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Oohh, nice find! Bookmarked! Thanks LadyCrimson! )

Oh, I'm sure you just took any picture of Kate for your example. Hey, I can play that game too! Check this out: I've seen more feminine people in a russian prison.

I, too, have no idea where Kaftan is looking: XFX GeForce 7900GTX 512MB GDDR3 eXtreme, PCI-Express, 2xDVI/HDTV, 675/1700Mhz costs 5095 SEK Sapphire Radeon X1900XT 512MB GDDR3, PCI-Express, ViVo, Dual-DVI-I, Full-Retail costs 3999 SEK Unless, of course, he was looking at the factory overclocked version, the XTX... Edit: prices from http://www.komplett.se/k/kl.asp?bn=10488

Yeah, and my **** is 15 inches long.

Congratulations all Carolina fans. All two of you.

I didn't like HDR at first, but now I've gotten used to it and love it! And with this stupid Nvidia card of mine I have to choose between HDR and antialiasing!! Usually AA wins and I settle for crappy Bloom instead. I JUST WISH I HAD AN ATI AGAIN.

No offense, but it's kind of pointless to discuss this subject unless you read up on it a little. You need to be able separate from different loads, stuff that I don't know the correct terms for in english. But there are two main types of forces a building is supposed to be able to withstand (excluding side forces and more uncommon forces): point loads and permanent loads (no idea what they are called in english). The one I was talking about is the permanent load (the one that the structure was designed for, including furniture, people, elevators, cooling systems etc.)) and the point loads is (for example) the force the building is designed to withstand for a fraction of a second. Like if everyone in the entire building decided to jump at once (which can actually happen in a nightclub or such). What you are discussing is how the top 30 or so floors collapsed. Yes, they could collapse because of the heat making the steel structure bend unevenly, that is the easy part to understand, there's no use discussing that really. But that still doesn't explain why the 80 or so untouched/unharmed floors below suddenly couldn't hold the weight or the point load of the 30 floors above when they came crashing down. Remember, for a structure of these dimensions, the added weight of a Boeing is huge, but still bearable. The force of the 30 floors that came down should have been enough to seriously damage the building, probably crush a few unharmed floors below, but how could it topple the entire building? The further down in a skyscraper you get, the stronger its construction gets. Like the video said, it was like a freefall. Very odd. I guess only the building engineers know why the building behaved the way it did.

I talked to one of my professors about that, and he thought it was really odd but that was the only logical explanation he could think of. But for that to happen (the domino effect), the entire structure must have been insanely under-dimensioned. Usually when you build a structure that's supposed to be safe for humans, you build it six times stronger than it has to be. That means, if (for example) an elevator is capable of carrying 2000 lbs, then the real limit before it risks failure is 12,000 lbs. The bottom pillars of the twin towers were designed to support the entire weight of the structure above them PLUS an unbelievable amount of extra force from vibrations, small earthquakes, bombs and even aircrafts colliding with them. It would have been much easier to believe the domino effect theory if the planes had hit on the 30'th floor (or so) instead of on the 75'th+ floor, because all engineering theories point to the fact that the structure should be able to withstand a collapse of the floors above it. Apparently it didn't though.

I just wanted to point out that the black box of a plane is never positioned in the nose of a plane. It is usually found in the back, where it's supposed to be probable to survive a crash. "The device's shroud is usually painted bright orange and is generally located in the tail section of the aircraft. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_data_recorder

What the hell.. Reading about you nerds going on and on about the LotR movies just made me realize one thing: I think I got something in my eye at the last scene in the last movie myself! When they're standing at the docks and the little gang is about to split up.. Gaah, now I hate myself!!

I think you mean FSAA and HDR at the same time. Nvidia can handle FSAA and Bloom at the same time alright, but not FSAA and HDR.

It's perfectly possible to be strong as an ox and still slow as hell (check out the guys on World's Strongest Man competitions), strong as hell and fast as hell (check out Linford Christie, for example, who could bench 300+ pounds and was still one of the world's fastest men) or fast as hell and weak as a hell (check out the football players playing in germany right now, especially those that weigh under 140 lbs..). I was thinking of agility in terms of techniques for doing stuff, like climbing stuff (determines what you can climb).. martial arts (what kind of moves you're able to perform).. assembling a weapon. Speed would be running speed, the velocity of your hands when you punch stuff, the amount of time it would take you to ascend that wall in the agility example. I have no idea why I am bothering to clarify my views on this )

What I personally prefer to see in my RPG's: Strength: combat abilities, carrying capacity. Agility: dodge, parry, acrobatics, that sort of thing. Speed: self-explanatory, determines the speed of almost all actions. Endurance: resistances, hitpoints. Intelligence: ease of learning, amount of skills available to you and so on. I'm not so interested in charisma and wisdom and such, as they feel like something living past its usefulness in systems like D&D. There are skills that handle stuff like that better. Luck can be fun once in a while, but it feels strange that luck should be something that's individual from person to person.. That's not how I view the real world at least. Strange that noone but me likes Speed in this thread

So the Wii is priced around $250? Compare that to the Ageia PhysX physics card at $299..

Two interesting articles: "Take a look at the following results for single-precision dense matrix multiplication, or GEMM (all numbers are Gflop/s): Cell pm: 204.7 Cray X1E: 29.5 AMD64 7.8: Itanium2: 3.0 The "pm" above means "performance model." Because Cell hardware isn't generally available for tests like this, the paper's authors used a combination of performance projections and benchmarks on a cycle-accurate simulation of Cell that IBM has released. Real-world results should be very comparable to those in the paper, if not even better. So now that we've seen that Cell blows away the competition for these HPC kernels, that means that it's going to completely dominate the next-gen console market and kill Itanium, right? Not exactly. First, single-precision (SP) is the place where Cell really blows the doors off the barn, because SP is what game developers need. IBM made some compromises on double-precision (DP) performance, with the result that such performance is a fraction of what it is for SP. On DP code, Cell merely leads the pack for most of the tests." Source: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060615-7071.html And then this: "I don't think the Cell is as well designed for game development as Sony would have you believe." "In terms of performance, I think that the PS3 and the Xbox 360 will essentially be a wash. " Source: http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/mattlee.ars Now, the above article was written by independent programmers, while the second article is actually an interview with a Microsoft employee. Still, who to believe.. who to believe.. I wish the Obsidian dev. team had the balls to express an opinion, but that would probably become worldwide news, so I guess it's better to keep those balls in their pants.

I have no idea why, but today I got this huge urge to play a new, post-apocalyptic game. I mean a really huge urge. Like, I'm sitting at work dreaming myself away for ten minutes at a time, fantasizing about a non-existant game and how awesome it could be with today's technology huge. I really hope one of these new projects is post-apocalyptic.

And which language exactly is the "engish" language? Zing.

The funny thing is, when they broadcasted the burning towers live in Sweden, my dormmates (at the time) were looking anxiously at the disaster shown on the screen, going, "What if the towers collapse??" and I, in my infinite wisdom (of having studied structural engineering for four years), calmingly said, "Don't worry, buildings that huge are designed to withstand even a direct hit of a Boeing.". 20 minutes later they both came tumbling down, to my great surprise. So much for ny knowledge.. all those years of studies.. in vain..

But it's a great showcase for the game's atmospheric graphics.

My first Nvidia (Geforce Ti4600 128MB) vas an Asus. Very expensive (at the time) and it has been incredibly reliable. It wouldn't surprise me if it still could run most of today's games. No problems whatsoever with the fan, but either the drivers or the way it handled the drivers were odd. I often had problems when I upgraded my drivers and in the end I just reinstalled some very old drivers (30.XX something) and never touched them again.

When my Nvidia 7800GS's fan reaches top-speed, I am almost certain I've seen my computer case slowly sucking its way around the room. It's not quiet (the brand is XFX) but I do like the performance. It's worth a little noice.

I didn't know they had priced the Wii-wee yet?

I cry everytime I watch Extreme Home Makeover

Maybe they were 260 shots of someone picking his nose?

We are a disease: http://www.threeleggedlegs.com/view/?what=humans