LOL I read your first sentence and was about to answer with 'reddit' and then...

r/listentothis is like half the reason I still frequent reddit.

r/gamernews, r/tf2 and r/dwarffortress are the other half.

>>3030
Because using those calculations goes against their rule of using feats to back up a claim. Or something.

>>3421
Also, would increasing the RAM on my laptop (from 3Gb to 4Gb) help with it playing any?

>>3421

Yeah, my P4 system actually had a similar motherboard.

>>3423

Probably not. The main problem is the onboard GPU which wasn't really made for gaming, if anything it's probably holding back your CPU and RAM.

Couple of threads you might wanna look at:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1149207
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1093560

>>3425
>Couple of threads you might wanna look at:
OK, I didn't need to go TF64 (I already had no phong), but that helped a lot. Especially taking the graphics mode down to 8.1, which I tried that before but I entered the code wrong (I forgot the hyphen you put in front of every command).

>>3344
This. Dyson for life, yo.

>>3344
A) Why did this old thread get dredged up
B) We have a Hoover Windtunnel Upright and a refurbished Roomba (deal off of Woot.com) and both work great. Dyson is kind of turning into the Apple of the vacuum industry. Name power but not the only option out there.

>>3369
So in essence, I have become a vacuum cleaner fanboy?

O what new depths I plumb.

How was it?

http://defcon.org/

>>3342
Its in August.

For $200 you might as well just get a digital camera...

>>3354
But then you can't be a mega creeper and videotape everyone without them knowing.

I predict these glasses will be pretty popular in college settings.

Do you think you have the technological capability and/or a sure enough hand to not fuck up building your own? It's not as difficult as it sounds, it's like putting together really expensive Legos that may or may not be fucked up beyond repair by handling them incorrectly.

Nah, I'd probably break everything.

>>3288
Think of what it looks like with a black screen. That's what it really looks like.

But if you want to seem some expensive gadgets. Here's the Optimus Maximus.
Optimus Maximus Keyboard from ThinkGeek

>>3288
You got some classy taste.
Good show.

>>3288

I just remembered what this reminds me of.

http://www.shanzai.com/market-mayhem/bandit-gadgets/phones/1065-shanzhai-turned-selecaos-noblesse-oblige-phone-into-reality-.html

Dammit I forgot the link cause I'm an R tard.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100929/ap_on_sc/us_sci_new_earths

Not new at all apparently, but I think it's neat from a sci fi perspective. A non rotating planet? One side constantly smoldering and the other side frozen. Get on that, writers! Although I'm sure it's been done.

>>2213
>Wed Sep 29
Yes it is. What isn't new is that solar system. We've known it was there and that it had planets close to that zone but we never saw that planet.

Can it be Star Trek time now?

http://wireless.amazon.com/b/684177011/?tag=hydrawireless-20&categoryCarrier=carrierVerizon&hvadid=4206939450&ref=pd_sl_4avesm5m5h_b

Your best bet is going to a Verizon provider (note: not a Verizon store) like Costco or Sam's Club and talk about your options. If you go to a Verizon store or a booth at the mall, they'll bone you ever chance they get. If you go to Verizon through Costco or Sam's, Costco and Sam's forces them into better deals you won't find elsewhere and provide ridiculously high-quality customer support.

>>2356
I don't really want to spend $40 for a Sam's membership I won't use except once. Plus I refuse to get a phone that puts me under a new contract. I've been on a month-to-month contract for over a year and it feels glorious. So all I want is a phone to replace my current one that is more up to date and doesn't cost $600.

Enjoy your CDMAids

I use Winamp for music.

I use VLC for video. I haven't had any problems with it, whereas I couldn't get WMPC to play a dvd recently.

>>3270
>foobar
>not KMPlayer

Does Audacity count as a media player? It would be good to have an alternative to that...

Also, I'm using windows 7, if that helps.

I have a laptop with win7, mostly for gaming, videos, etc.

Then I found this old Thinkpad R30 with Windows 2000 that needed a new battery, and then found most of the files were corrupt, so wiped and booted it with Ubuntu. Works fine now, and I mainly use it for programming (I like clicky keyboard) or as a dual monitor for my other laptop.

Linux and an old G4 Cube with OSX.

I use fucking Linux. My chronology >
WinXP > Mandrake > Suse > Debian > Ubuntu > Gentoo > Arch > Debian

Best free antivirus I ever used was AOL's free antivirus a bunch of years back. Back then, it was a slightly stripped down version of Kaspersky. While it is possible to pirate Kaspersky, for those people who don't like to pirate things, this was a great deal.

Then AOL switched it to McAfee and I dropped it for Avast. No particular reason for picking Avast; at the time, if you didn't want to pirate nod32 or kaspersky, avg or avast were your best choices for free antivirus, and I liked the name more for avast. I've heard good things about MS's antivirus package since then, but I feel comfortable enough with a combination of Avast/noscript/adblock and safe browsing habits that I haven't felt a need to switch.

Side note: I've gotten maybe ten pieces of spyware in the two years I've been using adblock, compared to 50+ per month beforehand. If you have a spyware problem, I heartily recommend it.

>What's the best anti-virus software you've ever used?
NOD32.
>Did you pay for it? Was it free? Was it a free "trial version" that expired after a certain amount of time?
Nope, nope, and it has one but nope.
>How often did you have to update it?
Errday.
>Have you ever used it to get rid of a virus, and if so, was it able to kill the virus when other anti-virus programs could not?
Yes and yes.
>Was it good at detecting viruses on its own? By this I'm asking if it alerted you when a virus was attempting to infect your machine, rather than you running the program manually and detecting a virus.
Yep. I think a scan only ever picked up something that the proactive scanner missed twice.
>How did it compare to other anti-virus programs you may have used?
It was the least system intensive, the most thorough, the most up to date, the last intrusive, the quickest updating, etc etc etc
>Do you still use this program?
When in Windows, yessir.
>Optional:

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Being in a third world country involves having a graphing calculator as a bloody status symbol.

>>3307
I've lived in a third world country for years.
It's standard school fare.

>>3298

I once found a way to store precalc/trig equations on a two-line scientific calculator; as far as I know, nobody else in the world has caught on to that. Really, if a student wants to cheat, they will find a way.

yeah i know i wont be able to crossfire the card i have now with the one im looking for. it was more of getting an understanding for the concept, like if i was to get a Mobo with CFX (crossfire) would i still need the bridge thing that goes on top. i dont think i will dual monitor, i herd it slows down your GPU

>>3241 sry i was on another computer that ones is me

Er, considering that card's about 5 years old I'd recommend just plain ditching it.

About Crossfire, the mobo does matter because depending on the built in PCI-E lanes, installing two video cards may result in the speed (max and standard atm being 16x) being split into something like 8x/8x, 16x/4x, 16x/8x, whatever. Basically, a poorly suited motherboard may end up slowing down your video cards so that performance in watching videos or playing games has not benefit over a good single card. But assuming you got a 16x/16x mobo, I still hear it can be a problem where games are concerned because of compatibility issues and the need for a separate driver. All in all, unless you're computing protein folding, doing video processing, or using photoshop heavily (as in multi-tasking professional graphic designer heavily) I would say it's more trouble than it's worth. That said, it does have a performance increase. Speaking purely about power, it can indeed be significantly better than any one card. However, for most people, to get this sort of high performance Crossfire arrangement makes no goddamn financial sense compared to a single card. If you still want to go through with it, I won't stop you but this would be as far as my advice goes. And yeah, you'd still need the bridge.

By the way, sounds like you're upgrading a lot; you changing the CPU too? I ask because AMD will be coming out with a new line of CPUs in a few months and they'll need a new type of socket, AM3+. I just figure even if you're not going to wait and buy one of those new CPUs when it comes out, it'd be nice to get instead of the current AM3 boards just in case you wanna upgrade down the line. Otherwise, the one you linked is already a good choice!

And I'd be happy to help out with planning the build/upgrade if you want~