Club409

The best damn waste of time!

i want one

Drew
Total posts: 5106
Not sure about the MPG on this one.
mwinter
Total posts: 4311
Just a follow-up on the wii -- I was browsing their official webpage today and saw on the Wii Sports page what they're calling your in-game version of yourself. It's
mwinter
Total posts: 4311
For those of you into the PC games and the RTS genre take a look at these badass screenshots from Supreme Commander. I've been told that the game will support multiple monitors and a ridiculous level of continuous zooming (entire map down to single unit)
Shawn
Total posts: 1360
Hybrid Hard Drive
Oscar
Total posts: 1323
"Seattle WA – April 25 2005 :"

i declare shens
mike
Total posts: 2298
How is that different from RAM?
Oscar
Total posts: 1323
RAM is faster but loses info when powered off

flash is much slower but retains info when powered off. also has a limited number of write cycles before blocks start going bad
mike
Total posts: 2298
limited write cycles!?!? That doesn't sound like a good thing to have built into a hard drive . . .
mwinter
Total posts: 4311
yea but 1) the number of write cycles is pretty high and 2) it's especially high when in certain contexts such as putting your boot loader or OS kernel on it (which shouldn't change millions of times during the useful lifetime of your harddrive)
mike
Total posts: 2298
ohhh yeah i forgot about the popcorn factor. wait is that like the