LadyCrimson

So you'll be taking the exam standing up, then? ...the iPad is all the rage on Twitter (most of it in the form of absorbency jokes). The concept sounds ok, but for $500+ I'd rather buy a cheap laptop etc. Trendiness is never cheap.

Oh, I do some stuff online, I'm not completely in the stone-ages...couldn't live w/out my banks billpay. But that's using only one website...my bank. I prefer to limit internet credit card exposure when I'm able, and no I don't like Paypal either. Know several IRL who've actually had identifies stolen in recent years as they spent online in ever increasing frequency....One day before I die it's likely they'll be no offices of any kind for such stuff, but until then...I still prefer to hoof it when I can.

He's definitely not a "gamer." He cracks me up when playing, god luv him. Most of it is that he isn't a dedicated gamer (doesn't usually play much so never gets used to it) so he wants something he can just 'jump into', plus he has some mild dyslexia issues which makes him a slow, deliberate reader (hence disliking reading unless it's study-work related). So Quake3, Gears of War, Mercenaries of War2...thanks, I'll check those out.

Never did try Quake 3 I think...we liked the original Doom way back when. Does Left 4 Dead have a LAN option or is it online/single-player only? He might like running around shooting zombies etc.

lol...he tried that years ago, didn't like it. It's too "complicated." He doesn't want big learning curves on options, units, builds and he doesn't like lots of dialogue trees (rpg's). ...he prefers things like Diablo's, Overlords, Tombraiders, certain shooters, and obviously, Borderlands. Not into PvP either. WoW was too "big".

Thanks to my spouse, rainy winter days and marathon long sessions (which I rarely do on my own anymore), I am now rather sick of Borderlands. ...but I did discover a lot more about the way weapon stats, chr. skills & skill mods work, plus found a whole lot of 'hidden' areas & chests I hadn't noticed before. We need a new, easy to play LAN game.

Being an old fart or something, I'm becoming more and more annoyed when everyone's response to my saying something like "I have to go to insur. offices/DMV etc. to renew" is: "Renew online, why don't cha." ..... Because I don't want to, that's why. Gar!

I thought the exact same thing. All the big set up about how special the bond, how they choose you...then...aww, the poor little thing, cast aside! And...Dundee is one of the best light romantic-comedies. The sequels not so much, but the 1st one was awesome-sauce.

Shall We Dance, the original Japanese version. How did I miss this little gem? Lovely chr. story w/humor and meaning. No flash, no Hollywood ending etc. and all the better for it. I have no desire to see the Richard Gere remake. Also watched Inglourious Basterds. Hubby didn't like it because of too many subtitles, but I enjoyed it. Not as much as Pulp Fiction (the dialogue in Pulp Ficiton was awesome), but it had moments. Brad Pitt got to have a lot of fun, anyway. I wouldn't consider Waterworld or The Postman in the worst movies ever camp, but they certainly weren't very good, imo. Exercises in Costner-ego or something. Altho, I must admit I got a kick out of Dennis Hopper hamming it up in Waterworld...heheh

Considering the article is actually talking about having a certain area of the brain be larger, rather than overall brain mass, I'd say....no. But the article might explain why my husband is so much worse at video games than I am...as well as why I can verbally converse while watching TV and not lose track of either, while he can't at all. His caudate and putamen sections must be smaller. So now we will have "caudate and putamen envy."

Pants on the Ground, remix -

Hubby usually doesn't game much, but when he does, it's always on the big TV. Usually not LAN either. The PC doesn't stay by the TV all the time, so not really worth running wires through the walls etc. and the wireless was convenient and works fine for occasional web surfing & internet sports watching for both the laptop & the TV. There's now a long cable running from his office, down the hall, into the family room and to the PC sitting temporarily by the TV. When he gets tired of the game it'll disappear. heh Now we just need talk-headphones so we can stop shouting at each other down the hallway.

Cats are patient creatures, but I guess she reached her limit. Baby-kitty just sits on the floor and stares at me...for hours.

Cowabunga-kitty-chair-leap? Kitty thinks it's time you stop playing games and feed/pet/play with the Mastah of the house instead.

Wireless network connection sucks for gaming apparently. Or at least the one we use to surf the web on the big TV does. Works fine for the web, but not for games. When we dragged a hard cable instead, 98% of the horrible lag in Borderlands LAN went away, so, yeah. Much better. Now we can actually play (as opposed to position-shift-lag/die). Hubby got his Siren to 50 and is working on his own Sniper. I made a Solider to go with him. Soldier's a bit dull on his own, but works well as a pair. Luv shooting hubby to heal him etc.

Yeah...they got it free from a dealer/supplier they were working with. It's not the kind of card they need either (and it won't fit in the cases they tend to use anyway), so he didn't want it. K, that's what I was curious about/suspected. We might have a use for it someday but not at the moment. The ebay idea is a pretty good one, altho I think hubby would rather hang on to it. He collects spare parts ... a lot.... heh

There are no words yet invented that are capable of expressing my derisive mirth.

Yeah, the Quadro's are meant for serious workstations, use different emphasis. Tom's Hardware claims it wouldn't run Crysis any better, and possibly worse, but gives no benchmarks. One page I found gave some gaming benchmarks for the Quadro 4300 or whatever came before, and they didn't seem horrible.

Takes a while, but the Bloodwing does become pretty powerful later between skills & class-mods. Not good for all situations but can thin the crowd or save your arse from those exploding pyschos. He seems to initially fly in the direction you're facing, so don't trigger him if you're actually fleeing, and he doesn't go too far away from your position. So sometimes casting him and charging forward towards the baddies works well.

The only reason to think this is if you assume that everyone follows the same criteria of what makes for great movie-making that you do. Oh no, I loved ID4 when it came out. I saw it in a packed theater w/a fun, cheering/catcalling audience that heightened the silly-fun aspect and the memory still sticks with me...thus I still like it a fair bit after seeing it several times on TV etc. I wouldn't call it art...but it wasn't trying to be. What I was trying to say is that for me, there's different levels of 'great'. As an entertaining popcorn, theater-experience, sometimes silly sci-fi homage, movie, ID4 is great fun. But that doesn't make it, for me at least, a "great overall" movie. Even Pullman, one of ID4's stars, laughed and said he knew his acting was incidental to the spectacle. I think in terms of 'great action', 'great drama', etc. and then 'just plain great.' And yes, that's my opinion.

I remember the previews of ID4...nothing like blowing up the US White House to guarantee peaked interest. It didn't do numbers like Avatar/Titanic, but they were very respectable - and no one's gonna say ID4 is "great" movie-making (especially now, years later). They're all popcorn movies anyway...and I don't mean that in a negative way. :D

So, the honcho's at hubby's work didn't want this expensive card, so now we have it. As I understand it, it isn't meant for gaming because of low fill rates or some such, but for high image/graphic processing like CAD. What I'm wondering tho, is would it be great for things like photoshop etc? It's tempting to put it in for some of my other applications, but is the gaming performance going to be very noticeably worse than with the GTX 275? PS Or can I put both in and be able to use each one independently depending on purpose I want? ... having to switch them in and out all the time wouldn't be for me...

Yup...but its full title is so much catchier! Done burgers, just not a huge fan of those. My sister-in-law bought a big one recently and 1st thing she tried was hot dogs...when trying to put them on, they kept rolling off because of the incline. lol edit-my brain knows the difference between its and it's, but my fingers, increasingly, seem not to.

The Lean Mean Fat Grilling Machine really does work pretty well...easy to use, easy to clean...nowhere like a real grill taste of course, but in winter I don't feel like messing with that, so......teriyaki steak sandwiches for lunch.

I've changed my mind about Borderlands replay...at least once you take a break after one's initial playthrough. It's kind of like Diablo2 always was for me...the main fun is from starting a new weak character and growing stronger...but you become too strong too fast and thus it becomes boring later. So I'm having a blast making new chrs. that never get past 'normal' difficulty. lol