On one hand, it's a powerful piece of hardware if any of the hype we're getting fed is remotely accurate.
On the other hand, is it really a good idea to completely reinvent the wheel? Have we really pushed the computing power available to us in the old methods of rendering things in 3 dimensions?
Microsoft has been spending a frightening amount of money for the past year or so, when you think about it. They're hemmoraging money over the X-Box sales vs X-Box game sales, and the launch of the Live is the only sign of this pattern turning around any time soon.
What is going to be the result of removing the fan from the nVidia chip? Now, most of my expereince is with some seriously thermal video cards, but wouldn't the loss of a fan on this chip mean risking a meltdown?
The average gamer doesn't exactly treat their console like the computer it actually is, so there's a good chance the system might overheat and burn nice holes in the carpet, ne?
One question...
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Wireless Wales
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How are they going to handle the sudden influx of users when this opens fully? I'm afraid my command of how wireless operates is a bit shakey.. but isn't a general rule of thumb more users = less available bandwidth/stability?
We Saw This Coming...
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WotC announced its big contest for a new gaming world months ago. This isn't surprising. They fired the original game world owners to make room for new staff and a new setting that they can make pure profit on without coughing up cash to the original setting creators.
I wonder if there are any thematic parallels between the media's inability to properly get their hooks into online mediums and the inability of the suits at IBM to understand the old GUI OS that was so cleverly swiped from them in the days of yore?
We have an old guard who doesn't quite understand the ways things are really going and wind up having to play catchup later because they can't quite grasp what's happened to them.
Is it just me, or does this look a little bit like some greedy guy who managed to sneak a patent in under everyone's noses during the dot-boom? The timing of this is rather suspect...
What's next, anyway? Everybody and teir dog online is trying to get auction systems off the ground... This guy gonna sue em all?
There's a slight difference between Chris and this guy. Chris was looking for a new route for Spain to get to China so they could get filthy, stinking rich. Contrary to popular belief, people didn't think the world was flat in his time.
Something tells me that there's no immediate profit in some random rich guy blowing money for thrills.
Unless you're betting on or against him, of course.
I think that this is a reasonably good demonstration of how money can't really buy you real sense of satisfaction or common sense for that matter. I'm astounded that anyone can have either that much time on their hands, money to waste or lack of a sense of self-preservation.
The main problem is that there is actually a rather strong, organised group of people out ther ewho distrubite exploits and hacks for online games, considering it their 'right' to cheat because they purchased a copy of the game. The problem is that when they do this they fail to take into consideringation the position of the other people who's gaming experiences they're wrecking.
Of course.. the difference between Man and Beast, when you get down to it, is being able to think about things frm someone else's point of view, so when you think about it, this shows you something about the mental state of the organised online cheater.
Even a Chimp can think about something from someone else's perspective...
A different use of the word 'accessible' here. I think what he's driving at is that kids can *understand* where Spidey is coming from and can empathise with his situation better than they can the characters of Star Wars.
Well.. here's the trick.. the only reason that Neo is so hot is because he can warp the rules. The instant something ELSE figures out how to warp the rules it'll be time to worry.
In a way, an Agent should be able to do this even easier, since they are the 'law' of the system, as it were...
Spidey has never been about the keen super powers. The series has always been about the problems that arise when an otherwise normal guy gets bitten by the bug, as it were, to go out and try to make a difference in whatever way he can.
He's constantly having to sew up his costume when he gets it torn up... he's misplacing his civilian clothes.. having to deal with hiding his costume because he's not a quick change artist.
Peter Parker is just some average Joe from New York who wants to actually _do_ something... the fact that he can stick to things and throw a Volkswagon Bug are just chrome.
These days a Bachelors degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on anyway. Most companies typically view a Bachelors in most majors as proof that you're capable of learning how to perhaps do a job.
A prof that actually cares about critical thinking in this day and age is a rare bird.
Okay.. I'm going to say something snarly here. Have they actually given serious thought to the possibility that the reason sales are down is because the fanatical followers of bubblegum pop have started to grow up?
Probably not.
This is a supply/demand issue. It's quite possible that the listening audience demand has dropped because the supply is drek.
The largest problem of the Merlin Cycle is that, from the look of things, it was never actually finished. Judging from the short stories that got published in Amberzine and other places, he had something else cooking...
That's one of the little wonders of the American legislative process that sometimes works both for and against us. When it comes to laws, a committee can take that sucker and kill it graveyard dead, simply by refusing to look at the blighter. Sure, it allows a minority of people in comparison to the whole body to have a great deal of control over the passing of new law, but sometimes you need one cool individual in a whole mess of chuckleheads to save everyone some greif later down the line.
Corporations don't typically look at the "long run" because they're trying to pacify their investors. Investors, as you may know, are some of the most short-sighted, whiney creatures in existance.
I think this one wins hand down in the gaming lies category. Daikatana has to be one of the most overhyped, underpowered, broken and wrong pieces of gaming software I've seen in a long time. But... What about other vendor lies, outside the realm of games?
Get used to it, various console companies have pulled stunts like this back and forth for years. They've also done dirtier things entirely, like inflict Pokemon and bad North American renditions of Sonic the Hedgehog on us all.
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I'm of two minds about this card.
On one hand, it's a powerful piece of hardware if any of the hype we're getting fed is remotely accurate.
On the other hand, is it really a good idea to completely reinvent the wheel? Have we really pushed the computing power available to us in the old methods of rendering things in 3 dimensions?
A little bit of conventional wisdom: alienating your developers is a Bad Idea.
Microsoft has been spending a frightening amount of money for the past year or so, when you think about it. They're hemmoraging money over the X-Box sales vs X-Box game sales, and the launch of the Live is the only sign of this pattern turning around any time soon.
When you really want your privacy.. I know of only one way that really makes any old data on a drive more or less gone.
The physical destruction of the recording medium.
If memory serves, the DC actually *does* run an incarnation of Windows CE.
What is going to be the result of removing the fan from the nVidia chip? Now, most of my expereince is with some seriously thermal video cards, but wouldn't the loss of a fan on this chip mean risking a meltdown?
The average gamer doesn't exactly treat their console like the computer it actually is, so there's a good chance the system might overheat and burn nice holes in the carpet, ne?
How are they going to handle the sudden influx of users when this opens fully? I'm afraid my command of how wireless operates is a bit shakey.. but isn't a general rule of thumb more users = less available bandwidth/stability?
WotC announced its big contest for a new gaming world months ago. This isn't surprising. They fired the original game world owners to make room for new staff and a new setting that they can make pure profit on without coughing up cash to the original setting creators.
I wonder if there are any thematic parallels between the media's inability to properly get their hooks into online mediums and the inability of the suits at IBM to understand the old GUI OS that was so cleverly swiped from them in the days of yore?
We have an old guard who doesn't quite understand the ways things are really going and wind up having to play catchup later because they can't quite grasp what's happened to them.
Is it just me, or does this look a little bit like some greedy guy who managed to sneak a patent in under everyone's noses during the dot-boom? The timing of this is rather suspect...
What's next, anyway? Everybody and teir dog online is trying to get auction systems off the ground... This guy gonna sue em all?
There's a slight difference between Chris and this guy. Chris was looking for a new route for Spain to get to China so they could get filthy, stinking rich. Contrary to popular belief, people didn't think the world was flat in his time.
Something tells me that there's no immediate profit in some random rich guy blowing money for thrills.
Unless you're betting on or against him, of course.
I think that this is a reasonably good demonstration of how money can't really buy you real sense of satisfaction or common sense for that matter. I'm astounded that anyone can have either that much time on their hands, money to waste or lack of a sense of self-preservation.
Death is a Bad Thing, umkay?
The main problem is that there is actually a rather strong, organised group of people out ther ewho distrubite exploits and hacks for online games, considering it their 'right' to cheat because they purchased a copy of the game. The problem is that when they do this they fail to take into consideringation the position of the other people who's gaming experiences they're wrecking.
Of course.. the difference between Man and Beast, when you get down to it, is being able to think about things frm someone else's point of view, so when you think about it, this shows you something about the mental state of the organised online cheater.
Even a Chimp can think about something from someone else's perspective...
A different use of the word 'accessible' here. I think what he's driving at is that kids can *understand* where Spidey is coming from and can empathise with his situation better than they can the characters of Star Wars.
Well.. here's the trick.. the only reason that Neo is so hot is because he can warp the rules. The instant something ELSE figures out how to warp the rules it'll be time to worry.
In a way, an Agent should be able to do this even easier, since they are the 'law' of the system, as it were...
Special operator privelages...
Spidey has never been about the keen super powers. The series has always been about the problems that arise when an otherwise normal guy gets bitten by the bug, as it were, to go out and try to make a difference in whatever way he can.
He's constantly having to sew up his costume when he gets it torn up... he's misplacing his civilian clothes.. having to deal with hiding his costume because he's not a quick change artist.
Peter Parker is just some average Joe from New York who wants to actually _do_ something... the fact that he can stick to things and throw a Volkswagon Bug are just chrome.
These days a Bachelors degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on anyway. Most companies typically view a Bachelors in most majors as proof that you're capable of learning how to perhaps do a job.
A prof that actually cares about critical thinking in this day and age is a rare bird.
Okay.. I'm going to say something snarly here. Have they actually given serious thought to the possibility that the reason sales are down is because the fanatical followers of bubblegum pop have started to grow up?
Probably not.
This is a supply/demand issue. It's quite possible that the listening audience demand has dropped because the supply is drek.
The largest problem of the Merlin Cycle is that, from the look of things, it was never actually finished. Judging from the short stories that got published in Amberzine and other places, he had something else cooking...
That's one of the little wonders of the American legislative process that sometimes works both for and against us. When it comes to laws, a committee can take that sucker and kill it graveyard dead, simply by refusing to look at the blighter. Sure, it allows a minority of people in comparison to the whole body to have a great deal of control over the passing of new law, but sometimes you need one cool individual in a whole mess of chuckleheads to save everyone some greif later down the line.
THANK YOU, Senator Leahy.
Corporations don't typically look at the "long run" because they're trying to pacify their investors. Investors, as you may know, are some of the most short-sighted, whiney creatures in existance.
Investors don't want "long term".
Investors want Progress Now.
I think this one wins hand down in the gaming lies category. Daikatana has to be one of the most overhyped, underpowered, broken and wrong pieces of gaming software I've seen in a long time. But... What about other vendor lies, outside the realm of games?
The later one of the two that were released was pretty bad. I was reminded, when I first saw it, of a bad ripoff of Roadrunner cartoons...
Get used to it, various console companies have pulled stunts like this back and forth for years. They've also done dirtier things entirely, like inflict Pokemon and bad North American renditions of Sonic the Hedgehog on us all.
Anybody want a chilidog?