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by Steve Gibson, Dec 22, 2000 5:35am PSTHrm, I suppose now would be a good time to consider going Christmas shopping huh? Maybe I'll look into that... The house smells like pine needles anyways. Oh yeah, anyone who buys a fake tree and then sprays that pine needle scent all over their house is a gimp. It looks like while I was away last week a few emails seemed to have fallen through the cracks. If you emailed me anything important that you would generally expect a response from, try re-sending it. Doh. IOTD: This woman has the right idea, I like her a lot. Hey Jenny Slater. Hey Jenny Slater. Hey Jenny Slater.
New video game releases of 5/21-5/27
Indie Jeff's Weekly Pick: Offspring Fling
Chatty: E3 2012, Diablo III
FileShack: SOL: Exodus, Defenders of the Last Colony
Daily Filter: Madden NFL 13, NHL 13
Nemo_NX: #738, She ain't that cute for me to waste 4 bucks on.... @ Evening Reading
Scores represent results from 3DMark 2000 on default settings:
PII-400, GeForce2 MX: 3300
Athlon 900, TNT2 Ultra: 3800
PII-400, TNT2 Ultra: 1400
Athlon 900, GeForce2 MX: 6000
The Geforce2 MX was $150 upgrade when I bought it. The parts that I couldn't have reused (Athlon 900, ABIT KT7-RAID, 256MB PC 133) cost around $550.
The GeForce2 MX gave me 87% of the performance for 27% of the price of the other upgrade. Hope this lays to rest some of the doubts about the benefits of T&L as an upgrade path. And the numbers don't just represent the difference in fill rate. Any scene that the polygon heavy was a slide show on the TNT2, while they were smooth on the MX, on the PII machine.
BTW, I had to buy a new sound card for the Athlon machine, since my SBLive absolutely failed to install properly (even after trying all the tricks and suggestions I could find online). I got one of the Philips "Edge" soundcards. I am very happy with it so far and can't wait to see it reviewed. QSound just kicks ass.
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"Experts claim that the computer chip and 3-D video processor in a PlayStation are one thousand times more powerful than the most sophisticated computer on the consumer market today — turning toys, into potential weapons. "
How could that be? Faster than a quad processor PIII Xeon server with many gigs of ram? What a laugh...
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TJE0/104-4935151-7159911
OMFG! And people think violent games twist kids?
ftp://ftp.owo.com/pub/uo2/Origin_trailer_large.mov
Check out the flying body attacks in the last half. Nice.
<SantaDuk> HAELO! I M LOKING PFOR UH YUNG GRRL 4 SECKZ0R, KEN U HELP PLZ?
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did anyone see any blank front pages today?
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http://bong.dhs.org
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Thats to all those who prtovided helpxors today and yesterday. Shampoo, Vantage, etc.
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Too bad he's not a gamer. Win98SE and a TNT2 do not do this CPU justice... :(
-Quag
Ok, so it is 3 a.m. and i'm flipping through the channels, and i see an infomercial for a called the titanium II, so i watch it for and i find out it's really an infomrcial for some sorta non-stick frying pan. This really bothers me, how could you call a non-stick frying pan the titanium II, it isn't even made out of titanium, and then they expect us to believe that it is coated with 2 layers of teflon, i'm no scientist but i know that nothing sticks to teflon, so how could teflon stick to itself, do they expect us to believe that it is some magic teflon that some how sticks to itself but not everything else? Then the guy starts talking about how his kids like to make him breakfast, so he puts milk in a pan, an egg in another, oatmeal in another, and cheese in another... then all of the sudden he talking about how that none of the stuff doesn't stick to the pan, it's like uhh.. excuse me, but you were talkin about how your kids like to make you breakfast then all of the sudden your showing us how nothing sticks to the pan... at this point i lose interest and change the channel.
The point is what ever happened to the good infomercials? alice doesn't work here anymore, the roncoe set it and forget it, the don lapri system, that old guy with the juicer, and the george foreman grill?
/me steps off soap box
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I just can't seem to be able to play it with the GTS2 card,works fine with the tnt2 ultra- goes completely black with the GTS2.I just can't figure it out.
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I'm pretty sure this is old, but what the hell, it's funny.
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Thanks!
-Quag
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Merry Christmas!
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Isn't there anything higher than 7.17?
According to those stats, HL is still in the lead. I wonder how many are OpFor CTF, CS, TFC and regular HL DM.
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-Quag
Merry Christmas!!
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I usually don't pay attention, but I looked to day, and I'm only getting one that says "TEEN PAYOFF".
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Here come the flood of bad jokes like \kill... \quit or Ctrl+Alt+Del
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