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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).

What do you mean? How did Intel compete with ATI and nVidia? Same goes with AMD? Up until now, it's been Intel versus AMD, and ATI versus nVidia. Now it's Intel versus AMD, and ATI (the video branch of AMD) versus nVidia. If AMD wants to make it so that nVidia chips don't work well with AMD processors, then that's a fast track to cutting off huge chunks of your marketshare and filing for Chapter 11. We didn't even see it with Intel chipsets back in the day when AMD made clone processors, as well as the K6 processors. And if there would have been a perfect time to do it, it would have been then! I'm also not sure how feasible it is for the processor to behave differently with different video cards in. AFAIK it's more a chipset issue.

I was under the impression that they were a response to the Conroe.

Me too

I didn't find the game too difficult with any of my builds really.

Didn't you make some uzis?

Ah, god bless the light rain shower we just had :D

I think Gomez is underrated personally.

I'd be much more concerned with video cards not working with motherboard chipsets than video cards not working with CPUs. And that hasn't really been an issue.

I blame the world jump day people.

Probably something similar to you using an ATI chip with an nVidia motherboard chipset.

Meh, you and me both. If you wait though, you'll always be waiting. Just bad luck.

I think this is a good thing personally.