It sends information, records what you're watching, unifies the TV guide, movie rentals and VCR functions into a single system. The Dish DVR is obviously an evil corporate device meant to enslave us! I guess I'm just not paranoid enough, I like having versatility increased while the operation is simplified. A program that makes running, updating and shopping for new ones into one click operations is outstanding.
Look at how big your high end graphics card is and consider just how much would need to be added.
Real men have a UPS! Seriously though, I have about 40 minutes of heavy use with the power out, internet access and all. It's satellite and gets knocked out by heavy rain fade, but I work/play through thunderstorms all the time.
You're right, you need an anti-virus, firewall and anything else we can convince you to get...
Nay, gold is of great intrinsic worth. It is the best known conductor for use in contact points, extremely low corrosion and resistance. Nearly every piece of electronics you own has gold in it. If it doesn't, it's a piece of crap. :) If they didn't use gold, most computer components would cease working within months. You have a few bucks worth in your case easy.
Norton sorta depends on the version and the year. For instance, when I was running Norton I had the full NIS package. I was on a static cable modem IP, outside the company firewalls, and had information that wasn't mine to risk. When I got it, the stand alone anti-virus was also crap, but the business oriented security suite was top notch as long as you installed it right. It was a little temperamental about certain things. Two years later, NIS was also unusable crap and the standalone anti
I really hope everyone is joking...
[quote]Since when has customer service anywhere with any company concerning any product ever been all that good?[/quote] APC customer support is awesome. You call them up, tell them your UPS you bought through an unauthorized third party dealer arrived broken and appears to have been a return, and they send you a new one free of charge and you ship the dead one back in the box the new one comes in. :)
I've been running in the DMZ on my router without a firewall, anti-virus or spy-ware blocker for a few years now. Paranoia is over-rated. Don't be stupid and your odds of having problems are nil.
Canon X-wings are supposedly fighter superiority, but have a torpedo launcher and laser cannons that are huge compared to the other fighters. In EAW, the whole torpedo thing is skipped entirely, they just have laser cannons. I'd swear Lucas makes stuff up as he goes and allows whatever changes are convenient at the time.
The card should be more than enough to drive that screen. It's roughly equivalent to 1600x1200 in resource requirements. The probable thing to look for would be bad video drivers, lots of complaints on the 9x series with out of date drivers. If not, my guess is the memory. 2 gigs is a little light on the ram for a Vista ultimate gaming computer. Sins burns 700+ megs just starting up, with so little to spare you're really chewing through the stuff. Your page file access is probably
Ahem! The very few statistical studies checking sales against disabled illegal copies show that it's around a thousand to one for sales. :)
McCain is such a twit it's going to hurt voting for him, but as said, pick the lesser of two evils. One unfair point that has been made for McCain though. The oil bit is not a flip flop. His position remains, what changed is the views of the states that weren't interested in offshore drilling. Leaving it up to the states means drilling off the shore of Florida was a no no last year and a hell yes right now, they went from 60/40 against to 80/20 for in that time span. Plenty
Just out of curiosity, what does your memory usage look like while it's crapping out?
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Yada yada yada... Those evil warmongering republicans! Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Somalia, Haiti. Nice list eh? All the places Slick Willy bombed or sent troops to. Weird, that's a longer list than Bush has! Come to think of it, history shows the same thing. I despise humanity for this. The ignorance and envy of the rest of the world is pathetic. When we don't intervene, we're castigated for it. Rwanda anyone? Something more recent perhaps, the curre
I have so many shit patchers and vaguely necessary related programs for various applications on my computer that it would take me hours to find and count them. From the standpoint of Impulse as a nuisance you're being forced to use in order to update your software you purchased through it. Assuming this is true, I'm not sure about that part yet, then I am forced to get impulse just as I am forced to get various game portals, auto-patchers, matching services, event loggers... T
Maybe you could try adding it to the allowed programs so your antivirus/firewall aren't blocking it? If you're going to be paranoid about your computer security, you get to put up with the grief it causes. Your performance issues might be caused by the hosed initial install, or it could just be that your broadband connection is crapped out. ISP's aren't exactly flawless.
Plenty of Aussie games. Infinite Interactive and SSG are Aussie outfits. The only thing Australia lacks is a major publisher screwing things up. The Australians have to get boned by Ubisoft or similar.
Patience is a virtue.
Region locking doesn't allow Microsoft to charge us yanks more for Windows. It allows them to actually sell a copy on occasion in less affluent areas of the world. If Microsoft tries to sell a South African farmer a $300 operating system, the most they can expect is laughter. Digital media is nearly free to replicate, as opposed to the creation costs, which can be obscene. They can't sell it at 20 bucks and get very far, but if they can sell some of it at 20 bucks, that's still a pro
:( Holes in the design. My biggest gripe is poor handling of tails and weapon objects. I'll be damned if I can get it to attack with weapons if they aren't on an actual hand possessing arm. Bloody irritating that, not a lot of point in having a mace on a tail when it's just there for looks. Maybe the game will use them differently, but if it's like the creature creator is this is a major letdown. In RL we have stegosaurus, scorpions, porcupines, but dangerous tails in spore
Counter-strike beta 5.4 or 5.6 for tactical team combat.(not sure which one was better, the colt with a scope was a little unfair, but they started screwing up stuff with the later versions) UT is still the king of the generic slugfest System shock 2 for the best single player experience, hands down. Rune was pretty cool, a psuedo rpg game created using the unreal engine, gotta love vikings chopping each other into little pieces.
I guess I wasn't direct in stating that it was sarcasm, but ok. All further ideas subject to pre-global warming bullshit. Capitalism is evil because it lets people get rich by working hard, lets people get poor by being lazy, and puts control in the hands of the people best suited for it by process of elimination. Oil companies are evil because they rape and pillage the land for money and fuel the capitalist pig societies that are abusing the poor. Yeah, I know, you s
Online activation. Bioshock/Mass Effect/Spore/whatever come with a rather retarded copy protection scheme. You have to activate your install online, sorta like Microsoft did with WindowsXP. Spore and Mass Effect are limited to three activations before they say fuck off and you have to call tech support(EA tech support is an anathema) and ask for a new one. As long as you only install on one computer and never have something like hard drive failure wipe out your system before
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