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Technology and Programming To Vista, or Not to Vista

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May 20, 2008, 12:58:32 pm

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Vista is nice.
It's not the horrible spaghetti coded piece of shit that slashdotters and digg users always say it is.
That being said, I still use XP, but I've used Vista.
The only problems I had with it was that I couldn't find drivers for my Chinese counterfiet PSX -> PC controller adapter.

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General Talk Format Wars: Over

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February 22, 2008, 04:39:03 am

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Quote from: post on February 21, 2008, 04:22:32 pm

metal gear solid 4 ALONE is a reason to buy. not to mention, its been out for a year...

No game is worth getting a console for, even me, who is a hardcore Metal Gear fan, won't buy MGS4 until the majority of the 08 PS3 line out comes out.

Quote from: post on February 21, 2008, 04:22:32 pm

how long did it take xbox 360 to make GOOD games?

Pretty much right at launch.
Project Gotham Racing 3 and Oblivion were two good games.

Quote from: post on February 21, 2008, 04:22:32 pm

halo 3 bombed out - no one i know even plays it anymore. it might have sold like hot cakes but everyone is tired of it.

Are you trolling?
I was under the impression that it is being played by tons of people.

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February 20, 2008, 10:56:56 pm

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Well apparently PS3 has been selling better than the 360 for the past few months in North America, and it has been outselling the 360 outside of America for quite some time as well.

I still won't pick one up until I know that the list of games everyone is throwing around is actually a list of good games.

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February 20, 2008, 10:39:35 pm

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Quote from: Kaworu on February 20, 2008, 10:25:40 pm

Yes, it's such a shame that Sony didn't make good games for the PS3, instead concentrating on their blu-ray shit. I mean jesus sony... the worlds most respected games developer, how can they make bad games? but they did. Sony made the games for the ps3 and they all sucked.
thanks Sony, for making such terrible games.

Actually, how many good games did Sony actually make.

As in how many were truly 1st and 2nd party titles, not jut published by them.
I can't think of any really.

Also I'd have to say Nintendo is the most respected game developer.
Most of their game are pure fun and awesome.

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February 20, 2008, 09:29:58 pm

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Quote from: Roberson on February 20, 2008, 09:26:51 pm

Yeah but the PS3 focused so hard on their Blu-Ray and matching M$ online, they forgot to make good games.
I'm wondering, though, how can the PS3 have a Blu-Ray player, and standalone players cost more? It really makes no logical sense.

Becuase they are selling it at a loss.

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February 20, 2008, 07:17:35 am

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Quote from: bonzi_buddy on February 20, 2008, 07:09:40 am

Uh Is, from what i read from the beginning with i thought HD and Bluray had pretty similiar specs (well, i think Bluray had BIT more space than HD), apart from the fact that Bluray has some built-in burn/pirate-protection or similiar shit.

... Well, i kind of felt Microsoft ultimately shot itself to leg when they deciced to not to release a model of Xbox which had an built-in HD-DVD - player. That was REALLY stupid.

Blu-ray had the larger capacity for single layer.

15 GB for HD-DVD and 25GB for Blu-Ray.

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February 20, 2008, 06:09:10 am

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Quote from: Chainer on February 19, 2008, 04:10:28 pm

This came out of nowhere. Seriously. For a long while (2 years?) I thought Blu Ray was dieing out... and HD DVD was taking the lead. I've heard so little about Blu Ray recently that I thought it was finally being phased out. This is what I get for not actually looking into the matter.

For me it was the opposite.

When the format wars first started I figured that Blu-ray would be the loser.
After awhile I found the specs of Blu-ray, and how it has tons of DRM, more space, able to make 6 layered 300GB discs, etc.

I was kind of hoping it would win.

Now they should start slashing prices on DVD9-R. $1 a disc is a ripoff.

Quote from: Inri Cheetos on February 19, 2008, 11:07:11 pm

Now that it's all over, I have to tell you guys something important. VHS is better than blue ray because it's analog!

(don't take this as TROLLING, it's just an article from the past that is somehow relevant to this subject)

Adequacy is a parody site you know. All their articles are made to get people pissed. Their most famous one is the "How to tell if your son is a hacker" article.

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Technology and Programming Post your specs!

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January 03, 2008, 05:51:02 am

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Nothing has been updated besides my Videocard

Pentium 4 3.2GHz (Overclocked to 3.85GHz)
2GB of some shitty dell ram (Runs as a CAS latency of 3 IIRC)
320GB of hard drive space.
nVidia Geforce 8600 GT 256MB (Pretty shitty card. Just save up a bit more cash and buy an 8800 rated card. 8600s truly are mid end. You can play the new games on the lowest settings!

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Technology and Programming Desktop Thread [Image intensive]

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January 03, 2008, 05:40:46 am

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I don't like Vista's UI very much, and Glass is the stupidest thing since when Apple thought translucent borders was a good idea in OS 10.0
Regardless here is my desktop.

Hidden content (Click to reveal)

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General Talk Jamie Lynn Spears pregnant... and only 16 years old! YES!

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January 03, 2008, 05:21:37 am

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Quote from: aboutasoandthis on December 30, 2007, 04:12:02 am

I was wondering about this too. There's a law (at least here) that you cannot have sex with another unless you are both under or over 18 at the same time. The oldest will be registered as a sex offender and may be subject to a few years in prison. I don't really agree with this law, but I am wondering what will happen to the guy.

Still 19 with a 16 year old. Wtf?

Please see Overcoat's post for more intelligence.

Here in Wisconsin even if you are both under 18 you can both get charged with statutory rape.

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General Talk What are you giving/getting as gifts for Christmas?

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December 02, 2007, 09:19:16 pm

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Clothes
Maybe a 4GB or 8GB Memorystick
If I am really lucky an iPod touch.

Edit:
Almost forgot, I already know I got these.

PSP Slim (Also my birthday present)
Metal Slug Anthologies
4th Wiimote
3rd and 4th Nunchuck

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Entertainment and Media Super Mario Galaxy

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November 08, 2007, 10:51:08 pm

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I was never really pumped up for it to begin with, so I'll probably rent it first.

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Entertainment and Media Ever have a console break/die?

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November 07, 2007, 02:07:07 am

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2 PS2s died, one from old age, the second from trying to fix it.
2 PSPs died. One got bricked and I took it apart for some reason that I don't remember, and the second died from Windex spilling onto it.

I also had a PS1 break on me, but I don't really consider it dead, since it just needs a new spindle to hold the CD, but the spindle is worth as much as a used PSX, and I have my PSP to play PSX games anyways, so I never bothered to fix it.

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Entertainment and Media Go L-Block!

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November 07, 2007, 02:02:28 am

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First, the Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube kicks the shit out of the L Block.
Second, Snake should've won.
Thrid, Who won the bonus round?

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General Talk How do you style your hair?

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November 07, 2007, 01:54:50 am

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I just get mine cut when I can see it in front of my eyes without having to look up very far.
I don't comb it or anything either. I just leave it like it is.
The only time I do anything with it is when I wash it or if I wake up with a rooster tail on my head.

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General Talk WTF Factor Unleashed

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November 07, 2007, 01:52:26 am

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Strangest things?

Pretty much everything on BME Zine

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General Talk Sleeplogic and Morning Intelligence

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November 07, 2007, 01:44:20 am

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Before I got put on ambien I'd fall asleep at school a lot.

The only thing I can remember doing is thinking I heard my Grandpa call for me while I was half awake in school, and I yelled "what?" in the middle of class.