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  1. Re:One more giant.... on Microsoft Drops Windows XP for Itanium · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because unless your processor is as fast or faster than the other guy you are not going to sell many.. Think Transmeta.

    AMD has been neck in neck with intel for a long time and their pricing was killing them.. They now have a high quality product that people respect and will pay more for. So they are finally making money..

    Still note that the price to performance award is still AMDs.

  2. Re:Compatibility on OpenOffice 2.0 Preview Release · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would say its more important that My resume created in OO renders exactly that same in word.

    Since you as the the resume author are the one with OO and your potential employer is the one most likely running MS office.

    I haven't grabbed the latest version of OO but I do know that all older versions do not render my resume the same way that MS Word does.

  3. Re:Sure they did on 3D User Interfaces · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html

    It's not common but it existed.

  4. Re:Leveling up on Review: World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    If you choose a different race you get a different starting location in WOW, some quests overlap but your story line especially at the start will be very different.

    Also every class has class specific quests, this makes getting those class lvl skills more of a challenge than just instantly getting them at a given lvl.

    Questing is not exactly grinding in WOW because the quests drive the story as well has having much better variation that I have seen in other MMO games.

    Player housing is a planned addition to WOW in an up coming update. It more important to higher lvl characters with extra coin and time on there hands.. To most player housing usually ends up as a storage bunker anyway.

    Grinding Is auto missing that are all the same (SWG) there where VERY few real quests in that game and they where hard to locate. City of Hero's is not to bad in the story department, but with no quest Item artwork and VERY repetitive mission types its not much better.
    I find WOW quests have a bit more depth, but sure you get a good number of kill / collect missions as well.. At least when you get a quest to collect pumkins, you need to walk into a farms field and walk up to a pumkin, you then get one in your back-pack.. In City of Hero's, you go to plain building after plain building clicking on boxes for the most part.. Although I hear that has improved.

  5. Re:GIMP on Windows vs Linux on The GIMP Gets Ready for 2.2 · · Score: 1

    You missed the point of his post. He uses GIMP under linux and said the windows version is crippled some how, its not 100% the same.

  6. Its not a bug its a feature!! on Microsoft Issues Ominous ASP.Net Security Warning · · Score: 1

    In windows explorer or a command prompt try the following path.

    C:/windows

    or in a command prompt "cd C:/windows"

    Windows will be happy to correct it to C:\windows and execute your request.

    I don't think its a .Net only issue.

  7. Re:My Biggest Problem on Hotmail Begins to Upgrade Free Accounts · · Score: 1

    Might be because almost every FireFox user has Adblock installed.

    I had to remove 1 or 2 rules that caused problems with Gmail. Also the Tabbed Browser Extension also has issues with some Gmail features.

    Plain FireFox seems to work great.

  8. Re:Alex, I'll take Level 6 for $200 on "Levels" of Computers the Future? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You haven't been tracking computers for very long have you.

    They have been saying its slowing down for the past X years, then BAM a new breakthrough and everything gets faster.

    After years of systems going up by 10 or 20 Mhz I purchased my 1.1Ghz system feeling it would last a very long time. Well now there are 4 Ghz systems.

  9. Re:ATI bundle? on No Half-Life 2 on Steam? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, if you go the the ATI site listed on the card you have the option to have a boxed version shipped to you instead.

    Also of interest the ATI voucher gives you the a bundle of the original half-life as well as the expansions made by valve.

    If you activate with steam you can download the whole bundle and play it right away. And well pre-load HL2 and hope it gets unlocked some day.

  10. Re:Real stuff on Sky Captain and the Films of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    What other than the fact all the characters have the same perfect running animation when they are running from the belgrog?

    Or when they exit the caves they each go from a run to a walk animation with almost no transition?

    CGI still tends to be unnaturally perfect.

  11. Re:Which locker did I use? on Biometrics at the Statue of Liberty · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Once you come back and scan, your locker will unlock.. Shouldn't be hard to tell yours from all the other locked ones.

    They have passcode style ones at the mall here, but it isn't hard to tell which locker is yours.. As soon as you enter your code you can here the door unlock.

  12. Re:I have one too on The Ultimate Nintendo Console · · Score: 1

    Your's probably looks better and takes up less space.

  13. Re:A brief and redundant article on IPv6 is Here · · Score: 1

    Top level domains are .org .net .com ....

    www2., www3 are just subdomains

  14. Re:Humans don't make the big mistakes. on Spamassassin Beats CRM-114 In Anti-Spam Shootout · · Score: 1

    Most spam filters don't delete.

    The put all the SPAM in a spam folder for you to look through later and only delete messages that are very old or based on your settings.

  15. Re:What's the maximum partition size in WinXP/Win2 on Seagate Rolls Out 400 GB SATA Drives · · Score: 2, Informative

    The limit should be 2TB 2TB

  16. Cater to her interests on Playing Games While Not Ruining Your Relationship? · · Score: 1

    If she is not into gaming at all, you better learn to spend some evenings doing what she wants to do. Balance it out and it should work out.

    For me it was easy, it just happens that she likes Zelda games. So I picked up a Game Cube and Wind Waker.. kept her glued to the TV for weeks while I played my games.

    In the end you still need more together time away from the games. Go out for dinner or go out for a nice walk from time to time.

  17. Re:Or.... on Suggestions for a Home VOIP Provider? · · Score: 1

    Um the poster needs the phone line for business and long distance.

    Air time and long distance charges would be very expensive on most plans. Some providers have good long distance but I think the air time would kill this idea.

  18. Re:Wow, only 64 MB of RAM? on Mozilla's Mini-Me · · Score: 1

    Almost forgot about the VESA local buss driver.

  19. Re:Wow, only 64 MB of RAM? on Mozilla's Mini-Me · · Score: 1

    Many device drivers loaded into that 640k block if you didn't make a custom Autexec.bat and Config.sys setup that loaded Himem.sys and Emm38g then loaded everything you could into upper member block or the high memory area. Became very difficult when you needed your CD-ROM, Mouse and Sound-Card all at once.

  20. Re:Knoppix on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 1

    So you want to go back to the gaming days of DOS where all the drivers where part of the game an you had to hope your hardware was supported?

  21. Re:Nice Points on Sam Lake on Video Game Storytelling · · Score: 1

    The problem, however, is that film and novella are quite similar. They take place, event after event, scene after scene, chapter after chapter;

    How many truly branching store based games have you ever played?

    In order to not be liner I think that the story and goal have to be so loose that you don't have much story at all.

    In the end a game will take you from A to B to C but might have some side quests and other distractions on the way. Or you end up with a content less player driven MMORPG type game where PVP and Crafting is the sum of your goals.

  22. Re:Certain types of programming... on Math And The Computer Science Major · · Score: 1

    But if you are an application programmer, building a computer system that replaces a manual /paper system all the math and formulas will be provided for you.

    It's not like you are solving a new problem, just implementing an electronic version.

    On the other hand if your application does something totally new, you might just have to use some math skills to get the results you want.

  23. Re:No. on Sam Lake on Video Game Storytelling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I still don't think your argument holds water.

    Many books have been written then adapted to screen without the author giving thought to the limitations of the movie effects at the time. It's up to the director to figure out how to best represent the story using the story as a guide.

    In a game if it is too difficult to do real time you make it a cut scene. The REAL problem is game-developers and lead designers not figuring out creative ways to incorporate the player more and rely less on cut scenes.

  24. Re:Context on Sam Lake on Video Game Storytelling · · Score: 1

    I guess by your reasoning that special effect movies are impossible as well.

  25. Re:Most important of all on Windoze Boxen... on First Ten Programs on New Install? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Depends if you have open shares and are on a domain.

    Also if you don't have your browser and email client patched there is a chance that a virus can be launched when you check your email or open a webpage.