I thought dogs and wolves were both canis lupus, with a subspecies addendum at the end:
canis lupus familiaris or canis lupus domesticus or canis domesticus or canis familiaris (dog) canis lupus or canis lupus lupus (grey wolf)
Since they can interbreed and are technically the same species, but I can't seem to find a straight answer as to their individual classifications apart from: * Kingdom: Animalia * Phylum: Chordata * Class: Mammalia * Order: Carnivora * Family: Canidae * Genus: Canis
After that it gets cloudy. Someone with a more Walden bent care to clear it up?
You want hardware encoding and decoding, this offloads everything off the processor. With a decent PVR card (onboard encoding) the processor doesn't do much of anything (onboard decoding).
VIA has had a hardware MPEG-2 decoder (you know, for DVDs) for some time (most of the EPIAs in fact), so that's nothing new. The boards failed at DIVX play back because of, IIRC, poor floating point performance (which the new chip corrects), the same reason they are bad for games.
I have an older M9000 with a Hauppage running as a PVR just fine thanks. Ahh, Tom's hardware, as always, providing no real information of value.
I forgot, don't expect one of these to run Doom 3 or UT2003. They will run office, and they will play DVDs. The earlier ones required no active cooling, it's still an extremely low power chip however.
I found the M10000 for $182 at directron, and here's what you get for your money: VIA C3 1GHz processor 10/100 Ethernet Firewire TV-OUT (S-video, RCA(PAL and NTSC)) 6 Channel Audio
Not a bad deal, methinks. Probably can be found cheaper, but I didn't want to look too hard.
That's their target market, and boy are these things great for uses like that. 17cm x 17cm footprint and decent media performance.
IIRC a lot of "next-gen" DVD players will be using these mainboards, and they've started putting things like hardware mpeg decoding/etc. into them. They're ideal for digital jukebox/emulator/dvd player/pvr combo systems.
I don't get console multi-player fpses. There's just something about being able to see what the other guy is doing that ruins it.
Where the hell are you? Oh bottom right of screen, right, okay, gotcha.
No mouse makes it harder to aim quickly and accurately (second stick is not as good as a mouse), and auto-aim features suck.
UT you could walk up behind someone, shove a sniper rifle through their back, and hear them scream "WTF" from across the room at a LAN game as a signal for you to pull the trigger.
Multiplayer, pay for multiplayer? So you'll have to pay for counterstrike and half-life, games you probably can already play for free. Yea, I'm going to buy Counterstrike for the X-Box... sheesh.
Well it's ATI (Gamecube) versus Nvidia (X-Box). They do different things better. Compare a Radeon to a Ge-Force of the same generation to get some idea on what each is good at and bad at.
IIRC the Gamecube does something like texturing or bump-mapping better than the X-box, but the X-box handles lighting and particle affects better (which is why a lot of games look slightly washed out for the GC). Both of them are better overall then the aging PS2, but for most of the games that hit the X-Box the differences will be most noticable (IE: FPSes) due to their relying on dynamic lighting and particle effects.
The X-Box obviously has better anti-aliasing (best shown here), it's smoothest, but the X-Box and GC are even on the texture quality (native X-Box game), legacy effects are visible in the PS2 screenshot (look at the edge of objects) but not in either of the other consoles. Textures are less crisp in the PS2 screen.
There are better examples, and I'd love to find links to various sites/etc for you, but I don't have the time.
I disagree that the X-Box will tank (it already has overseas, especially in Japan). MS expected it to lose a great deal of money and it has.
The system I hope starts dying this year is the PS2, it already looks dated, especially next to the graphically superior Gamecube and X-Box (which are on par with each other, in slightly different ways). Most of the really good titles for both are in the pipe for this year and next year. The fact that a lot of dev houses keep making PS2 ports of games for both other consoles is really holding the graphical quality back.
DVD+R/RW is an inferior format, especially for PS2 "backups." I'm not sure what it is about it, but it's really difficult to get a DVD+R burned game to play in a modded PS2. DVD-R, no problems.
Plus Macs use DVD-R/RW, and most of the good writers do as well.
Now, why the hell would you need 36GB of data stored on a medium that's easily scratched. Bitch about magnetic storage all you want, I've almost never had tapes go completely bad, but I've had tons of meticulously cared for CDs/DVDs become unusable.
Every software company has missed a release date, feature set or platform at some point. If they haven't yet, they're fairly new. It's an industry truth.
In their defense anyone who bought it should have known better. This was one of those games that perpetually was going to be released "soon." The Linux client delay is just par for the course.
No, you are wrong, they owe you nothing. When the game came out, there was no Linux client, even though they said they were going to do one. You, yes that's right, you, bought it anyway on the pretense (true or false) that they were going to do a Linux client.
They've been working on it, apart from the Bink movies, I've heard it works pretty well. Sure, there are bugs, but it's being done. They also said the game was due out when? How late did it arrive, and you're shocked, indignant and whining about the fact that some of the other things they said in the early stages of development didn't happen right on time and may not happen at all?
Shit happens, live with it.
Software is always provided AS IS, and unless you got some kind of valid contract, they owe you NOTHING.
"But, but, but, they said...."
Yea, yea, yea, people and companies say a lot of things, sometimes they don't follow through. Daikatana was claimed to be the best game ever, Duke Nukem Forever has been pushed back perpetually, Software Companies are notoriously bad for not hitting their targets. By and large, we forgive them, normal people forgive this.
You're well set then, I own all of those minus the X-Box because the X-Box just isn't worth what they're charging for what you get IMO. When it's down around $100 I'll probably pick one up if the X-Box 2 hasn't come out yet.
You get to play all of the quality titles and you can graphics/feature shop for the subtle differences between them. I'm a little jealous of your gaming resources honestly.
If you had to own(as in could only afford) only 2 of the consoles you listed, which 2 would you own?
If that's all you need, WTF should you use a PC instead of a thin client or a word processor? WTF should you pay for Windows instead of using a free OS? TCO?
NT got market share because it was cheaper than a UNIX solution, this is no longer true.
Out of 20 games you listed, only 6 are exclusive to the X-Box. Between a PC and a PS2 (and even a Gamecube) you can play the other 14 right now.
The exclusive ones you selected with rankings (in the format Gamespot Reader Score/IGN Score) are: Halo (9.1/9.7), Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (8.5/7.4), Project Gotham Racing (8.6/8.8), MechAssault (9.0/9.2), NFL Fever 2002 (8.7/7.9), Panzer Dragoon Orta (9.2/9.2)
If they stick to the PC release date, knock Halo off that list in 4 months.
Presuming you listed the best games you could think of, that's a pretty pathetic amount of quality exclusive content. Even the Gamecube has more quality exclusive titles (just counting Nintendo's own offerings), and the PS2 blows both put together out of the water.
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I thought dogs and wolves were both canis lupus, with a subspecies addendum at the end:
canis lupus familiaris or canis lupus domesticus or canis domesticus or canis familiaris (dog)
canis lupus or canis lupus lupus (grey wolf)
Since they can interbreed and are technically the same species, but I can't seem to find a straight answer as to their individual classifications apart from:
* Kingdom: Animalia
* Phylum: Chordata
* Class: Mammalia
* Order: Carnivora
* Family: Canidae
* Genus: Canis
After that it gets cloudy. Someone with a more Walden bent care to clear it up?
You want hardware encoding and decoding, this offloads everything off the processor. With a decent PVR card (onboard encoding) the processor doesn't do much of anything (onboard decoding).
VIA has had a hardware MPEG-2 decoder (you know, for DVDs) for some time (most of the EPIAs in fact), so that's nothing new. The boards failed at DIVX play back because of, IIRC, poor floating point performance (which the new chip corrects), the same reason they are bad for games.
I have an older M9000 with a Hauppage running as a PVR just fine thanks. Ahh, Tom's hardware, as always, providing no real information of value.
I forgot, don't expect one of these to run Doom 3 or UT2003. They will run office, and they will play DVDs. The earlier ones required no active cooling, it's still an extremely low power chip however.
I found the M10000 for $182 at directron, and here's what you get for your money:
VIA C3 1GHz processor
10/100 Ethernet
Firewire
TV-OUT (S-video, RCA(PAL and NTSC))
6 Channel Audio
Not a bad deal, methinks. Probably can be found cheaper, but I didn't want to look too hard.
That's their target market, and boy are these things great for uses like that. 17cm x 17cm footprint and decent media performance.
IIRC a lot of "next-gen" DVD players will be using these mainboards, and they've started putting things like hardware mpeg decoding/etc. into them. They're ideal for digital jukebox/emulator/dvd player/pvr combo systems.
No, it's not Valid, but shhh... now the IE users know.
I don't get console multi-player fpses. There's just something about being able to see what the other guy is doing that ruins it.
Where the hell are you? Oh bottom right of screen, right, okay, gotcha.
No mouse makes it harder to aim quickly and accurately (second stick is not as good as a mouse), and auto-aim features suck.
UT you could walk up behind someone, shove a sniper rifle through their back, and hear them scream "WTF" from across the room at a LAN game as a signal for you to pull the trigger.
Multiplayer, pay for multiplayer? So you'll have to pay for counterstrike and half-life, games you probably can already play for free. Yea, I'm going to buy Counterstrike for the X-Box... sheesh.
Huh, wha, who said my name?
Well it's ATI (Gamecube) versus Nvidia (X-Box). They do different things better. Compare a Radeon to a Ge-Force of the same generation to get some idea on what each is good at and bad at.
IIRC the Gamecube does something like texturing or bump-mapping better than the X-box, but the X-box handles lighting and particle affects better (which is why a lot of games look slightly washed out for the GC). Both of them are better overall then the aging PS2, but for most of the games that hit the X-Box the differences will be most noticable (IE: FPSes) due to their relying on dynamic lighting and particle effects.
Here's an example:
Splinter Cell
PS2 screenshot
Game cube screenshot
X-Box Screenshot
Now, what do we see in these screenshots?
The X-Box obviously has better anti-aliasing (best shown here), it's smoothest, but the X-Box and GC are even on the texture quality (native X-Box game), legacy effects are visible in the PS2 screenshot (look at the edge of objects) but not in either of the other consoles. Textures are less crisp in the PS2 screen.
There are better examples, and I'd love to find links to various sites/etc for you, but I don't have the time.
It's not French, it's freedom. Geez, don't you pay attention...
s/French/freedom/g
IE: Do you speak freedom?
I took freedom in high school.
Would you like some freedom toast?
Yea, more often then not they don't break something, but they NEVER fix everything.
Click here to crash IE with a 6 line valid HTML document.
Or how about some arbitrary vb scripting that opens your cd-rom. Here you go.
Yea, Microsoft, pinacle of stability and all that.
I disagree that the X-Box will tank (it already has overseas, especially in Japan). MS expected it to lose a great deal of money and it has.
The system I hope starts dying this year is the PS2, it already looks dated, especially next to the graphically superior Gamecube and X-Box (which are on par with each other, in slightly different ways). Most of the really good titles for both are in the pipe for this year and next year. The fact that a lot of dev houses keep making PS2 ports of games for both other consoles is really holding the graphical quality back.
I'm not sure if he did or didn't.
However, To quote Gates on USB support, "oops."
DVD+R/RW is an inferior format, especially for PS2 "backups." I'm not sure what it is about it, but it's really difficult to get a DVD+R burned game to play in a modded PS2. DVD-R, no problems.
Plus Macs use DVD-R/RW, and most of the good writers do as well.
Now, why the hell would you need 36GB of data stored on a medium that's easily scratched. Bitch about magnetic storage all you want, I've almost never had tapes go completely bad, but I've had tons of meticulously cared for CDs/DVDs become unusable.
Right, but there's no net benefit to changing currency sizes, cutting corners, et cetera for the blind and Braile isn't durable enough.
It's no harder to rip them off, if anything, it's easier, and they'd still have to insist that they only got $1 notes to be sure.
Stop speaking freedom. The black helicopters are circling as we speak.
So I could go spend a one that's in circulation now and a blind person would think it's a $100.
Brilliant.
Yes... except when you scratch it off you end up winning a free mountain dew and a useless server.
Seth Finkelstein. Michael was completely in the wrong for pulling that site down, I won't argue with that. The rest was between them.
Every software company has missed a release date, feature set or platform at some point. If they haven't yet, they're fairly new. It's an industry truth.
Please, don't bring up Seth on Slashdot. It's really difficult to choke down the bile and not join in on the flaming.
In their defense anyone who bought it should have known better. This was one of those games that perpetually was going to be released "soon." The Linux client delay is just par for the course.
No, you are wrong, they owe you nothing. When the game came out, there was no Linux client, even though they said they were going to do one. You, yes that's right, you, bought it anyway on the pretense (true or false) that they were going to do a Linux client.
They've been working on it, apart from the Bink movies, I've heard it works pretty well. Sure, there are bugs, but it's being done. They also said the game was due out when? How late did it arrive, and you're shocked, indignant and whining about the fact that some of the other things they said in the early stages of development didn't happen right on time and may not happen at all?
Shit happens, live with it.
Software is always provided AS IS, and unless you got some kind of valid contract, they owe you NOTHING.
"But, but, but, they said...."
Yea, yea, yea, people and companies say a lot of things, sometimes they don't follow through. Daikatana was claimed to be the best game ever, Duke Nukem Forever has been pushed back perpetually, Software Companies are notoriously bad for not hitting their targets. By and large, we forgive them, normal people forgive this.
You're well set then, I own all of those minus the X-Box because the X-Box just isn't worth what they're charging for what you get IMO. When it's down around $100 I'll probably pick one up if the X-Box 2 hasn't come out yet.
You get to play all of the quality titles and you can graphics/feature shop for the subtle differences between them. I'm a little jealous of your gaming resources honestly.
If you had to own(as in could only afford) only 2 of the consoles you listed, which 2 would you own?
If that's all you need, WTF should you use a PC instead of a thin client or a word processor? WTF should you pay for Windows instead of using a free OS? TCO?
NT got market share because it was cheaper than a UNIX solution, this is no longer true.
Out of 20 games you listed, only 6 are exclusive to the X-Box. Between a PC and a PS2 (and even a Gamecube) you can play the other 14 right now.
The exclusive ones you selected with rankings (in the format Gamespot Reader Score/IGN Score) are:
Halo (9.1/9.7), Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (8.5/7.4), Project Gotham Racing (8.6/8.8), MechAssault (9.0/9.2), NFL Fever 2002 (8.7/7.9), Panzer Dragoon Orta (9.2/9.2)
If they stick to the PC release date, knock Halo off that list in 4 months.
Presuming you listed the best games you could think of, that's a pretty pathetic amount of quality exclusive content. Even the Gamecube has more quality exclusive titles (just counting Nintendo's own offerings), and the PS2 blows both put together out of the water.