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That's a pretty heavy delivery. So is that video card made of asteroid minerals or something?

All these websites, yet no content.

For a lot of people, a computer is ruined when it can't load MySpace.com

I wonder how many people a year junk a computer and buy a new one just because of spyware.

Emo

I run Opera 9.21 actually.

The site has some neat dynamic effects such as slide out stuff. You might want to remove that grid though.

EDIT: Scrolling in the menu bar doesn't work right in IE7. The menu is plain dead in Firefox and Opera.

Including you!

Steam is a data miner!

I'd re-install Norton SuckWare 2007. I had errors with pretty much everything and I re-installed it after wiping it with the Norton Removal Tool. The only thing it didn't fix was the crippled performance.

Srry is a Valve fanboy. Now sad. Now imagine, Counter-Strike used to run at 60fps+ on a PIII 700MHz, 128MB and a TNT2. What happened? Steam happened.

For all it's automatic patching, game organizing goodness, instant gratification goodness, there's a dark side.

First, it's DRM, Valve can shut down your account at any time, ban you from playing online, and your games will dissapear. Everytime you want to play a game, Valve demands you authenticate yourself, even if it's an offline single-player game! Not everyone has 1/2GB of memory! Steam has a noticeable drag on a computer, about as much as Windows Live Messenger 8. According to the Steam Hardware Survery, almost half of all users have only 512MB.

What does Steam do with these system resources? Well takes 10 seconds to login, checks for mandatory updates & displays the STeam store. It also data mines. Valve talks about Steam being a great tool to collect data to solve technical issues, but Steam actively snoopes around, the only thing I can be sure it's trying to find is pirated Valve games.

Second, automatic patching is very nice if and only if you have a 5Mbps+ internet connection. Otherwise you have to wait and wait for a game to update, just to play it, even Half-Life 2. Dial-up users are left in the dust. For them, they've always bought games on disc and installed it without a fuss. Even a CD Key online check takes only a little bit of bandwidth. With automatic patching, Valve can force crappy updates upon us, such as continual de-optimization, DWP, Steam Profiles, and ADVERTISEMENTS!!! With Steam, it's stay updated or get the fuck out.

The Steam store is a great idea actually. If Steam was just a store and one-time CD Key verifier, that'd be great. It's instant download purchases for those who don't care about a box (and the consumer protection laws that come with buying a box). Today it's just a giant shill for non-Valve games that can be bought as a Steam-less version on CDs/ online download.

Steam is an annoyance. I'd be great if Valve got rid of it.

That's not nearly enough power.

psychic? Nah, Luke has real life hax.

Yes, it's the "electricity box thing."

appsvc32.exe slows down my computer more than msblast.exe so I switched to NOD32

Then how'd the hell did you type that?

A X1950 can run all Valve games fine, whether they be OpenGL (HL1-based) or Direct 3D (HL2-based). Make sure your computer has an extra power lead and enough fans to handle the power used & heat generated.

N is for the M entry NOT being Half-Life related. Minerva is a shitty mod based on shitty level design ideals.

L is for Lambda Satellite

But if most people are morons, then they're the norm. Non-morons are now the new morons.

Jahzel, tell me, are you a fan of Cindy Sheehan?

Ghetto has ghetto spelling.

IMAGE SPAM! ATTENTION WHORING!

It's easy to install spellchecking in Opera and IE6/7. Ghetto, what's your first language?

Oh shut the fuck up and enjoy these custom Half-Life levels when blue_shift releases them.

Conspiracy Theories on the Internet - The Undeniable Truth!

It's not a text to speech engine. Some guy was recorded saying about 1000 words and they used a distortion filter on all of the files. You'd have to re-record the whole announcement system thingy for another language.

So have I. 1280 x 1024 .BMPs are only 3.75MB.

Z: Zen

Z: Zen

Make the fans a deathtrap!

Maybe his family was in an on-site home?

Start the chanting and kool-aid mixing.

That's fine for me. Don't you have an anarchist revolution somewhere to attend to?

DocRock: your metaphor sucks. Jahzel should get off his soapbox, but I can see from his profile that he's a troll who spams anarchist propoganda. Whatever.

Use an iPod with ... WinAmp? I could do it, because I scrubbed all of my purchased songs of DRM, but as much as iTunes is bloated, it's still much better than some half-assed plug-ins.

iPods are very nice music players if you're willing to pay the Apple tax and have the memory to run iTunes.

I've got iTunes because I have two iPods, duh. Otherwise i'd be using WMP11 or some shitty app by Creative/Sony/Walmart/etc.

Wasn't there in 7.2

iTunes 7.3 comes with a "Apple Mobile Device Support" entry in the Add/Remove Programs App. When Apple turned on AppleTV searching in iTunes, I ticked it off. Since i'm not going to get an iPhone, is it safe to remove this?

Xen is a stupid computer game level.

I'm thinking about 3GB. $2000 for a laptop is ok if it runs everything well for 5 years.

Z: Zen

Pretty much. They all are based in bullshit and "they're just hiding it" logic.

Send someone else with a fast computer the source files and ask nicely for them to compile the map for you.

How about no. That post just shows how much of a loon you are.

Look. If I believe in one conspiracy theory, I have to believe all of them, which means i'd have to overthrow the gov't and do other crazy crap which i'm not ready to do. Maybe the government is after me, but what can I do?

M: Marines

J: Jets, those F16s that fly past a cliff you're on, on their way to fight alien dropships.

The Blue-Shift Barney is the original barney. They cloned the other barneys from his DNA.

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OhMyGodWhatTheFuckBarbecueLaughingOutLoud

Scratch that:

I'm one of them. I got pissed off when they released Half-Life: Source. The pistol holds 18 rounds, not 17 rounds. Also, the SMG twists Gordon's arms when you fire.

I'm one of them. I got pissed off when I released Half-Life: Source's pistol holds 18 rounds, not 17 rounds.