What kind of inconsiderate asshole gives Linux as a *Christmas present* to his non-geek friends and family? This is the worst kind of gift-giving - the kind given for the benefit of the person giving it rather than the pleasure of the recipient. I'm vaguely reminded of the episode of The Simpsons where Homer buys Marge a bowling ball for her birthday.
I've heard that Richard Dean Anderson is being tipped to play the part of an older Goku, with a possible role for Leonardo Di Caprio..looks like Hollywood are pulling out all the stops on this one.
Mousefocus - TweakUI for Win2k, released by MS themselves comes with "X-Mouse", whch does just that. Free download from their site.
Multiple desktops - This feature is in numerous free alternative shells released for Windows, some of them even open source. They go all the way back to Windows 9x.
When I heard about the WTC collapse, I rejoiced. It's good to see that so many agree that the arrogant fucks in the US finally got what they deserved.
Maybe sifting through the dismembered corpses of your women and children will teach you that you can no longer consider yourself world policemen and interfere in the business of others.
Half-Life and Thief were fascinating to play, and technologically advanced "enough."
Were you actually around when Half-Life originally hit the shelves? If so, can I have some of the crack you've been smoking?:)
Thief, sure...but Half-Life was *extremely* technically impressive when it was new. I don't know any gamer who didn't need to pick his jaw up off the floor after going through the opening train ride at the beginning of the game.
HL was an excellent example of how good graphics and sound and fun gameplay aren't mutually exclusive.
Though it *did* come out a couple of years late, didn't it? I remember cries of "vapourware" in the final months before its release..hmm.
Not true...everyone I know makes a mental note NOT to buy a product if it has an insanely annoying ad.
How is product association a good thing if you're associated with something that pisses people off?
There's a "real instruments" recording of Doom E1M1 out there, you can find it on Napster if you look hard enough...it sounds really good.;)
It was part of an audio CD I remember reading about on Blue's a couple of years ago, some band did *all* the Doom music tracks. Unfortunately I can't find it anywhere now, not even on the CDDB, which only has entries for recordings of the actual MIDI tracks.
> First, I dont think its a shame that they can't upgrade their machines in 3 years. I think its a shame that they have machines that can perform 33 million instructions per second and that this insn't enough to browse the web with modern software.
MIPS != MHz. For example, a 486dx2-50 will only execute about 6 million instructions per second.
On the other hand, MIPS are, as the Jargon File puts it, a "Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed", because some instructions take less clock ticks to perform than others.
But they're *not* in the same league in terms of price. Your case is the exception, not the rule, and frankly I'm still wondering whether or not to believe you got a very expensive card for $50 more than the price of a very cheap card. Go check out some hardware vendors prices on the Radeon and a GeForce2 MX and compare them.
Then you either got a really, really fucking cheap Radeon, or you ridiculously overpaid for your MX. The card from nVidia in the same league as your Radeon is the full GeForce2 GTS, of which the MX is a crippled, cheap version. Comparing performance to your Radeon is completely unfair.
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What kind of inconsiderate asshole gives Linux as a *Christmas present* to his non-geek friends and family? This is the worst kind of gift-giving - the kind given for the benefit of the person giving it rather than the pleasure of the recipient. I'm vaguely reminded of the episode of The Simpsons where Homer buys Marge a bowling ball for her birthday.
Christ, what a bunch of cocks.
US worker: "Capitalism! Free market economy! Down with socialism! Only the lazy are jobless!"
*company outsources worker's job*
US worker: "Government intervention! Government intervention!"
Gormless fucking hypocrites.
I've heard that Richard Dean Anderson is being tipped to play the part of an older Goku, with a possible role for Leonardo Di Caprio..looks like Hollywood are pulling out all the stops on this one.
Mousefocus - TweakUI for Win2k, released by MS themselves comes with "X-Mouse", whch does just that. Free download from their site.
Multiple desktops - This feature is in numerous free alternative shells released for Windows, some of them even open source. They go all the way back to Windows 9x.
Any particular reason you posted that, considering it merely confirms that I'm correct?
Slight correction - That's 2mbit down, 256k up, and you can get up to 5gb.
It's not a troll just because you disagree with his opinion. You arrogant fuck knuckle.
Yeah, I'm sure he's all cut up about that fact too.
Guh, the trolls on this site get more boring every day.
Fuck up, gimp.
Weta is a New Zealand company, the movie is being made in New Zealand. "Federal tax break"? Idiot.
When I heard about the WTC collapse, I rejoiced. It's good to see that so many agree that the arrogant fucks in the US finally got what they deserved.
Maybe sifting through the dismembered corpses of your women and children will teach you that you can no longer consider yourself world policemen and interfere in the business of others.
LOL at that .sig. =)
Uh, you know exactly what he meant to type when he said "to the work". Idiot.
Thief, sure...but Half-Life was *extremely* technically impressive when it was new. I don't know any gamer who didn't need to pick his jaw up off the floor after going through the opening train ride at the beginning of the game.
HL was an excellent example of how good graphics and sound and fun gameplay aren't mutually exclusive.
Though it *did* come out a couple of years late, didn't it? I remember cries of "vapourware" in the final months before its release..hmm.
He was asking about benchmarks, not how much fun a game is or isn't...while UT is (IMO) a better game than Q3, it's a horrible benchmark.
Noone cares, gimp...he asked about Australia.
Not true...everyone I know makes a mental note NOT to buy a product if it has an insanely annoying ad. How is product association a good thing if you're associated with something that pisses people off?
You're a moron
I concur with the above AC post.
It was part of an audio CD I remember reading about on Blue's a couple of years ago, some band did *all* the Doom music tracks. Unfortunately I can't find it anywhere now, not even on the CDDB, which only has entries for recordings of the actual MIDI tracks.
Arse. :\
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> First, I dont think its a shame that they can't upgrade their machines in 3 years. I think its a shame that they have machines that can perform 33 million instructions per second and that this insn't enough to browse the web with modern software. MIPS != MHz. For example, a 486dx2-50 will only execute about 6 million instructions per second. On the other hand, MIPS are, as the Jargon File puts it, a "Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed", because some instructions take less clock ticks to perform than others.
But they're *not* in the same league in terms of price. Your case is the exception, not the rule, and frankly I'm still wondering whether or not to believe you got a very expensive card for $50 more than the price of a very cheap card. Go check out some hardware vendors prices on the Radeon and a GeForce2 MX and compare them.
Then you either got a really, really fucking cheap Radeon, or you ridiculously overpaid for your MX. The card from nVidia in the same league as your Radeon is the full GeForce2 GTS, of which the MX is a crippled, cheap version. Comparing performance to your Radeon is completely unfair.