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NTL have only licensed the Virgin brand – for 30 years I think. Part of the deal is that they have to deliver a level of service that is upto the standards implied by the Virgin name – that’s a key element to brand management.
All of the Virgin “sell-offs” are covered by equivalent deals, because the brand is so powerful. Branson is a *very* smart bloke. The Virgin group is still the largst single shareholder in the new company.
So, yes, NTL are using the Virgin name to “piggy back” on the success of the brand – but it ain’t free, and it can be revoked at any time if standards are not met.
These kind of glasses have been around for years, and frankly they are of little more than novelty value. Sure, when you put them on you do get a sense of depth, but it’s all a bit artificial and does not add much, if anything, to the gaming experience.
I’ve lost track of the number of times these things have been at various trade shows, and I’ve always been underwhelmed by them. And this is coming from a bloke who used to make a living out of VR and stereo vision applications 🙂
I would strongly recommend that you try a pair before buying, or make sure you can return if not satisfied.
@=XDC=JuDgE-MenTaL wrote:
yea, especially when they try and realise a patch to fix the ‘furious wank bug”.
Bug??? Sounds like a “feature” to me….leave it in.. 😛
Just aswell Max wasn’t one of the actors. All the bloody shooting sequences would have been very short – one shot, dead…..
I’m convinced my frame rate has dropped big time recently too. Sometimes it’s like running through treacle.
I would love to play, but my new job is just taking all my energies at the moment. Hardly played at all in the last few weeks. Hope to get back on soon.
The Gateway is a fine enough hotel – been to a few do’s there a while ago, but it is several miles away from the town centre. Probably a 15-20 minute taxi ride. Might be worth calling the hotel to see what their estimate of taxi fare is.
It is easy to get to – close to J26 of the M1.
There are probably some similar places a bit closer in, but don’t know how prices will compare.
I’ll have a think and see if I can get some alternate suggestions, but the Gateway will be a good fallback.
Nottingham has its own airport – Nottingham East Midlands Airport.
It’s also a DHL hub, so you can always courier yourself…..
If anyone is remotely worried about the reputation for guns in Nottingham, then don’t be.
It’s not like there are people hanging out in all the streets with Uzi’s & pistols, taking potshots at anyone that goes by. Yeah, guns are an issue, but like any decent size city the serious crime and problems are limited to just one or two areas.
So stay clear of “The Meadows” – quite close to the train station. If you turn right when you come out of the station you’ll be fine. Turn left and you will be shot.
St Annes is the other area to steer clear of.
But since neither area is host to either decent hotel or pubs, any XDC meet will be well away from any problems.
The city centre itself is pretty buzzing. The canal zone at the bottom end of town has some nice trendy bars, Jongleurs comedy club etc. Then on to the Trip to Jerusalem pub that is a must-visit for any new drinkers to the area. Many years ago I was in the Trip’s pub football team, which was a laugh. It dates back to 11th century (the pub, not the team, although we did play like that sometimes).
After that, wander up towards the castle, and across to the Salutation – the other “oldest pub in England” – it & The Trip argue over the title, along with a dozen other pubs in the country. Doesn’t matter – effin old, but bloody good pubs with proper beer.
After the Sal, your’re into the City Square proper, with loads of choice on places to go. It’s all a pretty totty-rich area, so for all you singlies out there you can have a crack. For us married/hooked up blokes, we can oggle and imagine we would have a chance if only we weren’t hitched.
There is a Hooter’s too, but a slightly different pub crawl route would be needed to take this in. Unless that was the final destination of course.
It’s been a while since I’ve been into town for a proper session, so there maybe some great new places to go to that I have not heard of, but I can always ask around.
Obviously I would love to join in if I can, but will depend on other weekend commitments. Three weekends in May are already taken up – my brother -in-law is getting married in May and I have a stag weekend to sort out too since I’m Best Man for some reason. Really bad choice – since I’m married to his sister I can’t exactly chat up the bridesmaids can I? 😛
This is a guess, but it may be because the same CD key (which could map to something called a GUID – can explain what one of these is, but not really relevant) is being used by more than one person logged into the game at once.
This could be because you have a pirate copy, or someone has sold on your CD key to someone else that has a pirate copy. But, as I said, this is just an educated guess and I may be talking utter bollocks.
If you Google on “GLOBAL PunkBuster GUID BAN”, then you get all sorts of links, including this one that may help:
Article here that may be of interest:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/02/18/ccit18.xml
Nice of you lot to think about sunny Nottingham, and it would be good to get a beer or three in.
But that weekend in May is one where I’m away – and no, you can’t use my house then!! 🙂
And due to having a family here I can’t really put anyone up, but would be happy to help with whatever arrangements I can.
@LeGIt wrote:
That’s because out of all your years of system building no one has ever had 4gb of ram and 1.5gb of vram in their machines because it’s only recently been the case where the limits of 32-bit have been pushed and memory has been affordable and available enough to reach those limits. I’ve also been building systems just as long and it’s new too me too, but I’ve seen it with my own eyes and it can, does and will happen – try it yourself as IIRC you have a shop so parts should be readily available to confirm this? Also video ram is not stealing from the main ram – it’s just windows xp x32 can only use 4gb so it’s using 1.5gb of the vram and 2.5gb of the main ram = 4gb… the other 1.5gb of system ram was just ignored 🙁 When he went 64 bit when I let him use a copy from a Microsoft Action pack it sees it all though…
You are mistaken I think. VRAM & RAM are completely separate. VRAM does not appear in the address space of the CPU, and RAM is not in the address space of the GPU. Data gets transferred between RAM & DRAM via the AGP/PCI/PCIX bus. And ne’re the twain shall meet. They are physically different types of memory too in most cases.
I don’t know what your friend saw, but I am pretty sure that the Gb memory limit is system RAM only, and absolutely not the sum of DRAM & VRAM. There must be some other explanation.
It’s been a few years since I wrote graphics card drivers for Windows, and maybe things have changed. But I would be surprised if they had changed this much.
