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So, that I know of, no ISP has a program where they police what you do.

Really? That's just not so. What is more, the abusive contracts/TOS/AUP do restrict what you allowed to do. Whether or not that's actively policed is a different question.

These types of restrictions are one of the biggest threats to the real promise of the Internet IMHO -- the truly free sharing of ideas and information.

Yet Another False Flag operation. Has everyone seen the newly leaked emails alleging that the United States is actually responsible for the chemical weapons attack precisely to justify this invasion? See this and this and this and this and this and this and this.

-1 for posting an alternative point of view that has links to back up assertion? The neocon contingent of /. mods must be out in force today.

Yet Another False Flag operation. Has everyone seen the newly leaked emails alleging that the United States is actually responsible for the chemical weapons attack precisely to justify this invasion? See this and this and this and this and this and this and this.

Of course not. He's a terrorist.

The original Crysis game (CryEngine2), combined with mods like Real Lifesys (or other extreme tweak mods aka Photoreal), combined with HD textures, and all viewed on 1920x1200 or above res display devices (especially combined with multi-monitor setups), will make your jaws drop.

You really need pure GPU and CPU power to push this stuff over 50 FPS. Whoever tells you otherwise simply hasn't done it.
See...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivoSi2VvqA

http://justsitback.deviantart.com/?title=Videogame%20Environments%20Realtime%203D&rssQuery=gallery:MadMaximus83/25304347

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/714112-Photo-Realistic-Crysis-mod-AKA-Real-Life-sis-Orgasmic-Crysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPCJh8tYri0

Granted, Crysis has it's problems, but it is far and away better graphics-wise than anything console, or console ported to PC, and it's almost 5 years old now. Console ported games by comparison look a bit "cartoon'ish", even the strange changes they made in the CryEngine 3 to port Crysis to consoles (reduced res and color textures, etc). I'm one of the guys who purposely didn't buy Crysis 2 because I didn't think the graphics were any better than the original Crysis. I've also skipped Skyrim, for the graphics (poor), but also because slaying dragons (and every other creature in the woods that wants to do you in) all day does get old. Why can't Skyrim graphics look as good as this? ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7I6EBc4mRc
or,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTuAw_i7ngI

I'll tell you why. It's because Skyrim was made for the CONSOLES that came out 5 years ago!

Personally I am a high-end enthusiast. I do run SLI and 1920x1200. I do have an overclocked 4.1 GHz machine. I do upgrade my graphics about every 2 to 3 years. I use my money to push the industry along. I honestly believe that if people quit buying high-end, then the state of the art in GPU/CPU will slow down dramatically and we will never reach pure photorealism as soon. Console designs will also suffer because of it. For example, the nex-gen consoles had better be coming with DX11 capable GPUs and 4+ Gig mem, or for this day in age they would fair poorly. I am the reason that this new AMD graphics card even exists.

I'm the type of person who would buy this...

http://proavmagazine.com/projectors/high-resolution-projector-digital-projection-dvis.aspx

http://www.digitalprojection.com/BrowseProjectors/SeriesList/ProjectorList/ProjectorDetail/tabid/87/ProjectorId/170/MarketTypeId/10/Default.aspx

... just to game on cold nights in the winter, so I can hang out on a Crysis style beach projected on my living room wall.

Sure, arguments can be made that the "game" is more important than the graphics. That is not entirely true, but it is why I still love a game of the now 11 year old Quake 3 Arena multi-player on occasion. But what I have been craving all my life is pure immersion. I'm an adult, and as such I'm looking not so much for a

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1078239-Pirate-catching-catches-me.-I-did-not-pirate.

according to wikipedia and facepunch http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=990390&page=31 there is more going down. mainly background noises though

I haven't played Prophunt for TF2 (I was going to recently, but Valve had broken it in a TF2 update), but I've heard the Garry's Mod version is much better.

it would basically be like a Wacom cintiq with multitouch support and the primary display separate from the Cintiq

Here's a dollar. Give me two of those and a small and shiny one for the kids.

Oh... Did you mean that the price would also be like a Cintiq with multitouch and an additional Cintiq on top of that Cintiq?

http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=696514
A similar bug has been used maliciously with Garry's Mod servers. I sure hope Valve get around to fixing that bug... shit's getting out of control with all the kids GMod seems to attract these days...