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I can only see the jaggies if I stop and look for them.

McLusky is the Desert Eagle isn't it? It's ok. But I usually bounced back and forth between the Steyr and the Killmatic by the end of the game. Run and gun, full auto laser beam with firearms 10.

I don't recall having any dreams of forumites. I remember having one dream where I was asked by someone I worked with to deliver a package, and that it was very important. But her sister (who also worked with me in real life) was adamantly against it, saying I shouldn't help her. She needs to do it herself and so on. After a lot of bickering, I decided to open the package to see what was inside, and it was a bottle of mustard. At which point I woke up. I always seem to wake up when something gets really wierd. Every now and then, I'll have a dream that is me in "everyday" life (as plausible as a dream can be), and during it I will encounter every girl I was ever genuinely attracted to. (And no, nothing sexual. No erotic dreams for me ). It will often just be in a random chance where I bump into them in the street or at school or something. I never really pay it much attention, but I wonder if the order I bump into them correlates in anyway to the order that I met them in real life.

My CPU is a neural net processor....a learning computer.

Skill Synergies would work. If I run around a lot an my athleticism improves, even if I don't jump around a lot I'm still going to be a better jumper. Same with firing a weapon. If I grow up firing only pistols, while firing a rifle is not going to be exactly the same, I wouldn't be on the same page as someone that grew up never firing a gun of any sort.

He buys them all!

No, ME was built upon the 9x codebase, whereas 2000 is a successor to NT.

If you're talking the Uzi (Killmatic) and not the Mac-10 (the Braddock), it's far and away the best gun in the game. I like the Spaz shotgun as well. The Brock (9mm) is a handly little gun as well. Fast firing and accurate.

I disagree. nVidia still competes with the ATI component, and Intel still competes with the AMD component. What has changed though, is that ATi will benefit from nVidia chipsets, as I doubt nVidia stops making chipsets for AMD processors. And I'm sure ATi cards will still work fine on Intel platforms, which will also help AMD now. It works both ways.

That's one way of looking at it, and I'm much more willing to look at it that way. It provides an opportunity for Intel to remove competition in multiple markets. The krux comes in determining whether or not AMD-ATi is stronger together, or separately. AMD just became a much bigger company, with more purchasing power as a result, as well as additional forms of revenue, knowledge sharing, and so on. It also provides an opportunity into a market that wasn't available (without licensing) to either AMD or ATI, the fully integrated system like the one in your link. Individually, they have less options available to them. Obviously, I feel that the two entities are stronger together than separately. You seem to feel the other way.

I was thinking a bit about this. Has AMD really ever been in the chipset business? In the past they have commented, on the record, that they weren't in the chipset business, and that solutions like the AMD-750 and AMD-760 were fillers to ensure that there was a chipset in place. Has this actually changed? Looking around Asus' website, they don't offer a single motherboard with Socket 754, 939, or AM2 that uses an AMD chipset. The only board they still have listed as using an AMD chipset is the old A7M266-D dual core motherboard. MSI didn't seem to have any either. Given that their last chipset driver pack was release May 2001 (with some updates coming in early 2002, I'm not convinced they are in the chipset business. Hardware Analysis has an article from February 2005, that seems to indicate that AMD has not changed their school of thought. Given that ATI doesn't make CPUs, and AMD doesn't make GPUs or chipsets, it looks as though the number of chipset/cpu/gpu manufacturers has remained unchanged. It seems as though the "secondary market" of chipsets doesn't overlap at all, as AMD was never interested in making chipsets. And certainly not to the tune of a "multi-billion dollar" marketshare. I fail to see how we "lost a competitor" when the two companies merging made no products that directly competed with each other. If you look at the "big four," before: 2 CPU makers (AMD/Intel) 2 GPU makers (ATI/nVidia) [3 if you want to count the integrated stuff Intel does] 3 chipset makers (Intel/nVidia/ATI) Now, after the AMD/ATi merger we have: 2 CPU makers (AMD-ATi/Intel) 2 GPU makers (AMD-ATi/nVidia) [3 if you count Intel's integrated solutions] 3 chipsetmakers (AMD-ATi/nVidia/Intel) My point is that we didn't. The products made by AMD and ATi never competed with each other. The fact that 4 big companies have become 3 has not reduced the number of companies that make CPUs, GPUs, or motherboard chipsets. Note: I do know about the AMD-8000 series of chipsets. I just can't find a motherboard that actually uses it. It looks like they were designed for server use (since they are designed for the Opteron), which makes sense, given AMD's philosophy about chipset production. AFAIK, AMD still struggles in the server/workstation market. Probably to the point where there isn't much 3rd party support for their server solutions. It reminds me of earlier Athlon launches where AMD released chipsets while waiting for the 3rd parties to jump on board. With ATI, nVidia, and VIA all becoming active suppliers for AMD's consumer products, AMD stopped making chipsets. As far as I can tell, ATi does not make chipsets for the Opteron processor either, so I still don't think we lost a competitor.

Bad things don't typically happen to me in my dreams. If they do, it's not uncommon for me to replay the last 5-10 seconds of my dream and get a more favourable outcome. At which point my dream typically becomes lucid and I have some fun with it. Once I dreamt I was Zorro with a lightsaber. Very entertaining!

The need for arbitration is a little more moot now that the UFA age is dropping. The big thing about it is it can be used by the team or the player to ensure that they are signed on time. I remember Shawn Horcoff last season commented that he filed for arbitration just to make sure that his contract was taken care of before training camp. In the end he settled before the hearing and got a $1 million deal.

Playing the demo of Company of Heroes. It's ok, but a bit too RTS for me I think.

I'm 99.9999999% sure you cannot renegotiate a deal once an arbitrator has made a ruling. You don't have to accept it until after 48 hours from the last arbitration that a team has, but they cannot change it. It's part of the cost of filing for arbitration and going for it. Just like how a player can no longer accept RFA offer sheets when filed for arbitration.

I'm pretty sure that Buffalo no longer has the option of negotiating a different deal for Briere. IIRC you cannot modify an arbitrator's ruling.

Playing a demo of Sword of the Stars.

So because it's not their primary market, they're not competitors..? Strange logic. Hey, you're the one that used the bizarro logic that since the seconday products competed, we just lost 25% of the competition. Especially given that AMD is known for making solid Pentium chipsets (or heck, even Athlon chipsets). Let's be honest here, your concern over this buyout and the ramifications it may have is due to the cutthroat chipset market? As for the link with discussions of Unified Development: shocking.

I never said that they had problems. I just found them to not have as good performance.

I should have been clearer. They'd get ATI's time at the facilities.

Are the Sapphire ATI cards better than they used to be?

The chipset market is not the primary market for any of those companies. As for AMD acquiring ATI for their chipsets, that would be something new. AMD at one point commented that they do not want to make chipsets, and they only made chipsets as a stopgap for new technologies (Ironically I preferred AMD's chipsets over Via's chipsets at the time). To me it seems as though AMD acquired ATI for the fab facilities, not the chipset market.

Not a movie, but I did just watch the two hour series finale of Everwood.

How were you able to sneak up to Bach? I tried with Stealth 5. IIRC, he could even still see me through obfuscate.

Wooo, I meet the recommended (sans the stuff that isn't out yet, like DX10 and Vista).