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Expensive?? Yeah, like $1000 buckaroonies!! I wish my arms were self-regenerating and made of money like yours! I'm jealous more than anything I have tons of games, but many of them are quarter filled CDs from the late 1990s and even on floppy disk! 900 GB! Wowzers. I remember full installing Baldur's Gate to it's 2 GB install back in the day Did you fill the hard drive just with games though? I've seen people with rather extensive music collections, and videos are just gigantic. I don't d/l them, but my roommate does and he's always complaining about what he should delete

Many games can actually be purchased via download for the PC now. I bought Eastside Hockey Manager doing so, and I know places like Gamespy have the Direct2Drive service that offers tons of downloadable games to be bought.

I've calmed down since I got married. Ask me another :"> I still have one around here, blew up while full of games (of course I have the originals so it's only the saves I lost) but it does highlight a problem I tend to have with downloading. Games at the moment seem to come in at around 6-8 GB (looking at some of the latest releases). Since the revolution has access to the Nintendo back catalogue it should be a good litmus test. The games are a lot smaller too since they are N64/Snes/Nes. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think 6-8 GB still might be a wee bit large. Some are, but those are still rare. My KOTOR 2 directory clocks in at 5 GB, but that's with 1.5 GB of saved games. Vampire Bloodlines is 2.86 SC: Chaos Theory is 3.5 GB. WOW: 5 GB Half-Life 2 is just over 6 GB Rome: Total War is my biggest at just over 8 GB. Considering those games are all relatively new, coupled with 500 GB Hard Drives, you must have JUST got married. Even then, as you say, that's current. I'd wager that the majority of games in my library barely break 650 MB though, given my library is rather extensive. When did you get these hard drives? I have a 160 GB and a 250 GB drive, and mountains of free space. I could see needing a TB of HD space if you were a movie junkie, but I AM a game junkie and can't fill up my HD space fast enough. How many games do you have???? Most games for the PC AFAIK rarely touch the CD drive, aside from checking copy protection. I can verify this as I can play any one of my games without the CD in the drive (i.e. I eject it after I pass the copy protection).

2 500 GB HDs??? What models? And still, at 1 GB average per game, you'd need 900 games! 2 GB average per game is 450 games. Certainly a little on the expensive side, ignoring the cost of the hard drives themselves? You also make it sound like it was a long time ago......500 GB drives a long time ago??? With a few hundred games???? I wish I had your bling!

900 GB would only be a FRACTION of your game library?!??!

You missed the Oilers outplaying Calgary for the first 30 minutes, sleeping for 2 minutes (which resulted in two goals) and then phoning in the rest of the game

Coming out first definitely helped out the Dreamcast! I'd have given him more benefit of the doubt on the "computers" thing if he hadn't already performed other gaffes to begin with. In addition, when I ask him serious questions about his expertise on various topics where he simply dismisses a concern made, I get no answer. He also chastises others for misquoting, when he's done the same himself. And when shown to be wrong in a situation, he'll often try to backpedal the issue in an attempt to save face.

LORD OF THE DANCE!!!! EMBRACE HIM!

If that quote is so out of context, how come no one has seen it your way? Once Hades said "A computer is a computer" he shifted the focus away from just PCs. If unified memory is the end all be all for consoles, why wouldn't it be the end all be all for "other" computers?

I believe it saves them like 700k on cap spaces for this year because the cap consideration is based on average salary paid.

I have to study for a midterm......guess I'll wing it on that test

I love GamaSutra.

Peca notched his first goal too. Hopefully this will get the retards on this hockey forum I visit to stop demanding we trade him because he "sucks."

Nah...they were impossible to get. Plus I had an essay to do for today (which I finished at around 4 AM! ). I am going to the Colorado game on Friday though. There was some good things this game, but still need that 60 minute effort.

I bow before Infinity Ward. I think this is a new engine, and it runs great on my "old" 3500+ Athlon64 and "ancient" Radeon 9800 Pro.

There are times when not wearing your seatbelt can save your life too. There's always exceptions to the situation, but they are in the minority.

Given Call of Duty 1 was arguably the best FPS (fantastic sound), the demo of Call of Duty 2 did little to surprise me. Definitely on my Christmas list. There is one thing I noticed though: How exactly did "it show" that they were using all three cores? I mean, would it really play any differently if they had equal distribution over all 3 cores? It certainly didn't slough or look bad on my single processor here at home. I went to an EA recruitment session, and he mentioned something interesting. According to the speaker (Dr. John Buchanan), current games on the PS2 and XBOX use about 5% of the resources for Artificial Intelligence. He expects on the new consoles for that number to jump to 10% (which is a big boost, because 10% of Cell/Xenon is way more than 5% of the PS2/XBOX, far more than double). I wonder if Infinity Ward really has an entire processor dedicated to Artificial Intelligence, or if there isn't more happening on that processor. Dedicating an entire processor to it would make me assume (perhaps erroneously) that it would be approaching 33% of the processing power for AI.

Yeah. On pace for 82-0-0

Awwww, no responses. In any case, the second that Hades said "A computer is a computer" we expanded beyond the scope of merely a "PC" Though I think people might get a kick out of this: http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date=2005-02-05

Nothing you can say will undo what you have said previously. Credibility = zero. Have a nice day.

How are consoles and PCs so different that a unified architecture just cannot work on a PC? What was your reasons for the usefulness of 64-bit processing again? What exactly IS logic in AI programming? How are consoles and computers different really that different?

I disagree because most stuff you say is factually incorrect. But yes, you are the AI guru, that realizes that people use 64-bit numbers for the extra precision, where a console totally 100% benefits from a unified memory architecture, but computers don't because consoles aren't computers. I'm enjoying the entertainment, and I'll go back to lurking now

WE certainly do. Like when people say this: You might as well not post anymore, because you literally have no more credibility after that one. First you boondoggle the usefulness of 64-bit processing, and then later comeback and say "I was only talking about benchmarks." Then you basically tell the entire field of Artificial Intelligence research that all the work they're doing on statistical analysis to create more rational agents is nothing more than "choice" decisions. You then ignored my question pertaining to what you thought "logic" was when determining AI (I'm curious how much you really know about AI programming, and I think you started tossing around logic so much that it had begun to lose meaning). I can add another question to that.....how are consoles not computers? And going back a little bit further, what significant differences for computers (or even "PCs") exist over consoles that would make a unified memory architecture (which apparently is infallible for the console) not work for a computer?

I've already copy and pasted your quote into my signature. It was clearly "computer."