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  1. Re:Spoliers! on Car Hacks & Mods for Dummies · · Score: 1

    and lets not forget its also good on the highway for those of us with lighter cars, doing 120kph down the highway in my old lancer(insert rice jokes hear) and it used to nearly get blown out of the lane with only a semi desent wind, new one with spoiler, and its sweet as =>

    nothign ricey about stoping your car salming into another on the freeway IMHO

  2. Re:DIY is good on Car Hacks & Mods for Dummies · · Score: 1

    is that *your* citroen, or is that the average Citroen.

    also what other facters are involed, size of engein, power output.

  3. Re:Flashlight or gun? on Doom Movie in Production For Aug 2005 Release · · Score: 1

    I still want to see a moded duct-tape mod that hides the roll of tape somewhere randomly and you have to find it =>

  4. new topic, video disks.. whats everyones fav? on Doom Movie in Production For Aug 2005 Release · · Score: 1


    Mines the one on the engery production, i love the line "producing endless enrgery with only two by products, steam, whcih we vent though pipes, vents, outs lents, floors and anythign else we can and ... .. green goo" that just cracks me up.

  5. Re:Closed Source on Microsoft's Lobbying Priorities: Limiting Open Source · · Score: 1

    The two party system is the result of voteing where you dont have preferance distrubution..

    If you could give your 3rd party a 1st vote, but then if they didnt win you could chose which of the other partys got your vote, then your vote isnt wasted..

  6. Re:Linus Is much more important than Bill Gates on Gates, Jobs, Torvalds: Who is Most Important? · · Score: 1

    or you could look at it this way,
    without the evil(tm) MS gates would anyone realy care about Jobs or Torvalds.. Lets face it, i think Gates/MS had made those two what they are today.

  7. /.'ing dose it again... on Clouds, The Collaborative Photo Mosiac · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who would of though chaos theory at its best..
    a collection of random images, arranged and displayed and it looks exactly like a 404.

  8. I sence a great disterbence in the force.. on Transparent Aluminum Is Here · · Score: 5, Funny

    As If a million Startrek geeks cryed out in joy.

  9. WTF?? on The Cost of Computer Naivete · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I beg your god damm parden??

    $800??
    10 1/2 hours of work??

    lets see..

    10am arive
    10:05 boot into safe mode and run anit virus
    10:45 (assumming major problems), run spyware removela.
    11:30 (assumming major problems) virus free, spyware free, install zone alarm.
    12:30 (assuming major problems, computers a ok.

    at the worst it being 98, reinstall over its self, and remove a few programs and reinstall them..

    that woudl add 2 more hours at the most.

    Thats 4 1/2 hours, if your being riped off.

    buying more ram?? WTF??

    I meen comeon..
    Ive restored a 20 gig HD after a major FAT crash useing an old verry slow resore program(in fact twice as there where two ways to recover files and some i had to do the second way) and reupdated and installed all my programs and games in less time..

    I also had the same thing happen to my comptuer jsut hte other day when i was installing doom3, opps i got borde and was jsut surfing around and picked up a virus and about 12 malware programs (ok so every now and then i get borde see a file in a newsgroup and go hmmm freeporn.scr wonder how much dammage this can do)..

    I still managed to install doom3, reboot 10 odd times trying to get a free virus prgram installed
    reboot 10 odd times agine get ad aware up and runing, reboot and instlall zonealarm, trouble shoot the new video card and monitor i added and play doom3 for about 10 mins in the 2 hours i had.

    for $800(im assuming US hear) I would of been able to do all that, and get the ssytem close to doom3 specs. Or hey buy a brand new one!!

  10. Re:35 new models? on Nokia Losing its Cell Phone Dominance · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What i think the oohone market shoudl look at moving to is custom phones, or at lest semi custom.

    Order body X, featuers Y,ZA and C.

    I put off geting a new phone becase i couldnt get what i wanted, in the end i finaly had to get a compromise, but thats life i guess.

  11. Re:Hmph on Nokia Losing its Cell Phone Dominance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I loved the 5510 when it came out,
    QWERTY and MP3.. allright!!

    I was rather upset when the 6800 came out with no MP3 :(

    I now have a 6800 for my phone still pine over my 5510, being as im too lazy to get an MP3 palyer for soem reson, or maybe i just hate carryign aroudn too many differnt things.

    but back ontopic, i couldnt belive they took a step back with the ''replacemnt'' model like htat, copyright issues or what ever they used to jsutifiy it, and on a moot point, when will they bring out a phones that can play mp3s as the ring tones etc.

  12. im late im late, for a verry importand date! on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1

    SHIT SHIT SHIT.

    4 1/2 weeks to get a decent monitor,
    reinstall windows and get a decent videocard.

    Ebay hear i come.

  13. Re:Hey boss... on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1

    "It took about 10 minutes and took up a bit more space on the hard drive than I thought it would. Starting the game took about 45 seconds on the 386, and about 18 seconds on the 486/50"

    im guessing for doom3 only 1/2 of the first sentance there would be accurate.

  14. Re:In other news... on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1

    Troll on dude..
    My tnt2 m64 32meg ran doom3 alpha at 9-12 fps.

  15. Re:Ah... I can't... oh no... on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1

    I got 6fps on tnt2 m64 32meg.

    Did you read the readme's and the variouse pages to help you tune the conf. file so it ran faster?

  16. Re:Ah... I can't... oh no... on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1

    becasue ID didnt give realise dates Duke forever.

    I recall reading a post hear about offical preorders that were taken.

    now that sucks, pyaing $50 for a pice of paper :)

  17. Re:Might be better with Nvidia on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1

    If it had of come out a year ago,
    insted of needing a $50 card you would of
    needed a $500 one.

    Or do you meen 'why couldnt they jus load crap models and levels into quake3"

  18. Re:Ah... I can't... oh no... on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1

    because we all konw two home computers with the same hardware will run the smae benchmark scores.

    you know my 386sx ran doom better then someppls 486sx's i knew, but the reson was not that i had a better viedocard.

  19. Re:Might be better with Nvidia on Doom 3 Reaches Gold Master, Due August 5th · · Score: 1

    I thought the optimized differnce might of had something to do with the rummor that ATI was behind the leaked Alpha.

    I dont rembere any hint about doom3 beeing better on NVida before that happend =>

  20. Re:Lets be honest on Daleks Exterminated From New Dr. Who · · Score: 1

    indeed,
    almost as pathetic as a guy in green bubble wrap
    sl;ithering along the ground looked to me as a kid in the early 80s.

    It sure as hell didnt stop me watching or enjoying the *story*

  21. Re:On what grounds? on Midway Sues Ericsson Over Defender 'Tribute' · · Score: 1

    That is what copyright orignaly was,

    What you are describing is closer to how patants work.

    allthough copyright was 25 years(or was it 50) years untill a certan mouse nearly went into the
    public domain.

    Now its life +99 years, or is it just the 99 years.

    I cant ofllow all the changes these days,
    they lobbly in some new scam ever few yeras.

  22. Re:Compatibility Woes? on WinXP SP2 Sacrifices Compatibility for Security · · Score: 1

    It was the post he was responding to that had the beef, he is pointing out haveing a beef with MS starting a server.

    "too bad it would be so ms like to add another program into the bunch when the problem is having too much of them already(you wouldn't _need_ a firewall by default if it didn't start any services by default, no? )."

  23. Re:Compatibility Woes? on WinXP SP2 Sacrifices Compatibility for Security · · Score: 1

    Or we could read the grandperent post and see he was responding to someone with a beef on the total number of services runing and how MS shoudl ship with none on at all =>

  24. Dont turn the firewall off!! on How To Avoid Viruses At Windows Install Time? · · Score: 1

    Admitlay i havent done an update in ages,
    but i dont recall ever turning off my firewall..

    Its a recomendation not a neseity.

  25. Re:Let's get this out of the way on 3-D Gaming on Your Cellphone · · Score: 1

    I could get 3 days outof my Nokia 5510 plain old phone, no colour. no polophonic ing tones, and i didnt usethe radio or mp3.

    Now i get 8-10days from my colour nokia 6800 with poly. ringtones.

    Maybe its her battery or how she uses her phone.

    On another note, what crack was the person who submited this artical smoking??

    Im pritty sure i saw those "pc riverling 3d graphics" on a 3dfx.

    the colours are limited the pixles are limited,
    you could probly do this with and old 386 video card.