Since I am in the market for a new one...what do you think is the best value for a graphics card right now?
Disclaimer: I am cheap. I got my P3 550Mhz PC for next to nothing (ok, I got it for nothing). It has an SR9 8 MB AGP 2x card that fine for 2D but absymal for 3D gaming.
I can't see how many of you think nothing of paying $300+ for the latest and greatest video card, but apparently I'm in the minority (and cheap).
I'm not looking for a high end card like the GeForce4 Ti4600 since I rarely play games on my PC, but I'd like something that will make playing Quake II or an 2-3 yr old FPS fun to play once in awhile. TV-Out would be nice, but that's not a necessity.
if os="Win31" or os="Win95" or os="Win98" then
delete *.dll
delete *.exe
print "Purchase Windows XP for the very best in security!"
print
print "I LOVE YOU MELISSA!" endif
An unholy alliance...
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Craig Pell (VGR), a fellow classic video game collector, wrote a DOS version of the 2600 Adventure game a while back called Indenture, which has over 200 rooms. Pretty good time waster!
In the not-to-distant future, megaplex movie theaters will go the way of drive-in theaters: extinction. This is just another example of how society is becoming more and more fragmented, with leisure-time activities becoming less and less "social".
Do you see kids playing a pick-up game of baseball anymore? Nope, all youth sports is all in controlled, adult-supervised, "closed" environments. Movie watching is no different...
"Here's a line from late Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas that is often quoted at commencements. "No man on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I had spent more time at the office.'" How does he know that? It's quite possible that some former Enron or Arthur Anderson executive will use his last breath to say, "I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison." -Al Franken
I went to a KIA dealer yesterday and they told me the 2003 Spectra has a 1.8L 65,000 horsepower engine. I asked how is that possible? The dealer said that they took a test-drive in the payload section of the Space Shuttle and it was doing about 17,500 miles per hour in low-Earth orbit...
I'd like to see how these "geeks" define "social interaction" for their robotic creations?
1) Building/configuring a Linux box from scratch. 2) Playing a Quake III deathmatch with other "bots". 3) Ordering a super sized bacon doublecheeseburger combo meal at the Mickie Dees drive-thru. 4) Posting on/. 5) Arguing with the floor monkeys at Best Buy and Circuit City. 6) Going to whitehouse.com to look for pr0n.
The solutions to overpopulation have been proposed in many ways:
Steve Martin - "The death penalty for parking violations." Logan's Run - Kill everyone by their 30th birthday. Charlton Heston - "Soylent Green is made of PEOPLE!" Armageddon - "Houston, you have a problem."
Great...all of the Anonymous Cowards support my opinion. Just great...
At least Kintanon has the guts to make a point and stand by it. I don't necessarily agree with him, but I respect his opinion.
Chris
P.S. This thread was once about a Disney movie, right? Also, once you change your.sig file, it changes it for ALL of your old messages.
Armageddon Alert: I somewhat agree with Kintanon
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I encourage other people to think about their life choices and make conscious decisions.
Agree.
I hate to see people ruin their lives by having kids at 16 or even 19 or 20. They don't realize that once you have a child you will spend most of the rest of your life caring for it.
Agree.
The odds of you performing any truly valuable service for humanity just dropped to near 0.
Disagree. The most valuable service you or I can do for humanity is to perpetuate the species with quality humans. The effect will be exponential over time.
If your parents or mine decided NOT to have children, then we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Having kids isn't for everyone. Some people can have kids and a career and do both well, most people can't. I just want people to think about it before they have children.
"Terminator 2"...how could I have forgotten THAT one?!?! Me bad.
I still say that "Empire Strikes Back" s***ed. I remember when that movie came out and it was generally viewed (unfairly) as a disappointment (Why? Because it wasn't STAR WARS!!!). Every Star Wars film that followed has been generally viewed (fairly) as a disappointment.
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Anyone want to price out how much a 40 foot long S-Video cable will cost me!?
Chris
This reminds me of a Rodney Dangerfield/Roseanne wedding skit:
Priest: "Do you, Rodney, promise to take sh*t from this woman for the rest of your life as you both shall live?"
Rodney (smiling): "I do!"
Priest: "And do you..."
Roseanne: "Ah cut the crap...and he has to take sh*t from my mother as well..."
Mother (looks like CowboyNeal with makeup and a wig): "And he has to drive me bowling every Tuesday night...and he has to carry my balls...and..."
Ahhhhh....matrimony!
Chris
I've heard one of the top 100 signals and this it what it sounded like:
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97...
Chris
Of course we are!
"I declare the games in Berlin, at the celebration of the first Olympics of the new era, as open..."
Chris
Since I am in the market for a new one...what do you think is the best value for a graphics card right now?
:)
Disclaimer: I am cheap. I got my P3 550Mhz PC for next to nothing (ok, I got it for nothing). It has an SR9 8 MB AGP 2x card that fine for 2D but absymal for 3D gaming.
I can't see how many of you think nothing of paying $300+ for the latest and greatest video card, but apparently I'm in the minority (and cheap).
I'm not looking for a high end card like the GeForce4 Ti4600 since I rarely play games on my PC, but I'd like something that will make playing Quake II or an 2-3 yr old FPS fun to play once in awhile. TV-Out would be nice, but that's not a necessity.
Anything under $100? $75? $50? $30? Less!?!
Thanks!
Chris
"Now that's an art farm of a different color!" - Dieter
Chris
if os="Win31" or os="Win95" or os="Win98" then
delete *.dll
delete *.exe
print "Purchase Windows XP for the very best in security!"
print
print "I LOVE YOU MELISSA!"
endif
The MPAA and Linux...
Does this make Kaiser Soze the "Gimp"?
Chris
How are you really going to play Video Olympics, Breakout and Circus Atari with a joystick?
They need a 10 in 1 paddle controller version of this for these games that should also include Warlords and Demons to Diamonds, among others...
Chris
Yea! Who needs movie theatres and corporate CDs when you have broadband, KaZaA and Windows Media Player?!?!? :)
Chris
You can get v1.7 here.
Chris
In the not-to-distant future, megaplex movie theaters will go the way of drive-in theaters: extinction. This is just another example of how society is becoming more and more fragmented, with leisure-time activities becoming less and less "social".
Do you see kids playing a pick-up game of baseball anymore? Nope, all youth sports is all in controlled, adult-supervised, "closed" environments. Movie watching is no different...
Chris
"Here's a line from late Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas that is often quoted at commencements. "No man on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I had spent more time at the office.'" How does he know that? It's quite possible that some former Enron or Arthur Anderson executive will use his last breath to say, "I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison." -Al Franken
Chris
I went to a KIA dealer yesterday and they told me the 2003 Spectra has a 1.8L 65,000 horsepower engine. I asked how is that possible? The dealer said that they took a test-drive in the payload section of the Space Shuttle and it was doing about 17,500 miles per hour in low-Earth orbit...
Chris
Actually, the re-released Marathon Man DVD will be remastered with "comfortable" dental scenes...
Chris
I'd like to see how these "geeks" define "social interaction" for their robotic creations?
/.
1) Building/configuring a Linux box from scratch.
2) Playing a Quake III deathmatch with other "bots".
3) Ordering a super sized bacon doublecheeseburger combo meal at the Mickie Dees drive-thru.
4) Posting on
5) Arguing with the floor monkeys at Best Buy and Circuit City.
6) Going to whitehouse.com to look for pr0n.
Chris
Even your Dad would have liked you to use the spell-checker once in a great while.
Chris
...that George Clooney and Chris O'Donnell will NOT appear in this film??
Chris
The solutions to overpopulation have been proposed in many ways:
Steve Martin - "The death penalty for parking violations."
Logan's Run - Kill everyone by their 30th birthday.
Charlton Heston - "Soylent Green is made of PEOPLE!"
Armageddon - "Houston, you have a problem."
Chris
Great...all of the Anonymous Cowards support my opinion. Just great...
.sig file, it changes it for ALL of your old messages.
At least Kintanon has the guts to make a point and stand by it. I don't necessarily agree with him, but I respect his opinion.
Chris
P.S. This thread was once about a Disney movie, right? Also, once you change your
Agree.
I hate to see people ruin their lives by having kids at 16 or even 19 or 20. They don't realize that once you have a child you will spend most of the rest of your life caring for it.
Agree.
The odds of you performing any truly valuable service for humanity just dropped to near 0.
Disagree. The most valuable service you or I can do for humanity is to perpetuate the species with quality humans. The effect will be exponential over time.
If your parents or mine decided NOT to have children, then we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Having kids isn't for everyone. Some people can have kids and a career and do both well, most people can't. I just want people to think about it before they have children.
Well put.
Chris
Yea, he's too busy with his Dungeons and Dragons campaigns and 3rd edition prestige classes to get married/have children.
Nice website though...
Chris
Your children are your own flesh and blood, your hertiage, your legacy...
.sig files too much, then you need help.
Your spouse is just some guy/girl you met in a bar.
Chris
P.S. If you think about
"Terminator 2"...how could I have forgotten THAT one?!?! Me bad.
I still say that "Empire Strikes Back" s***ed. I remember when that movie came out and it was generally viewed (unfairly) as a disappointment (Why? Because it wasn't STAR WARS!!!). Every Star Wars film that followed has been generally viewed (fairly) as a disappointment.
Chris