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Volo, that demo room (with the snow) looks like a great visualization of that cavern in your mod ... :D

All advice is given AS IS. No warranty is expressed or implied. If you are worried that you don't know what you are doing, then stop and hire someone to do it for you. Keep your files properly backed up. This means making a Restore Point and saving files since the last archive on a new medium (e.g. new CD). This will be handy for when you do the "un-install-re-install" Windows dance macabre. For added security, make more than one copy, and/or send alternate archives to different places (work, home, friends

When all the games using UT3 are released, that will be when the PhysX card will become useful.

Yeah, I've still got about four unopened games sitting on my desk waiting to be installed ... (Thief 1 & 2, Monkey Island, etc ...) I'd forgotten how annoying the PSone controller was.

I'm reminded of the line spoken by Burt young (Rocky's brother-in-law Paulie), at the press conference: Hey, we don't keep our people behind a wall with machine guns. "

Actually, the active ingredient in canabis sativa, Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has been shown to coincide with mental illness, whether it is a causal factor or a correlated factor is still being determined. And alcohol is a depressant; there is no reason to expect people to become aggressive under its influence: that is a result of their inhibitions lowering as their id comes out to play.

The topics are merged. Just like that!

From a game development pov, it is still the case that all PS3s will have the use of a hard drive, so this will be able to be incorporated in the design of games. Not a huge problem: the HDMI interface won't cause any development differential, either. All the article is showing is that Sony are bringing out a cheaper model, for those who don't have a new tv and won't be storing lots of (saves of) games on the HD. I would imagine the cheaper version is pegged to compete directly with the Xbox 360.

Current generation (XBox:PS2) market share: 30%:50% Next generation will start with the developers building from this platform ... if the Playstation 3 is okay, it will keep its lead. If Sony drops the ball, then Microsoft will gladly take the pole position from them. As has been said numerous times, the games is what matters to me. Having said that, though, that won't be the critical point for the consoles: that will be set-top intergration. If the XBox 360 proves to be a better medium between the internet and the tv, then Sony's hopes of riding the Blu-ray tsunami to another generation of market domination will be dashed. So far, the Xbox 360 is a more than adequate tv set-top box: it even runs a cut-down version of Windows, for complete compatibility with the home IT. Sony needs to get a lot of people to buy a PS3 quickly, or they may be left with another Betamax.

Can you put that into lay-men terms? Also DDR2 doesn't have the latency problem right? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have highlighted the relevant bits from the following article that appeared in last month's UK PC Format. All RAM must have some amount of latency: Rambus's RDRAM (allegedly) had 640ns, but even DDR2 and DDR3 have a read-write latency of 64ns; whereas the new XDR latency is 52.5ns for read and 42.5ns for write operations. PS I have copied the article verbatim. That means I have not corrected the author's inexcusably imprecise use of GB/sec and Gb/sec, sic passim ... there's a cookie for anyone able to confirm whether it is GigaBytes or Gigabits per second.

Re-install it Surrep. For next week's Fleet War, we'll need another Ace pilot like you. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> :cool:

I blame Microsoft! Well, I guess it was the culture of continual update, helped in no small amount by the AV industry ... but M$ is a bigger, more popular and therefore much more fun target ... " I don't see it as a huge problem, though ... after all, it's not like broadband is a luxury: over half the UK have it, for example, and dowloading allows for a longer, more effective use of the development cycle (which would normally end about a month before the game ships, as DVD production takes a minimum amount of time to reproduce the gold code onto thousands of plastic platters ...)

MacGyver learnt from me ...

I just got myself a PSone and TombRaider, which I am busily playing as we type ... (even though the 1MB memory card I bought doesn't work ... :angry:)

I heard she was changing her name by deed poll ... to Beauvais Travelodge ... "

I'm about to buy all the components for a new gaming rig, since I purchased my current laptop almost three years ago ... and I am waiting until the end of Q3, at least, because there are a lot of standards about to change. Even if they are priced too high for a purchase, they will make all the older stuff much cheaper. (More CrossFire motherboards should be released soon, for instance, and even some that are able to support both SLi and CrossFire, hopefully, too.) Secondly, I have a feeling that the next generation of video cards will be big ... nVidia need to pull something out of the bag, and they undoubtably will ... and ATi should have all the kinks out of the CrossFire production line (meaning all the motherboards and driver support, etc) in the next months; for example I would expect forward-compatiblity with DirectX 10, even though Vista is delayed (as the GPU duopoly will have been working to the standard for a year or so by now). Also, the top end cards currently available do NOT have the juice to power a 1600x1200 res monitor with all the candy at maximum, so I don't see any point in buying them (as they are already out of date). Thirdly, monitor prices seem to be in freefall at the moment: every time I check the prices they have dropped. (I can buy a 21" CRT monitor 1600x1200 for just over

And yet you share them with us, freely!

And now as we all thank Baley for his Sir David Attenborough impersonation, please don't forget to hose off the sand as you leave the pit.

It's an insurrection!

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I think that what's bothering you is that she's just plain ugly. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not to mention common as dirt.

Well, I guess I could Shift the D-pad, to make it sixteen points ... " Rumblepads have been shown to cause tendon damage to young wrists ...

You need to get out more. Maybe pay for it, if you can't convince anyone to share intimacy with you ...

Who's the blue guy?