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extremely rich features Please remove that phrase from your vocabulary when posting here. If I hear you use that Microsoft-speak one more time, I will NOT be responsible for my actions! :twisted: Extremely rich features...barf! :P My apologies. With DX10's hardcode rockin' features, you should be a...

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You're right, it does not make much sense from a technical standpoint. What are you basing your information on? I don't know about 32 bit Vista slowing older 32 bit systems to a crawl. Keep in mind I am still using a 32 bit CPU (Athlon XP @ 2.4 GHz). Give Microsoft some credit here, they wouldn't r...

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I hate having to call Microsoft to beg them to reactivate my system after a hardware upgrade. They talk to you like you're a criminal, even though they can see that I am trying to run Windows from the same hard drive it was originally installed on.

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The United States occupied Japan for ten years after the end of WWII. I don't recall how long the allies had to occupy Germany, but I do recall they had a hell of a lot of trouble with bombings, shootings and kidnappings by Nazi sympathizers for years after the war ended. They were dealt with forcef...

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No way man. We need to drop all the crappy, bandwidth-wasting NFL programming and replace it with the Weather Channel and Home Shopping Network!

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roid wrote:*head 'splodes*

That's because every person I have encountered who refers to GB2 (George Bush II) as a Fascist or Hitler does not have the foggiest idea what they're talking about.

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I break out my patented, stainless steel nitpicker... GB2 Facistville The Fascists were socialists, BTW. Example: "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" ("National Socialist German Workers Party" ), a.k.a. the "Nazis." Since I recall you expressing your social...

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I get scared when I find myself agreeing with Mobi.

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Producing top-of-the-line computer games cost as much as most movies nowadays. The Hollywood Producers Guild of America has formed a New Media Council to address the making of things like games.

...Oops...I didn't realize this thread was an old one.

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Tropher,

Congrats on shipping Office 2007. Kicking a project out the door is always the hardest part.

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[D]on't blame us for the problems that arise from the rest of you guys voting for the lesser of two evils because you're afraid to suffer any loss in the process of changing things! We didn't waste our votes, you wasted them by chickening out! ;) Well, it looks like the voters chose the greater of ...

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Zuruck wrote:Have fun kids. It was nice.

See ya in the funny papers, Zuruck.

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I feel happy and confident the future history of the world just got better. I have news for you Mobi, history has unequivocally shown that the appeasement of your enemies will always bring about even more war and bloodshed than before. The left won the elections in Spain after the bombings in Madri...

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Because they are also selling upgrade versions. That's the obvious reason--I know that. However, the 32-bit only machines will probably slow to a crawl under Vista. It does not make much sense from a technical standpoint to me. From what I predict from my cracked crystal ball: I doublt if the folks...

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im not seeing a technical reason that would prevent the same WDDM drivers being used for vista and 2k/XP. There are two reasons I know of: 1) to better-protect the kernel from malware, and 2) Digital Rights Management. It's just another step towards the elimination of all fair use, but that's anoth...

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Microsoft would be hitting hardware developers with a double wammy here: they'd have to write new drivers for DX10 on XP along with DX10 on Vista. Microsoft has already given hardware developers a quadruple whammy, DX10 cards aside: Since Windows XP will not be going away anytime soon, vendors now ...

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extremely rich features I just got back from a "Strategic Design Review" (read: dog and pony show) at Microsoft's Platform Adoption Center for their new web programming stuff (Atlas, IE7, etc). I must have heard that phrase "extremely rich features" used about twenty times by ea...

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*Snore*

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I have been playing BF2142 almost every day for the past two weeks. I like it a lot! It’s familiar enough to start playing right away if you already know BF2, yet different enough to keep me interested. All the new stuff really changes the tactics. The adaptive camouflage is a hoot. Thumbs up from l...

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KtheC' wrote:EA has already released a patch for the game and it's only a week old.

At least they are releasing patches. How long have you been waiting for the Descent 1.5 patch?

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All of the so-called \"Gnostic Gospels,” including Judas, have the following things in common: 1. They were written under pseudonyms; attributed to the apostles in an attempt to give their speculations legitimacy. And thus rejected by the early church. 2. They were all written centuries after t...

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SuperSheep, Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Copying software leaves you in the same exact spot you were before, you gained nothing, you lost nothing. I must disagree with your line of reasoning because, in order for your proposition to be true, one must first make the assumption that intellectu...

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SuperSheep, I could not disagree with you more. Here is a little of my background… I have been a full-time software engineer since 1985. My first job was with a company called FTL Games. We developed Sundog, the first game released for the old Atari ST computer. It took four developers, working 50+ ...

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Global warming, like the ozone scare, is yet another manufactured, phony crisis. If it exists, it was not caused by man and there is nothing man can do about it. If it does not exist, the Kyoto treaty will rob the United States blind paying for it. Even the proponents of the treaty have admitted tha...

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Diedel wrote:You and your stupid, cheap, sociopathic trolling against a harmless story, religious or not. I wonder what kind of goodnight stories you tell your children - if you have some.

For pete's sake, stop encouraging Mobi!

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And the kicker is that my insurance company paid to repair it. Thank God for USAA!

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MD-2389 wrote:SHE LIIIIIVES! Now to install my games.

It's alive!

It's alive!

It is aaaaliiiiveee! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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fliptw wrote:too bad he didn't get an AGP card.

Yeah...And an AMD Duron CPU to go with it..eh?

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I'd second getting a DFI or an ASUS motherboard for an A64. Spring for a PCI-E x16 board and a PCI-E x16 video card if you can get the money together for it. Buying an AGP board is just throwing your money away IMHO.

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This was the result of my last off-road excursion with my Land Rover Defender-90:

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Zuruck wrote:or maybe this guy being a lawyer, said something about the warrantless wiretapping that Cheney didn't like

If Cheny would have used snakeshot instead of birdshot, he would have bagged that darn lawyer instead of just peppering him!

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Whew! For a second there...I thought the title of this thread was, \"You are impotent!\"

5 1/2 hours...until what, I know not...

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Here is an op-ed piece by John Loeffler that appeared two years ago. It is even more relevant today: This week's letter from the ACLU appeared in the business mail, alarmed at the assault Attorney General John Ashcroft is waging on civil rights and hinting that if I kick some money into the pot they...

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heh, the man you couldn't agree with more, whatever. anyway, lets leave extreme-conservative-wonderland and come back to reality shall we. Argumentum ad hominum. *sigh* Alas, I expected too much from you. When this so-called progressivism finally comes full circle to bite you in the rear, you will ...

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The Google China thing does bother me somewhat, i'm not a fan of China's government. Open source... no it's not a big thing for me. Totally good or totally evil? haha, gimme a break. But i do think most multinationals are quite evil, yet Google seems to be quite good. Google's decision to lick the ...

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Strip Out The Fans, Add 8 Gallons of Cooking Oil

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Kilarin wrote:
Diedel wrote:Never satisfied, huh?
Heh! Nope. That's why I'm a programmer. I always want to niggle with the details.

Kilarin

I'm a programmer also. Niggling is good for the soul.

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Kilarin wrote:Firefly is, bar none, the best SF series ever produced.

Shouldn't "Firefly" be spelled f-y-r-e-p-h-l-i-e?

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A popular book of the early 19th century Historic Doubts Relative To Jesus Of Nazareth , whose arguments are still echoed by many skeptics today, used Hume's methods of knowledge to prove that it was highly unlikely that Jesus ever existed in the first place. Richard Whatley (1787-1863) replies to t...

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Ferno wrote:my new years resolution is to stop worrying about resolutions.

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