Star Wars: EU

Submitted by Thoren on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 12:45pm

Just like any series, there are good books and not-as-good books, but the Zahn books are AS GOOD AS, if not better than the OT material.  Sure as hell better than the PT material.  Zahn's a great author, but so are a lot of the EU writers.  Lucasarts does a great job managing characters and continuity across the novels, and you get some really great storylines, as many of the books are written as many-novel story arcs, and many of them focus on characters from the movies we love who don't get a lot of screen time.

 Normally, I agree with Gordon.  Maybe he's tried reading some of the EU stuff, maybe he hasn't, but I have to completely disagree with you on your anti-EU stance.  If you want to quickly pound through the Thrawn Trilogy, I'd recommend the excellent graphic novel versions, available on Amazon: (search for)  Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Dark Horse Collection.)

 

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Xander: "Ugh, OK, you know what? I think we need to zap our PRAM... with a cup of joe."

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So, should I defrag my SSD?

Submitted by NAYRhyno on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 4:38pm

We also answer your tech questions! On this episode, we discuss whether you should defrag your SSD drive...

 

 Did i miss that part?

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bsd is not linux

Submitted by peter3.14 on Sun, 08/10/2008 - 10:13pm

bsd is Berkeley software distribution it is unix

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I totally agree with Gordan!!!!!!!

Submitted by CuGi on Sun, 08/10/2008 - 9:15pm

I used to read Timothy Zahn, but some of the expanded Universe authors are fucking awful (*cough Barbara Hambly).  Anyways  the more you bastardize a story, the more you ruin it.  I admit, timothy Zahn is probably the best, but still the concept of an expanded universe is terrible.  It's like have 32000000 gods (no offence to hindu's) but  for a story, its trippy and just a mess. 

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Gaming on a Mac Pro

Submitted by kkern on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 7:49am

For fear of getting flamed on the posts, ranted against on the podcast, or torched incessantly in TF2, I "game" on a Mac Pro.

Only one game though ... I use CrossOver and play Team Fortress 2 on an original Intel Mac Pro with 9GB RAM.  Even with all my primary apps minimized, I can fire up a game of TF2 with tolerable graphics and take my share of head shots with the rest of the world.

On a Macbook Air, CrossOver didn't work well at all .. and in BootCamp it would just blue-screen after blue-screen.  Probably due to the chipset ... but the Mac Pro handles it decent.

 

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You guys mention the

Submitted by jwalch.hawk on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 8:16am

You guys mention the possibility of a 64-bit memory addressing cap talking about Nehalem.  Given that 2^64 comes out to 16 exabytes (that's the one above peta, which is the one above tera...)...  I'd say it's going to be a while before that becomes an issue.  Some RAM is lost to overhead stuff (the reason why we see the 32-bit cap at ~3GB-ish rather than the full 4GB), but I'd say we've got quite a ways to go on 64-bit, though.

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Mac at a lan party

Submitted by dipfur on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 10:49pm

In your podcast you stated for a brief time that you had never seen a mac at a lan party and that it would be bad news...during a boring day at my dad's house I was browsing lan parties on google and looking through the galleries, I infact saw a total of two Imacs in different lan parties, I was very much surprised to see this and the comments on the pictures shared my surprise. I do not remember the links but I will try to find it again.

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Random comments.

Submitted by Strongbad536 on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 4:28pm

Tom you made a mistake at the beginning and said it was the 75th podcast.  its 76 man.  For that guy running the Pentium D that wants to upgrade, run CPU-Z or Everest or something and find out what motherboard it is, then search for its compatability and specs.  And ummm, I happen to love the olympics Gordon, because its the only time that the country cares about swimming, which is my big sport.  Cant wait to get a Nehalem machine up and running, its gonna be smokin. 

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Cool song

Submitted by Skiplives on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 1:46pm

+1 for the Clerks clip.

Also, while I do not do most of my gaming on it, I do game on my G5 iMac.  It plays Diablo II just fine, and I played the recent Penny Arcade game on it.  It's a 1.8GHz G5 20-inch iMac with the stock NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra. 

Apple doesn't make a computer that a gamer would want to buy.  The iMacs are laptops with a big bright monitor and no battery.  Perfect for what I use it for, casual web browsing and my wife and kids main computer.  The Mac Pro is a workstation and not something for play.  I actually don't know who buys these. 

 Finally, Dictionary.com is our friend: meme   /mim/ –noun

a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes.

[Origin: 1976; < Gk mīmeisthai to imitate, copy; coined by R. Dawkins, Brit. biologist]

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