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Yeah, it was a review of the X1800 that mentioned the lack of a 512MB Nvidia ... Still the X1800 has Anti-aliasing support for the Shader Model 3.0 (which NVidia doesn't), BUT, nVidia is about to launch a card with Shader Model 4.0 ... I'm planning on buying new hardware in about six months (after the Xmas rush and during the sales, probably); I fully intend to turn it into a work of art, with a custom case mod and water cooling (is there a better coolant, WITHOUT using liquid Nitrogen? )

It's possible the entire Abu Gahib incident was caused by that redneck (general?) who was parachuted in from Camp Delta (where similar bullying is routine, and the US military's own muslim cleric was interned on suspicion of fraternisation). Possibly his "end justifies the means" approach was not condoned by politicans (even if the results were).

I'll be the highest bidder as soon as my Force Powers manifest.

I didn't think Nvidia made cards with 512MB video memory.

Steve, if you don't have the cash burning a hole in your wallet, you might like to take a look at Custom PC's site. They present the best card at three different price points:

And the PC party could learn joint feats, whereby they are able to act in concert together to perform some amazing set move, like Collossus dude tossing Wolverine in X Men.

Actually it's in obfuscating a dynamic linked library with programmable encryption/decryption standards for ensuring that the instance in memory matches the instance on the storage medium, with zero error tolerance (up to the tolerance of the encryption standard, of course).

The cat in the hat?

That sounds rather cool <{POST_SNAPBACK}> IBM have a similar concept, currently, with their "server on demand" product. Basically corporations can lease the processing power they require (adding more storage / CPU muscle / web connectivity / etc). It does mean that the corporates need to plan and budget for increases (decresaes) in their IT capacity, and the granularity is in "blades" (which are just servers that are chips on a single plane, and can slide into a host box for optimal configurability and growth, much like RAID storage provides for hot-swappable harddrives). This technology delivers similar flexibilty on a nano/micro scale, and with a granularity of transistors/CPUs, rather than servers and storage.

It's a claymation moogle?

Try going back and playing older games (heck, I'm loading Deus Ex right now); the gameplay counts for far more than the graphics. The original Duke Nukem is still very playable, as is the original Half-Life (the sound helps make the atmosphere).

It's not Gromit. Nor Wallace. Maybe the Were-Rabit? :ph34r:

Well, instead of having distinct GPU or Audio chip, you can just create one on the fly, as you need it. Sort of like having a single store of RAM and allocating it as needed, only with processing power. That's the theory, anyway: it's still a few years away from production (although iirc there are some prototypes in existence already).

I thought potent pal had a rabbit avatar ... (rather fitting, actually) ...

What about Cell? The fact that nobody will take full advantage of it? The fact that the PPE in Cell is inferior to one of the Xenon cores? You do realize that this is, yet another, time in which the X360 proves it was built to run games and the Cell wasn't. I realize you didn't want to acknowledge it months back, but it deserves to be repeated. Xenon was built to run games on the X360, Cell was built with other things in mind. Xenon can do more per instruction cycle than Cell can, so regardless of TFLOP advantages the Cell theoretically has, it holds no other advantage over Xenon. The PS3 has a GPU, it doesn't need, nor require any additional FLOP power from a graphical standpoint from the processor. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 1. It's a TeraFlOps NOT a TeraFlop. 2. AFAIK Xenon is a server CPU chip; I haven't heard where it was specifically designed for games (unless this is a co-incidentally named chip). 3. What makes you so sure that the Cell will not be implemented fully? The AMD twin core 64 bit CPU has been out for a year, and the 64 bit version of Windows (Vista nee Longhorn) is minutes away from release; the next iteration of CPU design is for maleable transistor configurations (something like Cell, except the entire CPU can be re-designed on-the-fly in software); and Battlefield 2 (iirc) already has mutiple threads.

I have a patent.

Same body part, isn't that what you meant?

Well stepping back a moment, patenting the technology dosnt mean it will be part of the PS3. Resold games have always been a bit of a grey area. If you read most of the copyright agreements it says you can't resell them. My hunch is this. Much like developers get zip for a resold game, same is true of Sony and since the money is in the games not the hardware the second hand game business must be eating into the profits. When you see a nearly new copy of something for a significant ammount less than the new version as a consumer you may as well get it (since it's all fully intact and sold under guarentee anyway). But by doing so your only paying the store (unless there is somesort of kickback but it's certainly nothing i'm aware of). So yep the consumer in me is pretty outraged. But it does make sense when you look at it. Assuming it happens at all of course. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> AFAIK, the way rentals are handled in the VHS market demonstrates a precedent: the rental videos are of a higher quality (to be able to withstand many more playthroughs) and thus cost more to buy initially (so the rental chain has to pony up more dosh to begin with, and so must claw back their sunk investment before any profit is seen). I could imagine that the same idea might be tried with rental games, except that there is no way to stop the copying of rentals ... Of course, they might just provide the rental proprietors a master key to re-burn the serial number, but then this leaves those very proprietors with the ability to make bootlegs ... So, I think this system isn't practical: until full digital rights software is available (and relatively unhackable, i.e. enough of a deterrant for casual pirates) I don't think there is much point.

It's okay, your post count is incrementing.

With your avatar I'm surprised you don't play it once per week <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have a high ambient dosage, due to my reading habits, so I tend to resist for a while. I was playing through a couple of weeks ago and stopped (I was trying to do a "perfect game" and restarting levels to get every secret, etc, and it took a lot of the fun out). I still have to replay to test alanschu's assertion that I can equip JC with all the biomods at once. Oh and NOT .

What about rentals?

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Ah. Thank you. I thought that as I was typing, as there wasn't too many others left ... oh-oh ... resistance is falling ... must play Deus Ex again ...

You really don't like Sony, do you Epiphany?