I've got a Sapphire Radeon 9700 in my machine, no problems at all (except ATI's drivers defaulting to have AGP Fast Writes enabled, which equals random crashes on my system). Must be ~3 years old now, I got it when the 9700/9700Pro GPUs were new.
I plan on replacing it with a Sapphire x800 card (best AGP Radeon I can find in Canada) "soon" unless I can trick my wife into letting me order whatever the x86 PowerMac replacement is going to be (MacMac Pro?).
Chris Satchell General manager of the Game Developer Group Microsoft "Developers need a better way to make games and manage the production process. XNA Studio enables all developers - from major development studios to the two guys moonlighting on a dream project in their garage or dorm room - to create games in new, more efficient ways."
Wait, isn't XNA and the Xbox development kit super expensive? Thus cutting out the "two guys moonlighting" entirely?
Why bother, Origami/UMPC will be as "successful" as Tablet PCs were a few years ago. The PDA market seems to be drying up, and these things are too big to be PDAs, but too small to be laptops... and they have lame battery life, horrible industrial design, etc.
That's still ridiculous. When I want to play a game, I want to play it now, because I happen to have a few minutes, an hour, whatever, available for gaming. Waiting isn't "fun" for me, especially when I'm paying a monthly fee for it.
I haven't experienced anything like this in City of Heroes or City of Villains.
Blizzard should definitely invest some of their mountains of incoming monthly cash in additional server hardware or whatever is required to fix this problem.
You left out "Realtime Combat Clickfest" and their somewhat random implementation of the 3rd edition rulesets. I tried it during the stress test and figured it would be a much better idea to wait and see how Neverwinter Nights 2 turns out.
Be sure to tell the publishers and developers of those games why you're not picking up a copy. Telling/. is fine, but we're not the suits making these decisions.
Uh, same thing you do when you're running RDC from a Mac... you right-click (I use Logitech mice on all my systems, including the Mac), or you hold down the Apple/Command key while clicking.
The one-button mouse thing isn't an issue. If you're going to dual-boot Windows/Linux/*BSD/whatever, go out and spend less than ten bucks on a decent USB mouse.
Any page displaying Flash ads that impact my system performance immediately gets all of their ads blocked. If you're going to be a jerk, you lose all your ad "income."
I think Intel's marketing dept. has gone bat-shit insane in the last year or two. The switch to basically random model numbers, and now this... it looks like they've got a sincere desire to confuse their customers. Are they hoping folks will accidentally buy too-expensive CPUs, or that they'll be happy with low-end CPUs that have high model numbers?
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Welcome to that secret No Fly list, sucker!
D'oh.
XBox 360 - Bringing the PC gaming experience to your living room!
I've got a Sapphire Radeon 9700 in my machine, no problems at all (except ATI's drivers defaulting to have AGP Fast Writes enabled, which equals random crashes on my system). Must be ~3 years old now, I got it when the 9700/9700Pro GPUs were new.
I plan on replacing it with a Sapphire x800 card (best AGP Radeon I can find in Canada) "soon" unless I can trick my wife into letting me order whatever the x86 PowerMac replacement is going to be (MacMac Pro?).
Sun doesn't provide a JVM for QNX, for example.
I also couldn't find a *BSD version on Sun's site. Or AIX, HP-UX, VMS, Irix, etc.
If you're not Solaris, Windows, or Mac OS X, you're not officially blessed by Sun. Three platforms isn't exactly "write once, run anywhere".
My weapon of choice is Google Images.
And Christopher Walken's dancing.
Wait, isn't XNA and the Xbox development kit super expensive? Thus cutting out the "two guys moonlighting" entirely?
Bah, everyone wants that skeletal Hollywood look while still being able (and almost compelled) to eat everything within reach...
Why not include a PhysX processor on the graphics card?
I'm not really that worried, since we were all killed by SARS a while back.
Raaa... brains...
Stupid fear-mongering media.
Why bother, Origami/UMPC will be as "successful" as Tablet PCs were a few years ago. The PDA market seems to be drying up, and these things are too big to be PDAs, but too small to be laptops... and they have lame battery life, horrible industrial design, etc.
I have my own basement now, dammit!
That's still ridiculous. When I want to play a game, I want to play it now, because I happen to have a few minutes, an hour, whatever, available for gaming. Waiting isn't "fun" for me, especially when I'm paying a monthly fee for it.
I haven't experienced anything like this in City of Heroes or City of Villains.
Blizzard should definitely invest some of their mountains of incoming monthly cash in additional server hardware or whatever is required to fix this problem.
Allow me to introduce you to these things called "computers" and "the Internet". We've had 400 pixel boobies for about two decades now.
You left out "Realtime Combat Clickfest" and their somewhat random implementation of the 3rd edition rulesets. I tried it during the stress test and figured it would be a much better idea to wait and see how Neverwinter Nights 2 turns out.
I almost hate to say it, but Alone in the Dark wasn't as bad as House of the Dead. I'll probably see BloodRayne when it's on the movie network, too.
Worst part of Alone in the Dark was Tara Reid's "acting". The writing was pretty lame, too.
Of course, I've never played Alone in the Dark.
Some of Droids is available on DVD. It's painful (my son likes it, but he's five).
Clearly a dump-truck full of money for all of the CxO executives and the Marketing "genius" that initiated this move.
Be sure to tell the publishers and developers of those games why you're not picking up a copy. Telling /. is fine, but we're not the suits making these decisions.
No, it'll obviously be:
Bambi II: Bambi's Revenge
Why wouldn't you download free screen savers from the Internet?
Gates started rich. It's trivial to make even more money when you've already got millions at your disposal.
Just look at Donald Trump. He's a terrible business man (but an excellent media whore); his fortune was inherited, not made.
Also note that both of them have horrible hair cuts. All that money, and they can't find a decent barber...
I always knew lawyers were terrorists.
Uh, same thing you do when you're running RDC from a Mac... you right-click (I use Logitech mice on all my systems, including the Mac), or you hold down the Apple/Command key while clicking.
The one-button mouse thing isn't an issue. If you're going to dual-boot Windows/Linux/*BSD/whatever, go out and spend less than ten bucks on a decent USB mouse.
Any page displaying Flash ads that impact my system performance immediately gets all of their ads blocked. If you're going to be a jerk, you lose all your ad "income."
I think Intel's marketing dept. has gone bat-shit insane in the last year or two. The switch to basically random model numbers, and now this... it looks like they've got a sincere desire to confuse their customers. Are they hoping folks will accidentally buy too-expensive CPUs, or that they'll be happy with low-end CPUs that have high model numbers?
Also, they can't trademark letters...