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  I have an iRiver H320 2GB, it's not much bigger than the iPod but I think this model is discontinued. But... : pebui
  • oops, H320 20GB H340 is obviously a 40GB : pebui
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    Looks good, but I don't see how you figure this one is cheaper. $299.99 for the iRiver H10 20gb, $299.00... : Krypt_
    • I bought it when it was price competitive. Plus I didn't like iPods cause the battery life was worse and ... : pebui
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  iPod, that shit is fucking sex. : mojoald
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    Yeah, it's looking pretty good to me. Does it do that radio thing though? I can't find any info on it o... : Krypt_
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      P.S. I'm thinking of getting a cockboat engraved on it. : Krypt_
      • Damn, it won't let me use the necessary characters :( : Krypt_
    • Radio thing: http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/itrip30/index.php or http://www.griffintechnology... : ovrlrd
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    iPod doesn't work as a removable HDD for music. Several players do now although I don't know which are th... : nudel
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      That sucks. How much of a pain in the ass is it to get music from cds or existing mp3s onto it then? : Krypt_
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        A lot of people seem to hate iTunes but, as much as I hate iPods, I didn't find it much of a pain to get ... : nudel
        • it's a post-race! : jcupitt
    • It does sort-of work as a removable HD if you want ... by default it automatically syncs with itunes. If ... : jcupitt
    • Putting CDs on to it: start itunes, insert CD, CD is ripped for you, tagged from CDDB, indexed and the CD... : jcupitt

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• the DS isn't region locked, but i don't know aobut the psp : Mr.SEX
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  Protip: don't buy anything you can there that you can get in the states or wherever it is you live. : ki11_viru5
  • this makes sense. especially since most things are likely to be pirated. : h4wk
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  You can find a PSP on Cameron Road in Kowloon for about 200$ US, if you pay cash. The only catch is no r... : umcpwintermute
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    cool, thanks for the info! i'm currently in zhongshan in mainland china, and it's crazy here, too. more... : h4wk
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      Yea, I didn't buy one when I was in HK. The fifty dollar savings isn't worth the worry of "what if it br... : umcpwintermute
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        Protip: Take your boss drinking and get him really liquored up. There's a nice bar on the waterfront i... : umcpwintermute
        • ahaha, nice man! sounds like a good time for sure. i'll see what i can do. take it easy. : h4wk
• I think the PSP movies might be region coded, but I don't believe the games are. : FormerHPB

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  genjuro: do not post in this thread : mr.sleepy
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    But why? :( : genjuro
    • page file envy : drucifer
• no, bigger page file != faster computer : Toraz Chryx
• make it less human : strandgeck
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  Rule of thumb for pagefile size = 2.5 x actual amount of physical RAM. : trOmblyj
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    up to 1 gig I think. no point in having 1 gig real ram and more than 1 gig virtual :/ : radula
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      This entire post is incorrect. There is great value in having more than 1GB of pagefile if you only have... : electroly
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        This entire post is incorrect. There is no great value in having more than 1GB of pagefile if you only ha... : 69shots
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          How about someone explain why, on either side of the argument? Honestly, I don't have a clue, but I'm... : Bean
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            This entire post is incorrect, There is no great value in explaining the argument. : abrasion
            • This entire subthread is incorrect. There is no spoon post. : someWayne
        • Imagine you have three applications that each use 1.5GB of memory each. 1.5GB is roughly the amount a no... : electroly
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      I have 1gb of ram and I got rid of my pagefile entirely. I noticed a 20 fps increase in Unreal Tournament... : Capricous
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        how did you do that? i have 2 gb : rigg5kthx
        • In Windows XP (Pro): Control Panel --> System --> "Advanced" Tab --> Click the (top most) "Settings" in ... : Capricous
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        Wait, so if we have 1 gig or more we should be doing away with the page file entirely? : Visceral Monkey
        • I don't really appreciate my pagefile taking 2GB of my space while decreasing performance in my games, so... : Capricous
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  If you want a faster computer, click here. : omnova
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    link didn't work : mr.sleepy
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      Are you a blonde? : trOmblyj
      • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?person=mr.sleepy That's a picture of mr.sleepy. Does he look blonde to... : Maddog_Delphi97
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      works fine here. it's probably your small page file. : [fry]
      • ^^ ahaha he actually said something funny : physio
• http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks5.htm : Prototype
• RAM and hard drive speed are the biggest slow-downs for a laptop. : pnkrckjoe
• The single easier/cost efficient thing you can do is add more RAM : warcrow
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  to make it faster it needs speed holes and a spoiler... and maybe a racing stripe : mikecyb
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    ohhh and rims : mikecyb
    • needs more cowbell TYPE-R stickers : monikerdaven
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      Don't forget the huge coffee-can sized muffler... : SKI242
      • Give it a mercedes benz package like those awesome vans I see everywhere these days. That'll make it STUP... : not work safe
• It doesn't hurt anything to jack it up, but you won't get any performance gain. It'll only help if you a... : electroly
• nope. start saving up for a new laptop. you had the X40/T40 thinkpad right? they've released X60 model... : Gaurav Sharma

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  Oh and sorry about the crashing... not sure what causes it but we had the same problem when Helv left ear... : Xevo
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    Sorry I wasn't there early to hook you up with some cherries as planned. I tried to connect from a friend... : prfectjon
    • It's all good... there are about a billion peaches to pick up as helv brings 10 or so each time she comes... : Xevo
    • We should play tonight, I still have some peaches around! : helvetica
• Yeah it really was a good day for fishing! No worries about the crashing, I still had all my stuffs when... : helvetica
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  What's the turn around time for fruit? I've got coconuts now on my palms, but my cherry, pear, and orang... : burningtrees
  • usually 3 days. : Fredrik S
  • 4 days after initial planting to bear fruit, 2 days after each shake. : Xevo

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• http://www.raffaello-network.com/item_images/gucbag-1016752122portat.jpg : johnsto
• www.apple.com : larcho
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  http://www.xoxide.com/antec-p180-case.html : PlanetPerfecto
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    http://www.xoxide.com/arctic-cooling-silentium-t2.html : PlanetPerfecto
    • looks like a fridge.. still pretty cool though : podizzle
  • lol http://www.xoxide.com/aeluca.html : PlanetPerfecto
• http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/11-112-078-18.JPG http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggI... : Judicator.Khas
• http://www.lian-li.com/Product/Chassis/M_V_S_PC-V1100.htm or http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/CoolerMaster... : Nali4Freedom

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• uuuhhh... Might be a little bad form. But sneak some out when nobodys looking. : mavmavv
• I'd say yes, but if you don't have any alternative what are you going to do? : Blucklesworth
• If you bring the cereal to eat there, I see no problem using a little bit of milk from their several gall... : glio1337

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  DVD shrink should do it without blinking. Download it and its so easy, I won't waste my time : boomstickah
  • This program is pretty pimp and easy to use. Thanks boomstickah man!!! Your my Clark Kent!! /cuddles : cbslf

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• wiki-terrorism : spdon

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  No Canada allowed. : redfive
  • We didn't want you to have one anyway. Your GBA Micro ads already sell it well enough. : geedeck

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  when is that being released today? (he asks before reading the review) : moshman
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    yup, should be out any moment I think. : bargeld
    • great, I won't be home until 8 or so : moshman
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  oh... nice... I'm waiting for the Thing to pop out :) But this is really good, does not look all plasti... : BigT
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    hmm, I wonder if they are using subsurface scattering : moshman
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      hehe you said scat : dodob
      • lol, I should become mod for that, 'cos sTeve loves the scat : moshman
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  A static shot just shows bloom. HDR, to me, seems more about shifting the range of light so that you can ... : nudel
  • PGR3 does it quite well, when coming out of dark tunnels into bright streets. and the contrast between sh... : moshman
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    But HDR is not just about shifting the range of light, its about representing it in different ways. One, ... : crummynz
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      pgr3 does that too. Makes driving .... interesting at times. : chazums
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        I take if you can't buy sunglasses or a photoreactive windscreen in PGR3? (I wish I could buy an Xbox360 ... : nudel
        • nope, there are a couple of tracks where there are corners where you can't see properly. Takes some guts... : chazums
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      I'm not sure. Lost Cost certainly looks different when you look at the sun compared to the lense flare we... : nudel
      • It's pretty different. It's an expensive effect to render too. : bargeld
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      I think everything we're really talking about here is dynamic range compression (fitting a fundamentally ... : bostrov
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        http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/fooled.jpg : BigT
        • Exactly. : bostrov
  • Wait until you see it for yourself. 3DMark06 supports HDR and that test is especially made for showing it... : SlamDunk
  • for "hdr", that shot has very low dynamic range. I see the bloom but nothing at all approaches black : Draugluin
• I wonder how this would run on my 9600XT, and how many features I would miss out on. : NukeDukem
• downloading! thx b 2 fileshack! all other places are getting hammered right now. : SlamDunk
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  I ask that you people join with me and not even download that thing. It is so absolutely irrelevant. : rosewood
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    so, eyecandy is always fun to look at : moshman
    • yup I will download it but just to look at the pretty eye candy at 5fps.. :[ : Shadowdane
    • Yep. All the much better if it's in a game, but demo or benchmark eye candy can give you an idea of where... : bostrov
  • so is your comment... irrelevant :) : SlamDunk
  • let's stop the oppressors together!!! : nomaad
• ACtually I think if it where HDR done right, there wouldn't be so much washout from the flare. My unders... : Omaha
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  imo the colours are totaly off for a bright sunny day in a snowy environment. The kind of reflections co... : spdon
  • oh is that suposed to be a camera lense looking at the sun? That looks pretty realistic if it was. I was ... : spdon
• pffft... f u guys. that looks crazy mad realistic to me *shrug* :| : SlamDunk

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• Yes, last night's was great. Doomsday was a freak! Dog's heads?!?!?! O_o : FormerHPB
• What does that mean? : carazy

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• this is why I would never want to be in public view ever! : kanix
• I'm pretty sure I've seen a lot of things funnier than this, but this is definitely a trip. : qwpeoriu
• Shame we'll never see a CNN personality call out Bush. :( : nudel
• Haha brilliant. : nomaad
• As big of a douche as the guy is, It still depends upon the context, as the mayor might have actually had... : ayesel
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  B.E.A-UTIFUL. I have to give CNN props for this. : PlanetPerfecto
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    don't give guys props that's how Carrotop got started!!! : kbnerd
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      It's not the props, it's how you use them that can turn somebody into that unholy ass clown that is Carro... : Totenjaeger
      • http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11474473 : losder5000
• It would have been funnier if they walked up to him eating dinner and he was all o_O. : lie bot
• I had been giving Nagin a lot of slack since Katrina, but after listening to the whole Chocolate City spe... : Rauol Duke
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  i want to move to chocolate city, it sound delicious : Mr.SEX
  • When a person has political power like that it's problably best to leave out any sort of bias. It's funny... : tension

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  just managed 32 secs too : moshman
  • and also, cool minigame : moshman
  • :( : slacko
• 2nd try got to 25 seconds. : ki11_viru5
• haha, holy shit they speed up fast at 16 seconds : snowwolf
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  http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/8926/clipboard012dj.jpg :P : tunis5000
  • wow, very nice : moshman
  • yeah I got over a minute but only becaues it's all slow in FF :) : skinlab133
  • http://www.andresbecerra.com/ShackUploads/FileDetails.cfm?Title=Oh_yeah&FileId=412 : BigT
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  omg wallhax!! http://home.no.net/scifi/i/redsquare.html No seriously. : d fluke
  • damn 11 seconds : yay4furryanimals

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• too bad the fucked up and didn't release it on the xbox of GC also : sigpro
• sad that it's ps2 only :( : Silent Wolf
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  I thought that Soul Caliber 2 was better. SC3 just feels like random button mashing to me. Tekken 5 see... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
  • I would never splooge over a fighting game that centered around button mashing. SC3 is the exact opposit... : Poor Yurik
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  Like the other have said, PS2 only is stupid. Hell, they should have gone all 360 and Live play. : bargeld
  • they are all about the cash money :) : Silent Wolf

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• that feels low to me. Given that we're all nerds tech saavy : chazums
• i fuck that up because i usually with firefox at work, but still use IE at home : sigpro
• Mamma says Firefox is the devil. : intothefray

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• it's true, 3 monitors is awesome. ........even moreso when at home : thekidd
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  5 monitors : rosewood
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    no 6, no 12, BAKERS DOZEN!!! : Matto357
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      always about food with you. 6 is about my limit -- I think I could handle 7. : rosewood
      • Haha, honestly I'm a big fan of 1 big monitor nowadays. Granted I don't use my computer for anything but... : Matto357
      • gotta have an odd number, so it's going to be 7 or 9 : thekidd
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  I'm still trying to justify getting a 2nd. =( : LexLuther
  • 2 is where it starts my friend. I came in today with another just sitting on my desk, my boss plopped it ... : mavmavv
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  I'm just waiting for another $300 Dell whateverFPW special to get a second one set up; right now I have o... : Omaha
  • Yeah my boss is running a 21" wide and a 19" regular LCDs Hes gonna get another 19" reg soon. : mavmavv

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  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=animal+crossing+golden+axe+site%3Agamefaqs.com&btnG=Search : smellslikefish
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    Wtf... How to get the scallop The scallop is used to get the golden axe from Pascal. Pascal walks aroun... : rosewood
    • This game is seriously fucking weird. : Matto357
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      Ive seen none of these people but tortimer : rosewood
      • you need to play more then : sigpro
      • Joan sells turnips Sunday morning, Wendel is the walrus that randomly comes around giving wallpaper, Saha... : helvetica
• Give nook a golden shower. : FormerHPB

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  Different girls now than there used to be on PA, I wonder if he draws the girls like his current GF (of c... : NukeDukem
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    No, they're the same and they're not GFs they're wives. : Delusional
    • Ya they both have kids now too. Or at least one of them does. : dante2010
• Hah. I need to read PA more often. : PlanetPerfecto
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  Thats was funny. Funniest PA in a long time. : baron calamity
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    I hear this a lot. : drucifer
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      Well the christmas arc really sucked. The 360 comics sucked. The He-man Wiki comic was good but over all ... : baron calamity
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        "Hey Santa?" "Yes, Merch?" "I fucked your dad. I fucked him all night long." : nomaad
        • That's not soo funny. I have to agree with the He-Man one too, that one made me really lol. : larcho
  • Try this one http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/06 "I don't want to see any pineapple in my : Schnapple

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  Thats just plain incorrect, AMD has more than 1 Fab. : ra1n
  • True but the OP is correct in that, without help, no single company would be able to meet the market dema... : SolrFlare
• Sorry, forgot link: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2564 : ra1n
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  No, if the factories that Intel owns right now just completely stopped producing chips, no one could fill... : Matto357
  • ANd its not like if a big company goes bankrupt they just shut the doors. They would have debt to pay an... : rosewood

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• I like to pretend that movie never happened. Because it was terrible. But to quickly throw out an exp... : Begawkiness
• 1 Predator could RAPE 3 aliens, anally and paint his name in the floor with their acid and still have tim... : abrasion
• Well I think the idea is they did, at least the Wayland corporation did, but they kept it quiet. Even if... : SolrFlare
• AvP had an ending?? We got bored of the stupid movie and went to bed before it finished. : nudel
• Oscar! Breathtaking film : Jaxle

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• Yeah I agree, pretty good stuff. : red2lucas
• I'm surprised you - a canadian - could understand their terrible accents, cookblaze : genjuro
• Yeah it was a good movie but i didnt think it deserved the hype. Very forgetable. : Silent Wolf

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• i think they're just multiplier locked so it would probably under-clock it. There might be some wierd vo... : chazums

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• oh god I hate april fools jokes. I hope the internet takes a break next april 1. : nomaad

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  If you have an ATI card (or some type of wrapper): http://www.ati.com/developer/demos/r9700.html First on... : cr00kedview
  • I have an inspiron 9300 with a geforce Go 6800 and it worked perfectly no wrapper necessary....I guess it... : skunk_ape
  • Yeah they used it as an old tech demo. Pretty damn cool. : nomaad
  • marked for after class, thanks : maulla
• My mind is blown. Beautiful. : mofo
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  There is a DVD of a bunch of these that was awesome and I wasn't even high. : dognose
  • Yeah, I have it on DVD too, its mind blowing stuff! : AlexXdude
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  That's pretty awesome, wonder how he did it. : SpaecKow
  • it only took 7 days. oh wait, you mean the videos : d0pamine
• beautiful, that's really beautiful : Judicator.Khas
• Totally awesome. And I just ordered the DVD. :( : RatBastard
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  needs more cowbell . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . ;) : fuzzydamnit
  • Fucker. :P : RatBastard
• Yeah, I loved this when I first saw it, very creative. : node
• I would be so awesome if you could create your own music using the basis for this thing. : ki11_viru5
• It's better in real time : red2lucas

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  Wow, that actually looks good. : Bean
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    if by "it" you mean "kate beckinsale's lovely exterior", then yes : Luminair
    • if by "it", I mean "that" : Luminair
• nah : Luminair
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  heh. +5 for slow-mo titties : sexninja!!!!
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    And damn were they nice ones. : zuga
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      He finds out in the end that he rewound into the past and that's actually his mom. : Krypt_
      • I assumed it was going to be his daughter. also this movie looks like crap : Chris Remo
  • this post made me click : drucifer
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  ROB SCHNIEDER HAS PLAYED AN ANIMAL!!! AND NOW, HE'S PLAYING THE HOTTEST ROLE OF THEM ALL!!! A TOASTER! D... : burning eye
  • ROB SCHNEIDER IS...A STAPLER! : Chris Remo
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  Wait, what, a family comedy? What the fuck do I want with this. : SpaecKow
  • ADAM SANDLER WILL EAT YOUR SOUL. : nomaad
• teenage daughter looks hot. young, but hot. : sKetchflow
• click, click click looks good : shackwack
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  Family Guy already did the "Beyond" joke about Bed bath and beyond : NukeDukem
  • "Simpsons did it!" : Code RedBeard
  • yeah but Family Guy didn't have the full coorperation of the Bed Bath and Beyond people : Schnapple
• damn, nice tits. the rest of that trailer looked like a bunch of crap. : qwpeoriu
• You just know that'll be good! It's got product placements in the trailer! That's a sure sign of qualit... : RatBastard
• Could be torerable.. I want the old Sandler back, the happy gilmore, waterboy days were great. : gummijoh
• haha reminds me of this: http://www.brandonbird.com/lazysunday.html might even make it worth seeing..... : captain giblet
• WTF hassle the hoff and walken in the same movie, priceless! : ErneX
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  My machine doesn't like quicktime in-browser, alt-link? : InfoBiter
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    right click > save ass: http://movies.apple.com/movies/sony_pictures/click/click-tlr1_h.640.mov : SlamDunk
    • Negative ghostrider, apple hates that shit, dwlds as a 1kb file. : InfoBiter
• who's the girl jogging? she's hot as shit : kgargonmagrix79

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  what you don't realize is that for the past year you've been taking his special parking space. : carnivore
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    no way.. that fuckface just started a month ago. he also parks facing out. how pretentious! hurrr i'... : industro
    • Clearly you just need to show up for work like 5 hours early. : losder5000

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  Hahahah, direct to DVD. Of course, releasing direct to DVD means big profits these days but the perce... : SpaecKow
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    David Duchovony deserves direct to DVD. He is a terribly wooden actor. and he certainly seems miscast. : kbnerd
    • I like Duchovny :( but that might be because I'm a hyoooge X-Files fanboy. : SpaecKow
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  Considering how wooden Bana's performance was in Hulk 1, I'd say Duchovney is a perfect replacement. D... : Dynotaku
  • Evolution was so bad I considered suicide. I thought it was a sign of the end times =/ : losder5000
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  Hulk 1 should have been straight to DVD :( : dognose
  • IA1000000000xWTP : kbnerd

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• When will they go down in price officially? :( I want a 2nd one hrhr : moshman
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  a 2405FPW on eBay? I'd be worried that he was selling it because of defects (knowing Dell) : Postal
  • I thoroughly agree. Sad about the 2407 not having component though :( or cygnus could just wait 3 months... : abrasion