I think they should improve the AddressBar/Dropdown to incorporate things like being able to remove a URL from the list You mean like hovering the cursor over a URL in the list and pressing the delete key? Works nicely in 2.x
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Or you know we could play games on these things called Pee Cees. In which case all it has to do is load the game menu from my 10000 RPM hard drive and should only take about a second or two. EA disagrees with my immediate need to find a server and start capturing silos though and needs to show me 30 seconds of commercials every time I run BF2142.
Even on consoles though it shouldn't take more than a few seconds just to load a game menu and maybe a background image. The real data and texture loading should be done when you actually get around to loading the first map.
I'm going to have to agree with the parent here and not with the many people here comparing it to a Battlefield clone. If you want to compare it to anything it's more like the Assault game type from the original UT. It will depend on how the retail maps end up playing but I really enjoy the mission and objective based gameplay more than the typical "capture the flag" or "control the nodes" type stuff which is all you typically see these days(granted, I have not played TF2 yet). I do think ETQW lacks some of the interface polish that games like Battlefield have but still I haven't had as much fun playing any recent FPS(excluding Metroid Prime 3) as I have the ETQW demo.
Agreed. Most of the people that are posting about the massive benefit that Live gives them but would probably be just as happy running the free XFire. Live may do a bit more, but not $80 a year more. I'd rather buy more games.
Uh, you can do the same on the Wii if you so choose. The Wii of course takes SD memory cards so it's not very hard to move your save file off of the system in favor of another.
I hope to see Military Madness show up soon too. At least we're getting Dungeon Explorer. For those who never played it, it is a very fun multiplayer co-op with gameplay very reminiscent of Gauntlet only with more RPG elements to it like Zelda. I recommend everyone try it.
I don't have a real opinion on this, but do cows not have souls or something? If it's ok to clone animals to eat what makes it any less ethical to clone super models as fuck toys? I don't know if they'll be able to outlaw cloning of any kind but how much of a stretch would it be for some corporation to buy equipment for cloning livestock and then modify it for people? With the amount of money and power insurance companies have these days how long will it be untill we have one like in "The Island"?
There are still too many questions for me to pass judgement just yet. I imagine it could be an interesting issue for the republicans to see how the religious right weighs it vs big business. I can see how this would be helpfull to a lot of people but it does seem like this slope just may be a bit too slippery for my taste.
Fingerprints I can see being more of a problem, but I can whipe those off. My assumption is based more off of my own silver GB SP and my roomates original silver DS and all the little black spots that have shown up in the finish just by living in a pocket. I could be wrong though. Ultimately these are just excuses for me not wanting a white one though.
Of course they sold more DS Lites in Europe. They get to buy a black one. Offer me a black, blue, or some other dark color of the DS Lite and I'll go out and buy it right now. It may seem silly but I can just imagine how tore up that shiney white finish will look after a month. Give me a black one too!
I'd also like to see how a Pentium D would perform in the same system seeing as how it's socket compatible with Conroe. This will help isolate whether it is indeed the CPU or if it's more to do with the I/O subsystem(chipset).
You may have an X800 but if you read the article you'ld see that this performance boost doesn't apply to you. It only works for X1800(and maybe X1600 and X1300) cards that have the programable memory controller. The X800 actualy loses one or two FPS using the new driver, sorry:(
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Maybe it requires DirectX because DirectX is a lot more than a 3D API. The Windows version of Quake 4(and Doom 3, Quake 3, Quake 2...) uses OpenGL for graphics, DirectSound for audio, and DirectInput for it's control interface. The Direct3D API is never used. I'm sure the requirements mention a DX9 video card just to help eliminate confusion, although you snipped out the part where it lists every supported card.
So yeah, Quake 4 for Windows uses BOTH OpenGL AND a subset DirectX, but it never uses Direct3D.
That's what it would sound like when sniping one of the bot spawn points on CTF-Face. There would also be an "Unstoppable" in there somewhere from being alive for so long.
I recently got a notebook with Unichrome shared video. When I installed the video driver for XP it immediately switched to 1024x768x32(native res for the 12" display) without so much as a dialog box asking if it was ok. It just worked and never once asked for a reboot. It also shocked the hell out of me so I ended up rebooting anyway out of habit/disbelief.
I was looking at car chargers for my SP when I found one from Pelican. It has a self-winding cord with a USB port on the end which I can use to plug in to a computer(won't do data obviously) or to a special lighter plug for the car that has a USB port. It makes a perfect travel charger as it's much smaller than the standard AC adapter, even with the car connector. It works perfectly and doesn't even need any power to negotiate a USB signal like the phones that some others have mentioned. I agree that this kind of thing is something that more devices should standardize on.
What's funny about that(and purely anecdotal) is that the WHQL certified driver from November gave me blue screens in World of Warcraft and other random lockups while the uncertified drivers from July have yet to give a hiccup. I've also had issues with some WHQL drivers for the Sound Blaster Live, while having no problems with other non-WHQL drivers for things like SATA controllers.
So as far as I'm concerned the only advantage to WHQL drivers is that I don't have to make an extra mouse click during a driver install. Thanks Microsoft!
Actualy Windows XP is smart enough to recognize a HT CPU as one real CPU and one virtual CPU. That's why you can use HT on XP Home(which only supports one CPU). So I imagine that at the very least XP Pro would see a dual core CPU with HT as two real and two virtual CPUs and work just fine like that.
What I'm interested in seeing is how XP Home will support dual cores. Even if it can't yet tell the difference between a dual core CPU and two physical chips , I'm sure MS will end up patching it or something. I can't see Intel releasing a dual core "mainstream" CPU that isn't fully supported by MS's "mainstream" OS.
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Or you know we could play games on these things called Pee Cees. In which case all it has to do is load the game menu from my 10000 RPM hard drive and should only take about a second or two. EA disagrees with my immediate need to find a server and start capturing silos though and needs to show me 30 seconds of commercials every time I run BF2142.
Even on consoles though it shouldn't take more than a few seconds just to load a game menu and maybe a background image. The real data and texture loading should be done when you actually get around to loading the first map.
Off-topic, regarding the merits of ET:QW...
I'm going to have to agree with the parent here and not with the many people here comparing it to a Battlefield clone. If you want to compare it to anything it's more like the Assault game type from the original UT. It will depend on how the retail maps end up playing but I really enjoy the mission and objective based gameplay more than the typical "capture the flag" or "control the nodes" type stuff which is all you typically see these days(granted, I have not played TF2 yet). I do think ETQW lacks some of the interface polish that games like Battlefield have but still I haven't had as much fun playing any recent FPS(excluding Metroid Prime 3) as I have the ETQW demo.
Agreed. Most of the people that are posting about the massive benefit that Live gives them but would probably be just as happy running the free XFire. Live may do a bit more, but not $80 a year more. I'd rather buy more games.
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Robopuppy Mistreatment Alert!
Uh, you can do the same on the Wii if you so choose. The Wii of course takes SD memory cards so it's not very hard to move your save file off of the system in favor of another.
I hope to see Military Madness show up soon too. At least we're getting Dungeon Explorer. For those who never played it, it is a very fun multiplayer co-op with gameplay very reminiscent of Gauntlet only with more RPG elements to it like Zelda. I recommend everyone try it.
I don't have a real opinion on this, but do cows not have souls or something? If it's ok to clone animals to eat what makes it any less ethical to clone super models as fuck toys? I don't know if they'll be able to outlaw cloning of any kind but how much of a stretch would it be for some corporation to buy equipment for cloning livestock and then modify it for people? With the amount of money and power insurance companies have these days how long will it be untill we have one like in "The Island"?
There are still too many questions for me to pass judgement just yet. I imagine it could be an interesting issue for the republicans to see how the religious right weighs it vs big business. I can see how this would be helpfull to a lot of people but it does seem like this slope just may be a bit too slippery for my taste.
Yeah, but the Daily Show is funny.
The Pentium D 950 runs at 3.4Ghz. The Core 2 Duo E6600 only runs at 2.4Ghz. So by your logic the Pentium must be faster because of the clock speed...
So silly.
CRATE-O-WUSS!
In 32-bit Windows you can add the switch /3GB to the boot.ini file and it will allow 3GB to be allocated to programs instead of 2GB.
For the record I have 4GB and disabled the page file.
Yeah, I stopped watching Icons when I saw they had an episode about Michelle Rodriguez.
WTF?!?
Fingerprints I can see being more of a problem, but I can whipe those off. My assumption is based more off of my own silver GB SP and my roomates original silver DS and all the little black spots that have shown up in the finish just by living in a pocket. I could be wrong though. Ultimately these are just excuses for me not wanting a white one though.
Of course they sold more DS Lites in Europe. They get to buy a black one. Offer me a black, blue, or some other dark color of the DS Lite and I'll go out and buy it right now. It may seem silly but I can just imagine how tore up that shiney white finish will look after a month. Give me a black one too!
I'd also like to see how a Pentium D would perform in the same system seeing as how it's socket compatible with Conroe. This will help isolate whether it is indeed the CPU or if it's more to do with the I/O subsystem(chipset).
You may have an X800 but if you read the article you'ld see that this performance boost doesn't apply to you. It only works for X1800(and maybe X1600 and X1300) cards that have the programable memory controller. The X800 actualy loses one or two FPS using the new driver, sorry :(
Maybe it requires DirectX because DirectX is a lot more than a 3D API. The Windows version of Quake 4(and Doom 3, Quake 3, Quake 2...) uses OpenGL for graphics, DirectSound for audio, and DirectInput for it's control interface. The Direct3D API is never used. I'm sure the requirements mention a DX9 video card just to help eliminate confusion, although you snipped out the part where it lists every supported card.
So yeah, Quake 4 for Windows uses BOTH OpenGL AND a subset DirectX, but it never uses Direct3D.
I believe the phrase that you're looking for is...
"SHINKU TATUMAKI SENPU KYAKO!!!"
Super Hurricane Kick FTW!
(yes, I'm very lonely)
Double Kill!
Multi Kill!
Ultra Kill!
Mon...
Mon...
Monster Kill!
Mon...
Monster Kill!
GODLIKE!
That's what it would sound like when sniping one of the bot spawn points on CTF-Face. There would also be an "Unstoppable" in there somewhere from being alive for so long.
Good times.
Yes, it is great. I use the Game Boy Player for my 'Cube to play it all of the time.
I recently got a notebook with Unichrome shared video. When I installed the video driver for XP it immediately switched to 1024x768x32(native res for the 12" display) without so much as a dialog box asking if it was ok. It just worked and never once asked for a reboot. It also shocked the hell out of me so I ended up rebooting anyway out of habit/disbelief.
I was looking at car chargers for my SP when I found one from Pelican. It has a self-winding cord with a USB port on the end which I can use to plug in to a computer(won't do data obviously) or to a special lighter plug for the car that has a USB port. It makes a perfect travel charger as it's much smaller than the standard AC adapter, even with the car connector. It works perfectly and doesn't even need any power to negotiate a USB signal like the phones that some others have mentioned. I agree that this kind of thing is something that more devices should standardize on.
What's funny about that(and purely anecdotal) is that the WHQL certified driver from November gave me blue screens in World of Warcraft and other random lockups while the uncertified drivers from July have yet to give a hiccup. I've also had issues with some WHQL drivers for the Sound Blaster Live, while having no problems with other non-WHQL drivers for things like SATA controllers.
So as far as I'm concerned the only advantage to WHQL drivers is that I don't have to make an extra mouse click during a driver install.
Thanks Microsoft!
Actualy Windows XP is smart enough to recognize a HT CPU as one real CPU and one virtual CPU. That's why you can use HT on XP Home(which only supports one CPU). So I imagine that at the very least XP Pro would see a dual core CPU with HT as two real and two virtual CPUs and work just fine like that.
What I'm interested in seeing is how XP Home will support dual cores. Even if it can't yet tell the difference between a dual core CPU and two physical chips , I'm sure MS will end up patching it or something. I can't see Intel releasing a dual core "mainstream" CPU that isn't fully supported by MS's "mainstream" OS.