Just to help you out, I would seriously recommend 1GB RAM and a video card in the >$100 range for this game. Also a fast hard drive is a must. I've had no trouble with my slow CPU though... (I don't think.)
Step 0) If you have an old Mac, go buy a PC and install Linux. Step 1) Buy windows, or download it from bittorrent if you prefer Step 2) Do something with bootcamp. I'll let you figure that as you guys are the Mac people. Step 3) Install windows. This part takes a while -- go outside. The vast part of a Vista install requires no user intervention thanks the amazing invention of the DVD. Step 4) Reboot into Windows Step 4) Install LOTRO.
Seriously, I installed new RAM and a video card to play LOTRO (which I would recommend BTW if your system is > 2yrs old) and you guys can't be bothered to reboot.
Gee, god forbid they work on the gameplay a bit and ignore the ultra sparkly nekkid goddess graphics. Conservative or no, they will sell games if they make it for the 360.
Honestly if they want a large installed base they should stick with the PS2. Square's best games ever have been on consoles primitive by today's standards. However, today there is no next-gen console with enough penetration to make an exclusive game. So you either go with the PS2, or you go multi-platform, or you're backasswards and not willing to invest to sell more games. Bungie doesn't count either; MS pwned them a long time ago.
Yeah and grade school research papers are so hard to write. "research" paper. I've always hated the term. You go and aggregate stuff that someone's prolly already aggregated much better somewhere else and you get a grade.
Comparing "equal" components is a slippery slope, but when I was buying a laptop, I found that the Mac equivalent to my ThinkPad was about $100 more. Of course, I was wiling to put in more RAM myself...
I'd say on notebooks, the price difference is small to negligible, however I was really pissed off that I had to pay 200 more for a black one. Fuck that. ThinkPads come in any color you want for free, as long as it's black.
Only two things on Vista require more RAM than XP, near as I can tell. One is the new window manager, with all the DRM and whatnot, and the other is keeping different versions of DLLs for different versions of programs, so that they cannot be shared in memory. The first one is a configurable option. Beryl is a hog too. The latter theoretically saves you from DLL hell, and I can attest that I have had no such problems... yet.
Unused memory is wasted memory (unless we're worried about power here and your memory actually works that way), so I wouldn't go based on the free set.
Vista has a ton of problems, and I have a t-shirt to prove it, but RAM usage is hardly one of them.
Has anyone else noticed that the new comment system looks like crap in IE7?
(My firefox can't access anything right now due a known bug, and I am listening to internet radio. If I restart 'fox then I will have to listen to ads.)
Step 1) Develop revolutionary assault rifle. Step 2) Take over Eastern Europe. Step 3) Encourage production of said assault rifle by communist means. Step 4) ??? Step 5) Profit!
The French weren't able to patent sparkling wine making process, or they'd still have a legitimate claim, assuming the patent was still valid -- talk about prior art. The issue of appelation is but also settled by various international treaties.
Oh, man, we clearly play different games. I only play team tactics games (mostly team skirmish in the Halo 3 Beta lately), but the fact remains that you can't tell an aimbot from world's best players. I don't mind getting owned by the latter, but the former really pisses me off, because the cheaters are also the most annoying teammates and opponents.
I'll pay 50 bucks for the network with no cheaters. As others have said, I really wish they'd host the games themselves, but at least you can filter people by country and connection and your basic standby attack will get you banned.
That said, cheating has different effects on different games. In Halo 2, you can just make people die automatically as they spawn, thus ruining the game. Of course this is not the most egregious form of cheating, because it's obvious. The worst for me is the guy who snipes you every time, as you try to get close to him but are too far away to use any other weapon. Is he an aimbot or just really good? Who knows?
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we just don't think DRM-free tracks alone are worth paying an extra 30 cents a track for.. Have fun buying your album again to play it on your cell phone's MP3 player.
PC - free online, dedicated servers, 32, 64 player games in which you will get owned by cheaters PS3- free online, dedicated servers, 32, 40 player games in all of which you will get owned by cheaters Halo 3 - 16 player p2p laggy mess no cheaters
If multi-core chips made it into laptops first, it's because they're more efficient. You can easily shut down the second core in the OS if it's not needed, buying yourself massive power savings.
Also as the Core Duo is the successor to the Pentium M, it's technology was already in laptops, even if they were single core. Even a dual core Core chip easily burns less juice than that dog the Pentium 4, as anyone who's ever had a Pentium 4 laptop sitting on his lap will attest to. As a side note, I also believe the Pentium 4 contributed towards the trend of huge (in screen size and weight) laptops, which now seems to be reversing itself.
It is still difficult to justify if you can more easily write more efficient single-threaded apps. What consumer-level apps out there really need more processing power than a single core of a modern CPU can provide? I already understand the enterprise need. In fact, multi-threaded solutions for enterprise and scientific apps are already prevalent, that market having had SMP for a long time.
The supreme court ruling sounded like a history lesson. Hilarious. I'd hate to be the attorney arguing that such a law didn't violate the establishment clause. Embarrassing.
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Just to help you out, I would seriously recommend 1GB RAM and a video card in the >$100 range for this game. Also a fast hard drive is a must. I've had no trouble with my slow CPU though... (I don't think.)
Step 0) If you have an old Mac, go buy a PC and install Linux.
Step 1) Buy windows, or download it from bittorrent if you prefer
Step 2) Do something with bootcamp. I'll let you figure that as you guys are the Mac people.
Step 3) Install windows. This part takes a while -- go outside. The vast part of a Vista install requires no user intervention thanks the amazing invention of the DVD.
Step 4) Reboot into Windows
Step 4) Install LOTRO.
Seriously, I installed new RAM and a video card to play LOTRO (which I would recommend BTW if your system is > 2yrs old) and you guys can't be bothered to reboot.
Gee, god forbid they work on the gameplay a bit and ignore the ultra sparkly nekkid goddess graphics. Conservative or no, they will sell games if they make it for the 360.
Honestly if they want a large installed base they should stick with the PS2. Square's best games ever have been on consoles primitive by today's standards. However, today there is no next-gen console with enough penetration to make an exclusive game. So you either go with the PS2, or you go multi-platform, or you're backasswards and not willing to invest to sell more games. Bungie doesn't count either; MS pwned them a long time ago.
Yeah and grade school research papers are so hard to write. "research" paper. I've always hated the term. You go and aggregate stuff that someone's prolly already aggregated much better somewhere else and you get a grade.
There is a wheelchair that can climb stairs. It's pretty expensive, but I'd bet it's cheaper than this robot for any time in the forseeable future.
Comparing "equal" components is a slippery slope, but when I was buying a laptop, I found that the Mac equivalent to my ThinkPad was about $100 more. Of course, I was wiling to put in more RAM myself...
I'd say on notebooks, the price difference is small to negligible, however I was really pissed off that I had to pay 200 more for a black one. Fuck that. ThinkPads come in any color you want for free, as long as it's black.
Only two things on Vista require more RAM than XP, near as I can tell. One is the new window manager, with all the DRM and whatnot, and the other is keeping different versions of DLLs for different versions of programs, so that they cannot be shared in memory. The first one is a configurable option. Beryl is a hog too. The latter theoretically saves you from DLL hell, and I can attest that I have had no such problems... yet.
Unused memory is wasted memory (unless we're worried about power here and your memory actually works that way), so I wouldn't go based on the free set.
Vista has a ton of problems, and I have a t-shirt to prove it, but RAM usage is hardly one of them.
Has anyone else noticed that the new comment system looks like crap in IE7?
(My firefox can't access anything right now due a known bug, and I am listening to internet radio. If I restart 'fox then I will have to listen to ads.)
where???
yes i know this comment is lame
Vista runs fine on one gig of ram. It's still slow, but it's not swapping excessively under normal usage.
Reminds me of the time Mozart owned the Vatican by memorizing their super secret song and writing it down later.
You have to wonder what would've happened if they had had international lawsuits back then.
Step 1) Develop revolutionary assault rifle.
Step 2) Take over Eastern Europe.
Step 3) Encourage production of said assault rifle by communist means.
Step 4) ???
Step 5) Profit!
The French weren't able to patent sparkling wine making process, or they'd still have a legitimate claim, assuming the patent was still valid -- talk about prior art. The issue of appelation is but also settled by various international treaties.
Oh, man, we clearly play different games. I only play team tactics games (mostly team skirmish in the Halo 3 Beta lately), but the fact remains that you can't tell an aimbot from world's best players. I don't mind getting owned by the latter, but the former really pisses me off, because the cheaters are also the most annoying teammates and opponents.
I'll pay 50 bucks for the network with no cheaters. As others have said, I really wish they'd host the games themselves, but at least you can filter people by country and connection and your basic standby attack will get you banned.
That said, cheating has different effects on different games. In Halo 2, you can just make people die automatically as they spawn, thus ruining the game. Of course this is not the most egregious form of cheating, because it's obvious. The worst for me is the guy who snipes you every time, as you try to get close to him but are too far away to use any other weapon. Is he an aimbot or just really good? Who knows?
PC - free online, dedicated servers, 32, 64 player games in which you will get owned by cheaters
PS3- free online, dedicated servers, 32, 40 player games in all of which you will get owned by cheaters
Halo 3 - 16 player p2p laggy mess no cheaters
What's not robust about it? Or are you from the "no side effects allowed" camp?
If multi-core chips made it into laptops first, it's because they're more efficient. You can easily shut down the second core in the OS if it's not needed, buying yourself massive power savings.
Also as the Core Duo is the successor to the Pentium M, it's technology was already in laptops, even if they were single core. Even a dual core Core chip easily burns less juice than that dog the Pentium 4, as anyone who's ever had a Pentium 4 laptop sitting on his lap will attest to. As a side note, I also believe the Pentium 4 contributed towards the trend of huge (in screen size and weight) laptops, which now seems to be reversing itself.
It is still difficult to justify if you can more easily write more efficient single-threaded apps. What consumer-level apps out there really need more processing power than a single core of a modern CPU can provide? I already understand the enterprise need. In fact, multi-threaded solutions for enterprise and scientific apps are already prevalent, that market having had SMP for a long time.
Tried to compile my own Subversion on Friday, so I could have the latest and greatest.
It wanted me to go grab about 8 other packages and compile them from source, some of which no doubt required 8 other packages etc.
I ended up with a half-baked svn, that lacks web server functionality or something like that.
If you're reading, AC, how did much did yours cost? Their website doesn't seem to have a good answer for that.
And the OP was what?
Start out by dissing NASA and America and the response is predictable.
Nah, it runs on pirated Windows 98, and the "kernel" is an ActiveX control.
The supreme court ruling sounded like a history lesson. Hilarious. I'd hate to be the attorney arguing that such a law didn't violate the establishment clause. Embarrassing.