Recent content by Green Genes

I'm running one of these boards. The 'BIOS not installed' line has to do with the FastTrack software for SATA RAID arrays. I see it every time I boot and it doesn't seem to affect anything, so you can rule that out, but no other ideas with the info you've given.

Danke.

I need to buy an external hard drive as a gift for somebody in Ireland. I'm in Canada. Does anybody know what I need and where I can get it in terms of plug and voltage adapters? I know Ireland uses the BS 1363 230VAC 3 pin plug, but none of the radio-shacks or electronics stores I've checked...

Intel probably knows better than anyone else what a piece of crap they're advertising. That's the whole point of advertising, you make shit look like gold. Intel has the brains and the brawn to make products that outperforms the entire microchip industry. Where and when they exert that ability...

Wikipedia has some great articles on certain chips, but then again it might have nothing on the ones you're looking for.

News flash! You can know lots about ANYTHING and still be a total idiot! Every single human being on the planet is fucking stupid. You, me, every single chip head on these boards, your mom, and the King of Spain. Everybody generally knows a tiny bit more than somebody else on one topic or...

Unless you upgrade within a year or two, you just bought your last GPU ever. The need for an extra appendage on your machine is coming to a close. AMD and ATI are not partnering up to make extra neat-o add ons to your machine. They need eachother because before your testicles have time to drop...

Precisely. This is the center of the entire business deal. Intel is currently going ape shit working on new types of massively parallel processors. At this point upping transistor density on CPU dies is showing deminishing returns. Getting more bang for your future x86 buck means running a...

Retailers have got the masses so willing to dump money into their hands in return for garbage that when somebody tries to spend less than the asking price they don't know how to handle it any more, and it certainly doesn't help that the people who work there are drooling speds. Try it yourself...

I got mine for $300 a month ago trading in an old broken ass launch Xbox and a dozen scratched games. You just got to know how to spot the stupid clerks and then use a Jedi mind trick on them.

Ok, that means choose a target. Jaffe's target is a solid mechanical gameplay experience before all else. This doesn't make him an idiot. There's loads of ways to add Content besides a scripted story that are easier to pull off and give more revenue bang for your developemnt buck. Sure, you lose...

The 360 is nice, but it only has Xbox games. That means if you don't want to race it, shoot it or smack the hell out of it, you won't find it. There's so much neat stuff you'll never see on a Xbox that you might consider a new PC for the same price to be worth it, and there's tons of ways to get...

So game-situations without fun are no longer games? What about gold farmers on WoW? Are they playing a game to make a living, like pro athletes? I don't think they're playing, in the sense that 'playing' as it is done by animals of all kinds even in the absense of rules is purely amusing. If you...

What are we even arguing about anymore? Fucking hell I need a drink. Is story neccessay for the mathematics of games to occur? No. Are games possible without fun? Yes. Is play, and fun, possible without games? Yes. Are the strictly mathematical cores of games fun in themselves...

Sigh. This fucking language. I give up. Torgo, I feel you, buddy, but this confusion, this lack of clarity is killing me. 100 posts and the word 'game' is still throwing a monkey wrench into the gears of comprehsion. I know what the dictionaries say game means. I feel it's wrong, imprecise...