(4ns) 1000 / 4 x 2 = 500 MHz
(3.6ns) 1000 / 3.6 x 2 = 556 MHz
(3.3ns) 1000 / 3.3 = 606 MHz

3DO wants to do a reverse 1 for 8 stock split... The closest we ever came to a 1 for 8 split was drunken night in a dormitory with a cheerleader...

Nine11 says: I already made the move to single player games a few months ago. Partly, the lack of any new online games and my serious addiction to Dungeon Siege kicked me offline, but I'm pimping my DS character (Mr Muerte) for online play or a good run through the MP maps. I also dig the story behind some single player games which are much deeper than "kill everyone" or "nab da flag, ya fag!" I will reach out and ping someone whenever UT2K3 hits the scene, but I'll be flying solo till then.

To get the most out of the game, with a minimum budget in mind, I would personally get a 1.4Mhz Pentium 4 or Athlon with a Geforce4 Ti 4200 or better. Make sure it says "Ti" and not "MX," as there is a big difference in performance between the two.

Bad reviews are like Anne Heche – they go both ways.

I puchased the Memorex CD-R 24X 30 Pack product number 3202 4565 blank media at CompUSA, but they did not have any mail-in rebate forms for the advertised product on sale ($11.99 - $2 instant savings - $5 mail-in rebate). I was hoping to find a rebate form on the Memorex web site. Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated.

...In order for me to research your rebate question thoroughly and get a rebate check back to you ASAP, please kindly include via Mail, E-Mail or Fax the following:

1) Store Receipt
2) Rebate Form
3) UPC

"A 52/24/52 CD-ReWriter from Ultima Electronics has just been announced. It reaches 52X writing, 24X re-writing and 52X reading speeds. The drive uses CAV recording technology and JustLink an the main buffer underrun technology."

ATi’s Radeon 9700 delivered the most enjoyable gaming experience we have ever had on a PC. It is undoubtedly the speed king as we have seen it top GeForce4 Ti4600 scores in the last few days from between 25% to 300%. ATi is claiming double the performance of the nearest competition, and they can certainly prove that on more than just a couple of benchmarks. It is ATi’s turn to wear the crown and their hard work on the R300 over the last 18 months surely shows as they are bringing a product to market that they should be fully proud of...

...All in all, the Radeon 9700 is absolutely the best gaming card that money can buy and ATi has committed to start shipping cards in 30 days. They have earned their moment in the spotlight and deserve kudos from the gaming community. Speaking with Dave Orton, the COO of ATi, he seemed more excited about the next product after this so he could push their R300 core into the mainstream. It just keeps getting better and better and there really is no end in sight. The Radeon 9700 is the dawn of a new era in gaming, and a very welcomed one at that.

"The solution can last for more than five years, the flexible tube can circulate the solution over 20,000 times and the pump works for more than 44,000 hours, the statement said."

"Finally, at 1600x1200 the Radeon 9700 can play Unreal Tournament 2003 at the highest detail settings just fine; the R300 manages to outperform the fastest GeForce4 by an incredible 54%."

"GSC Game World, the developer of the Cossacks. European Wars and Cossacks. Art of War, starts accepting the applications for participation in the open beta testing of the coming RTS American Conquest."

"Rumor Mill:
Guys talk, you hear things....We had stated in another edition of the Rumor Mill a few weeks back that NVIDIA's NV30 had "come back" from the fab at .15 instead of .13. Of course, that is oversimplifying a drawn out process, but we were still apparently wrong. Just another reason why you should never trust the Rumor Mill 100%. I know we don't. Anyway, word on the street this week is that NVIDIA will be launching their NV28 core to satisfy this upcoming product cycle. From what we can gather, the NV28 will pretty much be a hopped up GeForce4 Titanium series core that will take advantage of 8X AGP. Little information beyond that is worth posting.

Lastly the Rumor Mill is saying this week that the NV30 chipset had not been taped out yet and will not be till next week, but will surely be at .13 micron and will make the Christmas buying season.

Remember this is all just rumor and speculation and should all be taken with a grain of salt...and possibly a beer as well."

- [H]ard OCP.

"Noticed this bit on nVnews regarding NV30 (GeForce 5) Dave Baumann has furnished more details from yesterday's shareholder meeting, which he yanked from the Motley Fool.

They mentioned the NV30 several times, and showed references to it on several slides. One of the slides showed a schedule for chip releases, and it showed the NV18 and NV28 showing up in what appeared to be the August/Sept time frame, and NV30 appearing in Oct/Nov (approximate, the slide was marked in quarterly increments). The slide also mentioned how many transistors were on each chip:

NV18: 81 million
NV28: 86 M
NV30: 120 M

They stated that they thought the NV30 was going to be the biggest revolution in 3D graphics in the last 10 years.

At a later part of the presentation, they stated that NV30 was on TSMC's 0.13um process that had copper interconnects. It was an FSG process (i.e. no low-k dielectrics were being used). I believe that Jen Hsun said the only part coming this Fall that was 0.13um was the NV30, the other parts are 0.15um. Also, the NV30 would fully support DX9." - nV News.

• New collection of 18 aircraft featuring
  
  
  
  • Flyable, crewable bombers – fly medium bombers and take
    control of the bombardier or gunner position
    
  • Stunning 3D cockpit detail
    
  • Accurate performance & damage modeling
    
  • Medium bomber operations
    
  • “Edgy” WWII state of the art aircraft, including the first
    jet fighters
  
  
  
  
• Custom Graphics Engine
  
  
  
  • Super high detail ground attack targets
    
  • Improves scenery with enhanced 3D modeling and
    texturing
  
  
  
  
• Cooperative multiplayer missions and free-for-all dogfights
  via the internet & LAN
  
  
  
• Fly as a German, British, or American pilot.
  
  
  
• Cooperative Multiplayer – Players will be able to play Single
  Missions with friends, cooperating to achieve mission goals as
  wingmen. Single Missions will be playable over a LAN or on the
  Internet.
  
  
  
• Enhanced Campaign Play – Players will be involved in fighting
  tactical missions in a campaign where their success or failure can
  move the front line, influence the quality of equipment available,
  and even change the outcome of the war.
  
  
  
• Reactive World – Areas of the campaign world will trigger
  events, spawn aircraft, generate flak, etc. in response to the
  presence of the player.
  
  
  
• Role Playing Elements – pilots have qualities like Bombing
  Skill, Vision, and Health. The player also makes decisions that
  influence how the war is fought, where to put the pressure on the
  enemy, and what aircraft improvements are crucial to the war
  effort.
  
  
  
• Enhanced Expandability - more cleanly supported than in
  previous versions.
  
  
  
• As Real As It Gets – nothing will be outside of historical
  possibility.

"This patch will upgrade you SoF2 version to 1.01. Here's an excerpt from Activision:
The response to Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix has been terrific, and we thank all of our fans for their enthusiastic support of the product. As with all of our major new product releases, the product team has been closely monitoring the SoFII newsgroups, Web sites, and forums to gauge what our users are experiencing with the product. From these sources and a number of emails, we have addressed some issues that were identified after the product’s release.


These are the changes/improvements included in this patch:
Single Player:

- Fixed rotating brushes to load/save properly.
- Fixed several NPC animation issues where the AI would become stuck reloading, firing while leaning, or picking up weapons.
- Fixed kam3 navpoint bug.
- Fix for player dying for no apparent reason in shop6.
- Fix for col8 occasionally not ending.
- Allow editing and saving of navpoints so Modders can make SP levels.
- 3-button mouse w/o mousewheel will now work.
- NPCs have a difficult time seeing you when you are crouched or prone in tall grass. They will still, however, investigate the nearby area the player was last seen.
- Stun grenades have a greater affect on NPCs.
- Moving while crouching being regarded as running is now fixed
- Fixed crash in menus when background image wasn't found.
- Timegraph and mousemove graph now display blue and green lines on a black background rather than black on a black background
- Added new video card cfgs.


Multiplayer:

- Demolition gametype added.
- MP5SD weapon added.
- 4 new maps added.
- Fix for demo playback.
- RMG fixes for reliable connectivity to Linux dedicated servers.
- Small leaning bug fixed.
- MODs menu added to main screen to show list of installed MODs.
- Fix for time display in game logs.
- Exploit to get around limited enemy following was fixed.
- Buffer overrun fixed for team say in certain cubes on the raven map.
- Player will no longer slow down when walking through a puddle.
- When playing a demo back the objectives screen no longer pops up.
- "Use" key bind added for demolition gametype.
- "Drop item" key bind added to allow people to drop the flag, briefcase, or bomb.
- Should no longer be dropped off a server with "invalid pk3" message on map changes.
- Added "logfilename" server cvar to allow admins to specify the name of the qconsole.log file.
- Added "g_roundjointime" server cvar to allow the amount of time someone can join a round in progress in inf or dem.
- Added "g_suddenDeath" server cvar to allow control of whether a match should end if tied.
- Added "banip", "banclient", "banremoveip", and "banlist" server commands. New ban system allows up to 4096 bans and stores the bans in the file sof2mp.ban by default.
- Fire damage caused by walking through a fire grenade does not cause TK damage (initial blast does though).
- Gametype modders can now base their mod off another to use its entities and spawns.
- Server’s status request no longer shows the score of the client when someone is spectating them.
- Server’s status request now reports the team scores.
- Server’s status request now contains each client’s current team.
- Fire grenades don’t slow you down as much when you run through them.
- Death messages no longer disappear after a map change.
- Grenades that fall after being killed trying to throw one no longer cause team kill damage.
- Team kill damage should now forgive properly.
- Added hud indicators for CTF flag status.
- IP address added to server log file when someone connects.
- Entity func_wall added for demolition gametype.
- Entity target_effect added for demolition gametype.
- Ability to ban people for a given duration of time added.
- New server cvar "g_teamkillBanTime" which specifies the number of minutes you are banned for after being autokicked for team killing (default 5 minutes).
- New server cvar "g_voteKickBanTime" which specifies the number of minutes you are banned from the server after being vote kicked (default 0).
- Guns will no longer glow white in RMG fog when detail textures are on.
- Pause when clients join a team has been fixed.
- Servers will now exclude color-coding when sorting in the in-game browser
- Jump action should jump off ladders properly now
- Next and prev weapons (mousewheel by default) will now double as zoom in and zoom out when in zoom mode (can be turned off)
- Death messages now include the weapon name that did the killing"

"A blind German psychic claimed Tuesday he could read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks.

Clairvoyant Ulf Buck, 39, claims that people's backsides have lines like those on the palm of the hand, which can be read to reveal much about their character and destiny." - Yahoo News

"As for performance, we learned that cards based on the 9700 should deliver a magnificent 15,000 3DMarks and will be able to beat Nvidia’s fastest offering for this summer by a few thousand in this very popular test. Nvidia’s best performance is between 10,000 and 11,000 depending on the configuration."

"What’s also interesting to note is that if you extrapolate based on this data then you’ll see that the forthcoming generation of GPUs will need even more powerful processors than an Athlon XP 2100+ in order to get the most out of their performance. With AMD slowly ramping the clock speed of the Athlon XP line between now and Hammer’s release, it looks like we’ll be testing R300 and NV30 on Pentium 4 systems."

"tJY: Will the campaigns be able to be played "co-op" over the Internet?

BF1942 Team: All 16 maps can be played as co-op over the internet. We are still testing, but it looks as though you will be able to take 32 bots into a level and as players jump into the co-op game, bots are removed. "

"The planes are probably the most difficult vehicles in the game to get the hang of, but worth the effort to learn. The forward/back keys handle your throttle, the left and right keys will turn the plane, and then you can either use the mouse or the arrow keys to dive, climb, and bank to the left or right. Although players seem to be split in their preferences, I found the keyboard a bit easier, although this style makes it a bit awkward to fire machineguns or drop bombs."