Anyway, I am going to keep this short and sweet. Sows anyone know any god image uploaing websites. Like Fileshack.

THX

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http://www.imageshack.us/

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thanx mate. :smile:

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www.photobucket.com

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

http://www.iespell.com/

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Some people are like slinkys...

They aren?t really good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one tumbles down the stairs.

I've used Photobucket for a long time, it's great imho. I'm not a fan of imageshack because you get pop-ups and/or pop-unders whenever you view an image. Pop-ups are not zesty.

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ok. Sweet. Thanks everyone :smile:

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Popups, really? Firefox is a wonderful thing :biggrin:

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I have internet explorer 7 and I swear I have not ever gotten 1 pop up since i got this laptop which was about a week ago. And when I' at my dads I'm on the net alot

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Popups, really? Firefox is a wonderful thing :biggrin:

It'd be even nicer if it blocked the pop-unders you get at imageshack, but it doesn't. :razz:

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I don't get any of that with Opera.

What the... is opera. I have never heard of it. I hopw it has nothing to do with Apple, I don really like apple.

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www.opera.com
Check it out for yourself.

Opera was designed for Macs, but it was so popular they ported it over
to PCs to have similar sucess. While opera isn't my prference, it is
still a great internet browser.

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Whats wrong with Internet Explorer. It does the job and I dont have any issues with it.

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Whats wrong with Internet Explorer. It does the job and I dont have any issues with it.

Do you really want an answer?

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Whats wrong with Internet Explorer. It does the job and I dont have any issues with it.

Like crono said, do you really want an answer? We could give you pages
of why microsoft products/software = devil work, but because your
asking Im guessing our answers would go way over your head.

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Yea I know microsoft is s**tfull of bugs but I dont see anything wrong with Internet explorer. Tell us some bugs with ie.

Anyway Microsoft is better than apple. You cant do shivers with apple computers. There just a big "white" pile of...

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...

You're an idiot. You're talking about something you've rarely used.

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Umm crono. I have an apple Imac.

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iMac isn't representative of Apple's abilities as a hardware manufacturer. Facets which you have no awareness of, apparently. Their hardware architecture alone trumps Intel's decadent and ancient architecture.

If you pull back the user friendly layers of anything above OS9 you'll see that there is more ability and functionality there than any machine running a Windows OS.

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You cant do shivers with apple computers. There just a big "white" pile of...

Ever watch Lord Of The Rings? All their CGI was done on a mac. Ever
watch The Matrix? That was done on a mac. Mac (Apples as your putting
it), have far better processing capabilities for photoshop, maya, 3D
Max, and movie making. Really the list goes on and its too far to list.
You truly are an idiot if you think "You can do shivers with apple
computers" (BTW what the f**k is "shivers"?)

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I emmit that apple is SLOWLY getting better. IMO they are only good for video editing and thats it. I mainly see people using apple macs for simple tasks like typeing up a documnent, looking at pictures from the digital camera and that stuff. You use microsoft for everything else includeing lan fests. Although The ability to run windows on an apple is good, and makes an apple more useful imo.

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I emmit that apple is SLOWLY getting better. IMO they are only
good for video editing and thats it. I mainly see people using apple
macs for simple tasks like typeing up a documnent, looking at pictures
from the digital camera and that stuff. You use microsoft for
everything else includeing lan fests. Although The ability to run
windows on an apple is good, and makes an apple more useful imo.

1) Learn to f**king spell and read what you wrote, if you don't then I
doubt your going to pass High School (which I'am very doubtful ATM).

2) Apple has been ahead of the competition for years now, they haen't "gotten better"

3) Video editing is only the tip of the iceberg buddy.

4) You probably live in a dumpy are if you've only seen people typing up documents and looking at pictures on macs

5) Yes you can run widows on a mac, but its only exists so morons such as yourself can play your video games.

6) And to continue off of 5: more and more video games are being
develpoed for mac as well these days because of its growing popularity,
eventually the need for windows to be used on macs will be stamped out
entirely.

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...

Did you ever notice that switching between those "apparently mundane" tasks is seamless?

You think video editing and 3D modeling consists of "simple" computations?
I reiterate my earlier sentiments.

The multi-platform support OSX delivers hasn't been mentioned either. Nor the administrative control it allows you to possess over your computer. Something which is not available in any Windows OS (Not to the degree Unix allows you)

Windows is behind when it comes to user interfaces and overall "abilities" and often has issues with executing programs designed for it.

To note on the "games" point, any game that can run on a unix platform can run on OSX (Doom 3 engine, for instance)

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I belive that Microsoft is on top. And always has been. My freind also said somthing about apple partnering up with Nintendo. 2 things about that if its true. 1) They would only do that if they are loosing money 2) Nintendo is kinda crappy so that just made apple worse.

I have also never walked into a shop and saw a only for apple mac. Never in my life.

I also dont have time to reread what I write. I am very busy and will be until the end of 2008. Any way U can understand it

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I just thought of something that, I think, I should share about the Xbox 360, since you're such a Halo fanboy and just about had an aneurysm while watching the subpar trailer for Halo 3.
The CPU in the machine is an IBM designed Power PC TriCore processor named Xenon.

Guess what the Power PC line of CPUs was used in.

Apple and Nintendo are not partnered. To note, the Wii is also using a PowerPC based CPU designed by IBM. The Playstation 3 is using the Cell CPU design, which holds a Power PC core.

If you hating Macs and everything related to them makes you not play a 360 and thus Halo 3: by all means, mindlessly bash away.

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What was the Power PC line of cpus used in?

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What have you been bashing for the last two hours? Macs. They were used in Macs.

To note, ALL macs between 1994 and last year. The architecture of that CPU was designed as a joint operation between Apple, IBM, and Motorola.

My point is: You're not aware of the things you're babbling about, so stuff it.

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ok whatever. Xbox 360 is cool and so is bungie. I think that there are more Halo fans in the wold than Half-life fans. Would you agree

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Because I never grow tired of advertising the Fox:

Adblock Pro extension
Filterset.G Adblock Pro filter-list

I've never seen a single ad on a webpage since a year. No, I'm not exaggerating. Maybe it's Adblock blocking the imageshack popup.

And aaron_da_killa, you're talking total bulls**t. Really. You're going on my nerves. And I don't usually say that to people. Check what you write. You're not always right because some pal of you told you something.

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If you look carefuly I said "if thats true". He is a very unreliable freind anyway. Bulls**ts alot and makes up stuff.

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No, no I said you were talking bulls**t. I would agree with hardly anything you stated in recent posts.

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You think I'm lying? Go look it up on Wikipedia, it will tell you the complete specs of the Xbox 360. They even used a G5 Mac at E3 2005 to show the upcoming console's games.

As far as your comment on Halo: It's not a cut and dry question. First off, Half-Life has such a large community all over the planet that it's ridiculous, considering all facets that it envelops. It has the largest online game community on the planet through Counter Strike, alone.

If you want to go by sale figures: The overall Half-Life franchise (HL1, HL2, CS, DOD) has sold over 15 million units.

Halo 1 has sold a little over 5 million units worldwide and Halo 2 has sold 7 million. Which is three million units below Half-Life's sales.

As to what I 'think', not based on these numbers, I wouldn't agree. Half-Life revolutionized the second coming of First Person Shooters. It made way for Halo, in a sense. Unlike most people I think the narrative in the second Half-Life game is stronger, more concise, and overall, better. Halo, while suffered from restraints laid upon by Microsoft execs because of the Xbox's launch date, has a pretty sub-par narrative. Sure, there may be an amazing amount of depth to everything, but it's not apparent unless you do some research. Maybe the upcoming RTS game will change that.

As a First Person Shooter, however, as Quake and Doom before it, Half-Life is far better in regarding game mechanics.

So no, I wouldn't agree.

Edit: Didn't post that fast enough, apparently.

Oh to note, I got some plug ins for firefox I adore. Like, "wrap removal" and the ad-blocking mentioned. I also have a redirection annihilator.

To note, they're all fairly smart, they know when to let things through and when not. While some other's attempts at the same security measures just block everything all together, which is very useless.

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Wow reaper mate. Loosen up man. Take a chill pill. Anyway Crono I belive you about the xbox 360 chip. But I have to say that the ability to make custom content for Half-life 1 deffanatly bosted numbers. Most of the half-life sites you find on the interwebs are for modding half-life. Thats why I like half-life.

:smile: :):):):):):):):):):):):):(:):)):):):):):):):):):(:):):):):):):):):):)

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Wow, I leave home for a few hours and return to this. I read this whole thing over again and I still have no idea what you're trying to argue. As for the Mac thing: Mac's are beasts. The only time I've ever seen one not work so well is when the computer was having hardware issues, which was fixed within ten minutes.

Speaking of other operating systems; what else can support Steam and the games it provides? I'd hate to have to keep this garbage computer to play HL and to map (attempt, at least).

Well Windows Xp Does, 2000 does, ME does, 98 Second Edition does and thats all I have tested. Well steams half-life 1 anyway

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I suppose I should have specified: What non-Windows operating system will support Steam? I saw that omegaslayer had this posted in another thread

Im afraid you'll s**t yourself when I say that im working off of an Apple computer. I run bootcamp windows so I can run steam and subsiquent games. Im one of the few who can run Halo on the computer without it so much as blinking.

Is bootcamp a Windows Live CD?

Oh non windows os's. I have no frikin idea

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You can run a version of Unix or Linux with a DirectX emulator, such as Cedega, and run steam (as well as over 300 officially supported games), be aware that there is some overhead, since directX is being emulated (D3D calls, for example, are being reconstructed using OpenGL) But Valve's stuff is supported.

You can either pay a monthly fee of $5 for services, or compile some not so new code (the previous update, it's updated often) on your own and get it working.

Since, OSX is a version of Unix, this will work there as well.

Of course, there are games that already support Unix platforms from the get go, one title of which is Doom 3, I would imagine anything using the D3 engine would run on a Unix platform as well.

That's about your only option.

There are also Linux distributions that support Win32 code so they can run Windows applications. Of course, this assumes you're running an x86 architecture machine and not like a SPARC or PowerPC. (ARM, doubt it.)

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Unreal Engine 3 is Unix-compatible, and Epic has stated that a native Linux version of UT2007 will be available to those who purchase the game. There are going to be a lot of games running on UE3, I think it's possible that this plus Vista being bloated trash will create a snowball effect and Linux and Mac could gain a lot of popularity in the coming years.

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Yea, I too hope that an open source OS will become a serious competition someday. Since Firefox I?m far more optimistic with predictions like that. It actually sounds quite logical in long terms.

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I recently managed to get Steam running with Wine under Ubuntu(a Linux distribution), I even played Empires for a while. Many games(and their engines of course) already have a Linux port(Doom III, UT2k3/4, Quake 3, to name some). I hope that a game market will form for Linux users as it would result in better driver support(I guess I've never cursed my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro so much before all those nights spent fighting with the FireGL drivers) and provide an alternative platform for players.

The current problem with Linux and game makers supporting it is probably the lack of standards in the Linux world, almost every installation can be completely different in damn many levels that it will be extremely hard and time consuming to make something work on every distribution. Well one can always wish...

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

I'm not a Linux person but I tried a few typical Linux programs and saw it in action here and there and I doubt it's a lack of (technical) features that keeps people from switching. It's really all about usability. It's hard enough to get a Windows PC to work the way you want it to, with Linux everything seems to take longer, there are less standards, useful features hidden behind useless ones ect.

Before Linux becomes a serious gaming (or working) platform there has to come a single version of it that becomes standard. There are so many different kinds of Unix/Linux (I don't even know the difference) with mostly plain awful interfaces that it all takes too much time and you feel like there is no real mass-support, you feel like you're lost.

This article perfectly describes what keeps casual and professional users from using Freeware alternatives. The thing is: A couple of years ago you could have written a similar article about web browsers... :wink:

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If you design for the Linux kernel (past some version) and take into consideration what architecture it will be running on ... then there should be no problem. The problems arise when you rely on specific distribution API. But if you don't use those (you don't have to) then there should be no issues distribution to distribution. (There are exceptions, of course)

So, the problem is that there's no uniform API that works on any distribution of Linux. That could be done. I mean, after all it's just a huge library of pre-written functions that do a lot of the mundane work for developers.

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I still think it's not so much a programming issue than a screen-design one. Firefox (yes, I. Like. Firefox.) for example has a very, very clean layout and structure. It's so easy to use and I think getting there is way harder and the benefit is way bigger than many Linux Users think. I think the main reason many people (including me) didn't bother installing a version of Linux yet is that the interface is seriously scary and cluttered (not that windows was much better but it took me years to find even the most basic things in windows and I only learned it because I had to).

When I search for Linux desktop in google I find a lot of pictures that all look like this. And not only that, every one of them looks completely different. I think the customizability of Linux desktops has made it look much too difficult to the eyes of casual users. A Linux screenshot for me is a serious turn-off, mostly. :sad:

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The screenshots aren't hard for me to follow. It just seems like someone wanted to show off and opened up some windows just to look fancy. I have a few distributions of Linux, one of them being Ubuntu. I liked it a lot, but I'd have to download a new version of it now. I've heard that Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft was really good.

You have to understand something. The desktop interface is independent of the operating system.

So there are HUNDREDS of different interfaces you can use. They all have their own APIs and everything.

If you think it's REALLY hard to use, give Gnome or KDE a shot, I guarantee that you wont get confused.

Here's a shot from the newest KDE.

How daunting does that look? When displaying the interface they need to show you what you can do with it, so opening a bunch of stuff showing the different effects and window styles is normal. It'd be identical if you opened like 20 windows all at once on your Windows machine and showed it to someone who never used it before. It's not particularly complex by any means and is, for the most part, generally customizable.

If you understand how to use an OS GUI like Windows, you'll understand just about every Linux/Unix/Solaris/BSD/OSx GUI. They follow familiar ground so people don't get confused using it.

You can so something very alien on a Windows machine as well, so it's really just your perception because you've never personally used it. If you installed something like ... Fedora Core ... you'd notice that it's running on the Gnome GUI ... but the interface is very useful and very. VERY. simple (Gnome is generally simplistic).

The thing is. On a Linux machine, you have a choice. These aren't different themes or some garbage like that (though most interfaces support themes) they're completely seperate yet operate on the same OS.

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Tracer Bullet said:
http://www.iespell.com/

Whenever I am tired, or just down in the dumps I can always count on Snarkpit to make my day. If I dig deep enough.

Thanx Obie.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Thats nice to hear.

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