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  1. all those features are basically set up for people who dont know how to use a computer. Fancy visuals/half-assed apps/wizards and crap flying around your screen to guide you through everything.

     

    Anyone who has a decent amount of knowledge about computers can do all those things in XP/Linux/even Mac :-)

     

    Yeah, it's just in Windows it comes built in instead of having to download 20+ programs for Linux, not to mention a windows emulator to actually play games--games that Mac will never get.

     

    And pimping out a Mac = changing the color of your case, because AFAIK, you can't upgrade much in a Mac, so when it becomes obsolete, just buck up and suck the tit by buying a new $2000 machine, right?

     

    Edit: Just so we're clear that I'm not spending $500 on Microsoft and that I'm not a total fanboy, I spent $40 for XP that got me a free upgrade to Vista. That's $20-$30 per OS.

    I'm frugal, and I like to know what I'm getting and that I can change it up if I want; I haven't heard of people upgrading macs, so I'll never get one.

  2. I haven't played it yet, but a friend of mine said that it was basically an amalgam of Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2, and Generals.

     

    Accurate description.

    Demo doesn't let you play NOD. I was sad.

    Only took an hour to download--had to find a website where I could get full speed on it though.

     

    You can play as NOD in skirmish. To do it, click the drop down tab which is GDI by default. NOD and Scrin are greyed out. Move the cursor to NOD, press N on the keyboard, then click the greyed out NOD word. Your faction will change to NOD.

     

    Why thank you! I will try that today!

  3. I haven't played it yet, but a friend of mine said that it was basically an amalgam of Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 2, and Generals.

     

    Accurate description.

    Demo doesn't let you play NOD. I was sad.

    Only took an hour to download--had to find a website where I could get full speed on it though.

  4. From what I know, opteron is better than FX.

    But IIRC Core 2 Duo beats them both out--just do a search on tom's hardware.

    AMD is better than Intel if you're getting a single core chip, but for dual cores, right now Intel is the leader.

     

    And if overclocking is a priority, get either an e4300 or an e 6300 core 2 duo.

    http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/07/14/cor..._64/page18.html

     

    "First of all let me sort the facts: As soon as Core 2 Duo hits the market, it will...

     

    be the fastest x86 processor (both single and dual core models)

     

    make the Pentium D and all predecessors look like antiques

     

    be the clear choice for performance users despite its rather expensive price

     

    outperform the complete Athlon 64 family (X2 and FX) in all areas, including gaming, where AMD has traditionally been very strong

     

    consume less energy than other standard desktop processors

     

    transform the whole Intel platform from an energy-hungry beast to a reasonable solution that is competitive in terms of performance per Watt"

     

     

    older article, but nothing has changed.

  5. Oh please, how many people inhabit the united states right now?

    300 million?

    I hardly think that the government is going to be tapping all 300 million telephones--and the telephones that they do tap, they probably have reason to tap.

    Be realistic here, god damn.

  6. There has never been a truly communist country, Technically if it where deployed correctly communism would work.

     

    That's the exact same spoon-fed retard answer a geography teacher would say every time I argued against communism.

     

    Tell me, how can a social system work which doesn't take into account the nature of the people it purports to control?

     

    Saying communism works in theory is like saying that I've got a great idea for a perfect economy--but we just need to learn to fly.

  7. Well, assembly actually went fast. Took all of an hour to put everything together--wiring was another half hour or hour.

    Wiring in that case is a bear.

    It's all together now, but I'll see about taking some pictures of how it looks. The tuniq titan is a beast of a cooler, it dwarfs the motherboard.

    But I've got plenty of room to OC with how cool it keeps things :devilboy:

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    Just finished ordering the parts.

    And I hate UPS for not automatically delivering on Saturday (Bunch of bastards!)

    Anyway, specs:

     

    Case: Antec P180b

    CPU: Core 2 Duo E6300

    CPU Cooling: Tuniq Tower 120

    Mobo: Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3

    Memory: G.SKILL 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) System Memory Model F2-6400PHU1-1GBNR

    HDD: WD Caviar 250gb 16mb cache 7200rpm and I'll have an external 250gb HDD for backup purposes.

    PSU: RAIDMAX RX-530A 530W

    Monitor: Hanns G JC-199D 19" LCD Monitor

    Video Card: XFX GeForce 7600 GS

    LG 18X DVD±R Super-Multi DVD Burner

     

    And mouse and keyboard, I'll just steal the natural keyboard from this pc, and I've got a razer copperhead anarchy red coming in the mail.

    Soon I get to put it together, and I can't wait!

     

    Should I try to take pictures and post it when I start assembling it?

  9. Weight training is awesome.

    I swear, everybody in that class has a sense of humor. Allow me to elaborate. Yesterday, during this stuff where we were doing core exercises on a stability ball, where we had to sit toward the front of our stability balls and lean back, I fell off my ball and couldn't stop laughing about it, and I'm pretty sure everybody saw me because I talked to some people about it and they said they saw me and laughed.

     

    But what made Wednesday such a highlight was when Cheryl, the weight training instructor, stated "I hope none of you are allergic to latex" while we were leaning over the sability balls. I responded by making angry gestures and facial expressions. A couple of the older guys in the class--and when I say older, I mean older than me, but mid to late 20s--chuckle, and one of them loudly says "Man dude, haha, you're gonna have a long life!"

     

    My friend and I nearly fell off our stability balls laughing. And this wasn't even all that happened! Later in the stability ball day, we had to make a 'bridge' where we only have our upper back on the ball, and we 'thrust' up. Cheryl, again, the instructor, apparently asked someone what was so funny. For once it wasn't me laughing--it was probably the dude next to her and across the room from me--and the guy next to me says loud enough for me to hear it "Jeeze, I don't see how she can't get it, we're doing this--" and he demonstrates exaggerated thrusting, claiming that the instructor must be joking if she doesn't get it. My friend and I shared a few laughs at that.

     

    And today the guy that made the thrusting remark wore a shirt with a beaver holding a log that said "Wood is Good" and asked everybody "Do you guys like the beaver? My girlfriend got me this shirt. I love it. But for some reason the feminist nazis in my speech class didn't like it." Those feminist nazis conclude that "All men are potential rapists". I couldn't help but tell him about my feminist history teacher experiences, but that's another story altogether.

     

    Cheers!

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