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I think the difficulty with multithreading is just multithreading itself. I think once you have a program to support multiple threads, getting it to run on 2, 3, 8, or 20 processors is just a bit of tweaking. From what I understand, the bulk of the difficulty is just getting the application multithreaded to begin with.

Good for fergie! Just got back from lunch, and that Sun article is exciting. It was cool listening to all the player's reactions, and like how you said Pronger just wants to play (I'm sure the responsibility of "just" being a marquee player will be enough :D) and lead by example and not step on any toes. At the same time, Jason Smith commented that he recognizes the experience that both Peca and Pronger have with the 'C' and has stated that he has the utmost respect for them and has no problems sharing the leadership role with these guys. Reading the paper got me all excited

Yeah, looking forward to it. I'd imagine there can only be so much deviation, because he does want to have a strong story. But the elements and perhaps some of the conclusions and decisions that are made along the way are more malleable.

The Bruins seem to be solid, assuming they'll sign Joe Thornton (and I think it'd be mighty unexpected if they didn't sign him).

Fixed! My humblest apologies.

People can have bad seasons. There's also other considerations such as the type of system that is played and other stuff like that. He is getting old and his 40 goal days are probably behind him...but don't forget that the league is supposed to be opening up the offence a bit more.

Spellmar is everywhere. Surrounds us he does....flows through us.

Quake IV has some interesting visuals too!

Amonte is a natural goal scorer in my opinion. And if he shares a line with Iginla, he'll be more open with all the focus Iginla will receive. I think it was a good pickup for Calgary. And kudos to Roenick for waiving his no trade clause to make room for, in JR's words, "the best player in hockey today."

Aunt Beru > *

Meh, what do I know. I thought that that was a lot of the hoopla about George not respecting the EU in Episode 2. Of course I'm sure Episode 2 had a history of Boba that didn't go along with any of the EU, but meh....it's his creation.

I think Half-Life 2 is a very RAM intensive game. I know my roommate and a friend of ours have the exact same computer, barring RAM (my roommate only has 512 MB compared to 1 GB), and Half-Life 2 seems to run a lot better on our friend's machine.

I fail to see how this has anything to do with Michael Jordan's fantastic basketball accomplishments

I'd like to see an old school Edmonton versus Calgary Conference final :D But I was thinking also that the year off probably helped Pronger get all healed up, and he always seemed like quite the professional. It was a good gesture on both the Oilers part and his part to sign him for that 5 year deal. A gesture that the Oil recognized his abilities and saw him as being useful to the team and a solid contributor, and a gesture from him that he's willing to be in it for a long haul. I did hear an interesting perspective about Pronger's powerplay contributions. While he was good in St. Louis, I was forgetting that he did have Al MacInnis beside him, which would be a nightmare for any penalty kill. But even still, Pronger's addition means that there's SOMEONE to guard on the powerplay now. And I know Bergeron has quite the little slapshot and is an offensive minded defensemen, so he might make a good pairing on the powerplay. Semenov also has a howitzer (and is physically imposing to boot), but I'm not sure how offensive minded he really is. Plus both those defensemen are still youngin's (younglings? ), but maybe Pronger's experience will help out their growth. I was thinking on going out for lunch, so i'll probably take a peek at that Sun article.

Hahahaha I'm going to go over Ender's head and award experience to Deraldin. Say...10 points good for you?

More Aunt Beru accomplishments here

Many people I think were upset because they couldn't be all the way darkside while influencing one of the lightside characters, therefore temporarily forfeiting their DS bonus which is just completely unacceptable!!!

Ooo, I'm a Michael Beihn fanboy too! Ever since I first saw The Terminator I have always enjoyed the characters he's played, even in subpar movies like Navy Seals.

It also seems more plausible (ignoring the fact that Modano has signed with Dallas). We don't need defense, we have Peca for that :D. Zigs would just get on the ice and do "hell yeah" and effortless get multipoint games Having multi-goal leads puts less pressure on the defense

Resident Doofus'???? Bow to my Ultima skillz!

Perhaps we can convince Ziggy that his game will be much improved if he plays on the best ice in the league up here in Edmonton :D

Spellmar must be an NPC. And a powerful one. Makes Elminster seem like a chump. And he's the end all be all of knowledge, and is basically the god of the universe.

Ultima VII and it's sequel is teh greatestz0rs RPGz0rs of all timez0rs (z0rs added for emphasis!). Plenty of interesting characters and dialogue, from at least Ultima VI. Never played Ultima V however, but VI and VII and Serpent Isle were faaaaantastic!

Poor Hardaway...he would have had to lie down to avoid that poster shot :D It was great when the Bulls swept out the Magic in '96. And Barkley was awesome for his lines. It's also pretty impressive that someone his size was so dominating at his position despite it being generally reserved for larger players.

Fair enough. But even then there's still plenty of OpenGL games that don't seem to make their way to other platforms.