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Do you believe that? I always figured it was Microsoft's lame excuse to get people to move quicker from XP to Vista. I guess we'll see a few months after DX10 is released; some hacker will probably try to port the entire API to XP.. and succeed. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Having thought about it overnight, I can see that it isn't impossible ... but it certainly wouldn't be trivial, either. Who knows how many and deep the DirectX graphics subsystem's roots are embedded ..? Also, nVidia has (allegedly: it's all rumour at this point) chosen a conservative implementation for its G80 (DX10) chip: 32 pixel shaders and 16 unit array for vertex and geometric work (as opposed to ATi's R600 which apparently has four unified 16 unit arrays (64) up from the current R580's 48 pixel and 8 vertex shaders). The reason this is interesting is that the nVidia chip isn't strictly a unified design, so it sounds like it might be possible to break down the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) instructions into something that a DirectX9 GPU might understand. On the negative side, however, is the main benefit for DirectX10 is to reduce the admin overhead for drawing more objects on screen, as well as making a madatory code path for drivers (so no more engines optimised for one GPU over another). So, on balance, I don't think it would be worth the time, money and effort to port DirectX 10 to XP, as it sounds like it would be too slow to be useful. But there are a lot of ifs and buts in there.

Did the guy with the red toga (not an easy colour to make back in AD dot, btw) have a lot of garlic for dinner?

Why couldn't they just have had an AoE hold person spell that effects everybody but the caster? Same difference. If Time Stop only works within 50', anybody outside of that 50' effectively gains all the benefits of the spell. TS is supposed to affect the caster only, that's what made it powerful. Hence, the spell is useless if it only affects a certain area. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But but but ... surely if a caster STOPS TIME, then time stops for everyone EXCEPT the caster ... I don't see the implementation of this on a PW instance as a bug, but a critical feature. PS Deekin > Volo. "

Well, if it was a game of Duke Nukem: Forever, that would be expected as part of the gameplay. )

Far be it for me, an amateur, to re-engineer

If you split the single 6-pin then the power supply for two (critical) items is reliant on one rail. It is best practice to use a single rail for each GPU card, but not mandatory (the new Tagan 1.1kW, for example, shares the rails across two connectors; the 1kW Enermax got a better review in issue 193 of PC Format because of this and it's modular cable design).

Using that logic they should prevent evil using the demonstrably overwelmingly predictive trait of all hardenened criminals (i.e. above 98%): masculinity. Just throw every man in jail: no more serious crime. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Within reason, meta. That's not a logical comparison. What you're saying for one thing is discrimination based on sex and one's biological traits, not on someone's choice of lifestyle, and it's something that's on a ridiculously large scale to boot. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Supposition. See my point you quoted above [<{POST_SNAPBACK}>]: homosexuality ≠ pederasty. No matter how many times you try to associate the two. So if a local scout group (i.e. the families of the boys) decided that they were tolerant of homosexuality, then you would have no issue with members of all genders joining? I see, so regardless of the logic and reasoning you are adhering to your fundamental view? And this seems perfectly reasonable to you? (As a Christian?) By the way, the implicit point your points make is that homosexuality is a choice, and it is contagious. That is bigotry.

We could send a ship in a few years and still get there in time, given the five billion year time-limit. "

Going to bed with a streaming nose.

You might like The Witcher (due Q1 2007, co-published by Atari): They can't: DX10 is a complete re-write of the whole graphics API, I don't think it would even be possible to patch XP with DX10. Hellgate London is a DX10 RPG post-apoc Templars versus zombie shooter. :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> that means vista only right? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It'll be waiting for you when you eventually get Vista.

Hellgate London is a DX10 RPG post-apoc Templars versus zombie shooter. :D

Yep: Publisher and Developer = Telltale. It got a 73% from PCF "Ineviably anticlimactic. But there are a few smiles within".

only 430 lightyears away

That was the ducks' nuts when it came out: required a telephone-box-sized amount of equipment to run. :D

Watching Battlestar Galactica Season Two, disc 2. :D

Why is that a nightmare? Jack Straw's (much misquoted) comments were that, if a Muslim woman felt comfortable, it would be better if she didn't wear her veil in a meeting, as it makes communication easier.

Actually, Magical Volo is correct: just about any other mass-effect spell has a better damage roll (e.g. lightningbolt; okay, it's fourth level, but for a high level mage choosing between the two) ... what the smart mages are using this season (same as last season, too) is the spells that don't have a saving throw for half-damage, like meteor shower or ice storm. But still, fireballs are somehow just more fun to use.

AFAIK (which isn't much), the cahce will just store what it needs as part of the standard hibernate process (for example), so I expect that this process is fairly mature (i.e. they probably store more than absolutely necessary to avoid mis-cacheing). As for normal activity, it will probably work in conjunction with the SATA-2 interface (multiple writes queuing for a batch).

I succeeded in that in high school. I got my computer rights removed and they changed all the computers so you couldn

It's bound for failure, if it has to be an exhaustive list; just think about the albums for the fortieth-plus states ... "

Curse you all, you damn geeks! Now I've gone and bought season 2 and I'm going to watch it all non-stop, I can tell ...

Bellet dancers have very good muscle tone and are strong, too. "