elmuerte

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  1. So.. Batman: Arkham Asylum

    she lives from poison, duh
  2. Do you do anything creative in your free time?

    my desktop compresses quite well both as jpg and png
  3. (IGN.com)

    "Deadlier than Grog XD." - ign.com
  4. Worst Journalism of All Time?

    maybe we should forward them the list of ultraboost flavors as alternative drinks
  5. Do you do anything creative in your free time?

    That brings up another point... desktop wallpapers.
  6. Worst Journalism of All Time?

    which will probably be a good thing
  7. Worst Journalism of All Time?

    Hahahaha... classic. How on earth could you even take that list of ingredients serious. Also, like kerosene is the worst ingredient, sure, battery acid is perfectly safe.
  8. sjeesh... TGP was quite difficult.
  9. Wizaaaaaards!!

    WZZRD a game cafe thingy in the city I live in.
  10. ugh... just noticed that I was better off getting it from your guys directly... fooled again (but why am I required to enter all those details, there is no need to know my address, specially not when I pay through paypal).
  11. Powerless Wire

    if it wasn't for the
  12. Do you do anything creative in your free time?

    Ghost Recon is awesome though. I still think it's weird the number of things people have on their desktop.
  13. Powerless Wire

    Ha... if only. No, a lot of companies invest in research, but they delay the outcome of the research as long as they can. Why bring a better product on the market when your current range is still doing well. I know for a fact a bunch of companies are holding back technology. They're not battery companies, though. But why would they do anything else.
  14. Powerless Wire

    Just imagine in what advanced world we'd live in if Tesla won.
  15. Idle Thumb domain updates needed

    you could always try http://the.wiz.ar/d
  16. (IGN.com)

    "No this is a game cock" - ign.com
  17. Finished BTDT... it was ok, had a few chuckles. I think I really prefer talkies. Overall the game wasn't that difficult, although it did require me to drop back to the classic adventure style "use weird objects to do X".
  18. Movie/TV recommendations

    ugh... delgo... now that was an awful movie
  19. Idle Thumb domain updates needed

    uhm.. let me think http://yearoftheps3.info http://year-of-the-ps3.info http://churchofkillzone2.info http://inversestar.info http://igndotcom.info I think that's all I made since january
  20. (IGN.com)

    "!" - ign.com
  21. Movie/TV recommendations

    What's wrong with colorful scifi?
  22. Rage

    That's not really true. The major changes are technologies that became stable and cheap enough to be used for consumer products. Sure, the basic layout/operating model for a PC hasn't change much in all that time. That's because it's infrastructure. Just like it's very difficult to change how cars/trucks operate due to the roads. There is quite mature technology to create an automated road where you don't have control over the car, but a central system does (the movie i-Robot showed an example of this). This is a very good solution for traffic jams. But it requires massive changes to the infrastructure. But just because the basic layout of PCs don't change much doesn't mean there have been no changes in the way PCs work. Back in the day a CPU did everything, after a while co-processors where introduced to handle memory management, floating points operations. At a point certain software parts where moved to their own co-processors, like sound and graphics. Then graphic chips received their co-processors for 3D handling. After a while the certain co-processors for CPUs became part of the CPU, same with the graphics co-processors. The working of processors has also changed for various reasons, but in general they remained more or less the same as being single thread processors (and they still are). But for various other things a different approach could be used so that a single processor could handle multiple threads, and these things were useful for various "simple" functional routines like shader or physics calculations. And now these stream processors are moving towards the "CPU" and the dedicated graphics chips are being reduced to the simple framebuffer chips of years ago. So there are changes going on, they might just go unnoticed unless you take a broader view.