I believe the guy doing the port still has a copy, but hasn't leaked it. And nobody has managed to get ahold of any copies Valve has.
This is also the case for Half-Life on the Dreamcast. It was 100% done. There were strategy guides in the stores. Sierra decided to pull it. Thankfully someone released it to the DC community, but still - there might have been more life in the DC had it shipped to the stores.
Ask any gamer who knows their stuff and they'll tell you the 9800 pro is faster. The biggest, meanest FX board is fast - but not faster than the 9800. Although that's only by 10-20% at the most, the 50% difference in this test seems pretty strange to me.
Michigan Tech has a GREAT engineering and science department. And the job industry knows this - 95% of graduates find employment within a year.
And don't let the fact that it's in Houghton scare you away;)
The Mig-21 is not the F22. He is correct - you CANNOT fly the F22 without computer aide. It's just too maneuverable and responsive to be controlled soley by a pilot.
Also, if you lose it, you're only out $11. Not the same as having a $400 digicam taken.
Of course, since you can't get the pics off of the camera yourself, it kinda defeats the purpose of a digicam.
For those that don't know, variations on that name are the default usernames in Kazaa Lite. Let's see the RIAA sue them all...
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Two bad points (and the crates one i really don't care about) in a whole sea of good ones. DX really was an amazing game, and it really did have a huge array of ways to beat the game. I think the story could have branched a little more - early game decisions should have had an affect on things other than just character dialog - but overall it was the best story line of any game i've ever played.
Shit, i just finished playing through DX for my 4th time and i was still finding plenty of new stuff. If i had to pick something to win the title of best pc game ever, DX would get my vote all the way.
I really, really hope they keep this up in DX 2. Unfortunately, i read they planned on shortening it quite a bit because people "don't have time for a 40 hour game." I think it's just a lazy copout, but we can't be sure until it ships.
Very well put. I drove 8 hours from Detroit, and it's been MORE than worth it. Everyone is in a great mood and very friendly. I'll definately be back next year.
I won't even go into how the whole thing seems more like a giant marketing gig (the people attending are basically paying $30/day to be fed advertisments from AMD, ASUS et al) than a LAN party.
Um, from where i'm seated at the LAN, i can't see one advertisement - unless you count the guy with the ASUS logo painted on his head. Yup, i'm really being force fed advertisements...
Sure there's marketing - they have to pay for it somehow - but you only see it coming in/going out, or at the q&a sessions that are quite a ways away from the gaming area. We're here for an awesome LAN, and the MML guys are doing a DAMN good job of it.
Heh... a guy sitting across from me suggested a girl provide oral sex to the vendors giving away free stuff so she could get a free mobo/cpu for her brother.
Those of you at the THG thing yesterday know what i'm talking about it.
NVidia has a very small presence - almost no free stuff, nobody actually on the floor talking to people, etc.
But the real reason ATI is so big is because they have the fastest boards available now, and everyone is running them. 2 years ago everyone was on NVidia's nuts because they were the fastest.
They actually have an awesome cooling/ventilation system (i'm at it right now - left wall as you enter the room, section 2 row 3 if you wanna find me). It was in the 90s outside the first day, and i was actually cold in the room.
There are some people out there who haven't showered in several days though.
A LAN can have all of that. There's no golden rule prohibiting a stage (last MPCON i went to had a pretty big one with a dj and other stuff), or coding, or interacting with other people. In fact, every LAN i go to has lots of interactions that don't involve the computer. There's more reasons to go to them than low pings for gaming and lots of bandwidth for file sharing.
True, a "computer party" emphasizes that and more, but that doens't mean everyone just stares at their screens at a LAN.
Agreed 100%. It used to take me about 2-3 readings to figure out what the hell my Calc and Physics books were talking about. But I've since resorted to just reading the little blue "info" boxes in my Calc textbook - the other clutter is useless and makes it harder to understand. Too bad the physics book doesn't have those neat boxes...
First, we have to get up damn early - at least in highschool - to go to a place we don't even like (see reasons below). Google for info on teen's sleep patterns, and you'll see that waking at 6:00 or 6:30 AM is a BAD THING for people my age. The fix? Change when we start. Why hasn't my school done this? "It would mess up the sports schedules." Yay, athletics over education. Not that team sports are bad - i think they're great for students - but come on, what's really more important? Hell, let the athletes out of school early if you want.
When we get to school, we get to look forward to 6 or 7 periods of different subjects. It can be very, very hard to be extremely involved in something - a problem, reading, etc. - and have the bell ring, signaling that you get to go to another class. Switching from CompSci to Humanities to Government is pretty rough. Admittedly, block scheduling aims to fix this, but then we can get stuck with a teacher who just drones on for the whole 2 hours instead of the usual one. The fix? Block scheduling with teachers that can actually TEACH.
And finally, I would enjoy school 100 times more if I didn't have 2-3 hours of homework every night. 20-30 minutes of homework from one teacher doesn't seem like that much, but when I have 6 or 7 teachers all assigning that much, it takes alot of time. Teach the fucking class, don't make me copy answers out of my book./rant
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I would compare it to an F1 car. Very fast and powerful, but requires alot of work to get the full potential out of it.
238 is NOT that volatile. I'll say that right now. For the rest of your education, read this.
I believe the guy doing the port still has a copy, but hasn't leaked it. And nobody has managed to get ahold of any copies Valve has. This is also the case for Half-Life on the Dreamcast. It was 100% done. There were strategy guides in the stores. Sierra decided to pull it. Thankfully someone released it to the DC community, but still - there might have been more life in the DC had it shipped to the stores.
You get a 1000hp Supra with built up internals and a giant turbo, among other things. He's probably running N02 as well, but not necessarily.
I've never known input response to change when going from 30fps to 200fps.
However, it's far better to average something like 90fps - then you rarely dip below the 60fps maximum for the eye.
Ask any gamer who knows their stuff and they'll tell you the 9800 pro is faster. The biggest, meanest FX board is fast - but not faster than the 9800. Although that's only by 10-20% at the most, the 50% difference in this test seems pretty strange to me.
The E3 movie everyone is wanking over is in-game footage. If you have the hardware for it, the game will look like that when you play.
Michigan Tech has a GREAT engineering and science department. And the job industry knows this - 95% of graduates find employment within a year. And don't let the fact that it's in Houghton scare you away ;)
The Mig-21 is not the F22. He is correct - you CANNOT fly the F22 without computer aide. It's just too maneuverable and responsive to be controlled soley by a pilot.
Also, if you lose it, you're only out $11. Not the same as having a $400 digicam taken. Of course, since you can't get the pics off of the camera yourself, it kinda defeats the purpose of a digicam.
I have a surprising number of those songs on my machine. Thankfully none of them are shared :)
Not to mention they don't suffer from "memory" like NiCads.
For those that don't know, variations on that name are the default usernames in Kazaa Lite. Let's see the RIAA sue them all...
Two bad points (and the crates one i really don't care about) in a whole sea of good ones. DX really was an amazing game, and it really did have a huge array of ways to beat the game. I think the story could have branched a little more - early game decisions should have had an affect on things other than just character dialog - but overall it was the best story line of any game i've ever played.
Shit, i just finished playing through DX for my 4th time and i was still finding plenty of new stuff. If i had to pick something to win the title of best pc game ever, DX would get my vote all the way.
I really, really hope they keep this up in DX 2. Unfortunately, i read they planned on shortening it quite a bit because people "don't have time for a 40 hour game." I think it's just a lazy copout, but we can't be sure until it ships.
Actually, at the end of the video, it says that you can freely distrubute the video so long as you don't make money from it.
Very well put. I drove 8 hours from Detroit, and it's been MORE than worth it. Everyone is in a great mood and very friendly. I'll definately be back next year.
I won't even go into how the whole thing seems more like a giant marketing gig (the people attending are basically paying $30/day to be fed advertisments from AMD, ASUS et al) than a LAN party.
Um, from where i'm seated at the LAN, i can't see one advertisement - unless you count the guy with the ASUS logo painted on his head. Yup, i'm really being force fed advertisements...
Sure there's marketing - they have to pay for it somehow - but you only see it coming in/going out, or at the q&a sessions that are quite a ways away from the gaming area. We're here for an awesome LAN, and the MML guys are doing a DAMN good job of it.
Heh... a guy sitting across from me suggested a girl provide oral sex to the vendors giving away free stuff so she could get a free mobo/cpu for her brother.
Those of you at the THG thing yesterday know what i'm talking about it.
NVidia has a very small presence - almost no free stuff, nobody actually on the floor talking to people, etc.
But the real reason ATI is so big is because they have the fastest boards available now, and everyone is running them. 2 years ago everyone was on NVidia's nuts because they were the fastest.
They actually have an awesome cooling/ventilation system (i'm at it right now - left wall as you enter the room, section 2 row 3 if you wanna find me). It was in the 90s outside the first day, and i was actually cold in the room. There are some people out there who haven't showered in several days though.
A LAN can have all of that. There's no golden rule prohibiting a stage (last MPCON i went to had a pretty big one with a dj and other stuff), or coding, or interacting with other people. In fact, every LAN i go to has lots of interactions that don't involve the computer. There's more reasons to go to them than low pings for gaming and lots of bandwidth for file sharing.
True, a "computer party" emphasizes that and more, but that doens't mean everyone just stares at their screens at a LAN.
I'm in Michigan. I'm a minor. I'll consider this. I'd like to see what they do.
How's the internet connection at MTU? I heard it sucked, which is why this file sharing thing was so popular.
Agreed 100%. It used to take me about 2-3 readings to figure out what the hell my Calc and Physics books were talking about. But I've since resorted to just reading the little blue "info" boxes in my Calc textbook - the other clutter is useless and makes it harder to understand. Too bad the physics book doesn't have those neat boxes...
I agree with you 100%.
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First, we have to get up damn early - at least in highschool - to go to a place we don't even like (see reasons below). Google for info on teen's sleep patterns, and you'll see that waking at 6:00 or 6:30 AM is a BAD THING for people my age. The fix? Change when we start. Why hasn't my school done this? "It would mess up the sports schedules." Yay, athletics over education. Not that team sports are bad - i think they're great for students - but come on, what's really more important? Hell, let the athletes out of school early if you want.
When we get to school, we get to look forward to 6 or 7 periods of different subjects. It can be very, very hard to be extremely involved in something - a problem, reading, etc. - and have the bell ring, signaling that you get to go to another class. Switching from CompSci to Humanities to Government is pretty rough. Admittedly, block scheduling aims to fix this, but then we can get stuck with a teacher who just drones on for the whole 2 hours instead of the usual one. The fix? Block scheduling with teachers that can actually TEACH.
And finally, I would enjoy school 100 times more if I didn't have 2-3 hours of homework every night. 20-30 minutes of homework from one teacher doesn't seem like that much, but when I have 6 or 7 teachers all assigning that much, it takes alot of time. Teach the fucking class, don't make me copy answers out of my book.