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  1. marfig

    DirectX 11.1 is exclusive to Windows 8

    We do need more Linux ecosystem reviewers at TG. And I'm running for the spot. One big fat .... you to Microsoft!
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    DirectX 11.1 is exclusive to Windows 8

    Well, well. Call me psychic. I'll say no more.
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    Insane house explosion in Indy

    Wow. Have seen the results of gas explosions before. Just last year one happened near Lisbon. But nothing ever like this. The level of destruction makes me think something else could be afoot.
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    The Best Worst Thing

    You would still be using an operating system. Just not a software one. The operating system would (I defend in the future it will) reside in the hardware as integral part of the computer architecture and clearly defined by standards making sure no two chip developers provide fundamentally...
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    Maine Politician Slandered Against for Playing World of Warcraft

    Well, really. Thanks for validating my point. No, I couldn't. Why?
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    The Best Worst Thing

    For sure. Java most fundamental principle is its platform agnosticism. So is C and C++ and quite a few other general-purpose programming languages like these ones. There's a lesson to give on this regard: That it is possible to develop agnostic programming languages that go beyond different...
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    Maine Politician Slandered Against for Playing World of Warcraft

    During the course of this post it is very likely that I will get offensive. Keep in mind it's all about my passion for politics and not a personal indictment of any kind. TRUST me on that! You know, I'm a huge critic of the current state of politics in the western world. I mean huge! Most of my...
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    Maine Politician Slandered Against for Playing World of Warcraft

    Aahh, but we wouldn't be so friendly if she played Second Life, now would we? Anyways, I would never vote for someone who played an MMORPG. Nothing to do with she being a gamer, of course. But simply with the fact I couldn't trust her to actually work, instead of playing. I would have to see...
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    The Best Worst Thing

    No to Operating systems Not of the Family Software operating systems are in fact a necessary evil. We would be much better without them. We may feel tempted to thank them for having allowed us to actual make use of a computer architecture that would have been otherwise impossible to operate...
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    Pixar dedicates main campus building to Steve Jobs

    Deserved, me thinks. He was instrumental on Pixar success. But the quote below is really the best thing Apple Insider got from the original news post by the the Editor-In-Chief of Pixar Times? "He came up with the idea that the building should be centered around a large atrium, which would lead...
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    F1 Racestars

    If there is any fat head babe with tiny bodies at the starting line, I don't want to know about this game. Eww... talk about uncanny valley.
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    Carl on Duty: Black Cops II

    Treyarch said a few days ago that there are 37 reasons to think Black Ops II is awesome. I honestly didn't know Black Ops players could count that high. They will also probably be find it very cool the fact that Treyarch chose to say that at the sound of Back in Black from AC/DC. Back in...
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    The sexiest Lamborghini ever

    The discussion is fine and all but we are detracting from the main issue: What needs to be done to the jerk that painted is lamb like that.
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    The Best Worst Thing

    And this is what essentially killed Windows 8 to me. There really needs to be a line that borders this insane notion that unless things are made easier to use, people won't use it. I'm constantly thrown back to this movie: Idiocracy. People will use complex things too. Long before "easy of...
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    Movies Thread!!

    I'll help! :eek:
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    Movies Thread!!

    Most definitely will want to see this! Seems Peter Jackson will want to repeat the recipe of the Lord of the Rings, with three movies for the next 3 Christmas seasons. One note though, although much harder to do (I think), I'd love to see a final trilogy to Tolkien works: The Silmarillion
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    The Best Worst Thing

    ... to happen to computer science: Graphical User Interfaces. Introduction You folks have heard me enough times complain about the developments in the user interface of Windows. I've been vocal about it during the Windows 8 launch. However I'm vocal about it on any operating system. Gnome...
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    Movies Thread!!

    Doomsday, I swear man, I'd go out with you for any night of heavy drinking, girls and general fun. But I would never go out to the movies with you. Good grief!
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    A Look at the NVIDIA Tesla-infused Titan Supercomputer

    I confess i'm not an enthusiast for supercomputers. I'm not a pitiful person. It's just that the concept of pilling stuff on top of stuff to make it taller doesn't appeal to me. I'm more into such things as the minute developments in processor speed, hard drive seek times, energy savings or heat...
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    Minecraft Unseats Call of Duty as Most-played Xbox 360 Game

    Extremely addictive, immensely fun, vastly innovative, with the added benefit of being superior in its ability to bring out the imagination on a player. Minecraft isn't for me anymore. I've played all there was and as I became engrossed in the game, the deeper I became involved in its creator...
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