PC Gamer has UT2 as its cover story. The website hasn't been updated yet, but the magazine's already hit bookstores.
His friend, the walrus-faced Aqualish who got his arm lopped off, was Ponda Baba.
Also, for those who don't read SW novels, Porkins' first name was Jek, and he had the nickname Piggy.
Unfortunately, you need a mobo with the i815 b step chipset, which has a very limited life span. Of course, your cooling mileage may vary.
For anyone who doesn't have quicktime, or just doesn't want to download the trailer, TheForce.net has posted some screen captures, about 50 in all.
There already are five forms of matter. Solid, liquid, gas, plasma, and neutron star. Not counting the so called dark matter that may or may not exist.
It's going to be hard for AMD to keep up the clock speed race with the Pentium 4, but this is a good start. Here's two more reviews, Anandtech and Tom's Hardware.
Also, the "Classic" emulation apparently doesn't work well, because Apple is throwing in a copy of OS 9.1 as well. Because of these problems it isn't even shipping on new Macs until summer.
What an innovative product! Finally, Palm offers everything that its nearest competitor, Handspring, does, a usb cradle, 16-bit color screen, and expansion. It only took two years, too! So, the m505 does everything the HS Visor Prism does and the m500 does everything the deluxe does. Now we'll see if Palm can offer as many different modules as Handspring, and match their prices.
Let me get this straight, 2.5 hours of video on a 128 meg memory stick? Yeah, right. Even DivX uses 600+ megabytes to hold that much, and no 33mhz processor can decode MPEG-4 (or MPEG-2), so the video would have to be MPEG-1 or AVI which isn't compressed at all. Who wants to watch grainy (because of the coarse resolution), 10 fps video on a 3 inch screen? Also, the only possible way to cram 4 hours of mp3s would be to encode them at 64 kbps or lower, which is FM radio quality, and besides, Sony hates mp3s because of their ties to the record industry. Other than Sony's outrageous claims, sounds like a winner if they can keep it less than $500.