Did you read TFA? The server will host for the 1.21 version of SWG which just so happens to be pre-jedi. That means no jedi for you, or anyone else, so it WILL NOT be a power grind. Plus, the server administrators can (theoretically) tweak the experience rate, so you won't need to grind forever to do anything.
It's in geek, in a dialect known as wannabe. This language is often characterized by technical sounding words that also sound familiar but are in fact nonsense words.
I agree with you that ATI seems to get the technology on their chips faster but they seem to have trouble more often getting those features to work correctly right off the bat. Does it matter if they have Pixel shader 1.4 on their chips first if I can't use it reliably?
And from a user/developer standpoint nVidia supports the community (the WHOLE community much more than ATI does. I choose nVidia hands down.
Good point. Linux will give you all of that (and more), but you are still spending money for the extra components like the CD/DVD burner that come standard on even the cheap PCs today. So yes it could be used as a PC. Also, most PC games these days run on Windows, so it still won't play some PC games. At least there's a version of minesweeper for Linux and Tuxracer, which is all I would need anyway.
In my opinion though, doing that would only be good for the novelty of using a PS3 as a PC. Which might be pretty cool, although I probably have too many computers as it is.
I would say Blu-Ray is still a good ways off from being the new DVD standard. I still don't see that as a feature. Don't put all your eggs in one basket just yet. If I wanted a Blu-Ray drive I would wait until there is a decent selection of Bluray movies out, and by that time (if it happens, which I doubt: Sony formats anyone?) the drives should pretty cheap (unless Sony tries to charge a lot for the use of the technology, in which case it will be gauranteed fail).
PC plays PS1 games, and not necessarily all that well.
An, yes, but a PC also plays PC games, surfs the 'net, rips and burns music, is much more customizable, etc.
It is licensed by big corperate radio companies. The license is expensive (in my opinion) and the licensing fees grow each year to make all of the radio companies sign on early. It's a way the big corperations can squash the little guy. They are also phasing in digital radio to replace standard analog broadcasts.
More info: more information can be broadcast on a single frequency possibly allowing multiple formats (rock, pop, blues, classical, etc) to be broadcase by each station.
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Yeah, I agree with that. The questionable legality would make me think twice, maybe three times before I would run a public emu server.
Did you read TFA? The server will host for the 1.21 version of SWG which just so happens to be pre-jedi. That means no jedi for you, or anyone else, so it WILL NOT be a power grind. Plus, the server administrators can (theoretically) tweak the experience rate, so you won't need to grind forever to do anything.
I'm waiting with you.
I drink it!
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It's in geek, in a dialect known as wannabe. This language is often characterized by technical sounding words that also sound familiar but are in fact nonsense words.
I agree with you that ATI seems to get the technology on their chips faster but they seem to have trouble more often getting those features to work correctly right off the bat. Does it matter if they have Pixel shader 1.4 on their chips first if I can't use it reliably?
And from a user/developer standpoint nVidia supports the community (the WHOLE community much more than ATI does. I choose nVidia hands down.
Except the mainframes the NSA own...
Good point. Linux will give you all of that (and more), but you are still spending money for the extra components like the CD/DVD burner that come standard on even the cheap PCs today. So yes it could be used as a PC. Also, most PC games these days run on Windows, so it still won't play some PC games. At least there's a version of minesweeper for Linux and Tuxracer, which is all I would need anyway.
In my opinion though, doing that would only be good for the novelty of using a PS3 as a PC. Which might be pretty cool, although I probably have too many computers as it is.
An, yes, but a PC also plays PC games, surfs the 'net, rips and burns music, is much more customizable, etc.
It is licensed by big corperate radio companies. The license is expensive (in my opinion) and the licensing fees grow each year to make all of the radio companies sign on early. It's a way the big corperations can squash the little guy. They are also phasing in digital radio to replace standard analog broadcasts. More info: more information can be broadcast on a single frequency possibly allowing multiple formats (rock, pop, blues, classical, etc) to be broadcase by each station.
I don't... I just buy a season of Stargate SG1 on DVD every now and then... I'm not kidding...
OpenGL would have to run in about 4-8 threads to be worthwhile.