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Shooting would be easy ... the ramifications of the shooting would be more serious ...

Maybe it's a film about the people playing the MMO ...

the three points meet? :ph34r:

If only there were some form of high-storage capacity portable optical disc media upon which one could write data. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And I believe you! Many wouldn't.

I actually half agree with that.. I think the 2D Scrolling Sonics are still the best (Did you play Sonic Rush on DS? It was perfect) But I think fast paced sonic action in 3D can work cool as well. I dont care much for the storys there all pretty much the same Theres deffinitly been problems with the last 3 sonic games in 3D. I'm thinking this next one is eather the maker or breaker for Sonic in 3D I'm hopeing maker. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> lol story

Make sure you clean the sand off your extremities as you exit the pit.

I'm glad it all ended well. The cure-all (after removing the largest root cause of all issues: unplugged cables) for Windows PCs is to uninstall and re-install the drivers. Sound cards and their drivers are infamous for their dramatic interference with high-demand applications: especially games.

(w00t) Aren't slimes hermaphrodites?

Aha! That's why I do that! ^_^

Topic closed, due to lack of interest.

No you wouldn't. Ask any VietNam vet who has seen an adorable female sidle up and try to drop a grenade into a friend's jeep if he had the slightest hesitation in pulling the trigger to stop her. War is hell. In war, their are only two kinds of people... those who are enemies and those who are not. As for the quetion, of course women should be allowed in combat. And if there is ever another involuntary draft, God forbid, women should be drafted right along side their male counterparts. It is entirely unfair, IMHO, to ask half of our society to do all the fighting and dying so the other half can sit at home playing Rosie the Riveter and making goo-goo eyes at all the 4-F males who slipped under the radar. Ladies, please don't stone me. I have both sons and daughters; I believe they have equal responsibility for and in this society, and that includes equal responsibility to protect it militarily. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I would add that, considering the ad hoc tactics nearly ALL militia have

IBM like to poke fun at M$ about .NET, because it hasn't got a (finished) design document ... unlike their WebSphere, which is built on Sun's open-standard Java ... talk about vapourware ... "

I think you are quite clever, in a Socratic manner: just ask Nick Leeson ...

The worst part is that Baileys is exceptionally fattening, too. " :'( I just don't like the idea of altering my body/mind/perception. I'm barely able to function as is. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That was Isaac Asimov's pov, too. It's only when you have someone close to you not have their full and normally expected faculties that one is forced to reconsider the immature notion that sensibilities are merely at one's disposal for hedonistic purposes.

That's the one I was going to reference ... I'll check my reference for you, too. PS

LOL remember when the out-of-control marketing dept suffixed ".NET" onto everything ... even Office? :D

It's okay, because others can take that expensive step, of purchasing a game that they like from a developer that they respect, over that treacherous 1nt3rntZ ...!

Somnolent subaudible subconscious brain-washing! Opus Dei!

From the overclockers' forum, to which you linked: It's not so much about overloading the CPU, it's that the PPU can create faster calculations of physics than a CPU. The CPU uses a standard logic for calculations whereas the PPU uses a specialised logic which will calculate more faster the physics effect. The additional benifit of a PPU is that the core output will purely be dedicated to the physics whereas CPU's are load-balancing between other things. (such as active programs/OS/and everything else) Although im no fanboy of PPU, it has it's benifits. But to be honest the downside of PPU is that it runs on a PCI slot, which means that there is a three way communication happening(cpu/gpu/ppu) at a fair rate(nothing great - although I wonder how well PhysX works on a PCI-X slot? ). Whereas, a HavocFX solution, which would be running on a graphics card will just have a two way comms between the CPU and graphics card. The obvious effect of having PhysX in the system has been the poor fps experienced by everyone (which has been demonstrated by everyone who posted here with PhysX in their system). Having said that, I can't vouch that the fps will not be reduced when HavocFX gets implemented with the graphics card...maybe it will be the same like the PPU because of the increased amount of calculations it is doing. Only time will tell im afraid Let's hope we can see some more results from testing with PPU to see the full scale benefits of having one. ____________________________________________________________ Gigabyte 8N SLi Quad Royal nForce4 / 3.4 GHz Dual Core (950)/ LG775 Fatal1ty fan(Zalman FS-C77)/4GB DDR2/ XFX 7800GTX/ Thermaltake 560w PSU/ Thermaltake Romeo Xaser III Casing/3 x 120GB SATA/1x 80GB IDE/SAMSUNG DVDRW ^ Jealous of his setup! Part of the issue is (so I have read) that the PPU automatically uses the highest quality graphics settings, which can cause the slow-down, too. Still, to answer Fulcrum's question: Rome:Total War is a CPU-limited game (rather than GPU-limited), although it doesn't support the PhysX card, and won't (to my knowledge): but then again Medieval Total War 2 might ...

I was trying not to overdo the highlights ... especially when the control system may just be "mouse-and-keyboardified" (and still compatible with the gamepad!), and the improved AI might turn out to be less than impressive ... O! The monsters aren't running off the cliff to their death! Wow!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The part about the controls disappoints me. It more'n likely means "Well you can 'get by' with a keyboard and mouse, but really, you should use a gamepad, because the camera's going to kill you repeatedly and every time you die the dark souls who devolped this abomination of a control system are going to be laughing at your torment." Seriously, anybody else played The Two Thrones on PC? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Says the man who has a wholesale hardware purchasing account ... "

Here's an example where the long term best practice may be (follow me here, Volo) counter-intuitive to the standard buyer-producer contract ... the more successful developers that exist, the more chance that there will be more and better games. (Because it will provide increased competition to produce games, rather than find a good publisher, which is decidedly not part of their core business practice, and shouldn't be).

I might add I was trying to finish my Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory game last night, because I want that 4GB of harddrive space back. (And my computer isn't powerful enough to comfortably play the game at the resolution I want to play it, which means I must either play at that annoying frame rate, or an inferior resolution.:angry:)

Not impressed

That's so the youngsters can die for their country, but not accidentally in a road accident from being under the influence ...