So I'm expected to shell out 2x$$$ for a video card, extra $$$ for the mobo with 2xPCI-E, extra $$$ for the huge powersupply, but only get a 75% performace gain?
Really. 4-6 hours with minimal disc-spinning. On a game where the disc is constantly streaming to reduce load times -- or a movie -- you'll probably get 1-3 hours if you're lucky.
You actually liked Driver? Ewww.. I liked Driver better when it was called GTA. Perspective makes no a difference in the gameplay department. Driver was basically Pacman in cars, since it told you specific streets you needed to use to get to the destination.
Have you read the specs for the DS? It has wifi + chat built in to the system. And the way you're talking, the system for true geeks should be the Zodiac.
Couldn't the same thing be said for a company who buys, say, 100 licenses for MSOffice, then only uses a certain percentage of those licenses purchased. Sure, 100 licenses were sold, but they may only be used on 50 machines.
Please excuse the grandparent poster for not following Sony's change in the acronym game. PSX was the original acronym for the first PlayStation, codenamed PlayStation X when it was being worked on as an expansion to the SuperNES (or Super Famicom or both). It wasn't called the PS1 until the PSone came out, at the earliest, or the PSX (DVR) came out, at the latest.
A friend told me that the only thing Doom 3 uses DirectX for is DirectInput. Don't know how true it is, but DI could probably be translated pretty easily to SDL by the guys at id.
If I remember correctly, the only way you would be able to get a Phantom (if it were a real, tangible thing) would be to order it directly from Infinium Labs. I'm probably wrong, though.
There were DX9 compatible cards about 6 months before the release of DX9. They set the standards ahead of time, and the card makers comply with those standards when they design the architecture. They can't really predict when Microsoft (or OpenGL's coders) will actually finish the product.
It may also have to do with the fact that the discs are read from outside-in, instead of the other way around, like normal CDs and DVDs. So it wasn't possible to create a bootable disc with a burned disc. Hackers had to wait until the PSO1&2 memory card (or network) exploit arrived to get it to run arbitrary code.
Eminem also asked him not to do a video of his parody of "Lose Yourself" because he felt that it was an emotional song for himself and it would be cheapened if they played a video parodying it constantly on MTV. But he did allow him to do the song. Just not the video.
I wouldn't say the author is trying to say that. I think the point is more that the art is lacking. The candelabra doesn't have to look the same in every direction, but it doesn't have to look drab, either.
Although, I think 2D in a 3D game is great as cel-shading in proper instances. Wind Waker was appropriate because of the cartooniness they added to Link. I couldn't stop laughing when he was launched out of the canon into the wall of one of the first fortresses. Tales of Symphonia, eagerly awaiting to be played on my desk, looks like it does cel-shading very nicely, giving the game the feel of anime.
That's nothing. I work at a University electrical engineering department. In one of our labs, we installed 30 3.2GHz P4s with 1GB RAM and Radeon 9800 Pros. I kid you not. An electrical engineering class where most of the work is done with external peripherals (serial/parallel/USB) definitely does not need that, but it makes me happy if one happens to go down and we scavenge it for parts.
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So I'm expected to shell out 2x$$$ for a video card, extra $$$ for the mobo with 2xPCI-E, extra $$$ for the huge powersupply, but only get a 75% performace gain?
It requires a 350 watt when used with a standard system. So it shouldn't require 700, but still probably considerably more than 350.
Not only hippies use Linux. Pinko commies also use Linux. It's downright un-American of them!
Really. 4-6 hours with minimal disc-spinning. On a game where the disc is constantly streaming to reduce load times -- or a movie -- you'll probably get 1-3 hours if you're lucky.
You actually liked Driver? Ewww.. I liked Driver better when it was called GTA. Perspective makes no a difference in the gameplay department. Driver was basically Pacman in cars, since it told you specific streets you needed to use to get to the destination.
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I believe it used 802.11b, but with an extremely weak amount of watts. So it just doesn't get the range of a laptop, PDA, etc.
Have you read the specs for the DS? It has wifi + chat built in to the system. And the way you're talking, the system for true geeks should be the Zodiac.
Couldn't the same thing be said for a company who buys, say, 100 licenses for MSOffice, then only uses a certain percentage of those licenses purchased. Sure, 100 licenses were sold, but they may only be used on 50 machines.
Please excuse the grandparent poster for not following Sony's change in the acronym game. PSX was the original acronym for the first PlayStation, codenamed PlayStation X when it was being worked on as an expansion to the SuperNES (or Super Famicom or both). It wasn't called the PS1 until the PSone came out, at the earliest, or the PSX (DVR) came out, at the latest.
I'm sure what the poster meant to say was "almost like Nintendo's version of ilovebees.com"
I now have no Perfect Dark Zero
And neither do the people who own Xbox. It's still set for 'TBA2005', which means it probably isn't very close to being done.
A friend told me that the only thing Doom 3 uses DirectX for is DirectInput. Don't know how true it is, but DI could probably be translated pretty easily to SDL by the guys at id.
If I remember correctly, the only way you would be able to get a Phantom (if it were a real, tangible thing) would be to order it directly from Infinium Labs. I'm probably wrong, though.
There were DX9 compatible cards about 6 months before the release of DX9. They set the standards ahead of time, and the card makers comply with those standards when they design the architecture. They can't really predict when Microsoft (or OpenGL's coders) will actually finish the product.
Isn't it used for the Unreal Engine games and a lot of the Q3 engine games? There's a lot of games based on each of those engines.
How those rumors are started, I do not know. It's easy enough to debunk by opening the case lid to a GCN and seeing which way the disc is spinning.
One more suggestion along with the others..
It may also have to do with the fact that the discs are read from outside-in, instead of the other way around, like normal CDs and DVDs. So it wasn't possible to create a bootable disc with a burned disc. Hackers had to wait until the PSO1&2 memory card (or network) exploit arrived to get it to run arbitrary code.
Eminem also asked him not to do a video of his parody of "Lose Yourself" because he felt that it was an emotional song for himself and it would be cheapened if they played a video parodying it constantly on MTV. But he did allow him to do the song. Just not the video.
I believe GamePro tried it and the kids hated it. But what do they know? That's why they're still kids, because they're stupid!
Then again, they did make them play ET, Pong, and Pitfall, games before the video game crash and Nintendo's uprising.
I wouldn't say the author is trying to say that. I think the point is more that the art is lacking. The candelabra doesn't have to look the same in every direction, but it doesn't have to look drab, either.
Although, I think 2D in a 3D game is great as cel-shading in proper instances. Wind Waker was appropriate because of the cartooniness they added to Link. I couldn't stop laughing when he was launched out of the canon into the wall of one of the first fortresses. Tales of Symphonia, eagerly awaiting to be played on my desk, looks like it does cel-shading very nicely, giving the game the feel of anime.
When 60% of the video game industry (read: EA) stops forcing them onto the market.
Way to learn to read, there. I applaud you.
African-American refers to a person of African heritage that lives or grew up in America.
That's nothing. I work at a University electrical engineering department. In one of our labs, we installed 30 3.2GHz P4s with 1GB RAM and Radeon 9800 Pros. I kid you not. An electrical engineering class where most of the work is done with external peripherals (serial/parallel/USB) definitely does not need that, but it makes me happy if one happens to go down and we scavenge it for parts.
Wasn't Bloodrayne the game about a Nazi-hunting vampire woman? I see "blockbuster" written all over this one...
Not quite. She's got saggy boobs that are at least a C-cup.