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Farmer Boys - New Breed Of Evil

Faith and the Muse - The Chorus of the Furies

Psst, PCI-Express, not PCI. I know you know, but eircraned probably doesn't The 4670 is about as fast as a 9600GSO and slower than a 9600GT according to tests I read, and priced (around here at least) exactly where it should be with its performance

This quadro is the equivalent to the 8700m gt, but you get better drivers (if you don't have to use the ones that Dell offers you) because it's the "workstation"-variant of this graphics card. Good for you if you're doing CAD "Discrete" is a good thing, as it's the opposite of integrated. It means the graphics card is probably in an MXM slot or similar, and more importantly it uses its own RAM instead of sucking RAM away from Windows and using the comparatively slow FSB. [edit1] Clicked the link and saw that only 256 are onboard, the other 256 are "turbo cache", the nVidia-Marketing word for sucking up the slow and much needed system memory, as in the provided link, it would leave you with only 768MB for Vista, which makes this notebook a bad choice in my opinion. [edit2] I hate it to be un-helpful, sorry :/

A youtube link for the lovers of the darker side of electronic music and bad german accents Wynardtage - Figures in the mirror

Hevein - As far as the eye can see

Here you can only buy Vostros with worse components than said HPs, don't know about the US though. For ok gaming performance there's Alienware and stuff like this MSI, or the Fujitsu Siemens X Series some of which should (in the future?) come with support for external graphics cards, some newer ASUS models, but you pay all of that with limited portability and shorter battery duration, and at least the Alienware models are likely to be out of your price range. Also might want to check out this Anandtech article about gaming laptops posted in some other thread here

Fields Of The Nephilim - For Her Light Fitting the winter mood...

The patch for people who already own a registered copy is out as well. American players need to install another patch who restores blood effects. I recommend waiting some weeks for the download because for some reasons, the put the file (gigabytes in size) as a whole for download instead of seeding a torrent. Very short sighted if you ask me

My guess: Yes. 3 years is a hell of a lot of time for graphics cards, especially lower mid-range card such as 9600m GT (which isn't derived from the desktop 9600 gt, but rather a shrunk version of the 8600m afaik.)

Rotting Christ - Threnody (click me for youtube) Nice

Isobel Campbell - Willow's song Hm, still prefer Faith and the Muse's version - and the film of course (Wickerman - not the crappy pseudo-remake. It was Mistress on the BI forums that I haven't seen for ages who recommended me the awesome movie )

Hehe, sorry, couldn't keep my trap shut I can totally see the uncomfortable feeling that someone has when having to use C when he grew up with a slicker language. So I don't think there's a "best" language to start, and see your arguments pro Python. Actually, the people in computer science at the university I was before thought it a good idea of first using some form of Pascal and later Eiffel, which are just too far from usage nowadays afaik.

Just a little clarification: C isn't object oriented at all. Also, I think it is a good language to start learning because it is rather low level with pointers and having to manage memory etc. In my opinion this helps to become more conscious about what programming actually means and how to be careful with your resources. Also, it will be a revelation to switch language from C to something more modern and have objects and flexibility and a lot of datatypes etc. Python is nice and powerful, but it is at least one layer above C++, literally.

And that comes from the same person who advices to burn MP3s and compress them again... It may not be totally perfect, but you can't expect the pioneers to be as progressive as Reznor (who offers downloads above CD quality). Youtube sounds f*** bad compared to my old 128kbit MP3s, even WMAs.

*g* @ checkpoint I never noticed it, just like TrueNeutral. At kindergarten, elementary school and even later, some evidently shy girls sent their friends to tell me, and while some of that may have been a hoax, I talked to some girls to get a confirmation and stated that I don't care for cowardly girls that can't tell me something like this directly. How stupid I was. Anyway, I still don't notice when someone has a crush on me, as evidenced by my one and only love (who fortunately isn't shy at all) and lately by a random guy. Later, I was surprised how reasonable and natural I reacted to his advances - he didn't interest me, didn't know him anyway, and told him that in a nice yet clear way. I wouldn't have thought that of myself Anyway, not noticing other's crushes while feeling too insecure about my own makes for pretty funny memories in retrospect

They do use SecuRom already, you know?

... and some other guys playing ukulele as well "Tribute to Beirut" Psyche - Land of broken promises

Oh, I found the song I meant. Beirut - Closing Song Walsingham, Setting Sun feeling familiar?

Oh, the Dandy Warhols weren't a one hit wonder? If I find the song I'll surely post it here Monica Richards - Death is the ultimate woman

What's the name of their "fade-out song" or similar again? Can't find it on youtube currently... Lacuna Coil - Swamped

You know, these beirut guys are kind of great Icon of Coil - Activate

Gary Numan - Haunted

If the art isn't consistent that's not a design flaw, it's an art direction flaw... Different department.Art should be designed to be consistent, otherwise it's badly designed. I don't care what part of a game development company is responsible for it What do you mean by that? Me Enghlish skillz r 2 low