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The same thing that the initial Cell design was going to be. An onboard, "GPU-like" arcitecture that was part of the CPU. The PS1 and the PS2 did not have an actual GPU like the Gamecube, Xbox, X360, or PS3. Disagree again, so you continue your streak of disagreement out of spite, rather than knowledge. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think you're getting too caught up in the industry buzzwords (aka "GPU"). You stated the following: That statement is not correct. I was hoping you were going to clarify the statement with respect to hardware T&L or something. Instead you chose to insult me. The R5900 did not do all of the graphics calculations. Much like ALL of the video cards prior to the original GeForce chipset, that chip's responsibilities was rendering of the screen. At the time, this was still a humongous performance increase over the CPU doing all the calculations. At the time, T&L chipsets (aka the GeForce) actually had a performance penalty compared to letting the CPU take care of the T&L responsibilities. This was demonstrated by numerable tests in the late 1999s, showing that it was better to use the GeForce as a "standard" video card, rather than enabling Hardware T&L (assuming you had a fast processor, preferably with SSE). Thing is, most people who purchased GeForce cards were getting the high speed Pentiums (during the race to 1 GHz, new ones were coming out almost weekly). I know that the GPU of the PS2 did not support hardware T&L, but it was still a hardware solution for graphics. And it was not part of the CPU. To say that the CPU did all of the graphics calculations is incorrect. And I am not disagreeing out of spite either. It's not an opinion. I'm pointing out the mistakes you made.

The PS1 had a different GPU chipset than the PS2 (I'm pretty positive )....they didn't seem to have too much of a problem. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Neither the PS1 or the PS2 had an actual GPU, all graphics calculations were done via the CPU. So having backwards compatibility was easy between the two machines, since they were essentially the same chipsets, with higher clock speeds and more RAM. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What's that 150 MHz, 16-pixel pipeline, with the 2560-bit interface to it's memory, "Graphics Synthesizer" used for? As for the processors, I'm not familiar enough with the R5900 compared to the R3000 (though I did find it kind of funny that the R3000 was used for the I/O for the PS2).

It turns many players into the superstars they become. Like Mark Messier. I figured since you claimed to be a fan, you'd actually know something about him. For the rest of your post, it's clear you have no understanding about the psychology of sports. Nor do you have any inkling about how contracts work in the NHL. Or sports in general. Have a nice day.

Free is never bad.

No predictions. Hopefully a win, and if it's a loss, it better not be because of poor play on our part Oh, one more thing to mention regarding the "demotion" earlier. It certainly didn't seem to hurt Mark Messier's career :D

You can't 'fire' an NHL player. At best you can put him on waivers, but if no one picks him up, you still have to pay his contract. At best you can negotiate a contract buyout, but those can only be done at the beginning of the season, and from now on will still count against your salary cap. Furthermore, he hasn't been "sent down" to the minors. He's been put on a "conditioning stint." Conditioning stints are for a maximum of 2 weeks, and require the consent of the player. In other words, Ty Conklin had to agree with the decision. It wasn't the organization "demoting him." Yet again, you cannot compare professional sports with a standard job. The reason why he wasn't put outright onto waivers is because the team is NOT giving up on him. They are trying to put him in situations where he can regain his confidence, because he's clearly shaken by his performance thus far in the season. The Edmonton Oilers organization has not given up on Ty Conklin. Otherwise he'd be tossed onto waivers.

"Back then?" I have been seeing 3.5" hard drives for at least 5 years though (when I started building my own machines. I know that the drives used to be really big, but I've never heard of them approaching 500 GB. At any size. I remember when Quantum had a 36 GB SCSI 5.25" drive and it was huuuuuuge in 1999. I know DEC had a hard drive that was in two big cases when my Dad worked for them in the early 80s....took up half the room, with 16 discs in each. It held about 20 MB. Just because the Hard Drives were much bigger back then (when is "back then" anyways?), doesn't mean they were holding 500 GB of information. The density of sectors on the platters is what's pushing up the drive. I mean, the 3.5" floppy held more information than the 5.25" floppy. The earliest I had seen for a 500 GB drive was LaCie's external 5.25" drive, in the early part of 2004. Though I had heard nothing but bad things about their reliability, and the $1000 price tag didn't exactly fill me with warm fuzzies. Did your Hard Drive have a fan Shadow? Because I know those things were VERY hot.

Being outshot 24-6 in that period, I couldn't bring myself for blaming Belfour for any goals against in that period.

Yeah. The previous 500 GBs were SCSI and Firewire.....maybe USB.

woohoo! Watch the GPA plummet!

Hehe, never underestimate an eye injury. Tough to play when you cannot see. It's why people figured Berard was done. I still can't believe how many people had written off Belfour at the beginning of the season. 49 saves, including 24 in a single period. Give him the game ball for that one.

Oooo, that's news to me. I figured they'd do something though. This next game is big, and I'd say probably the defining moment for the team. If they bounce back after things finally all went to crap and play a convincing game and win on Tuesday, I'm still optimistic that things will turn out pretty good. Otherwise, it could be a long season.

What happens if the company goes out of business and you can no longer get the game? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You can always burn the game onto CDs/DVDs yourself though. You get the same problem with patches and stuff too, for both types of games. "Alun" ... ouch.

Ignores ignores! Don't give in to temptation!

I've yet to see one that only gave you a single download. If it did, I'd certainly never buy it. Some, including Steam, provide unlimited downloads though.

The company doesn't give them to you stacked... Its you who does the stacking when they give you those sleeve jackets to screw around with. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not sure what your point is. My post was a response to the top post. Even if I keep them in sleeve jackets, they don't get scratched up. They get scratched up when I don't put them away and all the dust and other junk falls on them and murders the crap out of them. I find it odd for you to put words into ShadowPaladin's mouth anyways.

So uh.......some good things happened. Rita obliterated some guy with an open ice check. Laraque smashed the crap out of Brad May (who earlier tried to take on Rita for his hit). We didn't get shut out. It's still only counts as 1 loss.

Hmmm. I don't think I've ever owned a PC game that had discs directly stacked on top of each other.

I remember players like Chelios playing throughout the playoffs with a broken ankle. I think with braces (and even skate technology), finding ways to take weight off the ankle is probably not THAT hard of a thing to do. I'm going to the Colorado game tonight, so if you see any bizarro things that Aebischer does in net, it's because I'm manipulating him with the force. And when Ales Hemsky lays out Rob Blake, it's because I put a Force Shield on him.... <sigh>....If only I were a jedi...

All discs that I keep in cases have remained in uber-condition too!

Were they actually "broken" ankles and wrists? In any case, you can brace the crap out of them like a bunch of crazy mofos to the point where you're not really putting any weight on them. Blurry vision though is blurry vision.

Oh, in other news, I see Lacie has 1 TB drives now. For about $1000 bucks Someone hold Shadow back! Resist!!

As soon as it became available, my Dad got an account that had no caps on bandwidth usage for a flat monthly rate. Still can't get over that. WOW! Did you like needlessly copy them repeatedly??? I have Duke3D on my computer, and it's only 40 MB. The Ultima Collection takes up 250 MB, and that's 8 games! (UC doesn't have U9). I bow before your dedication. Maybe if I was older and could have bought more games myself I could have attained your library. I thought mine was big (including consoles)... Two 500 GB....yeesh........Mr. Moneybags here......thinks he so better than us!

Because they like to roleplay their characters differently. Sometimes I pick armor just because it looks cool, not because it has +23543 to wisdom.

Many download services don't offer "lifetime passes" though, because it's too easy to abuse. I'm only allowed 5 installs with my Eastside Hockey Manager. I don't blame them, otherwise I could just buy the game once and give the registration code to all of my friends.