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You found him funny? Well, good for you I guess. Annoying and void of humor as far as I'm concerned.

holy shit. that narrator was *painful* to listen to. had to though to get to the technical reasons for the color differences sandwiched between gut wrenching jokes and attempts to 'relate to the kids, yo'.

the only possible issue you might run into is that a program tries to allocate memory, but can't. any remotely decent program will handle that error properly with a error box or something innocuous. I would say there is no danger to turning it off, it just might (although probably wont) be...

Well, the 30" screen was a refurbish, but yes I could easily afford any card I wanted. The agreement with my wife, however, is that I get to spend ~1500 every three years on a new comp. I would have already upgraded except I am in the middle of writing my thesis and I am putting off the system...

Yes, well I turn down settings from the default which in turn are set by the game based on the video card. So, in no way am I running 'close to max'. :p

Ok, its been a while. But the damn thing has performed like a trooper. I got a 8800gts 512 not long after they were released and its done 'well enough' through civ4, killing floor, l4d and a few others. Even after I switched to 2560x1600, I usually just had to make sure AA was off and maybe...

You have a very narrow view of justice imo. To only grant rights to people who you agree with is to grant no rights at all. Look into the case; they were not fighting against physical evidence a crime took place, they were only defending the right to speech. "Under the First Amendment, there...

Yeah, don't confuse defending free speech with defending child abuse.

So, out of curiosity, what issues has the ACLU supported that you do not agree with. I'm not asking for an exhaustive list.. just a few good examples.

There are FIVE fans! /tng ftw?

Believe it or not, PS2 keyboards support NKRO, or the maximum number of keys being pressed at the same time all registering. USB *could*, but the way the 'keyboard' peripheral type was standardized, it doesn't support as many keys. I've got a FILCO (awesome, but expensive) keyboard and use...

Kinda funny. Its hard to enjoy it though as it makes lite of a serious situation: raids on innocent people. Pot is harmless (i assume that was the 'green' the officer alluded to) and people should not be at risk of losing their freedom or their lives over it. Yeah yeah, I should lighten up. oh well.

+1 for filco browns, even for FPS games. Looks like its already being pushed though. :) I did feel silly for dropping >$100 on a keyboard, but its just awesome to use. Makes me hate this work keyboard.

So much troll bait... Anyway, the NY times needs to STFU. Google is not mandatory or even remotely restrictive. You can always go to any other search engine for no additional cost and you could even start your *own* search engine without having to fight your way through some monopoly control of...

But has he done something that someone else couldn't have done? Could he have done it without being an effective monopoly? If the windows platform was open and documented and used actual open formats, how much *better* would the average 'standard of living' be? Obviously its a huge force that...

Sorry, I for one don't consider this philanthropy. It certainly is better than *not* giving to charity, but you know what would of been better? Delivering better products, paying workers more, and/or giving to charities *before* you die. The people doing things like this didn't magic the money...

As an actual non-straw-man progressive, I have no confusion on this 'issue' at all. Of course they should be free to do whatever they want with their own pictures.

I want a copy of this game, Just beCause Justin Case

damn you! i was going to say that. :p

Why were drugs on the warrant again?

60 feels good. I can and do play with much less. Although I will turn off quite a lot of eye candy to preserve high rez and frame rates. For first person shooter multiplayer, 100 has real benefits. yeah, i know, thats higher than lots of monitors refresh rates. But.. if you let the image...

cocaine is that boring? I love gaming, but its gonna have to offer me more to drop down that kind of cash. :p

Off how exactly? As long as the angle of the side monitors is shallow, it wouldn't make much of a difference, if that's what you mean. But > 20 degrees is going to make a difference. Yes, ppl can and will adapt, but accurate rendering would be a nice and useful feature.

So, when are they going to address the problem of perspective? They calculate the images as if the monitors were set up: _ _ _ But they aren't, they are angled at the sides, more like: \_/ And so you are not seeing what you should be seeing.

Anyone from dallas remember First Saturday? Ad-hoc computer parts flee market that turned awesome then legit then overpriced commercial. That's what I was doing 10 years ago...

The other news (from anand) is that they will be releasing 32nm quads!

Please point out to me where that is the one and only sanctioned definition of digital rights management. If you can do that, I will retract my statement. lol. If there are affordable PC CD burners and copious HDD space, then you are talking about a time well past when I said CD's were DRM...

Are you suggesting there are not moral appeals to prevent copying of digital data? There certainly are. To recap: 1) I made a statement. 2) You used your definition of something (of course, you had to) and disagreed on that basis. 3) I pointed out that your definition is not the same as...

I do not accept your definition of DRM. I can see how by your more narrow definition, media type would not be DRM, but my definition includes -any- mechanism which restricts or makes more difficult the digital reproduction of digital content. This mechanism can be a combination of hardware and...

I don't see why media type can't be considered a form of DRM.

Ah, CD's. One example of DRM that actually worked for a while: a simple physical disk that was too expensive to copy. DRM is not then nor has it ever been about avoiding piracy. It is about getting those people who pay, to pay more. Their system broke because the same technology that allowed...

lol gathagan. Its funny that you pretend to be interested in honest and fair discussion.

gathagan, I thought you were saying you didn't like the health reform bill, maybe I was wrong about that. As it has no public option in it, it is just regulation. It puts limits on what the insurance companies can do. Yeah, it does mandate coverage but we've got two choices: 1) optionally buy...

I don't completely agree with you, but thank you for presenting a cogent argument. Do you agree that the govt can play a role by establishing regulations that the insurance companies have to abide by? Do you recognize that companies left unregulated, in order to stay competitive, will all...

excellent? That post was a gish gallop full of fractured and incorrect statements, and plenty of self assertions. I guess you guys are more interested in agreeing with yourselves than in actually discussing anything.

So, the money spent on roads did not come back to us in ease of transportation? The money spent on inspecting the food we eat did not come back to us in avoiding disease? The money spent on education did not increase our ability to work productivity? The money spent on the military does not come...

The $10 to $100 was intended to be illustrative, not exact. I meant only that more is gained than spent. It is unfortunate and telling that you ignore the entirety of my post and protest something that wasn't even intended.

The common perception is that there is way more abuse of the wellfare system than actually exists. No one likes the idea of ppl abusing a system intended to help ppl down on their luck. The abuse is much much lower than you think it is. Your 'hard earned money' was not produced in a vacuum...

For those of you who are against the public option, what do you suggest be done to prevent the private companies from abusive and exploiting practices? Do you claim the 'free market' will solve the problem? Do you claim there is no such problem? Perhaps its just unfortunate, but the best we can do?

"The 'Just Say No' didn't work. So we don't know what does work, but I can tell you that the software is having more of a positive effect than anything that I've ever been involved with on the drug fight." 'We've tried everything but telling them the truth!' If it wasn't such a serious...