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Gun loading and unloading in games is fairly unrealistic. First of all getting your magazine holder open is not necessarily easy, then you have to get the mag out, then you have to know where the mag release button is and press it, then you slide the new magazine in and whack it on the bottom to seat it. Then you actually have to pull back the hammer all the way to load the first round, then release the hammer to drive it into the chamber. Only after doing all that shit can you actually fire the thing. And even then if you don't know how to actually position it for bone support and muscle relaxation you're unlikely to hit anything unless you're at point blank range, at which time you might as well just use a chainsaw, they're more fun. EDIT: Oh, and don't forget weapons never jam in games. If you don't know how to deal with jams you'll have a non-firing weapon that you can't fix. If you don't know how to tap-rack-bang or check for jammed rounds you'll be screwed in about 3-4 magazines.

zzzz, the problem with netburst was only partly a problem of heat. The whole idea with netburst was "LET'S MAKE THE PIPELINE A FUCKING MILE LONG SO WE CAN CLOCK AT 5GHZ", which failed as soon as they figured out that at 90nm and below they were going to melt the chips before doing that. What we're now seeing in the Core architecture is what IBM and AMD have been doing all along. High numbers of instructions per clock rather than long pipeline low I/C and fast clock. That's why the CoreDuos and Core2Duos suddenly ship with a clock a full 2GHz below p4s and Xeons yet show up with higher performance. It's the same reason (although with some added garbage designs by both intel and AMD in their McPC solution) why G5s have and still do blow every other chip out of the water for floating point calculations. Long pipelines and good SIMD performance are mutually exclusive. You can see that, too, in the move from netburst to Core.

Lol. Buy a mac, get XCode, make a webkit object. Done. There's a few decent WebKit browsers out there that are pretty good. However WebKit has a few rendering problems =. It's open source now, tho, and I've notified them of the problems :P. Also, if you're good, you can do something like what OmniWeb did, which although it sucks it does add colorsync profiling to WebKit display.

Meh, you have to give intel credit. They saw the problems in the p4 netburst design. Sure, their solutions aren't perfect, but the Core architecture does very well as far as PPW and heat. I think AMD buying ATI is mostly a BS move. Maybe something along the lines of how iPod saved Apple, they're hoping they can stay alive via graphics cards. I hate ATI though, their drivers and firmware are widely known to suck balls. Anyone I know who's had gfx card crashes and similar problems uses an ATI card. The newer the card, the worse the problems. I've never heard any such thing about nvidia.

Uh, no. MacOS NEVER ran on DOS. Although I don't particularly enjoy their choice of kernel right now, it's still better than anything under windows =. All that can be said about Bill Gates was that he was a brilliant social engineer, and had a great talent for stealing a company's money and resources then leaving them to go on and make widely used but overall shitty products.

WWDC is aug 2nd. Don't know about iPod updates though, but you can always watch the keynote and check the site afterwards :P.

Rofl... now that's just mean :P.

Yeah.. at 8k costs last season and probably double that for this season, they're gonna need all the help they can get. An ad or two won't kill the show, I mean they do spoofs of them now and it's not like they're restricted for time. With that said, I'll probably donate a bit later. I know personally how hard it is to actually get a fan base and how hard it is to support any given project.

$1150 a month? Tell me it's not just you and wess living there..

C/O is £1.00, Moonlit's house, a Melodic action figure with real metal action, a copy of nmap, one unconscious (but alive) Wess, 20 random hacklings and a sunny day. Offers?

But when will girls look at guys that way :cry: :x :D Keep on dreaming. Not necessarly. It depends on what type of girl you're trying to attract. If you're going for the head cheerleader then you may as well shoot yourself in the foot, that's probably the only way she'll notice you - roaming campus with your foot in a cast. However, it's the girls who take the sidelines at parties and other social gatherings that are the ones who would probably be flattered if you took the time to talk with them (this is usually how it is at the college level, high school is a whole different and sadly, cruel world). Odds are that if you went for the popular girl and got a date, she'll bore the hell out of you because you'll want to talk about your new install of Fedora Core and she'll blab about how her best-friends', girlfriends' sister broke up with her weekly boyfriend. Save yourself the time and go for the girls who are down to Earth and interested in learning something from you (and you are from them). They can be rare but take the time and spend the effort, sooner or later you'll find someone who likes you for who you are and finds that lastest beta-version of Fedora Core you installed, "sexy". Lol. I don't do fedora :P. However the major point here is that girls like that are extremely extremely rare. Most girls don't pride themselves on intellect, which is where the divide ends up. They, as you said, would rather talk about mundane pointless stuff whereas people like us prefer to find theories that accurately describe the workings of the universe from the ground up, or create some grand expression of creativity, or do something involving efficiency in coding and a new computer. The more profound you are, the more specific your crowd becomes. Eventually once you hit the level of 'innovator' you're pretty much alone.

But when will girls look at guys that way :cry: :x :D Keep on dreaming.

lol, from what I understand we're both mac zealots who like melodic/prog death metal. I don't think such a battle is possible in that case :P.

Wow, now I'm fairly reluctant. Oh well. METAL FACE ROAR. BTW, doctor, is that Sarah Alexander? I thought I heard she was on the new Dr.Who and that looks a lot like her. EDIT: nvm that's Rose Tyler.

No, OSX was out back in 2001 :P. Plus, even when I emulate XP I have to put it on classic mode because A:XP mode fucking lags and B:XP mode is fugly. Now, you could say that classic mode looks better than actual 98 without being inaccurate. But to compare either to an OS that doesn't suck is a bit of a stretch ;P.

Sup. Running Mac OSX 10.4.7 on a 2006 1.42GHz G4 iBook, 1.5GB RAM here. I'ma p0w4r us4r :P.

Saying WindowsXP is "pretty" is like saying that monokernels are a good choice for your personal defibrillator.

General percussion 7 years here. I also played french horn for about a year (which is damn fun too), but my main expertise was timpani. Back when I got to play regularly (ie pre college) I was god. I actually took a music tech class, and even as primitive as it was I still roxed everyone else the fuck out ^^. Oh how I wish I still had the stuff I made t.t. Unfortunately the class focused on midi performance, not recording quality synthesis or any of that fun stuff. I have quite the passion for melodic power metal, prog metal, and whatever you classify trivium as. Probably my fav band as of now is Angra (thx pandora for that one). I guess I could have summed that up easier by posting my pandora pl, but I figure that's better saved for a thread where it's more on topic ;P.

I agree with most of the stuff said here. More RAM is kind of a dumb thing though. I ALWAYS do that as soon as I buy a comp (max the RAM that is). It gives you the best performance from the time you buy it to the time it's dated and you still want to use it, and greatly increases resale value. Flash drives, however, are not an optimal solution to redundant storage. Email was mentioned, and something like that is more appropriate. Very often schools will frown upon bringing your own removable media (for security reasons), but they are apparently too stupid to frown upon getting the files from your own ftp space. Keeping copies of your work on ftp or mail or something like that is ALWAYS a good idea. Very often teachers will let you submit things via email (or prefer it, but this is somewhat uncommon depending on your major and classes) and if your box breaks down, you can always get on a school box and pull up your work from backup. If you have bigger files you don't want to lose, my best advice is to back it up on a spare drive or a drive you have back home that won't be seeing much usage. Less usage = less wear on the drive and less chance of your backup drive dying. Now, I have no redundancy on my iBook, and yet I've never had a need for it. I've had it for a little over a year (July issue 05 G4) and never had any problems. A little hint though just as a nice thing, if you have an iPod(headphone out)->stereo converter, maybe a keyboard and mouse, you can convert it to a desktop whenever you aren't mobile. My stereo rig is rather nice ^^. Takes like 2 minutes to set up, about 1.75 minutes of that is spent ripping through the tough plastic of the package for the converter cord kek.

Well, I'm kind of hesitant to say this, but what if you dropped a timed jammer into a heavily populated area? Set it to like an hour, it starts jamming within an hour, they drop a smart bomb? That's like "hi I don't need a bomb anymore, America provides them for me, all I have to do it set up a device for it to track!". Sure, it might work in an enemy country where they don't care about women and children being killed, but if they were to do that here they'd need to make up another 9/11-esque coverup just so people wouldn't recognize them for the mass murdering tyrants they are.