metadigital

Here's the conclusion from the latest Custom PC, reviewing the new 150GB Raptor X (with the kewl window): ... Western Digital had to do something radical to make the Raptor king of S-ATA disks again, and the company has delivered. However, the Raptor X can't compete with the 7,200rpm disks on price. At

The context of the comment indicates that Mr U. was showing the extremes of the spectrum of RPGs, at one end was mindless get-to-the-next-level focused combat games like Diablo, and at the other (of one of many axes, perhaps) was PS:T that was more focused on story and character development within. His personal opinion of what constitutes an RPG was never revealed.

Don't worry. RIM just have been procrastinating over paying alicencing fee. The judge is going to burn their arse. But it'll just be a fine. Their stock jumped 8% on the news today ...

Nemesis was better than Insurrection at least. They could have done so much better though. Open war with the Romulans would have been cooler than just the small fight between the Enterprise and the Scimitar. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> IIRC I fell asleep in the cinema watching First Contact. Snore-fest. I found some of the Borg episodes much better than that. Generations was crap: it had the staple Trek film ingredients: a couple of in-joke lines of dialoue between the characters and boring plot. The only ST films I rate are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9 and 10. Insurrection and Nemesis are okay, but Frakes is such a poor director. No wonder he did Thunderbirds.

symbiote? Isn't Venom a bad spiderman? Haven't read a spidey comic since 1979, so I'm a little out of the loop ...

Calculus was co-created by Newton, Sir Isaac. Nice guy, bit grumpy, thought alchemy was real and believed in astrology.

Your using a 10k rpm disk for storage?

The point is not that they make bad games, the point is that they make very un-fallout games. I personally don't like the type of game daggerfall was(the only bethesda game i've ever played). Maybe Bethesda can make a game in the spirit of fallout, but it seems unlikely to me because they would have to completely change their modus operandi. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Even though Morrowind was a financial success, the preliminary previews I have read on Oblivion all go to pains to explain the modus operandi of Bethesda's development cycle includes a significant chunk of result feedback, so the bits that weren't as popular in previous games have been changed signficantly in subsequent releases. (I haven't played FallOuts or Daggerfall, but apparently Morrowind improved on a lot of the fanbase complaints.) Similarly, Oblivion is set to build upon the existing strengths and remove glaring faults as they re-engineer their IP for the upcoming release.

No idea what the price will be, guess about US$400 (i.e. match the Xbox 360).

I am more stubborn than that ... I got two zap around all the cities, then I RAN (using the boots of blinding speed) around the entire map. Then I uninstalled it and threw it into the dungeon box of games never to be installed again.

BUT I'M MUCH SMARTER THAN AI AND MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAT CAN'T HAPPEN

No, the retail isn't $800, that's the unit cost to produce. Retail is predicted to be similar to PS2 entry price point / market positioning.

I just downloaded it after doing the streaming-buffering dance for about three choruses.

(w00t)

Saitek keyboard? I do like the Logitec M5 laser mouse ... where you get red one from? :drool:

Hey, can I get a (w00t) ? !

Atmospheres are pretty rare, so to have two big moons that have one is cool. Atmospheres give a nice protective blanket to the planet: even if we can't breathe it, it keeps temperaturs from oscillating between absolute zero (0

It is if you want Portable gaming; I can log into Steam from any computer and play my registered games. Also: Black Mesa Source, home site.

Ah, I see you are a stranger to the process of software due diligence. One major problematic consideration is that every change to a piece of software, no matter how small and well intentioned, can potentially affect every other line of code in an unpredictable way: predictability inversely proportional to complexity of code. So just imagine what an ad hoc, poorly thought out patch might do ...

What's the noise like? Do you crank up the 5.1 / use earphones to blot out the aeroplane-take-off-in-a-hurrcane noise? Or is it not too bad?

Well, you know, there are a number of wonderful computer games based on movies, but for some reason, no one's done a good job of a Middle Earth/Silmarillion computer game or a Neuromancer computer game or a Lovecraftian computer game. And as far as I know, no one's ever tried to create a computer game out of the evocative novels of Samuel R Delany (visa viz. Nova, Triton, Dhalgren, or his everso wonderful Neveryon), nor of Tanith Lee's Tales of the Flat Earth, Secret Books of Paradys, nor Secret Books of Venus. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Go go saintfrancisnudecenterfold!

How so? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Jupiter's moons Saturn's moons Io is volcanic, mainly due to its immediate proximity to Jupiter and its core being squeezed and elongated as it orbits: IO Io is a large, rocky, volcanically active moon of Jupiter. Its volcanoes spew out molten sulfur, making Io a very colorful moon. It is the innermost of Jupiter's four large moons and the third largest. It has a diameter of 1,942 miles (3,636 km), very close in size to our moon. Io's mean distance from Jupiter is 220,000 miles (422,000 km). It has a mass of 8.93x1022 kg. It takes Io 1.77 days to orbit Jupiter. There is a doughnut-shaped plasma cloud around Jupiter near Io's orbit (known as the "Io plasma torus") This torus is caused by Jupiter's strong magnetic field, which strips ions from Io as it rotates; Io acts like an electrical generator. Io was discovered by Galileo and Marius (independently) in 1610. Speaking of Jupiter's magnetosphere: it is powerful enough to affect radio broadcasts here on Earth! ... At aphelion (the place in its orbit where Jupiter is farthest from the Sun), Jupiter is 815,700,000 km from the Sun. At perihelion (the place in its orbit where Jupiter is closest to the Sun), Jupiter is 749,900,000 km from the Sun. ... The Earth orbits, on average, 93 million miles (149,600,000 km) from the Sun. This distance is defined as one Astronomical Unit (AU). The Earth is closest to the Sun (this is called perihelion) around January 2 each year (91.4 million miles = 147.1 million km); it is farthest away from the Sun (this is called aphelion) around July 2 each year (94.8 million miles = 152.6 million km). ... Europa has an atmosphere, surface water ice and Icecanos! Titan has an atmosphere, as well: Biggest moon of Saturn and second largest moon in Solar System (after Jupiter's Ganymede). It is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto. Titan has a thick mostly nitrogen atmosphere (with some methane) and an atmospheric pressure of 1.6 bars (60 percent greater than the Earth's). This atmosphere with its heavy clouds obscures the moon's surface. It may rain liquid methane. The surface temperature is about -178