Don’t get me wrong; I love my HAF 922 case — it does offer great cooling but now with 2 GTX 470′s crunching Collatz/Seti most of the day, all I hear are the vid card’s fans spinning at 90% all day. I do like the interesting design of rotating the mobo 90 degrees but only 3 3.5 bays?? Why didn’t someone think of this sooner?? 
A nice video review here
Posted under TechNothing like seeing Grand Central getting destroyed. 
. Good thing I added a second gtx 470 (think I’m going to need it.)
Weak! 
All because of this. I think this article sums up my thoughts exactly.
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Posted under Internet, TVNot only do you trade McNabb but to the Redskins??? 
After months of trying to trade Donovan McNabb, the Eagles finally found the unlikeliest of destinations for the one-time franchise quarterback.
On Sunday night, the Birds sent the former No. 1 draft pick – a quarterback who led them to five NFC championships and one Super Bowl – to the divisional rival Washington Redskins for a pair of draft picks.
So not only is No. 5 not under center for the Eagles – they’ll also have to play against him twice a year.
The Eagles will receive a second-round pick (37th overall) in this month’s NFL draft and either a third- or fourth-round pick next year.
McNabb was selected to the Pro Bowl six times in his 11 seasons here and owns the franchise record for passing yards. But his inability to win what would be the team’s first Super Bowl championship – plus his contract status – made him expendable.
McNabb was due a $6.2 million roster bonus on May 5, a factor that may have scared off some other suitors. He is due to make $5 million in salary this fall, the final year of his contract.
Kevin Kolb, who has started two games in three seasons, becomes the starter. Michael Vick is the current backup.
Kolb did okay in his two starts last year; he could be good, but I am not sure he is equal or better than McNabb is right now. This could be a Favre-Rodgers kind of deal. Let’s hope.
Posted under SportsAvsP: Finished the marine segment. Good game; not great. Engine is good at what it does; obviously not a Doom3 or UT3 engine but it gets the job done. Filmed a little bit of it; basically a last man standing kind of deal (Fraps recorded it a bit dark though).
Dwango: Had a recent email from a player from the NY server. Dwango was the premier on-line gaming service in the mid-90′s before internet gaming took off; it died in the late ’90′s. Doom/2 and Duke3d were very popular multiplayer games on the service. It wasn’t free but the price was reasonable. When I was living in Oakland, true story: I played Thresh right before he won the Ferrari from John Carmack (musta whipped me 50-1) But in my defense, I was still learning to use a mouse, yes that was it! 
I was a mod for both Oakland and SF, but nothing could beat the intensity of play and players on the NY server. I made a half-hearted Dwango page way back when here.
Bought my first SSD drive for my laptop. It’s not the fastest by any means but still faster than the 7200 rpm that it replaced (check out that access time!) Just don’t know how I’m going to live on 80gB of space. 
Haven’t had a chance to play it yet (thanks work!). But I came across a rather humorous chat thread about it @ shack.
Posted under GamingOh dear, what can I say… really had high hopes for this.
Where to start? Kinda liked the oldskool looking interface with the big font, but then when you try to configure your keyboard you have to go through like 4 menus just to find the configuration settings.
You do this for Marine, Alien or Predator seperately – so you’ll have fun setting all keys three times over if you are for example left handed like I am.
Ok, finally got that. Let’s go online!
Hmm, where’s the server browser? There’s none? This is madness!! Matchmaking only?? And they said it’s not going to be consolized. Oh well, it’s a demo – they might add that in later…
Ok, join a match, click, click…….wait……
wait…..
wait…..
wait…..
found match! (yeah!)
loading map
wait…..
wait…..
wait…..
wait…..wait…..
wait…..
wait…..
wait…..that map must be HUGE!!
wait…..
wait…..Ok, it’s ON!!!!
…
Hearing gunfire, screams, evil hissing
And i’m IN!….wtf? this is IT??? ??? That looks like arse… :/
What did they do to my graphics? UT99 looked better than THIS?? And what’s that map? Some corridors with cheap looking alien textures? I can go up and down some ramps? Yay… :/ Looks like one of those homemade maps from my 12 year old little cousin.Ok, relax. It’s BETA.
The gameplay must be great.
Gleefully I climb some nearby wall and right underneath me see some Marine passing by. I’m ready to POUNCE baby!! Pressing jump………..CHAT WINDOWS OPENS UP?!?!? Marines turns around and fills my alien arse with lead.
What the hell.
Ok, going back into the menu. Damn, why did they have to hide that menu deep down? Jump=Y. Seems fine? Oh – there’s a message on top: “Some keys are duplicated” Cool right, I know know. Couldn’t you have said me that beforehand?? Why can I even use two commands with the same key???But where is it? So I spend the next 2 minutes scrolling this huge abomination of a UI menu up and down finding the chat entry. Well, I can’t delete the key entry. I have to overwrite it. Aaalright. Back to the game. Hit ESC. Oh, that doesn’t go back into the running match. This only goes up one menu entry. So I have to hit ESC like 5 times just to go back for the game.
Whaaat the hell? Did they ever test this? Ever heard of usability?
So after an epic journey through the dephts of this genuinely horrific UI I went back the game, did some rollercoaster runs along some overbright lit lowres wall textures, searching for an enemy to strike. Hey, there’s a Pradator! I sneak up on him. Message pops up: “Hit ‘E’ to grab. I press ‘E’. My claws strike forward and turn the Pred into some blocky looking green mist.
Then i hit ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC. Go to Steam. Right click Aliens versus Predator Demo. Delete local content. Delete.
Sing to the tune of John Lennon’s classic, Imagine.
Imagine there’s no 3D.
It’s easy if you try.
No AGP for us, inside your rig, only PCI.
Imagine all the world’s games
rendered in 2D…
Imagine there’s no Anti-Aliasing,
It isn’t hard to do,
Nothing to gib or frag for,
No Z-buffers too,
Imagine all the world’s games,
looking like Commander Keen…
Imagine no T&L,
I wonder if you can,
No need for 3dfx or NVIDIA,
Your computer’s just 2D trashcan,
Imagine all the world’s games,
sharing a chipset from S3…
You may say I’m a dreamer,
I might be the only one,
I hope some day you’ll buy a 3D card
And all 3D game fans can play as one.
ripped from http://archive.gamespy.com/halloffame/october00/voodoo1/index.shtm
Yes the voodoo1 was a revolutionary piece of hardware for its time. Up until 1996 or so, there was no 3d in games; they all used the 2d card in your computer (and hence were really slow and ugly). I remember the first time I ran GLQuake; not only did it look a thousand times better, but you could run higher resolutions for the same framerate as 2d.
Now video cards are more complex than CPUs; the latest 5870 from ATi has more than 2 billion transistors. And they can do more things than just play video games; they can transcode video or crunch Seti many times faster than a CPU. Pretty soon it will be hard to distinguish a game from the latest Pixar movie (here’s nVidia’s new GF100 architecture).
Truly a good time to be a gamer. 
Who cares, right? I have fond memories of the USFL though. I was a big football fan growing up so this was great, football year round. There were many good players as well, and it was competitive. Luckily I rooted for the Stars; it was nice they played in every championship game, unlike my Eagles. I didn’t know it at the time, but I attended the last game the USFL would ever play. I even had great seats; about the fourth row up @ the 50 yard line.
And Trump had to go F it up… I can’t believe how arrogant he is. It could have succeeded for years if he didn’t get involved or at least didn’t challenge the NFL. Look how long Arena Football has lasted.
At least it wasn’t the XFL…
