Whoops, it would of course be the one review I didn't... err, I mean, couldn't read. It's all due to a rare form of selective glaucoma that makes my eyes go all blurry whenever the words Faerun or Elminster comes up in text.
Articles like this are why we should have a [Slashvertisement] section, and a dedicated [Slashvertisement] editor.
Here ya' go. I fixed a couple of typoes in your post.
Seriously, though, this is nothing more than a list of the latest crap churned out of the supplement factories with a short blurb about why you should buy them all. This isn't a review; this is a catalog. To be honest, this is the most disappointed I've been in Zonk since his first dupe a couple of months ago. He's kind of been my benchmark for a what a good Slashdot editor should be.
The industry has abandoned the small game shop.
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Dungeons and Shadows
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Sword of the Phoenix was sort of the Mecca for All Things Gaming here in Atlanta for...as long as I can remember. They just closed up permanently this year.
I hear your pain, man. Sword of the Phoenix was a great little shop, and its death is part and parcel of the continuing polarization of the industry into two camps -- the small indy game industry and the far more familiar mass-market supplement factories.
Neither of these camps really support the local game store anymore.
The former category relies on the internet for distribution. The cost gap between on-line publishing and paper publishing is a blessing and a curse for this group. Distribution on-line is wider and cheaper and it encourages single book RPGs that don't require twenty supplements a year just to keep the business alive. On the other hand, the disappearance of this market from retail distribution has drained small gaming stores of a vital market for interesting content unavailable in mainstream stores.
That brings me to the latter category -- the mass market machine RPGs. WotC, White Wolf, etc. no longer need small game stores to push their product. They have Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon.com, etc. to push their endless churn of products.
The only games that don't fall into either of these two categories today that you can find in game stores are the games that no one wanted to buy in the 90s (or even the 80s!) that are still sitting on the shelves. This isn't exactly quality product, people. That's why it's still sitting on the shelves years later.
Game stores are dying because publishers don't need them anymore. That's the cold, hard truth, and it's sad to see.
I guess the fundamental question is, "What is Art?"
Art, as most people would definite it, must: 1) Show great skill at creating beauty. 2) Inspire a deep emotion and introspection.
Craft is merely having #1 without #2, and most people would critique much of modern art as not being art because it frequently only attempts #2 without attempting #1.
GTA is an example of good Craftsmanship, but not good Art. It doesn't really try to inspire you or challenge you mentally and emotionally. The setting for Halo 2 and WoW might construe Art when you stop and pause just to look around, breathless at how good the worlds look, but Shadow of the Colossus is just on a different level in the way it inspires a sense of wonder at the majesty of the world.
Neither was Final Fantasy VII for the PS1, but look what it did for the platform. While ICO wasn't a game that made the PS2 like FF7 did the PS1, it was a watershed game that made people look at what the system could do.
Because on every single other aspect OpenOffice wins hands down. It's free, while MS Office costs hundreds. It's open source and totally customizable, while MS Office is closed. It's free of patent issues, while the state of Massachusetts found MS Office's proprietary format isn't. That's what counts.
No, it's not. Not in the marketplace. What counts is:
1) Can either application handle all your needs? 2) Which provides the best user experience? 3) Which has a lower TCO?
OO wins #3 hands down. It generally ties with MSO on #1, unless you really rely on spreadsheet macros (say, to handle timesheets). Memory uses & speed are definitely a penalty to OO in #2.
What matters in the market is how much emphasis each customer places on #1-#3. In general the markets don't care at all about patents and open source except as they affect issues #1-#3. You care a lot because it's a passionate issue for you, but it won't affect OO's acceptance in the market directly.
Actually, I happen to really like Overrated mods. I don't really care one way or another about the non-MM aspect of them, so feel free to get rid of that, but I like the fact that sometimes there just isn't ANY other mod that applies.
Maybe a "+5, Funny" post is vulgar and offensive on the "dead baby joke" level but Flamebait and Troll don't really apply. Maybe it's just plain factually incorrect but modded "+5, Informative" and there's no "-1, Out-And-Out-Lie" or "-1, Pseudo-Science" moderation. Sometimes, we need a general, "-1, This Post Sucks" mod.
I don't think I've ever used Underrated, though. If a post deserves to be modded up, it's almost always at least Insightful if not Informative or Funny. These are broad categories. On the other hand, the negative mods are really restrictive and don't reflect the wide panoply of ways in which people can post garbage.
(Oh, and don't feel too personally put on by my sig. It's just meant to be a little poke in the ribs not a vehement declaration of hate like some of the posts that we seen in this thread.)
It depends on what we use for those power plants. Currently, cars aren't repsonsible for mercury contamination of the Gulf of Mexico like coal power plants are. Cars also don't spew minute amounts of uranium and thorium like some coal plants either. Currently, coal is the easiest and cheapest source of power that we have available, and coal will be the fuel of choice for the next 50 years at least unless nuclear takes over. Gas and oil are what we're trying to get rid of, hydroelectric, tidal, and geothermal aren't practical everywhere, and no one will invest in solar and wind enough to make them pratical. Plus, coal mining has a strong lobby behind it in the US since it's a domestically produced resource. Coal can be altered to produce less greenhouse gasses than individual cars, but it carries a lot more pollution burden.
So, no, I don't buy the line that hydrogen or metal powered cars will lead to less pollution since it will just lead to more of the same energy bills as the latest one that relaxed most of the Clean Air Act requirements on the construction of new coal plants.
We have 4 choices:
1) Stick with the unsustainable status quo. 2) Invest in renewable resources against the wish of the status quo's lobbyists. 3) Invest more in coal. 4) Invest more in nuclear.
Guess which one your tax dollars will go to. (Not the energy industry's profits. Your tax dollars. Here in America, we privatize profit and socialize risk like any good "free market" economy should.)
Let me guess. You're one of those people who posts about how you just want "a phone that's a PHONE" whenever some new and interesting phone with advanced capabilities comes out, aren't you? As long as it meets your limited needs, no one else needs anything else, right?
The point of this article is that a lot of young people DO use video chat, DO use file transfers, DO use voice communication, etc. Linux clients haven't even reliably achieved file transfer, which was the hot thing back in 1999-2000, IIRC. These people could by OSS users, but won't be because their favorite communication app has no equivalent OSS replacement and changing over would mean isolation from your friends.
Ok, developers pay money, insurance companies get money. So, how does this screw end users? Software developers would be forced to write more secure codes to avoid crippling insurance rates. How do politicians and executives get rich, any more than they do already?
Three words: Medical malpractice insurance. Take any side of this issue you want. In the end, patients get screwed somehow. You want this for software?
Re:What sort of "original" game do you propose?
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Monkey Island vs. World of Warcraft - "Monkey World": Everyone wants to be a mighty pirate! But do you have the pure unbridled insult skills? The power over puns? The utterly whimiscal mind? Prove your mettle online with many thousands of rival pirate-wannabees!
If you don't have $300 bucks to protect your hearing, WTF are you doing buying a freaking iPod? Get your priorities straight! Your iPod will last a few years. Your entertainment will last a few minutes. Your hearing loss will last you for life.
Hint: You could've saved even more money by buy $20 earplugs instead of an iPod.
It wouldn't even be cannabalism because stem cells aren't people.
That's a very bold statement on a thorny ethical issue! How much human flesh do you need to grow before being considered a person? Is it the quantity or the particular organs in question that matter? How developed do they have to be?
What sort of tropical paradise do you live in where 50 degrees Fahrenheit is something to worry about? Is it really that much of a burden to throw on a jacket and stop wearing shorts? I mean, are you even aware of what temperatures snow forms at?
50 degress Celcius doesn't make any sense either. That's 122 degrees Fahrenheit, which is usually lethal to humans without extreme preparation.
Most parents are too divorced from nearly all aspects of their children's lives because they are too wrapped up in their own and the lives of those they live vicariously through via the television.
I don't feel that the parent post is a Troll. Quite the opposite, I feel that this statement is very insightful about poor parents (which most parents today are). People don't spend time with their kids anymore. They don't get involved in their lives and find out what makes them tick.
I blame the way that everything is so much faster in modern society. People work more and spend less time at home. Then, when they get home, the vast majority of people veg-out in front of the television instead of communicating with family and friends.
A lot of people really do live their lives vicariously through the television. Look at the proliferation of celebrity mags and just how much of the news deals with the lives of athletes and entertainers when there are real issues that affect people's lives that they could be covering. Then consider the popularity of reality television.
And, yes, people really do want politicians to tell them (and more importantly) others how to live and how to raise their kids. Look at the "wardrobe malfunction" flap, the "hot coffee" flap, and many others back through the years. Now, note that most of those who nod their head in agreement don't really want to bother with checkin on their kids themselves. They'd like someone else to package up all the work for them for convenience. This sort of lazy parenting is really way too common.
(Of course, I'm probably only this cynical about parents because I'm the son of two public school teachers who have to deal with the product of bad parenting all the time.)
So long as the FCC stays out of regulating private services (eg Cable, Satellite radio), then there will be an outlet for free speech, and for people to opt in to access it.
You know, just so long as the handful of play-it-safe media megaconglomerates that control these private services all approve of your message. I mean it's not like the mainstream press has become spineless and cowed by the White House yet!
It's both. See Solution #1 -- run VMware so that it will run on any system. It's slow and isn't perfect, but problems are being rapidly addressed. Solution #2 is running it on the right kind of hardware.
Yes, it's probably true. Think about it. Kinetic energy is one-half mass times the square of velocity. Increasing from 30 to 40 is a 77% increase in kinetic energy ( 1/2 mass * 90 vs. 1/2 mass * 160 ). If you increase it to 50, it's a 177% increase over 30. At 60, it's four times the kinetic energy of 30. Your car mostly transfers that energy into the thing it hits in an accident.
It's amusing and sad though to watch you jump to the defense of the other driver and put as much blame on me as possible to avoid having to admit that driving too fast might be dangerous to yourself and to other people.
I'm well aware of the on-ramp and how people often like to cheat on it. It was on my way to work after all. I was watching the guy as he came up the ramp; that's how come I didn't rear end him. However, I had never seen someone from that ramp so recklessly attempt a lane change without looking, without signaling, without waiting for the lanes to merge together, and without attempting to match highway speeds before cutting someone off like that. That's was my first point: You never know when someone's going to drive like an idiot.
My second point was that if I had been going a little slower I would not have lost traction. I would have been able to dodge at a better angle and with less momentum trying to keep me going forward thus overcoming my tires' coefficient of friction. That's just physics. A mere 5-10 MPH slower (still in the flow of traffic) would have sufficed.
Your absurd argument about 45 MPH vs 15 MPH show a lack of common sense. If it had been those speeds at that distance, I would've just slammed on my brakes in time. I never said anything about going as slow as the van driver. I just said that I pushed my car beyond its limit to deal with an impossible to anticipate emergency situation. This happened because I didn't know what its limit was and I assumed too much about the competence of the driver of the van.
Driving is about a lot more than reaction time, its about being aware of all the cars around you and how they're driving, having an escape route in case someone does something dumb where you need to get out of the way, and knowing the limitations of the vehicle you're driving.
Exactly! When have you tested your car's traction while making a sudden, unplanned lane change at 75 MPH? Have you practiced to see what your car is capable of in any emergency at highway speeds? Have you put your life at risk to see what you're capable of in a pinch? Are your tires at the same tread level they were at when you last tested? If not, then quit assuming that your car is some sort of magical Formula-1 racing machine and drive with a reasonable error tolerance. Don't assume that what your car is capable of in a parking lot or a country road is what your car is capable of on a highway. I made that mistake, and I paid for my overconfidence.
You mean Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 and Streaming SIMD Extensions 3? These are add ons to the Pentium and Athlon lines that do not exist on all x86 processors. The definition of an x86 processor is merely that it be compatible with the ancient, 8-bit 8086 processor or its descendents. Only x86-64 mandates inclusion of SSE2 & SSE3.
Some of VIA's and AMD's 32-bit x86 processors sold today do not have SSE3 support. Current mobile processors like the current Pentium-Ms don't support it.
Reread your original post. Please -- as a public service? It's one of the most narcissistic and content-free posts I've seen outside of a blog which is what led to my smart ass comment. The entire post is about you and the torrents you seed under the assumption that someone cares. No one does. Contribute something about the release itself instead of something about how you noticed it and added to your torrents list along with some piece of music that meets your rarified tastes.
Also, no one cares about your uid, your fans list, your penis size, or whatever other superficial measures you use to prop up your self esteem. Only the insecure do, and bragging about it just makes you look bad.
The software is running on VMware. VMware is PC virtualization software that can emulate SSE3 instructions (and maybe even SSE2 though the article does not say). Of course ignorance didn't really prevent you from "correcting" the article, did it?
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Whoops, it would of course be the one review I didn't... err, I mean, couldn't read. It's all due to a rare form of selective glaucoma that makes my eyes go all blurry whenever the words Faerun or Elminster comes up in text.
Articles like this are why we should have a [Slashvertisement] section, and a dedicated [Slashvertisement] editor.
Here ya' go. I fixed a couple of typoes in your post.
Seriously, though, this is nothing more than a list of the latest crap churned out of the supplement factories with a short blurb about why you should buy them all. This isn't a review; this is a catalog. To be honest, this is the most disappointed I've been in Zonk since his first dupe a couple of months ago. He's kind of been my benchmark for a what a good Slashdot editor should be.
Sword of the Phoenix was sort of the Mecca for All Things Gaming here in Atlanta for...as long as I can remember. They just closed up permanently this year.
I hear your pain, man. Sword of the Phoenix was a great little shop, and its death is part and parcel of the continuing polarization of the industry into two camps -- the small indy game industry and the far more familiar mass-market supplement factories.
Neither of these camps really support the local game store anymore.
The former category relies on the internet for distribution. The cost gap between on-line publishing and paper publishing is a blessing and a curse for this group. Distribution on-line is wider and cheaper and it encourages single book RPGs that don't require twenty supplements a year just to keep the business alive. On the other hand, the disappearance of this market from retail distribution has drained small gaming stores of a vital market for interesting content unavailable in mainstream stores.
That brings me to the latter category -- the mass market machine RPGs. WotC, White Wolf, etc. no longer need small game stores to push their product. They have Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon.com, etc. to push their endless churn of products.
The only games that don't fall into either of these two categories today that you can find in game stores are the games that no one wanted to buy in the 90s (or even the 80s!) that are still sitting on the shelves. This isn't exactly quality product, people. That's why it's still sitting on the shelves years later.
Game stores are dying because publishers don't need them anymore. That's the cold, hard truth, and it's sad to see.
I guess the fundamental question is, "What is Art?"
Art, as most people would definite it, must:
1) Show great skill at creating beauty.
2) Inspire a deep emotion and introspection.
Craft is merely having #1 without #2, and most people would critique much of modern art as not being art because it frequently only attempts #2 without attempting #1.
GTA is an example of good Craftsmanship, but not good Art. It doesn't really try to inspire you or challenge you mentally and emotionally. The setting for Halo 2 and WoW might construe Art when you stop and pause just to look around, breathless at how good the worlds look, but Shadow of the Colossus is just on a different level in the way it inspires a sense of wonder at the majesty of the world.
Neither was Final Fantasy VII for the PS1, but look what it did for the platform. While ICO wasn't a game that made the PS2 like FF7 did the PS1, it was a watershed game that made people look at what the system could do.
Because on every single other aspect OpenOffice wins hands down. It's free, while MS Office costs hundreds. It's open source and totally customizable, while MS Office is closed. It's free of patent issues, while the state of Massachusetts found MS Office's proprietary format isn't. That's what counts.
No, it's not. Not in the marketplace. What counts is:
1) Can either application handle all your needs?
2) Which provides the best user experience?
3) Which has a lower TCO?
OO wins #3 hands down. It generally ties with MSO on #1, unless you really rely on spreadsheet macros (say, to handle timesheets). Memory uses & speed are definitely a penalty to OO in #2.
What matters in the market is how much emphasis each customer places on #1-#3. In general the markets don't care at all about patents and open source except as they affect issues #1-#3. You care a lot because it's a passionate issue for you, but it won't affect OO's acceptance in the market directly.
Actually, I happen to really like Overrated mods. I don't really care one way or another about the non-MM aspect of them, so feel free to get rid of that, but I like the fact that sometimes there just isn't ANY other mod that applies.
Maybe a "+5, Funny" post is vulgar and offensive on the "dead baby joke" level but Flamebait and Troll don't really apply. Maybe it's just plain factually incorrect but modded "+5, Informative" and there's no "-1, Out-And-Out-Lie" or "-1, Pseudo-Science" moderation. Sometimes, we need a general, "-1, This Post Sucks" mod.
I don't think I've ever used Underrated, though. If a post deserves to be modded up, it's almost always at least Insightful if not Informative or Funny. These are broad categories. On the other hand, the negative mods are really restrictive and don't reflect the wide panoply of ways in which people can post garbage.
(Oh, and don't feel too personally put on by my sig. It's just meant to be a little poke in the ribs not a vehement declaration of hate like some of the posts that we seen in this thread.)
It depends on what we use for those power plants. Currently, cars aren't repsonsible for mercury contamination of the Gulf of Mexico like coal power plants are. Cars also don't spew minute amounts of uranium and thorium like some coal plants either. Currently, coal is the easiest and cheapest source of power that we have available, and coal will be the fuel of choice for the next 50 years at least unless nuclear takes over. Gas and oil are what we're trying to get rid of, hydroelectric, tidal, and geothermal aren't practical everywhere, and no one will invest in solar and wind enough to make them pratical. Plus, coal mining has a strong lobby behind it in the US since it's a domestically produced resource. Coal can be altered to produce less greenhouse gasses than individual cars, but it carries a lot more pollution burden.
So, no, I don't buy the line that hydrogen or metal powered cars will lead to less pollution since it will just lead to more of the same energy bills as the latest one that relaxed most of the Clean Air Act requirements on the construction of new coal plants.
We have 4 choices:
1) Stick with the unsustainable status quo.
2) Invest in renewable resources against the wish of the status quo's lobbyists.
3) Invest more in coal.
4) Invest more in nuclear.
Guess which one your tax dollars will go to. (Not the energy industry's profits. Your tax dollars. Here in America, we privatize profit and socialize risk like any good "free market" economy should.)
Just because two characteristics appear in one group does NOT mean that there is any correlation between those characteristics.
Isn't that what a correlation is?
Let me guess. You're one of those people who posts about how you just want "a phone that's a PHONE" whenever some new and interesting phone with advanced capabilities comes out, aren't you? As long as it meets your limited needs, no one else needs anything else, right?
The point of this article is that a lot of young people DO use video chat, DO use file transfers, DO use voice communication, etc. Linux clients haven't even reliably achieved file transfer, which was the hot thing back in 1999-2000, IIRC. These people could by OSS users, but won't be because their favorite communication app has no equivalent OSS replacement and changing over would mean isolation from your friends.
Ok, developers pay money, insurance companies get money. So, how does this screw end users? Software developers would be forced to write more secure codes to avoid crippling insurance rates. How do politicians and executives get rich, any more than they do already?
Three words: Medical malpractice insurance. Take any side of this issue you want. In the end, patients get screwed somehow. You want this for software?
Monkey Island vs. World of Warcraft - "Monkey World": Everyone wants to be a mighty pirate! But do you have the pure unbridled insult skills? The power over puns? The utterly whimiscal mind? Prove your mettle online with many thousands of rival pirate-wannabees!
Ever hear of Puzzle Pirates?
If you don't have $300 bucks to protect your hearing, WTF are you doing buying a freaking iPod? Get your priorities straight! Your iPod will last a few years. Your entertainment will last a few minutes. Your hearing loss will last you for life.
Hint: You could've saved even more money by buy $20 earplugs instead of an iPod.
It wouldn't even be cannabalism because stem cells aren't people.
That's a very bold statement on a thorny ethical issue! How much human flesh do you need to grow before being considered a person? Is it the quantity or the particular organs in question that matter? How developed do they have to be?
What sort of tropical paradise do you live in where 50 degrees Fahrenheit is something to worry about? Is it really that much of a burden to throw on a jacket and stop wearing shorts? I mean, are you even aware of what temperatures snow forms at?
50 degress Celcius doesn't make any sense either. That's 122 degrees Fahrenheit, which is usually lethal to humans without extreme preparation.
You mean there's an American household left that has only one TV for the whole family?
Wow. Are they Amish?
Most parents are too divorced from nearly all aspects of their children's lives because they are too wrapped up in their own and the lives of those they live vicariously through via the television.
I don't feel that the parent post is a Troll. Quite the opposite, I feel that this statement is very insightful about poor parents (which most parents today are). People don't spend time with their kids anymore. They don't get involved in their lives and find out what makes them tick.
I blame the way that everything is so much faster in modern society. People work more and spend less time at home. Then, when they get home, the vast majority of people veg-out in front of the television instead of communicating with family and friends.
A lot of people really do live their lives vicariously through the television. Look at the proliferation of celebrity mags and just how much of the news deals with the lives of athletes and entertainers when there are real issues that affect people's lives that they could be covering. Then consider the popularity of reality television.
And, yes, people really do want politicians to tell them (and more importantly) others how to live and how to raise their kids. Look at the "wardrobe malfunction" flap, the "hot coffee" flap, and many others back through the years. Now, note that most of those who nod their head in agreement don't really want to bother with checkin on their kids themselves. They'd like someone else to package up all the work for them for convenience. This sort of lazy parenting is really way too common.
(Of course, I'm probably only this cynical about parents because I'm the son of two public school teachers who have to deal with the product of bad parenting all the time.)
Note to self: Never sign any public petition for fear of being stalked by creepy people on the net or their friends with access to Google.
So long as the FCC stays out of regulating private services (eg Cable, Satellite radio), then there will be an outlet for free speech, and for people to opt in to access it.
You know, just so long as the handful of play-it-safe media megaconglomerates that control these private services all approve of your message. I mean it's not like the mainstream press has become spineless and cowed by the White House yet!
It's both. See Solution #1 -- run VMware so that it will run on any system. It's slow and isn't perfect, but problems are being rapidly addressed. Solution #2 is running it on the right kind of hardware.
Yes, it's probably true. Think about it. Kinetic energy is one-half mass times the square of velocity. Increasing from 30 to 40 is a 77% increase in kinetic energy ( 1/2 mass * 90 vs. 1/2 mass * 160 ). If you increase it to 50, it's a 177% increase over 30. At 60, it's four times the kinetic energy of 30. Your car mostly transfers that energy into the thing it hits in an accident.
It's amusing and sad though to watch you jump to the defense of the other driver and put as much blame on me as possible to avoid having to admit that driving too fast might be dangerous to yourself and to other people.
I'm well aware of the on-ramp and how people often like to cheat on it. It was on my way to work after all. I was watching the guy as he came up the ramp; that's how come I didn't rear end him. However, I had never seen someone from that ramp so recklessly attempt a lane change without looking, without signaling, without waiting for the lanes to merge together, and without attempting to match highway speeds before cutting someone off like that. That's was my first point: You never know when someone's going to drive like an idiot.
My second point was that if I had been going a little slower I would not have lost traction. I would have been able to dodge at a better angle and with less momentum trying to keep me going forward thus overcoming my tires' coefficient of friction. That's just physics. A mere 5-10 MPH slower (still in the flow of traffic) would have sufficed.
Your absurd argument about 45 MPH vs 15 MPH show a lack of common sense. If it had been those speeds at that distance, I would've just slammed on my brakes in time. I never said anything about going as slow as the van driver. I just said that I pushed my car beyond its limit to deal with an impossible to anticipate emergency situation. This happened because I didn't know what its limit was and I assumed too much about the competence of the driver of the van.
Driving is about a lot more than reaction time, its about being aware of all the cars around you and how they're driving, having an escape route in case someone does something dumb where you need to get out of the way, and knowing the limitations of the vehicle you're driving.
Exactly! When have you tested your car's traction while making a sudden, unplanned lane change at 75 MPH? Have you practiced to see what your car is capable of in any emergency at highway speeds? Have you put your life at risk to see what you're capable of in a pinch? Are your tires at the same tread level they were at when you last tested? If not, then quit assuming that your car is some sort of magical Formula-1 racing machine and drive with a reasonable error tolerance. Don't assume that what your car is capable of in a parking lot or a country road is what your car is capable of on a highway. I made that mistake, and I paid for my overconfidence.
You mean Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 and Streaming SIMD Extensions 3? These are add ons to the Pentium and Athlon lines that do not exist on all x86 processors. The definition of an x86 processor is merely that it be compatible with the ancient, 8-bit 8086 processor or its descendents. Only x86-64 mandates inclusion of SSE2 & SSE3.
Some of VIA's and AMD's 32-bit x86 processors sold today do not have SSE3 support. Current mobile processors like the current Pentium-Ms don't support it.
Reread your original post. Please -- as a public service? It's one of the most narcissistic and content-free posts I've seen outside of a blog which is what led to my smart ass comment. The entire post is about you and the torrents you seed under the assumption that someone cares. No one does. Contribute something about the release itself instead of something about how you noticed it and added to your torrents list along with some piece of music that meets your rarified tastes.
Also, no one cares about your uid, your fans list, your penis size, or whatever other superficial measures you use to prop up your self esteem. Only the insecure do, and bragging about it just makes you look bad.
The software is running on VMware. VMware is PC virtualization software that can emulate SSE3 instructions (and maybe even SSE2 though the article does not say). Of course ignorance didn't really prevent you from "correcting" the article, did it?