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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16553 |  goku2100 (124) Jul 23, 2007 - 02:46 pm
| | E3 was certainly a mess to say the least, I sincerely hope they change E3 next year since many people weren't able to get where they wanted or needed to go and space was limited at the press conferences so only a few people could get in. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16619 | goku2100 (124) Jul 23, 2007 - 02:37 pm
| | At first I wished there was a bit more ingame advertising such as putting coke on cans in the game but now that I've seen their idea of ingame advertising, I wish to have nothing to do with it. I absolutely think it's atrocious. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16595 | goku2100 (124) Jul 23, 2007 - 02:14 pm
| | Rofl, you act like with out security updates, the OS becomes completely nonfunctional and useless. Sorry to bust your bubble but that simply isn't the case. I also find it hard to believe that they've released Windows 2000 updates until very recently (or are they still updating?) but will be stopping the updating of XP which only until very recently was the latest OS. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16611 | goku2100 (124) Jul 23, 2007 - 01:56 pm
| "After using my iPhone for 21 days, I can say, without hesitation, that it’s one of the best technological purchases I have ever made."
If this guy thinks it's one of the best purchases he has made, imagine what his reaction would be if I gave him a smartphone... You don't have to view "wap only" webpages if you have the opera java web browser (which you can use on most any java supported phone) or use internet explorer on your Windows Mobile device. Infact, I don't think I've ever viewed a wap webpage on my phone aside from the homepage. All the web browsing I do on my phone is with the full version of the website. (google.com instead of wap.google.com) I think the biggest problem with this article is that it's comparing this phone to a typical, primitive consumer phone such as the razr and not to a smartphone.
Compared to a typical, dumbed down phone (not smartphone) it's a nice step up, but to a smartphone, this thing is an overpriced pos that can't even do the most basic of functions. Not to mention this thing is very bulky for a phone. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16398 | goku2100 (124) Jul 09, 2007 - 08:24 am
| | The next generation console wars are so disappointing, what the EA CEO is saying basically proves this.. The Wii is seemingly our only hope for change, unfortunately I've yet to see any real killer titles for this console, not to mention the lackluster graphics performnace, at least it has an innovative controller.. As for PC gaming, people are too scared to grab even a physics card which would, if properly implemented would completely change games and bring realism to a far higher level..Yes VR and "the glove" won't be coming back if ever... And worst of all, companies are so worried about taking risks that all we get are crappy franchise rehashes.. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4112 | goku2100 (124) May 15, 2007 - 07:12 am
| | This is exactly what I was thinking, maybe he found a loophole? Well if you're stupid enough to do this, probably wouldn't be smart enough to realize that hes losing money overall. And now with this wound in him, he probably lost all the money he could've made plus more. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15396 | goku2100 (124) May 15, 2007 - 07:07 am
| | Man I hate the look of that game. I mean yeah the textures look good but the usage of HDR and all the lighting effects are just too much, it looks much more unrealistic and annoying then it should. Maybe thats the aim of the game? I feel like I'm looking through the eyes of someone with cateracts and or 20/50 vision. It's like everything is blurred out and has a halo around it, ugh. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15267 | goku2100 (124) Apr 30, 2007 - 01:49 am
| | Damn right.. Though I wonder how exactly they ported it out, either they used the efficiencies of DX10 and made it available for the other OSs or they just took API calls and redirected them, therefore not being able to see the benefits of DX10 in terms of performance. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Matrix Blog Link » /matrix/blog.asp/18766/362 | goku2100 (124) Apr 28, 2007 - 03:22 pm » Edited on Apr 28, 2007 - 03:23 pm
| You know that the quality of programming has gone to shits when pong requires a P4 processor and a video card with 128MB of ram.
wtf is wrong with these people? Ooo pretty effects, c'mon man those effects were available on the PS2 with a 4MB video card.. I had no idea how pronounced this era of sloppy coding has gotten until now..
Well hes got gigahurtz of processing power, gotta use it! :| Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15267 | goku2100 (124) Apr 27, 2007 - 09:22 pm » Edited on Apr 27, 2007 - 09:32 pm
| you know what’s really funny? The sight of seeing someone reply to an 'uninformed post' with another uninformed post..
Sure prefetch is nice for an office environment or simplified home environment but soon as you take into account applications that require lots of memory it becomes very messy as it's got to (or at least SUPPOSE TO) dump that at the drop of a hat when an application request it...
What you don't understand is that vista by default takes up at least 5X as much memory as Windows XP, with no tangible benefit. File Transfers are slow, it kills quality audio and it's just another DRM platform for the media companies... When I say vista takes 5X as much memory, arguing that "it's because of prefetch!" is just plain ignorant. No, if you install vista on a system with 512MB of ram, prefetch doesn't work! Why? Because there isn't any ram to spare! That’s right, vista not only runs like shit on 512MB of ram, but it doesn't leave any extra ram available for any of your programs. Something that was once plenty is now not enough, and for what? I don't know, and Microsoft sure as hell won't tell us either...
128MB of ram IS a lot of ram to use for an OS, sure in comparison to having 2GB of ram, it's not that much but when you think about what an OS does, one should realize that it IS a lot and that it's inexcusable for something like this to happen. Bringing it up to 512MB of ram is significantly worse, now instead of having 1.92GB of ram available, it's just 1.5GB. So now every time I load up BF2, I have to wait longer, why? Because the OS now needs to shove its fat ass into the pagefile because BF2 needs to get as much ram as possible as it too is a ram whore, though its whoreness is much more justified than for XP or Vista… Windows 2000, while only slightly bloated in comparison to today’s operating systems is by far the best compromise between the compatibility and leanness of legacy operating systems such as Windows 3.1 and 9X/NT and it being modern like Windows XP and Vista.
Sure I use XP as my main OS, but that’s because it came with my laptop, and so will vista in the event I do ever buy another laptop. At least with XP there were tangible features that while still make the additional 64MB of ram being used while completely idle unjustified, it made it “OK” since having image preview, remote desktop, msconfig, drop shadows, and native WiFi support and a few other features very nice. Just keep in mind though that none of those features need or even use the additional 64MB of ram while the system is completely IDLE/fresh booted. Now for vista, I just can’t comprehend what exactly is making it use all that extra ram, only to run slow as shit.
There is NOTHING tangible that I can find, when comparing XP and Vista, in terms of 'Features' that can explain why I now need to give up an additional 384MB of ram in order to run vista at all.
I'd like to keep as much ram available as possible so that I can worry less about running out of ram and more about my application. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15265 | goku2100 (124) Apr 27, 2007 - 04:56 am
| | I'm wondering if nintendo is not going all out on the production of the wii to prevent developers from losing interest in the console and therefore not produce any new games for it after the hype dies down. I also think that nintendo doesn't want do dive in, only to realize the pool isn't very deep after all and hit their head on the bottom.. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15267 | goku2100 (124) Apr 27, 2007 - 04:52 am
| I wonder if it's even possible to port DX10 to windows XP or not. I mean if people really reject Vista (as I would hope), could microsoft port DX10 to XP? I mean there technically isn't anything preventing from microsoft making some serious changes if it makes their consumers happy. Sure they could argue that it's 'too much' but I don't believe there is really anything that is too much.
When they patch a video game, they have to rebuild the executable, I don't see why the worst case scenario of "rebuilding" the kernel for XP in a patch would be that big of a deal.
I say the most they'd have to change is a few DLL files and registry changes. Problem is, microsoft is trying to push vista as hard as possible.. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4070 | goku2100 (124) Apr 25, 2007 - 07:35 pm
| | Well I'd gladly pay for my seat if they made the seats either larger and or spaced out the seats more... Then have it a la carte. It'd be better though if they could offer both a la carte and bundles so you could choose.. But yeah I'd gladly have less if it meant I could get better seating and have internet.. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15178 | goku2100 (124) Apr 25, 2007 - 07:25 pm
| | hah, I haven't installed SP2 because it doesn't offer anything useful to me. Just adds a lot of nagware I don't want.. Those who say it adds security updates are wrong, all the security updates you could want can be added separately. So I don't really see why some programs are making SP2 a requirement while you can run that very same program under Windows 2000 with Sp3 or SP4.. Both older than SP1 IIRC. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Matrix Blog Link » /matrix/blog.asp/19453/434 | goku2100 (124) Apr 17, 2007 - 02:17 pm
| | yeah but most games at this time aren't really dual core/multithreaded capable.. Sure they're starting to support multithreading, but they're not doing as good of a job in terms of performance improvements as a simple overclock does.. There is a lot of work to be done before that X2 3600+ will actually perform much better than the 3200+ Flag this | Edit this post |
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