I think those were just a few rules of thumb that can be used to tell apart sim/non-sim games, and are mostly accurate with the exception of the camera rule. Every single serious sim game I've played allows the player to choose an external view. This includes Live for Speed and all of SimBin games, although I'm not sure about rFactor. Even flight sims such as Flanker, Lock On and Falcon 4.0 allow external views, although those might be disabled for competitive online play IIRC. Now, if the game doesn't have a cockpit view, then we have a problem!
The other rules are pretty much spot-on: none of the listed games have in-game music (including the flight sims), "backwards" tracks, or unlockable cars (well GT Legends does, and you can unlock some useless crap in GTR2), and cars with any significant amount of power require very gentle throttle application.
I was going to mod you up, but it appears that all my mod points (I had four left) are now gone! That's a pretty interesting "coincidence", isn't it? And why is your post already at "Score: 1"? Did they already get to you? Hmmmm?
On the other hand, buying SAAB would also potentially give a whole new meaning to google bot.
Thankfuly, as you mentioned the car manufacturer is now separate, so we won't have to put up with the new invite-only 9-5 Beta! for five years, at which point it would be replaced by a more popular model developed by BMW.
People are way overreacting over the Crysis hardware needs. Sure, it's a demanding game hardware wise, but not ridiculously so. It ran smoothly (~30fps most of the time) with high settings at 1680x1050 on a one year old $1200 pc, and that was also more expensive that it needed to be (for games) because I got a quad core Q6600 instead of the E7200 as listed below. Otherwise it's quite similar in terms of performance.
The rest basically won't affect the performance so you can use whatever's lying around. But anyway: Antec case with a 360W PSU : $80 WD 320gb HDD : $75. --- +$155 As for the game itself, I really enjoyed most of it. Even the alien spaceship/base part was a pretty good change of paces, although it did drag on a little longer than I'd prefer. So I'm looking forward to this, and especially Far Cry 2.
McCain is doing pretty well despite all the shit people say on the internet, while Hillary is pimped by a dude with strong RDF, but who refuses to accept being second. Obama then, is the option the majority of people are afraid of.
You know, that actually makes a surprising amount of sense!
> If Apple won't fix it, why doesn't someone fork the project and produce a version that doesn't have the vulnerability?
Even if it was possible to fork Safari and fix the problem (and I'm not sure if it is), Apple would still push their shitty browser onto unsuspecting users.
Nah, it's just that Apple users feel they need to mention every encounter with Apple products they have, otherwise some might doubt their devotion perhaps:
"I just finished working with Keynote on my Mac Pro so I finally got the chance to talk to Alice (whom I had to interrupt from working on her Macbook) and she said she tried to call Bob but he apparently couldn't hear his iphone ringing because he was listening to U2 on his ipod. Fortunately though, I had my Macbook Air with me so I connected to Carol's Airport Extreme and found Dave online in ichat. Turns out he already talked to Bob, so getting Zoe to come over with the Mac mini shouldn't be a problem."
Not quite; there can be a shortage in a market-oriented economy, at least in the short term. The supply (Comp-Sci students) is less elastic, and lags behind the demand. It also reacts to other external factors, such as how cool computer geeks are considered by the society, and not only the expected demand. So while a bunch of history or art majors may apply to engineering jobs if there is a quick change in demand, it would take a while for new people to graduate.
I'm not saying if there is or isn't a shortage. Obviously the bitter engineers will say that it's all a conspiracy while the employers would claim they have no quality candidates to hire, so it's pretty much impossible to tell based just on the whining coming from either side.
Thankfully, this niche isn't completely dead. HTC has two gadgets which more or less fit: the Shift and Advantage. There are probably others, but I'm familiar with HTC's since I was researching my HTC smartphone (s730). Speaking of smartphones, one could of course use one of them for browsing, email, and ssh.
Anyway, the Shift might be a little over(priced|powered), since it is actually a full x86 computer which can run Vista or whatever flavor of Linux while also running WM6 on a separate ARM processor. Apparently it should last for several days of use if the x86 half is not running, and a few hours if it is. The keyboard appears to be pretty good for the size too.
The Advantage appears to be a more ordinary PDA type device with a 5" screen and a detachable qwerty keyboard. I'm not sure about battery life, but the official numbers are 300 hours standbuy and around 6 talk, so it should probably last about 10 hours if wifi or 3G isn't constantly in use.
Neither of these are exactly cheap (which is a shame since I'd like one), but at least they exist.
I think I've posted this in another story quite a while ago, but this seems relevant again: Toughbooks are monkey-proof. Hopefully this will make up for the shitty videos from the article.
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Well, what the hell did your girlfriend expect to do with a psychology degree in the first place?;)
Back to RAM though, I don't see how this is any different than with DDR and DDR2. At first, the new technology was barely faster (sometimes not at all) then the old one, was not very widely supported, and of course cost more. I don't see why this should be any different now with DDR2 and DDR3. A slowdown in the US economy isn't going to bring technological progress to a halt.
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I think those were just a few rules of thumb that can be used to tell apart sim/non-sim games, and are mostly accurate with the exception of the camera rule. Every single serious sim game I've played allows the player to choose an external view. This includes Live for Speed and all of SimBin games, although I'm not sure about rFactor. Even flight sims such as Flanker, Lock On and Falcon 4.0 allow external views, although those might be disabled for competitive online play IIRC. Now, if the game doesn't have a cockpit view, then we have a problem!
The other rules are pretty much spot-on: none of the listed games have in-game music (including the flight sims), "backwards" tracks, or unlockable cars (well GT Legends does, and you can unlock some useless crap in GTR2), and cars with any significant amount of power require very gentle throttle application.
> What else would you suggest?
Any of the several PC racing sims: rFactor, Live for Speed, or anything by SimBin, such as GT Legends or one of the GTR or WTCC Race games.
I was going to mod you up, but it appears that all my mod points (I had four left) are now gone! That's a pretty interesting "coincidence", isn't it? And why is your post already at "Score: 1"? Did they already get to you? Hmmmm?
CowboyNeal, we demand answers!
On the other hand, buying SAAB would also potentially give a whole new meaning to google bot.
Thankfuly, as you mentioned the car manufacturer is now separate, so we won't have to put up with the new invite-only 9-5 Beta! for five years, at which point it would be replaced by a more popular model developed by BMW.
People are way overreacting over the Crysis hardware needs. Sure, it's a demanding game hardware wise, but not ridiculously so. It ran smoothly (~30fps most of the time) with high settings at 1680x1050 on a one year old $1200 pc, and that was also more expensive that it needed to be (for games) because I got a quad core Q6600 instead of the E7200 as listed below. Otherwise it's quite similar in terms of performance.
Core2Duo E7200 2.53Ghz $135
GeForce 8800GT $180
2GB DDR2 Corsair ram $50
Asus P5K motherboard $130
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Whoa, that's like $495!
The rest basically won't affect the performance so you can use whatever's lying around. But anyway:
Antec case with a 360W PSU : $80
WD 320gb HDD : $75.
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+$155
As for the game itself, I really enjoyed most of it. Even the alien spaceship/base part was a pretty good change of paces, although it did drag on a little longer than I'd prefer. So I'm looking forward to this, and especially Far Cry 2.
At least we know what the xbox port will be called:
Formula cos(360)
The ROLL N ROCKER!
Unfortunately, it looks like this thing reeks of ass, although luckily without personal experience I can't quite confirm it.
So let me get this straight.
McCain is doing pretty well despite all the shit people say on the internet, while Hillary is pimped by a dude with strong RDF, but who refuses to accept being second. Obama then, is the option the majority of people are afraid of.
You know, that actually makes a surprising amount of sense!
It feels happy! It feels happy!
I'm not so sure. Looks like it's pining for the fjords.
> If Apple won't fix it, why doesn't someone fork the project and produce a version that doesn't have the vulnerability?
Even if it was possible to fork Safari and fix the problem (and I'm not sure if it is), Apple would still push their shitty browser onto unsuspecting users.
Wait, are you implying there is something wrong with gay music?!??
Well, hopefully the next version will upgrade to the SPARTAN 300 FPGA instead. Not exactly cheap, but much more efficient.
> Wow! It's like Wikipedia without those pesky facts.
They've been excluded due to their known liberal bias.
Not quite; there can be a shortage in a market-oriented economy, at least in the short term. The supply (Comp-Sci students) is less elastic, and lags behind the demand. It also reacts to other external factors, such as how cool computer geeks are considered by the society, and not only the expected demand. So while a bunch of history or art majors may apply to engineering jobs if there is a quick change in demand, it would take a while for new people to graduate.
I'm not saying if there is or isn't a shortage. Obviously the bitter engineers will say that it's all a conspiracy while the employers would claim they have no quality candidates to hire, so it's pretty much impossible to tell based just on the whining coming from either side.
Thankfully, this niche isn't completely dead. HTC has two gadgets which more or less fit: the Shift and Advantage. There are probably others, but I'm familiar with HTC's since I was researching my HTC smartphone (s730). Speaking of smartphones, one could of course use one of them for browsing, email, and ssh.
Anyway, the Shift might be a little over(priced|powered), since it is actually a full x86 computer which can run Vista or whatever flavor of Linux while also running WM6 on a separate ARM processor. Apparently it should last for several days of use if the x86 half is not running, and a few hours if it is. The keyboard appears to be pretty good for the size too.
The Advantage appears to be a more ordinary PDA type device with a 5" screen and a detachable qwerty keyboard. I'm not sure about battery life, but the official numbers are 300 hours standbuy and around 6 talk, so it should probably last about 10 hours if wifi or 3G isn't constantly in use.
Neither of these are exactly cheap (which is a shame since I'd like one), but at least they exist.
In US of A, email is only for old people.
If you're consistently of the opposite opinion of movies with Ebert, it just might be that you have no taste.
It also looks like he didn't even review Beerfest. It's not on his written review pages, and the review on the show is done by Roeper and some chick.
I think I've posted this in another story quite a while ago, but this seems relevant again: Toughbooks are monkey-proof. Hopefully this will make up for the shitty videos from the article.
Well then, there's always Delphi 6!
Or, better yet, a truancy bot!
Well, what the hell did your girlfriend expect to do with a psychology degree in the first place? ;)
Back to RAM though, I don't see how this is any different than with DDR and DDR2. At first, the new technology was barely faster (sometimes not at all) then the old one, was not very widely supported, and of course cost more. I don't see why this should be any different now with DDR2 and DDR3. A slowdown in the US economy isn't going to bring technological progress to a halt.
If you get bored/hypnotised on long highway drives, you aren't going fast enough! :)