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Before buying the game, see if there is a demo available. Right now the game has a decent amount of bugs, and it has problems running on alot of systems, including xbox360s. Some people with cutting edge hardware are having low fps issues whilesome people with lower end video cards are running fine. The xbox360 is having harddrive cache problems, ruining saved games, while alot of people on PCs are crashing to desktop.
I'm enjoying the game, but it is frustrating. however, I would advise others to wait for a patch, unless you can't restrain yourselves.
I'm not that far in oblivion, and I've already had at least three quests where I had to choose a side, and the results were different depending on the choice. So far at least as much as BGII, although the Bodhi choice was more significant.
Quests were paranoia and finger on the mountain btw. So far the choices have not been significant on a world-changing scale, but still 10x more so than any final fantasy.
I believe most people won't care about emulation, perhaps buying 1-3 games at most. I would guess most people interested in the old games already have emulators running on other machines and would be unwilling to pay to do the same on a revolution, unless it was really cheap, as in 0.99
Now, if you could download GC games, that would be sweet, but I don't see how that would be possible with the limited flash memory of the revolution.
I'll probably pick up the revolution and playstation 3, if it comes out by christmas. If not, I'll buy whatever is hacked first. I'd like a xbox360, but it actually has LESS capabilities as a media center than my hacked xbox, and the damn thing still isn't available in stores.
You are able to put a store bought copy of XP on any one computer, so it is not really locked to the hardware. I've had the same copy on four different machines (just not all at once).
and my MB was the last generation before PCI express as well (they had a few intel ones out, but I wanted AMD). CPU is at 100%, so more CPU should help. And to be honest, the game for me is at least playable, but at 800x600 resolution, which sort of blows for a 2006 game. Turn the max view distance on and you can really see the difference.
I'm sort of wishing I got an xbox360 and a VGA adapter (no HD TV yet). It would be cheaper than a new MB, new CPU, and new graphics card. And to be honest my current rig is fine for a business or office PC so I don't see much reason to upgrade it.
Devil's Crush is the greatest pinball game ever, and it was for the TG16. I have an emulator for my pocket pc.
It has an excellent, evil soundtrack, along with a bunch of bonus tables you can enter while playing on the main table. Not to mention destroying all the skeletons with the pinball. I hope they port it to the revolution, even though I have access to it through my modded xbox.
I can honestly say I have never looked at my old, scribbled notes written in 5-subject notebooks throughout getting my BS. They're locked in the closet in a box, and I'm likely to throw them away soon. I can barely even read the writting.
However, using my tablet PC and OneNote, the information is actually relevant after the lecture (currently in medschool). If I'm looking for a particular word or subject, I do a seach and OneNote can find it throughout subjects.
The tablet PC negates the (can't make drawings, highlight, etc) "not-paper" problem.
His problem with students not paying attention may be legit, and a tablet PC may not even help with that (can still surf the web, etc), but IMO a tablet PC is a superior solution to pen and paper, and nothing stops students from drawing or scribbling.
You can create a realtivly silent gaming PC for under a grand. I built an amd 3400+, 1gig ram, ATI 9800 pro video, and a silent case for not that much money over a year ago (def under a grand), and using MS' game machine analyzer it rates in the top 3% of gaming PCs.
Why do all these "game machine" and "media center" how-to guides build such expensive computers? The day where the average gamer or home computer user spends $2000-2500 on a computer is a decade ago.
First, note 47 processes are running, and the screenshot doesn't mention which apps or processes are running. Heck, I've had firefox take up 350MB itself before.
Second, 800MB is including the filesystem share, if you look to the right under physical memory you will see they have 1 gig total and about 600 free. Which is exactly what my XP installation is saying right now with opera running and 35 processes.
Third, Vista (like XP) can run in classic mode with little visual effects and much less memory and speed requirements.
Fourth, I'm not sure about it (and have no data to prove it) but I believe windows doesn't even need most the memory it takes up, it just uses a bunch of it to pre-fetch programs. Win XP runs fine under 250mb, but even faster under 500mb (not sure if 1gig makes a difference).
I didn't RTFA, but perhaps he means that future implementations of the mac os will run windows programs. If that would be the case (and if they can still do it in a much more secure environment) then I believe sales of macs would explode.
PocketPC Games: 4 pinball Bounty Hunter pinball GameBox Classics and GameBox Gems Links Mummy Maze Age of Empires Skyforce Warfare Inc Zuma Baseball Addict Soccer Addict
not on par with GBA games, but adequate and fun while you are waiting for anything, such as a passanger in a car, at a doctor's office, etc. I could bring my GBA with me, but I never do, and always have my cellphone with me.
JAMDAT has some nice looking smartphone games last time I checked.
My samsung i730 PDA phone doesn't have any scratches on it, and I've dropped it on pavement multiple #s of times and use the touchscreen as a remote. I don't know why it is so hard for apple to make their products scratch resistant.
I installed linux (ubuntu), and after 1 hour of trying to get my wireless trying to work (unsucessfully), and two hours of trying to figure things out and arrange things to my liking (unsucessfully) I am going to say linux is NOT ready for the desktop.
Ie, for anything in windows, you either right click or go to the control panel, and if you can't figure it out from there you have a really odd problem. I've only used a mac a few times, but whenever I try out my friends OS X laptop, everything seems intuitive and I never really have a problem getting things the way I like them. Linux is the exact opposite of this. I shouldn't have to search forums or read a dummy manual just to basic things for a desktop. I shouldn't have to spend hours searching for things or configuring things. The only distro I've heard that is nearly ready is linspire, but it's nearly the same freaking price as windows.
And if you look for the support contracts for any of the major distros, it is in the 100s of $s just for granny to make a phone call. IIRC, on windows basic support is free (at least, it was the last time I called). Source: $250 for a phone call for Ubuntu support. And no, grandma isn't going to use IRC. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/supportoptions/paids upport
To be fair, I've had firefox use over 350MB in more than one session. 70mb is quite reasonable. And the tab features beat firefox hands down.
I agree with the scrolling issue, and a couple of rendering problems, but for me the speed beats firefox for some reason. This site, fark, and cnn load twice as last for me in IE 7 than they do under firefox.
I actually like the lack of menu bar (as you said, the shortcuts still work), and you can configure it so that it does show the menu bar.
My only complaint is that the tab bar takes up way too much screen real estate (even with small icons selected). Until that is customizable and the scroll is is fixed I'll be sticking with either firefox or opera.
Look, blocking information, expecially political information (google.cn search results for tawain independence, ect) is considered by I would guess most Americans to be evil. Blocking political information means subversion and manipulation of the populace, and most would consider this an evil act.
Yes, overall, China benefits from some small amount of information that trickles through. But the action getting there is itself evil (ie killing one person to save many is still an evil act, for taking innocent life is evil, although humanity may benefit overall from lives saved).
I do not blame google for wanting to tap into the Chinese market, but it is hypocritical of them to state they do no evil while filtering political results.
PocketPC Games: 4 pinball Bounty Hunter pinball GameBox Classics and GameBox Gems Links Mummy Maze Age of Empires Skyforce Warfare Inc Zuma Baseball Addict Soccer Addict
not on par with GBA games, but adequate and fun while you are waiting for anything, such as a passanger in a car, at a doctor's office, etc. I could bring my GBA with me, but I never do, and always have my cellphone with me.
Looks like these labels are not members of the RIAA. I've downloaded a few artists from these labels (I refuse to support anything from the RIAA, and I send a couple bucks to the artists that I do pirate from) and upon finding this out I'm going to be purchasing these CDs from these labels to support them.
I know this is a scapegoat arguement, but if not for piracy, I wouldn't have purchased anything in the past five years. I never would have purchased music from Blind Guardian, Demons and Wizards, and Candlemass if I didn't pirate the bands first and find out if they were any good (I'm more into black metal, and never would have gone out on my own and purchased these CDs).
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Before buying the game, see if there is a demo available. Right now the game has a decent amount of bugs, and it has problems running on alot of systems, including xbox360s. Some people with cutting edge hardware are having low fps issues whilesome people with lower end video cards are running fine. The xbox360 is having harddrive cache problems, ruining saved games, while alot of people on PCs are crashing to desktop.
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I'm enjoying the game, but it is frustrating. however, I would advise others to wait for a patch, unless you can't restrain yourselves.
Here is the technical board for those interested:
http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?s=9d
I'm not that far in oblivion, and I've already had at least three quests where I had to choose a side, and the results were different depending on the choice. So far at least as much as BGII, although the Bodhi choice was more significant.
Quests were paranoia and finger on the mountain btw. So far the choices have not been significant on a world-changing scale, but still 10x more so than any final fantasy.
I believe most people won't care about emulation, perhaps buying 1-3 games at most. I would guess most people interested in the old games already have emulators running on other machines and would be unwilling to pay to do the same on a revolution, unless it was really cheap, as in 0.99
Now, if you could download GC games, that would be sweet, but I don't see how that would be possible with the limited flash memory of the revolution.
I'll probably pick up the revolution and playstation 3, if it comes out by christmas. If not, I'll buy whatever is hacked first. I'd like a xbox360, but it actually has LESS capabilities as a media center than my hacked xbox, and the damn thing still isn't available in stores.
You are able to put a store bought copy of XP on any one computer, so it is not really locked to the hardware. I've had the same copy on four different machines (just not all at once).
I'm in almost the exact same situation.
XP 3400+
1 gig ram
ati 9800 pro 128mb AGP
and my MB was the last generation before PCI express as well (they had a few intel ones out, but I wanted AMD). CPU is at 100%, so more CPU should help. And to be honest, the game for me is at least playable, but at 800x600 resolution, which sort of blows for a 2006 game. Turn the max view distance on and you can really see the difference.
I'm sort of wishing I got an xbox360 and a VGA adapter (no HD TV yet). It would be cheaper than a new MB, new CPU, and new graphics card. And to be honest my current rig is fine for a business or office PC so I don't see much reason to upgrade it.
For those not in the know, "I work for..." is a fark cliche. It's a joke.
Devil's Crush is the greatest pinball game ever, and it was for the TG16. I have an emulator for my pocket pc.
It has an excellent, evil soundtrack, along with a bunch of bonus tables you can enter while playing on the main table. Not to mention destroying all the skeletons with the pinball. I hope they port it to the revolution, even though I have access to it through my modded xbox.
I can honestly say I have never looked at my old, scribbled notes written in 5-subject notebooks throughout getting my BS. They're locked in the closet in a box, and I'm likely to throw them away soon. I can barely even read the writting.
However, using my tablet PC and OneNote, the information is actually relevant after the lecture (currently in medschool). If I'm looking for a particular word or subject, I do a seach and OneNote can find it throughout subjects.
The tablet PC negates the (can't make drawings, highlight, etc) "not-paper" problem.
His problem with students not paying attention may be legit, and a tablet PC may not even help with that (can still surf the web, etc), but IMO a tablet PC is a superior solution to pen and paper, and nothing stops students from drawing or scribbling.
You can create a realtivly silent gaming PC for under a grand. I built an amd 3400+, 1gig ram, ATI 9800 pro video, and a silent case for not that much money over a year ago (def under a grand), and using MS' game machine analyzer it rates in the top 3% of gaming PCs.
Why do all these "game machine" and "media center" how-to guides build such expensive computers? The day where the average gamer or home computer user spends $2000-2500 on a computer is a decade ago.
Do you know how to read the windows task manager?
First, note 47 processes are running, and the screenshot doesn't mention which apps or processes are running. Heck, I've had firefox take up 350MB itself before.
Second, 800MB is including the filesystem share, if you look to the right under physical memory you will see they have 1 gig total and about 600 free. Which is exactly what my XP installation is saying right now with opera running and 35 processes.
Third, Vista (like XP) can run in classic mode with little visual effects and much less memory and speed requirements.
Fourth, I'm not sure about it (and have no data to prove it) but I believe windows doesn't even need most the memory it takes up, it just uses a bunch of it to pre-fetch programs. Win XP runs fine under 250mb, but even faster under 500mb (not sure if 1gig makes a difference).
Maybe finally we can get some good D&D games seeing how Atari is pissing all over the license.
I didn't RTFA, but perhaps he means that future implementations of the mac os will run windows programs. If that would be the case (and if they can still do it in a much more secure environment) then I believe sales of macs would explode.
IMO here are some good pocket PC games (I have a pocket PC phone, the samsung i730).
Emulators:
Morphgear (tg-16 module) for devil's crush pinball (highly recommended)
PocketSNES: FF2+3
PocketNES
PocketPC Games:
4 pinball
Bounty Hunter pinball
GameBox Classics and GameBox Gems
Links
Mummy Maze
Age of Empires
Skyforce
Warfare Inc
Zuma
Baseball Addict
Soccer Addict
not on par with GBA games, but adequate and fun while you are waiting for anything, such as a passanger in a car, at a doctor's office, etc. I could bring my GBA with me, but I never do, and always have my cellphone with me.
JAMDAT has some nice looking smartphone games last time I checked.
This is the first, and only, time I have ever lol at anything on the internet. Good job.
My samsung i730 PDA phone doesn't have any scratches on it, and I've dropped it on pavement multiple #s of times and use the touchscreen as a remote. I don't know why it is so hard for apple to make their products scratch resistant.
Correction: linspire is cheaper online (~50-60) than what I remember seeing it for at Frys.
I installed linux (ubuntu), and after 1 hour of trying to get my wireless trying to work (unsucessfully), and two hours of trying to figure things out and arrange things to my liking (unsucessfully) I am going to say linux is NOT ready for the desktop.
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Ie, for anything in windows, you either right click or go to the control panel, and if you can't figure it out from there you have a really odd problem. I've only used a mac a few times, but whenever I try out my friends OS X laptop, everything seems intuitive and I never really have a problem getting things the way I like them. Linux is the exact opposite of this. I shouldn't have to search forums or read a dummy manual just to basic things for a desktop. I shouldn't have to spend hours searching for things or configuring things. The only distro I've heard that is nearly ready is linspire, but it's nearly the same freaking price as windows.
And if you look for the support contracts for any of the major distros, it is in the 100s of $s just for granny to make a phone call. IIRC, on windows basic support is free (at least, it was the last time I called). Source: $250 for a phone call for Ubuntu support. And no, grandma isn't going to use IRC.
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/supportoptions/paid
To be fair, I've had firefox use over 350MB in more than one session. 70mb is quite reasonable. And the tab features beat firefox hands down.
I agree with the scrolling issue, and a couple of rendering problems, but for me the speed beats firefox for some reason. This site, fark, and cnn load twice as last for me in IE 7 than they do under firefox.
I actually like the lack of menu bar (as you said, the shortcuts still work), and you can configure it so that it does show the menu bar.
My only complaint is that the tab bar takes up way too much screen real estate (even with small icons selected). Until that is customizable and the scroll is is fixed I'll be sticking with either firefox or opera.
Look, blocking information, expecially political information (google.cn search results for tawain independence, ect) is considered by I would guess most Americans to be evil. Blocking political information means subversion and manipulation of the populace, and most would consider this an evil act.
Yes, overall, China benefits from some small amount of information that trickles through. But the action getting there is itself evil (ie killing one person to save many is still an evil act, for taking innocent life is evil, although humanity may benefit overall from lives saved).
I do not blame google for wanting to tap into the Chinese market, but it is hypocritical of them to state they do no evil while filtering political results.
IMO here are some good pocket PC games (I have a pocket PC phone, the samsung i730).
Emulators:
Morphgear (tg-16 module) for devil's crush pinball (highly recommended)
PocketSNES: FF2+3
PocketNES
PocketPC Games:
4 pinball
Bounty Hunter pinball
GameBox Classics and GameBox Gems
Links
Mummy Maze
Age of Empires
Skyforce
Warfare Inc
Zuma
Baseball Addict
Soccer Addict
not on par with GBA games, but adequate and fun while you are waiting for anything, such as a passanger in a car, at a doctor's office, etc. I could bring my GBA with me, but I never do, and always have my cellphone with me.
I did not mod you down, but can you please show me the nearest linux or apple tablet PC (and no, the nokia POS doesn't count)?
Oh yah, they don't exist (and if they do, hell let me know, I'm all up for options).
Looks like these labels are not members of the RIAA. I've downloaded a few artists from these labels (I refuse to support anything from the RIAA, and I send a couple bucks to the artists that I do pirate from) and upon finding this out I'm going to be purchasing these CDs from these labels to support them.
I know this is a scapegoat arguement, but if not for piracy, I wouldn't have purchased anything in the past five years. I never would have purchased music from Blind Guardian, Demons and Wizards, and Candlemass if I didn't pirate the bands first and find out if they were any good (I'm more into black metal, and never would have gone out on my own and purchased these CDs).
Thanks!
Thank you, I appreciate it. I'll be sure to check some of these artists out.
they shipped 300k of them (US) to go out this morning. Bestbuy (mesa, AZ) was packed with campers waiting until the morning.