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Try this one:

what? Hmmm. I've had that happen before. Hopefully I don't need to redo my turn.

On the plus side, I'm working from home today and can squeeze in one minute turns to shatter you and your art!

It's too hardcore to show! Note: It WAS working. I imagine someone wasn't a fan of me leeching "

Well, I just realized there's only 9 turns left, so I'm starting to actually blitzkreig a bit more. Already learning things that I should have done differently. Oh well.

Referring to my kills versus yours....jerk!

I think I did hear that...as a teammate screamed into his mic as I opened up a can on his butt!

At the risk of pissing off ol' Gromnir.... What is art Volo?

They were too busy screaming "OMG OMG OMG!!! He's killing us. Squad has been wiped out!" for me to notice much else

Then how can people claim that movies are art?

I'm looking through my University's catalogue right now, but am having a hard time finding an appropriate article. I do remember finding an article that referred to a correlation between overpopulation and homosexuality, and how it wasn't just humans either (I believe they did a study with mice). I'm seeing if I can find it, though I accidentally stumbled upon it a few years ago while looking for something else entirely, so I'm not sure what my search criteria should be. If I can find it I'll reference it.

Which reminds me of a discussion I had when at work one time. Somehow it came up that I didn't particularly care for lesbianism (in that I didn't find it particularly attractive). This shocked some guys (most in fact....I seemed to be explaining myself to almost everyone at work that day). I commented that I've seen not-so-hot lesbians making out, and it didn't exactly "thrill" me. I don't know how representative my little Boston Pizza kitchen was of the rest of the world, but it was 8 men against 1 man, and those 8 men believed lesbians were hot regardless, and that my comments about unattractive lesbians shouldn't be relevant. Yeah, hot lesbians in porn are hot....but hot women doing anything can be hot

Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League! They were doing so well...lost starting goalie to injury, and are now rattled and down 2 games to 0 in the finals Slightly on topic...wasn't Wendell Clark gay?

that's part of the perceived lifestyle difference. lesbians don't come across as "flamers" or whatever. they aren't seen as the wild partiers always looking for a different partner each night of the week. that, and guys get off on the possibility of two chicks getting it on. right or not, tis true. taks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Errr, sorry to nitpick, but try not to have your words under a "quoted by me" quote box. I was kind of confused what was going on. Whether or not it's because of preceived lifestyle differences, or the fact that men find lesbians hawt, there's still greater social acceptance for lesbians than homosexual men. Considering politics is dominated by men, and men typically find lesbianism much more attractive than homosexual males, is it a systemic cause?

Seriously...what are you doing in this thread?

That's just versatile. It's not hardcore!. It can't be...not enough X's. HARDCORE!!!

Well, it's just that you mentioned computationally expensive, requiring large amounts of memory. I find that those don't go together that often. If something takes up large amounts of memory, it's probably done so to reduce computational cost (since reading from memory is fast, and you can store data computed earlier). I've only taken a basic algorithms course, so I'm not an expert, but it seems like many of the computationally expensive algorithms aren't really huge memory hogs. Not compared to the computer ticks anyways. Computer cycles are often orders of magnitude higher than memory usage. This is because time is much more available than memory. You can always wait longer for something to finish. You can't finish if you run out of memory though. If a processor becomes sufficiently fast, the need to store computed data (which is done for speed reasons) becomes less important (depending on the operation). Given the floating point power of the Cell, I wouldn't be too concerned about memory limitations for FP computations. Well, the Dreamcast was before the PS2, as was the Saturn compared to the PSX. IIRC, the Sega Master System was out before the NES too wasn't it? Being first is a bit overrated IMO. The big buzz words I'm hearing (though I don't follow consoles as much anymore) are things like photorealism and magnificent graphics, with "big bux" allocated to graphics. I wouldn't be surprised at all if at half (if not more) of the unified RAM goes towards graphics resources. You talk about the high bandwidth of the eDRAM. I know it has a 256 GB/s internal memory bandwidth, but from what I have read that only really benefits things like Z Buffering and Antialiasing. Just an assurance to make sure that the bottleneck isn't there, so to speak. Not really, as shaders are making additional geometry less important. Half-Life 2 pushes less polygons than Doom 3, and aside from shadows, looks much better (at least in my opinion). The per-pixel effects shifted the focus away from simply more triangles. Besides, in the example you provide, the Cell not being able to access the GDDR3 pool is irrelevant as the RSX would be using it all anyways. There'd be no memory available from the GDDR3 pool.

Conspiracy!!!

BF Skinner is a behavioural psychologist (many consider him to be the biggest name in psychology) who concluded that free will is an illusion. Decisions are made based on conditioning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.F._Skinner

Why would it be in the Antarctic, and not somewhere else?

Meh, I still think familiarity could be classified under social, but whatever. You're going all BF Skinner on me here. I have kind of mixed feelings about the existence of free will.

The Radeon X1900 XTX has THREE X's in it though. And we all know that means hardcore!

Well, 65 million years ago there weren't creatures that knew how to split atoms.

Wouldn't environmental just be included in chemical and social? EDIT: Besides, he wasn't really making a case for free will, as we don't really have much choice over who we fall in love with.