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  1. Gary King

    What would it take for you to buy Nintendo's next console?

    All it would take would be Metroid, but I'm definitely of the opinion that cheaper is better. Let Xbox2/PS3 battle for technological supremacy; offer me a $100-150 console with a Metroid game and I'll deal with memory cards/lack of internet support/ProLogic sound. I'd love to see a...
  2. Gary King

    Your favorite SEINFELD line

    "I'm out!" The Contest
  3. Gary King

    Hey MS Visual C/C++ Gurus...HELP!

    Not just pointers. In Debug mode, *all* memory is striped initially. In release mode, the memory is zeroed. Microsoft uses a macro to handle deallocation: #define SAFE_DELETE(p) if (p != NULL) { delete p; p = NULL; } #define SAFE_DELETE_ARRAY(p) if (p != NULL) { delete...
  4. Gary King

    Video Cards: Radeon 9500 128mb 8x agp VS. Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb 8x agp

    Or you could wait until Thursday and then make your decision.
  5. Gary King

    Alias vs. Grammys

    Homer: When is anyone going to give me an award? Marge: They already did, you have a Grammy! Homer: I meant an award that's worth winning. Mr. Simpson's opinions do not reflect those of this show's creators, who don't consider the Grammy an award at all.
  6. Gary King

    3d studio max versus maya

    Maya has better support for NURBS modeling, Max has better support for polygon (and subd) modeling. Regardless of which you pick, laying out UVs will be a complete pain in the ass. Max 5's renderer is noticeably better than Maya's, but both pale in comparison to Mental Ray. Maya tends to...
  7. Gary King

    What should I look for in a computer?

    Or, if you want a desktop, you might want to consider one of the Shuttle XPCs (like the SN41G2) -- they're small, quiet, and very transportable (all nice things for a dorm room). An XPC runs $300-360 retail. Add in a hard drive ($80), 256M RAM ($50), a DVD-ROM ($60), and a CPU ($70-80 for a...
  8. Gary King

    Halo 2 FAQ from Bungie

    I have no doubt that Bungie realizes what users expect out of the Xbox Live and multiplayer experience in Halo 2. In fact, they should be in a better position than any other Xbox developer, since Halo fans went out of their way to force the game to be playable on-line.
  9. Gary King

    I'm Considering Axiom Speakers...

    I've got M50s + SVS, and I don't think I'm missing anything. I've got far more volume than I need (shared walls mean reference level is just a pipe dream, anyway), and the sound quality is fantastic.
  10. Gary King

    I'm Considering Axiom Speakers...

    When I was researching my Axiom purchase, I was lucky that a set of M50s were on the Factory Outlet site. The only problem is an extremely small scratch on the underside of one of the speakers (it needs to be on its side to see it) -- YMMV, but the Axiom Outlet is a pretty good way to make the...
  11. Gary King

    Any clue how to connect a digital satellite receiver to a PC?

    None of the current TV solutions for PCs have support for set-top boxes, as far as I know.
  12. Gary King

    "The Shield" Season 2 -- General Discussion for ALL Episodes

    I just checked the schedule on FX's website -- it looks like every new episode presentation (and the encore presentation 1 hour later) has "limited breaks," through the entire first half of the season. The Sunday repeat isn't listed as having limited breaks, though.
  13. Gary King

    Does Hacking Like This Make Anyone Else Mad?

    Morgan, You've clearly never developed with DirectX and you certainly haven't done any development on the Xbox, so your opinions on how PC-like it is don't have a whole lot of merit. The development environment is similar to DirectX8, but make no mistake that the Xbox DirectX SDK is in every...
  14. Gary King

    Does Hacking Like This Make Anyone Else Mad?

    Dave, FYI, Sony lost well over $100 per console when the PS2 was initially released due to the manufacturing costs of the EE and GS. In the past year (in addition to general yield improvements), the EE and GS were placed on the same die and transitioned to 0.13u. I believe that the PS2 is...
  15. Gary King

    What single game made you buy a system?

    PSX - Final Fantasy VII Saturn - Panzer Dragoon Saga PS2 - Twisted Metal: Black Xbox - Halo Gamecube - Metroid Prime Gameboy Advance - Metroid Fusion and Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
  16. Gary King

    Does Hacking Like This Make Anyone Else Mad?

    I'll also add that before the Xbox launched, I strongly considered performing some hacks on my (future) Xbox, so that I could use it as a Windows network client capable of playing back MP3 and AVI files from my media server, because there still isn't a good, cheap, home theater-friendly media...
  17. Gary King

    Does Hacking Like This Make Anyone Else Mad?

    The actual offer was to install (and boot) Linux on the Xbox -- not hack the Xbox's operating system, or hack onto someone else's Xbox, or anything else. This is a use of the classical (geek) meaning of "to hack" -- not the current computer espionage meaning. The contest is no different from...
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