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28 Jul 2004
So "Nintendo DS" is the official name. It's one hot handheld. Stereo speakers builtin, ~$170 release price, and more than 120 games in development. I'm signed up.
Also, I finally got an official quote from the horse's mouth about wireless: "DS users will be able to connect with a local wireless network of up to 16 players. Nintendo's guaranteed range is 30 feet, but will extend far beyond that depending on circumstances. It ... will make use of both IEEE 802.11 and Nintendo's proprietary communication protocol, which provides low battery consumption. ... The DS technology also provides for a wireless LAN connection, which could allow a theoretically infinite number of players to ... compete at a central game hub on the Internet..." (Emphasis mine) Holy hell.
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28 Jul 2004
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy teaser trailer. Lots of mirrors in the discussion, but the official link worked for me. This is going to be the best movie ever made, no matter how bad it is.
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26 Jul 2004
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26 Jul 2004
At work, we got new dual-Opteron SunFire v20z's for the newly-acquired TravelWeb. I got to test one. First thing I decided to do was a distributed.net client benchmark.
Desktop: Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 512K L2 cache, 512M RAM.
Opteron server: Dual AMD Opteron 248 2.2GHz, 1M L2 cache, 2G RAM.Dnetc benchmarking only runs on a single processor, but I ended up with the Opteron running twice as fast as my desktop. I'm in love.
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26 Jul 2004
Law & Order: Artistic Intent. I love the show, and I love the final piece in this collection: "A Night Away". Update 14:36 - You guys thought CSI had a lot of sunglasses shots. L&O is just too nerdy for sunglasses.
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24 Jul 2004
Okay, so The Bourne Supremacy was pretty damn good. It sustained the atmosphere and intensity of the first one, and the story was done in such a way that it didnt feel like "another movie with the same characters", like some sequels tend to. I enjoyed it enough that I decided to look into the books a little. Sadly, the books appear to be critically poor (especially the third one, The Bourne Ultimatum). But reading through the synopsis of the second book, it looks like the storyline was totally changed. So the third movie, if it's made, has hope.
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23 Jul 2004
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22 Jul 2004
There are no words to describe how I feel about 68.5 fps Doom3 at 1600x1200 at high quality. I wouldn't have said it was possible. (Page 4 actually looks at non-crazy-expensive video cards).
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22 Jul 2004
Okay, this link needs a little introduction. The article is primarily about the latest Rush album, which I know lots of people dislike, but the phenomenon that's described is not limited to that one band. Imagine that this story was about Your Favorite Band.
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21 Jul 2004
