I'm actually going to be tuning in to watch the Bradnick vs. Cobb debate. I swear everytime I listen to Bush or Kerry speak all I can think about is sports players who after a major play in their interview all say the same shit "You know I just had to get in there, try my best, give 110%, practice everyday, thank my family and god for support" blah blah blah - I want to hear someone who can talk better than I write. Someone who doesn't have all the answers on a que card, someone who's not afraid to say "i'm not sure" instead of "it'll be fine"
Not really. The threat was coming from Shinra and those who used the mako or whatever it was called. When the ultima weapns starting attacking it was only cities and places where mako was manufactured/refined/used a lot. They weren't just randomly killing everything in their path.
I always assumed that Holy eseentially destroyed all civilization (not humans in general). THis could be done by simply having all mako run machines stop functioning, therefore cities losing power and technology becoming useless, as well as things like airships falling form the sky.
Sure lots of people would die, but Holy in and of itself wouldn't just outright kill all human life forces.
At least that was my take on it. But it has been many years since I played.
I doubt that. Lets look at Vincents character - he was a Turk who loved a chick (lucrent - something like that) who loved an evil scientist (Hojo) who eventually experimented with their child (Sepheroth - probably spelled wrong). Vincent then confronting Hojo gets his arm shot off and replaced with a mechanical claw while being experimented on by Hojo and locked in a basement for 30 years.
His character joins you looking for revenge mostly. So it seems that when the initial fighting and saving the world part is all said and done that he would have some issues of his own that he needs to deal with.
Damn I need to take a shower and wash off this nerd smell now.
Star Trek and Next Generation were really original and held my attention as well as made me want to go pay $9 at the theatres to see them.
Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise just seemed to go downhill becoming even more cheesy feeding the strange habits of trekies at conventions. I stopped watching around this time.
The conventions have gotten to be a joke, I don't want to hear about some guy who met Howard Stern once or some fat sweaty meathead talk about the latest designs of Vulcan Ships.
The only people who really enjoy watching star trek now are the zealots, or people who will watch it if nothing else is on. No normal person actually thinks to themselves "oh hay Enterprise is on at blah on blah I better stay home and watch it"
Get rid of it, and lets put more effort into other shows that are just as good or better...
Brazil is a great movie but I don't think it spun off anywhere near the amount of say the Terminator did. We've seen references to terminator in campy punch line cartoons and shows, as well as many B-type movie rip offs.
"Like craigslist, eBay is about helping folks get everyday stuff done, on a level playing field - they emphasize trustworthiness and reputation, and try really hard to listen to people. Basically, we're both about building community, and humanizing and democratizing the 'net, and there's gotta be more of that."
This is utter Bullshit. First off Craigslist has many sections a good portion of which are adult related (see the Erotic Section). In addition Craigslist also supports anonymous posting and emailing as well as a Rant and Rave section that is 100% uncensorsed by anyone other than the viewers of Craigslist. meaning that unless enough people "flag" a posting it can not be removed. Craigslist does not have intrusive ads, in fact most of their sections don't have any ads.
Ebay on the other hand and especially their payment company Paypal is totally for censuring adult related material and the language of it's auctions. Both things that Craigslist would never intrude upon. And I shouldn't even have to mention how many ads Ebay and Paypal have/use.
I for one hope someone else starts a Craigslist ripoff that continues a truly free and adless site.
As an out of control vehicle it could have has easily been hit by a truck as a Hummer and had the same outcome, perhaps even an impact with a small hybrid Prius would have had the same outcome (but been far more ironic).
It could have been hit by a MINI Cooper and still killed the guy.
I hope their fudning is given to another team with common sense.
Sky Blue "Lets see how many accidents a year we can have" Racing Team are notorious for making these paperweights non-street legal cars and setting them loose on public roads. Since no action has been taken in the past with the near fatalities and various other car crashes they've had - now that someone has actually died maybe they can lose their funding and get disbanded or at least replace all the team members with people who have at least half a brain and can think of the drivers safety and oh maybe have the car ON A CLOSED COURSE and not drive their tinfoilmobiles on the highway....fucking morons...
Also Michael - you're a fucking jackass - I hate hummers more than most, but this doesn't have anything to do with that fact. Their car was on a highway and if someones MINI Cooper had nailed it the same damn thing would have happened. Lets put the focus back where it belongs - A solar power car team keeps building cars that are EXTREMEMELY UNSAFE and have injured their previous drivers and now killed one, the team needs to be restructured or give their funding to someone else with half a brain.
I'm a firm believer in the "idea" of traffic laws. Meaning in the mornings travelling to work in traffic I follow the speed limits accordingly. In the rain I drive a little slower and make sure to keep a good space cushion. I have never been in a car accident.
However come summer time, i'm in my sports car and WILL drive 120mph at 5am on my way to LA for a week, I WILL also go 80-90 when in a hurry and there is no one in fornt of me for the next 75 yards and my speed detector is not "bleeping".
This action would nullify my savings and probably eventually be grounds to give me a ticket in the mail.
In my current town of residence we already have Cameras on every single stop light that take pictures of cars as we go through the intersections on a red or when above a certain speed limit (not like 5-10mph - think 60 in a 25) which IMO is re-god-damn-dick-u-lous.
Now why woudl I want these cameras IN MY CAR in ADDITION to on my streets.
No Thanks. And too all you "good drivers" who NEVER go over the speed limit - just wait till you get your discount nurfed for going to slow...
Jesus was the final boss, the story evolved around a cart being towed by orcs because it was left at old mc dons farm over night, while looking for the cart you encounter john smith and his band of jesus followers who want to use an item in the cart for their own evil purposes.....heh it was really a story consisting of a bunch of inside jokes between me and my friends.
I can see all the people who are anal about other people's spelling and grammar online saying how typing is important and that real geeks or power users will learn how to type...
On the flip side you'll have all the people who DON'T care if someone uses "there" instead of "thier" on a forum post saying that typing is not esential because their chicken pecking typing skills go just as fast and are just as good...
Really it comes down to - some people think typing is great and like it and can type really fast; and other people can chicken peck at extremely fast speeds and will not see a need/reason too learn the "proper" way to type.
In a lot of ways I think the "proper typing" skills are a lot like the "proper dining" skills.(you know, knowing which fork is your sald fork) - In all honesty it DOESN'T matter if you use your little or big fork to eat your salad/steak with - no one should care about that IMO. So it would make sense that it shouldn't matter anymore if someone can type 100wpm using the home keys as a starting point or if they can type 100wpm using chicken pecking.
Thats funny! I was going to post how I enjoyed the mods(like penultima) made by the NWN Community more than the actual game itself, and low and behold your post is the first one I see.
Anyway, NWN was a great game, but it hit every single one of my petpeeves. For instance the opening chapter being nothing but a fetch this item behind door one, now fetch the item behind door 2...ugh. Not to mention that to me, not a single character was very memorable.
The toolset on the other hand was amazing. Even though my mods sucked, my friends and I still enjoyed making and playing them (not many people appreciate mods involving killing jesus and music by ICP)
The first sequel that came out pissed me off. I installed it and the first chapter quest involved recovering 4 items, which immidately felt like a rehash of chapter one in the first game. I felt so angered that they'd charge me $40 for a rehash of the first part of the original game that I returned it and refused to buy the second expansion (which I hear is better).
Now with a new developer in command of this ship, I don't feel any desire to play NWN2 and I have no hope that a new kickass toolset will be available or supported. At least if I hope for nothing, I won't be dissapointed.
I no longer have to carry around a Phone, PDA, MP3 Player, and Walkie Talkie?
Whatever, some guy out there will always want to have his tech toys be separate items and he'll have a bag o' clutter full of one function gizmos. But the rest of us who have busy lives, dress well, drive sports cars, and have virtually NO ROOM to hoarde our "Phat Loot" around we'll be happy to purchase and use all-in-one devices.
Thats why our work has a Xerox Scanner/Fax/Copier/Printer machine and at home I have an Epson Scanner/Fax/Copier/Printer as well.
Sure there is a printer out there that is only a printer and has 2400dpi instead of 1200dpi, but it's not what most people need.
This book was totally unnessary and almost completely useless. It seems like 95% of the books reviewed on/. are favorable. Why even bother? If nearly every book is a good book, why not just put a rotating amazon link on the side of the page with the rest of your ads and let people click on "/. recommended" instead of wading through 6-10 paragraphs of "Chapter 1 was great, Chapter 2 was ok but I still liked it, Chapter 3 was amazing....over all I recommend this book" UGH/. has the fucking WORST reviews ever for books.
I think i'll just stick to reading the 1 liner amazon.com reviews - they actually have more content than these pages of fluff posted on here.
"I wonder if people would support such companies if they knew where the workers were from."
No one cares where things are made, thats why more people own Nintendos+Playstations than Xbox's, drive more Honda Civics than Ford Mustangs, and download pron from.jp more than.us....
Consumers want higher quality products for less. But that won't stop them from complaining about jobs being outsourced while they're playing with their Aibo.
I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be. - Taylor, Planet of the Apes
Sure i'd get a car that showed emotion, but i'm a sucker for over-priced, non-essential, almost-useless-gadgets....BUT by the description I immediately thought of the Chevron with Techron commercials. First I thought - "hay if my car looked/acted like that it'd be kinda cool" but then I thought "Does this count as Prior Art? Could Chevron sue Toyota or some such lame as scenario?"
dude IE already has pop-up blocking...if you've installed either a Google or Yahoo toolbar. And lets not forget about NIS that has those same ad blocking features as well.
At my work everyone has a hard on for Yahoo news and Google searching, and i've yet to see anyone here who doesn't have at least 1 of these 2 bars installed.
So the idea that the other browsers are getting more market share "because" of IE having issues is wishful thinking - if they gain market share they will gain market share because people find them useful and effecient.
IMO I have no reason to use anything other than Safari on my Mac and i've a feeling it'll stay that way for some time.
Heres the Q&A copied and pasted from the interview (too many ads on that page for my liking) and notice how the interviewer seems to think that somehow Apple Hardware and PC Hardware are different? Uh HELLO the Linksys NIC I use in my PC is the same one that is in my G5! Also I love how the guy asks twice about "nvidia making 3D drivers for the card or allowing 3rd parties to do it" - it's the same answer twice in a row - APPLE WRITES THERE OWN SOFTWARE DRIVERS YOU FUCKING MORON. From the questions asked it seems like this apple fanatic was hoping that their card would 1) Be unique to only apple 2) Be faster than the PC counter part 3) Nvidia would make 3D drivers specifically for their Apple versions.
* How does the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL card for the Mac differ from the PC version (i.e. Does the PC version have dual link DVI?)
The GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL card was designed specifically for the Mac to provide two dual-link outputs to support Apple's displays.
* Does the Apple version of the GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU run at the same core/memory clock as the PC version?
The Apple cards run at 400/550, just like the GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU on the PC. (Note: Some vendor's 6800 cards are clocked higher than the standard/reference design.)
* The GeForce 6800 Ultra for the PC has two Molex power connectors - does the Mac version source all the power from the G5's AGP pro slot? (or does it have a aux power connector?)
There is an on-board power connector on the graphics card and the motherboard to provide power, so there is no need for an external power connector from the power supply. (although the only Mac 6800 photos I've seen are tiny, it appears there's a stub connector on the card that (I suspect) uses the ADC (28V or 24V usually) DC power connector on the motherboard that's normally used for ADC display power to provide additional power (regulated down) for the 6800 card. That eliminates the need for Aux. (Molex) P.S. connector(s) like the PC/standard 6800 card versions have.)
* Does the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL have a low-noise fan?
Yes, the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL runs very quiet.
* Will there ever be a control panel with 3D/GL/FSAA controls for the NVIDIA cards on the Mac platform? (ATI's retail Radeon cards (and OEM models with the 3rd party patch) have a '3D/GL overrides' feature - which is seen as a big plus by many end users.)
Apple provides all the drivers for NVIDIA-based add-in cards. We supply them with the source code and they provide the final driver.
* Regarding the previous question - if there's no chance of an Apple supplied NVIDIA card control panel (for advanced features/FSAA, etc.) - if a 3rd party wanted to do this, can NVIDIA provide some assistance?
Apple is our customer, so if this is something that they requested, then we would support it.
* There's been talk of previous NVIDIA cards taking a bigger than expected performance hit from using some types of shaders (on the Mac) - is this a concern with the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL?
GeForce 6 Series GPUs have the most advanced shading engines on the market. Compared to previous generation parts, the vertex and pixel shader engines on GeForce 6 Series GPUs have been completely redesigned from the ground-up. Pixel Shader performance is 4 to 8 times faster. Vertex shader performance is twice as fast. Performance numbers have been outstanding.
* Will there updated/new drivers for the GeForce 6800 Ultra?
Yes. Apple provides all the drivers for NVIDIA-based add-in cards. We supply them with the source code and they provide the final driver. Apple will control the release schedules for drivers that provide even more performance, features and image quality enhancements.
* Do you have any idea how performance compares on the Mac between the GeForce 6800 Ultra and the ATI 9800 Pro/XT card?
GeForce 6800 Ultra represents the largest leap forward in graphics performance in our company's history. As expected, they are
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It almost makes me wish I had one - too bad I have a PS2 and Modded Xbox that kick the shit out of it. :P
I'm actually going to be tuning in to watch the Bradnick vs. Cobb debate. I swear everytime I listen to Bush or Kerry speak all I can think about is sports players who after a major play in their interview all say the same shit "You know I just had to get in there, try my best, give 110%, practice everyday, thank my family and god for support" blah blah blah - I want to hear someone who can talk better than I write. Someone who doesn't have all the answers on a que card, someone who's not afraid to say "i'm not sure" instead of "it'll be fine"
too bad I don't know anyone who gives a flying fuck enough to watch it....
Not really. The threat was coming from Shinra and those who used the mako or whatever it was called. When the ultima weapns starting attacking it was only cities and places where mako was manufactured/refined/used a lot. They weren't just randomly killing everything in their path.
I always assumed that Holy eseentially destroyed all civilization (not humans in general). THis could be done by simply having all mako run machines stop functioning, therefore cities losing power and technology becoming useless, as well as things like airships falling form the sky.
Sure lots of people would die, but Holy in and of itself wouldn't just outright kill all human life forces.
At least that was my take on it. But it has been many years since I played.
I doubt that. Lets look at Vincents character - he was a Turk who loved a chick (lucrent - something like that) who loved an evil scientist (Hojo) who eventually experimented with their child (Sepheroth - probably spelled wrong). Vincent then confronting Hojo gets his arm shot off and replaced with a mechanical claw while being experimented on by Hojo and locked in a basement for 30 years.
His character joins you looking for revenge mostly. So it seems that when the initial fighting and saving the world part is all said and done that he would have some issues of his own that he needs to deal with.
Damn I need to take a shower and wash off this nerd smell now.
Star Trek and Next Generation were really original and held my attention as well as made me want to go pay $9 at the theatres to see them.
Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise just seemed to go downhill becoming even more cheesy feeding the strange habits of trekies at conventions. I stopped watching around this time.
The conventions have gotten to be a joke, I don't want to hear about some guy who met Howard Stern once or some fat sweaty meathead talk about the latest designs of Vulcan Ships.
The only people who really enjoy watching star trek now are the zealots, or people who will watch it if nothing else is on. No normal person actually thinks to themselves "oh hay Enterprise is on at blah on blah I better stay home and watch it"
Get rid of it, and lets put more effort into other shows that are just as good or better...
I was really hoping that Jody Foster would decrypt the signals and be able to build a giant metal pod that would drop into the water.
Or maybe a giant planet would coem towards us and try to eat all our satelites.
Or maybe parasitic aliens would come use us as hosts and enslave us.
Oh the possibilities that could have been....
Influential is not equal to Good
Brazil is a great movie but I don't think it spun off anywhere near the amount of say the Terminator did. We've seen references to terminator in campy punch line cartoons and shows, as well as many B-type movie rip offs.
Brazil has not had that kind of influence.
Nope. I'm a pessimist not an optimist.
"Like craigslist, eBay is about helping folks get everyday stuff done, on a level playing field - they emphasize trustworthiness and reputation, and try really hard to listen to people. Basically, we're both about building community, and humanizing and democratizing the 'net, and there's gotta be more of that."
This is utter Bullshit. First off Craigslist has many sections a good portion of which are adult related (see the Erotic Section). In addition Craigslist also supports anonymous posting and emailing as well as a Rant and Rave section that is 100% uncensorsed by anyone other than the viewers of Craigslist. meaning that unless enough people "flag" a posting it can not be removed. Craigslist does not have intrusive ads, in fact most of their sections don't have any ads.
Ebay on the other hand and especially their payment company Paypal is totally for censuring adult related material and the language of it's auctions. Both things that Craigslist would never intrude upon. And I shouldn't even have to mention how many ads Ebay and Paypal have/use.
I for one hope someone else starts a Craigslist ripoff that continues a truly free and adless site.
As an out of control vehicle it could have has easily been hit by a truck as a Hummer and had the same outcome, perhaps even an impact with a small hybrid Prius would have had the same outcome (but been far more ironic).
It could have been hit by a MINI Cooper and still killed the guy.
I hope their fudning is given to another team with common sense.
Sky Blue "Lets see how many accidents a year we can have" Racing Team are notorious for making these paperweights non-street legal cars and setting them loose on public roads. Since no action has been taken in the past with the near fatalities and various other car crashes they've had - now that someone has actually died maybe they can lose their funding and get disbanded or at least replace all the team members with people who have at least half a brain and can think of the drivers safety and oh maybe have the car ON A CLOSED COURSE and not drive their tinfoilmobiles on the highway....fucking morons...
Also Michael - you're a fucking jackass - I hate hummers more than most, but this doesn't have anything to do with that fact. Their car was on a highway and if someones MINI Cooper had nailed it the same damn thing would have happened. Lets put the focus back where it belongs - A solar power car team keeps building cars that are EXTREMEMELY UNSAFE and have injured their previous drivers and now killed one, the team needs to be restructured
or give their funding to someone else with half a brain.
I'm a firm believer in the "idea" of traffic laws. Meaning in the mornings travelling to work in traffic I follow the speed limits accordingly. In the rain I drive a little slower and make sure to keep a good space cushion. I have never been in a car accident.
However come summer time, i'm in my sports car and WILL drive 120mph at 5am on my way to LA for a week, I WILL also go 80-90 when in a hurry and there is no one in fornt of me for the next 75 yards and my speed detector is not "bleeping".
This action would nullify my savings and probably eventually be grounds to give me a ticket in the mail.
In my current town of residence we already have Cameras on every single stop light that take pictures of cars as we go through the intersections on a red or when above a certain speed limit (not like 5-10mph - think 60 in a 25) which IMO is re-god-damn-dick-u-lous.
Now why woudl I want these cameras IN MY CAR in ADDITION to on my streets.
No Thanks. And too all you "good drivers" who NEVER go over the speed limit - just wait till you get your discount nurfed for going to slow...
Jesus was the final boss, the story evolved around a cart being towed by orcs because it was left at old mc dons farm over night, while looking for the cart you encounter john smith and his band of jesus followers who want to use an item in the cart for their own evil purposes.....heh it was really a story consisting of a bunch of inside jokes between me and my friends.
I can see all the people who are anal about other people's spelling and grammar online saying how typing is important and that real geeks or power users will learn how to type...
On the flip side you'll have all the people who DON'T care if someone uses "there" instead of "thier" on a forum post saying that typing is not esential because their chicken pecking typing skills go just as fast and are just as good...
Really it comes down to - some people think typing is great and like it and can type really fast; and other people can chicken peck at extremely fast speeds and will not see a need/reason too learn the "proper" way to type.
In a lot of ways I think the "proper typing" skills are a lot like the "proper dining" skills.(you know, knowing which fork is your sald fork) - In all honesty it DOESN'T matter if you use your little or big fork to eat your salad/steak with - no one should care about that IMO. So it would make sense that it shouldn't matter anymore if someone can type 100wpm using the home keys as a starting point or if they can type 100wpm using chicken pecking.
Thats funny! I was going to post how I enjoyed the mods(like penultima) made by the NWN Community more than the actual game itself, and low and behold your post is the first one I see.
Anyway, NWN was a great game, but it hit every single one of my petpeeves. For instance the opening chapter being nothing but a fetch this item behind door one, now fetch the item behind door 2...ugh. Not to mention that to me, not a single character was very memorable.
The toolset on the other hand was amazing. Even though my mods sucked, my friends and I still enjoyed making and playing them (not many people appreciate mods involving killing jesus and music by ICP)
The first sequel that came out pissed me off. I installed it and the first chapter quest involved recovering 4 items, which immidately felt like a rehash of chapter one in the first game. I felt so angered that they'd charge me $40 for a rehash of the first part of the original game that I returned it and refused to buy the second expansion (which I hear is better).
Now with a new developer in command of this ship, I don't feel any desire to play NWN2 and I have no hope that a new kickass toolset will be available or supported. At least if I hope for nothing, I won't be dissapointed.
Why you wouldn't just replace the old (insert ancient) servers?
Emulators never seem to work as well as the original, or better than the modern replacement.
I no longer have to carry around a Phone, PDA, MP3 Player, and Walkie Talkie?
Whatever, some guy out there will always want to have his tech toys be separate items and he'll have a bag o' clutter full of one function gizmos. But the rest of us who have busy lives, dress well, drive sports cars, and have virtually NO ROOM to hoarde our "Phat Loot" around we'll be happy to purchase and use all-in-one devices.
Thats why our work has a Xerox Scanner/Fax/Copier/Printer machine and at home I have an Epson Scanner/Fax/Copier/Printer as well.
Sure there is a printer out there that is only a printer and has 2400dpi instead of 1200dpi, but it's not what most people need.
This book was totally unnessary and almost completely useless. It seems like 95% of the books reviewed on /. are favorable. Why even bother? If nearly every book is a good book, why not just put a rotating amazon link on the side of the page with the rest of your ads and let people click on "/. recommended" instead of wading through 6-10 paragraphs of "Chapter 1 was great, Chapter 2 was ok but I still liked it, Chapter 3 was amazing....over all I recommend this book" UGH /. has the fucking WORST reviews ever for books.
I think i'll just stick to reading the 1 liner amazon.com reviews - they actually have more content than these pages of fluff posted on here.
"I wonder if people would support such companies if they knew where the workers were from."
.jp more than .us....
No one cares where things are made, thats why more people own Nintendos+Playstations than Xbox's, drive more Honda Civics than Ford Mustangs, and download pron from
Consumers want higher quality products for less. But that won't stop them from complaining about jobs being outsourced while they're playing with their Aibo.
I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be.
- Taylor, Planet of the Apes
Sure i'd get a car that showed emotion, but i'm a sucker for over-priced, non-essential, almost-useless-gadgets....BUT by the description I immediately thought of the Chevron with Techron commercials. First I thought - "hay if my car looked/acted like that it'd be kinda cool" but then I thought "Does this count as Prior Art? Could Chevron sue Toyota or some such lame as scenario?"
dude IE already has pop-up blocking...if you've installed either a Google or Yahoo toolbar. And lets not forget about NIS that has those same ad blocking features as well.
At my work everyone has a hard on for Yahoo news and Google searching, and i've yet to see anyone here who doesn't have at least 1 of these 2 bars installed.
So the idea that the other browsers are getting more market share "because" of IE having issues is wishful thinking - if they gain market share they will gain market share because people find them useful and effecient.
IMO I have no reason to use anything other than Safari on my Mac and i've a feeling it'll stay that way for some time.
When they make Cherry 2000's is when most people will care.
Heres the Q&A copied and pasted from the interview (too many ads on that page for my liking) and notice how the interviewer seems to think that somehow Apple Hardware and PC Hardware are different? Uh HELLO the Linksys NIC I use in my PC is the same one that is in my G5! Also I love how the guy asks twice about "nvidia making 3D drivers for the card or allowing 3rd parties to do it" - it's the same answer twice in a row - APPLE WRITES THERE OWN SOFTWARE DRIVERS YOU FUCKING MORON. From the questions asked it seems like this apple fanatic was hoping that their card would 1) Be unique to only apple 2) Be faster than the PC counter part 3) Nvidia would make 3D drivers specifically for their Apple versions.
* How does the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL card for the Mac differ from the PC version (i.e. Does the PC version have dual link DVI?)
The GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL card was designed specifically for the Mac to provide two dual-link outputs to support Apple's displays.
* Does the Apple version of the GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU run at the same core/memory clock as the PC version?
The Apple cards run at 400/550, just like the GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU on the PC.
(Note: Some vendor's 6800 cards are clocked higher than the standard/reference design.)
* The GeForce 6800 Ultra for the PC has two Molex power connectors - does the Mac version source all the power from the G5's AGP pro slot? (or does it have a aux power connector?)
There is an on-board power connector on the graphics card and the motherboard to provide power, so there is no need for an external power connector from the power supply.
(although the only Mac 6800 photos I've seen are tiny, it appears there's a stub connector on the card that (I suspect) uses the ADC (28V or 24V usually) DC power connector on the motherboard that's normally used for ADC display power to provide additional power (regulated down) for the 6800 card. That eliminates the need for Aux. (Molex) P.S. connector(s) like the PC/standard 6800 card versions have.)
* Does the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL have a low-noise fan?
Yes, the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL runs very quiet.
* Will there ever be a control panel with 3D/GL/FSAA controls for the NVIDIA cards on the Mac platform? (ATI's retail Radeon cards (and OEM models with the 3rd party patch) have a '3D/GL overrides' feature - which is seen as a big plus by many end users.)
Apple provides all the drivers for NVIDIA-based add-in cards. We supply them with the source code and they provide the final driver.
* Regarding the previous question - if there's no chance of an Apple supplied NVIDIA card control panel (for advanced features/FSAA, etc.) - if a 3rd party wanted to do this, can NVIDIA provide some assistance?
Apple is our customer, so if this is something that they requested, then we would support it.
* There's been talk of previous NVIDIA cards taking a bigger than expected performance hit from using some types of shaders (on the Mac) - is this a concern with the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL?
GeForce 6 Series GPUs have the most advanced shading engines on the market. Compared to previous generation parts, the vertex and pixel shader engines on GeForce 6 Series GPUs have been completely redesigned from the ground-up. Pixel Shader performance is 4 to 8 times faster. Vertex shader performance is twice as fast. Performance numbers have been outstanding.
* Will there updated/new drivers for the GeForce 6800 Ultra?
Yes. Apple provides all the drivers for NVIDIA-based add-in cards. We supply them with the source code and they provide the final driver. Apple will control the release schedules for drivers that provide even more performance, features and image quality enhancements.
* Do you have any idea how performance compares on the Mac between the GeForce 6800 Ultra and the ATI 9800 Pro/XT card?
GeForce 6800 Ultra represents the largest leap forward in graphics performance in our company's history. As expected, they are