I'll be playing this one on the cube as well, and as long as the differences are limited to the control system, I think we'll be ok. We threw the boomerang, flung arrows, and fished just fine with a controller in Ocarina, this one shouldn't be any different. I just really hope they don't try to use the Gamecube version to try to sell me a Wii.
Regardless if you think he's in a position to make that comment, it still couldn't be more true. I'm not a fan of them either, but even by watching other people play, you can tell there's minimal changes from 06 to 07. As was mentioned earlier, I'd like to see a breakdown of development costs vs. licensing costs. Who do you think EA has to pay more, their developers, or the massive egos of the 'professional' athletes?
Currently the company I work for (non-profit, Sure there's new document formats and a new look, but what legitimate reason is there for my users needing that? Management is always telling me, well so-and-so over at X company has the exchange 2k7 beta, why don't we, blah blah. They never can seem to find an answer though when I ask what's lacking about X company's current software.
If it looks like the DVD-ROM drive is becoming obsolete I'll burn them on to whatever comes along next.
I think you've nailed it right there. Generally speaking, if information's important enough, it'll persist. Someone will take the time to convert it to the next big storage medium. If it's pretty worthless, such as [insert annoying trend here], it'll be (hopefully) doomed to the oblivion of 1s and 0s and archaeologists will look back trying to figure out why Bono wore sunglasses which a) had no tint and b) it was nighttime.
This is true, but I don't think that's the point others are trying to make. In this particular case a router removes the need to run ICS, and consequently removes the threat from this exploit.
Of course (and half off topic), it would be smart to use some of that money and invest in something new, because at some point people will get tired of WOW.
That's actually the first thing I thought when I read this. Who says WoW will even be around in 2009? Games like this are a fad. In a few years they'll be made fun of alongside facebook and myspace on I love the 00s on VH1. I can see that boring deadpan guy talking about it already.
"Yeah I remember WoW. It was this game that you just played and played and played. You played for thousands of hours only to realize the only thing to do was play some more. Nothing got in the way of WoW. Wife bugging you? You divorced her. Boss keeps calling because you missed work, you quit your job. What was I supposed to do? My friends' characters were going to die. I saved their lives."
it should provide a temporary stimulation that encourages you to get up and move, thus burning calories... right?
Yes, to your average human it does, but if you're hopelessly addicted to caffeine like I am, it just encourages you to stay awake for another couple minutes.
It was after all AMD that 'broke' the processor naming scheme in the first place. What was wrong with calling their 1439 MHz chip an Athlon 1450? Nooo, they had to call it a 1700. I call that confusing if not downright misleading. Now with the Core chips, Intel follows suit in order to be able to obscure the chips' actual performance.
I don't agree with either of them. Back in the day if you're shopping for CPUs and come across a P3 933, you instantly had an idea of the chips performance, at least enough to say well that's probably a bit faster then an Athlon 750. I'm sure some nitpicking AMD fanboys will argue and say it wasn't, but lets face it 933 > 750. Nowadays you have Athlon FX-XXXXs and Core 2 Duo EYYYYs. Where the XXXX YYYY but the Athlon might be clocked faster. At least the intel chip tries to convey that its a dual core chip with the Duo/Solo thing, but blows that to hell with the 'Extreme' designation.
But those look like intel's 975XBX mainboards in the pictures of the quad core machines. I thought I read earlier that intel was hyping the 965G chipset and not the 975X for their quad core architecture? Unless I'm totally missing something and intel has started using black pcb and the blue flame heatsinks on a 965 board.
I agree with that. I myself have a fan(ful?) 7600GT, and if you run at any decent resolution at all AA is not necessary. I immediately noticed this in Oblivion, HDR/no AA looks and performs much better than Bloom/4xAA and even at 16X the image quality didn't impress me. Sure if you're running something at 640x480, AA makes a world of difference, but at 1280x1024, its hardly noticeable and will destroy your frame rate.
Dynarec (while being a pretty cool little contraction) has rarely brought the speed emulator authors promised. I'd like to see the authors of this emu blame its slowness on my hardware not being up to snuff.
Just don't ever accept cookies from them. It seems now they give you one freebie solution and they use a cookie to track whether or not you've already viewed a solution this century.
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Yeah, I would have linked directly to the article on Turner's Syndrome.
Thanks alot, now I'm sucked into the vortex.
I'll be playing this one on the cube as well, and as long as the differences are limited to the control system, I think we'll be ok. We threw the boomerang, flung arrows, and fished just fine with a controller in Ocarina, this one shouldn't be any different. I just really hope they don't try to use the Gamecube version to try to sell me a Wii.
It will probably drive down the costs of the Core 2 so many of us can justify buying one.
Yeah, I'm not doing that anymore either. Oh wait, I'm not rich and powerful so that doesn't work for me.
Ah, touché
Regardless if you think he's in a position to make that comment, it still couldn't be more true. I'm not a fan of them either, but even by watching other people play, you can tell there's minimal changes from 06 to 07. As was mentioned earlier, I'd like to see a breakdown of development costs vs. licensing costs. Who do you think EA has to pay more, their developers, or the massive egos of the 'professional' athletes?
Currently the company I work for (non-profit,
Sure there's new document formats and a new look, but what legitimate reason is there for my users needing that? Management is always telling me, well so-and-so over at X company has the exchange 2k7 beta, why don't we, blah blah. They never can seem to find an answer though when I ask what's lacking about X company's current software.
Why not, they already went after a dead guy's kids. Seriously, why do people put up with this bullshit?
"You wouldn't steal a car..."
No, I wouldn't. That deprives someone else of a car. Copying digital media doesn't deprive anyone else of anything. Period. End of story.
Start producing quality shit at reasonable prices, in other words, stop ripping people off, and piracy will go away.
If it looks like the DVD-ROM drive is becoming obsolete I'll burn them on to whatever comes along next.
I think you've nailed it right there. Generally speaking, if information's important enough, it'll persist. Someone will take the time to convert it to the next big storage medium. If it's pretty worthless, such as [insert annoying trend here], it'll be (hopefully) doomed to the oblivion of 1s and 0s and archaeologists will look back trying to figure out why Bono wore sunglasses which a) had no tint and b) it was nighttime.
This is true, but I don't think that's the point others are trying to make. In this particular case a router removes the need to run ICS, and consequently removes the threat from this exploit.
England prevails.
Of course (and half off topic), it would be smart to use some of that money and invest in something new, because at some point people will get tired of WOW.
That's actually the first thing I thought when I read this. Who says WoW will even be around in 2009? Games like this are a fad. In a few years they'll be made fun of alongside facebook and myspace on I love the 00s on VH1. I can see that boring deadpan guy talking about it already.
"Yeah I remember WoW. It was this game that you just played and played and played. You played for thousands of hours only to realize the only thing to do was play some more. Nothing got in the way of WoW. Wife bugging you? You divorced her. Boss keeps calling because you missed work, you quit your job. What was I supposed to do? My friends' characters were going to die. I saved their lives."
it should provide a temporary stimulation that encourages you to get up and move, thus burning calories... right?
Yes, to your average human it does, but if you're hopelessly addicted to caffeine like I am, it just encourages you to stay awake for another couple minutes.
I don't know about you guys, but I've started eating advil already.
thousands of billions, huh? That's like, alot right?
It was after all AMD that 'broke' the processor naming scheme in the first place. What was wrong with calling their 1439 MHz chip an Athlon 1450? Nooo, they had to call it a 1700. I call that confusing if not downright misleading. Now with the Core chips, Intel follows suit in order to be able to obscure the chips' actual performance.
I don't agree with either of them. Back in the day if you're shopping for CPUs and come across a P3 933, you instantly had an idea of the chips performance, at least enough to say well that's probably a bit faster then an Athlon 750. I'm sure some nitpicking AMD fanboys will argue and say it wasn't, but lets face it 933 > 750. Nowadays you have Athlon FX-XXXXs and Core 2 Duo EYYYYs. Where the XXXX YYYY but the Athlon might be clocked faster. At least the intel chip tries to convey that its a dual core chip with the Duo/Solo thing, but blows that to hell with the 'Extreme' designation.
But those look like intel's 975XBX mainboards in the pictures of the quad core machines. I thought I read earlier that intel was hyping the 965G chipset and not the 975X for their quad core architecture? Unless I'm totally missing something and intel has started using black pcb and the blue flame heatsinks on a 965 board.
Yeah man, that extra $10 per game is really gonna bre$k the b$nk.
I agree with that. I myself have a fan(ful?) 7600GT, and if you run at any decent resolution at all AA is not necessary. I immediately noticed this in Oblivion, HDR/no AA looks and performs much better than Bloom/4xAA and even at 16X the image quality didn't impress me. Sure if you're running something at 640x480, AA makes a world of difference, but at 1280x1024, its hardly noticeable and will destroy your frame rate.
Google, impose your will on us AFTER you've secured control of our planet.
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Dynarec (while being a pretty cool little contraction) has rarely brought the speed emulator authors promised. I'd like to see the authors of this emu blame its slowness on my hardware not being up to snuff.
Yes, these were what used to be the top 10 torrent sites. Now they've all been slashdotted. Thanks guys.
Just don't ever accept cookies from them. It seems now they give you one freebie solution and they use a cookie to track whether or not you've already viewed a solution this century.
Please award points now.