Depends on what you are aiming for. Most of the benches that were released were for full DX9 precision, full effects. If you turn down the settings (or let the game choose) you can play HL2 decently on anything from a DX7/pIII and up.
No, he's a murderer who was "stolen" from his own execution and forced to take part in some nutcase millionaire's personal version of "The Running Man". The whole game is designed to make you feel uncomfortable about what your character is forced to do, and how the millionaire guy enjoys it.
First off, I'm pretty sure there is a difference between the Bank of Canada and the Royal Bank of Canada.
Secondly, I'm glad I've been getting out of the Royal Bank lately.
nVidia's Dawn demo was written to use nVidia specific code. A wrapper was written that makes it run just fine on an ATi card.
The cards are functionally pretty near identical in terms of what they are capable of doing. All ATI needs is to write a wrapper that will translate the nvidia calls to something the ATi chip will understand. Since the Xbox code is pretty standardized, that probably won't be hard.
Looking at ATi's OpenGL support it looks like ATi supports more of nVidia's extensions than nVidia supports of ATi's extensions (kinda like how Linux plays well with Windows, but Windows refuses to believe Linux exists).
Thing is, micropayments scale precisely with the bandwidth costs of every added viewer. The more viewers you get, the more it costs you for bandwidth, the more micropayments you get.
Advertising seems to go in levels, you don't get the extra advertising money until you meet a certain threshold of viewers. If you are just below that threshold you get 95% of the hosting costs, but not the added advertising benefits. Being stuck there can break a website financially.
Plus, micropayments leaves you less dependent on the whims of the advertiser.
I always found it funny that the several webcomics I've read that complain about micropayments/free hosting/whatever, and say that the sites should be able to support themselves if they just "try a little harder", are the same sites that established their readership during the days of relatively high-paying banner advertising.
WTF doesn't he just setup a paypal/amazon payment link?
Because those services have a minimum service fee charge that is greater than/equal to the micropayment itself. All the money would go to Amazon or Paypal.
Slightly offtopic, I miss Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes more every day I open the newspaper.
Try this one http://www.ozyandmillie.org/ to ease your Calvin & Hobbes withdrawal pains
Rocketbox has only been open for a couple of days. They've probably gotten more visits in the last hour or so then they've had since the opening. I expect the top 10 will start looking better when more people actually submit some comics to consider.
I've always wanted to know if there is a way to suggest challenges to the SC/JYW creators?
And have they ever considered a crossover with Robot Wars / Battlebots? Give the teams 10 hours to build a robot and then fight them out on the other shows stages?
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Depends on what you are aiming for. Most of the benches that were released were for full DX9 precision, full effects. If you turn down the settings (or let the game choose) you can play HL2 decently on anything from a DX7/pIII and up.
Dai...Another Day?
It would sell better if the stupid-ass stores had it in stock. It's harder to find the DVD set than it was to find the show when it was on Fox.
No, he's a murderer who was "stolen" from his own execution and forced to take part in some nutcase millionaire's personal version of "The Running Man". The whole game is designed to make you feel uncomfortable about what your character is forced to do, and how the millionaire guy enjoys it.
Damn Rockstar and their inability to retroactively alter history.
First off, I'm pretty sure there is a difference between the Bank of Canada and the Royal Bank of Canada. Secondly, I'm glad I've been getting out of the Royal Bank lately.
nVidia's Dawn demo was written to use nVidia specific code. A wrapper was written that makes it run just fine on an ATi card.
The cards are functionally pretty near identical in terms of what they are capable of doing. All ATI needs is to write a wrapper that will translate the nvidia calls to something the ATi chip will understand. Since the Xbox code is pretty standardized, that probably won't be hard.
Looking at ATi's OpenGL support it looks like ATi supports more of nVidia's extensions than nVidia supports of ATi's extensions (kinda like how Linux plays well with Windows, but Windows refuses to believe Linux exists).
Thing is, micropayments scale precisely with the bandwidth costs of every added viewer. The more viewers you get, the more it costs you for bandwidth, the more micropayments you get.
Advertising seems to go in levels, you don't get the extra advertising money until you meet a certain threshold of viewers. If you are just below that threshold you get 95% of the hosting costs, but not the added advertising benefits. Being stuck there can break a website financially.
Plus, micropayments leaves you less dependent on the whims of the advertiser.
I always found it funny that the several webcomics I've read that complain about micropayments/free hosting/whatever, and say that the sites should be able to support themselves if they just "try a little harder", are the same sites that established their readership during the days of relatively high-paying banner advertising.
Because those services have a minimum service fee charge that is greater than/equal to the micropayment itself. All the money would go to Amazon or Paypal.
According to this article
Slightly offtopic, I miss Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes more every day I open the newspaper. Try this one http://www.ozyandmillie.org/ to ease your Calvin & Hobbes withdrawal pains
Rocketbox has only been open for a couple of days. They've probably gotten more visits in the last hour or so then they've had since the opening. I expect the top 10 will start looking better when more people actually submit some comics to consider.
Last I heard Keenspace wasn't taking new submissions pending a server move. Hopefully they'll be up to strength again soon.
I've always wanted to know if there is a way to suggest challenges to the SC/JYW creators? And have they ever considered a crossover with Robot Wars / Battlebots? Give the teams 10 hours to build a robot and then fight them out on the other shows stages?