Humodour

I ran away from home once and went and slept in the forest for a night. Then my mum came and found me and I was sick of it so I went home.

I am so ****ing going to buy this. P.S. I reserve the right to refine this opinino tomorrow when I'm sober.

This link pretty much nails all my criticisms of **** like GTA4. I await your knee-jerk flames. P.S. the film trailer at the end is hilarious.

You'll need to make the first move by blurting out "I want to be on you". I trust you are up to the task.

Yeah, I've been burned by this before, It's why I basically refuse to pay over $1,000 for a new PC now.

That is entirely ****ed up.

I know what MAD stands for, but Walsingham was talking about a nuclear holocaust so I went slightly off-topic to agree with him on how things wouldn't have been even remotely similar to FO3 should such misfortune befall us or our descendants. Oh, my bad. And sorry - that post was needlessly facetious of me.

Yeah, it's actually not that funny despite the failure. This is like saying "ha-ha" to the Taliban for failing a suicide bomb attempt. Part of the world's problem are caused by angry people that will use any opportunity to use their resources on achieving whatever crazy goals they have (like striking out at their wealthier neighbours out of jealousy or sheer joy of destroying things). Even with inferior technologies, extremists from the middle east have shown us that it actually isn't that difficult to cause a high degree of casulties and collateral damage in developed countries. But in North Korea's case, it does have a very large standing army and sufficient capability in bombing the **** out of its neighbours. And yes, if M.A.D really happens, it wouldn't be like FO3. There wouldn't be permanently-preserved sugar pies packed in bombed-out Walmarts waiting for people to pick out and there aren't rad-aways to instantly cure people of all radiation exposure. On the upside, there shouldn't be any ghouls, rad-scorpions, and super-mutants roaming around 200 years after the holocaust. You should look up the definition of MAD. MAD is only relevant when you have two states which can wipe eachother out, not when you have one physically massive state that can wipe out another physically minute state that is woefully inept and has only a handfully of barely kiloton quality nukes at most.

So *thats* where my tax money goes... Got my new PC speakers all set up. I can now share the sound part of my games with my neighbours Given I paid more than $1000 in tax last year I'm pretty much tax neutral. Yours actually went on the uni student next door that doesn't work and blows his Youth Allowance on blow.

Dont buy an apple. The hardware is outrageously overpriced, and they still cant run Windows to 100%. Not to mention you will become a mac user, a social stigma that will haunt you for the rest of your life. My student discount lowers the already fairly low price of the Mac Mini by a further 10% (yes, everything else is too rich for my blood), and you're wrong about running Windows - maybe at the start of the Intel switch, but Windows is 100% supported now (through both drivers and the advanced bootloader - EFI). It's just a PC. It uses the same RAM, the same CPU, the same graphics cards. It's not a done deal, but I'm seriously contemplating it. I'll have to dig up some pricing info on the latest Intel Core 2 Duos and ATI/nVidea cards to compare it vs building my own. But I generally prefer OS X and Ubuntu for coding and multimedia anyway (i.e. most things besides games).

I'm going to break my silence: Wals sexually harassed me over snailmail, and it got so unbearable that I had to report it. I'm only just now learning how to move on with my life.

So Wyoming is a pit of oppression huh? How about this? http://www.mormonlawyers.com/2009/02/same-...efeated-in.html Oh, and since you seem to be incapable of seeing beyond political sterotypes there are nineteen democrats in the Wyoming state house. Many voted FOR the ban. That means it was the REPUBLICANS who defeated this. And in case you didn't know (and in your case you seem to know nothing you didn't read on some left wing blog) Wyoming recognizes gay marriage. The reason is there is a strong libertarian streak in people in that region. You know the ideology you routinely castigate? The one where people are free to do as they please with their lives and money? I can see how you would hate that. Take a chill pill sunshine and read the thread. Nobody mentioned Republicans or Democrats except you. I'm just pointing out that Wyoming is fairly socially conservative (which is pretty stupid to try and deny), and Iowa is somewhere between California and Wyoming, so Iowa's not the first place you'd look if you were expecting advances in social liberty, but it's good to see nonetheless. Oh, and that "left-wing blog" you were referring to? Yeah, the guy's a hard-core Libertarian. Which is beautifully ironic.

lol. epic fail: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09...2&art_pos=6

ramza: The Wii isn't so much about the revolutionary experience as it is about owning a copy of Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros because I never have before, even though I've played them numerous times (even if I could find an N64 + those games, it'd probably break within a year anyway).

Ah yes, I just noticed the high-end DDR3 has three channels. Cool, though even than only 1 or 2 channels would be used on average just as dual-channel DDR typically only operates half as fast as theoretically possible (i.e. as fast as one channel), making the speed increase kind of deceptive, no? Seems similar to the hype about multiple CPU's/cores. When would having an extra channel actually be tangibly useful? Movies? Games? Data mining? Edit: Err, anyway, onto CPU and graphics. Any suggestions?

Hmm. That's surprising. I actually would've thought that RAM is one of the main performance bottlenecks these days (given CPU speed is esentially irrelevant as they're so fast they're idle most of the time waiting for cache/etc to respond) but this benchmark suggests that with DDR2 RAM, both doubling speed and halving latency combined give at best a 25% performance boost, but typically more like about 5%. http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=472 Given DDR3 is exactly the same RAM with exactly the same latency but twice as fast bus I/O bandwidth, it'd seem like using DDR3 over equivalent double-speed DDR2 would likely net you even less than the 5% boost the double-speed DDR2 got! Ouch. It's hilarious because DDR4 comes out in 2012 which has a further 2x clock multiplier but still has the same latency as the DDR2 of the same clock. I imagine it'd give a similar miniscule performance boost probably at a significant cost in price, temperature and power use. DDR2 it is, eh? Err, although the above doesn't hold for the Mac Mini I mentioned because it uses a special model of the Geforce 9400 built into the motherboard. I.e. the GPU and CPU share memory, making the otherwise minor increase in bus access speed suddenly noticeable.

This makes me drool: Apple Mac Pro: - 2 Quad Core Intel Xeon Nehalem CPU's @ 2.93 Ghz - 32 Gb DDR3 RAM @ 1066 Mhz - 4 Geforce GT 120's @ 512MB RAM each Clocks in at just under $20,000. Hmm. Something tells me this would be faster: http://www.tycrid.com/?page_id=85

I just got my $950 stimulus payment from the government and I figured now is as good a time as any to buy a new PC. Problem is, last I heard DDR1 was uber cool, and the Athlon 1600+ was the ultimate gamer CPU. And it was unheard of to find over 256mb of RAM on a graphics card... except those weird Voodoo cards which were 10 years ahead of their time. So, what's the dealio? - I'm aiming for 2 (ideally 4) gb of DDR3 RAM. - I want a graphics card that can play recent FPS games moderately well. - I want at least two cores (no more than 4), clocking at least 2Ghz (but ideally 2.6 or more) Is this feasible under $1000 AUD? Or should I just get the Mac Mini with Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2 Ghz, 2Gb DDR3 RAM @ 1066 Mhz and a nVidia 9400? It's $1032 AUD with my student discount. It wouldn't play the latest games but I've got a backlog anyway (NWN2, Witcher, Bioshock, etc).

They've probably got 1 nuke tops and it'd probably take out a small mall. Australia's got conventional fuel-air bombs more powerful. But seriously, here's a good article on how ****ed up the country is from Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pac...2144110777.html

Why exactly does North Korea still exist (and not in the physical sense)? Even their closest communist allies find them a pain in the arse and impediment to good relations with the West. I mean war for 60 years while your neighbour and 'enemy' becomes the an economic superpower and you become the laughing stock of the world as your people starve. Really? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7984016.stm nothing but lol.

I decide to buy a Wii and a PC and that makes me a... what, PS3 fanboy? That thar is some twisted logic mate. I make no secret of the fact that I think the Xbox 360 is a poor console, however I'd ask that you and Nightshape to take your fanboy wars elsewhere. It's not hard to start a thread called "MY CUNSUL IS BETTAR TEN URS N00b".

Most likely. I saw Sawyer posting about this earlier.

Hmm, yeah, I do have a lot of mates around so we'd make good use of the Wii. Looks like I'll buy a Wii (we'll be using wheels and the nunchucks I think, Ramza) and the first few components for a new desktop. PS3 is tempting but at that price I could get an equivalent computer anyway AND I could code and surf on that (plus it would play my old games!). I'm not at all interested in an Xbox, sorry. End of story.

And why is that exactly? Why do you think? Because they're not exactly a socially progressive state, that's why. They're not as bad as, say, Wyoming, but they're not exactly at the forefront of democracy. I found this amusing, though: