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Damn son, that thing will kill any games out there. My only suggestion would be bump the ram up. There are starting to be games comming out (*coughOblivioncough*) that require a gig, and since you're already dropping that much cash, I'd say splurge the extra hundred for another 512 or gig. (The extra ram will help for video/image editing as well)I'm sure there'll be someone giving the "AMD is better for gaming" pitch soon, but I have one of those processors in my rig here at work and it is a powerhouse regardless. Suffice to say that system as is or if you add the extra ram will be a true menace, congrats on being able to afford it

This sounds and looks like a pretty interesting find indeed. Kind of weird that I've never heard of it bfore now... maybe I did and jsut dont remember..Regardless the premise sounds really cool. I love when games find ways to mix up gameplay (the flashbacks m^e mentioned) without making it something that is stupid and irrelevant to the story. Thios way you get storyline AND variety, good stuff.I'll have to take a look around and see what I can do about getting my grubby little mits on a copy.

Haha yea, but then again lieing isn't exactly new in the corporate world either Nor is false advertising. Officially though I'm sure they could get benchmarks showing skype being more efficient on intel chips... just harass the code so that it used some random miniscule feature that intel does way better or something. Be fun to watch how this one turns out.

Yea designing an RPG battle system would take almost more planning then coding. There are tons of things you would have to decide. You could make every charcter get 1 action per turn, each attack doing a base value only, and each character performing an action in turn. THat would be super simple to code, but fairly plain and boring in game.Once you add weapon variables into the damage amounts, random damage modifiers (like the die rolls in D&D based games), different speeds between attacks for dif characters, enemies each with dif abilities and rates of attack and whatnot, and all that other stuff the system would just snowball. I'd say before even thinking about coding, do as is suggested by others and research and plan. The Final Fnatasy games would indeed be a good place to look, as well as D&D. There are alot of comp RPG's based on the D&D ruleset and usually they are really well balanced as the system is very refined. Of course, it's your RPG so you can make your own choices as you please.Basically that's my reccomendation, if you are going to take this seriously, don't rush into it. Take your time to know what you're going to do before actually trying to do it.

ab, I'll agree that AMD is weell within their rights to ask proof of Skype/INtel's stupid logic that the software performance is noticeably better on Intel then AMD chips.I mean you go to buy food at McDonalds, they don't necessarily warn you "YOU CANNOT BUY PEPSI PRODUCTS HERE" prior to ordering but then... once you get the the counter only Coke is offered. Sure it's great for Coke fans like me but another, as a Pepsi lover, may think it's similar to apartheid :oThe explanation was retarded, that is a given, but the actual core reason behind people caring (Skype giving Intel the adge) is perfectly valid. Company A gives Company B money, Company B favors Company A in the agreed upon ways of their monetary based partnership. It happens in all industries... just to greater or lesser extents.

Well yea I know those players "do" support mp3's, I was moreso talking about in their native ubuntu/kubuntu releases. I think it was a dif distro that had raped xmms though anyways.But yea I had forgotten about automatix, just run that and it'll apt-get everything you could ever need for a base system

xmms doesn't always have mp3 support built in... usually does but not always (it should in kubuntu tho...)

If kubuntu's mp3 playback is equivalent to ubuntu,sudo apt-get install mplayerand mplayer should run mp3's fine... if that isn't the install name just to a synaptic search for it.Once I did that back on my ubuntu machine I could use mp3's in pretty much all my media programs.. although a couple were still glitchy about it.

As is obvious by the plethora of replies thus far, awesome work man. Personally I can handle 2d stuff fine but 3d renders are out of my grasp as I've never really tried them. KNowing you learnt most everything form tutorials gives me a little hope in case I ever feel the need to up my skills in that area. If you have any other sites that have great tutorials along with the ones you mentioned, fire em up :oAgain, great work. Post others if you have them.

Valcarni, what exactly do you mean by 'learn history some more'?I ask simply because, if you call the bible brainwashing, you could call history brainwashing... since history is basically the accounts of the past as seen by the dominant power of the period

Yea... all your images are dead. I'm kinda interested in seeing what this looks like when complete though so get on fixin that

I agree with the idea that they are not two seperate "God's". One point to remember is that the Bible is a book written by humans. The old and new testaments could simply be different perspectives, focusing on different things based on the human aspect of the writings.Hell you can not say a word of a lie, and make George W. Bush look like a genius or a bubbling idiot (obviously one is easier then the other, but I digress). I just feel that interpretation is key. You have to accept these biblical accounts for what they are, a retelling of events. Translated and retranslated and skewed. I'm not saying I think the bible is "wrong" or the old or new testament is "more right"... just that they are different ways of seeing things.So yes, in summary, one God, THE God, qed. heh.

I agree with cyborgxxi... I mean yes they gave the most stupid explanation possible but that doesn't mean AMD has the right to do anything about it. If Skype wanted to cap their software at only 3 way calls for everyone across the board, that would be their choice. If they feel like picking random numbers of connections out of a hat, again their choice. I don't see why they can't give a company an edge in their software, it's their loss if people buy their product less due to the reduced AMD performance.

He turned off the light in a light house and a ship crashed?Oh and for back at #2...there was 5000 Bronze, 4000 Silver, 3000 Gold...I think... Since the guy guarding the silver was telling the truth.

I was thinking either that, or the 6th person takes his egg from one of the first 5, so the 6th egg is left untouched.(Oh and about Q2, I misread it the first time so my answer was wrong, gonna lookat it now weeee)

I know the answers... but I don't have any cool questions to ask in return haha. If I think of some I'll throw the answers up along with more questions

Yea I was kinda assuming the amd64 one would be out too, kinda weird.And no I didn't enable that use flag... there are alot of those things haha :| I know I haven't got the best USE flag setup right now but I'll learn over time heh But yea I'm at work now so the comp is at home compiling away so I assume it'll be done (or at least past kde) by my arrival at home this evening.Thanks for the tip for the future though. I kept watching my system manager and my ram was topping out at only about 20% used, so if that would reduce kde compile times it'll be a good tip to keep in mind.

:Update 2:Well, it's the morning after, but it's not the morning I get to boot into Gentoo Since The new installer has you pick "extra packages" to ermerge automatically it severely heightens the amount of time possible between beginning the install and you first reboot. I chose to get alot of my big compiles over with since I had all last night and then all day today while I'm at work to let it run, so I chose to auto-emerge x11, kde, gnome, open office, and a handful of smaller apps I'll need regardless (Firefox, thunderbird, etc). Everything up to this stage was completed in a mere 2-3 hours, but it's been compiling the rest and still is going as expected. It's about 4/5 of the way through the extra packages, currently eating away at kde.In case anyone is curious for time comparisons, my comp is a 2.8ghz P4 w/HT with 1.5gig Ram.

If you didn't know what those were.. and REALLY want to try Gentoo, I'd say use the live cd they offer for x86. It's a more straightforward install then the command line install... normally I recommend doing the command line regardless (even though I'm new to gentoo too) but if your new to computers enough to not know arch types... you might consider going the simpler route to make sure you end up with a working system.Plus the live cd gives you more stuff to do during the hours of compiling stuff...

Organicbmx is pretty awesome, I mean he's Tuxin' it out so he's good in my books *needs to become a registered linux user *

:Update:I am currently installing gentoo again The live cd thing makes it way smoother haha. While the actual choices are all virtually identical except they have a nice GUI to guide you along, the fact that you have a working OS booted in the background while it runs is insanely nice. No need to leave your system compiling for hours on end without being able to use it for much (well you could surf with links before but... this is nicer haha)It seems like they really did a good job on this. I can see alot more people trying to install gentoo once they realize the new installer is more friendly

Woah you can't have accounts at both? I don't but I could have sworn I had seen admins suggest people do that back in the day. Maybe it's changed since then... or maybe I took the wrong pills this morning :|

Other defraggers have more options, like moving all the files to the front fo the drive so that if you use a partitioner that isn't made to do non-destructive partitioning you'd be safe regardless...As far as performance is concerned, unless your datat is REALLY fargmented, I've never noticed performance drops because of it. And if performance doesn't drop due to it, defragging wont increase performance any. Hard drives can only go a certain speed wether files are congruent or not, and HD's have a tendancy of slowing down the longer you use them. I know my parents comp's old HD went thru a good 5 years of heavy use. It was reportedly the same speed as the one I just put in it... yet the performance dif was insane.So yea, if you want a huge disk usage performance gain I'd suggest getting some 10K rpm drives Defragging helps but only a little... and if you are accessing lots of small files it'll be even less noticeable since those files wouldn't be that fragmented regardless.

I still feel Blu-ray has a good shot of taking this. It's got a fair bit more capacity per disk, and it's going to get a strong market infusion when the PS3 is released since those will all be able to play Bluray disks.Both disks have a series of strong backers so it could turn out bad if neither falls fairly quickly... a divided media war just makes things more complicated... but then again could drive prices down...hmm...But yea, I'll be following the news about these but I still think Blu-ray is worth it... just not necessarily as soon as it hits retail for a billion dollars a pop.

Hm, nice idea, just not for a NFS game heh. The NFS series in my head is always about fast fast faaaaast cars. Have an entire NFS based around trucks just doesn't seem like it would fit the franchise to me personally but who knows. OTher then that I'd love a good truck game if it was done proeprly. It's been done in the past but they murdered it