Personally, I thought that the Pets.com Sock Puppet was very offensive; it was obviously possessed by evil demon-seed and scared my innocent children half to death! All good christians know that socks are used for dirty masturbatory purposes and can cum to life!
God that's hilarious...what am I saying?!? I LOVE teh puppet! Sock-puppet dogs are awesome.
I play Doom 3 with 256 megs of RAM and have absolutely no problems.
I stand corrected then. As you could probably tell, I don't own Doom 3; it's hard to compare something I do have with something I don't, so times like that I have to take TFA verbatim. Sucks to be me...
That said, it's too bad that Half-Life 2 can't be run on software unlike the original should the need/desire arise. I don't think the engine really matters, so much as the scalability of said engine. Half-Life 2's Source is about as scalable as...well, not much (requires DirectX, and at least version 6). Whatever HL's engine was, and however bad it looks now compared to HL2, it could still run on LOTS more PCs--OpenGL, DX and (again) plain old software. That helped its popularity.
Doom 3's minimum requirements are Microsoft Windows 2000/XP; Pentium IV 1.5 GHz or AMD Athlon 1.7 GHz XP processor or higher; 384MB RAM and a DirectX 9.0 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card just to get the thing to even run.
With my PC (a 1.1GHz Pentium III, 384MB RAM, 128MB video RAM) I can run Half-Life 2 on High (with its now-legendary stutters of course, but not too much difficulty).
That you need 384MBs RAM just to run Doom III horrifies me, more than any of its monsters I've seen.
I'd say its also safe to say that the days of explosive growth (as in early to mid 90's) are behind them.
I'd say you're right. No Microsoft OS will be as popular or well-received as Windows 95--it was (one of?) the first to have Internet Explorer bundled, and back then a browser bundled with a relatively common OS was considered teh hot (especially over Mac OS). Piracy, Linux and IE security issues are certainly slowing down Windows sales--obviously a bad thing for the profits of the company we love to call M$.
As Linux becomes well-advertised and even easier to use, I expect the distros to topple the "Mac-killer."
I flipped past Fox News just a few minutes ago and they reported that the president of XM had no idea where this story came from.
Not surprised. I don't know about you all, but other people there like Bill O'Reilly come off as childish and overly conservative, and when Fox reports a story, it really does seem (again) conservative and sensationalized. They like to take press releases and Presidential speeches as truth, dismissing the other side of the story or showing it in a "bad" light. I'd rather see Tucker Carlson's newbie rants on Crossfire, and wait eagerly for the day when CNN apologizes for Jon Stewart's rant and puts Carlson back.
Thank you for replying just when I pressed Back on my browser.
I would have ranted on about how I couldn't afford sat-radio before the merger--but now I just have new reason to hate Fox News. They like to report on rumors, or sensationally (especially their 10-o'clock news in New York--it's hard to tell from the site though), or (worse) both.
We (I at least) need more competition, not less. I'm glad they won't merge.
Often, movies are released as "Unrated" so the full uncut version can sold. When they'd normally be given the NC-17 rating, which was formally X. I've yet to see a single videogame since the ESRB was started that was unrated. Both systems are volluntary, yet the ESRB is being scrutinized? Even the TV ratings are more vague than the ESRB. Who the hell is going to know what the TVM-NVSLSS means?
Exactly. Unrated movies get released, TV gets garbletext-for-ratings and the gaming industry gets blamed.
I, for one, abhor our new, misguided ratings overlords.
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But does it still run Linux?
As a fan of rap of all kinds, I must say, he butt ugly. I don't know, that's just me. I wouldn't let him style anything, much less my GAMES!?!
Side note: Strange Love indeed.
God that's hilarious...what am I saying?!? I LOVE teh puppet! Sock-puppet dogs are awesome.
With videos like theirs, I'd hit it. (Pun intended.)
...that all this processing power will run up.
I mean, if the PS3 does use 4 Cells, that alone will certainly be a power hog in itself, right?
I wonder what portion of energy today is used for CPU power.
You forgot the See Amidala's hotness part.
I, for one, welcome our beautiful Harvard-attending Queen- & Senator-playing overlord.
I stand corrected then. As you could probably tell, I don't own Doom 3; it's hard to compare something I do have with something I don't, so times like that I have to take TFA verbatim. Sucks to be me...
Gotta love depth-of-field. Boy that mod looks awesome.
On a side note: this just gave me a new sig.
If you're an XML parser, you should have done so on the very first byte.
That said, it's too bad that Half-Life 2 can't be run on software unlike the original should the need/desire arise. I don't think the engine really matters, so much as the scalability of said engine. Half-Life 2's Source is about as scalable as...well, not much (requires DirectX, and at least version 6). Whatever HL's engine was, and however bad it looks now compared to HL2, it could still run on LOTS more PCs--OpenGL, DX and (again) plain old software. That helped its popularity.
With my PC (a 1.1GHz Pentium III, 384MB RAM, 128MB video RAM) I can run Half-Life 2 on High (with its now-legendary stutters of course, but not too much difficulty).
That you need 384MBs RAM just to run Doom III horrifies me, more than any of its monsters I've seen.
I'd say you're right. No Microsoft OS will be as popular or well-received as Windows 95--it was (one of?) the first to have Internet Explorer bundled, and back then a browser bundled with a relatively common OS was considered teh hot (especially over Mac OS). Piracy, Linux and IE security issues are certainly slowing down Windows sales--obviously a bad thing for the profits of the company we love to call M$.
As Linux becomes well-advertised and even easier to use, I expect the distros to topple the "Mac-killer."
Any self-respecting geek could easily reach that cap in a month.
You mean self-pleasuring?
It's odd. I haven't heard of a cap in Verizon DSL. Or any home broadband in NY for that matter. Which is good.
Congratulations, you are the proud owner of my brand new signature.
Enforce your copyright(left?) appropriately.
Noted and much appreciated.
Glad that was banned in Georgia. One could guess that since scientists didn't (to our knowledge) exist 65 million years ago, that it's a theory.
Either that or they'll consider it common sense, which wouldn't be too good.
But a sandwich isn't a sandwich without the tangy zip of Spacesuit Whip.
If only you were a reg'd user; you'd be on my Friends list this second.
Side note: Slashdot told me to Slow Down, Cowboy! It's cool, and helps prevet a Slashdot slashdotting I guess.
Not surprised. I don't know about you all, but other people there like Bill O'Reilly come off as childish and overly conservative, and when Fox reports a story, it really does seem (again) conservative and sensationalized. They like to take press releases and Presidential speeches as truth, dismissing the other side of the story or showing it in a "bad" light. I'd rather see Tucker Carlson's newbie rants on Crossfire, and wait eagerly for the day when CNN apologizes for Jon Stewart's rant and puts Carlson back.
Thank you for replying just when I pressed Back on my browser.
I would have ranted on about how I couldn't afford sat-radio before the merger--but now I just have new reason to hate Fox News. They like to report on rumors, or sensationally (especially their 10-o'clock news in New York--it's hard to tell from the site though), or (worse) both.
We (I at least) need more competition, not less. I'm glad they won't merge.
For some reason, I hope she didn't see that.
In Soviet Russia, lamerisms beat you!
...because all those WHAT s you'd hear would not be from his new album.
Exactly. Unrated movies get released, TV gets garbletext-for-ratings and the gaming industry gets blamed.
I, for one, abhor our new, misguided ratings overlords.
Apparently they've already been downsized.