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Not to start a flame war, but you *are* aware there are more than 2 political parties in this country, right? Just food for thought...

Try this: http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/applications.html

Over 100,000 dead in Iraq and the media zeros in on a guy who killed his wife and child? Genocide in Sudan is just a blip on the radar? WTF is wrong with this world...

You might want to change your subject header from USA to "North Amercia". This applies to (much of, all?) Canada as well. =) But thanks for the reminder!

I'm still on the fence about an Xbox purchase, but I've asked the same question in the past. You'll need to chip your system. Probably need a new dashboard too. http://www.xboxscene.net/ was recommended to me some time agao--maybe it will help you.

Thanks Agozer! I gave the OpenGL drivers another shot (bad luck in the past) and seeing as you said it worked for you, I dug a little deeper and discovered that vsync had been disabled on the OpenGL side in my ATI drivers. That fixed it--thanks!!

flickering - tearing - I'm not sure how to describe it. I've had trouble with other emulators in the past, but they all had a "triple buffering" or "vsync" option that cured it (I'm playing them through my Radeon 9800's tv-out) I've searched the net and found other's wishing for this feature. One of the drivers has "vsync" but I still get tearing. Limiting the fps to 60 still gives me tearing. Any ideas? Another PSX emulator that doesn't exhibit this trait? It's especially bad in 2d scrolling games. I can't be the only one this bothers, can I? Thanks!

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. Many people confuse fascism and communism--or use the terms interchangeably. I thought that might have been the case...

Communist? Not likely. Fascist? Moreso every day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Come on now--I can't be the ONLY un-american commie pinko can I?! It's funny, I could have predicted that LordKanti, Skythe, and SQrL would score F**cking Amercian! Not that this quiz is all that accurate, but I knew they wouldn't score on the Liberal side! Ahhh, the politics of emulation!

"sometimes I worry about Matt and Trey's political beliefs." Worry? Why? Anyhow, no surprise here: I'm also a "left wingin` canadian socialist"! Try to beat THAT!!! It's funny--except for the Al Franken bit, they hit the nail on the head...

Shadow of the Beast on Turbo Duo Target Earth for Genesis Target Earth is so damned hard I can't get past the 3rd stage (without cheating). There's many a time I die in the first stage. Check it out!

I noticed the grinding first with CDR games (think Soul Calibur). Then when I bought the real games, they still made a grinding noise, though perhaps not as much. Both my dreamcasts grind--both manufactured in Japan... [edit] grammar

I thought this was later debunked by photos the pentagon released showing (limited) wreckage? Interesting though...

For comparison, easynews has 19 days worth of xbox retention right now. That would be about August 14th. Quite the difference!