ken_cinder

It's just common sense when you understand how your body works buddy. You can't always stick to it consistently though, just don't forget about it for later. I love my Wendy's hamburgers.......I'm not as fit as I was even a few years ago. Got a bit of pudge on my tummy, but I'm not "fat". lol I'm married now with a 3-1/2 year old, I don't need to impress anyone. Theres still a 6 pack under that tummy, if I cared.

That's because there are no girls on the internet. This thread is pure speculation, and playing along. I tried to meet you once and you declined Wife probably wouldn't approve (She's not the jealous type, but she's still be like "You're meeting WHO from on the internet?"). Also only have 1 car, not leaving her and my daughter up here in rural/suburban nowhere without it. Would have done it after I got my motorcycle, but you said you were going away or something.......'sides, crashed my bike on the 9th and it's possible it's a write-off, have to wait and see. Maybe next summer, provided I have a bike to ride.

Although SMS emulation doesn't require a load of horsepower, it's nice to see you working on this again. I think I gave your last release a spin, and it was pretty decent. A vb based emulator will surely offer inherent performance increases for someone running an old box for the purposes of old games and emulators, provided well optimized. If it interests you in the future, I'd love to see a vb NES emulator. I plan on picking up an old pentium class laptop at some point, to set up for my daughter and nesticle is just plain lacking and inaccurate. The only vb based NES emulators I know of are poorly optimized, or just simply discontinued before being really useable.

I thought we had this discussion before in another thread? To put on weight, one eats more throughout the day, starting with tricking your body into thinking it is going to get little food throughout the day. To lose weight, do the opposite, huge breakfast to small dinner. You trick your metabolism. Now you cannot build muscle if you don't gain weight, but you have to build muscle.....it doesn't just grow. So don't try losing weight and building muscle at the same time, won't work. I'm 6'2" 215lbs, not much fat on me. Used to be 150lbs 5 or 6 years ago. Trust me the above works. Supplements not required.

That's because there are no girls on the internet. This thread is pure speculation, and playing along.

Lies! Lies! Women cannot BBQ! This is a time and example proven FACT of life! Hell, women have a hard time cooking most meat properly period unless it's normally found with feathers. My wife can cook well, but she ALWAYS overcooks ground beef. If it say's "Moo" or "Oink" YOU WOMEN CANNOT COOK IT PROPERLY, especially on a BBQ!

Heh... thats an offal lot of effort for some drumsticks... Perhaps you should train them to fetch beer! Less of a mess. I'm good at fetching more than beer, I can make mixed drinks! I'm trained! but can you cook a steak. Blasphemy! NO woman can cook a steak. Back off! Get yer own BBQ!

I'm going to be pissed if this WiFi upgrade turns out to be a B/G capable chipset. I hate having to set my router to accept B connections and use WEP to be able to use my DS, so much that I simply don't go online with my DS. I wonder if it's possible to run the WiFi card on my desktop, where my internet connection is rooted, in Ad-Hoc/Infrastructure mode so I can connect directly to the desktop with my DS, while still having the desktop connected to the router. I would imagine not, with a single radio/antenna............might have to put one of my other WiFi cards in there just for the DS.

It's a TARP!

Gryph, who are trying to kid? When HL2 came out, I couldn't run it........at all! Well I could, but barely playable. HL2 pushed things up some, to the point I needed to buy a new video card to get by.

I'd take the "Faster Plus" package at the added cost (Almost $20 over my current cost) but the rest of the packages are a HUGE ripoff. This only if they were unlimited. But they are ALL a ripoff compared to what our friends over the atlantic get.

I spent 3 straight hours upstairs in my office playing Titan Quest last night. Someone here mentioned it awhile ago, and I'm glad they did. Titan Quest is an awesome Action RPG! If you like games like Diablo, give this a try.

Features. For starters, the first one (Most expensive) sports an x16 and x4 PCI-Express slot. The others only have one x16 and the others are x1 slots. Theres other things too. You really need to sit down and make a list of what it is you WANT out of your PC, and make sure you buy parts that will do it for you. Don't just pull up parts that fit the general idea. Get EXACTLY what you want. You need to do some serious research, and this isn't going to be an overnight thing. Start with a motherboard and make a checklist. 1: Do you want SLi or Crossfire? Hell do you even want either? 2: Do you want DDR3 support, DDR2 or both? (You will pay more for one that supports both, and you'll pay more for DDR3 only. Choose wisely) 3: Do you care if it has onboard audio? There are usually a few revisions of a board based on if it has onboard audio etc. 4: What kind of processor do you want? Do you want to be able to pop a quad core in there later? Cross off every board you come across that doesn't fit ALL of those, and put ones down that do. Then go over the ones that made the cut, and cut them down even further by their specs for performance and other features. Do they sport features you could give a rats ass about? You may not want that board if you can save $20 by going with one that doesn't have those useless features. Lastly, enough with Newegg etc. Start your research on manufacturers websites. Use Newegg to find stuff, but make a list and check the manufacturers site. Sometimes bios upgrades enable new features you don't see on store sites (My motherboard supports the Phenom/Quad Core, it didn't until a bios upgrade was released) The LAST place you should be compiling a list of potential buys, is at a store. That's like grocery shopping while you're hungry!!!

The sequel doesn't look quite as good, and does not run on Cry Engine 2. There are things Cry Engine 2 is capable of, that the engine Warhead runs on isn't capable of. That said, I will agree Cry Engine 2 is lacking optimization, but the specs required to run it high up there, are for the average user with a poorly optimized PC in the first place. If people could learn to keep their machines running smoothly, specs would be more realistic. I run Crysis at settings people with higher spec'd machines can't, simply because my machines are always run lean and clean. Secondly, everyone seems to be all about resolution before detail. WHAT THE HELL is the point of running at 1600x1200 with medium detail? Half sized textures at a higher resolution, will look worse than full sized textures at a lower resolution, PERIOD. No if ands or buts, detail over resolution ALWAYS! Crank the detail, and THEN raise the resolution until you run out of "Oomph!". Theres no excuse for the "But my LCD's native resolution...." I have some displays with fixed pixels, and 1: they scale fine 2: You can afford to build a new rig for a game, but not get a new monitor? Fixed pixel displays are yesterday, stop making excuses.

Quad core is not useless. All 4 cores can still be utilized, there just isn't currently much if anything that will make use of the 4 cores in a seperate nature (For example, a game using 1 core for physics calculations and the others for different things). Future proofing it is. DDR3..........hrmm, I haven't seen much of it yet to decide if the performance yield is worth the extra buck. Good to get a board that will support it, and maybe buy DDR2 for the time being (Should be backwards compatible, but check in case) I don't do NvIdia, I can't answer this question. What I can answer is brand. I stand by Asus.

I spent around $600 for the desktop you see in my sig. When I built it, cost in a store? Thousands for sure, and that's just the PC itself. Hell I don't know if you'd even be able to buy half the stuff I used in a store. The higher end components aren't used by pre-fab builders. ANY of the "Gaming PC" manufacturers you will find, SUCK! PERIOD! They charge you 3-5x as much as you'd pay to build it yourself, and no you are not getting what you think you are getting. It's called "wording" and as long as the item(s) in question conform to the basic wording they use, you get what you were told you were getting........but you're not. As for being impatient. Why? You could drop the $2000 on everything you need and want, and get it all before one of these lameass pre-fab box makers even gets your system into a box. Spend $2000 on the components you want, and get 3x the PC you otherwise would. I WILL NOT recommend a place to buy a pre-built gaming PC. None exist that come even close to living up to my standards. Alienware........you just mentioned a name that makes me laugh so hard I nearly $hit my pants.

Maybe.......lol

I had my legs crushed at the knees by 4 tons back in 01. Surgery to remove damaged cartilage and 6 months of physiotherapy. That too, is fine now. Gonna take a tank to knock me out of commission.

Cookies......

Shoulder is fine now, has a little bit of sketchiness when I move it certain ways, but it HAS only been 2 weeks. I got off easy, but I don't put that at any less than my own instincts when I crashed to not let it fall on me and to just go limp like a damn crash dummy.

Turok!!!! Don't play the PC port, it's just not the same.......Turok 2 is ok. Never played Rage Wars.

Ok, an update. Now I'm not certain as to the specific damage, but the estimate I was given was $2300 for repairs. That's more than half the value of my bike. Estimate was from the shop, appraiser still has to go have a look, so the shop could just be trying to get as much $ as they can (I don't care, I'm not paying for it and the appraiser will have the final say). Given that I can't see the parts I know are damaged costing even a quarter of that, I wonder if theres any structural damage. I know there's labor in there too, but no way would it encompass even half that either. I hope they don't write my bike off, I sure as crap won't get fair value on it. More pics...... I didn't get pics of the right mirror (It's banged up, and the mount is barely able to hold it. I didn't get pics of the left crash knob on the bar, the impact was so fast and hard it knocked the peg right out of the handlebar on the other side of the bike. Front wheel is out of place in the forks, and the forks are out of place. Both brake levers are actually far less unsightly than they were, I bent them back out to make them somewhat useable while getting the bike around the yard at work and onto a truck.

Only jobs I've had, have been walk in and shoot straight up that I want a job, never failed. I only ever once filled out an application (For more than writing my info down somewhere after the fact) and that was a night job stocking shelves when I went back to school. Construction/demolition. 16 years old, walked on site and asked for the foreman. Started next day. Current job. I went to the city with a friend who worked there, not necessarily wanting a job there. I walked into several places and had on the spot job offers, even for a C&C programmer/mechanic (I couldn't take it when they called me up, personal chaos....f**k sake). Wound up walking in, and being hired on the spot. When I got hired back (I left for a year and a half, attempting to go back to school = PHAIL), I simply called my old manager and said give me a job........done. Moving company. Another walk in, hired right off the hop. If you walk in somewhere and essentially tell THEM you're working for them, nobody else who has applied matters. Of course you can't word it as such, but when you appear to be someone they can't pass by......they won't. Applications are useless and an afterthought.......somewhere to write down your social insurance/security number and banking details as far as I'm concerned. Applications are for the less motivated.

Not much he can do anyway......the recovery disc isn't even working. If you can't get your internet working due to a lack of drivers for your network card, just hop on another computer and download the drivers onto a memory card/stick.

Use a proper Windows disc (If XP, pro......not home, eww) and try giving a clean format a go. I HATE recovery discs, I understand they are good for people who know nothing about computers, but it's not like a Windows install is difficult to understand. Companies use recovery discs to avoid paying for full licenses of Windows for each machine they sell. These recovery discs inherently make a damn mess of your system from the start.